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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
REASON By FE EERBTs

president HOOVER'S speech before the Daugh-
tiers OF the American Revolution insisting that
this country enter the world court precipitateS the
greatest battle he has known and it may involve
far-reachtug sequences
The Presidents address overlooked the milk in
the coanut of the present controversy which is that
the Root formula surrendered the senate reservation
which denied the world court the right to render
advisory opinion on any matter in which we were
interested.
A CCORDING to the opinion of almost every
n body the Root formula is abject surrender, it
providing that we do not want the court to render
an opinion on any matter then may get out of the
court.
Instead of being reservation, this is a club pure
and simple
If this institution were just a court, there would
be little opposition to it, though there now is at The
Hague court of international justice equipped to do
all the international business willing to permit
any court to do.
NOR instance Japan might want the court render
L an opinion as TO whether act, excluding
Japanese. is calculated to promote world harmony,
and on that proposition We do not what foreign
nations think, for that's our own business.
When Mussolini might desire opinion to
whether the court thought it right for us TO restrict
Italian immigration he having been displeased vastly
by our restrictions and if we should not want the
court to pass judgment for such restriction We
could get out of the court.
If that's what this institution means. should
stay out for We intend to this country without
any advisory opinions from any other country under
the SUM-
The more the average American sees Of foreign
governments the less he thinks Of their devotion to
peace. For instance. this hss naval conference 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

The People Of Several States
WiU Go Right on Risking
the Same Prison Conditions
as Ohio Did, IN Spite Of
Disaster Warning.
SAYS.

NHIO either viii build a new
- penitentiary or reconstruct the
old one along modern lines. 1t viii
cost just as much as it would have
before the fire occurred. That is
the most regrettable feature Of the
tragedy in which more than three
hundred trapped convicts lost their
lives at Columbus.
No matter what is brought out
by the investigation, and no mat
ter whom, or how many, are singled
out for punishment as partially re-
sponsible, the real cause of trouble
was public negligence.
Whether the fire was set, or
whether it started accidentally, it
could not have resulted in any such
los. of life if the buildings had been
constructed properly.
Nor can their condition be ex-
cused on the plea Of ignorance, or
lack of means.
Ohio soon will prove that she
knows how to build a penitentiary
and can raise the money, now that
she has been shocked into action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
We'll Forget Again

A FEW days of glaring headlines,
IA a few sob sister stories, and
we'll all sink back into the state of
coma which seems to becloud our
faculties when it comes to pre-
venting obvious trouble in obvious
ways.
We shall continue to work and
converse with regard to safety, but
largely as safety promises new bust
ness for those who manufacture
traffic lights, or similar devices.
We're strong for the kind of I'M
provement that goes with innova-
lions. and especially if it provides
new jobs.
But the idea of just rebuilding
an old structure to make it flreproot
or sanitary, seems too commonplace
for an advertising drive, political
campaign. or even an entertaining
convention.
It takes the death of 300 or 400
human beings under peculiarly re-
voting circumstances to make us
realize that such idea really is worth
while.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

many gables. 1t was picture reminiscent of an
eighteenth century English countryside. with loaded
windows overlooking a garden Of restful hues and
soothing fragrance. A trim white roadway swept
gracefully to the door Stone chmneys sent fragile
oens Of resde tranquility curling into the cool trees
personal inspection of the picturesque spot con-
vnced the committee beyond question that this build
ing exemplihed the highest arts of the home build
1t voted the prize
True it was, the committee itself noted the place
not in fact residence. 1t was stable. But a
stable, we learned from Webster, may be either "a
house, shed or building" And how could commit
tee strangle definitions before an exhibit mani
testify without a rival for the prize?
Soon the 500 bronze will be undecided in the walls
Of Rolling Rock stables the barn on the celebrated
country place of the Mellon family at Ligonier.
1t should be dsaring to critics of our wealth and
power thus to be reminded that despite the passing of
the horse there has been no corresponding decline in
residential architecture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

paralysis has not been determined,
although its manifestations in the
body are so definite as to be fairly
easily recognized
1t is believed by many that the
organism which causes the disease
exists in nature and attacks the hui
man being when conditions become
right from the point of view of tenn
perature, barometric pressure and
similar factors.
1t has been urged that the organ
ism can be transferred through
milk or through water, but even
this evidence is not well estab-
lished.
In practically every instance
there seems to be a relationship
of the contact with the patient with
someone who has had the disease or
with a member of the family of
someone who has had the disease.
However, in many instances the
disease occurs in families in which
none of the other members of the
family gets infantile paralysis, even
though exposed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Reward of Incidence

