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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Reno's Dilemma

Pity poor Renol For three years the sagebrush
capital has been picking up pennies to the merry
click of its up-to-date divorce mill The speed-up
system was out-Fording Ford by delivering couples
neatly, completely separated after ninety days Of
residence
More than 1000 rich and marriage-weary pairs
have been taking the Reno cure year. while washoe
county and George B. Wingfed's spacious hosterieS
have waXed richer to the extent of 100000 a year.
But the easy divorce monopoly too good to
last Arkansas, hungry for hotel customers, reduced
its residence period from year to three months.
The Idaho legislature followed. Montana, New Mex
leo and Arizona entered the race with similar bills
Reno's enterprise challenged. AT Carson City.
Nevada's legislature found equal to the emer-
gency 1t is considering bill reducing the residence
period from ninety to forty-two days.
But suppose competing. states meet Nevada's bid
and further cut the residence periodP What will
happen to the big divorce hotels and the allied amuse-
ment industries? Washoe county will become
washout and Nevada will have to go back to its sheep
cattle and silver business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Look TO New York

NEW YORK has not been sin
L Y gled out as the country'r raw
est spot, or even as exceptional. but
because it is the countrys greatest
community in every respect and
enjoys the privilege of leadership.
The same thing which causes PEG
pie to look to New York for stvle
causes them to look to her when
ever a nationwide problem appears.
With half a dozen judges and
magistrates run off the bench. with
bank commissioner in Jail. with
one probe following another in quick
succession, each producing a lot of
ugly evidence, even if it can't get
results, and with a district ATTORNEY
hiring Pinkerton detectives, the peo-
pie are waiting to see how their
greatest city, or the Governor of
their greatest state, will react.
People of the south are particu-
larry concerned in New York's stu
alton because of its bearing on the
next national election. They are
Democrats and New York is the
strongest Democratic center in the
north.
1t generally is admitted that the
Democratic party has no chance
without New York, not so much for
the electoral vote as for the leader
ship which New York alone can
give.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
ANA<A AOOA Lands

ME politicians are saying that this man and that
\ man viii be the next President but if Thomas A.
EDISON can get the golden rod to cut out its hav
fever monkeyshineS and devote all of its time to the
rubber business, he'll make the strongest candidate
in America.
The hay fever vote of this country is nothing to
be SneeZed at
The Indiana legislature passed law giving the
supreme court exclusive authority to pass on the
qualifications of those who wish to practice law
The Constitution says that any person of good
moral character be admitted regardless of what
ne knows about law, but the legislature tries to get
around this by saying that person who is not quail
ned is not OF good moral character.
THIS legislature should incorporate and go into the
4 packing business for this contention is the larg-
est link of "boloney' ever turned out in America"
A knowledge of law has no more to do with moral
character" than badness or ingrowing toe nails.
A New York girl sued Harry Thaw for damages
charging that ne bit her and jury gave her $4,000
few more verdicts like this should make Thaw
vegetarian.
Doctors tell us that different things cause high
looked and it is the insulting attitude of the
aeck author from abroad who comes here to lecture
This j. B. Priestly, English author who is now
4 in our midst insuted in advance the towns where
ne is to talk and not one of the towns had enough
Intestinal fortitude to cancel his engagement
Buffalo was of the cities which took slap
in the face-and liked 1t.
a cable from Manila states that 1000 anti Amer
leans formed plot to stage rebellion
If anybody wants to buy our share of the Philip
pine islands, we'll sell it at bargain
What ought to do is to trade the Philippines
to John Bull for his possessions along our eastern
seaboard and in the Caribbean.
Up to date we've not been able to find any zoologst
capable of telling whether March came in ike lion
lamb or 9 kangaroo.
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infirmary weekly for more than
three years. I have found much
that could be improved, but try to
get the citizens of this county as
a whole to show enough interest to
visit the place just once-just try it..
If real effort is made, you will
nearer find heaven than hell out
there. There are 500 men and
women at this home Go up and
down Indianapolis streets and count
off 500 by 500, and taking these
divisions one by one you will find
more Christians in the 500 at the
infirmary than you will in any 500
in indianapolis.
BY this I mean Christians, not
merely church members. And this
Z in spite of the fact that there is
only one denomination (the Luth-
eranS) that has regular church
service at the infirmary every Sun
day in tie year.
Indian;tpolis is the home of a
large missionary society that sup
port hundreds of missionaries in
China, India, Africa and other for
eign fields, but not one who can
preach to the poor in Marion county
or visit the sick in the hospitals.
AS far as these Misrepresentation
are concerned, it is just another
spaSmodic yelp.
ONE WHO CARES.
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ANNlVER$ARYl
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TASSO'S BIRTH
March IL

