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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Marriage and Bad Times

The census bureau tells us that the decrease in
number of marriages last year probably due to
the depression. 1t doesn't attempt to explain the
decrease in number of divorces but it may be that
this, we'll has come about result of hard times
During the last year or So most wives have been
buster than they have been for some time. Many
Of them have had to go out and hunt jobs to replace
their husbands lost Others have had to spend
much time cutting down the budget and making
over last years clothes that there has been little
time in which to sigh wistfully over the romantic
charm of a movie star, or to read novels in which
the men always manage to be more soulful and I'M
derstanding than ones own husband. And so there
has been less discontent-and fewer divorces.
This is not intended to argue that poverty and
hardship are essentials of contented marriage. Toe
much work and worry break as many homes as
too much ideness.
But during this year of very practical endeavor
a good many women may discover the tonic effect
of sufficiently absorbing occupation upon the health
the disposition, and the married happiness.
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THEY Tell NE

sion it appeared that he could tie
the Republican opposition into
knots, but he didn't do it, and on
the whole showed nothing phe-
nomenal.
Bays came within one vote Of be-
ing elected state chairman last
year. It was a close call for Peters,
who, however, since has been loud
in his praise of the cooperation at
forded by Bays in the 1880 cam
paign. Intimate friends Of the box
ing commissioner say he will not
seek the post.
Hamrick does not deny or affirm
he is a contender for state chair
man. He sits in his downtown Of
flee while the score. or more ad-
herents who have stuck to him
through every campaign are as busy
as bees gathering honey in garner
ing rumors, both true and false,
which they bring to him for in
| spection.
he has not allled nlmSeI Closely
with either the Peters McNutt nor
South Bend-Mayr groups, but fire.
Guently is seen in conference with
the secretary of state, Frank Mayr
Jr., or his secretary, Robert Codd.
There is the field. You can take
your choice.
But as the set-up is today, lay
your dough on Peters, who has been
received with tumultuous acclaim at
meetings staged by his opposition.
The pari-mutuel betting window
will be open in minute. 4
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for diet should also include 10000
large fish and 5000 sardines and
herring; 10000 pounds of potatoes
and 10000 pounds of other vegeta-
bles; $4,000 pounds of fruits; 5000
quarts of milk; 10000 quarts of
coffee; 1000 pounds of salt; 5000
eggs, 1000 pounds Of cheese and
10000 quarts of water.
If he happens to be a German,
he will have taken 1900 pounds Of
sugar; but if he happens to be an
American, he will have consumed
nearly 10000 pounds. If he is a
German, he will have imbibed $4,000
quarts Of beer.
If he is a smoker, he would have
added 10000 cigars or somewhere
between 100000 to 100000 cigarets
to the material that has passed into
his interior.
In addition, his diet will have in
Guided such extra delicacies as can
dies. wines, liqueurs, soft drinks and
orange Juice, and what-not.
The average man weighs 1874
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$ZZ. 2.
CAN Is TEEs
ANNIVERSARY
/
BRITISH WAR REVIEW
July 81

I'm July 81, 1917, General Sir
" William Robertson, chief Of the
British imperial general staff, re-
viewed the previous three years of
the war. He summed up the situ-
.ation, in part, as follows:
What is the position today? We
are far north and facing north. We
no longer have our backs to the
Germans, and We are millions where
before we were thousands our
guns are hammering them now as
they never have been hammered
before.
DO not let Us underrate the Ger
mans because their cause is bad,
because they are guilty of provok-
ing war, and because their material
resources are less than ours. The
whole German nation is as dis
ciplined as an army. Germans have
discipline in their blood. -.
What could be more magnificent
than the spectacle which America
now presents to mankind?
1t is not for me even to pronounce
an opinion on Americas prepara-
tons, but I should say that through
out the world freedom breathes
more freely and democracy is mora
confident for the mere spectacle of
that vast nation imposing upon it
self the restraints and rigors Of dis
cipline."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Farmers Are Thinking

