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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HE FYS42S

CHARLIE CURTIS of Kansas has
" announced that he is willing to
accept another nomination for Vice
President, and apparently nothing
can be done about it. AS matter
of fact, it would be extremely diff
cult to offer any argument against
his candidacy, for the incumbent is,
as theatrical producers say, just the
type.
Still it seems to me curious that
the office is treated with such flag
rant contempt. The Vice-Presidency
is not at all bag gamble for the
ambitious politician. Only a heart
beat stands between the holder and
the highest executive Office within
the gift of either machine.
Several men have gone from this
obscure post into the White House.
And yet every convention behaves
as if the tail of the ticket we're a
matter Of no consequence whatso-
ever.
Small men have been nominated
for the Presidency and elected. But
even Herbert Hoover looms like an
Alp in comparison with some of the
Republican Vice-Presidents. And
naturally I have Mr.. Curtis par
ticularly in mind,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Politics Taboo
THIS is no time for the CHS

THIS is no time for the chief ex-
Il ecutive, or any other responsible
leader to give the slightest thought
to the political effect of measures.
The nation is threatened too seri-
ously for that. The best that can
be done with the whole-hearted CO.
operation of all concerned will prove
none too good.
We have helped other countries
balance their budgets only to find
our own badly out of equilibrium.
we nave concerned ourselves with
German reparations, the British
dole and moratoria for every one
but ourselves, when we ought to
have been more concerned with the
adjustment of expenses to income
or vice versa right here at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Science PROGRESS

TINE latest news in every field of
Il science will be discussed during
the meeting, which will last until
Jan. 2.
Some of the papers scheduled
have an immediate appeal to the
layman. as for example, one by DR..
Irving Fisher OF Yale university,
titled First Principles of Booms
and Depressions." a.
In others, the news is hidden be-
meath a complex technical title, as
for example, a paper by DR.. P. w
Bridgman of Harvard university,
titled Statistical Mechanics and
the Second Law of Thermody-
namics."
This paper, as the title indicates
to student of recent atomic theory,
will deal with the latest theories of
the nature of the atom and of
energy.
Another interesting paper, by DR..
H. H. Kimball of the United States
weather bureau will deal with the
relation between the sun and our
weather. 1t is titled "Solar Radia-
ton as a Meteorological Factor"
Other papers include the follow
ing:
THE Romance of the Next Deci-
NAL Place" by Professor F. K.
Richtmeyer.
Engineering Problems of the
Mississippi River" by Professor
Floyd Nagler of the University of
Iowa.
Calculus of Variations of the
Quantum Theory" by Professor G.
A. Bliss of the University of Chi
cago.
Geology of the Gulf Coastal
Plains" by Professor R. A. Stein
mayor of Tulane university.
1.-THE Organic Nutrition of Plants"
by DR.. E. j. Kraus Of the University
of Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

hours of the week constitutes a dav
OF rest and abnegation.
80 ! think that posterity we'll may
lnscrlbe the name of Charles Curtis
IN the list of unsung heroes. When
hrst he accepted exile he may not
nave realized completely what the
lie OF an outcast would mean.
Like Robinson CruSo and the cast
Always of Cocos Island, his Danish
ment came more or less as a sur
prise. But this time he goes with
MS eyes open to spend another four
years of solitude, subsisting as best
ne can upon the flesh of wild hogs
ana shellf1sh. His martyrdom is of
his own choosing.
Copyright 1881. bv The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
No Laughing Matter

nONT be fooled by the cheap
~ twitter of optimism with which
we have schooled ourselves to ap-
proach every financial problem at
Washington.
A two billion dollar deficit is no
laughing matter, even in these
United States, especially at a time
when most other countries seem OBJ
seSsed with the idea of blocking our
trade with tariffs.
We are running behind, and we
are running behind fast. That means
higher taxes, or increased debt. Nor
would the higher taxes do much
good If confined to a few spots, or
few articles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Must Pay Up

