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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-20
REASON By Ff azSDIs

MIR. CURTIS will go down in history as our smil-
1VA ing VicePresdent all of his predecessors except
Colfax having kept their vestibuleS closed.
Curtis has the happiest teeth that ever presided
over deliberative body.
Just suggestion to the various state highway
commissions of the country-eminate these detours
caused by building bridges after the roads built
but having the bridges built and done by the time the
roads opened.
And if it is necessary to build bridge after the
road is finished arrange to have the new one built
the public can continue to use the old one until
the new one is done.
Railroad companies Go this and highway commits
sons could do it also.
The east German League residing in the ter
ritory cut of from Germany by giving Poland COR
rdor to the passes resolution declaring that its
members never will rest until they again connected
to the German mainland, but if they don't rest until
then they going to be all tired out
A IOWA architect makes the prophecy that in
little while the farmers of the country will live
in great apartment houses to be erected in the rural
regions, and that whole communities will reside under
one roof.
The farmer has had enough hard luck without
putting him in apartment house!
It's the detached house that's the foundation of
civilized government the detached house with little
ground and garden around it.
For this man will struggle in peace and fight in
time of war.
AS Bob Ingersoll once said, Nobody ever went to
war to defend boarding house"
This first robin that's been found in southern In
diana will find it very hard to get around unless he
brought his chains with him.
TWENTY thousand people killed in automo-
l. BILE accidents in the United States last year.
The way to get world peace is to flood Europe
with automobiles for then they'll have a death rate
that will make absolutely unnecessary,
The court die right to refuse citizenship to Pro-
feSsor Douglass Clyde Mcintosh DWIGHT of Yale who
refused to to fight for the United States in
time of war
YES probably afraid he might get part of his name
saot OF.
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California Shivers

What is there about CALIFORNIA; sunny cline that
gives the good people there the shivers?
The rest Of America can laugh of the few GEM
onstratons youthful, overzealous reds President
Hoover finds a verbal spanking ample for Communist
demonstrators at the very door of the White House
Secretary Of State Stimson finds that the United
States is safe even with the Karolyis roaming the
land at will Not California.
1t was California that outdd all other states in
postwar hysteria by making feons of more than
seventy w w. It is California that holds two inno-
cent abores in prison for fourteen years Mooney and
Billings.
Now the Los Angeles Better America Federation
trying send to San Quentin for one to five years.
five young women Communists for violating the states
"ant-red flag law" passed by the legislature in 1919
The young women alleged to have shaken the
foundation of American institutions by raising red
flag in a children's camp in Yucaipa Valley near
Riverside
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The Public Utilities Abb

The public utility companies have had their
day in court before the Federal Trade commission,
after two years in which to prepare their defense.
The results are interesting
Most significant. perhaps, the omissions. In
six pounds of defense literature there is not
word about the following practices:
Substituting news and editorial services supply
ing small papers with matter friendly to utilities:
employment of Samuel S Wyer TO expose" the
Ontario hydroelectric system and publication of this
under the apparent auspices of the Smithsonian
institute purchase of newspapers by the Information
al Paper and Power Co secret financing of other
papers
Employment of prominent secretly to
port ON. or participate in conferences on Boulder
dam; employment of prominent persons to write
magazine articles without indication of power COM
pany connections.
The California campaigns against the state
water and power act where it has been testified labor
and civic leaders we're trbed to throw the vote" OF
their organizations where pseudo-cvc organizations
were formed to tell the power company story, with
out revealing that they operated utility money
The avowed intention OF certain utility officials
10 bring pressure various communities by making
large deposits in local banks without asking interest.
The utilities companies began their defense by
claiming they had undertaken publicity work at the
request of President Wilson But nothing in the
Wilson speech they quoted could be interpreted
propaganda request.
They asserted their propaganda in schools had
the sanction of school authorities But they did not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-20
HEALTH SERVICE

turtles, and there are new chemical
hazards, particularly in the nature
of toxic gases, of which the ancients
did not even dream.
With the coming of the machines
and the building of the great in
dustrieS, more and more industrial
plants have seen the wisdom of
having special departments devoted
to health and safety of the work
men.
The saving in hours of labor, in
payments made as compensation of
disease and injury and in more
efficient work, more than compen-
safe for any sum that may be spent
on the health and safety depart
mentS.
In one factory changes in illumi-
nation increase the output. In an
other factory the provision of ade-
quate safeguards to machinery les
sens industrial accidents. The pro-
vision Of rest periods may increase
greatly the total output.
In recent survey of the work
Of department of industrial med
icine the Journal of the American
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Gravel Pit

