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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
The Air TrOnhv


The Collier trophy is awarded annually for the
greatest achievement in aviation in America, the
value of which has been demonstrated by actual use
during the preceding year"
1t first was awarded in 1911 to Glenn Curtiss The
1880 award just has been made to Harold Pitcairn
for the development of the autogiro
We can not quarrel with this award, but We can
wish that there had been two trophies to give for 1880
For there is another achievement it seems to u.s. as
great as the autogiros That is the exceptional per-
Torrance of the Ludington line, which runs hourly
passenger air service between New York and Wash
ington. The Ludington line was considered seriously
by the Collier trophy committee.
This is the first line in the country to offer such
air transportation service to the public 1t is avi-
atoms first attempt to fit its schedules to the pubcs
needs rather than ask the public to fit its travels to
the air lines wish.
1t has been efficiently, reliably safely and
economically without benefit Of air mail subsidy It
has created trend in air transport which other
lines following 1t has done something that av-
alton always had said couldn't be done
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
The Miners Appeal

Americas $2oOOOOOOOO soft coal business is the
sckest of all our industries 1t sick when most
other industries in the Coolidge boom" 1t will
be sick when the depression is passed.
Just how sick it is one hardly guessed until, out
of the depth of their misery, the coal miners them
selves spoke B. A. Scott organizer for the struggling
but militant little West Virginia miners union went
to washington and told his story to the Wagner COM
mittee on unemployment insurance.
Scott, mine worker since he was IL, had been
crippled by falling slate. He is uneducated. Yet
his story was so eloquent in its sincerity that the SEN
ate committee voted bring to the attention of the
Red Cross
Conditions described by Scott apparently COM
mon to most mine regions where unionism has been
crushed. They recall in their incredible inhumanity
the things that made Robert Owen cry out in Eng
land st the beginning Of the nineteenth century.
Men working ten and twelve hours a day at low
wages forced to trade at company %qres, where
prices often 30 per cent higher than elsewhere
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
New Idea on Punishment

WV 'NNCN VII OllIOIl IOlIl
IN the maintenance of order. as in
4 the maintenance of everything
else worth while, 1t is a positive, not
a negative, viewpoint that wins.
What we do for things is vastly
more important than what we do
against them.
Necessary as it may be to prevent,
suppress, or even destroy certain
mistaken tendencies, progress in it's
larger sense is based on substituted
Better tendencies.
We never can hope to stop crime
by killing or Furnishing criminals,
any more than we can hope to stop
ignorance or disease.
Admitting that penalties must be
ordained and inflicted as a deterrent
for some and a reminder for others,
the ultimate remedy consists of such
scientific and educational treatment
as will correct criminal traits in the
few who are afflicted with them,
and develop a respect for law and
order in the minds of other people.
What we are doing now is COM
promising with the mob spirit, max
ing show that satisfies those who
otherwise would take the law into
their own hands.
No nation on earth has arrived at
a point where it could abandon it's
prison without creating the impress
sion among right-minded people
that its authority had broken down.
We have arrived at a point, how
ever, when any nation can begin
the gradual substitution of a more
scientific, sensible system.
AS matter of fact, most nations
are moving in that direction.
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GA Blow at Stability"

