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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Laughed at Bernard

THIS leads Professor Bancroft to
L the conclusion that drugs which
will affect the state of the brain
cells can be used for the treatment
of insanity.
He suggested that there are two
types of insanity, depending upon
the condition Of the brain, and that
there are drugs which can be used
for the treatment of each type.
He refers to these two types az
"the puckered type and the mushy
type"
Actually, it has been found that
the functional psychoses fall pretty
sharply, SO per cent on the prelim-
mary test, into these two classes"
he said. Manic depressives and
epileptics are of the puckered type;
dementia praecox catatonics are of
the mushy type.
For sixty years the scientific
world has laughed at Claude Ber-
nard's theory that anesthesia is due
to a reversible coagulation of some
of the proteins of the brain and the
sensory nerves.
I'VE know now that Claude Ber-
nard was right, and that his con-
cept Of reversible coagulation Of
proteins in living tissue is useful in
explaining many phenomena in adj
dition to anesthesia.
Claude Demands view was re-
jected by biologists, Psychologists,
and medical men because they did
not know enough colloid chemistry
to understand it or to appreciate itS
Importance.
THE division of physical chem
istry at Cornell university has set
itself as one task to show that the
general point of view put forward
by Claude Bernard is of enormous
Importance in physiology, pharma-
cology and medicine"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Story. in a Nutshell

A NERVY little blond, accord
"A ing to the best information
and belief now obtainable, shot two
of her lady chums in fit of temper,
cut up one body, packed them in
two trunks and a dress suitcase,
and checked them from Phoenix,
Ariz., to Los Angeles, just as calmly
as she would the most respectable
kind of baggage,
An observant station agent at the
latter place, noticing blood drip
ping from one of the trunks and
suspecting that it might contain
contraband venison, insisted that
the blonde open it when she pre-
sented her check.
She wasn't feazed in the least,
but, explaining that she must go
home and get the key, fed for parts
unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
A Lot of Psychology

THERE is a lot of psychology
Il bottled up in this taste for
crime news, this constant reitera-
ton of the love ballad, this endur-
ance of games in which individuals,
or small groups of individuals, take
the leading part.
Shakespeare understood it much
better than some of our modern ex-
perts. So did Dumas and Wagner,
as well as all other great artists.
Indeed, you can't imagine art,
without individualism, or literature,
or anything else which belongs to
the empirical side of human exist
ence.
No more can you imagine political
and social ideals, without some
heroic figure to symbolic them,
some name around which to develop
hero worship,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

~~A~s AAOA~ASA0 n AOAADAAAAN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
.NNE OF the most important fac
" tors in the spread of diph-
liberia is the presence of what are
known as diphtheria carriers.
|. These unfortunate individuals
sometimes after having the disease
and sometimes without even having
manifested the symptoms, but by
being in association with a patient
get the, germs into their threats
and thereafter act as sources for
distribution of the germs to persons
who have not resistance and who
come down with the disease.
Whenever the incidence of diph-
liberia tends to increase unduly,
public health officials are likely to
suspect the presence of diphtheria
carriers.
DR.. James Grant, an English
health officer, studied the incidence
of diphtheria IN his community and
decided as part of his investigation
to examine the throat af every child
who had been in contact with
case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
It's Same Old Story

TINE Pacific coast now is enjoy
l. ing the weirdest man hunt, or
woman hunt, if you prefer, since
young Hickman announced himself
as ''The Fox" after killing Marian
Parker, and defied capture for a few
days, while every literate American
follows the performance with hungry
interest.
You can pass the thing off as due
to morbid taste, nervous reaction
from the war, or an appetite for the
sensational, but you can't prove that
we are taking this episode any diff
ferently than we have 100 others like
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Crave One-PekSon Show

