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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Checking the Farm Board

The senate should lose no time in approving
Senator George w Norris resolution calling for an
investigation of the federal farm board
1t is important, the Nebraska senator suggests,
to get more facts OF the boards extremely expensive
and extremely futile price pegging operations. But
more important in our estimation is Norris plan to
determine whether the efforts of the farm board have
damaged the cooperative movement
IT, as we believe, true cooperative structures have
not been erected and fostered by the board, it will
have been worth part OF the millions lost by the
board to prove this providing the trend thereafter is
changed Immediately.
The senate, also. will do farmers a service If it
will consider the justice of paying the managers of
the farm board co-operatves and other agencies i'm
mense salaries while many of the producers them
selves are unable to enough to keep them from
starving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THIS column is taken severely to task by Mary G..
Il Hawks, president of the National Council of
Catholic Women, for its words of commentator to
a group of mothers who declared against early re-
lgious training for their children
AS is often the case, she assumes that one cannot
what is called "the accumulated wisdom and ex-
perience of the ages. With this idea must disagree
since believe that to live at ALL religion must change
and grow.
And religion, or that consciousness of the divine
within ourselves, is something Suprenely personal
that cannot be transcribed in theological terms and
transcends the rules of every creed To me it means
the kind Of love that lived in the heart of the Nazarene
who died because He dared depart from the doctrine
of the church fathers.
And have not all great moral leaders departed like
wise from their earliest training? ST. Paul. ST. Francis
Luther, Buddha, Mahomet as well as Jesus.
COURAGE is admirable, wherever it be found and
~ therefore it seems to me that honest opinion
may be form of spiritual Towering that might be
pleasing too in the sight Of God who surely must love
the valiant
Nor can We in the face of past events depend en-
tirey upon the old-fashioned Sunday school training
to nsti morality and loving kindness into the young
For we know that men and women by millions
marched out of the Christian churches all over the
world and engaged in the cruelest and most futile of
wars.
They did this, not because they lacked religion,
but because they did not have the courage-or the
understandng-to live up to its best meaning And
do not see how the Christian creeds which preach,
Thou shalt not kill" evade of the respons-
Utility for the catastrophe
To the orthodox mother who is sincere l give,
therefore highest respect but that does not deter
me from making my bow also to the unorthodox who
lis brave enough to stand by her opinions.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS

You Can Think What You
Like About it Morally, but
as an Economic Factor
Prohibition Is the Obstacle
to Relief IN the United
States.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.--European
II governments are enjoying the
benefit Of a years moratorium with
regard to international debt. 1t was
proposed by President Hoover last
June and made effective in July. 1t
has something more than six
months to run.
A conference is in session at
Basic, Switzerland, trying to devise
a new plan of German reparation
payments. 1t is taken for granted
that the plan will involve material
cut.
Allied countries claim that they
can not stand a cut in German
PREPARATION payments, unless it is
offset by a cut in their debts to
the United States, and President
Hoover warns congress to be pre-
pared for such contingency.
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Amoebic Dysentery Serious Disease

