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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Not a Navigator

@ EEMINGLY his honor crossed
- the broad Atlantic in daze and
was not conscious Of passing the
12-mile limit.
He appears to have labored under
the misrepresentation that he and
his fellow strobe into the banquet
hall by the process of rapping three
times upon the outer gate and say
ing: rs this Tony's?- Let me in.
I'm a friend of Charlie Duck
worth's."
Or possibly John c. Porter feels
that Los Angeles maintains extra
territorial rights in France. Where
he sets down his foot there is some
portion of the earth that is forever
California.
Once outside the den of iniquity,
where the champagne flowed but
never touched the Porters, the
mayor Of Los Angeles issued for
NAL statement to the members Of
the press:
Yes we are dry said Mr.. Porter.
I'VE believe in following the Amer
lean Constitution, even when on for
eign soil. We have not taken one
drink since we left the United
States, and we don't intend to touch
alcoholic stimulants while in
France"
OF course, the point, from legal
standpoint, is not SO much whether
Mr.. Porter follows the American
Constitution as whether the Con-
stittuion follows him. He seems so
labor under the delusion that he is
a flag
OF course, it is not against the
Constitution to take. a drink here in
the United States if you can get it.
And still less gould the supreme
court maintain that the eighteenth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Z Os ANGELES is. I assume.

I'd ANGELEO is, assume, a
~ large city. It must be, because
am told that it is the final resting
place Of all those who get bored
with living in the state of Iowa.
And SO the conduct Of Mayor John
c. Porter is not wholly a matter of
his personal concern. Indeed, even
those of us who have no intention
whatsoever of living in Los Angeles
have stake in the. behavior of
this American official now partici-
pating in a good will tour of France.
If the French were acquainted in
timately with the models and man
ners of our nation, the blighterisln
Of Mayor Porter might have been
dismissed with mere shrug and
the exclamation, ooh, that's just
Los Angeles manners"
However, the inevitable criticism
will hit a larger body, and it may
possibly be felt in France that John
c. Porter is an American type.
You probably have read of his
rudenesS at banquet given for
eighteen visitin mayors at Havre. g..
The mayor of Havre just had
raised his glass of champagne and
invited his guests to drink the
healths OF the president of France
and the President of the United
States. u
At this moment commotion was
observed in the Porter family Mr..
Porter, speaking in his native
tongue, exclaimed loudly that he
could not permit himself or his wife
to be photographed in the midst of
such lawbreaking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
SAYS:

Since the Da1cn of Time.
Depression, Drought and
Other Disasters Haze
Dogged Man, and He Has
Found No Woy to Eludt
Them.
A S 1 understand it, the latest
IN economic fad is to discourage
the accumulation Of about every
thing except cash. Nor is it par
ticularly strong for cash, if credit
can be had.
Just enough rooms to go around
if you please, just enough food in
sight for the next meal, and just
enough autos, vacuum cleaners, or
other contraptions to meet the i'm
mediate demand.
Experts describe it as a scientific
adjustment of production to con-
sumption. Grandfather had a
simpler name. He called it hand
to-mouth shiftlessneSs." .
Grandfather didn't worry If there
were two or three spare. rooms in
his house or more vegetables in the
cellar than the family could pos
sibly eat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Is This Idea Good2

IF modern industry can't provide
J. work without forcing people to
dwell on the thin edge of things
is it so good?
If We must empty the grain mar
ket each year, regardless of flood
and famine, or the cotton market
regardless of what worms and Wee
wills may do to the next crop, have
We discovered such safe or excel
lent scheme? ---
Why are we so scared of the
wheat on hand? 1t won't spoil if
properly stored, and it might come
in handy some day.
What's the big idea in not want
ing anything to spare save money?
Money won't keep starving peo-
pie alive unless food is available.
AS a matter Of fact, money is of
no value whatever except as it can
be exchanged for essentials, which
means that we can not be safe
without keeping an adequate supply
OF essentials en- hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Loan-WeeviIs
conditions,

new aspect Of the down-and-out farmers diff
Guilty just has come to light
After he has plowed through the ntricacies of the
various documents that lie between him and gov
eminent seed loan and at last has received the cash
he needs for start, it now appears that he is
forthwith beset by creditors.
When he protests that this money represents his
stake from the government toward new crop, and
refuses to turn it over the creditors go to court to
garnishee the funds.
The hort-sghtedness OF such conduct is almost
incredible The agriculture department has done well
to appeal to Acknowledgement Mitchell for legal
action to protect Uncle SANS investment in the
farmers future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Its Great TELESCOPES


