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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Gold Is Ruler

THIS country's actual wealth is
Il estimated at somewhat more
than three hundred billion dollars,
yet it is regarded as solvent chiefly
because it has three billion dollars
in gold on tap.
AS matter of fact, it is regard
ed as rather too solvent on that very
account, as having more than its
share Of gold and as likely to hurt it's
own trade because some other coun-
tries haven't enough to maintain
the necessary credit.
We are learning, though rather
slowly, that the comparatively small
amount of gold in existence makes
it possible for countries in an ad-
vantageous position to get more than
is good for them, and that if gold
is to be retained as the all-impor-
tant economic yardstick something
must be done to guarantee its
equitable distribution.
/ Thus, though no one appears to
have foreseen it, until the actual
necessity arose, we come to the world
bank idea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
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LEWIS CAhhOLLS b1hIH
Jan. q
ON Jan. 81, Lewis Carroll, pseu-
~ donym of Charles Dodgson, San
English author famed for his
"Alice's Adventures in Wonder
land" was born near Chester, Eng
land.
Educated at Oxford, he later
became mathematical lecturer at
Christ church. He was an acute
mathematician and fond of devising
intricate and ingenious problems.
What is considered an important
contribution to mathematical litera-
ture is his Euclid and His Mod
ern Rivals" work interspersed
with jokes and burlesques.
He Is best noted, however, as the
author of Alice" and the suisse
quent book of her adventures.
Through the Looking Glass and
What Alice Found There"
These books, says a critic. dis
play delightful combination of mad
absurdity and subtle fancy. Their
grotesque situations compose a
peculiar literary tradition"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
D u n CnN nv FREDERICK
ANAA AOOA lands

THE other day a group of Chicago citizens went
Il to Washington to ask congress to appropriate
money to help them put their worlds fair in 1898
and congress should have told them to go back home
and twist the tail of organized crime, then back
and report on results.
There is no doubt in this world that crime flour
shes in Chicago because it has direct connection
with government and if this tie cut it would be
easy to handle it.
The recent raid of this hotel so long immune. in
which carload of damaging documents was found
proves the illicit bond between officials and criminals
IF the decent people of Chicago have not enough
i getup about them to clean their house they can
not expect the people of the whole country to &C
down into their clothes and advertise their house
to the wide world through the medium of great ex-
position
And unless Chicago cleans up things she would
better not have fair for the public generally feels
that would be taking its life in its hand to go there
This is not so; people would be perfectly safe
but the other impression is abroad so we would say
to Chicago: Clean house or call of your show!"
There's lot of monkey business at Washington
about this relief business
How the money is to be raised is but side is
sue, the main proposition being that it be provided
and distributed at the earliest possible moment.
THE Pesident doesn't like congress and congress
i doesn't like the President, but to this quarrel
the people absolutely nothing.
What they want is action.
They want this relief sent to these people be-
fore they die
The quickest way is the best way, and the quick
est way is to have congress appropriate the money
and have Hoover o. K. it,
To raise it by popular subscription will take time
and in the meantime the suffering viii pay the pen
atty
Vaudeville over the radio and by airplanes is not
what these people want they want food and fue
and clothes
We have voted millions and hundreds OF millions
out of the federal treasury to help the big people
now it's time to vote something to help the LITTLE
people,
And they would enjoy it more 4 they got it while
they're still on earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ---
Little Mite Causes Severe Itching

itch-mite has gotten into the ward
robes or costumes of "superS" of
theatrical or operate companies
and gradually infested the entire
company, SO that the subsequent
itching interfered with the perform
ance.
In children, the palms of the
hands and the soles of the feet fire.
quently are attacked
Fortunately, there is a certain
method of controlling this condition
when properly diagnosed. This
method involves the proper use of
sulphur, which may be employed in
various forms.
Usually it is necessary first of all
to prescribe a thorough cleansing
Of the patient with hot water and
soap bath.
He then rubs his body completely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

with the ointment which any ply
clan may prescribe and leaves the
ointment on overnight.
On the next day he takes another
hot cleansing bath, receives a COM
plete!y new outfit of clothing, par
ticularly Undertaking, and the
treatment is finished.
Equally important with the treat
ment of the disease is the handling
of the clothing of the patient. It is
necessary in practically every case
to disinfect the clothing thoroughly,
to destroy every itch-mite that may
be present in it or on it.
The condition has been described
as Cuban itch, French itch, and as
signed to various other nationali-
ties, but no nation seems to have
a complete monopoly upon it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Forces at Work
THE organization of matter into

