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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
barrow on Divorce

i've been too hard on the Bible belt Nevada is
far more progressive than New York state. Reno per-
nits divorce in civilized fashion New York still is
back in the dark ages" Such is the opinion Of the
great criminal lawyer, Clarence barrow.
Divorce has been much in the air Of late. Fapd-
fire action has been legazed in Reno Arkansas and
Idaho have followed suit. Lawyers cergyrnen editors,
and sociologists have presented their views.
Darrow is much more perturbed by what he
describes as the backwardess of New York state than
by the progressive stand taken by Nevada and her
competitors
New York" he said, els one of the two or three
most barbarous states in the Union in divorce matters
How can she continue to claim the proud title Of
Empire State and still bear the blot OF medievalsm
in all matters pertaining to sex and the family? The
whole world is moving in the opposite direction
There is nothing sacred about marriage. It is not
made in heaven. Tt is a social convenience, to be
cherished when it promotes happiness and dissolved
when it brings oppression, misery and resentment.
Many marriages never should have taken place
Most people marry in either their first or second
childhood No two persons live together in any
freedom and develop exactly alike They may work
out living arrangement if they are not too
patible and learn who is the boss
Few persons retain the ideas and interests of
youth until middle age or then care for the friends
who charmed them years before With the best or
intentions, married couple may grow entirely I'M
suited to each other after period of years. In
such cases it is nothing short Of imbecity to keep
them in chains through outgrown laws and false
moral ideas.
Il favor quick and easy divorce in case either party
demands it. The courts should have regard only for
equitable property adjustments and care of children
Looking at the matter wholly in the interest Of the
children, easy divorce is desirable. An unhappy fam
lily is the worst possible place in which to rear chill
dren
Nobody would oppose easy divorce today, were it
not for some old religious hangover Some unmarried
authority hundreds or thousands of years ago, de-
nounced divorce. Therefore civilized persons in the
twentieth century must spend their lives in agony.
Religious fanatics regard the family as insti-
tuition wherewith to produce children for heaven Ac-
tually, people marry because they want to live to-
gether. II they get over this feeling they should
separate.
IF there is any heaven there will be plenty of
people there without the help of savage divorce laws
rejoice in the recent loosening up in the Bible belt
must take back some of the harsh things have said
about that area. wish them luck and lot Of trade
in their efforts to lessen human slavery.
Under New York divorce laws, there are but two
ways out-murder or divorce. Sometimes murder
seems easier than divorce. Harsh divorce laws prob
ably rank third among the causes Of murder. AS
criminal lawyer. ought to be all for the harsh sys
tenn"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

I suspect the complete wisdom of
the Columbia symposium largely be-
cause the label humorous" has
been included in the list of oualifi-
cations to be voted upon.
Deliver me and all who seek
knowledge from the humorous in
structor. 7 have known many in my
time, and Go not intend to indict
any lecturer who occasionally grows
quippish.
But there is much to be said
against those in authority who cul-
tiVate classroom laughs. First of
all, it isn't quite sporting for pro-
lessor to spring a joke.
This puts too great a strain upon
the integrity Of the average student,
particularly if he happens to sit well
down in front.
He knows he is supposed to laugh.
And if he meets the sally with a
grim visage, there is the possibility
that resentment may linger in the
subconscious mind Of the instructor.
And professional jokes have q
horrid habit of becoming standard
lied. Certain popular college lee
turers annually are reminded of the
same anecdote upon the same date
each year.
If we are to have humorous fac
ulty members, at least there should
be some pressure to make them
change their routine once every four
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
ANAL AOO4 Lands

