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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
GriSt for the Mill

ERANKLIN P. ADAMS tells you
Z where he dimes. Walter Win
chell perhaps has gone a step be-
yond all the rest by undertaking
personal psychoanalysis in columns
labeled Portrait of a Man Talking
to Himself
Quite frankly I must admit that
it I ever possessed reticence it has
by now gone into the hopper. For
more than five years I practically
lived OFF my small son. What he
did and said, or seemed to say, be-
came the staple in my daily essays.
And most of my friends and rela-
tiYes contributed to my livelihood
by serving as sources Of copy. A
few failed me.
For instance, my mother would
be quite useful to me as a columnar
material. She is q little narrow
minded in such matters. A few
months ago I wrote, solely in the
spirit OF clean fun, that she was
about to take up tap-dancing.
And when she received booklets
from three schools Of dancing it
annoyed her. And she has asked
me to leave her cut Of the column
in future.
Nor is. my sister altogether friend
" to a piece which I have used
once a year about our childhood
squabbles. The story concerns the
day on which she cut jagged cash
in my face by hitting me with a
freight car,
Of course, it was only a toy
freight car. But my sister, who is
little more bulky than she used
to be, has a feeling that it creates
a false and Amazonian impression.
1t has also been necessary for me
to leave my son pretty much out
Of the. proceedings. On his eleventh
birthday I gave him as a present
the promise that hereafter he would
figure in no more paragraphs. That
promise I've kept-moderately well.
Lacking available aunts and cou-
sins, I have been driven to intro
spection. It hardly would worry me
if any political rival threatened to
tell ell. have done that myself
ret only once or twice, but a score
Of times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Visiting Professor

nR. MILLIKAN writes: cat. the
II time Of the initiation of q
strong department Of physics at the
California Institute in 1921, pro
vision was made for bringing each
year an outstanding European
scientist TO Join the staff of the in
stitute as foreign visiting professor
on temporary appointment.
This professorship has been held
! twice by the late DR.. H. a. Lorentz
Of Leyden, Holland; twice by DR..
Arnold Sommerfeid Of Munich. Ger
many; once by Dr.. Bjerknes of Oslo.
Norway; once by Professor Raman
Of India; twice by Professor Ehren-
fest Of Holland, and as long ago as
FIVE years ago, Professor Einstein Of
Berlin, accepted appointment to
come to southern California to this
same foreign professorship, but was
prevented by a breakdown in his
health from carrying out his plan
at that time.
Three or four times since then.
however, he has expressed a desire
to come to the institute for purely
scientific purposes, since the extern
sive experimental and theoretical
researches being carried out both at
the Norman Bridge laboratory of
physics and the Mt. Wilson obser-
vatory were very intimately related
to his own work, and a f1rst-hand
Interchange Of ideas was certain to
be profitable to the men working in
this center, while an intimate view.
especially Of our experimental con-
oltlons and results, scarcely could
fail to affect in some way Professor
ElnSteln'S own thinking.
after repeated interference bv
untoward events, with the con-
templated visit, it has been made a
reality this winter, with results that
are all that could be expected by the
'Einstein collaborators' on the SPOT.
Every one Of this considerable
group Of men who have made con-
trlbutiors either to some phases of
the Einstein theories or to the ex-
perimental verif1cation of these
theories, has been stimulated and
inspired by Einstein's presence and
the discussions with him that have
been made possible by his stay
here
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vIvIANTS WELCOME
April 28

ON April %, 1917, Premier
" Viviani, French minister of
justice, gave his first Official state
ment to the press after he had
paid his formal visit to President
Wilson.
Viviani had come to this coun-
try as head Of French commission
to tender his governments appre-
citation Of our entry into the war.
Viviani said in part: "We have
come to this land to salute the
American people and its govern
'nent, to call to fresh vig0r our
lifelong friendship, sweet and
cordial in the ordinary course Of
our lives, and which these tragic
hours have raised to all the ar
dor of brotherly love-a brother
1y love which in these last years
Of suffering has multiplied its
most touching expressions.
"You have given help, not only
in treasure, but also in every act
Of kindness and goodwill. For
us your children have shed their
blood, and the names of your
sacred dead are inscribed forever
in our hearts.
And it was with full knowledge
Of the meaning Of what you did
that you acted. Your inexhaustible
generosity was not the charity of
the fortunate to the distressed-it
was an affirmation Of your con-
science, a reasoned approval Of your
judgment"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
The Compass Is Wrong

