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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Fun Without Money

This winter is a fine time to start a movement
that may last longer than the depression, move
ment that will have good will and neghborliness
as its objective and fun without money its method
During the last twenty or thirty years, about the
time that the automobile changed human habits, there
has sprung up the tradition and legend that people
must pay to be amused.
The old art of finding pleasure in groups has al
disappeared People have forgotten how to play
Athletic contests have become commercalized. In
stead of playing ball. people sit in bleachers Instead
Of the old time gatherings Of neghbors there are
the packed houses Of commercial entertainment.
These things are all fine and wonderful. But there
will be very many people in this and every other city
this year who will have money to spend on amuse-
ment and entertainment
There will be larger numbers who will find that
the lack of entertainment and mental occupation Is
worse than a lack Of food clothing and shelter. 1t
is not conceivable that the community will permit
men, women and children starve physically 1t is'
very probable that most communities will permit large
numbers to starve mentally
The press Of taxpayers for economy has already
eliminated the night schools Library facilities prob
ably will be curtaied The whole recreation pro-
gram is threatened.
1t remains for the people to amuse themselves
This can be done by opening schools as community
centers or in the establishment OF community clubs
in vacant storerooms where men, women and chill
dren find some escape for the sordid realities
of life and some comfort in companionship.
There is talent in every community that can be
developed, More than this, by merely joining in
groups, people will find the path to cooperative
effort for material problems much easier.
The big need this year is fun, decent fun The
demand for the hour is for entertainment without
money. The real education needed is the dis
covery that it is not necessarily buy mental reaxa
ton.
An organization in every precinct of just neigh
bors who pledge themselves to find fun without
money will do as much charity to relieve misery.
For most of the unhappiness in this world comes
not from physical needs but from mental starvation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Not Without Practice

NOW that is admirable, of
II course, but decidedly it is not
impromptu. One can not help
realizing that Romeo must have
rehearsed his death a little in adj
vance. When the moment came, he
was prepared magnifcently. In
deed, he accepted it so superbly
that it is only reasonable to sup
pose that he must have enjoyed
his own proficiency in the art Of
dying.
Shakespeare could not conceive of
tragedy save as full stop. He
needed shears as we'll as pen To
I him tragedy meant being killed,
committing suicide or going mad.
The deeper and more deadly trag-
edy of the man or woman who lives
on and on was not within his roper
toire.
Younger dramatists have founo
that often there is more poignancy
in the tale of an individual into
whose life there enters nothing of
violence. He may be truly tragic
even though he seems to suffer not
at all.
The fat and the contented readily
may command and need a greater
mead of pity than any lean and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MY son insists he is going to theological school,
1V1 said quite unorthodox mother to isn't
that strange? OF course, shall give him every en-
couragement."
1t is indeed strange-strange that college boy of
today should be interested in combining religion with
science, as this one is.
Yet never has there been a graver need for edu-
Gated and intellectual preachers The theoogan and
the scientist have fought long enough.
There must be young men coming on who can
visualize what future religion must be, who scan
imagine how the joining of these two powerful forces
would awaken interest in the universal Deity, some
god who watched the mountains from through cons
Of time, who saw evolve from the beast, god
who would be removed UNNECESSARILY from creeds or
organizations, central fount whence flows all liv-
ing force, and to whose being all returns again.
To boy with vision, this field offers tremendous
possibilities and great rewards. Not in dollars per-
haps. But in the real satisfaction that follow efforts
to help ones fellows
present the country is cluttered up with in
telectually immature minister's with individuals
who go up and down harangung in Billy Sunday
manner, frightening the ignorant with hell fire and
divine vengeance, and with good but superannuated
men who long since have lost touch with modern
problems and are entirely inadequate to lead younger
men and women into spiritual paths.
And religion is booked for return Make no
mistake about that We are tired of all these ugly
immoralities tired of obscenity and wise-cracking
The people are beginning to clamor for sustenance
Tor their souls. as well as food for their bodies
SO perhaps, after our doundering in the mire Of
doubt, there shall come to us new vision Of beauty
Of peace and Of Immortality
At any rate, there must be spiritual leaders as
well as political leaders. future is to be secure
And only the young men can furnisk either.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Questions and
Answers
why do camels have humps?