early and proper treatment prompt
ly administered.
Control of amoebic dysentery is a
relatively simple matter where there
is capable health administration.
Every civilized community must
provide for sanitary disposal of
human eXcretions and for protection
and publication of water supplies.
Food handlers in public places
certainly should he supervised
properly and thorough washing of
the hands with soap and water at
frequent intervals should be de-
manded.
If all foods eaten raw, par
ticularly the leafy vegetables, are
given proper supervision, which
means inspection before purchase
and thorough washing and cleans
lection with amoebic dysentery will
ing before serving the chance of in
be relatively slight.
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The organism is spread through
the bowel discharges of infected
people or through handling of food
by infected people who have not
properly taken care of their hands.
Flies have been incriminated for
spreading the disease, but that is
not the common method of spread.
When person becomes infected it
is the bowels that chiefly are at
tackled.
The patient suffers with bloody dis
charges, intermittent pain in the
abdomen, gradual wasting and some
times intoXication from the in
fictitious products.
Once the disease gets into the
body, it is eliminated with consid-
erably difficulty and chronic cases
are not rare.
Not more than 10 per cent of
those who are infected die of the
disease, if the case is diagnosed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Who was Princess Blanchefleur?
Heroine of an old French metrical
romance, "Flore ct Blanchefleur, !"
which was used by Boccaccio as
the basis of his prose romance, I'll
Filocopo." The old story tells Of a
young Christian prince who fell in
love with the Saracen slave girl with
whom he had been brought up. They
were parted, but after many ad-
ventures he rescued her unframed
from the harem of the Enir of Ba-
bylon. The story has appeared in
many forms and has been used by
many writer's.
Is the gold supply of the United
States much greater than that of
France?
Sept. 80, 1881, the gold holdings
of the United States was estimated
at $4,362 100000, and of France
at $2,326,0 100000. The figures are
constantly f1uctuating, but the
United States has had from IS to
so per cent of the world gold supply
for several years.
What is the common name for
xylonite?
1t is the same substance as cellu-
loid.
What is the Oberlaender trust?
A trust fund founded by Gustav
Oberlaender with a gift Of $1,000, 900
to establish an endowment for the
promotion of goodwill between the
people Of the United States and
Germany. The money will be dis
trihuted over period Of twenty
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INTO a speculation as to whether
preliminary order of pancakes
would be too heavy at such a late
hour. -' q 40Ve
While ! Hug My Radiator
WISH the Broadway dramatists
Il OF today were half as shrewd
as Iosen. Then we should have
plays in which the heroine's mother
tailed to raise the mortgage and lost
the old homestead in the very last
scene. -''''O
If she tottered out to starvation
IN a binding snowstorm, I might
De minded to forget how perfectly
accountable all my luck has been in
poker in these last three months
L might appreciate even our ian
ltor If only the old lady would
wiring her hands just before the
hnal curtain and excIaim. How
bitter is the wind tonight"
Copyright 1881 bv Tho Tire~,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Van Setback, the New York superintendent Of nsur-
ance.
This resolution rejects current market quotations
as unfair for valuation purposes and substitutes as
farer standard the average market price of secur-
ties over the last five quarterly periods
1t finds that average to be approximately the same
as the market price of June go 1881, and therefore
simplies the average-range-m by accepting the
June 80 price for purposes Of Dec. 81 valuations
Exceptions are made of defaulted bonds and of
securities Of companies in receivershp since June 30
and Of companies forced to sell securities at present
prices to liqudate as in all such cases the market
price would be accepted for valuation.
Although the convention action, OF course, is not
binding on the states most of the state insurance
commissioners will be guided by the general prin-
cpe Of the resolution in their evaluaton of securities
Any contrary method, which would weaken fun
damentaly sound insurance companies bv forcing
liquidation at sacrifice would strike at the policy
holders
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
A Better PURPOSE

IF successful, the noble expert
Il ment" might be worth it. If we
had stopped drinking, one would
hesitate reopening the spigot. If
gangSters and racketeers were not
garnering millions from the illicit
trade, the idea of legalizing it to
produce revenue for the government
might be shocking.
The question is not whether we
should ask a little more of the tax
payers in order to prevent crime,
but whether we should switch the
enormous current of money now
flowing into dives, dens and speak
easieS for a better purpose.
What the racketeers of this coun-
try are making and misusing would
go long way toward matching the
Mellon tax plan. 1t certainly would
provide interest and sinking funds
for a billion-dollar bond issue.
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Concentration Needed

