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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12

Correspondents report the eminent British anato-
mist Sir Arthur Keith as holding that war must be
retained to keep the human healthy and progress
sivs: Mature keeps her human orchard healthy by
pruning, and war IS her pruning hook. We can not
dispense with her services"
Perhaps we would be unfair in attacking Dr. Keith
the author Of this remark until the report person
ally is examined and confirmed He has reputation
for balance and sanity, even though he looks at
human problems through biological spectacles. He
has remarkable knowledge Of the history of culture
and institutions and should be able to temper bioogi-
cal bias in the light Of such facts.
At any rate, we may attack the doctrine expressed
whether DR.. Keith said just this or not.
This view Of as a very important selective
agent in the biological development Of mankind is
defensible when applied to early wars Here men
fought with stone hatchets bows and arrows avelins
battle-axes, lances, swords and the like.
In such direct and hand-to-hand uixups. the
battle usually went to the brave and the strong.
Those who survived were likely to be bologicaIy the
best
The contribution of war to biological progress in
man has diminished since the invention of gun
powder. Strength and vigor count for less and less
Brains and Inventions well as natural resources of
the land, become more and more important Modern
wars are Of cultures institutions rather than
Of men regarded solely in their biological faculties
Today the bomb of high explosives drops on genius
and moron alike. The giant is as powerless as the
plgny before the air bomb, the tank the machine
gun and the Big Bertha. moron dwarf with a
machine gun is more than match for twenty giants
armed with rifles
Indeed, one safely may hold today that war IS
actually counter seectve in other words it debases
the race physically The best types are chosen first
for battle service leaving the bioogcay inferior at
home. Starvation behind the lines in modern wars
lowers the biological potential of whole peoples
It will take Germany decades to recover from the
depression Of health caused by the decline of ratons
before the arnlistce by the blockade which fol-
lowed. Undernouristnlent and defamation have left
their on1inous mark on all postwar Europe.
We have, further, to consider the economic
results Of wars The economic depression which holds
the world in its grip is due in no small part to the
economic impact of the war and subsequent readust
ments-loSs Of human consuming power and of Dur
chasing power in money, war debts reparations and
the like.
It is hard to picture the twenty million idle work
ers and their dependents as existing in state of
biological elevation.
The liberal thinker will agree with Sir Arthur's
aspiration to keep the race healthy and progressive
but it must be done by the modern devices Of birth
control and eugencs, which represent the victory of
human intelligence the crude and wasteful
methods of brute nature.
The notion OF war as "a pruning hook of the race"
is as out Of date in 1881 as the batte-axes if not
the stone Ratchet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
l. NA-SA AO&IA lands

IT'S easy to understand that the Lihdberghs would
would be willing to all the risks incident to arv
KIND OF adventure, for they have audacity to burn but
LOT the life OF us we can't understand how thew can
think OF making flight to Japan and leaving at
nome their year-old boy, the first they've had
II you have any blood in your veins at ALL the ar
rival OF your trst child is the biggest event since the
whale swallowed Jonah and you couldn't induce the
average parents to put an ocean between themselves
and their distinguished guest for anything in the
world
But, possibly we are thinking in the antiouated
terms OF another day
ITO appreciate fully what NIussolini's government
does when it's feeling well you must think of its
withdrawal of the passport of Arturo Toscanini be-
cause he refused to play Fascist hymns at concert
in Bologna.
This is as if this country should go after Mary
Garden, should she refuse to MARBLE 1.-THE Star
Spahgled Banner" while giving concert in Chicago.
It isn't in the cards OF human nature for Musso-
linis establishment to last indefinitely and some of
these days it viii blow up, and great will be the
blow thereof.
machine can go at high speed now and then
ana stay on the road, but it can't got at high speed
all the time
GERMANY now is telling her European neighbors
~ that unless her war debts lifted she will
propaply disappear from the face Of the earth
If Germany had won that war she would have
handed her ultinatum to the defeated nations and
tney would have paid through their ears
It must pain the ardent champions of Soviet Rus
STA IN America to learn that Moscow has increased
taxes from 10 to so per cent on all amusements and
that big tax has been put on commuters for going
in and coming out of Moscow
We can see how fellow might not be willing
to pay tax Tor going in but that he would be
willing to give up all he had to get out
a cCORD1NG to the papers, Mr. Coolidge tenn
articles
1t may be that his ghost writer feels that he ought
to take vacation.
Dr.. Buttrick Of the Madison Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
church Of New York City told the graduates of
Rutgers university that American worship noise and
6ustle
The decor Is mistaken for while We have the noise
the hustle went out Of fashion almost forty wears
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Coal Conference

