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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-I wish you would
allow me little space to enlighten
the public of Marion county on
some facts brought out in the GUST
er proceedings of Charles Mann,
Republican highway commissioner.
1t would seem proper that this case
would be tried in the commissioners
court, but both of the Republican
papers have seen fit to try the case
in the papers, and as their reports
have all been in favor of the de-
tense, it might be we'll if a report of
the evidence submitted by the peo-
pie were also made available to the
public.
The writer of this article, who
signed the complaint, did so without
being solicited by either John Mann
or any other Democrat in the coun-
ty. The citizens whom I called into
the commissioners court to testify
were six in number, five being Re-
publicans when they went into the
court. L don't think they are Re-
| publlcanS now.
Our complaint covered three spe-
cific cases. We did not enter these
in the original complaint against
| Mr.. Mann, as We made the COM
plant general and presumed we
would back up the charges with
facts in open court and not try the
case in the newspapers.
| Charge number one cites a case
where sewer or culvert running
under Raymond street about 800
feet east of Emerson avenue has
been filled with mud as long as Mr..
Mann has been in Office. This cul-
vert was placed there by the coun-
ty commissioners when the road was
paved. A fill was made at that
time, that crossed Lick Greek valley,
and the course of Lick creek was
changed. This culvert is where the
old creek bed originally was.
At the time of storm, and the
creek overf1ows its banks, this valley
on the north side of the fill forms
an inland sea, and this culvert was
placed there to let the water out.
AS the culvert remains plugged, the
water runs across Raymond street
and Emerson avenue and floods the
yard Of the store occupied by Bert
Warren on the corner. Mr.. Mann'S
attention was called to this several
times, but he never has done any
thing to relieve the situation.
The second item was the matter
Of Iowa street. A large number of
children attending district school
No. 3, Center, outside, live on EN-
erSon avenue. To reach school they
must walk a half mile north to
Southeastern avenue, across the in
terurban tracks, walk up South
eastern through congeSted traffic
to Minnesota street, again cross the
interurban tracks, thence a quarter
mile to Minnesota street and a
quarter mile on Sloan avenue to ar
rive at the school, which is less
than a half mile from where they
started.
Mrs. F. L. BowSer set aside a
road across her farm which
amounted to two acres of land
worth $500 an acre for the children,
and particularly Tor her grandchiT-
dren who attended that school, to
have a direct road.
She also improved part of the
street at her own expense. A Pc
J tition was cirrulated, signed BY ev-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15

I The Two periods, especially so if the
new woman insists on credit for
modern conditions. can not agree
that the fathers dictated the moral
codes of the past any more than
of today.
Pray, what would the women of
the chlvairous days have to fear by
way OF comparison with the new
woman who so cheerfully would
exchange a commanding reticence
for that questionable thing called
freedom?
Mrs. Ferguson pictures the
woman of yesterday as a creature
nedged IN by a barbed wire fence.
With few strands left loose for
the convenience of man. Instead
OF contemplating our ancestors as
corralled within barbed restrictions
would it not be truer and a more
beautiful picture to think of them
as being protected by moral stand
ards which unfortunately do not
seem to exist today? But whatever
distress such restrictions NAV have
caused, they certainly scored higher
than three divorces in every five
marriages, as some of our court
records show.
Mrs. Ferguson further AYERS
that the only freedom of thought
acquired by women in the past was
by way of prostitution. 1 do not
believe that prostitution ever has
done more for women than to en-
slave them, nor will it ever do more
for them.
The pathetic feature in the rea-
soning of the ultra modernist is
that they seem to ignore all Bible
prescriptions and Christian ideal
ism. Women may go their length
for what they call their freedom,
but that will mean but little as
compared to their loss in gentle
poise and Christian character.
FRED ROPER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Build Sun Furnace


