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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Just Every Day Sense
stock market crash was not without it, HE
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE stock market crash was not without its bless
Il ings in disguise. Chief among them has been
the restoration of the middle-aged and obsolescent
wife.
Since that fateful October, 1929. a very large num-
Der of the high pressure boys have abandoned their
ladies' OF JOY. Having learned to depend on last years
automobile, they also have decided to return to last
years model of wife.
So hundreds of these travel-stained and paint
peeled spouseS have been reSurfaced with rayon and
relacquered with rouge until they look almost as good
as new and, like the old motor car, run astoundingIv
we'll.
In the good old days of debentures. when Con-
Sohdated Cucumber went rising ten points a day, it
was considered essential by a good many of our Ticker
Tom-Boys to have sweeteS to consume the surplus
And how they did consume it!
TODAY the old wife is back doing her stuff. She
l. had been restored to favor and a place of promi-
hence. 1t has filtered into the male brain that her
wants are, after al. much simpler than those of his
erStwhLe friends. She demands neither race horses,
yachts nor weekend trips to Tia Juana.
She shows, instead, a pleasing aptitude to get along
on very much less and like it. Content to play up to
her role of faithful mate standing by in distress
she Is oeaming like a cat over a plate of cream.
And where are all the pretty ladies, the gorgeous
beings who once went decked in jewels and ermine
and lived sumptuously in velveted ease?
PROBABLY back to honest work and calico. AT least
the Dig boys have piped down. There is much less
loose talk of margins and madapes. The great
American papa took a flyer. but now mas come home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Kinder to Animals Than to Men

It frequently is asserted that man is more con-
nerned over cruelty to animals than over barbariSm
toward his own kind. Such a charge is made in an
editorial in the New York Nation. Denouncing reve-
lations relative to the third degree, the writer urges
the passage of a law making any confession invalid
unless made in the presence of the defendants attor-
ney. The writer continues:
such a law could be obtained in the shortest or
der if a few men like John w. Davis, Charles E.
Hughes, Samuel Untermyer, Enhu Root and Henry
I. Stimson would demand it in concert.
But the torturing of human beings stirs their
hearts neither to mutiny nor rage, nor do the con-
slant miscarriages of justice and framing of men
who sign confessions to avoid suffering worse than
death.
yet doubtless If anybody should tell them that
eydy day uniformed men subjected dogs and cas- to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Dust Causes Most Industrial Ills

The weavers inhale the fungi,
which are thrown off the cotton
threads in the process of weaving.
The fungi develop in the lungs, pro-
ducing a feeling of construction of
the chest with difficult breathing,
and associated with this, expectora-
ton of thick, yellowish-green
Sputum.
AS the infection goes on other
germs attack the weakened tissues,
producing not infrequently sec
ondary attacks of tuberculosis.
pneumonia or septic infections.
This brings about, of course, gen.
eral weakness, aching limbs, aching
back, severe headache and per-
spiration as well as prostration.
The condition does not occur so
frequently rs to be a constant men
ace, but cases have been recog-
nized sufficiently often to give
the disease the special name of
weaver'S cough.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

sheep which usually attack the skin
of the body. When inhaled this
germ can set up infection in the
lungs which in the majority of cases
is fatal. Anthrax is known rs wool
sorter's disease and is also associ-
ated with any worker who handles
fresh hides.
In Paris are men who raise
pigeons and Who feed them by
holding the grain in their own
mouths and forcing it down the
threats of the pigeon. Such men
not infrequently inhale organisms
which set up troubles in their lungs.
Weaves of cotton cloth sometimes
develop a cough that is due to the
inhaling of mildew present on the
cotton threads. Conditions of CHI
mate affect the sizing of the
threads before they are placed on
the looms, favoring the growth and
development of the mildeW.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

