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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
| Knew Him When

nONALD OGDEN STEWART
IL has made a considerable sue
cess as an actor on the legitimate
stage and in the talking pictures.
I knew him when. AS a very
bashful young literary free lance
some years ago he asked me
whether there was any money III
lecturing. I said that there was a
little, but that it was hard work.
And I introduced him to an agent.
Mr.. Stewart made his debut in
Wilmington, Del, before a woman's
club. He was advertised to give a
humorous talk on modern literature.
The moment he looked down from
the platform and saw the beaming
and expectant faces his courage left
him completely.
The best he could do was to
stumble and humble in a low voice.
He did not fall off the platform.
But he committed practically every
other error known to oratory.
And while travelling back to New
York remorSe aSsailed him.
He realized that nobody had
laughed, nobody had applaudeo, no
body had even heard a word of his
discourse.
And so, on the following morning
he went to the agent and said: IT
was very nervous in Wilmington and
I made a bad showing. 1t was so
bad that I feel embarrassed.
And want you to do me a
favor. I'd feel much better about
the whole thing if you'd return the
check to that woman's club. Won't
you please do that for me?"
why, yes. Tar. Stewart" an
swered tie agent. "There1l be no
trca1ie about that. You see, after
you finished your lecture the pres
ident Of the organization tele-
graphed to me to say that they
wouldn't send any check"
But Donald Ogden Stewart kept
on and tried it once more-though
not of course, in Wilmington.
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just one other who realized the dan
ger they were being subjected to in
the operation Of these "one man"
cars. The point is, if it would be
necessary for this man to go either
direction at any time to flag "a
approaching car 1t would be neces-
sary to leave his car and passengers
at Gods mercy, provided another
car would come from a different
direction where the "one man" had
gone to flag"
Of course, if this proposition were
put up to the operators Of these
various zone man" interurban lines
they would tell any one who could
not be familiar with railroad OPP
GRAFTON that the passengers were
protected amply with electric block
systems, but they would not tell you
why it was necessary to maintain
repairmen to look after and repair
these automatic electric blocks.
During the year of 1912 I recall
that 1t was decided by the supreme
court of one of our. states, wherein
passenger was killed, that it was
nothing short Of wilful murder. The
accident to which I refer was SINH
lar in its operation.
realize, like thousands Of 9TH
ers, that your newspaper is one
which always stands for the better
ment of conditions for public well
fare: and if these interurbans are
being operated contrary to our laws
you will feel it your duty to inlpart
the information to all concerned,
so that proper steps will be taken.
J. z. FLAHERTY.
lilo North Pennsylvania street.
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We Must Have Experts

ID EFERRING to the London
IN wheat conference, it decided
that what the world needs is less
wheat and more statistics.
BY the time we get the statistics,
enough wheat farmers will have
gone broke to straighten out the
mess.
Another commission will be
formed, however, with another gang
Of experts for consumers to support.
This is trend birth-control adj
vocates should not ignore.
Civilization hardly can survive
with an average family of less than
three-one to be an expert, and two
to provide him with meat and drink.
While the great air show was
being staged in New York, two
Michigan youths stole first an auto
and then an airplane; robbed a
bank of $4,000 at Pontiac; flew to
Canada, got lost in the fog and
were arrested, all in one day.
That represents another brand of
stunting typical of another variety
OF war, but not less of a problem to
average people than those imagi-
nary foes whom we forever are pre-
pairing to fight.
If anything, we need an efficient
police force more than we need an
efficient army and we need the
right kind of moral training more
than we need either.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Operation of Dial Telephone
Exchange Is Interesting
and illuminating to Watch.
THE remarkable advances of cleo
4 trical engineering have paved
/ the way Tor a true machine age, not
an age in which man V enslaved by
the machine, but an age in which
the machine does its own work by
itself.
Electrical engineering has paved
the way for such an age by supply
ing man with electric eyes, electric
ears, electric noses, electric mouths,
and electric fingers.
The dial automatic telephone rep
reSentS prophecy Of what the new
machine age will be like The old
manual telephone switchboard was
sample of the machine age through
winch we now are passing.
Inc old switchboard demanded at
PENDANTS constantly on the alert. A
hight flashed upon the board. The
operator had to note the position of
the light.
1t was a signal to throw a certain
sWitcn and say, Number please"
Having repeated the number, she
then had to make the proper con-
nectlon by inserting a plug attached
TO cord into certain socket.
The dial automatic has done away
with all that. 1t is an Illuminating
experience for one who has visited
the old type of telephone exchange.
to pay a visit to the new type.
The Switchboards with their "helIo
girls are thing of the past. The
room is strangely quiet. Nothing is
to be heard, but a constant series of
little clicks"
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
THE vacation season and the
Il warm weather bring an in
crease in the number Of attacks
of ivy poisoning, due to the poi
sonous sap of the poison ivy, the
poison oak and Sumac.
When any part Of the plant is
crushed or broken, and the sap
comes in contact with the skin, it
produces the irritation and in
f1ammation that are so widely
known.
Sometimes the sap is carried on
the fur Of animals, Or on golf sticks
or golf balls, on clothing or on
shoes, and in that way comes in
contact with the skin and sets up
the irritation.
OF course, the best advice for
the person who is likely to be eX-
posed is to study the character of
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M. E.. Tracy
SAYS.

