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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
Arc System Spreads


THE early pioneers of electricity
Il had to invent every detail of
the electrical industry. It was not
enough merely to invent an arc
hight or an incandescent light.
All the things which we regard
as commonplace details had to he
deVeloped-Switches, distribution
lines, nsulatorS, fuses and so on. as
well as such larger items as ade-
quate dynamos for the generation
OF the electricity.
Brush patented his arc lanp in
1878. In 1880 he organized the
Brush Electric Company, one of the
four which was later merged into
the General Electric Company.
The first use of arc lamps for
street lighting was on the Public
square IN Cleveland. In 1879, twelve
lamps of 2,000-candle power each
were installed on high Ornamental
poles. The Public square was
crowded with citizens the NIGHT The
lamps were turned on for the first
time. ~
"Oou OAsdlIIAeu the TT. WaVne
Electric Corporation and devised
system OF arc lighting which was
used in many places in the middle
west.
thomson organized his companv
TO introduce the use of arc lamps in
New Britain, Conn.
When, in 1880, Edison announced
the invention of the incandescent
lamp, Thomson made a trip to
Menlo Park to talk to Edison and
see his new light.
AT first Thomson was not i'm
pressed with the new Edison Iamp.
IL seemed very inefficient beside the
arc light and Thomson confesses
that 1t took him three or four wears
70 realize the true Importance of
EdiSon'S invention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
Still Shell Shocked

M ZEN hope and prophesy accord
1V1 ing to their experience. &C
cording to what they have been
used to, according to those con-
dltions which appeal to them as
Oelng more or less permanent.
Just before the great war broke
OUT you couldn't make any one be-
neve that a great war was possible
because the world had dwelt in
comparative peace for a generation.
Hlght now you can't make anv
one believe that war isn't likely to
follow the slightest provocation
because this generation still suffers
from fright and Shell-shock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Eihu Thompson, Dean of
General Electric Scientists.
Is Last Living Electrical
Pioneer.
OF the four great electrical pio-
Oneers whose inventive genius
launched the General Electric Com
pany, the worlds largest electrical
company, only one remains alive to-
day. He is Elihu Thomson.
There were two alive until death
took Thomas A. Edison. The other
two who comprised the quartet were
James j. Wood of Fl. Wayne. Ind
who died in 1923, and Charles r
Brush of Cleveland, who died in
1929.
Elihu Thomson, now the dean of
the General Electric scientists. stiIl
is actively engaged in research
heading an important laboratory at
West Lynn, Mass.
Although Edison Is remembered
chiefly for the invention of the in
candescent light, She great electrical
development of the nation had its
beginnings in the arc light.
Thomson remembers the an
nouncement of the incandescent
light from Edison's laboratory and
tells how he and other pioneers in
the field were unwilling to believe
that the new light would supplant
the arc lamp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
Daily Thought

Wine is a mOcker, strong
drink is raging: and whatsoever is
deceived thereby is not WISE
Proverbs POL.
Drunkenness is nothing else than
voluntary madnesS.-Seneca.
Is 1t necessary to get permit to
have a tree cut on indianapolis
property? Where should one apply
for such permit?
Yes. Apply to the park board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

