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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

plans, differ, causing difficult adj
justmentS for a team on short no
tice; (g) the aim of the game is
to win, which develops questionable
craftsmanship and hard losers; Chi
the coach'S time is expended on
a few, which is not the aim of
physical education.
In her well-known book on 'Per-
sonal Hygiene and Physical Train
ing for Women DR.. Anna M. Gal
braith writes: From her physical
conf1guration and her inability to
bear prolonged physical and men
tai STRAIN" woman would find GER
tain mems sports harmful, if played
in the form in which they are played
by men, but even these sports-foot-
ball, ice hockey, polo, basketball
boxing, fencing pole-vaulting and
heavy gymnastics-could, if modi-
fed to meet the peculiar character
isticS of women, 'be played with
reasonable hopes of physical, men,
tai and moral improvement"
The question, therefore, comes
down to the conclusion that basket
ball, modified properly and limited
to contests held within the school
is a safe game for women, but that
an attempt to play the game under
boys rules in contests held between
institutions widely separated is not
considered suitable by the majority
of leaders in physical education.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
EVERY fall the question arises as
II to whether it is safe for girls
to play basketball, whether they
should play in interschool contests,
and whether they should play the
game according to boys rules.
Basketball is one of the most
popular games in high schools and
colleges and the subject is being
widely agitated.
The Women's Athletic Federation
has opposed interschool competi-
ton for girls in basketball, and has
insisted that when contests take
place the girls should be in charge
of woman physical director, that
the game should be played by quar-
tiers rather than halves, and that it
always should be played by girls
rules.
Fewer than 10 per cent of colleges
allow women to compete in inter
school basketball. Among the rea-
sons offered are that it is not good
social policy to have girls travelling
about the country for interschool
contests, that such competition
breeds vulgarity, and from the
physical side that the woman is not
qualified to undergo the continual
strain on the heart that is particu-
larly attendant with basketball.
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Eager ESSayiSt

r ONCE wrote about Bolitho and
4 said that in his essays he was
sometimes too eager to- express
himself in regard to things he had
not yet quite taken into his hands.
He was, I thought, like a Short
stop who sometimes tries to make
the long throw to first base before
the ball has arrived.
There is reason to believe that
the sympathy of the playwright
was conferred in the chief figure of
the play-Captain Ritter. say the
chief figure, because this is the
longest role, even though it does
not turn out to be the most impor-
tant.
It is in the fashioning of this
character that too much has been
left out. The captain leads the
revolution Of the workers I'M little
German town and goes to his death
when the military forces of the gov
eminent arrive and put down the
brief foray against the existing
system.
But the true clash comes between
allies-betwcen Ritter, the semi
moderate, and Maxim, the dogmatic,
Communist.
Bolitho was man whose nature
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Federal Relief

Congress has voted the administrations $11,OO0OOO
relief program and gone home for an extended hol-
iday Both Republican. and Democratic leaders seem
to think they have done good job, and that all that
remains is for the administration to spend the money
and the depression will be conquered.
Unfortunately, the problem is not SO simple.
Much of the money appropriated probably will
do no good-for instance, the additional $15OOOOOOO
given to the federal board to contine its specu-
lation in the Chicago wheat pit
The authorization of $45OOOOOO for drought relief
is good as far as it goes but much time was con-
sumed arguing the matter no time left to vote
the actual appropriation. The administration objected
to a provision that some of the money could go for
food for farmers well for food for farmers ami
mails, and then left ambiguous loophole for the
administration to do that very thing.
The S116OOOOOO appropriation for public works is
the best that could be done under the circumstances.
That will bring the public construction program close
10 100000 OOO-about the limit which can be spent
eficieny by the government considering the lack of
advance planning.
This government building program if voted last
wear would have stimulated business this year Voted
now, it will help business and employment next year
Meanwhile a severe winter of suffering is upon
and most of the public construction jobscan not be-
gin until spring. The immediate task is to prevent
starvation this winter. In some OF the large centers
wealth private and municipal agencies may be able
to provide adequate relief. But there are increasing
reports tht smaller communities are unable to handle
local relief demands.
Appeals for direct federal aid to help communities
which otherwise can not prevent starvation were pre-
sented to the senate on the eve of adjournment by
Senators La Toilette and Walsh. These appeals were
signed by upward of 200 mayors, from east, west,
north and south.
In such national emergency there is no excuse
for congress taking two-week holiday. Let men,
bers of congress this recess to find out about
conditions in their own state and return with facts
from which the extent of the relief emergency can
be judged quickly and accurately
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
There's No Precedent

