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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
Junk Merely SCrapped

VERY intelligent person knows
H that if another great war
occurred, 1t would be fought with
bombs from the air, poison gas and,
perhaps, deadly germs, but how
much talk do you hear about such
instrumentalities at the disarm-
ament conferences?
Nobody is giving up anything, ex-
cept what obviously is antiquated
and ineffective.
The elimination of oxcarts, or
wheelbarrows, would do about as
much good as all the junk that has
been Scrapped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

dence that the standard of truth
has been raised by the commission's
engineers since the hearing of the
Carmel case?
Some one should inform Mr..
Hiner that what the public is seek
ing is a reasonable reduction of
utility rates, based upon an honest
appraisal, sworn to by honest ap-
praisa1 engineers.
1t is unbelievable that one Of his
business experience and a candi-
date for Governor would not know
the proper procedure to obtain
these desired results.
HARRY G. BARKER.
Carmel, Ind.
Editor Times-A few days ago I
was going to Clermont, Ind, and
what do you think I saw two men.
with q state highway truck, doingP
Each had a Sharpened stick and
were picking up little strips Of paper
that some advertiser had scattered
along the highway, and putting
them in the truck.
Maybe they call that work, but
as I look at 1t, with as much as
there should be done on the roads,
we could get a little more for our
money as taxpayers. But maybe
they might have been working for
their two-day basket of food. Even
at that, it looks to me as though
it was pretty expensive.
P. S. THOMAS.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID l)IETZ

The Art of Medicine Goes
Back IN an Unbroken Ira
dition to the Dusk of Pre-
historic Time.
MEDICINE is an art as well as a
IV1 science. This was the thesis
developed by Professor David Ries-
man. professor of clinical medicine
of the University of Pennsylvania.
in an address before the Harvard
medical school.
The successful practice Of medi-
cine requires the combination Of
both the art of medicine and the
science of medicine, Professor Ries-
man said.
"Dr. John Brown. the gentle au-
thor of 'Rab and His Friends long
ago said that art uses one eye and
science the other, but wisdom uses
BOTH" DR.. Riesman told his audi
ence.
1.-THE art and the science Of medi-
cine are like the two sides of a
shield; neither can exist alone;
neither by itself can achieve the
grand goal for which medicine has
been striving through the ages-to
relieve suffering and to prevent
disease.
I'm its composite character Of art
and science, medicine does not differ
from some other occupations, from
that of the blacksmith or that of
the mason. I can illustrate what
mean by story.
II once wanted a stone wall built
from my house to the garage-a
simple wall slightly curved. Any
mason knowing the science Of put
ting one stone upon another, of
dropping perpendicular, should
have been able to do it.
But upon inquiry was advised
to get an Italian mason because
the Italians, so I was told, had q
natural feeling for stone and would
give me a beautiful wall"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28
Prehistoric Beginning

TINE art of medicine is far older
l. than the science of medicine.
DR.. Riesman told his audience.
1T is possible to fix an approx
mate date in history for the Begin
ming of the science of medicine" he
said.
"Some think it began in a feebls
way with Herophilus of Alexandria.
Galen, the 200th anniversary Of
whose birth was recently celebrated,
made a better beginning but after
him the scientific or, as we might
also call it, the experimental side
of medicine slumbered for nearly
1900 years; virtually until Harvey's
discovery of the circulation of the
blood in 1915.
"The art of medicine, the care Of
the patient on the other hand, goes
back in an unbroken tradition to
the very beginnings of the healing
art.
ut must have begun in what Dol
ley calls the dusk of the prehistoric
time. Astronomy is the only branch
of human knowledge that might vie
with medicine in length of lineage.
"The spirit that has animated the
art of medicine in these long ages
is beautifully expressed in the name
Of the first physician recorded in
history-the great Egyptian limbo
tep, whose name means He who
cometh in peace
What do we understand by the
art Of medicine? The phrase, as I
have said, is largely though not
wholly synonymous with that of the
care Of the patient.
I'm actuality, however, it has a
much wider connotation, for it con-
Germs itself not only with the sick
individual but with the totality of
his environment-his family, his
friends, his occupation, his social
and pecuniary status; indeed with
everything that can favor or retard
his recovery from Illness"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

