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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Minds Strange Tricks

4 MONG the chapters in 4Tbe
L n jungle of the Mind" is one dc
voted to the strange tricks which
the normal mind frequently plavs
IL is titled "Curiosities of the
MIND" Other chapters deal with
mental telepathy, mental healing
the power of suggestion. the powe,.
OF habit. the meaning of dreams
and psychoanalysis.
Protesosr Swift is head of the usv-
chology department of WASHINGTON
university. wa
lie graduated from Amherst COL
Iege and decided he would teach
Latln ana Greek. Unable to find a
suitable position, he turned to the
teaching of science at a private
academy.
Gradually he developed an inter-
est IN psychology. He went to Lem
ZIG where he studied with Wundt
the great founder of modern psv-
chology. Then he went to Berlin
where he studied with Paulsen and
Ebbinghaus.
he returned to America to put in
more study under the great Amer
lcan master, G. Stanley Hall at
Clark university.
DR.. Swift is the author of MANY
important psychological studies. His
hopoles are walking, mountain
climbing. For mental diversion he
reads detective stories.
The jungle Of the Mind" is writ
ten with wit and good humor. 1t is
extremely readable and written
without undue use of technical
phrases.
This reviewer recommends it to
all readers with an interest In the
functioning of the human mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Theology Must Change

With the decline OF pagan culture theology became
the queen of the sciences" All other forms of learn
ing were regarded subordinate The medieval view
was well summed up in the famous proclamation that
"the sword of Gods word is forged by grammar.
FURNISHED by rhetoric, and sharpened by logic, but
only theology can use it."
Even history and natural sciences were regarded
significant only in far they served to light up
the Scriptures. In those days, theology was limited
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Dangers Ahead
JAMES HARVEY RoBINso,

1IAh0 HARVEY ROBINSON
famous historian, did = ,,Iuablo
piece OF work in his "The Mind in
the Making" In that hook b
showed that the so-called modern
~ Hl9 10 mad long inheritance nor =
~ ~ from cave-man DAYS. mart Of
II from the middle ages ''A' "a
III some ways DR.. Svift,s hool- :.
a companion piece To p,o SO 70
i II tal on /, for one. hope that
sons 1s' book cs large a sale as dig Robin
voI Lme present age is an age of mar
telouS scientific advancement R,,+
siere are dangers as well as bene
nus IN the advance of science
AS Professor Swift saws tba ouou
f ase person is in danger of getting
w accustomed to miracle He SECS
% many wonders about him Will; IJo
ne ooeS not understand at all i tIat
nc getS ready to accept anvthinS
lie says the mystery If tbo r,,,,o
Al "JS 4duluIn, the airn1ape
Cne transcontinental telephone and
oCnerS. And the result is thot he go ~
ledqy 10 believe just about anvthin 90
ac he forgets that it is easv to o'' say
science says" He does not inuos
tigate. He forgets to note wh 1,as6o-
u; Inc man who undertakes to SPEAK sneak
III Inc name of science is res1111
equipped to do so. 1e"iiy
although the dominant tone of
much of Professor Swift's booI, " ~
peSsimistic, he has more in nnin =
tHan merely the chanting of a song
OF gloom. His book is written WITH
the idea of being helpful. For the
las. last chapter of his book is titled
Inc Trail Out of the Jungle
perhaps we might say that here
Is pesslmistic book by an optin1ist
For Professor Swift believes thot
Tnere Is a way out of the Jungle
IL is to learn to think straight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
M. E.. Tracy

Desirable as Frdnco-German
Unity May Be, 1t Is Likely
to Hit Some of Us Ameri-
cans Right Where We Live,
NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.-Pierre
l Y Laval, the French premier, and
Aristide BRAND, the French foreign
minister, go to Berlin. Their OBJ
ject is better working agreement
with Germany, or, as Laval puts it,
organized cooperation.
This organized cooperation" he
explains, stimulated and controlled
by the two governments, and bring
ing into contact qualified repre-
sentatives of the principal branches
of economic activity, ought to lead
to favorable results and be followed
by concrete realities"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Record Is Tragedy

