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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23
House Flies

THE common house-f1y is just
i one of a number of flies which
frequent houses in summer, DR..
Clark points out.
From time to time during the
summer you are annoyed by a sharp
bite, and on looking at the bitten
spot you see the culprit, which
seems to be an ordinary house-fy
he says.
But it is not house-fy. If you
watch a house-fy tapping up it's
food or water you will see that its
mouth parts are soft and expanded
at the end and are adapted for inn
bibing liquids.
THE mouth parts of this biting
fly form a sharp beak which is
adapted to piercing the skin Or ami
mails and sucking blood. 1t almost
invariably bites through clothing
and seems to specialize on socks and
stockings. Animals it bites mostly
on the lower portion Of the legs.
THE biting house-fly is really
very different from the house-fly. It
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slightly larger When at rest 1t
carriers its wings at a greater angle.
Its slender, but efficient beak, of
which the tip is visible, serves to
distinguish it at once.
Many different kinds of flies fire.
quent out-houses besides the COM
mon house-fly. One of the COM
monest of these is the lesser house
fly which is smaller than the house,
fly and has more pointed body.
This fly has a curious habit NJ
flying in an angular course beneath
chandelier in the center of a
room.
Then there is the stable-hy.
which is almost exactly like the
house-f1y. Another common ev in
houses, especially in cool. damp cell
lars, is the large and hairy blue
bottle"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23
France Is Generous

XXTHAT France wants is a
w promise from everybody not
to wage war on her in the first
place, and to help her out, if war
occurs, in the second.
Given that, she is satisfied with a
moratorium which costs her nothing
and will let bankers provide Ger
many with the required credit.
Frankly, the French attitude is
getting monotonous.
just as frankly, other countries
can pull Germany out of the mud
if they must. The very fact that
such course has been limited at
should be enough to warn France.
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Both Are Right


Both the Chamber of Commerce and the
school board happen to be right, although
they are quarrelng somewhat bitterly over
the size of the bill for operating the schools
next year.
The chamber is right when it says that
there is an economic emergency that makes
it important to curtail drains upon the public
purse
The board is much more right when it
says that there must be no curtailment Of
adult schools, free kindergartens or the night
schools. In periods of enforced idleness and
enforced labor for many mothers of young
children the adult school and the kindergar-
tens are more important. To reduce the work
of the schools at this time would be a con-
fession of moral as we'll as financial bank
ruptcy.
If the chamber desires to reduce the
drains on the peoples purses, and it is quite
correct in saying that in these critical days
it is necessary to economic, it might begin
with realization that the taxes by private
monopolies are as much a drain as are the
direct taxes of governmental units.
The cost of water, telephone service, cleo
trio light, gas and transportation are just as
surely tax as are those levied by the city
county or school board. They are the neces-
sites of city life and their price is a matter
of regulation by government.
A drive for fair rate on these utilities
during periods of stress and distress would
relieve the property owner and the worker
much more directly than any small reduction
in tax rates.
After the war these utilities established
the legal principle that they were entitled to
collect rates based upon the cost of repro
duction of their plants.
That meant that they could value their
copper and steel at inflated prices of war
times. They did just that thing. They have
been collecting on the war, and are still col
Letting on the war, although they did not
fight the war. The same thing is true of
labor costs in their computations of repro
duction value. They collect tribute on what
it would cost to hire men during days of nigh
prices, not on what was actually paid to the
workers who stretched the wires or dug the
trenches
If the principle of reproduction cost is
right in days of imitation it is right in days of
defation. The chamber calls attention to the
fact that prices of commodities have fallen
and all wages reduced as a reason for cut
ting teachers salaries. These facts are even
more important in fixing utility rates
If the chamber were half as vigorous in
a demand for a thorough purging of utility
companies of their excess valuations and
their holding company larcenies as it is in
trying to cut teachers wages, the emergency
might be relieved.
Perhaps if the chamber has any reason
for inactivity in this direction, other civic
bodies may find the effort worth while
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disease from which the individual
will suffer.
Many insurance companies en-
phasize particularly the seriousness
of overweight after middle age. DR..
Riesman believes that overweight
people can be divided into two
classes-those who are excessively
fat, with a soft type of fat on one
hand, and on the other hand, those
who are overweight and solid, whose
fat is firm, and who are not far
above the ideal weight.
The former type is likely to be
quiet and lazy, and therefore is
not likely to suffer from heart dis
ease; the latter type Is the active
individual seen on the golf courses
and most likely to succumb to heart
disease.
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More Politics