MARVIN has a clear and simple
- style. But the subject with
which he is dealing is extremely
complex. He doesn't dodge the
complexities, but instead sails right
into them. The result is a book
which can not be read as easily as
a novel.
1t requires concentration, but no
more concentration than one with
an interest in the subject should be
willing to give it.
Darwin SupposeS no technical
knowledge upon the part of his
reader and avoids the use of math-
ematical equations.
The book might prove too difficult
as a starter for one who has no
acquaintance at all with atomic
theory, but any one who has fol-
lowed current reports in newspapers
and magazines and read one or two
books like Russell's The ABC of
Atoms" should have no trouble
with THE New Conceptions of Mat
ter"
The reading of Darwin'S book will
more than pay for itself. For much
has happened in the world of ply
sizes since Russell wrote his "ABC."
Although DR.. Neils Bohr is still
one of the foremost experimenters
in the field of atomic physics-Dar-
win dedicates his book to Bohr-
the old Bohr theory of the atom is
ancient history in many of its
aspects.
New developments of the guam
tUrn theory, the work of De BrogIie
and Schroedinger with the conSe-
quent rise of wave mechanics, have
introduced new point of view.
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Describes Battle

MARVIN opens a book with a
II chapter in which he introduces
the principal actors upon the scene
the atom and its constituent parts,
the electron and the proton; the
light quantum or photon as it is
sometimes called; the ether, whose
existence still is debated.
The second chapter is devoted to
a discussion of the general behavior
of waves. Without the use of math-
ematics, he explains the meaning of
harmonic waves, standing waves,
etc., and describes the classic ex-
periments Of Young upon the inter-
ference of waves.
Darwin then goes on to describe
the battle raging today over the ma
ture of both matter and energy.
The situation is indeed a complex
one. Certain experiments indicate
that light consists of waves. More
recent ones, however, support the
view that light consists of distinct
particles or quanta.
With regard to the atom, the sit
uation is reversed. Wave mechanics
bring forth the possibility that the
atom itself is composed of waves.
In certain experiments, the electron,
the fundamental particle of matter,
exhibits the characteristics of a
wave.
Darwin discusses these expert
ments and such new elements in the
picture of the physical world as the
Heisenberg principle of uncertainty.
Some Of the chapter divisions are
Contrast of Wave and Particle"
Uncertainty Of Speed and Posi-
ton" Normal Modes of Vibration"
Spinning Electrons," polarization
of Free Electron," etc.
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Keep Happy With IbSen

T HOPE next year will provide us
4 with an ample quantity of Ibsen,
for he's an author even more in
spring to the distressed than Will
liam Shakespeare. 1t is no accident
that the Scandinavian drama is
generally gloomy. Ibsen under
stood the psychology of his coun-
trymen. He lived in a land Of long,
cold winters and poor steam heat.
If he had written joyfully and
ight-heartedly, thousands-well, say
hundreds-of Norwegians would
have gone home to die or at least
to harbor such a wish. Instead he
gave them folk like Oswald, and all
the Morse playgoers went into the
night skipping and laughing.
And for some reason which I
can't explain, tragedy whets the ap-
petite for food. Ghosts" goes bet
ter with ham and eggs than any
play I know. In fact, at times when
Oswald has dallied a bit in disso-
luton I've found my mind wander
ing away from the tragic solution
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Questions and Answers

five years among mature persons
who are interested in international
affairs and qualified to interpret
the results of their studies to the
American people.
How is the word "Muskogee" pro-
nounced?
1t is pronounced "mus-ko'- gee. "
Fhe "g" is hard as in goat and the
accent is on the second syllable.
Who is president of the General
Motors Corporation?
A. P. Sloan Jr.
Which states lead in the produc-
ton of apples?
In order of their production they
are Washington, New York, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania.
Which are the three great mis-
sionary religions?
The religions that are making
most converts and increasing in size
and area of propaganda are Chris
tianity, Buddhism and Mohammed-
anism.
Does person lose his American
citizenship on account of failure to
vote?
No.
Does the song Comm Thru the
Rye" refer to grain or a river?
The Rye is a small river in Eng
land, and the song refers to the
custom Of lovers exacting q kiss as
they passed each other on the
stepping stone in the shallow stream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
HEAVY GERMAN SMELLING
Dec. IL


