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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

Fifty Million Frenchmen." Or any
of the rest Of the party.
At that age with her beauty and
intelligence she ought to be able to
find some young man to buy tickets
and escort her.
If were to answer in more seri-
GUS fashion I would say that Fifty
Million Frenchmen" seems to me a
highly amusing show and that it's
ribaldry is intelligent and entertain
ing. I have always felt that the
facts of life need not be impaired
to the young folks as wholly
tragic.
But the question asked by S. B.
w. would probably be academic
even if there were Miss Broun.
Children of today don't wait until
they are advanced in years before
beginning to run their own lives.
I should hate to try and inter-
fere. The important question would
not be what I thought about Fifty
Million Frenchmen" but her own
reaction. I am speaking now of
Hortense Broun.
l could tell her what seemed good
conduct and bad conduct for people
of my own age and acquaintance,
but these same standards need not
apply to her at all. Her code might
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Accuracy

MO method ever has been devised
IN to measure the speed of light
in one direction. 1t is necessary to
send the beam to mirror at dis
tant point and back again.
The first time Nicholson meas
ured the speed of light, he was rs
years old. He performed the ex-
pertinent chiefly as demonstration
for his students at the naval
academy. But he designed some
new apparatus for it, incidentally
out of his own pocket.
paying for some of the apparatus
To his own establishment, he OBJ
tanned result more accurate than
ever had been achieved. That de-
cided him to make light his career.
The last time he measured the
speed of light was in 1926. He OBJ
tanned the figure of 1924 miles
a second. This was made as the
beam Travelled between Mt. Wilson
and a peak in the San Antonio
ridge.
Later he tried using longer base
line between Mt. Wilson and San
Jacinto, a distance of eighty-five
miles, but the beam passed too near
other peaks al various points and
the results were unsatisfactory.
Subsequent attempts to use a
fifty-mile base line between Mt.
Wilson and Santiago peak also
proved unsatisfactory because of
dust and smoke from the city of
Los Angeles.
It was then that Nicholson de-
cided to try the pipeline expert
ment. A fund of $4,000 was fur
nished jointly by the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Carnegie Cor
poration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Public PAYS Many

I'D ESIDES the nearly 100000 on
I'D Uncle Sans civil pay roll and
the more than 100000 in his military
establishments, there are the en-
ployes of state, county, city, and
town governments, not to mention
school districts, water districts,
irrigation districts, and a multitude
of other political subdivisions.
Some statistical sharp has
estimated that not fewer than one
OF every twenty adult Americans is
on some public pay roll.
If things keep on going as they
have been during the last few years,
we can turn Communist without a
jar, because we'll all be working for
the government.
Thirty years ago our fathers COM
planned bitterly of the first Billion
dollar congress, but old Tom Reed
consoled them by explaining, in his
sarcastic drawl, that this has be-
come a billion-dollar country"
One hundred thirty years ago,
when the government first moved to
Washington, it employed only 100
clerks.
The fact that we have gotten
along without revolution does not
mean that we have failed to make
profound changes in our system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Times Readers
Voice Vie7OS

Editor TilneS-What on earth is
the matter with the dear old Re-
publican party of Indiana? There
has scarcely been state convention
of that time honored organization
for the last half century that has
not inserted in it's platform a glow
ing eulogy upon the protective
tariff, and announced to the world
that it was Republican policy and
had brought prosperity to all classes
and to all sections of the country.
But the convention which just
has adjourned, after having written
by all odds the weakest and most
insipid platform every adopted by
any party in the history of the
state, was as silent as the grave
upon the subject of the tariff, and
utterly failed to claim credit for the
splendid prosperity which now pre-
walls throughout the nation.
I wonder what caused this notable
omission upon the part Of the con-
vention. Surely the Republicans Of
Indiana have not gone back upon
the noble policy which protects our
struggling young industries against
the pauper labor of the old world,
enricheS our own laborers, and yet
relieves the American consumer
from burden by compelling the
foreigner to pay the taxi Such con-
clusion needs only to be mentioned
to be rejected with scorn and in
dignation.
Searching, however, for the cor
rect solution Of TIE conventions
silence concerning the tariff, I am
inclined to the opinion that, had
it wanted to be entirely candid with
the people of Indiana, and given
them the true reason for its reti-
cence respecting the tariff, it would
have adopted plank in its plat
form worded substantially as fol-
lows:
Whereas, our dearly beloved Re-
publican President convened our
much loved Republican congress a
year or so ago to make limited re-
vision of the tariff schedule, mainly
in the interest Of agriculture, and
only in rare instances in the In
terest Of industry, and
Whereas, after 0iliy dallylrg with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Mirror

