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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Doctors Advance in Study of Lungs

in the emptying of the stomach
manifests itself by symptoms which
are exceedingly disagreeable.
BY the use of the Horoscope and
by the use of the serial X-ray pic
lures it is possible to determine just
exactly how long the stomach re-
quires for it's work. BY the use of
device called the esophagoscope
and a gastroscope, it actually is
possible to look into the esophague
and the stomach.
1t is possible with newly in
vented camera to take pictures of
the lining of the stomach without
opening the patient. Through all
these new methods, competent in
ternist can know almost as much as
he needs to know to describe per-
fectly the situation tila5 exists in
the stomach as it is seen when an
operation is performed. Such a
study is a palnstaking meticulous,
long, and expensive procedure.
In the vast majority of cases of
indigestion, this is not necessary, for
the simple reason that it is possible
to tell from easily determined symp-
toms just about what is wrong and
by the giving of suitable advice con-
corning diet and digestion to free
the patient from his disagreeable
symptoms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
DF COM FREDERICK
NLI AOO1N Lands

WE would not make fun of the people of Texas
w because they voted for Ma Ferguson for Gov
srnor because she knows how to can patches, Tor
every state in the Union recall at least Gov
ernor who didn't know that much.
AS you tune in this torture up in Chicago
where dippy dancers stagger around half uncon-
scious in a marathon which has been going on for
months you think of the days when the people of
America used to agonize because the heather Chi
nese" bound the feet of his ladies.
Canada's newly elected prime minister assures us
that the high tariff the conservatives are about to
enact will not be in resentment against us for our
high tariff but the effect on our exports will be just
about the same.
THIS young man down at Vincennes, who is pay
i ing for his marriage license on the inStallment
plan will learn that it isn't the original invest
ment that counts it's the upkeep.
Republican leaders agree that they can not carry
Texas next time. which must be great blow to
President Hoover.
If he isn't careful he may possibly lose Mississippi
But the most interesting thing about Texas Is the
way the Democratic donkey kicked the denijohn out
of the lot Morris Sheppard author of the eighteenth
amendment, overwhelmingly defeating Robert L.
Henry, the wet candidate for the senatorial nominal
ton.
THIS Chicago broker who killed his baby by fall
i ing on it while intoxicated. was acquitted by the
coroners jury but he'll have harder time getting a
similar verdict from his conscience
Dry leaders announce that there will be third
party in 1882 both of the old parties wet but
prediction is that neither of them win be.
Denmark has got rid Of her navy, composed Of two
cruisers and the remarkable thing is she able to
do il without going into conference.
Father c. B. Alamo, director Of the Pompeu OBJ
servatoy reports that the last earthquake broke the
backbone of Italy.
He is mistaken; the backbone Of Italy is Mr.. Mus
solinL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Intensity

THE relative amount of any
Il chemical element present in
the solar atmosphere can be judged
roughly from the width and inten-
Sity of the elements lines in the
solar spectrum.
The number of lines of the ele-
ment present is also a valuable
piece of evidence.
Laboratory experiments have
shown that when a large amount of
an element is present in a light
source, the resulting spectrum con-
sists of great profusion of lines of
considerable. intensity.
AS the amount of the element in
the source of light is diminished,
the intensity of the lines begins to
decrease and the weaker lines be-
gin to disappear entirely.
The few remaining lines are
known technically as the rates I'LL
time" a French term first used by
the physicist, De Gramont.
When only the "raies ultime" of
an element are present in the spec
trum and when these are very weak,
the astronomer concludes that rela-
lively little of the element is pres
ent in the suns atmosphere.
AS the lines increase in strength
and number, it is an indication of
relatively larger amounts of the ele-
ment.
Recently, attempts have been made
to calculate the actual amounts of
various chemical elements present
in a unit area of the suns atmos-
phere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Gamblers