ON March II, 1874, Torquato
" Tasso, the great Italian epic
poet, was born at Sorrento, the son
Of a nobleman.
He studied law at Padua, but
afterward switched to philosophy at
Bologna. II. 1861 he published some
poems and the following year his
"Rinaldo" appeared. At 10 he
already was famous.
In 1872 TaSSo was invited to the
court of Alfonso II, Duke Of Fer
rara. While there he produced his
most important works.
His "Aminta,' pastoral drama Of
great lyrical charm, is said 70 have
inspired al motives Of Italian verse
for the next two centuries.
In the following year he COM
pleted his Jerusalem Delivered, .
one of the great epic poems Of mod
ern times.
Following his release from a hos
pital for the insane, where he was
confined for seven years, Tasso led a
broken and wandering life. At
Rome, where he had been summoned
by Pope Clement VIII, to be
crowned poet laureate at the capitol.
as Petrarch had been, Tasso was
stricken with fatal illness ard the
ceremony never was performed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Shall We Return to the Whipping Post?

Some hundred fifty years ago humanitarians
imagined that they were taking a great step in
advance through bstitution of the prison for the
whipping post the stocks and pillory, mutiation,
branding and the nc. Today we hear frequent
demands for re-estabiishment of the whipping post
as a method of treating criminals. Judge Kavanagh
has recommended it for years. In recent COM
ment several works criminology Henry
Mencken came out vigorously for restoration of the
lash. Now the grand jury in Kings county. New
York, calls for institution of the lash
I'VE believe that system of corporal punishment
should be devised and made applicable to criminals
N cases where crime and violence have been used
IN the commission OF crimes" says the report, and
that the principle of corporal punishment should be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Slain to Seal LIPS

A S majority Of people through
IN out the United States already
know, that piece of rope was dis
covered wound tightly around the
neck Of Vivian Gordon, the first
time on record, as far as any one
connected with the New York police
can say, that woman was killed in
such manner.
Curious as that aspect of the
case may be, it is not the one
which arouses most interest.
Vivian Gordon is supposed not
only to have been fully acquainted
with the way certain unfortunate
members of her sex had been framed
and preyed upon by vultures of the
law, but to have been on the point
OF telling it publicly.
BY common report, she was to
have appeared as a pivotal witness
in one of the Investigations now
going on, and by common suspicion,
she was removed for that reason.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
M. E. Tracy
The Nation Is Waiting to See
What Governor Roosevelt
WlL Do About NeD FORKS
Latest Crime Sensation.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. March H.
1Vl This section of the country is
unusually interested in New York
just now, not only because of the
Raskob plan, the possibility of Gov
ernor Roosevelt's nomination, the
comeback Of Wall street, the appear
ance of the World-Telegram and
other obviously important matters,
but because Of certain details which.
though Of no great consequence in
themselves, have thrown a vivid
light on one aspect of the political
situation.
AS far as I can make out from
conversation in hotel Hobbies and on
street corners, an eight-foot piece
of rope has done more to rivet at
tention on the nations metropolis
than anything else during the last
few days.
Nor is this entirely attributable to
that morbid appetite which is sup
posed to be excited by the unsolved
murder Of a woman.
That piece of rope symbolizes
something bigger than mere
homicide, even out here on the
banks of the Mississippi, where they
may not understand the finer points.
but where they do seem to have
gotten the main idea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Avoid Taking Babies on Trips

