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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
Born in Russia

hR. LEVENE was born in Russia.
II Feb. 25, 1869. He received his
secondary education in the classical
gymnasium of st. Petersburg. and
received the degree Of doctor of
medicine from the Imperial Mill
tary academy in 1891.
DR.. Levene came to America in
1893. For a short time he practiced
medicine, and then entered the
school Of mines of Columbia uni
VerSlty as a special student, pur-
suing at the same time research in
biological chemistry in the labora-
tory OF Professor j. J. Curtis of the
Columbia Medical school.
Later he worked with E. Drechsel
In Berne, with A. KoSsel in Mar
burg, with Professor Hofer in
Munich, and with E. Fischer in
Berlin.
From 1896 to 1905 he was asso-
ciate in chemistry in the State
Pathological institute of New York.
In 1905-06 he was Herter lecturer
IN New York university.
In 1905 he entered the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research as
research chemist, and in 1907 was
made a member Of the institute.
DR.. Levene is a member of che
American Chemical Society, Ma
t1onal Academy Of Sciences, Amer
lean Philosophical Society, Amer
lean Physiological Society, Society
OF Biological Chemists, American
Society Of Naturalists. Society Of
Experimental Medicine and Biology.
Royal Society of Science of up
sala, Sweden, DeutSche Chemische
Gesellscharft, Societe Chime Bio
log1que and Societe Chin1ique De
France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN.

BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TIME point has been made re-
L peatedly that the application
Of modern rules of hygiene and
helpful living ought to produce a
better type of human being physi-
cally than existed in the past.
In 1915, E. E. Jacobs began a
study of the available data regard
ing freshman girls in colleges. He
selected this type because accurate
data were available concerning
them, since they are examined at
the time of their entrance into
school.
They are of an age, in most in
stances, when they have not yet
begun to use tobacco and alcohol.
The only physical training they
have had is such as they get in high
school and they do not show the
effects Of venereal disease or child
birth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
SCIENCE
-BY DAVID DIFTZ.-

DR.. Phoebus A. Levene Wins
Willard Gibbs Medal by
Outstanding Work in
Chemistry.
TINE willard Gibbs medal.
i awarded in the past to such
distinguished scientists as Nine.
Curie of France and Svante Arr
henius of Sweden, has been given
for the last year to DR.. Phoebus A.
Levene Of the Rockefeller institute.
The medal, awarded annually by
a jury of eminent scientists repre-
senting the Chicago section of the
American Chemical Society, is one
OF the most important prizes in the
world Of chemistry.
1t was given to DR.. Levene as
the most outstanding worker in the
application of organic chemistry to
biological problems"
The citation eulogizes DR.. Levene
for his research work into the na-
ture and behavior of many complex
substances which occur in living
tissue.
These substances. the names Of
which will appear as so much Greek
TO the non-chemical reader, are
substances at the very basis Of life.
They include nucleic acids, amino
sugars, lecithins, cephalins, fatty
acids, cerebrosides, inorganic esters
Of sugar, hYdroxy acids and amino
acids
Living tissues are composed Of
cells. Cells are complex organiza-
tons Of many complex chemical
substances, such as those named
above.
Many authorities feel that in the
last analysis all the physical facts
OF the behavior of living things
must be explained in terms of such
studies as DR.. Levene is engaged in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

nifty years it should not pay eleven millions but four
and half millions the accountants contend.
When the power commission set date for hear
ing what the company had to say about this matter
the companys answer was injunction suit to pre-
vent any hearing and challenge of the validity Of
the power act.
The court has sustained the power act The court
even has pointed out the Importance Of making i'm
mediate determination Of the actual costs of projects
matter which already has been delayed ten years BY
power commissioners none too jealous in enforcing
provisions of the law
Now the law may be enforced at last if we car
SECURE power commission willing to enforce it, IN
fortunately three of the five men in the power COM
mission at the present time discharged Charles A
Russell, power commission solicitor who argued and
this case.
All five Of the commissioners refused to reinstate
this man, whose only offense had been jealous en-
forcement of the power act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
Restore Faith

