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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. walter Ferguson

A recent church conference resolution con-
L demning the moving picture as DESTROYER of
morals was adopted.
In this, as usual, we are graspng the wrong horn
OF the dilemma. The notion that movies or shoddy
literature can change the passions or the mental
processes OF humanity is deuson often enter
tanned. And it is a delusion.
ContrariwiSe, as Tweedledum would say the pas
slons and mental processes of HUMANITY change lit
erature and the movies.
Every writer and dramatist must exaggerate to
prove point There never was great piece of f1c-
ton but was highly colored and in a measure over
drawn Fact must be heightened by fancy to get
public attention
Uncle Toms Cabin" book that moved the hearts
of men as few ever have done suffered from the
greatest exaggerations. There never was on earth
a creature so good as Uncle Tom and never a child
so pious as Little Eva.
But by magnifying their virtues and intensifying
the cruelty of Simon Legree Mrs Stowe crystalnzed
public opinion and helped to abolish slavery.
no you believe that such powerful plays as What
II Price Glory?" and such ruthless books as Death
Of Hero" and "All Quiet on the Western Front .
could have sprung from any catastrophe less CHASTITY
than world war?
Moving pictures, books, all literature in short at
tempt TO and do, in measure portray life If there
fore life is mean and shabby, it is presented to us
like that.
The concepts of lterature-and the moving picture
is form of hterature-change continually and as
Emerson reminded us, Each age must write its own
books"
To reckon, therefore that you can improve the
morals of nation merely by following certain rules
in the making of its reading or entertainment is to
grow entirely topsy-turvey in your thinking.
Since all art is by-product of life, the moving
picture which is modern form of art, must reflect
certain phases of existence
To improve the movies, therefore, We first shall
nave TO improve the manners customs, morals and
Ideals OF the American public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Burning Oranges

The Ventura Star reports the burning of 1000
boxes OF oranges in deep barranca by southern
Cahlorna company The companys sales manager
admits the destruction of several hundred boxes ex
planning that lack of market and the fact that no
charitable agency called for them made it necessary.
"Overproduction," he called it, meaning under
consumption
Oranges contain vitamin C, recognized as an
essential diet for babies and children and as a
preventive of scury Tens of thousands of children
these days go without It,
Surely we can evolve system of relief distribution
that Will make unnecessary the burning of wheat
corn oranges and other food at time when people
are hungry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

1t is the experience of many ath-
letes that the amount of power that
can be exerted by the muscles is
in excess of their speed of contrac-
ton or use.
However, if strength is in excess
and if contraction speed is we'll de-
veloped, records are sure to be
broken.
1t has, in general, been believed
that good little man can beat a
poor big one, but there seems to be
no question that a good big man
will beat a good little one.
Height is of particular advantage
in such track events as the high
jump, in which the center of weight
must be raised from the ground.
To begin with, the tall, thin ath-
lete has a light weight to raise
and only has to lift his legs up to
be well over the bar.
Height also should be of advan-
tage in putting the shot, because the
weight starts at a higher point and
its initial velocity and angle being
equal, will travel farther when
thrown by a tall man than by a
short one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

will result in revolutionary disorder
of the most tragical kind.
Political parties either are humane
or possessed of greed and self-pro-
motion. The people must decide
which one to choose.
Study the platforms and the
candidates as far as possible, use
your own judgment, and you will
arrive most nearly at the right cen
clusion. We must encourage the
education of all the people upon
questions of national policy, then
they will think for themselves, see
the dangers that threaten civiliza-
ton and in time will grasp the
philosophy of a really free govern
ment Possibly we do not need re-
forms; what we probably most need
is spiritual royalty. Simply main
tain, not alter, the doctrine of our
Lord. After all, community or a
nation which is a community can
be no better than its citizenry.
In other words, we must change
our way Of thinking and we are
doing that very thing.
Good thinking, good fellowship,
lend a helping hand to the other
fellow, confidence will do much to
bring us out Of the present chaotic
state of affairs. You know He COM
manded His disciples to feed my
sheep" and it seems to me the
sheep are not being fed.
For centuries we have chased the
filthy dollar, which has committed
more crime than any. other one
thing in this world.
Let US then turn face about and
do something for humanity AS a
nation, we must not reject God. To
do so is moral. spiritual, social and
! political suicide. A PATRIOT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Interesting MYth
THE natives Of the Malay penin