THE other new device is the
l. solar furnace" built at the new
Astro- physical laboratory of the
California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena. 1t is nothing more or
less than a gigantic burning glass"
Just as every boy has tried the
experiment of generating an electric
spark by rubbing his shoes along
carpet, so most boys have expert
mented with small reading glass
Or conxey lens, using it to concen-
trate sunlight into a tiny spot of
sufficient heat to Scorch a piece of
paper.
The Romans are credited with
having used burning glass to set
the rigging of an enemy's ship afire
in a naval battle. There is some
doubt, however, as to the authen-
ITCHY of this story.
The solar furnace consists of
nineteen lenses, each two feet in
diameter. These are mounted in
a frame equipped with auxiliary
mirrors so that the sunlight collect
ed by all nineteen is concentrated
upon spot no larger than your lit
tie f1ngernail.
1t is expected that the solar fur
mace will generate a temperature
equal to that of the surface of the
sun, temperature of 10000 degrees.
A large vacuum tube will be
placed at the focus of the solar fur
mace. Any known material in it.
upon which the spot of sunlight
falls, will be turned into a yapor.
With such powerful tools as the
De CRAFT generator and the solar
furnace, scientists may penetrate
The nucleus of the atom within the
next year or two and supply infor-
nation about its structure and or
ganization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
It Isn't Fair

A S a matter of simple Justice
L n public officials and employees
especially in cities, towns and viii
lagos, where their pay comes out
of every owner and renter, should
be quick to accept their honest
share of depression.
1t is not fair to force the sale
OF home, or hold up rents through
taxation in order to keep mu-
nicipal budget up to prosperity
standards at a time like this.
1t is not fair to ask mechanics
and small tradesmen, whose earn
ing capacity has shrunk by Is or
80 per cent, to fork over as usual
in order that public employees, es-
pecially those getting big salaries,
may avoid reduction in pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine,


XXTHEN a person is depressed he
w loses weight, his digestion be-
comes disturbed and he may man
ifest changes in the circulation of
his blood.
Thus, irregularity of the heart
has been noted and serious effects
on the blood pressure may follow
long-continued worry or irritability
Beyond these physical effects of
emotional disturbance there are also
effects on mental reactions which
may be exceedingly serious.
The judgment of critic, the de-
cisionS of statesman, indeed, even
the willingness of a banker to grant
a loan may be influenced by the
fact that he has just passed through
a quarrel with his wife, or received
news of some peccadillo of son or
daughter at college.
Many of our emotions are almost
uncomfortable, due to the fact that
they are instructive responses to
situations that have arisen thou
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Static Electricity

THE Greeks are credited with
Il having discovered that if you
rubbed piece of amber it devel-
oped the ability to attract small bits
OF light materials to it. You can
try the experiment by rubbing an
amber pipe stem and using it to
pick up small bits of paper.
Centuries later. the discovery of
the Greeks became known as static
electricity" 1t was found that static
electricity could be developed in
many ways, as, for example, rub
bling a glass rod with silk cloth.
You can try another interesting
experiment, one which perhaps you
have tried. walk along a thick
carpet, dragging your shoes on it.
Then reach out for a metal door
knob or other metallic object. A
bright spark will fly from your fin
ger tips to the object.
DR.. Robert j. Van de CRAFT of
Princeton university devised an ap-
paratus which utilities that simple
old principle to develop high po-
tential electric currents.
For about 500 he built a model
which developed a potential of
100000 volts. During the coming
year he hopes to build a model
which will develop 10000, 900 volts.
The apparatus consists of two
units, each one being a brass ball
mounted upon a tall pillar Of insu-
lating material A silk belt goes up
the pillar to the ball. A small mo-
tor revolves the belt against which
a brush presses. This develops the
electrical charge, which accumu-
lateS on the brass ball.
The belts are run in opposite
directions so that the charge on one
ball becomes positive and on the
other negative. When the potential
difference between the two becomes
high enough an electrical spark
several feet in length leaps between
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Science improves on Antique
Discoveries IN Old Battle to
Probe Secret of Atom;
Static Electricity, Solar
Furnace Are Used.
DEvICES that go back to class
- ical antiquity may succeed in
giving the world new knowledge of
the interior of the atom during
1892.
1t is a strange fact that the new
est tools of science, tools which
promise to be more powerful than
any yet turned against the atom,
bark back centuries in their SIM
plicity.
For some years, scientists have
realized that the atom could be
attacked only with powerful electric
current and fields. penetrating rays
like those Of the X-ray and radium,
and high temperatures.
Fcr this reason, huge electric
generators and condensers like
those used by the late Steinmetz to
produce artificial lightning were
built.
These, in their turn, were used
to operate X-ray tubes ranging
from six to twelve feet in length.
Gradually, x-ray tubes were OBJ
tanned so powerful that their rays
began to resemble those of rad
ium.
AT the same time, the chief hope,
for high temperatures was placed
upon the electric furnace.
The year 1881, however, will 60
down in the annals of science as
one in which experimenters saw the
advantage of returning to simpler
methods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
SAYS:

Throughout the Country Pub
JIG Officials Haze Acted
Just as Though the DepreS-
sion Meant Nothing to TGr-
payers.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Budget
I ' Director Charles L. Kohler
says that New York City could
save millions by a few simple
economies.
AS one example, hee points out
that the board of education could
reduce expenses $4,000 by using
substitutes instead of appointing
new teachers to I'LL vacancies in
the $40 high schools which it oper-
ates.
He believes that an additional
$2,000,0 900, or possibly $4,000, 900,
could be saved by not filling vacan-
cies in other city departments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Economy Only HOPE

CITIES, towns and villages get
~ the bulk of their revenue from
taxes on real estate. The only way
they can relieve people is by re-
ducing it, and the only way they can
do that is by cutting the cost OF
public administration.
The federal government and the
states can levy on the rich without
appearing to levy on the poor by
the various schemes of indirect tax
alton which have been devised, but
cities, towns and villages can not.
They have no choice but to die
into everybody's pocket through
taxes on land and improvements
and retrenchment should be their
course in hard times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
I aXpayerS FORGOTTEN

MOT only in New York, but
4 Y throughout the country, pub
lie officials have acted just as
though the depression meant moth
ing to taxpayers.
Some cities have been led TO the
very brink of bankruptcy by a stub
born, stupid disregard of realities.
Most people are familiar with the
tragic situation in Chicago and the
deplorable state Of affairs in Phila-
delphia.
The fact that school teachers
have gone unpaid for nearly half
year in the former and that the
latter can't make temporary loans,
except on special terms, is well
known, but it tells less than half
Of the story.
Thousands of homes already have
been sold for taxes in these cities
and the indications are that more
will have to be sold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Property Tax InescapabIe

THE illusionment persists that
l. we can so rig the income tax as
to spare poor people, but even poll
t1cians lack the nerve to preach
that any one can escape the real
estate tax.
The real estate tax is well-nigh
universal in its effect. If you don't
pay it as an owner, you make your
own ante as tenant. There simply
Is no getting around it, or away
from it.
1t is reflected not only in all the
rent bills, but in the price of many
services and commodities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15

Who wrote the poem beginning
with the line, 81 fed him down the
nights and down the days?
The poem is 1.-THE Hound of
Heaven" by Francis Thompson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
Daily Thought

But If ye SHALL still do wickedIy,
ye shall be consumed, both ye
and your king-I Samuel 1925.
EVIL often triumphs, but never
conquers.-Joseph Roux.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15