Is there more than one species Of
wo0dpecker?
There is large family Of picidae,
or woodpeckers, and about $50 spe-
cies inhabiting nearly all parts Of
the world.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

country thoroughly subsidized ano
bound. 1t is certainly a nationa,
problem, not in the province Of
states rights or local option. We
have had our experience with that
So is the control of public utility
services a national problem, and sc
is taxation. The federal admins
tration easily could control these
three big features, without one BIZ
of interference with state rights.
What real leader, a Lincoln, a
Roosevelt, a Wilson, would do would
be to call a special session of con-
gress and read them a real straight
from-the-shoulder message, telling
legislators what is to be done, and
nothing less would be considered.
The first thing he should direct
would be repeal of the Volstead act.
Then he should read to them
something about an act to regulate
the service rates of public utilities,
to something commensurate with
the actual cost of giving service,
without the leeching and bleeding
OF corporation subsidiaries by hold
ing companies, and the inconsist-
ency of fixing rates on watered
capitalization, instead of the valua-
ton for taxes.
It all looks simple and easy. The
moonshiner and bootIegger must be
routed first. AS long as they can
stuff the ballot box and buy public
offices, we can't have any govern
ment. It is up to the national gov
eminent to take the lead. States
can easily follow. What do you
think of it?
G. E. BARCUS, M. D.
Editor TimeS-Ward B. Hiner has
brought suit in Marion circuit
court, in which he seeks to man.
date the public service commission
to make an appraisal of the prop
erty OF various Indianapolis utili-
ties and INDUCES himself in the be-
lief that such appraisal, by the COM
missions engineers, would result in
a reduction Of rates charged by
these utilities.
1t would be interesting to know
the real reason back of this suit.
Is Mr.. Hiner trying to spring a
practical joke? His complaint seems
to disclose a most sanguine belief
In the integrity of the commission s
appraisal engineers, which belief,
can. from experience, assure Mr..
Hiner is misplaced very much.
Allegations of the complaint fol-
low very closely the theory" of the
Shively-Spencer regulatory act, but
it is far cry from the theory and
intent Of this act, to the actual
administration Of it.
1t is a matter of record-and I
have copy of the record-that the
engineer who made the appraisal of
the Carmel telephone system showed
the same degree Of respect for his
obligations as the kaiser did for
the treaties which he called scraps
of paper"
The commissions appraisal, in
this case, just proved again the
truth of that old maxim that,
figures can't lie, but liars can
figure" The engineer who made
this appraisal had been in the en-
ploy Of the public service commits
sion for twelve years, and was paid
his salary by the taxpayers. When
the writer attempted to cite him to
the grand jury, to answer to a
charge of perjury, the commission
er who was conducting the hearing
said, forget it, this is rate case,
not a criminal trial.
Has Mr.. Hiner any tangible evil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-28

Fully to understand grand and
beautiful thought requires, perhaps,
as much time as to conceive it.
Joubert.
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Daily Thought

Receive us; we have wronged
no man, we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man.
Corinthians IL.
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spats are all right for bachelor, but bad for
newlyweds
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
What's in Fashion?
Hats for Different Costumes
Directed by Amos Parrish

New York-A small, cloSe-fit-
ting turban is one good hat for
a tailored costume. A simple,
medium. width brimmed hat is
another. So Is hat with a
brim that turns up, like the tri.
corne or bicorne.
Soft TricOrne
We've had sketched at the
upper right one of these turned
up.brim hats of the tricorne
variety. It's not one Of the
very regular-line, sharp-angled
tricornes, but one of the newer
softer. more irregular ones.
For o more feminine costume
"a soft, dressmaker type suit,
or soft-looking coat and dress
nothing's lovelier than one of
the new flower-trimmed hats.
provided you pick one that's
becoming, Of courseo
Manipulated Brim
We've shown one in the Sec
ond sketch-one with the
manipulated brim you've been
hearing about. ('Manipulated"
means twisted or draped in
some unusual way)
Lots Of brimleSS hats, too, are
flower trimmed. Sometimes one
or two flowers are put on at the
back of the neck. Sometimes
along one side.
Another feminine flower
trimmed hat is the so-called
"Watteau," named after the
artist who painted pictures Of
ShepherdeSseS in hats that
turned up in the back and had
flowers massed at one side.
Youthful Turbans
Now-if you're small and
youthful Cor youthful looking)
and wear youthful-loo ooking
clothes, try one of those close
fitting turbans with the rolled
edge that Agnes, the Paris mil
liner, designed. It gives a sort
of halo effect around the face
and makes anyone look wide
. eyed and innocent, sort Of.
Or, instead of the roll, it
might have a band of small
flowers along the edge to give
the same effect. The flower
trimmed turban is a dressier
hat, Of course, than the one
with the fabric roll.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
THE BEAUTY
BOX

