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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
But What If the Habit Spreads?

MRS Miller, who gave only meager outline OF
her experience offered to sell her story to newspaper
men,"
Before the thrill of the news that she was safe had
ceased to vibrate her manager was asking for BIDS
Lives have been risked in the hunt for her. Gallant
Aers had scared through wind and fog and semi
darkness. In the search they had taken chances as
great as she had taken, when she started from Ha-
vana The wires had tinged with the accounts OF that
search A whole world had grown anxious.
The news that she safe was good news But
the detaiIs-they were withheld from the anxious
world For they were for sale.
A typical sign of these commercialized times
But what if the commercialization spreads?
What if the ones whose custom it has been I'M
pulsvey to risk their necks in the rescue should be-
gin to put price on their services before they take
od2
Not SO good for missing aviatrices.
And what if the world gets calloused not to say
suspicious about these adventures that are for sale
and ceases to be worried?
Not so good either.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Sir James Jeans

A MONG the interesting papers
1 "A published in the new Smith
sonian report is one by Sir James
Jeans, president of the Royal AS
Economical Society and secretary OF
the Royal Society.
Jeans is one Of the foremost stu
dents of the problem of cosmogony,
the problem of the nature and
structure of the universe.
Both the beginning and the end
of the universe are discussed by
Jeans in a paper on the physics Of
the universe.
He finds that the most fundamen-
tai physical process in the universe
as a whole appears to be the spon-
famous dissolution Of atoms into ra-
diation, such as we see taking place
In radium.
But whereas the earth's mass di-
minishes by radiation less than an
ounce in a minute, that of the sun
diminishes by the enormous sum of
250,000,000 tons a minute, or about
$50 times the flow of water over Nj
agara Falls.
And many stars lose mass even
more rapidly; some of them at the
rate of 2O0,0O0,000 Niagaras.
By a series of subtle steps, Jeans
comes to the concluson that the
final state of the universe will be
one in which every atom of matter
which is capable of so doing has
dissolved away into radiation. Thus,
in the end, empty" space will be
far emptier then than now.
1.-THE end Of the road" says Jeans,
sis more easily discerned than its
beginning. The atoms which are
annihilating themselves to provide
the light and heat of the stars
clearly can not have existed as at
oms from all time; they must have
begun to exist at some time not in
finitely remote, and this leads us to
contemplate a definite event, or Sc
ries of events, or continuous process,
Of creation Of matter"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BFU15S

Is it reasonable that the COM
munity should give protection only
to those who are about to die? Our
duty to citizens hardly ends the
moment they cease to be fighters.
Intelligent discussion by doctors
would be a far more useful subject
for hig hchool students than Latin,
Greek or algebra. 1t is more i'm
portant for a growing boy to under
stand prophylaxis than plane
geometry.
This seems self evident, but it
can not be accomplished without a
fight. There will be those who say
that any form of protection en-
courages immortality. They will say
that the wages of sin should be
affection.
That is a stern doctrine, and it
would be more logical if the con-
sequences of the affection ever were
limited wholly to the sinner.
(Copyright 1890 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

they ought to shut their lips tight
and feel ashamed to think~it isn't
they who established the place.
Here in Indianapolis we haven't
even as charitable a gangster as
Mr.. Capone, so it's up to our less
fortunate citizens to depend on 10
cal charity or go hungry, lodges
excepted.
So many writer's have commented
on the war memorial. It's small
comfort now that zero weather is
here, just a well-cemented stone
sandwich, perched on acres of land
that sold for three or four times
its true value. Divide the cost OF
that memorial plaza equally among
Indiana's soldiers and it would be
enough to make each one and his
dependents comfortable through
the winter at least.
Ou.' statesmen wonder why and
where crooks and gangsters orig
mate. They wonder what causes
the rebellious spirit. Just this, such
kindness as shown by Al Capone,
and such narrow-minded, foolhardy
expenditure Of public funds as this
state made in building the war
memorial plaza.
If Indiana is so grateful to her
heroic dead and living soldiers. let
her sing their praises with food for
the living and those left behind by
the dead heroes.
CONSTANT READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Good IntentionSN

