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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
One Necessary Law

More than ever, since the state senate
killed a proposal to regulate holding COM
panies for utilities, is it necessary that cities
obtain the right to own their utilities.
AS long as many of these holding COM
panies prey upon the public through exorbi-
tant charges for unnecessary services In
management and finance, the people will
have no real chance for prosperous living.
The right to tax is the right to rule, and the
holding companies levy tribute as rigidly as
does the state itself.
There can be no question as to the greedy
practices of many of these companies and the
usefulness of any may be doubted.
The utility lobby argued that the present
law is strong enough to permit the public
service commission to stop any looting. The
fact remains that the present commission
has shown no interest in these holding
company charges, and there is little like
lihood that it ever will take any real action
TO prevent outrageous charges.
Since there is an apparent attitude by
the utilities as group of lodging regula-
ton, the one alternative for the people is to
own their utilities.
In this city, the first step should be to
take over the transportation system and
establish bus lines.
Will the same influences that defeated
the one bill be able to shackle the people
of this city and stife the proposed enabling
act which is designed to open the door to
freedom?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
ANA<A AOOA Lands

WE notice that LIndbergh usually speaks through
w his lawyer and now young Cornelius Vanderbilt
does the same thing and it's quite effective.
we could get a lawyer on time, we would like
to speak through him in this column.
This distance devouring car in which Captain
Malcolm Campbell made more than 245 miles an hour
ought to appeal powerfully to bootleggers.
We are not for the whipping post as steady diet
but there ought to be at least fifty lashes for each
these Chicago smart alexis who tied the crippled
victim to that cross in the cemetery.
FUDGE CHAMBERS of indianapolis decides that 3
is entitled to the fruits of his wifes toll but
we should like to see him get it from the wife of 1881
And If Chambers runs for reelection, it will be in
tereSting to see what the ladies will do to him.
Sheriff Hawkins OF Birmingham, Ala, is listed as
jobleSS under the last census which is right.
Under prohibition, the sheriff hasn't job: he has
a snap!
The trouble with the Sterilization bill before the
Indiana legislature Is that it does not propose tc
sterze grafters, lobbyists and bell hops of privilege
the three greatest enemies of the American people.
VXTHEN you go to a legislature, just to give it g
w glance and see the same old hxers walking UP
and down the same old corTadcrs it makes you feel
that the national defense iced is not against for
eign countries, but domestic pirates.
When John D. Rockefeller III appeared for jury
duty in New York the sheriff asked him If he didn't
want to be excused. which is charming commentary
on the ancient fiction that In this country all men
are equal before the law.
An old man In st. Louis relates how he served as
a guard when Lincoln stepped on the train at Louis
vile, KY, his way to be inaugurated in 1861, and
how the crowd threatened Lincoln
AS We recall Lincoln didn't go to Louisville his
way to Washington.
Aside from this it's a good story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

present; 100000 are mentally defec-
tive or mentally retarded; 100000
are delinquent, and 100000 are de-
pendent.
If the figures are added, it will
be found that this list totals far
more than the 100000 children
that it represents. 1t does this be-
cause of the intimate relationships
that exist between physical defects,
mental defects and psychological
and sociological problems.
The dependent child is itself q
great problem. When the depend
ent child is mentally retarded, it is
even more Of a problem.
When it is malnourished 1t is al
most hopeless problem, and when
to this is added some gross defect,
such as blindness, hardness of
hearing, or a damaged heart, the
community has catastrophe to
consider.
The vast majority of children In
these groups that can be character
lied grossly as abnormal are prac-
tically all subject to several of the
defects that have been listed.
To assign them to any special
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Chile Ahead of u. S.?

