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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE
Hearing Affected by OtosclerOsiS

The only theory in which all OBJ
servers concur is the conviction that
the heredity or constitution of the
person involved has some bearing,
since there is a tendency for such
conditions to occur in families.
However, it is not only the ten
dency of the condition to occur that
is responsible, but also the develop
ment of an infection, an intoxica-
ton from the gastro-intestinal
tract, the lack of some important
food substance, some disorder of the
glands Of internal secretion, some
modification of the circulation, or
some other factor which must be
the melting factor associated with
the hereditary cause.
Associated with the difficulty Of
hearing, there takes place not in
frequently some nervous develop
ment, due to the strain on the
nervous system, and also occasional
ringing in the head, whistling in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
True to Form

Public utilities will continue to rule the
state and ruin the citizen just as many of
them have in the past. The appointments
by Governor Leslie to the public service COM
mission insure that result.
The new member of the commission
brings with him an unbroken, almost brazen,
record of service to private greed while a
member of the legislature.
Labelling himself member of the Demo
cratic party, he became the official spokes
man in the legislature halls for the worst
elements Of the Republican party.
He made himself valuable to the utility
interests by his pleadings for all the laws
the utilities desired and his savage attacks
upon any remedial suggestions His servi-
tude to the Governor was so marked that it
required no prophet to understand that he
would be rewarded.
The new member can be expected to link
himself to the group which has for it's motto
the slogan that insult can do no wrong and
that the people were made to furnish funds
for the profiteers.
own their own utilities should be on guard
against persistent efforts of private interests
to not only sabotage the municipal plants,
but to finally capture and control them.
The genius of the Governor for selecting
those who are anti-social in their outlook has
again been demonstrated. His administra-
ton is piling up record for disregard of
common rights that has never been
equaled. Even the official acts of Jackson of
statute of limitation fame were admirable in
contrast with those of the present regime.
Some day Indiana may have Governor
who will think of the people and the COM
mon good.
Indiana needs such a Governor. 1t has
wandered in the wilderness of private
greeds, and rank subversion of popular
rights so long that it needs change, not of
parties, but of moral viewpoint
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17

State department policy regarding marine inter
vention in Nicaragua is difficult to understand There
seems to be clear-cut policy, but several con-
Trajectory policies If so, President Hoover and Sec
rotary Stimson not entirely to blame. They int
herited a mess To get out with minimum of dam
age is not easy.
Having landed new batch of marines on the gulf
coast one day. Washington suddenly ordered them
back aboard ship the next day. At the same time
the state department inspired stories that there
a change in policy.
We were said to be done with the Cooldge-H Hughes
kellogg policy of intervening in Nicaragua at the
slightest proVocation hereafter United States forces
we're to be used only in extreme emergencies.
American property owners would have to take their
chances on local protection in Nicaragua as in other
countries, 1t was said
That story created a splendid impression coming
on the heels of the Pan-Amercan day celebrations in
washington and in the southern republics
But the next day the Nicaraguan dispatches
brought the news that second group of marine avi-
ators-those who have remained in Nicaragua since
the 1926 ntervention-were bombing the insured
tionists on the gulf coast.
This was confirmed by the state department. an
nouncement that the new policy Of the day before
did not prevent marine participation in the Mica
raguan civil war-or wiping out of bandits, as this
is called.
Years Of experience in repeated military inter
vention in Nicaragua demonstrates that
l. Civil strife in Nicaragua is chronic.
O. United States intervention never has succeeded
in protecting American lives and property but fur
Their has endangered Americans and embittered the
rest OF Latin America
Hallway measures do more harm than good. Either
we should take that country and run it. or get
out There are several good reasons why we should
We have ot hean
OF success in running colonies elsewhere, the Mica
raeuans are independent and want to remain SO, and
the people OF the United States are not interested
in any more imperalistic adventures in the Caribbean
We can and should get out. Apparently that is
the Hoover Stimson policy-in slow and indirect
way The sooner that policy can be made fully eff
fective, the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Russian Meteorite

