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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
A King Speaks

Hundreds of thousands of Americans lost hours of
sleep in order to listen to King George talk about
peace.
OF course, what he said had been written for him
by that very able Socialist Ramsay Macdonald, who
is now the real head of the British empire The king
is but human photograph whose views change with
the votes of his own people
1t might be well for those who showed so great an
eagerness to listen to the radio speech to ask them
selves the reasons for their interest.
1t would be fine if It prompted by passion
ate desire for peace and hope that the confer
will not only lead to lifting the burdens of building
batteShps from the backs of the workers of the world
but to habit of agreement among nations that will
make wars improbable and impossible.
1t is possible that much of the interest was
aroused by the unusual experiment of listening to
voice from the ocean and that it would have
mattered little whether the speaker the king
a comedian.
That would also be a most commendable zeal and
interest, for the advancement Of every science and
invention makes for larger civilization.
1t would not be SO good the great interest was
in the fact that the speaker king and that
there is lingering reverence for aristocracy the
heart of many of our people.
Our security lies in a real passion for democracy
and real belief in it. If coming to the point
where We worship rank and title, the security of
some of our traditions is doubtful.
Possibly the explanation may lie in the fact that
most of us recognize in the present monarch very
kindly human being who realizes that he has no
power and does good job acting as the dummy head
of government whose real power is in the people Of
his country That would be better and
even more democratic.
At any rate, those who listened will understand the
British attitude of those who love kings. 1t may be
because they have become harmless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Traditions Are Falling

n. B. LIPPINCOTT says that
y though we are publishing more
books than ever before, the classics
are going out Of date.
Galli-Curci says that opera is
very old-fashioned entertainment
+ for 1880"
| We still force our children to read
Shakespeare, Virgil and Homer, but
how many of them keep it up when
free to do as they please?
We still preach that the music OF
Bach, Handel, Beethoven and their
like represents the highest FORM
but how many listen to it when
they can twist the dial to jazz?
We still proclaim mother love as
the most priceless thing in life, but
with fewer children each succeed
ing year.
The great mechaniSms we have
devised are doing tricks to some of
our most cherished traditions and
conceptions.
Slowly, but relentlessly, our at
titude toward a lot Of things is be-
ing changed.
We don't think of the home
We used to, or the church, or even
the government.
We can't, because modern devices,
and the methods they compel us
TO adopt make it impossible.
Whether we are creatures of cir
cunstances, as individuals, we are
certainly so in the mass, and proba-
bly, always have been.
The invention of swifter We
hicle, of more complicated ma
chine of grinding flour, or of a
bigger broadcasting set, only makes
us a little more so.
Every forward step We take in
this direction only calls for more
system, more discipline, more die
tatorShip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
| NJ. E. Tracy
Speech May Continue Free,
but only Those IN Posses
sion of the Mike" WI Be
Able to Use It.
SAYS:

THE voice of king comes over the
Il sea, and many Americans get
up much earlier than Is their wont
to hear it.
That Is probably more significant
than anything he said, or than any
thing the naval conference will do.
Just now, we are content to stand
in the presence of a miracle, but
tomorrow, or the next day, we shall
begin to realize what the miracle
implies.
Under the old order, when the
loudest shouter of them all could
not make himself heard more than
two or three hundred yards, many
people could talk at the same time
without bothering one another.
Under the new order, when the
most ordinary voice can be made to
cover circle of 5000 miles in
diameter, vastly more of us will
have to keep quiet.
Speech may continue free, but
only those in possession Of the mike
will be able to make effective use
of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
REASON By Ff aASbis

Nm his letter to Dr. Thompson president eneritis of
L Ohio State university President Hoover unloaded
a large idea; we know it's large because we've had
it for years
He said he favors SO many commissions because
he wants people to get the habit of helping their
government
If he will extend the invitation Mr. Hoover will
find Americans grateful for chance to help as
the Belgians were for bread.
Foreign governments get priceless service by giving
titles and tying Tom Thumb ribbons in the button
holes of the talented, Germany in particular reaping
golden dividends from such vanitieS, but we need
not drive truck through the Constitution by con-
ierring any titles, is it necessary to Grape the
Americana with bunting.
All he asks is the invitation.
Thousands would like to take part in public labors,
but are unwilling to be fed through the clover huier
of politics. and While many could not accept long
appointments Just give them chance to bring home
the bacon for the u S. A. distinguished occasions
and they will slide down the creased pole OF en-
thusiasm and give service money can not buy.
FAN naturally is a partc.pator he does not yearn
wi to remain in moth balls while anything worth
while is going on he wants to be among those pres
ent.
Honor him with public responsibility and he will
work his head of for glory; wake him up at a. m.
to impress him with the gravity of it and you Will
have to give him laughing gas to get him to quit.
We have only TO plant the thought that Tree gov
eminent is the concern OF all, not the trade OF a
few; we have only pry loose the fallacy that the
freeanS full duty to his country is discharged when
he jams yard of passeboard into tin box cleo
ton day; we have only to pass around the Bunker
Hill idea that all are workers in the vineyard Of the
republic
This is the only frame of mind which can be worn
becomingly with political fabric which is OF, FOR
and BY.
To arrest rising resentment against cockroach gov
eminent in cities, mayors, more and more, appoint
cabinets composed of the capable and the incor-
ruptble such cabinets serving without financial re-
ward and if any have refused such appointment we
have not heard of it.
r ONG have We marveed that public officials should
- tardily discover the American people and taking
them by right of discovery put them to work per-
forming great tasks for the country. And now that
President Hoover seeks to make this very thing fash
onable We congratulate him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
More Lobby Tracks