THE natives of the Malay penin-
4 sula have an interesting myth
which seeks to account for the diff
1erences between the day and night
SKY and also the motions of the sun
and moon.
According to this legend, both the
sun and the moon are regarded as
women, while the stars are the chill
dren Of the moon.
The legend tells that the sun once
had as many children as the moon.
The children of the sun were bright
like the sun itself.
Fearing that the earth could NOT
stand so much light and heat. the
sun and moon made an agreement
to eat their children.
The sun carried out her part of
the agreement, but the moon only
hid her children.
When the moons children, the
stars, came out at night, the sun
was very angry and began to pur-
sue the moon.
This accounts for the motions Of
the sun and moon through the
heavens which the Malay natives
regarded as pursuit of the moon
by the sun.
The stars go out as the sun rises
This. the natives say, is because
the sun still is devouring her chill
dren.
But the moon hides her children
during the daytime and brings them
out at night.
Among the American Indians we
find the sun and moon generally
regarded as brother and sister.
One legend of the Ottawa Indians
tells Of two Indians who "spranp
through chasm in the sky and
found themselves in a pleasant
moonlit land"
There they met the moon. who
was IAN aged woman with white
face and pleasing air"
She introduced them TO her
brother, who was the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

Many Myths Regard the Sun
and the Moon as Husband
and Wife, or Brother and
Sister.
THE notion that the sun, moon
L and planets exercise some
direct influence upon the specific
incidents of the lives of individuals
persists in some quarters.
These beliefs can be traced all the
way back to the early days of civil
ization when the sun and the moon
we're believed to be real people, tax
ing an active and actual part in
events upon the earth.
Many of these early legends re-
gard the sun and moon as husband
and wife or as brother and sister.
Many myths identify the sun or
moon as national heroes who were
deifled and transported to the sky
after death.
The myths differ as to the sex
of the sun and the moon, some
designating the sun as masculine
and the moon as feminine, others
stating just the opposite.
Australian myths regard the moon
as man and the sun as a woman.
The Indians of Peru, however, be-
lieved the moon to be a woman.
who was both sister and wife of the
sun.
This dual relationship is not I'M
common in mythology. It is en-
countered frequently in Greek and
Roman mythology, where, for ex-
ample. Juno. the queen of the gods,
is both sister and wife of Jupiter.
king of the gods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Confusion in Sex

OLCOTT offers possible ex-
~ PLANTATION for the confusion in
sex of the sun and moon.
He writes in his Sun Lore of All
Ages"
This confusion in the sex.
ascribed to the sun and moon bv
different nations, may have arisen
from the fact that day is mild and
friendly, hence the sun, which rules
the day, properly would be consid-
cred feminine, while the moon.
which rules the chill and stern
night, appropriately might be re-
garded as man.
ON the contrary, in equatorial
regions, the day is forbidding and
burning, while the night is mild and
pleasant.
Applying these analogies. it an
pears that the sex of the sun and
moon would, by some tribes. be the
reverse Of those aScribed to them
by others, climatic conditions being
responsible for the confusion"
In this connection, it is interest,"
ing to note that in the German
language the word for sun is re-
garded as a feminine noun, while
the word for moon is masculine.
just the opposite is true of Latin
ana the Romance languages.
An old Persian legend regards the
sun and moon as husband and wife
ana the stars as their children.
progeny more numerous by far than
that of the old lady who lived in q
shoe.
Many peoples, perhaps because of
the nrllliance of the sun, have re-
garded themselves as children of the
sun. Thus, for example, the Incas
OF Peru called themselves the chill
dren of the sun"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

geological gardens natural history societies and other
causes upward of two million dollars.
she kept on giving, notably for science and higher
education She had learned the art of giving But
IN her simple life at La Jolla fronting the Pacific
she showed that she also had learned the art of living
She had all the graces Of mid Victorian in the
midst Of an active, modern, American existence in
which she kept in touch with the affairs Of the world
but participated in those of the community about her
The daughter of the London bookbinder who be-
came prairie farmer gave new glory to American
womanhood by life that added the best of the new
to the best of the old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
$4,000 GERMANS TAKEN
August 9

ON Aug. 8, 1918, British troops
~ on the Somme battle front
pressed forward more than five
miles on a frontage of nearly TWEEN
ty miles, in day of desperate at
tacks and counter attacks.
German resistance was stubborn
in the extreme, and this fact
helped account for the $4,000 pris-
oners taken in the two days of Bit
ter fighting
German losses were enormous
Their troops on the Somme front
were tired out from nearly foul
months of continuous fighting, and
their reserves were not sufficient tc
plug the huge gaps in their lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Your Questions Answered