OUCH enterprises restore ones
- faith in the future. We ought
to have more Of them, not only in
this great country, but throughout
the world. If we had, fewer people
would be out of work.
AS a matter of fact, civilization
has not been doing what it could,
or ought, during the last twenty
five years. Too much of its ability,
equipment, and resources has been
wasted in useless fighting or equally
useless friyolitY.
From a purely mechanical stand
point, these San Francisco bridges
are quite the biggest projects Of
their kind ever undertaken, but IN
proportion to the tools at our COM
mand, they are not.
Egyptians built the pyramids
without so much as steam hoist,
while the Suez canal was dug by
women carrying the dirt out in
baskets on their heads.
If you don't give the imagination
a chance to do bigger, better things,
it will eat its heart out by doing
smaller, meaner things.
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Smaller, Medner Things.
GAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-The
- federal war department. at last
has approved plans for the Bay
bridge, and work will begin on the
Golden Gate span about July /.
This insures San Francisco not
only more than s1oO,OOO,OOO worth
of construction in the near future,
but direct north and east connec-
tons with the mainland.
The bay bridge will run from the
Rincon hill district OF the city, six
miles east, to Oakland, by way OF
Goat island. Its cost has been es-
timated at $72, 100000, and the time
necessary to build it at six years.
The Golden Gate bridge will have
a single span Of 4,20o feet and a
clearance Of 210 feet. It's cost has
been estimated at 35,000,OoG.
Both bridges will be financed
through public bonds, those for the
Golden Gate bridge being issued by
district composed Of nine coun-
ties, and those for the bay bridge
being issued by the state of Cali
fornia. The bonds will be retired
by tolls, after which the bridges will
be made free
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
The Clergy

A LREADY the churches by Gus
IA tom and common consent
have pretty nearly gained their
point in this respect.
Write a masterpiece in which a
rabbi or a Catholic priest appears
as something less than an I'M
crowned saint and see how far you
will get in the matter of securing
a production.
AS far as New York goes, it is
safer. to snipe at the Protestant
clergy. Rain" did get by here in
spite of grumbling, but once it hit
the road there were many towns
which would not permit a mission
airy to be held up to tragic scorn.
And what is all the shooting
about? If one gets down to cases
with any advocate of censorship, he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-I am densely ig-
norant concerning banking laws and
greatly would appreciate little in
formation. Since our life savings,
as we'll as many others, were in the
State Trust and Savings Com
pany, my question is. Why do the
depositors have to pay the loans,
mortgages, etc., of the institution?
Are these firms not as liable to loss
by trusting their savings to said in
stitution as mere depoSitors Of
everything they have? Yes, I am
densely ignorant,
Another thing: Are the directors
and stockholders and those respon-
sible living in luxury, while the
mere life savings of so many are
being disposed Of? I am not ques-
tioning the receiver and his ability
to deal justly.
Won't some one who knows please
answer this truthfully in the same
spirit in which it is written?
MRS. H. e.
Ohm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
Daily Thought

A mans pride shall bring him
lOw.-Proverbs 1928.
The proud man is forsahen Of
God.-Plato.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

The Wickersham report on prohibition, says dis
patch from Washington promises to be of the best
sellers of the winter book season. Which is not bad
for dry literature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

"a man may be down but not out" is a saying
which seems to apply most everywhere but in the ring
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

Chambers of Commerce seeking publicity for their
cities might take a lesson from Bostonians. They
used their bean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

The Harvard student who threw grapefruit at
Rudy Vallee and missed, has been dismissed The
college seems justified in dealing thus severely with
man with no better aim in life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

'I thought I'd have a fit" as the customer said
to his tailor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

Has Mexico coin equivalent in
value to the United States quarter
dollar?
The so centavo silver piece is
equivalent to Is cents in United
States money when the silver peso
is at par.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

If You Don't Give the mag
inntion a Chance to Do Big
ger, Better Things 1t WI
s Eat It's Heart ont By Doing
Smaller, Medner Things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

ment. Such is the Importance of odr
laws.
We should be more concerned with
the happenings in the general as
sembly and see ourselves that we do
nothing that is unlawful. For every
privilege, we have a duty. Every
law that is passed must be en-
forced if it is to be successful.
HAROLD TUTTERROW
9th and Ar1inrtnrn auarn1ln
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BFoSS

it were in every case hallowed
fabric.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

26th and Arlington avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-05

IF in an unguarded moment you should feel as if
l. everything is going to pot and that things could
not possibly be worse just turn to the Fifty Years Ago
column and read that it was away down below zero
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27

that Is almost the last relic Of the
theater that for many years was the
scene of some Of waShington's most i'm
portant entertainments. This, indeed,
may have taken place even while the
present issue Of The Star is appearing.
When the Archives Building site is
cleared and work begins on the founda-
tons and later on the structure itself,
great numbers of people will stop and
watch the operations. Many thousands
will thus have been spectators of the
procedure by the time the building is
finished. But at no time will there be
as many standing by to observe as there
were the other day when the tower was
when the theater wall is leveled few
blocks to the west.
There is nothing particularly dra-
matte about construction, however elab-
crate or difficult. while there is always
the element of drama in the blasting or
pulling down of a wall Something of
sentiment is aroused by the razing Of
familiar structure, especially when the
destruction is effected by single stroke,
as by dynamite. Probably If the hour
Of the removal of the Poll Theater pro-
cenium wall, with its square stage open
ing, could be definitely proclaimed,
there would be an immense congrega-
ton of spectators at the scene, far too
for- fn4xy ic
edly sentiment for a playhouse that
has served the community through three
generations and is associated with the
names of some of the greatest of thes-
plan and operate artists of the past,
who have stood in that square opening
to make their bows to countless audi
ences of WashingtonianS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
Make a Great Medical
Center in Washington

