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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
Town in South Africa
Claims to Lick Creation

JOHANNESBURG Is a little
town in South Africa which claims to
lick creation. Name most any record
you like, and this little place will go
one better Volksrust is Its name.
Wonderful Volksrust they call it in
South Africa, and 1t certainly does live
up to that reputation. Sunf1owers-
they grow from % inches across in
Volksrust. Snakes, pumpkins, fish, pigs
litters and everything, right down to
the daily milk output of the average
cow-all these things mean records for
Volksrust. It is doubtful, however, If
all or any of the claims would stand
investigation, but they certainly do keep
Volksrust on the map, which is apt to
surprise anybody who has seen the
place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

| NJ 1CanCS OF one OF JIle HloSC P4o'
4 gressive Latin republics 10 the
south celebrate the 10th an
niyersary of their liberation from the
Spanish yoke and their constitution as
an independent, sovereign state.
This year her birthday anniversary
finds her in one of the most trying and
interesting moments Of her history. the
country is undergoing critical period
of restlessness and political uncertainty,
a logical result of the violent change
which took place about year ago in
the government of the nation.
Last August the autocratic and
absolutist 11-year rule Of President
Dictator Augusta B. Leguia was brought
to a dramatic end by the armed up
rising of the southern military forces OF
the country. Overwhelmingly supported
by the people, the rebellion had no
major dificulty in rendering Leguia
powerless and in sending him from the
Pizarro palace to the national penl-
Tertiary to pay for his political errors
and maladminiStration OF the public
funds.
Change Was Welcome.
The change was warmly received in
the country, which had suffered IL
wears of arbitrary deSpotism, and
abroad, where the fall of the dictator
ship was seen as the initiation OF a
more liberal and happier era IN Peru
Wan politics. Soon. however. the Peru
Wan people found that in their country,
as in any other, the overthrow OF a
long, personalistic rule means more
than a mere substitution OF the men
in power.
According to the laws Of sociology
and the experiences of history. a period
of unrest, Reorganization and often
anarchy usually follows a change from
an old, strong minded, Single-handed
regime, which has kept the political
forces Of the nation inactive for a num-
Der of years. The Peruvians were wise
enough and fortuante enough to avoid
anarchy, but they have not been able
to sidestep the laws Of natural reaction
which must follow the breakdown OF q
long established system.
Since the ousting of the aged dicta-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
BY CASTOR NERVAL.

n YEXT Tuesday is Peru's national
~ day. On July % the inhao-
" itants of one of the most pro-
grsssive Latin republics to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

Continued on Fourth Page.)
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Glass in the Street

You can not drive far in Indianapolis without
finding broken glass in the street. fallen from coliding
automobiles. Sometimes it is bloody glass
If there is place where it will be found more
than another, it is at the intersection of broad and
smooth streets, where there is more than enough
room for automobiles to avoid each other if drivers
were careful, considerate, and not impatient.
In an incredibly short time, as history is measured
the automobile has been perfected. It's marvellous
mechanism will do everything that needs to be done
for comfort and safety
The task still is before of perfecting the driver
so that he will not want this mechanism to do any
thing that is not comfortable and safe for himself
and others. 1t can be done.
Man, who has taken inanimate materials and
subjected them to his WILL will not find it difficult
to bring his own live body under complete control
The best way to accomplish this job of matching
the perfect automobile with the perfect driver is
for each one of us to perfect himself.
Let us each resolve that tomorrow we shall not
make single reckless, inconsiderate, impatient
move with our automobile.
The possibility of perfection is challenge to ALL
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Ianan Outlaws Herself