JAVA man was discovered in 1891.
~ Recently I gave a summary of
the fifteen points of difference
among authorities as pointed out
by DR. Miller. Today I shall SUM
Marie the argument over the Pitt
down man.
The remains of Piltdown man
were found in gravel pit by Charlie
Dawson in 1911 and 1912.
Workmen who had been excavd-
ing in the pit previously had evi-
IDENTIFY smashed the skull and nrr
haps destroyed much of it. 49,
In 1911 nine fragments of the
skull were found which fitted to-
gether into four pieces. The loSGar
jawbone was found with two teeth
in it. The next year the nasal
bones, another tooth and a few
more fragments of skull were found.
If the discussion over the Java
man had seemed violent, it pc
came a tea party by comparison
with the battle which the Piltdown
man evoked
The first description of the Pitt
down man was read by Sir Ar Z
thur Smith Woodward at a meet
ing of the Geological Society o.
London on Dec. 18, 1912.
This announcement" DR.. Mile
writes, gave rise to a contest
opinion which probably is unequaleT
in the history of paleontology. More
than seyenty-hye writer's have taken
part in it,"
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor TimeS-I note with anuse-
ment an article in the editorial COL
unins Of the Indianapolis Star Of
Jan. Is about radio station KWKH,
Shreveport, La, written by the edi-
torial writer.
He states that zone may pause
TO get the drift of what Henderson,
the announcer of the station, is say
ing, then turn the dial to mNe
substantial entertainment"
I wonder what he means? Does
he mean some of the suggestive, OBJ
scene, popular songs that one hears
over the air at present, or about
where you can have your battery
recharged, your rugs cleaned cheap,
or Of a laundry where you can send
your shirts, and, instead of destroy
ing them in three washings, thet
now do it in one? I wonder If he
is getting a "divvy" from the chain
store racket?
can name at least a hundred
Of my personal friends who sit up
and listen TO W. K. Henderson until
ne signs off and the thousands
telegrams he receives show so q
listen to him. He is doing a w6F'
derful thing for the people and de-
serves the support of all think@ns
people. He is a man VINO hap the
courage to tell the truth.
MRS. w
1872 North Pennsylvania str@es
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HF EFo{2S

Ut is strange that Commissioner
l. Doran should be willing to add
poison to the industrial alcohol for
mula. He seems to have overlooked
the danger that scores Of friendly
drys in congress may develop pain
full callouses on the palms of their
hands while applauding each new
list - the de-+..
And now I purpose to take Vol
stead holiday and make this column
a farewell to prohibition. The
theme is not dismissed forever as a
columnar issue.
Situations and events may rise
which will make silence too difficult.
But IL the normal course of events
the prohibition problem will not be
mentioned here again for, lets say,
month.
The whole business has come to
the dull stage of trench warfare.
Indeed, there is even room for sus-
picion that the fights a fake. The
vets want gin, the drys want legiS-
lation. Both have easy access to
plentiful supply.
The Wickersham report indicates
that the politicians in power are
going to keep on with the same old
humbug. No wise and truthful man
can believe by now that enforce
ment is possible, but down at
Washington there will be, as usual,
much hay tossing for the sake of
voters in the Bible belt.
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mention the utility moLey that found its way into
the pockets of some educators.
"a few individual employees out of quarter mil
lion in the industry have made mistakes in trying to
tell the utility story, but evidence has keen
offered to show that these errors in judgment
countenanced by the industry as whole" say the
companies.
But the approximately 5000 exhibits submitted
by the government include letters, speeches. and
vention reports made by the highest figures in the
industry: there is evidence that any error in
judgment" by any utility man. high or low, ever
disapproved by the industry as a whole or by the
offenders immediate superior.
Finally, the companies raised amusing cry of
a great sociastic combine organized to demoish
them
Utility companies have right to present to the
public at any time anything they wish concerning
their industry. They have right, however to con-
ceal the of then propaganda to represent
it as coming from unbiased source That has been
their greatest offense.
The Federal Trade Commission investigation, even
If it accomplishes 10 nore has served useful pur
pose. 1t has put the public guard against
camouflaged propaganda.
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Paradise