TT would take at least SIS from
Il every man, woman and child to
wipe out this years deficit, and there
is small reason to suppose that it
would take less to wipe out next
years.
\ That doesn't sound so big-onlv
sou, or sos for the average family
put when you add it to state taxes,
city taxes, school taxes and an in
calculable variety of district taxes.
1t means a lot. It means so much,
indeed, that no one yet has been
able to devise a satisfactory plan.
OF course, every one would like
to pass the buck, but that can't 90
on forever. Sooner or later, we are
going to have to face the music.
adopt program and pay up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

with curious delusion once he was
indicted into Office. If no one else
chose to take his job seriously, he
purpoSed to constitute a minority of
one. Accordingly, he thrust aside
childish things and no longer par
ticipated in jackpots or roodles.
1t was not fitting for Vice-P resi-
dent. Indeed, the change came
upon him even before election. The
nomination itself was enough to
freeze his features into a grim de-
termination to look like a sculp-
tured leader.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Hoover Opportunity

IT is true That Democrats control
l. the lower house of congress and
that nothing can be done without
their consent, but it is equally true
chat Republicans control the upper
house and that nothing can be done
without their consent.
For the very same reason that
neither party is in position to
have its way, neither can be held
Wholly accountable for what occurs.
AS a matter of common sense, di-
vided control not only gives the
President a great opportunity for
leadership, but demands that ne
make the most of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Stands on Dipnitv

T REMEMBER that on the day
4 after the bad news was trans
mitted to him group of newspaper
men and photographers called at his
home to perform the last rites.
1t is customary to interview a
Vice-President just once before he
enters into his four years of silence.
And Charlie Curtis muffed his single
chance to declare himself. Instead
of the genial senator the gentlemen
of the press found a statesman. He
waved aside the man with pads and
tripods, saying, mot on the Sab
bath, boys"
AS matter of fact, the occasion
of the interview did happen to be a
Sunday. But how a Vice-President
would know that I do not under
stand. For him each twenty-four
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Scientists Of Nation VIII Re-
Uiea0 achievements Of the
Year at NetO Orleans Con-
rention, Opening Dec. %.
THE days between Christmas and
Il New Years day are vacation
days for college students and school
pupils. But not for their professors
and instructors. They are the IA
vorite days for annual meetings of
learned societies.
AS usual, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science will
hold its meeting at that time. This
association, the nations largest and
most important scientific organiza-
ton, will convene on Dec. Is in New
Orleans.
AS in past years, the meeting will
be divided into fifteen subsidiary
sections, each one dealing with an
important branch of science. Still
more sessions will be held by the
thirty-four affiliated scientific So
cieties which will convene in New,
Orleans at the same time.
1t is expected that about 5000 of
Americas leading scientists will at
tend the meeting. 1t will be the
eighty-ninth meeting of the as
ISOLATION and the second time that
the meeting was held in New Or
leans. The previous occasion was
in 1905.
DR.. Franz Boas. famous anthro-
pologist of Columbia university, is
president of the association. The
retiring president is DR.. Thomas
Hunt Morgan of California Institute
of Technology. DR.. Morgan is
famous for his researches upon the
problems of heredity. Both men are
to give addresses at the New Or
leans meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
The Willing Auto

SaIes-tax evangeists who argue that their scheme
Is IDEAL because of its panessness should take Close
up LOOK at the workings of one big example of the
safes 4eVy-the tax on gasoline. They will see how
Chere mas come to be loaded upon the backs of Aer
can motorists burden that is making them crv oft
In Tomething very much akin to pain.
Originally the state gas tax was intended as road
builder and repairer. Soon because of its easy ex
ldcVion' II was put to all sorts of chores Florida
began spending gas-tax money on schools New
Jersey voted $17OOO,OOO bond issue for charitable
institutions and water the bonds fo which are to he
retired from gas tax collections
California is proposing a $25OOOOOO relief bond
ISSUE to be paid for by 1-cent addition to it's 3cent
TAX Proposals have come for county gas tax Ievies
federal gas tax has been suggested Already $40 :
100000 is being spent annually from gas taxes non
other things than roads
Every state in the Union now has gas tax. The
leVles run from cents gallon to Florida's 7cent
TAX Gas taxes now bring in estimated $495 600 O00
year In gas, registration, and personal property
taxes, motorists now pay out more than ST. 900
year.
OF course this huge burden means double TAXATION
1t results in evasions in racketeerng in bootleggng
of gasoline, in other abuses Soon it will begin to b
reflected seriously in diminishing returns to the auto
and allied industries
Here, then, is the sales tax in high gear and going
the legal limit of speed. We're working the willing
hcrse-or auto-to death. 1t should be warning
against making universal this painless" scheme for
raising revenue.
England may be hungry. but if newspaper ac-
Re
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter.
eSting writers and are pre.
SeDted without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Land o. Plenty

