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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ
BY DAVID DIETZ -
Volcanic Phenomena NolC
Are Belieued to Arise in
the Earth's Crust at a
Depth of Only a FelO Miles.

ID ECENT Geographic dispatches
N telling that Mt. Pelee again Is
showing signs of activity, serve to
recall the most violent volcanic
eruption In history. 1t took place at
7::50 a. m. on May 8, 1902.
Mt. Pelee is volcano on Mar
tinque Island in the West Indies.
There had been small erupticAs
from the volcano In 1862 and 1851,
but they had not caused any great
anxiety.
On April IS, 1902, vent near the
top of the peak began to emit steam
and dust. This caused no great
alarm and plans we're made in st.
Pierre, capital Of the French colony
on Martinique, to organize an ex-
cursion to the volcanoes top on Sun
day, May 8.
But at 75O on that morning, the
great disaster took place. With q
terrific explosion, a great vent
opened up in the southern slope Of
the volcano.
A great cloud Of steam and vol
canic dust at a temperature Of
about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit is
sued forth and swept down upon the
town of st. Pierre.
Every inhabitant of the town. but
two-a number estimated at about
80 O0O-waS killed. The two who
escaped death were prisoners In a
deep dungeon in the town jail.
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Seven Per Cent

CEVEN per cent-that is the bug
~ under the chip.
That is what makes the Kansas
wheat farmer and the Texas cotton
grower cross.
And why should 7 per cent have
been hit upon as the deadline?
Cities borrow money at per cent
insurance companies are glad to
lend 1t at s, and savings banks pay 4
or AZ.
Under such circumstances, who
started the fashion of per cent for
public utilities2
Whoever did and made the ST.
preme court like it, certainly stirred
up a lot of trouble for Mr.. Hughes
because that is the rock his boat
bumped.
Seven per cent, with foT more
for depreciation and four more for
the expert service of some holding
company-no wonder the boys al
the forks of the creek are riled, OF
that those representing them feel
called upon to say something.
But it is not a new, or world
shaking, philosophy that has arisen
within week. 1t is merely a de-
mand that things be evened up a
bit, that justice quite playing favor
ties, that stocks and bonds earn a
little less by virtue of court de-
cree so farmers may earn a little
more by COMPARISON.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

It Is important to realize that vi
tarnin D also Is obtained from cod
liver oil and to q considerable
amount In butter and egg yolk.
Apparently the effects Of sun
light are not limited, however, 70
the vitamin D production because
sunlight has ultraviolet rays which
seen1s to do things that cod liver oil
and other fish oils will not always
do.
Apparently the ultraviolet rays
have an effect In aiding weight pro-
duction and In some way are related
to building increased resistance TO
disease.
Unfortunately, the proof Of this Is
difficult, because OF the difficulty OF
controlling the observations and OF
comparing vast numbers Of children
treated with ultraviolet rays with
similar vast number not 80 treated.
A tremendous amount Of clinical
evidence exists, which means that a
large number Of physicians who
have watched the effects Of sun
light and ultraviolet rays are con-
vinced that they have resistance
building effect.
There is also, Of course, the posi-
bility of a psychologist effect Of great
Importance. Every one knows that
light stimulates cheerfulneSs and VI
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Hooyer's Responsibility