DOWN in Tennessee, the states
IL encouragement having failed
to file an indictment against Colonel
Luke Lea on charges of conspiracy,
after being ordered to do so by
Judge Charles Gilbert, and having
appealed to justice OF the supreme
court, from whom he got no salts
faction, Judge Gilbert is preparing
to name a district attorney-general
to do the job.
This is but one more queer cpl
sode in the curious chain of events
brought about by the Lea Caldwell
crash last fall, which carried down
several large corporations and
scores of banks, not only in Ten
nessee, but in other southern states.
and in which politics, parading in
the name of law, has played a major
role.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23
Give and Take

THE trouble is that we still cling
l. subconsciously to the theory
that every minute of our waking
day should be spent in self better
ment.
An evening of sheer frivolity
leaves us conscience stricken. Or
it may be that we are only afraid
of having to pay the piper.
This notion was brought home to
me very emphatically the other day.
A young man of my acquaintance
came up to me and said:
"You know, Mr.. Broun, I somehow
dread the thought of this days end
ing. I laughed so much this after
noon that I'm sure I'll cry before
the day is over"
Copyright. 1881. b7 The Tines
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hardly could be traced to an eager
ness for Broadway FASTENERS. Bar
ton was, among other things,
touched with some share of Puritan
ism, and he set along the edges of
the primrose path pictures, making
fun Of pedestrians who used that
thoroughfare.
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NJ. E. Tracy
The French Idea on political
Guarantees" Is Becoming
MonotonouS.

CECRETARY STIMsON is hope
- full" Men in his position usually
are, until things go completely to
smash. Meanwhile, the news from
London is not so good.
Six of the seven powers confer
ring appear to be fairly well agreed
on what Germany needs and how to
provide it. France, however, has
fallen back on her chronic demand
for political guarantees"
Sometimes it looks as though
nothing could be suggested by way
of international relief, without
France making her acceptance con-
ditionaI on political guarantees"
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ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one OF Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Uaper.-The Editor.
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uniformed

T GRANT a lack of universally in
i that. But there is probably much
in the Freudian notion that self
destruction is one way in which man
tries to kill not SO much himself as
some other person. 1t is traditional
in China that the doorstep of an
enemy is the most appropriate place
upon which to stab yourself.
However, 1 was not concerned
with the defense or condemnation
of suicide. 1t is a personal matter.
What riled me was the SNUG as
sumption that Ralph Barton must
Of necessity be a frivolous and time
wasting person because he dealt
with Broadway shows and perform
erS in his caricatures.
The young man in the car prob
ably was ignorant of the fact that
Barton also wrote one of the most
biting satirical histories of America.
If his career came to a psychic
and emotional jam, that misfortune
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23
SCIENCE
RY DAVID DIETZ

