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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Cruelty to Animals

The stories Of dogs who lay shivering in the rain
or crying paintively under the stars huggng the slim
green mound which held one whom they idolized,
took up good many pages in the old school reading
books. Children read them. learning not only the
pronunciation Of words but the meaning Of loyalty
And the dogs are really loyal-n1ore than one has
given his life for his master.
We wonder if the man in distant city who pre-
pared q terrible punishment for dog the other day
didn't know this s-~-
Apparently he didn't He kept on, throwing more
and more dirt into hole where he had placed the
little animal He packed it harder and harder. until
finally the dog was covered. and he couldn't see the
eyes. just the nose was left above the ground.
Then the man went away
Neighbors hearing the dogs cries, came, found
the nose. and dug the animal out.
The dog had been digging holes in his yard, the
owner explained He had cured other puppies Of this
habit by burying them in the ground for time.
exposed 50 they could breathe He was merely trying
the same method of. punishment and training with
this puppy.
little hard to realize that there are people in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Two Generals

,,~.ssde,t Mowers appointment of new chiefs Of
che army and the marine corps has caused a furry
IN washington and in the services, because netner
Of the two appointees is a senior ranking ofncer.
But Hoover is not the first President to jump
officers TO high command over the heads OF their
seniors Usually in peace time the seniority rule Oh
promotions is followed for the sake Of morale OF the
service though obviously it would be absurd to tie
the hands of President by a hard and fast rule.
The seniority principle is apt to work all the bet
ter in the end if officers are kept on their toes by
the fact that the rule occasionally is broken IN favor
Of an exceptional man.
The Presidents choice of Major-General DoiiglaS
Macarthur as army chief should be, and probably
will be- popular From the time he left West Point
as an honor man, Macarthur has been an outstand-
ing officer.
His record during the World war, in which ne
twice was wounded. and his service in the lar east
and elsewhere merit the high praise which the PreSi
dent gave in describing him brilliant soldier"
Though Macarthur is the youngest major-general
in the army and junior in point OF service 70 sew
eral others. the age Of others would prevent them
from serving the full term chief OF staff.
It is difficult to understand, however, what moved
the President to pass all the heterogeneous Ii
the marine corps to name Brigadier-General b. H.
Ftiler az commandment Fuller's record is less dis
tneushed than that Of several of his seniors espe-
cially Major-G General Smedley D. Butter ranking
officer Of the corps
Butler is in dsfavor with the administrator ac-
cording TO the Washington correspondents because
OF his reference in public some months ago 10 'ile
hard-boied methods Of the marines during american
ccrnation of some of the Caribbean countries Such
honesty by General Butler was highly commemorate
1t is rather an unfortunate coincidence that But
Ter who told the truth about marine occupations
should be cast aside in favor of his junior Fuller
who once was in command of the discredited marine
occ,nation of the Dominican republic.
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BY JOE WILLIAMS

MIR. AND MRS. H. L. MENCKEN
IV1 soon will be at home to friends
at 1924 Rollins street, Baltimore. A
few days before his f1ftieth birth
day rolls around Americas nosiest
and most interesting bachelor will
take unto himself helpmeet. Or,
perhaps, the more chaste phrase, a
life partner, is the one he would
prefer.
At any rate, the man who said he
never would and wrote it oftener
and with more vehemence than
anybody else in this generation is
going to. suppose the only diff
ference between Mencken and q
million other males is that he had
an audience, and that perforce or
otherwise he waited longer to climb
out of his masquerade suit.
Still, it seems to me there ought
to be a law against professional
bachelors such as the Menckens,
even when they are Glowing. Most
of us 60 out and get ourselves mar
ried too early. A canoe ride on a
silvered lake. A one-step to boop-a-
doop-a-doop music ~. I. a walk IN
the moonlight under signing ma
pies. Out of such all-revealing soul
stuff is nlatri1nony made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
1an finger in. Detecting changes.

