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The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Lead Extremely Dangerous to Health

with a considerable amount of call
cium will get the lead deposited as
form of phosphate and relieve an
acute condition. Later a low CAL
cium diet with various other salts
will result in deleading the patient.
One of the most serious forms of
lead poisoning is that resulting
from anti-knock gases, such as
ethyl gas, which contains tetra-
ethyl lead as the most toxic sub
stance.
In the United States, pumps,
tanks, or other vessels containing
ethyl gasoline must be clearly la
beled to indicate that the contents
are to be used only for fuel and not
for cleaning or other purposes.
Used as fuel under strict pre-
cautions, ethyl gas is safe, but for
any other purpose its risks are con-
siderable.
The manufacture of tetra-ethyl
lead when properly controlled is not
harmful to the workers When the
manufacture first was attempted,
several workers were poisoned be-
cause of slips in the process.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
MRS. HOWARD NOFTsINGER.
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H7d6AkF b1Tk4eH
ANNIVERSARY
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LANIER'S BIRTH
February 3

nN Feb. 3. 1S42, Sydney Lanier,
~ American musician and poet,
was born at Macon, Ga.
After graduating from Oglethorpe
college he served as tutor there for
a year before he entered the Con-
federate army at the outbreak of the
Civil war. The war over, he re-
turned to his home to study and
then practice law with his father.
At this period his two dominant
passions, poetry and music, over
mastered him, and he decided to
give up law.
He went to Baltimore and OBJ
tanned position as first flute in the
Peabody Symphony orchestra. His
literary ability was noticed when
he gave lectures on English litera-
ture.
He formed a helpful literary
friendship with Bayard Taylor. In
1879 Lanier was appointed lecturer
on English literature at Johns
Hopkins university. He died two
years later from consumption.
Lanier stands in the front rank
Of the American poets Of the last
quarter Of the nineteenth century.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Times Readers Voice Their Views

is not good for us, and even though
He gave it to us, mere mortal man
may correct Christ and take it away
from us?
My question Is: Do two wrongs
make one right? Government run
speakeasies? Where the govern
nent itself buys, sells, drinks and
gives away what it prosecutes civil
citizens for even handling in their
own homes?
If l were a lazy man, I'd ask no
better job than to be a speakeasy
runner for prohibition government,
with sporting money, booze money
and salary. That would sure be
fine. M. E. T.
Editor Tines-To the everlasting
credit Of the Indiana senate, it
voted 81 to Is to let the old age
pension law live, despite the dec
laration OF Senator John L: Niblack
of Marion county bhat it should
be killed at once, so we can get
down to important legislation"
For the senator's information, the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, which
has $4,000 members in Indiana, in
addition to many thousands of 9TH
ers who support it in the fight for
decent treatment of old men and
women, considers the old age pen
sion bill the most important mat
ter before the general assembly.
For more than a century, Indiana
has condemned the aged, whether
sane or insane, sick or well, to the
disgrace of the poorhouse, if they
we're without funds and unable to
work. Thousands of Hoosier citi-
zenS believe that sort Of thing. is
q disgrace to the state, or to any
other civilized community, for that
matter.
What in the senator's estimation
was important legislation, passage
Of a $150,000 appropriation bill to
pay expenses of the session, seemed
TO go through easily. Give old men
and women a break, senator. The
poorhouse was founded iE England,
300 years ago. This is 1881. q
WILBUR H. MILLER.
408 North Forrest street.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
SCIENCE
.RY DAVID DIETZ.

Skeptical Scientist to MGke
Further Tests In Expert
ment Bearing on Einstein
Theory.
DR. DAYTON c. MILLER. head
~ of the physics department Of
Case School of Applied Science in
Cleveland, is preparing to make a
final test of the famous Nicholson
Morley experiment, the experiment
upon which Einstein's theory Of
relativity originally was founded.
Unusual interest attaches to the
test because Professor EinStein is in
the United States at the present
time. comforting with Professor
Nicholson himself and other rela-
tivity experts at the California In
stitute of Technology and the Mt.
Wilson observatory in Pasadena, Cal.
DR.. Miller steadfastly has refused
to accept the Interpretation of the
Nicholson Morley experiment which
Einstein made, an Interpretation ac-
cepted by the followers OF. relativity
and apparently by Nicholson him
self.
DR.. Miller said today that he
hopes to complete his present series
of experiments by spring and to re-
port upon them at the annual meet
ing of the National Academy of
Science in Washington in April.
He indicated that he might de-
eide to make this his last report
upon the experiment. leaving it to
future experimenters to carry on the
work from that point.
The experiment gets its name
from the fact that it first was per
formed by Nicholson and the late
Professor Edward w. Morley. That
was in Cleveland in 1887.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
NJ. E. Tracy
.SAYS