TINE organization of matter into
q glass, liquid and solids, and the
changes from one state to another
with temperate changes, is explained
easily by the atomic theory.
Two forces are at work in the uni
verse. One is the force of attrac-
ton. 1t is the force which causes
electrons to unite into atoms, atoms
into molecules, and molecules into
bulkier masses.
If no other force was at work, the
eventual end of the universe would
be for all the matter in it to coalesce
into one mass.
The other force is that of motion.
If it alone acted in the universe,
the universe would separate into in
dividual electronS scattered to in
f1nity.
The physical state of bodies de
ponds upon the balance between the
two forces. When piotion has the
upper hand, the result is a gas.
Avmore even balance results in
liquid. When the force of attraction
gets the upper hand, the result is a
solid.
The work of Sir William Bragg
and others has shown that the next
unit in natures scheme of organ
ization after the molecule is the
crystal.
In solids, molecules are put to-.
gether so that there is a regular
pattern. This is the basic pattern
of the crystal.
Thus for example. one atom of
silicon and two atoms Of oxygen
unite to form a molecule of the
compound known as silicon dioxide.
Quartz is composed Of silicon diox-
ide, but a mclecule of silicon diox-
ide is not quartz. It takes three
molecules to form the basic pattern
Of the quartz crystal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
They Meant Well

DROBABLY the distinguished and
L venerable jurists who served on
the ANickersham board meant well.
There is never any botch as COM
plete as that which is made by the
utterly sincere.
They did their best, but it was
impossible for the lawyer members
to get away from the habit of a
lifetime. They simply could not
avoid setting up an instrument in
need of Interpretation, explanation,
Qualification, and endless argument.
Legal language is a sort of code.
The purpose of that is obvious. If
you ask a lawyer for an opinion,
he will write out some paragraphs
for you which are quite unintelh-
gible.
Then, Of course, it becomes neces-
sary for the layman to take the
document to a second lawyer and
pay him to find out what it means.
And In most cases there also will be
grave need of an explanation Of
the explanation.
And in this way the Choctaw
language is preserved and lawyers
are enabled to pay Office rent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
The Fundamentals

CCIENCE has found it possible to
~ reduce the familiar but complex
universe to a simple but unfamiliar
handful Of fundamentals.
The difficulty for the layman lies
in the natural tendency to confuse
familiarity with comlexity. We nat
urally assume that the familiar is
simple and the unfamiliar complex
when, as in this case, the opposite
is frequently the real state of af-
fairs.
The physicist and the chemist
have found that all the complex
facts of their sciences, the thou
sands of chemical reactions, the
changing forms of matter, and the
reactions of matter to the play of
energy, can be organized and shown
to fit logically into one theory Of
matter, the atomic theory.
According to this theory there are.
two fundamental units of matter
which are electrical in nature. They
are the positive and the negative
electron. They make up the atoms.
4A4CAC dAO -GMO
kinds Of atoms, one for each chem
ical element. The simplest atom is
the lightest one, the atom of hydro
gen.
1t consists Of a nucleus of one
positive electron with which is asso-
ciated one negative electron.
The other atoms are all more COM
pick, having nuclei made up of COM
tinations of electrons and having
more negative electrons associated
with them.
The atoms of the chemical ele-
ments unite to form the molecule OF
the chemical compounds. Thus two
atoms of hydrogen unite with one
atom Of oxygen to form a molecule
of water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HF FES42S

the profession which actually deals
in facts? Three good reporters could
have done the job in half the time
and at least a hundredfold as well.
No competent newspaper man
would have dared to toss such a
mountain of messy copy on the desk
and have the audacity to call 1t a
story.
The Wickersham report is a novel
by James Joyce, or, possibly, to be a
little more exact, it is an imitation
of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Inter
lude."
Anybody who reads the whole
thing through will find that it is a
combination of the conscious and
subconscious thoughts of the gentle
men concerned.
Thus we have Newton Baker
signing a brief statement against re-
peal and then adding in a personal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Questions and
Answers

Has Senator Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas ever served in the
house of representatives? How long
has he been in the senate?
He was member of the house of
representatives from December, 1891,
until he resigned, Jan. IA, 1913, to
become Governor of the state. He
took his seat in the United States
senate on March 10, 1913, after
serving less than two months as
Governor.
How many immigrants entering
the United States in the fiscal year
ended June, 1929, came from quota
countries and how many nonguota
countries?
Of the 1927 aliens admitted.
1898 came as immigrants charged
to quotas; 101,007 were returning
residents and 81, PSI came from nom
quota countries, principally Canada
and Mexico.
Who invented the radio?
Radio communication is not an
invention. The theory was known
long before anyone was able to
apply it in practice. Marconi was
the first to devise a suitable appara-
tus.
Where is the late Gar Nicholas
III of Russia buried?
His body, together with those of
his wife and children, was removed
to an isolated spot in the neighbor-
hood Of Ekaterinburg and destroyed
by fire, after having been soaked
with petroleum.
How many men turn out for foot
ball at NOtre Dame university and
how many are selected each year for
the squad?
About 600 turn out each year, and
Coach Rockne selects about 100 OF
these for his varsity squad. This
squad is then divided into several
groups, the best players composing
the main squad or first team.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

