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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

The surprise team of the Recreation
League, according to Secretary Dave
Cox, is the Cubs.
Nobody gave the Cubs tumble at the
start, but they have to their credit the
highest set ever rolled in the league.
l,5l2, and one Of their number, Dey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

Should Northeast Temple tie the
King Pins in percentage of victories
the King Pins probably would win on
total pins in the District League, be-
ing 40S sticks up on the enemy.
The Temples made ii marks in the
last three boxes to win game from
Petworth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

The James Baird Co. and George A.
Fuller Stone Plant teams. respective
winner of the second and third series
titles, will meet in five-game match
next THURSDAY night at the Arcadia to
determine the pennant winner of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

Washington Typographers took the
lead in the Typothetae League by
whitewashing Ransdell, Inc, diSplactng
National Capital Press. H-K Advertts-
ing Service won six games from CO.
lumbar Printers and Typothetae and
became o pennant contender.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
World Court Mystery

Friends Of the world court are asking why ratlnca-
ton probably will be withheld by the senate this win
Ter. They point out that more than two-thirds OF
The senate favor ratification Of the protocols 1or
American adherence.
They point out that recent survey by the Anerl-
can (Bok) Foundation shows that more than Two
thirds of the daily newspapers Of the country favor H.
indicating an overwhelming public sentiment Iney
point out that the President. after years delay
finally has submitted the protocols to the senate WIN
an able message urging action
The question as to. cause Of delay which threatens
10 ostpone action for another year or longer is not
hard to answer.
The avowed enemies Of the court are not respon-
sible In the senate the irreconcilabes number not
more than twenty of total membership OF ninety
six Obviously that minority is too small TO prevent
action, except through flibuster tactics
But the threat of an effective minority hhbuster
is more fancied than real Some of the ireconcaoes
are old guard leaders who will do almost anything
TO prevent the extra session which world court
hlbuster would force.
ANYWAY. all senators recognize in the present eco
nonlic emergency tense national situation IN winch
public opinion would not stand for world court NIL
buster No senator is apt to afoul Of the punhcs
raw nerves at this time if he help It, hlibus-
ter, If attempted almost certainly would collapse
quickly.
II the small minority is not strong enough TO force
delay, then the alleged friendly majority Is respon-
sihe. We believe such to be the case.
When the President tried to find one Republican
out of the dozens giving lip service to the court to
lead the senate fight for ratification, it Is said that
only the lame duck Gett of Massachusetts was avail
able The situation is hardly better on the Demo-
cratic side There the obvious leader should be Sena-
tor Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democratic mem
Der of the foreign relations committee. But SWAN
son. after much evasion, has declared his opposition
to consideration of the matter at this session. He IS
typical Of most of the senate friends Of the court
The irreconcilabes would like to kill the court
project. but they haven't the power. What is hap
pening is that It is being slowly sothered to death
by its senate friends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
We Must Keep Faith!

To small boys and girls Santa Claus is as much
part of Christmas as the babe in the manger, the
three wise men, and the angel who sang the first
glad carol.
Childish dreams have a habit Of getting broken as
the year goes on. Somebody else gets the new red
wagon on which little boy has set his heart. The
pink bears that would have made a little girl grow
stary-eyed hang around anothers throat.
But children have secret place in their hearts
i,here shining belief lives the belief Jnat on
night before Christmas, from mysterious
d, a. generous creature known as Santa Claus will
ONE, bringing the presents that will make them glad
They can forget that their coats shabby, that
there are no jam pots in their cupboards when they
think of the gala night.
Every year there are many children who waken
in the dawn light, to grope for stockings Every year
there are many children who bury their heads in the
blankets and cry softly because somehow again this
time the dream Is crushed and the stocking is empty
If every one who understands that Santa Claus is
merely typical of that Christmas spirit which shares
with others would accept his part Of the response
bility there would be no Christmas morning heart
aches
There are toys enough in the shops and packed
away In our attics to make every limp black stocking
fat enough to burst. Tears are so unnecessary on
Christmas morning.
When we hear specific story about child our
interest aroused. But when read that thousands
of children needing our help, we grow indifferent.
The number is too large to be personal. we seem to
think.
yet every one of the thousands is an eager-eyed
youngster whose heart misses beat when he thinks
that it is almost time for the night of nights and
whose nose is pressed against the pateglass windows
of the stores as he wonders what he will draw from
the pack this year.
To disappoint him would be a tragic thing. 1t
would ruin his trust in the Spirit of Christmas which
the benevolent old man represents. He wouldn't
trust life so far again.
It is to keep childs heart filed with dreams and
his eyes gay with laughter that bring the gifts for
his stocking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
Mechanical Agriculture