How successful the private tariff interests have
been in placing or reaching in the government
tariff bodies gradually is coming out in the senate
lobbying investigation. Already the trail Is uncov-
cred into senate committees and the tariff commits
sion. and the end is not yet in sight.
The lobby inquiry revealed Tuesday that the
American Tariff League has had employees of the
ate finance committee and the house ways and means
committee on its private pay roll. Edward Nelson
Dngley expert of the finance committee. which writes
the tariff schedules, shown to be listed the
leagues books correspondent" and to have re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Dispute

CCIENTISTS of the world hope
~ that the careful work started by
Chou Kou Tien will be continued
and that the revolution and other
difficulties in China will not inter-
fere.
It is also hoped that the Chinese
biologists viii! take counsel with DR..
Anderson and other experienced
neads who may be present. It is
extremely important that every de-
tail of the new discovery be care
fully settled
For example, sufficient study
must be made to satisfy the scien-
tif1c world whether or not the
skeletons are of the same age as the
geological strata in which they oc-
cur.
If doubt remains that the Skele-
tons Represent a later burial, their
scientific value will be greatly rec
luced. And Of course, if the skele-
tons are Of recent date, it is highly
important that such a fact be
brought to light.
The study so far reveals that Pek-
ing nan had large brain like that
of man, but massive jaw like that
of an ape.
This is an interesting fact, since
most Of the argument about
Piltdown man revolves around the
question of whether the skull and
Jaw belong to one creature or two.
Many anthropologists feel that
the evidence Of the Picking man will
settle the dispute over the Piltdown
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Times-I read your edi-
tcrial Prohibition After Ten Ye-rs"
in The Times of the 18th and am
certainly surprised at YOUR temerity
Cor having the nerve to knock the
glorious eighteenth amendment.
Certainly you must be blind not to
see these advantages.
Any ore with the price (fron
Is years up can buy a drink in
any hovr Of the tvency-four. The
old saloon didn't sell from 10 D. m.
to a. M The bcotlegger is on the
job cay and night.
2. ANY one with s. can sell
booze; whereas under the old sys-
ven it cost $1,000 for a license.
3. Men over As years old, and
widow women can make a letter
living than they cid before 1920.
4. We can buy booze seven days
weekI
5. A person can buy his booze
without buying drinks for dead
heads The treating system" is
almost obsolete under the bootlegger
plan.
6. A half pint of modern booze
has fhe same kick as a quart of
1916 hoozei
7. The lawyers, undertakers and
florists are dong we'll since 1919.
ASK any Of tbeml
Why should you act like the fox
and the sour grapes of Aesop's
Fables?
THOMAS H. WILSON.
2913 East New York street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
HEALTH SERVICE

threatened with some danger, either
tiger or an enemy with a weapon.
and begin to run without having
any idea where they are running or
for what purpose.
The disease "latah" as 1t occurs
among Malay women begins with
shrek, after which the woman
is likely to initiate everything that
is said and done in her presence
and to Shrek at her employer.
Similar symptoms have been
noted in American cooks not def
nitely infected with anything but
IneanneSs.
The Malay character is emotional
and the response to infection is
what might be expected from a race
STEPPED in mysticism and magic and
easily suggestible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Questions
and AnszVgrS

What is the nationality and
meaning of the name ThordiS?
1t is from the Morse and Teutonic
and means "Thor'S household
spirit"
Is President Hoover a member of
any secret organization?
No.
When was the first Buffalo nickel
issued? Who designed 1t?
1t was designed by James Earl
Fraser and first issued in 1913.
Is Knute Rockne, the coach of the
Notre Dame football team, Pro-
teStant?
He is a Roman Catholic.
For what Is Elwood Haynes best
known?
In 1S93-o4 he constructed a horse
less carriage, now on exhibition at
the Smithsonian institution at
Washington. He also discovered
several metallic alloys useful In the
manufacture Of automobiles.
What Is the value Of q United
States large copper cent dated 1927?
From to Is cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