If We Spent Half the Time
Thinking That We Do
Wishing We Would Get
Along Better.
NEW YORK, May 25.-A fleet Of
II 900 airplaines roared over
New York Saturday afternoon, as
per schedule. 1t was a great show
and every one who saw it was duly
impressed.
It is not so thrilling to recall,
however, as it was to anticipate. The
papers we're full of it for month.
A week hence it will have been for
gotten.
Such spectacles are not war. AS
far as defense goes, they probably
do as much to provoke war as to
prepare for it.
Theoretically, the fleet was cap
aple OF dropping 1UU,UUO POUNDS Oh
T. N. T. on New York and spraying
the town with machine gun bullets
at the rate of 100000 a minute,
but it did neither, which makes a
lot of difference.
Theoretically, a winged foe had
destroyed the Panama canal,
wrecked the Pacific coast, raised
cain with interior cities, and Amer
lea was making a last ditch stand
at the metropolis.
Had that been the situation, do
you imagine $4,000 contented souls
would have fingered near the Bat
terry, with upturned faces and open
mouths, that the roof gardens would
have been black with gaping spec
tators or the streets and parks
damned with sky gazers?
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Chemical Industry
THE chemical industry is !

THE chemical industry is max
l. ing another kind of electric
finger, finger which is sensitive to
heat or cold. Electric noses and
mouths also are used in the chem
ical industry.
Many chemical reactions proceed
best at certain temperatures. 1t Is
no longer necessary to have at
PENDANTS watch such processes.
Electric controls, not unlike the
thermostats which many household
ers now use to control furnaces, do
the trick.
The electric ''noses" are devices
which correspond to the formation
of certain gases. These gases are
drawn into tubes in some Of the
devices.
Various types are required for
various purposes. In some it is a
simple matter of the gas, when it
reaches a certain pressure, push
ing a valve or piston which in turn
closes an electric switch.
In others, the action is more COM
plicated, the gas reacting with sub
stances in the tube, thus changing
their resistance to the flow OF an
electric current and actuating the
proper switch in that matter.
The electric mouths" are sim
liar devices. They respond to what
might be called tastes" that is, TO
concentrations Of acids, alkalis,
salts and so on.
The electric eye Is the we'll
known photo-electric cell Many
automatic devices are, Of course,
the combination Of several instru-
ments. Thus, for example, photo
electric cell can be used to operate
whole battery Of relays, each Of
which controls another automatic
process.
It may sound like a rash predic-
ton, but many engineers believe
that the day is not distant when
factory will turn out automobiles
entirely automatically.
The factory will need only few
attendants to make sure that the
machines are in order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
SPEECH PRAISING NAVY
May Is