Grave Un6-F6fS0n snow
IT'S the individual element that
4 gives crime its appeal, the fact
that each of us can put himself,
or herself, in the victims place, the
killers place, or the detectives
place.
It's not love of blood, because, if
it were, we would be vastly more
interested in battles.
The one-man, or one woman
show is what we crave, where the
achievement, or the horror can be
associated with personality.
Homer showed how well the an
Gent Greeks understood this when
he wrote the Had, making the mass
attack on Troy just a background
for his hero.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-This is copy of
an open letter mailed to the Rev.
H. L. Herod, secretary of the IN
dianapolis inter-racial council: 1
am thinking of the anticipated
hardshipS of the coming winter with
special reference to the Negro group
Of our city. Due to conditions over
which they have no control this Sec
ond winter perhaps will cause them
more suffering than any other group.
l would suggest that a commit
tee Of representative Negroes pre-
sent through you, to the inter-racial
council, such conclusions and rec
concentrations as they may be pre-
pared to submit. Such information
should possess real value in view OF
the Community Fund campaign.
I feel that the council should be
accorded a full hearing before all
committees administering relief
from the Community Fund. Lack
Of reliable information frequently is
a source of much injustice.
I wish to request that special
study be given the housing and
feeding of homeless men and wom-
en- who are unemployed.
Every attention should be given
children in grade or high schools.
Evictions should be held in abey-
ance until the township trustee or
the Community Fund either has
paid the current rent or provided
a suitable house into which the
family may move.
Every effort should be made to
prevent either gas, water or electric
lighting service being discontinued
until relief agencies have been
given due notice and sufficient time
to meet the current monthly charge.
Recently a family living on Lynn
street had all its household goods
taken to satisfy a chattel mortgage.
HouseholderS out Of employment
should be protected by moratorium
on taxes, mortgages, liens or loans
until employment is found.
An efficient employment agency,
according to Negro equal opportu-
nifty with the white applicant, is
needed greatly.
=. E. LEWIS E. FRAZEUR.
POOP Sugar Grove avenue.
Editor Times-In your editions of
Oct. %, was more than a little
amused by the expressions of Mar
garita T. Diddel, who claims to have
visited the very worst" spots in
dreadful New York and literally
thanks the High Heavens" that
saloons are gone and that only
LegionnaireS and Short sighted
citizens" are drinkers.
am afraid the lady either is
very much misinformed or is exag-
gerating slightly. I happened to be
in New York this summer and, be-
ing drinking man, made tour of
as many saloons" as I could.
New Workers are proud of the
fact their city has more than $4,000
speakeasies and saloons, and they're
not down on the wharVes. They
happen to be in the very best part
Of the city. I was in five saloons in
one block in the heart of the down
town district.
\ Prohibition certainly has '"done
grand by our country" Once upon
time there were few dry states.
Now there is none. Thanks to the
professional drys.
AN UNPROFESSIONAL WET.
Editor Times-One of the most
effective and perhaps convincing
ways that the officials Of our be-
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Questions and
Answers

What does the name Elsie mean?
Mirthful.
Was Rudy Vallee born in the
United States?
Yes.
Can carbon mOnOxide gas be seen
or Smelled?
1t is colorless and odorleSs.
Who wrote the book "Cimarron?"
Edna Ferber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Daily Thought

The vile person shall be no more
called liberal, nor the churl said
to be bOuntiful.-Isaiah 1875.
Liberaity is the best way to gain
affection; for we are assured of
their friendship to whom we are
obliged.-St. EYremond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

American college students Indifferent to poll
TICS says professor. Considering what Chinese stu
dents did to their foreign minister for some alleged
negligence in administration it is perhaps we'll for
our politicians that college boys don't know too much
about politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

