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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-19
Stock Tickers

IN 1869, Edison went into partner
l. ship with Franklin L. Pope as an
electrical engineer. This was this
year after he had obtained the pat
ent upon his electric vote recorder.
His next inventions were improved
stock tickars
In 1870 he received $4,000 for
some inventions, the first money
which he received for inventions.
In 1872 he assisted SholeS, the in
ventor of the typewriter, to make
the first working model Of that
machine.
During the next four years he
made some dozens of Inventions.
ranging from paraffln paper to the
quadruplex telegraph, which made
1t possible to send four telegraph
messages over one wire.
He also invented many other.
electrical devices during this time,
During the course of his expert,
ments, he recognized the existence
OF certain electrical forces, the.
exact nature of which he could not
ascertain. He called them "etheric
force"
Today We know that Edison. had !.
come upon the ELECTROMAGNETIC
waves which made radio possible.
In 1876 he moved to Menlo Park,
N. j., where he located his labora-
tory. In the same year, he invented
the carbon telephone transmitter.
This transmitter made the tele-o
phone commercial possibility.
This invention alone would have
been enough to make him famous. ,
But in the next year, he built his
first crude monograph.
1t used a coating of tinfoil
wrapped around a brass cylinder.
for record. The cylinder was re-
moved by turning crank by hand.
1t caused a tremendous sensation.
and when first exhibited at a meet.
ing OF the French Academy Of
Science, brought charges from one
prominent member that ventriIo-
quist was hidden in the room.
The photograph was great in-@
vention to follow upon the heels of
the telephone transmitter. But be-
fore the year was up, Edison was
working on the electric light. -
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thusiastic about him since the DAYS
I had to decipher numbering SEN
fences in which he said quite un-
funny things and underscored them
for himself as something tossed off
mot unwittily."
And least of all did Cicero stir nv
youthful imagination when he con-
Quoted a city affairs investigation
into the life IND methods of Cati-
line. What was Catiline to me?
/ even began to doubt the sin
certify Of Cicero himself, because
his sentiments were much too
rounded to suggest an honest pas
sion.
It may be that in ancient Rome
the thing called politics was not
unknown.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
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Questions and
Answers

What is a person with a single
track mind?
When a person is so constituted
that his mind runs in a single chan
mel, that is to say he thinks only
of one subject at a time and is not
able to occupy his mind with di-
verse subjects, it is said of him that
he has single track mind Some
persons have the faculty of carry
ing a number of subjects in their
heads at the time, while others can
only think of one thing.
Is a person born In the United
States of alien parents eligible to
become President?
The fact that he is born in the
United States, regardless of his par
entage, makes him natural born
American citizen, and if otherwise
qualified he is eligible for the
presidency.
What is Babe Ruth's salary this
year, and when will his present con-
tract expire?
His contract calls for salary of
$4,000 a year, and it will expire at
the close Of the 1881 season.
What are the definitions Of opti-
clan and Oculist?
An optician is one who makes and
deals in. optical instruments; an
oculist is one who is skilled in the
treatment of diseases Of the eye.
What is the difference between Z
pure blood and registered horse?
A pure blood is one of unmixet
strains; for example, the offspring
of an Arabian dam and sire art
pure blood Arabian eQuines.
registered horse Is recorded in tns
American Stud book showing its sire
and dam. It must be the Offspring
lof a registered mare and stallion
tsf the same breed.
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEg4iS
\ MANY have Expressed regret be

MANY have expressed regret be-
Iva cause Yale has dropped Latin
out of its requirements. We will
hear a good deal from now on about
the value of the classics as a sort
of intellectual calisthenicS.
And we will be told of the rich
meadows which are open only to
such scholars as know the prose
and poetry of ancient days.
In this there is a little truth and
quite g bit of Bunkum. Undoubtedly
the world has known some wise and
happy men who delighted in Virgil
and in Homer. But these men who
grew up with the classics almost in
variably chose this field of their own
volition.
am certain that not every snub-
nosed youngster who is showed into
Caesar eventually will develop into a
man whose later years are warmed
by his acquaintance with Greek and
Latin.
1t is well to remember that the
action of Yale university and of
other colleges affects not so much
the college student as the boy in
high school.
Within a reasonable period it now
seems possible to lift Latin off the
backs of these youngsters. Greek
is pretty well gone already.
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We're Not Going Broke

