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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Petroleum

THE worlds supply of petroleum
4 will last nearly a third longer
than originally was supposed be-
cause of the use of high-preSsure
methods, according to DR.. Krase.
This is because there is no waste,
as formerly. INCORPORATION of pc
troleum carried out under high
pressure utilizes 100 per cent of the
petroleum, he says.
High pressure is becoming a
ready tool, powerful yet flexible, in
the hands of the present day scien-
tist," Professor Krase says.
knowledge of it's possibilities
rapidly is indicating new lines of
development in all sorts of indus
tries. All that synthetic and or
ganic chemistry have done for civ
ilization is about to be done more
easily Manufacturers of dyes and
other chemicals will be freed of
present laborious processes and
given a direct approach to results.
Synthetic ammonia, which. fixes
the nitrogen of the air, is making
the agriculture of the United States
independent of the nitrate de-
posts Of South America. The syn
thesis of higher alcohols from water
gas has disclosed additional sources
of enrichment,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29

again without some simple dance
routine.
But by now we have strayed a
long distance away from autumn in
the country, which was to be the
central theme of this column. Hale
lake grows bitter now, and yet do
not regret the chill which has taken
over ownership.
Ownership is not much fun I'M
less it gives you a certain sense
of righteousness and superiority
There's nothing which builds up
moral fiber so much as icy water.
Even the animal kingdom is
swayed by the psychology of the
cold plunge. Specifically I have
noted the behavior of Captain Flagg,
the Airedale.
Upon pressing command and invl-
tation he slumped into Hale lake
Sunday. He didn't seem to en-
JOY the damp and cold experience
at all, but when he hustled out
that dog was simply inSufferable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The mechanism includes, first Of
all, the lungs, which rid the body
of large amounts of acid in the form
of carbon dioxide that is breathed
out.
The second part of the mechanism
is the kidneys, which dispose of acid
by excreting it in the fluids which
pass out of the body.
The third part is the salt con-
tent of the blood and of the tissues,
which can take up limited amounts
of acid or alkali with view to
maintaining the reaction of the
blood at constant point.
This salt content is called buf-
fer mixture, because it acts as a
buffer between the upper and lower
limitations of danger in relationship
to the reaction of the blood.
Any one with even a simple
knowledge of machinery or nlechan-
les will realize, therefore, that the
human system is constructed with
factors of safety against most ordi-
nary disturbances.
However, conditions may arise in
which the buffers are used up and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Another Anti-Radical Crusade

Communism" "pacifsm," "radicalSm," and other
sllegedly subversve influences to be combated by
a new organization, the National Defense Life In
slrance Company, and its adjunct, the National De-
Tense Foundation Ten per cent of first premiums in
the life insurance company go into the foundation
High ranking retired officers of the army and navy
are listed as hackers of the enterprise.
Trouble was encountered at the outset with the
insurance commissioner of the District of Columbia,
who withheld a license. But an amagamation was
effected with another insurance company, enabling
the new concern to comply with the law, and pre-
sumably the project will go forward.
This fund that we will raise through our thou
sands of solicitors all the way from Maine to Cali
forna will roll up to be power in the land and be
used to raise the standard of American citizen
ship wherever opportunity Offers said letter from
Maior-Genera Mark l. Hersey, secretary general of
the new company Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz, for
mer chief Of naval operations, is president
Thus It appears that the patriotic citizen will be
able 10 combine a war on radicals with forehanded-
ness protecting his dependents at the time he
defends his country against those who, we are told
are plotting its ruin.
The zeal Of the gentlemen behind this project and
their patriotism are not to be questioned But we
pect that they are seeing things.
There are mere handful of Communists in this
country and they have been unable to threaten
the established order There radicals. to be sure
yet In decades they have been unable to make dent
in ths established order. Pacifsts there as WE'LL
yet car expenditures for national defense keep mount
ing year after year.
the trouble with endeavors Of this sort is that they
result Ia the suppression Of freedom Of speech and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
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BATTLE OF BULL RUN
Aug. 20