The Essence of Americas S
TGsk Is Not Free Meals or
Free Beds, but Increased
Opportunity.
CACRAIENTO, Cal. Feb. S.-An
~ increased loan allowance seems
the most sensible way of solving the
bonus problem.
Some Of the boys are in dire need
of cash, while others are not. If
relief is the object, why put up
proposition that would make all of
them fools not to take it and raise
everybody's tax bill?
We're going to have trouble
enough working out of this depres-
sion, without any one making it an
excuse for financial nonsense, or
misdirected charity.
That agitator who mounted a soap
box in front of San Francisco's soup
kitchen. demanding beefsteak in
stead of stew, should be taken
seriously.
If it is our duty to prevent actual
want, it also is our duty to preserve
sound social principles.
E. w. Scripps, who founded these
newspapers, said that it was an
economic crime to give something
for nothing, or get something for
nothing.
The essence of Americas task is
not free meals, or free beds, but an
increased opportunity to earn them.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Railroading the General

Eairoading Smedley Butler isn't going to help the
popularity of the Hoover administration bit. Ever
since Butler started earning congressional medals of
honor for exceptional valor he has been popular with
the marines and with the people
The fact that he is major general getting a raw
deal is only incidental He just as popular as
junior officer.
OF course he talked out of turn in that Philadelphia
speech about Dictator Nussoni-at least he made the
mistake of thinking an officer could repeat what was
being said by American citizens.
And If Washington merely had expressed dplo
atic regret to Italy and slapped Butler the wrist
with reprinand the incident would have been closed
and soon forgotten.
But such obvious course did not satisfy the pow
ers Apparently somebody, somewhere, pretty high,
rocked Butler out of the job of commandant OF ma
rines which rightfuly his by record and senior
,tv And apparently they now intend to go farther
and rub his face in the dirt with this courtmartial
C91r guess is that they are going to Succeed-but
not in the way they expect They are going to make
srtvr of him. And Butler is Just young enough
and lusty enough, and popular enough to be very
dangerous martyr politically to the administration.
How can court-martial result in any other way?
certainly there is little chance that Butler can get
fair trial BY the nature of the apology to Mussolin
Hoover already has prejudged and condemned Butler
And Hoover is the commander
thus fair trial for Butler would mean in effect
that the commander chief also was being tried
verdict clearing Butler would be verdict condemn
ing the commander-in chief.
Maybe we are wrong. but we just can't see those
naval and marine officers sitting as court-martial
iudges giving verdict in favor of Major-General
Butler and against Commander-in-chief Hoover-no
matter what the evidence is. Under military rules
subordinates can not try superors; they can't pass
Judgment on Hoover.
that is Why we believe we within the limits of
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Great Steel Cross
THE interferoneter the ar

THE 1nterferometer, the appar-
Il atus with which the Nicholson
Morley experiment is conducted,
consists of a great steel cross with
arms sixteen feet long, hoated hori-
zontally on a pool of mercury.
A system of mirrors splits a beam
OF light in half and sends each half
back and forth along an arm of the
cross.
The two halves are reunited in
the eye-piece, where they cause a
series Of light and dark bands known
as interference fringes.
According to the theory of the
experiment, a motion of the earth
through the ether of space should
cause q shift of the fringes back
and forth as the cross is revolved.
The principal shift Is one which
occurs back and forth in each half
rotation Of the cross. This is the
one which DR.. Miller has studied in
the last ten years.
The experiment is difficult to per-
form AS the cross is rotated. it is
necessary to walk around with it,
taking sixteen readings of the posi-
ton OF. the fringes in the eyepiece
during every revolution.
DR.. Miller has made 175,0O0 read
ings in the last ten years, walking
a distance of 125 miles around the
interferometer to do so.
Due to ether drift tba~a a1.o
should be a second effect in the
irlnges, shift which occurs once
IN complete revolution.
DR.. Miller says that he has noted
this fringe, but never has made ac-
tual measurements of it. He pro
poses to do this in the series of ex-
periments between now and spring.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

