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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

I Mothers and fathers permit the
children to begin playing outdoors
as soon as they are free from fever,
yet if they continue to cough, the
secretions may contain the re-
sponsible infectious agent.
The disease is, moreover, infec-
tious at an early stage and children
are not put to bed and kept alone
until after they have been infected
for some time.
In this condition and in measles,
particularly, it is important to get
the child to bed as early as possible
and to keep him indoors until a
physician has pronounced it safe for
him to play with other children.
The methods of relief of whoop-
ing cough are numerous. 1t is pos
sible to keep the child quiet by the
use of properly selected drugs.
1t is possibleto make the infected
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Questions and
Answers

What is the difference between
atheism, agnosticism and skepti-
cism?
Atheism is the belief that there is
no God. Agnosticism is the belief
there may be God, but he can not
be known by the human mind.
Skepticism, as SGD in religion sig
nifies a doubt regarding religious
beliefs.
Who wrote the signature piece
for Amos N Andy?
1.-THE Perfect Song" signature OF
Amos n Andy, was composed by
Joseph Carl Breil, with words by
Clarence Lucas.
Where is the RoIIs-Royce auto
mobile made?
In England and also in the United
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Banting HOnOred

A MOTHER Christmas announce
IN ment is that the Council Of
the Royal College Of Surgeons has
conferred the honorary fellowship
of the council upon DR.. Frederick
G.. Banting, the discoverer of in
Sulin.
The council points out that While
the discovery of insulin was entirely
outside the realm of surgery, it has
had important bearing upon the
practice of surgery.
The discovery of insulin, as is
pointed out in connection with the
award to Banting, is the most inn
portant piece of medical research
ever accomplished in Canada.
Banting was born in Canada in
1891 and educated at the University
of Toronto. He served in the Ca
madam army during the World war
and subsequently undertook the
practice of medicine at London,
Ontario.
In May, 1921, he returned to the
University of Toronto to undertake
medlcal research under the dlrec-
ton of Professor j. j. R. Macleod.
formerly of Western Reserve uni
versity of Cleveland. While in
Cleveland, DR.. Macleod had spent
many years working on the insulin
problem.
In 1922 Banting and an assistant
named Best, discovered insulin. In
sulin, used as a treatment for dia-
betes, is a secretion formed by cells
in the pancreas glands known as
the isles of Langerhans.
Diabetes, their research proved,
results from a degeneration of these
isles so that they fail to secrete
insulin. Hence the injection of in
Sulin from another source, enables
the individual who has diabetes to
get along. Insulin is treatment,
not a cure, for the disease.
In 1923 Banting and Macleod
received the Nobel prize in medi-
cine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
The Eighteenth Amendment

The topic of universal conversation Tor the last
twentv-our hours or so has been the decision OF DIS
trict Judge William Clark of New jersey that the
eighteenth amendment is invalid.
The Judge young man federal judges go, be-
ING only &c. has electrified the country with his opm
ion Comments range all the way from the dldacuc
assertion of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler on the one
hand to the didacc assertion of Mrs Carrie chapman
Gait the other:
said he: ut shows the courts are coming TO their
senses. said she: I think Judge Clark must be
far of"
Most comment, however, is more dubious, filled
With ifs and butts Learned lawyers hesitate to COM
NIT themselves completely the fine constitutional
question raised by the court.
But there does appear to be preponderance OF
opinion that regardless of Judge Clarks view, the
eighteenth amendment will remain with us for yet
awhile There are few who anticipate the acceptance
of his opinion by the United States supreme court.
The Judge required $4,000 words or Whereabouts to
express his view 1t probably would call for almost
as many to discuss it successfully Suffice it to say
that it is based on excellent legalistic reasoning the
contention in its being that the eighteenth
amendment could have been ratified properly only by
constitutional convention whereas it ratified by
the state legislatures
However, reasoning just excellent, to our mind,
can be offered to prove that this method of amend
ment-practically the only method used since the
aoption of the CONSTITUENCIES applicable to the
eighteenth as to other amendments.
We have indicated view of the eighteenth
amendment on various occasions we'd like to see it
lifted bodily out of the Constitution We think it has
no place in the government for free people, but
we hope it is removed except by the action of the
free people themselves. Above ALL we hope it is not
to understand.
No matter how much we may detest prohibition,
It was adopted by the orderly processes Of law.
We do not believe that in the light OF our ten
years experience prohibition represents The win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Politics Horns In