When 'Hunchbacb Flies Step
Into the Spiders Parlor
They Go to Eat-NOt to Be
Eaten.
DROvERBS about the spider and
[ the fly are many. Undoubtedly
most readers, back in primary school
days, shed a tear or two for the
poor little fly who was invited to
step into the spiders parlor.
They may be surprised, therefore.
10 know that there Is one kind Of
fly which far from falling a victim
to spiders, makes a habit OF dining
upon them.
Austin H. Clark, the distinguished
biologist Of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, who has made study OF
queer animals, fish and insects, tells
about them.
Strange as it may SEEM" says
DR.. Clark. there is a whole group
of flies all the members of which
feed entirely on spiders. They are
very queer looking flies. Their head
is very small and seems to consist
almost entirely of a pair OF eyes.
Their backs are so strongly arched
that they seem to be deformed-
little hunchbacked flies.
"A number of these spider eating
flies are very beautifully colored and
brilliantly metallic. There are nos
so very many different kinds OF
these curious flies, and most of them
are rare"
Among other curious flies de-
scribed by DR.. Clark is the so-called
stalk-eyed flies. These have the
eyes each on the end of long stalk
projecting sideways from the head.
StaIk-Eyed
TN some of the stalk-eyed flies the
L distance from eye to eye is as
great as the distance across the
wings, or twice the body length, DR..
Clark states.
Stalk eyed flies are common in
the tropics in damp grass lands and
in shady woods" he say. Safely
concealed on the under surface of a
grass blade with their little eyes
projecting out on either side, thanks
to the long stalks, they can see you
perfectly without your being able
to see them.
"You see them first when they
fly away.
Zone kind of stalk-eyed fly is
common in our eastern states, but
in this the stalks are very short and
give little indication of the bizarre
appearance of some of its oriental
relatives"
DR.. Clark says that the so-called
human bot-fiy of the American
tropics is the most ingenious of flies.
"The maggotS live beneath the
skin, forming local Sores" he says.
But the flies themselves never
come near man. If the flies never
come near man, how is it that their
maggots find their way to the hui
man body?
1.-THE female bot-f1y captures 8.
female mosquito and lays some eggs
on the under side of the mosquitoes.
body. Later, when the mosquito is
engaged in sucking blood from a
sleeping person, little bot-f1y mag
got emerges from an egg, drops to
the skin of the mosquitoes victim,
and when the mosquito it through
feeding enters the body through the
opening made by the mosquitoes
beak."
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Daily Thought

But if ye bite and devour one
another, take heed that ye be not
consumed one of another.-GaIa-
tians Sis.
The avaricious man is kind to no
person, but he is most unkind to
himSelf.-John Kryle.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
MANY physicians look askance
4V1 at the modern tendency to
over-indulge in strenuous exercise
after middle age.
Records are available of numer-
Gus men who have fallen dead on
golf courses or at home after a
strenuous afternoon at golf. DR..
David Riesman says that men who
want to take up golf In middle life
should not do so without thor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23
He's Prize OntinliSt

. CCORDING to reports from
"A Canton, President Chan Kali
Shek is ready to give up his job if
the various factions will quit fight
ing and pool their interests for a
war with Japan.
If true, Chang Kai-Shek is the
worlds prize optimist.
Where does he suppose China
would land in a war with Japan,
especially in her present condition?
1t would either be a massacre or
a footrace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23

new chewing gum introduced in Chicago has a
gin flavor But most chewers it is said, put wry
face.
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that no man who knows why he
wants to commit suicide will ever
go through with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-23

Why men break down from heart
failure after so is explained BY DR..
Morris FiShbein in series of Eve arti-
cles on THE Failing Heart of Middle
Life" Of which this is the second.
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When 'Hunchback Flies Step
Into the Spiders PGrlor
They Go to Eat-Not to Be
Eaten.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
A|D-TO-H -HARBORS
HEARING SET

Public hearings have been set
for June 20 by the Board of En-
gineers for Rivers and HarborS,
in the office of the chief of en-
gineers of the Army, Munitions
Building, it was announced at the
War Department today.
The hearing is upon the request
of local interests to submit data
on improvements relating to
Dickersons Bay, Gloucester coun-
ty; Mosquito Greek, Lancaster
county; Urbanna Creek, Middle
sex county, and Windmill Point
Creek, Lancaster. county, all in
Virginia.
Regarding Dickersons Bay, i'm
provement is desired to provide a
harbor of refuge for small vessels
and to permit development of the
bay as a shipping center for the
seafood produced in adjacent
waters.
At Windmill Point Creek, i'm
provement is desired to relieve eX-
isting conditions under which fish
ing boats during time of storm
are obliged to find shelter in the
lee of Windmill Point or in the
available harbors at some dis
tance from the fishing grounds.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
DECISION PENDS
IN LAND CASE

Associate Judges Robert B.
Peter and Arthur D. Willard, of
the Sixth judicial circuit of Mary.
land, have taken under advise
ment arguments advanced yester-
day by lawyers for DR.. Anna
Bartsch Dunno, of Washington,
who charged that the Montgom-
cry county commissioners had in
fringed upon her constitutional
rights in the widening of Georgia
Avenue at Colesville Pike, Silver
Spring, Md, and the demurrers
filed by Capt. Joseph C. Cissel,
counsel for the commissioners.
The suit asks 100000 damages.
DR.. Dunno, who alleges that the
commissioners took her land for
the widening of the road without
due process of law, is represented
by Peter, Simpson and Oxley, of
Rockville, and Butler, Lamb,
Foster and Pope, of Chicago and
Washington. Miss Simpson ar
gued for her firm and E. Barrett
Prettyman for the Chicago firm.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18

