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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
The Lame-Duck Test

Last November, facing a national crisis the voters
went to the polls and cast vote which to a large
extent repudiated the Hoover administration
Yet congress containing seventy eight lame duck
representatives and twelve lame duck senators has
continued throughout the winter to help President
Hoover defeat the measures proposed by congressman
who still hold the confidence of the electorate.
The lame ducks are going farther, and helping his
efforts to deny the newly elected congress an oppor-
unity to meet in special session and carry out the
tasks imposed upon it last November.
II the Norris constitutional amendment now were
law, the new congress would have taken Office auto
matically the first week Of January.
The senate passed the Norris amendment almost
two years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

If Lincoln Stood for One
Thing More Than Another,
1t aOas a Tolerant; Sympa-
thetic Understanding of
HIS FeUoO Men.
CANTA BARBARA, Cal, Feb. IL.
- What's the use to argue?
Myth or reality, Abraham Lincoln
has come to stand for something
very substantial and very construc-
tive, not only in the minds of most
Americans, but Of most civilized
people throughout the world.
Undoubtedly there has been ideal
ization, but where did it originate,
except in the mani himself?
Undoubtedly those weaknesses
and defects which he shared in
common with all mankind, and
which he would have been first to
admit, are fading out of the pic
ture.
But why worry over that aspect
of the case?
We do not remember Lincoln, or
any other great man, for the traits
and Characterization which marked
them as one of the herd, though
they all had such traits and char
acteristics, but for the few out
standing qualities which set them
apart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
With Malice Toward None

A S commander in chief of the
IA federal army, bowed down
with the worries and cares Of a
fratricidal war which he was de-
ternined to win and agonized by
the bloodshed involved, he still was
able to lift his voice above the
booming guns in that immortal
phrase, with malice toward none,
but charity for all"
What other man in America could
have said it?
There is a theory that Lincoln
was shot just in time for his own
salvation, that had he lived, he
would have been swept aside, or
destroyed by thu tempest he had
raised. But who knows?
Who knows but what his wonder
full patience, and still more Won
derful intuition, coule have steered
this country through reconstruction
as successfully as he steered it
through civil war?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
A Good Sample

0THER planets in the universe
~ must be essentially like our
earth and their inhabitants essen
TALLY like ourselves, in the opinion
of DR.. Frost.
observations indicate that the
earth is a good sample of the whole
cosmos in respect to its chemistry"
he says. ''These same elements are
in the stars as we find in our planet.
"That leads to the inference that
sentient beings, if any exist on the
possible planets around other stars,
can not vary enormously as to their
chemistry and physics from the oc-
cupants of the earth.
1.-THE new views of mathematical
physicists as to the tremendous evo-
luton OF radiant energy, in the I'M
imaginably hot interiors of the
stars by the consumption of matter,
give a vastly longer expectation Of
life for our sun and the stars than
formerly was supposed possible.
We now measure that life in
terms of millions Of millions OF
years, instead OF a Few paltry mil
lions.
But this continued wastage Of
the stars as they send out light and
heat, supposedly in all directions,
does not satisfy the philosophy Of
those who regard the universe as a
going concern.
There has been a great desire to
find somewhere the reverse process
by which radiation can be convert
ed into matter and so complete the
cycle.
"The cosmic rays which have been
studied by DR.. Robert A. Millikan
and others have been thought to
give some evidence that this actu-
ally may occur.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
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GEORGIA DAY
February IL

NN Feb. II, 1773, General James
" Oglethorpe, member Of the
English parliament, founded Geor-
gia.
Oglethorpe had petitioned King
George II to grant him and his as
sociates a charter for a tract of
land for twenty-one years, in the
southern part of South Carolina. He
had three objects in view:
l. To give the worthy and honest
poor of England-especially those
confined in debtors prisons-an OPP
portunity to begin lie anew in the
new world.
2. To furnish a refuge to the per-
secuted Protestants Of southern
Europe.
3. To protect the Carolinas against
the attacks Of the Spaniards of
Florida by building up a settlement
on the southern frontier.
The Immigrants settled on the
Savannah river, from which they
named the town Savannah, and
named the new colony Georgia, in.
honor Of the king.
Oglethorpe's landing is celebrated
annually as Georgia day IN Georgia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
The Ideal Counts
XKTHAT Lincoln really was

