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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

School Ventilation Is Vital Problem

The final report of the New York
commission on ventilation indicates
that the essential problem of venti-
lation, except where the air contains
poison or dust due to imperfect
combustion or industrial processes
are concerned, is physical and not
chemical problem that affects the
skin more than it does the lungs.
To this, of course, must be added
the fact that the air tends to take
up odors from the human body
when the room is not properly
ventilated, and thereby may become
so unpleasant as to diminish appe-
tite and even produce nausea.
Mechanical experts have invented
all sorts of devices to ventilate all
sorts of rooms properly and the out
come of all their experiments was
the development of fans for forcing
air into rooms.
Because scientists and experts
in hygiene began to demand thirty
cubic feet of air per minute, the
state of New York in 1918 APP
pointed a commission to investi-
gate the problem of ventilation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

The studies include not only tests
made in the laboratory, but also
additional tests carried on in
schools.
The commission now is con-
WINGED that auditoriums holding
100 people or more, large offices,
workrooms and industrial estab-
liShments where excessive heat or
moisture or dust or poisonous
fumes are produced require fan
ventilation.
In certain workrooms where out
door noise or dust Or odors may
make it inadvisable to keep the
windows open, fan ventilation may
be required.
In most places, however, window
ventilation seems to be entirely
satisfactory and indeed is to be
preferred for school rooms.
1t is recognized that occupied
rooms in schools should have a
temperature about SO degrees
Fahrenheit; corridors, gynna-
Sums and shops should have 65
degrees Fahrenheit; swimming
pools and adjacent rooms, rs de-
greeS Fahrenheit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
TIT CEENTC TO ME ~ HAYWOOD
/ OLL1V1O l. ~ 1V11 bI BROUN

for me to work up any fighting fury
concerning my immediate oppon-
ents. Their political and economic
philosophy might be, and in fact
always was, distinctly abhorrent to
me. But in themselves they were
pleasant people with charming man
ners and great affability. Upon
even the most meager analysis 1
could not pin the woes of the world
upon them. They had not framed
various iniquities which CALLED us
all. To be frank about it, did not
feel that any of the people against
whom I ran were important enough
to do much in the world for good or
i'll.
And even when the names of the
so-called great are considered I have
come to believe that their power is
far less important than we some
times think. Single individuals do
not really make economic depres-
sion.
If one is going to get angry at
anybody, he will have to vent his
fury upon man in the mass. There
is not single evil thing of which I
know which is not the product of
joint responsibility.
And in virtually every case this
responsibility is so widely distrib-
uted that, save for the purposes of
dramatic appeal, you can not find
the original culprit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
U. S. STEAMER SUNK
November %

ON Nov. %, 1917, the American
~ steamer Schuylkill was sunk
in the Mediterranean and the
American consul of a Mediter-
ranean port was ordered to ascer-
tain whether it was sunk by a
German or an Austrian subma-
rine.
The British renewed their at
tack on Fontaine Notre Dame,
and the French checked counter
attacks in the Juvincourt region.
On the Italian front the Ital.
ians thwarted the encircling
movement against Monte Meletta
and recaptured Monte Tomba and
Monte Pertica.
British forces in Arabia captured
Turkish post at Jahir, fifteen
miles north Of Alden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

OONIETHING seems to be happen
= ing to me which may prove a
great handicap in the matter OF
writing columns. I am growing
mellow. This isn't just my own no.
ton. Friends and even casual &C
ouaintances have spoken OF 1t, ana
largely with an acute distaste.
For instance, there was a piece
here the other day about dramatic
critics. Some of my actor friends
mentioned it and said: IT thought
you really we're going to take a crack
at them. You don't call pat on
the wrist an attack, do you?"
And looking over the paragraphs
in question, had to confess that,
whatever the original impetus, 1t
had slowed down into a sort OF
treacle talk.
The theater probably did mark
the beginning of this new and pos
sibly unfortunate mood. During my
DAYS of servitude as a critic, I found
no great difficulty in being just as
harsh as all the rest. Much that
happened on the stage was annoy
ing and not infrequently acutely
boring.
But now, even in wandering about
to some of the shows which have
not been praised without marked
reservations, 1 am amazed to find
that I am having a good time.
II n Il
MeIIoWneSS of Middle Age
U CAN'T help it. None of this is
i tied to a cheer-up philosophy or
set belief that prosperity is just
around the corner and should be
tolled in with smile.
Much is amisS in many depart
ments of our existence, both spiritu-
ally and materially. The trouble
with me is that I am finding it in
creasingly difficult to become much
embittered about particular in
dividuals.
In politics it never was possible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Time and Trouble