While the United States government is denying
relief to unemployed workers in cities it is interesting
to observe what has been done by Chile
All workers there have been brought under pro-
lection Of Chilean laws applying TO public and civil
employees. Laws protecting manual workers have
been passed. covering housing trade unions accidents
insurance against sickness, maternity, invandism
old-age the eght-hour day, Sunday rest night work
industrial hygiene protection Of destitute children
and 80
Laws relating TO compulsory insurance against sick
ness maternity and old age have been particularly
helpful, according to DR.. ISauro Torres. distin-
guished Chilean physician now in this country.
Employers contribute per cent of the wage paid
the workers per cent and the state per cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
The Pittsburgh Plan

The Pittsburgh plan to give jobs to the jobless
is an interesting and important experiment. DR..
Clyde L. King, chairman of the Pennsylvania state
wide unemployment committee, characterizes it as
the best plan of the sort announced anywhere II
gives work rather than charity.
The labor will be useful, the projects proposed
are sill real projects, and not subterfuges to
keep men occupied. The plan also seems adequate
TO raise the funds needed Briefly, it is proposed
TO create an emergency working fund, which is ex-
pected to approximate million dollars
Applications for work will be cleared through
central bureau which also will pass upon the projects
to be carried out First and most important of these
will be city and county projects which otherwise
would not be budgeted this year.
Those obtaining labor must pay the cost of ma
teriaIs. Secondly, sempublic Institutions such as
churches and charities will be given labor for new
building and reconstruction, provided they wiie
supply the materials other projects may be added
later.
The funds to be raised. first by 5000 con-
trbuting Allegheny county employees each to give
the equivalent Of days pay roll as Of 1929 Sec
ond by people who now are at work at full time,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14

TN glad to see the New York legis-
y lature has made a joke of the
proposition to throw all married
women out of jobs. I've had a
number of letters on that theme my
self. All of them from men, Of
course.
But there never was much sense
in the scheme. It depended on a
very old notion that if a woman
has husband she must be getting
supported in style to which she
would like to be accustomed.
Legislation has had very little to
do with the advance of women in
industry, in spite of the fact that
certain laws have given women spe-
cific protection.
I don't want at the moment to
get into the involved problem of
whether that has been on the whole
for the welfare Of women or not.
I merely am trying to state that
women have come into business
through economic necessity and not
out of any desire for lark.
And this holds true of all but a
tiny proportion of married women.
Sometimes the husband hasn't got
a job, and more often than that it's
a job on which two people can't live
Sometimes it's a job on which one
person can't live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
The Hiring Line

T HAVE seen women come to the
L front in the business which I
know best. Of course, women have
been in newspaper work long
time.
But in the dark ages, way back
in 1903, when I first began as a
reporter, women were comparative
ly rare and they were almost I'M
known competitors in the gathering
of regular news.
Quite possibly the woman base
ball reporter exists here or there,
but she is not the rule. And I've
yet to hear OF a female fight expert
at the big million dollar bouts.
1t is the custom of metropolitan
journals to send a girl reporter, but
her assignment is a wholly special
lied one. She is asked to comment
on the number of women present,
what they wear and their emotional
reaction to blood and brutality.
There is no sound reason why a
woman might not qualify as a COM
petent boxing reporter, and I would
be even more interested in hearing
some lively young girl broadcast a
fight over the radio.
AS I understand it, the chief
function Of the fight broadcaster is
to create the impression of great
excitement upon the part of the
narrator.
He doesn't have to make much
sense. The poorer the fight, the
more excited he is supposed to be-
come, and surely nobody will deny
the genius of woman in growing
excited over a boxing match.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-While the gentle
men are meeting at the legislature
to make our laws, why not let the
citizens do little suggesting? I
would suggest that some member
introduce for the people Of Indian
apolis bill which would affect In
dianapolis only, that would place
all our judges on a federal court
basis, or, in other words, make all
judges in this county and city, life
term judges. except when they are
crooked, thereby ending politics.
The prosecutors should be in
cluded in that law also and all
employees working in and for said
courts.
also suggest a law where certain
officials of the state meet with the
two federal judges of Indiana and
pick a police chief for indianapolis;
this chief to hold his job for life,
providing he performs his duty. The
committee should consist of the
governor, secretary of state, and a
representative Of the senate and
house.
I believe there should be a law
to discontinue an organization which
to my belief, is no credit to Indian
apolis, the Community Fund. There
are too many business men who
tell their employees to donate or
else.
There should be a law to limit
and control the revolver and am
munition question, and a recon-
mendation from house and senate
to congress asking a national law
that would put gun control upon
the federal government, that means
manufacturing, sale, and permission
TO carry them.
JAMES ]. CULLNGS,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Tough on EinStein

