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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Dixie

THE work entails the building OF
= a massive dixie nineteen miles
long. No dixie of such size ever has
been constructed before
At the bottom Of the sea, the dixie
will be 1886 feet wide. The dixie will
extend to a height of "a feet above
the average level of the sea. The
top of the dixie will be wide enough
to accommodate a double railway
track, motor road and a sidewalk.
The dixie is to be constructed from
material dredged up from the bot
tom of the zuider Zee, sand and a
very heavy clay. The side toward
the North sea, however, will be re-
inforCed with heavy rock.
Two great locks will permit en-
trance of ships from the North sea
to the new lake.
The reclaimed area will be divided
into four areas or ''polders.% Each
will be inclOsed in its own bikes
and the building of these bikes is
being carried on at the same time
that the large one is being built.
It is expected that the smallest Of
the four polders, the northwest one
will be drained within the course of
a few months
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Underwear for Babies Important

mel lose the nap and their power OF
absorbing water after washing and
Scrubbing.
Knit fabrics stand up much better
and one set of knitted diapers has
been found in hospital wards to
outwear three sets of the woven
fabric.
Practically all families must con-
slider the cost of various garments.
Cotton is cheapest; cotton and
rayon mixed cost slightly more.
Wool and cotton or wool and ray
on are next in order. Pure wool
is higher and silk and wool is most
expensive. Perhaps the best choice
for the average person is a mixture
of rayon and wool, which looks well
and is not irritating.
Birds eye and f1annelet are more
popular for diapers, but the knitted
fabrics out-wear them in the long
run and are therefore more
economical.
Doctors Smelling and Brown are
convinced that the ideal underwear
is one which combines warmth,
ready and rapid absorption, lack of
skin irritation and durability with
moderate cost.
For this purpose the two-layer
fabric seems most desirable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12

ment to me any more. In fact, one
might just about as tactfully wave a
whisky bottle under the nose of a
man who just has taken the Kelley
cure.
Still everything was set for the
big scientific experiment and there
could be no last-minute lodging.
The stunt was to have the resi-
dent orchestra play a tune and
then see how it affected the pulse
rate Of the assorted guinea pigs. AS
I remember the band began with
Carmen"
1t wasn't quite a fair scientific
test as far as was concerned.
Carmen" leaves me calm enough,
but to one who is stethoscope shy,
the big electrical cabinet was suff1-
Gent to produce q furry.
BY the time the wagon got around
to me, the orchestra was playing a
foX-trot. This produced the second
highest pulse found during the eve
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12

| Not infrequently the skin Of the
child is irritated by wool. To over
come such irritation, fabrics now
are made with cotton on one face
and wool on the other. Infants with
skin eruptions of the type OF
eczema do not tolerate the wooden
garments very well.
1t is recognized that wool is not
easy to launder as other fabrics.
The best WOODEN garments have
been preshrunk and stand launder-
ing without shrinking.
They will not, however, stand boil
ing or being rubbed with strong
soaps. Cotton may be boiled and
sterilized, but strong soaps and
bleaching powder ruin it promptly.
Rayon garments have to be ham
died as carefully as do wool
In tests made by the investigators
it was found that ribbed knit cot
tons stretched from one-third to
one-half longer in washing.
Fleece, canton flannel and fan
nelet had a large amount of the
fuzz worn away, whereas the wooden
fabrics, rayOn and birds eye we're
practically unchanged by several
careful washingS.
In diaper fabrics, durability is i'm
portant. F'lannelet and canton fan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
A Martyr

r GOT more than I bargained for.
l. It wasn't the ground floor on
which they let me in but the cellar.
Arriving at the studio, I found that
I was no spectator, but one of the
subjects to be experimental upon.
They had a minister. an orchestra
conductor, the leader of a jazz band,
couple of assorted business men.
an actress and a Stenographer. l
was introduced as representing
journalism" which made me self
conscious from the start.
We sat in a circle and a man with
machine which looked like a cock
tail truck, was in the middle. 1t
Was a sort Of super sensitive Stetho-
scope which greatly amplifed the
sound of the heartbeat.
used to be hypochondriac and
at one time I had the largest COL
lection of cardiac experts in the
country.
In fact, most of the leading spe-
cialiSts got their start on me. Pref
ty nearly all of them spoke Of my
heart pleasantly enough, but I kept
going back and hack for examina-
ton, just on the chance that they
might turn out to be wrong.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
His Pulse

EOR me there was no such como
n tation. The picture coniured
up in my mind by a fox-trot is that
of large man left alone at the
table with an intense inclination to
have the party break UP so he can
get home to his bed and books.
Mine was wallf1owers pulse of
68 2-10. But the girl at the end of
the line reacted as the belle of the
ball ought to react to dance music.
About that time, the experimenter
looked around among his subjects
to find heart which might be am
plified and broadcast to all the
world. I had bit of a scare before
he passed me up.
Still, 1 can't say that I went away
without any happy memories. I
always will treasure the fact that
the Methodist minister developed a
pulse Of 121 over a tune called You
Do Something to Me-
Copyright, 1890. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
DY now I know how a guinea pie