cry mother in the school district
to have this road accepted as a
county road so that the children
would have this direct route to the
school. The commissioners, over a
year ago, accepted this road, and
presumed at that time that they
might pave it with concrete. How
ever, nothing has been done with
this road, and it is in an impass-
able condition today.
The third charge was Terrace
avenue, a street running from Emer-
son avenue to Arlington avenue, in
use for about ITO years. There is
a small knoll in this street about
one-third Of the way between En-
erson and Arlington avenues. This
knoll has been graded somewhat in
the past, but nothing has been done
to it in the last few years.
The bitches along the turnpike
have been filled up in the course of
time, and the water, after heavy
rains, backs up between this road
and Emerson avenue, filling the
bitches along the roadside, and
flooding the road to a considerable
depth, and remains in that condi-
ton until it seeps away. Mr.. Mann's
attention was called to this by the
writer nearly two years ago.
Upon receiving no response from
Mr.. Mann, / took this matter up
with Mr.. Fixit of your paper, who
also tried to have something done.
only to enrage Mr.. Mann, causing
him to phone me, and become more
or less abusive.
II was for these reasons as set out
herein that I preferred the charges
against Mr.. Mann. They were not
political charges, as the parties who
have to wade the mud are both
Democrats and Republicans, and
the petitioners in the several cases
Who called the attention of the board
to these facts were people who have
resided in this district for a long
time, have been heavy taxpayers,
and have the community in which
they live uppermost in their minds
rather than the playing of petty
politics.
They have gotten no relief under
the present administration, and are
hopeful that another administrator
will try to do his duty.
GILBERT S. WILHELM.
Editor Times--In The Times of
last Saturday, under the caption
Just Every Day Sense" Mrs.
Walter Ferguson elects to extol a
type which she calls "the new
woman" She quotes freely from
the new book titled Woman Com
ing of Age" to compensate her
claims for her twentieth century
sister. In keeping with her convic-
ton, she squares the modern wom-
an with the day quite well, and
with apparent little apprehension
Of an awry future.
Mrs. Ferguson sets forth the con-
clusion that morality in the past
has been made by man for Subord-
nation Of women. This, I believe,
is narrow conclusion, to say the
least. If mere man may claim any
credit for morality in the past, he
certainly deserves praise for Just
that. And if the gallant knights of
old could again bow to society, they
should take great pride in any COM
parison Of the moral standards Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
NOTE TO BOLSHEVIKI
Jan, Is

ON Jan. Is, 1918, the British
~ Labor party placed itself On
record regarding war issues in a
message TO the Russian people and
an appeal to the peoples of central
Europe.
The message followed the refusal
Of the Germans at the Brest-
Litovsk conference to admit the
principle of self determination of
peoples and the doctrine of no an
nexations.
THE British people must proclaim
to Russia and the central powers
that its aim is identical with
RuSsia's we see no solution of
the evils of militarism except self
determination and no indemnities.
Peoples of central Europe, this
catastrophe Of the human race, this
fatal sciSm in the civilized world,
can only be ended by the defeat of
militarism on both sides and by the
victory on both sides of moral and
intellectual fair dealing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15

In what year did Walter johnson
make his best record as baseball
pitcher?
His best pitching year was 1913
when he won thirty-six games and
lost seven, a percentage of 1877.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15

Does the fact that person de-
cIared bankrupt cause him to lose
No.
his American citizenship
Evening star., 1932-04-12
National LEADERS
HEAD i. s. SOCIETY
Gov Byrd, William Phillips,
Charles E. Hughes, Jr.,
Among Trustees.