winter. This year they were asked
for So, but not one of them has any
assurance of a job.
1t stands to reason those workers
are not making big wages and they
couldn't have enough saved up to
live on the rest of the winter. Take
every employe of those concerns
and guarantee him steady work and
you couldn't find a one who would
not gladly donate from So to SIS, but
you can't blame a man for hest
tating when he knows down deep
IN his heart if he is thrown out of a
job, he will need every dollar he has
to live on and may have to ask for
charity himself.
I haven't worked at a factory lob
for the past year, but I gave to the
Community Fund to help some one
who might be worse off than I.
Many a man is asking for help who
would be tickled to death tc have a
good job, and many who are too
proud, never have asked for any,
thing, but they can't go on forever.
A READER.
Editor Times-To Margarita T..
Diddle, who had an article in YOUR
paper recently: I just wish to call
her attention to the remarks she
made about the wharves in New
York, and coffee shops now 10
Gated where old saloons used to be.
My husband and I was, perhaps.
IN these same coffee shops, a few
months ago, and my husband called
my attention to several of the places
we visited, and we found a speak
easy IN the rear, where they served
beer and whisky in coffee cups, and
we didn't have to present a card or
sneak in the back way if we wanted
to be served.
She spoke of the days before pro-
hlbltlon, when a crowd Of drunken
men would be hanging around the
front door, she would have seen
just as many drunken men and
women. Not only that, but boys and
girls drunk, too, going in and out.
hardly can believe that any one
does not know that these conditions
exist.
At the large hotels where we
stopped, every time we rang for
bellboy he never would fail to ask
us if we wanted some liquor.
I also wish to call attention to
the old saloon days, when children
did have some protection and there
were no home breweries. I was a
young girl then, and would give
parties, and invite a crowd of bows
and girls to my home.
We would enjoy the evening by
making candy and pulling taffy and
playing games. We don't have that
kind Of parties now among our
young folks. 1t has all been changed
since prohibition.
Nowadays the girls will say to the
boy friend, Where can we get a
drink? Give me a cigaret. Can't
you go home and get some home
brew. Surely your father makes it. d"
Mrs. Diddle speaks of conditions
being DetIer since prOnlDluOn, de-
spite this depression I just want
to ask her if she ever has read
anything about the bootleggers and
the gangsters, which we never heard
Of before prohibition?
MRS. R. BROWN.
Editor Times Tt is plain to be
seen that the workers Of the nation
are using their brains as never be-
fore. 1t seems as though the rich
think there are too many of us poor
devils mere. With modern machinery,
they don't need so many of us. They
think the best way out is to Starve
us.
Take the man who works on the
charity chain gang. They give him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

jobs? Children Of this class make up from third
to a half Of the school population.
There is no great problem in finding the right
vocation for these backward children. They excel
only ct some manual trade. Vocational guidance
here not any delicate decision between the profess
sion Of the poet and the physician
Nor is it too early to interest such child in the
manual arts at 10 H. 1t be done even earlier
BY the time they II, they will have mastered
type Of trade and be able to step cut and engage in
something beyond drudgery, crime, racketeering, and
prostitution.
For the minority of bright students who can stay
indefinitely in school, we may agree with Dr. Snedden
that their vocational training well may be postponed
until they IT, Further his contention that voca-
tional guidance should be given only by experts is
sound sense
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11
The Parking Plan

Presumably ordinances for the control of traffic
are designed for public safety and convenience.
Whenever such regulations interfere with the con-
venience of the public and the prosperity of the COM
munity, they should be changed.
Apparently the present ordinance is unsatisfactory
or merchants in the business district would not spend
their time in protest
The merchants state that the restrictions are such
as to reduce their business. That means that those
who wish to buy or who might buy were not for the
regulations are prevented from doing the things they
wish to do.
1t is inconceiveable that regulations can not be
made which will eliminate congestion and still permit
access to established places of business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

The French athletes say they'll be slowed down
without their wines at the Olympic games in Los
Angeles But if they drink the stuff here they'll STOP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

Southern California U. co-eds say per cent of 8
mans appeal is his ability to understand clearly the
word mo" Anyway, that leaves 95 per cent fo
maybe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

The Four Marx Brothers were at one time concel
players known as the Four Nightingales Since ths
time they've made their Marx.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-11

A movie actress recently planted fig trees in her
back yard. Maybe she's planning to use the leaves
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-08-15
Troller's Strike Ends in Compromise

average of 949,555 cases which is more than a half million cas- es below that low period of million and a half for the six year period up to 1930
 Actual shortage of fish was undoubtedly the principal fact or" said the Pacific Fisherman.
 The salmon run in 1880 was, by the Bureau of Fisheries ard the packers themselves, admit tcdly a failure with a pack of 3.000,000 cases. Now comes the various spokesmen for the pack CTS declaring that "The red salmon pack in Western Alaska is above normal" To be above normal that pack should be not less than 2,O0O,O00 cases each year. For normal pack is an average pack and with the av- craze for 1880 and 1881 less than a million cases, it cannot truthfully be said that the pack is above normal-not by more than a million cases
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-08-15
TAX LAW AGAIN
 BEFORE THE COURT