aug. ~
I'm Aug. 90, 1862, the Confederate
~ forces under General Robert E..
Lee badly defeated the Union forces
under General Pope in the second
Battle of Bull Run, called by his
torians one of the bloodiest battles
of the Civil war.
Pope, because of his previous
good service, was put in command
of a newly organized force, the
ARMY of Virginia" intended to
operate against Richmond. He
moved against Jackson, Confeder-
ate general, in the hope he would
meet him before reinforcements
arrived.
But jackson had beaten him to 1t.
IN this predicament Pope himself
asked for reinforcements and adj
ditional supplies of ammunition, but
failed to receive them in time.
Pope was beaten severely and his
forces driven back. Just thirteen
months before this, the Army of the
Potomac was defeated on the same
battlefield.
Pope now led his men back to the
defense of Washington. The cam
paign had cost him at least $4,000
men. The Confederate loss was
estimated as PROBABLY above 10000.
In spite of the Federal rout,
General Longstreet, Confederate
leader who took part in the battle,
declared Pope made a splendid
fight"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Pressure

A PRESSURE of a little less than
"A seven tons is employed in the
new synthetic ammonia process.
Two and a quarter tons is required
in the INCORPORATION of petroleum
and the production Of methanol, or
synthetic wood alcohol. These pres
sures are combined with tempera-
lures ranging from $50 to 600 de-
grees centigrade.
1.-THE desirability of using high
pressure to bring about certain
chemical reactions has long beer
recognized" DR.. Krase says. "But
the means of applying them has
baf1ed scientists and engineers.
"Costly research and experiment
by industries and universities now
is developing the technique of high
pressure work to a plane compar-
able to most other branches of
chemistry.
I'm the high pressure researches
into alcoholS from mixtures of car
bon monoxide and hydrogen, expert
ments are under way to determine
whether alcohols higher than meth
anol, or wood alcohol, may not be
produced.
With wood alcohol as an inter
mediate product, the higher alcohols
are being formed chiefly by success
sive condensations of lower ones"
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AcidosiS Not Disease, Says Physician

reactions then occur which are un-
favorable. In the presence of an
insufficient amount of fluid or
water, acidosis can develop, al
though such acidosiS is very mild
and is corrected because the human
being correctS the lack of food or
water which produces the acidosis.
When acidosis becomes severe.
nervousness, headache, irritability,
nausea, weakness and sleeplessness
develop. The person seems short OF
breath and breathes with difficulty.
At first he may be flushed and
excited, but later, pale and ex-
hausted. Sometimes there is a
fruity odor to the breath, although
this usually represents an advanced
condition.
In some diseases, such as diabetes
or Bright's disease, in very high
fever with profuse diarrhea, and
with difficulty in the elimination of
carbon dioxide in the lungs, such
as occurs in pneumonia and heart
disease, acidosis may be so severe
as to represent one Of the main
factors in the cause of death.
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Cole Blease
venlenCeS.

role please is not out Of the rough yet. Down IN
eortt Carolina where he is running for senatorial
rsnon,ination on the Democratic ticket-which means
virtual election in that state-hs old crowo Oh oo''0
mill bows are not turning out in sufficient NUMBERS
to suit the senator.
His lead in the primary was so close tnaI ne no"
must contest run-of primary with former Hepre-
sentative Byrnes And with his eye on what tne
Texas run-of primary did to Ma Ferguson Cole Is
reported breathing heavily.
If Cole after all these years. should fail TO return
to Washington he would be missed by lots OF people
Who take their government comic strip Next 70
the one and only Tom Helm himself, who at the
moment is having his comeback dlthcultles III
Alabama. the gentleman from South Carolina is the
hest Snowman in the senate The galleries like his
antics.
Those who have regard for the prestige and m
euipence of the senate often find it rather hard to
endure him But that doesn't trouble the clownish
Carolinian.
Like other lesser clowns in politics, he Is not alto
rether harmless AS the leading national defender
~ 1vncninp he is menace. And as one of the many
drinking drys on Capitol Hill he is nothing to boast
about.
Nevertheless so long as we have democratic gov
eminent the people of South Carolina have right
IN nick Cole to represent them if they want to.
The rub is that it is so hard to believe that he is
in any way typical representative OF the people OF
South Carolina. Maybe he isn't. At least the run
off primary gives the voters another chance to think
it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
ANA1 AOO4 lands
ITNHE farmer stand lot more punishment than
4 the city fellow.