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MaRazine

Health Magazine.
THE ability to run, to jump, and
l. to throw effectively is neces-
Sary to success in various forms of
athletic endeavor.
The purpose of athletic exercise
is not primarily the development
Of large muscles, but rather the de-
velopment of form, grace, proper
competitive spirit, and mental at
titude.
Certain sports are not at all
adapted to certain types of bodies.
1t has been shown that girls and
women can not successfully run the
800-meter race and this has been
barred from womens competition
in Olympic games.
The bodies of women are not
suited to broad jumping and put
ting the shot or to lifting heavy
weights.
True, there are occ sionaI women
who might excel in these sports,
but in most instances they will be
found to have something of the
masculine type in their body build.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

MY attention has been called,
1V1 through the medium of West
brook Pegler's column, to the fact
that the Olympic program contains
a fine art section.
Mahonri Young, it seems, scored a
first for the United States with a
statue of a prize fighter. Maybe I
have not been looking in the right
places in the newspapers, but this
particular phase of the activities in
Los Angeles has escaped me.
am in entire ignorance as to
what height was cleared by the win
ming poet and his name and nation.
Nor have any of the headlines re-
vealed the victor in putting the
prose narrative or tossing the nude.
1t is perhaps a little too much
to expect $4,000 spectators to gather
to cheer on landscape painter.
He might not even like it if they did
But, at least, there could be public
contests in oratory and the art of
acting. The latter pursuit, for in
stance, ought to be decided nov
city for Hollywood and its environs.
The Men Who Toss Weights
A ND, after all, not all the events
L n scheduled for the multitude
seem to me precisely thrilling from
the spectators point of view. I
vastly would prefer to see Miss Dor
othy Parker hard at work upon a
poem than watch Mr.. Sexton toss
ing the 16-pound shot.
I read with amazement that there
was enormous enthusiasm when "the
genial giant" heaved the metal pei
let" some fifty-tWo feet and more.
But I rather think my reaction
would have been, 80 what?"
Sixteen pounds is quite a lot of
weight, particularly if it is distrib-
uted in the wrong places, and yet
it can't be vitality important whether
Mr.. Sexton can toss it fifty feet or a
hundred. And, likewise, 1 care
very little just where the javelins
fall or the hammers.
There is no intention to suggest
that sheer power and perfection of
timing in its application are wholly
without appeal to this old esthete.
There is an undeniable thrill in
watching Babe Ruth knock a home
run over a distant right-field fence,
and know of few sights more beau
tiful than a well-hit ball sailing 300
yards or so down the center of a
golf course.
Indeed, I have known drives of
considerably less than that which
moved me nightly, but those were
ones hit by myself back in my ath-
letic days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Almost a Champ

INDEED, once upon a time I was
l. in danger of becoming a weight
toSSer. Only lack of ability and abb
sence of character saved me from
this fate worse than death. In my
freshman year the track coach came
upon me in the gymnasium and
said, you ought to be a shot-put-
ter
His remark startled me. I Won
dered how he could tell intuitively
in that way that I was maintaining
a standard of D minus in all my
courses.
And so he gave me a shot to toss
about under his practiced eye. ]
heaved it out some ten or forty
feet, and the coach said: with
practice you can do a good deal
better than that. Come around
every afternoon about this time and
I'll give you some pointers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Fairness Is Foremost

A S a matter of common arithme-
L n tic, you can save more money
by cutting the pay of 100000 low
salaried people by a certain per
cent than by cutting that of few
high-salsried employees twice as
much, but that does not justify the
idea of making it unnecessarily
tough for the former.
Fairness is the most important
element in the conduct of public
business, whether applied to taxa
ton or pay cuts. People will put
up with most anything as long as
they think they are being treated
fairly.
They have proved nothing more
wildly during the last three years.
The ability to pay has been &C
cepted as a just basis on which to
settle national debts. 1t certainly
ought to be accepted as a just basis
on which to fix salary reductions.
The man who gets barely enough
for meat and drink never should be
asked to make the same percentage
OF sacrifice as the man who gets
many times enough.
The idea of econoinizing at the
expense of those who least can af-
ford it has become too fashionable.
Not that most of our business and
political leaders have failed to bear
their share of the load, but that
every once in a while, some one
like Mayor Walker, comes out with
a proposition which would put an
unjust share of the burden on those
at the foot of the line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

THE coach was a determined
l. man, and even my failure to
report did not deter him from his
propaganda to develop m Drawn and
let my brain go wither. He gave
me something to remember him by
in the shape of a underground shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
estlng 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, 1932-08-09
Daily Thoughts

Keep my commandments and
live; and my law as the apple of
thine eye.-PrOverbs IL.
Obedience is the key to every
door-George Macdonald.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

AN ocuIlst warns that it is dangerous to rub Il
eyes, Vacatlonists receiving their hotel bills shou
pinch themselves instead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

woman in Massachusetts Just has divorced hus.
'ahd who previously had divorced her Still deter
mined have the last word we suppose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

Inc prince OF Wales says the way to avoid de
preston to keep busy at something. Another wa,
is to choose king for father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

"A chicago woman who shot her husband SAYS that
she will miss him. But she didn't at the right time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
1925 Congress avenue.