NEICIELSON'S apparatus seems
N1 exceedingly simple. A beam of
light is reflected from one face OF an
eight-sided mirror TO a mirror at
the distant point. From there it is
reflected back to the eight-sided
mirror.
The eight sided mirror then is put
into rotation by a compressed air
motor. If the mirror is rotated at
the right speed, the returning beam
of light will get back just in time to
hit the second face of the revolving
mirror and be reflected back again
to the distant mirror and so on.
The whole trick then is to get the
revolving mirror to turn at the right
speed. Then if the speed of the
mirror can be measured with suffi-
cient accuracy, an accurate deter
mination of the speed of light can
be made by few simple calcula-
tons.
Nicholson devised means of de-
termiIling with great accuracy the
speed OF the revolving mirror.
He believes that the pipeline ex-
pertinent will give him better results
than his previous experiments be-
cause of the vacuum. This elirni-
mates all difficulties of air pressure,
wind currents and so on.
Nicholson was born in Strelno,
Germany, Dec. 10, 1852. His par
ents moved to San Francisco when
he was small boy and he attended
the public schools of that city.
Prior to joining the faculty of the
University of Chicago, he was pro-
fesSor of physics at Case School Of
Applied Science in Cleveland.
1t was in Cleveland that he and
the late Professor Edward Morley,
then professor of chemistry at
Western Reserve university, per-
formed the famous experiment,
since known as the Michelson-Mor-
ley experiment, on which Einstein
based his theory of relatively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
SCIENCE
Nicholson, High Priest of
Light, Back at Work on
Experiment Started Fifty
One Years Ago.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

A LBERT A. NICHOLSON, the
IN grand old man of American
science, n years old and astonish-
ingly recovered from a severe at
tack of pneumonia which threat
ened his life last autumn, is back
at work, putting the last touches to
an experiment he started f1fty-one
years ago.
A half-century ago, Nicholson,
then young instructor at the naval
academy at Annapolis, began some
experiments on the speed of light.
Today he is known as the high
priest of light, having performed
experiments which, among other
things, led TO the formulation of
the theory of relatively by Professor
Albert Einstein.
Today he is professor Of physics
at the University of Chicago, past
president of the National Academy
of Science, and research associate
of the Mt. Wilson observatory.
Professor Nicholson now is at Mt.
Wilson, Cal, where he will make
his final determination of the speed
of light.
A pipe line mile long, consisting
of corrugated iron pipe, three feet
in diameter, has been set up under
direction of the Mt. Wilson
astronomers. Pumps are connected
to the line to extract the air from
it.
Nicholson will measure the speed
of beam of light as it races
through the vacuum with the line,
reflected back and forth by a system
of mirrors at either end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

"THE milk of a healthy mother
Il who is receiving an adequate
mixed diet contains all the food ele-
ments necessary for the nutrition of
the infant for the first half year Of
life"
With this statement DR.. w. NC
Kim Marriott begins discussion of
the Importance of having the infant
fed by its own mother, and with
this statement he reiterates the
view held by the vast majority of
physicians.
If the infant is fed at reasonable
intervals and takes as much as
he wants, his energy requirements
will be met, and there will be little
danger of over or underfeeding.
If reasonable cleanliness is OBJ
served, there will be little danger of
infection of the infant with harm
full bacteria. Human milk is more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
World Moves Fast
THIS is still an active, interesting
i world, in spite of all the de-