THERE have been complaints III
i 1880 that this column has grown
a little thin and trivial in its themes
That, I am afraid, is inevitable
There is bound to be some sympa-
thetic reflection OF my own loss OF
weight.
Training is an all-day job. One
purchases a figure only at the price
Of eternal vigilance A SGT of chops
and dish of noodles Will undo :h9
slavery of an entire afternoon in
the gymnasium.
At the mcment the business of
Getting thin absor0s my entire at
tention. I can not, for instance,
work up much excitement about the
limitation Of naval ornaments, be-
cause I am too intent upon my own
reduction.
Even a grave national problem,
which shall be nan.elesS, since ]
have promised not to mention it
for a month, leaves me more cold
than usual. Night and day, 1 grit
my teeth and say, "I'll show him!'
Although SOW to anger, I happen
to be a terror when aroused. 1t ali
began with caricature in Judge.
Some rabid artist pictured huge,
gross figure numbering down Broad
way and, according to the caption
underneath, a bystander was re-
marking, 81 can't tell whether that's
Haywood Broun or the four Marx
brothers."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Malay Running Amuck Is Simply Ill

The Dutch physician Van Loon
not to be confused with Hendrix
Van Loon, the author-points out
that the reaction Of the Malay to
these infections is what might be
expected from people with the
Malay psychology.
In their surveys of disease, ply
sicians constantly are compelled to
remember that human beings differ
in their reactions, because they are
differently constituted.
Each Of us is the sum of all his
ancestors and of the reactions to the
environment in which he has been
reared.
When infections act upon us, our
responses vary according to our
natures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Where viii It End?

A SMART philosopher once said:
N Give me to write the songs of
a nation and I care not who writes
it's laws"
If he were living in the present
day, he probably would revise the
maxim to read: "Give me control
Of the engineer, the architect, and
the chemist, and I care not who is
elected to congress"
To square Communism with
science. Russia finds it necessary to
establish a despotism more ruthless
than that of the car.
To make cooperation effective,
MuSsolini obliterateS democracy.
To combat trusts and monopoly,
we Americans gradually are evolving
a bureaucratic form Of government.
One need not be a pecsimist to
wonder where it will all end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Ghost of a Smile
TITO him I will pay no heed,

TITO him I will pay no heed,
Il never did. I never even saw
his COMPOUNDED picture. 1t happened
to be called to my attention. But
as I pass the second time, I shall
tip nv hat slightly and wink direct
ly at the girl.
1t is simple, but a very f1end1sh
sort of vengeance. My plan does
not include any further encounter
with either girl or cartoonist. He
will not be able to sue for allena-
ton or anything like that, because
even the wink will be one OF the
most subtle sort.
We will not meet again, but I
f1atter myself that the impression
will remain. Weeks and months
later. she will still be saying to her
beau, who was that dashing man
who passed us the other afternoon
we went to see the Buster Keaton
picture? I thought Jack Barry
more was in Hollywood"
The torturing part of 1t is that
all the time he will know very well
who that man-about-toWn was.
There was just the faintest trace
of a likeness in the gross libel
which he drew Of me back in the
past, when I was inclined to be
stout.
Bit, though he knows, his lips will
be sealed. He won't dare tell her.
1t would break his heart to let her
know and hear her startled excla-
nation of Not reaIly!"
And even I would hardly be harsh
enough to want the iron thrust
more deeply into his soul. She
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
In Midst of Revolution

MOST people realize that we are
1V1 in the midst of one Of the
greatest revolutions that ever oc-
Cured, but very few have reached
the point where they perceive its
subtler effects.
To the great majority it repre-
sentS little more than a change Of
mechanical appliances, the substi-
futon of autos for horses, or cleo
trio lights for tallow candles.
The superstition still prevails that
politics can be separated from eco
Monies and that materialism has no
connection with moral development.
What was it that brought the In
terstate commerce commission into
being, but the railroad?
What has helped the criminal
more than the conversion of police
men into traffic cops?
What has caused the old-fash-
Toned home to disappear, but the
slzyscraper apartment and modern
hotel?
What has struck a harder blow to
orthodoxy than science?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

~ TO permit americans 10 cOIOnlZe
Texas.
The right to establish Texas
colony was obtained by Moses Aus
tin He died soon after, but his son
Stephen took up the work
Being free to chose the location
for his colony, Austin selected the
lower Prazos and Trinity valleys.
Before long many claims covered
the region from the Sabine TO the
Nueces.
Discomfort with the Mexican rule
was not long in appearing, and 8
state of warfare existed between the
Mexicans and American colonists for
several years.
In 1886, the Mexican leader, Santa
Anna, was taken captive and was
glad to sign a treaty in which ne
engaged to do what he could for the
Independence of Texas.
Thus the republic of Texas was
launched and a Constitution rati-
fed in September Of the same year,
with Sam Houston as president.
Texas was admitted TO the Union
in 1916.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