The Japanese army violation of various treaties,
including certain ones to which the United States is
a signatory is marching Cshinchow. Secretary of
State Stimson has gone of shooting holiday And
the state department. lacking definite policy refuses
to act or comment on the Manchurian crisis.
Rarely ever has the foreign policy of the United
states been so bankrupt as today. Japans betrayal
of the (American nne-power treaty guaranteeing the
territorial and administrative integrity of China and
Japan's betrayal of the American kellogg anti-war
pact can not be justified But at least it can be
understood considering the militarists in power.
But Americas betrayal of the treaties can not be
understood.
Our government has betrayed the treaties. 1t is
q betrayal to refuse-as government has refused
Ito invoke those treaties against a violator.
Never since Sept ls. when Japan began her
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31

During time of epidemic it is
well that all the children in the
schools in which cases have oc-
CURED be examined regularly to de-
termine the presence of sore throats
or a beginning rash so that they
may be removed early from con-
tact with other children.
1t is not customary to close the
schools, because the schools offer a
place in which the children assem-
BILE and where they can be seen
regularly by the physician or by the
school nurse-a form of examina-
ton that could not be made if the
schools were closed and the children
permitted to play about the streets.
In the Fairgrounds, Or in their
homes, in contact with other chill
dren.
Mothers owe a special duty to the
community in preventing their chill
dren, in times of epidemic from
having contact with other children
during any period when the child
has a cold, sore throat, or a similar
infection.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
An Explanation Needed

Sometime next year the state tax board should
explain to the people Of Indianapolis the method by
which it fixed the value of the new power plant
Of the local electric monopoly at $150000 for taxa
ton purposes
To the stockholders who purchased the securities
by which it built, the company gave the infor-
nation that the plant is worth approximately
$12O00OO0.
In any valuation for rate purposes, ii is probable
that the company will argue before the public service
commission that it is worth even more than this.
The assessor fixed the value for taxes at 100000
and the county board reduced that figure to $5000000
Now comes the big slash by the state tax board,
which insists that it is the last hope of the little tax
payer, and $3,85OOOO is chopped from that figure.
In the meantime, owners of small homes, owners
OF rental property, owners of small businesses are
taxed on much larger proportion of their invest
ment than is represented by this figure
In many cases the valuations are higher than can
be obtained if the owner wishes to SELL
Certainly these taxpayers would like to know how
the light company figure was reached They have
been told often that the state tax board is their
protector They know tat when they wish to hire
a policeman a school teacher the board restrains
them from any extravaganza.
They also know that every dollar saved for the
power company must be paid by other people.
So perhaps the board will tell them why the big
cut was made. The county assessor does not know
The county board members thought they were just
when they placed the $5OOOOOO valuation.
Can be that the board is really trying to justify
the suspicious Of those who have doubted it's protec
tive nature and believed that it is really the last de-
fense Of corporate greed?
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31

