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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11
William McF ee

IT WAS losing a few dollars in a
Il gentlemanly way at Saratoga
Springs when your piece about Con-
rad, Cats and Literature came out.
and I only just have seen it. AS a
man who not only has been to sea,
but keeps a cat, you will allow me
to point out the acute difference be-
tween a cat fancier and a citizen
who merely has cat.
SIN the beginning, however, I was
struck by your cheerful assumption
that the sailor has the great boon
of idle time. MIR. Broun, the first
four. or five years I spent at sea ]
averaged about eleven hours a day,
including Sunday, and about nine
in port, including any day that the
ship arrived or departed.
II have, Mr.. Broun, worked thirty
six hours at one stretch in a gale
of wind that canted the ship, which
was flying light, away over and did
not help us to ship a new steam
expansion joint over the after boil
,ers.
In case you are not familiar
with expansion joints, they are
about seventeen feet long, shaped
like a giant boa constructor ano
weigh about a ton. I remember
the time because we got in on Sat
urday and I slept through the
weekend and missed date with
the barmaid at the Kings Head, al
Cardiff very nice girl.
IT would like to mention that a
deal Of Conrad's humor is not per
ceptible to the landsman. have
to remember this in insisting on it
But it is there.
His rendering of the subtle re-
lations between Captain Mac.
Whlrr Tin 'TyphoonD and his chic
mate is mastery and a source o.
unending pleasure to the initiated
But neither MacWhirr nor his mat.
is credible to an American public
which has seen brought UP on tn
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Dogs Are Dumb

"DUT as one who kept several
- cats for many years on ships
1 think you miss the secret Of their
fascination. They are sensible.
They are intelligent.
1.-THE very stories that dog lovers
tell about dogs show that the dog
and the lovers, too. for that matter
are not very intelligent. All they
do prove is that the dog and his
lover are on about the same plane
of idiocy. That is why we like dogs,
because they are so human. But a
cat is another thing altogether. He,
or she, is a personality altogether
independent of the stately human
race.
and 1 had one cat which would
follow us up to the old mans room
when we went to get some money
to go ashore and rub her fur against
his leg. She wanted to go ashore
and live her own life, too. She did.
for that matter.
and she lost her passage, because
we sailed some hours before the
appointed time. Peace to her re-
mains on some Greek dumpI
II disagree that a cat is a snob.
She is merely well breed. Any cat
has better manners than the haugh-
test Pinscher.
And have a cat which enjoys,
more than anything else, sleeping
on an unfinished manuscript. I
needn't tell you what a dog does to
an unfinished manuscript"
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More About the Great Giyers

The national bureau of economic research has pub
lished report gifts of American corporations to
community chests since 1920. The bureau selected
for its study l2e representative cities Of the
s5s,so1,s72 contributed in 1929 to the community
chests of these 12s cities SI2e54769, or % per cent
was contributed by corporations
Manufacturing corporations rated highest in per-
centage Of gifts They contributed 472 per cent OF
the total Next came retail and trade companies with
s224 per cent Third banks and trust companies
with lo7 per cent. Especially low were chain stores
with 20 per cent, and insurance companies with is
per cent.
The total benefactions look impressive until one
goes deeper into the facts. The decade from 1920
to 1929 was an unparalleled one in corporate bust
ness and profits. Did corporate gifts to community
chests increase accordingly? Hardly.
Fourteen Of the l2s community chests studied wers
m existence in 1920. Thirteen supplied information
Ger the decade.
In 1890 corporations contributed 2Ssfper CEN
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WHY So Much Pessimism?

1t is quite possible for man to spend altogether
too much time with books. Much study as the WRITER
of Ecclesastes remarked is WEAKNESS OF the Hesh
Still keeping in constant touch with representative
modern novels does put interesong ideas into ones
head and then.
A confirmed reader of present-day fiction occa-
sionay will get to wondering, for instance why 1t IS
that the modern novelist has such predsposition to
pessinisn.
Sweetness and light are not exactly the chief
characteristics of the ordinary novel of the day The
novelist of the better class usually surveys the sur
rounding world for some 300 pages more and finds
it rotten to the core.
Book after book assures us that the human race
is fairly shoddy outfit and writer after writer tells
us that instead of being little lower than the angels
we are only a little higher than the barnyard fowls
Now all this is worth thinking about. One of three
things must be true: The is behaving worse
than it was novelist have keener eyes than the
novelists of an earlier generaon-or else perchance
our novests are mostly mistaken.
1t is rather instructive in this connection to COM
pare the modern viewpoint with the viewpoint of such
a writer as Charles Dickens.
It can hardly be said that the modern novelist
knows life as they say better than Dickens Taken
by and large, the picture that he gives of English
civilization and the human race generally in such
books as "Oliver Twist" and Nicholas Nckeby' is
very depressing; yet the final impression left by those
books is not one of despair
modern writer, putting the same pictures into a
book would deduce that the world is hopeless place.
Dickens, on the contrary, optimist, even
though he saw quite as much of the seamy side of
life as any modern writer you could name
You can come to any conclusion you like about this.
1t may be that the modern is, the whole, wiser
man than Dickens; and it may be that the present.
day tendency toward despair is something that will
pass in the fullness of time giving way to phloso-
ply that has more in common with Dickens,
Just at present it is fashionable to the darker
side of things-which considering all that has hap
pened in the last decade so, is not surprising But
one at least permitted to wonder whether this mood
will endure
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ

I 4
Use of Electricity Would Be
Greatest Marvel to Visitor
From Past Century.
WE live in an age Of electricity.
w A visitor from a past century,
perhaps, would be more surprised
by the use Of electricity than by any
other factor in modern life.
The way in which the snap of a
switch floods a room with light,
toasts a piece of bread. starts a
washing machine or a street car or
an elevator, would appear like
magic.
The visitor would be impressed by
the long transmission lines, the
wires which go across fields and
hills on the high steel towers, carry
ing electric power to distant towns
and farm houses.
Perhaps he would be most i'm
pressed by the magic of the tele-
phone, the radio and television.
1t is hard for the average citizen
of the twentieth century to realize
that 100 years ago these marvels
were undreamed of.
The basic discovery upon which
all modern electrical miracles are
based was made ninety-nine years
ago.
Next year, on Aug. 20, 1881, the
world will celebrate the centennial
of the discovery.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVIC

the disease before they are six
months old; therefore, the number
of deaths in that period are few.
The disease has a mortality of
about 5 per cent when taken care OF
under the best conditions and from
Is to 25 per cent in the presence OF
epidemics under the worst condi-
tons, such as among soldiers in bar
racks in war time. Chief complica-
tions responsible for death are
broncho-pneumonia and the other
lung complications.
The symptoms of measles are
known to almost every one. The
disease varies greatly in its severity,
however, and sometimes a very mild
eruption with mild general symp-
toms is overlooked, or mistaken for
food rash or some similar COM
plant.
AS a result of failure to recognize
and isolate the case, any number
of children coming in contact with
the suspected case may develop
more serious forms of the disease.
Although some hundreds of years
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H4doA1 ff I517t4Ie
ANNIVERSARY
84tS!914t4t
BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE
September II

september IL
ON Sept. IL, I777, Washington
" met the British at Brandywine
in one of the most crucial battles
of the Revolutionary war.
General Howe started out to take
Philadelphia, then the capital of the
United States. Washington had not
enough men to meet him in open
fight, but by skillful moves, pre-
vented him from crossing New Jer-
sey and obliged him to go by sea
Howe sailed south, entered Chesa-
peake bay, and, landing at the heac
of it, marched against Philadelphia
with a force of $1,000 men.
Washington met him at Brandy
wine creek with but 1000 men
Washington was forced to retire
from the field, but the defeat was
so slight that he was able to de-
tain Howe for fortnight on the
march of only twenty-six miles tc
Philadelphia.
The British finally entered the
city on Sept. 26 and encamped at
Germantown, where Washington
attacked him.
But his plan to rout the invaders
failed when, in the fog, one Amer
lean battalion fired into the other
by mistake, thus causing a sudden
panic in the ranks.
Washington then fell back to the
hills on the Schuylkill at Valley
Forge. about twenty miles northwest
of Philadelphia.
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A Great Event

TINE great discovery was the dis
a covery Of electro magnetic in
duction, made on Aug. 20, 1881, by
Michael Faraday, working in his
laboratory at the Royal institution
in London.
The experiment was a simple one.
Faraday wound two coils of wire on
an iron ring. He connected one coil
to an electric battery. The other
coil was connected to a galvanom-
eter, the rude forerunner of such
meters on the dashboard of your
automobile.
Faraday found that at the mo-
mentS that the connection between
the first coil and the battery was
either made or broken, a current
was set up or induced" in the sec
ond coil. This was evidenced by
the behavior of the needle of the
galvonometer.
Faraday demonstrated that when
the current started in the first
coil, the coil was surrounded by an
electromagnetic field or field of
force" When this field cut across
the second coil, it caused an electric
current to be set up in the Sec
ond coil.
This phenomenon of electric in
duction is the foundation of every
electric dynamo, motor and trans
former.
AS a preliminary announcement
issued by the Royal Institution of
London concerning plans for next
years celebration says, mo other
experiment in physical science has
been more fruitful in benefit for
mankind.
Aug. 90, 1881, is, then, ethe CEN
tenary of one of the great events
in the history of the world"
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Little of Interest

