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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

human happiness on earth than it
is to die on the field of battle, and
it will take more than the playing
of bands and the waving of flags to
make me patriotic. 1 would far ra-
ther face a firing squad than to
fight in a war that I knew was
forced on because of some ones
greed.
Mr.. Editor, if civilization progress
ses, war must become obsolete. The
art of war has reached such a stage
that nearly all human flesh will
disappear from the earth if we
have another great conflict.
The whole thing sums down to
this, if war is to become obsolete
the world must become socialistic
and it is going to become SocialiStic
for under the present system it
can't advance unless it does become
socialistic.
ES VERDAD
Editor Times: You are to be con-
graduated for the fine features en-
bodied in your paper, and for your
high-minded motto, Give the peo-
pie light, and they will find their
way"
Your feature on the editorial page
captioned Daily Thought" is par
ticularly pleasing. With its excerpts
from the Bible of philosophy of the
highest order, correlated with gems
of thought from the pens of the
best literary intellects of all ages,
you have a feature which one can
not afford to miss. 1t gave me much
satisfaction to read the Thought"
for Nov. II which was as follows:
Wine is a mocker, strong drink
is raging: and whosoever is de-
ceived thereby is not wise.-Pro-
verbs 20:1.
Drunkenness is nothing else
than voluntary Madness
Seneca.
1t is refreshing to find The Times
giving the people light" in this
small way, and to know that some
one in your organization is not be-
ing deceived, and that this is not
the first time The Times has given
us light" with this manner of mes
sage under Daily Thought"
The only thing fail to under
stand about your policy is: Why
are we given light" in your Daily
Thought feature and are then given
the opposite light" by your edi-
torial writer's and makeup men?
1t looks as if somewhere along the
line from the editorial room to the
presses, something must have gone
wrong.
Perhaps your editorial writers
became deceived" with some vol
untary madness" but surely they
would not permit their paper to
give varying kinds of light to "Old
Subscriber" Constant Reader, :"
and Taxpayer"
Neither would they lay claim to
lack of wisdom and the admission
that they were being deceived, when
writing and working for the selfish
interests of the brewers.
am also confident that the
charge of double mindedness could
not be laid at the door of The
Times, nor could the smudge of
hypocrisy be cast to shade the repu-
tation of the Scripps- Howard syndi-
cate.
They stand for law and order, and
of course support the laws, and
would not think of giving light"
that would tend to make voluntary
madness" more habitual Did not
The Times once say, The only
hypocrites are the drys?"
OSCAR B. SMITH
SLAB North Arsenal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Powerful Tool Built From
Simple Old Experiment
VIII Speed the Attack on
the Atom.
A NEW assault upon the interior
4 n of the atom. new wav of
generating x-rays and the gamma
rays of radium, perhaps a way of
generating cosmic rays, all are
promised in the new apparatus in
vented by DR.. Robert J. Van De
CRAFT of Princeton university.
The apparatus is so simple in
principle and construction that bv
now it is probable that every phv-
SiciSt who has seen it is wondering
why he didn't think of it himself
incidentally, this is no reflection
upon DR.. De CRAFT. The simplest
things are sometimes the most diff
ficult to originate Their simplicity
becomes apparent only after some
one else has invented them.
Have you ever walked along a
thick carpet on a dry day and when
reaching for some metallic article
been startled by spark of electri-
city jumping from your finger to
the article? 1t is a common ex-
perience.
Children like to rub their feet
along a carpet so that they can
draw an extra fat spark from a
metal door knob or some other me-
talic object.
This stunt is the basis of DR.. De
CRAFTS apparatus. He has ignored
developments of the last fifty years
for methods of generating high
electrical pressures and gone back
to the method of rubbing your shoes
along the carpet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Seem to Be Necessary

A DIVERSITY is still of some
L n value as a teacher, especially
when it discloses faults and mis-
takes.
We all have learned something
from this depression, something
about ourselves, as well as other
people.
One hates to think that such
lessons are still necessary, but they
seem to be. Apparently, human
nature has not arrived at a point
where it can always resist the
temptation of abusing privileges,
over playing opportunities and side
stepping disagreeable tasks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TN 1880 over $4,000 children we're
L killed in accidents in the United
States, and a large number were
injured seriously.
In a recent report of the subject,
DR.. H. j. Stack points out that chill
dren who are worried about affairs
at home or at school are more prone
to accidents than those who are not
worried. Tired children are also
peculiarly liable to accidents.
An investigation made in New
York City showed that accidents to
children on the city streets are of
maximum incidence in the hours of
the late afternoon.
That is, of course, the time when
children are coming home from
school or else when they are playing
in the street.
The morning hours involve just as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
We've Made PrOgrnSS

