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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Detached Pieces
DR. FAIRCHILD is inclined

DR. FAIRCHILD is inclined to
- believe that there were a few
free associated bits of iron, but that
most of the iron existed as nodules
III the mass of the main meteorite
or bolide.
DR.. Q. G. Harrington writes that
some specimens of the irons in the
Field museum have surface fea-
lures which prove that they fell as
individual unitS,' DR.. Fairchild saws.
This would indicate that the great
bolide did have some free asso-
ciates, as might be expected.
But the fact that the great
majority OF irons have irregular
forms, with no SURGICAL features
produced by atmospheric friction
and heat, argues for their inclusion
in other material, either as detach-
mentS or as an integral part of the
great meteor.
IF the irons found over the des-
e-t, through radial distance of
four miles, were loose adherents of
the central mass, or if they had
become detached by the resistance
of the earth'S atmosphere. then
they formed a group some eight
miles in diameter.
"And as distinct units, with orig
inal velocity like that of the parent
body, the larger ones, with weight
of many hundred pounds, should
have produced individual craters or
pittings in the ground surface.
eff the great bolide buried It
self under 1,400 feet Of solid rock.
then the detached units should have
behaved in similar manner. But
no such pittings of the desert have
been noted.
"Of course, in time the cloud
burst storms and high winds Of the
desert region would obliterate the
pittings by filing and such irons
as we're irnbedded, would be en-
tirely or partially buried.
"But all information Is to the
effect that all the thousands of
collected irons lay exposed on the
open surface of the desert.
1.-The iron nodules which were
inclusions in the disrupted bolide,
and we're projected by the explo-
sive reaction, had momentum only
sufficient to carry them, like a shot
from a mortar, to their positions to
the plain"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
South Is Optimistic

NTO, I'm not writing press agent
IN copy for the south, or even
Texas, but just calling attention
to an economic tendency which is
altering conditions from nation
wide standpoint, which is bound to
manifest itself in certain political
changes, and which we might just
as well recognize now as later on
Those who keep harping about
the Bible belt" as illustrated by
the Scopes case, and who try to
portray it as the most SIC niflcant
facorto Of human progress south
of the Mason-Dixon line, show no
more intelligence than if they spent
the rest of their lives pointing out
fly speck on the second story win
dow of a skyscraper.
If anything, the south not only
is more optimistic, but more COM
mercially minded than any other
section of this country, with the
possible exception OF California,
more thoroughly sold on her mate
rial advantages and prospects, more
determined to capitalize them.
What appears to worry her most
about the existing depression is not
its effect upon her own people, but
whether 1t has spoiled opportunities
for getting more capital from the
outside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
M. E. Tracy

Americans Are in the Midst
of q Fourth Great More
nent, This Time From
North to South.
GAN ANTONIO. Tex. Jan. a.
- There have been three great
movements in the building Of Amer
ica-flrst. crossing Of the Atlantic;.
second, an advance into the mid
west, or prairie section; third, con-
quest Of the Pacific slope.
We now are in the midst Of a
fourth movement. Unlike those
preceding it, which were from east
to west, it is from north to south.
Persecution played a large part
in driving the earlier colonists to
take such desperate chances as they
obviously did. A pioneering spirit
was the logical result, and that in
spired their children to pursue the
sunset for more adventure. News
of gold drew them over the Rocky
mountains, and a delightful climate
made them content to settle there.
From a superficial standpoint, the
southwark drift may appear to oe
more calculated and rational, but
it, too, is the by-product of circum-
stances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Bolide Brittle
TINE size of the crater does

TIME size of the crater does not
4 indicate directly the size of the
meteorite, Professor Fairchild says.
Two factors were responsible for the
formation of the crater. One was the
mass of the meteorite. The other
was the velocity. The. temperature
of the meteorite is also an important
factor in settling it's fate, he says.
ITO the degree that its internal
temperature was low, the mass was
correSpondingly brittle, whether iron
or mostly stone" he says.
eff the body had suddenly arrived
from extra-solar space, as a casual
visitor to our planetary system, it
probably had very high velocity and
was intensely cold.
"And even if it had been ainlessly
wandering with some relation to the
sun, it probably had very low tenn
perature and a velocity not less than
that of the observed meteors.
"The violent impact which pro-
duced SO great effect on the earth
must have shattered the bolide,
whatever its velocity, temperature
and substance.
If it was largely stony material,
as all the facts appear to indicate,
the stone was Shivered to dust and
swept away in cloud of vapor, in
which case only the included nodular
masses Of iron-alloy are the existing
remnants.
There is no doubt that the thou
sands OF nickeliferous irons found
over the desert was associated with
the huge holide. The question is
now did they acquire such disper-
sion?
Were they detached companions
OF the main body, or are they pro-
jected fragments of the disrupted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

an attack Of severe peritonitis. The
physician who studies the case can
tell from the nature of the onset
of the disease, the relationship of
the symptoms and the progress OF
the condition what is going on in
side the abdomen.
If the patients condition is not
serious when first seen as to de-
nand immediate operation, it is
possible to study the case by the
use of the X-ray.
What the average person needs
to know to prevent much of the
serious mortality from this disease
is the fact that the occurrence of
severe cramps or paroxysms accom-
panied by prostrations, explosive
vomiting and general depression,
should demand immediate medical
attention. Any delay merely in
creaSes the likelihood of fatality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Leave It TO Collaboration

