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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter
eSting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05

Editor Times--The editorial head
ed "Civilization" in The Times
Tuesday should have been desig-
mated ''Degeneracy." Goody, goody,
Old Ohio, the place with the laws
tor morality and uplift, in the big
effort to get the poor into Heaven"
and get ringside seat in that place
for them. You might think some
people we're selling real estate in
Heaven to hear the reformers in
Ohio, Old Ohio, the "bug-eye" state.
The less said the better. Let her
rot in her miserliness and morality.
BEN THAR.
Editor Times Il have been
a reader of The Times for several
years; also read the column Times
Readers Voice Views" and there is
one subject of great Importance l
never have seen discuSsed-hours
for working women and girls. 1t IS
an outrage that hundreds are work
ing ten and twelve hours a day,
Sundays and holidays included. No
time at all for themselves.
This is especially true in the lead
ing restaurants, cafeterias and no.
tells of our city and should not be
permitted. Why doesn't the law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Daily Thought

Praise the Lord; for the Lord
is good; sing praises unto his
name; for it is pleasant.-Psalm
1858.
You may be liberal in your praise
where praise is due; it costs moth
ing; it encourages much. Horace
Mann.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05

This is the last of four stories by DR..
Morris Fishbein discussing modern medi-
cal practices in connection with child
birth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Times Readers Voice Vjez0S

protect the women of our city and
state as they do in other states?
Another problem is how can girl
possibly live and go straight on the
salaries paid in various places here?
1t is time somebody, whoever is re-
sponsible, awoke to the fact and
tried to do something.
TIMES READER.
Editor Times-I believe a
woman who thinks a man does not
respect lis wife who lets her work
out is far wrong. 1 know many
that are working out have it
easier than those at home. If a
woman marries a poor man it is
her duty to helm him and I think
that it is her business how she does
it. I think you will find three
fourths of the women working have
husbands making less than $24
weekly. What are we going to have
when old age creepS up on US? Yet
many places will not hire men past
IS. My father will soon be out of
employment on account of his age;
also two other men working at the
same place. We can have homes
for the animals and pensions for
every one but the aged.
HELEN RUMBOLD.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
q Saros


THE Saros is eighteen years
eleven and one-half days in
length. If, for example, an eclipse
OF the sun should take place to-
day, another would occur approx
imately eighteen years and eleven
days from today.
The track of the eclipse at the end
OF the next Saros, however. would
not be the same as the track of the
first eclipse.
The usual number of solar eclipses
In a Saros is seventy-one. though it
may be two or three more one wav
Or the other.
Mention of eclipses is found in AS
syrian literature. There also are
passages IN the Bible which are ia
Ken to refer to eclipses.
In Amos 8:9, it says, ~And it shall
come to pass in that day, saith the
Lord God, that I will cause the SIN
TO go down at noon, and I will dar-
ken the earth in the clear day."
A reference in the Assyrian epo-
nym canon, a passage which refers
10 a year in the Assyrian chronol-
ogy which has been identified as 763
B. c., says: Instruction in the
city of Assur In the month Swan
the sun was eclipsed."
Both this. passage and the one
from Amos are believed to refer to
an eclipse Of the sun which occurred
on June 15 763 B. C.
From TAT B. C. on, a canon of
astronomical observations was kept
In Babylon. All eclipses were re-
corded in it. Naboponnassar was
king in TAT.
It was this canon, DR.. j. K.
Fotheringham Of Oxford. famous
authority on ancient astronomy. be-
lieves, which led to the discovery
Of the Saros.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
SCIENCE
Ability to Predict the Time Of.
an Eclipse Is Ancient One;
ChaldeanS Can Do 1t.
BY DAVID DIETZ

A STRONOMERS calculated the
L N time for the solar eclipse Of
April % to a fraction of a second.
They can make calculations with all
most as great accuracy for an
eclipse to occur five centuries from
now.
This ability to make such precise
predictions is one of the marvels Of
modern astronomy.
Yet the ability to predict an
eclipse is very old in the world. III
TACT, modern astronomers in figur.
ing eclipseS, make use of a term
which was used by the ancieus
Chaldeans in prehistoric times.
The ancient ChaldeanS. of course.
ala not understand the real mo-
tions of the solar system. They.
IKE the people of the earth for GEN.
turtles after them, thought that the
sun as well as the moon was in
motion around the earth. Although
number of Greek astronomers
suggested that the earth moved
around the sun, it was not until
after time Of Copernicus-1543-tha
this belief was accepted generally.
But the aStronomer-priests of the
ancient Chaldeans studied the APP
parent motions of the sun and
moon, that is, the paths in which
they seemed to move across the skv
ana the rates at which they APP
peared to move.
Ihey also made careful studies OF
the echpSes that occurred and from
their studies they made the discov-
cry that eclipseS occur in cycles.
IhlS cycle they named the
Soros, term which astronomers
still use today.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
POLISH FALCONS
 TO CONVENE HERE
Biennial Convention Of Fifth
 District on May 30 and S1