ON May Is, 1917, Prime Minister
~ David Lloyd George, in the
course Of a speech in the house of
commons, referred to the work of
the United States navy. He said in
part:
I'VE owe a very considerable debt
Of gratitude to the great American
people for the effective assistance
they have rendered and the craft
they have placed at our disposal.
Nov that the American nation is
in the war. it is easier to make ar
engagements for protection of our
mercantile marine than it was be-
fore"
The American destroyers were as
signed to work hand in hand with
the British squadrons. They took
turns with the British boats in al
routine work of patrol and convoy
The American boats. though not
as experienced as the English boat,
with which they co-operated, had a
high average of results in subma-
rines sighted, observations made
| and of wireless warnings broad
cast.
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lantic was invited to appear in a
radio studio and tell of his expert
enceS. But when he was introduced
he turned pale, stammered and ran
from the room without saying a
word. But he was not a coward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
Too Many RaCketS

A GAIN, in school I rather think
L a that the strains Of our national
song are dinned too continuously
into the children's ears for any,
body's good.
Many of us remember the war
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Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Too Much Wishing

THE idea that we can protect
Il ourselves by a lot of pleasant
shadow boxing has become a
veritable obsession.
You see 1t breaking out not only
in such spectacles as this air show,
but in such futile poWwows as the
London wheat conference.
A good many people imagined
that the wheat conference would
amount to something. That is be-
cause they allowed wishes to father
the thought.
If we spent half the time think
ing. that we do wishing, we would
get along much better.
President Hoover refuses to call
a special session Of congress, on
the ground that eve can not legis-
late ourselves out Of a world eco
nomic depression"
One has to recall what the last
session did to realize the disagree
able wisdom Of his conclusion.
With the right kind of leadership,
congress could do lot to help, but
there is no indication that any
better leadership is available now
than last winter.
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California girl sued for $4,000 damages when
she lost her sense of smell in auto accident Shell
be lucky If she gets scent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25

Speaking of Spanish omelets, how about the scram.
bic in Afonso's old kingdom?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25

What is the largest and NEST
famous waterfall In Africa?
Victoria Falls, on the zambesi
river.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
Daily Thought

The fear Of the Lord Is the be-
ginning Of knoEledge.-Proverbs
IL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25

From what musical comedy Is the
song, Tea for Two?
mo, No, Nannette"
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Fear is cruel and uean-Emersen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Makers of VickS VapoRub
Announce a Ne70 Plan for
Home Control of Colds
News Comes With Development of a New Product
A Unique Companion to the Famous Treatment
Based on a New Idea for Prevention of Colds

sneezy irritation of the nasal pas
sages-a few drops up each nostril,
and many annoying colds will be
avoided.
2.-AFTER a Cold Starts.
At night rub Vicks VapoRub well
over throat and chest and cover with
warm flannel. Leave ~bed-clothing
loose around the neck so the medi-
Gated vapors can be inhaled all
night long. During the day-any
time or place-use the convenient
Vicks Drops as often as needed.
This gives wou full 24-hour treat
ment. Of there is a cough, you
will like the new Vicks Cough Drops
-medicated with ingredients of
Vicks VapoRub).
Trial Offer to Wick Users
The makers want every user of
Vicks VapoRub to try Vicks Nose
Drops. Free trial samples Of the
Nose Drops were sent every drug
gist in the United States-but if
you failed to get yours, buy a bottle
today and try out the Wick Plan
for better Home-C Control of Colds as
directed. If you are not delighted
with results, your druggist is au-
thorized to refund your money
without Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Study Club
to Discuss
Home Topic

The Changing Home" is the dis
cussion subject to be led by Mrs.
K. G.. Whitney at the November
meeting of I%rvington Mothers
Study Club Wednesday at the home
of Mrs. Roy H. Graves, 20 South
Bolton avenue. Mrs. H. A. Ander-
son will review Dorothy Canfeld's
The Home Maker"
OncerS of the club for the e a
son are: Mesdames Charles F..
Bechtold, president; Allan P. YES
tai, vice-president; Sylvester Moore,
corresponding secretary; J. c. Sieg-
esmund, treasurer, and J. Laid
Mozely, press representative.
Mrs. E. j. Hirschman, Mrs. H. L.
Scott and Mrs Charles Compton
have arranged the program. Stand
ing committees include:
Mesdames Whitney. Graves and Harold
E. Wilcox. membership: Arthur J. Ran
dali, c.. E. Fash and Nick T.. Pickett Sc
cial: J. H. Winter. J. S. siegesmund. S!les
j Carr. w. Frank Jones and Fay Poarch,
lookout.
Mental Hygiene" the study SUBJ
ject for the year, is described in
the year book as, the art of apply
ing the knowledge of the mind to
the formation of good habits and
attitudes in every day life"
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PettiS Staff
Holds FrOIic;
700 Attend

