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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

by the end of the ninth month and
to walk by the end Of the first year
A normal, infant can recognize its
mother around the third or fourth
month and begin to understand
words at the end of the tenth
month. 1t will try to speak few
words at the end Of the first year
There is, however, a great deal of
difference among infants as to the
time when they begin to speak and
as to the time. when they begin to
put words together in order to make
phrases in short sentences. Usually
the infant can make a short SEN
tence by the end of two years.
If the nutrition of the child Is
poor, it certainly will not progress
as rapidly physically or mentally as
one that is fed properly and that
absorbs the food that is given to it.
Thus a child 8 years old that
has not been fed properly and that
suffers from ricketts, may be unable
to talk, toswalk, or even sit up alone.
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The average person may believe
that the child is defective mentally,
whereas the only difficulty may be
the fact that it has not been fed
properly or that it has failed to abb
Sorb the food that is given to it.
Just as soon as such children are
given proper amounts of proteinS,
carbohydrates and fats; as soon as
they receive the mineral salts neces-
Sary for proper building of blood
and Of bones; as soon as their vita
min deficiencies are supplied
through the giving of cod liver oil,
orange juice, liver and sufficient
amounts of such vegetables as let
tuce, spinach, cabbage, string beans
and similar substances, they begin
to show rapid development of the
muscles, fat develops under the
skin, and -ordinateIy the mind
shows improvement, which is proof
of the fact that there has been no
actual mental. deficiency, but only
delay because of improper nutrition.
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Action Is Vital

THE essence of the situation
Il consists in the fact that i'm
mediate and effective relief must
come from the states, cities or
voluntary agencies.
Maybe it's better so. Whether it
is Or not, that's the way it will
come.
Undoubtedly congress will adopt
certain routine measures, but as a
general proposition they will be
sufficiently colorless, and, conse-
quently, sufficiently Intellectual, to
provide ground for disagreement.
Those who are concerned over
unemployment, hunger, and all the
other distress incident to a bust
ness slump only would be fooling
themselves to look for heroic action
at Washington.
The chances are that we shall
hear great deal about the sorry
conditions in which We find our
selves, about what might have been
done last year, and what ought to
be done next year, but 80 per cent
of it will be in the nature of political
propaganda.
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Young Americas Heroes

Light on the education of American youth is sup
piled in test recently conducted in California. Pro-
lessor L. A. Williams of the University of California
had the teachers Of six California junior and high
schools ask their students boys and girls from the
seventh to twelfth grades, what and women of
past and present they considered the twenty five
greatest world leaders
The twenty-five most often named of the 1913 in
the list were: Lincoln, 2217; Washington, 2,213
Luther Burbank 1,642 Edison 1641; Columbus,
146O; Roosevelt 1898; Woodrow Wilson, 1910; Ford,
101O; Pershing, 948 Franklin 922; Calvin Coolidge,
1877; Grant, IT'S; Longfelow 1854; Napoleon, 739; Rob
ert Fulton, 6SS; Alexander Graham Bell, 676 Caesar,
673; Robert E. Lee, 613; Eli Whitney, SGT; Thomas
Jefferson, $40; Marconi, 546; Rockefeller, 444 Pad
erewski 4O7 Wright brothers, 376.
Note that Coolidge outranks Shakespeare, Per
shing outstrips Napoleon and Grant beats Caesar No
tice that woman, not great religious prophet,
only one major poet, appears in the list
The second twenty-five chosen in order Of their
ranks were: Joan of Arc, Caruso, Warren G. Hard
ing, Samuel F. B. Morse, Foch Daniel Boone Helen
Keller Helen Wills, Betsy Ross. Mussoini, Andrew
Jackson, Magellan, Florence Nightingale, Balboa Mon
roe, Dickens, Carnegie, Hamilton Amundsen Pas
teur Sir Walter Scott, John Mccormack Paul Re
vere Cyrus w. Field Whittier
Among those not in the first fifty one finds queer
hodge podge. Alexander the Great, ma" Ferguson,
Jack Dempsey and John Paul Jones rank Nos. 81, ST.
SO and 81 Irving Berlin and Chopin are tied.
Luther Burbank got 1,643 votes to Einsteins 80
Cyrus Mccormick got twice as many votes as Milli-
kan. Mark Twain beat Tennyson, Jack London ran
far ahead of Homer, Zane Grey outdistanced Plu-
tarch, Booth Harrington led Dante
And Aimee semple Mcpherson was named as
many times st. Peter, st. Paul, Abraham,
John the Baptist Joseph, Jacob, Isaiah and Ruth
combined
Some of the reasons given were equally perpex-
ing. Paul Revere was "one of the four horsemen";
Jefferson grated in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence" Susan B. Anthony stopped prohibition" Eli
Whitney invented cotton; Drake discovered San
Francisco"
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Idea Itself

