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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
Something to Forget

Laws to make the Communist party Illegal, cancel
citizenship Of Communists and otherwise revoke their
civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution
commended by the Fish committee
Our reaction to Fish and his kind is somewhat the
same as our attitude toward the Communists them
selves That attitude was given classic expression by
voltaire:
st do not believe in word that you say, but will
defend with my lfe If need be- your right to say It,"
On second thought however, perhaps it is a mis-
take to quote votaire. After all, he was French
man and the Fishes among us very suspicious Of
fallen" doctrines
We hasten to add therefore that this is good
American doctrine sanctihed by Revolutionary
Fathers written into the Constitutions bill of rights
and defended by Jefferson and Lincoln.
It is doctrine recently reaffirmed by our greatest
turist Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:
III there is any principle CT the Constitution that
more perativey calls for attachment than any other
it Is the principle of free thought-not free thought
for those that agree with us, but freedom for the
thought that we hate"
Believing that this constitutional protection for
inoritieS WISE recognize the right Of the minor
ity represented by Fish to urge laws which would
violate the most sacred part of American traditions
OF freedom and destroy the Constitution Fortunately
In our Judgment the Fish committee has little chance
Constitution by denying civil rights to Communists
We recognize that the Communist minority has
the right the Fish minority to try to over
throw the Constitution. 1t is protected by the laws
in that right long it does not violate the laws
against violence. And there already are plenty Of
Jaws and law officers to protect the country against
violence without any recommendations from the Fish
committee.
The right to try to change form Of govern
ent is inherent in the revolution which created
government and In the Declaration Of Independence
which says:
Whenever any form of government becomes de-
structive OF these dfe. liberty and the pursuit
OF happiness it is the right Of the people to alter
or to abolish it,
From the Fish report, however. 1t is clear that
the Communists are in hopeless minority and that
their propaganda has made very little Roadway
among the electorate. IN the press in the schools
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

en- than highly educated physician
can cure.
Before there were trained sur
geons, BARRIERS did much Of the sur
gerry. It was barber surgery and
not Surgical surgery.
One Of the great difficulties In Sc
curing better results in the matter
Of childbirth is the fact that the
public itself is not well informed
concerning the possibilities. +
If the vast majority Of women
made sure of their ability to bear
children successfully and without
complications at the time of mar
riage; if they consulted competent
medical advice Immediately on the
knowledge of conception, and if they
followed such competent advice
carefully through the entire cir
cunstance, the number of deaths
would be cut down greatly and
a vast amount Of illness would be
prevented.
Much has been written Of late in
newspapers and in magazines con-
corning the great cost Of scientific
obstetrical care. It is recognized
that the work of obstetric specialists
Is not necessary in the vast ma
jority of cases.
Specialistic service Is expensive,
regardless Of whether 1t is in the
field Of law, plumbing, farming, or
medicine.
In the uncomplicated case, the
general practitioner can secure ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
A Great Scholar Passes