OF course, the worthy gentleman
~ who said this was not aware
of the f1im-flamming which had
gone on under his very eyes.
When he praised a prosecutor
against whom a mass of damaging
evidence has been presented he was
ignorant of the detail of the work
which he apd his organization al
ways have stimulated.
The fact that practically all the
hunters are animated by conscious
good intentions does not help mat
tiers much. They generally have
been ready to indorse stool-pigeon
procedure and all the devious STRAIT
agems of police and other agents to
entrap sinners.
The New York community should
not be for that system, even if it
worked with entire honesty. Even
when honest in a legal sense, it is
thoroughly unfair and mean spir-
tied.
1t seems to me that in New York
or any other city the individuals
who are passionate for the suppress
sion OF vice betray an enthusiasm
which does not indicate the COM
pletely healthy mind.
One need not be a thoroughgoing
Freudian to accept the theory that
the hunter may grow too keen about
the excitement of the chase.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

TNOUGH evidence has been pre-
L. sented already to show that
things are very much amiss in the
woman'S court of New York. 1t
would be unfair while the investiga-
ton continues to make any esti-
mate as to the precise extent of
wrongdoing upon the part of public
servants.
Naturally, there will be general
agreement that all who took brides
from guilty persons or extracted
blackmail from innocent prisoners
should receive punishment.
But I hope that a housekeeping
will not stop merely with the con-
viction of handful or even Wag-
onload of grafters.
I believe that we never will have
intelligent municipal procedure in
the vice problem until there is gen
eral recognition of the fact that
professional reformers are almost as
dangerous as the crooks.
And point specifically to the fact
that the head Of a certain welfare
organization made public criticism
of the present investigation on the
ground that it hampered honest po-
licemen in their work and decreased
the number of arrests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

Pf7d6ATF Is 1851
| ANNIVERSARY
.+1s1@5
GILBERT STUARTS BIRTH
December 8

December
ON Dec. 3, 1855, Gilbert Stuart,
" an early and important Ameri-
can portrait painter, was born near
Newport, r. I.
He painted his first portraits
when only IS, without benefit of in
struction. A friend, recognizing his
talents, took him to England to
study. Here Stuart met Benjamin
West, with whom he lived and
worked for four years.
Stuart then began portrait paint
ing independently and soon became
very successful. Such important per-
sonages as George III, Mrs. Sid
dons, and Sir Joshua Reynolds sat
for him.
At the height of bis fame he
returned to America, his impelling
motive being to paint the portrait
of George Washington. He painted
several, two of which are now in
Boston and New York art museums.
The list of Stuart's sitters in
cIudes the first five Presidents of
the United States, Louis XVI Of
France, Edward Everett, John Jay
ard Jacob Astor.
Stuart sought in all his paintings
to represent character. He died in
Boston in 1923 and was elected to
the American Hall of Fame in 1900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Problem of Life

