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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
The Next Step

The city government having turned down
the proposal of the insult interests to take
over the street car system, should now press
forward toward ultimate public ownership OF
the transportation system.
The insult organization is probably
the best in the utility field. It is not
more avaricious or greedy than other SIM
liar groups. 1t is possible that it is even less
greedy than some of the others whose hold
ing companies are mere fences for their loot
It would seem that the one alternative to
insult domination is public ownership and
the way should be cleared for that objective.
There should be an insistent demand for
legislation which will permit this city to take
over the present system and then plan for
real transportation.
One of the obstacles to growth in this city
has been the character Of the transportation
service rendered in the past The tracks are
rough and not cared for. The cars, according
to the lawyers for bondholders, are on their
way to the junk yards.
Private ownership, mixing with and into
bad politics, has been failure and the
rights of the people to decent transportation
have been disregarded. Public ownership
could do no worse. It might do better.
George Marott, veteran merchant, has
suggested a practical plan of financing of
city-owned system. The community clubs
are demanding public ownership. If the
change could be made quickly, it would do
much to relieve the unemployment situation
The first step is the passage of a law CIV
ing the city power to run it's own SYSTEM 1t
should provide for nonpolitical board OF
trustees similar to that created for the gas
company or perhaps the same board. !.
There can be no objection on the part of
the rest of the state to such legislation III be-
half of this city. If there is, the time to find
out why is at the beginning of the session,
not after it has ended.
The city must grow. To grow it must be
free from inefficiency and incapacity and.
greed in it's utilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
-
Climate Has Great Influence on Life

! comparison. Correction also was
made for changes in population and
allowance made for the time neces-
sary- for the prenatal development
of the child. -~.<-
1t then was found that the con-
ception rate in Montreal is rather
depressed in the late winter, rises
steadily to a June peak, and then
declines gradually to late winter.
A little farther south, where the
temperature for July and August
rises above. 10 degrees Fahrenheit,
there is a Oppressive influence on
the conception Of children.
In Boston, with July and August
average temperature of II degrees
Fahrenheit, there is a 6 per cent
reduction in the rate, and in Chi.
cago a, definite late winter depres-
sion and a mild summer. heat effect.
In Wichita, Kan, when the tenn
perature during July and August
rises to Is degrees Fahrenheit, there
is a Il per cent reduction in the
rate.
In Charleston, S. c., and in Tam
pa, Fla, where there is an average
temperature of 50 degrees and SO
degrees Fahrenheit in July and Au-
gust, there are corresponding de-
pressiol1ss Of q to 81 per cent il the
rates Of conception. 1T
On the Raciac coast, where the
mean temperature is, more stable
and does not arise above 70 degrees
Fahrenheit during the summer,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
REASON FIR :
FREDERICK
Lands

DREs1DENT HOOVER is said to favor calling an
4 extra session during hot weather, confident that
Washingtons soggy heat will bring congress toterms
The environment has lot to do with action, the
adoption OF the Declaration of Independence @1avng
been hurried by the fact that the flies from nearby
livery stable bit the statesmen through their silk
stockings.
The papers say that the great granddaughter of
John Adams second President, danced in The East
room OF the White House the other evening.
Wonder If she thought of the old DAYS when her
great-grandmother- used to hang the family wash
ing there9
Coolidge gives out a little article every day and
Al Smith is going to give out big article every week
The colunlnist who never ran for President is
badly handicapped these days..
The syndicates going in for celebrities and
its said, furnishing the ghost writers when necessary
yTNEE way the commercianzation OF fame is going
OMIT will be only short time until dramas, grand
operas. oil paintings and statues will be placed the
market bearing the OF ex-politicians but really
executed by some talented unknown.
Bryan used to be in favor Of law compelling
every man who wrote an editorial to sign his name
to it, but the need Of day is law compelling
every celebrity who signs an article to make an af-
hdavit that he wrote it.
Instead of appropriatng four. million dollars for
q new dollhouse at Michigan City, as Warden DAILY
sad would nave 10 pc done, indiana should take a
1T of her prisoners out and build roads with them
This would not cut down the employment of free
labor; it would simply let US build roads than
otherwise.
ENSTEIN says he may stay here permanently
u If the FascistS get control of Germany
Well We viii be glad to have him; he may be too
deep for US. but need little profundity to Offset
the frivolity Of the period.
Twelve hundred children Of the Bolsheviks Missed
and jeered Santa Clause in Moscow, and we'd say
they would grow up to be very sentimental.
Russia has taken away the Lord and Santa Claus
but it let's the children look at the mummy of Lenn
which is about the largest gold brick ever handed
the rising generation
Lenin didn't win any beauty prizes when he was
alive. and he can't be what you'd call particu-
Larry soothing to the optic nerve ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
A Labor Injunction