sist on kissing the babys hands, the
hands should be washed immediate
ly thereafter. The baby is likely to
put his hands promptly in his
mouth.
5. Normal babies frequently cry a
few minutes when first put to bed.
If it cries more than half hour, or
with an unusually vociferouS or
distressed cry, it may be picked up,
held over the mothers left shoulder
and patted on the back to bring up
the gas. Then it should be exam
ined to see if it is wet or too warm
and if the feet are cold. If every
thing is normal, the baby may be
put back to bed and left alone.
6. After the cord separates about
one week after birth, the baby
should have a tub bath at least once
each day. The most convenient
time is about one hour before its
second morning feeding.
7. Proper temperature for the
baby's bath is between SO and 100
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Wait for Verdict

y lightly, or wrongly, the Amer
N lean people have classified her
as just one more victim of the
racket, just one more blood sacri-
f1ce laid on the altar of corrup-
ton by organized vice, just one more
example of the constituencies intel
llgence with which gangland shuts
the mouths of those who know.
Rightly, or wrongly, the American
people regard such condition as the
biggest issue before them and are
disposed to measure candidates.
especially for higher offices, by the
way those candidates react to it.
To put the thing in plain Eng
liSh, outsiders are waiting to hear
from such prominent figures as
Governor Roosevelt of New York.
not alone with respect to prohibit
ton, but with respect to that form
OF organized lawlessness which only
can flourish when protected by an
alliance with corrupt politics.
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Questions and
Answers
Has Switzerland a navy?

Has Switzerland a navy?
No.
Is the gold dollar the smallest
gold coin ever issued?
1t is the smallest gold coin issued
by the United States government
Smaller gold coins we're once issued
by private firms.
How are seedIess oranges pro-
pagated?
Seedless oranges are certain
varieties which simply do not have
seeds, but are propagated by bud
ding.
What is the meaning of Kathryn?
Pure.
What is the circumference OF the
earth?
The equatorial circumference Is
24,902 miles; the meridinal circum-
ference. 24.860 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Must Clean Up
MYTH a Democratic Govern

MYTH a Democratic Governor
w in the chair at Albany and
with a Democratic administration
in control of the city, New York
will be in no position to lead unless
she shows greater capacity to clean
up ner house than she has shown
thus far.
The vast amount of money spent
for police protection doesn't square
with the number of unsolved crimes.
nor does the pussyfooting square
with what ordinary folks through
out the land believe should and
could have been done.
There is vastly more at stake in
this kettle of fish than VINO will
be the next police commissioner.
or the next magistrate, to fall by
the waySide.
Without realizing it, a few mis-
guided politicians actually are do
ing much to determine who will be
the next President of the United
States. If straws can show which
way the wind is blowing, why not
an eight-foot piece of rope?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Young Student

