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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE most tragic mistake made by the modern
l. young wife is the speed with which she takes of
to the divorce court.
Nothing much can be said that will divert her
from her purpose and is probable that she will real
ize her error only after long and bitter years have
passed.
But the truth is that the unhappiest women among
us are those who divorced in haste and repenting
at leisure
Life you know does not arrange itself for the spe-
cial benefit of any one of us. We may be that
we shall have to take few knocks before die.
And, trite it may sound, it is the taking them on
the chin that counts.
Thousands of have left average young hus-
bands while the latter struggled to get foothod in
the world, only to discover ten fifteen years later
that some other woman was enjoying the comforts
they rightly should have had Rightly that is they
had had the courage to stick when it hard to do
T DO not believe should reduce marriage to a
L financial proposition entirely But certainly
finance plays an important part in modern YER
sion. And it's good being noble and saying that
women, once they have reached middle age, do not
long for the kind of protection and security that only
a husband and home can provide.
The young bride of this generation expects too
much Of men, And half the time she doesn't use or
binary sense in weighing a husbands qualities She
demands willy nily that he shall be generous noble
and devoted ike her moving picture heroes.
And while asking the ultimate perfection from him.
she is very unlikely to look at herself with critical
eyes.
My advice to her sort is this: IF your husband is
lust plain everyday average hangsOn to him. There
are no perfect ones.
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driven from city to city, forced to make their homes
IN jungleS" under bridges, river banks or in de-
serted shacks, their lot than that of criminals
One Governor, however, says it shall be different
in his state. Governor Clifford Pinchot proposes to
furnish temporary work and shelter for Pennsylvania
jobless casuals With 100000 of state road funds
he proposes to build highways this winter and offer
jobs and housing in road camps to homeless men of
his state. At least they will have work, small wage
and temporary security
One OF the planks in the Pinchot program to be
presented to Pennsylvania special legislative session
on Nov. is an authorization for new highway work
to be financed by an emergency 2-cent gasoline tax
The Clifford committee has announced program
under which it is proposed that local governments
rather than private charity assume responsibility for
these wanderers.
The federal government could help by offering
Governors the of its tremendous stores of army
blankets tents cots and other equipment for the
establishment Of state road camps for migratory
workers All the states should follow the Pinchot
lead for obviously is impossible for one state to act
alone.
To do nothing about this horde of jobless men is
not only unChristian 1t is unsafe No nation can be
secure with throng of hungry desperate men at
large in its midst.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

adult who happened to be suffering
with some digestive disturbance.
In some of their cases they found
the possibility of the presence of
ulcers of the stomach; in two cases,
the presence of the disturbance of
digestion known as spastic consti-
patton, and in twenty-three out of
thirty-siX patients, changes in the
acidity of the gastric juices away
from what is considered normal
acidity.
n
In nineteen cases in which failure
to gain in weight was the only or
chief complaint, there was in
creased acidity of the gastric
juice and in three cases there was
lessened acidity. Because of this
excess acidity, powders were pre-
Scribed which tended toward caus-
ing an alkaline reaction.
AS a result the children began to
gain in weight in most instances,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

of Shaw is dead and otherwise for
gotten.
The theater has been no more
than a convenient medium for
Shaw. Certainly if Shaw's reputa-
ton rested on nothing more than
two volumes of dramatic reviews he
would have become a thin legend
in his lifetime.
Because of other and more sig
nificant achievements, the impress
sion has grown up that these crit
ical essays belong among the worlds
masterpieces.
Let's settle that by being blunt
and saying that the reviews, when
reread, now seem things of little
consequence. Had Shaw gone on
and did he move about the world
today as an old dramatic critic. he
would be just as tiresome as all the
other veteran members of the fra
ternity.
Copyright 1881. by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
0VerWrought Nerves

TINE depression through which
i we are passing, the radical and
revolutionary movements that have
plagued humanity since Versailles,
the queer fashions and superstitiouS
fadS, the jazz and freakish art, and,
above all else, the ever-increasing
spread of fear, bewilderment and
discomfort speak of nothing so
plainly as case of overweight
nerves.
We try to excuse it on the ground
that leadership is lacking, but you
can't have leadership without some
thing to lead.
AS Victor Hugo said in his i'm
mortal discussion of Waterloo and
wellington, what could the Iron
Duke have accomplished, without
| iron men?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Hard to Visualize

