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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18

Nobody in the class was excited and the results were
most reassurng If the students told the truth, then
the most anxious and conventional father might nave
felt that his daughter was surprisingly immune 10
the ways OF vickedness when at Smith college
But great hue and cry went up all over the land
from parents who were alarmed but not informed
Professor Hankns scalp was saved only by the cour-
age and adrotneSs Of President Nelson
Then came the effort year ago to give the sex
QUESTIONABLE at the University OF Missouri The
storm which followed has ragged for more than
wear In the process two teachers were dismissed,
one suspended and two reprimanded. Several others
have resigned The president has been dismissed.
The QUESTIONABLE was proclaimed innocent and
harmless by the investigating committee of the AS
ISOLATION Of American University Professors But the
episode was a greater comedy Of errors than had
appeared thus far.
It seems that Professor Meyer and his associates
at Missouri were not actually attacked for giving the
QUESTIONABLE This was but the smoke screen for
the public He was attacked for giving sex lecture
to a few highly selected advanced students who pre-
sumably were going into social work. The lecture was
designed to enable social workers to inform working
girls as to how they might resist seduction and
predatory males
What could be more conservative or more crafty
ing to conventional parents than this? Yet great
university was kept in turmoil for than twelve
months because professor tried to make promscuous
seduction of helpless girls less easy and frequent
The curators of the University Of Missouri certainly
could not have wanted to make seduction any more
simple and common.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Pronaganda and Propaganda

When the G. o. P. finally got rid of the clnglng
Cgau6ius Huston, Simeon Fess was made Repuoncan
national chairman. Fess may be Wel-knoWn reac-
tionarv but he has earned the reputation Of being
the most inept man in the senate therefore inc
work was divided so that the high-powered plans
and action could be left to some go-getter rather
than to Simeon.
This idea was borrowed from the Democratic O. H.
7. where a propaganda genius named Jouett Shouse
had been brought in to supply the strategy tor Inc
amateur chairman, Raskob.
For months Shouses propaganda gunners ana
SINNERS have been pepperng the G. o. P till it is
sore and nnpy all over And all the while the DEM
ocrats have been getting cocker Not so good tor
the administration on the eve of the congressional
campaign.
So the President and his party wisemen decided
IN show the foe To that end they created the new
lob of executive director of their party and filed it
with Robert H Lucas the commissioner OF internal
revenue.
For fortnight Washington waited Tor the great
Republican broadside with which Lucas was going TO
blow the Democratic propaganda crew right out OF
the water.
Now the blast has been touched of. The noise was
terrible But as the smoke cleared away there stood
sbouse and his merry cut-throats, untouched-and
giving the enemy the razz.
Considering the ammunition he used, it is Won
der Lucas even raised laugh. Here was his hot
shot:
Elect a Democratic congress in 1880 and this
country will not see normal business again for some
years to come - When man gets serious
illness he doesn't call in a quack. That's just the
time he puts his faith and hope in the old family
physician" He went on to blame Democrats for
demoraIizing business and increasing unemployment.
After the Republicans unfortunate 1928 BOOM
erang by which the imaginary AL Smith panic turned
out to be real Hoover depression, one can imagine
the Republicans looking at the Lucas statement and
saying, why bring that up?"
Surely Lucas can not possibly be so hard up for
campaign arguments that he must resort to this sort
Of thing.
Jouett shouse could tell him that there is prop
uganda and propaganda. One is effective and the
other is not One kind defeat its purpose by its
own obvious absurdity. The other kind is efective
because it is partly true-thst is it is the truth, but
not the whole truth.
Perhaps Lucas Will learn. We hope So For the
Democratic propaganda battle has become
so one-sded that II is not even interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
More Reform