good job has been done by the Wickershan
commission, apparently, in its report on criminal
statistics The report is scientific in the sense that
it is based on careful survey of the field, and that
its recommendations are an honest ana objective
statement of conclusions flowing naturally from that
experts survey
This report shows what the commission might
have done in its prohibition report if it had risen
above White House pressure and partisan political
considerations Instead, its prohibition conclusions
and recommendation" deliberately gave a dry cast
to factual report which in itself was wet and seemed
to put the commission on record in favor of prohi-
btion, when the individual statements Of the COM
issioners showed that they favored modification or
repeal by 7-to-4 majority
Though there is little public interest in the subject
OF crime statistics compared with prohibition the new
report is Of great Importance It finds that there are
no reliable national crime statistics In other words
the compass and maps which we have been using
to chart our course through the crime waves are
worse than worthless, because they are misleading
AS stated in the body of the report, crime sta
tistcs are, for practical purposes nonresident in
the United States. They exist for no entire state
and for only fourteen cities, and where they do exist
their accuracy is doubtful"
To convince the federal and local governments and
the public that this condition must be renedied will
OS NC O-+44CO4OS u 4LaC TSLaDIG SC2CSClcaI
data IS the necessary first step in any understanding
of the causes and cure Of crime is too obvious to
require argument.
The danger, rather, is that officials, under this
laudable pressure for data will attempt short cuts
and over-sinpfcation. Therefore, one of the chief
virtues of the report is this warning:
While the present partial national systems are
proceeded with, the greatest care should be taken
to avoid publishing officially conclusions and inter
pretations based on partial data, but appearing to
be Official determinations on the basis Of adequate
information and to see to it that zeal to show results
does not lead to giving OUT with official approval and
without statements of its limitations and defects ma
teral likely to nislead"
Adequate federal data must wait on the drafting
and enacting of model uniform state laws And that
can not be achieved in day
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Problems Considered

DR. ADAMS writes: ut is quite
- impossible to estimate fully the
influence Of Professor Albert Elm
STEMS visit to Pasadena and to the
MI. Wilson Observatory of the Car
neg1e Institute. Of Washington until
many more years have passed.
The Intangible results of the
contact Of this great master of
science with the life and work of
the observatory are likely to prove
fully as important as will any of the
notable lectures and discussions in
which he has taken. part so
generously.
Among the specific problems Of
astronomy which Professor Einstein
has considered during his visit, there
IS none which makes so strong an
appeal both to the minds and the
imagination as that of the nature
and structure of the universe.
In clear and brilliant summary.
he has outlined the consequences Of
the different methods of treatment
OF the equations of generalized
reIatlVlCy ana the aspects of cos
mology to which they lead.
'The recent discoveries Of tho
large red-shifts in the spectra Of the
most distant nebuIae and the
enormous apparent velocities which
they indicate, together with the
direct relationship found to exist
between distance and amount Of
red-shift, have modified greatly
some Of the earlier views.
of special interest to the mem
bers Of the observatory staff have
been Professor Einstein's outline OF
the method and development Of the
unified field theory; his suggestive
discussion Of the possible origin Of
circulatory movements in the solar
atmosphere and their bearing on
the rotation Of the sun and the for
nation Of sun-spots; and the valu-
able insight he has given us into. his
Interpretation Of some Of the equa-
tions governing the probability OF
transitions within the atom, field
Of vast importance in spectroscopy
and one with which his name is as
ISOLATED most intimately"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ.

Visit of Einstein to America
Declared Stimulus of Great
Value to Scientific Re-
search.
THE recent visit OF Professor Al
L bert Einstein OF relatively fame
to California has left a number Of
questions in the minds Of many
people.
One question is that Of why Elm
stein made the visit. The second
is that of what was accomplished
by the visit. Did Einstein merely
wish to DO a little globe-trotting
and attend a few banquets in his
honor? That has been asked
number Of times.
Of course, If that was the case,
there is not the slightest reason in
the world why he should not have
cone so. Surely, a scientist has as
much right as a statesman to go on
q pleasure trip.
However, those who feel that the
scientist always must have a serious
purpose in mind, will be glad to
know that was a sufficient number
OF serious reasons to justify the
famous Germans trip to California
and mat all parties concerned feel
mat the trip was distinctly worth
while.
statements covering the situation
nave peen issued by DR.. Robert A.
AllKan, Chairman of the executive
committee Of the California Insti-
Llte OF Technology. and DR.. Walter
,. ADAMS. director of the Mt. VIII
son observatory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Questions and
Answers

In what class would boxer
weighing $50 pounds come?
NEiddleweight class.
How many terms in congress has
Senator Schall, the Blind senator
from Minnesota, served?
Five terms in the house Of rep
resentatives and one full term,
1851, in the senate. He was re-
elected tc the senate in 1890.
Is the expression aren't l."
grammatical?
No. 1t is Z contraction Of Are
not"
How is caIIiope pronounced?
Ka-lie-o-pe, with the accent on
the second syllable.
Are there any Negroes in the
United States marine corps?
No.
How did grapefruit get its name?
Because it grows in clusters of
three to twelve, resembling bunch
Of grapes.
What is the meaning of the name
Charlotte Stanton?
Charlotte is Teutonic and means
noble spirited. Stanton is an Eng
lish family name derived from q
locality. 1t means stone town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Wander IN a Maze

