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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Without PoSterity

JAMES BRANCH CABELL could
a say, without being fantastic, It'll
aim my work at posterity. Even if
it goes over the heads of every man
and woman now alive, it may touch
the heart of some one yet unborn"
Only the talking picture actor has
any concern with posterity. And he
has, according to my guess, not
much.
The fame and the prestige of a
David Garrick may linger after his
death, but not his art. There's
nothing SO dead as dead actor.
Not even the finest descriptive
writer can make a. later generation
understand wildly the strut, the
passion, and the tingle of the player
who was and is no more.
I would like to make some public
testimony of the great kindness and
courtesy Of all my fellows on the
Palace program. They did not treat
me like an interloper. They pre-
tended that I really belonged.
Everybody was nice to me, but
Rin-Tin-Tin, who seemed to know
that was stray columnist.
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
The Prison Situation

The state farm. as well as the peniten-
tiaries, is overcrowded. It's prisoners, too,
are idle.
This situation is far different from the
dream of those who believed that with the
coming of prohibition, the crime problem
would be solved, all prisons empty, poverty
abolished and asylums become mere rest
cures.
The condition of business in the free
world has been reflecte4 in the prisons. Very
many men are idle ThGr is bad, very bad.
A voorhees, man at liberty is in bad
situation, bad for himself and bad for soci-
ETY.. A voorhees, man i'll prison is still worse
for society and much worse for himself. He
has too much time to think and ponder and
grow bitter.
This state, as well as others, has done
little constructive thinking as to Its crime
problem. The only answer it has given IS
the old prison system which herds men to-
gether under guards. 1t does little to cure
the defect in the mental and physical equip
ment of the offender ana less to curb the
causes of crime.
If prisons are to reform and send back
to society those who lave broken its laws,
little can be done unless training in some
useful vocation is given The prisoner should
be sent out at the end Of his term of punish
ment equipped to make a living. He should
not be driven to the border line of insanity
bv idleness while restrained Of his liberty
The disclosure of tie overcrowded condl-
ton of the insane wards at Michigan City
came when one prisoner killed another. The
man who killed had been released very re-
Gently from the insane ward. The reason
for his release, so it was stated, was that
the insane ward was filled with others IN
worse mental condition.
There may be very definite relationship
between the overcrowt,ng Of the insane
ward and the lack of work.
If there is one condition that should be
corrected Immediately it is in this direction.
The state is building very many ROADS.
The program for the future calls for thou
sands of miles of improvement. 1t might not
only be cheaper but more humane to use idle
men in prisons for this purpose than to bur-
den society with the permanent care OF men
crazed by idleness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Censorship in India

1.-THE spectacle of them beating the unresisting VOL
unteers painful that I frequently was forced
to turn away from the crowd"
That, from censored dispatch from Webb Mil
Ter, European news manager for the United Press,
telling of attack by Indian police on unarmed VOL
unteers
Miller, American correspondent sent to India to
describe from purely neutral point of view what is
going in that turbulent section of the world was
eyewitness to the police assault on the mon
residents" who were swarming about the Dharasana
salt works.
But all of what he saw did not get through the
censors Only part So the imagination of the read
er does the rest
Censorship always has that effect The reader fills
between the lines And his imaginative picture is not
unlikely to be more revolving than what really hap
pened
Censorship, wherever it appears, contains within
itself the germ Of its own impotency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Questions and
AnSzCerS

Where does the voice come from?
Voice is the sound produced by
the vocal organs OF an animal, es-
pecially human being.
Did Al JoIson write Sonny Boy"
the theme song of "The Singing
Fool?"
He wrote the song, whistled the
melody and reciteG the words over
the telephone from New York to
Hollywood for the publishers, D
sylvia Brown and Henderson, who
rewrote the words.
What kind of powder is used in
finger printing? Where can it be
purchased?
Chemists gray powder is used.
1t is composed Of mercury and
chalk, and may be purchased at any
drug store. Aluminium dust also
may be used for finger printing. If
the finger prints are on a light sur
face graphite or charcoal may be
used.
In what latitude and longitude
is the Bay of Whales?
The location is approximately 70
degrees south Latitude and 162 de-
grees west longitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Strange 1t