CALIFORNIA long has been ia
~ nous for its great telescopes.
In fact, its obserVatories, because of
the excellence Of their equipment.
constitute a sort of supreme court
for the realm of astronomy.
Not few debates in astronomical
circles are settled by the evidence of
the gigantic telescopes of California.
The two great observatories are
Lick observatory, associated with
the University of California, and
Mt. Wilson observatory, operated by
the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington.
Lick observatory is located on Mt.
Hamilton. For many years its direc-
tor was DR.. w. w. Campbell, who
later became president of the Uni
versity of California.
1t was the measurement of the
eclipse photos by DR.. Campbell and
his associate, DR.. Trumpler, which
verified the displacement of the star
images as predicted by Professor
Albert Einstein in his famous theory
Of relatively.
Mt. Wilson observatory is located
on Mt. Wilson near Pasadena. The
observatory contains the 100-inch
telescope, the largest telescope in
the world.
The observatory also maintains
laboratories and machine shops in
Pasadena, and because Of its near
ness to the California Institute of
Technology. many problems are at
tackled Jointly by the scientists of
the two organizations.
Mt. Wilson observatory was de-
signed by DR.. George Ellery Hale.
now its honorary director. DR.. Hale
now has private observatory In
Pasadena, where he carries on his
researches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN,
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health

Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine. '-oN
NIFHTHERIA is one of the dis
~ eases about which. scientific
medicine has most information, yet
the condition is far from being
under complete control.
Every year the American Medical
Association checks the records Of
ninety-three cities, with a view to
finding out the extent to which the
disease is gaining Roadway or being
subdued in each one Of them.
Duluth and Salt Lake City had
only one death from diphtheria in
1890 and in both cases the victim
was a nonresident. San Diego,
Cal, had three deaths from diph-
liberia, all of which were non-resi-
dents.
All the New England cities, ex-
cept Waterbury and Summerville,
had lower rates for 1880 than for the
preceding hVe-year average. ~9
The rates for New York City, 2.9
and for Philadelphia, rs, are as
founding when it is considered that
the rate for New York City between
1890 and 1894, before the discovery
Of antitoxin, was 1874; from 1900
to 1904, So; from 1915 to 1919, 21.8.
and from 1925 to 1929, 10.7.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
F annOuS Laboratories

THE University of California.
A. founded in 1868, was the result
Of state, federal and private enter
prise. The Governor signed the bill
creating the university on March
%, 1868, and the doors Of the new
institution were opened in Septem-
ber 1869.
The University of Southern Cali
fornia was founded in 1880.
Leland Stanford Junior university.
given by Leland Stanford and his
wife in memory of their son, was
established in 1885. The corner
stone was laid in 1887 and in
Struction begun in 1891.
In connection with the school of
biological sciences at this university.
there is one of the finest marine
laboratories in the world 1t is
known as the Hopkins Marine sta
ton and is situated on Cabrillo
Point on Monterey Bay.
The laboratory contains two units.
both named after famous biologists.
The first, known as the Alexander
AggaSSlz laboratory, was built in
1917, the second, known as the
Jacques Loeb laboratory was COM
pleted in 1923.
Another famous marine iabora-
tory in California is the Scripps In
stitution of Oceanography, founded
in 1912 through the generosity of
MISS Ellen ScrippS and others. This
laboratory, located at La Jolla. is
associated with the University of
California.
The California Institute of Tech
nology, much in the news recently
as one of Professor Einstein's hosts.
was founded in 1891.
Gal Tech" includes a notable
group Of laboratories, among them
the Norman Bridge laboratory of
physics which is under the direc-
ton Of Dr. Robert A. Millikan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Can Not Dodge the Issue

49, = ~ WOW (llO iOOAO
THE situation we have been
81 through during the last eighteen
months, and which still is with us,
should not be regarded as excep-
tIonal or unlikely to occur again.
Since the dawn of time, drought,
depression, and other forms of wide
spread disaster have logged mems
paths. We have discovered no
way OF Guiding them. we merely
think we have.
The illusionment is doing more
harm that anything else. We shall
not accomplish much that is help
full Or constructive until we admit
that such misfortuneS are chronic
and fall back on the old idea of
being prepared to meet them.
That idea is not very complicated
or mysterious, which may explain
why it has failed to interest us.
In the first place, it calls for the
accumulation Of adequate SURPRISES.
and in the second for a plan which
makes their rapid and equitable
distribution possible when the need
arises.
This is how Kublai Khan did it,
according to Marco Polo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Keeping Cool