DUT let bygones be bygones.
~ Gravel, or no gravel, we got
through on schedule and without
accident, and we're nicely settled
for the night down here in Mis-
sissippi, where cotton is king, where
they can say Il told you SO" when
any one mentions Al Smith, and
where a Governor has played poll
tics with higher education until the
southern conference felt obliged to
suspend the states four colleges.
Probably the people wouldn't feel
SO badly about those colleges but
for football, or about cotton if tie
market were in better shape. They
can postpone the football problem
for another eight months, but they
are right up against that of the
cotton market.
The executive committee of the
Mississippi Bankers Association just
has Endorsed the Garrett plan for
reducing cotton acreage, which
doesn't mean very much until you
know the peculiar method involved,
or the popularity it is gaining among
those who appear to have the
power.
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An Editorial Idea

CHAPIN received the story gra-
~ ciously and attempted no cross
examination, but half an hour later
he beekoned the reporter over to
his desk.
"Shep." he said, 81 think we have
a flrst-page human interest story
here"
What story?" Friedman wanted
to know.
why. the story of the involun-
tary pallbearer,' answered the city
editor. Get his name and all the
details and give me 900 words"
Friedman found the later stages
Of invention much more difficult
than the early ones, but he went
through with the lie. When tie
yarn had been finished he appealed
to the makeup man to keep it out.
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Bookkeeping

A ND there was the reporter who
IN came to work one day before
the regular pay week began.
my check is for only six days
instead of seven" he told the city
editor. eff they don't add it on I'll
never make up for that extra work
I did"
"Thatll be all right" said Chaplin,
'Ill keep it in mind. When fire
you I'D fire you one day early"
Even in prison, Chaplin did not
depart wholly from his anecdotage.
Stories clustered around him during
the trial and after.
There seems to be authorization
for the fable that when he was in
peril of a possible first-degree YER
diet he took occasion to rebuke the
reporters. in court and say, mot
one of you has written a good story
on this case YETI"
The verdict was that Chaplin was
suffering from mental collapse
when he shot his wife, and he re-
ceived q sentence of twenty years.
1t seems likely that the judgment
was just, for in prison his nature
changed entirely.
Still, he had not become all
sweetness and light Immediately. He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Bath After Bath

nNCE, a New Orleans Birming-
~ ham bus passed us at rate
of speed which violated the con-
Stitution by not less than so per
cent, and our nice clean windshield
instantly became an opaque cur
tain of reddish brown. We paid
a colored boy Is cents to restore
daylight and he earned the money.
Twenty minutes afterward, a lit
tie Ford did the same thing, just
to prove that Big Brother had no
mortgage on speed, power, or nude
throwing ability, and we donated
another Is cents for the relief of
unemployment.
Then flYe-ton truck and trail
er gave us double dose, but we
refused to raise the ante. Fifteen
cents was our limit. Even at that
price, this queer gravel should do
a great deal for local business
whenever it rains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

Bankers Haze Nei0 Plan to
Cut Cotton. Acreage; No
Cut by Farmer, Then No
Loan to Farmer.
RuL,lifed Press