The biennial convention of the fifth district of the Polish Falcon Alliance of America will be held in this city on May 30 and 31, 1881, with an extensive program of ath- letic events in the morning and afternoon at Willow Brook park and banquets in the evening, it was an- nounced today.
 the Falcon Nest, No. SS. and oth- CT members of the convention con- mittee are formulating plans for one of the largest conventions in the history of the district. The conven- tion will be the first ever to be held in this city.
 It was voted at a special meeting held last night at the Falcon hall on Beaver street to send a represen- tation to the observance of the 30th anniversary of the Polish Political club, No. 1. Sunday afternoon at Ri- alto hall. The nest will also be rep resented the following Sunday at the 10th anniversary of the establish ment of Gen. Haller post, No. Ill, of the Polish Army Veterans Union of America, which will be observed with patriotic exercises at the Sa- cred Heart school hall
 Frank Cherubin, director of the tumbling class, has been appointed assistant to A. Rosenthal, physical
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
MERCURY HITS IA
 BUT THAT'S IN SUN
NearS Its Record for Year for
 High Temperature

With few days more left, Sep tember 1880 is going out in a blaze of heat if not a blaze of glory. &C., cording to weather observers in New Britain. Indian summer was no idle tale in this part of the state when the mercury today took a mo- tion to go skylarking and by o'clock this afternoon had gotten to within four degrees of its summer altitude record.
 At noon the temperature near Monroe and Arch streets showed S6 in the shade.
 At fire headquarters at ? o'clock the thermometer recorded 114 in the sun, tour degrees less than the summer peek of 11S.
 No especially strong demand for ice or soda fountain supplies is re- ported, although the regular de- mand for this merchandise for the past several days is said to have been slightly higher than normal and running slightly ahead of last year at this time.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
FEMALE OUTLAWS
 . COMMON IN CHINA
Women 0utdo Men in Cruel
 Treatment of CaptiV@

Hongkong, Sept. 26 Rt-The wom- an pirate and the Amazonian bandit have become commonplace figures in the picture of present day China's turmoil. Reports of armed women being among the marauders who have attacked a. vessel or footed a village have become so frequent that they excite little more interest than Is aroused by the monthly reports of the ricksha coolies' union.
 Many women have become lead CTS of bandit or pirate gangs, ruling with as much ferocity as any hard boiled Chinese male who ever led a gang of cut-throats into defense less village or acrols the deck of a captured merchantmen. Some re- ports indicate, in fact, that the wo- men outlaws, true to the traditions of their sex when they "go bad" outdo the men in the ruthless treat pent of victims.
 A newspaper investigation into recent activities of gang of out laws made-up mostly of women has thrown some interesting sidelights on the way in which the Chinese fe- male outlaw operates.
 In one instance this band sacked the fourishing village of Woochung in South China and kidnapped more than 100 persons, holding them for ransom. Ordinarily band of cap- tives of this size loses one or two of it's members en route to the outlaws lair, the escaped persons giving clues to the route and prob able whereabouts of the marauders
 But police and military authorities reported that no trace could be found of the Woochung raiders and inquiry disclosed the reason. Sur ,vivors of the affair recounted that each woman bandit appeared with a sling on her back and after mak- ing good use of her club, pistol and other weapons. departed with a trussed-up prisoner in the sling, the captives being carried in much the same manner that babies gre packed about by Chinese mothers.
 None of the prisoners taken in this raid returned to give clue as to the direction in which the ban dits had fled. But word was sent back to the village that the price for release of all the captives was s30,00O gold. Relatives of the vic- tims, although knowing that failure to pay meant the almost certain execution of the prisoners, could only say that this was more money than the entire village could scrape together in a year.
 The force that turned the women of this particular band to brigand- age was the same that has prompt ed many other law abiding and peace loving Chinese to take up lives of crime. Civil wars, famine, collapse of the country's currency and other economic factors have driven thousands of men and women to seek a living where they could find 1t and from whoever happened to have anything worth taking.
 The women in the Woochungg raid came from the silk district of Shuntak. A few years ago this section grossed about s5o,ooo,ooo a year from it's principal industry. Now only small fraction of that amount can be sold and thousands of silk workers, including many women. have found piracy or ban ditry their only hope of keeping body and soul together.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
LOCAL POLISH WOMEN
 WILL FORM ALLIANCE
32 Applicants For Group Already Special Meeting Called For
 Next Week

