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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

1T would be a help to me If my
Il mind worked faster. A couple of
days ago I thought up almost pre-
cisely the proper retort for the
chairman of the meeting, but I did
not remember it until three hours
after the meeting had ended.
Donald ogden Stewart, author
and actor, was functioning as mas
ter of ceremonies at meeting Of
the Actors Fund Matinee Club.
Various people of the theater spoke,
and one harassed newspaperman.
In his introduction, Stewart twit-
ted me with changeability in regard
to the productions of his pen. The
intent was kindly, but the edge of
his remarks was sharp. And l stood
there dumb and fidgety without a
thing to say in reply.
Later, or much too late, 1 recalled
the fact that 1 was almost literally
the father of Don Stewards career
on the stage. I mean the acting
part of it, Writing plays like Re
bound" was his own idea.
But years ago when Don was still
obscure, I had a lecture manager
and he didn't. I went to the i'm
presario and said, This young fell
low, Ogden Donald Stewart, might
be fine for your circuit. I don't
know how he talks, but he writes
awfully funny stuff"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
REASON By Ff EEapfs

TTNHE English are inconsistent They make fun OF us
l. on account of prohibition and talk about tyranny
because will not let people make liquor, yet they
are putting into prison the followers OF Mahatma
Ghandi the nationalist leader of India because they
made SALT in violation of the salt monopoly of the
British Indian government
If the United States owned an island as close to
India the British island of Nassau close to Florida
and if that American island were used base of
operations to smugge salt into India, Nassau is
used to smuggle liquor into the United States, we
would soon receive an ultimstum from John Bull
MIR. BULL has not handled this Indian situation
1V1 with his customary diplomacy. Instead of put
making rhe salt, Mr. B. should have induced the
mahatmas family physician to inform him that salt
is hard. on his arteries.
Dr. Frederick Tilney of Columbia university sug-
gests that government should be made profession,
like medicine, engineering. and law.
Under this plan man would have to get diploma
from college before he could run for office doctor
must have diploma before he can run for patients,
all of whic violates the principle of republican form
Of government.
TNDER DR.. Tilreys plan all graduates Of the col
~ lege of government would start by holding the
smaller Offices and make their way upward toward
the greatest stations in public life.
We have this very system now, the great majority
Of our large statesmen having up the ladder of
office holding from small places
The result of this is that while statesmen acquire
the experience they also acquire the habit Of keeping
their the ground and the great objective is to
be reelected not to do the brave thing conscience and
common sense dictate
Instead OF needing men. thoroughly versed in the
technique Of government We need strong men who
will take office, saying TO themselves, Il will hold this
Office for the term and do what think is right
regardless OF the consequences
That frame Of mind would produce more statesmen
than all the government colleges that could be built
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
A Kickback From the West

Senator Moses of New Hampshire and Senator
Grundy of Pennsylvania have tried to put the in
surgent western senators in their place. Moses refer
ence to the sons of wild jackasses" has become
classic Grundy has been equally sarGonic. He has
branded the homeland of the insurgents backward
states and has suggested that the progressive
tors from these bush league areas well might be
and not heard.
one of the most illustrious and active OF the prog
eny of the wild asses, Senator Gerald P Nye, lets
loose with his hind legs In The North American
Review in an article entitled Speaking of Backward
States" He turns his guns the keystone State"
the constituency of Grundy
He first appeals to the test of history and calls the
roll of the citizens Of Pennsylvania who have been
prominent in national politics He finds but
statesman. Phander c. Knox, and dozen politicians,
many of unsavory repute. such the Camerons He
offers the roll call Of the young and backward" Iowa
in comparison and finds that it has contributed
men of worth to the nations service.
Next senator Nye turns to education and inyest-
gates the percentage of children between and II
attending elementary and secondary schools of all
kinds. Here Pennsylvania lags far behind the back
ward states: Pennsylvania It's; North Dakota s46;
South Dakota s29; Iowa, S61; Nebraska, COS; Idaho
s4S; Kansas. s7.9; Montana, s22; Colorado, s5.
Pennsylvania boasts of its great wealth in
parscn to the holdings of the impoverished backward
areas. Yet the per capita wealth in Pennsylvania is
less than that Of any of the backward states Penn
syvania S31S7 North Dakota. SS,6s2; South Dakota,
s44s2: Nebraska $4,000; Idaho sSsol Kansas, sS4sS;
Iowa, 81 274; Montana $500.
InaSmuch as the total wealth of Pennsylvania
greatly oyercps that of the backward states Senator
Nye argues that We have in Pennsylvania economic
and financial feudalism in which the wealth is con-
centrated IN the hands of the financial barons
Turning 70 the conditions of labor Senator Nye
launches the following indictment of the land of the
MELONS:
Where starvation wages, inhuman conditions of
labor the state authorities Indifference police brutal
ity an uneeonomic system of production, and a me-
deval neglect of the fundamental rights Of man.
bne to make life unbelievaby miserable for the men,
women and children involved. The coal and iron
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Tax Problems