With more than 700 present, Pet
It's Dry Goods Company store en-
ployes and their friends staged a
Halloween party in the basement
which likewise marked the close of
the firms seventy-eighth anniver-
sary celebration conducted through
October.
A buffet luncheon was served i'm
mediately and a program Of pro-
f~essional and amateur vaudeville
acts. Many participants were
masked in costume.
A. D. George, house manager, Of
fciated as master of ceremonies.
Herschell Wheeler, display man
ager, served as state manager.
The Strange Case of Mrs. judd"
a trunk mystery act, was presented.
Modern Berth Control" a travesty
on a Pullman car, evoked generous
applause. The Sorghum String
band under leadership of G. A. San
ders, provided diversion and a mock
wedding, with Mrs. Julia Berry as
the bride and Walter Brown as the
bridegroom, was outstanding.
Hostesses were: Misses Evelyn
Little, Margaret Lehman, Mabel
England, Lucille O'Connor, Opal
Gorrell, Lucille Wells and Florence
Shaffner; Mrs. Adelaide Miller, Mrs.
Lucretta Lacy, Mrs. Gladys Green
lee and Mrs. Ruth Flora.
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Girls
Council VIII
Meet at " W.

Business Girls Council of the Y.
w. c. A. will meet tonight at the
Central building, with Miss Hazel
Morris, president, presiding. Miss
Pauline Rushton is secretary-treas-
urer.
Members of the council, made up
of representatives of branches of
the business girls department, are
Misses Edith Ambuhl, Kathryn
Antibus, Louise Lockwood, Mary
Cowger, Pauline Wilson, Elizabeth
Trotter, Ina Cornell, Maud Russell,
and Marian Davis, who also is a
member Of the national council of
Y. w. G. A. business girls.
Professor A. Campbell Garrett,
professor of philosophy at Butler
university, will speak at a meeting
of the business girls at 7 Wednesday
night, following a supper.
Professor Garrett will have MY
Feelings and I" as the subject of
his lecture, one of a series of six
being conducted as a Charm
School, by the department.
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Every Seat Is Filled
United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.-No sign of
depression" was evident rs the
forty-Seventh season of grand opera
opened in the Metropolitan opera
house Monday night, signaling also
the opening of the social season.
Every seat was filled. Files Of
"standees" crowded against the rail
to hear Verdi's LA Traviata." Three
hundred were turned away.
The gross of subscriptions and
box Office sales was estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000. Sea-
son subscriptions totaled about
100000.
The famous golden horseshoe
was filled, as usual, with %gorgeously
gowned and beieweled women, with
their ermine wraps, diamond
brooches, necklaces, tiaras.
Society, diplomatic circles, the
army and the navy, all were well
represented.
Rose Ponselle's rendition OF
'"Violetta" was applauded wildly as
the curtain came down at the end
Of the first act. She was called be-
fore the curtain again and again as
the audience continued its applause
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Romance and History of Fine
ShawlS Described by Mrs. Hall