"a ~ $4,000
w being of flesh and blood, or
how his career might have ended
but for the interference of John
Wilkes Booth, is not half so import
ant as what he might do by emu
lating his virtues, and it makes lit
tie difference whether those virtues
were actual or imaginary.
What counts is the ideal-the
things we have come to believe
about Lincoln and that we make
the basis Of his greatness.
Tt may be possible to pay just
tribute to the man with monuments
and praise, but the ideal calls for
higher tribute. The best way to
show respect for an ideal is to fol-
low it. That is where we have fall
len down most completely.
No man could ask for finer me-
MORALS, or a greater amount of lip
homage, than Abraham Lincoln has
received. No man could ask to
have his favorite anecdotes more
oft repeated, or his prize speeches
read more widely.
But if he was the kind of man we
think he was, wouldn't he prefer
something different, something that
would perpetuate his character and
weave it more firmly into our own
lives?
If we think so much of Lincoln,
why not a little effort to be like
him?
If his sympathy and tolerance
were SO glorious, what's the matter
with them now?
If We respect him because he was
patient and kind, how can we prove
it more convincingly than by being
patient and kind ourselves?
After all, isn't emulation the only
genuine tribute, especially to a
mans virtues?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
ANA<A AON<4 Lands

ON this, our immortaTs birthday discordant note
~ Is sounded by Edgar Lee Masters, a northern
writer whose book seeks to take from Lincoln those
qualities for which the world so long has loved him.
IiS said, among other things, this volume portrays
Lincoln as cold" and Selfish" strategy which is
shameless, yet shrewd, since the writer who merely
added another blossom to the wilderness of flowers
which covers the Emancpator's memory, must pass
unnotced, while he who cast thorn upon it might
shock mankind-and sell his book.
EFT us cite but few incidents from Lincoln's life
L. which answer Masters
Weeks after his mother died he induced minister
to go to her grave and preach funeral sermon
That was not cold
One night finding drunkard on the frozen ground,
he carried him mile to his home and saved his life
That was not selfish"
AS captain in the Black Hawk war he saved .
harmless Indians life when his soldiers sought to kill
him
As a lawyer he defended Revolutionary soldiers
widow for nothing and paid her travelling expenses.
Would Mr.. Edgar Lee Masters have done more?
A S president, his pardons earned him Stanton's
4 n wrath and had he lived the South would have
returned to the national feside without one
Dagger without one outrage without one bitter mem
ory That was his plan and it was neither cold" nor
selfish"
As Masters, northern man. has assaied Lincoln.
We choose to let two southern men defend him.
Listen to the late Henry w. Grady of Georgia:
Abraham Lincoln was the first American to COM
prehend within himself all the strength and gentle
ness, all the majesty and grace of this republic
He the sum of Puritan and Cavalier for in his
ardent nature were fused the virtues of both and in
the depths of his great soul the faults of both were
lost"
And now listen to the late Henry Watterson of
Kentucky:
Inspired by God was Abraham Lincoln; and a
thousand years hence drama, no tragedy, no epic
will be filled with greater wonder or be followed
by mankind with deeper feeling than that which tells
the story of his life and DEATH" =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
SCIENCE
Belief IN God and Immortality
Established By His Studies,
.Saus Famed Astronomer.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

4 LIFE spent in the study Of as
IN tronomy inclineS DR.. Edwin 3.
Frost to a. belief in God and inn
mortality.
Dr.. Frost, one Of the nations most
famous astronomers and director
of the great YerkeS observatory,
saws that he sees no scientific in
consistency in the conception of a
dominant spiritual power behind
the universe, touching and modify
ing the human spirit.
'If the universe and its energy
are immortal, should not spirit also
be as enduring?' asks DR.. Frost.
He adds:
Spirit is by definition without
the limitation of mass, space or
time and thus not subject to space
perception. Supernatural phenom-
ena are not involved; nature itself
is marvellous enough.
ITO me, this view leads to a Ger
tain serenity of thought, somewhat
like that which Einstein lately has
described as a coSmic religious
sense"
There has been an enormous ex-
pansion of the conception of the
universe because of obServational
research in the last three decades.
Most astronomers now regard the
the cosmos as more than a million
times greater in extent than they
thought it to be in 1900.
THE prevailing view of the as
tronomers is that changes in the
universe are perfectly orderly and
the same cause may be expected to
produce the same effect when the
conditions are identical" tho CHI
cago scientist said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Don't Stare

Y DON'T know just what it is sup
L posed to prove. AS far as some
Of the gentlemen in the park go,
they could make me turn away
quicker than any lion if they under
took to stare in my direction.
When anybody at all looks fxedly
at me get the notion that my shirt
is unbuttoned or that I've come out
Of the house with a shoe lace I'M
tied. Maybe lion psychology is
somewhat similar.
But it is the domestic animals of
the ZOO which capture most of my
attention. Ifeel more at home with
the pigs and COWS and sheep.
We city jewellers don't often get
a chance to see pigs. mean regu-
lar pigs, and, of course, the pig is
one of the most put-upon and
abused animals in all the world.
He's come to be a symbol for glut-
tony and dirtiness, and it isn't quite
fair.
I'm willing to admit that pig
eats with considerable enthusiasm,
but so do dogs, horses and COWS.
AS a matter of fact, I'm not en-
tirely disafected in the presence of
dinner myself.
Pigs aren't nearly as selfish about
food as a lot of other animals.
They have more of the co-opera-
tive spirit. It's not uncommon to
see seven or eight pigs all eating
from fbe Saf77a trough
They don't stand back and growI
and bark at one another if any.
body comes within few feet Of
them when they are feeding.
They may prove useful TO me for
purposes of painting. For quite a
while now I've wanted to get away
from doing trees and oceans and
city building.
I want to paint people, figures,
Venus rising from the sea and
Diana and things like that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Other Worlds