~HE Governor of Michigan is wise to refuse to let
L Ohio take Burke to Toledo and try him for the
murder of policeman if there's any possibility of
technical situation resulting which would free the long
sought outlaw in event of acquittal.
we saw picture the other day of IA army air
planes which were plying over New York City in q
sham attack, and it is enough to prove the utter
helplessness of any country, not equipped with a
swarm Of flying fighters
As defenders iron ships on the sea are as useless
as linen buster at the north pole.
A RICH woman in Louisiana aged 81 just has
n married her eleventh man.
She divorced seven and won endurance contests
with three
She could save lot of coin by getting them by
the dozen or by the case.
It isn't once year that any boy shortens his days
by excessive study in college, but every day boy
does it by excessive activity the athletic field.
Walter Strong, publisher Of the Chicago Daily
News said to have gone to his early grave because
hsweakened his heart in college athletics.
ERANC1s CROWLEY New York gunn1an wanted
L to plead guilty to first degree murder, but the
judge wouldn not let him do it.
Crowley didn't want lawyer but the Judge
made him take one.
At the rate we are going it will not be long until
q criminal will have to exert strong influence to in
duce court to consent to try him
These riots in Spain prove again that nobody
knows how far the crowd will take them when they
upset government.
The French revolution ran away with its authors
and the people of Petrograd ran away with those
who started the opposition to the car.
Now that the second kirkland trial is under way,
We hope they will not turn it into another picture
taking orgy.
In the other trial they photographed the defendant
and his folks sitting UP lying down. rolling over and
skinning the cat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
A Proper Warmth

DUT qualities such as vividness
ID and approachability are the
proper concern of the student body.
There is small excuse for the ira
ditional lecture course unless the
man at the head Of the class can
lend a certain warmth to his words.
Most courses Of this kind are
directly founded upon some book
which the professor in question has
written. And if he can make moth
ing more than a sing-song of his
facts and theories, then ne better
would be encountered in the Ii
brary.
There was, dirlly remember, q
course on municipal government
given by a professor who shall be
nameless, since I can not begin to
recall anything about him except
that he called the inhabitants of
the land where Mussolini now rules
"Eyetalians"
No doubt he was scholar well
versed in his subject, and I was not
too studious an attendant at his
lectures. And yet it can not be
entirely my fault that the entire
series of talks has faded into moth
ingness.
Surely he never gave US an ex-
citing afternoon. And if 7 harp
on this word, it seems to me the
thing chiefly lacking in most formal
education. One should get a kick
out of his encounter with a new
subject.
Again and again 7 have known
young men to 90 through courses in
history and economics in q tired
and jaded way.
And some Of these same people,
upon leaving the clustered halls,
have found casual contact with a
strike or an election something to
arouse not only interest, but true
passion.
Copyright. 1881. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
HEALTH
Shun Laxatives in Appe ndicitis Cases

The Philadelphia County Medical
society printed 100000 stickerS for
distribution about the city through
physicians with the following rec
ommendation: "In the presence OF
abdominal pain give nothing by
mouth. Never give a laxative.
Apply an ice-bag to the abdomen.
Call your family physician. Alb
dominal pain which persists for six
hours usually is dangerous"
Furthermore, the cooperation Of
retail druggists was secured in max
ing sure that people who are buy
ing laxativeS did not have synnp-
toms of appendicitis, and drug
gists were asked to exhibit placards
containing sound advice.
It is hoped that by this method
Of conducting educational cam
paigns more people with such dan
gerous symptoms will be induced to
make certain of their condition be-
fore taking treatment, and by this
means the number of deaths from
appendicitis can be lowered greatly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
The World War