BY DAVID DIETZ

sanity Opens the Way for
a Chemical Attack on the
Dread Affection.
A NEW attack upon the dread
N scourge, insanity, was sug-
gested by Professor Wilder D. Ban
croft of Cornell university in an ad-
dress before the New York section
of the American Chemical Society.
Professor Bancroft, who is a di-
rector of the American Chemical
Society and the editor Of the Jour
nal of Physical Chemistry, suggests
chemical attack upon insanity.
He calls his new view "a colloid
theory of insanity" and says that it
grew out of a theory advanced two
generations ago by the French
phySiologist, Claude Bernard.
Bernards views we're ridiculed at
the time, because scientists of the
day did not know enough about the
nature of colloids.
Today we know that the living
cells which comprise all organisms,
including human beings, are COL
loids Living cells are composed of
complex chemical mixtures known
as protoplaSm.
Protoplasm is a colloid, more ex-
actly type of colloid known as an
emulSoid.
The colloid state of matter is diff
ticult to describe, If We put sand in
water, the sand sinks to the bottom.
1t is inSoluble. If we put salt in
water. it dissolves.
Between the state represented by
the inSolubility of the sand and
the Solubility of the salt is the i'm
between realm" of the colloid. In
the colloid, the substance involved
is held in suspension in the LIQUID
in particles of various sizes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

Why arc the bottoms of ships
painted with copper paint?
To prevent the growth of barn.
acles. The practice is general all
over the world and the treatment
should be renewed each year.
What is the past tense of the verb
to light?
Either lighted or lit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
M. E. Tracy

You Can Pass of the Trunk
Murders Interest as Due to
Morbid Tastes, Bat the
Public Always Has Been
That Way.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Comes a
IN trunk murder to break the mo-
notony. You've been reading about
it, of course. Who hasn't? Still, it
seems a rather queer incident to
wedge in between NJ. LavaPs visit
and the Manchurian situation.
We just can't get away from the
raw, elemental phases Of life, and
why should we want to? Not that
trunk murders furnish the most
wholesome form of entertainment,
but that they still form a part of
the complex drama which we call
life, proving how thin the veneer of
civilization really is.
AS people devoted to progress and
striving for refinement, we ought to
turn our backs on the grewsome de-
tails, but do We?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

The trouble with the cinema, says G. K. Chester
ton, is that you can't throw brick at an actor on
the screen. You throw one at an actor on the
stage, but that's not the trouble with the drama
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

Al Capone attended football game with his
Oodyguard recently. He certainly likes to be around
when somebody kicks off"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

There's one thing you've got to say about the
English gold crisis and Gandhis visit They've taken
Mussolin off the front page
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

! produce will not pay for the ex-
pense of raising it.
Would you dare to ask him if he
would like to have a reduction on
farm land? Look at the falloW
farms sold for taxation. Go to the
records and the number of mort
cages on more than a million dol
lars worth of farms. You may
conjecture the total.
Boys, we have taken you for a
little ride and it's about over, for
it begins to look like I'VE" have not
the sense of Self-preservation.
When food prices became lower,
your salary automatically raised.
When land, rents and merchandise
became cheaper, your salary auto
matically raised. The interest on
500 formerly was six bushels of
corn, and now interest on 500 costs
tWenty-four bushels of corn.
The great frozen asset that
President Hoover is confronted
with, is not of bond or unwise in
vestments, but the unemployed who
want work. D. S GOBTE
"a Spencer street.
Editor Times-Of course we eniov
your paper. 1t is our favorite of the
i've dailies We take and we are
happy to renew for another year.
Your editorials are the first things
we read. Even our favorite maya
zines wait on them and though we
never can agree with you on "old
age pensions" we never can thank
you enough for the support you rem
der the people on utilities.
j. w. DRAPER.
Elmden Farm, Alexandria.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

William Castle Jrr undersecretary of state, sug-
gests that we laugh ourselves out of the depression
He means grin and bear it, probably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

ITS smart to be thrifty" runs the slogan of
New York department store. Smart? In these days
it's miracle!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
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. 20.
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Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
PHONE COMPANY
/. 0PENSPURSE
STRINGS !.
viii Spend $16,ooo,ooo in D,
c. and NeighbOrhOod for
. 1892 Additions ...