EVEN Einstein has been stumped
- by the mysteries Of this region.
He tried to eat a raw olive the other
day, and couldn't spit for an hour.
He tried to take sun bath, only to
be interrupted by lady Of the
press, who fed in diSmay.
He tried to explain the unified
field theory, not for the glory he
might get as its discoverer, but for
the good it would do science, only
to be called a plagiarist and
threatened with law suits.
Now Einstein says that many of
his calculations have been upset by
the drifting away Of a red nebula.
Representative Hamilton Fish of
New York should know how to
Sy1npathiZe with Einstein in this
particular misfortune. no human
being ever suffered more because a
rec neoula drifted away than has
Mr.. Fish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Questions and
Answers

Were thoriun1, uranium, actinium
and polonium all discovered in pitch
blende?
Uranium was discovered In 1889,
In a mineral which had been long
known and called pitch lende, but
which was supposed to be an ore
of either zinc or iron Thorium
was discovered in 1923, in a mineral
from Norway, to which the name
''thorite" is now given, and which
consists essentially of the silicate
Of thorium.. Actinium was discov-
cred in pitch-blende in 1898, and
polonium was found as a sulphate
in pitch-blende in the same year.
How many American ambassadors
and ministers are there? What are
their salaries and who appoints
them? Do they have official resi-
denceS provided by the government?
There are fifteen ambassadors
and thirty-nine ministers. Ambas-
sailors receive $17,50c a year and
ministers $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
In some countries the United States
owns residences for its diplomats,
but In most cases the American
representative provides his own.
Ambassadors and ministers are ap-
pointed by the President with the
advice and consent OF the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14

group of investigators, to any spe-
cial department Of the state, or to
any single source of assistance is
merely to attack one phase Of a
problem which must be considered
as a whole If any real progress is to
be made.
No doubt, with these considera-
tons in mind, the President of the
United States, who has had great
experience in humanitarian activi
ties for the child, called the con-
ference in which all the specialists
concerned with such matters met
to exchange the knowledge that
they had accumulated in their spe-
cial fields.
Any group of fathers and moth
ers may believe that these problems
of abnormality do not greatly con-
Germ them. This would be a form
of unreasoning and ignorant conceit
not warranted by the actual EVIL
dence.
There is hardly a home in the
United States today in which there
are children where there is not
also problem in behaviorism, in
nutrition, in development and in
character study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Keep on Growing

D IGHT now California is pre-
IN pairing to spend $3.50, 100000 for
more reservoirs, more aqueducts,
more canals and more drainage
bitches with which to put more land
in cultivation, while land is being
abandoned in many other states for
lack of decent roads and decent
marketing facilities.
That's one reason why California
continues to grow at the expense of
many other states, why she will
gain at least eight congressman in
the next reapportionment, why her
cities keep on increasing, and why
she enjoys such prestige
Her rapid advance has not been
due to natural advantages SO much
as to the spirit Of enterprise and
cooperation. Such spirit can do
the same thing for any other state
OF section
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
AnaIyzed Radiunl