NATE need nothing SO much in
w America as registration
bureau, with a card for every man.
woman and child, which will be
kept up to date during life and by
Which 1t would be possible to tell
how many people there are, what
they are doing, where they are To-
Gated, net once in ten years, but
every day.
How can we hope to solve those
vast, complicated social and eco
nonaic problems which confront us
On every hand, without first getting
at the facts, and how can we hope
to get at the facts through such
pronliscuoUs and uucorrelated chan
nels Of information as now exist?
For country whose greatest
business institutions are able to tell
how much cash they have on hand,
how much they have coming in,
what they owe, and how many Or
ders they have to fill at the close
of each and every working day,
cur system Oh gathering public in
formation is nothing short Of a
monumental disgrace.
This becomes doubly apparent in
view of all the bombastic CAB about
what we are going to do tc rectify
general conditions.
One would have more faith in
the various schemes being put for
ward for renledying this or that
widespread evil if those offering
them or any one else on Gods green
earth had the slightest idea Of the
facts behind it,
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY. H BFoSS

T AM glad to see a good deal in the
l. papers lately about private lives.
I've always been interested in pri-
vate lives-nline and those of others.
Mayor Jimmy Walker suggested
an interesting game when he said,
in reply.to a Republican blast, that
he'd be glad to match his private
life with that Of any Of his accusers.
But before the pastirae can be
taken UP in serious way, there will
have to be some rules. Is it to be
just one flip or best two out Of
three? And do you have to win
thrice in succession to get perma-
nant possession?
A colunnist is, in some senses less
fortunate than an office holder or a
politician. He hes no private life.
The columnist must use those things
which most men hold near and dear
and strictly secret as. the very ma
terial for his daily stint.
Some go III for confession more
than Others. But I venture to say
that the readers know a great deal
of the intimate life Of every news
paper feature writer.
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those scenes in which the great
man appeared at disadvantage.
If the life had been discreet and
selective, Samuel Johnson now
would be little known and not long
remembered. He gained his inamor-
tally because the man who put
him down on paper was disposed to
shoot the works.
You can not remove foible or
even a vice from any human being
without taking away at the same
time the very breath of life which
animated him.
(Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
We Just Don't Know
TGNORANCE al nlain enerud

IGNORANCE Of plain everyday
L facts has done more than all
else to confuse and befuddle pub
lie administration in this country.
Take the present depression, for
instance, and we don't know yet
how many people are unemployed.
or what the property loss amounts
to-. There isn't a city or town in
this country that knows how many
people it contains, much less their
economic or social condition,
# you want to locate some one in
an European country, you so to a
police station, but a police sta
ton would be the last place you
would think Of going to in this
country.
The idea Of trying to keep track
Of the number of people, much less
their financial and social status, BY
taking a census every ten years, is
ridiculous.
Where would private business land
II 1t kept books that way?
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Nicholas Nnrrav Bntler aud Mari Honkina

Nicholas Murray Butler and Mark Hopkins
Announcement that the annual budget OF Co.
unabia university for the next academic year will
be $1725OOOo indicates how great business our
higher education has become. The Acropols at
Morningside has grown far away from Mark Hopkins
and the log
Indeed, the annual budget of Columbia probably
exceeds the total endowment of all American col
leges and universities in the days of Mark Hopkins
Yet there is no particular reason for sentimental
reminiscence Our great institutions have the ability
TO offer instruction superior to that Of Williams
in 1860 as Rolls-Royce is to a stage coach.
We well may remember Stanley Halls statement
that he and two or three others at Williams in the
Civil war period had to hide in COW stable and read
Darwin by light Of a lantern.
There is no point in looking backward What one
may demand is that the great educational plants of
today render service in keeping with their resources
and abilities Big business should be the means not
the end, OF American higher education.
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opinion by enarging their naval program it is un-
likely that Britain and Japan, before the next dis
armament conference. viii act on their technical
right to build with the escalator clause And if Brit
ain does not. there viii be no temptation for US to
do So
At the moment, the London labor government is
struggling with an increasing national deficit and is
almost at the end Of its taxation rope. It can not
from any point Of view afford to revive cruiser
building race with US
And certainly We can not afford such race Our
annual federal deficit on June 80 viii exceed
s0o9000OOO a larger amount than our total annual
ordinary expenditure before the war
Even if We cut our naval program we still shall
have great difficulty increasing taxes sufficiently to
service our public debt TO balance the current opera
ing budget, and to finance the huge public works
program for business and unemployment relief which
is ahead Of US.
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ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are ore
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude nf
this oaper.-The Editor
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BY DIR. MORRIS F1sHBEIN


Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
MO matter how often contra
IN dictions are published, a feel
ing seems to persist that the pro-
spective child may be marked by
some mental impression made on
the mother.
1T is said that the baby will be
marked if the mother sees an acct
dent, fire, a snake or some SINH
lar horrible Or fear-producing OBJ
ject.s
A suggestion also is made that
the mother should visit art museums
and listen to beautiful music with
the idea that the child thus viii
reflect these beauties.
There is not the slightest evil
dence to indicate that the ooserva-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

Our Public Records Are q
Disgrace, in Vie1O of All NE
Haze Done to Improve
Bookkeeping.
-SAYS:

Haze Done to Improve
Bookkeeping.
NEW YORK, April 28.-Discovery
L y by the Wickersham board that
we lack accurate information con-
corning crime is not what you would
call startling. Most people have
been aware of it all along. More
than anything else. such lack was
responsible for the Wickersham
boards appointment.
Had the American people been
able TO find out what vas going on,
they would not have needed g gov
eminent commission to tell them
whether law enforcement was sue
cessful, or what ought to be done
about it.
NO doubt, it was necessary for
the Wickersham board to call at
tention to this deplorable situation
in order to lay a proper predicate
for its recommendations. Those rec
concentrations, however, represent
all that is worth while in it's third
report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Daily Thought

If they obey and serve him they
shall spend their days in ptos-
perity, and their years in pleas
ures.-Job 3S:11.
AL the good Of which human
ity is capable is comprised in obedi-
ence.-J Stuart Mill.
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worried all through the last cam
paign because Of one factor in his
private life.
Il was terribly afraid" he told
me, that they might find out about
the poker game. You see, I've been
meeting with group of friends
once a week for a good many years,
and we play a pretty stiff game.
Sometimes I've won or lost as much
as $50.
"And that wouldn't have looked
very good to the voters"
mot if you lost" 7 sid. But it's
my impression that the citizens Of
this great city would be delighted
to send a winning poker player to
congress"
1t amazed me that he should feel
this activity of his a political handi-
cap. In certain parts of the middle
west, card playing might not be
an asset. And yet I'm not even
sure of that.
The most complimentary thing
ever said about President Cur
It's, to the best of my knowledge,
is the runor current in Washington
that at least he plays poker well.
AS the candidate Of a minority
party and a sacrifice to a forlorn
hope, never had to worry at all
about my private life when I was
in politics. Nobody could spring
my poker proclivities as a bomb
shell.
That was old stuff, both in the
column and also several magazine
pieces. One year I almost reoouped
my losses in the game by writing
about it.
The question Of the sancity of the
private life has come up in other
quarters than political discussion
For instance, a great amount Of
comment has gone on concerning
Somerset Maugham's novel Cakes
and Ale" To me the answering
satire, Gin and Bitters." seems
pretty feeble stuff.
After all, you scarcely score of
an author by writing a book against
him which is so inlmeasurably in
ferior to his own.
I never did take much stock in
the theory that Vaughan had been
unfair to Thomas Hardy. There
was little suggestion, I felt, that the
aged novelist in "Cakes and Ale
was supposed to be directly deriva-
tive from the great prose master.
And yet there seems to be a
feeling that on numerous occasions
Vaughan has taken up real pso-
pie between his thumb and fore
finger and thrust them into books
But why do they complain? 1t is
not a burial, but rather resur-
rection, to appear in Vaughan
novel
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He Has Included Himself

He Has Included Himself
ATOR has he spared himself. "Of
IN Human Bondage" is among the
most revealing Of all Autobiography
cal novels and one of the most
Furnishing to its hero.
I know OF nothing more calculat-
ed to deaden and destroy live lit
erature than too great an adher-
ence to reticence and good man
ners.
Certainly a reticent biography is
one Of the feeblest works Of man.
II you are to tell the story Of a
mans life you must include the
warts.
Moreover. hrst-class person
doesn't suffer if he is spread out
utterly in the telling. Surely Bos-
well was not reticent when he wrote
Of Or. Johnson. IN spite Of his
idolatry, Boswell vas not such a
good reporter that he, did not omit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Flaw in Private Life

CHORTLY after the last election
- ran into pleasant Democratic
candidate for congress, who con-
fessed TO nik that he was horribly
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professor is to present collection OF $1,000
moths to a museum Probably because they kept hin
constantly in a hole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

From Mayor Walkers proud sartorial makeup "
get the impression that the sleek shall inherit IL
earth.
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I am just preparing for the long, hard grind" a.
the patient said steeling himself for the dentists
drill
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saxophone player in New York was sentenced fc
having seven wives Was it too much sax or sex al
peal?
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When vacation time comes around again home.
as usual, will be considered as last resort
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- ecenty we had something to say about President
N Hoovers powers Of concentration as told in a
washington story and We note in the statement that
the President frequently discusses the affairs of state
while getting his hair cut