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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
More Football

DUT to get back to football in its
ID larger aspects, I believe one
thing is worth trying before the
game is abolished. It might be that
some of the evils can be cured by
more football rather than less.
I don't mean & longer schedule, an
earlier training season or anything
like that. I am suggesting that foot
ball could be made a major sport in
a literal sense.
There might be she participation
of a greater part of each student
body. But the bulk of the play
would occur within the college it
self.
Esch university might have its
own personal league, with games
between class teams and dormitory
teams and, possibly, club teams.
Then, out of this league, an eleven
could be selected which would rep
resent the college in its final game
against one, or not more than two
traditional rivals.
The scheme is not fantastic, and
as a matter of fact, I think that
something very close to this IS al
ready done at Andover. OF course
it will be said that no team which
plays together for mere two weeks
can achieve the efficiency of a ma
chine which is nodded from Sep
TENDER to November.
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Chances Favor Wife to Outlive Mate

and the odds are three to one
against him.
In the rather unusual circum-
stance in which the wife is older
than the husband, the odds of course
are modified again by this situation
If the wife is IS years old and
the husband is 80, the chance is
f1fty-six in 100 that the husband
viii survive the wife, and in the
same way the figures depend on the
number of years that the woman is
older than the man.
The other factors that enter into
the situation are, Of course, the re-
lative amounts of care and the re-
lative exposure to possibilities of
accidents and disease that apply to
the individual case.
If the husband is so wealthy that
the woman is sheltered constantly
and protected, if he is fifteen years
older and engaged in any occupation
which submits him to wear and
tear, his chance of surviving is even
less that it would be based on the
ordinary calculation alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

higher mortality rate than women,
probably because women have been
for years the sheltered class.
Thus, the odds tend to be some
what against the chance that the
husband will survive the wife. There
are various possibilities, however,
in marriages in which the two part
ners are not of the same age.
The husband may be anywhere
from five to twenty-five years older
than his wife. Obviously, in such
cases his chance Of survival pro-
portionately is decreased.
If the husband and the wife are
both 80 years of age, the chance
of the husband OUTLYING her is 48
in 100; if his wife is five years
younger, his chance of OUTLYING her
is only 40 in 100. 1t is safe for
gamblers to get three to two against
his OUTLYING her.
If the wife is Is years younger
than her husband and the husband
is 40 years old, the chance that he
will outlive her is only 26 in 100,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
TT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEg35S

THERE seems to be a pretty gem
Il eral agreement that something
is wrong with football. The criti-
cism is not confined to any single
source.
Bill Roper, recently retired coach
of Princeton, says that the drudgery
of practice will kill the game. Presi-
dent Butler of Columbia looks at
gate receipts with alarm, while the
undergraduate editors of the Yale
News feel that schedules are too
long.
And from time to time We have
had the testimony of various star
players that they do not enjoy the
game.
All this might make a case for the
abolition of football. I used to ia
vor that myself. But I speak as
one from the outside. All the foot
ball I ever played was in high school
and it wasn't very good football
not my part of it.
Fortunately, this was before the
days of the rowing center. Rowing
was the least Of my abilities. used
to lock ankles with the guard on
either side, and then hope that no.
body would push me over backward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Lucas Is EIInnV

1t has been remarked that man of higher ethical
sense would not have stopped to the methods used
unsuccessfuy by Executive Director Lucas of the Re-
publican national committee to defeat Senator Norris
candidate of the Nebraska Republicans.
Now that he has been caught with the goods, so to
speak Lucas reveals that he has another lack which
is a serious shortcoming in politician. He lacks
sense of humor.
Otherwise he would not attempt to justify his I'M
iusti1abe methods with the argument that Norris,
having voted for Democratic presidential candidate
in 1928 is not a Republican.
OF all persons the party chief under the Hoover
administration should be the last to raise the cry OF
party regularity.
Is Lucas himself Republican, Has he forgotten
that he was Bull Moose in 1912.
Is Hoover a Republican? Has Lucas forgotten that
the Republican old guard in 1928 tried to prevent
Hoover'S nomination, on the ground that he was
Democrat? Hoover also supported Woodrow WILSON'S
appeal for Democratic congress in 1913 and failed
70 withdraw his name in 1920 Democratic presi-
Dental candidate in the Michigan primary.
Is the Hoover cabinet Republican,? Has Lucas for
gotten that Attorney General Mitchell was Demo-
GRAFT that Secretary of the Navy Adams once was a
Democratic mayor. and that Postmaster General
Brown was Bull Moose leader?
Are Hoovers political advisers Republicans For
instance. Henry Allen, Hoovers publicity manager;
Assistant Secretary of Interior Dixon who advised the
supreme court appointment Of Judge Parker as a
master political stroke" and French Stroher, Hoovers
secretary? Has Lucas forgotten that Allen and Dixon
were Bull Moose and Strother Democrat?
Are Hoover's aids in congress Republicans Sen
ator Deneen who rises on the floor to defend the
President-has Lucas forgotten that he was Bull
Moose2 SO were Senators Capper and Carey. not to
mention the progressive group in the senate most Of
whom were Bull Moose
And has Lucas forgotten those congressman who
now call themselves Republicans but who once sat as
Democrats. Men like Representative Campbell Of
Pennsylvania and Representative Clancy of Michigan,
the old Bull Moose, such Representative Kelly
of Pennsylvania, and Chairman Temple of the house
foreign affairs committee2'
Has Lucas forgotten w. w Attsrbury, the Repub-
lcan national committeeman from Pennsylvania who
refused to support the Republican gbernatorial can
didate, and Representative Graham, chairman OF the
house judiciary committee and chairman of the
Pennsylvania congressional campaign committee who
Joined with Atterbury supporting the Democratic
Y candidate.
Has Lucas forgotten that big gun Of the Re-
publican regulars Albert Fall senator, secretary
Of the interior until that little Teapot Dome matter,
ard party BOSE Was not Fall Democratic legis-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Figures Given