veteran is entitled to a little more
consideration, and most certainly Is
entitled to the cash bonds on these
graveyard certificates.
We serve notice now that we are
going TO do everything in our power
to get the cash on these certif1-
Gates this winter for the World war
veterans. Surely country with an
estimated wealth of $4O0 ,000,o ,o00, 900
should not let her veterans go job
less and penniless.
A little justice and less charity
for Americas defenders is what we
want. ARTHUR G. GRESHAM.
Editor Times-I am wondering if
you are taking any part in the bill
concerning child welfare which was
taken up a few days ago. I have an
example to show how badly a bill
Of this kind is needed.
My 17-year-old girl, the oldest
Of four children, had brain fever
when she was months old and
never has been able to walk. We
thought, Of course. the Riley hos
pital would take her and had no
doubt they could cure her, but we
were disappointed, inasmuch as they
did not take the case.
We just had about given up hope
when a hospital in a different state
told us it could cure her, and when
we had all arrangements made for
her to go, her father lost his job,
which he had held for about seven
years.
Our state hospitals won't treat
her and we have no money to go
outside the state. This bill surely
would be welcome to such people as
we are.
MRS. HOWARD NOFTSINGER.
Editor Tines-Just one question
about this prohibition argument
and the honorable man who has a
right unquestionably TO chastise
Christ. who dares sit up and say
to us that He gave to us that which
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Questions and
Answers

Why is it necessary to obtain per-
mission Of the copyright owner to
broadcast music over the radio?
Because the courts have ruled
that under the copyright act of
1909 broadcasting is public per-
formance for profit.
What does a rose symbolic?
Love, grace and beauty.
How old is Edna Wallace Hopper?
She was born Jan. II, 1874.
Where is Floyd Collins of Sand
Cave fame buried?
His body was removed from the
cave in April, 1925, and is buried
ON a small hill overlooking Crystal
Cave, KY.
How long do canaries live?
Sometimes for fifteen or sixteen
years.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
r FAD is one of the most danger
IL GUS metals to human health
and life of which we know. 1t is
dangerous not only because of the
wide variety of uses to which it is
put, but also because of the serious
ness of the conditions that it causes
when taken into the body.
After four years of supervision
of men employed in making storage
batteries, DR.. c. A. Wells finds that
such symptoms as a metallic taste
in the mouth, a blue line of the
gums, a dull color of the skin, and
changes in the blood will occur fire.
quently among such workers.
In their case they inhale lead
dust at various stages Of the process
Of manufacture.
It is necessary in the treatment
of people who have taken a consid-
erable amount of lead into the body
to get the lead out in some man
ner.
The investigator finds that a diet
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Kindergarten Thinking

y
a S one of the forgotten millions,
"A think these are some of the
things congress should be worry
ing about.
Before we get our unemployed
back to work, we either are going to
develop more foreign trade than
now is in sight, or find better
scheme of living off one an other
than we yet have been able to
devise.
This idea that industry rotates
like the earth and that we are at
the bottom of a cycle which pres
emily will right itself, without
greater efforts on our part than to
establish soup kitchens here and
there, or providing temporary work
with borrowed money, might do
credit to a kindergarten, but it
hardly suggests craftsmanship
The most obvious cycle which we
Americans are afflicted is brought
about by childish attempts to hog
it all one moment and equally
childish attempts to correct things
with a lot of sob-sister philan-
thropy the next.
Much Of the philanthropy is gen
uine, but some of it runs to adver-
tising, some to vanity and some
to politics, while far too little of it
recognizes the all-important idea of
giving people a better chance to
helD themselves.
The predominating thought ap-
pears to include anything and
everything except the production of
self-Sufhcient, self-supporting men
and women. Maybe the machine
age, as we call it, has made them
unnecessary.
Maybe we have come to a point
where no one needs to think of
more than getting a job and stay
ing on a pay roll, but, if so, what's
the answer to Communism?
Communism gives every one a
job and keeps every one on a pay
roll. No unemployment in Russia,
yet who would swap it for America.
even in these hard times?
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Sensitive Device
THE Michelson-Morlev exper