The congress will do great service to the Amer
lean people if it will strange the Smoot- Hawley
tariff bill in conference
The existing tariff is better than anything that
may reasonably be expected to out of congress-
No piece of legislation in years has been so pock-
marked with greed as this pending tariff bill. -.
1t lifts the hair and peels the hide from thou
sands Of agricultural consumers and gives them a
stone where they asked for bread. -.
It is no loyalty to President Hoover to vote for
this bill. -.
The congressman who votes for the bill will
be disloyal to his constituency unless they be
stituents in some small special industry, who have
to the jug Of special privileges which
is drained from the American people in this bill.
Particularly Kansas congressman or senator will
be justified in voting mo" on this bill.
Fred Brenckman, Washington representative OF
the National Grange, says of it. "The rates of the
bill fail short Of placing agriculture basis
OF equality with industry, as was promised in the
last presidential campaign. :"
The bill as it is is a bad lot.
In 1890 the Harrison administration wrecked
by the passage of the Mckinley tariff bill in June.
1t took six years to get Republican congress back
Washington. -.
In 1910 the Payne Aldrich bill wrecked the Re
publican party, and not until 1921 did Republican
President and Republican congress come back to
Washington.
Can't those Republicans who applying the
party whip to western and senators read
the handwriting of history on the WALTZ
The Smoot- Hawley bill is worse than the Payne
Aldrich bill or the Mckinley bill. Strange it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
VXTITH my first and last vaude-

WITH my first and last vaude-
w vile engagement at a close, I
can at least point to one ingenious
achievement of my own. 1t is not
every theatrical performer who is
able to arrange matters in such a
way that his debut and his farewell
tour shall run concurrenly and both
within a week.
But 1 speak neither in malice nor
in anger. 1t is well for every indi-
vidual to find out what he can do
and one way of ascertaining that is
to discover what you can't do.
I am reminded of an anecdote
concerning painting, an early
Broun, which I gave to Edward
Hope, the colurnnist of the Herald
Tribune, several years ago. Being a
kindly person, Hope found space
upon the wall of his living room to
hang this amateur impression of a
raging sea.
One night he entertained a pro-
fessional painter, who kept looking
at the canvas in a puzzled way. At
length he asked: who on earth
did that?"
''It was painted by Haywood
Broun, newspaper friend of mine"
explained Hope.
Eyes" said the artist, 81 felt sure
it was painted by some one who
could do something else"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
War Talk Galore

I'm this connection the amount Of
L war talk one hears, especially in
a private and gosSipy way, is sur
priSing.
Our various peace movements APP
pear to be rooted in nothing SO dis
tinctly as a soil of backstair tat5le.
Travellers from abroad are bub-
bling over with rumors and reports.
BY some caprice of inScrutable
fate, the whole world seems to be
contra citing a bad case Of suspicion
and alarm.
With few exceptions. govern
ments are doing what they can to
keep down the infection, but the
obvious effort this requires tells its
own story.
One would like to believe that the
naval treaty agreed upon at London,
or the plan for an economic union
of European states proposed by
BRAND. reflected the emotional COM
plexes now prevailing more faith
fully than Mussolini's f1st-shaking
or the gloomy forebodings Of Soviet
newspapers, but it is to be feared
that the latter harmonize with
thoughts that are in the back OF too
many minds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Three Kinds of Food Aid Bone Growth

ment milk, which provides calcium,
with vitamin D in the form Of
viosterol or of cod liver oil with
viosterol, or of sunlight, which en-
courages the development of vita
min D in the body.
So far as the growth of the teeth
is concerned, recent evidence seems
to indicate that vitamin c also is
important for the prevention of
tooth decay.
Unfortunately, both milk and cod
liver oil are deficient in vitamin
G. The richest substances in this
vitamin are the citrus fruits, such
as oranges, lemons and grapefruit.
Hence it is highly desirable to
add to the diet of the growing child
a certain amount of orange juice,
which takes care of this deficiency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