While congress is cropping about for ways by which
it may relieve and prevent unemployment It should
not overlook legislation that has been waiting many
years in its committees and on its calendars, for at
tention. TX
This is the anti-injunction bill
There were reasons enough, before the depres-
and Stronger reasons.
= AS more thought is being given than ever before
to the problems of industry and its workers. more and
more people are realizing that to workers the right
to band together is essential to their security and live
lihood hiss.
The courts have recognized this right; yet they
continue to issue injunctons which make riockery
of them.
Last spring, with the senate's debate on Judge
Parker and the yellow dog contract still echoing,
federal court in Iowa issued an injunction which for
babe strikers at TT Dodge to- tell any one directly
or indirectly verbally Or in writing that strike was
in progress that the mill in question was considered
unfair to organized labor, and that It required its
workers to sign yellow dog contract.
Labor's guaranteed rightto organize and to strike
we're about useful to Fl Dodge strikers in that case
if they had been slaves in ranacles Their strike
was doomed from the beginning. SO was their liberty
of contract and the decent lveloods they had hoped
to gain. .>e, ...
Now we are discovering by bitter experience what
happens when American workers have not money
enough to buy the goods the factories make -
We must have money first from congress. to stop
Immediate suffering. Then let. us have this anti
injunction bill one step toward blettins suffering
from the future &
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there is. no depression of the rate
in the summer period.
In order to show that variations
in the rate are not necessarily as
ISOLATED with the rate of marriages
the figures were studied for Bel
GUM and Switzerland, where there
are peaks in the marriage rate in
June and in the fall.
It was found that there is a sim
liar peak in conception in June
but that the fall marriage peak is
not accompanied by such rise.
In. Japan, the spring months OF
April, May, and early June are
almost perfect SO far as temperature
is concerned, but from the middle
Of. June to early September the
humidity is constantly high, day
and night, while the, average tenn
perature rises to SO degrees Fahren-
-heit.
There is a so per cent fall in the
conception rate during the tropical
summer period.
- 1t is the opinion of the investiga-
tors that heat and high humidity
definitely affect the likelihood of
conception. Therefore, human fer
tility is highest in temperatures at
about IS degrees Fahrenheit.
It is reduced greatly in low tenn
peratureS during the winter, and
during increases in temperatures
above 20 degrees Fahrenheit during
the summer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Not Our Quarrel

TT may even be that If our forces
L were Withdrawn armed revolu-
ton and turmoil would follow. Yet,
even so, it seems to me that We
should bring our soldiers home. !.
Surely the United States is not
going to attempt to maintain order
and the status quo in every Central
and South American country by
force of arms.
We did not interfere actively in
the clashes which occurred in sew
eral Of the larger republics. Argen-
tine settled its problems without
benefit Of our attachments. can
not see why Nicaragua should not
be accorded the same privilege.
From the beginning We have been
participating in a bootleg war.
It Is not part Of our function to
police Nicaragua. A government
which can not maintain itself there
has no right to call upon us for
assistance. In fact, if Nicaragua
wants government by revolution in
stead Of by election, that is not our
business, either.
Much has been said about dollar
diplomacy, and throughout South
America our proceedings along the
isthmus are looked upon as an i'm
perialistic venture. Yet it is possible
to find holes even in this theory.
The stake Of American business
in Nicaragua is tiny. The notion
that we must preserve order there
against some future building Of a
canal is ridiculous
After all, no such task IS immi-
nent, and we are hardly promoting
ultimate peace and order by sup
porting one faction against another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Like a Sphere