DR. FROST dissents from the
IL view that the formation of
such planets as our own earth must
be a very rare phenomenon in the
universe.
"Some Of the brilliant English
mathematicians who now are writ-
ing extensively on the new knowls
edge of astronomy and of physics.
express the opinion that the earth
is an accident and that star sur
rounded by planets, as is our sun.
rarely occurs in nature" he con-
tinued.
It dissent decidedly from this
view and present the alternative
that the explosion of the stars, fire.
quently observed, shows how matter
is thrown out from the stars of the
novae type, and might form planets
of such an exploding star.
'This view is in contrast to that
Of the accidental, but never OBJ
served, close approach of two stars
in their wandering through space.
'"ThuS we must consider the evo-
luton Of a star by sudden and in-
termittent actions, or even by cata-
clysms, to be orderly procedures Of
nature.
when we consider the different
units of the cosmos, it is difficult to
say which is the end-product and
which the beginning. It again is
the old unsolved problem of the
cycle Of the hen and the egg. But
there are suggestive implications in
the possibility of cycles in the prog
ress of the universe with develop
ments from the simple toward the
complex in one phase and in the
reverse direction, from the complex
toward the simple, in the other
phase"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

CONS, lots of us here in the mid
section OF New York don't see any
thing but taxicabs all day.
Taxis do get around faster, but
you can't strike up a close, friend
ly feeling for a taxicab. If you hold
out an apple or a lump of sugar,
nothing happens. It's much
more impersonal relationship.
It's motorization which has made
Broadway and the big towns more
drab than it used to be in the age
of Richard Harding Davis.
For instance, think how much the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

horse and carriage contributed to
the romance of the theater.
If a girl in show came out and
sang song in way that every
body liked and the audience got
excited, it was always possible to
run around to the stage door and
take the horses out of her carriage
and drag her back to her hotel.
Now, there's nothing like that to-
day. There wouldn't be any sense
in taking the taxicab driver off his
seat and pulling Helen Morgan's
taXicab home.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Wanted-A Horse

r DON'T think they've got a horse
i in the zoo. That should be at
tended to for the sake of Manhat-
tanites.
Except for people who stay up
late enougNto watch the milk wa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

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, 1931-02-12

1t makes little difference, from financial poin
of view whether you tear sign on the dotted line
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Daily Thought

o Lord rebuke me not In thine
anger, neither chasten me in thy
hot displeasTe.-Psalm 6:I.
There is an oblique way of re-
proof which takes off the sharp
ness of it.-Steeie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

amendment on his desk for months In violation Of
all orderly procedure The rules committee for al
most year denied a substitute measure by Repre-
sentative Clifford the right to a vote on the floor
That substitute with its minor changes of the Norris
measure, was reported out Wednesday
Almost three weeks of the session remain and
those three weeks should see action without fail on
one or the other Of these measures
If Republican leaders will feel any better about
passing the Clifford measure instead Of the Norris
measure, will deny them the childish satisfac
ton of eliminating Norris name
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

isn't this The limt?" as the thirsty voyager Gag
erly inquired the liner passed the three-le point
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Editor, Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
AEn-nri..n
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBETN

Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
NEWSPAPERS have strange
4 fashion of arousing the pub
lie interest to fever pitch con-
corning incidents reported from diff
ferent parts Of the world and then
seeming to forget altogether the
fact that the public remembers the
incidents and wonders what the
outcome may be.
From time to time new cures are
reported for all sorts of diseases.
Then nothing further is said in
the newspapers to indicate that
careful medical trial has caused
complete dissipation of hope for
successful results from these cures.
The most recent sensation to
arouse world interest was the So
called fog that spread in Belgium
and caused sixty-four deaths.
Experts who were consulted were
convinced that it was not possible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
TWeedIedee