H. K. Stiebling indicate that any
one of the three main factors may
be a limiting factor in bone growth.
If the calcium is high and the
phosphorus low, the bone growth
may be aided by the simple addi-
ton of phosphates. If the phos-
phorus is sufficient and the calcium
low, there is no material out OF
which the bones may be built.
Vitamin D may be the limiting
factor when the mineral content of
the diet is good, but vitamin D can
not take the place Of calcium which
is needed for the best bone develop
ment.
One of the richest substances in
calcium is milk. Mix is, on the
other hand, very poor in vitamin D.
Hence it is desirable to supple
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
SCIENCE
End of May to Bring End Of
Jupiter's Parade IN West
ern Skies.
BY DAVID DIETZ
JUPITER, big brother Of the sola'

JUPITER, big brother Of the solar
j system, appears little lower in
the western sky each night after
sunset this raonth.
Two bright starlike objects can
be seen in the western sky as the
twilight deepens. One is Jupiter.
The other, which is the brighter of
the two, is Venus.
Earlier in the month Venus was
lower in the sky than Jupiter. But
Venus has been moving eastward
with rapidity.
It caught up to Jupiter on May
II, when the two glowed within a
little over a degree Of each other
like beautiful celestial twin-lamp.
Since then Venus has continued its
eastward race, drawing away from
Jupiter.
Each night Jupiter will appear
lower in the western sky after sun
set. AS a consequence, 1t will set
earlier each night. BY the end of
May it will no longer be possible
to see Jupiter, for it will be too
close to the sun and will be lost in
the bright rays of the setting sun.
Observers will find it interesting
to note the color changes in Jupiter.
While the planet is fairly high in
the sky, its color is beautiful
white. But as it sinks toward the
horizon, it takes on a distinctly
ruddy hue.
This phenomenon is exactly like
the reddening of the sun as it sets.
1t is the result of the greater thick
ness of air through which the rays
must pass. Air has a tendency to
transmit red lights and scatter the
other rays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Play in Your Yard

A ND, so after one week of mono
( n Logging at the Palace theater,
I come back to columning with all
the eagerness of a trolley car which
has jumped the tracks and now is
home again.
I had only to watch my fellow
performers, however, briefly, to find
confirmation for the fact that I was
a newspaper man.
In seeing vaudeville artists like
Val and Ernie Stanton, and CHer&
Barry and Orval Whiteledge, one
came to the immediate impression
that as far as stage talent goes you
have got it or you haven't. You
can't be learned at home in ten
easy lessons.
No writing man, even one trained
to meet the space requirements of
newspaper work, ever learns the
strict rule of compression as stage
folk know it.
This remains the essential diff
ference between the professional
and the amateur. Listen to some
one Of your friends tell a funny
story after dinner and then go over
the anecdote in your mind and
you will find that the yarn could
have been cut at least in half with
out damage being done to anybody.
Naturally, I don't mean that the
theater is quite devoid of long
winded people. This state of affairs
is not wholly the fault of column
lists who rush in.
But material upon the variety
stage is subjected constantly not to
the blue pencil of a single copy
reader. but to the close exarnina-
ton of a thousand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Belts

DUT while Jupiter has a long
ID year, it has a very short day.
The huge planet spins very rapidly
on its axis, making one rotation in
ten hours.
You would have to live a fast life
on Jupiter with f1ve-hour day and
f1ve-hour night.
Jupiter is an interesting object in
telescope. Even very small tele-
scope will reveal four of the moons
or satellites which revolve around
the planet. Jupiter has nine moons,
but the other five are visible only
with a very powerful instrument.
A small telescope will also reveal
the fact that Jupiter is f1attened
at the poles.
A large telescope reveals wealth
of interesting detail upon the sur
face of the planet. The colors are
mostly reds and browns, with here
and there an olive green.
The most striking feature of the
planets appearance is furnished by
the so-called belts. These are bands
or streaks parallel to the equator.
From tn way these belts change in
appearance and width, it is assumed
that they are clouds which have
been drawn out into streaks by the
rapid rotation of the planet on it's
axis.
There are markings, however,
which are at least semi permanent,
continuing for years with little
change. The most remarkable of
these was the great red spot"
which appeared upon the planet in
1878 and remained a prominent
marking for many years.
Within recent years, it's color has
faded, but its location is still marked
by bay or opening in one of the
belts.
1t was calculated that The spot
was 10000 miles long and 1000 miles
wide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Distances