THIS is still an active, interesting
Il world, in spite of all the de-
preston talk.
Human progress, If such 1t can
be called, has acquired stipend
Gus momentum.
Sometimes it seems as though we
couldn't stop if we would.
No phase of the great war is more
remarkable than the speed with
which average people have recov-
cred, especially in the torn-up areas,
and, more especially still, under
completely changed political con-
ditionS.
Germany, though regarded as
hopeleSsly broken, is back on her
feet. So is France, Italy and even
Poland.
AS for Russia, the most remark
able thing about her novel regime
is not what it portends as politi-
cal theory, but what her people have
accomplished under it.
After all, it is the spirit, rather
than the form, which counts.
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BIRTH OF LEIBNITZ
July 1

ON July 1, 1916, Gottfried Leib-
~ nitz, one of the most extraor-
binary examples Of universal schol-
arship in intellectual history, was
born at Leipzig, Germany.
Though he was eminent in his
tory, divinity, philosophy, political
studies, science, mathematics en-
cheering and literature, it is chief
ly through his philosophical and
mathematical reputation that he
lives in history.
Entering the university at the age
of Is Leibnitz received his bach
elor's degree two years later when
he produced his remarkable thesis
ION the Principle of Individual
ISM"
In 1910, at the age of "a, alter
he had studied law, he was ap-
pointed assessor on the bench of the
upper court Of appeals, which was
the supreme court of appeals.
An interesting sidelight on the
mans versatility may be had in a
military memorandum he drew up
while in Paris. He proposed plan
for the invasion Of Egypt with a
view to submitting it to Louis XIV.
His real intention in this memo
randum was to divert Louis atten-
ton from plans against Germany.
The king never received the docu-
ment.
1t remained for Napoleon to make
the invasion of Egypt in 1893. and
to discover five years later that he
had been anticipated in his plan by
Leibnitz.
After publishing his greatest phi
loSophical work, "Theodicy," Leib-
nitz engaged in a controversy 18th
Newton concerning the discover Of
differential calculus.
In this work, however, it was
later revealed that both men had
made original contributions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Uncle Sam ProSperS

II OW stocks. poor business and a
~ disagreeable amount of unem-
ployment, but Uncle Sam reports
not only a surplus of 5000, 900 900,
but an undiminiShed revenue from
the income tax.
This hardly could be so if all
Americans were headed for the
poorhouse.
Cheer up, however, since, as the
gloomy Mr.. Mellon points out, there
is worse to come.
1t simply is impossible to catch
Mr.. Mellon without forebodings of
deficit.
Though this year may be all
right, according 20 his books, the
next one never is.
-Four billion five hundred million
dollars appropriated by congress,
and where are we going to get the
money, he wants to know.
Yes, and the largest number of
civil employees on Uncle Sans pay
roll since the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Thousands on Pay Roll

NEARLY 100000 persons draw
L ing pay from the federal treas
urer, not including soldiers and
sailors.
It's enough to make Henry Ford,
or General Motors, turn green with
envy.
What is the use of any one try
ing to develop the biggest corpo-
ration on earth, with Uncle Sam
in the race?
First, he needs more than 100000
to handle and distribute the mail.
Then, he needs more than $4,000 to
run the treasury, and more than
$4,000 to take care of the navy's
clerical needs. After that, come
$4,000 in the war department and
$4,000 in the veterans bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

No Phase of the Great War
More Remarkable Than the
Speed With Which Aver 1
age People Haze Recon-
cred.
SAYS:

A WEEK END OF thrillers, with
N allied troops evacuating the
Rhineland, a young Texan up
setting the tennis dope at Wimble-
don, Roger @. Williams flying from
New York to Bermuda and back
again in seventeen hours, leaders
of Red Russia in high glee over the
expected demise of capitalism, and
nineteen dead as the result of Sun
day amusementS.
As though that we're not enough,
Nicholas Murray Butler okays the
Simon report. Lord Rothmere sets
England by the ears with an offer
of $500 for the best essay on the
popular election OF cabinet men,
bers, and Bolivia is reported tran
quill after a week of revolution.
And as though that were not
enough, the Hunter brothers are
still up, after having been at it
eighteen days, and have broken all
endurance records by a long
margin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
HERE is a story of our New York
x,,o,,o,. v,,I,ioI, js ,,au, IN ma oyd