INCREASINGLY it grows difficult
n to get in a very tumultuous frame
of mind about prohibition. The
wants of most of us are pleasantly
and easily supplied.
The new style o-educational sa-
loon is more attractive than the old
style sawdust floor. Prices are now
very little higher than a decade ago.
and you get much better service and
surroundings for your money.
1t is pertinent, then, to ask, why
do you complaint" In the beginning
was harassed by the hypocrisy Oh
it all. But even that edge of re-
sentiment dies
The pretense has grown so thin
that it Is hardly fair to call our
American attitude hypocritical any
more. BY now, the bunk is palpa-
BILE.
Prohibition has become a sort OF
department store Santa Claus. Only
congressman and other childish peo-
pie are fooled in any way. And
quite a few of the congressman are
in on the joke.
It's a racket, a game called "I'se
Danpa," in which we all dress Up
and pretend to be an adult nation
dealing with serious problem in a
sincere way.
In another ten years prohibition
will be precisely where it is today
Nor will there be much change in
twenty. Every now and then a
speakeasy will be raided and the
proprietor viii be compelled to open
UP around the corner.
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$&ZZIXXSSS
Is lTt7eH
ANNIVERSARY
.4ss2f5t5
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
Jan. 20

ON Jan. 20, 184S, settlers in Cali
~ fornia began telling their
neighborS about the discovery of
gold in an excavation made for the
tailrace in water-power mill near
Coloma.
This discovery caused the intense
gold rush" excitement, when men
from all parts of the world rushed
by boats and by wagons across the
prairies to the new gold district.
The great body of gold-seekecs,
the Argonauts, arrived in 1849, AMI
by the end Of the year more than
100000 persons settled in the dis
trict.
The wonderful richness of this
new discovery furnished the incen-
tive for the exploration and develop
ment of the whole far west.
Today also is the anniversary of
the purchase of Pettaquamscot, r
L. from the Indians, on Jan 20
1857.
And on Jan. 20, 1916, Philadelphia
and New York were connected b3
the first telegraph line.
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of the Mississippi. A paragrapher
will celebrate this fact with the
caption, "Boise Will Be Boise"
Senator Brookhart will break his
nose and be compelled to retire
from politics. 1t will be rumored
that Secretary Mellon is going to
resign
Yes, the next ten years will be a
repetition of the last. 1t takes a
long time TO grow a backbone and
congress will continue spineless as
usual
There will be a great deal of talk
about prohibition and much will be
written. But not by me. For the
next month I intend to live my anti
prohibition instead of making up
columns about it.
Copyright. 1880, by The Times
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Opinions

DELIBERATE malice could
~ hardly have been more sue
cessful than the hazards of depSi-
ton and recovery in so breaking the
PiltdoWn fossils and losing the most
essential parts of the original skull
as to allow free scope to individual
Judgment In fitting the pieces to-
gether," DR.. Miller writes.
The twenty points of difference
summarized by DR.. Miller may ~
abridged as follows:
The fossils are 100000 years old
They are more than a million years
old.
The fragments are all of one man
The skull is human and the
simian. The skull and jaw belong
to human creatures of different
types.
The jaw is human. The Jaw .
ape-Iike.
The jaw was chinless. 1t was not
completely chinless.
The teeth are human. They re-
senble those Of a chirnpanzee. The
jaw and teeth together come closest
to those of an orang.
The creature was an ancestor Of
modern man. He was an ancestor
Of Neanderthal man. He was an
ancestor of neither. He was miss
ing link between man and the ape
The brain capacity equaled that
of modern man. 1t was less than
that of modern man.
"Eoanthropus," meaning dawn
man" is an excellent name for the
creature. The creature was not old
enough to deserve sucn name
In conclusion, it should be stated
that these conflicting opinions ere
not snap judgments. Each author
ity feels his own opinion justif1f
by long and careful study.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-M
Authorities Differ on Score,of
Points With Regard ITO
PiItdOlUn Man.

OPINIONS Of learned anthro-
~ biologists about the PiltdosEn
man differ from opinions about the
Java man in only one respect. There
are five more points of difference.
There are fifteen important po1Sts
upon which authorities differ con-
corning Java man. There are TWEEN
ty with regard to Pltdown man,
These facts are pointed out by
DR.. Gerrit S. Miller Jr. of the United
States National Museum, in an artl-
Gle in the annual report of the
Smithsonian Institution.
They are important facts TO bear
in mind while the discussion stiA is.
raging around the theory presew
at the recent meeting in Des Moi
of the American Association for
Advancement of Science by
Henry Fairfield Osborn.
DR.. Osborn, president of the
American Museum of Natural rs
tory, stated that mankind was at
east 100000 years old and thai
mans immediate ancestor was. a
dawn man. a creature very mucn
like the present-day man, and not
an "ape-man."
The reason for the discusSial
over this theory is evident, when 1t
is remembered that there are only
two fossils upon which any opinion
can be based, the socalled Java man
or Pithecanthropus, skull, several
teeth and a thigh-bone found at
Trinil, Java, and the socalled Pee I
down man or Eoanthropus frag-
ments of skull, jaw and nasal
bones found at Piltdown, Sussex.
England.
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Ien1neranCe