ByLJiited Press
MERIDIAN, Miss, Dec. 18.-The
Iva idea of relieving unemploy-
ment through road work appeals to
most people as being splendid. Just
how splendid, they never will know,
until they have travelled from Bir-
mingham, Ala, to Meridian, Miss,
in a dense fog after a three-day
rain.
According to the map, at least
one-half OF the IT'S awful miles
which separate these cities is paved.
Either the map is wrong, or some
of the paving has gone astray, but
let that pass, since that is no mys-
terry at all, compared to the unpaved
stretches
According to the map, these
stretches should be gravel, and may
be they are, but, if, SO, Noah Web
ster was all wrong, not to mention
the great majority of biologists and
engineer.
Gravel commonly is understood to
mean an aggregate of small rocks
which will pack readily and form a
hard surface, either permitting the
water to drain off, or at least stay
on bottom.
This red Alabama gravel has no
such accommodating characteristics.
1t not only mixes with water, but
rises. You don't ride on it; you
float among it, and you are more
likely to float sidewise than in any
other direction, which might be all
right were it not for the constant
possibility of going off high en-
bankments into endless swamps.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BEoGS

retained some trace of the detached
and objective attitude which made
him such a'superb news man.
Only a few summers ago a news
paper woman went to see Warden
Lawes on some matter in behalf of
the League for the Abolition of
Capital Punishment. At the end OF
the conference the warden suggest
ed that she call on Chaplin.
The editor was courteous to the
reporter and wanted to know her
mission. When she told him, his
face clouded. It never heard any,
thing SO silly" he exclaimed. How
do you think we're going to keep
people from killing one another
without capital punishment?"
Copyright. 1880. by The Timesl'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

ID LA VIZ LIE a
More Medals and Other Hon
ors Handed to Scientists
for Achievements.
THE scientific Santa Claus is still
Il busy handing out the Christ
mas season awards for medals and
honors. Recently the awards of the
Nobel prizes and the medals OF the
Royal Society of London we're COM
mented on. Following are some later
awards:
The gold medal of the Radiologi-
cal Society of North America has
been awarded to DR.. r. A. Millikan,
director of the Norman Bridge labo-
ratory of physics of the California
Institute of Technology.
DR.. Millikan is president OF the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science and will de-
liver the opening address when that
organization opens its annual con-
vention in Cleveland on Dec. %.
DR.. Millikan has been awarded
many honors in the past, including
the Nobel prize in physics. He Is
one of three American scientists to
have won that honor. He is known
best as the first scientist to have
isolated the electron and for his
work confirming the existence of the
cosnic rays.
His address at the Cleveland
meeting of the American Associ-
alton for the Advancement of Sci
ence will bear upon his recent re-
searches. The topic will be Atomic
Disintegration and Atomic Synthe-
sis"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
loo Much Cotton

NNE would find it easier to quar-
~ rel with this scheme of arbi-
trarily reducing a major crop by
25 per cent were it not perfectly
apparent that the south has been
producing too much cotton for her
own good, regardless of price, or
depression.
The craze over cotton not only
has led her to spoil a good market,
but to pursue a type of farming
that has helped to breed tenantry
and Indulgence, while it has handi-
capped progress along other and
more profitable lines.
The south needs nothing so bad
ly as Investigation of crops, and
she has been prevented from get
ting it by nothing so definitely as
the cotton complex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Peoples Voice

Editor TilneS-In matters such as
this franchise which is proposed for
the local street railway, let us be
fair in our criticisms. 1t is but logi-
cal that the proponent of a measure
frame it for his own advantage and
according to his own point of view.
This has been done and submitted.
It now is, as was expected, being
picked to pieces. The "other party"
now is at liberty to make such
changes as seem to be wholly adj
vantageous to his viewpoint. When
the clouds clear away, have no
doubt we shall have a just and
equitable franchise, worthy of our
No Mean City, the Crossroads of
America, and dealing fairly with
the group which viii have to bear
the burden of management, bear the
brunt of attack from self-seeking
politicians, criticisms Of press now
hostile, now otherwise, according to
the vacillating nature Of such
media, which reflect the caprice of
their owners, their public, and their
advertisers.
It is not well for us to forget that
the sovereignty of these, United
States rests in the people. AS SOW
ereigns should dictate and not be
dictated to, let us not fail to see
that the dictation, if there is any at
all. shall be in our hands and not IN
Mr.. insults.
Il. A. RENSSELAER,.
What is the origin and meaning
of the name Northcutt?
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SZZZ4ENSS
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|ANN|VER!$ARY|
6S t1
THE SLAVERY AMENDMENT
December Is

