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The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Woman DriUer H0uLs
OLUn Rren to Market

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 UN.SJ.
Mrs. Annie Boettger is the only
woman truck driver in this city.
Inheriting a small near.beer bust
ness from her husband six years
ago, Mrs. Boettger now makes
the beer. loads it on her truck in
large cases weighing 70 pounds,
jumps up on the drivers seat and
delivers it to her customers.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Students Pot Hooks
Published and Read

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 ON.S0.
Students in stenography in the
Abraham Lincoln High School
here have started a magazine
printed in shorthand characters.
An editorial, an article by the
principal Of the school, club gos-
sip, and two short stories were in
tae first issue of the Short-O-
Gram.
The Washington times., 1931-01-02
Stops Sea Cough

During storm I caught a particu-
larly nasty cough. ! croaked like q
fog horn. When ] pulled in that night
! took some Smith Brothers Syrup.
Almost Immediately the cough left
me-1 felt better. Smith Brothers
steered me out of q bad cold in few
hours. &c. Weller, Pilot, NY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Racketeers in Ye Olden Dax

In a recent column, "F. P. A." ventured the guess
that possibly the next debunker viii tell us that
the little affair in Boston harbor was managed by the
tea racketeers'
AS an actual matter OF fact. we shall not need to
wait for the debunkers of the future to tell us that
The solemn historians Of the revolution have been
telling us this for generation
Fisher Van Tyne, Becker, Harlow, Andrews and
others have made it clear for all time that the tea
party was perfect case Of early "jackng" ordered
by the so-called prince of saugglers John Hancock
1t was engineered by his henchman. Samuel Adams
To help save it from bankruptcy, the British gov
eminent allowed the British East India Company to
ship its tea into the colonies free from the British
duty. This made it possible to sell the tea more
cheapy than the colonial merchants could smuggle
in their tea. Hence the British East India Company
had to be blocked or the colonial smuggling trade in
tea would be ruined.
We do not assume to judge motives or assail the
economic morals of the colonial fathers But more
classic example OF racketeering has been exc
cuted in America
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01

Perjuring men into and out Of Jail used to be
considered serious crime. The Egyptians made it
capital ofense. The Romans threw perjurers from
the Tarpeian rock. The Hebrews required perjurers
to be punished from the same crime for which they
falsely swore against their brethren
In 1881 America, it seems, all a perjurer need do
is to cross his fingers as he takes the stand to swear
away life or liberty Perjury is one Of our big
industries.
Perjury has become so general as to well-nigh
parayze the administration of Justice" says Samuel
Untermyer.
1.-THE practice Of perjury has come to be sur
rounded with practical immunity says Charles H.
futile, former United States attorney Of New York
1T sends honest to jail and turns loose on the
community predatory law breakers of every kind"
Arrests for perjury are rare. convictions rarer
writes Dorothy Dunbar Bromley in the current Har-
pers magazine. TOO many judges are supine in the
presence Of perjury Juries have no real under
standing of the gravity Of the offense. The great
majority of lawyers are privy to perjury"
The court calendars bristle with examples The out
standing is the Mooney Billings conviction ef-
fected by means Of five perjurers not one of whom
has been punished. The arch-perjurer and suborner,
Frank Oman, arrested and subjected to farcial
trial.
NAdCDOAdlQ, Jne Two EQe2uS ana the S1nlCn woman
at large in spite of the fact that their lies would
have but for the clenlency of Woodrow Wilson, sent
Mooney to the gallows.
Here is condition that should stir to the depths
the American bar 1t is eating away the foundations
of entire machinery of justice Laws will do little
without change in attitude from the judges and the
lawyers themselves.
AS Mrs Bromley says the leaders of the legal pro-
fesson must "give up their lassez-faire policy and
determine to discipline sumnarily all lawyers who soil
their hands with perjury"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
The Radio in Education