Why do camels have humps?
They are stores of flesh and fat
which can be reabsorbed to support
the animals when they obtain in
sufficient food.
When are the tides of March?"
The eighth day after the nones
or March Is.
What is the plural of hair?
Hairs-although the singular is
frequently used with singular
verb in the plural sense.
Are there any educational or re-
Iigious qualifications for the office
of President of the United States?
No.
Is the word God in the Constitu-
ton of the United States?
No.
What is the national flower Of
England?
The rose.
When did England, Germany and
France abandon bimetaIism?
England in 1916: Germany II
1871; France in 1878.
Who wrote puck Of PoOk's HIP
Rudyard Kipling. 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

erection of these glands and partial
absence.
A relative absence of this gandu-
ular material is again associated
with fatigue and slowneSs of growth,
tendency to exaggerated reactions
of muscles and nerves, and lower
ing of the amount of calcium in the
blood.
At the same time there is a
thickening of the bones of the skull
or, in other cases. a failure to util-
ize calcium properly with degenera-
tive changes in the bones.
Such patients tend to lose weight
and to have spasmodic cough.
There also are disorders of be-
havior, associated with the changes
in the nervous system.
When the condition is properly
diagnosed and treated by admin
istration of suitable preparations of
the parathyroid gland and of suf1-
Gent amounts of calcium, there is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Money Fails as God

THIS is the first worldwide
l. slump that has occurred since
mass production, organized industry
and pooled wealth gained the as
tendency in human affairs. It is
playing havoc with some of our PET
theories.
Money is not the god we took it
for, nor is credit the good angel.
In spite of our elaborate systems
of accounting and cost-f1xing. we
wholly are unable to tell what will
happen when some great market
collapSes, or some major trade cur
rent is blocked.
Our most comprehensive 1edgers
gave no hint that stocks were about
to crash when they were balanced
for the months of August three
years ago.
The reason is that they make no
allowance for the vagaries of cH-
mate, custom and human nature.
They are kept on the assumption
that a dollar is dollar, no matter
what happens, or how hard the
average man must work to get it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

lessened tension, a decrease in ir-
ritability, and disappearance of
fatigue.
Sleep becomes more normal and
the conduct of the patient improves.
Sudden and severe overactivity of
these glands, as occurs rarely brings
about extended changes in the hui
man body.
The bones may become porous,
the bones of the spine fall together
with the production of a hump
back"
There are pains in the joints and
a general breakdown of the body.
Surgical removal of portions of
the glands and the giving of suffi-
Gent amounts of calcium tend to
overcome this condition.
Next-YOur adrenaI glands ..
now they may make you easily ex-
cited and perhaps give you too
much optimism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Dream for PoSterity
M we could Increase wages a

IF we could increase wages and
l. prices continuously, debt would
present no great problem, but that
appears to be impossible. The in
PRODUCTION Of new products, the dis
covery of new processes and, above
all else, the ceaseless change of
habit create a competition which
no trust, or monopoly can stif1e.
/ Many of our greatest industries
are based on inventions, or devices
that were not known seventy-flve or
even fifty years ago.
The law of supply and demand
has become subordinate to human
ingenuity.
Room is made for new enter
prises by the destruction of old
ones.
What becomes of the notes, bonds
and mortgages?
War represents an even greater
element of variation.
Our only hope of fixed values
lies in fixed conditions and fixed
ideas, and who wants that?
No one, of course, but the alter
native is to find some scientific
method Of keeping debt and credit
in line with the general price and
wage level-a dream for prosperity
to interpret.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Help the Blind Voter

William Nelson Cromwell, president of the Amer
lean Braie Press calls the countrys attention to the
TACT that the coming election makes necessary little
special attention to the needs of the blind
Approximately $4,000 Americans have lost their
sight, and among them there thousands of intel
hgent adults who wish to vote in the presidential and
state elections.
Practically all state laws as Cromwell points out
provide that blind voter may have assistance when
he casts his ballot, either by friend or by two cleo
ton officials of opposite political faiths.
Here is point which we should not forget. Those
OF us who have friends who have lost their sight
ought to see to it that they ge on election day. the
help which will enable them to carry out their privi-
leges as American citizens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