WTE just are beginning to realize
w the waste and ruthlessness
of unrestrained competition in this
country, but it has caused us lit
tie distress, compared to what it
has caused the rest of the world,
especially as promoted and protec-
ted in the name of national
sovereignty.
The record of civilization is a
tragedy in the matter of trade and
commerce. Much of the gold over
which great governments are quar-
relling was stolen; much of the
wealth about which they boast was
acquired by heartless exploitation;
much of the advantage which they
claim to enjoy was brought about
by the conquest and coercion of
weaker peoples.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Not So on Tariff

THE average American is ready
i to give three rousing cheers.
1t has been his idea all along that
France and Germany should get to-
gether. In fact, it has been his
idea that every one should get to-
gether, except on the tariff.
When it comes to the tariff, the
average American is not such a
good Rotarian. Neither are the
French, Germans or English.
But for the tariff, especially as
examplified in the Smoot-Hawley
bill, we would be hearing far less
about organized cooperation be-
tween France and Germany, the
abandonment of free trade in Eng
land, or an economic union for
Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
INVESTIGATORS in schools, kin
Il dergartens and nurseries regular
ly have found that children from
average homes do not receive proper
diets.
An investigation made by DR.. j. c.
Winters in. Texas concerned the
diets of fifty American, fifty Negro
and Seventy-f1ve Mexican children
in several Texas cities. The diets
were studied carefully as to the to-
tai amount of calories received
body weight, protein, carbohydrates
fat, mineral salts and vitaminS.
Some interesting facts were dis
covered. For instance, 50 per cent
of the American, 81 per cent of the
Negro, and Sc per cent of the Mex
lean diets were inadequate in total
amounts of calories taken. More
over, the food DEFICIENCIES were more
serious for girls than for boys.
The Negro and Mexican intake
of calcium was not much more than
half that of the American diets:
phosphorus and iron were low in
the three groups. The average in
take was lower for girls than for
boys.
Inadequacy of calcium affected
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Didn't Sound So Good

TT is a strange thing that, in the
L midst of all this uproar for po-
litical peace, we should have been
so careless of mutual economic in
terests.
You can't make people friendly by
taking the bread out of their mouths,
as even Gandhi is learning.
A boycott of English cotton goods
sounded all right in India, but not
so good in the textile districts of
England.
Before we can construct anything
like a solid foundation for peace, we
must discover a way to help people,
without running other people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Branded as Insane

OUR own governments attitude
" toward foreign trade in gen.
eral, and Russian trade in particular,
is responsible measurably for the
economic trend overseas.
We have taught Europe how to
use the big stick, how to
mobilize commercially, and legis-
late prosperity into being.
What Senator Cordell Hull of
Tennessee describes as insane
economic nationalism" has had
much to do with bringing on the
world depression, and the moves be-
ing made by various governments
to get out of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
SCIENCE
BY DAVID l)TETz

Professor Edgar Jam E 5
S'o1t's Nelo Book. ~The
Jungle of the Mind" Cite.
Dangers IN the Advance 81
Science. ~
THE title of Professor Edu.r
Swift's latest box shouId n
form the reader at or E that ho-a -. =,
q, oOoK OF the beaten track. Tho
tl az IS The Jungle of the Mind =
Scr,h mas Just been published bv
oCrloner'S at S2.5O) W
The title does not seem oo,,n,,
aaeIeary to Homo Sapiens The ~
r ,,,,L, from the book which The
puohshers have seen fit IN nsa 't te
auorn the jacket are neither CO.., -
p p,,-lteu 4,y nor optimistic. Let me
quote them for you: "ie
PEOPLE prefer a nvsterious ~
piaIatlon to one that is sinnIe end
IHteIlglble. N-4N
tro i 10y nature, or from long ages Of
training, man is superstitious - -
,,,;, nnong the many myths of the
hlno the most disastrous ns-ha we
IS the belief that man is a tbi f,ial,S,
animal. % d OilihKlng
lie, Inc seeds of superstition aro
perennial, and thev arc u,oto,..-, - -
nourished by advances in nj Al, - , ana
ksno,W!iledge that would be exnsc ctog
to kill them. NC expected
The stupendous discovor,o.
n e nave put us into an ex-
p So+s credulous mental attituds
o obs,,rg Is now impossible, nothinr
a aDIo III, Inc line between reason.
a ,,.o,3 oeiiefs and credulity has heen
WeA-nigh obliterated." -'@' 'T7en
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
We VIII Suffer

NESIRABLE as FranCo-German
II Impeachment may be, it is
going to hit some of us Americans
right where we live, if it works.
France and Germany have just
two interests in common-reduced
expenses and increased revenue.
Put into plain English, that means
war debts and foreign trade, par
ticularly Russian trade.
If the various pow-wows do not
result in concerted effort for debt
reduction on the one hand, and
more extensive dealings with Rus
STA on the other, they will result in
little of consequence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those az
one OF Americas most inter.
estlng writers and are nre.
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
WITH the editorial attitude Of
this DaDeP.-The Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Ride EN-, Cowboy!