THREE specialists in different
L fields attack a problem per-
hapS more fundamental to man
than Jeans fundamental physical
process, and that is the enigma of
life, and what distinguishes it from
inanimate matter.
A physicist, Paul H. Heyl Of the
United States bureau of standards,
argues the case for the mecnanists
and affrms his belief that the secret
Of life will be found to be an in
ternal factor within the atom,
something deeper and more funda-
mental than molecules or atoms,
but still not something ext ernal and
separate from the essence Of the
atom, not the vital force" of the
vitalists, which is conceived Of as
some force outside of human ex-
perience.
In short, he asserts his belief that
the difference between life and
nonlife will prove to be one of de-
gree and not of kind.
A second authority the English
physical chemist, F. G.. Donnan,
comes to the same general concIu-
sion.
He writes, should, indeed, a new
form of energy, "a vitalistic nerv-
ors energy be discovered, it will be
no shadowy vital impulse, but an
addition to our knowledge Of char
acter permitting of exact measure
ment and of exact expression by
means of mathematical equations"
In apparent opposition to the
physical scientists, an English path
ologist. A. e. Boycott, states his con-
viction that the attempt to explain
life by chemistry and physics has
completely failed"
But, Boycott rejects, also, vital
ism in the sense Of mysticism, and
goes on to suggest that instead Of
dividing the world into two distinct
categories diving and nonliving) VIC
should regard it as being made up
of .one series Of units with proper
ties which differ more in degree
than in kind"
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are confessed or proved perjmers, trial con-
demned by nine Of the ten living jurors and by many
officials connected with the case was "a fair and i'm
partial trial"
If the court perversion which victimzed Mooney
and Billings is accepted "a fair and impartial
trial." then indeed American justice is dead We do
not believe it.
We believe that outraged public opinion yet will
reclaim American justice by forcing the release of
these men. We call upon Governor Young, the
American Bar Association the W1ckersham law en-
forcement commission and President Hoover to de-
fend American justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
A Problem

1T would be a bumptious person
L who would undertake to set
forth a dogmatic and precise plan
for solution Of the various prob
lens which rise out Of the fact that
human beings are carnal.
I am not bumptious enough. Yet
I will venture to suggest a few
underlying principles for procedure.
Every one will agree that COM
plete protection should be given to
the unwary. A great deal Of fan
tastic nonsense has been talked
about white slavery. We have had
poison needle scares and various
wild rumors founded on nothing
more than communal nightmarish-
ness.
This should not blind us to the
fact that in certain sections Of the
city innocent girls have from time
to tius heen trapped Nv cadets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

With Three or -Four Million
People ont of Work, the
Presidents Plea for Only
q Hundred Million Dollars
Is Not q Very Heroic Eff
fort at Relief.
ONE can not read the Presidents
~ message without getting a
distinct impression that its author
was determined to be hopeful at
any price and cautious under any
circumstances.
It's outstanding weakness is to be
found in the obviously inadequate
relief measures recommended.
Since half a loaf is better than
none, we should be thankful that
the President has asked an appro-
priation of from S1O0,000O0O to
$15c000,00O for public works, but
One million dollars, if all of it
went for labor, would provide five
months work for 1900 men at 81
day.
In these days of machinery, ex-
perts, supervision and overhead,
only a portion of the money goes
for labor, especially when expended
on public works.
1t would be liberal to rate that
portion as high as SO per cent
One million dollars, therefore,
hardly could be depended on to
provide five months work for more
than 1000 men, which means that
the largest amount President Hoo
yer has recommended-$150, 100000
would take care Of no more than
10000.
With three or four million out of
work, it does not look like heroic
effort at relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Let's Be More Liberal

DRESIDENT HOOVER says the
Il United States never was richer.
If that is true, why can't it afford
to be a little more liberal?
At a time when the heads of all
great corporations have been asked
not to retrench, even though they
may have to reduce dividends; when
many policemen and firemen are
giving up one days pay each
month; when thousands of ordinary
folks are working only two-thirds
or one-half time to give their fell
lows a chance; when farm aSsocia-
lions are sending carloads of apples
across the country to New York,
why should the government Of the
United States be content with half
hearted efforts?
Heaven knows, there is enough to
be done without wasting the money,
if 100000 or even $2,0O0,O0O,-
900 were authorized for public
works.
We still need hundreds of thou
sands of miles of roads, not to men
ton flood control, harbor improve
ments, postof1ces, park development
and innumerable other things.
1t is not as though the cash would
be thrown out of the window, OF
that we would be doing things we
do not intend to do anyway.
The only question is whether pub
lie works should not be steamed up
until private industry can get on its
feet, and probably at a saving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

