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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Hard on the RaIdI

Inc comfortable accepted theory that men become
gray and bald because they wear tight hats over their
Woodworking brains, or because their vitality is
eSSened by their highly civilized habits and environ
ent is assailed by Curator Gerrit S. Miller Jr of the
the division of mammals, Smithsonian institution
He says:
NoI one OF the explanations have seen in print
'"N Vo consideration the geological possibility that
many features of human hair NAV be genera1izod
prlmate traits instead of specifically human deve1on
ments. I mean the possibility that they NAV be
characteristics forced on man because thew are on,
mon property of prmates the animal group to which
belongs
nave become convinced that the chief pecuari-
ties OF human hair are explained best and most simply
aS special examples Of prinlate patterning'"
There's no Joy in this!
In the first place, that word '"primate" is of
course just polite, scientific wav of saving ~anes
and monkeys" 1t is sure to stir up the Fundamental
lists, who have been mercifuly quiet and content of
late -
IN the second place, we always have been consoled
partly Tor getting gray bald by fattering ourselves
Cnat nigh civilization and hard thinking are chief
causes Evolution evolution if gravness in .
human being never has any more intellectual signifi
canoe than 1t has in gray-headed ape-weII what's
the use?
Curator Mllers contribution is no cure for donros
slon Nor, if we know our fundamentalists will II
conduce to peace earth and good will toward
men,"
Inc Smithsonian means WELL But it really should
be more seasonabe and tactfuI in its outgivings.
Employment agencies report they are besieged
daily Tor jobs. Yet it's sure thing that by this time
every member of our army of unemployed is bulletin
bored.
IWenty-three countries have abandoned the gold
Standard About the only thing gold will be good for
pretty soon is bridgework
Los Angeles Christmas baskets for UNEMPLOYED
working girls contain silk stocking powder, rouge lu
SUCK and perfume What, no umbrellas?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
CZERNIN'S TERMS
Dec. rs

on Dec. rs, 1917, Count Ger
- min, foreign minister of Aus
tria-Hungary, acted as spokesman
Of the Central Powers in Offering
terms for general peace at the
first Russo-German conference in
Brest-Litovsk.
His statements were intended as
q basis on which the Entente Allies
were to join in the peace negotia-
tons with Russia.
The allies, however, refused to
take any notice of the offer. Count
Czernin's terms were later with
drawn.
Heavy fighting still continued IN
the italian front with the Teutons
capturing the honors for Christmas
day by capturing Col del Rosso and
adjoining heights on the Asiago
Plateau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Common Sense Sentiment

DEOPLE who believe as I do are
l. accused of being sentimental,
but I contend that it is the anti
cancellationists who have departed
from all semblance of realistic
thinking. An editorial in the New
York Sun says that it would not be
craftsmanship" for Germany to
default.
In other words, we are asked to
say to a bankrupt and desperate
people: Come, come, now; be good
sports. Starve if you must, but
don't forget the rules"
And Senator Gore wanted to
know whether there was not a le-
gal and moral difference between
debts and PREPARATIONS. Mr.. Mitchell
should have told him that there is
no difference which hunger and
want will not wipe out.
But the gravest crime against
common sense consists in the very
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
The Message of Hope

Aooay IN every land, men and women journey
D"cA IN Inelr thought to Bethlehem to pay tribute
to Man and Message.
The Message changed the current of history be-
cause 1t brought new concept of human relations.
Men were no longer to live by conquest but BY love-
no longer to look upon their fellows as enemies but
as brothers.
AS yet, this concept has not reached industrial
relations 1t has not yet found its translation into
the age of machinery.
The Columbia Conserve Company is based upon
the theory that should be equal in their rewards
in their responsibilities 1t is an industrial DEM
ocracy. 1t is Christmas Day in action.
Ask any REGAL STORE for our booklet Bush
ness Without a Boss. It is good reading at this
time Of yearl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Cling to hypocrisy

