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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
Thirst for Chance

HOWEVER advantageous such
4 L era might appear from the
standpoint of security for investors
and employees, there is doubt as to
whether human nature could endure
the shock, especially that kind of
human nature which has been de-
veloped in this country.
To a measurable extent, we
Americans have cultivated an in
satiable thirst for change and limo
Walton. We want nothing so badly
as new methods and new devices.
We are intrigued by nothing
more distinctly than the thought
that there, is bound to be some
thing different just around the
corner, or just beyond tomorrow's
sunrise. The appetite for expert
ment, discovery and invention is in
our blood.
We are ruthlessly Indifferent as
to whom. it bankruptss or what, it
eliminates, just as our fathers and
grandfathers were before us.
If oil destroys half the capital in
coal mines, or forces half the miners
out of work, we put it calmly aside
as the price of progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
Fat or Lean?

Strange and varied the activities of the federal
government.
Experts will advise you all manner of things
where to sell carriers in Asia how to trap coyotes
Or on your weight. The bureau of home economics
for instance has discovered that weight generally is
an index to personal efficiency and can be controlled
to maintain your health and enable you to get the
maximum pleasure out of life.
And we learn "a thin person is apt to be nervous
and to have less resistance than the person of normal
weight Some reserve fat is desirable for Iel emer-
gencies :"
But fat person has too large q reS-rss which
represents load to be carried and thus reduces the
efficiency and general ability to get around"
The bureau has further advice on the tubiect
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
SCIENCE
incatc''ldbIe Damage Done TO
Men md Pons+o T., W..
BY DAVID DTEyTz

incGte'ldbIe Damage Done TO
Men and Beasts By Flies.
TWO decades ago or so. the fly
swatting campaigns were
launched and citizens learned the
dangers associated with the disease
carrying flies.
But it is probable that few people
other than trained biologists. realize
how destructive role flies play in
the drama of animal life.
Professor E. c. Faust>of the para
Sitology laboratory of the depart-
ment Of tropical medicine of Tulane
university, writes of the havoc done
Dy various types Of flies in the Sci
entltlc Monthly. Official publication
OF the American Assertion for the
advancement of Science.
from the point of view Of their
relations to parasitism." he writes
these insects may be divided into
Two groups, ID the filth and flesh
hleS and 90 the biting flies.
Even flies which otherwise are
are very closely related may be sep
arated on this basis, as, for exam
PIE, the ordinary house fly and the
stable fly.
Filth and flesh flies are q seri-
Gus menace to mammals" he saws.
IN the first place, they may in
troduce bacteria into accidentally
contracted wounds and produce a
bacterial infection.
More serious, however, is the de-
velopment Of larval stages of these
worms (maggotS) in the mammalian
body"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
ANA<A AOO4 Lands

IN this horrible case recently tried at Valparaiso
we saw once more the absurd spectacle of ex-
pert witnesses testifying pro and con- according to
the side which called them to the stand.
We do not question the honesty of such experts.
but we do know that in countless law suits preudiced
experts have given testimony and the time has come
to end the farce
And it can be stopped very easily
Instead of permitting both sides to select their
experts who bend their testimony to suit the needs
of those who called them the court should appoint
experts to testify, not for side or the other,
but for the cause of justice.
ITO permit one side the other to hire expert wit
nesses is as fragrant an outrage of decency as it
would be to permit side the other to hire com
mon witnesses to testify.
We do not rebel against the farce because we are
used to it,
The fashion experts tell us that cotton is to take
the place Of silk in feminine attire, but it's our own
private opinion that it will take surgical operation
to take the ladies out of silks and put them into
calico
If you were disposed to grumble over the recent
brief, belated visit Of the Storm King, just glance
backward toward December. January and February
and remember what mild hammered gentleman the
Did boy has been.
And if this is not enough, then think of the re-
gions that have had earthquakes.
TIP in Michigan two men were taken to the state
" prison in airpIane.
It is presumed that they first were searched for
parachutes
=
President Hoover has signed bill to put the head
OF George Washington upon next years quarters.
which leads to suggest that the buffalo nickels
should bear the likeness Of the wickersham commits
sion.
The honors showered upon Justice Holmes of the
supreme court of the United States remind one Of
the strange fact that the three liberals of our hieh
court come from great centers of reaction Holmes
and Brandes coming from Boston. and Stone from
New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