is not with us is ag'in' u.s. And
that formula also lacks. the full
force of scientific logic. And SO
for my part, will answer by say
ing that hope with my whole
heart that Russia succeeds and that
in succeeding it will broaden the
base on which its impulse rests.
I want to see an even more radi-
cal RUSSIA Russia revolutionary
to the point of abandoning all be-
lief in coercion, either physical or
mental.
In the New York World Telegram
Saturday I read an article that
said: In spite of the great con-
vulSionS to which it has led, all
the woe and suffering it has
brought about, we still maintain
blind and uncompromising faith in
the existing system. The higher we
happen to be in it, the more stub
bornly we fight for its continuance.
There are exceptions to the rule, of
course, but they only serve to re-
veal it more distinctly"
I beg to dissent. An exception
never proves rule. On the con-
trary, it contradicts it or at the
very least demands it's modifica-
ton. After all, an exception is not
a miracle. 1t is a logical event. I
knew John Reed at Harvard, and
he was a pleasant, mildly snobbish
and conventionally collegiate young
man. He became, before his death,
a Communist idol and hero.
According to the theology of Rus
sia, Reed deserted his class and was
regenerated into true proletarian-
ism. But, though his free will con-
version is applauded by Commu-
nists, they seem to continue in the
belief that nothing like it can ever
happen again.
They insist that the well-to-do
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IRON scattered reports we learn that the folks
Il in the Bible Belt are bit curious about the ele-
CANT West Pointer dress parade at the Culbertson
Lenz bout now taking place at the Chatham hotel,
New York.
This erect soldier fully caparisoned in all the
trappings of cavalry trooper lends decided martial
to all the photographs of the battle that reach
the hinterland No doubt his duties are arduous and
trying.
When oily Ely shrieks at stolid Sidney that his
system" is in tailspin does the brave lieutenant
execute a rapid flank movement and order an
armiStce?
1t is true that the atmosphere in the proceedings
is hostile Indeed it calls for battalions and legions
for marines and dragons. All credit then, say we
to the solitary provost marshal who preserves order
there-and prevents any blood letting.
Like Wild Bill Hickok at Abilene, as officer of the
day. he threatens by his ominouS presence kitchen
police for the transgressor of orders and rules And
without the spling of gore he should be decorated
with the Congressional medal.
NEVERTHELESS, all this leads the ignorant pro-
y letariat to wonder whether the lieutenant has
nothing to do up at West Point. Taxes are little
stiff out our way and the army appropriations lead
all the rest.
We realize that we must have certain amount of
this squads right" stuff and perchance some target
practice but it is not quite clear why we should be
paying for half backs saxopnone players and bridge
referees and further the wonder grows about the
flung of smiling leutenantS" to act as gigolos
for plump matrons of the official circle whose hus
bands no longer dance
The embttered two-bit wheat farmer is specu-
ating to whether bridge is part of the currricu-
um at West Point and how many hours Of it are re-
quired for a commission.
VIII the United State army be able to utilize 9
no trump" bid during the next WIZ
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31

treaty violations, has the United States as sigma
tory Of those agreements directly or openly charged
Japan with guilt And when the League Of Nations
council issued time ultimatum to Japan in defense
Of American treaties government--by refusing 70
co-operatein effect invited Japan to defy the ulti-
matum.
If the United States government had been in
league with the japanese militarists to seize Man.
churia and destroy the American treaties the result
could not have been more disastrous Of course, our
government had no such motive.
But regardless of motive in fact its cowardly So
cret diplomacy has played into the hands of the
japanese miitarsts from the beginning
This is not of hindsight being better than
foresight.
Ever since the Sept. 10 invasion, supporters of
the treaties have pointed out that the state de-
partment's donothing policy was encouraging Japan
to destroy the worlds peace machinery.
Now that the Hoover -Stnson policy has failed so
completely that japanese litarists are masters
Of Manchuria; now that the United States has ad-
vertised to the world that it will not cooperate with
other neutral nations to restrain treaty outlaw the
least our government do is to Withdraw its am
bassador from Japan in protest
The United States does not run the world The
United States not and should not seek to doni-
nate Japan any other nation. The United States
should not intrude in local foreign disputes which
do not concern it.
But the United States should keep faith with its
own treaties. So long as Japan persists in violating
its treaty agreements with the United States this
government should withhold from Japan the friendly
diplomatic relations accorded to law-abiding nations
The choice is not ours, but Japans If she out
laws herself, let her be treated as an outlaw
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
HEALTH SERVICE
Anti-toxin CombatS Scarlet Fever

| to determine whether or not they
have been infected.
Formerly scarlet fever was treat
ed merely by putting the patient to
bed and giving him the best type
of nursing care. Nowadays a spe-
cif1c remedy has been developed in
the form of antitoxin, which is
used in cases that are severe or
that tend to develop complications.
In very severe cases it is Gus
tomary to administer by injection
the serum from the blood of the per-
son who has recently recovered
from the disease.
Drs. George F. and Gladys Henry
Dick have developed a test of the
skin which determines whether or
not a person is susceptible or likely
to have the disease when exposed to
it.
If the person is found to be sus-
ceptible in time of epidemic. he
may be imnunized against the dis
ease or given increased resistance
to it by the injection of small doses
of the toxin properly neutralized
until resistance has developed.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Business Documents