The Carnegie Foundation for international Peace
is not celebrated for snap Judgments Whatever the
field of inquiry it dissects Analyses checks It's re-
Gently published study of our 1880 tariff as factor
IN the worldwide business depression commands at
tention,
Following passage Of the act there came from
every corner Of the world volume Of angry protest
and retaliation, which has not diminished to this day.
his judgment reads. 1.-THE act was blow struck by
one nation at the economic stability of sixty nations
Step by step: AS in the case of Switzerland the
study traces the processes of economic dtsocation op-
erative since the bill signed last June to show
how the United States tariff wall contributed directly
to prostration of business the world over
The Swiss republic is to a large extent a nation
Of watchnlakers. She has no natural resources She
imports all her raw materials She had been ship
ping to the United States approximately $11 900 900
worth of watches every year. Our new tariff closed
The doors of many of her factories This is not world
order 1t is world anarchy
Even from the standpoint of our own selfish in
srest, it is catastrophe for Switzerland was buying
from us $45,OOOOOO worth of goods year With her
principal industry disorganized and with the rani-
dcations of that collapse upon her purchasing power
with what funds will she buy from us in the future?"
But watches were only one item among 800 on
which the rates increased. And Switzerland is
but one OF the ftyodd nations which protested while
the bill still was before congress- She is but one of
the thirtysix nations which have responded with re-
taliatory rates.
Perhaps no one will know fully what the Hoover
tariff revision Of 1880 cost the world in hunger and
human misery But whatever the actual dollar COM
putatlon in lost business may turn out to be- public
and expert opinion long since decided that world eco
nomlc dislocation and unprecedented unemployment
more than 100000 at the end of March in the
six leading industrial nations-was the flower of its
folly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EF04fS

JAMES w. BARRETT, in his
j heller skelter little book, "The
World, the Flesh, and Messrs.
Pulitzer" writes of the thrill which
came to him when Herbert Swope,
the city editor, gave him a job.
THE day I went to work for him, y
says Mr.. Barrett, was the happiest
day of my life up to that time, be-
cause I was able to go out on an
assignment and say, 81 am Barrett
of the World"
The author is not dealing with his
first experience as a reporter, but
added Joy which he experienced in
getting on a paper which he ad-
mired. That helps. But my earliest
memories of elation are bound up
merely with the fact Of being a
neWSpaperman at all.
I started with the Morning Tele-
graph, which had then, as now, its
good points. But it never was de-
voted to cruSades for righteousness
or anything of that kind.
And yet it seemed to me better
for training purposes than a dozen
schools of journalism. The beginner
served no long apprenticeship. With
ing week I was writing editorials.
They were not good editorials.
But I've written nope since. And so
the privilege of saying, 81 used to
be an editorial writer myself" de-
Ponds wholly upon these days of
my youth.
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REASON BY FT iaS1Is

YOU'VE doubtless read about this strange case out
in California where 14-year-old boy is 6 feet
tall and still growing. His father wants to give him
gIandJar treatment to stop his growth but the boy
says he doesn't care if he grows 8 feet tall.
If the boy should soar to an altitude of eight feet
he has only to wander to Indiana and every town in
the state will greet him at the border and bio for
his services as basketball player.
And this suggests a thing that should be done for
the good OF this great sport The authorities who
pilot this pastime should do something to eliminate
the Overshadowing Importance of the tip-of artist
Now he's the most important feature of the game,
which is absurd.
1T doesn't take any skill for bird who is feet
l. tall to take the ball away from of less height
and flip 1t to mate, or stroll up to the basket and
toss it in
And the victory gained by such methods is as bar
rem as If the apple picker were permitted to climb
stepladder and deposit the ball.
The real appeal of this sport consists of it's strategy
its teamwork, its speed of mind and body, and when
excellence in all these respects is nuled by one ten
story player the very purpose of the game is defeated
I Unless the Importance of the giraffe is ended,
- different towns in Indiana henceforth will con-
centrate on the search for freaks and in time we
may tamper with the glands OF the rising generation
and raise abnormal boys for the basketball market.
Different suggestions have been made to do away
with the -Shadowing Importance of the apple
picker, OF them being that the ball should be
thrown from the side instead of being tossed into
the air for the longest pole to knock
THE time has arrived, when some towns regard
l. the grabbing of the championship as the sole OBJ
jectve regardless of the methods employed, and when
this becomes widespread, basketball will degenerate
into open trckery enthusiastically endorsed by thou
sands.
The way to prevent such calamity is tc end the
abuse, give the game back to ri the members of the
team and make it what it Supposed to be- clean,
square sport for honest players led BY honest coaches
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HEALTH SERVICE

