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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
SCIENCE
Tin Can Island WI Be Cap
itaL of Astronomical World
During Oct. Fl Eclipse of
Su1t.
BY DAVID DIETZ

TOR SO seconds on Oct. 81, Niafou
l. island, better known to sailors
as Tin Can island, will become the
astronomical capital Of the world.
The island is picturesque, though
not of sort calculated to attract
the tourist trade. 1t is five miles
long and three miles wide.
Its chief crop appears to be vol
canic craters. These are thirty in
number and fairly active. An erup-
ton in June, 1929, destroyed one of
the two native villages which deco
rate the island.
The island, which lies in the Pa
cif1c ocean, is part of the Tonga
archipelago. It is southeast of the
Samoan islands and northwest of
the Fiji ISLANDS, lying about midway
between the two groups. 1t is 1850
miles from Niafou to New Zealand.
Niafou suddenly has become SO
important to the astronomers be-
cause there will be a total eclipse of
the sun on Oct. 81.
The track in which the eclipse
will be visible swings diagonally
across the Pacific ocean, missing all
of the larger islands. However, it
swings right across Niafou.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Flexible Immigration

If The state departments announced proposal to
enforce strictly the existing immigration laws
an aid to employment is carried out against Eu-
ropean countries in the way present regula-
tons are enforced against Mexico there probably will
be less tinkering with our immigration quotas when
congress meets again.
The Presidents request that existing laws be ex-
amined TO determine whether immigration legally
can be decreased illustrates that Hoover with Sec
rotary Stimson and his assistant, Joseph P. Cotton
again approaching difficult problem in a sensi-
bic manner.
TRUE the state departments announcement puts
the President on record as favong the proposal ad-
vanced in congress last spring to cut immigration
quotas in half But that fortunately didn't get
very far
migration began to be heard everywhere the state
department, about year ago. started strict enforce
ment of the existing law.
The result has been a remarkable decrease in
Mexican immigration; decrease so pronounced that
the necessity of affronting Mexico with further re-
strictive legislation is obviated.
1t seems reasonable to hope the new program for
closely watching the immigration from quota
countries eventually will bring the same relief
We must keep the good will of foreign nations
for selfish trade reasons if for no other
We probably shall have to come in the end to an
outright flexible quota system to fit the constantly
changing economic conditions in this country.
In effect the state departments latest experiment
in administering the present immigration law is an
approximation of the flexible system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Quick Action Vital in Meningitis

meningitis germ may be quite in
efficient against a germ of q diff
ferent type.
Thus during the World war some
seruns we're found inefficient
against meningitis in certain French
camps, but the trial of different
serum resulted in prompt success in
controlling the disease.
The meningitis germ probably is
transferred from one person to
another by droplets from the nose
and throat.
The symptoms of meningitis arise
from the changes that the germs
and their poison or toxin produce in
the tissues of the nervous system.
Previously, however, there is a
period Of invasion, when the in
fictitious material and the toxin
circulate through the body.
Hence there are the, usual symp-
toms Of such invasion, including
sore throat, dizziness, fever, chills,
rapid pulse, and general soreness
over the body. There is also a rash
of pin-point sized red spots or even
large spots over the body.
In the stage when the infection
has spread to the nervous system,
the patients have severe pain, burst
ing headache, vomiting and even
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
A Prospectus of Religious Liberalism