"HE Oriental Institute contains
Il five great exhibition halls, de-
voted to Egypt, Asyria, Babylonia,
Persia and Islam, and Palestine and
the Hittites.
"You can enter our Babylonian
halls and see there masses Of busi-
ness documents, some Of them
reaching back to nearly 5000 B. c."
DR.. Breasted says.
1.-THE commercial and social rela-
tions which produced them built up
a body of business customs which
became inviolable and gradually
took shape in laws which long be-
fore 1000 B. G. were put together by
the great Hammurabi, whose re-
markable code you may see in
replica in the Babylonian hall.
"Thus the work of mans hands in
agriculture, cattle breeding, manu-
factures, and building merged into
more highly developed forms Of
human organization. Society gained
classes and men of gifts gained
leisure.
Through the .obscuring veil of
superstition men looked out upon a
mysterious world which they longed
to understand as we do today.
THE demand to do so was at
first social summons, the need of
human suffering, which called forth
efforts at alienation.
"The oldest known treatise on
surgery, which was written in
Egypt nearly 5000 years ago, dis
closes to us the thoughts of the
earliest man who reveals a scientific
attitude of mind.
LESS than thousand years later
the Egyptians were already writing
mathematical treatises of astonish-
ing penetration.
They established a value for the
area of the circle which differs less
than two one-hundredths from the
value current at the present day.
This led to a formula for compute
ing the area of the surface Of a
hemisphere, a method rediscovered
by the Greeks 1900 years later"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I wish to commend
your paper upon the editorials for
reduction of utility rates for the
city of indianapolis. I wonder why
the other daily papers in the city do
not fall in line and assist in the
movement, but they seem to have
no interest in the matter.
The people are being gouged and
robbed by the utilities and forced
to pay rates for service altogether
out of reason, especially during
these hard times. The negotiations
now going on undoubtedly will re-
suit in some reduction in rates, but
fear not enough to give satisfac-
tory relief.
The only fair basis for rates would
be a revaluation of the property of
the utilities on the present cost of
material and construction. WHY
should the water company be per-
mitted to charge a minimum of S1.5O
a month whether a family uses a
drop of water or not? This charge
gives poor family no chance to
economize and save on its water
bill.
The company only installs the
service to the property line and the
consumer must pay for the extern
sion into the house. The installa-
ton Of a meter certainly should not
entitle the company to $1.5O a
month. The people receive no con-
ceSSions from the company for the
use of the streets for the laying of
its mains, but the city is compelled
to pay the peak rate for fire plugs
and other service.
The public service commission. il
seems, has played into the hands of
the public utilities ever since it was
established and against the inter-
eSts OF the people, who can expect
no relief from that source.
This is a serious condition and the
slogan for the next campaign should
be abolish the public service COM
mission" Every city in the state
should have the right to negotiate
for a contract or franchise with the
utility companies and obtain the
best terms possible in the way of
rates and concessions. That is the
only real solution to the problem.
BY the way, what has become Of
the Home Rule Movement" for the
city of Indianapolis? The people
voted for it overwhelmingly. A city
Of this size should have absolute
control over its own affairs, without
interference fr0rn state bureaus or
commissions. G. E. 2.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Oriental Institute at Chicago
UniUersity Seeks to Bridge
Gap In Early History Of
Civilization.
THE new Oriental Institute is "a
4 laboratory devoted to man" &C.
cording to Or. James Henry
Breasted, its director.
The institute recently dedicated
upon the campus of the University
of Chicago, is the largest archeolog-
ical organization in the world, the
new building serving as general
headquarters for an army OF twelve
field expeditions on $500 mile
front extending from the Upper
Nile Valley to Persia.
The institute represents the re-
alization of a forty-year dream Of
DR.. BreaSted's.
"It is interesting that We find no
parallel to this building in any other
university" DR.. Breasted said, and
I mention this fact not by way of
gratifying our own vanity but be-
cause it lays upon us a great and
unique responsibility.
81 have lived for more than forty
years in daily realization of the
need of such building, and to me
the natural question seems to be:
Why should science, which builds
its laboratories to investigate the
history of every other creature from
the frog to the horse, never have
created laboratory for the investi-
cation of early man, the most i'm
portant of all creatures?'
THE Investigations centering in
this building make it a laboratory
devoted to man, to his origins and
the evolution of the civilization
which we have inherited. The life
going on in this building invites you
to new vision of the place of man
in a universe out of which he has
issued with new and sovereign pow
ers to understand something of that
universe and his own place in it"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
THIRD RAID ON PADUA
December 81