TINE reader will lose his terror for
i multi-dimenSional space, if ne
once comes to regard it in the same
spirit that the mathematician does.
First of all, he must stop trying
to visualize a fourth or fifth dimen-
sion of space The late Charles y.
Steinmetz, wizard of the General
Electric Company, published a book
once in which he included diagrams
designed to help the reader visual
lie a fourth dimension of space.
1t is agreed generally, however,
that you can not visualize a fourth
dimension of space.
In mathematics, a dimension is
merely another coordinate, another
symbol with which to work. 1t is
not easy to explain mathematics
without using mathematical meth
obs. But let us try.
Draw a cross on a piece of papor
two intersecting lines which are
perpendicular to each other. Now
II you put point anywhere on the
paper, you can identify its position
as being so far from each of the
two intersecting lines. The dis
tances from the two lines are the
Two co-ordinates of the point.
Furthermore, it is possible to write
mathematical equations to express
The position and nature of anv line
lines. wv
IL IS possible to do the same thing
with three dimensionaI space we
must now, of course, make Use Of
three co-ordinates.
Mathematically, we can do the
same thing with four dimensions
1t merely means writing enuafionc
with four co-ordinates. IF Won want
fourteen dimensions, you use four
teen co-ordinates, although If re-
qulres quite a mathematician to do
that. ~ No
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Unsettled the Globe

T LLOYD GEORGE, Clemenceau,
IL Orlando, Wilson-the four men
who sat around table only twelve
years ago and remade the map of
Europe historians will find
a subject worthy of deep considera-
ton in what happened to them aft
erward.
Was there something in the
atrophying effect of war that I'M
fitted them to cope with the vaga-
ries and violence of postwar evo-
luton? Did the gruelling expert
ence numb their faculties and cloud
their perspective?
And if the holocaust had that eff
feet on their practiced minds, what
about its effect on those of less
capacity, but still exposed to the
shock?
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Questions and
Answers
What is the largest airship?
The Akron

What is the largest airship?
The Akron.
On what date did CORVALLIS sur
render at Yorktown, during the
Revolutionary war?
He surrendered to General Wash
ington on Oct 10, 1871.
Was young As You FeeP' the
phOtOplay starring Will Rogers
adapted from a stage play?
1t is adapted from the play "Fa-
ther and the Boys" by George AIDE.
When was William Harris Craw-
ford secretary of the treasury?
From 1916 to 1925.
Does the United States postoffice
always have deficit at the end Of
the year?
For many years the postofice has
had an operating deficit continual
ly growing larger.
Is England part of the continent
of Europe?
1t is separated from the mainland
by the English channel, but general
ly is regarded as part of Europe
Geologically, the British Isles are
part of the continental land mass
of Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Can't Keep Up Speed

THROUGHOUT the postwar pc
Il Rod, nations have failed to
make sufficient allowance for hui
manity's weakened condition, for its
inability not only to carry the load
of debt, but to pursue the killing
pace of conflict.
All countries tried to keep up
the speed, the production, the man
ner Of life, the tense attitude. the
strained emotionalism.
1t couldn't work, and it didn't
work, as the mild depression of 1921
should have warned us.
That, more than anything else,
accounts for the amazing collapse in
business during the last two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Homeless Men

Nothing OF the gray winter days to come should
challenge Americas will to Eelp more profoundly
than Its great and growing army OF unemployed and
homeless men.
Like lshmaels these tens of thousands will wander
20 and fro across the country hiking or tramp
ing the ties, budding in box-cars or rskng life and
limb on brake beams in the endless search for Jobs
or charity's food and shelter
Il the past is criterion. they will be unNelcome,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
SCIENCE
jay DAVID DlE1'7.

Einstein Adds a Fifth Dim en-
sion to the Universe. bus
It's Not as Difficult as II
Sounds.
THE latest report from Germanv
i is that Professor Albert Elm.
stein says the universe has five di-
/ mansions.
In a statement made public in
this country by the Josiah Macy Jr.
Foundation, Einstein states that FIVE
dimensions are necessary to explain
the expansion of the universe.
With the aid of five dimensions.
he also finds it possible to write A
formula which Identifies electro
magnetic action and gravitation.
Readers who in their younger
days toyed with the old attempt TO
imagine fourth dimension in. space
will be more puzzled than ever by
this talk of fifth dimension.
They will be surprised. therefore.
to hear that there is nothing very
startling in Einstein's proposal 10
add fifth dimension to the uni
verse.
Talk Of five, six, and even four
teen dimensions for the universe has
been common among relativists and
mathematicians for the last few
years.
For example, in an address a year
or so ago, DR.. Irving Langmuir, fa-
nous chemist and research expert
of the General Electric Company,
in discussing new theories of the
atom. said that it was possible 10
regard the atom of helium as a coll.
lection of electrons in three dimen.
sional space or as a wave in six~
dimenSiOnal space.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
World She'll Shocked

a S a financial venture, we are
1 n beginning to realize what the
war cost, but as moral and intel
lectual venture, we never shall know.
We have not arrived at a point
where we can measure such disas-
tiers in terms of thought, or emo
ton, yet there is where they work
the greatest havoc.
Expert pSycho-analysis have been
able to identify thousands of SOL
diers as suffering from shell shock,
as completely unStrung by the
racket and confusion.
AS a matter of common sense, the
whole world was shell shocked, only
we couldn't afford to admit it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
SnAaking of Critics