TT seems among other things we
Il Sagittarians are romantic gam
blers at heart In the precise words
of Mr.. Coffman, we shoot the works.
This is undoubtedly true. Cobb
always rounded third at top speed.
To others sandtraps on the course
of life are danger signals; to us
they merely point the way to a
quicker and more exciting goal.
A Sagittarian dies but once. In
most instances this is sufficient.
But with all our impetuosity and
bravado we are not without GER
tain admirable restraint. Mr.. Coff-
man writes that the journeyman
Sagittarian is equipped with hy-
draulic brakes. He knows just how
far to go and when to stop.
1 am told this is a temperate
quality highly esteemed by the NOR
alists of the land. No Sagittarian
would think of ordering one more
silver fizz if convinced the ninth
already had produced the proper
state of vertigo.
Also, it must always be a great
relief to the elders to learn at the
breakfast table the next morning
that the young lady mad been out
with a good Sagittarian the night
before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09

CIXTY years of study Of the sun
- with the spectroscope have re-
vealed the presence Of forty-nine of
the known chemical elements in the
outer region of the sun.
The spectroScope is a combination
of prisms and lenses used to form
little rainbow or spectrum of the
sun. This spectrum is crossed by
more than 10000 dark lines of
varying thicknesses and intensities.
Research has proved that each
chemical element is capable of pro-
ducing a certain combination of
lines in the spectrum. The task.
therefore, reduced itself to Identify
ing the lines in the solar spectrum.
Ninety chemical elements are now
known here on earth, ranging from
such familiar substances as iron,
copper, hydrogen and oxygen to such
unfamiliar ones as neodymium, zir-
conium, and ytterbium.
Physicists are certain, however,
from many theoretical reasons, that
total of ninety-two chemical ele-
ments exists. They expect some day
to find the two which still are miss
ing.
1t will be seen therefore, that
more than half of the chemical ele-
ments have been identified in the
outer portion of the sun. Forty-one
of the known elements are appar-
emily absent, or forty-three of what
is believed to be the total number of
elements in existence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BK09S

sonally tasted and approved by DR..
Alfred w. Mccain.
This fondneSs does not always run
to dogs and Shetland ponies and
penguins. There is, for instance, a
well-known Sagittarian in Great
Neck who keeps a stable of pink
striped zebras in his bedroom.
These are jumping zebras and to
keep them in shape for the Grand
National Hangover Steeplechase
which is soon to be held he makes
them leap through the keyhole to
and fro each night just before
throwing his dinner clothes on the
bed and hanging himself up in the
closet to sleep.
AS for myself, I am interested in
adopting a baby gorilla and I am
only waiting to find one that is
sympathetic and understanding and
without ambitions to become a gun
man or prize-fight manager.
Copyright 1880, by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09


Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
SPECIALISTS in internal medi-
~ cine concern themselves also
particularly with the lungs, which
are subject to many disorders and
which they now investigate not only
by the old method of listening and
humping, but also by laboratory
tests of the secretions from the
lungs, by the use of the X-ray, by
the insertion of needle, and by the
injection of substances which make
the lungs particularly visible under
the X-ray.
Whereas the lung complaints most
commonly considered in the past
were Bronchitis, pneumonia, and,
most frequently of all, tuberculosis,
today it is known that the lungs
may be infected by many other bac-
terial organisms, that chronic. dis
eases may produce permanent
changes in the lungs, which inter
fere with breathing, that the lungs
may be subject to cavity. to con-
solidation, to the growth of tumors,
to the inhaling of foreign bodies,
and to many other conditions diff
cult to diagnose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
What Caused the Auburn Riots?