Liberalism In religion has been chief1y-to varv
an ancient adage-old wine in new bottles It has
given us some new words and phrases but the same
old attitudes and programs persist behind the labels
The liberals contend in one breath that the
Old Testament is mans creation and in the next
they preach from it with fervor and assurance only
compatible with the dogma that it is the very
Word of God. They admit that Jesus was ONLY a
man and then insist upon following him as though
he we're part of the triune God
The Rev. Dr. Lon r. Call of the West Side Uni
tartan church of New York City has however lust
set forth prospectus of religious liberalism which
is all That 1t purports TO be:
Every race and every nation has had gimpses
Of the truth. We want the Bible to become known
among men as natural book written under natural
circumstances because believe that it is valuable
because we believe that it is such natural such
human book. We want the values in the life Of
Jesus conserved for by propagatng the facts which
substantiate contention that He was strictly a
human being
Some of the things we want as liberals which
freedom of belief in pulpit and pew. We want a
new conception of God that Will harmonic with
the conception Of the universe as We know it through
modern science
MANY of the churches have gone on preaching
q conception Of God more in harmony with the
world of Moses than the world of modern men. We
want to use modern science ally with religion
IN bringing in the good life. We want to base re-
lgion in bringing in the good life We want to base
religion not on ignorance, but on knowledge. We
modern liberals want TO be unhampered in choice
Of guides TO lead us into the future.
u speak for modern liberalism. I think, when I
plead for less censorship and more freedom in the
matter Of speech, with more confidence that man
kind will choose the best road into the future with
out any Of them being closed to exploration by the
authority Of the censor.
Finally, We modern liberals want to face the in
dustrial problem and solve it if by using the
machinery We have to better the condition of men
in general We would preach and apply social
gospel which makes man the end of all material
endeavor.'
This is a forward looking statement with which
any man. however scientific, heartily can agree And
it is constructive" thus escaping the threadbare
charge of purely destructive criticism
The only serious problem is to find any large
group to whom it will appeal and agency through
which 1t may be promoted effectively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Hypocrisy of France

TT Is significant that at the very
L moment when Aristide BRAND
was explaining to the League OF
Nations why Europe could not hope
to live in peace without closer &C
cord and cooperation, France
should be putting on the greatest
military show staged since the war.
Fifty thousand men and 300 air
planes, with every conceivable kind
Of modern equipment and COM
handed by the ablest generals
available doing the best they can
to initiate conflict close to the Ger
man border, while the nations off,
cial spokesman pleads for peace
who says that hypocrisy is confined
to prohibition in America?
Unless deeds have ceased to speak
louder than words, Europe will be
justified in measuring the French
attitude by what is being done to
perfect her men in the art Of war,
rather than by what M. BRAND is
saying in support Of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Waiting on futile

II VERY one Is waiting to hear
H from Mr.. Tuttle, the most talked
OF possibility as Republican candi~
date for Governor Of New York.
From a dramatic standpoint.
Tuttle's promised statement may be
worth all the suspense, and from q,
personal standpoint, it may have a.
profound bearing on his future
career, but from a political stand
point, he has about as little choice
in the matter as did Governor
Roosevelt.
If he comes out for volsteadism.
he is sunk.
If, on the other hand. he comes
out for repeal, prohibition Will be
eliminated as an issue in this falls
campaign, and all the political lead
ers will be very happy, for proIlibi-
ton is the one thing they don't like
to talk about, even though it has
become the favorite topic of cons
versation among ordinary folks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Longs Raw Deeds

FERGUSON out in Texas, Bleass
Il out in South Carolina, ana
''Tom-Tom" Hef1in probably out in
Alabama-one could afford to feel
quite happy, were it not for the
shoddy trick put over by Louisiana
crackers in nominating that bit of
dynamic vulgarity known as Huey
P. Long for senator.
AS though that were not enough,
they are adding insult to injury bS
proposing him as a presidential can,
didate.
For should Long be blamed more
than any other demagogue for get
ting what he can while the getting
is good?
The raw things he has said, and
the even rawer things he has dones
are not half so surprising or shock
ing as is the fact that his ridiculous,
ribald conduct should appeal to the
majority Of voters in a great state.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H FT04fS