nN Dec. 81, 1917, enemy airplaneS
~ made their third raid in four
days on Padua, Italy, destroying the
facade of the Padua cathedral and
damaging the bascilica Of the Santo
and the municipal museum.
Five persons we're injured. None
were killed. In the two previous
raids sixteen were killed and sixty
three were injured.
French infantry, aided by British
and Italian artillery and airpIanes,
successfully stormed Monte Tomba
positions between OSteria di Mon
fenera and Maranzine.
British forces occupied Reitin, Ell
Baulua, FL Burr, Janieh and Ras
Kerker in Asia Minor. The British
reached Kuleh on the coastal sector.
In the negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk between the central powers
and the Bolshevist government, a
hitch occurred when the Germans
refused to withdraw their troops
from the occupied portions of Rus
sia which ought Independence.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
Morals and Money

WITHOUT playing ostrich in
w any sense of the word, or
falling back on the ridiculous doc
trine of splendid isolation" we
should devote next year to our own
problems.
The restoration of prosperity is
linked definitely to the restoration
of good order and common honesty.
How can our people hope for bet
ter times with all the misconduct
in public Office, all the lawlessness,
all the nismanagement of finance,
all the crookedness and corruption.
No matter what the cause, our
record of law observance and law
enforcement is diSgraceful.
The task we face includes morals,
as we'll as money.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31

and even the not-so-yerv-well-to-
90 will fight to the last drop of
blood for the privilege of riding in
a limousine or a secondhand Ford
coupe. This theory is based on the
false assumption that even white
collar is sort of coronet.
Riding in the Same Boat
r DO not expect people on bread
Il lines to weep their eyes out when
told that many members of the ruI-
ing class are having a pretty poor
time of it and did even before the
stock market crash.
A man in the municipal lodging
mouse may pardonably be somewhat
1nsensitive to the woes of a suburb
ante who watches his roof begin
TO sag under a second mortgage.
But there is common bond be-
tween all of them. Man is a reason
able animal, even though he tries
hard to fight against the fact.
Collectivism can come out of chaos
without a single round of machine
gun ammunition being fired.
We have one foe, and one alone.
Its name is fear, and it also goes
under the aliases of pain and hun
ger, want and misery. Some day
these things will be fought by a
universal army.
An American named Edward
Bellamy said all this more than
nifty years ago. The people of his
age thought of him as an erratic
and sentimental visionary. On a
certain day he will be recognized as
the greatest of our national
prophets.
downright. 1881. BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-31
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
I'm some scarlet fever epidemicS
4 the condition is so serious that
a considerable number of those who
are infected die. In most epidemics,
however, the disease is relatively
non-fatal.
In the United States an average
of about 2 per cent of those who
have the disease during epidemics
die of either the disease or the
complications.
During 1926 and 1927, approx
imately 2.5 people out of every 1OO,-
600 population died of scaret fever.
The person who has scarlet fever
should be confined at home or in
the hospital and should be kept
from contact with others except
those who are responsible for the
care of the sick.
Those who have been in contact
with the disease should be quaran-
tined for at least seven days after
their contact with the case in order