GAS matter of fact the farmer is becoming con-
vnced that the Capitalization of wealth in too few
hands really is what is the matter with the economic
horizon and why that horizon is closing in him. and
on labor and the merchants and independent bank
ers and small fry generally SO closely that they can
not see any future ahead in any direction"
Who says this?
Arthur Capper, the senator from Kansas, says it
And, being familiar with the mid-western farmer
as he is, Capper should know.
What would the farmers do about this to6 great
Capitalization of wealth?
Capper says: In all the farming states the agi-
tation is on for income taxes. 1t will be followed
logically by demand for larger and larger inner
itance taxes to break up the Capitalization of wealth
and power in too few hands"
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What were the actual expendi-
lures of the United States govern
ment for all purposes for the fiscal
year ending June so, 1880?
$3,994,152,487.
Is a violin the oldest stringed in
strunlent?
The Tyre and the harp as we'll as
other stringed instruments antedate
the violin.
What is the diameter of the
earth?
The mean diameter is 1915
miles.
why are horses entered only once
in the Kentucky Derby?
The race is for 3-year-olds only,
and, therefore, no horse is eligible
more than once.
Is Lake Michigan the largest lake
in the United states?
1t is the largest lake entirely with
in the boundaries of the United
States. 1t is about 355 miles long
and nearly ninety miles wide at its
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pounds, which can be divided into
66 pounds of muscle, 1922 of interior
organs, 272 pounds of skin and fat,
1858 pounds of bone and 3.3 pounds
of brain.
However, the scientific physician
is not likely to consider food in the
light Of muscle, bone, fat and brain.
Rather, he is likely to be concerned
with proteins, carbohydrates and
fats.
AS distributed among the main
body constituents, there are SO
pounds of water, 1913 pounds of pro-
tein, 1874 pounds Of fat, ~ pounds
of minerals and is pounds of car
bohydrates.
We eat to supply ourselves with
these body elements and to develop
the energy used in our bodily acti-
vities. We eat also for health and
for growth.
Hence it is that a certain amount
of knowledge is necessary in order
to select diet that will meet all
these necessities.
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Range

| I'D ADIATION pressure, according
Az to Eddington'S views, plays an
important part not only in the sun,
but in all the stars. 1t should be
remembered that our sun and the
stars are very much alike. Our sun
IS star, or, to put it the other way,
every star is a sun.
The sun and most stars are be-
lieved to be great globes of gaseous
material. They continue to exist,
according to Eddington's view, be-
cause they are in a state of equilib-
rum.
The gravitational pull of the star
upon the material composing it
tends to contract the star. If this
was the only influence at work, the
star would collapse.
On the other hand, radiation
pressure delivers an outward thrust.
If it were the only influence at
work, the star would explode and
be blown to pieces.
The reason the star stays in ex-
istence is due to the fact that radia-
ton pressure balances gravitationaI
pull.
A significant fact which tends to
support Eddingtons theory is that
all stars have approximately the
same mass or amount Of material
in them.
The range seems to be from one
tenth the mass Of the sun to ten
times its mass.
Eddington believes that stars be-
low this range, would collapse while
stars above it would explode. Hence
stars do not exist within the range.
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broadest part. The area is about
22,500 square miles.
Is Will Rogers, the humorist, a
Mason?
He is a thirty-third degree Ma
son.
Does Babe Ruth bat left or right
handed?
Left-handed.
Why is Michigan called the @WoI-
VERNE" state?
On account of the prevalence OF
those animals in that region in the
early days of its settlement.
What is the meaning and origin
Of Baraca?
1t is from the Hebrew word Bera-
cab in II Chronicles, 20:26. and
means blessing. The Baxaca mems
Bible classes were started in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, Oct. 20, 1890, and now
number more than 10000 in all
parts Of the country.
What is the name and address OF
the president Of the United States
Steel Corporation?
James E. Farrell. His Office ad-
dress is II Broadway, New York.
What horse finished second in the
Kentucky Derby in 1920?
Upset finished second to Paul
Jones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
TraffiCIS Toll