IN Many districts of Poland, auto
L owners either are putting up or
disposing Of their cars, rather than
pay the road taxes recently imposed.
Americans will find it hard to I'M
derstand such attitude.
That is because the auto has be-
come family institution with them,
because the wage scale and stand
ard of living have made it possible
for three out Of every four house
holds to own an auto, because the
auto has become tremendous fac
tor in their industrial and social
life.
Steel down to the lowest point in
seven years and other stocks show
ing sympathetic tendency to fall.
Taking this an text, one could
write a gloomy chapter on our
financial and industrial prospects.
Still, the country did not go broke
in 1924, when steel went down to
par, and the country is not going
broke today.
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Sugar Shows the Way

INTERNATIONAL problems have
l. reached a point where we either
must allow trained experts to at
tempt their solution, or admit that
they are too big for human intelli-
gence.
Leaders Of the sugar industry
have met and arranged a program
which they think will work.
Leaders of the wheat industry are
trying to do the same thing in their
field.
1t is going to be much harder to
handle wheat than sugar, not only
because wheat growers are more
numerous, but because the industry
has not been SO well organized.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN

Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
DURE sodium, one of the two ele-
A. mentS in sodium chloride, or
common salt, seldom is found except
in chemical laboratories. It is a
very active substance and extremely
dangerous to handle.
Many combinations of sodium
with other substances are much used
in diet and in industry. Baking soda
is sodium bicarbonate.
It is estimated that the average
man takes in his diet about half an
ounce of sodium chloride every day.
There are, however, other combina-
lions of sodium secured in foods.
No one knows exactly the mini
mum or maximum of sodium chlor-
ide that any one person ought to
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DECISION ON VOLUNTEERS

DECISION ON VOLUNTEERS
May 10
nN May 10, 1917. it was an
" nounced that President Wilson
had decided not to avail himself of
the authority to organize volunteer
divisions
A provision in the draft bill gave
him authority to form four divisions
Of volunteers if he SO desired. It
was understood that former Presi-
dent Roosevelt was to head this
volunteer army.
What the President did announce,
however, was that a division of the
United States regulars would be
sent to France at the earliest date
practicable, to be commanded by
Major General John j, Pershing,
who had been in command of the
expedition to Mexico.
The secretary Of navy also an
nounced on this day that $4,000
marines would accompany the
Pershing expedition.
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THE Austro-German union will
4 be placed before the world
court if England has her way.
That is where it belongs, and
where it should have been placed
long ago.
The world court was instituted to
decide just such issues.
The fact that this one is pecu-
liarly irritating and might lead to
open defiance of the court, no mat
ter how it was decided, should not
be made an excuse for hesitancy.
If the world court can pass only
on questions which involve little
or no disagreement, it is Of small
value.
A decision with regard to the
Austro- German customs union soon
would shcw whether it is the real
thing.
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Grammar Barred Gate

A ND here, I think, is one of the
"A fallacies of the theory that
the study of dead languages brings
the youthful scholar closer to an
cient civilizations which we're
glamorous and important.
If I had read of Xenophon in a
lively English translation, might
have had some interest and feel
ing for the fellow. Greece itself
would have commanded my en-
thusiaSm much more readily if I
had been permitted to approach it
without climbing over its irregular
verbs.
And to dart for moment into
Latin, there is no question of the
romantic role which Caesar pos
seSses in the imagination of all
mankind. His commentaries serve
not to lift, but to reduce him.
I never have felt quite as en-
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are ure-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.--The Editor.
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Except in periods of obvious and serious depres-
sion the current rhetoric emphasizes the contention
that every American Is prosperous Indeed one
reason why stronger organized labor movement
and . labor party never have taken hold, in this
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Daily Thought