The validity of the non-resi- cent trollers' tax act o1 1929 was again upheld and attacked be- fore Judge Justin w. Harding, in the United States District Court here this week in the case cf Wood Freeman, a Seattle troller, against Walstein G. Smith, Treasurer of Alaska, At
 torney General John Rustgard. appearing for the Territory, ar yued that the Legislature had undoubted right to impose such ;2y if it were not "prohi' ',:vc and asserted that with average earnings of the trollers about $3,000 per year, a $250 levy could not be said to be prchibitive.
 H L. Faulkner, representing Freeman asserted .that the Le- gislature no longer has any power to enact tax measures which discriminate between re- sident and non-residents and
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-08-15

lIlC UuCulC UcCWCCn CIOllcfS and fish buyers ended in some what of a draw about the 18th of July. The strikers receded from their demand for 126-3 per pound and the buyers step- ped their prices up to 10-4-2 cents per pound.
 The Indian trollers at Port Alexander, without funds to continue the strike in sympathy with the demands of the Alas ka Trollers' Association, posted notice on the bulletin board 1t the Cape that they would hold 2 meeting to decide on what would be the most advisable thing to do. At the meeting it was decided that they would gc fishing at the .10-4-2 price and that the Union would be so no- tified.
 A meeting had been desired Ly the union members for some time but the leaders refused to call such a meeting However, following the action of the In dian trollers, the leaders called a meeting of the union and it was decided by a vote of 150 to 50 that trolling operations be gin at the prices 10-4-2 offered by the buyers
 Thus ended the longest strike in the history of Alaska's fisher ies.
 The strike has demonstrated the fact that the fishermen can secure a solidarity-if they will make earnest effort so to dc. That with a little preparation, through proper organization, and membership, the union can give assistance to the less for tunate ones and thereby keep them from destroying the m0r- ale of the organization.
 The buyers, in this instance, had the assistance of an ecc-
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-08-15

u 1ulU UlCuS11U OuC C1lC fact that there is wide discrep- ancy between the prices paid fishermen for white kings and the prices demanded in the states-tWo cent per pound kings brought 35 cents per pound in Los Angeles and 45 cents per pound in Butte, Mont. This dis crepancy in prices is unwarrant- ed is the assertion of fishermen who ask that the price of white king salmon be raised to 4 in- stead of two cents.
 But fer the depression in the states tightening up the money market, it is generally believed that the fishermen would have won on their demand to earn sufficient to give them decent returns for their labor.
 The Salmon Situation
 Charles D. Garfield, former se- cretary to the Alaska Fish Con- mission and now connected with the Seattle Chamber. of Com,- nlerce, stated to The Alaska Weekly:
 "The red salmon pack in Western Alaska is above norm
 And because of his position his statmentS are accepted as coming from an authority ana cannot be denied.
 The average red salmon pack in the Western district, from 1914-1918 inclusive, was 2,269,- $50.
 The average pack during the six years up to 1880 was 1,604,- 962 cases.
 In 1880 the pack was only 332,626 cases and of this pack, 355, 200 cases were put up from the Western district. This, ac- cording to the Pacific Fisherman of September 1880, was the low est in 32 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
BRIDGE DEATH CASE
ENDS FIRST WEEK
Trial Adjourned as Counsel
Argue Testimony-HuSband
Was III Tempered.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, February 28.-De-
tense witnesses today pictured Mrs.
Myrtle A. Bennett as the devoted wife
Of a violent tempered man, thus pre-
pairing for the defendants own story
of the death Of her husband, John @.
Bennett, whom she is charged with
Staying as the climax of bridge game
quarrel.
From fashionably attired friends Of
Mrs. Bennett, who described her as
truthful and of high moral character
former Senator James A. Reed, defense
counsel drew several assertions that
Bennett frequently gave way to out
bursts of anger.
The witnesses without exception de-
clared the BENEFITS were unusually az
fectionate and devoted.
Adjournment for Week End.
The prosecution sought to exclude
the testimony about Benefits temper
as irrelevant, declaring the defense as
outlined contended that Bennett met
his death accidentally.
Court adjourned at the end Of a week
devoted to the trial with counsel argyll
ing as to the admissibility OF testimony
by L. r. Baker, who said he had seen
Bennett strike his wife previous to the
night of the fatal bridge game.
The State has contended that Mrs.
Bennett shot her husband to death
after he struck her in the face repeat
edly when angered by an argument
about his loss of bid in a contract
bridge game.
State Rests Case.
Mrs. BENEFITS struggle up from pow
erty In rural Arkansas to become the
breadwinner for her widowed mother
and later the wife of a prosperous per-
fune salesman was described by char
acter witnesses.
The State rested its case early this
morning without having called as wit
nesses the defendants mother, Mrs.
Alice Adkins, or Mrs. Charles M. Hoff-
man, who with her husband played in
the last bridge game with the BENEFITS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
COMMUNISTS HANDBILL
DISTRIBUTORS ARE FREED
Two Youths Were Advertising
Meeting ''to Fight for Unem-
ployment Insurance"