DERHAPS one might explain the
= failure Of the 1918 sun-spot
maximum to bring on a depression
in two years by the fact that the
World war i1lterfered. A World
war easily might be blamed-or
cerdlted-with almost anything.
But now let us regard the matter
seriously for a moment. Does DR..
Stetson say that sun-spots cause
business depression? Most emphat~
ically he does not.
He writes to me, "I trust YOU to
Interpret this rather venturesome
skirnaish Of an astronomer with due
discretion"
He suggests that perhaps the
matter is worth further study.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to note that Sir William Hers
chel, the famous English astrono-
ner who discovered the planet IRA
nus, once made a study Of wheat
prices and found that they huctu-
ated in step with the sun-spot cycle.
a suggestion was also made once
by William Stanley Jevons, the
English economist who lived from
1885 to 1882, that business depres-
sions we're caused by the sun-spot
cycle.
Just what the mechanism con-
Meeting sun-spots and business may
be, is difficult to tell. Perhaps sun
spots affect weather; weather af-
Yects agriculture, and agriculture
affects business in general.
But no one yet has shown that
sun-spots affect weather, though
many observers think that they
must.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ninety-nine instances out of 100 is
safe, if he is operated on for ap-
pendicitis within the first twelve
hours after the onset of the synp-
toms.
Without exception, patients who
develop q rupture or bursting of
the appendix with peritonitis with
in twelve hours after the onset of
symptoms have been given laxatives
or cathartics.
Out of 5,121 patients with appen-
dicitis, BOG died and of the BOG
deaths there were only 100 patients
in whom a definite history could be
had regarding the taking of laxa-
tives.
One hundred thirty-one of the
100 patients had peritonitis and 1874
Of the 131 had taken laxatives.
This evidence may be considered
to establish conclUsively the dan
ger of taking laxatives in the pres
ence Of appendicitis, and also the
very serious dangers associated with
delay following the appearance Of
the symptoms of this condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEg42S

NOLUMBIA has established an
~ unofficial custom which ought
to be taken over into the machinery
of the university.
Each year the Spectator makes a
survey and asks the students to ex-
press an opinion about the profess
sors and the instructors.
The most recent research shows
that as far as the undergraduates
are concerned, five faculty mem
bers were adjUdged poor and TWEEN
ty-one mediocre.
1t may be in some cases that the
unfortunate professors are graded
according to their subjects rather
than their personality. Thus chem
! istry shows eight boring instructors,
while history has not one.
I would not establish this student
survey as a court of last resort.
But it is no mere newspaper stunt
for the college organ to collect these
statistics. After all, the proof Of
a professor lies in his effect upon
his classes,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Views of Times Readers

teal, we are not concerned in
refuge for the wounded nor are we
concerned about justice for the
wrongdoer, but merely q morbid
curiosity to find out the cause Of
the excitement compels investiga-
ton.
The heart wound Of one individual
IS Insignificant, so we crafty the
wish of our speaker, or perhaps we
fool him, by looking for the funda-
mental disturbance.
From the facts paraded by the
speaker we are embarrassed to learn
eve learn by thinking for ourselves)
that some are trying to thrust g
new social order upon our young
gtudents at De Paw. The time
was when facts newly obtained by
the learned class could be studied
carefully under supervision. In
fortunately, the college man has
degenerated into q type so ignorant
that facts no longer may be taught.
We must assume that the disease
germs Of society are Of such deadly
character that it would be grave
mistake for a college president to
permit even students to analyze the
dread disease in order TO protect
society.
Here we must have q unique col
lege-one that stands for learning,
yet within the very walls Of these
historic buildings where men have
dared to conceive new ideas and
nurtured them until the ideas be-
came beneficial facts, We find the
medieval spirit Of suppression Of
truth.
The wheel Of progress moves on
and De Paw sometime will learn
that college people ought to be
educated, regardless Of opinions TO
The contrary.
HARRY BOATRIGHT.
1876 West Forty-third street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
~SZZrENS
4Td6AN Is4TEae
ANNIVERSARY
THE TRAINING CAMPS

0N May Is, 1917, sixteen camps
" for the training Of officers were
opened in various parts of the
United States, the numbers Of
trainees in attendance being 10000.
The camps were scattered
throughout the country so as to af-
ford the opportunity of entrance
and training with the least incon-
venience and expense Of travel.
Ofhcers previously commissioned
in the reserve corps were required
to attend the camps and in addi-
ton, about 10000 selected canoi-
dates were accepted from among
the much greater number who ap-
piled for admission.
These camps were organized and
conducted under supervision Of de-
partment commanders; applicants
were required to state their quail
flcations and 2 rough apportion-
ment was attempted among the
candidates to the several states.
At the conclusion of the camp,
27,341 officers were commissioned
and directed to report at the places
selected for the training Of the new
army.
BY this process the national army
need for officers was satisfied and
the roster Of the regular army dlled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Just towards