He is the Rock, his work is per-
feet: for all his ways are judy
ment: God of truth and without
iniquity, right and just is he.-
Deuteronomy 1874.
Love Of truth will bless the lover
all his days-Theodore Parker.
What process Is used in the hand
etching of glass?
Glass can be etched by using
hydroduoric acid. 1t is covered with
beeswax, paraffine wax or some
acid-resisting ink or varnish; the
name or device is etched out Of the
wax by means of stylus and the
glass is dipped in hydrohuoric acid,
which eats away the glass at those
parts where the wax has been cut
away.
Can rats climb trees?
Rats can climb anything on which
they can get a foothold except a
fat surface. This includes wire
screens, ropes, wood casing and
trees.
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country IS this belief that everybody Is theoretically
on his way to becoming an independent capitalist.
little study of the income tax figures for 1929
would be very cogent and Illuminating in this regard
There something more than 100000 gain
fully employed in the United States in 1920. OF these
only 4,034,7O2 or less than one-tenth had incomes
large enough to require any income tax at all. OF
this tenth, those who paid S.O65,701 had incomes
under $4,000 They possessed only "a per cent Of the
total income reported.
At the other end Of the line, there were 1850
millionaires. Some 5O4 reported incomes of more
than 100000 each averaging $23oo00O apiece. More
than twenty were added in 1929 to the list Of those
with incomes of more than 100000
The figures present pretty good evidence of how
likely the average American is to butt into mil
lionaires row. to put any considerable buffer
between himself and the sheriff or bill collector.
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NO, Dorothy the wilkins submarine crew won't
drink antifreeze matter how cold it is up at the
pole this summer.
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Keep your hands to yourself" as the bridge player
said to his talkative partner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-19

You can usually depend on the Babe to give you
run for your money.
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M. E. Tracy

If the World Court Can PISS
Only on Questions Where
There Is Little or No Disd-
greement, 1t Is of Small
Value.
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Nothing From Greek
T SHOULD not generalize too
L much but speak for myself. And
I can say without quaver that Greek
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HEAVY SNOW ALONG RY.

Wednesday it rained all along the railroad belt from Seward to Anchorage, local arrivals report. From Mile 5 to Anchorage deep and heavy snow prevails and it IS thought that in the Turnagain Arm area, where most of the an nual snoW-slide trouble is ex- perienced, may be in for at bad spring In that district where long watersheds abound, the en- tire track for a distance o& four or five miles, was tied up some years ago.
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.HUsBANDLESS MOTHERS
 FATHERLEss CHILDREN

PARIS, Feb. ll.. ..(Pr Establish ment of maternity homes in all departments which would in- sure anonnlity of patients and where husbandless mothers could keep in close touch with their children was urged by former Premier Edouard Herriot upon the Chamber of Deputies
 MT Herriot said that ln this way the number of abandoned children would be reduced
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Seward Leather Works
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DANGEROUS STREETS

Local motorists suggest that street intersections should be dug out and water drained from streets owing to the element of danger to pedestrians. It is said that cars passing through the many pools of snowy water, pick it UP in their brake bands and though an auto may be travelling downhill at but four miles an hour, it is almost impossible to come to sudden stop Many cars become stuck at the inter- sections owing to deep ruts.
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DAWES LOVES AND
 ADM|REs GREAT BRITAIN

LONDON, Feb. III. tR -De- claring lone who really knows the parts Great Britain played in the War cannot help but ad- mire and love this old nation, !" Ambassador Charles Dawes said he cannot countenance such an idea as America won the war"
 i've failed to supply practically everything but manifesting sol- diers,' he said
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sssa. rs~... p.,.. Adam. :,
GAVE FORTUNE AWAY

NEW YORK, Feb, 12, (P)- The huge fortune that Nathan Straus, philanthropist. gave away before he died, stripped his estate to about s1,ooO,O0O, it was reveal ed in filing the will Most Of the estate goes to the testator's son, Nathan Junior.
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Brown & Hawkins Corp.
 SEWARD ---- QUALITY FIRST ---ALASKA
MAY ACT NEXT WEEK