We've Made Progress
TN spite of all the suffering, those
4 who live in this day and genera
ton have quite lot to be thankful
for.
If there is more unemployment
than there has been for many years,
and more distress as a result, there
also is more attention being paid
to it by those unframed.
Time and time again, the world
has seen as large a percentage of
the people hungry, but on few oc-
casions has it tried to do so much.
We have not Sprouted wings by
any means, but we have made some
progress in the art of being decent
toward each other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Learning Something
HUMBLER attitude n

a dOMBLER attitude makes its
"A presence felt on every hand.
No where are men nearly as sure
of their ground, or themselves, as
they were few years back. A great
deal of the illusionment which grew
out of war, and postwar prosper
ity, is dissipating.
We know now that the millennium
didn't dawn with the armistice and
that poverty wasn't abolished when
the stock market went wild.
We are beginning to realize that
some of the things we sneered at
were not so bad, while some of those
we cheered for were not so good.
AS a by-product of it all, we are
rediscovering the existence of high
er laws which demand not only I'M
derstanding, but obedience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Creates Lightning

TINE apparatus built by De GRAFT
l. consists of two units. Each unit
is essentially a large brass ball
mounted at the top of tall glass
pillar. The pillar insulates the ball
from its surroundings.
A small electric motor at the base
of the pillar drives belt Of silk
which runs up into the interior of
the ball. The belt passes over Two
pulleys, one on the motor shaft, the
other within the brass ball. A pad
rubs against the silk belt, furnish
ing the friction necessary to gener-
ate the electricity.
The two units are set up so that
foot or more separates the TWO
balls. The belts are now set in mo-
ton in opposite directions. AS a
result, one sphere is charged mega
lively while the other is charged
positively.
In other words, electrons are
made to accumulate on one sphere,
causing it to exhibit a negative
charge, while the other sphere has
eleCbIOIlS WlLuQTdWu lIOul IL, CIV
in git positive charge.
Using brass spheres two feet in
diameter, it is possible to get po-
tention difference of 100000 volts
between them. Finally the attrac-
ton between the two spheres be-
comes so great that the air between
them can no longer Withstand the
electrical pressure. The air gap
breaks down and an electrical
spark-a stream of electrons-leap5
between the two balls.
The spark is miniature stroke Of
lightning, an electrical spark Of
100000 volts.
And, indeed, what has happened
is essentially what happens when
an electrified cloud over the earth
results in flash of lightning be-
tween the cloud and the earth.
To whom does Gibraltar belong,
and who is the ruler?
Gibraltar is crown colony OF
Great Britain. General Sir Alexan-
dor (xnIIary -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Daily Thought

The hireling f1eeth, because he
is an hireling, and careth not for
the sheep.-JOhn 1913.
It is the just decree of heaven that
a traitor never sees his danger till
his ruin is at hand.-MetaStasio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Headline: Man With Smile Trapped" Probably
some one had told him good times are just around
the corner, and he believed it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

The warden of Sing Sing prison has boosted the
price OF seeing his football team from so cents to
dollar. That's some inducement for these "am-
ateur college stars who will soon be out of work
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

With King Carol, Queen Marie, Prince Nicholas
or Princess Ieana making Page / every day, looks
like CALIFORNIA; press agents are little potatoes be-
side Rumanias
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker seem
to have the inside track as Democratic presidential
possibilities. But Alfalfa Bill" Murray still has
show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Soccer is the most popular international sport
Looks like it ought to be sockim But unless La Belle
France becomes more agreeable, the world probably
will soccer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Science says our blood might have been green
Green, perhaps, with envy, wanting to be blue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Louisiana is not going to GUST Huey Long as Gov
ernor. No. Cyr!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

It's cinch that it will not take Gene Tunney Jr.
long to count up to IA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
DIR. Dinwiddie's Dry Dimes

