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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IF, following banquet, most of
/ those who have eaten of the
food become i'll, it is likely that
something was wrong with the food
either if contained some poison
GUS substance or certain bacteria
which bring about intestinal dis
turbances.
If, on the other hand, out of all
of the people attending the banquet
only one or two become i'll, it is
quite likely that something is wrong
with these individuals.
They, as is suggested by DR.. War;
rem T. Vaughan, ale sensitive to
something in the food.
Sensitivity to food substance
shows itself by a certain series of
symptoms. One of these is prompt
vomiting and nausea, sometimes &C
companied with excessive action of
the bowels.
Sometimes the reaction takes the
form of a -generalized irritation of
the bowel with the development of
internal hives, swelling and similar
disturbance.
When a physician who is familiar
with what is called allergy or food
sensitivity is asked to study case,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

I operators reduce the rental in their
office buildings?
It is amusing to watch the antics
of w. H. Book, former business
manager of Indianapolis schools.
When he held this position he made
$4,000 a year, has built a $4,000
home on the north side, and now he
clamors for salary reductions. He
evidently has his.
And Harry Meisse, with his high
priced cigar insultingly stuck in
every ones face. Why don't the
newspapers figure up Noises salary
from the moneyed boys?
And again, Times Editor, get busy
on this bunch. Do you know that
smooth real estate gamblers are
powerful enough to own mansions
on Meridian street and Kessler
boulevard and Washington boule-
ward, then get them classified as
vacant lots on the tax duplicates?
No one but a sucker like the small
home owner pays any taxes in In
dianapolis.
More power to The Tines, which
also is the only newspaper that so
far has had the courage to show
that burdenson1e taxes originated in
townships, cities and counties and
that the national tax means moth
ing.
Advocate an income and sales tax,
but don't eliminate a property tax.
for there are some old buzzards with
plenty of jack who don't spend any,
thing, Sc they would not be affected
by sales tax.
TIMES READER.
Editor Times-After reading an
article written by H. M. Coulter in
The Times, a feeling of great dis
gust comes over me. Any one who
ISLANDERS our President in such
terms should be classed a traitor to
his country.
I wonder who is the American
joke, Mr.. Hoover or Mr.. Coulter? I
should like to see Mr. Coulters face
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Not Only New York

NEW YORK is no exception to
~ the general rule. It's lust a
little bigger and little freer with
its publicity.
Everywhere you go, similar con-
dition exists.
1t has become impossible to ride
around one hour without seeing
somebody scoot by red light if no
cop happens to be visible. make a
wrong left turn, or park his car
where he shouldn't, when he knows
better at the time.
We look upon such things as cute.
II not cultured. In the same way,
we look on it as quite up-to-date to
evade jury duty, or get out of testi-
flying in law suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

Editor Times-Every one in the
country seems to be submitting
ideas on unemployment, so I
thought that I would like to voice
mine on present actions and what
I think could relieve us of this bur-
den.
Some of our big shots, such as
Hoover and Clifford, and the rest,
should act, instead of saying this
and that should be done. Why don't
they do some of the things that they
say ought to be done?
My ideas are;
l. Repeal or modify the tariff and
revive foreign trade, open up the
gate that shuts us off from trade
with the world.
2. Repeal or modify the dry law,
collect the tax, and stop graft on all
this unlawful beer and whisky that
infests this country.
3. Discharge every married woman
who has a husband able to work,
so that men and single girls can get
jobs.
President Hoover appointed man
named Clifford, president of the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, as head of the I'M
employment committee when he is
installing millions of automatic tele-
phones throughout the country and
throwing thousands of girls out of
jobs in each city.
That is fine way to help
What? MASKED MYSTERY.
Editor Times-What is the object
of having a safety zone, and what
is it for? In my opinion, as citizen
of Indianapolis, and in view of
visits to few other cities in the
United States, the Indianapolis po-
lice department, or whoever is re-
sponsible, has an erroneous idea of
safety zone.
As I understand it, safety zone
is to protect one or more persons
who are leaving or boarding a street
car. Why is it necessary to tie up
one lane of traffic on account of a
safety zone, when there is no one
in the safety zone?
1t seems to me that everything
should be done to expedite traffic.
We have several streets with car
lines and if you follow the one lane,
you will retard traffic at certain
times in the day, at least 80 per
cent.
I would suggest this:
Acquaint the public with the pur-
pose of the safety zone and at any
time any one is standing within the
zone, all motorists are responsible
for the safety Of the persons there
in, no matter on which side of the
zone one chooses to pass. I believe
this would be one of the greatest re-
liefs for congested traffic.
I. z. BRIDGES.
Editor Times-The indianapolis
Times, alone of all three Indianap-
oils newspapers, has the right idea
of tax relief.
Make new contracts with the util-
tiles. Prevent real estate men from
opening new additions and then
forcing city council to lay sidewalks
and pavements. water mains and
| electric lights in sections where no
one is served. A blind man can
see that tax money-theSe develop
ments come from the general fund
lis spent solely to boost private
property owned by some real estate
shark.
Why don't the Board Of Trade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
We're loo Polite