man finger in detecting changes.
There was a time when it would
have been considered equivalent to
murder to push needle into the
sacs around the heart. Today, how
ever, the physician extracts any
fluid that has accumulated in that
sac which he knows is there on
the basis of his studies of the heart
condition by the methods that have
been mentioned. He does not hest
tate to insert needle and to with
draw the fluid.
The beat of the heart first was
heard by a physician who placed
his ear directly on the chest. Then
came the discovery of the method
of liSteningNto the heart through a
solid tube.
Later more delicate devices were
discovered, which had a bell for
collecting the sound, membrane
for amplifying, and rubber tubes
to carry the sound to the ear.
With the development of electric
transmission of sound and later Of
amplification, it now becomes pos
sible to step up the sound SO that
the variations may be easily de-
termined.
Through examination of the
heart after death in case of known
disease, it is possible to correlate
all these observations made before
death with the appearance of the
heart and to know the significance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
SCIENCE
Astronomy and Physics Unite
in AmGssing Knowledge on
Nature and Behavior of
Light.
BY DAVID DIETZ

MOST Of the knowledge Of the
1V1 sun and the stars has been the
offspring Of a union of two sciences,
astronomy and physics.
Scientists call this union by the
rather formidable name Of astTo-
physics. This is not done with a
diabolic desire to confuse the lay
man, but to supply scientists with a
definite name for the interesting
and exceedingly fruitful territory
which has grown up on the border
between astronomy and physics.
To grasp fully the work which is
going on in this field, it is necessary
to have an understanding Of knowl-
edge amassed in recent years about
nature and behavior Of light. For
light is the only means by which
the sun and the stars can be
studied.
Originally, the astronomer could
do no more than gaze at the &C.
lestian objects. Then he learned
how to analyze their light by means
OF the Spectroscope and allied in
struments.
Within recent years he not only
studies their visible light, but their
invisible light as well, analysing the
infra-red rays and the ultraviolet
rays which penetrate the earth's at
mosphere.
He interprets conditions and ac-
Invites within the sun and the stars
on the basis Of what is known about
the origin and behavior of these
various kinds of light.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
REASON BY Ff Taan1s

IT'S interesting to listen to the rumbIng of the
i heavy thinking of those fnancers who long have
been the custodians of the business pulse of Uncle
Sam and have kept the rest of us posted as to his
temperature respiration and corpuscle count.
These experts disagree today as they discuss the
state of affairs; they hopeessy at sea when they
try to tell why things are baggng at the knees;
they sscribe conditions to everything except hay
fever and halitoss.
This is strange, because anybody with two brain
cells rotting down the pike together has very clear
idea to the situation in which we find ourselves
and how we got there.
1t is as plain as the sideburns on motion picture
actor.
business has been on joy ride ever since the
- World started in 1914 for every time the god
Of war hands package to humanity he takes quill
and blows everything up.
When the war was over and the balloon was filed
TO the limit we didn't let the gas out and come down
20 EARTH but with Hardings election we took on more
gas anG headed for the moon, and then four years
later when Mr. Coolidge elected we inflated the
old air sack again.
pumps again and forced gas into the old air sack
until she groaned and then it came to pass one fine
Jay that the balloon busted and here we are.
And While We were JOY riding we accumulated
tot of crazy extravagances for which we are now pay
ing the freight
TT makes you think sometimes the federal reserve
Il law is mistake that panics are natures remedies
cure In ation and that instead of canning this gas
up inside the business world we should let it out.
How much better if We had let it out Immediately
after the war!
But OF one thing we are dead sure and it is that
AL Smith is the luckiest bird who ever wore brown
derby.
He now is the head Of great corporation in New
York City, happy, caTefree and popular, but had he
been elected two years ago he now would be sitting
away back In dark corner Of the White House base
meat behind set of false whiskers.
He would be charged with having brought all this
upon Us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
What Price Toryism?