ID LA v al LIE -
Science" Said the Late Dr..
E. E. SlosSon, Means Sim
OBLIGATION, a Single Rule
for a Million Miscellaneous
Dissertations"
ONE Of the great victories OF
~ modern science has been its
ability TO trace the organization Of
the universe from the tiny electron,
the smallest known particle of mat
ter, to the super galaxies, the great
collection of stars such as our own
milky way.
1t recalls a remark of the late
DR.. E. E. Slosson, for many years
the director Of the Science Service.
Science" wrote SloSson, means,
simplification. 1t substitutes a
single rule for a million miscel-
laneouS observations"
The layman sometimes thinks
that science has complicated the
universe. He hears talk of mole
culeS and atoms and electrons, OF
light waves and quanta, Of galaxies
and super galaxies, of four-dimen-
sional space time and the curva-
ture of space.
These things are unfamiliar to
his ears and so he concludes that
science is making the world more
complex
But actually that is not the case
The world around us may be ia
miliar, but it is exceedingly COM
pick.
AS Slosson has noted, there are
millions of miscellaneous items to
be noted. Liquids freeze with cold
and boil with heat. Certain sub
stances burn. There are the thou
sands upon thousands of chemical
changes.
Science seeks to simplify these
observations by pointing out a
few fundamental rules behind
them all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
STRANGE InterIudel

GEORGE WICKERSHAM: Mr.
- President, we have studied the
problem of prohibition, and we find
that it must be preserved and that
modification or repeal is unthink-
able. (Aside) But, of course, you
know as well as I do that it isn't
working now and that it never will
work.
Enter eight enforcement agents.
They sing, give me something to
remember you by" They dance.
The curtain falls slowly.
Copyright. 1881. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Private CAPACITY

I'm not saying that lawyers are
L fools. Some OF my best friends
are lawyers. And I don't intend
that as a non sequitur.
The business of lawyer is liti-
cation. Naturally he will not bend
his every effort to arrange words In
simple and orderly formations. Just
one or two lucid judges could cut
down the turnover III the courts by
at least so per cent.
If every man on the supreme
court bench was an Oliver Wendell
Holmes, there would not be the
present amending procession of dis
tinguished counsel marching in and
out of Washington.
1t gets to be second nature for
men with the so-called legal mind
never to tie up thought complete
ly. There is always the suggestion
ito be continued in out next" at the
end of all opinions.
1t is the business of an attorney
to keep the clients coming back to
his offices. And so, naturally, he
doesn't want any issue entirely dis
posed of in the first encounter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
NNE of the chief causes of t
w WickerSham flasco was

NNE of the chief causes of the
" Wickersham fiasco was the
Presidents failure to appoint a
capable working newspaper man as
a member of the commission. And
preferably this member should have
been a copyreader.
The amazing document screams
to the skies for the generous use of
a blue pencil. It needs both cut
ting and clarifying.
The very fact that both vets and
drys are claiming victory indicates
that Mr.. Hoover's notables made a
mess of things, in a literary way at
least.
The job suffered from an ailnent
very familiar in American public
life. Too many lawyers not only
spoil the broth, but the chops and
the potatoes and the spinach as
well.
The only thing more inefficient
than a lawyer on an expository task
is two lawyers. And when half a
dozen are gathered together, a
tumble is inevitable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Fact Finders

DUT Mr.. Hoover's announcement
ID was that he wanted the facts on
prohibition. 1t Is mysterious that he
should have chosen so many men
from the legal profession to aid in
the search.
Why didn't he enlist members Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
The Teachers Win

Seattle school teachers have won a fight which
they never should have had to make
Their board of education attempted to make them
sign yellow dog" contracts before employing them
Tor this years school term The teachers were asked
to promise that they would not join the American
Federation Of Teachers during their term of employ
ment and one of their number refused and was dis
missed.
The teachers union brought suit testing the
right OF the school board to take this stand and the
Washington supreme court upheld the school board
However, the board, seeing the error of its wav
perhaps, or perhaps just wishing to avoid further
criticism, has taken the yellow dog" clause from
its contracts
What kind of youngsters will our schools turn out
tomorrow If they to be taught by teachers for
hidden to think about economic problems to ex-
ercise the right they believe they possess under the
Constitution to association for their mutual benefit
forced by economic necessity to accept work under
conditions they consider servleP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27