WE have become so polite and
w conventional that paunchy
ward heelers and pasty-faced gang
sterS can put it all over us. They
are doing it right demonstrating
our money, breaking our laws. de-
moralizing our young folks, and
drinking to our stupidity in illegal
hooch.
1t took us five years to discover
that two millionaires were trying to
run away with the governments oil
reserves, and many people don't
realize it yet.
The graft in New York has been
so open that every newsboy knows
about it, yet a majority of the high
brows are so dumb, or Indifferent.
that they can't believe incontro-
vertible evidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Plain AppIeSauce

NIE can show enough vitality at
W football games, or on the
golf course, but when it comes to
politics, how bored we are.
Some of us won't go to the polls,
unless we are sent for by a can
dldate. though we are ready enough
TO yell for statutes limiting cam
paign expenses.
More of us won't take time to find
out what it is all about before we
get to the polls, and still more of
us refuse to do anything at all.
DO you realize that nearly one
nall the adults in this country fail
to vote2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Universe Expanding

HOW is you batting average so
IL far? Then let's be getting on.
3. The expanding universe is
something you will hear more and
more about during the next year
or Two. Measurements upon the
distant nebulae indicate that they
are moving away from the earth.
The trouble may be due in part to
the effect which the curvature Of
space has upon methods of meas
urement.
on the other hand. much of the
motion seems to be real. The CAL
culat1onS Of Lemaitre, based on the
theory of relatively, seems to indi-
cate that the universe has certain
fundamental unstable quantities
which make either for expansion or
contraction.
1t may be that the universe is like
a gigantic soap-bubble, now ex-
panding, now contracting. Unlike
business in America, the universe
at large seems to be in period of
expansion.
8. Gestalt psychology is becoming
increasingly important as a bridge
between the physical and mental
world. "Gestalt" is German for
form" Gestalt psychology denies
the old idea that the mind per-
ceives items which are put together
into complete pictures, but instead
sees WhOles which then are anslvzed
into parts.
T. General Jan c. SHUTS. former
premier Of South Africa and presi-
dent Of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science nro-
posed "holistic philosophy" in his
address at the associations recent
meeting in London
Gestalt psychology is really at the
bottom of Shuts philosophy which
sees the whole as something more
than the sum of its parts" That
something more is organization.
SHUTS accepts the RELATIVELY mo-
tion that the physical universe con-
sists OF unevennesses in space-tirne
ana sees mind playing a real part
IN the physical universe because
mind has the power to organize.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Too Much Skim MIX

1T may sound trite to say that
Il good government is impossible
without wide-awake public interest,
but it IS.
We go through all the necessary
motions, but we lack the right kind
of spirit.
There is too much skim milk in
our political attitude. 1t would do
us good to see a first class leader
boohed out of the hall, as has hap
pened to Premier Ramsay Mac
Donald, or if that failed to arouse
the proper interest, see some
chairs thrown at the speaker, as
happened to Sir Oswald Mosley last
Sunday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
On With the List