DY now I know how a. guinea pig
- feels and the answer is, Just
terrible" The Columbia Broadcast
ing people played something in the
nature of a practical joke upon me,
and it was through their kind Of
fees that I learned the inward
emotions of such beasts as are Sacri-
feed to science.
1t began with letter inviting me
to come to the studio to witness an
interesting experiment as to the
manner in which various types of
individuals would react to different
kinds of music.
I can imagine few things which
arouse in me a smaller amount of
passionate interest. In my own ex-
perience there are only two types of
reaction to music.
There are the pests who hum the
tune along with the band, and the
rest who keep their mouths shut.
And, oh, yes, there are those who
tap time with their feet.
Although not minded to exclaim,
"Goody! Goody!" at being let in on
the ground floor of the research, I
replied amicably to the invitation
and in the affirmative.
1t SO happens that I have been
shopping around trying to get a
broadcasting job, and in such cir
cumstanceS one can't afford to carry
his hat too high. With me every
week is BE King to Radio Stations
| Week"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Lincoln Was Tolerant

TYRANNY is a good subject to
IL think about on Lincoln's birth
day.
Lincoln's character and career
represented nothing so distinctly as
a challenge to it in every form.
First, he worked to free the slaves
from oppression. No sooner had
that been accomplished than he be-
gan an uphill fight to protect the
beaten south against the very same
thing.
Lincoln was, above all else, a toll
Grant man. He not only believed in
tolerance as a principle, but as the
most effective means by which to
gain peoples confidence.
Others would have used a club to
hold Kentucky, Missouri and Mary
land in the Union, and probably
would have lost them in conse-
quence. Lincoln was patient and
won.
This is not the country Lincoln
left on that fatal night sixty-fivs
years ago. Its political ways he
might find easy to understand, but
its industrial, financial and me-
chanlcal ways would stagger him
not only because of the change they
represent, but because of their
largeness.
Lincoln once expressed deep con-
Germ for the safety of this republic
because of "the growing power OF
corporate wealth." and that at a
time when what we would regard as
a second-rate railroad was the big
gest thing in sight.
How would he feel toward the
stupendous mergers and combines OF
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE.

COMFORT while asleep and good
" health associated with perfect
rest will depend to a large extent
on the temperature of the body and
it's retention of heat.
It is recognized that still warm
air, which is extremely uncomfort-
able, becomes quite comfortable
when the air is in motion. Heat on
the surface of the body is extremely
uncomfortable, whereas evapora-
ton and absorption of moisture
from the skin may aid comfort
greatly.
In the infant, warmth is of far
more Importance than in the adult,
because of its tendency to sudden
changes of temperature and the
fact that its rapid growth uses up
far more energy than is used up in
the adult.
Recently Drs. G. E. Smelling and
A. Brown have made a study of the
various types of material used for
infants underwear, with a view to
the comfort of the infants skin and
the general effects of the underwear
on infant health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
>SSZZZEEX%SS
l5fT|t1eE|
LINCOLN'S BIRTH
Feb. IL

iON Feb. IL, 1909, Abraham Lin
~ coin, sixteenth President of
the United States, was born in a
log cabin in Hardin county, Ken
lucky.
AS boy, Lincoln knew the hard
ships and privations of frontier life.
| All his schooling combined probably
would not have made up more than
one year.
After serving as a captain in the
Black Hawk war, Lincoln ran for
the legislature. Following his de-
feat and the failure Of an attempt
a little later to run general store,
he began the study of law.
In 1884 he was finally elected to
the legislature and was reelected
two years later. About two years
before his election to congress he
married Mary Todd.
AS a representative in congress.
Lincoln found in the senate a great
rival in Stephen A. Douglas, with
whom he engaged in several his
toric public debates on slavery.
Nominated at Chicago in 1860 for
President, Lincoln won the election
He was IL Office but six weeks when
the Civil war broke out.
Shortly after the battle of Ante
tam, in which the Union forces had
the upper hand, the President issued
his famous emancipation proclanla-
/ ton. declaring he would on Jan. l.
1868, free the slaves Of all the states
then or thereafter in rebellion.
Lincoln was reelected, but his
second term was cut short when he
was MORALLY wounded by an assas-
sins bullet while he sat at Ford's
theater, Washington, watching a
rIay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
How Would Lincoln Feel?

