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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

Editor Times - The state tax
board has two reasons for the re-
cent budget slash. First, the Tax
payers Association represents the
public utilities. who finance the
campaigns of the Republican party,
who appointed this tax board, and
they only r obeying ther masters,
who will reap thousands of dollars
by the cut, and the home owner
will reap an inferior education for
his children.
The second was to make it as in
convenient as possible for the pres
ent Democratic city administration,
which is far more successful than
it's Republican predecessors.
This state today is controlled by
these greedy public utilities and will
be until the Democrats gain control
and abolish the tax board and the
public service commission and give
the people the right to operate
their own city government.
WILLIAM LEMON.
225 West New York street.
Editor Times-I listened to Ward
Hiner over the radio Friday night
and he said that he was disguised
with our representatives in congress.
Well, Hiner, I am more than dis
gusted. That was the biggest bunch
Of political bull that I ever heard at
one time.
Indiana is to be congratulated on
having one of the greatest bunch of
political binders in the country. If
our own Jimmie Watson had been
there it would have been complete,
what with Chuckhole Charley Jew
EFT, master of ceremonies.
Charley said that with this vast
audience he was tempted to make a
speech, but would confine himself to
just master of ceremonies, for which
we thank you, Mr.. Jewett. That was
an awful shock that we got without
you.
There was Grandma Ludlow, and
Birds of a Feather Robinson, and
Ham Fish, stale, birds of a feather
all Then there was Chief Clear
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
Peace by Resolution
THE League of Nations resolves

ME- League OF Nations resolves
l. that Japan get out of China
by Nov. 16. The vote is not unani-
nous, however, Japan having lined
up against it, as every one should
have known she would, which re-
duces the resolution to a mere
recommendation.
Even SO, Japan intimates that she
might comply if China would agree
to abide by the treaty Of 1915.
The treaty Of 1915, with its
memorable "twenty-one demands"
what made at the point of a gun,
which puts it in the same class
with the treaty of Versailles
In opposing all modification, or
revision of the former Japan takes
the same position as France takes
toward the latter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
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BRAZIL DECLARES WAR

BRAZIL DECLARES WAR
Oct. rs
NN Oct. 26, 1917, Brazil formally
" declared war on Germany and
President Braz sanctioned the act
by official proclamation.
The vote of the chamber of depu-
ties in favor of a declaration Of
war was 149 to 1. In the senate the
vote was unanimous.
Anticipating the declaration Of
war, the Germans set fire and sank
the German gunboat Eber at Rio
de Janeiro.
The Italians, falling back before
the renewed Austro-G German often
sive, began the evacuation of the
Bainsizza- Heiligengeist plateau, and
Field Marshal Haig and General
Petain renewed their drive in Flan-
ders, further setting back the Ger
man line.
Premier Boselli announced the
resignation Of the Italian cabinet.
and President Wilson announced
that on and after Nov. Is, 1917, and
during the war with Germany, the
manufacture, distribution and sto-
rage, use or possession of explo-
sives or ingredients thereof would
be forbidden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
u, S, Murder Minded

TINE lady of the trunk murder
l. having given herself up and
carelessly dropped a letter revealing
the grewsome details of her tragic
mistake, the morbid-minded can
breathe a little easier. They are
assured of a real Roman holiday
when she comes to trial, with the
good old triangle as a motif and
with plenty of blood for color.
No novel ever written, no maya
zine ever published, no gladiatorial
sport ever invented a compare
with a murder trial in these United
States when it comes to the horror
and suspense elements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
British to the Polls

ENGLAND votes on Tuesday,
Il with more bound up in the re-
suit than some people realize.
To a certain extent, the existence
of the empire is at stake.
England has had a hard time of
it since the war, not only because
of economic troubles at home, but
because of political unrest in the
dominIOnS.
midas demand for independence,
or at least autonomy, hardly can
be ignored as a factor in the far
eastern situation. 1t is just one
more phase of Asia's gradual lineup
against domination by the west.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
SCIENCE
.BY DAVlD DIETZ.