WERE you right or wrong in
w your first answer? Right?
That's fine. On to the rest of the
list:
2. Cosmic rays are the extremely
short and penetrating rays or ra-
diation entering the earth's at
moSphere from outer space. DR..
R. A. Millikan confirmed their ex-
iStence.
He is positive that they are evil
dence that matter is being created
anew in the far corners of the uni
verse. In other words, he sees in
the coSmic rays evidence which con-
tradicts the second law of thermo-
dynamicS.
3. Wave mechanics is the name
given to the theory developed chief
ly by De Broglie and Schroedinger.
1t holds that the atoms and cleo
irons of matter are in reality con-
centrated bits of energy.
In other words, this theory goes
beyond the old view which divided
the physical universe into matter
ana energy. According to the new
view, matter is just another form
of energy.
4. Space-time, first suggested by
MinkowSky, is one of the funda-
mental notions of Einstein's the
DRY of relatively. Space time some
times is spoken of as the four-di-
menSional continuum. because it
adds time as a fourth dimension to
the three dimensions of space.
According to relatively, space can
not exist without time. The uni
verse, therefore, is not composed
OF things, but of events" The very
latest theories, as expressed. for ex-
ample, by General Jan c. SHUTS at
the meeting of the British Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science.
reduce the material universe to
"curvatures and unevenness in
space time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
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SEA BATTLE AT RIGA
Oct. FL

IA u Il LIZ n 1AlJA
Oct. FL
ON Oct. 81, 1917, the Germans
- suffered heavy losses in fight.
ing IN and near the Gulf of Riga.
SIX German torpedo boats were
sunk and two dreadnaughts. one
cruiser, six torpedo boats and one
transport were put out of action.
The Russian fleet was driven into
the inner waters of Moon sound
behind a barrier of mines planted
by German submarines. German
submarines appeared in the Crlf
OF Finland.
Later The German fleet bonn
oarded positions on western coast
OF the Gulf Of Riga.
British troops attacked the Turks
northwest Of Bagdad and the Turks
retreated. The British captured a
number Of prisoners and much am
munition.
And while the German fleet was
oombarding the Gulf of Riga, allied
WarShlps were bombarding Ostend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Questions and
Answers

How old is the ex-kaiser of Ger
many?
He was born Jan. 81, 1889.
Is pineapple raising the chief in
duStry of Hawaii?
The chief product of Hawaii has
long been sugar and the pineapple
is second. About $4,000 acres are
planted in pineapples.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Daily Thought

Wherefore let him that thinketh
he standeth take heed lest he
fall Corinthians 1913.
Let your own discretion be your
tutor; suit the action to the word
the word to the Shake
speare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
A New Rose
such a man

Here is important news coming out of Washington.
new type of rose just has been patented, under a
q new law.
The new is no bashful creature but royal
hearted" fellow, with heart-shaped and ample petals
of scarlet crimson, great long stems, hardy resist
to disease and generosity of blooms of unusual
fragrance. It's father was General Jacqueminot -
its mother blushing southern beauty, the Richmond
Rose"
What item in todays roster of events is more
significant than the birth of such gallant being that
asking nothing, will spread grace and beauty through
out the gardens of the land?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Broun Rests

e Haywood Broun, conductor of
1T Seems to Me-" is enjoying
his annual vacation. His col
umn again will appear on The
Times editorial page, starting
Monday, Oct. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Compare These Figures

MYTH laborious effort, our CEN
w sus experts have demonstrated
that New York is bigger than Lon
don.
That is something to be proud of.
1t is not on record that any other
people ever built the largest city on
earth, from the ground up, in 300
years. But counting noses and meas
uring skyscrapers fails to tell the
whole story.
Last year London had only twenty
one murders, while New York had
400. London police solved all but
one. New York police did not even
make an arrest in 100 cases.
Of equal Importance are the dis
closures being brought out by the
Seabury investigation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