IT became evident about fifteen
4 years ago that impurities In the
iron had an effect on magnetic
properties, but no data upon the
subject existed.
AT this time, a young student of
Norwegian parentage became in
terested in the study of iron. He
was T. D. Yensen, then at the Uni
versity Of Illinois.
He tried making iron alloys of the
purest material obtainable, develop
ing an electric furnace specially for
the work.
After several years he succeeded
in developing an iron alloy Of such
purity that its magnetic properties
were immensely more suitable TO
electric devices than any alloys
previously known.
The Westinghouse Company be-
came interested in his work and
brought him to their laboratories at
East Pittsburgh, where he haa been
carrying on his researches ever
since.
Yensen found that thousandth
Of l per cent of carbon in the iron
was enough to cause most Of the
trouble.
who would have believed that
the elimination of few thousandths
of per cent Of carbon could be re-
sponsible for raising the maximum
magnetic permeability Of iron from
perhaps 10000 to $4,000 with cor
responding decreases in hysteresis?"
the foundations narrative asks.
yet this has been amply demon
strated by his work. He can select
two bars of iron that an expert
chemist can not distinguish by the
best analytical methods available,
and yet, when placed In the mag
netic testing apparatus, one Of them
will show magnetic personalities
a hundred times greater than the
other"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-I have been q
reader and a subscriber to The
Times ever since it has been q
Scripps-Howard paper and also
many years before, when it was
called the Indianapolis Sum- and
never before voiced my views or
anything through the papers.
However, I am taking this oppor-
tunity to do so and I wish you
would publish this.
I am referring to a recent acct
dent at West drive, Woodruff Place
and East Michigan street, when a
woman was killed by an automobile
This accident happened at about
6:35 p. M, when a lot of people
were returning to their homes from
work. AS every one knows, an acct
dent draws an enormous crowd, anc
this one was no exception to. the
rule.
The police are the first to be mott
fed in a case 0 fthis kind. However,
the police were on the job almost
at once, but, why is it that their
cars are not equipped with some
sort Of suitable covering, at least
sheet, that they could use to cover
these unfortunate persons with until
such time that the ambulance ar
rives?
This lady was exposed to the gaze
of curious eyes for not less than
twenty minutes, and probably would
have been longer had not some
thoughtful lady in a nearby apart
ment house taken some part of her
bed clothing and performed this act
Of decency.
Why can't the city lay aside the
small amount that it would cost
and equip police cars with this
necessity and instruct police to use
them? 1t would take only short
minute to do such a small thing
and then the officers could go on
about their business of asking ques.
tons and directing traffic.
This is supposed to be a no mean
city, so why not live up to the
slogan and make it so?
w. ]. M'AREE.
Editor, Times-According to Thu
Times of March 4, the county in
Urinary is called a "hell on earth,
and is said to be the worst in the
state. I think these politicians viii
find worse places in Indiana if they
care to investigate.
Mr.. Carter is doing as well a:
anyone who does this work for e
salary. He is appointed politically
and, of course, has to do the best he
can on what is given him by the
county commissioners. They car
spend only what the county council
will appropriate, and they keep the
expense as low as possible, so al
every election economy" can be the
battle cry.
The fault lies with none of them
The condition found is the fault O.
we citizens. When we demand
more, we will be given more.
The writer has been visiting ON
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degrees. AS it gets older, this may
be reduced to 95 degrees. If a bath
thermometer is not available, the
mother may test the temperature
by putting her elbow in the water.
8. If the baby has cold, the tub
bath may be substituted by a warm
sponge bath.
9. The child should not be put
in water if it has a fever, except
under physicians orders.
10. Most authorities believe that
babies should wear stockings to
keep the feet from getting cold.
II. A fat baby is not necessarily a
healthful baby. Sometimes it merely
has been getting too much carbo-
hydrate.
IL. The sun bath may be over
done. Five minutes a day at the end
Of the first month with a gradual
increase to one-haIf to an hour a
day after four months probably is
sufficient under modern conditions
of diet and care.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
Less Child Labor

North Carolina is making progress in the abolition
OF child labor according to the report of its state
child welfare commission. Fifty per cent fewer chill
dren from IA to 16 years of age are employed by the
industries of the state than ten years ago. The num-
Der was reduced % per cent in 1880 over the year
before.
This IS gratifying news. Employment of child
labor throughout the south too long has been ma
tional disgrace Aside from the unfairness to the
children, living standards generally are lowered
1t is estimated that there now are million chill
dren employed whose places might be taken by
adults, thus contributing to the relief of unem-
ployment.
Perhaps the progress of North Carolina will point
the way to some of her sister southern states
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11