Many unexpected news dispatches are coming out
Of the London naval conference. Hope Tor naval
reduction wanes" is typical report. The CONFER
ence sis going to cost the United States more than
s5OOOOOOOO to get parity with the British heet
another correspondent figures.
But perhaps the most surprising OF all Is the 1oi-
lowing press association dispatch Friday from
London:
"a high authority today declared that the policies
Of the United States naval delegation thus far have
been shaped entirely by the delegates themselves and
that President Hoover to date has made no effort
in any manner TO control It's members from the
White House"
At the same time, however, the same press as
ISOLATION reported from Long Key, Fla, that PreS-
dent Hoover was fastening back to Washington and
added 1T is thought here that the change In plans
was made because the London naval conference had
reached point where he wished to be IN closer
touch with developments"
1t would be inexplicable indeed, If the President
were not directing Americas naval conference policy
personally Certainly the American delegate at Lon
don is on dangerous ground when he inspires stories
to the contrary.
The idea of an independent American delegation
to this or to any other international conference Is
nonsensical, both in theory and in fact.
The President as the elected representative of the
American people, directly charged with responsibility
foreign relations, Is Oh COURSE 1ully Ae0POAAoA"O
1or every American policy at London. His delegates
were chosen by him to act for him.
Far from evading responsibility, Hoover, beginning
last Memorial day, assumed vigorous and personal
direction of such policy. He rejected mere naval
limitation and demanded actual reduction He
initiated the informal Macdonald conference in
Washington and the consequent formal London con-
ference.
He formulated the American policy at the confer
ence, and presumably is making the vital decisions
as they arise. Who else, under the American form
of government could make such vital decisions OBJ
vousy the country looks to Hoover to make the dele
cations acts conform to his pledges
Credit for eventual success failure Of the naval
reduction conference so far the United States is
responsible, will go to Hoover. 1t could not be
otherwise.
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BY DIR. MORRIS F1sHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of HyGeiA, the
Health MARAxfnA.

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of HyGeiA, the
Health Magazine.
TT must be emphasized repeatedly
l. that we are just at the beginning
of our knowledge of effects Of rays
of light on the human body.
The advocacy of light for every
thing that ais the human being is
quackery. Ultraviolet rays have been
proved to have valuable functions
for certain definite purposes. The
safe rule is to limit their use to
such purposes until more Is known
as to their effects, both good and
bad.
For the prevention and cure OF
ricketts,, the use of ultraviolet is GER
tainly established. It changes the
ergosterol in the skin to form vita
min D. When this vitanlin D Is
taken up by the blood 1t serves to
enable the person to take up cal
cium from food and to use it In
building long bones and hard bones.
Ricketts, occurs because the bones
are soft and bend. The riekety
child is bow-legged, has a pot-belly,
fiat chest and beaded ribs. Vita
min D thus is the essential material
developed by ultraviolet rays.
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TT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EEo73S

I'm not for the doliing up of an
cestors. Some day I may be an
ancestor myself. And this is my
will and testament: That, when in
the course of time the Grand Ex-
allied Behemoth of the Order Of the
Sons of Haywood Broun contracts
for a statue of the illustrous
founder, he shall require OF the
sculptor nothing more than justice.
with little mercy, perhaps, around
the waistline.
I want no lace on the sleeves OF
my bronze embodiment. In fact, 1t
is my wish that my bargaining de-
scendant shall say TO the artist,
Take some of that crease off the
old mans trousers. He doesn't look
quite natural"
Copyright. 1880. By The Tines
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Warning to Court

THE supreme court is being
Il warned to give more heed to the
law as determined by general usage
than to that which it can manu-
facture by strained Interpretation Of
clauses in the Constitution.
General usage has defined quite
denitely the rate of interest which
f1rst-class investments should earn,
and, protected as they are, public
utilities should be regarded in no
other light.
Under existing conditions, how
ever, they are allowed to make much
higher profits, and the public is
compelled to pay those profits, while
it surrounds them with safeguards
and guarantees such as no other
class of property enjoys.
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Explosion