How many persons were killed by
hghtning in the United States in
1929?
392.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

We Go Through All the Right
Kind of Motions, But We
Lack the Right Kind of
Spirit.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-England
IN votes next Tuesday. Out of
population Of about 45.0OO.O 900.
more than 100000, or nearly two
thirds, have registered.
To make an equally good showing
we would have to register at least
100000 in this country. AS a
matter Of fact, we have not regis
tered 100000.
What more is needed to prove
that the English people make wider
use of the privileges of democracy
than we do, and doesn't that have
some bearing on their comparative
freedom from crime and political
corruption?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

Now that Wang has been superseded foreign
minister, it behooves Japan to know its China from
A to SEE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Times Readers Voice Their Views

and then perhaps I could see how
much intelligence should say,
lack of intelligence-iS displayed
thereon.
What our country needs now
more than anything else is a grow
ing number of boosters, and not
knockers. We should uphold Mr..
Hoover's hands and not thwart him
in all the ennobling as well as diff
f1cult tasks in which he is engaged.
A. READER.
Editor Times-As a reader of The
Times for a number of years,
want you to know how very much
I appreciate the stand your paper
has taken in regard to some of the
public utilities.
We have a modern home, but it
takes every dollar to keep it going
with gas, water, lights and tele-
phone bills, which seem to me to
get bigger every year.
Every article of clothing, food and
fuel, the absolute necessities. have
been lowered in price along with
wages, but what of the above mem
toned, so-called luxuries?
While 1 feel that water is the
most reasonably priced among this
list-gas, light. telephone and water
it is a necessity to life and should
not be prohteering object.
l thank you heartily and approve
the front page writeups you have
been giving to the people to en-
tighten them on the subject.
A BEECH GROVE READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

Smile: AS doWncast as taxi driver on rainy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-14
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX

DEAR opinion national matrimonial bureau
-
These
In
immediate
A BUNCH OF GIRLS
official national matrimonial bureau there De-
hand in match
S
domestic dscord as does
about how the pip in chickens
attractive fitted
highest Of wives and mothers but have chance
One thing certain The solution of their difficulty not to be found
maiode
quality Of the goods getting He might be he himself
h ne would be article nobody
wanted intelligent rreproachabe
amiab dispositions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-14
NANCY PACE
Teasing Children Often
Has Bad Results.
BY FLORENCE LA GANxE.

Young Peter Page was 212 years old.
He was a Self-reliant little chap who
fed himself. fetched and carried for his
mother and for Joan. Because he was
so willing Joan used to ask him TO 90
MANY errands for her. He was fond OF
his cousin and usually was only too glad
to do what she asked. She had one
habit which Aunt Nancy was trying
hard to break. Peter did not speak any
too plainly and Joan would ask MIN 10
say some word or sentence and then
laugh at his mispronunciatlon. She
would keep on and on asking him TO
repeat it until finally Peter would say
Wont say it for you" Joan would re-
tort You will. too" And Peter would
come back with, Wont, won't" AT
first Nancy and Peter admired the
spunk OF their young son.
They chuckled TO themselves. But
when Peter began TO answer other re-
quests with won't, WON'T they decided
it was not so cute. GroWn-upS are
amused when a child first uses grown
up tactics They laugh at him and call
him a cute little tike. independent as
they make them; mind of his own, TOO,
by George" is apt to be fathers COM
ment. But before long that cuteness
wears off and becomes what 1t actually
is-impertinence. And then the cnllo
is punished 1T must be hard for
child to learn that deed he is ap-
nlauded for one day he is punished for
the next. Grown-upS must seem IN
comprehensible. This was NancyS
sympathetic summing up of the situ-
alton. She resolved to stop Joan's teas
ing and to refrain from showing amuSe-
nent at actions which few days later
she would have to punish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-14
DILL 14V1L ~ OA1ALO y. Burgess.

