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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Editor Tines-It is the usual
thing in political life to accuse the
officials of spending too much of the
taxpayers money, so it is rather
amusing to use who are not tax
payers in Marion county to see that
the opposite view is the case in In
dianapolis.
The Indianapolis Star is abusing
and threatening the three tried
men, and true" who as commits
sioners of Marion county are trying
to keep from spending more than
one and one-half million dollars Of
the county'S money to tear down the
First Baptist and Second Presbyte-
rian church in Indianapolis.
These commissioner evidently are
working for the small taxpayer who
does not dodge his taxes and is un-
organized, as against a rich and
organized body which planned the
war plaza in front of its cathedral
for space to form dress parades and
march. It seems to have every one
completely subdued, except these
brave commissioners.
War memorials are the popular
thing just now, and the whales are
swallowing money, so new ideas take
hold slowly. The fact remains un-
recognized, therefore, that, un-
planned by man. there stands in
Indianapolis 4 monument to the
outlawing Of war. coming to compile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
M. E. Tracy
The Russians Believe IN Cont
mttniSns as q Means to
Prosperity.
SAYS:

THE most important fact thus
l. far brought out by the Fish
committee in its probe Of red activ-
tiles is that Amtorg, the commercial
agent Of Soviet Russia in this
country, has obtained credits total
ing $80,000000
That fact shows the difference
between Communism as practiced in
Russia and Communism as we
know it here.
Communism in Russia is a strictly
business institution, devoted to the
purpose of rehabilitating a nation.
Work, production. and improve
ment. from a material standpoint,
are its primary detectives. 1t sets
little store by the political wind
jamming which we take so seriously.
It permits no opposition party, much
less general agitation.
But that is the side Of it we fail
70 understand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

TIER word is toasted" filled
i i with one-mile walks and teeth
that don't decay. I am thinking
of an old lady who wrote me a let
ter at the radio station. She said
that she had been stone deaf for
years.
The silence was not broken until
the radio came along. Then she
found that by the use of a headSet
she could hear the sounds trans
mitted over the air. And she added
that ever since she has spent the
greater part of her day tapping
into the only pool of audibility
which may be reached by her.
She added little wistfully, 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

feel that L know Amos n Andy
and Floyd Gibbons and Will Rogers
better than the members of my
own family because they can talk
to me without writing things down
on slips of paper. You see listening
in is the only thing which makes
ne feel not deaf"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HyKeia, the
Health Magazine.

MANY factors that control acct
AVA dents are obvious. For in
stance accidents are more likely
to occur at the time when workers
become most fatigued. They are
more likely to occur when opera
lions are speeded up beyond the
normal speed.
Automobile accidents occur more
frequently on the days when the
most drivers are circulating and
when most amateur drivers are cir
culating.
In a recent investigation by Al
bert F. Stevens it is indicated that
in industry the age of the injured
worker is a definite factor in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Model

TINE earth revolveS about the sun
i at a distance of 100000 miles.
A small model will illustrate the re-
lationship between the sun and
earth.
Suppose that the sun were repre-
sented by a globe one foot in di-
ameter A small seed approximately
one-tenth of an inch in diameter
placed at little more than one
hundred feet from the globe would
represent the earth.
Light, which travels at the rate
of 10000 miles a second, takes
eight and one-third minutes to go
from the sun to the earth.
A railroad train, running at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, would
take ITS years to reach the sun,
while the fare one way, at the rate
of 4 cents mile, would be $3.720,000.
Because the sun is SO much larger
than the earth, the force of gravity
would be much greater upon the
sun. A person who weighed 100
pounds with a spring balance on the
earth's surface, would weigh more
than a ton, about 2,790 pounds, up
on the surface of the sun.
But, of course, it would not be
possible to conduct any such eX-
pertinent upon the surface of the
sun. For the surface of the sun is
not solid, but gaseous, and at ire
mendous temperature.
Surface temperature of the sun
is 5000 degrees on the centigrade
thermometer, the one in use by sci
entists. On the Fahrenheit ther-
mometer, the one in ordinary use
in this country, the sun has a sur
face temperature of 10000 degrees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Radium Relief

Two government agencies are studying this summer
the question of radum production and viii report to
a congressional committee in the fall. This marks
progress at least the effort to revive radim manu-
facture in this country.
The United States geological survey is making an
extended study Of radum-bearing ores most ofThich
are located In Colorado and Utah. The United States
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Rotation