Dr. John William Burgess died last week in COM
parative obscurity at Broone Mass Few outside the
ranks of professional scholars would be able to den-
tfy the man. Yet it is exaggeration at all to say
that he is one of the two outstanding figures in the
history of higher education in the United States since
the Civil war.
What Eliot Of Harvard did to create the modern
American college, Burgess Of Columbia achieved in
producing the graduate school of the American uni
versity.
While young soldier in the Civil war, Burgess
pondered devising waS and means Of avoiding
such carnage as he beheld before him. He decided
that careful study of the human past was the avenue
to such knowledge.
Graduated from Amherst college, he went
to Germany to study under the academic giants then
dominant In the world Of historical scholarship
Droyden, Treitschke, Mommsen, and the like. He got
his system soaked full Of Germanic scholarship and
methods and never departed from his early admira-
tons.
He took up academic duties at Amherst but soon
moved to Columbia. Here in 1876. he began the scen-
tic teaching Of history and prepared the ground for
that great graduate school, the faculty of political
science
He surrounded himself with former students from
Amherst or Columbia-Monroe Smith, Frank J. Good
now, Herbert L. Osgood william A. Dunning, and
others-and created the first impressive graduate
school In history and the social science In our coun-
try. It opened In 1890. Herbert Adams followed
in his footsteps at Johns Hopkins.
Dean Burgess was a man of great dignity and no
little dogmatism, but he had lofty conception OF
the responsibilities and duties Of the scholar and from
this he never deviated. He eminently fair and
just in dealing with students.
Having brought German scholarship to America
he was rewarded many years later by being made an
ambassador Of American learning to Germany where
he the first American exchange professor to Ber-
lin Q9O6). He made no secret of his intense admir-
alton for the Germans-ther ways and learning
which was shared most heartily by his chief PreSi-
dent Butler.
When the World war broke out, Burgess stuck to
his guns He refused to succuEnb to British propa-
ganda and wrote fearlessly in defense of Germany
Right wrong he was certainly consistent His vgor-
Gus condemnation Of Grey and Britain brought him
much abuse but he never WINGED.
This conduct brought him into academic eclipse
from which he never emerged, but future historians
and bographers will accord to him respect than
they will to the ninble boys in mortar boards who
scurried from their o-Gernanism of the pre-war
days to caresS Britannia in the safe fold of the Ma
tonal Board for Historical Service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
} Up on Their Toes
YOU'VE simply got to hand

YOU'VE simply got to hand It
n TO Californians. They're on
their toes, even If they do like to
talk about it, and showing older
sections Of the country how to do g
lot Of things.
You can feel the pull and pressure
OF the California spirit the moment
you cross the Colorado river, or an
ter the state anywhere else. Though
It's a desert road, with not an aver.
age OF one house to flve miles, you
find 1t wide, well kept, and neatly
rallied at all dangerous places.
1 am not advising easternexS b
come here, or buy real egtata. bxFf
they could learn and adopt nnanT
California methods with profit.
Other parts Of the country cans
seem to visualize q reasonably good
sized town without Just so many
fifteen, twenty or even thirty-story
buildings, but hero Ia Los Angeles
well on toward her second million
and still forbidding structures Of
more than twelve.
Other parts OF the country g<tIl
are sold on tenements and apart
ments as essential to urban life, but
here in California they run to sin
gle houses, preferably bungalows, on
large lots.
More inspiring than that, there Is
color and variety to the architecture.
even IN the most modest homes, and
resultant neatness which cannot
help having a profound effect on
the character Of the next genera
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
1A1/I AOO4 Lands

WHEN we are giving vent to indignation over
w the failure of law enforcement in America, we
likely to place all the blame upon the shoulders
Of the legal profession, which IS not entirely &C
curate
Many miscarriages of justice are due to the re-
fusal of ures to convict when the evidence is not
only clear, but CHASTITY.
Time and again jurors give their brains vaca-
ton and bring in verdicts which would disgrace
twelve inmates of a feeble-minded home.
Not so long ago in clear case Of wife poisoning,
for instance twelve husky HOLSTERS in jury heard
the evidence and instructions and then went out and
wrangled and finally brought in verdict of man.
slaughter, which was the last word in ahsurdity
A ND now jury over at Wheaton, III, has Just
L brought in verdict, saving the neck Of wretch
who brutally murdered a school teacher.
This was after the murderer had been found guilty
and sentenced to DEATH the claim being that he had
suffered disorder in his dome after his conviction
for the crime
Now the precious darling will escape the chair and
be sent to the asylum and if old system of hocus
pocus hits all cylinders he will some fine day get
out and return to grace society.
You may possibly recall that after the supreme
court of the United States had declared the oil leases
which Fall gave to Sinclair and Doheny to be sat
urated with fraud ures in the District Of Columbia
declared them to be as innocent as unborn babes.
A ND this can not be attributed entirely to the
N shrewdness Of the defendants lawyers nor can
1t generally be ascribed to jury packing.
1t means in large measure that We have as peo-
pie lost our capacity for indignation.
In former days whole communities saw red" when
horrible ohenses were committed against individuals
against society whole, but now we aroused
for the minute, but only for the minute.
The American people need cAe thing more than
any ofhsr-and thai thing = intestinal fortituda
=
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
Let in the Light