- IN I'LL -
Science Adds Constantly to
It's Knowledge of Atoms
and Molecules, The Particles
of Which Matter Is Com
posed.
ONE of the triumphs of modern
~ physical science is the large
amount of evidence accumulated in
the last few decades about size and
shape of atoms and molecules, the
particles of which matter is COM
posed.
The triumph is particularly great
because these particles are too small
to be seen even with the most pow
erful microscope.
According to modern chemical
theory, there are as many different
kinds of atoms as there are chemi-
cal elements. These atoms in their
bQAA dAC PQS bO6CeA4CA " AAdkE I'D
the molecules of the various chemi-
cal compounds.
Most substances as we know them.
however, require still another stage
of organization, namely, the organi-
zation of the molecules into ultra
microscopic crystals.
Thus, for example, one atom OF
silicon unites with two atoms of
oxygen to form a molecule of silicon
dioXide. But the smallest bit of
quartz which can exist is a tiny
crystal composed Of three molecules
Of silicon dioXide.
Recent workers, including Sir VIII
liam Bragg and his son, Professor
w. L. Bragg, in England, and DR..
Irving Langmuir in this country.
have brought to light many details
about the organization of molecules,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
Questions and
Answers

Does the moor rise in the east
and set in the west? If so, why is
the moon sometimes seer in the
west, while the sun is in the east?
The moon rises in the east and
sets in the west, the same as the
sun, but its time of rising is re-
tarded about fifty minute each dav.
This discrepancy often results in
the moon being in the west when
the sun is in the east, but in that
case the moon is in motion toward
setting on the western horizon while
the sun is rising in the east.
Does Babe Ruth. the. baseball
player, get more salary than the
President of the United States?
Babe Ruth receives, under his
present contract, 100000 a wear.
and the President receives SIS. 900 a
year.
Is there any scientific reason for
planting crops during certain phases
of the moon?
None at all.
Where is the city of Rouen?
Fouen Is in France, capital of the
department of Sein-Inferieure and
ancient capital of the province of
Normandy ON the Seine, eighty
seven miles northwest of Paris by
rail.
What proportion of the popuIa-
tons of Dayton and Columbus, o..
are Negroes?
The population Of Dayton, o.. is
20O,982, Of whom 17,077 are Ne
groes. Columbus has 29g.56A Of
whom 32,774 are Negroes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

Bell. I notice he had some feathers,
too. I think he had the same kind
as Robinson, Ludlow, and Fish, but
Hiner, you didn't have the right
kind of feather, as I noticed Charlie
cut you off.
You must have ruff1ed the feath-
ers of the birds of a feather.
agree with you, Mr.. Hiner, the way
to stop Communism is to give all
jobs at living wages. Red-blooded
American citizens are not going to
see their families starve if that
bunch of political parasites that we
put in Office, state and nation, will
quit seeing red for awhile and get
down to the cause of things.
We will get somewhere and all
the shouting red of Ham and Fish
and all the rest of them isn't going
to do any good.
ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
Editor Times-A recent letter in
your columns from one Margarita
Diddel expresses the views Of most
of the sincere but deluded "drys."
They see only the outward and Wis
ible signs of prohibition cloaked in
hypocrisy and. without reason or
analysis, accept it as a grand sue
cess.
One might pass an hour or two
in the vilest section of New York
or any American city and see Moth
ing distressing. But tear away the
outward sham and you will find
that the so-called coffee houses,
recreation halls, etc., are but dis
guised s-peakeasies, where you will
find no drunkards lolling or sham
bling about, but where our youth
and weak-willed drink poison in the
secrecy of a back room.
The writer never has been a wet"
or a short-sighted citizen misled by
propaganda, but after viewing the
results of the noble experiment"
car see no results for good.
If men could get real liquor in a
place properly supervised by the
government, your writer never would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Mapazine.