Dry and Dusty Volume.
"THE annual report of the
Il S ithSonian Institution" un-
doubtedly sounds to the ears Of most
readers like something which would
be just bit dull.
Perhaps the title in full sounds
even a bit Annual report OF
the board Of regents of the Smith
sonian Institution showing the OPP
erations. expenditures and condition
of the institution for the year end
ing June 30, 1929"
Yet this writer is going to recon-
mend that report-which just has
been published-as a fascinating
volume for all readers interested in
the problems of modern science.
The reason is that the Smithson-
ian Institution each year does a
very wise, thoughtful, and fine thing.
1t uses the 100 or so pages of for
NAL report as kite to which it at
taches a most interesting tail of
some 700 pages
This tail, which is labeled the
General Appendix" consists of a
selection of articles from the scien-
tific journals of the whole world,
chosen because they deal with the
most important phases of recent
scientific development in language
which is ineligible to the average
layman.
At 81, the annual report of the
Smithsonian Institution, is a real
bargain. (This writer, who has a
file of them going back to 1920, is
convinced of that.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Questions and
Answers

Is there an English coin called a
grOat and what is it worth?
The English groat was first
coined in 1851, of a value somewhat
higher than a penny. The contin-
ued debasement Of both the penny
and the groat left the latter finally
worth four pennies. This issue of
the groat was discontinued after
1862 but a coin worth fourpence
was again struck in 1886, and was
discontinued in 1856. The name
groat has been more Familiarity ap-
piled in recent times to fourpence
as a unit of account.
What is the address of the Ameri-
can Medical Association?
535 North Dearborn street,
Chicago.
Is there much unemployment in
the Netherlands?
On June %, 1880, it was estimated
that Al per cent of the working
population Of the Netherlands was
wholly unemployed and IT per cent
partially unemployed.
What is the highest temperature
that has been attained?
The United States bureau CT
standards says that it is about
$500 degrees centigrade, attained by
carbon arc under pressure. At this
temperature all matter vaporizeS.
Who composed the march, "Under
the Double Eagle?
Wagner.
Where does the Tennessee river
rise?
1t is formed by the confluence of
the Holston and the French Broad
rivers, as miles above Knoxville,
Tenn.
How many automobiles, passenger
cars and trucks are there in the
United States?
Latest statistics show q, III, $50
passenger cars and ATS. a5z trucks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-I am a subscriber
of The Times and like the paper
very much, and am we'll pleased
with the election results. I am a
dry and regret that the Democrats
advocate wet. I was born a Lincoln
Republican, but the public record
of that party for the last fifty years
is so rotten that 1 always vote
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Turn Back to Past
HOW much was it we subscribed
u d for the BelgianS2

III
4 d for the Belgians?
How much was it we spent in
the campaign for Near East relief?
How much was it we appropriated
to save Russians on the Danube?
How much was it President Will
son asked when we entered the war?
Of course, such reminders may
have no bearing on the present sit
uation, but average people find it
hard to believe they do not.
Also, average people find it hard
to believe that legislation, partic-
ularly the kind that can be trans
lated into dollars and cents, would
not help nightly to improve con-
ditiOns.
Average people have been told
that fifteen or twenty billion dol
lars were wiped out in the Wall
Street crash, that the drought,
the slump in foreign trade, and the
letdown in domestic business have
cost the farmers an incalcuIable
amount.
More than that, average people
have been told that the government
was trying to work out a policy
whereby it would come to their
rescue in hard times.
Maybe average people have put
too much faith in what they have
been told, but they certainly eX-
pected something of more force
full and reassuring character.
One hundred fifty million dol
lars to relieve unemployment, when
we spent twice that much on wooden
ships during the war, when a Wall
Street committee is raising $6,O00,OOO
by voluntary subscription, and when
little backwoods counties are bond
ing themselves to the limit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
MAYHEM the food passes into the
w stomach, it is digested. The
digestive function varies with diff
ferent infants, and there are Ger
tain distinctive features of the di-
gestion of the infant in general as
contrasted with that Of the grownup.
If the grownup took as much
cows milk in proportion to his
weight as does the normal in
FAINT, ne would be drinking from
eight to ten quarts of milk a day,
and he would eat from one-half
to two pounds Of sugar.
Because the infant is growing
rapidly, it required larger amounts
of food in proportion to its weight
than does the adult, the digestive
function is constantly at its top
speed.
The digestive function is sensi-
tive and may be particularly af-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