telling. He was an actor, and many
years ago he played in a stock
company in San Francisco. The
stage manager of this little troupe
(We'u call him JIM was a morose
young man and confirmed woman
hater. I'll pretend from her on that
I'm the actor telling the story:
1--WE all knew that there was
some sort of mystery back OF Jim.
He'd lived in Japan for five years,
and out there something happened.
A romance went wrong. We didn't
know the details. He never spoke
Of it.
zone day a woman named Cleo
came to town and took big ads in
all the papers. She said she could
tell the past, present and future.
Most of the people in.the stock COM
pany went, and Cleo did a good job.
She convinced every one of them
that she really had some psychic
power. Every one went except Jim.
He just laughed at the whole bust
ness. But I nagged him and nagged
him, and one night he went along
with me to Cleo's studio.
Il stayed outside. He went in to
talk to her, and at the end of Is
minutes he came out. He was white
and all tangled. He didn't say a
word, but 1 knew what had hap
pened. Cleo had told him the
things that none of the rest of us
knew-she'd told him about the girl
In Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
d L A COM FREDERICK
1A4<L AOO4 Lands

ExPERTS in various places now are getting ready
Z to fondle the glands climb the family trees and
explore the environments of beasts who have commit
ed horrible crimes against children.
Ii we had our way we would hang the whole crowd
and investigate their mental condition afterward-
if at all.
If this be barbarism, then we should like to be-
come a charter member of the Protective Order OF
Barbarans.
We frankly avow we have more respect fol
twenty feet of rope than for fifty million miles OF
red tape.
Drive the tapeworms out of the American court
housed
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, who strolls ap-
~ prehensvey up and down the ramparts of Lib
erty, looking for storms which threaten the ship of
state informs that the time has come to prepare
to meet Communism, when only yesterday he admon-
shed that the only way to be saved was to kill the
fatted calf for Mr.. j. Barleycorn.
Mr.. Butler would have us avert the red menace by
including our multi nillionaires to assume more
benevolent attitude toward the crimson brothers.
This means that Mr.. Rockefeller should play golf
with them, Mr. Vanderbilt should take them yachting
and ]. P. Morgan should invite them to go grouse
shooting in Scotland.
MR. BUTLER has bats in his belfry, for Uncle
WI Sam has many more serious problems than
the reds, among these being the woodpecker, the
English sparrow. and the corn borer.
In TACT, the man VINO has speaking acquaintance
with just one or two of his onions knows that this
red rantng is merely an effort to hinder the advance
of Just liberalism in our government.
The only thing Uncle Sam has to do is to keep the
faith with his own folks and then he can continue to
retire night without looking under the bed for any
Bolsheviks.
If Samuel only could arrange for laws to be en-
forced against rich as well poor and for system
of taxation that would make the holders of intan-
gibes walk up to the captains tent and SETTLE there
would be little discomfort
We've just deported another batch Of criminal
Aliens but all will be bootlegged in again they
in the first place.
While the army is resting we should use it to pa
troll the borders and keep undesirables out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Tin Can Delivery

ATIAFOU earned it's nickname of
IN Tin Can island from the fact
that steamers do not ordinarily stop
there. Mail and stores are thrown
overheard in tin cans and picked up
by the natives with small boats.
One hundred fifteen boxes Of
scientific instruments now are on
their way to Niafou.
These, you may be certain, will
not be thrown overheard in tin cans.
They will be landed with all the
care that Uncle Sans navy can law
ish on a task when it decides to do
good job.
These instruments will be used by
the astronomers in observing the
ninety three seconds of eclipse, pro-
vided, of course, that they are lucky
enough to get a cloudless sky.
The eclipse expedition represents
joint venture of the United States
naval observatory and a number of
other scientific institutions.
A member of the expedition will
NC LIZ l. IA OdSSdL C4s VI OAlC NOA-
canic observatory of Hawaii. His
interest is not in eclipses, but in VOL
canoes, and he is Selling the oppor-
tunity of studying the craters on
Niafou.
The expedition will be under
direction of Commander G. H. j.
Keppler, who has headed similar ex-
petitions for the navy. It's mem
bers will include Professor S. A.
Mitchell, director of the Leander
Mccormick observatory of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Professor Mitchell is veteran
eclipse observer, having Travelled
tens of thousands of miles during
the course of his experiences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
EinStein Tests