the farmer a moratorium because
the money they borrowed was pri-
vate money. Will he tell us whose
money it was that Germany Dor
rowed?
If a private citizen of the United
States loaned his fortune to a for
eign country because he could OBJ
tain more interest or evade taxa
ton or both, and that foreign coun-
try failed, should ne expect his
neighbors at home to share his
loss?
When a poor man fails to pro-
duce enough to pay his tax, why
should he be penalized by increas-
ing his debt 10 per cent when he
can't pay the first amount?
Two brothers have $4,000 each.
One buys a farm or starts in bust
ness, the other invests in bonds.
The n is taxed; the other is not.
Why?
I wonder why Uncle Sam didn't
start to read Luke II, chapter Is
to 81, before he stored so much
wheat? A. K. BURKHART.
Editor TimeS-I am assuming that
Il. z. Bridges" who wrote in The
Times of Oct. 81, to acquaint the
people with the purpose of a safety
zone" is a motorist and anxious to
quickly get away from downtown in
the evening.
Did he ever stand waiting for a
street a in the safety zone at the
southeast corner Of Pennsylvania
and Ohio streets about 5 p. M,
with traffic 1.-TWO cars wide on the
east and another line of cars
speeding down the center of the car
tracks, and have his clothes
splashed with oily, dirty water and
slush? I have, and it is not a pleas
ant experience, to say the least.
II, as he suggests, cars should
pass on either side of the safety
zone, just how safe" would it be,
and what is a poor pedestrian to
do if some one suddenly swerves to
one side or the other? Even now.
at 5 o'clock in the evening, at the
above mentioned corner, many mo-
florists crowd beyond the markings
Of the safety zone, for the police
insist the line be double.
Do please allow the pedestrian to
run" somewhere, even if it may be
in front Of an approaching street
carl Let's keep the zones reason
ably SAFE" at least.
A MERE STREET-CAR-RIDER.
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Editor TimeS-Some people think
that the idea of a moratorium is
one Of Mr.. Hoover's inventions, but
the application of a moratorium is
nothing new; it has been invoked
again and again in times of dis
tress down through the centuries
The latest example we have is
that of the state of Kansas. In
the early ninetieS the condition OF
the country was pretty much in
the same fix as now, but in Kan
sas conditions we're exceedingly Sc
we're.
Owing to the impossible interest
rates that the farmers had been
compelled to pay to the eastern loan
syndicates, the state had gone over
whelmingly in debt and the land
rapidly was passing Gust like here
now, from the original owners, the
farmers, to banks and loan COM
panies.
1t was not only a case Of misery
and helplessness, but of general de-
Spair, for no one could see how the
dark clouds hanging over the state
could be lifted.
In this condition Of dependency,
a few bold spirits started out tell
ing the farmers to throw overheard
the old politicians who had fooled
them so long and help themselves
out of our dilemma that they
themselves were the real power.
This ~rejuvenated doctrine spread
like wild fire. The ragged farmers
came in droves from long distances
to hear the new gospel. The en-
thuSiasm of this new movement was
almost beyond description and out
Of it a new party was born and the
old politicians found that none of
their old tactics was potent enough
to stay its progress.
And so the new party elected its
own members to the legislature and
congress. One of the first acts was
the declaration Of a moratorium on
all mortgage Indebtedness. Upon
the passage of this law. a new hope
burst forth. No one was hurt and
everybody was helped.
That act saved the lands of Kan
sas to the farmers of Kansas, and
what it accomplished is reflected
in the prosperity and independent
yeomanry of that state today.
Governor Pinchot says that in
1929-1930, 100000 farmers were
divorced from their homes, their
families scattered, and the men
turned into drifting nomads. An
agricultural paper says that his es-
innate is at least one-third too low
and that more than one million ur-
ban families have been forced out
of their homes and set adrift as
meandering Migrants to find any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
A Peace Foundation