However, there are cases in which
the child seems to miss all the meals
for the rest of the day without be-
ing in the slightest disturbed by the
absence of food.
In some cases, as many parents
know, the problem becomes quite
serious; indeed, sufficient to upset
the entire family.
Coaxing is tried, the reading of
stories, feeding the child alone,
feeding it with its favorite brother
or sister, rewards are offered, the
child is put to bed, all the relatives,
including the grandparents, take
part in the argument.
Sometimes the child gives in, but
in most instances the members of
the family cease speaking to each
other for several weeks.
If the child is of the neurotic
type, it may take some food and
promptly vomit it. The parents who
have this type of case in the fam
lily are quite familiar with the
symptoms. What they want to
know is how to correct the condi-
ton.
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Child Shuns Food for Various Reasons

The cure must be largely psyche
logic, but should carry with it the
certain knowledge of physical fit
ness. The child with infected ton
sis or adenoids may find eating
difficult.
The child may have inherent sus-
ceptibility to certain food sub
stances and, without understand
ing why, refuses the food to avoid
disagreeable after-effects which it
feels, but of which the parents can
have no knowledge.
If the child's digestion is chron-
ically upset, it is quite certain to
want to avoid food. After all, the
physical factors have been properly
studied, there are certain psyche
logic steps which may improve the
condition.
In the majority of instances, how
ever, the trial and error method is
resorted to until result is accom-
plished.
If the child is given sufficient
amounts of outdoor air and exercise,
if it is in the sun for a reasonable
amount of time, if it sleeps well,
sooner or later appetite will become
so strong that it will want to eat.
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and prepared a written set of ques-
tons. The first, distinctly re-
member, ran, "Is your conception Of
Salome physical or psychological"
And on that query the interview
well night broke down, because the
forehead of the dancer puckered in
horrid care as she replied, "Psycha-
what?"
However, this served as a lead
for the story. A year later I ran
into the young woman, who up
braided me sharply and said I had
made fun of her grammar and
education.
But it was possible for me to de-
fend myself on the ground that I
was not highly equipped with
either commodity, just having
escaped from freshman English
with the dubious mark G minus.
After I handed in the story I
fingered one foot back of the man,
who read copy. Every time it
seemed as if he were about to touch
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
In Radio Industry

TINE industrial resins, known IN
i der various trade names, which
are used for radio panels and sim
liar instruments, are laminated
forms.
These are made by using the resin
to inpregnate sheets Of paper or
cloth, which in turn are piled into
stacks and placed under hydraulic
presses. The pressure causes the
sheets to be consolidated into a
compact and solid mass.
Illuminated forms also are being
used today in the manufacture Of
silent gears. They find considerable
use in the automotive industry in
the manufacture of timing gearss
ignition and lighting systems, horns,
radiator caps and so on.
But while the chemist IS i'm
mensely pleased with the synthetic
resins produced to date, he does not
believe that all the possibilities Of
It's field have been realized.
Research laboratories all lover the
United States are studying the prob
lem Of producing better forms and
cheaper forms.
Industry particularly is eager to
obtain forms of greater tensile
strength. Many new uses would be
opened up for a tougher product.
The electrical industry also would
like to get forms with stiIl higher
insulating properties.
There is the possibility also Of
finding new supplies of raw mate
rails, for phenol and formaldehyde
both are fairly expensive as raw
products 60.
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NJ. E. Tracy