4 TTORNEY- GENERAL JOHN j
IN BENNETT of New York, who
took charge of the operations
against the Legs Diamond gang in
Greene county by special order OF
Governor Roosevelt, does not regard
the problem Of destroying racketeers
as either mysterious Or difficult.
Racketeering, in his opinion, is
just another form of outlawry or
ganized by cheap thieves" whose
courage is derived largely from fire.
arms.
Here in Greene county," he says
ave have found Legs Diamond and
his gang the cheapest sort Of cow
ards, and all of them everywhere
are nothing more"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Mailed Fist Does Il

CANG rule is just another ex-
VI ample Of what an organized
minority can do, especially when
aided and abetted by public indiffer-
ence.
The most alarming phase Of the
situation is the fact that so few
people realized what was going on
until recently.
You can't explain the terrorism,
tribute and corruption on any other
ground.
All that we need to break up this
childish manifestation of cussed-
ness and all that we ever have need
ed is described exactly by Attorney
General Bennett when he says,
"relentlessness in the courts and
prosecutors willing to use mailed
fists instead of kid gloves will send
the raeketeers to cover"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Ticker lane Showers

THE New York Board Of Trade
L is opposed to showering dis
tinguished visitors with ticker tape
and torn up telephone books.
Outside Of the unnecessary clutter
and fire hazard which the custom
involves, the Board Of Trade solemn
ly declares that there are better
ways Of showing respect for a cele-
brity than dumping Massachusetts,
on his head.
Not arguing the point, there is
one advantage in the paper down.
pour. The tonnage collected next
day furnishes a good barometer of
the celebrity's rating. Lindbergh,
for instance drew 1900 tons, while
Byrd drew only 1,400.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

Gang Rule Is Just Another
Example of What an Or
ganized Minority Can Do.
SAYS
CPEAKING Of age, Paul Doumer

CPEAKING Of age, Paul Doumer.
- just elected president Of France,
is a.
At that, he is not the oldest man
so to be honored.
NJ. Theirs was 30 when called up
on to clear away the wreckage left
by the F'ranco-Prussian war.
The new president is a real by
product of democracy.
His parents were so poor that he
had to leave school at an early age.
First he became z locksnlith and
then q reporter.
He has held one kind Of political
Office or another during the last
forty years, having served as dep
uty, senator, governor Of Indo-
China, and minister Of finance on
three separate occasions.
Three Of his sons we're killed in
the war and the fourth was gassed
so that he died later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

Editor Tines-Will Evans, in an in
teresting manner recently presented
q somewhat interesting exposition
before a few friends and many
graduates Of their alma mater. The
manner Of attack was unique, for
the .. A. r. was not even men
toned. Neither was the American
Legion or the Zu-Klux Klan. How
ever, no one yet has given an oath
declaring that the latter was not
referred to-the oaths come later.
From the facts related above, we
will assume that, luckily, most of
the auditors had a fair degree Of
intelligence. Intelligence people
seldom become agitated by remarks
of politicians or public speakers.
Truth may be ascertained and even
yet-contrary to common opinion
occasionally a college graduate and
even an undergraduate IS capable
of thinking and this capability is
at rare intervals exercised, even
though it b.. contrary to academic
sanction of well established preced-
ence.
The ambush was placed So well
that a few honest and even intelli-
gent men might be trapped The
gun seemed to be aimed all over
the field" either toward a social
order, q government, q school or
man. However, q palsied wreck
might "aim all over the field" and
yet shoot a rabbit, or again he
might aim at an army and shoot
one man and that man might be
q prisoner Of war, sincerely work
ing for the liberation Of the same
Just cause that precipitated his in
jury.
Princes, kings and even Presi-
dents have been trapped and shot
down and wounded in crowds. It's
an accurate marksnan that can
pick the noble from the crowd.
Being academic rather than rrac-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
The Evidence