A S matter of common sense,
IN we have no precedent for this
depression, and should not trump
up presidents for believing it.
The fact that it caught most of
us off guard indicates nothing so
distinctly as that it was rooted in
conditions so novel and so uneX-
pected that we failed to understand
them.
It was with that thought upper
most in mind that we should have
taken up the problem of relief. Not
only this country, but the whole
civilized world, is more or less out
CT joint. and Congressman Nc
Fadden does not miss the target,
though he may have shot a little
outside the bullseye when he blames
international banking as response
BILE for much of the trouble.
If MusSolini and Bolshevism are
y-products of the war, so is this
curious new order of high finance,
which aspires to play with first
class governments in the same
happy. reckless manner that its
American progenitor once played
with state legislatures or city coun-
ellis.
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Farmer to Gain

profit to the farmer, even at
Il low prices, will result, DR.. Hale
contends, from application Of in
dustrial methods.
Thus, our corn crop, by way of
illustration, he says, should be
grown primarily for the industries
described. A lower grade of corn
naturally is preferred by chemical
enterprises.
1--WE also must have as high.
production Of corn as possible to
the acre. These conditions will of
course operate for even greater sur
plus than we ever have experienced,
but such IS the demand Of the or
ganic chemical industry.
$50 great is this industrial utiliza-
ton of carbohydrates to become
that we in this country must pre-
pare ourselves for the importation
of enormous quantities of agricul-
tural staples in the not far distant
future.
"Our agriculturists particularly
will welcome the importation of
such staples as require careful Gull
tivation and enter directly as such
into the manufacture of foods, thus
permitting our farmers to produce
those staples demanded in greater
quantities for the chemical indus
tries and yielding higher financial
returns.
1.-THE chemical manufacturing
plants making use of agricultural
raw material must be located at the
heart of those agricultural zones
concerned in the supply of organic
products.
an this way also the farmers will
have a common financial interest in
the development Of their own
zones"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Questions and
Answers

How old is Richard Arlen, and to
whom is he married?
Richard Arlen is 81. He is mar
ried TO Jobyna Ralston, stage and
screen actress.
What does the name DAIMLER
mean?
1t is a German family name
meaning thanks, or gratitude.
What are the colors Of the Uni
versity of Southern California?
Cardinal and gold.
How were ancient drawbridges
raised and lowered?
BY ropes or chains that passed
from the outer corners of the bridge
to holes in the castle wall, high
above the ground. A windlasS was
employed for a heavy bridge.
Was Pope Sylvester H. Spanish
or French?
He was generally regarded as a
Spaniard, although he was actually
born in southern France.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I am farmer and
I take exception to the letter signed
H. D. H. First, he says let every
farmer feed one unemployed. In
answer to this, let me say that the
farmers would be very foolish to
feed any one who had squandered
his wages at shows, ball games, and
ali other kinds Of sport.
H. D. H. says the farmer wants
a hand to work for nothing. That
is false. The farmer does not have
the money to spend like a sport.
AS far as the blackberries are
concerned, if the farmer allows
some TO trespass for berries, they
would trespass for other things,
which has been proven If the
working man would save his money,
he would not have TO ask for Der
ries.
w. B. D.
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reacted against dictatorship. He
liked neither MussoIini nor Stain.
He has endeavored with at least
ON device to stack the cards against
the Communist in his play.
An episode has been introduced
in which Maxim shoots down a
prisoner in cold blood. And at the
end, when Ritter waits to die, it is
Maxim who sinks away and refuses
to face the music.
But by a curious quirk, Bolitho
does much better for the represen-
tative of the cause which he did not
like. Ritter has been identified by
some as an photographed ex-
preston. This Is likely true.
Bolitho was passionate in his
espousal of lost causes. His best
work was done in depicting those
who have stood out against the gods.
But the sacrifice of Ritter seems
a little aimless. There is nothing
in the play to indicate that he died
for anything but the spirit of
romanticism.
(Convrfohf loan b,y Tr,a ,7-,r-or,
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will follow Huston into the less pleasant pages Of
historyif there remain in the party enough leaders
who can rightly gauge the public reaction to his
methods.
And yet there is waiting right around the corner,
to take his place or other in the party leader
ship still one more friend of the President, Raymond
Benjamin Of California, law partner of Sam Short
ridge for many years, politician whose past gives
little reason to hope that his future will be dis
cernible> improvement over the Illusions, Lucases
and Works
Probably no phase Of the Hoover administration
has been more disappointing to sincere Republicans
than his selection of the party leaders for whom he
is responsible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Behind Parade