Magazine.
a LITTLE mite, called Acarus
4 n scabiei, burrows into the hu-
man skin to lay eggs and as re-
suit sets up an irritation with severe
itching,
The places usually selected for
the burrowing are the skin between
the fingers, under the arms and on
the lower abdomen.
Usually the condition does not
spread beyond these areas, but in
people who are not particularly
careful about bathing and dressing
it may involve almost the entire
body.
Cases are known in which this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
Gr'-eement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

footnote the information that he
favors repeal. The whole thing
might have been set in the form OF
dramatic dialog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

Hsuan Tung, Chinas hoy emperor" says he wants
to become tennis star AS though he doesn't shine
in court as it is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

Many folks who don't believe in signs have con-
siderable respect for the dollar sign
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

If they keep on filming Bernard Shaws plays ii
won't be long before they'll be calling them "the
Shawkies'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
DAILY THOUGHT

Repeat, and turn yourselves
from all your transgressions; so
iniquity shall not be your ruin
Ezekiel 1880.
Repentance Is second innocence.
DE Bonald.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
Famous SbieS

From the most ancient times OF opposing armies
nave relied upon the work OF spies to bring them noa
ton OF movements And peace as war the u -
espionage There history
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27

And eat they can not, unless we move faster anc
more intellgently toward eliminating unemployment
in the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-03-27
Says DETECTIVES
| F0RCEDbJORNSON
into CONFESSION
Counsel Says Wahpeton Youth
Received bad Treatment
in Minneapolis
SIGNED SECOND CONFESSION
Former Athlete. Who Admits Ex-
tortion and kidnapping, Is
Reading Bible
SIGNED SECOND CONFESSION

Wahpeton, N. D., March 27-(R-
J. A. Heder, counsel for Gordon
Bjornson, q, Wahpeton youth
charged with kidnapping and extort-
ing $4,000 from o. A. Leach. local
banker, Friday charged private de-
tectives in Minneapolis used force II,
obtaining a confession from the ath-
lete.
DR.. Benjamin Thane. Wal.peton,
after an examination of Bjornson, re-
ported to Heder that the youths body
bore several bruises.
1.-THE bruises on Bjornson body
were caused by private detectives who
obtained q confession from my eli
ent," Heder said.
Bjornson's counsel said his investi-
CATION revealed that Minneapolis po-
lice were not responsible for the bad
treatment" accorded the youth. DR..
Thane refused to comment on his ex-
animation, asserting he presented his
report to Heder.
Signed Second Confession
Thursday night Bjornson signed a
second confession, Richland county
officers said, admitting he extorted
the money from Leach on threats of
harm to his wife.
I'm my opinion" Mr.. Heder said.
States Attorney Arnold Forbes took
the second confession because he was
convinced the first was obtained un-
der duress.
II believe" he continued. 'Mr.
Forbes believed the first confession
was obtained through such force and
third-degree methods practiced on
the youthful defendant to the nth
degree by experts In their lire and
would be such as to absolutely pro-
l1ibit its use as evidence in any court
Of justice in the state Of North Da-
kota."
Mr.. Forbes, however, said he was
not aware of duress In obtaining the
first confession after the youth sur
rendered in Minneapolis Thursday
night.
Believes Second No Better
Mr.. Heder expressed belief the Sec
ond confession obtained by Richland
county authorities lis not any better
than the first one"
"The second confession Is based on
what is contained In the first one, -
Heder asserted, "and I don't believe
Continued on page eight
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-03-27
STABBING TRAILS
SCQREDBY DEFENSE
Counsel for Nelson BoWIes and
lrma loucks Point Out
Serious Faults

Hillsboro. Ore, March 27.-lFeDe-
Tense attorneys rested in final argu-
ments Friday their hope Of clearing
Nelson g. Bowles, Portland capitalist.
and his former secretary, Irma G..
Loucks, Of the fatal stabbing Of Mrs.
BoWles.
william. q. Hare, attorney for
Bowles, and Wallace McCamant, rep
Tesentative Of lima q. Loucks, sought
to convirce the jury serious faults
existed In the circumstantial murder
evidence presented by the state.
District Attorney Lotus L. Langley
and two defense attorneys, w. Lair
Thompson and John A. Collier, were
heard Thursday.
Langley advanced the theory Miss
Loucks held the young and .pron1i-
nent naatron while Bowles plunged q
bread knife into her breast in Miss
Loucks' apartment last Nov. II IS the
climax Of love affair.
Thompson, . nephew Of Bowles,
brought tears to the eyes Of relatives
Of the defendants In q two-hour ar
gument.
II an more interested than I ever
will be In case again." Thompson
said In closing
'sThese people cannot live in .
penitentiary. They would rather be
executed. There y no middle
ground