The Cayuga county grand jury just has handed in
its report on the causes of the disastrous riots at
Auburn prison last July and September. 1t pre-
sents pretty serious indictment: I'd Careless
ness and indifference of the authorities; Cd bad food
and sanitation; 90 serious overcrowding and idle
ness CD anarchy and corruption in the Mutual well
fare League; 80 moonshining and intoxication
among prisoners, and (6) ease Of obtaining manu-
featuring and hiding
It is difficult to know just how much faith to put
in the report. Prison investigation is a difficult
technical problem. The layman is ill-ftted to carry
out such work It is hard for him to know how to
get and sift evidence from such a shfty and unre-
liable body Of witnesses prison guards and con-
victs.
grand jury is likely to be little fitted to in
vestigate a prison trial jury Is to weigh evil
dence in general. But from our knowledge of Amer
lean prison conditions in general, and Auburn con-
dit.ons in particular. may presume that the
charges of maladministration and Generalization
are true though the responsibility is probably as
much that Of the state that of any particular off,
Gals.
AT any rate the grand jury of Cayuga county has
turned in some sensible recommendations Many
pertain to perfunctory improvements in formal dis
cpline which are necessary but viii not change the
general situation Of unrest and incompetence Others
are more significant and far-reaching
Extension of dolmitories to relieve overcrowding
is certainly desirable. is likewise putting every
body tn work and paying them decently for their
labor. Even more significant is the recommended
ton that the Baumes laws be amended and an
approach be made to a real indeterminate sentence
Law. Equally sensible and modern is the proposal
for the segregation Of convicts according to mental
types and the prospect Of reformation.
The attitude toward the Mutual Welfare League.
accurately described by Dean Krchwey as the only
great advance in prison administration in CEN
tury is unfortunate. There is much talk about the
degeneration of the league before the riots and it
implied that league leaders engineered the riots
No doubt the league less effective than it
might nave been. owing TO the failure of Warden
Jennings TO cooperate actively in its administration.
It IS significant however that nothing is said About
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09

HeyWOOu brOun, VINO conducts this
column, is on his vacation. During his
absence Joe Williams, sports editor of
the New York Telegram, will pinch-hit
for Broun.-The Editor.
THERE must be something in
Il astrology after all. 1t develops
that I am Sagittarian. This is
nothing to be ashamed of. Not
everybody can be a Sagittarian.
They are born, not made. Specif1-
cally, the time of birth is between
Nov. % and Dec. 20.
A number of interesting persons
have had the foresight to be born
under the ninth star of the zodiac.
C. j. Coffman, the distinguished
sky gazer, reveals in the New York
Telegram that they include Winston
Churchill, Harry Payne Whitney,
Lillian Russell, Mark Twain and
Andrew Carnegie.
I suppose it was merely an over
sight that he neglected to add Ell
bows McFadden, Kid Lavigne, Ty
Cobb, Gabby Hartnett, One-Eye
Connolly and old Colonel Williams.
Mr.. Cofman has compiled form
chart by which the future perform
ances of a Sagittarian may be
judged over a fast or slow track.
Here you are, ladies and gents, you
can't tell a Sagittarian without a
form chart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Times Readers Voice Vices

Editor Times = The Times is
rendering a service to the cause of
good citizenship by calling atten-
ton of voters and taxpayers to low
wages and unemployment. This is
regarded as a social loss-the de-
tendency on charity and the sec
ondary consequence of poverty, dis
ease and crime, which are filling our
free institutions at the expense of
the taxpayers.
The StatiSticians rave about the
death rate and the crime wave. But
with bad housing, unemployment
and poor nutrition, what else could
be expected? Temperance workers
believed the disabilities of the poor
were due to the drinking of liquor.
To eliminate poverty and crime,
they offered prohibition as a solu-
ton. But, today, with streets filled
with idle men and the haunts of
vice untouched, the battle for the
very necessities of life is becoming
f1ercer and fiercer. This has a
greater bearing on the physical,
mental and moral manhood and
womanhood of the race than alco-
hol possibly could have.
They now carefully refrain from
mentioning the conditions they
thought were due to alcohol. Alco-
hol raises the question of the will of
choice, but low wages forces poverty
upon innocent victims, especially
childhood. It is not pleasant to
speak of these conditions, yet the
time certainly has come when they
must be considered and the wonder
is that anyone could think of ignor-
ing them, as they will call more
loudly for a solution as time goes
on. A READER.
Editor Tin eS-I read in your pa
per about the wages some of these
contractors are paying on the state
roads and praise you for having so
much principle. This is highway
robbery. It looks like some of these
paper collar things they have run
ming the state could find some
remedy for that kind of business,
but I guess it pays them to keep
quiet, for I wouldn't be surprised if
these contractors have to kick in
some of the profits they are getting
of these poor slaves.
Now I am married and have chill
dren. I know a family can't buy
groceries, to say nothing of rent,
water, lights, insurance. taxes and
clothes on IS cents an hour, much
less on 20 cents an hour.
But the contractors are not the
only ones paying less than a living
wage. I work for less than IS cents
an hour, fifty hours week if there
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
ZZZzSSS
FRANCIS KEYS BIRTH

