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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Profit Distribution System Is Wrong

When you get down to it, here
probably is what is happening.
A new invention, railway OF
bank merger, or some other tech
biological Improvement saves $780,
600 a year, which is added to the
income of a capitalist who already
has an income of $1,000,0 900 or more.
Even with the tastes Of Cali
gula, how can he spend such addi-
tional income in a way to provide
employment to his fellow citizens?
Motor car manufacturers, tailors, or
innkeepers can expect little more
from him.
TIE can invest in antique objects
Il of art-a complete washout for
present purposes. He probably will,
however, reinvest for profit-in
bonds or securities, the proceeds Of
which will go into additional labor
saving machinery and, for present
purposes, be a positively harmful
disposition of the new wealth.
However, the same 100000, dis
tributed say among 200 mechanics,
easily would support new Ford
agency and an addition to the we'll
known Dearborn factory, or the
equivalent thereof, and a lot of
people would be happier and
healthier.
All these facts are so self-evident
that their imminent comprehension
by industrial and financial leaders
seems inevitable. 1t is possible that
the future stability of our own and
other industrialized nations will be
brought about, not by Communists,
FaScists, or other Socialist and
essentially Neitzschean politicians,
but by the planning of these lead
ers themselves for a more work.
able distribution of increasing in
dustrial profits under our own
democratic and individualist sys-
tenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Foreign Students
nROFEsSOR THOMAS 8 FISK

DROFESSOR THOMAS S. FISKE
L Of Columbia university an
nounces that examinations to test
the English of foreign students
wishing to study in American uni
versities will be given in twenty
nine countries in the spring.
This examination will be under
auspices Of the college entrance
examination board, of which Profess
Sor Fiske is secretary.
He points out that there Is no
use in European scholar coming
to America to continue his studies
unless he has sufficient command
OF the English language to make
such study practicable.
The examination will be financed
through a grant from the Carnegie
Foundation for International Peace
Industrial and Scientific En-
gineering describes the lifting Of the
federal quarantine on Florida prod
ucts by the United States secretary
Of agriculture as sciences first VIC
tory over an insect" The insect in
question is the Mediterranean fruit
fly.
The journal says: eff, as is ex-
pected, it is shown that the fly has
been eradicated, then this feat will
be recorded as well-nigh the first
real victory Of the race over an in
Sect
This pronouncement serves to call
to mind that mans greatest con-
tender for the earth is the insect.
DR.. L. o. Howard. for many
years head Of the United States
board Of entomology, once said that
man was in war with insects for
possession Of the earth. He said it
was not yet certain which would
win.
Perhaps mankind can take en-
couragement from the Florida vic
tory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Research and Radium


DERHAPS the average reader will
i be interested only mildly in an
announcement from the engineer
ing foundation that it will cooper
ate in two-year investigation Of
the effects Of high temperatures on
metals.
The American Society Of Mechan-
ical Engineers and the American So
city for testing materials also are
taking part in the investigation,
which is to cost $4,000.
But it is well worth remembering
that the progress of modern times
is based on just such investigations.
Rule of thumb no longer can be
used in the machine age. Facts,
precise and exhaustive, are needed
by the engineer and the technician.
Radium soon will be dethroned as
one Of the wonders of the modern
world in the opinion of Dr. Harrison
E. Howe, editor Of Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry, one of the
official journals of the American
Chemical Society.
Dr. Howe bases his opinion upon
the development of vacuum tube
similar to an x-Ray tube developed
at DR.. R. A. Millikan's laboratory in
Pasadena, Cal.
1t uses an electro potential Of ESQ.,
600 volts and delivers gamma rays
like those Of radiunl. The tube gives
OF rays which are equivalent of
those Of 100000 worth of radium.
1t might be added that the same
thing is also done by the vacuum
tube developed by DR.. Tuve and his
associates at the Carnegie institu-
ton of Washington.
Readers will recall that this tube
won its designers the $1,000 prize of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science during that
organizations convention in Cleve-
land last December.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Library