TN the matter of the book I fol-
4 lowed my usual custom and al
lowed the collaboration free hand to
do practically all the work. Still
I.need not minimize very reason
able record Of energy. Nothing is
being asserted here about achieve
ments, and already I find I have
omitted one considerable item. In
addition to the newspaper pieces
there were about seventy-five maya
zine articles, mostly In The Nation.
Now, all this runs up to terrible
lot of work. I was figuring out the
other day that in the last twenty
years I must have written an aver
age Of something like 1000 words a
day. If my addition is any good,
that comes to 100000 a year or
thereabouts. And on twenty years
you get perfectly horrid total of
$4,000, 900 words, and that's a lot Of
words, even if most Of them happen
to be "a, /" the. with a few lands. z
Probably that's as much as the
total output Of Thackerays Dickens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Winter Was Boon

VOU have heard a lot about the
L hardships of winter in con-
nection with the history of our New
England forbears, but it had another
and more helpful side.
If a long season of low tenn
perature exposed them to suffering,
it preserved their food supply, while
their southern neighbors struggled
with rot and mold.
Also, it made numbering opera
lions profitable at a time. when
products Of the forest were needed
badly, and before the steam engine
or tractor had enabled men to tap
the wealth Of southern pine.
The automotive vehicle has made
winter nuisance. while refrigera-
ton has made it unnecessary.
Any one can reason the effect
from there on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

TXTHEREAS almost every one is
wv conversant with the synp-
toms Of constipation, whether acute
or chronic, few people realize the
great seriousness of the condition
known as acute, intestinal obstruc-
ton.
This condition results from some
serious interference with the blood
supply or the nerve supply to the
bowels, causing the stopping of the
passage Of material from the intes-
tines.
In f1fty-six cases reported by one
investigator, there were twenty-four
deaths and in the records of prac-
tically all observers the mortality
is high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Questions and
Answers

What was the greatest extent Of
the territory over which Napoleon
ruled? Did he conquer England?
When Napoleon was at the height
of his power his rule extended from
Lubbock to beyond Rome, embracing
France proper, the Netherlands,
part Of western and northwestern
Germany, all western Italy as far
south as the Kingdom of Naples,
together with the Illyrian provinces
and the Ionian islands. On all sides
were allied, vassal, or dependent
states. Several Of the ancient
thrones Of Europe were occupied By
Napoleon's relatives or his favorite
marshals. He himself was king of
the Kingdom of Italy, protector Of
the Confederation Of the Rhine,
and mediator of Switzerland. Rus
STA and Denmark we're his allies. He
failed, however, to conquer England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Texas Is Blessed
TINE south, and particu

TINE south, and particularly.
Il Texas, not only is adapted to
the. use of some Of our most i'm.
portant inventions, but possesses a
abundance of those raw materialS
essential to their exploitation.
Oil for the combustion engine;
natural gas for heating. cooking
and manufacturing; oil, gas, coal
and Ignite for electricity; wide,
level expanses for the airport-pe
one but Ounce can so much as
glimpse the picture without getting
a good idea of what il implies.
And the thing becomes still more
apparent when one reviews what
already has occurred.
There are four cities in Texas
today with an aggregate popula-
ton of 100000 where there were.
only four good-sized towns fifty
years ago, and they have some ex-
cuse for existing besides real es-.
tate bunk or whoopee in the hotels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Indication of Energy

HERE is my justification for the
Il L decision to loaf more extern
sively. In 1880 I wrote approx
mately 800 newspaper columns. !
ran two free employment agencies
and conducted a publicity campaign
to support them. George Britt and
finished book on the subject of
race and religious prejudice.
Congress and the Palace theater
already have been mentioned. Radio
was new chore and involved some
thing more than a hundred broad
casts. For short period a co1lec-
ton of twenty-five Early Brouns
was placed on exhibition. I got
arrested and acquitted and spent a
night in the municipal lodging
house.
The poker game met once a week,
and on rare occasions friends per-
suaded me to enter places where it
was possible to get beverages just
OF the boats.
BY dint of dieting and severe
exercise throughout 1880 I lost two
pounds. I had a tooth pulled and
conducted an unsuccessful expert
ment in buying odd lots of stock
for cash and forgetting them.
Twice I had my picture taken for
short sound reels, and while run
ming for congress a record of 30
speeches was established.
This total is more imposing as an
indication of activity if left dis
creetly alone. Some of the claims
won't stand a great deal Of scrutiny.
For instance, not every word in the
300 newspaper columns was set hot
and fresh from my own f1ngertips.
There were contributions. There
was reprinting by request and with
out it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
The Weight of Words