New Britain's Polish community will witness the organizing of the first Polish Women's National Ali ance group of it's kind in the city next week.
 Anthony Orszak, president of Po- fish National Alliance Group, No. 2093, is completing detailed plans for the establishing of the group, which already has 32 applicants.
 A special meeting will be called next week at the Falcon hall on Beaver street to elect officers and make plans for it's permanent es- tablishment in this city. Discus sions will also be held relative to a membership drive.
 MT. Orszak, representing the group, will file an application for a charter from the national officials in Chicago. He will also present the club with a purse of $1oO given by the national order.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
MAJOR FOSTER RELIEVED

Hartford, Sept. 26 LP)-Major Pierpont B. Foster. commanding the Second Company Governors Foot Guard, has asked Governor Trumbull to be relieved from duty and his re- quest is granted, adjutant generals orders placing him on the retired list of the Foot Guard.
 Major Foster has served four years and his retirement recognizes pre- cedent which is that a commander does not serve longer than four years.
 The commanding officer of the Second Company is ordered to call a meeting for the purpose of nominat- ing to fill vacancies caused by the retirement of Major Foster
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
Use of NOn- Union Men
 Leads Green to Protest

Washington, Sept. 26 UP)-The protest of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor had been added today to the great many others which followed en- ployment of non-union workers to paint the White House.
 Green termed the incident Every unfortunate" and said he intended to seek legislation to assure organ ized labor government contract jobs. He opposed the present lowest bid der" law and advocated one to direct awards of contracts to the "best and most responsible bidders and insur- ing workers prevailing wages"
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
RES|N0[" HEALED EVERY PIMPLE"
Writes Miss Kiu9

"For some years have had q rough and pimply skin. tried many kinds of skin lotions and creams, but none of them seemed to do any good. One day I saw your Advertisement for Resinol Ointment and sent for . sample. The results were 50 good, I bought . full size jar. It cleared away the redneas and roughness, and healed every pimp1e. Now I always keep jar on hand, and am glad to pass along . good word for Resinol."
 {stsssdeMis Julia Klus, Loyal, Wis. If your skin l: not freAh. smooth and un- ofsm1shed begin today to use Resinol Oint- unene and R esin o 6oap-ths treatmene nsed by many with amaxins sueeesa. Sold by an drugsises. Sample free. Write Res. mol Dspt. 3o, Balein,ors, Md.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
FEING0LD TO UNDERGO
 HOSPITAL OBSERVATION
V. F. w. Commander, Hip Shattered At Belleau Wood, to Enter Hos-
 pital At Washington Next Week

Joseph Feingold of 75 East Main street. a veteran of the World war, will leave Monday night to enter the diagnostic center of the United States Veterans hospital in Wash- ington. D. c. He will undergo ob- servation and treatment there.
 MT. Feingold served in the ma rinc corps during the World War, and during the battle at Belleau wood he received a shattered hip when shell fragment hit him. He has undergone number of opera tions in hospitals in this section of the country and only recently re- turned home after session in the Brooklyn Naval hospital. Everything possible for him has been done and as last resort he has been ordered to Washington where the greatest medical experts in the country may observe him.
 MT. Feingold is commander of Private Walter J. Smith post, No. 511, V. F. w., and is chancellor commander of St. Elmo lodge, K. of P,
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
NAUGATUCK GAME OFF

NtW pr IlldIII TIE IT SCHUUI 1OUCDdII team will not play the regular Nau- gatuck high school team of this year on October 4. The game had not definitely been arranged but ne- gotiations for it were stopped be- cause of the fact that the game would have to be played in Naug ga tuck. Principal Louis p. Slade does not wish any more out of town games than are now on the sched- ule. Coach George NJ. Cassidy an- nounced today that he is still trying to arrange a game for that date,
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
LITTLE MIsUNDERSTANDING

kalispell, Mont, (UP) -Kilowatt, a Flathcad Indian found red traffic violation ticket tied to the steering wheel of his au. tomobile. Failing to understand he was to report at police headquarters and believing his machine had been selected to receive first prize as the most excellent automobile in
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
EDWARD BENIS DIES

New York, Sept. 26 R-Word was received in New York today of the death yesterday of Edward w. Bemis, 70, Public Utilities ex- pert of New York and Chicago, in Springfield. Mo.
 MT. Bemis suffered general breakdown last winter and recent ly had a relapse.
 A 6.aduate of Amherst, 1880, and Johns Hopkins, 1885, he special ized in public utility matters and became an expert on evaluaton methods.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
HEAT KILLS THREE

Providence, R. l., Sept. 26 (UP) The extreme heat was held indi- rectly responsible for three deaths here yesterday. The victims were Charles R. Wheeler, so. of Mantle, Conn, Michael O'Rourke, 50. and Hjalmar Monson, 56, both of Provi- dence.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
WORKERS TO REGAIN JOBS

