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The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
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ROBERT BRuCEs BIRTH

July IL
0N July II, 1874, Robert Bruce,
~ liberator of scotland and king
of the country for twenty-three
years, was born in Scotland.
A competitor for the throne,
Bruce played politics with both
English and Scotch. First he swore
fealty to Edward |, and then aban-
doned him to join the Scottish lead
ers in arms for the independence of
their country.
On making up with the English
monarch again, Bruce who made
one of the four regents who ruled
the kingdom.
He stabbed to death his chief
rival, John Comy1l. in a quarrel in
1906, after which he hastened to a
castle, assembled his vassals and
proclaimed his right to the throne.
That same year he was crowned at
Scone.
This was the signal for the En-
glish to act against him. When
large army invaded Scotland,
Bruce fed to Ireland, only to re-
turn to meet them.
On June "a, 1914, Bruce led the
Scottish forces IN the memorable
battle of Bannonckhurn. Command
ing but 10000 men, the Scotch
routed an English force Of more
than 100000 to WIN the battle and
independence for Scotland.
After this, Bruce's right to the
crown was acknowledged.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

lsl1preme court of California has
betrayed the entire spirit of justice.
1t has advanced the rank hereSy
upon which lynching flourishes.
Leaders of mobs often realize
after the event, that they may have
made a mistake as to the individual
in dealing out summary execution
and their excuse has always been,
"Well, maybe we didn't get the right
man, but at least we got bad one" ."
And this is the doctrine to which
the supreme court of California
gives approval by it's decision. More
over, one other pertinent question
remains to be asked. Bad for whom?
In consigning California to the
low estate of Massachusetts, and
Alabama, it is well not to lose sight
of the fact that the judicial pro-
Icesses of New York also are under a
cloud.
No intelligent person can reason
ably contend that the sentences I'M
posed upon Minor and Foster, Com
munists, are in line with the pun
ishments usually meted out to those
who try to parade when the police
say mo"
I have said one certain true thing
in the past and as far as I can see
it is necessary to keep on repeating
it. 1 do not want to see the Com
munist r&rty in America grow in
numbers and power.
1t is not numerous now and it is
not powerful. It's leadership is not
intelligent, but it is receiving valu-
able aid from fatheaded American
conservatives. The only immediate
hope of American Communists lies
in receiving cruel, unfair and un-
usual penalties at the hands Of the
courts.
Copyright. 1890. BY The Tinesl
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

Alaska was enacted by the Sixty
fourth congress and went into ef-
feet Jan l, 1913. The voters Of
Alaska were given an opportunity
to express their sentiments on the
question of territorial prohibition in
the November election of 1916, and
large majority voted for it.
Can an ordinary four-tube bat
terry radio set be used in automo-
bileS?
For the reception of local sta
tions the set would operate salts
factorily. For distant reception a
highly sensitive screen grid re-
ceiver is necessary on account OF the
limited antenna possible to use. APP
proximately forty feet of insulated
wire strung back and forth across
the top Of the car, inside, can be
used for the antenna. The ground
post of the set is connected with
the frame of the car. Separate bat
teries are best for the auto radio.
Is there a white blackberry!
There is variety Of fruit known
by that name.
What countries compose the
United Kingdom?
England, Scotland, Wales, north
ern Ireland. Isle Of sian and Chan,
nel Islands.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-


Enlargement of U. S. Ma
tional Museum VIII Be
Great Boon to Science.
DASSAGE by congress of the
i Smoot- Elliott bill, authorizing
an appropriation of S6,500,000 for
the enlargement of the United
States national museum, is the best
news the scientific world has heard
in long time.
1t means not only an enlarge
ment of the museum itself, but a
vast enlargement of the sphere of
activity and usefulness of the
Smithsonian institution, which ad-
ministers the museum.
1t means that Washington is COM
ing nto its own as the scientific as
we'll as the political capital of the
United States.
At present, more than a million
visitors troop through the halls Of
the United States national museum
to see the scientific exhibits on dis
play there. The new museum build
ings will make it possible to put
larger and finer exhibits on display.
But the chief value of scientific
collections is not their exhibition
value. Only a small part of any
given collection is ever on display.
Their chief worth is as research
material in the hands of scientists.
The Smithsonian institute has a
staff of ninety scientists, all of them
known throughout the world. These
men are constantly at work upon
collections of the museum.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
Questions and AnSzge7cS