The national prohibition board of strategy, led by
its crusadng secretary, DR.. Edwin Dnwiddie, has
taken the field in competition with community chests
unemployment relief Red Gross and other less i'm
portant causes to beg million dimes ito meet the
wet millionaire challenge to prohibition"
The torrent OF dimes is heraded by DR.. Dnwiddie
as all ready to pour into Washington Nov 80 as
a sort of dry flood if you know what we mean.
Dry dimes will beat wet dollars" declares DR..
Dinwiddie's pamphlet. OF course IF the collection
OF dimes runs far above million much the better.
In fact preparations are under way to send out
coin cards for the second million. The money, we
hear is to be used for political purposes to GUST wet
congressman and prevent the writing Of wet planks
in party platforms in 1882
This picture of an aroused people emptyng pockets
of dry dimes to halt the unrghteous putsch of band
of multi-miloned wet oppressors would be con-
vincing were it not that the popular uprising is
the other side.
The following list has been prepared by the Cru
saders showing the number of organizations and the
percentage of their members in recent votes against
the eighteenth amendment of the volstead law:
Percentage Against
Organization Dry Law
American Bar Association ............ SO
American Federation of Labor ........ SO
american Legion ................s.... 65
Veterans ~ Foreign Wars ............ So
National Economic League ........... SIS
Junior League Observation-Disclosures 90
Women's National Republican Club. 81
American Business Leaders ........... Sc
Hotel Men ...........s..-............. ~
State Legion bodies, university alumni American
Medical Association womens clubs, city and state
political organizations and many more,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

At least one thing Hoover and these foreign ennis
saries can agree on is a statement that they have
not agreed on anything.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

New York will enforce its curfew. Which means
that if all those show gals as young as they claim
Broadway is going to be deserted at $3.50.
Americans may be fast. but Grand has demon
strated he is still Fascist
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Despite the depression, metropolitan laundry did
bigger business this year than last Sure cleaned up!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

If the first quarrel the key to married life
there's catch in it somewhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Baltimore girl seeking divorce said she wa
hypnotized when she was married. And who isn't
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times: In your issue of
Nov. 5, you published letter signed
Reader" complaining about prices
charged by the trustee for the con-
tents of a So basket of food, given
in relief for work done. have
undertaken to investigate for the
Emergency Work Committee which
assigns the work to be done.
The complaint was thai potatoes
at 35 cents a peck; lard worth 8 1-3
cents charged at Is cents; dried
beans worth cents, charged at IL
cents. The complaint is against the
County Trustee" There is no
county trustee, and a half a dozen
township trustees might be involved.
Since the letter is anonymous,
(Which is probably proper and
since the charge is against an Off
Ger who does not exist, have found
it difficult to investigate this Speci-
f1c charge.
I find potatoes, bought by the
Center township trustee at %
cents, not 35 cents; beans at cents,
not 715 cents. Lard is paid for at
Is cents a pound, but there are
many qualities of lard and I am
unable to say, therefore, whether
the price should be lower.
Prices should not be compared
with chain store quotations, because
they include delivery and frequently
include several months credit; the
county does not pay the bills imme-
diately, but waits for bond issues.
The township trustee makes con-
tracts with grocers for a definite
quality and quantity of food in each
basket; the price varies from month
to month with fluctuations in price
Of the goods making up the basket.
The concern of the recipient of
poor relief is with quality and con-
tents of the basket. The concern of
the taxpayer is with the contract
price made by the grocer.
1 believe the charges made by
Reader" to be unfounded, but I
would be glad to receive details of
other complaints that might be in
vestigated.
DANIEL 3. LUTEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

What role did Joan Bennett play
in Hush Money!"
Janet.
WhOt wrote the words and music
to when It's Springtime in the
Rockies?"
The music is by Robert Sauer and
the words are by Mary Woolsey and
Milt Taggart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

To whom does Gibraltar belong,
and who is the ruler?
Gibraltar is crown colony Of
Great Britain. General Sir AleXan-
der j. Cooley is the governor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

In smoking there's no waist, so the ads say
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

STORY He returned home that night without the nre
Scrlptlon. The next morning Doris died.
The warden of Sing Sing prison has boosted the
price OF seeing his football team from so cents tn
dollar That's some inducement for these "an,
ateur college stars who will soon be out of work
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker seem
to have the inside track as Democratic presidential
possibilities. But alfalfa Bill" Murray still has
show
Soccer is the most popular international sport
Looks like it ought to be sockim But unless La Belle
France becomes more agreeable the world probably
will soccer.
With King Carol, Queen Marie Prince Nicholas
or Princess neana making Page / every day. looks
like CALIFORNIA; press agents little potatoes be-
side Rumanias
Louisiana is not going to GUST Huey Long as Gov
ernor No, Cyr!
Headline: Man With Smile Trapped" Probably
some had told him good times are just around
the corner, and he believed it.
Green perhaps, with envy, wanting to be blue.
It's cinch that it will not take Gene Tunney Jr.
long to count up to IA.
At least one thing Hoover and these foreign ennis
saries can agree on is a statement that they have
not agreed on anything.
New York will enforce its curfew Which means
that if all those show gals young they claim,
Broadway is going to be deserted at $3.50.
Americans may be fast, but Grsndi has demon
strated he is still Fascist
Baltimore girl seeking divorce, said she was
hypnotized when she was married.. And who isn't.
Despite the depression metropolitan laundry did
bigger business this year than last Sure cleaned up
If the first quarrel the key to married life,
there's catch in it somewhere
In smoking there's no waist, so the ads say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
WALL STREET IS ON LOOKOUT
FOR BULL MARKET LEADERS