Worcester, Mass. Sept. 26 (UP)- Twenty members of the Amalgamat- ed Street Railway Employes' Union, recently laid off, will be able to re- turn to work as result of a vote by other union members to change from a seven day to six-day-week basis,
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26

director of the nest After aiding in the work of recognizing the chil- dren's drill classes, Cherubin will form a children's tumbling class which will be under his supervision.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26

Experimenters have found that Brazilian rubber trees planted in Haiti are as productive as in their native land although not so vigorous as at home.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
GOING TO JRJGUAy

Geneva, Sept. 26 P-Sir Eric Drummond, secretary-general of the League of Nations, will go to Uru- quay in December as the leagues representative at Uruquay's indepen- dence celebration.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
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New Britain herald., 1930-09-26

kalispell. KiIow att returned to his reservation and announced himself the tribes most distinguished resi- dent.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-26

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
"Black" Rays Detect Diseased Tissue,
FOrgeries and Source of Bootleg Liquor

Through the use Of his so-called
black" ray, DR.. Herman Goodman
demonstrated before the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence recently that he
could detect minute tissue diseases Of
the skin, read script written in invisi-
BILE ink, uncover crimes Of forgery and,
what is more, that he could even de-
termine the source of bootleg alcohol.
This seems like a rather large and
unusually diverse order, and in view
of the fact that we are fairly certain
that we have already discovered all the
rays that are ever likely to be discov-
cred we are perhaps inclined to be a
bit incredulous regarding these various
claims, particularly when they parade
as being made possible through the use
Of mysterious black ray.
Yet If we look into the matter more
fully we find that DR.. Goodman is
claiming nothing Of the impossible;
offering nothing mysterious.
In the first place, DR.. Goodman's ray
is no other than the now thoroughly
familiar ultra violet light. It differs
from that which you use in your sun
bath only in that all the visible radia-
ton, which accompanies the ultra violet
in the sun-lamp, is cut out by means
of a suitable filter when such light
is allowed to fall on the skin it will
cause parts of it, little blotches. to
glow very distinctly. This effect is a
familiar one as seen under the glow OF
the blush mercury-vapor lamp COM
monty used by photographers. Prof
Goodman has adapted this fact to a
method of skin diagnosis.
Alcohol Easily Marked"
How any one could trace bootleg
liquor to its source by means Of merely
illuminating the material by this ray
may seem a bit of a puzzle. It is
simpler, however, when you know that
DR.. Goodman'S suggestion applies only
to Government manufactured alcohol,
into which small, vulnerable quantities
of some foreign material might be
placed upon manufacture.
An insignificant trace OF q chemical
found in chestnuts~ will cause solu-
ton containing it to glow with bright
blush color when under ultraviolet
light. Ouinine will cause 1t to give of
a white glow. Other chemicals will
produce green, red, and so on. Thus
the source of diverted alcohol might
be easily determined in spite OF any
treatment that the alcohol might have
been given by the bootlegger. Inc
scheme is a clever one.
But even though Prof. Goodman's
work does not involve the discovery OF
a new ray, but rather new uses Of an
old one, we cannot feel too sure that
the day of discovery OF new rays Is
at an end.
Recent Discoveries Cited.
Even recently we have had new rays
demonstrated to US. It is but few
years since Millikan announced the dis
covery of cosmic radiation, those inter-
stellar telegraph signals" that have
given us so much information of the
universe. 1t Is only about two years
ago that DR.. w. D. Coolidge developed
the well known Lenard ray, an electron
stream shot into the air by high voltage,
to such an improved stage as really to
constitute new ray. =
We have heard but little Fecently of
the"death ray" brought to this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
III. S. TELEPHONE COMPANY
CONNECTS TWO AMERICAS
Vast Communications Network Joins
Continents by Wire and
Radio System.

NoTE-TncTeaSin trade ana tNVSst.
msnts on the part Of the URited States In
Latin America are rejected In the Ia
creased purchasing potUSr Of those couR-
tries to buy our goods, and great develop
ment projects are under DGV or pTopoSed
in most of the republics of Central and
South America, sponsored By american
capital and contracted for By American
firms.
Our trade NTH Latin America amounted
to more than 5000 100000 in 1919, as
compared NTH S3oO,0OO,OOO at the Begin
ming of this century, while the total
amount of American inUestments there
is estimated to be more than $1,000
100000. Enormous SIMS are being spent
BY the governments OF those countries
and By private corporations in the de-
Uelopment of public utilities, construction
works, factories, plants, mines and IN
the fostering of better communications
BY air, steamship and hiOhiOGys.
American capital is being tRcredsinclv
INFESTED In such public enterprises as
telephones, electric light and potDer, tele-
graph, radio and cable companies, while
hundreds OF millions Of dollars are being
spent In the construction Of automobile
highways.
II Is the purpose Of this series of sir
articles to deal NTH these DEVELOPMENTS
under broad headings along general
hHes.-The Editor.