DLANS of the eclipse expedition
Il include another test of the Elm
stein theory. This test will be made
by Professor r. w. Marriott of
Swarthmore college.
The EinStein theory, it will be re-
nembered, leaped into prominence
as result of the eclipse expeditions
of 1919.
Einstein had predicted in 1915 that
photographs made during total
eclipse would show the star images
near the sun shifted out of their
normal positions.
The brighter stars, of course, be-
come visible when the suns light is
blotted out by the disc of the moon.
The World war was in progress in
1915, so there was no one with
sufficient time at his disposal to or
ganize an eclipse expedition and test
the prediction. After the armistice,
however, the time was ripe.
Two British expeditions, one sent
out by the Royal observatory of
Greenwich and the other by the
Cambridge observatory, made the
test in 1919. 1t was the announce
ment of their findings which started
the whole world to talking about
relatively.
Since then the test of the Einstein
prediction has been part Of every
eclipse expedition.
The 1922 expedition sent out by the
Lick observatory conferred a great
part Of it's efforts upon the Einstein
test and DR.. w. w. Campbell, then
director of the observatory, said that
he felt that the theory had been
indicated beyond doubt.
Many scientists, however, feel that
more tests are justified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
B1T9e|
lAMNlVER$ARY|
BATTLE OF ST. MIHIEL
Sept. IL

Sept. IL
I'm Sept. IL, 1918, the American
~ army, under General Pershing
successfully carried out its first
operation in the World war, when
it emerged victorious at the Battle
Of st. Mihiel
The Americans we're handicapped
badly by deficiencies in artillery,
aviation, and special troops, but
these were met largely by the
French.
1t was the regular infantry bri-
gade of the Second division that
did the attacking, and its assign
ment was the hardest. This brigade
covered six miles of hilly and diff
cult country in less than nine hours
and captured more than 1900 pris-
oners and much material, including
five railroad trains.
The speed of the American adj
vance had baffled the Germans
completely and they retreated.
This was the first battle under
American command and it was a
most suspicious beginning. Amer
lean casualties, including the
French troops involved, were about
1000. The German prisoners num-
bered 14,439, with 443 guns.
Report Of the battle in the In
fantry Journal said in part: 1.-The
most intense concentration Of artil-
lery ever recorded was that of the
American troops in the Battle of st.
Mihiel, when our artillery fired
more than 100000 shells in four
hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Actor Still Talking

IT GOT to know Cleo WE'LL mean
u outside of business hours.
please keep remembering that this
is the actor talking-not Haywood
Broun. the respectable columnist
and congressional candidate). / got
to know her well, and I told her the
stuff was all fake. She just laughed.
II didn't make her mad. But one
day she said: This Jim in your
stock company-it isn't a good idea
for him to be such cross and mo-
rose woman hater.g You tell him to
come to the studio again. I want to
tell him something
This time he didn't raise any OBJ
lection against going, and when
saw him next dey he asked, Did
you ever hear of an actress named
Maude Lambert?' It wasn't any
name I'd ever heard Of, although
knew most Of the people in the pro-
fession.
what about Maude LAMBERT
asked.
Nothing said Jim cleo says
I'm going TO marry her in two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12

whose funeral is it? Surely that Of the lawyers. Yet
while they remain complacen it is left to ministers,
newspaper writers and social workers to cry out their
protests
This lawyers lack of pride in the laws honor has
been sensed by many jursts, who see in it danger
to the entire body polite.
1T is not pleasant to contemplate" said Justice
Royal A. Stone Of the Minnesota supreme court,
what might now be the state of the world had the
students and practitioners of medicine and surgery and
of the physical sciences been so much the slaves of
standpattism during the last century as have the
members of the American bar"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Times Readers
Voice ViezOS