Were Negro slaves taxed as per-
sOnal property in the United States?
In some of the colonies, prior to
the formation of the union, Negro
slaves were taxed as property.
There was also an import duty on
slaves brought from Africa. The
constitutional convention put a
limitation of the tax on slaves i'm
ported up to 1903, Of a maximum
Of $40 for each one. Each state
had its own slave code, and laws
differed. In 1705, it was enacted in
Virginia that a slave might be in
ventoried as real estate. This law
held until 1901.
When did Dwight F. Davis assume
office of governor general of the
Philippine islands?
July 8, 1929.
Where is the city of Maracaibo?
1t is in Venezuela, South America,
capital of the state Of Zulia, on the
west shore of the strait connecting
Lake Maracaibo with the sea. It is
the principal seaport of Venezuela,
has a deep harbor and many fine
buildings.
When was the prohibition law for
Alaska enacted? Did inhabitants Of
the territory vote on the question:
The laws prohibiting manufacture
and sale OF alcoholic beverages r.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
It's a Dream

IEOR the moment, it seems as
Il though religion had lost its hold,
that home life had passed out of
the picture, that free love and world
peace we're just around the corner,
that motion and speed had become
the big factors in existence, that
SCIENCE had solved most of the prob
lens which bothered men, and that
our immediate task was to chart the
course of civilization.
The dream is intriguing until one
remembers what a man like Gandhi
can do, or a man like Lenin, or
man like Mussolini.
Originality, as expressed in archi-
lecture, engineering, and machinery.
appears orderly and scientific. But
the same thing hardly can be said
TO: it in the form of new cults,
faiths, and fads.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the

Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN the section on medicine at the
Il recent meeting of the American
Medical Association in Detroit, spe-
cial attention was given to the man
ner in which the diet is used for
prevention and control of human
disease.
1t was concerned with the in
creasing Importance of the vitamins
and the application of our newer
knowledge Of nutrition to the ex-
pectant mother and the growing
child, which may benefit the evolu-
ton of the race.
On the other hand, intemperate
diets and abstinence from necessary
foods for the prevention of obesity
may result in serious conditions and
affect longevity
Dietary cultists preach all sorts of
strange notions without any basis in
scientific fact.
Tests have been developed where
by it is possible to tell well in ad-
vance whether or not woman is
going to bear a child. Such tests
concern an examination Of the
blood, of the excretions, and of the
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

TAMES SMITHSON, who endowed
J the Smithsonian Institution,
died in 1929. But in his outlook
upon scientific research he belonged
in the year 1880.
mo ignorance is without loss to
man, no error without evil" he gave
as one of his reasons FOR endowing
the institution.
A sample Of the activities of the
Smithsonian in recent years will
prove the worth of his contention.
Among the collections of the mu-
scum is one of sea-bottom n1uds.
Thousands of samples are on hand.
Twenty-Five years ago, Joseph
Cushman, a specialist at the mu-
scum, receiving incidentally gov
ernment compensation of $500 a
year at the time, described and
named the microscopic shells of ami
mails called foraminifera, which
these muds contained.
No doubt many business men
would have smiled at the work, had
they known about Cushman study
ing the shells Of microscopic animals
in sea- bottom n:uds.
Ten years ago, oil companies dis
covered that fossil shells of these
same foraminifera occurred in rock
layers in the oil fields and that they
could be used as / means of finding
oil provided that any one was able
to identify the foraminifera.
Cushman's publications contained
the very information that the oil
companies wanted. They became
worth millions of dollars to the oil
industry for they were the means of
locating millions Of dollars worth of
oil.
The sea-bottom muds proved
Smithson's statement.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
SnithSon

TT was almost a century ago that
: Il an Englishman, James Smith
son, offered the congress of the
then youthful United States an en-
doWment for the establishment of
an institution at Washington for
increase and diffusion Of knowl-
edge"
For ten years congress debated
what to do with the endowment and
finally organized the Smithsonian
Institution, with a charter which
lodged any statement of what the
chief activity of the institution was
to be.
The charter did order the insti-
tuition to erect a building for the
reception and exhibition of "all OBJ
iects of art and of foreign and
curious research" The building
was also to house objects of nat
ural history belonging to the United
States
Thus the Smithsonian Institution
was forced into the business of ad-
miniSGering museums.
Eut Joseph Henry and Spencer F.
Baird, the first secretary and as
sistant secretary, respectively, of the
Smithsonian, possessed a wider
vision. They embarked the Smith
sonian upon career of scientific
research and made the museum
serve its rightful purpose as a
great research center as well as a
show place.
Henry and Baird systematized the
collecting of plans, minerals, ami
mails and chronological materials.
But instead of burying these ma
terials on museum shelves they
called in the worlds greatest SCI
entists to study them.
Congress was slow to come to the
aid of the Smithsonian at first and
the institution had hard struggle
with meager funds. 1t was not un-
til 1870 that congress made an ap-
preparation fol- the museum.
The present museum building was
built in 1907.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
Men Still Trust