him the difference, for Lightfoot eats
balsam fir as well as hemlock. For one
thing. although the leaves or needles
grow in much the same manner as
those of the hemlock, they are longer,
and when a few of the twigs are crushed
in the hand they are wonderfully ira
grant Farmer Browns Boy was doing
this very thing and smelling the crushed
leaves.
There is no odor like it," said he.
when 1 have the time must come
over here and get some to make bal
sam pillow. Just to smell it is enough
to tell what tree it is. There is beau
tiful balSam over yonder. AT Christmas
time it was like a Christmas tree with
brown candles. That is another way
I can tell a balsam as far as can
see the cones"
The cones. you know. are the fruit
of the tree and contain the seeds. The
balsam cones are quite slender and
sometimes four inches long. growing
upright on the upper side of the branch
quite as Farmer Browns Boy had said,
like candles on a Christmas tree. Now,
however. the scales and seeds had
fallen from the cones, leaving only the
center or core, as if candle should
melt and leave the wick standing
straight.
well, this will never do" exclaimed
Farmer Browns Boy. Il haven't come
for balsam this time. must be mov-
ing on"
He had gone but little way farther
when Lightfoot the Deer leaped from
behind some young hemlock tree and
bounded away He didn't hurry. for he
recognized Farmer Browns Boy and
knew that there was nothing to fear
from him. The latter whistled sharply
and Lightfoot stopped. turned to face
him, his head held high and his big
ears pointed somewhat forward. He was
without his antlers and Farmer Brown S
Boy could see two little knobs where
the antlers had been and where new
ones already were beginning to grow
For full minute Lightfoot stood with
out moving. Then he turned and trotted
out of sight.
And to think" said Farmer Browns
Boy. that men can want to kill such
a beautiful creature as that" Then he
walked over to tree and began to look
the trunk over. 1t was a big tree and
now and then he would reach and break
something of and drop it in a bag
where he did the same thing. Peter
Rabbit. who had followed out of curl
oSity, was much puzzled.
Now what" said he, lis he after?
He seems to be looking for something
on those trees. l don't see anything
that anybody could want on those trees
1t isn't the seeds, for he doesn't touch
the cones"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-14
OUR CHILDREN
By ANGELO PATRL

Promotion time always brings a crop
of complaints about teachers. Most of
the children who blame the teachers
for their failures are wrong. The
teachers are always glad to have chill
dren do we'll. If they err one side or
the other it is usually on the side of
generosity. More unfit children are
Likely to be promoted than to be left
back.
yes but how can you expect boy
10 get promoted if his teacher hates
him? When he makes mistake she
screeches at him, stamps her foot on
his toes if he gets his feet out INTO the
aisle and you know the seats are too
small for these boys. How can boy
get promoted if he has teacher ike
that? If he turns his head or whispers
she Slaps him in the face.
And you didn't say word about all
this until the end of the term? How
did it happen that you allowed teacher
to treat your son in this way without
protesting? Your protest might as well
have been made at the beginning OF the
term as at the end"
The situation is plain. The boy was
backward, and behaved as all backward
children do. They wiggle and squlrm
They cannot hold their attention on the
subject because thy do not understand
it. Then they whisper, they strive TO
find release from what has become an
untolerable situation.
Now if the teacher is the right sort
she interprets all this very soon and
sets to work to adjust the child. He is
examined, treated. regarded, and when
term end comes no such complaint can
be registered justly or unjustly. The
real teacher rarely has such complaints
registered against her even by the most
chronic of l1ftovers.
But what if the teacher Is not the
right sort? There are some such, AL
though they are on the pay rolls OF the
schools they were never teachers in the
right sense of the word. They kept
school, they minded children. but they
were not. are not teachers. No teacher
worthy the name would stamp on a
child's toes because he had his feet out
in the aisle. She or he would know
that this was a signal for physical re-
Taxation and send the child on trip
about the room. or about the school on
an errand. Disorder and inattention
would be the signal for an examination
of the child'S readiness for the inStruc-
ton and an adjustment. Slapping
school child is out of the question. It
is useless. unnecessary. and leads only
to augumenting the difficulties what
ever they are.