Contending that the spirit OF
the late Speaker Nicholas Long
worth came to her bedside at
6:1o a.. m. today and dictated a
message for transmission to Presi-
dent Hoover, the Speakers old
friends in Congress, and persons
in general still living on this
"earth plane" the Rev. Jane
Coates, teacher of spiritualism,
today gave out that message
"believe it or not"
The late Speaker, she said,
told her to carry on in efforts
for legislation by Congress to
give spiritualists religious free
dom" and he would aid her next
session through his spiritual in.
fluence. DR.. Coates will tell Sen
ators Borah. Capper, King and
Dill, and Representatives Britten,
Gambrill and Mcleod all
about it.
Congress members, by and
large, are to be told that they've
been "aIl wrong" on this subject
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
CORN S.
'LiftOf-Pain|
stops instantly

Just a drop of cool, safe Freezone
on that aching corn stops all pain
instantly. Soon corn gets so loose
you can lift it right off.
It's so easy it doesn't =
hurt one bit. There's no ~
better, quicker way to get ~
rid of corns-calluses and IL
warts, too. Costs only a MI
few cents for a bottle NJ Y
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
YIELDS
To MIRACLE

Miracles of modern science are
no longer mere words to Mrs.
w. H. Harmon. AZ, of 26 Harri.
son Ave-, Cherrydale, Va, whose
esophagus and food pipe we're
terribly burned when she swal-
lowed a quantity of lye when she
was 4 years old.
The structure thus caused has
brought her many hours of suf-
fering since then, but all that is
now in the process of being
ended.
DR.. ]. D. Byers, superintendent
of George washington University
Hospital, is through use of the
esophagoscope and other special
instruments, enlarging the food
passage. Mrs. Harmon expects
in a short time to be able to en-
joy the types of food favored by
persons in normal health. The
food channel which. a few weeks
ago, would not admit the pas
sage of an orange seed, is now
almost wholly opened.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Nick s Ghost Walks ByDay
To Boom Hoover for 1882

and that, II, old Nick, say so
and you are sent by me-"
The communication from the
"other plane" oddly enough,
overlooks mention of Representa-
tive Jack Garner, Democratic
floor leader, and for years
Speaker Longworth's buddy"
President Hoover is to be in
formed that he will be backed
by the great ones over here in
the coming election" and the
spirit of Longworth is purported
to have predicted Hoover's re-
election.
LOngwOrth is quoted as telling
DIR. Coates that Thomas Jeffer.
son, John Adams, Hamilton Mon.
roe, "and in fact the whole con
tinent of Americans are now
with him on the other plane, but
George Washington has returned
to earth in the body of man and
will again be Pesident of the ma
ton he founded"
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
POOR LEARNING
IS BLAMED IN
|NATTENT|0N
Psychologist Gives Reason for
Low Standards of Profi-
cheney Among NY. Students

NEW YORK, June 18-Walter
B. Pitkin, Columbia University
psychologist and consultant on
numerous business ventures, from
his seat on the Sideline> today
offered his experience TO the
much.criticized New York schools.
The reason for the low stand
ards of proficiency revealed in
their students, he declared IS fun
damentally the same fault that
runs through the American school
system. Poor learning is the
fault of inattention, he believes.
Surveys Prove Point
Surveys which he and his asso
ciates have conducted in Boston,
in Ohio and on the Pacific Coast
prove a gross lack of perception
by the students concerning 'hin9S
they are supposed to be Uaught
They don't concentrate They
haven't learned to pay attention
Specifically, they don't understand
what they read. Said Mr.. Pitkir:
"AS a generalization. all
school children are terrible in
arithmetic.
Il found one reason for that
in a survey 1 conducted last
winter in the schools of Sacra-
mento, Calf. 1 found that they
had learned the meaning of
plus all right. They knew it
meant that things were tn be
added together. But when
problem used equivalent express
sions, such as and together
with in addition to- they
didn't get it. The plus sign
was missing and they missed
the meaning"
Confusion Elsewhere
Similar confusion was discov-
cred on other expressions and in
other subjects. One remedy was
found to lie in using tie arith-
metic book or the geography as a
reader instead of the formal grade
readers and having the child not
only read but explain the mean
ing of passage.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
PROMOTE.
SCHOOL MD