To dig out stain and CRIME
from the caves Of the finger
nails dip an orange wood stick
in peroxide and then in pow
dered pumice stone and scrub.
These two agents, combined,
form a paste that produces
clear, white nail edges. Battle
afterwards with soapsuds and a
a stiff brush.
No chemical can be used to
make the hair white. Women
with salt-and-pepper locks oft
times berate the transition Pc
riod, long for the snowy crest.
Anything strong enough to
whiten the hair is strong enough
to destroy the structure Of the
hair itself. Time takes care of
the problem.
Constipation is sometimes the
cause Of swollen tissue under
the eyes. Lack of sleep win Gre
ate them, as will also the need
OF fresh air and exercise. Tenn
porary relief is found in bath
ing the eyes first with hot
water, then with cold, and rest
ing the eyes for Is minutes un-
der congresses Of absorbent
cotton that have been dipped
in witch hazel.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
QUESTION OF EARLY MARRIAGE = By Beatrice Farfs
Famous Expert Discusses
Chance for. Happiness

) promises to be successful. For
wives are the touchstone Of sue
cess nine times out Of 10. Stop,
} look, listen-think Of all the
successful men who have been
literally made by some patient,
watchfM wife, who has been
content to remain hn the back
ground and make things run
smoothly for her husband.
The SeR-Starter
Your average girl without
money or many opportunities
for meeting successful men has
got to take the goods the gods
provide and work the material
over into what we may call q
"self-starter." If the self.
starter" has q gift, bent, incli-
nation along a particular line
she can help him tremendously
toward developing it. She can
encourage him, her woman's
wits can scent opportunities,
she can be the good partner
that real marriage presupposes.
And while many people may
disagree with me, 1t seems bet
ter for the average man or
woman to marry, even If they're
not riotously happy, than not
to marry at all. This, Of
course, excludes marriage with
drunkards, gamblers, loafers
and men who are constitutional
skirt-chaSers.
The Better Plan
But given the average Of
decency, it's better to marry
John Smith than to remain all
ones life Miss Mary Jones.
If you have children, the
chances are they'll make up to
you for Johns dullness and
long-windedness; if you're do
mestic. you'll get a certain
amount of pleasure out of your
home, and when real trouble
knocks at your door, the aver
age husband or wife is better
to fall back on than the most
understanding of neighbors.
Copyright, 1891, International
Features Service, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
HEALTH AND
DIET
BY Logan Clendening-

Since we suggested the form
ing Of reducing clubs in diff.
ferent neighborhoods and differ
ent cities, there is another thing
I would like to see proved or
disproved.
The statement often is made
that you can reduce where you
need to. That you can lose, for
instance, around the hips and
nowhere else on the body. I
do not know whether this Is
true or not. It is reasonable
to suppose that since the hips
and buttocks have great deal
of fat, and fat is the tissue the
body breaks down in the reduc-
ing process, that the hips would.
naturally, reduce more rapidly
than any other part Of the body
during a reducing cure.
His Grave Doubts
I have grave doubts, however.
whether this is true of the
arms and calves and ankles, for
which special exercises are also
prescribed. But am willing
to be convinced, and would like
to obtain accurate measure
ments, the result Of expert.
mentS.
Measurements for ideal proper
tions show that for women
aged 20 to 40 the hips should
be 80 inches at a height under
5 feet; "a inches at feet; "a
inches at S feet 3 inches; 36 at
5 feet inches; 3e at 5 feet 8
inches. Over the age of 40, 33
inches when under 5 feet; IS
inches at S feet / inch, up to 3
inches; 80 at S feet 6 inches,
and 40 at S feet 8 inches. The
measurement should be made at
the level of the trocha1ter Of
the femur.
Some Useful Exercises
Exercises used to reduce the
hips are:
l. Standing position, arms
extended. Squat down, rising
on the toes until you sit on
your heels.
q. Standing position, raise
extended right leg to level Of
hips in front of body. Same
with left leg.
4. Lying on back. Bend knees
and bend hips, bringing knees
up towards chin so that fore
legs are flat on abdomen.
S. Lying on back. Do bicycle
movements.
6. Lying on side. Raise leg
straight up and down, in scis-
sors movement. Roll over on
other side and repeat with other
leg.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