Chairman Rasko0 has called the Democratic ma
tonal committee to meet in Washington on March 5
to plan for victory in 1882. Cheered by the voters
desertion of the administration in the congressional
elections last November the opposition party takes
it Tor granted that 1882 will be Democratic year.
According to the party strategists, only two diff
cultes need attention. One is to persuade the dry
southerners that it is necessary to have wet cand-
date agan-whch, apparently, will not be hard to do
The other is to the charge that Raskob per-
sonay owns the party by getting others to pay off
the deficit notes held by him.
But the Democratic leaders seem to be overlook
ing other and more important point That is
the failure of the Democrats in congress to do any,
thing in the way of real relief for the drought VIC
TINS and the unemployed.
The surrender of Senate Leader Robinson and his
associates to the Hoover do-nothing policy is apt to
convince great many voters that there is no choice
between the bankruptcy of Democratic leadership and
the bankruptcy of Republican leadership
That this surrender is attributed generally to
orders from the Raskob- Baruch financial manage
ment of the party only increases the public disap-
pontment in the Democrats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

Judging from the Quitting" tactics that have de
veloped in wrestling, the bigger "bonehead" you ar
the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

An anthropologist claims that Adam was Chinese
Perhaps this explains why his descendants are SO
prone 20 war with one another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

Speaking of paradoxes. here is King zog Of Albania
with name like cigaret being ordered by his doc
tors to stop smoking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

ON this, immortals birthday, discordant note
~ is sounded by Edgar Lee Masters a northern
writer whose book seeks to take from Lincoln those
qualities for which the world long has loved him.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20

Q-When were fraternal delegates
first sent by the American Federation
of Labor to the British Trades Union
Congress, and who were the dele.
gates?
An 1895. The delegates were
Samuel Gompers and P. J. Mcclure
Q.-Of what workers was it said al
the last American Federation of La.
Dor convention that they were the
only workers "who are supposed to be
asleep and awake at the same timer
A.-This was said of Pullman por-
ters by A. Philip Randolph, of the
Brotherhood of Pullman Porters. He
told the convention: "Porters are sup
posed to have three hours of sleep
when they are on the train, but they
are also supposed to answer the bell
whenever that bell rings. Conse-
quently, Pullman porters are the only
workers in America who are supposed
to be asleep and awake at the same
time"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Employment in New England, the
Southeast and Southwest is gaining,
Col Arthur Woods, chairman of the
presidents emergency committee on
employment, said March9 9 on the
basis of reports from representatives
of the committee.
Trapped in their cells, II colored
prisoners were burned to death as
flames swept through wooden
stockade at Kenansville, N. c., early
on March z.
Preliminary orders for the with
drawal of United States marines
from Nicaragua have been issued by
the navy department.
Adoption of constitutional amend
ment to prevent this country from
going to war without referendum
of its citizens, except when attacked
was advocated March 8 before the
war policies commission by Rear Ad-
miral Samuel MCGOWAN, retired, who
was paymaster and chief supply off.
Ger during the war.
A plea for unemployment insurance
| was made recently by Governor
Roosevelt of New York, in an address
before the Life Underwriters Asso
citation of the city of New York. He
asked his audience to study the sub
iect with an open mind and predicted
that such insurance would be univer
sal within a few years.
Five thousand coal miners in sew
| eral Welsh collieries went on strike
, March 10 in protest against wage
cut of pence per day ordered by the
Joint Cancellation board.
Terming his attempt to found ;
new political party as "an act of gros:
disloyalty," national executives in tht
British labor party have expelled 81,
Oswald Mosley from the party organ
ization.
Believing that modern traffic con
ditions have made good motor vision
essential to public safety, the Eye
sight Conservation Council of Amer
lea announces it's intention to cam
paign nationally for the adoption b.
every state of standard vision tes
for prospective motorists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
LITTLE BUSINESS
OFF THE MAP

In 1921 the census took account in
it's tabluations of the industrial estab
hshments producing less than $4,000
a year. 1t was discovered that these
constituted 21.6 per cent of the total
number of establishments; that the
number of wage earners they en-
ployed was 0.6 per cent-six tenths
per cent-of the total in all indus
trial establishments; and that the
value of their product amounted to
only (0.3) three-tenths of l per cent
of the total national industrial prod
uct.
And so, the census of manufactur-
ers since that time, which is taken BIZ
ennially, takes no account of the es-
Establishments in which there is pro-
duced less than value of $4,000 for
the year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-20
THOMAS VAN LEAR
DEAD; WAS WELL
KNOWN MACHINIST

apolis.-Thomas Van Lear,
well-known member international
Association of Machinists, died at
Miami, Fla, and was buried in this
city.
He was born at Frostburg, Md.
April 26, 1869. He served for many
years as business agent of District
81, l. A. of M. This district is one of
the largest in the unions jurisdiction
and includes the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific railroads.
He was mayor of Minneapolis in
1917 and 1918, and represented his
international union in A. F. of L
conventions from 1912 to 1917, in
elusive.