ONE of the most successful
~ American comedies which I
ever have seen was built around no
idea at all. At least, no more than
this. "A young man falls in love
with girl, and she says that she
VIII marry him if he will move to a
slightly larger city, because she
doesn't like the little town in which
they both live.
Between the first and second acts
they do get married, and in the sec
ond act it is shown that things are
not going so well with them. In
the third act they become recon-
ciIed."
I do not believe that any producer
would leap to his feet and toss his
hat in the air if a PLAYWRIGHT
brought him that summary as the
basis for a smashingly successful
comedy. Just the same, 1t happens
to be an accurate outline of the plot
OF Frank Craven's 1.-THE First Year"
It seems to me that an idea
should have about the same status
as a creased pig.
Copyright 1880. by The Times)
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AN<A AOOA Lands

OUR speedy recognition of the new government of
OBrazil caused much happiness among the people
Of that country, but the Russians who have vainlv
asked for recognition for years. probably INDUCED in
a different kind of expression.
Bandits held up the Yellow Cab Office in Chicago
and got away with $4,000
inns is just about the total Of the extra fares the
Yellow Cab Company gets every day from passengers
who are held up by Chicago traffic
Thegovernmenti at Washington continues to tell
military secrets its last contribution to asininty be-
ing its disclosure Of its intention to establish force
OF faS tanks to assist the infantry.
navy.
WE don't believe Tom Hefin will get very far
" with his demand for senatorial investigation
OF the recent election in which he was defeated by
John H. Bankhead for the latters ma jorty was too
big, but it would be novelty to have Senator Nye's
committee investigate somebody besides Republican
The Indiana League of Women Voters will work
for constitutional amendment providing for the
election of judges nonpartisan ticket but this
does not promise much Improvement
What We need is a simpihcaton of judicial
procedure.
IF Senator Brookhart wishes to stay in office he
should watch his step, for if he follows his threat
TO join the Democrats the organization of the SEN
ate he will return to private life
Senator Norris able to leave his party and get
away with it, but few can do it and survive.
The other day DR.. c. Stephenson began his fifth
year in the northern prison. and from indications he
will not only observe his wooden anniversary behnds
bars. but many others as well.
II was not only patriotism. but good politics for
the Democratic leaders to announce that they would
loi nhands with the Republicans t. help Uncle Sam
out Of the mire.
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ASA GRAY'S BIRTH
November Is

ON Nov. 10, 1910, Asa Gray, the
~ foremost botanist of America
during his period, was born at Paris,
N. Y.
After graduation in medicine at
Fairfield college, Gray became cur
ator of the New York Lyceum Of
Natural History. This began his
career as a professional botanist.
In 1888 he received his first def
mite position as botanist, when he
was appointed professor Of natural
history at University Of Michigan.
Following a leave Of absence, dur
ing which he made an intensive
study Of American flora, Gray was
appointed natural history professor
at Harvard, where he afterWard
made his great reputation, and
helped that institution become the
American center of botanical in
struction. In 1848 he issued his
famous Manual.
Said to rank among the leading
botanists not only of America, but
of the age, Gray was elected to the
American Hall Of Fame in 1900, only
twelve years after his death.
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NJ. E. Tracy
~:

Immediate and Effective Job
Relief Must Come From
States, Cities or Voluntary
Agencies.
WE did not hold an election for
w nothing two weeks ago.
though some people seem to have
thought so.
Senator SDaoot still is Senator
Smoot and Senator Borah still is
Senator Borah, to illustrate the sit
uation with only two outstanding
examples.
Public opinion changed. but the
opinion of political leaders did not.
The old guard, the Progressives
and the Democrats believe exactly
as they did Nov. 3.
In spite Of continued depression,
in spite of the hard winter with
which we are threatened, in spite
of the obvious need of quick, effec-
tive measures, and in spite of that
1AA1S SCoCO4C 4OI CO-OpSIdClO1 maze
by the Seven Sages," the old lines
will be established soon after con-
gress assemblies, with the Democrats
little stronger, the Progressives a
little cocker and the old guard
little more desperate.
But this is worth jotting down in
your memory: The Democrats are
not in such need of Progressive
help as they have been during the
last two years.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HEEE yg929
DECISION handed down this

a DECISION handed down this
II week has done much to revive
my waning faith in judges and their
wisdom. I refer to the unanimous
opinion by which Learned Hand,
Thomas w. Swan, and Augustus
Hand unanimously decided that the
author OF "Abie'S Irish Rose" could
not recover from the authors of
'The Cohens and the Kellys."
have not been sympathetic with
more than one in every thousand
suits for plagiarism. I readily will
admit that Anne Nichols undou1s-
edly brought the recent action in
all good faith.
But the looseness of the law and
the folly of many decisions have
encouraged shoddy and sometimes
erratic playwrights to plague the
author of every stage success.
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ.