Fortunately the proposal to investigate
the state highway commission and its weird
and peculiar transactions comes from the
Republican members of the state senate.
This will prevent any effort to minimize an
inquiry on the ground that it is prompted by
partisan zeal.
While the law endeavors to make this and
other boards nonpartisan, the truth is that
ronpartisan boards are made up Of those who
give allegiance to the Governor and whose
political preferences are professional and not
of principle.
The conduct of the commission in the
past two years has invited this inquiry.
Neglect to take advantage of federal aid
has robbed the state of the benefit of mil
lions, needed in these times of unemploy-
ment as never before.
1t is possible that the inquiry will dis
close that commission composed Of men who
receive only modest fee for holding meet
ings may be the most expensive sort of adj
ministration.
Tt is more. possible that the inquiry will
disclose other facts which will suggest the
abolition of the present commission and the
creation of new one composed of those who
know how to build roads, who know the needs
of the state and who will be paid for full
time work.
From the time that the commission, for
unexplained reasons, summarily discharged
the former director, the arrogant attitude of
the board has suggested that there is need
of light on its conduct
There should be an inquiry. 1t should be
sweeping and complete. It's purpose should
be the discovery of better method of han
ding the twenty-five millions of dollars
which the people pay each year for roads
in this state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19

Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and If Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
MO doubt, long before there were
L physicians or midwives, women
gave birth successfully to children
without the help Of either.
On the other hand they, no doubt,
frequently suffered unnecessarily and
sometimes became i'll or died as a
result of complications which today
are controlled perfectly.
AS human life became more COM
plicated and conditions of living
changed, medical complications of
childbirth became more difficult
and the opportunity for infection
far more frequent.
There are, as has been frequently
pointed out, three main factors to
be considered. First, to bring the
mother successfully through the
entire period from conception to re-
covery; second, to insure the birth
Of a healthy infant; third, to have
the mother as nearly normal after
the experience as she was before.
Because of the fact that midwives
undertake a part of the practice of
medicine, this phase Of medical
training has had hardly fair share
Of attention in medical schools.
1t is an aphorism that a badly
taught midwife can kill more worn-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
Scare for Tourists

ENTERING California is ike
II entering a foreign country
these days, though the ignorant.
unsuspecting tourist doesn't know
it until he has penetrated the state
for $50 miles.
First, they let you ride from
Needles to Daggett over a fine fast
road, then they stop you for in
Spection, and it's not the play-boy
variety you have been used TO In
eastern states.
When smartly dressed officer
orders you to halt, get out and open
up the baggage-every piece Of it.
you get little panicky, fearing you
are up against some new wrinkle In
prohibition enforcement.
When you are informed that 1t is
only citrus fruit the inspectors are
after, you heave a mighty sigh of re-
lief, which doesn't mean that the
search lacks thoroughness.
California wants no Mediterranean
f1ieS or boil weevils and is under
taking to prevent their importation,
whether by intent or carelessness,
with the same zest that character
ICES all her efforts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
ALL or Nothing