IN the United States, we go mer-
l. rily on with the prohibition
farce, just as though we could evade
the consequences of the lying, de-
ceit, and hypocrisy which it in
wolves.
The legislative committee now in
vestigating affairs in New York
City has spent the last few days
endeavoring to link police officers
with speakeasies, just as though the
public would be surprised if it
succeeded.
Thirty thousand speakeasies, &C
cording to the best information OBJ
tainable, and 10000 cops paid to
keep their eyes open, all within an
area of 800 square miles-yet from
a legal standpoint they are sup
posed to be ignorant or innocent of
each others presence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
M. E. Tracy
SAYS

Though One Hardly Would
Guess 1t NoaO, What the Old
Folks Called Morality Still
Cuts q Big Figure IN Our
Progress.
4 LDOUS HUXLEY believes that
IA the world needs a Messiah, and
no one can review what is going on,
particularly in the field of more
pretentious effort, without suspect
ing he is right.
Here we are in the twentieth
century, pretending to want peace,
but hesitating even at a moderate
degree of disarmament; signing
treaties to outlaw war, but refusing
to back them up, even by so much
as straightforward declaration of
principles; telling ourselves that the
economic situation is safe and
sound, though half a dozen great
governments can't meet their debts.
There is a patent lack of common
honesty in the conduct of human
affairs, and it is all the more Seri-
Gus because no one seems to regard
it as alarming or even unusual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
The Star Still Cleans

NlneCeeH centuries ago, wise men 1OllOW-
ing the guiding light of a star, looked into
the eyes of a babe No white uniformed
nurses lowered over it. No skilled scientist
watched it's feeble heartbeats No whispered
orders brought relief to the anguished
mother. The place was a stable. Only the
wise men knew and understood that here was
the King Of Kings.
There were years of poverty, marked only
by what would today be called precocity in
challenging the SNUG keepers of the temple
who stood ever ready to defend philosophy of
tradition and to quiet any doubts as to the
divinity of things as they were.
There were the years Of quiet work as
carpenter, unnoticed in the throng, I'M
marked by any incident that might give
warning of the facts that He was to rule
through ages yet to come, to change the
current of history, to make and remake ma
tons and, much more important, to become
the guiding light of human lives, lifting
souls from degradation and hearts from
despair.
Skeptics may doubt the divinity of His
origin. They do not doubt the divinity Of
His message.
"Peace on earth, good will toward men,"
Those were the words the angels sang
above the manger. That was the message
the wise men caught as they looked into the
eyes of the Babe as it struggled for life. 1t
was the message the angry mobs heard IN
fear at the cross.
IL hot MOI
find as they look in the eyes of all the other
babes, because they, too, are divine. 1t IS
written into the hearts of each and all as
they come into this world, heart untitled
with fear, clean of hate, trusting and simple
in the faith that men are born to be kind,
and that the law Of life is love.
Not yet has the promise been fulfilled.
That is because the message that first was
sung at the birth of the Babe has been
thrown back by minds that steel themselves
against its profound truth and it's profound
err hope.
Today there are many in need. And their
needs may give birth to doubt of divinity
itself. Nations and races still war as men
war against each other. But each year more
of the spirit of Bethlehem creeps into life.
True. there are impoverished people who
may be skeptical of the good will of the more
fortunate. There are whole nations of hui
man beings who trust to guns for their
future.
Each year peace draws just little near
err and more and more men are being forced
to the great truth that brothers do not kill
each other.
Each year, the minds of men are led
through their hearts to find good will as the
real guide to human action.
The star still CLEANS with hope. The wise
men are following it, finding again its mes
sage as truth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EY942S

reason is there to expect that it
will be carried out down through the
ages by generations which knew
neither kaiser nor Clemenceau?
Charles Mitchell gave it as his
opinion that Germany can not and
will not complete the payments. I
will go beyond that to state that I
think the Germans should not. Nor
the French. Nor the English.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Ruin Others, Ruin u. S.