The enormous significance of radio In the future
Of education especially adult education, Is obvious
Hence we may well watch with immense interest
any proposal to utilize and supervise such education
Important sessions this subject are In progress
New York City.
national council on radio In education Just
has been formed 1t grew out Of suggestions made In
a meeting Of the American Association for Adult
Education Funds for maintenance have been pro-
vded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie
Foundation. The following official statement describes
the manner Of operation:
'The council has undertaken to make its Office
a clearing house OF information about educational
broadcasng facts become available for close study
and analysis Committees functional in character
and representing subjects which admit of presenta-
ton by radio will undertake to have programs of high
quality in such subjects devised by qualified people
Members Of these committees are being enlisted from
all parts of the country
1.-THE committees will be small enough to permit
concrete action and large enough to be thoroughly
representative. Eventually in certain geographical
areas, local councils will be formed to represent the
national organization and to accomplish in those
localities whatever the national council attempts
throughout the country.
AT least one qualified person in each state will be
assigned to report at regular intervals on broadcasng
conditions which affect development Of education by
radio"
The general idea is splendid but there is no guar
anty whatever Of federation Of liberal or progressive
features on the air. Out Of hfty-four members of the
council only six might be called liberals and only two
progressives. Not a radical appears on the roster
No sensible person would demand council which
went to the other extreme Yet no list Of sponsors of
adult education inspire the confidence of even
progreSsives unless it includes liberal sprnkling of
such names as Henry Linvie, W. H fitzpatrick Alex
arlder Meiklejohn Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger,
Max Eastman, John Dewey, Stuart Chase Roger Bald
win, William BONN, Alvin johnson, William A. Nelson,
Glenn Frank, John B. Watson, William T. Thomas j.
Miner Dorsey, James Harvey Robinson, Charles A.
Beard A. j. Music, Sidney HiIlman and Fannie COIN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
More Important Than Governors

What the Governors may say or whisper
about matters over which there is no con-
troversy is not as important as the message
delivered in Indianapolis Sunday by William
Green, head of organized labor, and Senator
James j. Davis Of Pennsylvania.
They came to dedicate the new building
Of the BARRIERS International Union. But
they sounded note of real significance to
industry, labor and society.
Davis declared that there must be no re-
duction in wages. That is important, as it
comes from the state where labor receives
scant consideration. 1t comes from the home
of the steel trust and the coal barons.
The warning of Green was even more
important. He called attention to the I'M
employment of six millions. He saw little
hope for relief unless President Hoover i'm
mediately calls a conference of the leaders
Of labor and industry and makes some prac-
tical effort to bring the consuming power up
to productive capacities.
But he took new step when he declared
that it is the right of labor to work. He
declared that if it is necessary to go to a
four or fve-day week that must be in
stalled. If hours must be shortened in order
to distribute available labor equitably, that
must be done.
The new slogan of the right to work
means much. Organized labor has not always
been as far sighted. At times it has failed
to give the right answer to the problems Of
workers.
But with labor now demanding a solu-
ton, and in position to make demand
effective, perhaps the hours at Valley Forge
may be shortened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Questions and
Answers

What is the largest attendance
at football game in the United
States, and how does it compare
with the largest attendance at a
baseball game?
The largest attendance at any
major league baseball game was
1926, at a double-header played
at Yankee stadium, New York, be-
TWEEN the New York Yankees and
the Philadelphia Athletics. The
largest attendance at a single foot
ball game was 10000 at the Notre
Dame-Southern California game at
Soldiers Field stadium, Chicago,
Nov. is, 1929.
How old was James Oliver Cur
wood when he died, and what
caused his death?
He died Of blood poisoning from
an infection in his nose from the
bite Of an insect. He was 49 years
old.
For what do the initials I. n. r. I.
stand?
For the Latin words of the super
scription on the croSs-Iesus NaZa-
rensus, Rex Iudiorum ("Jesus of
Nazareth, the King Of the Jews'D.
How many persons died Of tn
bercuIosis in. the United States In
1927. 1928 and 1929?
In 1927 there were 1880 deaths;
9065o in 1923 and scss52 IN 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
HEALTH SERVICE
Thousands Seek Children for Adoption