J. e Edeerton president of the National Assocs-
ton of Manufacturers continues in his efforts against
social insurance and other reforms This time his
theme is the increase of taxes and governmental ex-
penditures in England
In a letter to manufacturers entitled What Price
Radicalism" he calls attention to Britains taxes.
While he admits the war cost to be the most i'm
portant item in the increase, he tries to imply that
the British social insurance is much more significant
as challenge to prosperity and sound economics.
1t is Russian idea, he holds. 1t already has cap
tured England America will succumb unless
manufacturers are ever on the alert against these
Muscovite devices:
THE stupendous cost of the World war to England
will be cited Immediately the chief cause, and
would not dispute that statement But there other
ponderously significant causes that undoubtedly ac-
count for this staggering tax burden with which the
mother country is struggling SO gamely.
1.-THE chief of these other causes is represented by
the various forms of social insurance which has been
forced upon the nation by the shock troops of short
sighted social reformerS while the consructively con-
sentative thinkers either asleep in the lap OF
greed or we're wasting their strength in intellectual
competitions for social political financial other
kind of leadership.
I'm this connection, it is fact alarming to every
well-informed thoughtful American that we have at
this moment in our country everything which
England has of the character mentioned. The only
difference is one of degree.
The smothering lava streams of socialism from
the craters of radical thought simply have Travelled
farther in England than in America witness the
multiplying proposals for public old age PENSIONS
public unemployment insurance, bonuses, pensions
and other does out of the public treasury which
wholly inconsistent with the truly American theory
Of government"
As often is the case, Edgerton's history and
noncs are somewhat wobbly British social insurance
already under full steam in 1914, when Russia
still under the absolute domination of the Rom
anofs. 1t was introduced, not by the British Com
munists but by bourgeois liberal government.
All was going well before the war; The economic
burden of all kinds of social insurance was not great
England was prosperous. Her government meet
ing the social obligations OF modern state.
The only important Of the increased taxa
ton in Britain today is the World It raised the
British public debt from 7OOOO000o pounds to $780,
100000 pounds. 1t disrupted British industry and
enormously increased unemployment.
Most of Britains major economic evils today flow
from her participation in the World war. Hence the
real responsibility for the increase in British taxation
must fall upon those who led Britain into the war
Edgerton's question should be not What Price
Radicalism?" but What Price Toryism?"
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Questions and
AnSzCe7.S

How did the expression 'the ghost
walks originate?
1t is attributed to one of company
of English strolling players, who
while rehearsing Hamlet said in an
swer to Hamlet's speech concerning
the ghost, 'Perchance twill walk
again.: mo, I'll be id if the
ghost viii walk again until our SAL
aries are paid"
What is the rule in euchre gov
erning discariing when unable to
follow suit?
Quoting from Hoyle's official
rules: "The trump made, dealers
left-hand opponent leads card,
and each to left, in turn, plays a
card of the same suit, If he has one.
II not, he may trump, or may throw
Off card of another suit" It
does not specify that the card thrown
OF must be of the same color as
the suit led.
What is the difference between a
soothsayer and q sorceress?
A soothsayer is one who is said to
be able to divine the future, pro-
phet. A sorcereSs is a woman who
is said to have power over evil
spirits, and to be able to conjure
them. Both terms are used Of super
situations of the past and present.
What is the modern spelling Of
Pekin, the former capital of China?
Peiping.
what is an interlocutory decree Of
divorce?
A preliminary decree granted
sometime before the divorce becomes
final
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
IT SEEMS TO ME By H BF0SS

Jungle lands Of the heart hold no
unknown perils. The Lindbergh
fight would not have been half as
exciting if he had waited until he
was 40 to do it. 1t is always much
more thrilling to fill a straight flush
than to draw one ON the deal.
To those of us among the yoked
yokelry and the bondaged Babbitry
who have been itnpiously tempted by
the mans studied suavities,
Mencken stands now as a hooking
sham and a faithless leader.
All the while he was in the back
room philosophizing over his ale
and kraut at syndicate rates he
was yearning for a phone call!
Copyright. 1880, by The Tines)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Ultraviolet

