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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE ------
Climate Not a Cure for Disease

in widely separated universities and
under different conditions of CHI
mate.
At Stanford university, where the
climate is mrnild and soft, about the
same number Of men j neach hun
dred had common colds under every
circumstances as to ways Of living
as had coryza in Harvard, where the
climate is much colder and indeed
rigorous.
Women students at Stanford and
women students at Wellesley, rep
resenting similar contrasting con-
ditions, also had about the same
number Of infections Of the nose
and throat.
This point of view also was
reached by Ellsworth Huntington,
who has given special attention to
the relationships of climate and dis
ease and discussed them in book
on the subject.
Thus there is in contrast the point
Of view of the scientific investiga-
tor who carefully compares two
groups and the empirical opinion
which represents the establishe be-
lief CT centuries.
The physicians in the so-called
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-Having been a
reader and subscriber for several
years, I believe 7 am qualified to
utter an honest opinion.
We have thousands Of unem-
ployed walking the streets searching
for work, with no chance of success.
The government spends millions Of
dollars yearly in the vain and futile
attempt TO enforce the dry laws.
It's impossible.
Besides spending so much of the
peoples money, the government
loses the revenue of taxed liquors.
There are millions of bushels Of
surplus grain with no one knowing
what to do with it. and the govern
ment has created farm board, to
gamble the peoples money for grain
stocks. and the grain stocks they
have spent the peoples money for
are just plain paper.
Some of the grain the government
has spent the peoples money for
has not been put in the ground vet.
They'll buy all they can. then ''the
government Of the people, by the
people, and for the people" will sell
it to the people at prices the people
can not pay.
Let's have public referendum on
the dry laws and see what people
want
Repeal of the dry laws VIII cur
tail and relieve unemployment. solve
the grain p bblsna. save and earn
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health regions assert that the infec-
tons are many in such areas be-
cause most people with infections
go there and the opportunity for
infection is greater.
OF course, some consideration
must be accorded to this argument.
Dr.. Barnllill is convinced that
much depends on the kind of pa
tent who is involved. The class
of patient most benefited by a
change to warm. dry climate is one
whose resistance is low, who takes
cold easily and who suffers more
or less constantly from some in
f1amnlation Of the nose, throat and
sinuses from the first frost in the
autumn to the last frost in spring.
However, he feels that it is not
always justif1able or expedient to
send large percentage of patients
away from home.
A change Of climate is in most in
stances still rich mans expert
ment, and a patient should not be
sent away from home who has not
ample resources or who is not fully
ISSUED beforehand of having some
way Of making living when he
| goes to the new climate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
During the War

A TTEMPTS to develop synthetic
IN rubber are not new. Synthetic
rubbers we're developed in Germany
as early at 1909, and in England
few years later.
In 1912 when the Eighth Interna-
tional Congress Of Applied Chenlis-
try was held in New York, Carl
Duisberg Of Germany exhibited a
set Of auto tires made of synthetic
rubber which had run 1000 miles.
Duisberg was very optimistic and
after admitting the high cost Of the
synthetic product and the difficult
ties Of manufacturing it, vent on to
say, But such difficulties do not in
timidate the chemist and manufae-
.turer; on the contrary, they spur
them on to further efforts. The
stone is rolling and we will see to it
that it reaches its destination.
But Duisberg's prophecy proved a
bit hasty and the stone did not roll
along as rapidly as he predicted.
The World war, however, made it
necessary for German chemists to
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high seas and Germany no longer
could depend upon the tropics for
raw materials.
Germany could not use the fer
mentation of starches as a first step
in the manufacture of synthetic
rubber, because the nation was al
ready facing shortage of food
stuffs. Accordingly, the German
chemists turned to coal as the start
ing point.
Coal, when heated with lime.
yields calcium carbide. This, with
water, produces acetylene gas.
Acetylene gas can be changed into
acetalyehyde, which in turn can be
transformed into acetic acid, and
finally into acetone.
Acetone then can be used as the
foundation for the manufacture of
methyl-isoprene, which in its turn
can be transformed into artificial
rubber,
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food furnished, and we paid dear
for what we got. They Jared Just
as well as we did, as we ate the
slop that Hoover didn't want him
self.
I think soldiers depend on the
government too much. If they are
disabled, let them have a pension.
and if they are able-bodied and
able to work, let them work until
they get disabled, as they are no
better than our old soldiers were.
Politics will do anything. and Of
course you understand that the
bonus bill was one more excuse for
the Republican party to get into
power.
Looks to me as If some Of the
people Of the United States would
get their eyes open and would get
tired Of living on promises.
o. z. GARRETT.
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Injustice in Saddle