LulLOE JOuIHdl VI the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN a recent survey of the subject
4 DR.. E. L. Collins points out that
most duSts in such concentrations as
occur in industry do not exert an
injurious influence on the lungs.
Workers in leather, in the shoe
industry and in milling are in con-
tact constantly with the dusts as
ISOLATED with these working condi-
tons, but are not often sick as a
result.
There was a time when flour dust
vas held to be harmful. Later it
was found that the illnesses were
due to breaking off of quartzite from
the millstones and the quartzite dust
the harmful factor rather than
the -four dust.
Today when flour is milled by
steam rollers millers do not expert
ence the same type of lung trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
1t Is B~eWiIdering

nURING recent weeks, the Sea-
II bury investigation has given
quite as much attention to Repub-
lican as Democratic politicians in
New York City, if not a little more.
While the score hardly could be
regarded as even, it has tended in
that direction sufficiently to make
Tammany feel a lot more cheerful.
At the same time, it leaves ordinary
folks a little bewildered. If both
parties are rotten, what can the
poor, but honest voter do?
A Baptist association has solved
the problem by turning its back on
the Republican and Democratic or
CARNATIONS alike and recommending
the Socialist ticket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

How long did it take to build the
Empire State building in New York?
How high is it and how many floors
has it?. What is its total floor
space?
Excavations for the Empire State
building began the first week in
November, 1929, and the scafold-
ing around the dirigible mooring
mast atop the building was taken
down March 81, 1881. This marked
the practical completion of the
building, although it was not
formerly opened until May l, 1881.
1t is 1,248 feet high from street
level, and has eighty-fve floors with
a total renting space of 2,158,OO0
square feet.
How much is a bit and a buck?
Originally a bit was a silver coin
Of varying value according to the
locality. In Pennsylvania it was
eleven pence and in New England
it was nine pence. In common
American parlance two bits" is IS
cents. A buck is an American
slang name for a dollar. 1t prob
ably had its origin as a term in
he game of poker, where a silver
dollar was often used as the buck"
What does the family name Ran
savage mean?
1t appears to be a British family
name meaning, Ralph the Wild"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

Hard times Notwithstanding, $4,000 men were given
in sugar factories out west. Sweet are the uses
of adversely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

It's easy to understand why a fellow with a one
track mind often goes off his trolley, says the office
sage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26
Escape

Public libraries report that in this time of national
gloom people are turning to escape literature" They
have stopped reading technical books, success" books.
books on economics and business. Instead, they are
asking for the old school of romantic fiction.
If George Bernard Shaw was aware of this when
he addressed Americans as Dear Boobs," his saluta-
ton partly was justified.
For the American people at this moment to fill
their minds with pretty dreams may be human, but
it will not help. If we were living under a cruel dicta-
torship, with no alternatives except endurance or
revolt, such refusal to face reality might be intelligent.
But we are not. We live under a government which
we can, if we choose, control.
The world economic condition is not a scourge from
heaven, a curse which we must endure Realistically.
There are definite and well-understood measures
which can be taken to cure it, if enough intelligent
people make evident a demand that these be taken.
The problems of war debts, of bankers loans, of
world trade and tariffs are all complicated things, but
they can be understood by any American citizen who
takes the trouble to inform himself.
Economic planning sounds like an abstruse affair.
but it is not unlike home budget making; and it will
become an everyday reality as soon as enough people
understand and demand it.
The farm problem, the prohibition problem, the
tax problem, unemployment, can be solved, not in a
week or a year or ten years, perhaps, but they can be
solved.
We will make our own destiny as a nation. If it is
to be a triumphant destiny, first there must exist a
public conscience and the willingness to work.
The fellow who sold us the 14-karat ring not so
long ago apparently had dropped the gold standard
also.
Would it be rash to say that England had been
penny wise and pound foolish?
It's easy to understand why a fellow with a one
track mind often goes off his trolley, says the office
sage.
Hard times Notwithstanding, $4,000 men were given
Jobs in sugar factories out west. Sweet are the uses
of adversely.
The wise child nowadays not only knows the al
phabet, but also it's Vitamin A B Cs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

The wise child nowadays not only knows the al
phabet, but also it's Vitamin A B Cs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

Would it be rash to say that England had been
penny wise and pound foolish?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-26