CERTAIN phenomena observed by
~ the astronomer seem as hard
to explain as the raindrops would be
to the creature in the two-dii11en-
sional world. These have led dur
ing the last year to the acceptance
Of Einstein'S idea of curved space
1t is extremely difficult-some au-
thorities say impossible-to visualize
what is meant by curved space. It's
effect, however, would be to bring an
individual back to his starting point
II he travelled long enough in any
one direction.
Every one understands the nature
OF the surface of sphere. It has
no boundaries. One may travel over
its surface forever without meeting
a boundary. Yet its surface is finite
and If one travels long enough in
any direction he finds himself back
at his starting point.
In similar fashion, says Einstein,
space is unbounded, but finite, and
the object which travelled long
enough in one direction would get
back to its starting point.
But while the theory Of Einstein
in general has been confirmed, the
nature Of space is thought at pres
ent to be more like that suggested
by Dutch scientist, De Sitter, from
a study Of the Einstein theory, than
like that suggested by Einstein him
self.
The work on the structure of
space during 1880 represents a Joint
venture Of the Mt. Wilson observa-
tory and the California Institute of
Technology.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EES2iS

HE engagement in which eight
= marines were killed in Nicara-
qua may fairly be referred to as q
battle. j. Our losses in several en-
counters during the spanish-Alner1-
can war we're no greater.
But at that time, whether i'll
advisedly or not, we were frankly
conducting a war. The declaration
Of hostilities was sanctioned by con-
greSs. But against whom are We
fighting along the isthnus now?
|. II, it IS said that the band which
waylaid. our men was an aggrega-
ton Of bandits, the n1ystifying part
of the whole proceeding will grow
no less. After all, these are not our
bandits. Here, within the borders
Of the United States, there is ample
opportunity to carry on machine
gun warfare with outlaws.
Not SO long ago we were told that
our only plan and purpose in
Nicaragua was to insure the holding
Of a lawful and peaceful election
But that plebiscite already has been
held.
1t was supervised by United
States marines. Now it becomes
obvious that not all the people in
the small and distressed republic
were satisfied with the results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Bad Routine

GO it has gone on for years.
~ There must be no stopping point.
It hardly will be feasible to main
tain activities until every disaf-
fected Nicaraguan is dead.
Even today babies are being born
in little villages who will grow UP
to hate the alien soldier who strides
through their streets. People are
like that.
1t is irrelevant to say that
American advisers, properly flanked
by rifles, might give. the small re-
public a better government than it
ever could generate under its own
steam.
Even If it Is denonstrable that
the choice for the natives lies BE-
tween freedom and chaos on the one
hand, and on the other prosperity
and American occupation, we can
not blame them if they choose free
dom in spite Of dire consequences.
It is the temper Of mankind to
prefer autogenous agony rather than
a conpulsive betternlent. You would
make the same decision, and so
would l..
The lives of eight Americans Is
too big a price to pay for official
stubbornness against the face of
facts. The life of one is far. too
much.
Suppose father or a, mother
went to Washington and button
holed an. official, saying: my son
is dead near Ocotal. Why did he
die? For. what purpose? Who sent
him there and to what good?'
don't see how the official could
answer that. We have spread toe
much blood along these jungle
paths. The time has come to stop
If our devotion to peace is any
thing out a screen and q sham, we
should take it first of all to Mica
ragua. 1t is not our Aght and never
was.
Certain aspects Of the war in
Nicaragua peculiarly are dangerous
There never has been any pretense
that some great. and noble cause
was involved. In fact, I assume
that most of US had pretty COM
pletely forgotten this private vest
pocket conflict.
The list Of dead includes men
from Colorado, New York, Mis-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN


Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
Ut long has been recognized that
1t m per allure, humidity, the
amount of wind and rain, and all
other factors associated with climate
have definite influence on human
life.
This influence acts to modify the
nature of the blood; the rate of the
heart the amount Of perspiration,
the amount of excretions, and the
quantity of the secretion of the
various glands.
Almost every one knows that the
oncoming of bad weather is reflected
by pain in injured and infamed
joints, and that in various other
ways the physical conditions Of life
affect the constitution of the human
being.
1t occurred to DR.. c. "A. Mills to
find out whether there was any
direct relationship between climate
and the number of births occurring
in any section of the world at any
given time.
To settle the point in which he
was interested, the birth statistics
Of different cities, states and coun-
tries were obtained and the number
Of births in each month for num-
Der Of years recorded.
Twelve months then were equal
lied to thirty one-day basis for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Work Divided
TINE MT. wilson astronom

ME Mt. Wilson astronomers
l. made the observations. The
work was done by Drs. Edwin P.
Hubble, Francis G. Pease, and Mil
ton Humason.
According to Einsteir1's views, the
amount of space in existence is, de-
tern1ned by the amount of matter
in the universe. On the assu1np-
toon that the distribution of stars
and nebulae beyond the reach Of
our present telescopes is essentially
the same as within their reach,
Hubble has arrived at a figure for
the average density of space.
From this, the matnematicians
have calculated the size of the uni
verse, if it is an Einstein universe.
These calculations give space ra-
dius Of 100000, 900 light-years. A
light year is 100000, 100000 miles.
But while there Is no direct OBJ
Sensational method Of checking the
Einstetn universe, there Is a check
on the De Sitter universe.
It requires a shifting of the lines
Of the spectrum toward the red
This shift should become greater
and greater for more distant OBJ
jects
Such a shift to the red, however,
is also a consequence of motion and
it is difficult therefore to say how
much of the observed shift is due
to the curvature Of space and how
much to motion.
The radius Of the universe is be-
1ieved to lie somewhere betwee. 3d.
100000 hght-years, a minimum fig
ure for the De Sitter universe and
the 84,000,000,000 ligIt-years set by
the Einstein universe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
LoperS Can Be Cured

A S. to that leper, he has. been
IA sent to the splendid govern
ment hospital at Carrvilie, La; and
the chances are that he will come
out with the dread malady arrested
within a few years, which is some
thing men looked upon as impossible
even as late as ten years ago.
AS to those italian airplares, who
supposes they have spoken the last
word in trans-ocean flying, great as
is their feat?
The significance of the past does
not lie in what has been finished,
but in what has been left unfinished,
in the suggestiveness Of its achieve
ments. :.
He who would be a prophet must
read the record, not as a guide to
completed trails, but as a pros
pectus of unexplored realms, and as
the most convincing proof we pos
sess Of mans ability to grow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Pig-HeadedneSS in Palace

FNEEBE. are those who simply
4 can't see any significance in
the Kellogg pact, the league Of ma
tons, or the world court, just as
there, were those who couldn't see
any significance in the formation
Of this republic 142 years ago.
There are those, indeed, who can
quote history by the volume without
etver suspecting,. much less. ap-
preciatilag, its most vital lesson,
which is continuous. evolution and
eternal change. >:
One of the greatest haudicaps
to orderly progress is that men, .es-
pecially those occupying positions
Of authority and prestige, seldom
recognize a really important event
Until long after it has occurred;
AS Woodrow Wilson said, 'Revo-
luton generally occurs in the cell
lar,'' but humanity would be
afflicted with far less revolution if
its leaders were a little more toler-
ant toward the relentless: force
Of evolution.
Such fighting as has been. neces-
sary to clear the way fer an honest
advance Of civilization amounts to
very little compared to that forced
on humanity by an upper crust
that wanted not only to stay put,
but grow thicker.
,Pig-headedness in the palace,
rather than sloth in the pit, is what
has drenched this world in blood.
You can cure the sloth with edu-
cation, as we are beginning to un-
derstand, but not the pig-headed-
ness. You can make, savage see
the advantages of civilized life if
given time enough, but not the re-
spectacle exploiter, who has made
money or acquired power by keep
ing him savage.
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souri,, Indiana, Alabama, Pennsyl-
vania. It's a long way to Pennsyl-
vania. It's a long way to Ocotal.
The best practical step which we
can take now as an indication of
our sincere regard for peace is to
take our troops away and to resolve
that not again will we assume re-
sponsibility for Intervention beyond
our borders,
Copyright. 1881. by The T1mes)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08