TINE scale of electromagnetic ra-
l. diation does not stop with Wis
ible light. Every one knows of ultra
violet light It is so named because
it is composed of waves shorter than
the waves Of visible light.
Your eyes can not see ultraviolet
light. But your skin responts to it
by tanning.
Still shorter than ultraviolet
light are the waves which comprise
X-rays. X-rays are so short that
then can find their ways between
the molecules of matter. That Is
why X-rays will furnish photo, for
example, of the bones within a per-
sons hand.
The gamma rays Of radiurn are
still shorter than X-rays.
At one time, scientists imagined
tina the electromagnetic scale ended
with the gamma rays. But within
recent years, Professor r. A. Mill
kan has verified the existence of the
so-called cosmic rays, waves shorter
than the gamma rays of radium.
These cosnic days appear to enter
the earth's atmosphere generally
from outer space.
Astronomers are concerned with
study the infra-red rays and ultra
violet rays given off by the sun
and stars, as well as studying the
visible light of those objects.
They are concerned with x-rays
and Gamma rays because of there's
which insist that these types of
radiation must exist within the in
terror of the sun and stars.
Finally, they are concerned with
the mysterious cosnic rays, which
do not seem to be associated with
either the sun or stars, but which
nevertheless arise somewhere in the
outer regions of the universe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
M. E. Tracy
SAYS:
The Politicians WI Hare
the Drought to Use for an
Abb In 1882.

THE United States now Is a ma
4 ton of more than l23,0Oo,oO0
certainty. Il mean it." yes. I am
well aware Of what the census re-
port says-122. 72s, s73-but that was
for the first Of April. II the pop
ulstion increased more than IT,
100000 during the last ten ysars, It
has increased more than 271 ,127
during the last four months. Hav-
ing settled that. let's 60 on.
To begin with, this census shows
some rather surprising changes.
Though California made the great
est gain in percentage, the drift of
population has turned from west to
south. More than that, the drift
does not represent such a drain on
the east as it formerly did,
New York still shows the largest
numerical increase Of any state,
while New Jersey comes fifth in per-
centage. Even Vermont holds its
own and Montana is the only state
to show a decrease. Generally
speaking. the returns are such as to
satisfy most Chambers Of Com
merce and Rotary clubs. AS for the
less fortunate minority, they can
have just as good a time thinking
up alibis.
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rackets yet unexposed, AS an ex-
soldier, taxpayer and citizen, I
think it is time for us to clean up
this gang and our chance will be this
fall at the polls. Like the Dutch
man said: Enough is a plenty"
They have been in power too long,
have grown. fat on the spoils Of the
land and are overconf1dent and in
toxicated with power. So let's give
them one-way ticket this fall and
in 1882 send the chief back to the
sticks from whence he came to en-
joy his cob pipe instead of imported
cigarets and high priced gold ash
trays and cigaret holders.
JAKE LEMONS.
242 Kansas street.
Editor Tiines-I am a man with
out work. I would like to know how
men are going to get work when
police are ordeNng them of the
street. Isn't there some. way we
poor devils can be protected while
on the street corners, without some
policeman ordering us off?
A READER.
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GENERAL WOODS DEATH
August'7 e

I'm Aug. Z, 1927, Major General
~ Leonard Wood, goyernor-gen--
eral of the Philippines, and veteran
of the Spanish American and World
wars, died at a Boston hospital fol-
lowing a brain operation.
Wood entered the army as sur
geon after graduating from Harvard
medical school. When Mckinley
became President, Wood went to the
White House as his personal ply
sician.
At the outbreak Of the Spanish
American war in 1898, Wood helped
his close friend, Theodore Roosevelt,
raise and lead the famous regiment
of Rough Riders" For his conduct
in the war he was elevated to ma
jor- general.
Following his services after the
war as Governor of Cuba, where he
made many great improvements in
education and sanitation, Wood was
appointed Governor III the Philip
pines.
Here he stamped out polygan1y
and tanned the Sulu chieftains.
When he returned to the United
States in 1903 he was made chief Of
staff.
Wood was given inferior COM
mands. during the World war be-
cause he was thought to have given
rise to certain views on prepared
ness unfavorabIe to the adnlinistra-
ton.
In 1919 he announced himself a
candidate for the Republican non1i-
nation for President, and made con-
siderable Roadway until the steel
strike in Indiana, in which he felt it
his duty to participate, spoiled his
chances. Two years later he was
appointed Governor General Of the
Philippines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Youths Blind Bliss