The agricultural department. of the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States points out that one
OF the big factors in the scrablng of the farm stua
ton is the steadily increasing mechanization Of agri-
culture.
More and more, such crops as cotton wheat and
corn are being produced with mechanical assistance
This calls for more room. Mass production tactics
come into pay-and the corn cotton and wheat belts
in consequence, are slowly moving away from their
old habtats to new ones.
Thus cotton is perceptibly moving to the west
from the deep south. Wheat is heading for the wide
open spaces Even corn is shifting it's base.
Where this all will lead to is not quite clear In
the end, probably, it will make agriculture as whole
much stronger. But the period of transition is not
very pleasant. If In doubt. just ask any farmer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ---
Serious Study Given Auto Deaths
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

I Illuminated advertisement, or per-
haps some financial or domestic
trouble.
The driver suddenly turns right
when he meant to turn left and
finds himself in the ditch.
People who are slightly Ill, who
are intoxicated, or who frequently
develop nervous headaches are like
ly to get into trouble in guiding a
fast or powerful motor car in the
midst Of modern traffic.
It generally is reported that
women have a smaller number of
accidents than do men, which Is
true, simply because there are at
present smaller number of women
drivers than men.
When men and women have a
chance to run the same kind of
automobile over the same streets
for the same number of hours a
day, the women have three times
as many collisions as do the men.
This was determined in study
of men and women taxicab opera
tors in Philadelphia.
Color blindness and other visual
defects are not among the major
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15

causes of accidents on the high
ways, neither is slowness of reac-
ton.
Furthermore, people who are hard
of hearing or those who drive with
only one arm seem to be able to
compensate considerably for their
physical defects.
The chief form of mental dis
turbances responsible for motor &C
cidents seems to be emotional in
stability.
Investigators are inclined to be-
lieve that examination Of drivers
is essential toward reducing the
number of accidents. It is par
ticularly important that people who
repeatedly are in trouble. should
have their licenses revoked.
When Investigations are made to
determine whether the unsafe driv-
ing is due to constitutional slow
ness or lack of muscular control,
to ignorance, to bad health, or to
emotional instability, the factors
that make for safe driving are de-
termined, and perhaps at least one
dangerous source Of disturbance re-
moved from circulation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15

The veterans of foreign wars. drafting legisla-
tive program to be submitted to congress this win
ter include resolution urging that disqualification
privileges in government hospitals in the south be
made free to confederate veterans It is to be hoped
that congress will adopt it.
Disabled veterans of all wars can get free hos
pitalization in these Institutions with the single
ception that Civil war veterans must be men who
wore the blue and not the gray. But there many
aging confederate soldiers who need such attention
very badly, and, as the V. F. w points out:
They fought for cause they believed to be right
and today they are honored and respected citizens
OF this country
Adopting this resolution would be fair and gra-
cious act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
The Children's Bureau