Order Depends Far Less on
What People Do to One
Another By Way of Pun
ishment Than on the Moral
Support They GiUe 1t.
NEW YORK, April s.-Whether
L Y it was because hijackers, traffic
cops and inventors took a holiday,
or for some more obscure reason,
Tuesdays news ran to talk rather
than action.
President Hoover and the head of
the Bank of England spent twenty
five minutes discussing the weather.
Not arguing that they might have
selected a more worthwhile sub
ject, they should have disposed of
the weather in less time.
John GalSworthy, eminent Eng
lish author and lecturer, ranked
Mark Twain as our greatest writer,
which would not have been news
if less distinguished authority had
said it.
VIII Rogers, who has made a more
successful bid for Mark Twain's
mantle than any other American,
informed Mexican admirers that the
recent earthquake had nothing to
do with his airplane trip to MaLe
aqua, and that the man he most
wanted to meet when he arrived
was SANDING.
G. K. Chesterton, recently up
from the south and admittedly the
worlds happiest wisecracker, de-
Scribes that section as enjoying the
depression, and losses in the opin-
ion that our so-called progressives
come nearer to representing real
decadence than our so-called re-
dictionaries.
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if anything. I would prefer not to
be anything in politics. But I
shudder at the ambitious rising
Democrats who have suffered many
lean years and think of the sharpen
ing up Of their knives ready for the
fat pickin's presumably in sight. I
try to calculate if there are enough
good, honest, non-pledged citizens
left in our country to elect public
officers, if there were any such
creatures who really would think Of
the publics welfare and not
primarily of their own.
Maybe there are, but 1 doubt it.
Like it once was said of the Indian.
"the god ones we're all dead" so
likewise have all our public con-
scienced citizens about all died. And
those who live have such little
courage they might as well be dead.
The next year or two will wit
ness a change in sentiment if not
in parties. To guess what is in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
A Full DAVIS Work

NATURALLY, the old Telegraph
IN did not consider a handful of
editorials full days work for any
energetic cub-and I was energetic.
This was back in 1908. Part of the
stint was reading copy.
And, naturally, there was much
rewrite to be done and little re-
porting. It was a small staff, and
we lived by taking in each others
copy. =
OF course, we we're not too severe
in cutting the stuff Of man who
presently would have similar
privilege in regard to our own con-
tributions.
The first week I ever put in on
gainful labor netted me $45 on
space. After that I got the set sum
of $40. And it took me five years
to work up to the early peak which
I had established for myself.
Even after twelve hours Of as
sorted tasks the day was never
ended. Can I go home now?" I'd
ask the managing editor little
after midnight And he'd reply,
why, no. We're going to have a
poker game. That's part of your
assignment"
That was not a job against which
I protested too bitterly. But I
learned after while that there was
something other than friendlineSs in
the command performance.
Our managing editor had vision
in regard to news, but none in
poker. His credit has been exhaust
ed with all except the newest mem
Der Of the staff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
Questions and
Answers

Are the President of the United
States, justices of the supreme court
and members of the Presidents
cabinet exempt from income tax?
The Presidents salary is exempt
and also salaries of justices of the
United States supreme court. Mem
bers of the cabinet, however, pay
income tax on their salaries.
How many words are there in the
English language and how many of
them are obsolete?
There are about 100000 words in
the English language, Of which
about 100000 are obsolete.
Who was the first Governor Of
Alabama? Who succeeded him?
William W. Bibb was the first
Governor of the state as well as the
first Governor of the territory. He
was Governor Of the territory from
1917 to 1919 and the Governor Of
the state from 1919 to 1920. He was
succeeded by Thomas Bibb, who
served from 1920 to 1921.
What is the average height Of
American women?
Five feet four inches.
Does the United States govern
ment pay the railroads for trans
porting the mails?
Yes.
Who brought down the German
war ace, Baron Manfred Won RIGHT
hofen?
His Fokker triplane was shot down
by Captain Roy Brown Of the Brit
ish air force. April n, 1913.
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A Tip for Gandhi