TIME depression we are in can be
J. traced to nothing so definitely
as craze for gambling which
should have been allowed to ex-
press itself in games or activities
designed for that purpose and which
would have been satisfied to do so.
But bent on reforming the world,
on making human beings over, on
purifying individuals through mass
regulation, we have piled inhibition
on inhibition until the age-old
hunger for games of chance and
hazard has seized on our COM
mercial set-up and virtually run
away with it,
Boys, brought up to regard three
card monte with horror, look upon
it as quite legitimate TO take the
savings of widows and orphans in a
stock deal
Worse than that, some of our
brainest financiers says it is
necessary, say you couldn't get the
needed capital without the useless
buying and selling by suckers and
spectators, who have no interest
in what they buy or sell, except as
a. change in the quotation makes
them some easy money.
Worse still, many executives Of
our big and important industries
spend far more time telephoning to
their brokers than doing the work
for which they are hired and on
the efficient performance on which
thousands Of people depend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
One Step Ahead

Most significant, at time when state
officials are attempting to get the farmers
If the drought area Of the state away from
what in cities would be called the bread line
of charity by giving them Jobs building
roads. is the movement at ConnerSvllle 10
teach the farmer how to cooperate IN his
buying.
That word cooperate" is likely to be
heard more often in the future and many
Of us NAV come to realize the dynamic pos
sibilities Of its meaning.
The farmer will go to school to discover
what he can do by combining his local sell
ing power. 1t is an easy step to combined
buving power 1t is movement worth
watching for Carried to large SCALE 1t could
easily change many of our industrial ana
commercial practices.
OF course, if the farmer is driven to CO.
operation to exist, it may occur to workers
TO follow that example, if the farmer IS sue
cessful
The nation is watching cooperation III
ownership. 1t is complacently accepting IN
vestment trusts instead of individual stock
ownership, Just as industry went from lndl-
vidual ownership through the partnership TO
cornoration control and finally to the merger
era.
We are obtaining cooperative ownership
If industries on large scale. The same the
orv NAV work in production and distribu-
ton.
While the farmers are learning the new
theory of economies they may also obtain
larger sympathy with the industrial worker
who is now the victim Of unemployment.
They may even come to an understanding OF
the tragedy which hits the voorhees, man
when he is exploited on public highway
work.
The time may come when it will be no
longer necessary for The Times, or any
other newspaper, to point out to public Off
cials the immortality of peonage on public
projects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Accuracy

DR. MACMILLAN feels that more
- data must be gathered about
Pluto before q complete opinion OF
it can be given. He says:
Several more months of observa-
tons must be had before any ac-
curate graph of the orbit of Planet x
can be drawn. On an ordinary size
drawing, the three positions supplied
by the Flagstaff astronomers so far
would be inside a small dot.
Tentative calculations indicate
that the orbit has an eccentricity of
nine tenths. If further obServa-
lions show that the eccentricity is
over one then the orbit will be
hyperbolic, which means that Planet
x never will return and that it is
the first such comet ever seen.
Astronomers in general have had
the feeling that Planet x, though
highly interesting, is not a planet
and has no connection with Lowells
prediction. It's orbit would seem to
justify that feeling.
GSClIIldGSS VI It's SlHS HAVE DSSIl
on the assumption that "X'' is solid,
and would haze such rejecting
power as solid bodies have. But
actually there is no way of measur-
ing its density.
If it is a comet, as it seems to be,
then it may be a swarm of frag-
ments and its volume is much larger
than that of the Garth"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Conservatives Defeating Conservatism

The recent history of sex missionaries in col
leges furnishes an Illuminating and amusing ilustra-
ton Of how conservatives often get in their own way
by getting excited prematurely and going of half
cooked great howl has gone UP from reactionary
quarters over the questionnares but the intent and
results of these efforts we're each highly con-
servative and reaSSuring.
Unless we know the facts We can not act intelli-
gently. Until We know the detFee of sex rebellion
among modern youth both attitudes and acts,
We can do nothing effective to correct the actual evils
Even the most conservative Wall Street banker would
not invest without investigating the relevant facts
in the proposition offered
There is vast amount Of loose talk about the
sex anarchy Of the younger generation. One of the
few reliable ways Of getting at the facts is to submit
questionraires TO these very youths. There is no
danger Of melting anybody to "sin" through asking
any relevant questions. A generation which is ex-
posed to the movies sbenders, night clubs and col
ege smut sessions is acquainted with the facts Of
life in word If not in deed
!, Such a QUESTIONABLE was given to group Of
selected Smith seniors b. Professor Frank H Rankins
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
The Bankruptcv Business