Quoting the decision Of another Po-
Hoe Court judge in similar case sew
eral weeks ago, Judge Gus A. Schuldt
In Police Court yesterday dismissed
charges of violation of police regulations
against two youths arrested February %
for distributing circulars advertising a
Communistic meeting among group of
men in a bread line on Sixth street near
d. Judge Schuldt held that the act Of
distributing circulars constituted no
violation of the law.
The youths, John NJ. Smythe and VIII
Ham Phillips, had been arrested by Po-
iceman A. r. Houch of No. precinct.
They had been distributing handbills
advertising q meeting of Communist
party to discuss a fight for unemploy-
ment insurance"
When the youths were arraigned sew
eral days ago Attorney Charles E.
Moore, for the defense, recommended
dismissal. citing the previous decision
on similar charge. Judge Schuldt had
taken the case under advisement until
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
MEETING is CALLED
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
convenes wednesday.

The next regular meeting of the As
ISOLATION of Oldest Inhabitants Of the
District of Columbia will be held
wednesday night, this week, at the Old
Union Engine House, Nineteenth ana
H streets, opening at 1880 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
ARMY TO MEASURE
AIRPORT FACILITIES
Civil and Military Systems
Will Be Tested as Means
of National Defense.

Whether the Nations combined mill
tary and civil airport systems are sum-
cient to accommodate the fighting
planes which would have to be concen-
trated for the national defense in case
of emergency will be determined by the
Army Air Corps in May as q part OF
the coming maneuverS.
Every large airport in the country Is
to be tested as to its ability TO nandle
military air units rapidly and eficiently,
the War Department has planned. In
their flights to and from the concentra-
ton point and during the exercises, Air
Corps units will ny over every State IN
the Union.
The airport systems in the vicinity OF
the National Capital will be taxed espe-
cially, as this city is to be the scene OF
the final concentration Of every avail
able military plane under Army orders
in the United States, including planes
of the National Guard squadrons.
In its preparations for the maneuverS
the War Department is making study
of the Nations airports, military, num-
cipal and commercial. Every large air
port will be used and many others not
so large, in addition to the Army air
dromes already established, 1t was an
nounced Gas, oil and other supplies
will be sent in advance to those airports
which will be required as servicing
bases. Communication systems and
weather information facilities at the
country's airports are being examined
to insure their adequacy for handling
a great military air movement
Nearly 700 Army planes of all types,
organized as the 1st Provisional Air
Division, the first time so large an air
unit has ever been modified in the
United States, are due in the National
Capital for three days at the end Of
May. While here they are TO undergo
inspection, repair, servicing and are to
operate in flight as a division, taxing
every type Of aviation facility in the
vicinity of the Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
WORLD EMPLOYEES
MAY START PAPER
Corporation Formed With
Leasing of Old Plant and
Equipment in View.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 2S-Former
employees Of the New York World, pur-
chased yesterday by the Scripps- Howard
interests and consolidated with the New
York Telegram, plan to lease or pur-
chase the plant and equipment of the
World and publish their own Newspaper,
their spokesman said today.
Their plans were announced by Gus
tave A. Rogers, their counsel, who said
business corporation named Joseph
Pulitzer's Employees Corporation" was
incorporated yesterday at Albany.
Rogers also said leg@ action against