ID ONTGEN'S discovery of X-rays.
N the mysterious rays capable Of
penetrating solid matter, led in 1895
to the discovery by Professor Antoine.
Henri Becquerel that similar rays
were given of by uranium.
Working in Becquerel's laboratory
at the time we're Pierre Curie, a
young instructor in physics, and his
wife, Marie Curie. Becquerel's dis
covery started them on the research
which ended in the discovery of ra-
dunn in 1898.
1t is at this point that Rutherford
enters our story. Thomson and the
Dutch physicist, Lorentz, had sug-
gested that perhaps the atom was
not the smallest particle in exist
ence, but that atoms we're composed
of units of electricity to which the
name electrons was given.
Rutherford, who had been a stu
dent Of ThomSon's, undertook to
analyze the rays of radium. In ad--
dition to succeeding with that task.
he developed the nuclear theory of
the atom, the theory that an atom
consisted of a central nucleus with
a positive electric charge, around
which negative electrons revolved.
He showed that radium gave of
three kinds Of rays, alpha rays.
which really we're particles, namely
the nuclei of helium atoms; beta
rays, which also were particles,
namely, electrons; and gamma rays,
which were like X-rays, but very.
much shorter.
Rutherford's suggestion that the
atom consisted of a central nucleus
surrounded by electrons paved the
way for the Bohr theory of the
atom.
Both Dr. Neils Bohr and Henry G. (.
j. Moseley, whose discovery Of
atomic numbers laid the foundation
for many Of our present beliefs.
were students in Rutherford's lab
oratory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
It's a Great State

IN spite of wouid-be litigants,
l. women reporters and raw olives,
Einstein probably has had a good
time, as do most people WIG visit
California. It's a great state, but
chiefly because of the men and wom-
en- who occupy it. And that brings
up a curious point.
Californians do a great deal Of
Dragging, but they don't brag so
much about the one thing you'd ex-
pect them to.
They will tell you all about the
sunshine, big trees, Mt. Whitney,
Death Valley Scotty and other nat
ural wonders, but they have surpris-
ingly little to say about what they
have done themselves. Yet that's
the most interesting part Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

BY DAVID DIETZ-
Nert to EinStein, Lord Ruth
erford Probably Has Had
the Greatest Influence on
the Development of Mod
ern Physics.
.TIENCEFORTH it is to be Lord
i l. Rutherford. Great Britain has
seen fit to honor one of the worlds
greatest scientists, Sir Ernest Ruth
erford, president of the Royal So
ciety, by elevating him to the peer
age with the rank of baron.
Rutherford is one Of the men who
helped usher in the new view Of the
universe.
Next to Einstein, he has, perhaps.
had the greatest influence upon the
development Of modern physics.
The two outstanding facts Of the
recent revolution in scientific knowl-
edge are relatively and the inter
nal structure of the atom.
Einstein developed relatively.
Many authorities would accord Ru-
therford the place of major honor
in the story Of the development Of
knowledge Of the interior of the
atom.
AS the nineteenth century drew
to a close, physicists were confident
that all the important facts Of ma
ture had been discovered.
The atom was regarded as the
smallest particle of matter in ex-
istence. 1t was assumed that the
atom was indiviSible.
And then, on Christmas eve, 1895.
at a meeting Of the German Phys
ical Society, Professor William Kon-
rad Rontgen ushered in the new era
in science with his announcement
Of the discovery Of X-rays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14

Europe may have given Sinclair Lewis the Nobel
prize because his "Babbitt' gave them grounds to
laugh at U.s. But as America slowly outgrows Bab-
bttry Europe seems to be succumbing to it.
What is 1t but Babbittry when the Chamber Of
Commerce Of Brest eyes, they have them there
tool starts movement to become the port at which
Americans shall dsembark for Paris and Paris itself
invites the mayors Of all the American towns called
Paris to gather at the Colonial expositon-a expenses
paid-as press agent booster stunt?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
In New Zealand