be brighter and of better parentage
than legitimate children available
for adoption. The logic Of this fact
is easily understood.
Sometimes parents want child
to replace an infant that has been
lost, in which case they endeavor
to duplicate the physical super
fetal characteristics without giving
sufficient attention to the mentality
and the heredity.
Professor Paul Popenoe mentions
an instance in which a woman sud-
denly decided to adopt a baby be-
cause she thought it would look
sweet in a coat which she could
make from some leftover pieces of
white fur.
A physician who has had much
experience in the field says that the
parents usually come asking for
golden-ha haired, blue-eyed girls with
sweet dispositions.
It is merely necessary to take the
prospective parents through the
nursery to cause them to take the
first child that may happen to hold
it's arms out to them. ,
It is important to remember from
the point of view of heredity that
the child is not only the direct de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Hoover's Hairshirt

After two years OF fever and tumult in Wash
ington," Hoover was glad to rest moment in the
quiet Of the Union League Club, he told the Phila2
delphia arstocracy Memorial day eve.
He hoped, somewhat plaintively that the hand
some Hoover portrait presented to him by that club
would serve as an antdote to some of the current
portraits under which I suffer-
Then at Valley Forge, in his Memorial address, he
said
"You have each one your special cause of anxiety.
So, too, have L"
From all of which we gather that the hairshirt
psychology from which the President suffered year
ago has grown to trouble him during the passing
months.
We wonder whether the President is not worrying
TOO much about the fever and tumult in Wash
ington" and the critical current portraits under
which I suffer-
oncs gets the fixed idea that he is being
mistreated and misjudged by his fellows he is apt
to get distorted idea Of everything else.
Popularity can not be pursued effectively If the
president thinks too much about pleasing people, he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Wrong Sense of Values

TN a pallid sort of way, the present
l. situation is similar to Valley
Forge, but how many Of us have
suffered as much as the average
soldier who went through that win
ter with Washington?
Times are hard, money. is scarce
many people are out of work and
many fortunes have shrunk, if not
disappeared, but it's far from being
any such tragedy as our forefathers
faced during the American Revo-
luton, or as other people have faced
on innumerable occasions.
That should have been the upper
most thought in connection with
Memorial day.
Willie Hill goes over lower Ma
CARA falls in a barrel,- however, and
gets about as much publicity as
President Hoover.
If our forefathers had been gov
erned by such a ~sense of value. il
is doubtful if this republic would be
in existence
Had they been the kind who Wor-
ried as much as we do over the
difficulties Of marriage, the necessity
OF seeing an auto race or a baseball
game, and the terrible disaster that
occurs when one bets on the wrong
side Of the stock market, they would
have collected conscience fund 70
pay Great Britain for the tea and
given George III a Rotary medal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEE9SS

might be said that the question Of
whether he will bear arms under
any circumstances is hardly vital.
Again, in the case Of Miss Bland,
she has testified to her willingness
to act as a nurse in the event of a
conflict, and this is the job to which
she naturally would be assigned.
But it is reasonable to say that
the court was not passing upon the
individual instances brought before
it, but on broader principle Of law.
And it is on this broad principle
that the majority deviated from any
reasonable stipulation for human
conduct.
Justice Sutherland stressed the
point that aliens seeking naturaliza-
ton should not be accorded the
privilege of picking and choosing
their wars, because, as he said, this
is a right denied to the native
born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
ANA<A AOOA lands