Need for revision of the federal bankruptcy laws
is emphasized in the report by the department of
justice revealing the magnitude Of losses suffered
by creditors through the operation Of an obsolete
system.
The report was in response to a recent request
from President Hoover to the departments of justice
and commerce for an exhaustive study of the problem
The President called attention to the abuse Of bank
ruptcy laws by INSCRIPTIONS persons, and said
proposals for amending the laws would be made fol-
lowing the inquiry
Nearly billion dollars in assets was involved in
s45 cases filed during the last fiscal year, said the
report. The amount realized on the assets of bank
rupt firms and individuals was only about 18 cents
on the dollar. And out of that came expenses and
fees which reduced further the amounts creditors
finally recovered to about cents on the dollar.
Perhaps the most exhaustive report thus far on
the subject was that under the direction Of William
j. Donovan, former United States assistant attor
ney-general, published last spring Donovan acted
as counsel for three bar associations of New York
which became active after series Of scandals there
which brought the Intervention of Federal Judge
Thatcher and United States District Attorney futile.
Donovan urged speeding up procedure, putting the
administration of bankrupt estates on business
basis relieving the courts Of administrative duties
more efficient enforcement of criminal provisions of
the present act, and other reforms.
Judge Thatcher, who since has become United
States solicitor general, in memorandum pointed
out the superiority of the British system, which he
had studied and said it was successful in protecting
creditors He stressed the desirabty of separating
executive and judicial functions in bankruptcy ad-
miniStration.
AS the law now operates. the bankruptcy bust
ness is carried on through $50 federal referees act
ing under order of the district judges and the army
of trustees receivers, lawyers and others named to
look after the businesses of petitioners.
The system is uneconomcal and cumbersome, and
open to manifold abuses. Judges lack time and
training to participate intellgently. Receivers and
trustees often are inexperienced and must rely on
lawyers and others to do the real work Shyster
lawyers working for dishonest clients can use the
law to mulct creditors
The presidential study, which no doubt will be
completed by the time congress reassembles in De-
cember should provide the necessary guidance for
the needed early legislative revision and reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
1AGI AOO4 Lands

INDIANAPOLIS comes to bat with the latest case
i in which beast shot young and outraged
girl, the beast in this instance being white
In all such cases we should put our criminal law
yers in moth balls, cut out our courthouse monkey
business and ask our judges to step on the gas.
When there's no doubt of guilt there should be
a ffteen-minute trial. Immediately followed by a
twenty minute necktie party, all in harmony with
the statutes, of course
And it makes difference whether the guilty
be white or black. If anything hand the necktie
TO the white man more quickly than the black man,
for more is expected of him.
THIS reminds that along with the other darlings
L our pardon board and Governor are letting out
Of the penentiary every little while there usually
aue several who were sent up for rape
Our authorities should be informed that for the
time being We have enough such undesirabes at large
without any additions from those now behind the bars.
Those farmer vigilantes down at Brazil Ind, did
fine days work when they shot that quartet Of
bandits full of holes, and we'll not get anywhere until
each community has its vgilantes
Experience has shown that dead bandit rarely
gives the community any trouble.
Several other things have contributed to the high
tide OF crime which washes the shore OF the present
but unemployment has recruited many Of the bad men.
1deneSS is the main entrance to he'll.
1T makes you wonder what conditions will be when
industrial schedule shall be rearranged to pro-
vide fye-day week and siX-hour day, further re-
auctions to follow in due time
Unless We can make tree-sitters out of millions,
there viii be large cargo Of devilment.
Instead of being penalty visited upon the human
for the indiscretions of Mr. and Mrs Adam work
is the greatest blessing invented, not only be-
it keeps you out Of trouble but because it az
fords the only abiding satisfaction earth.
And Of all jobs. the farmer would have the best
conditions could be arranged to give him prosperity
Out in the fields you Free you don't have to
hatter anybody plot against anybody; you free
from all the lttlenesses of men: you are in partner
ship with nature and if she'll only keep her shirt on,
you are better OF than anybody else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