THE Michelson-M Morley expert
n ment was performed with de-
vice invented by Nicholson, known
as the interferometer. This is an
extremely sensitive device, capable
of measuring amazingly small
changes in the speed of light.
Purpose of the experiment. was to
see if there was a difference in the
measured speed of light in different
sections. Such difference would re-
suit from the earth's motion through
the ether of space and give results
from which the earth's motion
through the ether could be calcu-
lated.
The experiment failed to give the
result which was anticipated on the
basis of the earth's revolution
around the sun.
Physicists in general assumed
therefore that the experiment had
given a negative effect. F,instein,
in his special theory of relativity.
first announced in 1905, makes the
generalization that no experiment
is possible which will yield a mea-
Surement Of absolute motion.
This leads to the cardinal prin-
ciple of relativity, that all motion
is relative to the observer.
But while the world of science in
general accepted the verdict that
the Michelson-Morley experiment
had given a negative result, DR.. Mil
Ter has refused to accept this ver-
dict.
DR.. Miller succeeded DR.. Michel
son as professor of physics at Case
school and repeated the experiment
with DR.. Morley in 1906.
He subsequently repeated the ex-
periments many times himself. be-
ginning a series of experiments in
1921 which has taken the major
portion of his time during the past
ten years
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Daily Thought

- Now, therefore, our God, we
thank thee, and praise thy gIori-
Gus name.-I Chronicles 29:I3.
Our yhole life should speak forth
our thankfulness.-R. LibbeS.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03
Giving Up BilIboards

We are all pretty well convinced nowadays that the
individual or his lot be improved by social action
But we often forget that social good also can be
achieved by individual action
j. Iennyson Seller, proprietor OF the Hotel Welden
at Greenfield, Mass did not wait to have law passed
He has ordered all bilboards advertising his hotel re-
moved as protest against the growing menace
to roadside Identification"
There is no protest against the billboard nuisance
more effective than that of the advertiser who de-
cines to be party to it.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

accuracy in calling this court-artsl act Of rail-
reading Butler.
One thing about this case, however, mystifes US
What does the state department expect to gain by
court-martial?
an obscure speech by Butler upset international
relations what will full-hedged trial in the public
spotlight do to international relations?
Since the state department obviously thinks that
the less said about Mussoini the better wat is the
sense in court martial which will force Butler and
great many others-includng the presto say many
more dsagreeabe things about the Fascist dictator?
Does the administration think it can get around
this difficulty by holding the court-martial in Sc
cret? 1t can't To appear to railroad Smedey Butler
at all is bad enough but to try to do it in the dark
would multiply his martyrdom 100 per cent.
If the administration holds a secret court-nartial
neither Hoover Mussolin ever will hear the last
of it.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

Boston professor says that poetry is a spontane-
GUS achievement. There are many editors who wish
it were capable of spontaneous combustion.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

One commission President Hoover is probably glad
he didn't appoint is the New York boxing commission
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

AS fleet as runner may be, opnes the Office sage,
he usually has someone close to his heels.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

Editor Tinles-When the subject
Of q bonus for the ex-service men
OF the World war first was dis
cussed many arose to oppose it.
Among those who voiced their dis
approval was Secretary Mellon.
Such proposition, said the secretary.
would deplete the treasury, because
deficit already was anticipated.
But instead Of deficit there was.
as usual, a surplus away up in the
millions.
Harking, however, to the swan
song Of Mr.. Mellon, congress decided
that instead of paying the boys a
bonus they would issue them one.
and what bonus it was. If the
boys can struggle along for some
twenty years they may get it-that
is, if another Mr.. Mellon does not
rise up to save the treasury from
ruin.
AT the time this pacif1er was ut
over on the ex-service men the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars called it a
graveyard bonus, and we still call it
graveyard bonus. The v. F. w,
at its national encampment, adopted
resolution called for cash pay
ment now on these twenty-year
bonus certificates.
We still are strongly Of the opin-
ion that there is nothing too good
for the men who left home and
country to fight a war to end wars.
We still believe that the World war
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-03