TNHE other day we were talking with one of the
Il men in charge of the Hoover dinner at Indianap-
Oils, and we impressed strongly when he said.
We have arrangements made to feed 5000 people at
one and the same timer.
There was something about the thought of 50
many people feeding simultaneously which carried us
PACK 10 days when large dinners entaiIed vast hard
ship upon the children in that they were denied a
seat at the first table and were compelled to plug
their appeites until the favored had filled themselves
We think that this was the crowning outrage of
things as they used to be, for the taliest redwood
Tree in California is but buggy whip alongside the
appetite OF the kid who had to wait" in those de-
parted times
Usually this ordeal happened on Sunday when
~ folks were brought home from church and lsU-
ally it was in the summer time when fried chicken
was IN 1uI ploom-fr1ed chicken and sweet potatoes
and gravy with Jumps in it.
We still recall the anguish with which we listened
as the guests coplimented the food as it passed into
history and how saw red as Brother jones' con-
cIuoed ne would take little more white meat
And the exasperatng thing about it was the airy
nonchalance with which the carefree consumers chat
ted as they devoured our substance.
Why didn't they eat as rapidly possible and talk
afterward?
A ND when one of them would launch into long
N story it was enough to make bolshevist out of
the most mild-mannered kid who ever wore a Sun
day neckte.
No wonder we threw things at the window and
rang the doorbell
We never shall forget one Notwithstanding
dinner when a missionary. just home from Africa
gave detailed description of his conuuests among
the Savages and how we waiting victims housd the
cannibas would co their duty when that missionary
returned.
Waiting" has largely been abolished and we re-
call one supper, given by our old friend, the late
Hol Sfideler OF Marion, Of the rarest souls who
lived The Governor was there and Vice
President but Mr.. Shdeer served his two kids first,
saying: Gentlemen, the children always are our
guests Of honor"
That was hnel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Turmoil Everywhere

a THOUSAND Ku-Klux Klans-
IA men met in Roanoke with
Grand Wizard Evans proclaiming
that there are two cultures in this
country one Protestant, and the
other Catholic, and calling for the
public schools to resume religious
instructions, with the pope and
rabbiS left out.
One thousand Communists met
in Youngstown with forty in jail
and twenty-five to thirty in the hos
pitai as result.
Just to prove that America has
no mortgage on turmoil, Mussolini
has banned all clubs belonging to
Catholic Action" A society with
100000 members, and calls a meet
ing Of Fascist leaders for June 3 to
decide what further steps shall be
taken in this quarrel with the
Vatican.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Without Decision

No matter what the supreme
court may say by 5 to 4, there is no
question that in the event of an
other war a very considerable num-
Der Of people will stand out and re-
fuse support.
In any such decision as that Just
handed down, the supreme court of
the United States becomes merely
another legislative body.
Whether there is utility in giving
a veto power to a small group of
wise men is a proper subject to de-
bate. But it is nonsense to assume
that the judgment of this group are
sanctif1ed and beyond all criticism.
The court which stands 5 to 4 on
a Monday in 1881 can reverse itself
by a Tuesday in 1882.
The court has the authority to
keep two individuals out Of United
States citizenship. But no nine men
in any kind of robes are sufficiently
powerful to alter the fact that the
chief duty of the Individual is not
and never has been to the consti-
tuition alone.
There is no sort of law or amend
ment which can wipe out the hu-
man conscience.
Copyright, 1881, by The Times)
(Copyright. 1881. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Ten Miles lin


Scientists say Professor Auguste Piccards ten-mile
balloon ascent will prove little that they already had
not discovered through experiments with balloons that
carried only instruments as passengers
But even if they right, what difference does
it make? That does not detract from the feat of
Picard and his companion, Charles Kpfer.
Their astounding fight is important even if moth
ing new was discovered in those calm frigd stratas
Of air ten miles up.
Look at it as another achievement of earth bound
man and you get the significance of the fight. Look
Here we're two men, sealed in globule of metal, tied
to frail bag of gas soaring higher into the limit
less skies than any other living things ever had boe
1t was no stunt, and that adds to its Importance
The fight idea, carefully planned carefully
executed.
Pccard's observations of the stratosphere may re-
veal important facts hitherto unknown. Then cold
science will hail his flight. In the meantime we do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01

scendant of its parents, but the sum
Of all the ancestry of both for
hundreds Of years back.
Moreover, nature has extraordi-
nary ways in that it suddenly pro-
jects a black sheep into a thor
oughly good family, and raises great
statesmen, multi millionaires, and
intellectual giants out of mud heaps.
Beyond this, however, is the fact
that at least 10 per cent of weight
can be placed on the Immediate par
ents in the selecting of an infant
with view to getting clean his
tory from the point Of view of men
tality and 80 per cent on the in
f1uence Of the more remote ances-
tors.
Popenoe suggests that it Is desir-
able to pick out child with as good
an ancestry as possible, to pick out
the child young, and to take the
child only on trial.
Because of the difficulties involved
in the situation, most institutions
having children available for adop-
ton now have definite procedures
which they compel prospective par
ents to follow in order to be assured
that satisfactory results viii be Sc
cured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Need RIght Thinking