Charles Evans Hughes. jr., former So
licttor general of the United States;
William Phillips. former Undersecretary
of State, and former Gov Harry p.
Byrd of Virginia are among 28 trustees
of the recently organized United States
Society whose election was announced
today at the headquarters of the So
ciety 2201 M street
The trustees were elected by the con-
I stituent board of the society, which is
composed of Mrs. Mary Robert Rine-
hart. Mrs. Alice Longworth, Breckin-
ridge Long, former Assistant Secretary
of State; Miss Belle Sherwin, president
of the National League Of Women Vot-
ers: DR.. c. r. Mann, director of the
American Council of Education; w M.
Ritter, president of the William Ritter
Lumber Co.: David Lawrence and MGR.
James H. Ryan, rector of Catholic Uni
versity.
Facts TO Be Presented.
THE United States Society,"" says a
statement issued after the meeting,
"espouseS no cause and teaches no doc
trine. An organization is being set up
to supply to student and adult groups
current information about government.
to give the pro and the con on public
questions without any expression of
opinion by the society regarding them" 4"
The trustees elected here today are
as follows:
DR.. George H. Denny president Of
the University of Alabama; Superior
Court Judge Richard LamSon of Pres
colt. Ariz; DR.. A. E. Roth. controller
of Stanford University: DR. Robert An
drews Millikan. internationally known
scientist of Pasadena. Calf. j. WAL
lace Woodford of Dover, Del; Ed r.
Bentley of Lakeland, Fla: DR.. Willis A.
Sutton, State superintendent of schools
of Atlanta, Ga; Wayne Chatfield-
Taylor of Lake Forest. Ill; William
Fortune, former president, American
Peace Society, indianapolis, Ind; Miss
Lucy Taggart. French Lick, Ind: J.
Hogan Ballard Lancaster, KY; Henry
E. Dunnack, State librarian. Augusta,
Me. Oliver c. Short. Baltimore, Md;
William Phillips, former Undersecretary
of State, Boston, Mass; E. T. Cameron,
Lansing, Mich; T. Brady, jr., Brook
haven, Miss.
Included As Trustees.
John r. McLane, chairman, New
Hampshire State board of arbitration
conciliation. Manchester, N. H; Charles
Evans Hughes, jr., former solicitor gen.
eral OF the United States. New YORK,
Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey. New
York; DR.. Frank Graham. president of
the University of North Carolina: Col.
William Cooper Proctor. Cincinnati,
Ohio; Henry D. Sharpe, Providence. r.
l.; Edward @. Seibels, member of the
board of trustees. University of South
Carolina, Columbia; Dr. j. H. Kirk
land, chancellor. Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, Nashville; DR.. Charles A. Plum
ley, president of Norwich University,
Northfield, Vt: Harry F. Byrd, former
Governor of Virginia, winchester, Va;
Reginald n. Parsons. Seattle. Wash,
and George p Hambrecht, State di-
rector of vocational education, Madi-
son. Wis.
. The society has as its board Of ad-
visers Calvin Coolidge, Elifu Root,
Owen D. Young, DR.. John Grier Hib-
ben and Newton D. Baker.
Evening star., 1932-04-12


flowing. Present were hosts and
hosts Of famed local music gentry
and many besides who had come to
rehearse the songs long familiar to
them by this venerated composer.
Said Mr.. Scott in a few words of
thanks to his large audience: II am
not deep musician" Even if, how
ever, the word deep" is missing
from his music vocabulary. there
were few present who would not
admit that his ''Nocturne," as rem
dered by Helen Hurley, wasn't some
thing that approached very near to
1t. and that 1t touched an emotion
al chord particularly satisfying to
the program.
The local artists assembled for
this occasion did themselves proud.
Illustrating the wide span of Mr..
Scott's talents they sang and played
and gave great credence to his COM
positions. Helen Hurleys magnif1-
Gently rich contralto voice, so favor
ably known throughout the city.
was especially adaptable to the fa-
miliar Young Alan, the Piper" and
John o. Dreams; Herman Fakler,
internationally known as a bass and
a baritone, sang Mr.. ScOttS version
of "Old Bill" the gentleman with
fist full of homes" with a voice
voiced gusto and a vocal resonance
that threatened to bring down the
house and the Chesapeake q Poto-
mac Male Chorus, under the astute
leadership of Robert Davidson, did
so well by "The Old Road that the
concert gave promise toward its
finale of not coming to close at ALL
An out-of-town artist, Floyd Jen-
ningS, from Atlanta. Ga, was heard
in two selections, Revelation" and
The Dearest Place: and In both
OF them displayed a strong, well
modulated voice which one would
have liked to have heard more of.
Other local musicians who gave
their valuable talents to this occa-
sion were Ruby Potter, soprano,
most eloquent in her two songs;
Evening star., 1932-04-12

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