CONTINUING his analysis of the
~ Industries which have shifted
from farm to factories, Professor
Schmidt says:
"The list of package products in
cludes a considerable number of
animal and vegetable products. In
1860 flour and grist mills ranked
first among the manufacturing in
dustries in valuation of products,
which amounted to SPAS, $4,000.
TN 1919 slaughte. ing and meat
packing ranked first with a total
output valued at S4,246, 100000, wig
iron and steel ranked second
products, valued at S2,828, 902,0t
and automobiles ranked third wi
a valuation of s2,387 10000
THE products of all food indu
tries were valued at $12,438, 1871 90
which was 20 per cent of the tot
value of manufactured products
the United States.
Transfer Of the textile and clott
ing and the boot and shoe industri
from the farm to the factory h
been studied chiefly from the stand
point of the development Of manu
featuring in the United States, bU
1t deserves the attention Of stu
dents Of the history of America
agriculture.
ut has been estimated that th
household production of textiles i
1920 constituted more than twol
thirds of the entire product.
"The age of hornespun gave way
to the factory system by the opera
ton Of the same forces that tool
the food industries out of the HON
and placed them in the factory.
I'm 1919 the total value of manu-
features of textiles and their pro-
ducts amounted to $9,216,103,0O0.
THE significance of the trsnsfe.l
Of these industries from the farm &,
the factory hardly can be exagger-
ated. 1t is the best evidence of
the extent and rapidity Of the trans
action from Insufficient to com
mercial agriculture"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Other Shoe PinCheS Now

MAYHEM some of the older fields
w appeared to be playing out
and comparatively small number
Of new ones were being brought in,
it was the dear public that yelled
for conservation, while the operators
We're just as strong for unrestrained
production.
Now that the tide has turned.
with some areas threatened by
flood, while others are threatened
by fire, with crude offered as low
Gs 80 cents and no takers, it is
the public that wants fair break
and the operators who prefer a cur
tailment of production.
We are hearing more about con-
servation than we ever did, but
from different quarters and for a
different purpose.
What the boys are after this trip.
especially the big boys. is something
that will hold up prices until they
can get out of the jam. They are
willing to have the government
regulate them if they can't get it
any other way.
Such altruisinl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Absurd. but Serious

Were it not for more serious implications
and unfair differences, the latest edict Of the
prohibition department to hotels, cafes and
clubs namely would place it in an absurd
position, Warning has been sent to these
places, patronized by the most law-abiding,
conservative and respected of citizens, that
they will be padlocked if they sell ginger ale
or charged waters to those who gather to
welcome the New Year.
If any evidence were needed of the failure
of prohibition and of the department to en-
force the law, it is found in this order.
The prohibition department, which boasts
that it specializes on preventing the manu-
facture or importation of liquor, takes it for
granted that everyone who revels will have
bottle and that every one who orders bot
tie OF ginger ale intends to violate the law.
Just how right they are in these infer
ences may be judged by the fact that two
of the most exclusive clubs of the city, whose
rosters of membership read like combina-
ton of the Blue Book and the Bankers Direc-
tory. promptly cancelled their arrangements
for revels.
If that means anything, it strongly sug-
qests that these very respected citizens, the
bulwark of industry, commerce, finance and
society, do violate the prohibition law. They
would shudder at the thought of crossing the
line on any other statute-made crime.
Certainly if the memberships in such clubs
have a right to violate the law, so does the
rest of our citizenship.
The order of the department, aside from
being complete confession of failure, IS
evidence of the fact that very large por-
ton of the community, not criminal but re-
spectacle, does not believe in the law and
does not regard its violation as either GRIM
inal or reprehensibe.
Tn nation where the viii of the people
presumably is the law of the land, such con-
dition no longer is tolerable, but monstrous
and preposterous.
AS a matter of fact, the order itself is
farce. There is as yet no law against drink
ing ginger ale cooled with ice. Nor has Vol
steadism reached the insanity of ordering
it's prospective vioIators to drink their liquor
straight.
That there may be those who mix their
= drinks with water would be as good an excuse
for ordering hotels to serve no water to
patrons.
Of course, the department was bluffing.
There will be 10 padlocks on clubs in which
party leaders have memberships. There will
be no locks on hotels owned by those who
contribute generously to campaigns.
Perhaps it was gesture for the benefit
of those who do not belong to clubs, who have
no money for hotel revels, with the purpose
of fooIing them into the idea that the law is
being enforced against all alike.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
REASON BY FREDERICK Tta%g1S