IF Japan does not change her
l. mind and China does, the League
of Nations will appoint special
commission to study the Manchu-
rian situation.
Meanwhile, barrage is being laid
down on our government to obtain
its fullest cooperation, and, if pos
sible, its assumption of leadership.
Needless to say, this is the action
with which the league should have
begun proceedings.
The fact that it finally was pro-
posed by a Japanese delegate,
whether through pressure, or on his
own initiative, shows how time and
trouble might have been avoided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
It's Stable Job

Japan wants the commission to
y study not only Manchuria, but
all Of China. A good idea for the
sake of information, if nothing else.
What we of the west don't know
about China would make a
stupendous book. If we are going
to run her affairs and determine her
fate, we ought to get on speaking
terms with some of the difficulties
involved.
It's a stable job, when you
come to think of -one-fourth the
human race, with forty centuries of
civilized background, demoralized
for the moment and looking to us.
who have barely emerged from
savagery, for guidance.
There is more to the problem
than providing a market for autos
and radio sets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

XXTITH increased city distress there is, all at once
w general hulabaloo for Back to the Farm"
movement 1t at last has filtered into the public
consciousness that the who is able to raise his
food is the truly independent person
Nevertheless, there is good deal of ignorance con-
nected with our ideas this subject And it usually
IS true that the individual who shouts most about
the dignity OF the man with the hoe is just about
the last fellow who would handle himself
While large number of working people would be
better of in every way living bit of land rather
who has had previous experience with agriculture
would be in hopeless situation if he suddenly were
compelled to get his living from the soil.
For contrary to general urban opinion, the crops
do not burst forth of themselves does bread grow
upon the wheat stalk
TT takes ingenuity and fundamental intelligence
as well as vast tenacity of purpose to be
full farmer. And then, outside forces may hinder
the most capable of Whereas the city worker
che economic fluctuations to fear the farmer has
all these-and the whims of the weather besides
Most of us are agreed that prosperity for
the farmer is necessary for national welfare How
bring that about remains the problem. One thing
is certain: Farm life must be made attractive
for boys and girls if to expect them to choose
It as q business
Yet we spend our millions directly in the cities
All our efforts to bring comfort and beauty and Gull
ture TO the young expended upon the city child.
The town schools equipped with libraries and
gymnaSiums and music rooms while those in the
country often repeently ugly and lack everything
that might lure youth
more equal distribution of tax funds for educa-
onal purposes must be arranged II to succeed
IN adjusting advantages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Not So Interesting

D REPRESENTATIVE JOHN N.
N GARNER of Texas, who in all
probability will be the next Speak
er Of the house, and John F. Cur
RE, leader of Tammany Hall, have
breakfast together.
1t was a purely social affair, to
let them tell it, but something hap
pened to make everybody believe
that Representative John j. O'Con-
nor of~New York will get better
committee positions.
Interesting as that may be, what
most people would like to know is
whether anything happened to
throw light on the Democratic tax
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