d UTEERFORD was born in New
IN Zealand and educated at the
University of New Zealand and
Cambridge university. AS already
mentioned, he was a student Of the
great Thomson at Cambridge.
From 1898 to 1907 he was profess
sor of physics at McGill university
in Montreal. From 1907 to 1919 he
was professor Of physics at the
University of Manchester.
When Thomson retired in 1919,
Rutherford succeeded him to the
honored position Of director of the
Cavendish laboratory at the Uni
versity of Cambridge.
He has been president, since 1925,
Of the Royal Society, England's old
esq and most important scientific
society. He also has served as
president of the British Association
for the Advancement Of Science.
He has been awarded the Nobel
prize and other important honors.
He lectures with great brilliance.
ut was this writer's pleasure to
hear him at both the Liverpool and
the Toronto meetings of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science.)
Rutherford's career in many ways
sums up the way in which scientific
progress Is made. He was trained
by a teacher who did great work in
science.
He himself has done great work
and in addition trained others to
carry on.
Bohr now is head of the Copen-
hagen Institute Of Physics. Others
Of his students hold important
posts. Moseley, unfortunately, was
killed in the World war.
One writer has called his death
England's greatest loss in the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of HyEela. the Health
Magazine.
IN opening the White House con-
L ference on child welfare, held in
Washington in November, President
Hoover listed briefly some of the
deficiencies that need to be cor
rected among the 100000 chill
dren who can, by aid of preventive
medicine and proper social and eco
non1ic study, be made more happy
and of greater value to the state.
OF the 100000 children in the
United States today, only 100000
are normal in the reasonable in
depreciation of that word.
It is estimated that at least
100000 have defective speech;
100000 have weak or damaged
hearts: $4,000 are tuberculous;
$4,000 are crippled; $4,000 are par
TALLY blind, and $4,000 are totally
blind; moreover, 675,O0O demand
psychological study because of the
problems in bahavior which they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Some Walls Go

DUT if the citadel of sports holds
ID out most of the rest Of journal
ism has succumbed to the feminine
invasion. Years ago, when I asked
a city editor about the restricted
sphere of woman in reporting, !
was told this was necessary.
You wouldn't send an innocent
girl out to get the griSly details Of a
murder. would your" asked my
hard-boiled boss. I hung my head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
NJ. E. Tracy
California Is a Great State,
Chiefly Because of the Men
and Women Who Occupy It.
SAYS:

r os ANGELES, Feb. IAN
IL other earthquake in New
Zealand, another oil well running
wild in Oklahoma City and another
rainy day in prospect for Los
Angeles.
1t Is not far fetched to speak Of
rain in Los Angeles the way you
speak Of cataclysn, or threatened
disaster In most other places. An
eighth inch fell here Thursday
night and some Of the streets ran
over.
Few cities in this country, or the
whole world, for that matter, need
rain so badly, or can stand 50 little
Of it.
Just one more example Of rela-
tivity, Einstein probably would say
though it Is on of the few riddles
he has not been asked to solve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
Something TO Show

A LII told, California has about
"A 100000 acres of land which
could be put into cultivation, or an
area about equal to that Of Maine,
but 1t has been able to put water
on only 100000 or 100000 acres.
With that 100000 or 6,OOO,oo
acres, California not only has met
most of its domestic needs, but has
grown great quantities Of fruit and
truck for PARKWAY markets.
Making every allowance for the
part played by soil and climate,
this still Is a remarkable achieve
ment.
Some other states could have
done as much, if not more, with less
effort. We laugh at Californians
for their enthusiasm, their optirnis-
tic outlook on life, their never say
die spirit, but they have something
to show for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14

both the husband and the wife
have had their business troubles
during the day.
Then they can sit down and swap
complaints and grievances. That's
the sort OF companionship which
brings people closer together.
And I certainly disagree with the
eminent psychologist when he says
that no man wants a wife with
whom he can discuss his business
intelligently. OF course, he does.
All people I've ever known like to
talk shop.
copyright, 1881. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-14
The ParIor

THAT sounds perfectly terrible
i to me. I'd hate to come
home, all worn out with writing or
broadcasting, and meet somebody
who was fresh and radiant and
charming because she'd been loafing
all day. That would annoy me
considerably.
It is much more chubby when