If they have been exposed they
should be watched carefully for the
time mentioned.
In those cases in which there
is a rash, as in measles, German
measles, and scarlet fever, enough
time should elapse after appear
ance of the rash to make certain
that the child is not infectious for
other children.
The time required is usually two
weeks in German measles, ten days
in measles and five days in scar
let fever.
In whooping cough, at least
twenty-one days should elapse after
the first appearance of the whoop
before the child is permitted con-
tact with other children and then
only provided it has stopped
coughing.
In mumps, contact with other
children should not be permitted
for three weeks after the swelling
has subsidized.
It is important to remember
that it is the excretions which
carry the disease and that cough
ing, splitting, sneezing, discharge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
We Need IDEAS

I AM not trying to throw cold water
l. On anybody's plan for relief. or
prevention. We need all the ideas
we can get along that line. In
a1lalyzing those ideas, however, we
must not overlook the power of
habit and tradition, as we did when
we adopted the eighteenth amend
ment, particularly when they have
been woven so thoroughly into our
conception of progress.
No other country on earth has
wrought such violent changes in its
methods of work, or ways of liv-
ing as We Americans during the
last century. Not only most of our
achievements, but most of our prob
lens, originate in that very fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
Biting Flies

T Under the group of biting flies
~ and their allies there is a very
large number Of species with varied
life histories, which have in common
the custom Of sucking blood" DR..
Faust says.
There are the common stable fly.
the horse flies, Chrysops, the tse-tse
flies of Africa, and many others
which belong to the larger species"
he says. Then there are the many
hundreds Of species of mosquitoes,
and sand flies, the midges, and the
black flies or buffalo gnats.
"The females Of all these smaller
forms suck blood, and while the
blood of birds is equally acceptable,
mammalian donors usually are more
available.
"In the large view, the irritation
produced by the bites Of flies IS in
calculable. When it is remembered,
however, that many of these flies
transmit disease which are far more
serious than their bites, the eco
nomic Importance Of this group will
be appreciated.
"Just to mention a few Of the
diseases. we may note the following.
Sleeping sickness Of man in Africa,
and the trypanosoniases in wild
and domestic mammals; all the
known species Of filarial infection in
man and mammals; yellow fever,
dengue, sand fly fever, and tular-
enia.
''The Importance Of these trans
mitters in human medicine Is just
beginning to be appreciated; their
significance in the causation of dis
ease in wild mammals still Is IN
fathomable."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
So to Mencken

TTENRY MENCKEN, in q, recent
4 4 interview, voiced a paradoxical
but wholly logical theory when he
commended that corruption is largely
caused by moral legislation.
I always have felt that the best
chance for honest administration in
large cities is the establishment Of
a code dealing with reasonable
minimum of requirements. Prac-
tically all reform mayors have failed
by an endeavor to cover too much
territory.
The column recently has been de-
voted to an outcry against corrup-
tion. My feeling in the matter is
sincere. It continues. But I have
no desire to be classed as a reformer
in the familiar sense Of the word.
I don't want, for myself or my
neighbors,a city without speakeasies
Nor have I ever understood the
utility of any sort Of curfew ordi-
nance.
The problem of PROSTITUTION
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

We Americans Haze Deuel.
oped an Unsuitable Thirst
for Change and Invocation.
SAYS

for Change and innovation.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, March IA
Il Our industrial setup is largely
the creature Of discovery and in
yention. If progress is to continue,
it must remain so. Unless we are
prepared to stop where we are,
there is no choice but to assume
that the next half century will see
as many changes as has the last.
What did the telephone, the
auto, or even steel amount to fifty
years ago?
BY the same token, who can say
what they will amount to fifty
years hence?
If American civilization stands
for one thing more than another, it
is the accelerated pace of evolu-
tionary processes along scientific
and mechanical lines. Movement,
whether from a physical, intelIec-
tual, or economic standpoint, has
beer its driving force.
The element of individualism and
self-sufhciency on the part of a
large percentage of the people
made it possible to carry on this
rnOvement with a minimum of
suffering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

NAL de mer an da little civic right
eousness thrown in.
l. realized that there is a differ
ence between amateur cabaret at
tendance and sheer professionalism.
I venture my friend, the police
man, winces each time he sees the
waiter bearing checks including
cover charges. And to himself he
probably says, And do those Saps
really pay money for this?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

Emtors journal or the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TINE common contagious diseases
Il include measles, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, whooping cough, mumps,
chickenpox, and German measles.
The prevention of these diseases
involves primarily the keeping away
from people who have them.
It takes from one to seven days
for diphtheria to develop after the
child has been exposed to it: from
four to seven days for scarlet fever;
from seven to fourteen days for
wtooping cough. from ten to four
teen days for measles, and from
fourteen days to three weeks for
chici1enpox, mumps. and German
measles.
It is, therefore, safe for other
children if parents will be certain
that their own children, when they
have these diseases, are not per-
nitted outdoors and in contact with
other children until they have been
pronounced cured and safe by the
physician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
ZZEL%Sm
-T7doAKF b1TE1eI
lANSAlVER$ARYl
RUYSDAEL'S BIRTH
March il