MENUS is the brightest object in
' the night sky with the excep-
ton of the moon. Jupiter is the
second in order of brilliancy as a
rule. Mars occasionally SurpasSes
Jupiter in brightness, but only when
it is in an unusually favorable posi-
ton.
In reality, however, Jupiter is the
largest of the planets. It's diameter
is more than ten times that of the
earth. 1t has an average diameter
of 86,720 miles.
1t is necessary to specify an av-
erage diameter because the planet
shows very marked flattening at
the poles. The equatorial diameter
of the planet is $3.50 miles, while
the polar diameter is only 1880
miles.
Jupiter's average distance from
the sun is 483, 100000 miles. This is
more than five times the earth's dis
lance. (The earth is 100000 miles
from the sum-
Since both the earth and Jupiter
are revolving around the sun, the
distances between us and Jupiter
may very greatly, depending where
the earth and Jupiter are in their
orbits. Further variation is intro
duced by the fattening or eccen-
tricity of the two orbits.
When Jupiter is at it's closest to
the earth, the distance between the
two planets is 367,000,000 miles.
When they are farthest apart, the
distance is almost 600,000,O00 miles.
Jupiter takes 1885 years to re-
volve around the sun, SO that one of
Jupiter's years" would be almost
as long as twelve of ours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Judges Sit in Front

THE veteran must accept a real
Il istic attitude or perish. A nov
elist, and to a lesser extent. a cell
umnist, can afford to say with PRO-
priety. II write chiefly to please my
self. If think it's good, what do I
care about the opinion of others. ?
But that would be nonSensical at
titude for an actor
Nobody can say. I'll just act for
myself in my own library, with all
the window shades drawn" That
isn't acting: it's merely narcism.
It would be ike q writer saving,
Now, I'm going to do swell short
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Daily Thought

If a man vows a vow unto the
Lord, or swear an oath to bind his
soul with bond; he shall not break
his word, he shall do according to
all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Numbers 30:2.
Il
MAKE no VOWS to perform this
1VA or that; it shows no great
strength and makes thee ride be-
hind thyself-Fuller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

story, but I won't put any paper in
the typewriter"
Much of logic, imagination and
taste may be behind some subtle
gesture or information, but if it fails
to register that Intonation or gesture
is wrong.
OF course, a performer has every
right to try and seek out this kind
of audience. If late supper crowd
on the ziegfeld roof failed to respond
in any wise to the efforts of a ira
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
IT SEEMS TO ME By HR RE01%

gedian, he would not be compelled
to admit to himself "Sirrah, am a
broken reed"
1t is we'll within an actors privi-
lege to call himself a little theater
and bid only for the support of Sc
Iected intellectuals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

ideals and opinions expressed
n this column are those Of
)ne OF Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude al
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
HaaIfh MaOaziue

Health Magazine.
MORE and more experiments are
1V1 being performed in an en-
deavor to find out exactly what it
is that controls the deposit of cal
cium in the body.
Calcium is associated, as has been
said again and again in this column,
with the growth of the bones and
the teeth. Already it has been well
established that in addition to lib
eral intakes of calcium and phos-
phoruS, bone growth is dependent
on supply of vitamin D and per-
haps of other vitamins.
The most recent series of studies
made by Profs. H. c. Sherman and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

William Allen White, editor Of the En-
poriG (Kan.) Daily Gazette (Republican),
says of the tariff bill in a leading editorial
Just published:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
How WeXDO6u
[HnOW6W.RhR2.
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