TINE world needs four things to
i lay anything like an adequate
foundation for peace.
First, it needs a common Ian
guage, which should be taught in
schools of all countries and should
be adopted as the means of COM
m~unication among and between all
countries.
Second, it needs a common system
of currency, to stabilize and de-
termine values on a fair basis.
Third, it needs a common calen-
dar.
Fourth, it needs a common sys-
tenn of weights, measures and arith-
metic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
The Kingdom of Heaven - The
island of Lundy, three miles long
and one mile wide, lying in the
Bristol channel, twelve miles off
the Devon coast, England, is
owned privately and owes no al
legiance to any country, although
it usually is represented as part
of Devonshire. 1t first appeared in
authentic history about the elev-
enth century.
The island now is referred to as
the kingdom of Lundy, but for
eighty-three years in the eight
zenith and nineteenth centuries it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Fled to America
IN his book. oFrom Immierant

IN his book, From Immigrant to
Il Inventor" Dr.. Pupin tells the
story of his own life.
DR.. Pupin was born in 1853 in
Idvanor, Banat. which now forms a
part of the kingdom of the Serbs.
CroatS and Slovenes.
After completing his education at
the village school where he dis
played unusual talents, he was sent
to Prague to continue his studies.
Btu instead of staying at Prague, he
ran away to America, landing in
New York in 1874.
For five years he had a difficult
time earning a living, but finally
saved up enough money to enter
Columbia university where he grad
uated with high honors in 1888.
Then he returned to Europe to do
graduate work in mathematics and
physics at the University of Cam
bridge and the University of Berlin.
In 1889 he returned to Columbia
university as an instructor in
mathematics and together with
Prof. F. B. Croker organized the
department of electrical engineer
ing. Today he is still on the faculty
of Columbia university, holding the
profeSsorship of electro-mechanics:
DR.. Pupin pioneered in wireless
biography, developing his methods
of tuning electrical circuits in the
closing years of the nineteenth CEN
fury. In 1902, the American Mdrconi
Wireless Company bought his patent
rights.
His telephone loading coil or
"Pupin COIL" as it frequently is
called, grew out of experiments
which he started in 1894.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Need Unity Of Speech

THE situation is typical of mod
Il ern life. We have developed a
mechanical system which makes ex-
preston easier than ever before, but
we lack the language to go with it.
Through radio, a voice can be
heard simultaneously in all lands,
but to what purpose, since a vast
majority of people wouldn't under
stand it, no matter what the tongue?
We are a long way from a unity
of thought, because we are a long
way from unity of speech.
That is a tremendous factor in
the peace problem, though most of
us refuse to admit it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
PEOPLE Run the Show

TINE notion persists that big
Il things determine the drift of
human events-big things, like
treaties, written on parchment and
decorated with gold seals, or coun-
ellis of carefully chosen delegates
sitting around some high table, but
they do not. They are the follow
up, the official expression of unof-
fetal conclusions.
Back-stage and running the show
r the habits, customs and meth
DDS of common people-the oIs-
look and belief which makes them
willing, or unwilling, to do a given
thing.
These center largely around the
way people talk, the way they figure
the price of goods and interest on
money, the way they think of
weekend trips and holidays, the
way they look at life and what it
holds,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Questions and
Answers
Is Trader Horn" still living?

Is Trader Horn" still living?
Alfred Aloysius Smith, who was
called Trader Horn" died recently.
Who is the author of the poem,
whispering Bill?"
Irving Bachelor.
Is Paramount park in Philadelphia
larger than Druid Hill park in Bal
timore?
Paramount park in Philadelphia
has an area of 2,648 acres while
the acreage of Druid Hill park in
Baltimore is only about TOO.
Does the United States recognize
the government of Soviet Russia?
No.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
2,00-Year Nonsense