ON March IA. 1923, Jacob Rugs
" dael, the most eminent paint
er of the Dutch school, was born
at Harlem, Holland.
After studying under his uncle,
Jacob was received into the guild
in his home town. He moved to
Amsterdam about 1866, and soon
obtained citizenship rights.
At this time he travelled widely
in his native land and in the out
lying hill region Of Germany.
He was a close observer Of ma
ture and chose for his paintings
the fat and homely scenery Of his
native country, with lonely ham
lets, water mills, dark sheets Of
water overshadowed by trees.
His forest, mountain and water
fall scenes are called highly poetic.
In 1851 Ruysdael returned to
Harlem, poor and sick. and his
Mennonite coreligionists procured
for him admission to the aims
house, where he died in March,
1852,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
Air Mail Scandals

Congress voted to investigate the air mail This
inquiry should be started soon, and conducted with
thoroughness.
Since air mail was transferred from the postofice
department to private contractors four years ago there
has been need for major operation to let the public
and congress see what's inside
TSere have been too many whisperings and grllm-
bl1ngs against the postofice department to be ig-
nored permanently. There have been charges of
favoritism and unethical tactics
1t is time to find out if they are true If not both
the postofice and the air mail contractors should be
freed from the burden of suspicion
The postoffice says it is ready to face any in
quiry. Many of the operators welcome it, for they
feel that if given the opportunity to show congress
what it costs to run air line future appropria-
tons will be easier to get.
We trust the investigators will go to the bottom
and hear all Sides
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

Following is the explanation Of
Ripley'S Believe It or Not which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Herman Phillips Rode Six Win
ners in One Dayton July 5, 1916,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

in Reno, New. Herman Phillips,
a 16-year-old apprentice boy,
made one of the greatest riding
records in the history Of the turf.
Phillips rode the winners Of the
entire card of six races.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

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, 1931-03-14

Of diet, what foods to eat and SO FORTH to lose or
gain
Now II the department of agriculture just will
devise some means to enable 100000 out of work to
get the wherewithal to buy food for themselves and
their families, everything will be lovely Mother and
daughter can have slim, lovely figures and papa can
avoid a paunch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

r WATCHED MIN CLOSELY anu 4IC
never so much as smiled at a
single one of the jokes. They are.
as far as he is concerned, thrice
told tales.
The man picked for this fixed
post does not seem to me much OF
a bon vivant. He eyes the hilarity
of Broadway at play with sourness
and silence.
OF course, it isn't a great deal of
fun to sit thus on the fringe of
revelry and have no share in it.
AS far as 1 know, nobody ever has
taken the trouble to ask him if he
tangoes.
Probably it's an excessive IA
miliarity with the routine which
leaves him so sober minded in the
early hours of hight nks.
A lady clad in Scanty raiment may
be capable of producing a thrill
under certain circumstances. But
one may well turn a cold and sui
len eye upon the entire sex if twen-
ty-five bathing beauties are paraded
thrice night before his seat in the
reviewing stand.
I wonder what effect the assign
ment has upon the home life of the
policeman. I seem to see him re-
turning at the end OF. a hard days
work at the Argonaut and breaking
into sobs as he finds his family
listening to Cheerful Little Earful"
over the radio.
1t was a fine lesson for me. In a
moment of enthusiasm about the
dancing Of a small Mexican miss in
the show I almost had resolved to
place subscription for 365 nights
at a front row table.
Then happened to catch the
look upon the face of the resident
policeman. It was mixture of
acute boredom. with q touch Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
TT SEEMS TO ME BY H BESSS

which generally goes under the eu-
phenlistic name of "vice" in news
papers-is admittedly difficult one
in large cities.
I am not for recognition and
regulation. The theory sometimes
sounds persuasive. But it seems to
me that, in fact, it must always
lead to corruption.
Yet we will get far beyond the
reasonable minimum Of which I
have spoken if any administration
undertakes to wipe out immortality
completely. 1t can't be done.
And in the effort, a number Of
innocent people are certain to be
unjustly arrested. It is ample to
suppress merely fragrant and open
commercialized vice.
I doubt that a majority of New
Workers want this town turned into
a Cody city. III admit that the
present danger OF any such contin-
gsncy is remote. But gay city
need not be a corrupt one.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
What are the seating capacities
Of the stadium of the University of
Southern California, Stanford uni
versity and the Rose Bowl at Pasa-
dena?
The University Of Southern Cali
fornia stadium at Los Angeles
$4,000 and the Rose Bowl at Pasa-
dena 10000.
What does the name Columbus
mean?
1t is from the Latin and means
"a dove"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