GONE have called us Shylock, and
~ quite mistakenly, for in order
to achieve our pound of flesh we
must match blood drop by drop for
every one we shed.
In Shakespeare's play Shylock
and his debtor stood separate en-
titles, but We are an actual and
arterial part of the very body from
which the tribute Of living tissue is
to be exacted. To put it very SIM
ply, we can not ruin any nation or
group Of nations without running
ourselves.
And this is the legacy which
Senator Reed would leave to the
progeny Of america. 1t is the plan.
But who made the plan, and what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Expeditions Were Many

DR. BREASTED'S first major
~ project was a mission in 1899
to all the leading museums of Eur
ope to copy their Egyptian inscrip-
lions for dictionary financed by
the German emperor.
In 1905 he brought out in five
volumes an English translation of
all the then known inscriptions
from the earliest times to the Per-
sian conquest and followed that
with a History of Egypt" now ac-
cepted as standard, which has been
translated into French, German,
Russian, Arabic, and into a Braille
edition for the blind.
In the seasons of 1905 to 1907, he
directed an expedition which copied
the inscriptions surviving on the
monuments along the Nubian Nile.
and led the first party of archeolo-
gistS to run the dangerous rapids of
the Fourth Cataract, 40 miles long.
Returning to America he pro-
duced work on THE Development
of Religion and Thought in Ancient
Egypt" and a textbook called AN
Gent Times" which is used not only
in America and England, China and
japan, but has been translated into
Swedish, Malay and Arabic.
A forthcoming Hebrew edition
will teach the children of Palestine
their own history.
In the course Of preliminary ex-
petitions through western Asia in
1920, DR.. Breasted led the first party
of white men to cross the Syrian
desert after the Great war, through
a hazardous wilderness of inimical
Arab tribes, from Bagdad to the
Mediterranean.
He was asked, by Lord Allenby,
as a result Of this trip, to advise
the British prime minister, Lloyd
George, and the foreign minister,
Lord Curzon, on the state of the
uprising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Questions and
Answers

What is the difference between
right-handed and left-handed
ShOVeIer?
Observation of gangs of laborers
engaged in Shoveling seems to be
conclusive that they use the shovel,
grasping the handle in either hand,
according to whether the vehicle to
be loaded is on the left or right of
the Shoveler. In other words, if the
material is to be thrown over the
right shoulder or to the right side,
the shovel is graSped half way down
the handle by the right hand and
at the end by the left; if the ma
terial is to be thrown over the left
shoulder or to the left side, the
shovel is grasped half way down the
handle by the left hand and the end
by the right hand. There is no au-
thority on the subject that can be
quoted as official.
What is the address of former
President Calvin Coolidge?
The Beeches, Northampton, Mass.
What is the world record high run
in pocket billiards?
Ralph Greenleaf made 126 against
Frank Taberski in world champion
ship tournament in Detroit, Dec. Is,
1929.
Are carrier pigeons a special
breed?
They are domestic pigeons, trained
to convey written messages fastened
to their neckS, wings or legs. They
are also called homing pigeons.
How should watermelon and
picked peaches be eaten?
Watermelon should be served with
a knife and fork. Picked peaches
may be. eaten with a fork or a
SFan0Y1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Daily Thought

And the men took of their VIC
tuals, and asked not counsel at
the mouth Of the LOrd.-Joshua
9:14.
A single grateful thought toward
heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Leasing.
Do cows have upper teeth?
They have no upper front teeth.
but do have upper molars and pre-.
molars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
We Lack Courage