Editor Times-I read your recent
editorial on PESTS Beyond the Pale'
with the greatest pleasure, because
you took the very words out of my
mouth.
But besides the honking motorist
and the noisy motorcycle romeo,
there are other pests in my neigh
borhood equally annoying, if not
more so-the ice peddlers. 1 have
especially in mind three young
fellows who start their unholy BUSH
ness shortly after in the morning.
They have the nastiest voices
imaginable and also the loudest, and
in three different pitches, mind you,
and drawn out as long as possible
just why they yell "Ipev I don't
know. unless it be that ice" is too
hard on their tonsils.
Every possibility Of sleep is en-
tirely out Of the question after
they've been around. Having to
witness such an insult to civilized
humanity would spoil anybodys
sleep. 1t gets me so worked up
each time that 1 get raving mad
Is there any reason why they
can't execute their business nicely
and noiselessly, like practically
every other respectable business
man? Is there any reason why they
can't distribute ice cards to the
homes and have the customers dis
play them if they want ice?
Anything you can do TO remedy
this thing will be appreciated great
ly by all residents of this neighborz
hood. If necessary, I'll gladly let
you have the name and addresses
of these certain "Ipe-men."
HENRY Won BANK.
40 North Arsenal aveYslie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
Dry Mr.. Roosevelt

.CoVERNOR ROOSEVELT Of
NJ New York draws some big
headlines aid lot of comment bv
coming OUT for repeal of the eight
zenith amendment.
The excitement is largely wasted,
SINCE ne had little choice in tbs
matter.
1t was a case Of be wet, or get
out.
A dry Democrat has about as
much chance in the Empire state
as a SNOWFALL in August.
For that matter, so has q dry Re-
publican.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine


Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association. and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
Il PIDEM1C meningitis has been
II known as a distinct disease for
more than 1875 years. Now it is
known that isolated cases are al
most always present in any large
community, and that at various
rather irregular intervals epidemics
occur.
just why epidenicS occur when
they do is not known. Most often
they develop when large numbers
of people are crowded together I'M
der insanitary circumstances, but
sometimes they arise without this
condition.
The germ that causes nenin-
gifts was found within ten years
of the time when Pasteur estab-
lished the germ cause of diseases.
Since that time Investigators have
found that there are various types
of the meningitis germ just as there
are various types of the pneumonia
germ, and, indeed, just as there are
various types of human beings.
This fact is very important be-
cause the specific serum that con-
trolls the poisons of one type of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12

TINE other day tuned in on a
l. radio program, and was
shocked to hear some woman adj
dress her listeners, in all serious
ness, to consult the stars before
conSenting to any major operation.
Doctors may be wrong in such mat
tiers on occasion, but I would GER
tainly string along with a diagnosis
rather than a horoscope.
1t is we'll enough to fool around
with fortune telling for the fun of
it, but surely this ought to be a
civilization sufficiently advanced to
give star gazing, numerology, palm
iStry and the like no more interest
than goes to parlor games.
Only last night a seeress informed
me that would soon go on a rail-
road journey and undertake a line
of work quite new to me. This may
well be SO, but if and when it hap
pens I shall merely set the prophecy
down as a coincidence.
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InterIocutor Resumes

TN almost every case I believe that
Il this is all there is. The fortune
teller throws out countless leads
and prophecies. For instance, I was
told that I would presently have a
violent and romantic affair with a
blond woman. At the end of a
blondless twelve months viii have
forgotten that part of the fortune
and remembered only the railroad
Journey and the new occupation.
And maybe I viii say to myself, Il
wonder low she knew that"
Anybody armed with a shotgun
ought to be able to hit something,
any you will find in every fortune
that the fire is widely scattered.
But if you recall the details Of the
little story you may ask me, "But
how did Cleo know about the girl
in Japan?" And all ! can say to
that is that maybe it never hap
pened.
fcoDyriKht. 1850. b The TsmsH