XXTHEN was running for con-
w gress last year. Joe Cook sug-
gested that I ride an elephant up
and down Broadway in an attempt
to gather in the votes. I declined
mot so much for the sake of my
dignity, but I was thinking of the
elephant. A couple of days ago I
received the following letter:
Dear Mr.. Broun-We are Shoot
ing the Works and it's down your
alley. The west has moved east
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Wheat for the Hungry

While millions Starve in China and thousands 20
hungry here, the federal farm board boards it's mil
lions of bushels of wheat. The board admits that
the best thing that could happen to the farmer would
be the disappearance of this surplus, which is de-
pressing the market Then why does not the board
get rid of it?
True, the board has sold 100000 bushels to
China The grain is sold, though solely for charit-
able relief to flood sufferers. All of which sounds
more like commercial deal of private traders than
transaction which is supposed not to compete with
private sales.
Because the board does not intend to make money
out of its sterilization" stocks because selling at
the market price results in board competition with
farmers, it is supposed to help, and because the
Chinese famine victims need all the food they can
get the board should have sold at a nominal price
far below the market
Anyway why stop with 100000 bushels of wheat
when the board has more than ten times that
amount? If China can not use all of that huge sur
plus, why not act the McKelvie plan to dispose
OF it at nominal prices to unemployment relief Or
CARNATIONS in this country?
Wheat and cotton markets can not approach nor
NAL activity again until stocks held by the federal
farm board are disposed Of
The board continues to hold it's cotton: it has re-
fused to sell to Germany.
600 bushels of wheat. 1t has been carrying out its
program Of dsposing of 100000 bushels monthly in
the domestic markets. At that rate it will have rid
itself of the last bushe some time between 1888 and
1885
The board must realize that this wheat should not
be held that long.
Some have urged that it be burned, and that the
cotton be destroyed ALSO That would solve the sur
plus problem for the moment; but it would be I'M
thinkable in these times where there are hundreds
of thousands of hungry and cold persons here and
elsewhere
Knowing that this grain depresses the farmers
market, would it not be better to sell it for almost
nothing and alleviate hunger rather than delay sales
until the right prices are received and until more
thousands of dollars are eaten up in storage and
carrying charges?
Congress will meet soon We believe it will au-
horize the federal farm board give away the wheat
to the hungry of China and America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

Action in Tennessee against Clarence Darrow's
film may be taken to mean that the state wants nc
more monkey business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

How many monarchies are there
left in the world?
Great Britain, japan, Italy, Meth
erlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Rumania, YugolSavia, Al
bania, Egypt, Hungary (under a
regency, Bulgaria, Persia, Siam,
Abyssinia, Afghanistan and Nepal.
The Kingdom of Iraq, under British
mandate, and the Kingdom of Bhu-
tan, a semi-independent state, are
also claSsed as monarchies, making
twenty one in al.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
WHAT IS the significance Of e

What IS The significance Of CALI
ing person blue blooded?
There was an early belief that
blue blood is richer and purer than
red blood. Hence aristocrats have
peen termed "blue bloods" The
origin of the belief is not known.
Where can 1 find some informal
ton about nurses training schools
for men?
Write to the American Muses.
Association, $40 Seventh avenue,
New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

1t would be fine thing for everybody if all the
farmers could get their neghbors to cut down little
production.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

Famous last words She answered a matri-
monial ad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28

Suffer anything from man
rather than sin against God.-Sir
Henry Vane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-28
Daily Thought

Depart from me, all ye workers
of iniquity; for the Lord hath
heard the voice of my weeping
Psalras 6: s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
RADIO APPLICATIONS
MEET 10 OBSTACLES
Chief Counsel of Commission Ana
lyzes Examiners Data on
Denial of Permits.