ON Dec. 10, 1865, congress passed
" the thirteenth amendment to
the Constitution, abolishing slavery
throughout the Union. 1t was the
first amendment, out of the hun
dreds that had been proposed
which had been adopted in more
than sixty years.
The amendment was the out
come Of President Lincoln's eman-
cipation proclamation which he
issued on the first day of the New
Year, 1863.
The President declared that this
"act of justice" that is, the
liberating of all slaves, was war;
ranted "by the constitution upon
military necessity" He invoked for
it "the considerate Judgment of
mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God"
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1T never happened" he explained.
Naturally, Chaplin had no inten-
ton of printing any such bare-faced
fabrication and he had also issued
his secret orders to the makeup
man. but as each edition of the
paper came up from the composing
room he would roar with indigna-
ton and say: whats become O.
that story of the involuntary pail
bearer? I want that for Page One!"
But when that day was done he
dropped the matter and never men
toned it again. Be was satisfied
with a typically Chapinesque re-
venge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

NF all of the diseases that scien-
~ tiflc medicine attempts to con-
troll whooping cough seems to be
most difficult. 1t generally is re-
garded lightly because most people
seem to recover from it readily.
The disease is, however, extreme
ly dangerous to small children from
the point of view of life. In older
children it not infrequently is fol-
lowed by pneumonia or tuberculosis,
and hence represents a menace
from that point of view.
The control of Whooping cough by
health authorities is extremely diff
ficult, because it seems impossible to
isolate or quarantine cases and fam
lilies for sufficiently long time to
prevent spread of the disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Daily Thought

o Lord deliver my soul; oh save
me for thy mercies' sake.--Psalm
GA.
We do pray for mercy; and that
same prayer doth teach us all to
render the deeds of mercy Shake
speare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Supreme Logic

A. Dana Hodgdon chief of the visa division of the
state department., summoned before the Fish commit
tee on Communism, declared that Secretary Stimson
has instructed to say that not at liberty to
testify in open session. since such testimony, if pub
liShed, would be contrary to public interest"
Whereupon Chairman Fish asked Hodgdon to
state the reasons why his testimony would be con-
trary to public interest
ITO give the reasons would be to testify" was
Hodgdon's answer
The he ponders it, the the logic of
that reply will grow and grow and grow Chairman
Fish.
A man in Indiana has Invented an illuminated
keyhoe. A timely device, perhaps, for late-comers
celebrating New Years
Then there's the fellow, who, asked how he had
finished his Christmas shopping early, replied "Oh
it's gift"
Mary Garden says the old operas doomed. But
Shakespeare would say, the diyas be expected
to pursue the even tenor of their ways.
Things are not so bullsh for the Spanish govern
ment either, it seems.
well, I should smile" said the girl as she posed
for the dentifrice ad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
Medal for Gould

TINE American Geographical So
l. ciety announces the presenta-
ton of the David Livingstone Cen
tenary medal to DR.. Laurence NJ.
Gould for his explorations in the
Antarctic.
DR.. Gould, a member of the fac
ulty of the University of Michigan,
was second in command on Admiral
Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the
Antarctic. He was the geographeT
and geologist of the expedition as
well.
During the expedition, he made
two trips. One, by airplane, was to
the newly discovered Rockefeller
mountains, $50 miles east of Little
America.
The other, by dog sled, was 440
miles south of Little America to the
mountains which ring the plateau
on which the South Pole itself is
situated. A careful survey was made
of these mountains, the first ade-
quate survey ever undertaken.
DR.. David Fairchild, explorer and
botanist. since 1906 in charge of the
office of foreign plant introduction
of the United States department Of
agriculture, has been awarded the
George Robert White medal of the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
DR.. L. T. Comrie, well-known as
tronomer, has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the Nautical Al
manac office of the Greenwich OBJ
seryatory, Greenwich, England.
DR.. Corie is a graduate of New
Zealand and Cambridge univer-
sites. The post is an important
one because OF the Importance Of
the almanac both to navigators and
astronomers.
How is the per capita wealth of
the United States estimated?
BY dividing total population into
TOD rr-aoIft
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
The Banks Swing Club