TINE terrific explosion also sunk
Il all the ships in the harbor but
one, the Roddam. This ship was
farther from shore than the others,
but the swell which followed the
explosion broke its anchor chain.
The Roddam made its way to tho
neighboring island OF st. Lucia,
bringing the first news of the dis
aster.
The noise made by the explosion
was heard 800 miles away in Vene-
Zuela.
It has been calculated that mate
rial was hurled out Of the volcano
during the eruption at the rate Of
100000 cubic feet minute.
Toward the end of the eruption, q
solid pillar of rock 800 feet high was
pushed up out of the neck of the
volcano, as, to use Professor j. w.
Gregory's description. q cork might
be pushed out Of the neck OF a
bottle.
He expresses the opinion that
this great mass Of rock had acted
as a plug in the top of the volcano,
causing the steam and gases to
gather beneath it until their ex-
plosive force became so high that
they broke through the southern
slope of the volcano, discharging
their fury directly at the unfortu-
nate town of st. Pierre.
DR.. Gregory points out that the
disaster on Martinique island was
preceded by terrific earthquake on
April II and 10, just week before
the eruption. This earthquake oc-
CURED in Guatemala and destroyed
the city of Quezaltenango On May
Z, there was an eruption OF Sulphur
mountain on the nearby island of
st. Vincent.
He believes that the earthquake,
the Sulphur mountain eruption and
the Mt. Pelee disaster were all
events in a related chain. His
theory is that a sinking of the
earth's crust in the West Indian
area was responsible.
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BOMBING OF THE MAINE
Feb, Is

BOMBING OF THE MAINE
Feb. Is
ON Feb. Is, 1893, the United
~ States battleship Maine, which
was sent by the United States on a
friendly visit to Havana during the
Cuban instruction against Spain,
was destroyed by an explosion which
killed two officers and 264 of her
crew.
A United States court of inquiry
which investigated the explosion
made no attempt TO fix the respon-
sibility for the act on any person
or persons.
In April, President Mckinley sent
a special message to congress in
which he declared: "in the name Of
humanity, in the name of civiliza-
ton, in behalf of endangered Amer
lean interests, which give US the
right to speak and act, the war in
Cuba must stop"
An ultimatum was sent to Spain
which that power declined TO re-
ceive. Shortly after this action the
United States government issued .
call for volunteers, and for loans
from the people. and then declared
war against Spain on April rs, 1893.
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tress general would have accepted
her ancestors Ii the sculptor had
been a miracle worker. capable Of
offering her not mere bronze or
marble, but the flesh and blood folk
who stepped off the little boat on
the wooded shores Of Manhattan.
Counsel for the society said In
court, 1.-The people who came here
were Dutch settlers Of the highest
type and not peasants, and it was
from the higher type that the men,
bers of this society were descended"
Superior Ape
A ND, going back into the dusk
IA with Darwin, assume that the
Danes would contend that their
line was maintained only by the
superior sort Of anthropoid ape.
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Public Drinking

Prohibition Commissioner Maurice Campbell OF
New York has announced that hereafter the individual
possessor of liquor any public place will be arrested
and prosecuted. CampbellS agents already have
raided two hotels, and at one score OF persons
possessing small quantities of liquor were arrested
At the same time, he warned restaurant and night
club proprietors that paddock proceedings will be in
stituted against them if they furnish accessories"
ginger ale ice glasses. etc-for persons who bring
their own liquor
Campbens new policies have slender foundation
in law.
mo one shall manufacture, sell. purchase, trans
prescribe any liquor without first obtaining
s'errnft to do. except that person may, without
+efn1it nXrchase and use liquor for medical pur-
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Wears Beard

NLD DADDY DUTCHMAN has
" dropped his delicatessen aspect.
BY now he's sprouted Van Dyke
beard and flowing locks. There's
lace on his sleeves, and his nose is
tilted as If the great, belchtng chem
ical factories had already begun
their pollution of the Hudson.
His wife has acquired q Home,
James" look, and even the little
children are all limousined and
prettified. The Danes refused this
group, too, and so Robert Aiken
might last as well have stuck TO his
original idea.
But the whole incident sets me
to wondering whether the direc-
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We Agree on Principles