Pig-Heddedness IN the Palace,
Rather Than SIotk IN the
Pit, Is What Has Drencked
This. World With Blood.

III PASO. Tex, Jan. s.-The
Z magazine Liberty, which always
is interesting and generally right,
takes Admiral Pratt to task for ex-
pressing the opinion that 'tlis
country never will start an agrees
Sive. war"
Falling back on history, it proves
to its own satisfaction, at least
that not only do we Americans owe
our national existence to aggressive
war, but that many aggressive wars
have been good and that, whether
they have or not, they will con-
tfnue to occur.
Well, you can prove a lot of things
by history.
You can take history, fot in
stance, and prove that the leper re-
Gently discovered in FL Paso should
be given a gray gown and a clap
per and told to come no nearer than
three miles Of any human habita-
ton.
You can take history. and prove
that the yarn about those Italian
.airplanes flying across the Atlantic
just can't be so.
Or, going a little farther back, you
can take history and prove that
there isn't anything at all on this
side Of the Atlantic; that the earth
is fiat, and that what we call science
is merely witchcraft, designed by
Satan to trick the faithful.
What you can, or can not, prove
by history depends on. where you
stop, but history itself never stops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
Ignorance Still ThriveS

REAF areas of savagery, super
NJ stition and ignorance remain.
Vast nultitudes of people still
founder along in a comparatively
backward state, according to our
viewpoint.
Civilization can not sidestep the
necessity of trading with them,
which means that it can not side
step the necessity Of insisting on a
certain degree of order.
But does that necessarily imply
that civilization is going about. the
job the way it did 400 years ago,
that it has failed utterly to learn
something from all it's bitter ex-
perience.
There is as much difference be-
tween the way Africa is being han
died today and the way America
was handled during the sixteenth
and seventeenth century as there is
between the Leviathan and. Henry
Hudson's Half Moon.
And the best part of 1t is, there
will be more as time goes ON.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08
SCIENCE
BY DAVID pIETZ-


Cured Has Net General
Acceptance Among Scier-
lists.
THE universe became more mys-
4 ferrous than ever as a result Of
advances in astronomy during 1880.
For one Of the important events Of
the year was the confirmation Of
the suggestion of Professor Albert
Eli stein that space is curved.
The other two important astro
nomical events of the year were the
discovery OF the planet Pluto and
the confirmation of the coSnlic
cloud, the extremely thin cloud Of
gaseous matter occupying interstel-
lar space.
Lord Kelvin once said that to call
a thing mysterious meant only that
one did not understand it. On this
basis, the average laynan would be
quite willing to admit that both the
Einstein theory and its implications
concerning the structure of the uni
verse were most mysterious.
Many scientists would be willing
to admit the same thing. But they
would not be willing to stop with
that admission.
1t has been pointed out, for ex-
ample, that creature aware only
Of two dimensions might be upon
roadway when it started to rain.
The creature would be aware only
Of the sudden and unpredictable
appearance of drops of water in his
two-dimensional world.
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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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-08

These are the days when college grad Just as
soon would have something else his stomach than
fraternity key.
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Daily Thought

Prove all things; hold fast that
which is good Thessalonians
, 5.21.
Seek for good, but expect evil
Cerv9ntes.