There are at least 10 convincing rea-
sons why it Is next TO impossible to get
authority to build new broadcasting
stations in this country, Benjamin S.
Fisher, acting general counsel of the
Federal Radio Commission, disclosed
yesterday.
In a legal analysis Of reports sub
mitted to the commission by its exam
liners during the past year having to
do with hearings, Mr. Fisher brought
out that there are certain fundamental
findings" that have been maintained
consistently by the examiners in ar
irving at their decisions To a very
large extent he said. these have been
finally sustained by the commission
itself
Altogether, the legal division studied
$50 reports presented to the commission
by its examiners and arrived at 10 prin-
most every instance were the basis for
the denial Of applications not alone for
new stations. but for improved facili-
ties for existing stations.
During the last fiscal year. exactly 10
new stations managed to batter their
way into the radio picture. being the
only successful applicants among sew
eral thousands To offset these addi-
tons. however, approximately the same
IluHlD6T Oh stations were OeleLeQ from
the lists, either by outright removal
from the air or by consolidation with
other stations.
All Of the legal reasons as to why
new applications stand little chance
can be traced to the condition of ex-
IRENE overcrowding in the broadcast
wave lengths. On the 90 channels
available to the Nation, some 6l0 sta
tions are assigned, but the bulk Of the
stations are in the low-power class
and are duplicated on the small chan
nelS
In so Of the 100 cases acted upon,
the examiners recommended denial of
the applications on the ground that
satisfactory service now is being rem
dered In the particular localities in
volved, and that the granting of the
applications would not improve the
service. Under this same head might
also be placed the conclusion that by
granting a new facility to a particular
community 1t would create an Unequal
ity Of radio facilities in that particular
portion of the State" Mr. Fisher said.
CConvrirht
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
NEW YORK, September Slow to
make a baby cry when you have no
baby-its a problem that is driving
four strong men to the verge of tears.
A duck quacker, played with certain
manual notifications, is the best the
National Broadcasting Co.'S sound ef-
fectS department" has been able 10 do
so far. 1t sounds pretty good over the
air, but the four young men OF the de-
partment, stern realists always, fear 1t
doesn't sound good enough.
Hence the endless quest and multiple
experiments III the past few months. all
leading TO the despairing conclusion
that there probably isn't any radio
sound in the world just like a cater
wauling voungster. Some wag sug-
gested the department add real baby
and a common pin to It's effects, but
the suggestion was vetoed.
The noisiest room in the world" is
what they call the tiny laboratory on
Fifth avenue where the department
prepares its noises. The building COL
lapses, thunder. steamboat whistles,
transforms and gunfire radio fans have
heard in the last six or seven years are
there-ready to burst into clamor again
at a moments notice.
Ray Kelly, director of noise Is par
ticularly proud Of his lion. 1t has a
history 1t Is the same lion that roared
backstage at the Broadway premiere Of
the motion pictures Theodore Roosevelt
took on his famous trip TO South Amer
lea. A funny-looking lion 1t Is. consist
ing. as 1t does, of whisky keg topped
with a stretched skin, through which
q rosined cord protrudes. Pull on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
TELEvISION PETITION
HEARINGS ARE SET
Radio Commission on Examiners
to Receive Arguments on
Over Score.