Outstanding Work Of Rear
Admiral Watson Taylor
in Engineering to Be Re-
1Cdrded.
THE highest honor within tha
Il ranks Of American engineering.
the John Fritz gold medal, has been
awarded for 1891 to Rear Admiral
David Watson Taylor
He has been given it, according To
official announcement of the John
Fritz Medal Board of Reward, "for
outstanding achievement in marine
architecture, for revolutionary re-
suits of persistent research in hull
design, for improvement in many
types Of warships, and for dis
tinguished service as chief con-
Structor of the United States navy
during the World war.
The board of award consists OF
four representatives of each of the
four big American engineering So
cieties. the civil, the mining and
metallurgical, the mechanical and
the electrical
Recent recipients of the medal in
clude Ralph Modjeski, famous de-
signer and builder Of big bridges:
President Herbert Hoover. John j.
Carly Of the American Telephone g.
Telegraph Co, who had charge Of
Uncle Sans telephone lines in
France during the war; and Am
broSe Swasey, builder of big
telescopes and founder Of the
Engineering Foundation.
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Literary Fences

A ND now the United States court
IA of appeals has put distinct and
wholly reasonable limits upon the
establishment and monopoly around
an idea. This is a very necessary
decision if either literature or
drama is to survive and flourish.
If property rights can be estab-
lished in a mere idea, then there
would be only one Romeo and
Juliet" and never any other.
It is nonsense to permit any
creative artist to stake out a claim
around an idea or formula. In
all truth, the so-called idea may be,
and often is, less than nothing.
It is the mood and treatment
which make for high achievement
or plain rubbish. Surely it would
be a pity to say that some hack
may seize upon what is called a
new twist" and, having marred
the notion, still insist that no other
shall attempt to improve or refine it.
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Learned Jurist

A T the moment am plagiarizing
IA from the decision written by
Judge Learned Hand, who said:
eff Twelfth Night" was copy
righted it is quite possible that
a second conner might so closely
initiate Sir Toby Belch or Malvolio
as to infringe, but it would not be
enough that for one Of the charac-
tiers he cast .riotous knight, who
kept wassail to the discomfort of
the household or a vain, foppish
steward who became amorous of his
mistress.
"These would be no more than
Shakespeare's ideas in the play, as
little capable of monopoly as Elm
STEMS doctrine of relatively or OAR
wins theory of the mutation of
species.
1T follows that the less the char
acters are developed the less can
they be copyrighted. That is the
penalty the author pays for making
them too indistinctly."
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They Keep Their Views

MO matter how generously SEN
IN ator Smoot may weep, he will
contend that, instead of being 700
high, the existing tariff is too low.
No matter how sincerely opposed
to a filibuster Senator Borah may
be, he will argue that debentures
are what the farmer needs.
The anti-power group will demand
action on Muscle Shoals, the anti
prohibition group will call for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment, and
the nti-administration crowd.
which includes them all, will be able
to organize a commanding majority.
AS to the three or four million
people who are looking for work,
and many of whom are obliged to
get their daily rations through
breadlineS Or soup kitchens, they
might as well make up their minds
to be satisfied with such comfort as
they can extract from words OF SYM
pathy.
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Theories Won't HELM

XXTELL, we might as well dismiss
w that as water gone by the
mill, but we can not afford to dis
miss it as suggestive of the kind of
water that still is going by.
What our millions of jobless need
right now is not theories as how
such situation can be prevented
in the future, but opportunities that
can be translated into meat and
drink.
Twelve years ago our government
found it possible to raise $30,OOO,-
100000 within a comparatively short
time. One-tenth of that amount, if
made available for such public work
ss the federal government is ready
to carry on, or for loans to cities
and states, would go far toward
rectifying the situation.
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money for babies. Their pay envelope long since
has become a necessary part of the family budget
These women workers have become dependent
upon industry, and industry has become dependent
upon them You may like that process, or you may
not That makes no difference. ANY sudden attempt
to interfere with that process means disocation of
industry means suffering for millions of families
There should be steady jobs for all who have to
work and who want work, whether men or women
In this period Of insufficient work, must go
without SO the emergency requires apportioning of
Jobs Many women, as many men, will suffer.
But surely the division of work can be made on
more careful and intelligent basis than the proposed
discrimination against women
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine,


TINE mental progress of the child
L and its muscular development
proceed normally at such rate that
the infant is able to hold its head
up at about the third month.
Abou the same time he can begin
to grasp objects, but not to co-ordi-
nate accurately. Thus he sometimes
will put in his eye that which he
aims at his mouth.
BY the age of six months he can
reach for objects and begins to
guess properly at distances. BY
the seventh month the normal in
FAINT can sit alone. 1t can not sit
steadily until the eighth or ninth
month.
The average infant tries to creep
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A Coincidence