blood pressure. In some people,
the withdrawal of excessive amounts
of alcohol will lower the blood pres
sure, but in others it will not ap-
parently have this effect. Because
of the food qualities of alcohol it
tends to favor putting on weight,
and it has been established by the
insurance companies that excess
weight after middle life is likely to
be associated with higher blood
pressure.
1t has been established that a
nervous state tends to raise the
blood pressure, and it. is known
that excessive amounts of tea and
coffee may make the Individual
more nervous than he would other"
wise be. These practical aspects of
the subject are such that every man
may make to some extent his own
research,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Heat

INTENSE heat drives the tail out
a of a comet, according to DR.. Mac
milan. The comet has to approach
close enough to the sun to be heated
up before the tail develops.
1.-THE striking characteristic OF
Planet x is that it remains fai
enough from the sun to keep cool.
DR.. Macmillan says. He continues:
IF you were to freeze a bottle
of pop, for instance, take it out to
the neighborhood of Uranus, knock
off the glass and throw the ice
toward the sun with side motion
the ice would revolve in an elliptical
orbit around the sun.
GAS it approached the sun, heat
would expand and release the gas,
while light-pressure would drive it
off as tail. That is what probably
happens to comets.
quite likely the solar system has
parasites crawling all over it. If you
go hunting for them, you probably
could find hundreds.
ct is conceivable that Planet K
is one of a cometary family, hav-
ing many members, which move in
the outer ranges Of the solar sys-
tenn, approaching the sun at inter-
walls of thousands of years"
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radio in the living room and bed
of red geraniums on the lawn.
Fine Music

A SIDE from the suggestion that
"A there may be a political sig
nificance in the Mulrooney order
which has taken the nickel-plated
canaries away from the coppers in
the metropolitan streets, the ques-
ton remains whether or not it is
for the best. This all depends.
Personally, whistle music never
appealed to me very much. It al
ways seemed to lack something vital.
And after you've heard one whistle,
you've heard them all. A traffic
cops whistle in Yazoo City, Miss,
sounds just about as offensive as
another traffic cops at Fifth ave-
nue. and Forty second street.
1t may be that I'm prejudiced in
the matter Of music. 1 go into
transports of ecstasy. I mean to
say, go quite nuts. when an ami
NAL trainer brings a trained sea
lion out on the stage, squats him
down in front of roy of 1914 auto
horns, and by the exercise Of sheer
Wagnerian magic, persuades him to
sneeze into the funnel ends, caus-
ing to arise therefrom a miscellany
of snorts, grunts and walls which
when freely translated, amounts to
the good old summer time" with
the usual Macy discount for cash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Poor Politician

A MOTHER gentleman distin-
N guished for party fealty and
unceasing devotion to the public
veal wanted to build a summer home
at Blue Point where the wild oysters
gambol au naturel on the moon
bathed sands. But he didn't have
enough money. A very kind lady
heard his story and her heart was
touched.
What cruel inconsiderate world.
They have milk funds for babies,
Christmas charities for the poor,
relief for the farmers and food for
the Belgians.
But nobody ever seems to want
to do things for an all right poll
tician who is sobbing in his clam
chowder because he hasn't got nice
big house out in Blue Point with
cane chairs on the front porch, a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Blood Pressure Has Mental Angle

From time to time it has been
recognized that various drugs will
lower the blood pressure. This eff
feet is brought about by action on
some Of the factors concerned in
maintaining the blood pressure.
Sometimes the lowering is brief
and therefore of but little use in the
control of a long-continued chronic
condition. Other drugs have been
used in which the lowering Of pres
sure took place over longer periods
of time.
Then the question arises as to
whether or not the increased blood
pressure may not be a mechanism
for maintaining the health rather
than a serious factor of disease
Upon such problems as these re-
search workers continue to spend
their efforts in many hospitals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
M. E. Tracy
The Gambling Instinct Is IN
All of Us. Every Normal
Human Being Likes to Bet
Not0 and Then.