eye on problems and furnish advice to officials
is fine. though it carries the implication that
officials have failed badly in protecting the people.
An even finer solution would be an active interest
in the primaries in the selection of candidates who,
by purpose and ability, would need such guardian
ship.
There is one sure way of keeping down taxes. That
is the spending of less money. That could be done
If public business were conducted the same basic
as successful private business.
The first step should be the elimination of waste
through fsvortism Excessive pay rolls for political
purposes the handling of contracts to favored poll
ticianS. lax inspection, cost money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

patients who could not afford the
services of private practitioner.
The Berlin ministry Of health has
encouraged incubation against
diphtheria and it has been esti
mated that $4,000 Of the 100000
children in Berlin up to the age of
Is years had received one injection,
and $4,000 two injections of the
toxin antitoXin.
OF $1,000 children tested before
incubation, 78 per cent we're found
suscc ptibIe to diphtheria by the
Schick test, whereas II per cent of
1000 children tested after inoc-
ulations with toxin-antitoxin mix
ture had become negative to the
Schick test, and were therefore not
likely to have diphtheria.
Out Of $50 reported cases Of diph-
liberia examined in New York dur
ing 1927, it was found that only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ :
Plane and Movie Camera VII
Help Scientists to Observe
Eclipse of Sun, April %.

A N airplane and a motion pic
L n ture camera, Two of the twen-
tieth century engineering marvels,
are to be employed by astronomers
in California in observing the
eclipse of the sun OF April %.
The April % eclipse will be visible
as partial eclipse throughout the
United States. 1t will be visible as
total eclipse, however, only in a
narrow track less than a mile wide
running from the Pacific coast just
north of California to Twin Bridges,
town thirty-f1ve miles south Of
Butte, Mont.
Cooperation of the United States
army air service in observing the
eclipse has been requested and OBJ
tanned by President w. W. Camp
bell of the University of California.
DR.. Campbell. for many years di-
rector of Lick observatory, is one of
the worlds greatest authorities
upon the subject of echpseS.
1t is only rarely that DR.. Camp
bell has been able to see an eclipse
from his own back yard, as it were.
Usually he has had to travel thou
sands of miles. The outbreak of the
World war in 1914 stranded DR..
Campbell in northern Siberia, where
he had gone to make eclipse observ-
ations.
Islands Of the South Sea and
other faraway places have been
visited by DR.. Campbell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

for the widespread use of birth con-
troll than for a radical change in
our economic and political life.
For it is possible, even likely, for
every one to practice birth control as
soon as a few Anticipated laws on
the subject are modified.
That will occur rapidly when the
really potent forces that arouse
public opinion set up a great and
continuous howl about the matter.
Because the laws do not affect
the Well-informed and the well-cir-
cumstanced, who have little or no
trouble in getting information, it is
difficult for them to realize that it
is literally inaccessible to masses Of
the people. Unfortunately these
masses are the ones most in need
of it.
Unemployment is only one of the
evils caused by what statisticians
call population pressure. The bread
line is a sad sight, but always the
slums are full of children who suf-
fer slow starvation.
1.-The unWanted children Of today
are the unemployed Of tomorrow"
I can't answer that. I think it's
true.
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MZZZGXSSS
.Td0ANt 5tT|tIe
ANNIVERSARY
.xE9t5
April Is
SAN FRANCISCO FIRE