the sale of the Woodworking, Eve
ming and Sunday-by the three sons Of
Joseph Pulitzer to the group headed by
Roy w. Howard, was under serious
consideration"
I'VE are at work." Rogers said, Ito
build up an organization that probably
will take over, through lease or purchase
from the Press Publishing Co. and the
Pulitzer trustees, the present Pulitzer
Building with its plant and equipment
to conduct a new newspaper under the
auspices of the old World employees with
substantial financial support, which Is
practically assured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
STATE DEPARTMENT BARS
COMMISSIONS ON LOANS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Flotation Of foreign loans in the
United States henceforth will be OPP
posed by the State Department in in
stances where American banking houses
pay commissions to third parties to Sc
cure the underwriting Of such issues
The policy was adopted by Secretary
Stimson following reports of disclosures
in Peru that high officials of the
Leguia regime had accepted commits
sions on loans hoated by American
bankers.
The department does not directly ap-
prove or disapprove any proposed hota-
ton, but negatively expresses to bankers
1t has mo objections" if the loan does
not fall under the ban of established
rules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

Father Junipero Sierra, revered Spanish
padre, who founded CALIFORNIA; mis-
sions, and Thomas Starr King, whose
oratory is credited with saving Cali
fornia to the Union, will be honored
this afternoon at 3 o'clock, when their
statues are formally unveiled IN
Statuary Hall in the National Capitol.
Senator Hiram johnson of California
will present the statues on behalf OF
the State. His colleague, Senator Samuel
Shortridge, win deliver the Grafton on
King. Xanders Dockweiler will arrive
in Washington today from Los Angeles
to deliver the Grafton on Sierra.
Miss Grace S. Stoermer, secretary OF
the California Federation Of Women's
Clubs, Is in charge of the program. Mrs.
William Elmer Evans, wife OF Repre-
sentative Evans of California, Will pay
a tribute on behalf of the women's clubs
and Representative Arthur M. Free will
speak on behalf of the native sons.
Miss Stoermer will represent the Native
Daughters of California. Representa-
tive Florence Kahn Of California also
viii speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
BRIGHTER Front Door Hslp.

Those who arrive home late after a
convivial party in London have a new
aid. It Is q distinctive front door in
vivid colors. The fad of brilliant hues
and designs for the street entrance of
houses has made a great hit, and some
enthusiasts are adding door knockers Of
unusual design and china handles to
match
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

The United States Marine Band viii
play at the ceremony.
The Sierra statue was sculptured by
Ettore Cadorin of Santa Barbara. That
of King is by Haig Pattigan of San
Francisco.
The Sierra statue is unusual in that
no picture of Sierra was available for
the sculptor, neceSsitating a purely
idealistic representation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

been in conference are looking very
alphabetically toward our plan Of .
new newspaper in the building where
the three newspapers we're formerly con-
Quoted"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

THE newspaper win have Is its aim
and object the high principles and ira
ditions Of Joseph Pulitzer. The attor-
neys for the Press Publishing Co. and
the Messrs. Pulitzer, with whom I have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
. . . . . . . . . . .
Are You
Busy
Expecting?


Some wives are so
busy expecting their
husbands to show atten-
ton to them, that they
forget to show an occas-
ional attention to their
husbands. Husbands
are people = and all
people appreciate gifts.
Read it again and
think it over.