TINE sun rotGtes upon its axis
4 just as the earth does. This
fact has been escertained by the
observation of sun-spots. Just as
the earth rotates upon its own axis
in a counter clockiwse direction, so
does the sun.
BY counter-clockwise, motion in
the opposite direction to that of the
hands of the clock is meant.
This is the general motion of the
solar system. All the planets re-
volve about the sun in counter
clockwise direction.
Observation of different sun
spots, however, give different rates
of rotation for the sun.
The answer to this riddle was
first pointed out about 1860 by Car
rington, who showed that sun-spotS
travel fastest at the equator of the
sun and slower to the north or
south of It.
In other words, the equatorial re-
gion of the sun is revolving more
rapidly than the regions to the
north or south of it.
This extraordinary state of affairs
is possible only because of the gas
eouS nature of the suns surface.
Many authorities today believe
that the sun is gaseous through and
through.
E. w. and Mrs. Maunder, British
astronomers who nave made care
full study of solar rotation, analyzing
records of the Greenwich observa-
tory from 1879 to 1900, give 24.65
days as the period of rotation at
the equator.
Twenty degrees from the equator,
it is 25.19 days, while 80 degrees
from the equator it is 25.85 days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this uaper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

If you would be prepared for deluge OF pithy
comment on weather conditions in South America
it is we'll to be advised that it showed in Chile the
other day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

GOlCOT 4 lllSS-I supposed we were
living in country dedicated to the
inalienab1e right of its citizens to
live in liberty and in pursuit of
happiness. But it seems to me that
we workers, or those of us who look
for work, have been deprived of
such privileges and completely lost
our liberty.
After I've walked from one fac
tory to another the most of the
day, looking for work so I might
earn a little bread money, and after
seeing there's no possible chance Of
obtaining job, I go to the corner
of Washington and Alabama streets.
There I wait patiently for some
transfer truck to come along and
give me a few hours work. This
I've done several times, thinking
that so long as I obeyed the law
I had a right on any street in the
city.
But today a policeman told me
he'd show me who was boss. Said
he'd lock up the whole bunch of
us and our crime consisted of look
ing for a job, trying to earn an
honest living. That should not be
an offense against the laws of a
free nation. Our civil rights have
become a mockery. OF course I left
the corner in preference to going
to jail. I had grandfather who
fought in 1851 and a cousin in the
Spanish-American war and bro
Their in the World war. 1 thought
they were fighting for liberty in
stead of slavery. Police have robbed
me of all that they fought for.
Twelve years ago Uncle Sam
wanted me. I was willing to go.
Today, nobody wants me. I am not
wanted on a job or even on the
streets of our city. Where shall
I go?
CHARLES BURTON.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Pail in Time

A LII this has provided an escape
L n for the old lady, but an escape
into such a curious land. This must
be, of course, a world with much
of the bones and blood strained out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Walter Damrosch says: "The radio will save fam
lily life from disruption by the automobile" P. S.
Walter DamroSch plays for the radio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
bureau of mines is investigating new processes of
radium extraction and refining.

radum extraction and refining.
On the results Of these two surveys Will depend,
doubtless the action of congress next winter in ap-
proving or rejecting the Kelly bill to authorize the
bureau of mines to produce radium from American
carnotte ores
This paper has on several occasions called atten-
ton to the fact that the bureau Of mines once before
reduced the price of radium by experimental work
and can do so again.
The first step is to overcome governmental inertia
and indifference. Some advance is to be noted in
this respect There is practically question to
existence Of the and ability of the metallurgist
to ootain the radium from them.
The next step will be to convince congress that
federal production Of radium to meet the universal
demand Of science and medicine and extend its bene-
fits to cancer sufferers is justified That should not
be difficult.
Sufficient use for radium in government hospitals
alone can be found to warrant the effort to break the
foreign monopoly on this indispensable element in
modern medicine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

The mayor of North Carolina town who was
arrested for drunkenness recently probably felt it
was his duty to lessen that Internally long time be-
tween drinks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Now that he has recalled Primo Camera to the
Italian army MuSsolini will feel that war begin
any time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

hot weather tip from the surgeon generals Office
is to keep the spinal cord protected. We doubt how
ever if women will make their frocks conform to the
suggestion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Which are the leading wheat
producing countries Of the world?
The United States, Canada and
Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

Editor Times-I have been read
ing the war between the commits
sioners and the Indiana World War
Memorial commission. / am in IA
vor of Marion countys commission
ers stand in not buying the
churches. 1t would be unjust at
this time to burden the taxpayers
of Marion county.
The commissioners are correct In
not spending the money. They are
more loyal to the taxpayers than
are the war memorial commission
erS. Their refusal to spend this
vast amount of money proves this.
The attitude of the war memorial
commissioners proves to the tax
payers they care for no one but
themselves.
At a later date, these same war
memorial commissioners will ask
the state to donate them several
million dollars to finish their work.
Our indianapolis citizens today are
taking their own lives because they
have no employment or money.
Better donate the unemployed and
hungry people of Marion county a
little money, to keep body and soul
together, instead of burdening the
taxpayers to buy these churches just
to satisfy the memorial heads.
No country can stand when the
churches must give way to the war
heads. We need more religion and
fewer war heads. The whole world
will be better off. I commend the
commissioners stand in not assist
ing the removal of the churches. I
am in favor Of never removing them
to satisfy the war head.
GILES MOORE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