ON Dec. II, 1917, Germans, using
~ every gun available. started a
heavy Smelling along the British
and French fronts in Flanders.
The kaiser, according to reports
TO London and Paris, placed every
available gun, including those can
tured in Italy and those released
from the Russian front-for a great
artillery battle in the west before
the American forces became really
active.
The Italians launched an air raid
over the German lines. On a mar
row sector over the Asiago more
IMAM $50 airplanes participated.
The Austrian battleship Wien was
reported torpedoed and sunk in the
Mediterranean sea.
The constituent assembly at
tempted to meet in Petrograd. but
the few delegates who appeared were
threatened or arrested by the Boil
sheviki.
italians repulsed the Teutons'
attempt to retake the Agnezia and
zuliani positions in the Capo Sile
region Of the lower Piave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

C. G. Dar1Oin, Grandson of
the Famous EUolutionist,
Writes a Nea0 and Ercel-
lent Book on the Atom.
CCIENTIFIC brilliance has run
- in the Darwin family. Every
one has heard of Darwin and his
theory of evolution, but perhaps
fewer people realize that Charles
Darwin was only one inustrious
member Of that family.
Modern studies of the problem of
evolution found their beginning in
part in the writings of Erasmus
Darwin, grandfather of Charles OAR
win.
Charles son was George Darwin.
who distinguished himself by his
studies of the tides and the motions
of the moon. Georges son, living
today, is one of the worlds most
brilliant mathematical physicists.
He is G. c.. Darwin, fellow of the
Royal Society and TAFT professor Of
natural philosophy in the University
of Edinburgh.
He just has written book which
undertakes to explain the latest
atomic theories for the layman.
It's title is 1.-THE New Conceptions
of Matter" (The Macmillan Com
pany, published it at So
1t will make an excellent Christ
mas gift for a friend interested in
the newer scientific theories. The
book should be read by every reader
who wishes to keep abreast the
latest developments in the world of
nhVSicS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
The Trouble Mounts

EOREIGN bonds held by Amer
4 lean investors have shrunk by
nine billion dollars in value since
they were purchased, two-thirds of
it during the last year.
The British government has not
only suspended gold payments, but
is formulating plans to reduce its
annual budget by half billion dol
lars.
Germany is reducing prices, rents
and wages by arbitrary decree,
while Italy and some other coun-
tries already have done so.
Added to this, most governments
are adopting drastic measures to
restrict imports and reduce the cost
of exports.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EEG1%

the sake of the argument motion
pictures and mystery plays will be
included under the heading-takes
the place of life for a great many
people, what Go we find about the
pernicious effect Of happy novels
and plays upon the community in
general?
Simply that the man who is adj
dicted to seeing plays and reading
books in which everybody performs
prodigies of valor and virtue never
is going to the trouble of doing so
much as one good deed day upon
his own account.
Heart and Eyes Wrung Dry
GENERAL seasons ago went with
y friend to see play about a
kindly man of middle age who
adopted an orphan. My friend
glowed with as complete a spirit Of
elf-Sacrifice as I have ever seen.
This mood continued through three
acts.
He projected himself into the
story and felt that he actually was
patting ingenues on the head and
adopting them and trimming
Christmas trees. On the way up
town he let me pay for the taxicab
and also buy the newspapers. He
was curt and short.
All his kindly impulses had been
drained off during the perform
ance. He was fit company for no
one throughout the entire week.
Being rather more regular in the
alter going than my friend, failed
to make any complete Identification
with anybody on the stage in this
particular piece, but I also was de-
pressed somewhat. The sanity old
lady in the play had spoken of "the
tinkling laughter of tiny tots" and
this made me reflect on the imper-
fections of life.
It did not seem to me at the time
as if any of the children in the fiat
next door truly could be said to
tinkle. I felt dissatisfied with things
as they are.
One week later I watched Ham
let" and the effect was precisely the
opposite. After they carried the
corpses of the dead and the dying
into the wings went into the warm
evening walking upon my toes. This
was much more like it. Everything
in the play tended to make life
seem more cheerful
In many respects the young
prince was ever so much worse of
than I was. And he, too, mentioned
his need Of getting rid of excess
flesh. After observing the rotten
state of affairs in Denmark my
penthouse apartment in Fifty
eighth street seemed entirely salts
factory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Rotting the Structure