NEEN still have ears for a voice
1V1 that cries in the wilderness,
and passionate trust in what they
think they hear.
The tomb in Moscow's Red square
is just another shrine, and the be-
lief that the clock can be set back
thousand years causes India's
soul to tingle with patriotism.
Human existence, whether con-
sidered from a personal or collec-
tive standpoint, still is a compromise
between impulse and intelligence,
between what we feel and what we
know, between that which is
planned deliberately and that which
is done, heaven knows why.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
Sense of Values Lost

DUT the senate of the United
ID States prefers to put on a
fishing party for some letters and
cablegrams instead of discussing the
naval treaty which it was called
to consider, and $1,000 arrests were
made in this country by dry agents
last year, while half the murderers
escaped.
One likes to think that human
destiny, especially in the form of
governments and civilized progress,
hinges on a reliable sense of
values. That men do not start
revolution, overturn empires, or
change their social and religious
systems except when there is
something of great moment at
stake.
But would the World war have
broken out when it did if an
Austrian nobleman and his wife
had not been shot by a Serbian
student?
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
M. E. Tracy
In Spite of All the Adding
Machines and 1O0-Ton
Cranes, We StM Are the
Creatures of Desire, Inlag-
ination and Appetite.
SAYS:

IF house needs TO be planned,
i why not a city2 If a city, why
not a country? And If a country,
why not civilization itself?
At any rate, that is the way
Bruce Bliven. editor of the New
Republic, sees it.
In international board of COVER
nors for the management of birth
control, economic organizations,
migratory movements, and educa-
tional projects is his idea of human
ity's next move.
1t is an absolutely logical idea, If
one leaves out the whims and ca
prices of human natures.
AS rational beings. we ought to
deal with problems according to
their Importance, ought to be guided
by what is best for the greatest
number, and not be sidetracked by
trvidlitieS.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
Niagara Claims Another

The fate of the sanguine philosopher who went
over Niagara falls in barrel to die of suffocaton
when the back-wash of the cataract imprisoned him
for longer time than his oxygen supply would last,
is hardly surprising.
This cataract is dangerous thing to monkey
with. You can count the fingers of one hand
the people who have gone over it and lived-three
is the exact total, believe: If man wishes to
risk his neck, there doesn't seem to be any way of
stopping him; still it might be that the police or
each side of the border could find some way of re-
straining these impetuous daredevils
The cards are stacked against the venturer at
Niagara. If his barrel hits the rocks good whack
he is done for, matter how strongly it is built
If it misses, there is a good chance that it will
be held behind the falls until the rider is suocated
There isn't much chance for victory either way.
Let's hope there won't be any more attempts to
carry through this risky senSeless stunt.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

TN fact, the essence of the decision
Il may be boiled down to an opin-
ion that somebody must be pun
ished for the crime, and that Bill
ings will do until the actual culprit
can be found.
I wonder if the judges realize how
much they have done to bring our
legal institutions into disrepute. The
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

IDEALS and opinions expressed
IN this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11
Fruit Of Hatred

THERE can be no question that
l. Mooney and Billings were not
in the good graces of conservative
California when they stood trial for
their lives.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

An American clothier declares that since the Mus
solni regime the of Italy are becoming the best
dressed in the world. And considering the duce's
disposition to speechmaking, they're also the best
addressed
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

Mount Vesuvius has burst into a state OF activ
eruption Here's hoping it'll lava good time.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

Little Bopeep. who easily lost her sheep, must
have had the wool pulled over her eyes.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-11

England, Scotland, Wales, nortIl-
ern Ireland, Isle Of Sian and Chan
nel ISLANDS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
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treatments in thousands of homes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Common sense Help in
Modern Form

Stop bothering with nasty tasting cough mixtures
arSh-aCting cold tablets or old fashioned double
purpose Salves. Just plug the cord into light
socket. In a few moments you have warm. heal
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Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-16
Issued Daily, Except
Sundays. Entered at the
Post office, FL Centre,
Calf, as Second Glass
Matter.