THE farmer can stand lot more punishment than
4 the city fellow
Every day some capitalist jumps out of fortieth-
story window because the water out of his stocks
but throughout agricultures long adversely not one
single farmer has jumped out Of haymow
The rest of us would go hungry if the farmer
him crazy
He must gamble with flood and drought. with
wind and hail. with frost and burning days. with late
spring and early fall, with bugs and worms with
price fixers and market manipulators.
IF he loses he loses all he has, but if he wins he
Il does not win many times the value of his stake
other gamblers do he merely gets the value of his
tsuf-and hardly that.
He earns congressional medal for bravery every
year he farms.
There isn't capitalist in America who would ;>e
able to sit up and take nourishment at the end of
the season if he had to chaperon crop of from
spring until autumn.
He would bea gbbery idiot by October, if he could
last that long
The other day rode past as beautiful a field
OF corn as every grew sixty acres of it. all in tasse
standing row on row, like army under inspection
Inc next day We rode past that same field of
corn just after Storm and that corn lay fat never
to rise again.
d Ae" minutes the Wlno That wrecked That
farmers hopes and yaborS, yet he will grin and
bear 1t and go on, like his neighbors around him.
It's body blow ard he's not in shape to suffer
the loss but with little complaint he will face about
and meet the situation.
And while this farmer exemplify1ng the great
est self control thousands Of residents of Easy street
were raving because they had topped their golf balls
or because there the slightest noise about the
motor which bore them along in velvet because
the waiter was a second late with the dinner
Since writing the above we read in a New York
paper that the son of Chicago packer leaped to
his death from the top of hotel because he was
suffering from too much cash and idleness.
But all over the United States young men who
poor carrying on, glad to be alive and to be
indispensable to somebody's welfare.
It's better to Be philosopher and be broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Value of High Pressure In
Field of Chemistry Proved
By Experiments.
r IBERAL high-pressurs methods
IL are finding as valuable an ap-
pIication in the field Of chemistry
as the figurative '1igh-pressure tech
nique Of the business world.
Chemists believe that the new
processes by which chemical reac-
tons are carried out under tremen-
dous pressure of many tons to the
square inch soon will revolutionize
many industries and yield new
products of great value to the bust
ness and agricultural world.
A symposium on the subject will
form part of the annual meeting of
the American Chemical Society,
which opens in Cincinnati Sept. g.
Scientific investigation now go
ing on in the laboratories of the
Standard Oil Company, federal bu-
reaus, Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, University of Illinois,
University of Wisconsin and there
institutions will be reported.
Discovery Of The value Of high
pressures is believed to mark the
foremost advance achieved in ap-
piled chemistry in the last twenty
years, according to Professor Nor
man w. Krase of the University OF
Illinois, who is chairman of the
symposium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Long Graft Trail
nETTY graft! Eow innocent

DEITY graft! How innocent 10
4 sounds, and what a lovely smoke
screen it would make for the
more serious business backstage.
if enough, and more than enough
hadn't come out already to spoil
the pictured
What about the milk racket, the
poultry racket, the magistrates who
have been ousted or sent to Jail?
What about the Ewald case and
the collateral streams of rumor,
charge, and insinuation to which it
has given rise?
One judge and four magistrates
on the griddle right now for the
alleged offense of buying their jobs.
and with the thing ramifying until
it may lead heaven knows where.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Easy Money