r REALIZE that there is no fame
4 in mere weight of words. The
gentlemen whom 1 have mentioned
used better ones. and in more in
teresting and skilful combinations.
1 am just talking of muscular
activity.
How did I ever get myself into
any such speedup system? It's lazi-
ness, I suppose, which lies at the
bottom of it all. A lazy man is too
INDECENT to stop and rest once he
gets moving. I haven't had suflci-
ent character to take my ease. It
requires determination to sit down
In the sun and rest your back
against a tree. Huckleberry Finn
was, in his way, just as great a
genius as Edison.
And SO his is the example which
1 hope to emulate i'll 1881. I must
find myself some raft and a Missis-
Sippi in which to float it. It is UP
to me to smoke a corncob pipe and
look awhile at stars and keep my
trap shut.
You see, realize that in pound
ing out SO very many millions of
words I have worn pathways like
those tracks which were left by the
prisoner of Chillon. Any number of
phrases constitute for me stimuli
which set me to pacing well-remem-
bered columnar paths again.
have the uneasy feeling that
there is something familiar about
these places. Haven't I been here
before?" ask myself. And not in
frequently I know damn well I
have.
For 1881 fewer and better words
and, if possible, no speeches what
soever. I am tired of getting stuck
in places where 1 have to pull the
mule story. 1t might be happy
year for me and several others if
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I am a married
woman and my husband makes $25
a week when he works, five and one
half days. do not work, for I be-
lieve homemaking is a married
woman's job, and she can't do that
well and hold down another job.
And what is worth doing at all is
worth doing well.
We have no children, but If we
did, I still would be at home, for I
have observed the appearance and
habits Of the children whose moth
ers work, and they surely are q
poor advertisement for the mother
who works and claims she can do
her duty as a mother and wife also.
In extreme cases some married
women must work, but my observa-
ton is that most married women
work because they think it smart
and modern to acquire luxlries and
get out Of cooking. All the work.
ing married women I know person
ally claim their husbands are max
ing at least $40 a week, and some
more, yet they say they have to
work.
I am reminded of an attractive,
intelligent widow with children who
was laid off" at the factory where
she worked in another town. She
can't get work and is dependent on
charity. Yet when the stores took
on holiday help, they didn't hire
her. They took the well-dressed
married women.
Let's play fairl Give the men a
chance. Let the married woman
take back her real job-home-
making. Let the widow and the
single girl, who must work, get q
living wage.
A MARRIED WOMAN WHO LOVES
HER HOME.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Advantages Are Many

MO one can go through the south,
L especially that part of it lying
west of the Mississippi, without real.
izing how peculiarly it is adapted
to certain recent innovations, or
how popular they are bound TO
make it.
Take the automobile, for instance,
around which has developed our
greatest single industry. Who can
drive one through the south in De-
cen1ber or January without perceiy-
ing the natural advantages of this
section.
Or, take refrigeration and the. tin
can, and who can behold the long
trains of fruit and vegetables COM
ing up from the Rio Grande valley.
or the numerous preserving plants
which are springing up on every
hand, without approaching what
they mean to southern agriculture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
SCIENCE
by DAVID nIETZ

Meteorite Was ShiUered to
Dust When 1t Struck Ari-
zona Sol, Investigator Be
Ieues.
TINE great meteorite which struck
L the earth centuries ago near
Canyon Diablo, Arizona, and brought
into existence the so-called Meteor
crater, consisted chiefly Of stone and
was sfivered to fine dust by the
impact.
This is the conclusion Of Professor
Herman L. Fairchild, who has made
careful study Of the geology of
the region.
His view runs counter to the
earlier view that the meteorite was
a great mass of iron which was
supposed to lie buried beneath the
walls of the crater.
The crater is 1000 feet in diam
eter and has walls rising $50 feet
above the desert. The theory that
the meteorite was iron arose from
the fact that hundreds of Jumps, of
iron ranging up to one weighing
1,400 pounds have been found ON
the desert in the neighborhood of
the crater.
However, numerous shafts which
have been sunk in the crater in
recent years have revealed no trace
Of IRON.
Professor Fairchilds theory is that
the meteorite which came plunging
in the earth's atmosphere from
outer space consisted Of a great
mass of stone which included many
nodules of iron.
He believes that the force of the
impact was so great that the
meteorite was crushed to fine dust.
The nodules of iron, however, es-
capped when the stone matrix which
held them was crumbled.
The explosive force of the impact
scattered these nodules of iron
along with the dust over the sur
rounding desert, he believes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

twelve months go by and nothing
whatsoever is written by me about
the art of painting or the antics of
Captain Flagg.
I must brush up on my poker. I
shall have to go to more night clubs.
SpeakeasieS deserve larger portion
Of my time. In other words, 1881 is
going to be for me year of great
mental concentration and less waste
motion. If all goes well, I intend to
cut that 700,000-word output down
to half q million.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