Summer is upon us, and with it few modern
improvements for keeping cool Not only can we
have mechanical refrgerators for food but we can
purchase machine which will cool the air of our liv-
ing or bed rooms to comfortable degree.
Along one line, however, there has been inn
proveen for years and years Electric fans are still
as ugly as ever Won't some bright inventor improve
the appearance Of these necessities to summer life so
that they will be pleasing adjunct to our home
furnishings?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30

blackout, and the caption Game
the Dawn
In the next reel both heroine and
enid are being turned away from
the house Of her father, a stern
Vermont agriculturiSt.
surely we may be asking too much
OF this dry mayor from the coast to
expect him to run such a risk. What
would the voters of Los Angeles saw
IN the next election if he came upon
the musings bearin upon his knee
a lutsy infant speaking only
French?
His constituents hardly would be
appeased if he explained that il
never would have happened but for
that fatal glass of champagne wine
Nor would it suffice to Justify
himself If he said that he was Sc
duced through driking toast to the
health of President Hoover.
Even a loyal Republican must set
limits beyond which he does not
care to go in party loyalty.
Copyright. 1891. BIZ The Tines
What unit of measurement in
countries that use the metric sys-
tenn, corresponds to an American
mile?
The American statute mile con-
tains $3.50 feet and the correspond
ing unit in the metric system is the
kilometer which equals 0.6214 Of a
mile.
Where is Grover Cleveland Berg
doll?
He lives in Germany and is still
fugitive from justice. He has made
several unsuccessful attempts to
return to the United States.
How many laws were passed by
congress from the beginning of the
first congress to the end Of the
third session Of the seventy first
congress?
The total number of public and
private acts is 54,136
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

California Comes to Front as
Scientific and Educational
Center.
.DECISION of the officers Of the
II American Association for the
Advancement of Science to hold the
nrst Of a series of summer meetings
IN Pasadena, serves to focus atten-
tlon upon the scientific and educa-
tlonal organization Of California.
Not only has the state itself bene-
ntted by the rapid growth of educa-
tional and research facilities, but the
whole nation has been helped.
me west received its first cultural
lnnuences from the east. But soon
the west developed a courage and
a freedom from conservation and
convendonalism in educational mat
ters which has reacted to the adj
vantage of the east.
The territory of California was
ceded to the United States BY
Mexico in March, I848. In the very
next year, the constitutional con-
vention, called to draw up a con-
stitution for the state, made pro-
visions IN the course of its delibera-
tons for a state university.
1t was not, however, until 1868
that the University of California
was established.
Meanwhile, however, a number Of
other institutions were started
Santa Clara college was founded in
1851, the college of the Pacific in
Stockton in 1851. Mills college in
Oakland in 1852, Contre Costa
academy in Oakland in 1858, and
st. Ignatius college in San Fran
cisco in 1855.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
We Fail in Our Duty

IF we weren't so everlastingly sold
Il on, this proposition of maintain
ing a constant adjustment of pro-
ducticn to consumption, we could
have found a way of bringing our
surplus wheat and our breadlines
together.
Some of the older governments
could do it, but they believed in
Surpluses and know how to handle
them.
Our inability to make wise use
Of surplus essentials when disaster
comes is due largely to the fact that
we do not believe in surplus essen
tials and are vastly more interested
in avoiding them than in employing
them to- even things up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Ehh and Flow

The battle for civil liberties in the United States
has its ups and downs. Judge Walter B. Wanamaker
of Ohio lately declared the Ohio criminal syndicalsm
law void
Now we learn that Representative R. j. Goode is
pressing criminal syndicalism law in the Alabama
legislature. This defines criminal syndcasm az adj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30

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 DaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
Daily Thought

Or unto Governors, as unto
them that are sent by him for the
punishment of evildoers, and for
the praise of them that do WE'LL
/ Peter 2:14.
The sins committed by many pas;
unished-Lucan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30

FARO Agha, Oldest man, and eleven times married,
says that flying is safer than getting married Most
men, however, will prefer falling out with the wife
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEg258

amendment is a Mary's lamb to fol-
low each and every one OF lis to even
the furthermost reaches Of for
eign cline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-30

California Comes to Front as
Scientific and Educational
Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

glass to be worked into the structures.
The latest broadcast Is that in the erec-
ton of the ten buildings 100000 feet
of copper wire will be used. Just to
make this q little more striking, 1t is
explained that the wire. II stretched ont,
would cover q distance Of some $4,000
miles.
Radio City is to be the last word in
architecture. And yet architects Of q
somewhat conservative school are
shocked by the plans. One Of them
writing in a recent magazine article de-
clared Radio City as now devised to be
q veritable nightmare. a hideous con-
glomerate Of points and angles, irreg-
ular planes and off-plumb surfaces.
Radio City. 1t appears, wiz be cubism
In three dimensions. and the moderate
architects bewail the fact that 1t will be
built with materials that will withstand
weather and time and even earthquakes,
and that 1t will thus endure for an in
definite period.
Precise figures regarding the number
Of kinds Of entertainment that will be
provided ct Radio City are lacking. 1t
Is indicated. however. that more sorts Of
shows will be produced there than there
are buildings. These entertainments
will run from simple cinemas TO opera,
with every variety of show-boat amuse-
ment In between. One enthusiast de-
clared that q patron could stay within
its walls for q week and keep busy sh5w-
going all the time and never see the
same show twice. Nothing Is mentioned
about hotel accommodations to care for
such q persistent collector of amuse-
ments, though probably there will be
lunch counters and. perhaps, elaborate
dining rooms. At all events, New York
Is tremendously pleased for being the
scene Of such q stupendous enterprise
and will be hardly able to contain itself
until the show is ready to open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