particular environment in which
they have lived.
History is written somewhat in the
manner of newspaper copy desk.
We always are looking for name
around which to build headline.
And I am certain that 1 came out
of high school and college with a
fixed notion that all the important
happenings, in America at least, mad
been brought about by Washington,
Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln and
one or two others.
But this must be a prepoSterous
conviction. No single man today
can alter very materially the tides
which move us this way or that.
n II
Some One Just as Bad
THUS, if no such person as
Il Napoleon Bonaparte ever had
been born in Corsica, it is quite like
ly that when the circumstances and
the times were ripe some other i'm
perialiSt adventurer would have led
France along precisely the same
path.
There would have been a Civil war
and an emancipation proclamation
even though no Lincoln sat in the
White House.
There is something of defeatism
in letting this belief get set in your
mind. Because, as Mr.. Burke once
pointed out, you can not indict a
nation. OF course, that isn't quite
true. You can, Fifty million
Frenchmen may be tragically wrong
But there is something little in
effective in using all ten fingers
when you start to point.
Unfortunately, 1 find himself be-
ing rather lax in self-appraisement.
Once there was day when my con-
science rode me with whip and
spurs. could blush. 1 did upon
occasion hang my head in shame.
And remorse is not unknown to
me. Chiefly I accused myself of
sloth and incidence. But now. even
after the most wasteful day, I am
inclined to say:
1T could not have been avoided
Even before the Pyramids were
built, certain currents had been set
in motion which made it inevitable
that on Thursday afternoon I would
not get up until half-past three"
copyright. 1881. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Views of Times Readers

make up for a few easy days at 80.
IS and not more than 40 cents an
hour, eight hours a day?
JUST A HIGHWAY WORKER.
Editor Times-I appreciate your
fight against the utilities and sim
cerely hope some benefits to the
consumer will be the result Of your
efforts.
One thing CALLING to me is that
the Indianapolis Light and Power
Company is permitted by the Indi-
ana public service commission to
add a penalty of 10 per cent to bills
if not paid exactly on the due date.
It is bad enough to be obliged to pay
the high rate, especially in these
times, but to exact a penalty for
failure to pay on the minute due is
highway robbery.
What other business charges 10
per cent more than the bill when it
is not paid with reasonable prompt
ness? And they have the nerve to
refer to this as discount.
A TIMES SUBSCRIBER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Another Meteoric ShoaOer.
Seeming to Originate in
the Constellation of An
dromeda, Is Due Tonight.
.VXTHILE Mother Nature has been
w providing some scientific fire.
works in the form of a meteoric
shower, terrestrial scientists have
been furnishing their share of nv
rotechnics.
News has been plentiful this
month in the world of science. But
before turning to a discussion of Il
let us note that there are . couple
of more astronomical shows on tan
this month.
The shower of meteors which has
just taken place is known as the
.Leonides because the shooting stars
seem to originate in the constella-
ton of Leo.
Another meteoric shower is due
tonight. This shower is known as
the Andromedes because it seems
to originate in the constellation of
Andromeda.
Meanwhile three of the planets
are putting on a little show in the
western sky at sunset. If you look
toward the western horizon just be-
fore sunset any night between now
and Nov: rs. you will notice that
Mercury, Venus and Mars are ex-
tremely close together, forming a
little triangle.
Such an event is known to as
tronomers as a triple conjunction.
Actually, of course, the planets are
millions of miles apart They only
appear close together in the line of
sight from the earth.
But let us leave astronomical
matters now to survey the news of
what the scientists have been doing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health MdSAZtucs
THROUGHOUT the United States
l. school boards and commissions
are concerned with the problem of
proper ventilation of schools.
The matter is important not only
from the health angle, but also as
it concerns economics and the abil-
ity of the children to work salts
factorily.
The fact that bad air may have
bad effect on human health and
comfort has been recognized for
more than 1000 years.
1t was thought at first that the
only bad air was that which con-
tanned more carbon dioxide than
it ought to and less oxygen than
outside air.
The modern point of view is that
the chief purpose of ventilation is
to remove the excess of heat given
off by the human body so as to
maintain an atmosphere that will
be comfortable-cool but not too
cold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
What Can He Gain2