TINE possibility of any large.scala
Il cataclySm seems extremely re-
mote. Certainly, there is not a
high enough probability to Justify
any one worrying about it.
The greatest possibility Of dam,
age seems to Turk not within thu
earth, but within the sky.
Go outdoors on a clear night ana
watch the heavens in any direction
Tor five or ten minutes. You viii
be rewarded by the sight of q
shooting star"
The little streak Of fire you see il
not a star at all, but a meteor. 4
tiny bit Of matter, perhaps no
larger than a grain Of sand. Il en-
tiers the earths atmosphere from
outer space and is consumed bv the
heat of friction.
occasionally a larger meteor en-
tiers the earth's atmosphere and =
piece Of it escapes destruction and
falls to earth. It then is called q
meteorite.
On July 80, 1908, the largest me-
teor1te of which the world knows
struck the earth. Fortunately Ii
landed in the wilds of northern
Siberia, 500 miles north of the
Trans-Siberian railway.
1t apparently exploded. or con-
sisted OF a great assembly Of small
er meteorites, because it made over
2OO depressions, some Of them more
IMAM seventy-five feet in diameter.
Russian scientists who investigate
ed round the ground around the de-
presslons for fifteen miles in all d.
rectlons scared and charred as IL
the vegetation had been burned OF
with gigantic blow torches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
REASON BY FR aaS5Is

DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY was the anniversary
Oof Lincolns assassination, the greatest tragedy in
national history, and the greatest misfortune in
the history of the SOUTH for it subjected Dixie to
ordeal she would have escaped had Lincoln lived
On that day Lincoln held his last cabinet meeting
and it session marked by the greatest optimism
for Lee had surrendered and word was expected
every hour from Sherman, announcing the surrender
of Joseph E. Johnson.
General Grant attended the cabinet meeting and
Lincoln assured him that good would soon come
dream which had always preceded event of great
Importance
T this statement the cabinet turned in some sur
\ prise and Lincoln said that he had singu-
lar vessel, sailing with great rapidity toward dark
and indefinite shore. Then he added that he had
had the dream before Antietam. Gettysburg and
Vicksburg.
All his nfe Lincoln had carried vein of mystic
ism, strange companion for his hard common sense
his powers of cold and unrelentng analysis and
1t this mysticism which aided so many things in
plunging him into the deepest melancholy.
But If this dream as Lincoln really believed fore
told some event of SURPRISING Importance it was not
of victory but Of tragedy for that night he was to
fall before the gun of Booth the half -crazed half
drunken actor, who imagined himself the avenger
of the south.
this last cabinet meeting Lincoln said he hoped
N much could be done to get the states lately
in rebellion. in successful operation before congress
assembled again.
He wanted to have the family circle complete again
without any strife or punishment.
Ee said: mo one need take any part in hanging
or killing these men. even the worst of them"
He exclaimed: Enough lives have been sacrificed
and we must extingush resentments If we ex-
pect harmony and union"
He did not wish the self government OF the south
ern states interfered with and. had he lived, he
would have had a battle with the radicals who de-
manded the punishment of the south, but he would
have won where his successor. Johnson failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17

the ears, dizziness, and nausea,
which make the condition even
more serious than If it were con-
fined to the disorders of hearing
alone.
Fortunately, hearing devices have
been developed which are of great
aid to people with this type of
deafness.
The American Federation OF Or
CARNATIONS for the Hard Of Hearing
can supply to those interested a list
of acceptable hearing devices.
Z To aid study of this disease with
view to improving the condition
for the future, attempts are being
made to get people with this type
of deafness to will their ears to sci
ence, so that after death the ears
may be available for study by ex-
perts in various centerS Of research
who are giving special attention to
this problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Ideas on Law Mixed