What is the seating capacity of
the Yankee stadium in New York?
What is the record attendance at .
baseball game there? - .
The seating capacity Is 10000
and the record attendance at a
baseball game, was 1926, at a
double header between the Yankees
and the Philadelphia Athletics,
Sept. 9, 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

What is the address Of Rex Max
on, cartoonist?
Mail addressed to $50 Nassau
street, New York, will reach Maxon,
Who were in the cast of the
photoplay GAS Man Desires?"
Milton Sills, Viola Dana, Ruth
Clifford Rosemary Theby, Irving
Cummings, Paul Nicholson, Tom
Kennedy, Hector Sarno, Lou Payne,
Anna May Walthal, Edneh Altemus
and Frank Leigh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

British scientist says the earth is expanding at
such terrific rate it is exploding Maybe this ex-
plains why so many revolutions have broken out OF
late.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
Daily Thought

But the wicked are like the
troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up nire and
dirt.--Isaiah 1920.
The majority Is wfeked Bias.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03

and Shakespeare combined, and you
might throw in Walter Scott. Yes,
let's throw him in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeias the Health
Va
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-04
FEWER FORGED JUMPS
 MADE FROM PLANES

The number of emergency es- capes by parachute from disabled aircraft throughout the United States this year has been ma terially smaller than in 1850, It was stated orally July 15 at the Department of War. The follow ing information also was made available orally at the Depart ment:
 Records of the unofficial Cat erpillar Club" show that during the first half of this year, 34 jumps were reported while 65 were recorded during the same period last year. The club now numbers 371 members, who have made 285 jumps.
 Lack of statistics on flying hours for the first six months of this year makes it difficult to account for the decline in parachute jumps, it was pointed out. Pre- llmlnary reports show that the Air Corps flying time has in creased considerably, due to the amount of flying done in connec- tion with the May maneuvers, but that five more jumps were made by military pilots this year than last year.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-04
HEAVY BLOW CAUSED
 LOSS 0F RIVER BARGE

Additional details as to the loss of a barge in the mouth of the Yukon River were published in the Fairbanks News Miner. The barge had 80 tons of freight aboard.
 It is said Captain Glenn R. Day was caught in heavy blow July } between Cape Romanoff and the mouth of the Yukon while head Ing for Iditarod from St. Michael.
 To save his boat, the Danaco, he had to cut the barge loose It pre- Sumably went to the bottom. The cargo is believed to have been Chiefly fuel oil and gasoline for 1ditarod dredges.
 The loss was heavy one and 1t is not known if insurance was carried. The Danaco was on it's 1lrst trip from St. Michael when the accident occurred. There were 3OO more tons of freight waiting there for shipment to Iditarod.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-04

Don't miss the '"Talkies!"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-04
lE C AL N ] I l [ [
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE ALASKA

IN HE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
 FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT,
 AT ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
 Tn the Matter of the Application of AL ASkA PACKERS ASSOCIATION. a corp oration. for soldiers additional homestead.
 SERIAL NO. 070S4
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT. Alaska Packers Association. a corporation organized under the laws of California, and doing business in Alaska. has filed ap- plication. Serial No. 070S4. for patent under sections 23o6 and 23O7 Revised Statutes of the United States for tract of land em- braced in U. s. Official Survey Mo- 1866, situated on the west shore of Uyak Bay, ap proximately 1000 feet south of Alfred Is- iand Kodiak Island. Alaska. in latitude 57 deg. 23 min. 04 sec. N.. and longitude 153 deg. 50 min. 20 sec. w. and more partic- uiarly described in the field notes and plat thereof, and containing area of $50 acres. Corner No. l of said survey is sit uated at point on Uyak Bay from whence U. s. l.. NJ. No. 1866 bears south 80 deg. 43 min. w.. OPP chains
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the Register of the U. $. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska. within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter. or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes
 Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, this sth day of June. l931
 J. Lindley Green. ~ Register First Publication June 24, 1881 Last Publication August l9, 1931 Publish: June 24. July I. S. 15, p, 29, Aug ust 5. F. 19. all of 1881.