A WOMAN signing herself wife
IA and Mother will write a let
ter to the editor saying, You must
remember that New York isn't the
United States. I am the mother of
two daughters, and I would rather
see them in their graves than have
the old saloons restored"
Three high school girls will be
carried out of the hall at fratern-
ity dance in Emporia, Kan.
Senator Borah will make speech
demanding stricter enforcement,
and the following month his home
town will open the longest bar west
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MORE than 200 hundred years
1V1 have passed since a famous
Italian, Bernardino RamaZzini,
wrote a book in which he consid-
cred particularly the diseases that
affect workers in various industries.
He surveyed the metal workers,
glassmakers, potterS, painters, dyers,
tanners, bakers, millers, mason6,
BARRIERS, wrestlers and other occu-
pations and called attention to The
various diseases that afflicted peo-
pie because of their trades.
Modern physicians, reconsidering
these trades, find little new to add
to what Ramazzini observed.
OF course, we have such new &C
equations as steamship building, dye
and dynamite manufacture and air
planning, of which he could not write
because the occupations simply did
not exist in his time.
Chemistry. too, has made ire
mendous strides in the last two CEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-20

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 naner.--The Editor.
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NJ. E. Tracy
Prohibition Still Rules IN
Congress, as DryS DrdmGt-
icGlly Proved By Saturdays
Vote.

HAVING made an historical sur
Il Il vey covering the last 3,400 years,
and having discovered that 248 OF
those years were free from war
somewhere on earth, Pro- eSsor Fe-
lix, Rumanian delegate to the
League of Nations, contends that
war is a normal state of humanity.
In the same way, one might con-
clu5e that whooping cough and in
sanity are normal states.
When you come to think of it,
there are very few ills from which
men have been free in all places at
once since the dawn of conscious
ness.
You can consult the past and
prove that the United States has
been at war with somebody great
deal of the time, but by and large
this has been a peaceful country,
and most Of its people have en-
joyed the privilege of dying in their
own beds
Facts and figures won't lie II all
Of them are taken into account. The
trouble is that all of them seldom
are available, and when they are,
the average man selects only those
that suit his purpose.
Take the impending naval parley,
for instance, and see how many
different conclusions the experts are
able to draw by referring to the
same set of tables.
The point is, of course, that each
of them is leaving out something
that others put in.
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What are the meanings of the
names Effie, Eva, Louisa and
Naomi?
Eva CHebrew) means life-giving;
Fife (Scotch) means hearts de-
votion; Louisa (German) means
pugnacious, and Naomi (Hebrew)
means pleasantness.
What is the total area of water
in the Great Lakes?
The areas Of the Great Lakes are:
Superior, 81 800 square miles; Mich
igan, 22.400 square miles; Huron,
23,010 square miles; Erie, 9,940
square miles; Ontario, 1910 square
miles, making a total water area of
94,710 square miles.
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Congress still Dry
TINE same thing is true of prohi

TINE same thing is true of prohi-
u bition.
VETS prove it a failure by count
ing up the cost and the killing, while
drys prove it success by counting
the votes in congress.
VETS hope that if they continue
to count up the cost and killing long
enough, they will change the votes
in congress, but that is all their ar
gument has amounted to thus far.
signally as the law may have
failed in other respects, it still COM
mands the support of the national
legislature, as was dramatically
demonstrated Saturday, when every
amendment proposed by the vets
went down to defeat by a majority
Of three to one, or more.
The drys not only get an appro-
priation of $15,000,000 for law en-
forcement. but one of $4,000 for
propaganda; not only the right to
poison alcohol, but the privilege OF
employing eX-convictS.
No wonder Breckenridge Long
suggests that we might as well re-
peal the bill of rights.
Watson Wants Referendum
CENATOR WATSON of Indiana
- says that, while he can see no
way Of holding a national referen-
dunn on prohibition, he would well
come one in the various states.
Not bad idea. Considering all
the talk, it might be just as well to
give the people a chance to express
themselves on this subject, under
circumstances which would enable
them to do so, with some singleneSS
of purpose.
Theoretically, we hold such a ref
erendum every two years when we
elect a house of representatives, and
one-third of the senator's.
But we do not do so without be-
ing obliged to consider other issues,
and there always is doubt as to
whether prohibition, or these other
issues, exercise the greater 1nf1u-
ence.
Senator Tydings of Maryland Sc
cures permission to print accounts OF
some 1900 killings in the Congress
Sional Record.
"Poor old Congressional Record"
groanS Senator Smoot of Utah, as
though this material wouldn't make
Il FL! tn more readable.
The chances are that the Con-
gressional Record will experience a
great increase in popularity, and
that those who receive it at least
will tear off the wrapper.