The composite yield of crops to the acre upon
American farms is II per cent greater for the harvest
lust closing than it was year ago. the United States
department OF agrcultsires bureau of economics an
nounces Larger than average crops include cotton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE object of an annual or semi
Il annual survey of health by a
physician is to find out whether or
not any conditions detrimental to
health or to life have begun their
ravages, in order that they may be
controlled before they reach the
point beyond which control is i'm
possible.
Today mothers are receiving
splendid information on the care
of their children.
However, as DR.. Joseph c. Blood
good recently pointed out, it is
high time that a beginning be
made in a systematic and effective
manner in the instruction of moth
ers so as to give to them the same
protection that the children receive.
Up to 1900, more than 80 per cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
Daily Thought

Having land, sold it, and
brought the money, and laid it at
the apostles feet--Acts 4:37. /.
AS the purse is emptied, the heart
is fllled-Victor Hugo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
A Sort of CoSn0iC Jest

7 SUPPOSE that even the most
Il rock-ribbed Republicans would
grant that it would be utterly fan
taStic to have Charlie Curtis assume
the reinS of government. Probably
nobody ever even has considered
this prospect. 1t has been salts
factory all around to bury him in
the minor office.
Washington correspondents tell
me that Charlie has endeavored to
wiggle a finger now and then to in
dictate that he still is in the land of
the living, although a Vice-PreSi-
dent. He has changed the Office
fixtures in order to create an i'm
preston of Importance.
The vastest desk ever known in
our national capital has been placed
| in his office. Upon it a marathon
dance or a miniature football game
could be conducted. And the shin
ing surface is forever bare of papers,
for, after all, Vice-President does
not have to figure or calculate. He
is among those who serve by stand
ing and waiting.
The real mystery lies in the eager
ness OF Curtis TO immediate himself
once again. No doubt he must re-
member those articulate days of his
own when he served as senator from
the state of Kansas.
This is not the most impressive
| post in our democracy. But a
senator at least gets his picture in
| the rotogravure sections upon occa-
sion, and there are close contests in
which his opinion and his support
are sought by promoters of good or
bad causes.
Man Whom Nobody Knows
DUT who cares what the Vice
- President thinks? Who, indeed,
has ever made any investigation
into the problem Of whether a Vice
President thinks at all?
Moreover, the private life of the
substitute executive hardly can be
pleasing to a man like Charlie
Curtis. Before they walled him up,
Senator Curtis was among the good
time boys of Washington. I have
heard it said that, although he was
no statesman, he graced the life Of
the capital through the fact that he
played just about the best game of
poker prevalent in official circles
Now he deals and shuff1es no more
II mean as far as cards are con-
cerned.
Vice-President Curtis was seized
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

The government is closing four military posts. Add
ing few more soldiers to the army of unemployed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

tobacco, apples and winter wheat. Corn and potato
crops are average.
But the marketward movement of grain, potatoes
and apples is comparatively light, because of low
prices. The farmers plight is seen in the following
picture:
The wholesale price level of all commodities is
practically at the pre-war index of 100.
Farm taxes exceed ESQ.,
Farm wages are about 12O
Prices OF things bought by the farmers are 125.
Prices received by farmers for their products aver
age about TO-
thus the current snapshot of the American farmer
Is that Of man who stands in front of his bursting
barns with his hands-and nothing ese-in his
pockets And in the city is the man who needs the
farmers products, but has no money to buy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05