DY AND LARGE, civilization ap-
I'D pears rather confused in esti-
mating the value of lives as COM
pared to that of property. Soviet
Russia aboliSheS the death penalty
for such crimes as murder, rape or
arson, but shoots people for caus-
ing accidents or trying to stir up
revolution.
In this country, majority Of the
states retain the death penalty for
certain crimes of treason or violence.
but accept accidents as a matter Of
hard luck. Equally illogical, it is a
popular notion among us that,
while the right of society to inf1ict
capital punishment is questionable,
the right of the individual to kill
in self-defense is indisputable.
No one can review the laws we
pass, especially in comparison to
those we refuse or fail to enforce,
without realizing that something is
the matter with our moral code as
officially expressed.
Either we are making lot of
rules and regulations in which we
do not believe, or we are neglecting
to make lot in which we do believe.
Prohibition is but one example
of the gulf existing between our con-
stitutional and conversational idea
Of what is right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Questions and
Answers

What town is nearest to the site
of the proposed Hoover Dam?
Las Vegas, New.
What is the world record for
walking one mile?
Six minutes twenty-five and eight
tenths seconds.
What is the smallest republic in
the world?
The republic Of San Marine, hav-
ing an area of thirty-e eight square
miles.
How many. daily newspapers are
published in Baltimore, Md?
Four: The Post, the News and
Morning and Evening Sun.
Is the book "Trader Horn" fic-
ton?
It is classified at the library of
congress as a book of description
and travel.
Is a girl usher called an usher
ette?"
That is a colloquial term, not
sanctioned in literary English.
How many stores has the Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company?
More than $4,000.
What is the average annual catch
Of Goldfish and salmon in the United
States, including Alaska?
For Goldfish approximately 49,
00G,000 pounds and for salmon. ap-
proximately 524,000,000 pounds.
Were the Ladies From Hell" and
the Battalion of Death" woman
regiments in the World war?
Are Constance Bennett and Myr-
ma 10y the same age, height and
weight?
Both are IS years old and 5 feet
4 inches tall. Constance Bennett
weighs 1O8ik pounds and Myrna 10y
weighs 100 pounds.
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now feature as unthinkable would
not exist.
Instead, they have kept well
ahead Of public sentiment against
the prohibition law, using every de-
vice known to their craft to deceive
even the most intelligent and a
constant repetition of false state
ments, deceptive insinuations, re-
Elective comments, suppression of
facts, and fragrant featuring Of wet
propaganda has discouraged hosts
who really are opposed to liquor.
Every editor and owner of a wet
newspaper should view with pride
the tendency of our country to lapse
again into liquor owned, liquor
controlled, liquor besmirched ma
ton, for to him and his clan is the
credit due.
OMER S. WHITMAN.
Editor Times-In The Times, issue
of March II, David Dietz, referring
to Universe Makers" said: ut was
another universe maker who wrote
the story of Genesis, trying to &C
count for the origin of the cosmos"
More precisely, it was two universe
makers, for, continues Mr.. Dietz,
"as every student Of Biblical
literature knows, there are two
stories of creation in Genesis"
I am not unmindful of the fact
that the surest way for one to eX-
pose ones own ignorance is to
reject, criticise, ard ridicule a given
hypothesis unless one has a more
plausible theory to introduce. And
I take the utmost pleasure in in
forming Mr.. Dietz and all others,
whether scientist or religionist, who
hold to the same opinion, that such
is not true.
The first and second chapter Of
Genesis are inseparable. The truth
and relative Importance of each is
aggrandized and made authentic by
the other. And, either, without the
other would be incomplete, mean
ingleSs.
However, it is true that our present
day opponents of theology, owing to
a lack of power of spiritual discern
ment, endeavor to associate the one
from the other, that they may place
their own self conceived, and there
fore erroneous, construction upon
the Genesis account of the creation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Crime Market Beattsh

TINE price of about everything
l. seems to be dropping. Accord
ing to six ex-convicts just landed at
Trinidad from Devils island, the
French penal colony, the assistance
of native chiefs, including charts
and guides, now can be had for SIS.
That sounds mighty cheap, until
you recall that the French govern
ment offers only SO cents for the
capture OF convict on land and 50
at sea.
Still there are bulls in the GRIM
inal market.
Douglass Thorpe, head of a West
chester IN. " concrete plant, just
has posted a sign announcing his
willingness to pay $1,000 for dead
thief, but nothing for live one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
SCIENCE
-RY nAVIn nIETZ
Unusually Shaky Earth HGs
Been Repealed in 1881,
With Thirty-FiUs QuGkes
In Three Months.