PreparationS are being made
for a mass meeting, under the
auspices of the Jewish Education
Association, for the purpose OF
awakening interest and enlisting
support for the establishment of
Hebrew schools in the centers OF
Jewish population.
A considerable sum OF money
was donated for promotion Of the
mass meeting of the association
at the Hebrew Home for the
Aged Tuesday night.
The Jewish Education Assocla-
ton was organized recently to es-
tablish a uniform system of Jew
ish and Hebrew schools through
out the city. Officers are: Ber-
nard Danzansky, president; Ma
than Plotnick and Morris Gar
finkle, vice-presidents; Alexander
Koplin and j. B. Shaffer, secre-
taries; Paul Himmelfarb and
Harry Himmelfarb. treasurer and
assistant treasurer.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Motorcycle, Auto, Hit
Girl, Youth Injured

Two persons were treated last
night for injuries received in a
collision between motorcycle
and an automobile at North
Capitol Street and Florida
Avenue.
Robert Peacock, %, of 1925
Tenth st. N. E., driver of the
motorcycle, was taken to Sibley
Hospital and treated for burns,
cuts and a broken finger. Miss
Elizabeth Beard, 18, of 35l7
Seventeenth St. N. E., a passenger
in the automobile was treated at
the same hospital for slight
injuries.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
FIREMEN TO DINE

The fifth annual supper of the
Gaithersburg Volunteer Fire De-
partment will be held tonight
from to s o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-13
FAREWELL PARTY
HONORS MANAGER

H B. DeLacey, manager of the To-
cal Montgomery Ward store, who is
to be transferred to the coast in the
near future, was surprised last night
by the employees of the store who
gave a charming dinner in his honor
at the Barbara Worth hotel.
Covers at the attractively appoint
ed table were laid for 20 guests, and
during the dinner, Mr.. DeLacey was
presented with handsome gift,
Fred Black making the presentation
speech on behalf of the personnel.
After dinner, a bridge game was
held on the mezZanine floor. and
at its conclusion, high score prizes
were won by Mrs. A. Atkinson and
Mr.. DeLacey, while Mrs. DeLacey re-
ceived the low score prize.
Those present at the party were
Mr.. and Mrs. DeLacey and their
daughters, Mary and Virginia; Mes
danes Bernard C. Sims, Blanche
Lamson. A. Atkinson, Fannie Will
liams, Ethel L. Nelson, Katherine
Carroll, F Porter Wade, Miss Lamson
and Messrs. T. J. Black, F. D. Mason.
Emmett w. Whitney Fl. F. Farris. w.
L. Curtis, c. A. Remick.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-13

/ les, many of them have never beer
here and 1t will be q splendid op-
portunity for local business men
20 show the visitors this community
from which they have been buying
lettuce and cantaloupes for years
and to sell Imperial Valley to its
very best customers who are finan-
cially interested in its fruit and
vegetable crops.
The local chamber of commerce
and the chambers of other valley
cities are urging that every busi-
ness man donate Saturday to the
entertainment of these jobbers, who
come from all parts of the United
states. in order that they may be
impressed with the hospitality of
Imperial Valley and that an ade-
quate number of cars may be avail
able. The following locations have
been chosen for the registration Of
cars which will be needed from 8
o'clock a. m. until o'clock D. M:
Ell Centre. Hotel Barbara Worth. Ell
Centro Chamber Of Commerce;
Brawley, Brawley Chamber of Com
merce. Jack Bros. and McBurney
Co.: Calexico, Calexico Chamber
of Commerce: Holtville. HCltville
Chamber of Commerce: Imperial.
City Hall. Dunn's Drug Store; Cali
patria, Herald Office: Westmorland.
Imperial Ice and Development
company.