We are so presumptuous that we
wish to be known to all the world,
even to those who come after us;
and we are so vain that the esteem
of five or six persons Immediately
around us is sufficient to arouse and
satisfy us.-Pascal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Daily Thought

Thus saith the Lord God: Woe
unto the foolish prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have
seen nothing.-EzekieI 1873.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
Times Readers Voice Vices

ton about the time of the Kellogg
treaty to outlaw war; it is composed
of the two churches and the war
memorial; the churches dedicated to
God and preaching the message of
Peace on earth, good will to men, :"
with the dear dead which the mon
ument honorS.
F.. w. WEBB.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

What Is the airline distance from
Denver, Cslo., to Los Angeles, Calf
a28 miles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

other day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26

What is the address of Mrs. Mary
Ware bennett?
81 Singer street, Astoria, L. I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
ROAD EXPENDITURE BIG
Total Amounts for 1880 Estimated
More Than S90O,OOO,OOO.
Pv Times SDcciaI

RH Times Special
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.-High-
way departments in forty-four
states have completed their esti-
mates of expenditures for road con-
struction and maintenance in 1880.
In the four states not yet reporting
fully. estimates have been based
upon funds available for 1923.
The total estimated amount to be
expended in all states during 1880
slightly exceeds S9O0.O0O,O00. Even
at this rate, as Samuel Eckels, state
highway engineer of Pennsylvania
and president of the American As
ISOLATION of state highway officials,
pointed out at recent hearings be-
fore the house committee on roads,
road building is not keeping pace
with the increased use of the auto
mobile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
PROBE REVEALS
NO LICENSE FOR
PAUL SCHARFFIN
Judges to Seek Audit of
Bond ForfeitureS in
Municipal Courts.
BY DICK MILLER

Doubt Of the right Of Paul P.
scharffn, attorney, to practice law
in any court in Marion county, was
held today when investigation OF
records of George o. Hutsell, county
clerk. revealed no issuance Of a Ii
cense TO him.
Scharfin was forbidden TO defend
cases in municipal criminal courts
when Judges Thomas E. Garvln and
Dan V. White convicted him Sat
urday Of soliciting a prisoners de-
Tense. Citation Of Scharftin and
Frank Riley, another attorney, was
part OF their war TO stamp out
racketeering by bondsmen and at
torneys in city courts, the judges
said.
Scharf1n Saturday denied to the
Judge that nine years ago, when
he faced an Indictment for en-
bezzlement Of $500. he resigned from
the bar and left the city.
"Scharfnn might have been tell
ing the truth, ne cOuIO uOJ HdAully
resign from something to which he
did not belong GarVin pointed out
today.
Continuing their battle against
Observation-Disclosures combines, the
judges today said they would urge
an audit by the state board of &C
counts of bond forfeitures in the
criminal city courts in recent years,
to ascertain how many forfeited
bonds were collected.
Because of debated articles of
a statute enacted in 1927 govern
ing bonds for freedom of prison.
ers, both judges declared they would
proceed cautiously in determining a
program to bring about justice in
dealing with bonds signed at city
FlT-icNr1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
County Takes Inventory

Ru Times GDcciGJ
ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 10
Equipment and supplies in the pos
session of the Madison county high
way department. the orphans home
and the infrmary are valued at
S171 455.71, as shown by inven-
tories filed at the Office Of County
Auditor Ward Shetterly in COM
pliance with an order Of the State
Board of Accounts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
REALTORS TO INSTALL
Officers Elected Last June to Be
Induced at Phoenix, Ariz.
PU Times SDecial

PU Times SDFctdi
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Induction of
the 1880 officers of the National As
ISOLATION of Real Estate Board will
take place at the annual mi@'-vinter
meeting of that organizati': 10 be
held in Phoenix, AriZ., Jan. o.. 10 25.
Omcers were elected last June at
the association convention in Bos-
ton.
officers who will assume their
duties at Phoenix and who will con-
Uinue in office until January, 1881,
are: Leonard P. Reaume, Detroit,
president; Earle G. Krumrine, Chi
cago. treasurer; william H. Gardner,
Winnipeg, Canada, first vice-presi-
dent, and w w. Butts, st. Louis,
MO; Stephen w. Sleeper, Boston,
Mass; George w. Morse, Boonton,
N. J.. and ]. Bradley Clayton, San
Jose, Cal, vice presidents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
Heavy Hauling Causes Fine