COMMISSION, or no commission,
~ it looks as though there
would be more fighting if Chang
Kai-Shek has his way.
Making every allowance for his
patriotism, just what good does he
think it will do to lead 100000 or
100000 Chinese to certain defeat,
many of them to certain death?
What is there in human nature,
or human tradition, that causes in
telligent men to justify such fool
iShneSS?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

Wise" After a Fen Lick
ings From Brother Nicky.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-once
IN again, Prince Nicholas Of Ru-
mania makes news for the Sunday
papers by whipping his brother,
King Carol, not figuratively, but in
the good old-fashioned way. They
do say that if palace attendants had
not been within easy call, his
majesty would have taken the count.
Without trying to be funny, it
might be described as the case of
a chicken come home to roost.
Prince Nicholas has had the
nerve to espouse lady outside the
royal breed, and though King Carol
once committed a similar offense,
deserving his queen in the bargain.
he can't see the slightest excuse for
it, now that he is on the throne.
But every time he attempts to ex-
plain this to little brother Nicky, he
gets a licking.
Maybe he will get the point, by
and by.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Buy These Soups:

Ask any REGAL STORE for COLUMBIA
brand of soup, chill con carne catsup, pork
and beans and tomato juice
They are packed by THE COLUMBIA con-
SERVE COMPANY in this city-A Business
Without Boss-a real industrial democracy
No regular worker at THE COLUMBIA
CONSERVE COMPANY has ever been aided
by the Community Fund, although the workers
there contribute to this fund
Buy COLUMBIA brand-quality with equal
ity-at all REGAL STORES.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
All Bound to the Wheel

IN this sense I honestly can not go
4 along with such of my radical
friends as would point an accusing
finger at this f1nancier, this political
leader or even some special captain
of industry.
Not that I would acquit everybody
of personal guilt. There are those
whose motives and whose deeds
seem to me despicable. And yet in
each instance can not but think
that they, too, are products of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
Daily Thought

Heaven and earth shall pass
away; but my words shall not
pass away.--Mark 1881.
Faith is the soul going out of it
self for all its wants.-Boston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
MeIIowness of Middle Age

Editor Times-Scanning the eve
ming paper several days ago, l
noticed that the president of the w.
G. T. U. said that without prohibit
ton the county would be morally
corrupt.
I would like to tell of case that
I personally know to exist here in
indianapolis, the city Of homes.
On one of our prominent streets
a family lives in surroundings that
I wouldn't ask a dog to live in. The
father was put in prison for selling
white mule, trying to make a living
for the family. Due to the arrest
Of the father, the mother applied
to the trustees of Marion coun-
ty for aid. Because of his ar
rest, she was refused aid until she
was destitute, and despair drove her
to the streets for money. Now she
is running a house of i'll fame in
front of her four children, whose
ages are 5, Z, 9 and II.
If that is prohibition morals, I
would like to know what they would
be without prohibition.
MASKED MYSTERY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

What is the original source of the
quotation, "TaIl oaks from little
acorns grow?
David Everette's Lines Written
for a School Defamation" 1t is
also found in Lewis Dunscomb's
Translation Of De ,Minimus Max
ina" The idea. however, Is much
older.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

Ideals and opinions expressed
inE this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
Getting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this naner.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
EinStein to Return
DROFEssoR ALBERT EINsTEIN,