HERE are the results of DR..
i L Stetson'S tabulations: A study
Of the chart by Colonel Ayres shows
that the bottoms Of the business
depressions since 1880 were reached
at approximately the following
dates: 1884, 1896, 1908, 1922 and
1880.
A study Of sun-spot cycle chart
shows that the maxima Of the
sun-spot cycles since 1880 were
reached at approximately the fol-
lowing dates: 1882, 1894, 1900, 1918
and 1928.
1t will be noticed that bottom of
each depression in business came
after a sun-spot maximum. DR..
Stetson has figured out the exact
lapse between each sun-spot max
ina and business Glow" and finds
them to be as follows:
The bottom Of the 1884 depres-
sion came one and one-half years
after a sun-spot maximum.
The bottom Of the 1896 depres-
sion came two years after a sun
spot maximum.
The bottom Of the 1903 depres-
sion came two years after a sun
spot maximum.
The bottom Of the 1922 depres-
sion came four years after a sun
spot maximum.
The bottom Of thee 1890 depres~
sion came two and one-half wears
after & sun-spot maximum.
1t viii be seen, therefore, that
four Of the five depressions came
approximately two years after a
sun-spot maximum. The depres-
sion OF 1922 did not follow the rule.
coming four years after the sun
spot maximum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Make EN- Paw

TINE new Spanish republic eel
/ ebrates its birthday by Selling
the personal fortune of King Alfonso,
On the ground that he should be
made to pay back what he wrong
fully took.
That should be the rule in every
case where it can be applied.
Thieves, thugs, swindIers, and all
others who have preyed on the pub
lie not only should be apprehended
and punished, but every item of
value they have acquired should be
taken away from them and returned
to those who were victimized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
This Policy Paws

TIMES may be hard and money
1 tight, but two policy opera
tors in Harlenl-New York's great
Negro district-have made a million
each in the last few years.
One Of them, Jose Enrique Miro
whine he hit New York in 1916.
After working eight years as g
common laborer, he took up gam
bling, from which he graduated into
the policy" game. His statesmen
a Porto Rican, had only a dime
are said to have worn buttons with
his initials to guarantee them i'm
nlunity from arrest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those AZ
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are prc-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disa ereer7ent
With the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
Not Quite InfaIIibIo

NET here q line must be drawn
Z setting student judgment some
what below the line of infallibility.
An easy-going, larky,. entertaining
professor could rank high with IN
dergraduates and still be Of no
great Importance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

OUR knowledge Of appendicitis
~ goes back many years. The
public apparently has been fully
informed concerning control Of this
condition.
Nevertheless, a survey Of the
statistics in twenty-seven hospitals
in Philadelphia by Dr. John o. Bow
ers indicates that the mortality
from appendicitis still is high.
In the early Dos, the majority Of
the patients we're operated on only
after peritonitis already had de-
veloped.
Now, after fifty years, it is found
that AT per cent of the patients
who enter the hospital with appen-
dicitis still have peritonitis, and
that one out of every eighteen dies.
1t is quite certain, as has been
revealed in numerous studies
throughout the world, that a pa
tient in good physical condition in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15
little Restitution

MTOW that the public IS becom-
IN ing aroused, it is only a Ques-
ton Of time when gang rule will be
smashed.
There is no question Of this
country's ability to handle such
naraUders.
The majority Of beer barons, hi
jackers, plug uglies and policy
operators will be run in or run out.
But that is only part of the job
The great weakness Of our legal
machine is its inability to do much
by way Of restitution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

The daughter of a German brewer is said to be
planning fight to the United States. Well, who
should know more about hops?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

A politician doesn't seem to realize that the steam
he blows OF also can be condensed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-15

How does the area Of Australia
compare with that Of the United
States?
Australia has an area Of 2,e74,5sl
square miles; the area Of continent
tai United States is 3,o26, 7e9 square
miles.