FORGE JEAN NATHAN in one
NJ of his collections of theatrical
essays begins with piece called
advice to Young Critic" In this
he gives much shrewd counsel but
one necessary injunction he has for
gotten. Mr.. Nathan knows and Ii
there is any pity in the man he
should end his chapter with Run
for your lifel"
THE greatest weakness of the av-
eragc critic" says Mr. Nathan lis
his wish to be more than critic. !"
And, logically enough. he develops
the theme that criticism is Itself an
art. In thYs there is a catch. The
junction Of dramatic criticism is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Left Its Mark

"DACK to Normally" cried Hard
- ing, but with only a few SUI
perfcials in mind. Neither he, nor
any of the rest of us, understood
what normally" meant, or what
the road back to it involved.
We have a long way to go yet
long enough for a generation that
was not Scared and manned by the
tempest to appear and take charge
People have tried to get away
from its baneful influence, but they
can't. They still are fevered with
the heat and turmoil Of it all, still
fighting the curious diseases it
bred, still nauseated by the thought
of how little was gained through all
the CHASTITY sacrifices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
No Model Possible

A t this point, the reader will
n want to inquire what tboSe
mathematical puzzles have to do
with reality.
Inc reply of the mathematicians
is that these equations. although
they can't be visualized, come closer
70 explaining what goes on in the
universe than does the common
space. >'''--0 Ai'i0i d
1hls has led such scientists as Sir
James Jeans to abandon the old
loea OF mechanical universe and
substitute mathematical universe
for it. N1-' q %
In the old view of Lord Kelvin
and the scientists of his dav. Coz
was seen as an engineer. Cod in
the view Of Jeans, is a mathemati~
clan. 'i''' -
In other words, the point made bv
Jeans, Eddington, Langmuir and
many others, is that the fundamen.
TAI nature of the universe is such
mat 1t defies the making of 2 ma
chanical model.
This does not appeal to all sci.
entlsts. Some think that our in.
ability to make a model at the mo.
ment is due mainly to our lack If
Sufhcient knowledge. But Others in
slSt that the universe is such thar
only mathematical equations carr
describe it. '-A
In concluding this article. LET us
say word about the fourth and
NTH dimensions Of the Einstein
theory. The fourth dimension ID
understood easily and quickly II
IS time. Einstein, following Min
koWski, adds time to space as a
fourth dimension. This gives ne
space-time, a four dimensionaI con-
tinuum.
The fifth dimension, therefore
must affect time as well as space'
IL concerns itself with the curva-
lure OF space-time, and, as already
stated, can not be visualized in a
mechanical model
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

THIS subject has been discussed
l. repeatedly in this column and
is still one of the most widely dis
cussed subjects in periodicals deal
ing with children's diseases.
Loss of appetite, capricious ap-
petite, loss of weight, and failure of
children to gain weight continue to
be the most disturbing conditions
that confront specialists in diseases
of the children.
For this reason, Drs. M. Loeber
and H. L. Weinberger of the Tulane
university medical school contrib
ute some observations they have
made which seem to lend hope in
this difficult situation.
They decided to make a careful
study of the digestion in these cases,
examining the contents of the stom-
ach exactly as one would study an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

NEANY years ago, when I first
1V1 began as a newspaper man,
there was a restaurant called JoeIs
just opposite the stage door of the
New Amsterdam theater. And on
the menu of this resort ran the
legend "Joel's is the home of actors,
reporters, and artists, the most low
able folk in the world"
After a couple Of decades in jour-
nalism, am not quite sure of the
truthfulneSs of this statement as
far as it touches my confreres, and
my acquaintance with artists is
limited.
Moreover, in the beginning I felt
that the attitude expressed toward
actors was probably shade too ro-
mantle and too sentimental. But
now take that back. They are.
Naturally, the word factors" en-
braces actresses.
In my days as a dramatic critic
I did not wholly give myself over
to alteration of the stage. At that
time I fell under the common con-
fusion which Identifies a bad part
with a bad actor.
At many first nights it was my
duty to watch the work of players
who did not seem lovable at all as
viewed from a sixth-row seat on the
aisle. But then was not OF them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Keeping One Toe Out

MOREOVER, it is well to remem-
1V1 Der that Shaw never thrust
the entire length of his body into
the theater. His plays are written
to be read as we'll as performed.
He saved his soul with prefaces,
and it is quite possible that the in
PRODUCTION to "Androcles and the
Lion" will live on when every play
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

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 paDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
Bleak Rewards of Alien