CENATOR COUZENS wins a re-
~ nomination in Michigan, though
not by what you would call land
slide, Phipps appears to have lost
his grip on Colorado and the vets
seem to have captured Washington.
BY and large, the election in
Maine and the primaries in eight
states offer little interest to serious
minded folks.
If any of the major problems
played part, or any of the real
issues were discussed from a con-
structive standpoint, we have yet to
hear about it.
If the Hoover administration was
on trial, or such questions as the
tariff, prohibition, or unemployment
were touched upon except in that
pandering, smushhead way by
which the average politician seeks
to befuddle the average voter, it
has yet to be reported.
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Unfinished

THERE is a story that the pub
i LEGATION Of Ernest Hemingway's
fine book, "a Farewell to Arms.
was delayed for almost six months
because a bull terrier came upon the
manuscript and worried it into
shreds.
I have my doubts. To me this
suggests the sort Of story an au-
thor might cook UP to soothe the
feelings of a published impatiently
waiting a delivery. My own testi-
nony would have to be that dogs are
not interested in manuscripts-at
least, not mine.
I was interested greatly once
when Captain Flagg came up to a
half finished novel of mine, lying on
low table, and undertook to in
vestigate just what sort of tale this
might be.
He shifted for maybe thirty sec
ends, but the exemptions Of the
book failed to aroufe his interest,
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Complications Of Measles Serious

have passed since the first recog-
milton of measles as a disease, the
specific causative germ has not been
determined. Various Investigators,
from time to time, have thought
that the germ was in their hands,
but the proof has not been salts
factory and after the passing of a
few years the claims have been
dropped.
Nevertheless it is quite certainly
established that the disease is in
fictitious, that it can be paseSd from
one person to another with secre-
lions such as sputum or nasal fluid
from the body, and that blood taken
from a person with the disease
carries the infection.
The blood is also the substance
which carries the antibodies against
the disease. Hence in the modern
treatment of serious cases of
measles, it is customary to get blood
from some one recently recovered
and to inject this into the body OF
the seriously sick patient.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11
This Job Problem

CPEAKING of unemployment, the
~ real trouble seems to be that
too many people are hunting jobs,
while too few are trying to create
them.
It's wonderful idea to get on
somebody's pay roll and stay there
for life, but who will provide the
pay roll when everybody turns job
hunter?
Communism answers. "the state"
and with England harnessed to the
Dole system, while Americans advo-
cate government insurance, it looks
as though Communism might be
right.
Some of us old fogies, however,
will stick by the notion that neither
the state nor society can get very
far unless quite few people enjoy
the privilege and have the ambition
to something for themselves.
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DIT n COM FREDERICK
1\A1 AOO4 Lands

THE home made miniature golf course is aban-
L doned; the sand piles deserted the fishing pole
parked on the back porch the wagons rest from
the labors Of tie summer; the shacks are empty;
there is strange silence everywhere and the dog sits
wrapped in loneliness, wondering what's the matter.
The kids have gone to school.
Our hats is off to Coste and Bellonte. the daring
Frenchmen and we would not oispaTage their gallan-
try but there's only one fellow in the history OF this
world who ever had the to fly the Atlantic all
alone, and his name is Lindbergh
A LII of us who lie awake at night because we
"A worry about frivolous things tender respects
to Coste, who able to wrap himself in an army
blanket and to sleep just an hour before hopping
off.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick has made thousands of
votes for herself by her statement that she hired de-
tecves to investigate Senator Nye that she is going
to say with it to the end and by her challenge What
you going to do about it?'
If Nye were even remotely related to the late hui
morSt, Bill Nye he would not fume about it, he would
realize that the joke is on him.
THE prince of Wales just has been promoted three
L times, once in the army once in the navy, and
once IN the flying corps.
It's always a great satisfaction to see battle
SCARED hero get what's coming to him
It's not fair to held Mayor Walker responsible for
the crookeonesS in the government of New York City
for he's busiy engaged chairman of the United
States reception committee, he hasn't time to look at
anything else.
With the exception of Christopher Columbus
Walker has welcomed every celebrity who has come
here from abroad
It's too bad coste and Bsllonte didn't get here in
time to be honized at the national air in Chi
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A Matter of Brains

DRAB, uninteresting toll on the
II part of us common folks is
necessary and always will be, to
satisfy the routine needs of life, but
the climb from the jungle has been
made possible by comparatively
small number who had the courage
and skill to follow unblazed trails.
The difference between cavemen
and modern men is wholly a matter
of brains, and we have found no
surer way of developing brains than
by emphasizing a sense of personal
responsibility through the hope Of
personal reward.
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Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Wednesdays Times:
King Henry Invented the Yard
Measure - The word yard" is an
cient Anglo Saxon, and has been in
use in England from ancient times
King Henry I Beauclerc, who ruled
England in the twelfth century, is
credited with it's establishment as
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Too Bad Long Won