Annual report of the United States childrens
bureau, headed by Grace Abbott, is out today re-
vealing again its significant work in behalf of the
nations 100000 children.
Housed in another temporary firetrap of a build
ing after being burned out OF the last
undetermined and under constant attacks from
bureaucrats and special interests the little institu
ton has toied for eighteen years to protect the most
helpless and inarticulate of the race, the children
Of the poor
Babies born in Squalor or out OF wedlock children
born to lives Of TOLL boys and girls who have gone
wrong" little sufferers from ricketts,, tuberculosis. in
dustrai accidents handicaps of all sorts-these ap-
pear In Miss Abbott's report.
Because there arc pending two remedial measures
Of immediate moment. two matters in the report are
worthy Of special study One is the review Of infancy
gSaterny work administered for years ~ Miss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
Writes Clearly

NR. STETSON writes clearly and
~ lucidly. A brief quotation will
serve to show his style. He writes:
zone may read cheer or gloom,
hope or despair, into the laws Of
nature in accordance with ones
mode of reaction to his surround
ings. The story Of life is the story
Of adjustment to a changing en-
vironment.
Birth, growth, age, and death are
but incidents of adaptation in a
whole life cycle. A drama Of crea-
ton is going on in which man ap-
pears for a moment and then passes
off the stage.
His existence on this little planet
we call the earth is an event in a
cosmic scheme. Just how signifi-
cant this event Is in the whole play
we can not tell.
ITO view the spectacle in which
we perform, to try to see ourselves
as others see us, has lured many a
philosopher and poet to the study
of nature and to reflection upon her
changing moods.
Some with cheerful optimism
look confidently into the future of
the world. Others read a catastro-
ph1c tragedy, in which man plays
but the puppets part.
1.-THE scientist sets up for himself
the difficult task Of being moved
neither by ecstasy nor by melan-
choly. His chore is impartia1ly to
observe, record and impart the story
Of events.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
IT SEEMS TO ME BY n BEoSS

1T is a fascinating story about the
Z creation of life in laboratory
test tube, even if, as I gravely sus-
pect. the announcement is prenla-
ture, Newspaper medicine has a
tendency to be wild and woolly.
Yet there is no doubt that the
research men have been on the
trail Of some such achievement for
several years. They have pursued
life and tried to catch it in an old,
familiar fashion.
According to the newspaper an
nouncement, among the chief in
gradients in the mixture which
fixed into existence were certain
salts" AS child, was informed
that birds could be captured in just
this manner.
But even more basic than the
certain salts" were ashes. AL OF
which serves to complete with neat
ness traditional cycle.
Professor Copeland Of Harvard
used to express q wish that he
might eliminate Manuel Garcia OF
Cuba, "who lived to be go and then
turned into cigar"
DR.. CRIES experiment suggests
that the process may be turned into
reverse and that any Manuel who
becomes bored with cigardom may
turn back into being a Garcia once
again
In spite of my skepticism I hope
that the story is accurate. It has
dramatic quality-this laboratory
romance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
DF n conn., FREDERICK
ANA1 ANVIL lands

A FELLOW out in the state of Washington pre-
diets another flood in 1882 and he's been getting
ready for it for the last eight years.
He's been building an ark and hopes to have it
done in two years.
The neighbors are all giving him the laugh. but,
as We recall that's what they did to old friend,
Noah
The business of predicting the end of the world
isn't f1ourishing as it used to be years ago.
when the general windup was billed for every spring
and fall.
There used to be a lot of fellows who got to work
only about half time tbs EST of their days being
taken up by serving on a receptions committee for
Gabriel.
We recall crowd in particular that used to
specialize in forecasng the ultimate crash and every
once in while they took their stations out where
everything was clear they wouldn't run into any
wires as they went straight up.
THEY put their ascension robes and were all
Il set, but nothing ever hapr ened
More fellows got tonsilitis from sitting around on
hay stacks in their nghties, waiting for the final
summons than from all other causes combined.
Down in New York City four fox terriers were
found guarding the dead body of their owner who
had lived the life of a hermit
The authorities decided they would have to shoot
the dogs. unless somebody provided for them and
they put an article in the papers, saying
TN short order, people began to telephone in and
there hundreds of applications for the dogs
and now they are all happily housed
Think of New York even thinking of shooting
four perfectly good fox terriers after electing 70
public Office some of the people they dol
Russia did some wonderful worldwide advertis-
ing when she refused to execute those five men who
confessed they were guilty of treason against the
Soviet government.
She knew the world would have been dispatched
Immediately, had she committed the same offense
against the government Of the car.
Some advertisers
Every time we can grab OF warm day this time
OF year taking cartridge out of the belt of
Old Man Winter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15