DROSPERITY did more than wa
L ter stocks and elect Hoover. BY
and large, it made us all feel lit
tie too comfortable for our own
good. Who cared what the profiteers
or politicians did, as long as work
and cash were abundant?
The Daugherty ring at Washing
ton, the beer war in Chicago, the
murder of Don Mellett, the oil scam
dial, the ever-lengthening parade of
discredited magistrates in New York
and a whole lot more-could any of
it have happened, but for the
soothing effect of easy money?
Now that we are little short and
a little scared, the thievery and the
Incompetence don't look quite so
harmless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Maybe a Ballad

THIS was most unfair. have a
i new joke and new monolog
practically ready. The line about
President Hoover goes, 81 think his
amin al yarns for children are fine,
but i don't care so much about his
fish stories for groWnups."
Mr.. Gordon said he wasn't sure
that the management would care to
have attention called to unemploy-
ment and that. anyway, he wouldn't
be enthusiastic about booking me
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Times Readers
Voice ViezOS

Editor Times-Mr. Miller's article
in The Times Of Tuesday, Aug. 26,
descriptive Of conditions existing in
southern Indiana is timely and in
teresting. I refer to the case Of the
workers engaged in road building
activities in that section.
The facts in the case of Mr.. Toon
are deplorable, and. let us hope, ex-
ceptionaI, and this man and his fell
low unfortunates are deserving Of
our deepest sympathy. Yet perhaps
there exists an angle to the situation
upon which Mr.. Miller has failed
to touch.
Pardon me, if I am in error, but
it is my understanding that the
state highway department releases
it's road building contracts to the
lowest bidder, whose figures would
indicate his ability to meet all the
terms as specified in the contract.
And, as all Of us are aware that a
lengthy period Of general business
depression has forced the contrac-
tors to adopt the keenest Of COM
petitive methods, in the quest for
business, We feel that the worker is
entitled to consideration and pro-
lection, and modestly suggest this
plan.
The highway department would
estimate the cost Of the proposed
operation, making allowances for a
limited overhead expense, and for
fair wage to be paid all workmen
concerned. The competing contrac-
tors would be considered only when
their figures would indicate their
ability to pay specified wages and
to adhere to the standards OF road
building. This plan, in my opinion,
would settle the wage question and
produce better results generally.
RALPH COX.
PIT North Noble street.
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BY DIR: MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American NEEDLES
Association. and Of Hygeia. the Health

By DIR. NORRIS tISHbElN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association. and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
ONCE the campaign of the Cali
- fornia growers of oranges for
education of the public some years
ago, the word "acidosis" has meant
something to the majority of people.
Somehow the word "acid" has de-
veloped a most unfavorable como
tation in the human mind and the
word "alkali" is little if at all I'M
derstood by the average reader.
Acidosis is not a disease but a
disturbance Of the relationship be-
tween acids and alkalis in the hui
man body. Both types Of substance
occur in human tissues.
Acids and alkaliS react to form
salts. If sufficient amount of acid
is retained in the body to increase
the hydrogen for concentration of
the body fluids beyond normal
limits, the person has acidosis.
The human body is equipped
with remarkably efficient mech
anism for regulating the relationship
between acids and alkalis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
Jails Then and Now

A famous writer on jails and prisons at the end
of the eighteenth century, Roberts vaux of Phila-
delphia. thus described the county jails of 1890:
What a spectacle must this abode of guilt and
wretchednesS have presented when in common
herd kept by day and night prisoners of all ages
colors, and sexes! No separation was made of the
most fragrant offender and convict from the prisoner
who might, perhaps, be suspected falsely of some
trifling misdemeanor; of the old and hardened
cuprits from the youthful trembling novice in crme
none of the fraudulent swndler from the I'M
fortunate and possibly the most estimable debtor.
when intermingled with all these, in one corrupt
and coruptng asSemblage were to be found the dis
gushing object of popular contempt, besmeared with
filth from the pillory-the unhappy victim of the
lash, streaming with blood from the whipping post
the half-naked vagrant-tte loathsome drunkard-the
SICK suffering from various bodily palms, and too often
the unhung malefactor whose precious hours of pro-
baton had been numbered by his earthly judge"
One hundred thirty years later, Joseph F. Fish
man, contemporary writer on jais and prisons.
comparable in authority to Vaux in his day. thus
describes the jails in of the most advanced COM
monwealths of the Atlantic seaboard:
Who adequately can describe their bestiality-
their utterly filthy, frlgid desoation? With two or
three exceptions the cells are of stone and in the
winter stone cod sthere no light there is no fresh
air, and the atmosphere of decades poisoned bv the
eXhaatlons of countless prisoners sick and we'll is
rendered still more foul by the loathsome night
bucket; bathing usually is unknown; bedding is con-
sidered plentiful when mere mattress and blanket
are supplied and often Of these is omitted; there
is no segregation of SEX age. or anything else
there no exercise work. no occupation or diver
sion of any kind-it is impossible even to see in most
places because of the darkness
The only positive qualities that obtain, and these
they have in abundance, are dirt vermin, and the
execraple fee system of feeding Life here indeed is
not only debaSed and stripped of every sign of cviza
ton; it is living death in cold dark tombs"
Such is the progress" in nearly a century and a
half Is it not about time that something was done
about it?
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Begins to Strut