A S photographs and accounts Of
IA the horrors of the earthquake
at Managua continue to arrive In
this country, people realize that the
earth is not as solid a foundation
underfoot as they usually think It
to be.
Two questions arise in the minds
OF many people. One Is the posi-
bility of an increased number Of
earthquakes, with o1e hitting the
city in which they live.
The other is the possibility Of
some worldwide cataclySn, the
coming of the end OF the world.
So far 1881 has revealed an un-
usually Shaky earth. Thirty-1ive
earthquakes have been recorded In
three months.
Five of them, In northwestern
Argentina, Oaxaca, Mexico, New
Zealand, Chill and Managua, Mica
ragua, did much damage TO life
and property.
The Seismographs, as the iastru-
mentS for recording tremors Of the
earth are called, reveal the fact that
the earth constantly Is trembling
somewhere.
Inere are certain localities where
the seiSmograph averages a disturb
ance day. These, however, are
SO Slight for the most part as to
go unnoticed except for the seismo-
graphic records.
While scientists do not yet know
enough about earthquakes to pre-
dict them, studies have revealed that
earthquakes are most likely to
happen in certain regions of the
earth'S surface. This is proved BY
the record of past quakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
The Pacific Rim

THE rim Of the Pacific ocean is a
n great seismic region. The Pa
cif1c is surrounded by high noun
tains rising close to the shore line.
These mountains are young from
the geological point Of view. They
are some of the most recent to have
come into existence and they repre-
sent regions where the earth's crust
is still weak and unstable.
Another seismic region sweeps
across the southern edge of, Asia and
Europe.
Whether earthquakes go In cycles.
increasing in intensity and fire.
quency in certain periods is not yet
settled completely.
Such possibility was suggested a
few years ago, strangely enough by
an astronomer and not a geologist-
and as result of a study of the
moon.
The suggestion was made by
Professor E. w. Brown of Yale uni
versity, the worlds chief authority
upon the subject of the moons mo-
lions.
Professor Brown suggested certain
periodic irregularities in the moons
motion were to be explained by
changes in the rate of rotation Of
the earth. Such changes, he con-
tinued, might be the result N
changes in the earth's diameter.
If such sudden expansions or con.
fractions of the earth took place. IL
is reasonable to suppose that they
might be periods of increased
seismic activity.
1t is well-known fact that the
earth's surface undergoes changes.
At the present time, for example
the seacoast of Scandinavia is rising
slowly.
1t is probable, however, that such
changes as the building of noun
talns take place over periods of a
million years or more and that
earthquakes of much greater yio-
lence, than those previously expert
enced are improbable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
RHEIMS OFFENSIVE
April IL

April IL
AN April II, 1917, the French
~ launched a new offensive which
was regarded as the beginning of
the most important advance they
had made since the war began.
For more than thirty months the
historic city of Rheims had been
target for German guns, and the
beautiful city of SCISSORS had been
likewise in serious peril.
The blow struck on this day was
on the eleven-mile stretch east Of
Rheims, and on the front between
Rheims and scissors. The French
troops proved irresistible in their
advance.
In the fighting, bitter along the
whole front from Flanders to Alsace,
it was estimated that 4,000, 600 men
were engaged, 100000 allies and
500 900 Germans.
It was reported that in the bat
ties of April IA, IS, 16 and II, more
than $500 Germans had been cap
tured by British and French to-
gether. and that German casualties
exceeded 10000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17

The Record of Auto Fatalities
Has Become an Abb for
Indifference and Accident
of EUery Kind.
SAYS:

NEW YORK, April 17.-Another
= New York gangster takes the
long rap.
It's the same old story-two
dapper youths, three bullets in the
back, stolen car, guns left behind,
no clewS.
He was known as Joe the Boss. !"
1t is said that not a stick of
macaroni could be sold in New York
without his getting a rakeoff. Also
it is said that Al Capone warned
him to pull in his horns, or take
the consequences.
The police department is report
ed as expecting an outbreak of
gang killings because of Joe's de-
mise.
One forecast places the number
Of deaths likely to occur at 100, but
no one seems to be disturbed by it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
u. S. in Used Car Trade