THE supreme court has been vel
l. spanked, and justly so, as
think, though for going too fal
rather than in the wrong direction
This irreconcilable divergence OF
view, economic theory, and social
philosophy about which we have
heard so much during the last week,
is largely for the sake of converse
ton.
AS a matter of common sense, we
are pretty well agreed on basic
principles.
With the exception of few out
and out Socialists, no one wants
to see big business smashed, or the
rate making power used for con-
fiscation.
BY the same token, no one doubts
that exercise of the rate-making
power makes it necessary for courts
to fix valuations and declare what
constitutes reasonable profit.
What we are really sore about is
the way some valuations have been
boosted and the per cent some pub
lie utilities have been permitted to
earn by court order.
In other words, 1t is not the prin-
ciple, but its application, that
hurts.
The contrast between what some
people are guaranteed and what
others have to risk has grown too
big.
Most property owners, especially
in the corn belt, would feel pretty
comfortable If they could jump val
ues the way some public utilities
have, or make rates that would net
them z per cent.
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Several Washington societies protest the appoint
ment of Major-General Crosby to take of law
enforcement, charging the act robs voteless Wash
ngton of its last vestiges of home rule We offer
President Hoover free of charge suggestion. 1t
may seem novel, it hasn't been done very often,
but here it is: Why not appoint commission to
investigate the last vestiges of home rule in Wash
ington?
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ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter-
estlng 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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M. E.. Tracy
Why Should Public Utilities
Be Guaranteed Z Per Cent
When Other Business Is
Glad, at Times, to Get
Much Less?
SAYS:

OUCH a racket, and so unexpected,
~ but what's it all about?
A hurricane may be on the way,
suggests the New York World, or
a revolution, according to Senator
Dill, though Of ballots, not bullets.
One would think We had come to
a parting of the ways, to hear some
folks talk, with Mussolini or Com
munism as the only choice.
A great and burning issue has
arisen, we are told, which threatens
to wreck one, if noS both old par
ties.
Well, we can think Of worse pos
sibilities.
Maybe political rumpus Is brew
ing, maybe the attack on Hughes
and the supreme court will find def
mite reflection in the next presiden-
tial campaign, and maybe another
third party will be born as the re-
suit.
It would not be the first time, and
probably not the last. Nor would
it necessarily be an unnixed evil.
The history of these United States
is cIuttered with the wreckage OF
bolts and third parties.
What is more to the point, no one
can contemplate it, without believ-
ing that most of them accomplish
some good, while none of them did
much harm.
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Times Readers Voice Vie1CS

Editor Tirnes-I read In The
Times Of Feb. II Of an attack by
Mrs. Elects Chase Murphy, D. A.
r., upon the address Of President
Bromley Oman Of De PAW uni
versity before prisoners at the
Indiana state refornlatory.
She strongly protests this ad-
dress as tending to produce dis
loyalty, relationship and anarchy.
Personally I believe President OK
nam was right. I believe he was
voicing the true sentiments OF most
of the people. There is an ahund-
ance Of evidence In support Of his
assertions.
Is it right to tell the prisoners
anything Of the outside world2 II
it is, then Why Is 1t not right to
tell them the truth7 Can they be
reformed by lying to them?
II we want good citizens, our
government must set good ex-
amples.
On the other hand II all citi-
zens were loyal many OF our law
yers, judges, policemen, prison
guards, preachers and numerous
others holding public Office would
be out of work.
To swell the ranks Of unemploy-
ment now TO such an extent would
bring our people to starvation.
II the very ones that would make
all people good suddenly were given
their desire it would bring suffering
even upon themselves.
Then let us try using the truth,
only, and try to prepare our coun-
try In ways that her people can
live-"even II they were all good. /"
II we do not do this, then 1t
is necessary TO have criminals.
"You can not fight the devil with
his own fire."
HARRY RYKER,
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There is automobile now for every four and
half persons according to statistics. That half per-
son, of course is one of her relatives
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fire forces in the country Tor some
| time.
Instead Of criticising the fire de-
partment, I believe it would be a
good idea to investigate the mys''
terry OF how these fires get such
Roadway before an alarm is turned
in, especially so when there is a
Waterman on duty.
According to Chief Voshell, the
three fires mentioned in your paper
recently were absolutely out OF con-
troll before the fire department even
was called.
The trouble with the insurance
companies along with the other So
called public servants" such as
light gas, water and telephone
utilities, is that they are trying to
gouge the people as they never have
been gouged before, and they pick
on the flimsiest excuses to try to
swell their already oyerstocked
cofIers, levied as tribute from the
poor, dumb people" who haven't
sense enough to vote men into
office who will make some sort Of
an attempt to quell this continual
picking of the peoples pockets.
I sincerely hope you will print
this, to have view Of both sides.
A TIMES READER.
Editor Times-Let Mr. Electa
Chase Murphy remember that Presi-
dent Oman, In his address to the
men In the state reformatory, dealt
With facts, plain and simple, and
before a group Of men, who, though
conyicts, yet have sufficient intellect
to recognize his reference TO ma
tons entrance into secret treaties
and backing with marines unfair
aggression into the natural re-
sources of certain foreign countries,
as just plain facts.
Truth is light" and crime does
not depend upon the light OF truth
for development. Suppression Of
facts never has stabilized any gov
eminent or perpetuated the con-
tentment of It's people. 1t Is the
suppression Of rights that makes
Communists and it is our right TO
know the facts. Therefore, let the
light shine. Let freedom ring.
FRED D. ROPER.
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Those 80 900 speakeasies in New York ought to Of
fer great Opportunity for Senator Brookhart to
speak loudly.
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HAIRY II h6kS,
1902 East Southern avenue.