A ND so I am against the prac-
L A tice Of quitting a little at q
time. If you were held tight with
in the jaws of a crocodile would
you say, I'll get out of this grad
ually; that the best way?
OF course not. With one mighty
wrench the crocodile addict would
free himself and never again put
himself into the power Of those
cleaning teeth.
Another favorite device Of the
slave Of bad habits is to plan q
romantic farewell to his vices. After
one last fling he feels the new life
can be taken on more easily.
But suppose your brother or son or
father was in the grip Of an un-
worthy passion; the woman in the
case. happened to be a thoroughly
bad lot. After protracted appeals,
you succeed in making the unhappy
victim Of her wiles aware Of the
fact that the whole thing has been
a terrible mistake.
He says, Just let me go to see
her once more, and then I'm done
with her forever"
If you are at all sarewd you will
not allow your father, son or broth
er to carry out this last romantic
meeting. The point is to stop sud-
denly and completely. A poet has
said:
'The brave man does it with
sword;
The coward tapers OF"
How deep and how true Is the
insight Of that poetI Once you
make UP your mind that tobacco is
bad Tor you. charge into reforua-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Sir Research Programs of
Great Importance Are Be-
ing Conducted in British
Laboratories.
OK important programs Of re-
~ search are being carried on by
the chemical laboratory Of the de-
partment Of scientific and indus
trial research of Great Britains
The programs represent part of
Great Britain's attempt to advance
applied science and engineering.
Professor q. T. Morgan, Superin-
tendent Of the laboratory, lists the
six researches as follows: Syn
thetic resins, low temperature tar.
high-presSre chemistry, corrosion
Of metals, chremotherapy, and re-
search on water pollutions.
In addition" he says, "a certain
amount Of general research is car
ried out at discretion of the d.
rector"
Regarding the research on syn
thetic resins, he says, 1.-THE grow
ing Importance Of synthetic resins
in chemical industry is gagged by
the fact that the worlds production
Of formaldehyde resins, which was
of the order Of 5000 tons in 1921,
had increased to 1900 tons in 1926,
Of which Great Britain was respon-
sible for 16 per cent as against 40,
"a and 8 per cent derived respec-
lively from the United States, Ger
many, and France, other countries
accounting for the remaining II per
cent"
Such resins are particularly valu-
able today for manufacture of prod
uctS used in the electrical industry
and radio for insulators, tube sock
cts, panels, and the like.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
High Pressure

CONSIDERABLE progress has
~ been made in the researches In
high-preSsure chemistry, that is,
methods in which chemical reac-
tons are made to occur under con-
ditions of extremely high pressure.
During the last ten years in
creasing attention has been directed
to the use of pressure as a means
of facilitating the course of chemi-
cal reactions, and research on high
pressure syntheses was started at
the laboratory in 1926 on the recon-
mendation of the chemistry coor-
dinating research board, whose
members were impressed by the pos
sibilities revealed by the work Of
Patart in France and of the
Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik in
Germany" Professor Morgan says.
1.-THE plant required for this in
veStigation was designed and built
in the laboratory workshop, and the
earliest experiments were carried
out with hand coMpresSors.
Subsequently, motor driven COM
pressors and circulators were added
20 the equipment.
This plant first was tried out
with satalySts of the Patart type
normal or basic zinc chromate) to
gain skill and confidence In the
process.
1T thus was found that on pass
ing the mixed gases at the rate Of
10000 vols. an hour, over unit
volume of such catalyst at $50 de-
grees and under 200 atmospheres
pressure, the hourly production of
methyl alcohol was about twice the
volume Of catalyst space.
The addition of cobalt chromate
or nitrate to the foregoing zinc
chronate catalyst led to an interest
ing development. since with the
more complex catalyst ethyl alco-
hol and other higher alcohols made
their appearance, although methyl
alcohol remained the predominant
product. Small amounts of aide
hydes and acids also we're detected. :"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
And Other Things

THIS may be little unfair, be-
l. cause here and there you may
have fallen down on account Of gen
eral inefaciency rather than tobac-
co, but nobody can afford to be
oyerchivalrous in mortal combat. If
you foul nicotine in the excitement
no matter.
Let your gorge rise. Go around
knocking cigarets out of peoples
mouths. If you are just recently re-
formed this will be excellent for you.
as the chances are that you are
quite badly in need Of exercise.
1t may be best to begin slapping
at cigarets smoked by small boys.
I do wish some frail and insignif1-
cant man would come along and
offer me tobacco and a drink. I'm
certain-Im practically certain-rd
punch him right in the nose.
Copyright 1881. by The Tfmes)
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afternoon and evening, but literary
people have told me that mornings
are best of all for creative effort.
Concentration