DHYSICAL cruelty no longer
4 plays the part it once did, but
the ugly thread of injustice and I'M
equal opportunity still mars the
wall
No one with common sense will
argue that the ruthlessness of a
Soviet represents an acceptable
substitute for conditions which pre-
vailed in the so-called capitalistic
countries, but it does represent a
feeling of dissatisfaction with those
conditions which can not be ig-
nored.
There is one reassuring side to
the Spanish upheaval.
Apparently, We have come to a
point where not only the people, but
kings, can see the wisdom Of chang
ing form of government, even in
the most fundamental way, without
war or bloodshed.
Let us hope that we have come
to q point where other problems
can be met and solved with similar
good sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BEogS

COMMENTING the other day on
~ what seemed to me a lack of
true popular and journalistic per-
spective, I wrote:
eff the reply comes that on the
gridiron young men learn the very
essence of citizenship and patriot
ism and Of cooperation, must
answer that this is putting too
heavy a load upon the sport and
that I don't believe it,
Well, the reply has come from
many. Nevertheless, I still don't
believe it. Here, for instance, is a
typical letter from Bert w. Hen
erickson. He writes:
eff you have never played the
glorious game of football under an
inspiring leader, you are more to be
pitied than scorned in your state
ment, I don't believe it,
"You also say, But I must say
frankly that it is a curious world in
which the teaching of a game looms
up larger in the popular magma
C4O11 G1ldII 1IISCI UCI4OIl III JIG very
principles of life itself
This. in my opinion, is the idle
vaporing of one to whom the spirit
of athletic competition is a matter
of theory only.
Thousands of men can tell you,
without any reservation, that foot
ball under proper guidance teaches
one the love of clean and fair play,
sacrifice, cooperation, team play
and not individUalism, sterling les
sons learned in both victory and de-
feat, respect for the rules Of the
game and your opponents, and,
above all, the game is the greatest
builder of character in the whole
run of sports.
Principles of life'-that is a
loose and relative expression. If by
it you mean some Of the things you
advocate now and then in your col
unln I say to you with a fervent
Thank God!' football does not teach
them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
About the Future

THE manufacture of synthetic
a rubber from netllyl-isoprene is
known technically as polymeriza-
ton. 1t is chemical reaction, in
which the molecules Of the methyl-
lsoprene are made to combine into
the much larger molecules which
are characteristic Of rubber.
After this is accomplished, .vuIca~
nization must be carried out to OBJ
tain the artificial rubber.
1t is estimated that during the
World war Germany succeeded in
producing 1880 tons. This is a
small quantity compared with the
amount of naturel rubber used by
the world.
It's manufacture would not have
been worth while had not the war
cut off Gernany's natural supply.
Many chemists, however, are
hopeful of the future. They feel
positive that less expensive methods
can be developed.
1t IS pointed out that in the
crack Of petroleum, certain hydro
carbons very similar to isoprene are
obtained.
Professor Roger Adams of the
University Of Illinois has estimated
that if these could be made into
synthetic rubber without loss. it
would be possible to produce four
billion pounds of rubber from ST.
100000 million barrels Of petroleum.
But the difficulty to be faced here
is the fact that the petroleum sup
ply itself is beginning to run low.
There also is another line of at
tack. Some chemists say that it is
a mistake to attempt to duplicate
natural rubber They say that the
thing to 90 is to develop products
OF a different sort which will be
superior to rubber.
In this connection, they point out
that rubber is used for many prod
ucts in spite Of obvious drawbacks,
merely because nothing better has
been devised.
Their idea is not to duplicate rub
Der, but to produce something bet
ter
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ANNIVERSARY
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CAPTURE OF LENS

CAPTURE OK LENS
April 15
ON April IS, 1917, at between 4
~ and 5 in the morning, the first
British troops entered Lens, their
objective.
The offensive began April 9 along
front Of forty-flve miles, having
for its immediate objective Lens at
one end and ST. Quentin at the
other.
This is the struggle which has be-
come known as the Battle of Arras
although at the end Of seven DAYS
fighting the scene shifted constd
erably TO the east Of the city, which
has given its name to the battle.
The occupation Of Lens marked
the recovery for France Of the coun-
try's most valuable coal fields.
At the other end Of the fortv-fve
miles the British practically had
won their way into the suburbs of
ST. Quentin, with the Germans
making a stubborn last stand In
the city itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
The Kings Fade Out

HAPSBURG. Hohenzollern, Ro-
L 4 rnanoff, Bourbon-they vir-
tually have trod on one another's
heels in doing the most stupendous
fade-out in history. 1t is the eli
max Of a drama which has been
going on for nearly seven centuries
and which owes its conception to
dawn-time.
We have gone far since the pope
undertook to divide the world be-
tween the kings of Portugal and
Spain, and yet we were on our way
at that time.
Plato wrote his republic fifty
generations before any Bourbon was
heard Of, and Moore dreamed his
Utopia into being ere the Spanish
empire had attained its greatest
glory. The amazing part Of it is
not that Alphonso should lose his
throne, but that he should have
lasted so long.
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AS an instance contributing, I
think to neither side of the argu-
ment, I might say that I did play
football and that I was coached by
several men who seemed to me to
have an inspirational quality as far
as the sport was concerned.
I never liked the game, and I
didn't play it we'll But I made the
high school team in my senior
wear.
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SAYS