pAA 40
ON April 1S, 1906, the most
" serious earthquake disaster
that has occurred in the United
States took place at San Francisco,
when more than 500 persons lost
their lives and property was dam
aged to the extent Of $2o0,00o,00O.
The first shock, felt shortly after
5 a. m, caused such a swaying of
the ground as to wreck buildings
and break gas and water mains. Be-
cause Of the impairment of the
latter, it was impossible TO control
the fires which soon broke out.
The fire ragged in the heart of
the business district for three days
Dynamite and artillery were en-
ployed to destroy buildings to pre-
vent the spreading of the fire and
ships from the navy were sum-
moned to battle the flames from
the water front.
Despite the great number of
deaths there was no great amount
Of privation or suffering. because
relief measures were taken imme-
diately by leading citizens.
In addition. Congress gave prompt
aid and relief funds were subscribed
literally all over the United States
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Diphtheria Can Be Controlled

three had had the NEGOTIATIONS, and
of these three, one did not have
diphtheria, one had received only
two injections and in the other case
less than three months had elapsed
since the injection.
Immunization against diphtheria
is one of the safest methods known
to modern science.
The reactions, when they occur,
are not generally severe. The only
serious accidents that have occurred
have been such as may occur in any
phase of modern life.
Under modern civilized conditions
no one is absolutely safe all the
time.
Today the control over methods
of manufacture of the materials
used is such that the accidents which
formerly occurred are not likely to
occur again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Clouds

THE Lick observatory is plan
L ming to station a number of OBJ
servers with telepscopes and other
suitable apparatus at an observing
station near Camptonville, in Yuba
county, California.
The station will be under charge
Of DR.. j. H. Moore and DR.. D. H
Mcneil, two Of the astronomers.
Because Of the uncertainty Of cal
culating the exact path of the
moons shadow, the instruments will
be stationed at various points in
the hopes that if one is too far north
or south, the others will be within
the eclipse track.
In addition, the astronomers must
cope with the heart pos
sibility of cloudy weather. This al
ways is a possibility which an
eclipse expedition must face.
Expeditions have travelled thou
sands Of miles, spent days setting
up and testing their apparatus, only
to find clouds in front of the sun at
the moment of the eclipse.
Eclipses are so important to as
tronomerS because certain data is to
be obtained only during an eclipse.
The corona, the great silvery halo
which surround the sun, can be
photographed only during an eclipse,
because of the great glare of the
suns light. However, it becomes
visible when the disc of the moon
cuts off the direct rays Of the sun.
There are other features of the
sun also which can be studied only
at the moment of total eclipse.
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h lli H
Z Daily \
Lenten Devotion
Friday, April Is
OVERCOMING THE WORLD


OVERCOMING THE WORLD
Read John 16:25-33. Memory
Verse: BE Of good cheer. I have
overcome the world" John $3.50
MEDITATION
These words sound strange in
their setting. It looked as if the
world had overcome Jesus. The
existing authorities had denied his
teaching and now they we're about
to deprive him of life. But one
thing they had not done-they had
not overcome his love of God and
his belief in Gods love for men.
For love and faith he was willing
to die. His death SO indicated
Gods love that it has made this
day one of joyous solemnity. The
Grass illumines our hope, shames
our doubts and renews our cour-
age. Jesus living faith and faith
full life have made the cross a sign
by which men have conquered and
have overcome the world.
PRAYER
Lord. teach us to overcome. Make
us steadfast and immovable serv-
ants of Him whom we this day
commemorate. May His faith re-
side in us and the spirit which led
Him to the cross descend upon US
and fill our hearts with love of God
and men. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
A Goal Reached