a YOUNG husband never knows
n how the proposition is going to
work out. Nor a young wife for that
matter. There is no guarantee to
complete uninterrupted happiness
on your ring back in the sealing
rituals. At the moment, Of course,
neither of the contracting parties
would want such a material guar
antee.
Only at 20 or Whereabouts is it
possible to breathe the fire Of high
romance and genuine gallantry into
the words, Sugar Baby, III stick
with you until the Red Sox win a
championship"
At more matured age discreet
qualifications creep in. Surely no
clipping sophomore from Smith
struck the first militant protest
against that part Of the VOWS which
demands that the lady obey every
will and w1inn Of her drate big
daddy.
This undoubtedly came some
years later between a discussion Of
civic issues at one of the Tuesday
meetings of the Society for the Up
lift Of the Modern Wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Drought Makes AIibi

DY and large the American farm
Id er and the. American con-
sumner, too, have suffered as much
from droughts as from low prices,
manipulation, and glutted markets:
History, however, has little to say on
the subject of droughts. BY look
ing through newspaper and magazine
files, it is possible to discover that
one occurred in 1901, one in 1894, and
several in various preceding years
But there is no such wealth OF
material concerning them or their
consequences as there is with re-
gard to financial panies. Droughts
do not make particularly good argu-.
rnents for politicians, especially be-
forehand. Who would think of stage
ing a campaign, or writing bill on
a drought that has not yet occurred?
Who would think of referring to a.
drought of which no party or adj
rninistration possibly could be.
blamed? But If droughts make
poor arguments, they furnish good
alibis. In 1882, you are going to-
hear every Republican speaker tell
how his party would have pulled US.
through the depression all right II
it had not been for lack of rain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
VILLAGES Vanish

TINE movement from county to
Il town continues. Where we had
only sixty-eight cities of more than
100000 inhabitants ten years ago,
we now have ninety-four and where
we had approximately 700 Of 10000
we now have 900.
The small village, however, seems
to be disappearing, with the auto
mobile, farmers no longer need a
grocery store at every crossroad,
while trucks and express trains
make it as easy for dairymen to ship
their goods 100 miles as it was to
ship them ten miles when old
Dobbin was king. -
Fundamentally, the relationship
of town and country remains un-
changed. Each is equally dependent
on the other to certain point, but
once that point is passed, the basic
Importance of rural life begins to
assert itself.
Last fall $15,0oO,0O0 or $2o,Ooo,oOo
may have been wiped out in the
stock market crash, while the
present drought may cost $1,000
100000. When it comes to a
question of personal suffering, po-
litical unrest, and social effect, how
ever, the drought has it on Wall
Street. SAP
Most people do not think SO, be-
cause they do not want to think So
because they have become obsessed
with the idea that their own con.
trivances are of more consequence
than those of nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Radio

INVISIBLE light is only one form
' Of what the scientist has
named electromagnetic radiation.
The longest electromagnetic
waves are the cnes used in radio,
sometimes called Hertzian waves in
honor Of Professor Heinrich Hertz,
their discoverer. once upon a time
they constituted a laboratory mar
vel. Today, they are familiar to
every one under the name of radio
waves.
Radio waves range in length from
those more than a mile long to
those a few inches long. The very
long ones are used in tranSoceanic
radio telegraphy, the short ones for
the so-called short wave radio.
The radio waves trail off into ex-
trenaely short ones, which can be
studied in the laboratory, but as yet
serve no commercial purpose.
Just a bit shorter than these ex-
trenlely short electric waves are the
infra-red, rays, Every one is fanlil-
lar with them under another name.
Their more popular name is that of
heat rays. The heat which is radi-
ated from an electric heater, for
example, is in the form of mira
red rays.
Next come the rays of visible.
light, the longest of which give us
the sensation of red and the short
est of which give us the sensation
of violet.
Our eye is like g. radio receiver
which can tune in only limited
band of wave lengths. The longest
wave length to which it will re-
spond is that which gives us the red
sensation. The shortest to which it
will respond is that which gives us
the sensation of violet.