Champagne, according to a dentist ruins the teeth.
That objection, however, can easily be brushed aside
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

"And how's my grub today2" as the insect affec.
tionately addressed his larvae.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

publishing house soon to open in New York will
issue books without the names of the authors This
undoubtedly will discourage writer's contemplating
racy biographies of the great.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

Twin liners have been named after Hoover and
Coolidge. And we'll wager Hoover wishes he were in
Gals boat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
Daily Thought

For it came to pass, when Solo
mon was old, that his wives
turned away his heart after other
gods: and his heart was not per-
feet with the Lord his God, as was
the heart Of David his father
I Kings IA.
Idoltary is certainly the first born
IF fol1v-SoI1ft1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
They DO, Too!

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

A POLICEMAN sits each night at
"a a fsr, corner table in the Club
Argonaut-noisiest and roWdiest Of
New York night clubs. I have been
trying to get up my nerve to inter
view him and find out what he
thinks of the newest styles in chorus
girl costumes, Broadway gaiety, the
show itself and life in general.
His presence indicates a curious
sort of compromise. The show is
very much the same as that which
grsced the Club Abbel. And SEEM
ingly it is the feeling of social New
York that such an entertainment
may not be allowed to proceed with
out some sort of supervision.
And so there is a resident guar
dian c. the law, whose job, I assume,
is to see that no other judges wave
a pleasant farewell and step out into
the night of notlaingness.
But 1 look upon this lone cop IN
the cabaret as one who is blasted for
the sins Of the people.
Three times a highland some
times four-the show goes on. The
man in blue and buttons knows
every line Of it by now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14

TN this horrible case recently tried at Valparaiso
we saw once more the absurd spectacle of ex-
pert witnesses testfying pro and con- according to
the side which called them to the stand
The Nome nugget., 1931-08-29
Is EXPELLED

LONDON, Aug. 29, tAP) Mae Donald was expellet from the Hampstead labor y,s~y fer join ing the anti-socialist governm ent. formed for the purpose Of fore ing thru Parliament, auti-Eorkiug class legislation" Such was the text announced by tda general council which acted On recommeu- dations adopted by the executive committee, accusing MacDonaId of Of "'disloyalty to the party and op- enly fouting the pi-ty's princi- ples''
 A program for restoring British finances to the right side of the ledger, was turned over to com mittees to handle thru parliament
The Nome nugget., 1931-08-29
NEW AIRPLASE COMPANY
 STARTS AT NOME

A new atrplane company doing a3mmercia! as well as instruction flying, is due co start in this sec tion within very shore time.
 The Ferguson Bros. of Shung- uak. who received q small Great Lakes training ship on this trip of the steamer Baldwin, ara plan ming on starting an atrplana com pany- op4ruting in the koczebua and Noms sections Their new plane is d small tw5-seater power ed Dy g. horsepower Cirrus ea- zine, capable of top speed Of tt0 miles per hour and about go miles an hour cruising speed. The fu!l fuel capacity is rated at 26 gallons, and the engine burns six gallons an hour. Chester Brown. transport pilot from Colorado, accompanied the plane on the yas- sel. The plane is a biplan4 and will undoubtedly be used prtmar- fly for student instruction and mail and freight business.
 Archie Ferguson arrived in Nome Wednesday via plane from kotzebua and the new plane was assembled and test hoped Thurs day, taking of Friday morning for it's first flight to kotzebue with pilot Brown and Ferguson tu u 2 ship.
 The plane is due to return to Nome again in 2 few days and will then make a flight to Fair banks. W. R. Graham of Nome is at present the temporary agent for the Ferguson Bros. and he will have charge of the operations in this section. A new four or five place cabin plane has been ordered. and will probably arrive ion the September sailing of the Victoria
The Nome nugget., 1931-08-29
STILL ARGUING

LONDON, Aug. 2S, (AP)-Mac Donald, saying that his path lay straight ahead on the course of the new government, defied the ranks and organization of Labor which opposed him in this hour of emergency. Smowden likewise said he would fight to the finish with the new ministry. He announced he would not seek reelection at the next general election.
 MacDonald's decision regarding his political future was withheld until he learns the verdict of his constituents in Seaham Harbor, who are meeting tonight to pass judgment On his leadership of the government.