THE absurdity of sending gang
4 sters to jail for failure to pay
their income taxes, when their in
comes were derived from beer and
rum, should be enough to make us
realize the economic farce.
The tragedy of the crime wave
which has rolled over us as a result
of organized viciousness which finds
its chief support in bootlegging en-
terprises should make us realize
the moral seriousness of a situa-
ton that is rotting our social and
political structure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.


A MOEBIC dysentery, one Of the
L "A most serious diseases that af-
flicts mankind, is the infestation of
the human body with the organism
called the entamoeba histolytica.
The disease is common in the
United States, but there are rec
ords which indicate that it can oc-
cur in every state, and it does oc-
cur more frequently in the country
districts of the far southern states.
Not long ago there were several
cases in one hotel due to the fact
that an individual who was infected
was put in charge of fixing the
salads for the dining room, and
through contamination of the food
several other people became in
fected with this disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Living Life ViCariouSIy

~ONSIDER the most humdrum
~ person of your acquaintance
and you probably will be able to
tag him as an inveterate patron Of
the movies, loud or silent. Lacking
in real life, he gets it by watching
Greta Carlo in the moonlight and
seeing Douglas Fairbanks jump over
gates.
Your friend never will be in the
moonlight to any serious extent
himself, and he never would think
of vaulting fences. The Scren has
satisfied amply his romantic crav-
ings.
The man in the theater or the
man who reads a book Identifies
himself with one of the characters
hero or villain, as the case may
Re While the spell is on, he lives
the life of that f1ctional character.
Next morning he can punch the
time clock with no regrets.
An interesting thesis might be
written as to the exact relationship
between the eyebrows of John Gill
bert and the declining rate of mar
riage in the United States.
Assuming, then, that art-and for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those ~
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are nre.
sented without regard to their
agreement or DISAGREEMENT
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

How many bank failure have there
been in the United States in the
last nine months, and what states
have had the greatest number?
From Jan. l, 1881, to Sept. 80, 1881,
there were 1924 bank failures. The
states having the largest number
were: Illinois, 143; Iowa, 125; Mich
igan, "a; Ohio, 70; Minnesota, IS;
Pennsylvania, "a; Indiana, So; Mis-
souri,, SO, and South Dakota, So.
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THERE'S so much unhappiness

AAAl4S43 ~ ~ 41lNSAA 40ktS4AASSo
Lin the world" says Aunt Clara
Uncle Joe's wife,, that I don't see
why we should spend money to see
shows and read books that remind
us about it,"
1.-THE man worth while" she says,
els the man who can smile when
everything goes dead wrong"
Maybe it would be just as well to
leave Aunt Clara out of the discus
sion and go on to explain why the
so-called gloomy modern novel is
really more stimulating to the ego
than the aggressively cheerful mod
ern play.
Most of us admit that novel or
a play or any form of art is an
escape from reality. To be sure,
good many plays this season were
hardly calculated to give anybody
much Of a start on the bloodhoundS.
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Waiting for Miracles

NUR own government had a
" deficit of nearly one billion
dollars last year and faces one of
twice that much next year. It
promises to be in the hole by more
than four billion before any con-
siderable Roadway can be made in
pulling it out.
No one expects the Mellon tax
plan, which President Hoover has
just put before congress, to produce
more than one billion dollars an
nually if, indeed, it reaches that
amount.
Obviously, we still are waiting for
miracles.