Somewhat tardily the officials of organ
lied miners ask President Hoover to call
conference to lay plans for assisting that
industry.
The condition of workers and companies
are described as desperate in the extreme,
with human beings in hunger and privation
and the owning companies near bankruptcy.
The warning is given that these condi-
tons are breeding communism and anarchy,
and it is probably the truth that there is
more anarchy than communism as result.
What the miners officials might have
truthfully said that in this as in all other
industries, there has been no careful plan
ming for the sterilization Of employment, no
sane provision against the very conditions
which now become so unbearable as to de-
mand immediate solution.
The truth in that industry, as IN many
others, lies in the fact that when Improved
machinery began to replace men the Industry
became overcrowded and the total wage paid
to workers was reduced to the point where
vast numbers no longer could purchase either
coal or anything else.
For years there have been more miners
than there has been work for miners under
even the best of working conditions, and it is
matter of history that the conditions have
not been considerate or kindly or wise.
The plea should not come from the min
ers alone, but from all workers, and, more,
from the great industrialists and financial
leaders who should be even more concerned
than the highly paid heads of the miners
union.
Last spring there was measure intro
duced into congress by Representative Louis
Ludlow. 1t was drafted by the Fraternal
Order of Eagles. 1t provided for national
commission to stabilize employment in all
industries. The argument in favor of that
bill was made by Frank E. Herring of South
Bend, leader in a nationwide movement
to make just such condition impossible. At
that time leaders of labor were missing from
the legislative halls.
Why not make the conference general
instead Of selective as to one industry? What
is true of the miners today may be true Of
other industries tomorrow? Why not get
behind the Ludlow measure and demand
special session of congress to make it's de-
cisions effective? Why not real crusade
for all workers and all industry?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
More Marine Blood

The wounding Of United States marine officer and
killing of two Of his men of the Nicaraguan guard by
rebels is q further reminder that President Hoover
should withdraw all marines from Nicaragua at once
There IS possible justification for United States
marines participating in civil in that country
American interests are not involved and if they were
involved better way could be found to protect them
than by military imperialism.
The present method has made lis hated through
out Latin America. Even If we were not concerned
with the issue Of justice and the rights OF small
nation, and did not care about our reputation, We
might al least think OF all the Latin-American trade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
IJnregulated Power

The electric industry, assembled at Atlantic City
for the annual convention of the National Electric
Light Association, is speaking its mind in reply to
criticisms But in doing so it either is ignoring
falling to grasp the really fundamental charges
placed against it.
It's defense calls attention to rate reductions and
to maintenance of employment and wages; to enaan
cpation OF the housewife by electric appliances and
to the new era electricity has brought to the farm.
There is little dispute about these things. The
electric industry an essential part of American life
No one wishes to destroy it cripple it's legitimate
activities
Neither does any one, who knows anything about
the matter, believe that the power industry consti-
tltes trust" in the technical of the word.
The thing to which serious critics OF the electric
industry object is the vast amount of concentrated
power over business private life public officials and
foreign affairs held by this organization, and the
threat that it soon will dominate American life
completely.
The power industry probably is co-ordinated more
closely-through holding companies joint directors
stock ownership and through the National Electric
Light Association-than any other business group
ever has been. 1t is bound n the same intimate way
to three other great nduSres-manufacture of cleo
trc machinery and equipment, radio, and connluni
cations.
Except for food, no industry plays such an i'm
portant part in human life. It kns together in one
great empire the kingdom o. nower on which all in
dustry depends-light, heat city transportation
amusement by broadcasts, takes and televison and
local and international communication.
Its activities and authority extend around the
globe IT'S floats the foreign debt OF country and
secures monopoly in another. Men sitting in New
York control the destines of towns in India and
Indiana, China and South Dakota.
Long ago this country gave 'nonopolistic near
monopolistc rights to the power industry, the
theory that government regulation would take the
place OF competition in protecting the public. In
stead the power have learned to regulate regu-
lation
The dictatorship Of power may be benign
It may keep its bills low enough to form minor
part of the household budget, and it may make life
more convenient and agreeable. But it is, and
threatens to become increasingly So a dictatorship
The point at issue is whether this great concen-
tration Of power shall continue master of the
public or be made servant of the public will and
public interest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12