The Amazing Part Is MOI
That Alphonso Should Lose
His Throne, But That He
Should Hare Lasted So
Long.
NEW YORK, April 15.-Ac-
IN cording to the old rules Of
kingcraft, Alphonso should have
gone down fighting.
Has royalty lost its courage or
acquired sense? One could turn
wisecracker and say that this last
Of the Bourbons laid down the
crown to save his head, but why
not be charitable and give him
credit for thinking of other heads,
or at least realizing the inevitable?
The fate of his tribe was sealed,
not when Primo de Rivera became
dictator of Spain, as many seem to
think, or even when the kaiser
kicked the lid of he'll, but back at
Runnymede, when the barons of
England wrenched the Great
Charter from King John. Not only
that, but 1t was foreshadowed in
Athens more than 1000 years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

Editor, Journal CT the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TINE question repeatedly IS asked
l. as to what climate is suited
best to people with infections of
the nose and throat or with chronic
infection Of the sinuses.
In general, it is advised that
a warm, dry climate is preferable
to one that is damp and cold. On
the other hand, it must be recog-
nized that climate itself cures
nothing, and is merely an adjunct
to other specific methods Of
treatment.
As emphasized by Dr.. ]. F.
Barnhill, the belief 50 tenaciously
held by people in general that the
southwestern and southern por-
tons of the United States possess
more health giving and health
restoring virtues than the more
rigorous regions of the north has
been controverted lately.
DR.. Barnhill cites the investigation
of w. H. Barrows of Stanford uni
versity, who studied the relative
frequency Of colds among students
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
Alfonso Steps Down

King Alfonso XIII has lost his crown, but maybe
he has saved his dynasty
In Europe some OF the cieverer prime ministers
have habit Of gracefully resgning rather than wait
and being booted out OF Office
IN this way they their precious prestige from
being smirched by defeat and spare themselves the
popular or political animosty so hard to live down
Sooner or later, they know, the wheel may make
another turn and back again to power they Will
Alfonso long has had the reputation Of being one
Fl the most astute politicians OF the old word. Now
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
SCIENCE
Fame and Fortune AwGit
Scientist Who Can SoBve
Problem OF Synthetic Rub
Der.
BY DAVID DIETZ.

IN laboratories scattered through
L out the world chemists are at
work upon the problem Of synthetic
rubber. Fame and fortune awaits
The scientist who solves it.
During the World war, Germany,
spurred on by the inpossibility Of
obtaining natural rubber, succeeded
In producing several varieties OF ar
tiflcial rubber.
However. these were only war
time makeshifts and could not COM
pete. either in price or quality, with
the natural article.
1t has been known by chemists
for years that the fundamental
compound in rubber is a hydrocar-
bon known as isoprene. II is pos
sible to manufacture isoprene from
turpentine. petroleum, starch, and
coal tar
The synthesis OF rubber can also
be started with acknowledgements. a
compound related to isoprene.
Methyl-isoprene can be built up
from acetone. Acetone. in turn, can
be manufactured from coal. Tt also
can be obtained as a by-product
from the fermentation of the crude
starch of cereals.
There are difficulties to be faced,
however, in all these processes. The
supply Of turpentine is limited. So
is the supply Of petroleum.
Some experts think that the
worlds supply of petroleum Will
give out in less than twenty years.
And, finally, all the processes are
too expensive to compete with the
natural rubber at the present time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter
eSting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with The editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
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Money! Now Is King

THE doctrine of the divine right
L Of kings has been smashed, but
only to make room for the doctrine Of
She divine right Of money. Once
again, humanity faces the task of
liberating itself from a system to
which its ingenuity gave birth.
Once again the handicap Of our
social order has been removed, only
to make room for another.
Once again we discover that the
very agencies employed to over
throw one type of arbitrary rule
have produced another.
The same old puzzle, wildly illus
trated by England's record-people
massing behind the king to escape
the baronsi and then behind parlia-
ment to escape the king.
A board of directors occupies the
throne room and the billion-dollar
combine sets up a new kind of
feudaliSn. No one with sense will
deny that the new order represents
great improvement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15
The Revolt Is On