complete a round -the-world hop, or in
the fact that two Illinois brothers stayed
off the ground for more than three
weeks; it lies in the fact that each of
these stunts was performed in second
hand airplane.
The Southern Cross is matter of five
years old-and patched-up affair to
boot. 1t had had long and honorable
record of service before Kingsford- Smith
even started across the Pacific in it. And
the City of Chicago, in which the Hunter
brothers flew to fame and riches, is also
used car" affair. The brothers bought
it after it had flown a good many miles,
and sailed aloft in it as cockily as if it
had Just come from the factory.
These facts are highly significant. One
expects good performance of a new air.
plane; of used plane, one would not eX-
pect so much. The motorist who would
cheerfully start transcontinental trip
in a new automobile would think twice
before trying it in secondhand car that
already had 10000 miles on its speed
ometer; but that is just the sort of thing
each of these flights amounted to.
That is why these flights were signifi-
cant. They spoke volumes for the de-
pendablity of the airplane. The leaders
of the aviation industry ought to stress
the fact
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-16
Another Society
For i. Students

BERKELEY. Calf, July l6. W.p)
Organized atheism appeared today
on the University of California
campus.
Headed by two visiting students,
society has been formed to promul-
gate the conviction that Belief in
the concept of god or divinity is
the simple fruit of ignorance super
stition and fear and "To reject
any kind of authority in the field or
morality.
The foreign organizers who have
been made president and secretary
respectively, are j. Pelseneer, sum
mer student from the University of
Brussels and Harvard. and Duncan
IS. Enrich, of Brown University and
the Sorbonne.
The society, Enrich announced,
has hopes of enduring as campus
organization throughout the regular
term.
1t could not be learned how many
members the society claims or wheth.
er it includes any students from
within the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-16
Divorce Drama
At Fox AirdOine

"The Marriage Playground" an
all talking film, plays onc-day
engagement at the Fox Airdome to-
night. Based on the novel, ''Thc
Childron,' by Edith Wharton, this
production moves along swiftly,
stirring the heart of its beholder TO
continuous emotional response.
Mary Brian and Judith Wheaton
is featured in the leading feminine
role. Co-featured with her as the
Young American who befriends the
Wheaton children is Frederic March.
Huntley Gordon and Lilyan Tash-
man are the renegade parents. The
roles of the young Wheatons are
played by Philippe DeLacy, Billy
,Seay, Ruby Parsley, Little Mitzi,
Anita Louise and Donald Smith, the
latter nine months old baby.
Others in the cast are Kay Francis,
Sena Owen, William Austin, Joce-
lyn Lee, Maude Turner Gordon and
David Newell.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-16
Gas Executive
To Speak Before
Chamber Meeting

Unusually large attendance is ex-
pected at tonight's chamber OF
commerce dinner to hear r. Z. Ait
cheson, vice president of the Inland
Empire Gas Company, who is visit
ing the valley from San Francisco.
Aitcheson will speak ON "The Ro-
nance of Gas" which promises to
be a very interesting subject,
Reservations for the dinner have
been made by 20 persons from
Brawlev and the north end of the
valley who are interested in the
development of gas in Imperial Val
ley and extra accommodations for
the dinner crowd are being prepar-
ed at the Hotel Barbara Worth.
where dinner will be served at $3.50
p. m.
Following the dinner the board
of directors of the chamber will
hold a brief meeting to take uI
business matters which have come
up in the last week and to discuss
some of the projects on which the
! chamber is working at the present
time. One of these projects which
will be discussed is the question of
planning Mexican homes and Sc
| lecting a suitable location for sani-
! tarv houses with reasonable build
ing restrictions and for financing
/ the construction OF such homes. \
number of directors have interested
! themselves in this matter and il
will be carefully discussed tonight
in order that action may soon be
| taken on the matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-16
Council To Hear
Several Protests

Various protests and petitions
will form the major part of the bus
mess to he brought before the city
council at its regular meeting to-
night, according to an announce
ment made by City Clerk John
Neale. this morning, who stated
that the following matters will be
considered by the board.
A petition of Marie \. Perrier
to use lot II, block 29b, Park Ad-
dition for non-conforming use. This
section Of the city is at present
zoned for single residences and the
petitioner wishes to erect duplex
home on the property in question.
\ similar petition will be presented
by 0. O. Lepper to use lot 10, block
16. Third Addition, who wishes to
build a two story, two apartment
residence in a section at present
zoned for single residence.
The board will hear any protests
which may be made by citizens to
the assessments made an Sandal
wood property between Fifth and
Sixth streets, and should none be
forthcoming these assessments will
be approved.
The question of franchise for
the Pacific Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company: of releasing J. B.
Shannon from his lease on the auto
camp grounds and the consideration
of the twenty-first annual report OF
the city library, will also be mat
ters to be brought before the board
tonight.