GO about 1870 we used to sneak
- into the library, or, If you want
the more exact newspaper word, the
morgue. That's where they keep
the photographs and the clippings
Of well-known people, so as to be
ready to give those brief, hackneyed
paragraphs of information which
constitutes a newspaper obituary.
And that is one thing that may
happen late at night in New York.
People do die.
You're always afraid that the
final chapter will come in some
story for which you're responsible.
It was very disturbing to be sitting
in on a game with everything go
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEcgS

ing right, filing most of the
straights and lot of the Pushes,
and always having one ear cooked
for that Jangle Of the telephone
bell.
(copzright, 1881. BY The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Daily Thought

But it is good for me to draw
near to God: have put my trust
In the Lord God, that / may de-
clare all thy works.-PsaIm
1928.
Exercise your God-given power Of
trust. Look upl Salvation is pro-
vided and nothing remains to be
done. Take hold! Take holdi Do
not waitl-Bishop James.
Who was the mother Of SaIome?
Her name was Herodias.
What is the value of large cop
per cent dated 1925?
It is cataloged at 8 to Is cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

United States farmers are charged with smuggling
green vegetables into Canada With the intent per-
haps Of making some fair exchanges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

Volcanoes are said to be showing increased &C
tivity. Recovering from the period of depression
probably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

When did Calamity Jane" die?
Jane Burke, known as Calamity
Jane" died at Deadwood, S. D., Aug.
l, 1903.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
SCIENCE
Sale of Hoover's Textbooks
Increases After He Is
Elected to Presidency.
BY DAVID DIETZ

IMPORTANT and interesting an
1 nouncemerlts Of many sorts find
their way to the desk Of a science
editor. Perhaps the reader would
like to share some Of his morning
mail with him.
A letter from The McGraw-Hiu
Book Company reveals that Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover has a textbook
TO his credit. 1t Is called "The
Principles Of Mining" and was writ
ten in 1909.
"Sales of the book have reached
total of 7,243 copies, of which
726. approximately one-tenth OF the
total, have been sold during the last
four years" the letter continues.
In 1929, following the election OF
the author to the presidency, the
demand for the book increased by
one third over the previous year"
Perhaps authors will see tip in
that. One way to increase the sale
of your book is to get elected Presi-
dent of the United States.
The American Iona Society. with
headquarters att 500 Madison av-
enue, New York, announces plans
for a campaign to raise an endow-
ment fund of $1O,0O0,O00 for a uni
versity in he Scottish highlands.
which is to serve as G world center
for Celtic culture.
An immediate drive to raise
s1,0O0,0OO toward the goal is to be
launched.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

to bed. And there aren't any
speeches by distinguished men at
banquetS and only a few fires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01

The mother long horned grasshop-
per has sword-shaped gg-placer. The
short-horned mothers egg-placer Is
much shorter and differently shaped.
During the Spring or Fall, the mother
places the egg-pods in the ground. Each
pod will contain from two to three
dozen eggs. Six months later the
grasshoppers hatch and In about a
month are full grown.
The egg has two coats Of skin, the
outer one tough and a pale brown.
There are some species whose eggs must
be subjected to freezing temperature or
they will not hatch.
You can see the tiny hopper inside the
egg just before it matches, if the outer
coat of the egg is removed 1t is all
doubled up and packed tight in its
house. Then the egg splits one-half its
length and the baby pushes out Of its
sleeping bag, which soon shrinks to
nothing.
The first thing the youngster does is
to try its legs and jump 20 times
its body length. If it is so fortunate as
to land in a field Of tender grass 1t gets
mighty busy.
The blister beetle has q decided
weakness for grasshopper eggs as food
for her own babies. She lays her eggs
carefully on the tiny grasshopper eggs
and goes away, well knowing that her
babies will hatch first and dine and
grow fat on the grasshopper eggs. Many
birds desire the hopper" eggs for break
fast and so help the farmer.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
N A T u r E. S
C. HI IL ID X E n
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
illustrations by Mary Foley.
XIV.
GRASSHOPPERS.
(Acridiae and TettiROniidae.)