THROUGH no one can tell the
l. exact amount, our annual
bootlegging bill runs we'll above
81 900, 100000. That not only rep
reSents a Stupendous loss of reve-
nue. to the government, but the
chief support of racketeering.
We are going to have higher
taxes, however, rather than do the
obvious thing, going to keep right
on breeding gangsters and thugs
rather than admit a blunder.
Neither of our great political
parties has the good sense, much
less the courage, to meet this is
sue squarely. Wet Republicans will
shout loyalty for dry Mr.. Hoover
when the time comes, and dry
Democrats will shout just as 10y
ally for wet Mr.. Roosevelt if he
is nominated.
AS a matter Of fact, the average
politician is alarmed by nothing so
much as the, possibility that pro-
hibition will get out of control and
that his party will be forced to
take a stand on it.
This is particularly true of the
Democrats, who, seeing chance
of success for the first time in
twelve years, are moving heaven
and earth to prevent an eruption
over the liquor question.
=
Morality Means Something
FORMER Governor Smith of New
L York rightly describes such an
attitude as "pussyfooting."
We simply can not go on
suppressing our convictions for the
sake of political or commercial
success.
Though one hardly would guess it
from some of the things now 60
ing on, what the old folks used to
call morality cuts big figure in our
progress, whether as individuals,
communities, or as a nation.
People never fool any one as badly
as they fool themselves. The man
who puts over a successful deal by
sidestepping facts, the nation that
achieves temporary security, or the
party that wins an election only lays
up trouble for the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Chicago UniUerSity's Nea0
Oriental Institute Climates
10 Years Work By DR..
James H. Breasted.
TINE new Oriental Institute, built
Il upon the campus of the Uni
versity of Chicago at cost of ST.
100000, represents a magnificent
triumph for its director, Professor
James H. Breasted.
For forty years DR.. Breasted has
been devoting his time TO the re-
covery for modern civilization Of
the story of mans rise from pre-
historic Savagery.
Almost Single-handed, DR..
Breasted has organized the greatest
concerted effort ever made for the
unearthing of the lost chapters in
the history of the ancient world.
The building of the Oriental in
stitute in Chicago represents the
headquarters of this enterprise. The
work, however, is going on in all
parts of the world.
The Oriental institute has five ex-
hibition halls, devoted to Egyptian,
AsSyrian, AsSyro- Babylonian, Per-
siam oslem and Hittite-Pales-
tinian civilization.
The institute is carrying on
archaeological research in these five
fields.
The institute was made possible
by the generosity of John D. Rookie
Teller Jr., coupled with gifts from
the General Education board, the
International Education board, Ju-
Illus Rosenwald, Theodore w. Rob-
inson, Robert P. Lamont, Henry J.
Patton and others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Interest Began Early


TINE story of DR.. Breasted's in
l. terest in ancient civilization is
an interesting one. AS a student at
the Chicago Theological Seminary
the young Breasted developed an
interest in the study of the Hebrew
language which he never lost.
He determined to learn more
about the ancient Hebrews than
was available in any of the frag-
mentary writings concerning them.
After year at Yale, under the
famous Hebraist, William Rainey
Harper, who was to become presi-
dent of the University of Chicago,
Breasted went to Berlin to pursue
his studies of Oriental languages.
Even before the University Of
Chicago was opened, Harper APP
pointed him to the first chair of
Egyptology in the United States,
which he accepted after he had
made his first expedition into Egypt
in 1894.
On that first mission, which Incl
dentally was his honeymoon trip,
DR.. Breasted's budget was $500,
and his equipment consisted of a
donkey and pocket camera.
Today the research budget of the
Oriental institute is 100000 a year,
one thousand times the budget of
1894, and from his Office in the new
building on the Midway-the new
est addition to the equipment for
the work-Dr. Breasted directs the
activities of twelve university expe-
ditions, employing several score of
highly trained Investigators and
several thousand native diggers, at
work on strategic sites along
3,50O-mile horseshoe front extend
ing from the upper Nile valley to
Persia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

Health Magazine.
MOT long ago people throughout
IN the country were aroused by
an epidemic of parrot fever, Scien-
tifically called "psittacosis." This
disease is transmitted by birds,
particularly parrots, but also by
parakeets, love birds and canaries.
A bird that apparently is well
may transmit the infection, but in
most instances the parrot will
seem to be i'll, and it is attempted
care of very fond owner that
usually results in the owner acquir-
ing the infection from the bird.
1t takes from six to fifteen days
after contact with the source of the
infection for the disease to develop
in a human being. The disease be-
gins with chilly sensation, fever,
headache and early involvement of
the lungs.
The tongue has a white coat,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
A Legacy for the Future