BIZ Times SDsciGi
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. 10
Louis West, farmer of Westpoint,
Brown county, was fined here for
driving heavy truck over a road
Don Norton. highway superintend-
ent. has given warning that regu-
iations governing heavy hauling will
be strictly enforced while roads are
i'm their present condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16
Lifelong Resident Dies

En- Times Special
FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind, Jan. 10
Mrs. Eliza McGilliard, 81, is dead
here, where she had spent her en-
tire life. She was a member of
the First Presbyterian church at
Richmond. She leaves two sons,
Claude and Forrest McGilliard,
Fountain City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-16

Al Smith may not have received
much support in Florida in 1923,
but he has plenty of support there
now-in fact, he carries it with
him. Here's Al as he appeared on
the links at Miami beach the
other day, introducing a golfng-
innovation in the form of pair
of bright red suspenders which
he wore to support his golf
Knockers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-29
STAMP MACHINE THEFT
ADMITTED BY PRISONER
Man Faces Court Today Also on
Charge of Stealing Dresses
From Store.

James Carter is a bold shoplifter who
takes no pains to hide his pride in his
achievements along this line, so say
police.
Carter, already in custody on a charge
OF stealing nine dresses during the
Christmas rush, boaStfully admitted to
officers of the first precinct yesterday
that he took an automatic stamp vend-
ing machine from drug store at Tenth
and F streets while clerks looked on
The colored prisoner, who is % years
old and lives at 81 Pierce street, said
he took the machine beneath his coat,
walked nonchalantly to an alley near
Tenth and e streets and opened the
coin compartment, taking several dollars
in change and tossing the machine
away
Store officials knew nothing of the
robbery until informed by police. Car
ter was to go to Police Court today on
charges of petit larceny in connection
with the stamp machine theft and
grand larceny of nine dresses valued at
STAB from a downtown department
store early last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-29
VICTIM
FORCED FROM CAR
Bandits Use Pistols in Hold
up at InterSeCtion-Report
Other RobberieS.
Woodrow Ingram, 425 Tenth street

Woodrow Ingram, 425 Tenth street
southwest, reported he was held up last
night by bandits and robbed. He was
walking near Delaware avenue and K
street southwest, he said, when he was
accosted by two colored men, one of
them striking him and the other taking
SIS from him.
Frederick B. Harper, GA Gallatin
street, early yesterday was the victim
of So-called stop-light bandits at Rhode
Island avenue and North Capitol street
He was driving east on Rhode Island
avenue and when he stopped for traf-
f1c signal three colored men appeared.
Two Of the men, armed with pistols,
Harper told the police, boarded his car,
one of them taking the wheel and driv-
ing to Benning Bridge northeast and
the third member of the trio driving
away in a car which was parked near
the scene of the hold-up. Harper was
ordered from mis- car at Benning Bridge.
Two unidentified colored men were
seen breaking into the locked automo-
bile of Henry B. Wood, 1915 L street,
at North Capitol and L streets last
night. The thieves took an overcoat
and pair of gloves from the car.
Jimmying a door, burglars late Sat-
urday night or early yesterday morn
ing gained entrance to gas station at
Sixteenth and Taylor streets, Nathan
Norris, manager, told the police. He
said the burglars took two sets of skid
chains, $1.65 in cash and small guam
tity OF other property.
Violet Davis, &c New York avenue.
told police of the taking of a coat from
her automobile, parked in front of 463
K street southwest. She valued the
garment at $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-29
.FERRYMAN BROWNS
AT ANNAPOLIS DOCK.
Roland Lee of Washington on
Way Home When He Slips on
Ice and Falls Into Bay.

Roland Lee, % years old, of 534
Fourth street southeast, an oiler on the
Annapolis claiborne ferry boat John
M. Dennis, was drowned at ANNAPOLIS
when he slipped from an icy wharf into
the bay soon after the boat locked
there last night.
Lees cries were heard by the crew
OF the ferry, who lowered life boats in
an effort to rescue him. The vessels
searchlight was played on the water
and after 19 minutes of searching,
Quartermaster Edward Higgins hooked
Lees clothing with oyster tongs in is
feet Of water and the body was
recovered. Coroner John w. Anderson
gave verdict of accidental death.
Lee had been married only a few
months. He had dressed in street
clothes before the boat docked, and
leaped to the wharf on his way home
from work.