. T. E. GARRETT Of Corpus Christi,
- Tex, president of the Southern
Cotton Reduction Association, has
suggested that bankers throughout
the cotton-growing area refuse to
make loans to farmers who will not
agree to reduce their acreage by at
least % per cent.
He proposes to make this sugges-
ton effective by having the several
state banking associations indorse
it and by having individual bank
ers sign pledges to abide by it.
He already has obtained enough
support to warrant The belief that
his plan is on it's way to become
a movements movement which
promises to be all the more effective
because it is being backed up by
those who control the purse strings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

' 'eals and opinions expressed
III this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

Ut is a curious trail of fame which
L will continue, now that Charles
E. Chaplin has died in Sing Sing. AS
long as newspapers exist, reporters
will regale one another with Chaplin
anecdotes. And it may be that
good story is as enduring a monu-
ment as any granite.
In the Chaplin legend-and ne be-
came mythical figure even before
he entered the prison silences-a
curious quality exists.
Some of the stories concern the
manner in which Chaplin scored OFF
one of his hirelings, while the 9TH
ers celebrate with equal avidity the
manner in which a hireling scored
off him.
The most famous of the tales has
Irwin Cobb as its hero. 1t was Mr..
Cobb who remarked, upon hearing
that his city editor was i'll, Nothing
trivial, I hope"
The second most famous anecdote
I believe to be an invention. 1t is,
of course, the story of the reporter
who called back to say: When 1
told him you wanted statement
about the divorce, Mr.. Chaplin, he
took me by the scuff of the neck
and threw ME downstairs. He's a
big, powerful fellow, and ne shouted
after me, If you ever come back
I'll break your jaw!'"
To which, according to the legend,
Mr.. Chaplin said from his end of the
line, You 60 back and tell that big
bum he can't intinidate me"
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of the American people. But they did adopt it and
they incorporated it in the United States Constitu-
tion-a double mistake that can be repaired only by
the difficult and painful process of voting it out again
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Involuntary PaIIbearer

n ESS familiar is the story of the
IL involuntary pallbearer, related
to me by the late Shep Friedman,
who was the victim in the case. Mr..
Friedman reported quarters of
an hour late and realized that moth
ing but an ingenious lie could save
his job.
It was suicide, Of course, to plead
delay in the subway or anything OF
the sort, for Chaplin merely would
refer to the Interboro reports and
publicly expose the family Of any
such claim.
Shep Friedman was more imagl-
native than that. He said: "Mr.
Chaplin, I'm terribly sorry to be late,
but very curious thing happened
as 1 was leaving my apartment. A
poor fellow across the hall died two
nights ago, and today the under
taker came for him.
But he had only two assistants
with him. He thought there'd be
somebody in the family to help, but
there wasn't. And so he asked me
to help him carry the coffin down
to the hearse.
81 never knew the dead man. I
don't even know his name, but he
lived right across the hall, and so,
naturally, I couldn't refuse
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How is the per capita wealth of
the United States estimated?
BY dividing total population into
the estimated wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

Mary Garden says the old operas are doomed. But
Shakespeare would say, the diyas can be expected
to pursue the even tenor of their ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
.F all of the diseases that scien-

Editor, Journal Of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
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"Well, I should SMILE" said the girl as she posed
for the dentifrice ad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

What is the origin and meaning
Of the name Northcutt?
1t is a British locality name meark
ing Aarth dwelling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18

Things are not so bullsh for the Spanish govern
ment either it seems.