DROF'ESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN.
= as usual, continues to be one
of the chief sources of scientific
news, First of all, he just has an
nounced his intentions of returning
to California to carry on additional
studies at Pasadena with the scien-
lists of the California Institute of
Technology and the Mt. Wilson OBJ
servatory.
The latest report is that Professor
Einstein will go to California by way
OF the Panama canal. Apparently.
he wishes to spare himself the ex-
citement of another New York re-
ception of welcome.
Einstein also held the front page
OF the newspapers a few DAYS ago
when it was reported that he and
Professor R. A. NIilliken, at a meet
ing in Berlin, had disagreed rather
violently over the origin of the cos
mic rays.
The discussion seems to have
WdAeu warm, Out the excitement
was scientific and not personal.
After the discussion the two made
a luncheon date.
More scientific news is being
made by Professor William De Sit
ter, Dutch astronomer and author
ity upon relatively, who now is in
this country lecturing at various
universities. De Sitter, like Elm
stein, is a universe maker.
1t is possible. upon the basis of
the Einstein theory, to postulate
several structures for the universe.
One of these structures, designed by
Einstein himself, is known to science
as the "Einstein universe"
Another has been constructed bv
De Sitter. It now is generally
thought that the de Sitter uni
verse" is closer to the truth than
the Einstein universe.
De Sitter has also suggested a
new theory to account for the
origin of the solar system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

Editor Times-I wonder If P. s.
Thomas will drive over one of our
state roads next winter when the
snow is drifting? He will be glad to
see two men with state highway
truck battling the snow to make the
road safe for traffic. Won't that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
TONS Japan today knows that She can AFFORD lea

lions, Japan To-Day knows that she can AFFORD least
to be outlawed by the United States
President Hoover continue, by his hands-off
policy and secret diplomacy to encourage Japan's
destruction Of Americas peace machihery. That way
leads toward eventual world war-a war in which
isolation policy save us no more than it kept
us out of the last World war Or President Hoover
can live up to American treaties.
BY outlawing Japan, if necessary, President Hoover
preserve the peace treaties for future security
regardless of what Japan does in Manchuria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

South Carolina in 1887 passed law CHASING &C
tors Migrants Must have foreseen this depression
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23

Pennsylvania legionnaires sent piece of coal az
a trophy to California. They didn't mean anything
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-23
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Maybe King Carol VIII Get
Wise" After a Fen Lick
ings From Brother Nicky.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
HOOVER AND GRANDI
EXPECTED TO PROBE
PROBLEMS OF WORLD
italian Statesman and Presi-
dent to Have Few Reserva.
tions in Discussion

Washington, Nov. 12.-(R-Every
page In the book of international
problems in which Italian american
cooperation might offer solutions will
be turned next week by Foreign Min
lister Grandi Of Italy and President
Hoover.
Like the talks between President
Hoover and Premier Laval of France
however, the worlds economic situa-
ton and the bearing which interna-
tional relations have upon it will be
constantly in the foreground.
The Italian statesman will carry the
full backing of Premier Mussolini,
which means support of the Italian
government without reservations.
President Hoover is fully prepared
to discuss all five of the points un-
derstood to be contained in the pro-
gram which the foreign minister
brings.
Three of the foreign minister's
points will offer no difficulty. They
are almost echoes Of American policy,
calling for world economic coopera-
ton, disarmament by a fair method
and maintenance of the gold stand
ard.
On the other two. the president will
seek an understanding of 1taly's posi-
ton. They center around war debts
and reparations and peace treaty
revision.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
BITTER WEATHER IS
REPORTED IN WEST
Rocky Mountain States Cover
ed With Snow and Tenn.
perature Drops

Chicago, Nov. l2-(P)-Throwing off
its gentle mantle, autumn got down to
the business Thursday of giving many
widely separated sections of the ma
ton tastes of bitter weather.
Snow, falling in an area reaching
from Montana to Arizona, left Kali
spell, Mont, under seven inch blan-
ket.
Cold winds drove temperatures
downward throughout the district of
the Rockies. It was Is below on Pixies
Peak with a 40-mile gale.
High winds and muggy atmosphere
kept airplanes close to port in the
middlewest. Not a plane arrived at
or left the Chicago municipal airport
Wednesday.
A small advertising blimp was lost
for hours until 1t could find landing
at Springfield, and an airplane fell
to earth near Friendship. Wis. The
pilot, Roger Davy, Is, Oconomowoc,
Wis.,, was killed.
Poor visibility was believed by au-
thorities to be responsible for the
death Of Harry Thompson, 73, who
walked IN front Of a speeding subur.
ban Chicago train.