A ND / had luck as book re-
IA viewer because after a week
or so I got terribly tired of reading
books and I came down with space
to fill and no book to write about.
I didn't know then that it is pos
sible to review book even if you
haven't read it.
And so in my desperation, I sat
down and wrote something about a
dog I knew, and child and farm
and that went lot better than any
of the book reviews ever wrote.
The space I filled was called
Books and Things" but after q
very little while whole months went
by and not a book would be men
toned. 1t was just things"
I had become by sheer accident
columnist and once you get to be
a columnist there's no cure. 1t gets
in your blood. You're not good for
anything else.
Copyright, 1890. for The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Taking the Kellogg Pact Literally

Preaching in the First Congregational church OF
Washington the distinguished Baltimore clergyman
DIR Peter Ainsle. asserted that there is no more
justification for being chaplain in the army or navy
than there is Tor being chaplain in speakeaSy.
What the reverend doctor had in mind quite
obviously. was that real Christian should act In
manner consistent with his public pretensons. In
short he should practice what he breaches The same
duty devolves upon Christian nation
His reasoning was the following War IS outlawed
in spirit bv the Kellogg pact Armies are not needed
except to carry on war Protection OF citizens IN time
of peace can be secured through federal marshals ana
state police Liquor is outlawed by the eighteenth
amendment Speakeasies exist only to vend TINS pro-
hibited liquor Therefore an army violates the spirit
of the kellogg pact quite as much as speakeasy
violates the spirit OF the eighteenth amendment
Legally speaking the Baltimore pastors analogy
is not watertight The Kellogg pact does not explicitly
outlaw war It only renounces it as an instrument OF
national policy The eighteenth amendment does
outlaw specifically the commercial sale of alcoholic
beverages Neither armies nor speakeasies are out
lawed directly by pact or amendment
Tn a moral sense. however. DR.. Ainshe is on firm
ground. Standing armies and navies are as fragrant
challenge to the spirit of the kellogg pact as the
most ossy and preentious night club to the cause
of prohibition His only error lies in taking human
especially a tcal-pronouncement too literally
It is quite useful at times, however, to have such
a man appear on the scene. 1t serves to bring out
clearly the vast gulf between the form and the SUB
stance of public pretense DR.. Ansies frankneSs Is
subtle commentary upon President Hooyers halllng
the outcome of the London disarmament conference
as being in accord with the spirit OF the Kellogg pact
The estimable New York Herald-Trbune misses
the point ard tries to represent Dr. Anse as opposed
to having The boys in blue and khaki preached TO- 1t
brands his statement "batantly outrageous "a
slanderous remark" "a preposterouS and insulting
belief"
Dr. AinslIe undoubtedly wants the army and navy
to have the ministrations OF the Christian rehglon
He also would doubtless like to see chaplain IN every
speakeasy. He merely was recommending consistency
as a Christian virtue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Pittshurgh Awards a Prize

In Pittsburgh there are many mansions
Civic spirit stimulates competition for refinementS
Of luxury comfort and beauty in home design. Such
competition is wholesome in a community, for the
home as we are reminded so often is the keystone of
the social structure the index of industry thrift pa
triotism and stability
Seeking to encourage this powerful constructive
force the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce recently
set up professional committee headed by the presi
dent of the American Society of Architects to select
the best example of residential architecture in the
vicinity rich bronze marker was designed for the
Aprize home.
latter viewing hundreds of sketches and photo
graphs, the committee decided a charming one
story suburban Structure With thatched root and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
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| ANNIVERSARY
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SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTH
April 20

April ~
I'm APRIL %, 1864, William
~ Shakespeare, English poet and
dramatist, was born at Stratford-
on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
1t is probable that Shakespeare
attended a free grammar school at
Stratford and later was employed as
an attorneys clerk. But this is as
theoretical as the story that he was
a wild young fellow, stealing deer.
In 1882 he married Ann Hatha-
way, by whom he had three daugh-
tiers. Four years later he went to
London, where he became joint pro-
prietor of the Blackfriars theater.
He accumulated money enough in
his theatrical enterprises to be able
to buy considerable property in
Stratford.
Shakespeare wrote and produced
most of his plays between the ages
of 26 and 10, some or all of them
being performed before the royal
court. Tile histories and comedies
were written before his thirtieth
birthday and the tragedies before
his fortieth.
The whole world now recognizes
Shakespeare as creative genius
unique in all literature.
TN imagination, fancy, knowledge
of man, wisdom, humor, pathos,
strength, ana versatility, in the
music of his verse, and the felicity
of his language, and also in that
mysterious power which fuses all
these separate gifts into one, he
stands unapproached and appar-
emily unapproachable."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
/. Self Evident Truth