THE calendar we use is little
Il more than an inherited hodge
podge of compromises, without any
sense from a mathematical or as
Economical standpoint.
The Romans got started all right,
with five months containing thirty
one days and seven containing
thirty, though they would have done
much better had they followed the
moon and tackled on an extra day
at New Years.
Then they stole a day from Feb
ruary to honor julius Caesar by
frightening July, and another to
lengthen August in honor of his
nephew.
We have pursued this nonsense
for 1000 years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
BIZ DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TINE most widespread group OF
l. industrial diseases is that in
which inhalation of dusts developed
during the processes of the work is
the basic cause.
The scientific name for such dis
eases is pneumonconiosis-a word
developed from two Greek words
meaning lung and dust.
The dusts inhaled are of various
types. For instance. it is possible
for a worker to inhaIe germs or
parasites which once in the lung
attack the tissues.
Recently newspapers carried an
account of a girl who had devel-
oped pulmonary anthrax. Anthrax
is a disease caused by micro-organ-
isms from the hides of cattle and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
The Churches Resnond

The suffering and injustice in the world are not
leaving the churches Indifferent.
On the heels of the pope's apostolic letter exbort-
ing the world to prepare for this winters suffering
to succor the needy and abate wealth-destrovino and
hate-breeding armament races comes Protestant ac-
ton.
The general convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church concluded its sessions at Denver by asking the
government to reduce ornaments, employers to plan
production to give security to their workers. the nation
TO abandon it's philosophy Of rugged individualism "
The prof1t-seeking motive must give way to that
OF service" the convention declared.
In California $50 ministers pray for the release of
Tom Mooney, and the California Federation of
Churches leads in the Mooney pardon crusade.
In Washington state, leaders of Protestants. jew
lsh and Catholic churches investigate the Centralia
/. w. w. Shootings and declare that the guilt of the
six workers now serving life sentences lis by no
means theirs alone"
Nationally, 1000 active church people. includinp
seven Protestant Bishops, petition President Hoover
TO investigate the cause of women denied citizenship
Tor refusing to take up arms in case of war.
The Federal Council of Churches, Jewish. Catholic
and other denominations groups are bestirring them
selves in behalf not only of charity, but also of DO
htical and economic reforms.
The God of the modern churches is by no means
Kiplings god Of things as they are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
Agreement Retarded

NOTHING has done so much to
~ make this a homogeneous ma
ton as the elimination of dialects
and colloquialiSms.
Even so, we still are plagued with
sectional traditions and prejudices.
1t requires no genius to realize
how much worse they would be but
for a common language.
Woodrow Wilson once said that
men who know each other find it
easy to agree" The trouble is that
men can not know each other as
long as their speech remains in
comprehensive and they have to
talk through go-betweens.
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Tradition Holds us

THE fact that so little effort has
l. been made in behalf of any of
these things shows how far we are
from real community of thought
and to what an extent we are con-
tent to remain the creatures of
tradition.
We like to chant, twelve inches
one foot, three feet one yard, five
and one-half yards one rod" or,
four gills one pint, two pints n
quart, four quarts n gallon" for
no reason in the world, except that
it is the way dad used to figure.
The metric system would save a
year for every child in learning
chiefly because of its foreign origin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

miles, being the youngest and
smallest of the 295 entrants, many
of whom couldn't even finish.
The BirdhOuse Grave - Con-
struction of a birdhouse tomb is
not begun until after the death Of
the Stapan chieftain who is to
occupy it. The body is placed I'M
foreground temporarily and then
removed to the birdhouse tomb,
after the artists of the tribe have
worked ~feverishly on its compile
ton for about a year. The Sta
pans are a little known tribe in a
remote part Of Borneo.
MOnday-"The Mountain That
Burns"
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ON Oct. "a, 1917, DR.. George
" Michtelis, chancellor of Ger
many. resigned and his resignation
was accepted.
DR.. Michaelis, who had been
chancellor since July IA, 1917. re-
signed because of his lack of SYM
pathy with the majority groups of
the Reichstag and his suspected
attitude Of opposition to broadened
Parliamentary powers.
1t was charged that he was not
candid in his declarations regard
ing the Reichstag peace proposals
and showed a partiality to the ex-
IRENE Pan-German annexationists
He was succeeded by George r
Won Hertling, who had been
occupying the position of prime
minister of Bavaria. DR.. MichaeIis
temporarily retained the office of
prime minister of Prussia.
SIX tons Of bombs were dronned
by British a~viators on the Burbach
works, west of Saarbrucken
Rhenish Prussia, on the night of
Oct. "A. :"
four German sirdromes were al
tackled, and forty-five heavy bombs
dropped, and direct hits were made
on a group of hangers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