Plans for expanding the tele-
phone system serving the District,
Maryland, Virginia, and West Vir-
ginia in 1882 were announced to-
day by Lloyd B. Wilson. president
of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Companies. s~, =
They call for expenditures Of
$16, 6,000, 900 for additions and bet
termentS, $2,500,000 in excess Of
the 1881 construction projects,
The company estimates there
will be a net gain Of $4,000 tee
phones, as contrasted with 22,500
In 1881. 80 @~' 80 10,
Expenditures for additional
facilities in the District will total
$4,90O,000. It is estimated that
$4,000 telephones will be installed
and $4,000 removed, a net gain
of 10000.
The construction program in
Maryland will necessitate ex.
penditures of $4,450, 900, Virginia,
$4,250, 900, and West Virginia,
So, 400, 900.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
MORE IDLE CARS
ARE REPORTED

Class I railroads on December
IA had 671,402 surplus freight
cars Immediately available foI
service, the American Railway AS.
Sociation announced today.
This increase Of 6,633 cars com
pared with December 7, at which
time there were 664,796 surplus
freight cars.
Surplus coal cars on December
IA totaled 236,280, a decrease OF
6,613 cars within approximately
a week, while surplus box cars to-
tailed 362, ,487, an increase Of H..
1855 for the same period.
Reports also showed 29,612 sur
plus stock cars, an increase Of
1877 above the number reported
on December Z, while surplus re-
frigerator cars totaled 14,133, an
increase Of 392' for the same
period,
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
CURB UTILITIES
60 HIGHER

4 NEW YORK, Dec. 81 dN.S0.-
The Curb Market witnessed the
customary year-end mark-up in
prices in today's wind-up session,
with brisk buying demand for the
run Of pivotal leaders carrying
most sections of the list to their
best levels more than a week.
Utilities were in the van of the
upturn, with American Gas and
Electric up 13s at 39R. Com
monwealth Edison, up IA points,
at 1l83z; Electric Bond & Share,
up "a, at 117s, while gains of
lesser Importance were registered
In America and Foreign Power
warrants.
Standard Of Indiana was the
best ground-gainer in the oils
with Q gain Of " point at 141a.
Gulf was up 1s at q.
Specialties were headed up the
line by Singer Manufacturing,
which spurted points to 122.
insult Utility Investment IS
featured the bond section with a
recovery of points to 31A.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
POLE To PRESS
SUITS ON BANK
DIRECTORS.
Law to Be Strictly Enforced
When Officials Fail to
Attend to Duties

A policy of vigorous prosecu-
ton of civil suits against di-
rectors of national banks where
they are found negligent in their
duties has been adopted by Comp
troller. of the Currency ]. w. Pole.
Neglect Of directors probably
has been q contributing factor in
many of the more than 1900 ma
tional and State banks which
have closed their doors this year,
officials said today.
One $14,O0O,OOO Suit
The comptroller's office already
has a $14,00O,0OO action against
the directors of the National
Bank of Kentucky. Similar
actions were contemplated else
where.
Bank directors will be held
financially liable even in excess
of the liability as stockholders,
where it lis shown that, through
their neglect, banking operations
have failed to meet the require
mentS Of sound business.
The experience of the comp
troller's office has shown conclu-
sively that many bank directors
have little conception of their
duties and responsibilities.
Some Ignore Warnings
Some directors ignore their
duties even when called to their
attention, one official averred.
Active bank officers have been
urged by Poles office to make
available to their directors such
information as will enable them
to better understand their re.
SponSibilitieS.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
STOCK ADVANCE
MAKES NEW
PROGRESS
United States Steel Passes
40, With Auburn, Can and
Bell System Climbing
BY w. s. COUSINS

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 GN.S0.
Most Of the active stocks today
followed the upward trend which
was in progress near the close
of Wednesdays market.
New advances of a point or
more were scored by the indus
trials and specialties, while the
rails and utilities moved ahead
fractionally.
Cash Sales Small
Last minute tax selling was in
dicated by the "cash sales as re-
ported on the tape, but the vol
urne was comparatively small.
United States Steel sold above
40 for the first time this week.
Auburn Auto forged ahead more
than points to 140A and
American Tel and Tel dupli-
Gated the best price Of the week.
Professional commitments on
both sides of the market are
restricted by the fact that only
two hours of trading intervene
between this afternoon and Mon
day.
Call Rate Holds
The commodity markets and
the bond market we're quiet and
steady. Railroad bonds staged
further rise for the third con-
secutive session and United States
Government bonds were in good
form.
The call loan renewal rate was
3la per cent, holding over from
yesterdays last hour advance.
Loans made on call today hold
over until Monday,
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\. !. PAYS HIGH
LOAN RATE