Abbott under the old sheppardTowner act. The
other is the revelation that the machine age is In
creasng child labor in America
We learn that federal aid stimulated nineteen
states and Hawaii to carry on infancy maternity
work. Much Of the work, however, lapsed last year
when the Sheppard-Towner act failed Of re-enact-
ment The Jones-Cooper BILL re-enacting the aid Law
by giving 100000 year to states today is before
the senate In view of Miss Abbotts report it GER
tainly should carry
general increase in child labor in 1929 is indi-
Gated in the incomplete statistics furnished by the
states Approximately 100000 full-time working GER
tifcates were issued in 1929, compared with 10000
in 1928 The figures do not nc,ude the greater army
Of agricultural and domestic workers.
The estimate of child workers between 10 and 1e
gainfuly employed is more than 100000 Before
the state legislatures this spring is the child labor
amendment, ratified by only five states.
Miss Abbott's work, the most fundamental of hu-
man endeavors, is cramped by lack, of funds
Additions to the technical and clerical staff OF
the bureau should be made to enable it to meet the
obligations imposed by the increasing number of op-
portunities for service concludes the report.
The federal budget recently submitted to congress
by the President. proposes to run the childrens
bureau on S399,0oO-compared, for instance with
$4,000 for the national board for the promotion
of rifle practice"
Perhaps congress will see this rather grim Joke
and will decide that $4,000 is hardly fair share
for the chldrens bureau out of the federal budget
of more than $4000,oooO00.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
M. E. Tracy
SAYS:

The People of the South Still
Stay Close Enough to the
Soil to Help Themselves a
Bit if the Pay Envelope
Fails Them.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. IS. -
ID The south refuses to be de-
pressed. You can 60 to her ledgers
and prove an enormous money loss,
but you can't look at her people and
see the scar.
Bank failures, drought, poor trade,
part-time work and unemployment,
but very little gloom.
Five hundred miles through the
mountains from Roanoke down here
to Birmingham, and not a darkie
in the sulks.
Cabins where poverty resigned SUI
preme, hut with the occupants still
able to raise smile.
What's the answer? These people
have as much to complain about as
some others / could mention, but
they waste far less time complain
ing. Maybe, it's because they have
an anchor to windward in their re-
tention of the small community and
love of rural life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
Industry Out In Open

GONE southern cities are growing
~ rather rapidh zoo rapidly Tor
their own good, perhaps-but as a
whole, the tendency is to keep in
dustry out in the open. You can
find some surprisingly big plants in
some surprisingly small con1muni-
ties.
Even the larger communities re-
tain faith in the single house,
garden patch, and well spread out
suburb.
While in Knoxville, 7 talked with
two textile mill operators, each of
whom has from 1900 to 1,400 peo-
pie in his pay roll, and each of
whom told me that about one-half
of them came in from the country
where they occupied partially self
sustaining homes.
Birmingham is a much larger
city than Knoxville and has vastly
more concentrated group Of indus
tries, but, even so, it has a wor1-
derfully roonly appearance CON-
pared to northern towns of the same
size.
Birmingham, however, seems to
have been rather fortunate in
weathering this depression, though,
as one citizen explained it, this may
be due to the fact that Birmingham
had her slump about a year ahead
of time.
At all events, she has little more
unemployment than she did before
the crash last fall, while she has
spent upward of $10,oO0O0o for ex-
pansion Of her industrial plants
during the current year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15