w WIEN you read that a plague
OF locuStS has been visiting
wv some particular locality, the
chances are 1t Is a horde Of
hungry grasshopperS. A
swarm Of "17-year locustS" Is quite an
other insect; in fact, these are the
cicadaS.
Baby grasshoppers look very much
like their parents, with the exception
that they have no wings. AS they
grow older and have shed their coats
a few times, you will notice wing-buds
held close to the sides and back. With
the last mott the grasshopper is full
grown and blessed with healthy ap-
petite. His jaws are strong and fitted
fer cutting and chewing. He has three
simple eyes (ocellD and two compound
cnes. The long, waving antennae in
the short-horned grasshopper have
many joints. When he is counting his
lady-love, the antennae are used for
long, solemn conversations.
Strangest Of all is the place where
his ears are situated. On the Short
horns (acridae) they are on the sides
at the base Of the hind body; on the long
horns (teeigoniidae) they are on the
shank of the front pair of legs, Just
below the knee. This enables them
not only to- hear their own joyful song
but the compositions Of their rivals as
well. The two hind legs are very strong
and long, with broad thighs near the
body, supplied with a supple joint which
enables them to make high jump
Grasshoppers seem to lack the ability
to sense direction, except when migrat-
ing Their jumps often land them in
queer places and usually in trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
|DorothyDlx|
Finds Men
Need More
LoDe
Capital
Should
Husband
or Wife
Love More?

CORRESPONDENT
love the the woman?" OF the ideal state
thing you know but unfortunately this happy state Of affairs seldom
Nearly always the other permits himself
herself be kissed the old French provb puts It, and when this
is the better the ksr
than the kiSee
As matter Of fact speaking Cupid held at
weddings
amount OF sentiment into it. Nor this surprising The average man
brides
this country bring their husbands except their selves
On the other hand while not appeal
them liking still
them often
for whom they have only Mkewam affection because
they want home
PERHAPs a provision usually
generally
speaking invest their all affection cousp
the
puts marriage expands
many why very
being provider
meat Of poetry
1MosT
kind will trouble
ladov household But
vamped.
y the dpassnate observer the just attractive
the middle aged
MAN should be his wife need
love more than do They dependent love than
his ambitions If
the dsagreeabe fails
their husbands love-
everything in give
happiest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01

for some ones cousin. All that's bad
enough, but there's worse. Never in all
my 20-odd years of working for living
have heard Of a business 50 full OF
backbiting, Of plotting, Of schemes to
get the other girl out of her job.
A brilliant writer who Is such q sue
cess that she can afford to be honest
explained to me why.
You see," she said, most of us were
having hard time getting along before
We came out here. Perhaps we'd writ
ten a book or play which had good
reviews, but it probably didn't make
money. Then out We came here with
huge contracts. We're making a lot of
us five times as much money as we have
ever made before in our lives.
Naturally" she went on, "mcst of us
have an uneasy feeling that We aren't
earning what we get. A lot of US are,
all right. But it's hard for us to be-
lieve So we're always afraid the powers
will find us out. We expect each day
they'll say. This woman is overpaid.
Let's not renew her contract"
But" asked her, why do the pic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