England may be hungry, but if newspaper &C
counts are correct it still has its Irish stew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-05
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14
AIRCRAFT WILL
 BE SUPERIOR IN. ANY FUTURE WARS
Rear Admiral M0ffett Sees the Big Guns and Float ing Fortresses Pushed One Side

Baltimore. May 14. (UP)-A time when big guns and hoating fortresses of the navy will be push- ed back into a minor role in sea warfare was foreseen last night by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of aeronau- tics.
 Addressing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Moffett prophesied that aircraft will in fu- ture wars be the main reliance Of the nation, with "the gun, as we know it and use it to-day In sec- ondary position. Aircraft had a minor role in the last war. .<but it will profoundly change the methods of all future wars to an infinitely greater degree than we can vision to-day"
 Surface vessels in that war, he said. will be "obliterated" if they come within range of large numbers of aircraft with shore bases, unless adequately protected by aircraft.
 The airplane, he added, "1s In ts infancy and improving almost daily. The gun projects a shell 20 miles; inc airplane 10 times as far. The airplane is a flying bomb, torpedo, and scout, a spotter. a high altitude bomber, a diving bomber, a nying machine gun, a means of radio com munition and in the not distant ru- ture, of television."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14

imposes a capital investment of $200 to $500 per animal. With 1 milking machines 8 New Zealand farmer and his boy can handle 60 or 75 cows. And there's a terrible sock at our foreign dairy markets.
 Too Much Wheat
 The wheat situation, according to Russell, is primarily due to
 enormous expansion of acreage in
 all countries where cheap land
 the war. Huge expansions were made in Australia, Argentine, Canada and the United States.
 Farmers acted like manufacturers who doubled or trebled their plnts
 for rush business; they mechanical
 the grain industry, too. further adding to surplus.
 To save paying out gold, European nations, especially in postwar years, have been making every effort to increase their own
 food supplies and buy less from America and other exporters. Now Russia comes along with 1imitless possibilities for wheat expansion and plenty of indication that she
 will take advantage of them. AL
 ready Russia has undersold Ameri- can cotton in the Manchester mar
 ket; she expects to lead the world
 market as a buyer next year. Pre- | 900 to 900,O00 bales of cotton q
 year, of which we supplied more than half. Now she has increased
 her own cotton production from 41,000 bales In 1921 to an estimated I B00 900 bales in 19S1
 r. Consumption Drops
 Then there is the factor of re-
 duced consumption, especially of
 cereals, in Europe as well as America. Calories in pre-war diets
 were much more numerous.
 Among countries using tariff in the effort to grow thier- own food Germany has a duty of $1.62 a
 bushel--more than twice the world market price and France has
 raised it's wheat duty 400 per cent in four years.
 Russell says world agriculture's obvious problem is to reduce pro-
 duction to existing need but that competing countries will not rec strict acreage unless under an ef-
 fective international agreement. At the recent international grain conference in Rome Soviet Russia
 fatly refused to accede to any agreement for acreage restriction. There is one remedy American n
 farmers can apply which will start them on the way to making a com
 fortable livelihood, said President
 Melvin A. Traylor of Chicago's
 First National Bank.
 Say Farmer Can Save Himself "When We find that on about 20 per cent of our farms there is not a milch cow or chicken, that on
 more than 30 percent not a hog
 and about 90 per cent not a sheep,
 when we know that on many Vf
 our large farms no gardens are kept and almost every article of food is purchased at the store" Traylor said, i've are forced to. the conclu- sion that the farmer, by and large, is not farming as he should. As far as possible every farmer should produce his own milk and dairy products, his own meat and his own l poultry, raise his own garden truck
 and can the fruit and vegetables he requires for winter use.
 Until he obtains from his farm
 every item for personal consump- ton which is humanely possible
 for him to produce he has not done
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14
GEORGE F. BAKER MAY HAVE LEFT
 $75,OO0,0O0
Technical Term of $2O,OOO Used in Filing Will- How He Disposed of His Estate