ALL my life I longed to know
N theater people on an equal foot
ing. Even when it was possible TO
find some artist whom l knew the
supper party represented the con-
tact between an ardent amateur and
one who belonged.
Years later I had chance to
appear in revue, but, unfortu-
nately it lasted only one week in
Newark and ten nights on Broadway.
It was my custom to stand outside
the door of the dressing room and
leer at chorus girls as they passed
by. But none leered back. still
was an interloper.
"Shoot the Works" changed all
that. At the end of eleven weeks
I felt as if I actually had been
tapped for membership. AS lar as
leering went, no great progress could
be scored in my favor. But there
was. at least, a general acceptance
of the fact that I had become an &C
tor. even though an obscure one.
And recently. when the troupe
went to Havana on a ten-day cruise,
I scored what will always remain IN
my memory as the greatest triumph
of my life. Walking alone upon the
deck at night, encountered a pas
senger who was female, middle-aged
and middle-western. And as she
saw me pass she said: you're one
of the show folks. amt you?"
Never before have bowed so low
or said Eyes" with such alacrity. In
the space of fifteen seconds I felt
my amateur status dropping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

Czecho-Sovakia recently celebrated the thirteenth
anniversary of its independence. Well, as nation
it now can Czech and double Czech.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
DAILY THOTGHT

When Jesus saw their faith, He
said unto the sick of the palsy,
Son, thy sins be forgiven thee
Mark 2:5.
THEY who forgive most shall be
l. most forgiven.-Bailey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
The Cost of the War

n IKE his few great associates and
- a countless multitude of less
important people, David Lloyd
George falls victim to his war job.
He was a masterful politician. He
could tell not only what ought to be
done, but whether a majority of his
countrymen would agree to it. AS
war premier, he did wonderful work.
Since the peace treaty was signed,
he has shown an utter incapacity to
appraise popular sentiment, much
less the appeal of movements and
doctrines.
He simply has not been the man
he was prior to 1915, or even 1918.
And the same thing can be said of
millions more. That is an item to
remember when we calculate the
cost of war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

Which recalls that it wasn't so many years ag
when real speed was going like Sxty!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04
The Man From Mars

Fiction writer's like to picture the amazement oC
the face of a Man from Mars, should he suddenly be
dropped into our somewhat fantastic civilization Into
Seattle the other day such actually did drop.
He was Captain w. c. Norton, rugged old sourdough
who came out of the northlands of Alaska for the
first time in thrty-three years.
No Man from Mars could have been more aghast
than was this pre-war, pre-Volsteadian, pre-Ford
American. He remarked:
"Your prohibition and gambling laws farce
to me. The stock exchange is the biggest gambling
institution in the world. Your values fictitious.
Take that lot on the corner When was here before,
I could have bought it for $780, now it's worth
100000 But the labor that made it valuable gets
none of it,
Civilization is crooked. 1t all seems like fiction
to me-
It's too bad that our Marian visitor should have
dropped in at such nopportune moment. He is
going hack to Alaska. Perhaps when he returns in
another thirty years things will be bit more
rational here.
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE ET01S

not worthy to be the entire life
work of any talented person.
Naturally the name of Shaw
comes up as one who has Swum
against the tide. I hope a single ex-
ception will not be considered
enough to destroy a dictum, and in
any case Shaw has not escaped
wholly unscarred from the demons
of the pit.
He himself has admitted that re-
viewing ruined his health and
brought him near to death. But
the stage-struck are incurable, and
Shaw came back again as play
wright.
Shaw as a Novelist
1T may be argued that this was a
L wise decision. 1t was as a
dramatist that Shaw captured the
imagination of the world. But who
can say what might have happened
if he had gone completely novelist
after his first few experiments in
the theater?
At the moment the tales he wrote
are considered of minor Importance.
but there is every indication that
he would have gone on to greatness
in the narrative field.
And between a great novelist and
a great playwright, there is no com
parison whatsoever. It is like pit
ting the violin against the mando-
lin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

Trial and error won for Edison. Error and trial
put Al Capone in the hooSegow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

The duke of York, brother of the prince of Wales,
on a recent visit to Paris ordered chicken wings
cooked in champagne. Probably felt like futter-
ing about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

What nationality was Madame
Patti? Where was she born and how
old was she at the time of her
death?
She was born in Madrid, Spain
IN 164S and died in Craig-y-Nos
Wales lin 1919. She was of Italian
Spanish descent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

In the United States is a person
accused of a crime presumed to be
innocent until proven guilty?
The presumption of his innocence
abides with him throughout the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

Who starred with Charles Farrell
in "Street Angelo"
Janet Gaynor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

How is the Thames river in Eng
land pronounced?
Tens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-04

What is buIIbat?
A species of night hawk so named
on account of the noise it makes
while flying. 1t is distinguished by
the white bar across its wings and
its nasal cry.