comes on good authority.
Jimmy Walker attended a ban
quet at which the preceding speaker
was distinguished California edu-
Gator. The native son was extolling
the glories of his homeland and
making our own Empire state seem
pallid in comparison.
California, according to the orator,
was more richly blessed in every
thing. In particular it had more
universities.
"I, myself remarked the speaker,
"have attended no less than five
colleges, all of them in the state Of
California"
THAT" said Jimmy Walker,
shows the difference between the
coast and mere. If a New Yorker
can't make the grade the first time
he quits and goes to work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
Not an Infant

A ND at is in our modern age a
IN girl has begun to grow up. che
is no longer an infant. She should
know her own way about.
Since there is no daughter, I have
every right to assume that she
would be a young lady not without
charm. In such a case ! would
most certaikly refuse to take her to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

a tariff bill for many months our
Republican congress has as last run
entirely amuck, and is threatening
to send to our Republican President
for his signature, a tariff bill which
is in direct violation of his wishes,
which provides for agriculture pro-
lection which it does not really need
but for industry the highest tariff
rates that the country ever has
known, and
Whereas, we do not know just at
this tirne whether the bill will dis
in our Republican congress, or
passed by it and transmitted to
Republican President for hi
proval, or whether. if so, tra
ted, our Republican Presi
approve IL or veto it; Their
Resolved, that, inasm
are not now able to
which way the tariff q
to jump, and therefore
at this time just what
say upon the subject,
best and most expecie
US to do under surrour
stances is to ignore
together, and not
whatsoever upon that
HENRY U.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

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 paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
What Is a fiscal yea

1t is the financial ye
tional treasury, or Of a
the end Of which the 4
balanced. In the UnN
government the fiscal
June 30.
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gov ] eNN@u
KnOWeHWHbR2
FIVE QUESTIONS A DGN-f
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

I. Finish Jobs saying about
death: There the wicked cease
from troubling :"
2. How long was Solomon in
building his palace?
3. What became of the thirty
pieces of silver for which Judas be-
trayed Jesus?
4. To what does EcclesiaStes COM
pare the laughter of a fool?
5. Whom did Jesus call "a burn
ing and shining light?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
/. For they shall obtain mercy"
Matthew ST.
2. In Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke
1924.
3. A Syrian general who was
healed Of his leprosy by bathing in
the Jordan, as Elisha commanded
him. II Kings 5:1-19.
4. BY pillar of cloud by day and
a pillar of fire by night. Exodus
13:21-22.
5. A soft answer turneth away
wrath: but grievous words stir up
anger" Proverbs 1871.
DAILY THOUGHT
Love is the fulfilling Of the
law.-Romzns 1910.
Paradise is always where love
fiuellS -afcf,far
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

widely separated states as MASSACHUSETTS, New jersey
and Washington.
Considering the growing wet sentiment in the
country, and the fact that law is enforceable
which violates the will Of the majority. it is per-
haps not surprising that federal prohibition adj
minstrators themselves beginning to resign and
demand prohibition repeal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

Paradise is always where love
dwells.-Richter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01

DAILY THOUGHT
Love is the fulfilling Of the
law.-RomSns 1910.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11
own only to some extent.
 Change in Mems Views

Change in Mems Views Certain forces which lauded wom-
 cn loud and long for their willing
 ness and efficiency in stepping into mems shoes during the war have
 since refused to grant women equal opportunity with men to training and to jobs or to give them equal
 pay for equal work. And now wom- cn are being denounced as usur-
 pers of mems jobs in our present national emergency due to depres- sion and unemployment.
 Another striking effect of the war upon women has been the increased
 economic burdens thrown on thelr
 shoulders as a result partly of the destruction and. maiming of men and partly of the increased costs of liV-
 ing that have prevailed since the war.
 Armistice Day seems fitting time to call for a truce and the cessation
 of attacks upon the right and need
 of women, married as well as single ones, to jobs The Women's Bureau
 studies disclose that the great ma
 jority of these workers seek employ
 ment because of economic need and
 family responsibilities. Surely wom- en are entitled to a more stable en- ployment status than that of fitting
 into jobs or not according to whcth-
 CT it suits mems purposes and pur- suits, or whether the nation is at
 war or at peace.
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11
WOMEN NO LONGER
 WELCOME WORKERS
Bureau Finds Changed Attitude
 On Its 12th Anniversary
By Mary Y. Robinson, Director of
 Public Information, L. s. Womcn'S Bureau