To the Editor OF The Star:
The editorial in recent issue of The
Star in regard to the location of the
new building that it is proposed to
build for the National Museum was
good common sense. Also, your sug-
gestion to remove the Medical Museum
from the Mall was very timely and ap-
propriate, for the Medical Museum and
the Surgeon Generals Library should
be moved out to the Army Medical Col
lege, at Walter Reed This medical
museum and library should be near the
Medical College to complete the college
unit. If the Naval Hospital and Navy
Medical College were moved out in the
vicinity Of Walter Reed Hospital their
being grouped near to each other would
make one of the best medical centers
in the world.
The Naval Hospital will soon need
charging, so why not build the new
buildings out in the vicinity of Walter
Reed? The old reservoir on Sixteenth
street would be good location for the
Naval Hospital. Several million dollars
will be spent on buildings for the Army
and Navy hospitals and medical colleges
in the near future. If all these medical
facilities of the Army and Navy were
grouped together in the same vicinity
they would become great medical
center. Jack SPRATT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
Radio and Copyright.

From the New York Evening Post
Just when it appeared that pro-
ponents of the Vestal copyright bill
would surely see the triumph Of their
cause, this necessary legislation struck
another snag. The radio interests,
which have hitherto felt themselves free
to pirate almost any story. sketch or
song to which they took a liking, have
entered strenuous objections to an au-
tomato copyright which would force
them to get an authors consent before
using his material. They would have
application of the copyright held up
until its actual registration.
1t is difficult to see why there should
be such postponement in making a
copyright effective unless it was de-
sired to use the material without per-
mission, or why the radio interests
should be unwilling to be bound by the
same rule which magazines and other
publications have shown themselves
willing to accept. But the real quarrel
with their proposed amendment is that
1t threatens delay on the Vestal bill
which would prevent its enactment at
the present session of Congress.
Prompt action is necessary because
membership in the International Copy
right Union is dependent upon its pas
sage, and the fixed time limit for this
move is next August. There is no queS-
ton of the advantages which the bill
composers, and to have it held up at
this late date by the broadcasters would
be inexcusable. Their objections should
be oVerruled,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
What a Snake Thinks About.

Well, well, we'll, 20 this is the new
reptile house! Palms, pools moss, ooze,
rocks, sunlight, warmth in Winter,
GOODNESS in Summer, three square meals
a month and room for body to stretch.
It's the cats meow, II you ask me, or,
more accurately speaking, the snake Is
hips.
Now, I hear lot of talk among the
lizards and the turtles, and sometimes
the python. about give me liberty OF
give me death" and some of them are
saying, even now, that they would
rather be back in the Jungle than in
the finest reptile house in the world
as this is supposed to be. But I put
all that down as a lot Of reptilian bo-
lony. Here We are, well fed. ultraviolet
rays whenever the sun shines, nothing
to do but eat, sleep, crawl, wiggle and
squirm. And IL we were back in the
jungle! AS was telling that alligator
the other day. he ought to be thank
full he is here instead Of decorating
the outside of some travelling salesman's
suit case. And look at the people who
come around here peertng at us through
the glass! I ask you, now, are they
happy? For the last million years OF
so, while our ancestors were attending
TO their own business and crawling along
their ancestors and they themselves
have been so busy substituting one
nuisance for another that the business
of merely keeping alive has given most
Of them the willies, and they are glad
enough to stop running around in cir
cles long enough to come in here and
oggle at q bunch Of snakes. Do they
know where their next meal Is coming
from2 Do they know whether this time
next week they will have a bed to sleep
in? A lot of them wish they did, car
tell you; and those that do have plenty
of other things TO worry them. They
are afraid they did the wrong thing
! yesterday and will not do the right
thing tomorrow; or they know that some
body else did the right thing yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
Back to the Nineties for
A Cure for National Ills