constant source of amazement to
the scientists.
have often wondered why It
furnishes so little comfort to the
Dramatically devout. Personally, a
million Adams and like number of
Ewes impress me more than single
pair. -..---.-
am not dissuaded from my re-
ligious beliefs when I am told that
some festival of my faith merely
affirms an old nature myth.
Such affirmation is to me con-
f1rnation of the deeply rooted and
imperishable nature of the funda-
mental facts in creeds.
Life will seem to me no less sig
nif1cant and important if it is true
that it can be stirred up by the
electric motivation of sailed ashes.
Nobody can grasp the idea of
creative force unless it is expressed
in some symbol. Electricity will do
admirably as the outward mani
festation. It has dignity, power and
the quality of mystery.
And, after all, even If the story
of DR.. CRIES test tube and 'the
thing turns out to be true it will
not be quite accurate to hail the
doctor as being himself the ances-
tor of this plasmic forerunner of a
Senator Hefiin or some higher form
of life.
It was not Grille but the current.
So, cosnlically speaking, we are back
precisely where we were at the be-
ginning.
tCopyright 1880. by The T1mes)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
No Soup Kitchens Here.

T IKE every other American city,
IL Birmingham has gone through
the pros and cons of relief work
in every form, but thus far she has
not sanctioned the soup kitchen or
the breadline. What is more, she
does not intend to.
Her steel mills are keeping their
full complement of men at work by
putting many on part time, and
other establishments are pursuing
the same policy.
For needier people, Birmingham
has devised a system of meal tick
cts which can be bought for Is
cents each and which are good at
any of q. large number of designated
restaurants throughout the city.
These tickets can be purchased by
any one-by the man who can not
afford 25-cent meal, but who is
too proud to beg, by the man who
does not want to turn down a beg
gar for fear he may be hungry, but
hesitates to- give him the cash.
Whether bought by those in
straitened circumstances, or by
those who wish to contribute, they
keep the whole thing on a business
basis, which, after all, is Of no small
consequence,
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= = .
7 est Tube

"DR RAIN tissues form a freshly
ID killed animal we're reduced tc
ashes electrically" it reads. From
the resulting substances certain
salts and other elements were OBJ
tanned. To this substance was added
portein and perhaps some other
elements and chemicals.
1.-THE whole thing was treated
electrically. Before the eyes of the
scientists there appeared a thing
with characteristics Of a living cell,
or protozoon. The thing possessed
the power of procreation by fusion
or cell division"
This, it must be admitted, is
couched in something less than
scientific language. The phrase
perhaps some other elements and
chemicals" is not enough to en-
courage anybody to try the same
experiment in his own kitchen.
After all, science has known for
these many years most of the ma
teriaI which went into any living
organism. The catch always lay IN
that selfsame perhaps"
But if DR.. Grille has done this
amazing thing, or something like it,
the old squabble between religion
and science will rage once more,
as it has not done since the days
of Darwin.
And that, I fear, will be a pity,
for the preachers and the research
men seldom define the issue with
any clarity. They talk with vio-
Ience, but not about the same thing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-15
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EAMlalVGR.SARY|
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BATTLE OF VERDUN
December Is

ON Dec. Is, 1915, the French
~ army, commanded by General
Nivelle, achieved one of the most
significant victories Of the World
war when it vanquished the Ger
mans at Verdun after ten months
of heavy fighting.
Verdun was the primary objective
Of the German campaign Of 1916,
and the failure to capture it had a
far reaching influence on the
course Of the World war.
Nivelle had attacked on a front
Of six miles after three-day artil-
lery preparation. He succeeded in
penetrating the German front for a
distance of nearly two miles, and,
according to a Paris report, cap
tured more than 1000 prisoners.
The moral effects Of the victory
on the French troops and nation
were great. AS reward for his
heroic work at Verdun, Nivelle was
made commander-in-chief Of all the
French armies, succeeding General
Joffre.