MEN up spoke senator Reeu OF
l. Pennsylvania and said, Now,
why should the progeny of Amer
leans who had nothing to do with
the war, progeny of Americans who
were not even alive, pay. this war
debt, and the progeny of the people
who started it go scot free? I con-
fess I can not see that, Mr..
MITCHELL
The president of the National City
bank confessed that he found this
query unanswerable, but he went on
to say, ct is an impasse that will re-
tard the time of world development
with respect to economy and ex-
changes and understandings for a
long time to come"
But that is an answer sufficient
and complete. I wish that Mr..
Mitchell had developed it more, so
that Senator Reed and others might
have grasped the true import of his
prophecy. If nter-aIlied debts and
German reparations are to be salts
fed in full we and our children's
children must pay a price.
We must pay by living for sixty
two years in world of commercial
chaos. We must pay by meeting
half a century of acute conditions
OF unemployment within our own
borders. We must pay by facing
Gordon OF hatred and suspicion.
We must pay by giving up all
hope of international understanding
and brotherhood. We must cut off
our right hand, so that our left can
scrawl as best it may across the
page, THE debt is satisfied"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
eSting. writers and are me-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

XXTHEN the Lusitania was sunk,
w Hans was just years old.
Gretel was born in the winter after
the armistice. Hans and Gretel
are expected today to help in as
suming those burdens of taxation
based on Germany's war guilt.
When Hans marrieS and when
Gretel marries, the responsibility
for keeping up the payments will be
passed on to their children and to
their children's children. And this,
according to the plan, is to go on
for siXty-two years.
The century will be all but done
before the books are squared and
the pressure lifted from the backs
of toilers.
This is long-range warfare with
a vengeance. Here is a gun more
powerful than any yet devised, for
it can scatter hatred and destruc-
ton down through the years and
blight three generations.
It is the plan.
Germany must pay, for if she
does not allied nations in our debt
will be engulfed in the default and
we shall lose our credits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I should like to ask
if you think it is fair to the small
grocer, who is asked to contribute
to the charity fund and who has
taxes to pay and family to keep,
to pay men on charity gangs in
baskets of groceries,, half of which
are not what they like and which
are furnished by a few favored gro
GERS, instead of paying them in cash
and allowing them to get what they
want for their own labor and also
get it where they want to buy it
and in that way distribute business
all over the city and help every one.
Several people have come in to
one store to say they would like to
buy, but are not paid money, only
baskets Of food, and some undesir-
able at that. If each grocer could
have at least a chance at the bas-
kets for his neighborhood, it would
help.
Even that is not done and the
grocer is supposed to get along
against all odds and give to the
charity fund and then feed half
dozen people who come begging
every day.
A HARD HIT GROCER
Editor Times-After twelve years
of indianapolis citizenship, in which
time I subscribed and gave S165 to
our charities to assist the less for
tunate, I am in need myself, and
can not get any help.
I have sold at great sacrifice all I
had accumulated and for the past
four weeks I actually have lived on
less than IS cents a day (self and
wife). We have not had meat or
butter nor vegetables except 10 cents
worth of Irish potatoes.
I spent Tuesday of last week at
the 333 North Pennsylvania street
Office of the Welfare, the Fountain
square Office and trustees Office. l
am hungry. Why the Community
fund? Can't you start this fund to-
ward the needy? E. o.
1888 East Washington street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

1Wenty-three countries have abandoned the goI
standard. About the only thing gold will be good TO
pretty soon is bridgework.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

Los Angeles Christmas baskets for unemployed
working girls contain silk stocking powder, rouge lip
STICK and perfume. What, no umbrellas?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25

Employment agencies report they are besegec
daily Tor jobs Yet it's sure thing that by this tim,
every member of our army of unemployed is bulletin
bored.