NTAHATMA GANDHI let it be
4VA known that he would handle
midas case single handed, and
that though ne might take a few
advisers and experts when he goes
to London for the next conference
he would not ask other delegates to
share the responsibility.
Gandhi also let it be known that
he plans to visit the United States
either before or after the London
conference, not only to gain sup
port for midas cause, but to assist
IN rehabilitating woodrow Wilson'S
ideals.
Woodrow Wilson'S ideals would
not stand in such need of rehabiIi-
tatlon had he not undertaken to do
the job alone at Paris, which is
something Gandhi would do well to
remember before he goes too far
IN attempting to handle the Job
alone in London.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TINE refusal of food by child
Il does not always mean a loss
of appetite.
Some children have large ap-
petite and eat everything; others
may be hungry and still refuse
food. In the latter type of case,
the refusal is due to some psyche
logic disturbance in the vast ma
jority of instances.
The child will take it's first course;
for example, drink its orange juice,
and then absolutely refuse the
cereal. Sometimes it refuses because
the edge of the appetite has been
taken off, it wants to play instead,
or it refuses because it has
developed a slight distaste for the
second article of food.
The psychologist is likely to call
this refusal "negativism" or give
it some other scientific name. He
sayes that the thing to do is to let
the child alone and that it eventual
ly will eat.
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Beads and Pines

THE resin then is treated with
L high temperatures under pres
sure. This process causes it n he
come transparent, strong solid
material, which resists heat and
most chemical solvents.
In this form, the resin finds MANY
uses, being employed in the manu-
facture of pipe-stems, cigaret-hold.
ers, beads, various types of iewelrv
and the like. 1t can be used either
in the clear form or with the addi-
ton OF coloring material.
1t also finds many uses as a pro-
tective coating on metal surfaces
which are exposed to the air. MANY
lacquers used on brass and other
metals now are made from synthetic
resin.
1t also is used for the making
of cements which must resist high
temperatures. The cement used to
hold the glass bulb Of an electric
light to the metal base is made from
synthetic resin. Here its value also
is increased by the fact that it il
a very good insulator.
The fact that it has high insu-
lating properties has made it par
ticularly valuable to the electrical
industry, in which it now finds its
greatest application
A great many nodded products
are made today by mixing synthetic
resin with wood flour or ground
up asbestos.
1t also has been found possible
to use synthetic resin as the binder
in the manufacture Of grinding
wheels.
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SSZZGESSm
H1d6AkF bTTE3EH
ANNIVERSARY
AUTRIA'S BREAK


ON April 8, 1917, the government
" of Austria-Hungary severed
diplomatic relations with the gov
eminent of the United States.
AS soon as the announcement Of
the break was received by the ad-
ministration, orders were given for
taking possession of the Austrian
merchant vessels that had been
self-interned in this country.
Here is an excerpt Of the note
handed to the American charge
d'affaires at Vienna in the absence
Of Ambassador Pen1eld, who had
lett for America a few days preyi-
ously:
Since the United States Of Amer
lea has declared that a state of war
exists between it and the imperial
German government, Austria Hun
gary, as an ally of the German en-
pire, has decided to break of diplo-
matte relations with the United
States, and the imperial and royal
embassy at Washington has been
instructed to inform the department
Of state to that effect"
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Views of Times Readers

Editor Times:-As I read of the
partisan acts and failure of benev-
olent acts Of our Republican Of
fciaIs, both state and national, I
wonder where they will be two years
hence. I am thinking of one of those
slides out over the swimming pools,
where swimmers scoot out like a
flash into the water. That is my
mental picture of how the Repub-
Iicans would vacate their offices
if an election were held this year.
1 am supposed to be a Republican,
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store would be like guessing as to
the weather next year.
But I do hope the names Repub-
l1can and Democrat will fade to the
background in favor Of some new
hopeful organization that at least
would start with honest intentions.
Once upon a time 7 swelled out
with pride at the mention Of the
good old c. o. P And then every
body got good and sick Of the Dem
ocrats, their last big year Of 1920.
The old adage Every man has his
price" never was more adaptable
than at the present time. H. K. F.