I'm DANDY, rated as hopeless ana
y carrying odds Of 100 to /, wins
the Travers midsummer derby at
Saratoga.
Experts are trying to figure out
how it happened, and those who bet
on what they supposed a sure thing
are disappointed, while the few who
took the long end-most Of them
just for fun-not only acquire easy
money, but prestige.
The idea that they we're lucky
soon will give place to the idea that
they were wise, that they knew
something other folks did not, that
they are possessed of an intuitive
ability to judge horses, and that it
will pay to watch them.
Some folks regard this as the
most pernicious aspect Of gambling,
as it probably is, but it plays no big-
ger part at the race track. roulette
wheel, or ticker, and is no more per-
nicious in its effect than in every
phase of life.
Whether in gambling, politics,
business or society the crowd wor-
ships those who succeed. even
though their success represented
nothing more than falling in a mud
puddle and finding a diamond ring,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Natural to Bet

THE gambling instinct is in all
Il Of us. There isn't a normal
human being but who likes to lay
a bet now and then.
Efforts to repress this instinct
have led to the usual result.
Denied the privilege Of expressing
itself in comparatively harmless
forms, it has broken out all over
the map
We have prohibited lotteries.
smashed slot machines and barred
stud poker, only to become the
greatest gamblers on earth.
Like bootleg hootch, our gambling
devices have become rank poison.
Instead of satisfying a peculiar APP
petite, they go to the vitals of our
economic structure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-18
Questions and
AnSzOerS

What are Basques and where do
they live?
They are a peculiar race dwelling
on the slopes of the Pyrenees. They
occupy the provinces of Biscay
Alva, Guipuzcoa and Navarro in
Spain and two French departments
Bayonne and Ma 1leon.
What is the meaning OF the name
Edwilda?
1t is Teuton:c and means rich
power"
What is the corpuscuIar theory of
light?
That theory, according to which
luminous bodies emit minute parti-
cles capable OF passing through
transparent substances, and pro-
ducing the sensation of light. 1t is
also known as the emission theory
What is the value of a COnfed-
crate $20-bill, issue of 1864, portray
ing Nashville capitol?
1t is not worth / cent.
When do the spring and autum.
nal equinOxes occur?
The spring equinox occurs March
81 and the autumnal equinox
Sept. %.
When did Admiral Robert E.
Peary die?
In 1920.
In what poem does the following
line oSsur: Give to the world the
best you have and the best will come
back to you?"
"Life's Mirror" by Mary A. DeVere
who wrote under the pen name OF
Adelaide Bridges.
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fANNIVER$ARYI
VIRGINIA DARE'S BIRTH
August IL.

NN Aug. 10, 1887, Virginia Dare,
~ the first child born in Amer
lea Of English parents, was born
on Roanoke Island, Va, now part
Of North Carolina.
Sir Walter Raleigh was trying
to found a colony in this region
which he called Virginia in honor
of Queen Elizabeth, the virgin
queen. The new baby, therefore,
was named for the country. She
was the granddaughter Of John
White, who was sent out by Raleig.
as governor Of the Roanoke colony.
Two days after her birth she was
baptized according to the rites Of
the Church Of England" This was
the first celebration Of the rite Of
Christian baptism Of North
American born white child
Before Virginia was 3 years old.
the colony disappeared, and no Ola
knows to this day what became. Of
it. The Lost Colony Of Roanokea
is regarded as one Of the mys-
teries Of history.
One legend is that the colonists
inteTmarried with the Indians and
are the ancestors OF the present
band of Croatan Indians living in
the southern part Of North Caro-
lima. who number about DO.
William Strachey, on the other
hand writing in 1913, states the
men, women and children Of the
first plantation Of Roanoke we're
killed by practice and command
ment Of PoWhattan."