IN South Carolina and Louisiana,
4 a personal row served to bring
out much larger percentage Of
voters.
In spite of all that has been said
about popular interest and intelli-
gence. there is nothing like AN old
fashioned knock down-and-dr drag
out to remind citizens of their
responsibility.
South Carolina Democrats are to
be congratulated for retiring Cole
Blease.
Too bad, Louisiana couldn't have
met them half way by keeping Huey
P. Long at home.
However the respective states
may feel about it, the nation gains
little through such an exchange.
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twaddle Jack London and Peter B.
Kyne write about seafaring.
Il have particular antipathy
to Cappy Kicks, because a passen-
ger who admired him gave me a
quarter for showing him my engine
room once. That ended it for me.
Peter B. Kyne could not possibly be
a good writer.
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CHOUSE and Fess disagree over
~ the result in Maine. They
would. 1t is a part of the game.
and not the least important part. to
admit nothing and claim everything.
Meanwhile, the outstanding fea-
ture of Names election was the
vast number who failed to vote.
If the country goes as Maine goes,
it viii stay at home.
Democrats may get a modicum Of
consolation out of those Republicans
who were too dumb, Indifferent. or
lazy to register an opinion, or vice
versa, but it is not a reasSuring sign.
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a unit of linear dimension, by his
making it that distance from the
point of his nose to the end of his
thumb.
Baby Rose Marie Can Sing 81
Songs = Baby Rose Marie, though
but years old, is a nationally
known radio artist and vaudeville
headliner. She is doing vaude-
nATT uEAT TIL CRDTTNE
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TT SEEMS TO ME BY H BF0SS

for after this brief survey he walked
away.
And from that day to this never
have been able to induce him to
nose around any of my novels. He
wouldn't think of chewing them.
To him they are just so much puppy
biscuit.
(CopYright. 1880. by The Times
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Association. and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
Until the seventeenth century
~ so little was known about scar
let fever and measles that they fire.
quently we're confused. Then the
great physician, Sydeham, recog-
nized them as definite conditions.
Since that time scientific medicine
has been gaining ground slowly in
it's battle against these two serious
infectious diseases.
After a period of invasion OF
three or four days and a preceding
incubation period of about two
weeks, the chief symptom of measles,
the eruption, extends all over the
body During the invasion period
in this as in other infectious dis
eases, the patient has running nose
and some fever and sore throat.
While few people die of measles,
the complications of the disease &C
count for many. Few children have
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vile tour through the middle west.
For the last three years she has
been on the stage, and had been
on the air for more than two years.
During this time she has learned
to sing ninety-four songs from
memory.
Friday-The freak ice house.
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Ideals and opinions espresso d
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.
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How many children did the late
President Roosevelt have?

How many children did the late
President Roosevelt have?
Six; one by his first wife, Alice,
who is now Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, and five by the second mar
riage; Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ethel
Carow (NIrs. Richard Derby,
Archibald and Quentin. quentin
was killed in France in the World
war. The other children are living.
If / started to work for penny
day, and doubled my pay for each
day for thirty days, how much would
/ make?
Figuring 1 cent for the first day,
cents for the second, 4 the third,
ct cetera, your salary at the end
Of thirty days would be $5,368, 709 u.
How did marriage and divorces in
the United States compare in 1927?
There were ], 200, 694 marriages and
192,037 divorces.
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Walters in some hotels in Canada wearing gold
epaulettes to distinguish them from guests What
those boys really need if you ask the guests service
stripes
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Daily Thought

And God looked upon the earth
and. behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.-GenesiS 6;12.
I have seen corruption boil aud
bubble till it o'errun the stew.
Shakespeare.
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SAYS:

Too Many People Are Hunt
ing Jobs, While Too Fel0
Are Trying to Create
Them.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association. and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-28
MRS. LOUISE ROBINSON
Press staff Correspondent

j. Meadows is the Scout master
of Seeley's new troop of Boy Scouts.
Six boys are in training SO far and
several more will be admitted soon.
A. S. Farley president OF the In
perial County Union Of the Christ
tian Endeavor Society visited the
Seeley society Sunday evening. He
was accompanied by Hood Little
field Of Imperial, who spoke in the
interests of getting more readers
for the Christian EndeaTor World.
S!xty-one were in attendance at The
Seeley society. Miss Joyce Rlgbee
is the leader for November 30th.
Sixty new song books have ar
rived at the Seeley church, and Will
be used at all services Sunday,
November 30th.
The Farm Home department met
Thursday, November 20 at the
home of Mrs. H E. Liebert. a pot
luck dinner was enjoyed and many
Christmas suggestions given. Those
present were Mesdames Higgins, j.
NJ. Mccain, c. II. Mccain, Hlghbee
Mulvey, Klump, Lytle, Mapstead, M.
Liebert. and the hostess. The next
meeting will be held Thursday