a ND the theater almost of neces-
IN sity lags behind the progress of
life in its choice CT materials. No
rule holds utterly true, but from
the beginning the theater has dealt
for the most part with stories which
had some element of familiarity.
Certainly the Greek tragedians en-
deavored to select plot out of the
myths and legends best established.
Even Shaw, considered in his earlier
days a fantastic radical, admitted
that in effect he was dramatizing
the thoughts and opinions OF Sam
uel Butler.
While it is true that the average
English or American playgoer knew
nothing of Samuel Butler, with the
possible exception of THE Way of
All Flesh, enough time had elapsed
to give the mans views something
OF currency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
SCIENCE
Chemistry to Open Ne1O Day
of Prosperity for Farmer,
Scientist Declares.
BY DAVID DIETZ-


a NEW era Of prosperity for agri-
N culture as a result of advances
in the chemical industry is forecast
by DR.. william j. Hale of the Dow
Chemical Company in a report to
the American Chemical Society.
DR.. Hale wakes so enthusiastic
over the prospects that he calls it
a golden era and adds that the
great strides in the automotive in
dustry during the last decade will
suffer in comparison with the stu
pendous advance that lies just
ahead"
DR.. Hale sees an end to agricul-
tural overproduction as a result Of
demand for agricultural products
in the chemical industry.
The carbohydrate industries. he
says, will absorb vast quantities Of
grain, which they will use as
source of starch. They also will use
cotton and other farm products as
a source of cellulose.
The carbohydrate industries in
clude those interested in the manu-
facture of alcohol, acetone, ether,
and similar chemicals. as for eS-
ample, the various cellulose prod
ucts, artificial silk, and SO on.
DR.. Hale predicts a growth Of
these industries to such extent in
the future that there will be no
such thing as farm waste.
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d0AkF BlTFlE-|
| ANN|VgR$ARY|
R44SsI@%tTJ

E. A. RoBINsoN's BIRTH

E. A. ROBINSON'S BIRTH
Dec. g.
an Dec. %, 1869, Edward Airing
" ton Robinson, one of tho most
famous Of contemporary American
poets, was born at Head Tide, Me.
After two years at Harvard, Rob-
inson. went to New York Here he
struggled with poverty and for a
time worked in a subway.
He leaped into prominence in
1927 when a poem. THE Children Of
the Night" attracted the attention
of Theodore Roosevelt. Since then
his fame has grown rapidly.
Robinson's work, as enc critic
wrote, is intellectual, sincere in
feeling, distinctly American in tone
and point Of view. and free from all
that is trivial and meaningless"
Amy Lowell called Robinson the
most remarkable Of living American
poets.
A member Of the National Insti-
tute of Arts and Letters, Robinson's
outstanding works to date include:
THE Man Against the Sky" ''Mer-
line" 'Lancelot," The Children Of
tha Night" and @Tristran1-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Witchcraft in New York


year or SO ago, when tales of witchcraft in
rural district of Pennsylvania out into the open
in connection with a murder case, certain New York
writer's protested to be deeply shocked and Mortified
They pointed out that such weird superstitions nger
in rural communities, and intimated that it is only
in the great cities that civilization really to
flower.
Now might be good time for these critics to do
more articles on the same general theme for
United Press dispatches from New York reveal that
thousands upon thousands of New York's citizens
devout believers in witchcraft and black magic.
report issued by a health survey remarks thar
"wtchcraft workers and evil-eye healers are still
fourishing and exploiting the ignorant and super
stitious particularly the foreign-born in New York
City"
Ignorance, apparently, can be found in the city
as well as In the country. Our New York writer's
can find, within few blocks of their Offices condi-
lions quite shocking those Pennsylvania which
Mortified them recently.
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M. E. Tracy
We Haze No Precedent for
This Depression and Should
Not Trump Up Precedents
to ReIieve 1t.
SAYS:
HOUSTON. Tex. Dec. 22.-
IL Doesn't holiday put the old

HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 22.-
IL Doesn't a holiday put the old
pep into congress, though?
No matter how sore the boys may
be with each other, at the White
House, or over anything else, they
certainly can show speed when they
want to go home.
AS a much perplexed nation, we
should be peculiarly grateful for
the Yuletide spirit this year.
But for the Santa Claus myth, the
smell of roast turkey and the ire
pressible desire to play with toys
long since bought for the kids, who
can say when those relief measures
would have gotten by. or whether
Mr.. McNinch would have gotten by
at all.
AS it is. we are better off by
$311, 100000 thaA-we were before, or
will be some day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
The Infested