TIE leaped and danced and called
II attention to himself in all sorts
of staggering ways. And through
the whole performance he smirked
with dissatisfaction All on &C
count of swim in cold water.
Why, I've been in that lake when
1 had to break a way through the
ice by standing on it. The first
thing know that dog will be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BESSS

around telling me that he takes a
cold shower every morning.
I don't like people who take cold
showers every morning. I know
that they grow up to be Y. M. G. A.
secretaries, but, even so, I don't like
them.
It's their lack of reticence which
annoys me. hate people who battle
and tell.
A man or a woman's circulation
ought to be a private matter-just
something between him and the Life
Extension Institute.
There's something insufferably
vulgar in people who glow and pull
safe in public Good health should
begin at home and end there.
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lacks Logic

MAYOR Walkers candor would
AVA be more impressive, were it
not for an obvious lack Of logic.
He must regard the people Of New
York as naively trustful indeed if
ne thinks he can make them be-
lleve that petty graft has become
widespread, without more or less big
graft.
In little hick town it might be
possible for peanut politicians to get
away with the gravy. but not in theVl
American metropolis, with Tam
many hall on the job.
What are sachems, district Lead
ers. and precinct captains for any
way, if not to see that the small fry
shows proper appreciation OF its
opportunities?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29

What is the meaning attached to
a ring of haze around the moon?
1t is known as halo, and is due 10
refraction of light by minute ice
crystals floating in the air, and is
seen around either the sun or moon.
What Is the national wealth Of
italy?
1t was estimated in 1928 at
$21 ,250. 100000.
What was the name Of the mother
of Zachary Taylor before her
marriage?
Sarah Strather.
How far will the bullet from 3
Springfield rife travel, and at what
distance will ii kill?
1t Will travel $500 yards and viii
XII at about $500 yards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
It HELPS MooneY

GAY what you will, but prosperity
~ is wonderful preserver Of the
status quo.
The chances are that if it had
kept on, Governor Young would
have been renominated in Cali
fornia.
It's a mean thought, but Mooney
and Billings yet may have reason to
be grateful for the depression.
At all events, Young is out, with
Sunny Jim Rolph scheduled to
take his place, and a little better
chance for the boys to go free.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-29
M. E. Tracy
SAYS

Prosperity Did More Than.
Water Stocks and Elect
Hoover. It Made Us AU
Feel Too Comfortable for
Or OiOn Good.
A FTER four years and seven
L A months in office. Mayor Walker
of New York admits that petty graft
is widespread.
Putting aside other aspects Of this
amazing admission. for the moment,
only one Of two conclusions is pos
sible. Either Mayor Walker inc
herited this petty graft from pre-
cedlng administrations or IL de-
veloped during his own.
If it was case of inheritance, he
has shown singular dullness in rec
ognizlng and assuming the respon-
siollities of his job.
II, on the other hand, it has de-
veloped since he took office. how
can he escape some share Of the
blame?
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ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter-
estiDg writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this naper.-The Editor.