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 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Against Disease

CECOND in Importance should be
- the war against disease. Very
few will deny the utility of holding
and treating women found to be
suffering from dangerous maladies.
But I think it may be less than
logical to take no count of afflicted
males. Even more important would
be a general campaign of public
education.
In doing this we would be re-
turning to the excellent example
set during the war. We know
that the knowledge given to soldiers
and sailors was enormously useful
in cutting down the incidence of
disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
Daily Thought

And thinkest thou this, o man,
that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that
thou shalt escape the judgment
Of God.-Romans 2:3.
Make not thyself the judge Of
any man -Lo1RfsllaM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

Democratic, as I think their plat
form has more of Lincoln in it.
am firm believer in the prin-
ciple of public ownership of public
utilities, government, state and
municipal, as the case may be, and
I would read The Times with more
interest if you would set your feet
down on insults neck so tight, in
your street railways and light sys-
tenn stories, that he would be so
glad to get out Of our state that he
never would cross the line again.
B. LITZENBERGER.
Editor Times-So the charitable
organizations Of Chicago are
shocked at the sign of Scarface Al
Capone'S free soup house? Well,
they ought to be. They need to be
shocked so hard that they will feed
thousands of hungry, homeless I'M
employed folks SO well that they
won't have to accept food from our
leading gangster.
But there's SO much red hot tape
to go through before an honest
pauper can obtain a free meal from
an organization whose business it is
to aid the less fortunate, that he'd
almost as soon go hungry as endure
the humiliation of answering so
many unnecessary questions.
I'll bet Scarface AIS doughnuts
are good ones. I'll bet the coffee
he serves tastes might good this
zero weather and the soup? I'll bet
he can buy as good soupbones as
any church-going citizen that
walks.
If the honorable charitable or
CARNATIONS of the Windy City don't
approve of Mr.. Capone's free mess
hall, why don't they show a little
competition? Easy done. There
ought to be enough wealthy men
on Lake Shore drive to put at least
one little free lunch stand for the
ones who have not even a place to
lay their heads at night.
If people are starving, out Of
work, homeless, a place Of the type
Al Capone has established takes on
the appearance of God-given
thing to them. I'll bet they are
served as friends and made to feel
welcome when they walk in that
free lunch room. A man doesn't
necessarily have to be no good, just
because he's down and out of work,
but so many of the good brethren
try to make him feel so.
Instead Of grumbling about the
noble deed LIZ. Capnns has done
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

1T is always good policy the Papa Salmon
told his children, ito look before you leap"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

War against any such contingency
must be a part of any municipal
program in regard to commercialized
vice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

When poet puts his mind into poem the result
the opinion of the weary editor very often is blan
verse.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBETN
Editor Journal of the American Edcdica
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Institution Re-
port Is Far From BEING
Dry and Dusty Volume.
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: Lame Ducks ON Parade
LANE DUCKS ON PARADE
BY George Sanford Holmes

Just hear them ausek. they've all hmPed oack-
This crippled cavacade
A badly bowed congressional crowd
OF lame ducks parade
They're tired ana tanned, since they MANNED
One cold November morning.
Yet isn't It odd. theyli cheat the SOD
Til sprngtms comes sdawnng
Politically SAID, ducks dead
They know they've been rejected.
Yet liager ong. ghostly thronZ
OF Statesmen resurrected
Some day they'll end al least amend
This quaint old Spanish custom,
OF sending back again
When