.NNE era merges into another.
" For a hundred years or more
we have had kings and republics
dwelling side by side. Now we have
republics and communism, not to
mention Mussolini.
Civilization is beginning to revolt
against industrial aristocracy Just
as it once revolted against the
aristocracy of birth.
No one but a fanatic can suppose
that this latest revolt has taken
definite shape, but it's with us, to
provide another drama in the evo-
luton Of human affairs.
No one but a fanatic can sup
pose that the preposterous tyranny
Of Moscow, or the equally pre-
poSterous rule of fascisrn, represents
the idealistic or practical solution
Of the riddle.
The only thing sensible people can
be sure Of is that the riddle has
been recognized and that the search
for its answer has been begun.
From an economic standpoint, we
are about in the same position that
the world was when it sought relief
from monarchy through such eff
forts as that made by Wat Tyler,
or through such organizations as the
Vehnl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

The chief secret Of comfort lies
in not suffering trif1es to yex Us, and
in prudently cultivating an under
growth Of small pleasures. since very
few great ones are let on long leases.
-Aughey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

Editor Times-As a reader Of The
Times. read a few days ago of
the ex-service man who thinks all
soldiers should have the bonus. Let
me ask that ex-service man why
they are entitled to so much more
than any one else. They talk as if
there is no no one hard up but
soldiers.
Let met say that there are just
as many who weren't in the army
that are in need as there were who
were in it.
We stayed In the q. 5. A. and
worked and they went across. They
got their pay, theiE clothes and
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Daily Thought

Thy rod and thy staff they COM
fort me.-Psalrn 1884.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

the people millions of dollars yearly,
greatly reduce crime, and death
as a result Of bootleg whisky. If peo-
pie are of age, they should be al
lowed to buy whisky if they choose.
Those who do not care to drink
would not be compelled to do so.
There is plenty of whisky, such as it
Is. and 80 per cent of, the population
know how to make liquor in one
way or another.
A public vote should be allowed
to let the people decide in their own
way If they want prohibition, after
eleven years Of crime, comedy,
death, joy, political corruption, and
no voice by the common people.
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

The king of Siam has employed press agent for
his American visit. If it's publicity he wants. he
might consider travelling about with the conjonted
twins who have made his country famous
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

Rudy Vallee says that when he broadcasts he feels
like a surgeon beginning to operate. He's often had
us in stitches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

The only ones who seem to take an interest in the
early to rise" MAXIM opines the Office sage are the
breadmakers
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No, Dorothy, hoax is not garden. tool used for
chopping purposes.
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Most Americans says an English critic, "are
not sufficiently civilized to be nrusted with strong
drink" It goes to their heads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-15

What this country needs more than good scent
cigar is fountain pen that's good to the last drop
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1t makes difference to an actor whether he ranks
or is regarded as rank
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Then there's the egotistic anagram player who
regards himself as man of letters
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BY DR. MORRIS FIsHBETN

Editor. Journal CT the American Medic;
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Mapazina
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

Three or four Of the Sagoths hurled we'll
aimed cudgels at the saber-tooth tigers face
at intervals so nicely timed that the great beast
could do nothing but fend of the missiles as
they sped toward him. And while he was thus
occupied, other gorilla-like creatures who had
already cast their clubs sprang to the ground
and retrieved them with an amazing agility
and quickness. The risk they thus took showed
great self-conhdence and high courage, since
often they were compelled to snatch their crude
clubs from almost beneath the claws of the
saber-tooth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

Battered and bruised, the great cat gave back
inch by inch. Finally, unable to stand the
fusillaoe any longer, he suddenly turned tail
and bounded into the underbrush. After the
sounds of his crashing retreat had died away
the gorilla men leaped to the ground and with
heavy fangs tore at the thag and Toasted
awhile. Then they. reset the trap that had
caught the Ape-Man and started away with
their prisoner. AS they moved along the trail
Tarzan had a chance to observe them more
closely. He saw they walked erect like men but
in most other ways were very like the great
apes Of the outer earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

After going but short distance the Sagoths
stopped beside a hollow log the skeleton of a
great tree that had fallen beside the trail. One
Of the creatures tapped upon the log with his
club-one, two; one, two; one, two, three. After
a moments pause he repeated the same tap
ping. Three times the signal bocmed through
tening. Others stopped and put their ears
against the ground Family through the air
more plainly through the ground, came the an
swering signal. The creatures seemed salts
fed and climbing into the trees settled them
selves comfortably as though awaiting some
thing or person.
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BY BlOsser

Because his hands were bound behind him,
Tarzan could not climb unassisted. So two Of
Not once had the Ape-Man spoken during the
march but now he addressed the creature near
est him, who appeared to be leader, Remove
the bonds from my wrists" he said Il am not
an enemy For a long time the Sagoth glared
unblinkingly at the prisoner. Then he COM
manded, TAKE them off," But this order was
instantly challenged by another brute. Before
the question was settled there occurred such q
battle royal that Tarzan watched in fascination
its utter saVagery.