IF our respect for the dead were
L honest, if we really meant half
the nice things we said about them
and intended to carry on where they
left of, we would have seen to it
that every child in this country
either heard or hear President Hoo
ver's address.
That was Impossible, however.
Toe many mamas and papas were
so interested in other things that
they couldn't find time to listen TO
it, or read it, themselves.
What our children need, more
than anything else, and what would
go farther. to show reverence for
the heroic dead, is the right kind
of thinking and comradeship on the
part of their parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
OSborn'S BombsheII

THE missing links" Of chief i'm
L portance are the Java Ape
Man. or Pithecanthropus, and the
Piltdown Man, or Eoanthropus.
Only a month ago, at the Phila-
delphia meeting Of the American
Philosophical Society. DR.. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, president Of the
American Museum Of Natural His
tory of New York City, threw a
bombshell into anthropological cir
cles by insisting upon a reversal OF
the age Of these two fossils.
Java man consists Of a skull,
teeth, and thigh-bone found at
Trinil, Java, by DR.. Eugene Dubois
in 1891. Piltdown man consists Of
fragments of a skull, jaw-bone
and nasal bones found in a gravel
pit at Piltdown, Sussex, England.
by Charles Dawson in 1911.
Continuous controversy has ragged
over both fossils from the dates Of
their discoveries to the present. In
general, however, the opinion Of SCI
ence has been about as follows:
Pithecanthropus is the older fos-
sill, being perhaps a million years
old. It represents a primitive crea-
ture which was both nnan-like and
ape-like, sort Of transitional type
between man and tho lower pri-
mates.
Piltdown man was thought to be
about 100000 years old and to be
much more man-like, a true fore
runner of the human race.
DR.. Osborn bases his latest opin-
ion upon studies Of elephant teeth
made by Professor Wilhelm Diete-
rich of Berlin.
DR.. Dieterich has shown that there
was q progressive development in
the enamel Of elephant teeth
through the ages, which makes it
possible to date such a fossil with
extreme accuracy.
From a study Of fossil elephant
teeth found associated with the
Java man and Piltdown man, Or.
Osborn comes to the conclusion that
Piltdown man is by far the older OF
the two,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Cradle of Race

THREE other points upon which
: l. lively arguments are waged in
antfropologica circles are the place
of origin of the human race, the
fate Of Neanderthal man, and the
antiquity of man in America.
There is a three-cornered battle
over the cradle Of the human race.
Some anthropologists claim it was
Asia, others root for Europe, and
still others believe it was Africa.
DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, famous an
thrologist of the Smithsonian in
stitution, believes mankind origi-
mated in Europe. DR.. Osborn, on
the other hand, favors Asia.
The Roy Chapman Andrews ex-
petitions, contrary to popular be-
lief, did not set out in search Of
diosaur eggs. DR.. Andrews was just
lucky enough to find them.
The real purpose of the expedi-
tons was to establish the Asiatic
ancestry of mankind.
The Neanderthal men inhabited
the caves of Europe during the last
glacial age. They were the first
cavemen Of whom we have any
knowledge. A large number OF
skeletons of Neanderthal men,
women and children have been
found.
The Neanderthal race, however, .
disappeared suddenly and was re-
placed by the Cro-Magnon race,
which anthropologists regard as the
first example Of Homo sapiens, or
true man.
The old theory was that Gro t.
Magnon man invaded Europe from
Asia and killed of Neanderthal
man. Dr. Hrdlika, however, believes +.
that an invasion during the ice
age would have been an impos-
sibility. &.
His theory is that Cro-Magnon
man evolved from Neanderthal
man.
Finally, there is the argument
over the age Of man in America.
DR.. Hrdlika believes that man en-.
tered this continent less than $4,000
years ago, but some authorities in
sist that man has been here longer. !.