WASHINGTON, Feb, m, (Py- Administration leaders predicted that Congress will act next week on the Veterans cash bonus plan along the lines suggested by owen D Young, whereby the loan value of the adjusted com pensation certificate will be Sub- Stantially increased
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WHILE THEY LAST

Closing out remaining sizes of good work shoes al prices from SS.25 to S4.75. Remember old packs can De re-bottomed with either crepe or cleated bot toms.
 ##### ## Seward Na2 2%hnw KN0~Nyr
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FOR THE THRILL

HARRISBURG, Penn. Feb, H.. (P-Arrest of six city firemen who are charged with setting fires here was announced by police chief Shoemaker. The fires caused losses totaling more than mil lion dollars. The six confessed to Chief Shoemaker that they set the fires solely for the thrill of helping to extinguish them.
 The freight train pulled out today for Portage from which point 1t returns.
 Crying Myself to Sleep one of the new song hits, for sale at the Alaska Shop.
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HAD A LOT OF FUN

A "scrub'' game of indoor base ball was played last night ni the S- A. C hall, Fred Keilcheski and Lloyd Kolbensvic, former mem bers of the Boston Braves dol ing the hurling. The regular game was put off owing to ab- sence of many attending the Father and Son Banquet Several new players appeared on the dia- mond and performed like veter- ans.
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The best ice cream yet! Hor- luck's Danish Tee Cream. Candy Cottage, sole agent.
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York harbor which sent ii to tie bot
tom. But pneumonia and Influenza
caused the death of nearly $50 and
overwork, exhaustion and poor living
conditions accounted far the deaths of
the remainder who gave their lives
for their country just as truly as did
any soldier who fell in the firing line.
Three members of the army nurse
corps received the American Distin-
guished Service cross. Here are their
citations: Miss Helen G. McClelland.
Base Hospital No. 10, for extraor-
binary heroism in action while on duty
with the surgical team at British
Casualty Clearing Station No. 81, Brit
ish area, France, August II. 1917.
She occupied the same tent with Miss
Beatrice Macdonald, another reserve
nurse, cared for her when wounded,
stopped the hemorrhage from her
wounds under fire caused by bombs
from German airplanes. Miss Nc
Clelland was born in Austinburgh,
Ohio.
Miss Macdonald, a New York girl,
received the D. S. G. also. Her cita-
ton reads, in part: During a German
night air raid she continued at her
post of duty, caring for the sick and
wounded until seriously wounded by a
German bomb, thereby losing an eye"
Miss Isabel Stambaugh. also on the
staff Of Base Hospital 10, Pennsyl.
vania girl, was seriously wounded
while with surgical team at Brit.
ish casualty clearing station during
the big German drive of March 81
1918, not far from Amiens.
Twenty-four women were given the
Distinguished Service medal for ex.
ceptionally meritorious service to the
government in a place of responsible
ity. Here are their names and places
of birth: Lillian ALBERT, West Baton
Rouge La; Cecilia A. Brennan,
Branchdale, Pa; Katherine Brown,
Philadelphia, Pa; Sophy Mary Burns,
ST. Francis, Wis; Reba G. Cameron,
Canada; Edna n. Coughlin, Kenosha,
Wis; Alice H. Flash, Jefferson Coun-
ty, Ga; Annie V. Goodrich, New
Brunswick, N. j.; Carrie L. Howard.
Colusa, Calf; Grace E. Leonard New
ark, N. j.. Sayres L. Milliken. Browns
vile, Pa; Jane G. Malloy, Kingston,
N. Y; Edith A. Mury, Wadsworth,
New; Adele S. Poston, Springdale,
Ark; Marie B. Rhodes, Pittsburgh,
Pa; Blanche S. Rulon, Waretown, N.
j.; Lillian ]. Ryan. Boyle, Ireland;
Mary E. Sheehan. Truxton. n. Y;
Nena Shelton, Lexington, Ky; Cath
crime Slnnott, Middletown, Conn.,;
Julia C. Stimson, Worcester. Mass;
Ethel A. Sweet, Gestc, Ontario; Dora
E. Thompson, Cold Spring. N. Y;
Mrs. Lynette L. yandevort, La Sale,
Ind.
&c. 1881. Western Newspaper uniou.l
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ter service, ancestor of the coast
guard, performed brilliantly. During
the War of 1912 its vessels, assisted
by small gunboats, protected our coast
al trade from the ravages of the hos