New York. May 14.-(UP)-one of America's great fortunes. built up in an antiquated second floor once in Wall street, was disposed of when the will of George F. Baker, dean of U. 8. fianciers. was filed in surrogate's court.
 There was no indication of what size the estate would be-the will merely using the technical term of "more than $20.000''-but unofficial estimates placed the fortune at $76,- 100000. It was recalled that Ba- ker was one of the great stockhold- CTS in the First National bank, which he presided over for scores of years; of the United States Steel corpora tion; and of the American Tele- graph and Telephone company. In addition he was interested in many other great concerns.
 In his life time Baker gave away millions to charities and to educa- tion. But at his death there were only . few bequests outside of his immediate family, with the bulk Of the estate going to George F. Ba- ker, Jr, who more and more of re- cent years has followed In the foot- steps of his eminent father.
 Two daughters, Mrs Evelyn B. St George and Mrs Florence B. Lowe, were bequeathed $5.000.000 each; the personal properties-apparently referring to the residences in New York city. Tuxedo Park and on an island off Brunswick, Ga-were left to the three children.
 Other bequests included:
 Protestant Episcopal cathedral at Washington, $250,000 Gin memory of Bakers parents. MT and Mrs George P. Bakery
 New 'York public library-ss5o.-
 New York Exchange for woman's work-$25,000.
 Tuxedo Memorial hospital-$25o.- 900,
 Frank Rysavy, Bakers secretary -$250,000.
 Michael Birsch. an employe-$15.- 900.
 Claire Chaplin-$1o.oo0.
 William Billings and wife-$10,- 900.
 The residuary estate goes to the son.
 George F. Baker, Jr, is named ex- ecutor and in event of his death the First National bank is named as ex- ecutor. The will. dated May 21. 1880 with a codicil attached April 14, 1881, provided that no bond or other security shall be required of any executor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14

My only regret" he said, 'ig that shall never be able to stand be- fore another student body, carry on."
 In the days that followed the phy- sicians' announcement there was no hope, Dr. Brooks alternated between working at the diplomas and sitting alone with his wife, holding her hand and recalling the years they had spent together. Toward the end he called in Neff. who had been his roommate at Baylor, and they talk. ed of college days.
 Neff was in the flower-banked hos pital when death struck. Dean w. 5. Allen, acting president of Baylor since Dr. Brooks was incapacitated. was the only other person present except members of the family.
 Funeral services will be held Fri- day afternoon in Waco hall, $2,0OO.- 900 auditorium presented to pr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14

died to-day after losing courageous fight to sign 42e diplomas for spring graduates before death came.
 The veteran educator passed away at 1915 a. m., leaving 16e of the diplomas still unsigned. Even after physicians had told him that death was near and that any exertion would shorten his life, Brooks fought on in an effort to leave his signature on all the 428 diplomas as the mark of "a last task" completed for his students, but he failed.
 Death was caused by internal can- cer. He had been in a coma since yesterday. His wife; a daughter, Mrs. Aurelia Brooks; his son. Sims, prom inent Waco attorney, and his boy hood schoolmate, Pat M. Neff, for rf1er governor of Texas, were with him when he died. Dr. Brooks, who was 67 years old, was stricken several months ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-14

Slowly the illness increased until more than a week ago physiciens declared positively the educator could not live more than two weeks longer. It was after that he made the valiant fight to sign the dip- lomas for the students to be grad uated next week.
 To the end, Dr. Brooks displayed the same indominable spirit which had inspired his boyh0od studies by a kerosene lamp. his work as a rail- road section hand, his studies at Baylor and Yale, and his years as president of the oldest institution of higher education on Texas oil.
 When on May his doctors told him he had but a few weeks to live, he set about systematically rounding out his active life. The 428 diplomas he wished to feave as a last "me- mento" to the students and the school.