QUITTING that aside, how would
l. Lincoln feel toward prohibition,
with which he could claim some
experience? Would he regard it as
the natural result of certain re-
form waves which began to surge
and seethe in his own time, or as
more or less of a stampede, due to
war fever?
AS President, would he make he
roic efforts to enforce prohibition,
out OF regard to his oath of office
and to the Constitution, or would he
conceive it a higher duty to work
for the repeal or modification of an
amendment which is robbing the
latter of its reverence?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
NJ. E. Tracy
Ho10 Lincoln Would Feel
About Prohibition Is q
Good Question to Consider
Today.
SAYS:

T OOKING down from an eleva-
IL ton Of eighty three years,
which nine-tenths of those who
read this never will attain, Thomas
A. Edison expresses the belief that
prohibition ultimately will succeed.
You know how most people will
answer that. They will say that
one mans opinion is as good as
another, which is not true.
Neither is it true that the same
mans opinion is equally good about
all things.
Mr.. Edison, for instance, can
claim the right to deliver expert
judgment on monographs, motion
picture machines and electrical de-
vices in general, because he has
spent his life developing and per-
fecting them.
The average district attorney,
police chief, or even social worker,
| though unable to count half his
years, probably could give more re-
liable judgment as to prohibition.
- q
The question of whether prohibi-
ton will succeed is of rather less
Importance than is the question of
whether it ought to, of whether
compelled sobriety is worth the sac
rifice Of the rights and principles
which it necessarily involves.
One can admit that there Is
power enough in the government of
the United States to enforce pro-
hibition and still doubt the wisdom
of employing it to that end.
Such achievement would not be
unprecedented. At one time or an
other in the past, governments have
succeeded in denying people more
important privileges than that Of
taking a drink.
But what happened to them
afterWard?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Daily Thought

And it shall come to pass in the
day of the Lords sacrifice, that I
will punish the princess, and the
kings children, and all such as
are clothed in strange apparel
Zephaniah 1:8.
Though punishment be slow, still
it comes.-George Herbert.
What is the greatest depth ever
attained by deep sea diver?
Frank Crilley, while working on
the salvage of the F-4 of Honolulu
in 1917 reached the depth of 3oe
feet.
Are alien residents of the United
States required to pay federal in
come tax?
Yes.
What is the Jewish population of
Chicago and New York?
The Jewish population of Chicago
is estimated at 285. 1000; of New
York 1,6a3,o12.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Stimson's Submarine Gesture

Secretary Stimson'S foot slipped when he lectured
the London naval conference demanding abolition of
the submarine on grounds of high morality It is
dangerous for nation to lecture others their
morals. They are apt TO turn the point against the
lecturer.
Said Stimson:
sFor this conference, called under such influences
to ranction an instrument OF war; the abuses of which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
1T SEEMS TO ME By HB B9O13%

ming. But it belonged to the stenog-
rapher and not to me.
She was a very pretty stenog-
rapher and to her the oom- pah-oom
suggested whirling around ball
room floor with boy friend and
giggling, Nov, do behaved"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Vigilance

a WITTY Frenchman once said.
L A God created land for all ma
tions except the Dutch; they cre-
ated their own"
The observation expresses what
the Dutch have had to do to find "a
place in the sun"
The northern and western parts
of the Netherlands consist almost
entirely of reclaimed land, land sur
rounded by bikes to keep out the
sea In many places these re-
claimed areas, known as ''polders,"
are twenty-four feet below the level
of the sea.
Constant vigilance is the price
which the Dutch must pay to keep
the sea, the Rhine and Meuse riv-
ers and their tributaries from flood
ing the land,
The zuider Zee project first was
suggested in the seventeenth CEN
fury by Simon Stevin, a famous
mathematician. Two centuries
elapsed, however, before any prog
resS was made. In the nineteenth
century a society was organized to
make a scientific study of the
problems involved.
The society engaged DR.. Cornell
Jus Lely to work out scheme. At
the end Of five years he had his
plans drawn up. His plan was &C
cepted by parliament and he was
made secretary for public works.
Twenty-four years passed by,
however, and nothing was done
about the project. In 1918. after
the end of the World war, parlia-
ment voted to begin the project.
The cost was estimated at $780,
100000.
Actual work was begun five years
ago. 1t is hoped that the job can
be completed by 1884.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
SCIENCE
The Netherlands wiz Gain
$4,000 Acres Of Land by
Gigantic Drainage Project.
BY DAVID DIETZ