We was eating brekf1st this morning
and ma sed to pop, Its very funny I
haven't had an anser from my sister
Fanny yet, asked her very particu-
lilly to let me know what size gloves
little Herbit wears so could send him
nice pair for his BIRTHDAY, and
haven't received the fainteSt indication
Of response.
Maybe Herbit never wears gloves, so
naturally there wouldent be any gloves
Of that particular size, and perhaps your
sister Fanny is in a quandary and a
dilemma, not to say. at loss for an
anser, pop Sed.
My private opinion is that you never
mailed my letter to Fanny, and a per-
son cant anser letter they never re-
ceeved. because the days of fizzical i'm
possibilities are over, ma Sed. Willyum
Potts are you sure you mailed that let
ter? she sed
My dear. can show you the mail
box dropped it into, Pop sed. Id rec
konize that mailbox III the dark because
the little iron flap over the letter slot
opens outwerds, he sed.
Well my goodness how do all the
others open, pray? ma sed, and pop sed,
I'm not 1ntristed in the others, but II
you want 1erLner PROOF, Lrl1S particular
flap also squeeks little when you raise
It. It gives q little rusty squeek in the
key Of A fiat, its rather fascinating, and
in fact I've herd that musicians come
from miles around to drop their letters
in that particular box. Id initiate it for
you, but my throat is little horse and
I wouldent care to get it wrong, he sed.
The main point is, mailed your letter,
he sed.
Well G, ma, whats that letter In the
red book up in your room. with a stamp
on it and everything? I sed, and ma
sed. My lands that's it, used it for a
bookmark and then 1 started to reed
another book. My goodness 1 never
even gave it to you to mail, so how
could you of mailed it in a music box
or any other kind of a box, Willyum I
think you're PERFECTLY awful, she sed.
If had to depend on you to get all my
letters mailed my correspondents would
never have any beginning or end,
think you're terrible, she sed.
Its womanS world, pop sed.
And he folded up his paper and went
down to the Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
Celebration for the Children
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

The celebration Of the Fourth Of July
in safe and sane way is continually
gaining ground. The number Of acct
dents has decreased because Of 1t, and
the atmosphere Of anxiety in families
also. In order for the day to continue
to have gaiety and glamor for the young
folk, however, parents should cooperate
with program committees, not neces-
sarily in any official way, but in the
same spirit, to provide entertainment
that will be engrossing as well as full
Of fun.
One of the outstanding features that
has proven successful is the community
parade for youngsters. Again let me
remind you Of this. It can occupy the
better part of the entire morning. 1t
is an active diversion, and one in which
the children themselves can choose
their own leaders and form their own
companies under the head adult di-
rector.
Different clubs or children from GER
tain streets can vie with one another to
win banner for the years supremacy
in some special thing. II there are sew
eral competitions, and no one group be
allowed to win but one prize, honors can
be distributed and the good spirits kept
high. For example, one can win for
the best marching, one for the best
music, one for the best appearance, in
which costuming can enter, or regalia;
one for the best banners of its own
make, etc.
There can be community luncheon,
in which parents of children in specific
groups provide the food, or parents can
bring lunch baskets for their own fami-
lies. The ice cream, without which no
childs feast is complete, should be pro-
vided from a community purse, thereby
insuring every individual getting share
and minimizing the cost to a wholesale
price. Peanuts or popcorn provided in
the same way are suggested.
Another event should be planned for
the afternoon, followed by an evening
celebration. The latter Is generally a
display managed entirely by the mu-
nicipality. Sports in the afternoon,
especially competitive ones, will create
widespread interest.
In all of these events fireworks, ex-
cept in the hands Of the municipality,
are eliminated. Danger turks in these,
whatever their kind. Whoever handles
them IS literally playing with fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
Cool and Smart in Warm Weather
BY MARY MARSHALL.

of this sort without the slightest dif-
ficulty. You may make it in two pieces
or one, using a simple pattern with W
neck closing and tucks on the shoulder.
For the skirt you will want a hounce
about 10 inches deep after a marrow mem
has been taken. Mark the skirt 10
inches up from the hem and measure
the distance around. Three times TINS
measurement will give you the right size
for your flounce, because the box pleat,
ing calls for three times the finished
amount. The ruffie for the peplum
should be eight or nine inches after a
hem Is made. Take a generous waist
measurement and multiply this by three
for the amount needed.
The sleeve ruffleS should be ABOUT
seven inches finished. If the edge OF
the fiared sleeve measures about u
inches, you will need two pieces "a
inches long for the box-pleated sleeve
frillS. The peplum is made with an
opening at the center front, while the
skirt flounce and sleeve frillS are scanned
up.
If you have on hand last seasons
silk crepe dress of navy blue or black,
you may use the old material to make
the skirt and bodice, using matching
georgette for the pleated frills and
sleeves, as well as the bows down the
front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01