A S A matter of fact, I ought to
L n be a great deal more honest
and blurt the truth right out. Maybe
I wouldn't be talking for other col
umnists, but, as far as I'm con-
cerned, it was the breaks which
got me the job and practically moth
ing else.
If you don't mind I would like to
tell you the story of my life? You
object? You say it sounds boring?
Quite possibly, but if you refuse the
necessary permission I shall imme-
diately launch into a long essay on
unemployment. I seem to catch a
nod Of assent to the autobiography
cal proposition.
In the beginning was a copy
reader. 1t was not much OF job on
the particular paper which en-
ployed me, but then I wasn't much
of a copy reader.
My process was simple. When the
head of the desk said chop 400
words out of that story" I'd just
lop off the last 400 That was much
the easiest way, but it did make
some pretty queer endings in the
stuff printed in the paper the next
day.
I remember one wound up, Mrs.
Grovenor said, I wish to make a
statement to the readers of the New
York Tribune"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

MOT very many men are willing
4 to give sufficient credit to luck
for the large share it has played In
their lives. And this is particularly
true of successful men. They resent
the factor of mere chance. When
luck is allowed to come in by the
door, the ego flies out of the Win
dow.
Every now and then some young
man or woman comes to ask me
how to get on a newspaper. 1t is
usually a young man or woman who
wants to be a dramatic critic or a
columnist.
That makes it harder. And when
I answer that they must not ex-
pect too easy a job in the beginning
and that it takes a lot of training
to be a columnist, they look at me
in surprise. Training to be a col
umnist!" they exclaim incredulously,
I don't blame them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Abb Falls Flat

1T is bad enough that so many of
4 us must live in f1retraps, even
though we easily can get out if
occasion requires, but it is unthink-
able that We should cage our fellow
beings, and then expose them to
that danger.
We could alibi ourselves, of course,
by saying that it is the business of
public officials to look after such
matters, if We did not talk so much
about the necessity of wide-awake
public opinion in other respects.
In country like ours, public Of
ficials keep their ears close to the
ground, and If they don't hear
something with regard to certain
subject, they soon get the idea that
they are at liberty to let it alone.
AS a matter of TACT, thousands of
Ohio citizens have visited the peni-
Tertiary at Columbus and know
from flrst-hand knowledge just
what kind of Tamshackle structure
it was.
Did they get excited about 1T?
Did they write letters to the Gov
ernor, or their representatives?
In few instances, perhaps, but
to no such extent as they should,
as they could, or as was necessary
to get action.
Thousands of Ohio citizens truth
fully can say, 81 told you So or
anybody with sense knew that
something of the sort was bound
to occur"
Thousands of citizens in other
states are content to tolerate a
similar situation, with similar indif-
ference.
That is the real cause of these
avoidable horrors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Ignore the Lesson

TINE saddest part Of this sad
\ business consists in the fact
that the people of Ohio are neither
as poor nor as ignorant as this
avoidable horror suggests.
Saddest of all is the fact that the
people of several other states will go
right on risking the same thing, in
spite of this warning.
What is it that causes us to take
such useless chances with our own
and other mems lives?
Considering the vast amounts Of
money we spend for comparatively
unimportant things, why do we
withhold what is needed to put such
institutions as prisons, schools and
asylums beyond the reach of fire?
Congress is about to enact tariff
bill which experts say will cost the
people of this country $1,000,000,000
a year, on the theory that certain
industries need protection.
One billion dollars year soon
would make every public institution
fireproof, but somehow the kind of
protection that involves has failed
to arouse our interest.
Not that we are inhuman, or I'M
kind by nature, but that we have
become infatuated with business as
we call it, with the idea of how to
make more money on the one hand,
and how to save more on the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
SCIENCE
Eclipse Of SIN Neat Week
WIZ Be One Of Three Vas
able IN This Country IA
Neat Forty Years.
.RY DAVID DIETZ :

THE eclipse Of the sun on April
/ % Will be one of three to be
seen in the United States during
The next forty years.
1.-The second OF the three viii &C.
cur in two years, on Aug. 81, 1882
Then there will be a long wait
No other eclipse of the sun will be
visible as a total eclipse in the
United States until March 7, 1870.
An eclipse OF the sun Is visible a
a total eclipse only in a narrow
path over which the shadow of the
moon passes. This path is known
as the eclipse track.
In the April % eclipse, this track
Will be less than mile vide and
will extend from a point north OF
San Francisco to Twin Bridge,
town thirty-tlve miles south OF
Butte, Mont.
The path OF the 1882 eclipse will
be wider. II will pass across Can
ada, entering the United States at
DlXYille Notch, N. H. 1t viii cross
New Hampshire and Maine, passing
out over the Atlantic ocean, at a
point south of Portland, Me.
Astronomers calculate that the
track of the 1870 eclipse will be
chiefly over Mexico, the Gulf Of Mex
leo and the Atlantic ocean. It, how
ever, will cut across Florida.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S