Glgdntic drainage PROJECT.
DY 1884, the Netherlands will be
- larger by $4,000 acres of land.
That much land-equal to per
cent of the total area of the ma
tion-will be reclaimed by a great
engineering project now under way.
The new land, turned into farms.
will provide a livelihood for 100000
people,
The aim of the project is to drain
the famous Zuider Zee. you pro-
nounce it by giving the "ui" the
sound of "oi" in oil" and the zee
the sound of "a" in say" That is,
as if it were spelled colder zay.")
The Zuider Zee is a shallow gulf
penetrating far into the northern
part of the Netherlands. 1t COM
municates with the North sea. but
is almost cut off from it at low
water by islands and sand banks.
its depth at low water averages hf-
teen feet.
The problem is complicated by the
fact that the Netherlands already
has vast areas of reclaimed land
which are drained into the Zuider
Zee 1t is not possible, therefore, to
eliminate the entire body of water.
1t is planned to create a lake with
an area of 100000 acres. This lake
will be a gigantic reservoir under
control so that flood conditions and
the like can be handled by it.
Two rivers, the Yssel and VecnS
which now flow into the Zuider
Zee, will flow into the new lake.
It is planned to call the new lake
Lely lake. after the late DR.. Cor
nelius Lely, former secretary for
public works of the Netherlands.
who drew up the plans for the prof.
ect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Limit to Endurance

TT isn't what a benevolent autoc-
A. racy can do to purge and purify
the souls of men, but how much
human nature is willing to endure
that really counts. :.
The American revolution itself
was produced by some rather in
consequential taxes and restrictions,
which the British parliament well
could have afforded to dispense
with, and probably would have dis
pensed with had it been able to
foresee the future.
n
No one can quarrel with the idea
Of Sobriety, or temperance.
No one can doubt that we prob
ably would be better off without
liquor than with it, if a choice be-
tween the two extremes were the
only alternative.
Drunkenness has caused 8 deal of
trouble in this world, and doubtless
it will continue to do so.
But tyranny, even though rooted
in the best of intentions, has
caused more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-12
Medical Shopper

A FTER heart doctors I went in
IA for pSycho-analysts, and the
fifth time it took. AS a reformed
medical shopper I shy away now
from all the paraphernalia to which
7 was once enslaved.
A stethoscope is not entertain
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-09-06

and footwear store, failed, with
over sixty thousand Negroes in
the city.
There are white people en-
ployed at the Hippodrome The
alter to collect tickets and to do
practically all other jobs except
sell the tickets. The Hippo
drome is supported by Negroes.
There is a white drug store
in Second Street which is appar-
emily doing a good business.
The Jew stores in Jackson
Ward, and in all other sections
where Negroes live, are allowed
to keep their places of business
open every day in the year,
while they are forced, in most
white sections, to close on Sun
days.
Negroes in Richmond can not
support a frst-class theater
financed and manned by Ne
groes. The Rayo, for instance.
The Negro, when he prays
with his eyes shut, always sees
with his minds eye, the image
OF a white man.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-09-06

Richmond is preparing to give the
Reindeer boys and girls big hand
when they come here on the 18th,
The local committee is to be con-
graduated upon its untiring efforts.
Richmonders are urged to leave no
stone unturned to make the visitors
feel at home. The Planet is conf
dent that when the Reindeer leave
here they will have no need for un"
pleasant recollections, but will al
ways be ready to hereafter come to
Richmond.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-09-06
STUMPING KANSAS AGAINST
HENRY J. ALLEN
(From The st. Luke Herald, August)
%, 1900

%, 1900
William Pickens, Field Secdetary of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, was
dispatched from the New York head
quarters for the purpose of convln-
cling the voters of Kansas that Sena-
tor Henry J. Allen should not sue
coed himself for that high trust OF
the people of the State. He scoffed
at the crest of public sentiment by
voting for the confirmation of Judge
Parker of North Carolina. The
campaigner, a political neophyte
put across his message of common
senr> with high-powered frankness
and dellDeraLIvn.
He did not, however, deteat the
old political rascal of Kansas. He
was on to the game of political ny
pocracy, and out-maneuvered the N
A. A. C P.'s political antagonist
The attack. alone, upon this hundred
per cent hypocrite, explains lot,
1t is proof that Negroes from one
side of the country to the other, are
growing civic backbones with which
to think and stand upright among
the sons of men.
The struggle alone was worth the
time and efforts contributed to this
campaign. The very fact that Ne
groes are planning reprisals against
their official opponents in office, is
worth millions in the values of rem
edies for the conditions of our peo-
pie. We cannot start these vigorous
protestations any earlier. But such
determined ends and means of pres
sing emergency in the upward strug-
giles of our people must bear fruit IN
the fullness of time.
1t is no wonder that first attack
on this brigadier-general of politics
would fail to force him to surrender
But one thing he knows, he has been
in a nasty combat with a new ele--
ment of opposition. We should not
feel the least discouraged at his nos
ing by in the primaries. We should
not blame the Negro element in right
ing him with all their means of de-
fensive opposition.
Negroes must learn that mere OPP
position against patent wrongs al
though we fail to in temporary com
bat, that there can be no failure IN
long run.