by a luncheon at which Mrs. w. D.
Hamer, chairman of the depart
ment, presided. Mrs. Everett d.
Schofield, president of the club;
Mrs. Lucille Morehouse, art critic,
and Miss Constance Forsyth were
guests.
In pursuing her hobby, Mrs. Hall
has read more than 600 volumes,
articles and texts on shawlS. Iii her
talk, she explains the makes, de-
signs, and weaves, and, as she
speaks, she donS examples from her
collection, walks through the audi
ence, permitting all to see the fine
points Of each.
Outstanding in her group is a
prayer Kashmir, more than 200
years old, of white wool with a
flower boz Ter. Another is of six
tenth cerlOdry brocade and one Of
the most unusual is of unborn
Tibetan goat.
The Oldest shawl of known date
in her collection was made for a
noble Spanish family early in the
sixteenth century by a Frenchman,
who managed cleverly to embody
the French isignia and figures as
well as his own name in the de-
sign. The figures on two sides at
close range is a river flowing back
OF a garden. Held at a distance it
becomes a human face and laid on
the floor or a table, it resembles a
lion.
More than one hundred we're
present at luncheon. Tables laid
with rainbow covers were decorated
with marigolds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Robin Hood to Be Presented
by Children'S Theater

An adaptation Of Robin Hood"
will be presented by the Children's
theater at 2:3O Saturday at the
Playhouse.
Miss Betty Brown has the roman
tic role of Maid Marian" and
George Lehman will play Robin
hood" Other members Of the cast
are: "Friar Tuck" Arthur J.. Beri-
ault; Little john" Robert c. Hol-
lingsworth; mysterious Black
Knight" Richard Bixby; Sheriff of
Nottingham" Blair Taylor; Mis-
tress Marie" Miss Jane Slotkin.
Costumes have been copied by
Mrs. Francis w. Dunn and Mrs. Paul
Matthews; settings were designed by
Robert G. Hollingsworth, and light
ing arranged by Howard Campbell.
Stage is in charge Of Miss Gene
We've Pickrell and properties, Miss
Eunice Dissette.
The production is being directed
by Mrs. Irving M. Fauvre, under the
supervision Of Hale MacKeen, di-
rector Of the Civic theater.
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Makes Possible a Further
Reduction of the Family
Colds Tax This Winter
In Time, Money, Health.

A quarter century ago, Vicks
VapoRub introduced the modern
external method of treating colds.
Now, Vicks Nose & Throat Drops
latest development by the Vicks
Observation-Disclosures a new idea in
preventing colds. Together, these
perfect allies make possible the new
Wick Plan for better Control of
Colds" and reduction of the family
"Colds-Tax" in time, money and
health.
Here is the Wick Plan of Control:
BEFORE a Cold Starts.
On exposure to colds or to any of
the causes that ordinarily lead to
colds-(crowded indoor places
stuffy. poorly ventilated rooms
sudden temperature changes-wet
and cold, etc., etc.)-that slow down
the normal functioning of the nose,
Natures marvellous first line Of de-
tense against coldS"-use Vicks
Drops promptly. Or if i cold actually
threatenS-at that first stufv
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Card Parties

officers and members of Division
No. 10 L. A. A. O.. H. will hold a
card, bunco and lotto party at 8:15
tonight at Hamilton avenue hall, on
East WASHINGTON street.
Ladies society of Holy Angels
church will hold a card party at 2
Wednesday at the school, Twenty
eighth street and Northwestern
avenue.
East Side Boosters Club will spon-
sor a euchre party at 2:30 Wednes-
day at the home of Mrs. Ethel
Owens, 2036 East Washington street.
Lauter Mothers Club will spon-
sor a card party at 2 Thursday at
the clubrooms, 1909 West Market
street.
Social Club of Sacred Heart
church will hold a bunco and lotto
party at 2:15 Thursday at the hall,
1912 Union street.
Cosmos Sisters, Indiana lodge No.
2, will hold a card party at 2 on
Wednesday at Castle hall, $50 East
Ohio street.
Altar Society of st. Philip Neri
church will hold a card party at $3.50
Wednesday night at the auditorium,
535 North Eastern avenue.
Magnolia Circle No. 4 will enter
tain with a benefit card party at
$3.50 Thursday night at the home
OF Mrs. Amelia Ries, 1861 English
avenue.
HOLSTER Review, 50, W. B. A., will
give a card party at 2 Thursday at
Castle Hall, 23O East Ohio street.
Euchre and bunco will be played.
Mrs. Gertrude Montgomery is chair
man.
Ladies' society, 121, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firenen and Engine
men, will sponsor a card party at 2
Wednesday at the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company, Monu-
ment Circle. All games will be
played.