Editor Ttmes-Just as soon as the
fire insurance companies feel that
it is about time for another raise
in rates, they begin to raise q big
baliyhoo about the inefiiciency OF
the fire department.
Now, people who think surely will
take that with q grain Of salt, for
indianapolis has had the reputation
Of having one Of the most ef1cieni
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Person to See You

A ND, seemingly. dame IN a
N $4,000 penthouse can not
tolerate the thought that her great
great-grandfather never would be
able to get by the doorman.
1t is annoying, perhaps, to haroor
the notion that the boy in the hall
would elevate his eyebrows at good
tenants ancestor and say. sharply,
"Take that meat around to the side
door!"
I will grant readily enough that
the old daddy Dutchman looks very
much like somebody who might be
expected to come bearing pickles In
a package.
In fact, when the directress-ge gen.
eral looked at the model obviously,
the sculptor said, you don't want
your figures all dolled up?" and the
directress- general answered, eyes"
Up to this point my sympathies
the entirely with Aitkin, but, when
rehuked, he did q dreadful thing.
Taking the original family as a
basis, he proceeded to put them into
the Union Club and the Junior
League.
The four from the HALF Moon IN
the revised version look for all the
world like q quartet about TO take
a Palm Beach dip for the benefit OF
the Sunday rotograYure sections.
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Daily Thought

Thou art worthy, o Lord, to re-
ceive glory and honor and power;
for thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and
were STANDARDIZATION All.
Glory follows virtue as If 1t were
It's shadow.-Cicero.
What candle power will Mazda
light bulb of $50 watts produce?
What candle power VIII 200 watt
bulb produce?
The United States bureau Of
standards says a 150-watt bulb is
rated at 2.310 lumens, equivalent to
approximately 230-candle power. A
200 watt lamp is rated at 1920 lu-
mems, equivalent to about 328-
candle power.
What was the name Of Tom
Tyler's last picture?
Pride of Pawnee.~
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ID OBERT ArTKEN, a sculptor,
N and the Society OF. Daughters
of Holland Danes have gone TO lay
about a statue. The society wanted
monument to its ancestors, and
the artist did them q group OF
father, mother and two children.
This seems to me about as many
ancestors as should be crowded into
any single monument. However, the
complaint of the society is not
against numbers. 1t is not so much
bigger or better ancestors which
they, the Holland Danes, require.
They would have them more gen
teel.
According TO the photographs,
Aitken did present the early Dutch
as peasant folk. 1t looks Ike a
pretty good job, judging from the
pictures.
The settlers are modelled as thick
set. with useful and friendly square
heads. But, of course, these people
landed way downtown. Several CEN
turtles elapsed before Park avenue
was reached.
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Glory follows virtue as If 1t were
It's shadow.-Cicero.