incorporated in the laws of this state. BY use of
the term corporal punishment the grand jury means
the institution here of the whipping post"
Can scientific crininologist and humanitarian
concur in this demand? Well the prison doubtless
is an advance over the more brutal forms of mutila
ton and whipping which once prevailed. But the
practical crimnologist probably viii have to admit
that it is less humane and beneficial than any reason
able application Of the whipping post.
The prison certainly does not exercise any
deterrent influence than whipping and its influence
on the men confined is far more denoralizing than
the lash
OF course the prison does keep men confined and
while in prison they do not commit any public crimes
But this is offset by the degradation of the men
while within walls.
What we need is the application of science to
criminals This would leave no place for the lash.
But until this can be done, we might try common
sense This would dictate the lash for certain tvpes
Neither science nor common sense can support
our present prisons method of handling the
criminal class.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11

Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
DRACTICAL points about babies:
4 1. Travelling with babies should
be avoided as much as possible.
Most infectious diseases come from
contact with people who are not
careful about preventing the dis
semination of their own infected ex-
cretionS.
2. Small babies may be taken in
motor cars for short trips, provided
much care is taken in regulating
the temperature and preventing
excessive drafts. Small babies never
should be taken in motor cars on
long trips.
3. Promiscuous kissing Of small
babies is one of the surest ways of
causing them to develop coughs,
colds, bronchitis, influenza and 9TH
er serious diseases that are trans
mitted in this way.
4. If the relatives and friends in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DEFY

BY DAVID DIETZ-
Most Complies and wild"
Theories Of Science often
Turn Into Information Of
Great Value.
ONE Of the great lessons Of mod
~ ern science is that you never
can tell when a complex and In
volved theory which looks hopeless
~ academic and mere scientific
curiosity may turn out to be the
most useful bit Of knowledge
around
Scientific theories which seem in
the realm Of the pure abstract sud
denly turn out to have very definite
concrete applications.
A famous example of that is the
electromagnetic theory of light.
first announced by James Clerk
Maxwell, the British mathemati-
clan, IN the nineteenth century.
Many critics at the time said
things about Maxwell's theory Of
light which sound very much like
things which now are being said
about Einstein's theory of relativ-
ity.
One commentator said that the
theory might be useful If any one
could understand what Maxwell was
talking about
But Heinrich Hertz, the German
physicist. reasoned that if light con-
sisted of electromagnetic waves. II
ought to be possible to produce sim
liar waves by electrical means.
He succeeded. We still make use
Of Hertzian waves today. But we
usually call them by a more ia
miliar name. We call them radio
wavesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-11

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Tuesdays Times:
Mrs. Belle Ryans Has Smoked a
Pipe for 100 Years-Mrs. Ryans,
born in Tennessee March 4, 1911,
has been a devotee of a pipe since
she was II years of age. Although
she has used tobacco continually
for 100 years, she does not ap-
prove of the modern girl smoking
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About Magnets

a SIMILAR example Of highly
L n theoretical work turning out to
be of great practical value is cited
in a research narrative" on iron
and its alloys just issued by the En-
cheering Foundation of New York
The narrative tells the story OF
the development of alloys of iron
which were suitable for use as cores
in the coils Of various electrical de-
vices.
The essential part OF many cleo
trical devices is a coil of wire wound
around an iron core, an electro
magnet, to use the scientific name
for it.
When an electric current passes
through such coil, it is surround
ed with magnetic field and behaves
as a magnet. The core provides an
easier path for the magnetic field
and so strengthens the resulting
magnetic action.
Thirty years ago." the narrative
says, great quantities of iron were
necessary in cores of electrical de-
wees 10 prevent undue electric loss.
High temperatures caused magnetic
deterioration of the metal.
Even alloys of apparently con-
slant chemical composition had
varying magnetic properties. In view
OF this obstacle, progress in trans
formers OF electrical currents was
especially difficult.
Then came the first big improve
ment; Hadf1eld in England discov-
cred silicon as an alloying element
with iron. In 1903 silicon steel an
peared there, and a little later here
This new steel cut losses in half"