/. Who was Aaron?
2. What prophet foretold the
massacre of the children of Beth
lehem?
3. Finish the quotation, 1.-THE
harvest is past, the summer is
ended.
4. How did his four friends carry
the palsied man before Jesus?
land :"
5. What proverb gives a rule for
safety?
Answers to Saturdays Queries
l. He pretended ne was about to
divide it with a sword, but the real
mother protested; Kings 8: 1928.
2. On the Isle of PatmoS, of the
coast of Asia Minor.
3. Moses; Exodus 2: %.
4. Throughout Palestine, from
north to south; see I Samuel $40.
5. On the fourteenth of the
month Abb, which corresponds
roughly to March: it lasts seven
days. See Numbers 9:5 and Exodus
12.15,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Trouble in the Making

trouble In the Making
HYPNOTIZED choruses play a
L l. major part in human affairs,
especially when it comes to inter-
national hate.
Given a demagog, a board of en-
thusiastic admirers, and an ami
versary, with a chance to wave the
flag, and you have strife in the max
ing.
Mussolini says that he is not try
ing to stir up trouble, but merely
is telling the Italian people what
to look out for.
Maybe that is the case. Maybe
II Duce actually has deceived him.
self into the belief that all his
grimacing and fist shaking involve
no sinister results, eevn though he
has worked his followers into such
furore that they yell and brandish
their muskets on the slightest pre-
text.
Maybe he imagines that such
demonstrations can continue with
out causing reaction in France,
that he can employ jingoism to his
hearts content and then lay it
aside.
If he can, human nature has
changed and history is bunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

Who first suggested the purchase
of Alaska by the United States?
The first ofaciaI overtures for the
purchase were made by Senator
Gwin of California in 1859, during
the presidency Of James Buchanan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
M. E. Tracy
MuSsolini ImagineS He Can
Employ Jinsoism to His
Hearts Content and Then
Lag 1t Aside; If He Can,
Hu man Nature Has
Changed.
TINE first sewing machine" goes
Il to a Paris museum.
SAYS:

Il to a Paris museum.
1t WAS invented by Batherlemy
Thimnlonier, a country tailor. 100
years ago. Hoping to become a whole
sale clothing manufacturer, he had
seventy machines set up in factory,
but they were destroyed BY mob
and he died in poverty.
Some men think too fast for their
own good, While others don't think
fast enough.
New York's Oldest department
store, founded by John Daniel in
1858. was closed last Saturday. 1t
persisted in pursuing Victorian
methods and handling mid-Victo-
rian goods
The crowd just drifted away.
The crowds attitude, or mass psy-
chology, as highbrows call it, still
is the great mystery in human
progress.
A vast multitude at Milan cele-
brates the sixteenth anniversary Of
Italy's declaration of war against
Germany by shouting down with
France"
1t was a hypnotized chorus, Of
course, singing in support of Mus
solini'S belligerent oratory, but little
less significant on that account.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

ON May 26, 1899, Alexander
~ Pushkin, Russian poet, was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
FUTURE OLYMPIC HOPES
 10 PERFORM AT CHICAGO

CHICAGO, July 8.-Prospective point winners for the United States and the British Empire at the 1882 Olympic games will be in action here August 27 when an American team will meet a picked team from the Empire.
 The athletic games will be held at night in Soldier Field, a stadium accommc dating more than 100000 persons.
 The Englishmen and their cousins from .CanaSa. Africa. Australia, New Zealand and units of the Brit ish Empire will compete in Ca- nadian meet at Hamilton, Ont, the week before the Chicago games. At that time final American selections for the dual meet team will be made at the national A. A. U. tournament at Pittsburgh.
 The American games have been held three times, the States representative winning twice, 1924 and 1928. The English athletes won in 1920
 The program for the meet here is: 440-yard relay, mile relay, two mile relay, four mile relay, medley relay, 480 yard shuttle hurdle re- lay, three mile team race, two mile steeplechase, high jump, broa d jump, pole vault, 16-pound shot, 16- pound hammer and javelin.
 There will be an exhibition 100- yard race.