TINE world has a habit of msusing the term
greatness" 1t applies it almost exclusively to the
leaders OF armies and political parties those whose
personal vanity has lifted them into wide notice
But if greatness bears any relationship to the
good one has done the human race then applies only
in isolated cases to the warriors and the statesmen
It applies most to the scientists who have solved
the riddles OF nature to the inventors who have bet
tered human life and to the leaders in medicine and
surgery who have conquered disease and calamity.
BY this test we should say that one of the great
est men in this country today is Dr. John o. Wet
eel of Lansing. Mich, who recently performed a sur
gical operation which borders on the miraculous
You read about it in the papers some days ago.
HE'S the surgeon who restored sight to Merwin
4 Jenkins the 25-year-old musician and radio star.
jenkins, blind from birth. from an intracapsular
cataract, received real Christmas present, view
OF the world in which he has long lived in darkness.
The eyeban was sliced almost in the middle leav-
ing nat surface and to this glass lens will be
lifted and for the rest of his days he must it
every twelve hours to apply fresh mucilage
He can see without the lens, but not with the nor
NAL perspective.
But with the worlds warped sense of values, this
wonderful operation subordinated in the days
news to the dongs at Washington and the interviews
Ten times the attention was given to what some
loud person thought he thought
WTHEN it comes to moral greatness, as distin-
w tnguiShed from intellectual greatness, we pay
little attention to it. for it is all around u.s. it is too
common.
Every day, common people doing acts of hero
ism and glory just as part Of the days work
Men and women are carrying loads which would
have broken the backs of many who have been i'm
mortaliZed in song and story
They are doing it for their folks; they fighting
smile.
No the notorious not the trul, Igreat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
New Conditions

MANY changes, usually grouped
1YA under the heading Of the Ma
chine Age, took place with the shift
of industries from farm to factory,
Professor Schmidt says:
THE migration of industries from
the farm to the factory since 1860 is
characterized by the evolution Of
technical processes of manufacture
ing, increased market demands due
to the growth of population, the adj
dition Of many new products and
the utilization of by-products. new
methods of marketing, improved
methods of factory organization and
management, concentration of man
ufacturing into large establishments
and the localization of industries at
advant- seous points.
These forces made possible in
creaSing specialization, which char
acterizes the transition from self
sufficient to commercial agricul-
ture."
Professor Schmidt also points out
that the industries which have nil
grated from farm TO factory can be
classified into three groups, namely,
Cd food products, (2)textiles and
clothing, including boots and shoes,
90 tobacco and number of minor
products.
1.-THE food industries include
slaughtering and meat packing
flour milling, the manufacturing of
dairy products, the canning Of fruits
and vegetables, the preparation of
poultry and its products and the
production Of preserves and pickles"
he says.
Many new industries have been
added, such as the manufacture
Of beet sugar and the production
Of bread, pastries and CONNECTIONS"
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lator in New Mexico and the judicial appointee Of
a Democratic PRESIDENT
But there is need to drag out the long and
for Lucas-painful lack of party regularity OF
Hoover and many Hoover aids, including himself
For Hoover already has passed the question raised
by Lucas to whether scratching presidential bal
lot in 1928 reads out of his party.
Hoover settled this question in favor of Norris
and against Lucas, when the President chose Frank
McNinch as a federal power commissioner.
Under the law Hoover is prevented from naming
more than three of the five power commissioners
from one party After naming three Republicans,
Hoover picked McNinch a Democrat-NcNinch
being the man who ran the Hoover campaign in
North Carolina in 1928.
Now all this is very funny and makes Lucas look
foolish in his attempt to force Norris out of the
Republican party, Amusing as it is, however. it has
very little to do with Norris position in the Repub-
lcan party.
Unlike Lucas, Norris not chosen for his job
by few men in Washington. Norris was nominated
and elected by the Republican voters of Nebraska.
OF course Hoover and Lucas don't like it. But there
is nothing they do about 1t.
Until the Republican party is reorganized along
the Fascist dictatorship lines of Mussoln the voters
and not Lucas going to determine party labels
not that party labels anything in the present
political chaos when former Republican is Demo-
cratic national chairman and former Democrat is
Republican President
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~ZAkSS
B1T9:II
|AMNIER$MRY|
TIE GADSDEN TREATY
December 30