To the Editor OF The Star:
Just now I read VIII Rogers daily
dispatch on the passage of the drought
bill in which he says: They have got
to be fed till new crop is raised. and
when they raise it the last one is still in
this country. 1t hasn't been sold yet"
He said mouthful-"it hasn't been
sold yet" Why hasn't it been sold yet?
I have great admiration for Cordell
Hull and some other statesmen, but 1t
is pathetic to hear them keep on talking
about the tariff and the newspapers
wasting space discussing something
which is not an issue, instead of dis
cussing the reasons why 1T hasn't been
sold yet"
That is the great question before this
country and the world today. Why the
crop, as well as other commodities which
people need, hasn't been sold yet" and
which is the cause of the world wide
business depression. It's a wonder some
of these Statesmen" and writer's haven't
found out long before this that the rea-
son is the money question: that the
purchasing power of more than a bill
lion people, users of silver, due to the
demonstration of the white metal,
which has been made commodity and
is at its lowest price in history, has
been practically destroyed. This is di-
rectly responsible for the non-sale of
this years crop as we'll as everything
else. The tariff has nothing to do with
It, One country after another which
has always been a silver-using coun-
try and which has been placed on
a gold-standard basis has declared
a moratorium on it's debts. l pre-
dict that before another year rolls
around all those countries-and they
are 80 per cent of the nations of the
earth-will follow suit, and that the
commerce between the nations will
cease. a situation that has never before
in peace times occurred in history.
1t takes some people a long time to
learn that the world will have to come
to the outstanding statesman of the
nineteenth century-Bryan and BIZ
metallism-before it can expect stability
and happiness. w. j. DWYER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
The Drama of Destruction.

Washington is Just now passing
through period Of destruction, :"
which. however. is regarded joyously by
most residents and is not considered as
at all harmful 70 it. Structures that
have stood for many years are being
RACED to make way for new buildings,
units Of a grand array of Government
housings of a monumental type. The
most active of these removal works is
chat at the site of the Center Market,
where an immense pile OF masonry is
being leveled to make room for the new
Hall Of Archives. Another operation.
more advanced, Is taking place south
east Of the Treasury, where q square Of
structures Is all but swept away to clear
the ground for a park approach to the
new Department of Commerce, just to
the south.
The other day q large crowd as
hembled to witness the blowing down Of
one Of the small towers that formed a
distinguishing feature Of the old mar
ket house. Perhaps today or tomorrow
M even greater crowd viii gather TO
gstch the blasting down Of giant wall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27

madam legation here remains in the
hands of a charge d'afaireS, with Of
fetal Washington completely in the
dark as to when a successor to Mr.
Massey will arrive and whom he Will
be. AT the time of Mr.. MaSSey's depar-
ture last Spring he had been slated for
promotion to the post of the Dominion's
diplomatic representative in London,
and Col Harry Cockshutt, former lieu
tenant governor of the Province of On
tario, had been expected to succeed
him here. But the overturn in Cana
dian politics and the advent of the min
istry headed by Premier Richard Ben
nett upset all these calculations. Pre-
mier Bennett paid a recent visit to
Washington. Secretary Of War Hurley
is just now paying a week end visit
to Toronto, the guest there of our own
Minister, Hanford MacNider. RIit what,
If anything Is especially in the wind
at the moment is well kept secret.
X X
Woodrow Wilson's fondness for the
theater is still we'll remembered. Calvin
Coolidge found time and inclination to
make occasional visits to Washington
playhouses. The Coolidge taste in the
atrical fare was catholic, ranging from
Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee" and John
Barrymore in Hamlet" on the one hand
TO Marilyn Miller in "Rosalie" and THE
Music Box Revue" on the other. To
date Mr. Hoover has not set foot
inside a theater since he entered the
White House. Movies and talkies pri-
vately shown at the White House for
the entertainment of his guests or
thrown on the screen elsewhere when
he has been present hardly count
against his record as a theatrical abb
stainer. Furthermore, though White
House hospitality under the Hoover re-
gime is generously extended to men and
women in all walks of life, it Is inter-
esting to note that only three theS-
plans have broken bread at 1900 Penn
sylvania avenue in the past two years
The theatrical celebrities thus honored
were Otis Skinner, William Gillette and
Minnie Madden Fiske.
ANY doubling Thomas who questions
t! existence of "diplodocus" or vino
suspects that it is the name Of a new
game or a Jim Reed epithet for our
white-spatted foreign brigade can re-
solve all uncertainties and see one with
his own eyes by visiting the National
Museum and viewing its latest and
proudest acquisition. This diplodocus
was dug up in the Dinosaur National
Park, in Utah, the largest prehistoric
mammal yet unearthed. Its bones weigh
2 tons and the skeleton, as now put
together, is rs feet long. Smithsonian
scientists estimate that it had been
dead for approximately 10000 years,
more or less. The land of the Mormons
in that era was a tropical jungle.
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