NEW YORK is all excited, and
IN rightly so, because five children
were shot-one Of them fatally-for
no other reason than that, they hap
pened to be in the line Of fire be-
tween two rival gangs.
A thousand times as many chill
dren are crushed to death in this
country each year for no other rea-
son than that they happen to be
in the way Of autos, but no one gets
excited.
For the moment, our passion is
speed. We're just bound to go
faster, whether on land or in the
air.
Auto manufacturers promise cars
that will go safely and comfortably
at seventy-fve miles an hour, and
every one is happy.
More women and children will be
killed, Of course, but what Of that?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-In a late issue of
your paper, you have an editorial as
to the best way to dispose of the
whisky business and, if 1 under
stood, your position was to make it
public.
have been advocating the idea
of putting it on the market in a
lawful manner at cost for fifty years,
the cost to be SO that it barely
would pay for the making, every
one getting it at the same price. 1t
is the profit that the bootlegger is
working for at the present time.
Let it be made by the govern
ment and sold by the government,
and the right to purchase it belongs
to each and every individual alike,
high and low, poor or rich, all walk
up to the same place and pay the
same price.
1t seems to me since whisky must
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

OVERHEAD footways, Or under
" passes at congested street in
tersections would DO a lot to make
fast cars safer, and we have five OF
six millions people out Of work in
this country.
If a human life is worth $1,000
there are many cities where elevated
streets would pay for themselves
within ten years.
If we're as honestly interested in
safeguarding life as we pretend
without slowing down, we could
find plenty for the unemployed
to do
The trouble is that we want seven
ty-fve- mile-an-hour cars without
building seventy-five- mile-an-houl
highways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

I have been reading closely this
dizzy affair down at Princeton, Ind,
and think it is just another case
Of personal revenge on what you
might call baby. Take, for in
stance, these petitions for the release
of a well-knoWn prisoner at Michigan
City, bearing 100000 names.
I say that man knew better, but
this lad of 10 gets an eight-year
prison sentence for almost nothing.
Try and get some one interested in
his case enough to ask for and Sc
cure this judges impeachment and
this boys sentence reduced to a
sensible term.
I agree very much with what
E. w. Capper says in your paper
of July "A.
HARRY A. KOBEL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Pound of Light

1T is the chromosphere, which, IN
4 the opinion of Eddington, is
floating on sunbeams. In addition,
he believes that the violent motion
of the solar prominences Is due to
the push of sunbeams.
Eddingtn's view is based upon the
most recent findings concerning the
nature of light.
Experiments have shown that
light exerts pressure. 1t is possible
with delicate measuring devices to
measure the push eXerted by a
beam of light. The fact that light
eXertS pressure means that light
possesses weight or mass.
Prof. Eddington says that there
is no reason why one should not
pay for his electric light by the
pound. However, pound of light
would be bit expensive because it
would take a vast amount of light
to exert a pressure equal to a
pound.
Eddington calculates that at
present rates for electricity, a pound
of light would cost $5O000,OOO.
However, the amount of light
pouring out of the sun is gigantic.
And Prof. Eddington believes that
it exerts so great a pressure that
the light gases of the chromosphere
are gases which have been swept
up from the photosphere or surface
of the sun by the great outward
rush of light waves.
This force eXerted by the outward
rush OF light is known technically
as radiation pressure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Soap Boxers

We would like to call the attention of Messrs. Ham
Fish Matthew Vol and others to the fact that some
very radical talk is going about the world these days
For instance:
Unless drastic measures are taken to save it, the
capitalist system throughout the civilized world will
be wrecked within a year I should like this pre-
diction to be filed for future reference "-Montagu
Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
M. E.. Tracy
SAYS