Editor .Ti1nes-When our worthy
chief executive and some 5000 Eyes"
men sit down to their dinner in
our city next Monday, we can ex-
pect e considerable amount of en-
couraging speeches. We presume in
advance that some questions will
not be answered, and it might be
timely to ennun1erate some Of these
which puzzle the average man.
In summing up conditions now
compared with two years ago, we
will find that there has been only
slight difference in conditions.
Our gas, electric light, telephone
and water bills, rate of interest,
taxes, mortgage, salary for public
officials and several other items
are the same as two years ago.
The only difference is the income,
which is perhaps half as large as
it was at that time. The question
is a mathematical one, which would
take a great engineer to solve, how
one can pay these several items
with a SO per cent income.
After the World war a commits
sion of outstanding Republicans
was sent to Europe. They checked
over the debts that the several
nations were owing us, and found
these nations unable to pay. So
the debts were adjusted, some as
low as 10 cents on the dollar, and
when the time for paying arrives,
the Liberty bond monty to be paid
our citizens, who is going to pay
it? The answer is simple: It must
be paid to ourselves by ourselves.
The commission discovered that you
could not take 500 from a man
who had only $40.
There was no great amount of
opposition to this policy. It was
accepted almost unanimously by
both Democratic and Republican
legislators. This would apply well in
the first problem set out.
If the public utilities bills and
tax rate, interest rate and salaries
Of public officials were cut in two
to match salaries and incomes of
the rank and file, the problem
would be the same policy as adopted
with the foreigner If our mort
cages, bonds and other securities
were extended by law for ten years.
and no foreclosures allowed when
the interest is paid, and the inter-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Pictures Record History

MO printed page carries such a
= clear picture OF the past for
us as the movies and photograph
record will provide for future gen.
erations.
We have to guess how the voice
Of Julius Caesar sounded, or what
peculiarities of gait and posture
distinguished his personality.
People 100 years hence, or even
1000. will have no such difficulty
regarding Marshal Foch or Roose-
welt.
The immediate effect of movies,
the radio, and other mechanical in
novations on entertainment is Of
rather small consequence compared
to their recording possibilities.
Through them, history will be
made TO live as never before and
analysts viii be able to study it with
an accuracy hitherto unknown.
They offer the possibility of pro-
viding information by which we
can discover the laws of mass
movement and mass psychology.
For the first time since the dawn
of consciousness, we have q reason
able hope OF making records COM
plete enough. for scientific con-
illusions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
--DAILY HEALTH SERVICE--
Choose Long-Lived Ancestors

gestion, but possibly the forethought
Of your progenitors, or that concur
renee of circumstances which we
call accident, may have arranged
this for you"
The laboratory Of the department
of biology of the school of hygiene
and public health in Johns Hopkins
university recently has made some
extensive studies Of collections of
genealogic material that bear on the
matter.
A careful analysis of the family
records of 100000 people living near
Baltimore was a part Of this study.
The results indicate that the ex-
pectation Of life Of the parents of
children dying at go years of age
or over is at all ages, from 20 years
on, greater than the expectation Of
life on the parent of children dying
under so years of age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
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RUSsIA'S ASSEMBLY
June IL

nN June u, 1917, council OF
~ sixty-one members under the
presidency Of Kokashkine, a mem
Der of the duma, met to prepare for
Russia's constituent assembly.
This assembly met not only to
draft Russia's permanent constitu-
ton, but also to solve certain imme-
date problems, the chief Of which
were the questions Of nationalities
and the conditions Of the transfer
Of the lands Of the MOBILES to the
peasantry.
In the preparatory council sat a
group Of constitutional specialists,
also deputies from the army and
from all the political parties. repre-
sentatives Of Jews, Ukrainians,
Poles, and other races and also a
representative Of the women, the
famous feminist. Nine. Shishkin
Yavein.
An important reform proclaimed
on this day was the introduction Of
the small unit Of local self-gov-
eminent, in which all classes might
participate equally.
&c was decided to allow the former
emperor and members Of the in
perial family the privilege Of vot-
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12

The tables indicate also that the
expectation Of life OF the sons OF
fathers dying at so years Of age or
over, or with fathers still living at
80 years Of age, is greater at all
ages from birth on than the expec-
tation Of life Of sons of fathers who
have died at ages between so and 70.
It is also much greater than the
expectation of life Of the sons of
fathers who died under so years Of
age.
In other words, all the scientific
data available and the careful study
of such data by trained experts in
interpreting figures indicate that
Oliver Wendell Holmes was right
and that the way. to live long is to
select fathers, mothers, grandpar-
ents and great grandparents and
indeed all ancestors who have lived
long
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine,

4 S Raymond Pearl points out in
L a a recent discussion, there has
been q common observation that
length of days tends to run in fam
lilies.
Professor Pearl refers, for exam
pie, to the statement by Oliver Wen
dell Holmes as to how, to live long.
The eminent hunorist said:
'The first thing to be done is,
some years before birth, to advertise
for q, couple Of parents both belong
ing to long-lived families.
Especially let the mother come Of
a race in which octogenarians and
nonagenarians are very common
phenomena. There are practical
difficulties in following out this sug-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
More ArtificiaIitY