CelVeQ Sl041 1874 10 1890 OlISLcy Is Tie son
of the father of the famous Dingley tariff.
Clayton Moore clerk of the house tarif-naking
committee, also appeared the leagues books as
correspondent He received 81 1866 in the same four
year period.
All in all, the tariff lobby seems to have been do
ing pretty well for itself This league had for its
Wce-president Joseph r. Grundy, the daddy of lob
byists who since has been given seat in the senate
Then there was the of Charles L. Eyanson, Of
fetal of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association
employed at the same time as Senator Bnghams sec
rotary and who attended the confidential tariff writ
ing meetings of the senate committeeman the plant
discovered
Nor should William Burgess be forgotten. He is
the gentleman employed for twenty years as a lob
byis by the United States Pottery Association except
for four-year interim in which he actually served
as a member of the tariff commission.
According to the investigating committee he has
been guilty of attempts to bring secret pressure and
by threats to ruin the morale of government tariff
employees and to get special favorS.
Even more notorious is the case of j. A. Arnold
whose fake organizations, including the Southern
Tariff Association, have been exposed and condemned
by the investigating committee.
This probe not go too far for the public good
Logical arguments against high tariff increases always
have not moved congress- but the exposure of lobby
methods has produced public reaction and disgust
which congress can not ignore
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

Selecting a. place of vantage near
the young persons home, it is my
plan to wait in hiding until the
artist chap appears. He will turn
out to be, I assume, a grubby and
an ink-stained wretch. My own
hair will be neatly trimmed and
have fresh tonic on it.
AS the pair leave the house on
their way to some second or third
run picture theater, I will emerge
from my retreat and saunter past,
Once will probably be enough.
But with the new chassis, saunter-
ing will be easy enough, and so !
may stroll by the artist Johnny and
his girl a second time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Never Happened

OF course, the incident never
~ happened. The Marx brothers
are in Chicago Besides, nobody
could ever mistake me for any one
or two of them, because I'm much
taller than the MarXeS.
Unfortunately, I failed to note
the name Of the offending artist,
but that is a detail. The revenge
which I plan will be personal and
poignant. Somewhere there must
be person whom he loves. Even
cartoonists have few friends.
I shall note the name and ad-
dress of the young lady. When
spring comes round again II under
stand that 1t can't be far behind) ,
I shall sumter by her home in a
new suit, spats and a bamboo cane.
This, of course, will be the new
model, the streamline Broun, Prob
ably I shall put gardenia in my
buttonhole,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Daily Thought

And Jesus said unto them. / am
the bread Of life; he that cometh
10 Me shall never hunger; and he
that be'i-vc-i- il F~c shall. never
thirst.--St. john 6:35.
Happy the man who sees a God
employed in all the good and Ills
that checkered life.-Cowper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
NEW people realize where the
L. term running amuck" comes
from, although the phrase is not
uncommon with American and Eng
disappearing peoples. The term
really is derived from the Malay
language, the Malay word being
"amog."
The disease as 1t occurs among
men of the Malay tribe is called
"amog," whereas among women it
Is called "latah."
Natives suffering from infectious
disease, which usually is malaria,
develop the idea that they are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to thcii
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paner.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
T eet1

I'LL 4hot oIdOC VI IChlil6 INdlI,
Il as scientists refer to him, was
found at the Chow Kou Tien site,
by DR.. A. zdansky, a Russian SCI
enlist.
The site is a cavern filled with
bones of countless animals all ce-
mented together into a huge block
Of limestone. The removal of the
bones is task of great difficulty.
Each fossilized bone must be CHS
eled carefully from the matrix of
stone in which it is imbedded.
Haste or careIessness would ruin the
whole project.
Discovery Of the first tooth was
followed by the discovery OF a Sec
ond one by Burger Bohlin, a young
Swedish scientist This tooth was
studied by DR.. Davidson Black, a
young American at the Picking
medical college. DR.. Black former
ly taught anthropoIogy at Western
Reserve university in Cleveland, o.
DR.. Black recognized the age and
Importance Of the tooth and coined
the name of "Sianthropus Pekinen-
sis or "Peking Man" for the fossil.
Picking man, according to DR..
Black and DR. j. G.. Anderson,
Swedish adviser TO the Chinese
geological survey, is as old as Java
man of PiltdoWn man.
Java man or Pithecanthropus, as
readers of these articles know, con-
siSts. of a skull, several teeth and a
thigh-bone, found at Trinil, Java.
Piltdown man or Eoanthropus con-
sists of fragments of a skull, jaw
Zone, some teeth, and nasal bones,
found at Piltdown, Sussex, England.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By Hf 6RoUS

might, you see, go on to say, "And
isn't it remarkable that he's so good
looking, as we'll"