TINE stage may be a useful me-
i dium for hopping up, but it
seldom has proved good trying
field for the new and untested.
That is why the chances are against
the success Of Bolitho's Overture, !"
and that is why I like it.
Here, at any rate, is play as top
ical as the front page Of next weeks
newspaper. 1t seems to me that in
the oncoming century the world
will make its decision as to just
what radical economic philosophy it
is going to follow.
Or, it may decide to follow none,
though I'll lay 10 to against that.
But whichever way the decision
goes, there are certain to be vast
quantities of talk about Socialism,
Communism and the Soviet re-
public.
Nevertheless, not many Of US
has as yet any precise. compre-
hension Of what Communism is all
about. We can't see the theory for
the clubs and the haIf-brieks.
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Overture" may fail, because the
average audience will not think
through it's essentials. And I have
no desire to be snooty about the
average audience in saying this.
Bolitho did not have time to
clarity his own notions. "Over=
ture" was a play to which he would
have returned but for his untimely
death.
Still, it Is magnificent as it
stands, even though the scaffolding
of the construction period clings to
it here and there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
What Is This Progress2

IT goes without saying, that we
l. shall get out of this depression
regardless of how much, or how lit
tie, the federal government does.
The power of mankind to sur
vive even the most terrible expe-
rienceS by falling back on elemental
methods and enduring elemental
sacrifices has been demonstrated too
frequently to be doubted.
But if mankind must pull through
that way every time a drought, an
epidemic or business slump occurs,
what excuse has civilization for ex-
listing?
To say that "the people can be
depended on to take care of them
selves is to rejuvenate the cave
mans philosophy.
To chart the course we ought to
follow in this emergency by what
our grandfathers did in '73, or what
our neutrality-suspicious. did a
hundred years before, is to make
q mockery of our pretended prog
RESI-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

ideals and opinions expressed
in 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Too Much Time Lost

NASH for federal aid roads
~ promises wider distribution,
provided too much Of it doesn't go
for cement and machinery, or into
the pockets of big contractors.
Ready to CO." says the President,
but meaning in u onth or three
months, which is too long, since
Old Man Winter will have done his
worst by that time.
The federal government is too big
and clumsy to furnish an immediate
answer to the immediate need. 1t
can't get around, without just SO
much lost motion, and even when
it does get around, it is bound to
have overlooked a lot of folks, be-
cause it can do only given things
in given areas.
When the Canadian government
appropriated $2O,000,000 for relief
last September, it offered one-half
the money to provincial and local
administrations on a fifty-ffty
basis.
The Canadian government was
not only three months ahead of US
in recognizing what the situation
called for, but took a vastly more
sensible way to see that its relief
funds would be- distributed evenly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

Thirty-four persons claiming kinship with Einstein
sought to visit him in New York recently. This is
another slant on the relatively theory
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

Claims of publishers notwithstanding, the most
popular book for Christmas is dads check book.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

The fire which swept the film colony recently gave
the stars opportunity to put some real emotional
acting in the f1ickers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

New York reformatory is to have Santa Claus
this year Does this dispel the theory that he visits
only the good, obedient boys?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22

Burglars successfully looted apartment house
in Chicago recently with the aid of monkey Now
watch others try and ape them.
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In Canada too the grain problem is a burning
question Farmers there, news item says are using
barley for fuel in place of wood and coal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-22
Daily Thought

Then I saw that wisdom ex-
ceIleth folly, as far as light ex-
celleJh darkness. - EccIesiastes
2:14.
Wisdom is rare, LorenzoI wit
abounds.-Young.
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Copyright. 1890. BY The Times
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w. B. D
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Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-21
S. COBB
PLANS VISIT
Ranger Captain to Rope
Writer and Bring Him
To Valley

While the Valley is busy inviting
men as AL Smith, Arthur Brisbane,
Governor Kohler and Governor
Moody 10 the Valley, w. w. Sterl-
ing, F~alfurrias, State Ranger cap
tain. intends to add another nation
al character TO this list.
This is none other than Irwin
Cobb. While talking to the famous
humorist In New York. Mr.. Cobb
said he wanted to get down TO
Texas as often as he can, and in
timated that he expected to visit
in Houston some time IN the near
future.
when he gets to Houston, I will
have to 60 up and get him and
bring him on down to see the VAL
ley and COW country area Of the
Rio Grande border, Captain Ster-
ling said.
The Ranger captain visited with
him while he was judging a rodeo
in New York. Another Judge In the
contest was a Mormon bishop from
Canada. He said Cobb could not
get through remarking about the
~co-incident OF a Mormon bishop
and a Texas ranger being on the
same committee In New York.