The fellow who sold us the 14-karat ring not so
long ago apparently had dropped the gold standard
also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17

tween two points. On the theory that
all motorists are fools, they built UP
a foc1-proof left turn. They feared To
do away with 1t because Of the alarm
ing prospect Of what would happen. II
the motorists were suddenly permitted
to think for themselves. they would
crash into each other, slaughter pedes-
TRANS by the score and turn the town
upside down.
The new left turn, which, as a mat
ter of fact, is the old left turn estab-
lished years ago in every city except
Washington, has become effective with
out confusion. Motorists, permitted to
think ssnsibly for themselves, have
taken to 1t like ducks to water. This is
due, primarily, to the fact that the new
method happens to be the simple and
the sensible way of making left turn.
The only requirement for its successful
negotiation is common sense and a fair
amount Of good Judgment.
Washington's experience in scrapping
the rotary method naturally raises the
question of how many other laws
and regulations are based on the err
roneous premise that as the public is
incapable of thinking for itself, it is
necessary to have complicated and
iron-bound rules to guide its every COM
ing and going. How much better 1t
might be If scores of our laws and reg
ulations were, like the rotary left turn,
strapped in favor of letting people
think for themselves and reposing in
them the confidence that they are
capable of doing it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j. HAsKiN.

/ Box" and "The Gold Bug" Kipiings
The Sending Of Dana Da' and His
Welded Wife" Collins "The Woman in
White" Stocktons THE Lady or the
Tiger" De Quincey's The Avenger"
and Bulwer's "A Strange Story" The
distinguishing feature Of the riddle
story Is that the reader shall be con-
fronted with number OF mysterious
| facts OF which the explanation Is re-
served until the end.
@. How old is Chancellor Bruenina
of Germany?-G. H.
A. He is 40 years old.
@. How Is glass wool made and for
what Is it used?-E B. G.
A. Glass wool, also known as glass
silk and spun glass, is used as an irsu-
lating material in ships, locomotives
ana engine rooms. The glass is pre-
pared by being melted in furnace and
passed through holes from which It IS
spun in flne silky threads of about one
thousandth OF an inch In diameter.
The strands cling together, which gives
tsit the appearance of q veil.
9. What is the origin Of the word
attic. referring to an upper story of
house?-G. G.
A. The word is geographical. The
architects OF Attica, OF which Athens
was the ancient capital, planned such
a story, rising above an architraye or
cornice. because it was especially suited
to their type of building. In modern
times such an Attica or Attic story has
been called an attic.
Q. Please name the Wanapas baby
stars of l93l,-R K.
A. The Is young actresses of Holly
wood selected by this advertising or
ganiatio1a as the most promising screen
material OF the year are Constance
Cummings, Anita Louise, Joan Marsh,
Sidney Fox, Rochelle Hudson, Joan
Blonden, Frances Dee, Frances Dade,
Marion Shilling, Karen Morley, Bar
bara Weeks, Marian Marsh and Judith
Wood. The Wampas organization is an
advertising agency Of the motion picture
corporations.
@. Has the increased use Of ma
chinery of the Machine Age dirnin-
ished the number of persons en-
| ployed?-W. II.
A. The Machine Age has had the
effect of greatly increasing the number
of jobs and there are many more per-
sons employed today than before the
introduction Of mass production.
Q. How close win modern tele-
scope bring the moon for obserya-
TOMB L.
A. The enormous instrument ut
Mount Wilson with an enlargement Of
| $500 dismeters brings the moon
within approximately 81 miles Of the
earth.
@. Is the new George washington
Bridge across the Hudson the largest
suspension bridge in the world now
S. L.
A. After a survey Of similar struc-
lures throughout the world, the Ma
tional Geographic Society has stated
that this bridge has that distinction.
With the longest span Of $500 feet
between supports. it has no rival among
the suspension bridges. The Ambassa-
dor Bridge, connecting Detroit and
Sandwich, Ontario, is second with a
central span of $50 feet. It Is longer
over all than the Hudson bridge, how
ever, as from entrance to exit 1t
stretches 5000 feet, compared TO the
George Washington's 8.700 feet. The
Philadelphia Camden Bridge has a
central span of l,750 feet. with longer
approaches, giving it an overall Of
$500 feet.
@. What is the Russian term for the
Ave-year pian2-J. H.
A Eiafiletka
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17