Editor The Times-I have always
voted the dry ticket. but the mess
that the government has gotten into
in the liquor business is perfectly
disgusting to any lawabiding citizen,
and there is no possible chance for
it to get any better. Every move
the government ever has made to
curtail the sale of liquor has made
it worse, until today We are the
laughing stock of the world. Cut of
the graft and place good liquor
where it can be obtained by those
that need It for medicinal purposes.
j. P. JACKSON.
z54 East Washington street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Canon

nNE OF the most remarkable
~ books in the world is a pub
lication titled Canon Der Finster-
nisse"-"Canon of EclipseS."
1t contains the elements-the
dope as a racetrack fan would
phrase it-for all the ecIipses be-
tween the years 1907 B. G, and 1852
A. d.
No less than 5000 solar eclipses
and 5000 lunar eclipses are de-
scribed in the book. The approx
mate tracks of all the solar eclipses
are included on series of maps.
The author was Professor 7. r.
Oppolzer and the box was published
in 1887 by the Vienna Academy of
Sciences.
The calculation of an eclipse is
not a simple matter, although
astronomers will tell you that the
calculation of a lunar eclipse is not
complicated.
The layman safely may interpret
| this remark merely to mean that 1t
is very much more difficult to call
culate solar eclipse than it is a
lunar eclipse.
An eclipse OF the moon occurs
when the earth gets between tie
sun and the moon. The moon then
is immersed In the shadow of the
earth. At the distance Of the moon,
the eartl1's shadow has much
larger diameter than does the moon.
An eclipse Of the moon is visible
from every point within one hemi-
sphere of the earth. one astronopni-
cal calculation is sufficient to give
the time of lunar eclipse.
Each observer need only make the
correction which his longitude calls
for from Greenwich time to have
the exact time of the eclipse for his
station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association. and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TIME most dangerous and most
Il Gripping Of disorders affecting
children today is infantile paraly-
sis. The health section of the
League Of Nations finds that this
disease has an average death rate
for all forms from IL to 13 per
cent.
Apparently the viruleace of the
germ increases during epidemics
and more cases are likely to be
found and properly diagnosed at
that time than in the absence of
epidemic conditions.
Apparently the disease does not
frequently attack people living in
hot countries. In the north the
disease reaches its highest point in
August and September, and in the
southern half of the world between
December and May.
The exact cause of infantile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
TT SEEMS TO ME By HR REo15%

You see, baseball writer's all over
the country resented it. They wrote
pieces saying that baseball writer's
knew a lot more than dramatic
critics. And I wouldn't be at all
surprised if that were true. Any
how, it gave me that invaluable
thing called publicity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
The Evil Eye

A ND then, after little while,
N the dramatic critic died, so
they made me dramatic critic. And
then the book critic got sick. He
did eventually recover, but he had
to go away for a couple Of years
and so they made me book reviewer.
Right at the jump something hap
pened that helped me out lot as
dramatic critic. I saw a play in
which AIiSs Ethel Barrymore ap-
peared and I didn't think it was a
good play. And I didn't think Miss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

Barrymore gave a very good per-
Torrance.
She said, "All the critics liked me
but one. who I understand is base
ball reporter" And she went on to
say. "Of course, baseball is a great
game. and our national sport and
all that, but there is a good deal
of difference between the diamond
and the drama, is there not?"
That was a lucky break for me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
estinR writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Orbits

A N eclipse Of the sum is caused
n by the moon getting between
the earth and the sun. 1t Is total
only along the narrow track where
the cone-shaped shadow of the
moon sweeps over the earth.
1t will be seen at once therefore,
why the calculation Of solar
eclipse is very much more difficult.
An eclipse of the moon can oc-
cur only at the time of full moon
and an eclipse of the sun can oc-
cur only at new moon.
This is because it Is only at full
moon that the moon is on the other
side of the earth from the sun and
directly opposite it. The time of
new moon is the only time when the
moon is on the same side Of the
earth as the sun and in the same
direction.
The question which arises at once
is why there is not an eclipse Of the
moon at every full moon and an
eclipse of the sun at every new
moon.
The reason is that the plane Of
the earth's orbit is tilted at an
angle of about 5 degrees to the
plane of the earths orbit around
the sun.
In addition, the points where the
moons orbit crosses the earths,
known as the nodes, constantly are
shifting toward the west.
An eclipse can happen, therefore,
only if the moon is at one of the
nodes at the time of new or full
moon. Then the sun, earth and
moon are all in one straight line
II
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

Is Singapore in China?
No. 1t is an island in the Straits
settlements and is a British crown
colony. a.Aaz .aAr~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

How did the name penknife
originate?
From the fact that formerly such
knives were carried to sharpen quill
pens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23

Let guilty men remember their
black deeds do lean on slender reeds.
john Webster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Daily Thought

fl sin, then thou markest me,
and thou wilt not acquit me from
mine iniquity.-Job 1O:14
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-02
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