ent low prices the return at prevailing
dividend rates Is low, the record shows
that over a period of years this low re-
turn is compensated for by the value
of rights to subscribe new capital.
Railroad Outlook.
Opinion Of the railroad outlook is
much mixed. On the one hand, 1t is
hard to arouse enthusiasm for the rails
in the face Of continually decreasing car
loadingS and falling gross and net In
come. on the other side, the agree
ment on a consolidation plan for the
Eastern Seaboard Is the most con-
structjve piece of news the Street has
had in months. In the background Is
the threat Of competition from other
forms of transportation, threat magni-
ned by the railroad heads In their own
public statements and one which has
seized upon the imagination of the
traders. It Is fair to say that the bank
ing dew Is more favorable to railroad
stocks than is that Of the public.
Among the minor subdivisions the
specially food stocks are in high favor
In their behalf It is said that low COM
modify prices mean larger profits,
enough TO make UP for lower bulk sales.
The better grade Of copper stocks have
many friends. In copper metal there is
reason to hope for sterilization and the
low-cost producers are expected to have
q reasonably satisfactory year. There
Is much skepticism as to the amusement
shares, not on the ground Of unfavor-
able financial statements so much a.
because Of the fireworks In some OF
these issues last year, which made an
unpleasant impression.
Oil Group.
Majority sentiment is against the oils
The difficulties Of oVerproduction are Sc
great as to discourage speculation in the
stocks. Traders and oil authorities
agree on this point. The only dissen-
tiers are the small outside investors who
have been taking the better grade OF
oil stocks out Of the market for a long
time. 1t is not impossible that the small
investors are right and that the spec
ulators and the oil leaders are wrong
That has happened before IN market
history.
scODyEista, 1ssLa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
SEASONAL DECLINE
IN RETAIL TRADE
Atlanta Reports Larger Cot
ton CrOp-Loans Drop
During November.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ATLANTA, January 3.-Most of the
available series of business statistics
show declines for November compared
with the preceding month and with
the corresponding period last year. The
volume of retail and wholesale trade,
says the Atlanta Reserve Bank, de-
clined seasonally in November to the
lowest level for that month of any
Of the past 10 years. For the IL months
of 1890 department store sales have
averaged 8.5 per cent, and sales by
wholesale firms have averaged 1871 per
cent smaller than in that period of
1929, but these percentage COMPARE
sons make no allowance for declines
in prices.
Building permits issued at 20 report
ing cities declined in November to the
lowest total for any month on record,
and for the year through November
have been 40 per cent less than In that
part of 1929. Contracts awarded in
the district as q whole, however, in
creased ~ per cent over October and
were 20 per cent greater than for No
vember, 1929.
Consumption of cotton by American
mills in November declined 6.7 per cent
compared with October and was % per
cent smaller than in November last year,
and output of both cloth and yarn
mills in the sixth district was smaller
than in either of those months For
the first four months of the cotton sea-
son, August to November inclusive, con-
sumption by mills in the United States
was about 80 per cent less than in that
period Of last year, while exports for
this period declined only % per cent.
Production by cotton seed oil mills in
this district has been greater so far this
season than q year ago.
Production Of bituminous coal in Ala
bana and Tennessee and in the United
States as a whole, continued in No
vember at q lower level than last year.
Output Of pig iron in Alabama declined
In November and was the smallest in
more than eight years. Cumulative
production for the year through No
vember shows q decline Of 10 per cent
compared with that period Of 1929.
There were further seasonal declines In
receipts of turpentine and rosin in No
vember, but stocks increased and cur
rent prices are below the lowest at any
time In other recent years.
The final estimate by the United
States Department of Agriculture In
dicates q cotton crop in the six States
Of this district larger by 488 900 bales
than was expected at the time. Of the
first estimate Of the season in August
but smaller by $4,000 bales than the
1929 crop. The price Of cotton con-
tinues much below the level Of other
recent years.
Loans and investments of weekly re-
porting member banks in selected cities
Of the district declined approximately
$4,000, GOO between November IL and
December 10, and were over 36 millions
less than year ago. Deposits de-
clined during this four-week period, Bat
borrowings Of these banks ct the Fed
eral Reserve Bank increased. Reserve
bank credit outstanding increased near
ly millions during this period, but was
about II millions less than a year ago.