MUCH as one would like to be-
~VA lieve that our entertainments
will take on q more natural form,
it looks as if they were headed for
more artifciality.
Captain Richard n. Ranger lust
has invented an electric pipeless
organ, which produces notes and
harnaonies merely by splitting up or
modifying the hum of a loud
speaker.
The town of Mt. Pleasant, N. Y,
just has discontinued blinker,
because it interfered with radio
reception.
1t goes without saying that me-
caanical devices will not hold the
popularity they enjoy when first
brought out, but there is little to
sustain the idea that they will be
discarded.
They have obvious advantages, in
spite of the way they are abused.
They stand for something basically
sound. They not only make it pos
sible to reach q larger number Of
people than ever before, but they
preserve more vivid portrayal of
persons and events.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Jeans and Eddingtor

TINE astronomer who probably is
4 most in the public eye at the
present moment is Sir James Jeans,
now visiting in the United States.
Jeans is known to the public as
the author of number Of very
readable books upon astronomy, the
best one Of which, to this writer's
way Of thinking, being THE Uni
verse Around Us"
But Sir James is known to the
world Of astronomy as one Of the
chief authorities upon the subject
OF cosmogony.
Some authorities would rate Jeans
as England's first astronomer, but
other authorities would confer that
distinction upon Sir Arthur Edding-
ton, director Of the Cambridge OBJ
servatory.
Recent theories concerning the
evolution of stars are largely the
work Of Eddington, Jeans, and Rus
sell.
Another famous astronomer is
Professor Harlow Shapley, the
youthful-looking director Of the
Harvard observatory. Shapley is
now one Of the worlds chief author
tiles upon the subject Of star
clusters.
1t would be possible to go on and
name number Of astronomers, both
American and European, who are
doing most important work II
various fields.
Astronomy, like other businesses
is now a field Of specialization. Not
only do men specialize in certain
fields, but often an entire OBJ
servatory will devote its major
efforts to one narrow field.
Thus, for example, the Dominion
Astrophysical Observatory Of Can
ada devotes its major efforts to the
study Of the spectra Of stars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Some Astronomers


DR. GEORGE ELLERY HALE
II honorary director Of the Mt,
Wilson observatory, is one of the
great inventive geniuses of the
world of astronomy. Solar research
entered upon a new phase as a re-
suit OF the new instruments which
he designed.
Hale invented the spectrohelio-
graph, the instrument which made
1t possible to photograph the suns
upper atmosphere and the great
solar prominences, the great fiery
streamers OF gas which rise from the
suns atmosphere.
The instrument also revealed de-
tails OF sunspots which never had
been photographed previously.
Hale is a great observer as well as
an instrument designer. Among his
important discoveries is the fact
that sunspots are great whirlrools
in the surface Of the sun, which act
as huge magnets, setting up power
full magnetic fields.
An entirely different type OF as
troncmer is Or. E. w. Brown Of
Yale university. Brown spent forty
years Of his life working on a
mathematical problem, the problem
Of writing a series Of equations
which adequately would explain
all the irregularities in the moons
motions and make it possible to
predict with accuracy the position
Of the moon at future dates.
Browns lunar Timetable" is one
Of the great classics Of this sort 81
work.
DR.. Henry Norris Russell OF
Princeton sometimes is spoken Of as
the dean of American astrono-
mers." His chief field Of work has
been the development Of theories
to account for the evolution Of stars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Colonel House Speaks

TOLONEL HOUSE probably IS as
~ faithful Democrat as Sena-
tor Fess is Republican, but far
less given to prophecy.
His prediction that Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt will be norni-
mated and elected in 1882 is little
less startling than the fact that he
should predict anything at all.
It is q new role for Wilson'S man
of mystery" yet he may shine in it.
Like Senator Fess, however,
Colonel House virtually was bound
to forecast the triumph Of his own
party.
That is why few people will pay
much attention to either.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12
Questions and
Answers

When was polygamy prohibited in
Utah?
The Edmu1lds bill passed in 1882,
disfranchised polygamists. A more
stringent act was passed in 1887.
When Utah was admitted as a state
in 1896, the state Constitution pro-
llibited polyganly.
Was Governor Simpson OF Louis
lana impeached?
No. Henry c. Warmoth was the
Governor of Louisiana who was i'm
peached in 1872, but the proceedings
we're dropped when his term ex-
PRED.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-12

1t Looks as Though Our En-
tertainnter1t Is Headed for
EUe7a More Artifcidlity.
SAYS:

NEW YORK, June 12.-SenatoE
IL Fess creates no sensation By
predicting President Hoover's re-
nomination and election in 1882.
AS the Republican party's ma
tional chairman he hardly could DO
otherwise, without stirring UP such
a rumpus as has seldom occurred
in this country. And Senator Fess
does not shine asa stirrer UP Of
rumpuses
His unruffled affability is exceed
ed olny by his unrodled orthodoxy.
One can not conceive of a dis
sster SO great, or situation SO con-
fusing, as to shake Senator Fess'
confidence in Republican admin
istration.