If An Individual Makes
Bombs We CAL it Crime. II
a Nation Does So, We Call
1t Patriotism.
ATEW YORK, July 31-Just a
IN little matter of 40 hours and II
minutes from New York to Constan-
tinople, not for ordinary folks, may
be, but for expert hiers in first
class plane.
Ten years ago, such a feat was
regarded as improbable. Thirty years
ago, you couldn't get anybody to
argue about it as even possible.
Right now. we are as certain of
nothing as that it will be eclpsed
kefore very long.
Lieutenant Williams looks for air
planes to be making 400 miles an
hour within another twelve months.
Engineers feel that 600 miles an
hour is just around the corner.
Small wonder that scientists are
turning to the rocket as offering
them one chance of doing some
thing spectacular.
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Al Waited loo Long

IF Al Capone hadn't messed up his
4 income tax returns the chances
are that he wouldn't be in the jam
he is.
Al made the mistake of not get
ting a good lawyer soon enough.
Even his plea of guilty didn't
bring what was expected. 1t came
too late and after too much pub
Lefty. Judge Wilkerson simply
couldn't stomach the idea of let
ting the lawyers decide what SEN
tence he should impose.
When Al heard that, he stopped
chewing gum and concluded to with
draw his plea of guilty and take
chance with a trial.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

IN seventy years, which is the life
Il expectancy of human beings, ac-
cording to Biblical text, man eats
400 times his body weight. The
average life expectancy of man, ac-
cording to our most recent statistics
is approximately SIS years.
If a man lives to be 70 years of
age. his intake will have included
$4,000 loaves of bread, averaging one
pound each; 1000 pounds of fat;
5000 pounds of meat, which can be
divided into three oxen, four calves,
eight hogs, four sheep, 800 chickens,
rs geese and 100 squads.
According to an analysis made by
a distinguished German, statistics
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GangSfArS COnY

A MOTHER trouble is that we
N want an adequate supply of
machine guns for war without
racketeers getting wise to their ef-
fectiveness, and want quite a little
racketeering permitted in so-called
respectable business, without gang
sters copying it.
The thing can't be done. We're
all creatures of habit and influenced
by example, sticklers for convention
and respecting no law more enthu-
siastically than the tribal law.
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Daily Thought

So long as lust smells sweet in
our nostrils, so long we are loath-
some to God.-Colton.
There is no speech nor language
where the voice is not heard
Psalms 1873.
The voice Of the people Is the
voice Of God-Heslod.
Have coffee grounds and tea
leaves any value as a fertilizer?
No.
What Presidents of the United
States belonged to the Masonic
order?
Washington, Jackson, Polk, Buch-
anan, Johnson, Garfield, Mckinley,
Roosevelt, Taft and Harding. Fill
more was a Mason at one time, but
fecanted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Toll Can Be Cut

MUCH of the hazard in connec-
1V1 ton with speed can be elimi7
mated, as is proved by the railroad
record.
Railroads kill and injure surpris-
ingly few people compared to the
number they did twenty-five years
ago.
Trained men and safety cam
paigns have had much to do with
this improvement, but the elinlina-
ton Of grade crossings and installa-
ton of block signal systems have
had more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
Crime and Patriotism

TT already is being predicted that
4 the next war will see bombs
dropped by rockets, instead Of air
planes.
That reminds you that we face
some problems which can't be solved
by speed.
If an individual makes bombs,
much less diabolical machines with
which to drop them, we call it crime.
If nation does SO, we call it pa
triotism.
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by DAVID DIETZ