Practically all Of the score or more
OF pending applications for television
wave lengths have been ordered set for
hearings before examiners of the Fed
eral Radio Commission during the next
few months. Eight cases were placed
on the docket this week, and the COM
mission ordered its docket clerk to
schedule dates for hearings on exactly
a dozen others.
On october Z, the commission exam
liners will conduct their inquiries into
the public service merits of the visual
broadcasting applications of WCAO,
Baltimore; WXYZ, Detroit. and the
Hochschild-Kohn Co., Baltimore de-
partment store. On October 8. the
three st. Louis applications. WILL,
KNOX and KWK, will be heard. On
November 2, hearings will be con-
Quoted on the applications of WMCA,
New York, and WGN, Chicago
ignated frequencies in the television
bands between 1000 and 1850 kilo-
cycles, though KNOX and WMCA have
also asked for channels in the ultra
high frequency bands between $4,000
and 10000 kilocycles. 1t is probable
that KNOX. which is controlled by the
Columbia Broadcasting System, will
withdraw its application entirely, await
ing other television developments which
the New York headquarters of Columbia
are watching.
Ordered set for hearings, probably
some time in November or December
in view of the fact that the hearing
docket is now filled to November 5, were
the applications Of WLW, Cincinnati;
WJR. Detroit; VINO, Memphis; WSB,
Atlanta; WIP-WFAN. Philadelphia; the
Easton Coil Co.. New York; Pilot
Radio g. Tube Corporation, Lawrence,
Mass; the National Co, Maiden, Mass;
American Television Laboratories, Ltd.
Gee DeForest SYSTEM. Los Angeles,
Calf; Television Laboratories, Ltd
Philo T. Farnsworth SYSTEM, San
Francisco, Calf: Traveller Manufac-
turing Corporation. ST. Louis. Mo. and
1ndiana's Community Broadcasting Cor
poration, Hartford City, Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
LACK OF SOUND OF CRYING BABY
DRIVING RADIO MEN TO TEARS
Real Child and Common Pin Proposal Vetoed-Duck
Quacker Nearest Approach by N. B. c. Experts

cord and even veteran jungle hunter
is apt to look around for his gun.
Squash a peach basket in your hands
and radio listeners think house is
collapsing. A wicker waste basket
Rugged by brawny lad sounds like the
squeak of a camel's harness. 1t takes
three men to get train out of sta
ton, one to work the whistles, another
the steam (which looks like a wash
board agitated by a wire flaiD and a
third to make the sound Of the wheels,
which consist Of furniture rollers ro-
tated on a sounding board.
The sound experts stick to the real
thing II they can. For instance. they
make the sound of a door closing by
closing door. although a squeaky door
is a base fiddle bow drawn across the
edge of cardboard box.
They like to tell about sound effects
men in the movies who once tried to
get the noise of water pouring out of a
barrel. The experts tried everything
from rolling peas on oiled paper to a
complicated surf machine. Finally a
mere underling had a bright idea
Let's pour water out of barrel" he
said. That worked
sound mans life is no snap. They
get acquisitions for such things as the
sound Of soap being sliced" and the
lurch of an airplane in flight"
They thought those were the limit
until one happy day one of the experts
entered the laboratory to find Director
Kelly fainting away. In his hand was a
requisition saying:
Dear Mr.. Kelly please make US the
sound Of snow falling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
NEW RADIO BEACONS
WILL GUIDE PLANES
Forty-fve Range Stations Due for
Completion by July !, 1882,
Besides Ten Others.

Thirty new radio range beacons for
the guidance Of aircraft in fight and
10 new airway communication stations
for broaGcasting weather and other in
formation to pilots will be Installed
along the Federal airvays during the
current fiscal year, according to the
Aeronautics Branch, Department of
Commerce. In addition. Is uncom-
pleted radio beacon stations are to be
placed in operation before July !, 1882.
Twenty-eight of the thirty beacon
stations will be located at Paulsboro, N.
j.; Charleston. S. c.: Raleigh, N. c.;
Jacksonville, Fla: Alma, Ga; Mobile,
Ala; Montgomery, Ala: Birmingham,
Ala; Gainesville. Ala; jackson, Miss:
Smiths Grove, KY; Shreveport, La;
New Orleans. La; Little Rock, Ark;
Oklahoma City; Memphis. Tenn;
Texarkana. Ark; Springfield. Mo;
Pontiac, IL: Rockford III; st. Paul
Minneapolis: Milwaukee. Wis; La
Crosse, Wis; Fargo, N. OAK; San
Diego, Calf; Gilroy, Calf; Coalinga,
Calf, and Spokane, Wash. Sites for
the two others remain to be chosen.
The Is beacon stations to be COM
pleted are at Pittsburgh, Harrisburg,
Pa: Wichita; Amarillo. Tex: Wins
low, Ariz; Kingman, Ariz.: Albueuer-
que, N: Mex; Willows, Calf; Fon-
tana, Calf; Daggett, Calf: Shasta
Greg: Portland, Greg. and Seattle.
The 10 new weather broadcasting
stations are to be located at Mobile.
Ala: Titusville. Fla; Miami, Fla
Houston, Tex; San Antonio, Tex.
Springfield. Mo-; Minneapolis-St, Paul:
Pueblo, Colo. Milford, Utah, and
Spokane, Wash.