Editor Times-I can not under
stand why the trucking industry is
so opposed to being placed on an
equal competitive basis with the
railroads.
never have been a railroad en-
ploye, but We all know from expert
ence what the inexperienced builder
has done to the building industry
and we stand idly by, letting the
trucking companies destroy the
backbone of our nation with the aid
of the taxpayers money, and then
we wonder why business does not
improve.
I wonder what the public would
say if the railroad companies would
park five or six box cars on our
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

what does this country stand for, speaker asks
"enL after what we've been through, we'd say thai
1t would stand for most anything
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

Mussollm says he is firm advocate of economy
III government Just to prove his point cabinet din
ners IN Italy now consist of table set for one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

Most OF the nations of the world are convinced
that Japan needs a good spanking, famous his
torian remarks. But the trouble is that so far We
have had no volunteers for the mother role
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

SCreetS, sometimes without lights at
night, overload their cars and ruin
our asphalt streets, which are soft
IN warm weather, force their en-
ployeS to work from twenty to sixty
hours without rest, running their
trains in the center Of the highway.
crowding other traffic off the road
killing and injuring it's passengers
and preventing the man with a
family enjoying ride on the high
way.
venture to say the railroad en-
ploye would not have a Job very
long, yet the trucking companies are
guilty Of all this, and are having
the support of the average business
man.
This is just one example of what
a high school and college education
viii do to our business. It would
be far better if our so-caIled
leaders" would have quit school at
the eighth grade and learned at
least little common sense, and put
a damper on our present "cutthroat"
business methods. Our worries
would be over.
EDWARD ]. KIRCK.
Editor Times-What is the matter
with America? The answer is.
Mans inhumanity to man.
We have permitted greed and
selfishness to crystalline the minds
Of the people and where laws of the
nation are made for individual sell
fishness it will cause the overthrow
of the nation.
The danger signal of a nation is
a decrease in home ownership. If
we fail to promote the common good
then we have failed in the true pur-
pose of human government.
When the people allow politicians
to do their thinking on a question
Of national policy. it results in legis-
lation based on the influence of the
selfish interests against the interest
of the masses and If not checked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Idle Men. Idle Lands

Next to the millions of idle men, the worst waste
in the United States in its millions of acres of idle
lands
When the Pilgrims landed nearly one-half of
our continent in virgin forests Of the original
8oOO0OOOO of forest primeva" only 900
acres remain standing At the present rate of cutting
and burning, this soon will have gone the way of
the rest.
Because the timbermen did not replant and be-
cause of wasteful farm methods 100000 acres of
good farm land has been destroyed by erosion and
outlying.
More tragic than either of these is the waste
due to the attempt to farm poor or sub-marginal
lands. study recently was made of 1900 such
farms in one eastern state. 1t was found that one
half of them had been abandoned and returned to
public ownership through tax delinquencies
The farmers who remained were receiving an
average income of 500 year. In five states-Mich-
igan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Ore
gon-nearly 100000 acres, Is per cent of their
total areas have reverted to public ownership through
farm abandonment
1t is estimated that 100000 acres. or an area
equal to half of the total remaining public domain
has come back into the publics hands through
failures and delinquencies.
Efforts to make these slothful acres earn their
way must be directed toward two ends the plant
ing of idle and submarginal lands to trees and the
repeopling of good lands.
Attempts along both lines are afoot. The United
States timber conservation board Just has issued a
constructive set of suggestions One is that stand
ing timber be made free of taxes and be taxed only
upon it's sale.
This would encourage private timbermen and
farmers to replant logged areas. Another is that
forest properties be permitted to merge for control
of production.
States, notably New York. are reforesting sub
marginal lands. Last year New York planted a.
100000 trees; Michigan, 23OooOOO; Pennsylvania g.
100000 Wisconsin, Ohio and Massachusetts moro
than 100000 each.
The farm garden" movement, too has begun in
New York and Indiana. In New York state. soon
families in forty manufacturing communities have
joined this "back-to-the-land" movements
All these efforts are, of course, small in face
of the great problem
What is needed is national land planning pro-
gram, evolved in cooperation with the states