FRANCIS KEYS BIRTH
ON Aug. 9, ITO, Francis Scott
" Key, noted in American letters
as the author of ''The Star-Spangled
Banner" was born in Frederick
county, Maryland.
In 1914, Key, who was district
attorney of the District of Column
bia, Washington, visited the flagship
OF the British feet which was then
attacking Baltimore. to obtain the
release of a friend who was a pris-
oner of war.
This was granted, but the two
were detained for fear that, if al
lowed to land, they would reveal the
British plans.
While daylight lasted, the men
watched the flag. When dawn re-
vealed it still floating above the
fort, they knew the British attack
had failed.
1t was then that Key withdrew
an old letter from his pocket and on
its back he wrote the first stanza
of the "Star-Spangled Banner" He
finished the poem later in the day
when his vessel had been allowed
to land.
1t first was printed as handful
inclosed in fancy border. One Of
Keys friends. Judge Nicholson, of
Baltimore, saw that the tune Ana
creon in Heaven" an old English
drinking song, fitted the words, and
the two we're quickly united.
The song became instantly popu-
lar, and now is universally regarded
as the national anthem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Not Perfect

OF course, we are not wholly per-
" feet, not by conventional
standards at any rate. We have our
little eccentricities, those engaging
traits that distinguish the South
amptons from the Long Branches,
the chaff from the wheat, the plati-
mum from the phoney.
We are, for one thing, addicted to
strange and unusual companions.
You never can tell what Sagittar-
ian will lug home with him.
Rather than a handicap, it seems
to me this merely adds to the pi-
quancy Of romance. Certainly the
wife of a Sagittarian who never is
sure whether her boy friend is going
to arrive with his favorite traffic
cop plus the horse or three piece
German band distinguished for its
endurance powers. can complain
that her life is utterly devoid of
surprises.
MI. Conman' warns the women
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Theory Doesn't Work

EONE effect of civilized life,
" especially in the opportunities
it afford for comfort ana pleasure,
is childlessness.
In theory, the offspring of Caesars
legionnaire ought to have overrun
the earth by this time, but they
haven't.
In theory, descendants of the
5000 Athenian citizens should
amount to six billion now, but they
don't.
Beyond that, we haven't begun to
till the land available. Out of a
billion acres in the United States,
for instance, not more than $50
million can be classed, by any
stretch of the imagination as cul-
tivated, and it is possible that fifty
million, farmed in a scientific way,
could be made to produce more
than they do.
AS to Africa and South America,
nothing but the rim has been
touched.
AS to Asia, it supports half of the
human race, and would do so
adequately if the Chinese would
quit fighting and the Indians would
abandon their faith in hand labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Atn1oSDhere