CPEAKING of autos, prohibition
~ has forced Uncle Sam into the
used car business.
Every so often federal dry agents
find it necessary to dispose of the
trucks and autos which have been
conf1Scated.
Twenty were auctioned off in New
York Wednesday.
A Nash sedan, 1929 model, brought
$40; a Brockway truck, year I'M
known, 1925; huge Mack ice cream
truck, $87, and three CadillacS of
1922 or so, $32, $45 and $75 respec-
lively.
Dry agents say that on the aver
age they are getting about the
same prices as are used car dealers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HYgeia. the Health
Magazine.
PROFESSIONALLY the disease
" called otosclerosis has affected
the human being for many years.
In this condition, the small bones
involved in hearing become locked
by changes which take place in the
tissues so that the person affected
can not hear well, except over the
telephone or with a hearing device.
The reason he hears well under
the latter circumstance is the fact
that in this condition the conduc-
ton of sound through the bone is
improved, while conduction by air is
lost.
Various theories have been Of
fered, as is pointed out by DR.. G.
S. Nash, to account for the develop
ment Of this condition, but not one
of these theories has been estab-
lished as the primary factor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Autos Take Heavy Toll

MYTH autos causing an average
w of four deaths each day, why
should New York worry about a
gang killing now and then?
Not only in New York, but
throughout the country, the record
Of auto fatalities has become an
abb for indifference toward death
and accident of every kind.
Some auto manufacturers are
afraid it may become an abb for
heSitant customers, and they are
right.
Last year $500 people were
killed as the result of accidents or
collision involving autos, and 100000
were injured
In many cases perfectly capable
drivers were among the victims.
Such a situation hardly makes
serious-minded people enthusiastic
about owning or operating cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17

Z430 North Dearborn street.
Editor Times Should the people
build roads and let the trucks and
buses tear them up? In one of
your editorials, you appear to think
so. There surely should be some
limit to the size and capacity of
trucks and buses.
If they are not limited, it will be
impossible to build roads fast
enough to take care of the traffic.
There will be hundreds of truck
and buss companies which win
operate thousands Of trucks and
buses on our highways and be
great menace to our automobile
traffic. Main roads will have to be
twice or three times as wide as now
and very much stronger.
1t is unfair to the majority of the
people who are travelling by auto to
allow large truck companies to
usurp our roads. They already have
taken part of the freight traffic
from our railroads and have put
some of the interurbans out of
business and if allowed to operate
large fleets of trucks of large size
and capacity they will cripple our
railroads and put many of them out
Of business. This is not giving the
railroads square deal. They built
and maintain their own roadbed
and pay a large amount Of taxes
on them.
If trucks are limited in size and
capacity so they will be safe for
traffic and nondestructive to our
highways I believe they will be I'M
able to compete with the railroads
in cheapneSS of rates.
I believe it will be more econom-
zeal to limit trucks now than to al
low them to ruin our roads and put
the railroads out of business. The
individual trucker with a limited
capacity truck is all right, but we
should watch the big truck lines
and right now is the time to begin
thinking and talking about it, be-
fore our roads are ruined.
A. E. G.,
Sheridan, Ind.
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mothers who had started out prohibitioniss, but
who now are crusading for repeal to their grand
children from the bootlegger and the racketeer But
these older women were not typical
1t was in the dry convention that old and middle
age predomtnated The wet convention was notably
a young women's meeting.
This, we believe, is the answer to the worn
prophesy that women win block prohibition repeal
In so far there national womans vote it is the
ballot OF the young woman that viii count in the
future.
And, If these two national conventions are any
indication, among the younger women the trend is
toward repeal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-17
Daily Thought

They that be wise shall shine as
the brightness of the armament
Daniel 1873.
WISDOM mans best friend
Gladstone.