ceivable color except yellow, combine to
make it the very perfection of tulips.
X X \
If one wants yellow tulip Of the
same height, Ell % inches, he must
| go to the so-called Cottage group.
These are, in effect, Darwins, being
distinguished by having more open
! cups.
A great many people prefer the
darker shades, such as the Black tulip
OF history, which in reality is not black,
but a very dark purple.
There are all sorts of bronze shades,
almost black from a. slight distance.
While these somber tints have their
| uses, in a garden, the true value of
the tulip world is lost in them
They are the sophisticated members
OF the tribe and are not the true tulip,
! as the world knows it.. today.
The primary attribute of the tulip is
its clear, glowing color. Even the dark
ones glow, of course, but they lack the
brightness.
The bright tulip is the real tulip.
There can be little doubt of that.
The average home gardener will do
best by himself and his garden when he
sticks closely to the glowing colors
WeShave never sympathized, person
ally, with the ardent belief of tulip en-
tf1usiastS that their favorite flower is
the only one which possesses true tones
of bright colors.
The subtle colorings of the gladiolus
for instance, as developed by the med
ern fanciers, are every Whit as glowing
as beautiful, as clear, it seems to us.
If there Is any blend more beautiful,
among flowers, than the mingling of
soft pink and creamy white, secured in
some Of the finer peonieS, we would like
to be privileged to see 1t. And some of
the modern iris are as lovely in blend as
any tulips that ever bloomed.
The world loves the tulip mainly be-
cause it comes, with its brightness, to
| supplement the budding greenery of
| Spring.
One may feel reasonably sure that If
the tulip bloomed at any other time CT
the year, 1t would never have become
quite the famous flower it is, nor would
it have occupied the same place in song
and story.
And here let us intrude fear a vast
fear, which we feel sure Is assailing
many other plant lovers at this time. It
arises from the recent notices, in some
publications, that experiments have
been undertaken with the hardy garden
chrysanthemum to make 1t bloom In
the Summer instead of the late Fall.
BY cutting of the amount Of sun
light for certain part of the day, by
means of black silk, the world may have
garden chrysanthemums weeks ahead
of normal.
Soon we will be having outdoor flow-
ers of all sorts at all times of the year
and Natures beautiful pageantry, built
up over million years, will be no more.
And many Of us will lament its pass
ing, if it should come to that. The sea-
sons for the various flowers are as much
a part of flowers as their very colora-
tons. The blooming of the flowers is
Natures clock, her timepiece, by means
of which the astute person could almost
tell to the week the very time Of the
year.
At any rate, one may hope that the
experimenters will leave cur tulips
alone. If they did not bloom in the
Springtime they would not be exactly
tulips, would they?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pH1LANDER JOHNSON.
The Find.

The Find.
It's vaIlerl An it shines so bright
It makes you blink an stare.
You guard the treasure day and nign'
With tenderness an care.
No nugget that was ever weighed
BY greedy, tremblin' hands
Such glorious promise has displayed
In this or other lands.
What dreams are in its golden CLINT
AS early moTnin' glowsl
What beauties in the mellow tint
The deepening twilight shows!
1t is no precious metal won
BY strife as time goes by.
It's only jes' pumpkin, son.
To bake into a pie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17
The Moral of the Left Turn.

The change to a sensible method Of
making a left-hand turn is valuable
in more ways than one. 1t facilitates
the movement of trafic and avoids
many Of the ridiculous jams that we're
associated with the old rotary method
But It's chief value lies, perhaps, In
the fact that it must by now have
taught some Of our trafic gods the
valuable lesson that human beings are
capable Of thinking for themselves and
do not have to lean for guidance on the
yeas and the nays Of these who make
the rules.
The trafic officials chung tenaciousiy
to the old lsft-hand turn for fear OF
what would happen when it was abol-
ished. They arranged their pretty
signal lights and drilled the motoring
public to move like automatons and
cast aside the good principle. in making
left-hand turn, that q straight line
Is the shortest. and therefore the
quickest way Of covering. distance be-