TINE dark lines in the solar spec
u trum are caused by the gases in
the outer portion of the sun, the
so-called solar atmosphere. The
bright background of colorS, the
rainbow part, is caused by the light
arising in the deeper and denser
part of the sun, the so-called photo
sphere or gaseous surface of the sun.
Such rainbow of colors, however,
is an index only to temperature and
not to the chemical elements in
volved.
That is why the spectroScope can
tell us only about the chemical COM
position of the outer region of the
sun, the so-called reversing layer
and the chromosphere which make
up the suns atmosphere.
The spectroscope tells us that the
suns surface has a temperature of
about 10000 degrees Fahrenheit.
But it does not tell lis what is in or
below the surface.
Astronomers feel certain, however,
that all ninety-two chemical ele-
ments are in the philosophers or i'm
mediately below it. There is even
good reason to suppose that the
forty-three apparently absent ele-
ments actually are in the suns at
moSphere as well.
Study of the spectrum has con-
WINGED astronomers that the forty
nine elements identified SO far in
the suns atmosphere are not pres
ent in equal amounts. Some are
very abundant and some are very
scarce.
Astronomers think that the miss
ing elements actually may be pres
ent, but in such small quantities
that they do not register in the
suns spectrum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Fears Famine

TN Baileys opinion, the human
i race will have reached the total
of four billion by 1000 A. d.
There isn't land enough, he
thinks, to provide bulk food for such
a crowd, wherefore it will have to
feed on pills and tablets, if it feeds
at all
But, he explains, we are not used
to pills and tablets, and probably
couldn't get much out of them with
a system designed for roast beef,
cabbage, and pea soup.
The alternative is obvious. Our
stomachs and intestines must be re-
vised, improved, and rearranged, all
within four generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
NJ. E. Tracy
The Human Digestive Appd-
ratus Must Be Made Over
in Seventy Years, Declares
British Scientist.

TINE British are blue these days,
L blue over india. blue over the
invasion of American automoplieS
and movies, blue over the naval
pact, unemployment, the opium
trade, and lot of othex- things
Whether it's due to the teachings
Of Dean Inge, or the kidding Oh
George Bernard Shaw. heaven only
knows, but our cousins across the
sea simply can't see anything good
or reassuring ahead.
Having made what it claims TO
be thorough study of the situation,
the British Elect: e,al and Allied
Manufacturers Association predicts
that the present economic depres-
SIGN won't end before next summer,
and not even then, unless the Young
plan and American debt settlements
are revised.
AS though that we're not enough
for one day, G.. P. Bailey, British
scientist, prophesies that, unless the
human digestive apparatus is made
over within seventy years, this old
world will find itself short OF food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
A TuSsIe for Science

1T is what you might call a large
Il contract. So large, indeed, that
any one but an up-to-date scientist
probably would be discouraged by it.
Your up-to-date scientist, how
ever, is ready to try anything once,
and if the thing doesn't happen to
exist right now, he is ready to con-
iure it into being for the sake of a
tuSSle.
Men in the street may argue that
we would begin to feel the pinch
long before worldwide food short
age arrived, and that it would be
some pinch if that shortage were as
close as seventy years.
They even may go so far as to
contend that we would try birth
control before we undertook to re-
build our interiors.
But men in the street usually are
too logical and unimaginatiYe for q
scientist who wants to get his name
on the front page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09

they should raise no barriers of
prejudice or protest against this
wholesome mannerism. On the con-
trary, when a Sagittarian in good
standing calls up to announce he is
bringing home a fellow who just
won the hag-pole sitting champion
ship of Erie, Pa, and to be sure
the guest room is prepared, there is
nothing for her to do, provided she
is intelligent, but urge him to take
a cab so he can get there with the
gentleman with much greater speed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09

the great services rendered by the league in prevent
ing the JULY riot from becoming jail delivery or
pitched battle for days.
Defects Of the league due to particular admin
isration are no reason for urging its dscontinuance
under another Ability to the league ought to be
prime test of competence of any prison admins
trahon.
other reforms at Auburn will be nullfed largely
unless the league is revived and operated with en-
tIlusiasm and efficiency. The proposed system of
segregatng the incorrigible types would help enor
mousy in administering the league
At any rate, we may hope that the state of New
York will not be long in acting on the generally
moderate and reasonable recommendations Of the
grand jury. This is the least We may expect
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
Likes Pets

a MOTHER marked and beautiful
n characteristic of the Sagittar-
ian is his inordinate fondneSs for
pets and his eagerness to see that
they have a roof over their heads
and good warm food in their bodies.
Preferably food that has been per-