found to be futile. From Chicago
comes a report that an aerial botanist
thus described in the report has
assembled 10 a height of 5000 feet with
glass slides and other supplies for tax
ing specimens. His first test. he re-
ports, has revealed the presence Of
pollen at a height of more than 5000
feet.
If the fevE-causing particles from
weeds and other plants rise 50 high "a
these tests indicate. 1t Is evident that
they spread over wide areas from CEN
tiers Of infection" thus small scale
weed-cutting. covering local areas, will
not necessarily eliminate the evil. The
pollen from one State can infect the
air of another State. Hay fever pre-
vention through the suppression of
pollen must be Nationwide
It looks as though the medical mer
must do the work Of hay fever preven-
ton or cure rather than the weed cut
tiers. They are still hard at work try
ing to find means and methods Of inoc-
ulation that will build up resistance and
create immunity to this pestilent
product Of nature that now counts OF
victims by the million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
Republicans Anxiously Watch Progress
OF Roosevelt Boom for the Presidency

his friends are watching anxiously for
the row to start in the ranks Of the
enemy.
And the most surprising feature in
the whole situation Is that no hand has
been turned TO stop Roosevelt Such a
thing Is unprecedented in the De-
mocracy. He has been given an open
field and taken advantage of 1t to
romp ahead. 1t Is well known he has
strong and resourceful opponents, yet
they make no move even to organize
among themselves. Whether his OPP
ponentS believe the Governor may run
himself out II left alone, or are con-
WINGED he Is so far IN the lead they
cannot catch them. Is not yet clear. The
Roosevelt boomers and managers are
convinced that it is too late to bring
about any possible combination Of
favorite sons to head him of.
Certainly Mr.. Roosevelt is at the
three-quarter post going strong and
alone. He is in a splendid position to
shape the issues for his party and is
making the most Of that. He Is US
ing a special session of the New York
Legislature to match the Hoover I'M
employment program to set up the issue
dealing with gangsters and racketeers
and to war against political corruption
in Office. He Is capitalizing on his op-
portunities every day. AS the politi-
clans in the Eastern States see 1t. one of
the best pieces Of political salesmanship
Mr.. Roosevelt has accomplished is
spreading far and wide the idea that
he Is the strongest candidate In the
party.
fCopyrieht, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
A Problem Still Umsolved.

The. Government seems to be on the
verge Of digging It's way under the
problem imposed by the failure Of the
Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washing
ton Railroad to move its tracks out Of
the building triangle. Excavation Is
about to start and the foundation
contracts have been let for the group
merce Commission, Government Audi
forum and Department Of Labor-that
will stand between Twelfth and Four
tenth streets, Constitution avenue and
C street, and on September 18 bids for
excavation work for the new Post Of
fee, between Twelfth and Thirteenth
Pennsylvania avenue and street, will
be opened. Before October actual work
is expected to be under way within
that portion of the triangle.
AS far as the public knows including
several thousand regular patrons who
depend upon the Virginia suburban
electric lines for their daily transporta-
ton to and from Washington, the re-
sponsible officials are no nearer a So
luton Of the problem raised by loss of
the railway terminal than they were
several months ago. The steam shovels
are going to dispose Of the physical OBJ
stacles by biting through the tracks
and removing them altogether, or the
tracks and the problem Of the rail-
flIf ~ hn lnPt
gress comes to town.
This is an interesting, II somewhat
disconcerting, commentary on the abil-
ity Of the responsible officials to reach
very important transportation prob
lens connected with the Government
building program. The most reasonable
explanation for that failure is the APP
parent determination of the ownership
of the Mount Vernon. Alexandria q
Washington Railway 10 make the most
Of strategically strong position by re-
fusing to bulge until its demands are
viously cannot be granted, the impasse
remains.
Unless there is some acceptable COM
promise, not now in sight. Congress will
have to settle the question Of the rail-
roads right to collect certain compen-
satory funds for the loss of its terminal
facilities That will raise the equally
important question whether such funds
are due or should be paid without a
guarantee that they will be devoted to
the purchase of necessary equipment to
provide the railway patrons with bus
service in lieu Of possibly discontinued
street car service within the District,
or for the acquisition Of an of street
terminal for the street cars at some
point later to be decided upon. In other
words, the street car problem Is not to
be disposed Of merely by reaching a
satisfactory agreement between the
Government and the ownership Of the
railway. There is a third party-the
street car r1ders-whose interests must
be protected without muddling an al
ready complicated trafnc problem in
the congested business section Of Wash
ington.