tile ships sent out by Great Britain,
1.-The Mistress of the Seas" to harass
our coast towns and our shipping. In
the Civil war it had a part in both
naval engagements and in blockade
work.
Thirteen revenue cutters co-operated
with the navy and seven with the
army during the Spanish-American
war. One of these, the McCulloch,
helped Dewey at the Battle of Manila
Bay and won special commentator
from the admiral and another, the
Hudson. took part in the action at
Cardenas. Cuba. The officers and the
crew of the Hudson were awarded
medals by congress for their rescue
work of the torpedoboat. Winslow, in
this engagement.
This fine tradition was carried on
by the coast guard service during the
World war. On April II. 1917 Pres
ident Wilson modified the coast guard
and the lighthouse service under the
command of the secretary of the navy
for the express purpose of resisting
the submarines, which it was virtual
ly certain that Germany would send to
attack our coast. How real that dam
ger was and the important part which
the coast guard played in curbing the
ravages of these deadly under-sea
fighters was revealed for the first time
two years ago when Little, Brown and
company published William Bell
Clark's book, when U-Boats Came to
America
In addition to operating in home
waters, the boats of the coast guard
service also served on the other side
of the Atlantic. Six of its cruising
cutters were sent abroad to join the
naval forces in the war zone, princi-
pally as ocean escorts working from
England to Gibraltar. While engaged
In this service, the Tampa was sunk
by a submarine and lis of the coast
guards 1872 casualties were recorded
as the result of that disaster.
Chaplains, coast guardsmen-they
also served and died. But there is
still another group whose sacrifices
are too little known and whose mem
DRY Should be honored on Memorial
day. They are the 271 heroic women,
members of the army nurse corps, who
laid down their lives. Although none
was killed in action, three were wound
ed by enemy fire. Two lost their lives
and one was seriously wounded in an
explosion in target practice on one of
our transports at sea. A hundred
more had a narrow escape from death
when the transport on which they had
lust embarked had collision in New
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year term in prison to which he was
sentenced, and pay fine Of 100000.
unless President Hoover intervenes
with a pardon-which is the hope of
his friends.
Fall, interviewed at his ranch in
New Mexico, said his attitude toward
a Presidential pardon was rather pas
sive. II am an old man." he said. II
am not guilty of the crime of which
1 was accused. l had fought until
I am worn out and considerations for
my family impel me to carry the fight
no further"
He said he had no money with
which to pay the fine and explained
he had lost ownership Of the ranch
on which he lives when mortgage
was foreclosed several years ago.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
international Chamber of Commerce Debates Causes and
Cures of Economic Depression Financiers
Scored by M. A. Traylor.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

York banker; George W. Olmstead,
Pennsylvania public utilities execu-
tive; Victor F.. Ridder, New York
newspaper publisher; Robert P. Sniff
fen, Yonkers, N. Y, merchandising ex-
pert, and Nell II. Wilkinson, Atlanta
(Ga.) merchant and manufacturer. CT
tations praised them for distinguished
service to scouting.
Lord Hampton, long prominent in
English Boy Scout work, served with
distinction in the World war. He was
awarded the Silver Cross for life saw
ing in 1919 and the following year re-
ceived the award of the Silver Wolf,
the British Scout decoration for dis
tinguished service to boys.
uERE is something else for GER
L 1 tain active opponents of the dry
law to ponder upon. The District Of
Columbia Court of Appeals, in an opin-
ion which takes. away from Robert de
Francis of Washington the citizen
ship granted him in 1927. holds that
a violator of the prohibition act can
not be attached to the principles Of
the Constitution and is not a person
Of good moral character.
The decision reversed the action of
the District of Columbia Supreme
court which had denied petition by
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
seeking to set aside Francis natural
ization.