What is the best month to trans
plant bleeding hearts? What kind
OF soil and situation do they re-
quire?
They can be transplanted sue
cessfully in September. Ordinary
lawn soil is suitable and they thrive
best in a fairly sunny location.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24
BrOun Rests

Haywood Broun, conductor of
1T Seems to Me-" is enjoying
his annual vacation. His col
umn again will appear on The
Times editorial page, starting
Monday, Oct. Is.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

D I In -
Hiqhest American Engineer
ina Honor Is BESTOWED on
Scientist Who Rose from
Immigrant to Inventor.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL I. PUP
~ IN. best known to the public as
| the author of From Immigrant to
Inventor" and to the world Of
science as the man who made the
/ long-distance telephone possible.
has been awarded the John Fritz
gold medal.
The medal. which is the highest Of
| American engineering honors, is
awarded annually by a board rep
resenting the four national societies
of civil. mining and metallurgical,
mechanical and electrical engineers.
Membership in these four societies
exceeds $4,000.
Past winners of the award in
cIuded Thomas A. Edison. President
Herbert Hoover. General George A.
GoethaIs, builder of the Panama
Canal; George Westinghouse, inven-
tor of the air brake; Ambrose
SwaSey. builder of big telescopes:
| Senator Guglielmo Marconi, who
sent the first wireless message across
the Atlantic: Alexander Graham
Bell, inventor of the telephone:
Ralph Modjeski, builder of big
bridges, and others.
The award to DR.. Dupin states
thai it is for achievements as
scientist, engineer. author. inven-
tor of the tuning of o~scilfating cir
cults and the loading of telephone
circuits by inductance coils"
Dr.. Pupin's methods of tuning
%oscillating circuits" is one of the
fundamental principles Of the radio,
as every fan who twists the dials of
his set testifes by that act. His
telephone loading coils made long
distance telephony possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

In what play did Marie DRESSER
make her first appearance on the
stage?
Her first part was Cigarette Nin
Under Two Flags" produced in
1886.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

Little Betty Jane Lindley-Betty
Jane Lindley, who lives at $40 La
fayette park, Chicago, received a
Red Cross swimmers pin and be-
came a registered lifesaver in a
competitive examination held at
Delavan Lake, Wis, in 1925, when
she was but 6 years old. In 1926
she took part in the Chicago
Herald-Examiner marathon and
swan the entire distance of two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

was owned by a family named
Heaven, the last member Of which
was the Rev. Hudson G., Heaven.
During these eighty-three years
the island was called facetiously
THE Kingdom of Heaven"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-24

Men Can Not Know Each
Other as Long as Their
Speech Remains ~IncOmpre-
hensible and They Haze to
. Talk Through Go-Betweens.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-M. Lavars
IN visit typiies the new diplo-
macy. During the last few years,
government heads have shown an
ever-increasing disposition to talk
directly with each other. If they
can't make the necessary trip. they
use the telephone.
So far so good, but when they
actually establish contact, the per-
Torrance is not always so smooth.
In this particular instance, NJ.
Laval speaks no English, while
President Hoover has forgotten
most of his French. The services
of an ambassador can be dispensed
with, but only to make room for
those Of an interpreter.
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Now if the gold digger only would take a lesson
from the currency situation
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Still, there must be a silver lining to the gold sit
uation.
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