ONCE this was written by a dis
- tinguished jurist, I assume that
it is good law, and by strange
coincidence it happens also to be
sound common sense.
AS a former dramatic critic 1
often have been assailed by ac-
quaintances and semi-perfect
strangers saying: I'D like to have
a couple of hours of your time-Tve
got a swell idea for play"
In such cabs it generally has been
my custom "a lie and pretend that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18
Why are a widows mourning gar
ments called widows weeds?p

A weed is defined as a garment
of any sort, especially an outer gar
ment; hence, garments in general,
especially the whole costume worn
at any one time; commonly used in
the plural, and chiefly in the phrase
widows weeds" the mourning dress
of a widow.
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at some time I would be charmed to
sit and listen to an outline Of the
plot. If I were Drawer and more
honest I would say to any one who
came around with "a good idea for
a play: well, what of it? There
must be several million good ideas
for plays and novels and short
stories. But a good idea isn't a
play or anything like it.
GO home and write your play,
and then show it to somebody else.
I'm no expert. Even if I read it, I
probably wouldn't know whether it
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was good, or not, and if I did, there
wouldn't be anything I could do
about it."
There is a popular notion that a
play may come as a sudden flash of
inspiration, like a successful pun.
Few realize the detail, the rigors of
construction and of development.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard 10 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

The economist who declared that cotton buyers
need confidence ntmates of course that they should
keep the boil rolling.
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Many patient doesn't realize how much dentist
really can bore until he starts conversation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

The New York schools to teach correct pos
ture by moving pictures. 1t seems the pupils will
just have to stand for this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

News that Texas man was arrested for murder
committed in 1883 is heartenng to New Workers They
may yet find a solution to the Rothsten case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

AS between the girls and the humor in current
comedies, we'd say miss was as good as smile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-18

May the expression, burning the candle at
both ends, was meant to apply to the fellow who al
ways is lighted up
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Time was when young spent his time burn
ing the midnight oil; now he usually squanders it on
another flame.
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Thieves, says news item stole hot stove in Ham
mond Ind. Probably they're mischievous fellows from
Chcago's Cook county
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Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-Quite a bit is being
said about how to relieve unemploy-
ment. think you struck keynote
when you said that public ownership
probably would be the better way.
One Of Arthur Woods aids, Just
few days ago, lady whose name
I can't recall, said that home own
ers and housewives should at once
have that long contemplated job
done$
She named several things, such
as laying that new floor and re-
pairing the furniture" She didn't
mention taking the old, dead trees
down from their lawns, and streets.
Of course she couldn't mention
everything.
Well, an idea struck me. I am
out of work, cut CT money and out
of fuel. perhaps can get job,
grubbing some trees, make a little
money and get some fuel. So I
started out. have driven two half
days, have seen scores of dead trees,
and old Snags, but they are such
beautiful ornaments that I never
have yet been able to convince any
one that they should pay me some
thing to take them down.
A few people have opened up their
hearts and told me I could take
them down provided I would grub
them out and remove all litter, for
the wood. Which means, do SIS
worth Of work for 81 worth of wood.
Now of course that would relieve
unemployment all right, but I am
sure life would be considerably
harder.
I sometimes wonder if all this
relief talk amounts to anything
worth while.
We have a hand-to-mouth system
at the best. and just now charity
must drop a crumb INTO the hand
so there will be something to put
into the mouth.
How long, o Lord, how long.
w 2
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SERVICE
Nutrition Determines Child's Advance

This is the fifth of series of unusual
articles on child nutrition and habits of
children.
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622 Lexington avenue.

Editor Times-In a recent copy
of The Times I read of a married
woman telling US poor people that
the working people of our good town
are willing to help those Of us out
of work, and that the average wage
a man makes is $50 week. I am a
married man with four in the fam
lily, and I'll thank any one to pay
me $40 a week SO can live like
an American citizen. w. w. G.
Editor Times-If there is any one
in or great city who has any
authority or is capable Of settling
the affairs OF our banks which are
in trouble. you would confer great
favor to the thousands Of depos-
itors whose money is all tied up.
while some one is being appointed
to see who can run mp the biggest
bill for services ren bred.
ONE OF MANY.
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Daily Thought

Be not wise in your own con-
ceits.-Romans 1916.
1t Is the admirer of himself, and
not the admireri of virtue, that
thinks himself superior to others.
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OUR speedy recognition of the new government of
OBrazil caused much happiness among the people
OF that country, but the Russians who have vainly
asked Tor recognition for years. probably INDUCED in