OOIlOOIIlt GllOII
BY getting up at IL, say, should
get in a solid hour of labor. Quite
lot can be done in an hour by
any one who really applies himself.
The trouble with smokers is that
they can't concentrate. I've watched
them. They write a couple Of lines
and then get up and go into the
next room for a cigaret. After that
matches are required. And some
times an ash tray.
How can anybody expect to run
a philosophic train of thought
through all those obstacles2 Nico-
tine colorS mans style. The Smok-
ing mans copy is full of short,
jerky sentences. The thought wan
ders. He's always forgetting what
he started to say.
If it were not so pitiful, there
would be something decidedly comic
in the efforts of the smoker to break
away from his bad habit. For in
stance, when he sits down at his
typewriter to do q piece Of work-a
column for newspaper, let's say
nothing comes into his mind.
He writes a paragraph or so, and
it seems terrible. Tearing it up, he
walks twice across the room.
At this point a piece of candy or
gum might save him. His restless
ness must get its teeth into some
thing. There is one more unsuc-
cessful effort at composition, and
then he gives up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
Low Temperature

d ESEARCHES on low tempera-
IN ture tar are bound up with
problems of the more economic
utilization of coal through what is
known as low temperature car
bonization.
There is at the present time in
this Country no process of chemical
industry which is more in the pub
lie eye than low temperature car
bonization of COAL" Prof. Morgan
says.
'The matter is Of supreme ma
tional Importance, for the larger
problems facing this mode of utiliz-
ing coal are both economic and
technical and turn on the exploita-
ton 20 the best advantage of the
resulting products: Smokeless fuel,
gas, aqueous liquor and tar.
Now since any marked apprecia-
Gion can he expected only in the
case of the last of these products
it follows that processes tending to
an increase in value of the tar
are of fundamental interest.
During the last five years a sys-
tematic study of the chemical con-
stituents Of low temperature tar has
been in progress in the Teddington
laboratory and, in our experiments
on this material, quantities of the
order of forty gallons have been
handled in the semi-scale plant.
ut was soon found that although
low temperature tar had been pro-
duced at carbonizing teperatures Of
about 900 degrees, yet it could not
again be heated even to compare
lively low temperatures-round about
$50 degrees-without undergoing
considerable alterations of a chem
ical nature.
Accordingly, distillation processes
we're replaced by milder methods Of
extraction, and the tar was not
heated about 120 degrees until its
more decomposable constituents had
been removed.
"a representative tar from a typ
ical bituminouS coal (Kinneil coaD
was heated to 100 degrees to re-
move light oils and adhering aque-
GUS liquor, and the residue extract
ed by systematic use of solvents
to separate it into its major con-
stituents; neutral oils and wakes,
aromatic hydrocarbons, bases, phe-
nolS and carboxylic acids.
ut then was noted that each of
these main groups Of products
could be separated into two frac-
tons, one portion consisting of crys-
tallizable substances conveniently
termed 'crystalloids,' the other por-
ton composed of anonymous res
inouS materials to which the name
resinoids' was applied.
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You've Simply Got TO Hand
1t to CcIiforniGns;; They're
Up on Their Toes.
GAN BEEaNARDNo. Cal. Jan. 1s.
y Fifteen hundred miles across
the desert and not 8 room without
a bath, or a single instance Of dis
courtesy on the road.
Saturday morning We dropped
nearly 1000 feet down from Flag
staff, Ariz., to Kingman, and 5000
more after lunch from Kingman to
Needles, the first town in California.
Thirty miles west of Kingman,
you go over Oatman hill, which is
marked gold roads grade" on the
map and which is just as interest
ing as it sounds. Seventy million
dollars worth of the precious metal
has been dug out Of this mountain
fastness.
Leaving Oatman, you get your
first glimpse of the Colorado river,
which lies on the far side Of Sac
ramento valley, forming q silver
base for the blue and Saw-toothed
hills that bulwark California.
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ton like crusader. It will not be
sufficient to work up mere indif-
ference.
Think back to the days when
every avenue Of success beckoned
you. Remember the various things
you expected to do and have not.
Then place all the blame squarely
at the door Of tobacco.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19

Who discovered the X-ray. and
who invented the modern X-ray
tube?
Professor Wilhelm Konrad Roent-
gen Of the University Of Nuremberg,
Bavaria, discovered the phenomena
Of X-rays in 1895. The inventor of
the modern x-ray tube is DR.. w. D.
Coolidge Of Schenectady, N. Y. It
was perfected in 1913.