No longer do pretty lips hide
behind a heavily painted screen
of Chinese red. If rouge is used,
it is of the natural tone, which
is a deep red, with a slightly
blue cast. Bite the lips, hold
the lipstick close and see If the
color is the same. Makeup be-
comes more and more discreet,
as BELTS the feminine note in
sartorial draperies. The pres
ent-day seeker after style and
beauty endeavors to appear lady
like. There is a complete face
about from the gamin-girl type
of the last few years+she Of
short socks, short skirts and
short hair.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
BY Anne Adams.

Pattern 2O94 makes up beau
tifully in dimity, lawn, pongee,
pique or cotton broadcloth. If
a print is selected, be sure to
do the shocking with thread
the color of the design. Smock-
ing Pattern 563 Is Fifteen Cents
extra.
May be obtained only in sizes
2, 4, 6 and 8. Size 4 requires
214 yards of 36-inch material.
Send Is cents, coin or stamps
for each pattern giving name,
address: style number and size
wanted. Send for Spring and
Summer fashion book, price Is
cents. Book with pattern, rs
cents Address Washington
Times Pattern Bureau, 243
West 18th st.. New York City.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
MAKE-BELIEVE :, By Faith Baldwin

would cnOOSe, WHICH, since IL
had to be, must go overheard.
After all, no matter how
shrewd the scheming, things
would go wrong. They always
did. Truth has a way of ap-
pearing, when least expected
and least desired. Mary Lou
had no very clear idea Of what
Mrs. Lorrimer planned to do,
save that she hoped that Larry
Mitchell might find out the
truth from Delight, without her
knowing the real reason, and
then, whatever that truth, that
she had planned to see Delight
safely out of the country, still
ignorant of circumstances; or,
If she learned them by chance,
she would be offered money,
bought off, gotten rid Of.
moi" said Mary Lou.
Black was black and white
was white. Mary Lou was
very young. She knew very
little about shades Of gray
which lie in between. She
could, in a measure, understand
something of Mrs. Lorrimer's
maternal savagery in defend
ing her son, as she thought,
from unhappiness. But she
couldn't understand wholly, not
at her age. And she was at the
age, moreover, which feels that
important decisions affecting
human lives should be made
by those lives themselves, not
by the intervention Of parents,
no matter how wise, how dear.
Lorrimer was not a child. He
was not even the boy who had
gone blithely to France, to find
love and adventure, pain and
disaster there. He was @ grown
man, an adult, fully capable Of
making his own decisions.
Delight Has A Right
And Delight? Surely she
too had a right. She was as
much concerned in this as the
rest Of them. AS Lorrimer's
wife, perhaps, who had thought
herself his widow. Perhaps
she had remarked? Why hadn't
that occurred to Mrs. Lorrimer.
It was quite possible that she
had done so. She should be
given an opportunity, if that
were the case, to legalize that
marriage in all good faith. Or
If she hadn't married, if her
heart still remembered Lorri-
mer, she should be granted the
opportunity to prove her heart,
to make the memory reality.
This matter lay, as Mary
Lou saw it, between Lorrimer
and Delight Hartford.
If, somehow, she could go
away knowing that things had
been cleared up between them,
that, for better or worse, they
had met, had come to some un-
derstanding, she would go
away, if not happier, at least
more content with the role she
had played.
Before she slept, in that
golden dawn, she had made up
her mind to go to New York
and see Delight Hartford for
herself, to tell her the truth,
to put it up to her, to leave 1t
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
An Authority on Problems OF
Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage
"For the sake of monogamy,
men and women should marry
as young as possible" said DR..
Olga Knopf, of the New York
University. Her province is
the human mind and its opera
tionS. She admits she's revolu-
tionary.
"Your chance for happiness
will be better if you wait until
your Judgment is more mature,
80 is the ideal age to marry"
says an English woman author
and lecturer whose position in
the educational world is quite
as eminent as that Of DR..
Knopf. So you pay your
money and take your choice"
as to which of these ladies Is
correct. Perhaps each Is right.
It depends entirely on the in
dividual whether it is wise to
marry early or late. There
are excellent arguments for
both sides.
Poor Apt to Wed Young
The poor are apt to marry
young or see their chances di-
minish with the years. Poor
young men with ambition are
not likely to remain poor, they
climb and look for wives
perched on a higher round of
the ladder than the girls they
went to school and played
around with in early youth.
It's the same with poor,
clear headed and ambitious
girls, they wait, depend On
beauty parlors to keep their
schoolgirl complexion, and very
probably marry the junior part
ner of his equivalent in the
firm where they hold down
secretarial jobs.
Such a recognized shortcut
to successful marriage has busi-
ness become, that the daugh-
ters of wealthy parents more
often enter professions and
mercantile houses than waste
time and effort on coming out
parties.
The Real "LOw Down"
What's called the '1oW down"
on the situation is that enor-
nous sums of money are spent
to bring out a girl in society
where she's apt to meet men
who are idlers, wasters, and
whose frank and unashamed
business it is to sweep the ho-
rizon. telescope in hand, in
search of daughters of the
rich. Papa and Mama see It's
a better plan to start girls
where they'll meet worthwhile
men in the beginning, than to
attempt to establish them in
life through the medium of the
ball room and the country
club.
Be that as it may, a poor
girls best chance for settling
herself in life is to marry
rather early, take the raw hus-
band material in hand and do
it over into something that
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
By FAY KING
CHAPTER "a.