The Whole Outer Region of
the Suns Atmosphere Is
Believed to Be Floating on
SuRbeGnlS.
FLOATING on a sunbeam. long
4 a phrase Of poetic fancy, has
become one of scientific reality, &C
colding to Prof. A. S. Eddington.
famous astronomer Of Cambridge,
England.
According to Professor Eddington,
the whole outer region Of the suns
atmosphere literally is floating on
sunbeams.
The outer portion of the sun,
when examined with proper astro-
nomical instruments, IS seen to con-
sist of number of layers.
First of all, there is the so-called
surface of the sun, from which the
light of the sun comes. But 1t must
be remembered that this surface is
gaseous. In fact, there is every
reason to believe that the sun is
gaseous to its very center.
The surface Of the sun is called
the photosphere. Above the photo
sphere is a layer of slightly cooler
gases known as the reversing layer.
Above it is a third layer known as
the chromosphere.
This consists chiefly Of hydrogen
and helium and certain other gases
which are in an electrified or IRON
lied condition.
From the chromosphere arise
great tongues of streamers of gas
eous material. These flaming
tongues, for they have a tenIpera-
ture CT about 5000 degrees, some-
times reach a height of $4,000 miles.
ten times the diameter of our earth.
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be used wrongfully, that it is adding
another wrong when it is made a
revenue maker. It looks to me like
selling the lives of our citizens for
few pennies so that few might
profit at the expense of the many.
I am no prohibitionist and never
was, but it does seem to me that
anything that in itself is wrong
should not be made a revenue pro-
Queer. would include all marco
tics in this list.
JOHN E. BAYLESS.
Editor While I am out of
regular employment and can not
take your paper steady, take it
as often as possible, because it is
the only paper in town that will
hold up for the poor man and his
welfare.
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--DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Man Eats 1,4OO Times His Weight

This is the third CT a series of twenty
six timely articles by DR.. Morris Fish
bein on GOOD Truth and FOllies," deal
ing with such much discussed but little
known subjects as caIOries, vitamins,
minerals, digestion and balanced diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

California scientist is exploring volcano by
airplane. Intent Of course upon making bigger and
crater discoveries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

good mechanics are shunted into cooking From nuts
to soup, it were.
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Here Are Some PuzzLers and Their Anszoer.s

What kind Of government has
Liberia and what is the official Ian
guage of. the country?
Liberia is a republic modelled after
that of the United States. The head
Of the government is the president.
The official Language is English.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Several Hollywood stars are reported writing
novels AS far as we are concerned, this is more
effective way than the talkes of making themselves
heard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Once upon time New York cops used to SWIM
night sticks; now Of them get protection from
night clubs.
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The proper method of prune culture is being showr
in a government film Makeup men nstinctyely viii
eradicate the wrinkles.
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Gangster types" are sought in Hollywood. Il
would be easy for them Of course, to break into the
movies
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A superfuous American gesture is the habit o.
presenting distinguished visitors keys to our cities
Most of them are wide open, anyhow
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How many libraries are there in
the United States and how many
persons use them? Do all parts of
the country have library facilities?
There are about six thousand
public Libraries, with approximately
50,000,000 readers. It is estimated,
however, that 5 per cent of the ur-
ban population and 80 per cent OF
the rural population live in areas
which have no public libraries.
Which states lead in the produc-
ton of white potatoes?
Maine, Idaho, New York, Penn
Sylvania and Minnesota.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Is the former King Alfonso XII
of Spain, a Roman Catholic?
Yes.
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Musical powder boxes are reportedJto be in vogue
TO tone vp the complexion. probably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Padere@ski is said to have the muscles of a prize
fighter. And like most heavyweights, he's got light
touch too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Anyway, it should make garage man feel good tc
think he tanks up every day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

When Eugene ONeill returned from Europe hi
made a very dramatic arrival Six Of his trunks
were filled with the manuscript of one play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31

Recommended for thumb twiddlers: Hitch-hikng
mibs contests
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The Paris to Toxic plane is called the Hyphen be-
cause, perhaps. it is Just the thing in which to
make a dash.
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Getting rise out OF the boss says the Office sage
Is not quite the same as getting a raise.