The tightening of the money
market forced New York city to
pay 51a per cent interest on a,
$50, 900 900 loan, the highest rate
paid by the city on short term
Joan in many years. It contrasts
sharply with the loan made on
! September "a at 13s per cent, the
low record for the city.
OF the new loan, Chase
National Bank and the National
City Bank jointly took $4,000. 900
as. follows: $4,000, 900 of revenue
bills and $C,000,000 of corporate
stock, dated December "a, 1881,
and due March IA, 1882, and ST.
O0O, 900 of special revenue bonds
and $7,000,00 of corporate sock
notes, dated December %, and
sdue on June IA. 1882.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
The Weather

FORECAST UNTIL p. NJ, THURSDAY
For the District Of Columbia, cloudy,
followed by rain tonight and Friday;
not much change in Temperatures; mini
mum temperature tonight about 3S de-
Erees; fresh northeast and east winds.
For Maryland and Virginia. cloudy,
followed by rain tonight and Friday:
not much change in temperature; fresh
to strong northeast and east winds.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES -s-
Yesterday. Today.
p. m......,. AZ a. m........, "a
p. m......... 20 s a. rn........, 81
Midnight ...... II Noon .......... 81
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January l. 1881. 1884
Excess Of temperature since Deeem-
ber 1. 1881. 234. .
Accumulated deficiency Of precipita-
tion since January /. 1881. SAT
Deficiency of precipitation since De-
cember /. 1881, Ill.
TIDE TABLES
Today-High tides. 1888 a. m. and
1908 p m. Low tides, 1920 a. m. and
7:47 p. m.
SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today, 1927 a. m. and
sets 4i55 p. m.
The sun rises Friday, 1925 q. m.
The moon sets today 1889 a. IN.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Fenner, BeGne Open
Offices in Resorts

Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider
announce that resort offices will
be maintained this winter in
Asheville. N. c.; Atlantic City,
N. j.; Augusta, Ca; Hollywood,
Fla; Hot Springs, Ark, and
Miami Beach, Fla. All offices
will be connected by private wire
with the head office of the firm
in New York. The firm main
tainS an office in Washington,
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

at 2 .. m. ct the w. w. Chambers
chapel, 1400 Chaplin st. N. w.
The youths body was found
in the youths home at 222 -Four
teenth Pl. N. E.. by his sweet.
heart, Miss Lucy Boyd, Of %
Tally Pl. N. Z,
He is survived by his father,
Guy B. Tippens; q sister, Mrs
Anna M. Huggins, and q brother,
James A. TippenS.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
DEATHS

Eliza 8. Eddy. 81 years 2SOO ccnnec-
ticut Ave. N. w.
Senhora D. Beoth, So years. 1857
Thirty first st. N. w.
diers Home Hospital
" salNe 3; Payne, 50 years TOT shep.
sarah G, Tl.inEsr. rs years. s17
Edith Mccormick, "a. years. St Eliza
beths Hospital. Il
Anna g Earman. 70 years. 2o1s
Pierce Mill Rd.
Hattie M. Prescott. 10 years, 4s7 New
Esteiia 3. jordan. 10 years. lAsS
Katie Rsnwick. st years. AL Ninth
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Bank of Washington
/ viii Pay 6. Per Cent

Directors of the National Bank
Of Washington have declared the
usual semi.annual dividend of 6
per cent on the capital stock
payable January 2, 1882.
The books for transfer of stock
were closed yesterday until Janu-
airy 4, j. Frank White, cashier,
announces.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Mutual Fund Holds
Dividend Increase

Maintaining the increased divi-
dend Of last october the Loomis-
Sayles Mutual Fund announces a
quarterly 60-cent dividend pay
able January 2, on shares Of
record December l. Dividends
are paid only out of earned in
cOnoe