Editor Times-For some time the
pupils of Washington high school
have been permitting the majority
Of the citizens of Indianapolis to
remain ignorant of the fact that
there really is a magnificent high
school ON the west side.
May of our teachers and pupils
have been confronted with this
question: where do you teach?" or
where do you go to school?"
The answer, of course, is wash
ington high school" The next ques-
ton is: where is Washington high
school?"
Tt would be to the advantage of
the citizens of Indianapolis to wake
up, and find out about the high
school built and paid for by them
and their money.
One teacher of Washington has
related the following experience.
She was asked by a friend where
she taught, and the friend was told
Washington high school," And the
sad thing about it was: The friend
said, "Do you come home for the
week. -end?"
Of course, the teacher saw what
was running through the mind of
the friend, and politely told her that
a school known as George Washing
ton high school was on the west
side. The friend said that was the
first time she ever had heard of it.
OF course, when Washington first
was completed it was excusable for
the people to be ignorant Of the
fact that high school was on the
west side and to talk only of Man
ha1, Shortridge, and Tech, since
they were all older schools.
Like Paul Revere, I cry wake
up!" in the course of a war for
independence, but in this war there
Is to be no bloodshed. It is to be a
war of independence for education
and Washington.
Aagain, citizens of INDIANAPOLIS. I
ask you to wake up for the students
OF Washington high school today.
are the citizens of tomorrow.
A WASHINGTON STUDENT
BOOSTER.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-12-11

in said road on the line of ". S. Craw-
ford. now Alf Lloyd line. thence with
the Crawford Line n. 8 Il deg W.
chs and 80 ks TO rock; thence S. IS
deg E. 25 chs, so ks. to pointers in
the Davis line; thence with his line S.
chs and ks. to the beginning con-
tanning 10 acres more or less, sur
veyed by J. O. Webb, November 1lth,
1922 TRACT No. g.. Beginning at a
Rock and Pointers Alison McCauleys
line. corner with said Effie Tate line,
\. 20 deg W 9 chs and so ks. to the
Public Road; thence with the Public
Road S II deg T. 10 chs. TO stake
and pointers on the ~ side Of the said
RoaG thence S. 10 deg. +. chs. 20
ks TO stake and pointers II the sad
McCauley line. thence with his line
X. 9 chs. and 81 ks to the first sta
ton. containing IA acres, more CT
less.
This sale is made by reason Of the
failure of J. H. Shambley and wife,
Lille Shambley to pay off and dis
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-12-11
SALE OF VALUABLE FARM
PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the author
ity conferred upon us in a deed Of
trust executed by J. II. Shambley and
wife, Lille Shambley on the 29th day
Of July 1926 and recorded in Book rs,
Page 149, we will on Saturday the
10TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1881
IL o'clock noon at the Courthouse
door in Orange County, Hillsboro, n.
c., sell at public auction for cash to
the highest bidder the following land
to-wit
TRACT No. !: Adjoining the lands
of J. H. Shambley and wife and j. n.
Wright and bounded as. follows: Be
ginning at rock corner with J. n.
Wright and j. H. Shambley, thence
N. deg. w. 9.66 chs. to stake; thence
n. 81 deg. w. with road 5.8 chs. to a
stake; thence S. II deg. w. I'LL chs.
to stake; thence N. 83 Ia f. $50
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-12-11
When Carolina Played Three Football Games
Auburn. Vanderbilt Vrgina-in One Week

My earliest recollection Of
football is Of the return Of a Uni
versity Of North Carolina team
from Atlanta with an enormouS
cut-glass punch bowl 1t wa
jim 1892, and ! was nine rears Old
] remember the eXultati0n IN the
village over the victory won from
the University Of Virginia, 26
to 0, by Captain Michael Hoke' :
eleven.
This match. and others thar
took place in the Georgia capital
in the same week, are the subject
of an article by Willard Neal in
the Atlanta JournAl. DR.. Man.
gums friend, Kay Dixon, sen,
him the paper, and the doctor
came by my home Yesterday ana
left it with me.
auburn played three game
in four days" writes Mr. Neal
Virginia University, Trinits
College (Which has since grow!
into Duke University, anc
North Carolina University each
played two games in. the series
And to make certain that it,
week was filled out, North Caro-
lima ran up to Nashville in tn
middle Of the week and trouncec
Vanderbilt on Thanksgiving
Day. Incidentally, the Tan
Heels won all their contests, in
Guiding the post-season mate
with the championship Vir