She did not cry. She was
long past tears now.
"You can't go, yet," said Mrs.
Lorrimer. you'll have to help
me a little longer. I know what
I'm asking of you. I realize
it fully. But I do ask it. I'm
a very selfish woman"-she
tried to smile. where Travers
is concerned. I've seen-this
other girl, Mary Lou. He'll
never be happy with her. And
all night I've been thinking
what I must do"
What have you decided?"
Mary Lou asked, very steadily.
She held one hand within the
other and sat erect on the little
footstool. She was deadly tired.
Slowly, with many Interrupt
tions, for explanations, excuses,
motives, Margaret told her all
that had passed through her
mind that evening. Mary Lou
listened and said nothing.
IF it could be worked out, "
ended Margaret, at length, and
asked, do you think it could
be?"
Probably" said Mary Lou.
"And you-agree with me?
Oh, Mary Lou. if this business
of the marriage is cleared up
and this-this girl disposed of,
can't you see what it will mean
to all of us-to me, to Travers,
to you?" urged Mrs. Lorrimer
a little startled by the odd, un-
yielding look in the small, pale
face.
eyes, I see. In a way. But
it couldn't mean anything to
me. I couldn't take anything"
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
FASHIONS
F A n CIES


Don't look at one of the
new white satin evening coats
if you are inclined to be
envious. For they are ex-
pensive and fragile. Paris
sends an exquisite model in
white satin with a one-sided
band Of silva fox as trimming,
the same fur being used as a
border on q one-sided cape.
The crepe may be draped in
different ways. The coat is
three-quarters in length, has
long sleeves and Is tned with
dark green vRSNAA
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
Times Daily Health Hint

Every infant needs protein, fat, sugar, salts and
water. These are best obtained from mothers milk
or prepared cows milk formula.
The Washington times., 1931-03-24
CORRECT
MANNERS
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-

Both Forms Are Correct
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
Will you please help me, as I
feel embarrassed at times and
only lately have ever lived
among strangers. When one
desires to have something
handed to her at the table, just
how should the request be
worded? I notice that some
people say, please pass this or
that" and others say May I
have so and SOP" Please word
the form just as it should be
used, as know my every move
is watched. c.
Both forms are correct, since
both are straightforward re-
quests. But probably the latter
one May I have the salt,
please?" is a bit easier to
say.