OBVIOUSLY it would not be pos
" sible for this department to
conduct a permanent amateur en-
ployment agency. We had just two
objects in view in getting up the
Give a Job Till June campaign. The
most important was to call atten-
ton to the fact that unemployment
existed.
It seemed to us that too many
people were ignoring or understress-
ing the condition. We also wanted
to show that even a hastily as
sembled organization could achieve
tangible results, even though they
might be no more than temporary.
If this could be done in one COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Same Old Choice

TINE alternative we face glitters
J. with gold, rather than ar1nor, Is
heralded by the roar of machinery,
instead of blaring trumpets, runs
to office buildings rather than tenn
pies. and is led by frock-coated mill
lionaires, instead of royal breed.
But it is the same old alternative,
tempting us with the prospect OF
greater security through organiza-
ton on the one hand, and challeng-
ing us to be satisfied with less for
the sake of freedom on the other.
The alternative Is not changed
by the newer doctrines of Socialism
or Communism, because the tyranny
of organized, disciplined activities
reacts on human beings in exactly
the same way, whether it Is i'm
posed by king, board Of directors
or a Soviet.
The fundamental question is, and
always has been, how much we can
stand, without losing that feeling Of
personal identity which does so
much to make life seem worth
living.
No race, civilization, no commu-
nifty has been able to strike the
happy medium.
All have drifted from one ex-
IRENE to another, enjoying a brief
moment of pride and prosperity be-
fore they went too far in one d.
rection or the other.
Human history, whether from a
social, religious, political or eco
nomic standpoint, is little more than
a continuous parade Of synthetic
movements, tnterspersed with Pc
RODS Of decentralization.
First, people find a throne, an
enterprise, or faith around which
to rally; then they overorganize in
its behalf, and then they revolt
against the tyranny it involves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Seconds
plans can Tor use

DRESENT plans call for use Of an
4 airplane at height of ont less
than 10000 feet, over Napa Valley,
between Napa and st. Helena. A
second airplane may be used to
carry the motion picture camera
while the first devotes itself entirely
to scientific observations.
In statement of plans, Dr.
Campbell says:
Purpose of the airplane plan is
to carry the observer well above
the highest clouds which might be
in the way of eclipse observers
located on the earth's surface.
1.-THE total phase of the solar
eclipse viii not last more than one
or two seconds.
THE shadow of the moon on the
earth surface will be not more
than one-half or f1ve-eighths mile
in width, and for the observer to
locate his observing station where
the shadow of the moon in its rapid
northeastern travel will pass directly
over him and give him the second
VI GWO VI OOUeIllCy Will We O1I11CulG,
and it is quite likely that the slight
uncertainties in our knowledge of
the precise position Of the moon will
leave many intending observers a
little too far north or a little too
far south to have the shadow pass
over them.
1.-THE sky will not be very dark at
the instnt of totality, because the
moon will succeed in just a little
more than covering the suns image.
81 should guess that the observers
who are fortunate enough to find
themselves for a second or two in
the shadow of the moon could read
fine newspaper print about as easily
in the open air as they would a
minute or two before sunset on a
clear day.
This estimate, however, is very
uncertain, but there will be no
difficulty whatever in reading
ordinary newspaper print at the
time and place of totality."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
The Accusation
ct have noticed" writes Biddy