SentativeS. But at the same time it is
of vital importance.
Political careers depend on these pri-
vate measures. Most of them are of no
interest whatever to anybody else in
Congress, but to the member who intro
duceS one it means much. Let him fail
to get action on a legitimate claim of
this kind and there will be created an
eddying circle of unfavorable comment
back home on his congressional EN-
cheney.
Newcomers quickly learn the ropes.
Soon they discover that a belligerent
attitude availS them nothing; that what
is needed is a combination of tact, pa
tience and a keen eye to detect the
right parliamentary and psychological
moment. All must learn this lesson
sooner or later.
There comes to mind situation OBJ
served on the floor of the Senate re-
Gently when a new Senator first was
impressed that patience and growing
knowledge of the ways of the Senate
are necessary.
He had a minor local bill which al
ready had passed both House and Sen
ate, but had been lost en- route to the
White House. It was all to do over
again. He tried to bring 1t up at one
of those hurly-burly moments in the
Senate, but was blocked by an objec-
ton.
He looked peeved, but one of his vet
eran Republican brethren talked with
him bit aside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
DELI 1NlL OlO1NAIO ". Burgess.

any one there, he could do no more
than drive them out 1t was down
there that they made a dreadful dis
covery. The owner was there, but he
was no longer alive. He had been
killed right there in his bed room,
and as no one but that black-footed
stranger had been in there, there was
no longer show of doubt that he was
the worst of enemies, for he could, and
did, enter houses.
1t is question which gave the
young Prairie-dogs the greatest shock,
the finding of the victim of the black
footed stranger or the discovery that
the one place they always had felt to
be absolutely safe, an underground
house, was not safe after all. A great
fear took possession of them. What a
dreadful place the Great World was,
after all. They left that house just as
soon as they dared. When they learned
that a whole family had been killed in
the second house they had seen Black
foot enter, they were. filled with dis
may. They we're afraid to stay out in
the open, and they were afraid to stay
in the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
Egg Shampoo.

If there is any one person in the
world who would be quite justified in
occasionally INDUCING in the remark,
IT told you So" it is grandmother. For,
years after her oldfaShioned beauty
remedies may have been discarded for
something more modern, the best OF
them have way of returning to popu--
larity because their real worth cannon
be ignored The egg shampoo IS one OF
grandmother's favorites, and time has
proved that it is just as good today as
it was in times of yore when the mar
ket did not afford so many attractlVeIy
bottled brands of ShampooS.
The white-of-egg shampoo is espe-
cially recommended for light SHADES OF
hair. It is also a very good shampoo
for those whose ScalpS may be In a
sensitive condition and for older people
with snow-white hair who wish TO keep
it from turning dingy yellow. YoiKS
Of eggs make an effective shampoo lot
dark hair, as they contain sulphur ana
iron, both of which tend to darKen
blonde or white hair.
In using the white-of-egg shampoo
take the whites Of two eggs and ado a
tablespoonful Of roSewater Tor eacn
white. Beat the whites and the rose
water up together and then massage
this mixture well through the hair ana
over the entire scalp. If desired, a
little CASTLE soap liquid may also De
added to the white-of-egg mixture.
Continue massaging the white of-egg
mixture over the scalp and hair until
all of it has been used, and then rinse
it of in several tepid waters until the
hair Is perfectly clean. If desired, a
special blonde rinse or bluing for white
hair may be used as the final rinslng.
A mild blonde rinse is made as follows:
Two tablespoonfuls of peroxide, one
tablespoonful of ammonia and one quart
of water.
Brunettes may employ the egg sham
poo by beating up the yolks of two eggs