ON Dec. 30, 1853, the Gadsden
~ Purchase treaty between the
United States and Mexico was
signed.
1t involved the purchase of a
tract Of land lying partly within
the present New Mexico and part
ly within the present Arizona, and
embraced an area of more than
5000 square miles. For this the
United States gave 100000.
The land was regarded as of lit
tie use for agricultural purposes and
was purchased largely with view
to settling boundary disputes in that
quarter between the two govern
mentS, and to securing a desirable
route for the projected Southern
Pacific railroad.
The treaty of the sale was ne.
gotiated with Santa Anna by
James Gadsden, then minister to
Mexico.
The sale met with much opposi-
ton in Mexico and caused the ban
ishment Of Santa Anna in 1855.
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Experts Not Needed

MOREOVER, it has been estab-
4VA lished that in the case of Yale
and Harvard, for instance, there is
enough tradition to make the an
nual contest interesting, no matter
what the quality Of the football
SC:ne of the best games between
these swo old rivals have been car
ried on by mediocre teams.
On the whole, the success of
Rocine's Notre Dame teams is IA
vorable to an abandonment of the
search for supremacy. Colleges like
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsyl-
va1lia, Cornell and Columbia, never
can hope to rival the best which
South Bend has to offer as long as
Rockne is in charge.
Why not face about, then, and
look more for fun and less for ma
chine like proficiency?
To the spectator the precision of
some four horsemen is superb. But
the very cloSeness Of the co-ordina-
ton always suggests to me tine ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
More Substitutes

T AM entirely opposed to the idea
i which has gone about lately that
we have too many substitutions
The more the merrier. These
changes impose a handicap on
radio announcers, but we have not
yet quite reached the point where
the game is played for the broad
cast.
ANY limitation, however, In rule
or tradition, against frequent sub
stitutions makes for injury. In fact
I would say, "Alter the rules SO
that time out shall also mean get
out"
To the crowd in the stand it may
be romantic to watch some young
ster lying flat on the field after a
play and to see him gradually get
to his feet, stagger about and then,
by supreme effort, pull himself
together and stay in the game.
The man who has had a hard
bang ought to go out Immediately
and be rested up, even if it's physi-
cally possible for him to continue.
This, too, I think, constitutes an
argument against making the cap
tain supreme authority during the
progress Of a game. He Is not in
position to see just which ones are
willing under the strain.
I am perfectly willing to have the
coach sent up into the grandstand.
But you would have to leave in his
place the college doctor, who ought
to make his decisions from a strict
ly medical standpoint and not one
Of college patriotism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Contrary to Progress

T DO not pretend to know whether
L the proposed merger of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany with the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration was good thing for the
stockholders, or from a business
standpoint, but I am glad Judge
Jenkins killed it, in so far as lay
within his power, and hope the
higher court will back him up.
The idea Of smothering competi-
ton within a given field Of trade
for the sake of greater efficiency and
reduced cost may be debatable, but
the idea of creating industrial struc-
lures of such huge proportions that
radical invention could not be
adopted without shaking the coun-
try to its very foundations is con-
trary to the basic principles of Or
derly progress.
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old Rutgers every Saturday after
noon.
Newspapers could help to make
football somewhat less Furnishing.
Naturally, you can not expect US
to deal with big games in little para
graphs.
Public interest makes the bally-
hoo. And the ballyhoo makes pub
lie interest. I don't know just where
the circle can be cut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
Less Acid Touch

DUT this much we should do I'M
- mediately. No sporting writer
is justified of college players in the
same terms with which he deals
with professionals. Although, as far
as that goes, I think that most vet
eran writer's indulge sparingly, if at
all, in terrning the hired hands
"boneheads" and the like.
In one account of the Yale-Har-
ward football game I read: This
was, without doubt, the stupidest
back field ever assembled in New
Haven" This, I contend, is bad
newspaper practice.
Copyright. 1880. By The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
COLLEGE Shirt

IT will be a hard pull to get rid of
l. the excessive ardor which sur
rounds football. 1 am not sure that
would be a good thing to stamp it
out altogether.
The tradition of dying for dear
old Rutgers is not readily to be
killed. In fact, I suppose some such
emotion is likely to be prevalent in
the one or two big games allowed
to each college. But at least we
could get nd Of the notion that it is
up to every player to die for dear