Il have noticed" writes Biddy,
4 that many of the communi-
cations which make their way into
your columns either criticise or
abuse its editor.
80 I'll start out boldly by telling
you that think you might have
done more for the unemployed,
present and future. if you had writ
ten one column on the subject of
birth control.
Certain fundamental causes of
unemployment are charted. There
seems to be more immediate chance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
RY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
ID 4 DASs 4FAOAV1NAIJ = ANI N"1IN37<~E
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

a S time goes on it is being real
IA lied that where diphtheria
prevention by the use Of toXin-anti-
toxin is carried out on a large scale
diphtheria can be controlled. In
New York millions of NEGOTIATIONS
have been made and the slogan to-
day is mo more diphtheria after
1881"
The great campaign carried out
jointly by the health department. Of
the City of New York and the
physicians has resulted in inocula-
lions on a scale never previously
secured.
At least $4,000 NEGOTIATIONS were
made by physicians during 1929,
and hundreds of thousands were
made by the health department for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

police these corporate thugs intrusted with great
states authority and paid by private corporations,
have committed many foul deeds too horrible to men
ton Indeed some of the atrocities of wartime seem
merciful by comparison"
Nor is the political situation any better
Il make charge when say that the great
financial industrial railroad and commercial interests
own the political organizations in Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, and these machines dominate the lives
Of people, control corrupt elections and in short
make mockery of the representative system of gov
eminent.
Thus it is clear to me that the average Pennsyl-
vanian despite his constitutional right to the 80 Ct
has much voice in the naming of his officials and
framing of policies did vaSsal of the Dark Ages
Admittedly, Senator Nyes statement is a partisan
Indictment But there is enough truth in it which
Is beyond the range Of possible contradiction to
as a cogent reminder to Uncle Joe" Grundy that
there is no place like home.
He should have remembered his own glass roof
before he tossed his cobblestoneS into the camp of the
servants of the backward" states
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

THE American Telephone and
- Telegraph Company issues new
stock to the amount Of $235 ,000, 900.
and making it the greatest corpora
ton on earth.
General Electric and Westing-
house buy out the Radio Corpora
ton Of America, which causes Sem
ator Dill to charge that Owen D.
Young plans the establishment of
a worldwide monopoly.
The way some Of our major en-
terpriseS are growing and merging
Staggers the mind.
There are Industrial establish
ments in this country with bigger
forces on their pay roll than that
which Caesar conquered Gaul;
there are banks with more ready
cash at their command than some
of the great empires Of antiquity:
there are corporations employing
ten times as many clerks as it took
to run the government in WASH
ington's time.
To measurable extent, the en-
gineer has taken the place of the
warrior, and the capitalist that of
the statesman.
Norman Thomas thinks that we
will arrive at chaos or Utopia with
in two generations.
Maybe SO, but the chances are
that half a century hence will find
us houndering down the middle Of
the road, just as we have been since
the dawn of consciousness, with our
nobleSt ideals and worst fears still
Unrealized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

ideals and opinions expressed
n this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
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ALWAYS Danger

TROM an industrial standpoint
II we are dealing with organizations
of new and StupendouS form, but
essentially they are little different
in their effect on the human mind
and human fate from those of a
military, social and religious char
acter, which have dominated affairs
at one time or another.
There is danger in organization
per Sc, and there always has been.
The primary object of every syS-
tenn is to preserve itself, and the
bigger it becomes the more ruth
less it grows in doing so. The ma
chine age involves no greater de-
gree of monotony for the laborer
than did the caste system of old
Egypt or ancient India.
Fundamentally, we are dealing
with the same old problem of how
much organization to tolerate for
the sake of social progress and how
much personal liberty to retain for
the sake of individual initiative.
People have stood at that cross
roads on innumerable occasions,
sometimes risking chaos for the
sake of having their own way, some
times surrenoering their liberty in
the hope that they were about to
enter the Promised Land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Daily Thought

Therefore have poured out
mine indignation upon them;
have consumed them with the fire
of my wrath; thei' own way have
1 recompensed upon their heads,
saith the Lord God.-Ezekiel
22:31.
Anger ventilated often hurries
toward forgiveness; anger concealed
often hardens into revenge.-Bul-
How many stores has the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company?
More than $4,000.
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SAYS:

To Measurable Extent, the
Engineer Has Taken the
Place of the Warrior and
the Capitalist That of the
Statesman.
The Washington times., 1930-12-02
MALE AND FEMALE

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