.trnllStlCc Day usually calls for a turning back over the pages of his tory. The effects of the World War are recorded in the files of many of Uncle Sam's agencies, and even Of such a nonmilitary. feminine sound- ing body as the L. S. Womcn's Bu- Teau. This organization is, in fact, q war offspring born at the height Of, and as the result of, wartime actlVi- ties.
 It was during the stress and strain Of d country suddenly plunged from the pursuits of peace into the throes Of hostilties, and it was because Of tho dislocation of normal labor con- ditions and the overnight develop mcnt of new schemes of production, that the nation discovered new pos sihllities in woman labor, The heroic performances of the women who responded 10 their Coun- try's appeal and so ably stepped in to fill positions vacated by men call cd to arms, or who so amazingly adapted themselves to the manufac- ture of guns and grenadcs, shells and shrapncl, are common knoWl- edge.
 Founded in 1918
 A less well-knoWn fact. however, is that q temporary agency known as tho Woman in Industry Service was created in the department of labor by congress in July, 1918, 10
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11

Nearly 100 children of the mem bers of St. Elmo lodge and Sisters and w. l.. Morgan, K. of P, and Worthy Temple, Pythian Sisters were present in mask and costume in Judds Hall.
 A little girl, dressed to represent a snowfall. easily won first prize fo. the best costume, and when she un- masked she was found to be Bea- trice Fendel. aged four years. A boy in full dress suit was considered the finest appearing boy, and after winning first prize for boys, unmask- ed and was found to be Jack Croll aged nine years. The funniest cos tune, representing a Chinalnan, was worn by Bobby Clark, aged nine years.
 Entertainment was provided bS Miss Gerrish, Miss Meltzer and Mas ter Meltzer, piano, violin and clar- ionet. Games were played and re-
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11

Mrs. rrc--'5 first reaction 10 the ncR~ O her sons marriage was d whjt. -ho, fury against the Frci- bur=s followed us a cold dctermi- uaJor to have the marriage st aside al any rost. t toot hours O. arguing on inc part or Amelia. backed by nor hastily summoned uncl" Judsol EroUnbcck. before Mrs. Frost was rouyincod that such a move on her par- not oniy was i'm practical but certain to aHcnatc her son.
 since this Fanny is au unlucs- toned mcMb.r Of tho famjlE l- seems mora Christian 10 take it for granted that she is all sho should h. - at least until she gives you some handle to use with David against her" Mr, Brovnbcck had said.
 Mrs. Frost flushed
 "I think I know both what is Christian and what is due my sons
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11
"A WONDERFUL
 HELP TO ME"
Read What Mrs. Arnold Says About Lydia E. Pinkham's
 Vegetable Compound

~ Dothan, Ala.-"What a wonderful lelp Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
New Britain herald., 1930-11-11

wife without being told, sfr sad with much dignity. "G shall do my duty by her no matter what if costs ne"
 "Alama thinks they ought 10 live I'ro". iutcrposcd Amelia hastily. but I don't"
 "Whore should they live but m Davd's own home-the house his father built to hand down 10 his son:
 Yes. at your death. It's Hour house now, not Davids. And VOL know thcrr never vas 2 house large enough for two famil1es,' said Amelia.
 T don't sec how they can live anywhere else or twenty dollars a week." said Mir Brownbcck grimly
 "Unlcss you raised Davids salary, You raised Bill Thornton when he got married" T pay David exactly what I pay any other cuo Of equal quality. If