hungry lot. Perhaps the most pitt
full of all protagonists is the per-
sen who is fully resigned to his fate.
Didn't KnoW"TWaS Loaded
OUR friend Mercutio was not re-
" signed. He did not even see
the hammer blow of humiliation
until it fell upon him.
He belongs to the great and
piteous army of the innocent by
ISLANDERS, for the quarrel in which
ne died was not his own and came
out to challenge him with a sud-
denneSs against which there was no
honorable escape.
A squirrel tearing around in his
little circular treadmill evidently is
having no end of fun. He is quite
convinced that he is off upon a
journey.
To him the illusion of progress is
so perfect that he may crinkles his
nose, wag his tail or indicate his
delight by any other mannerism
customary to squirrels.
No doubt he is under the firm il
fusion that his vast energy oonsti-
tutes progress. I have no doubt
that he labels himself liberal. And
he is a tragic figure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
M. E. Tracy
Money Is Not the God We
Took 1t For, Nor Il Credit
the Good Angel"
Saws

NEW YORK, Sept. Ex-senator
IN Borah thinks that farm debts
should be revised downward. Meas
ured by the ability to pay, they
should, and so should most every
kind of debt.
Farmers are little worse off than
city people when it comes to loss
of earning power. If wheat is down,
so are wages in the building trades.
II the cotton grower finds it diff
cult to make both ends meet, so
does the Shopkeeper.
We are dealing with high money
all along the line, which means that
a given amount Of money is much
harder to get than it was three or
TOUR years ago.
Money has no fixed value, except
on the face Of note, bond or mort
gage. Money in the open market
is worth what it Will buy. 1t will
buy a good deal more this year than
it did in 1928. Those who need it
to pay debts must sell good deal
more.
Debts comparatively are easy to
pay on rising market, but the
creditor loses. When the market
turns, debtors lose.
There seems no way out Of this
manifest difficulty, unless some
method is found to fixe prices, or
to adjust credit to the constant
huctuation of values.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
BIG BRITISH VICTORY
Sept. %.

ON Sept. %, 1918. British troops
~ located in Asia Minor scored
one Of the biggest victories Of its
campaign.
The Turkish army between the
Jordan and the Mediterranean viz
tually was wiped out, the British
advancing sixty miles from their
original positions. At the end Of
the advance, the troops held Nazar-
eth, Fl Afule, and Beisan.
In a heated battle, British and
Greek troops in the Balkans en-
gagged Germans and Bulgars on a
front Of ninety miles near Prilep.
This was the start of an encoun-
ter that was to last for several days.
Bulgaria was reported to have
opened peace negotiations with the
allies, but this rumor was put TO
naught by German authorities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Picture Puzzle

IT'S now beginning to look as
L though maybe we didn't have all
the facts about the atom at hand.
Maybe one reason we couldn't fit
together the atomic picture-puzzle
was because some of the parts still
were missing.
1t may as well be admitted at
once that the new facts so far I'M
earthed don't help very much in
making a model Of the atom at the
present moment.
Perhaps, they make it more Diff
flcult than ever.
But since Compton's discovery is
only few weeks old and Chad
wick'S discovery only a few months
old, we shouldn't be surprised at
that.
The point is that new facts are
coming to light and therefore we
should be hopeful for the future.
With regard to atomic models, it
is reassuring to know that some of
our models are correct as far as
they go.
The chemist, from the behavior
of certain chemical compounds,
made pictures of their molecules,
picturing just the way the atoms
Of various chemical elements were
struck together to make these mole
cules.
Later, the x-ray study of crystals
by Laue and the Braggs indicated
that molecules indeed were actually
built up of atoms in these ways.
But molecules absorb certain
waye-lengths of light and other
wise furnish characteristic spectra.
The question, therefore, arose as
to whether the dynamic behavior Of
molecules was consistent with the
X-ray picture of their structure.
Recently scientists at Johns Hop
kins university made models of
molecules. Steel balls were used
for atoms and steel springs for the
attractive forces between them.
Suitable mechanisms were devised
to vibrate these models and their
behavior was noted.
The way in which the models vi
brated corresponded to their known
spectra
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I notice ever and
anon your editorial jabS at Franklin
D. Roosevelt. I for one enter a pro-
test 1t takes lots of nerve for a
paper pursuing the course of The
Times to try to dictate the policies
Of candidate Roosevelt.
A paper that took great pride in
being the first to point the way to
the great engineer, four years ago,
now tries to tell us we needed the
man it helped defeat. And because
the Democratic party doesn't see fit
to follow your suggestions now, you
have brass, to try 10 dictate the kind
of speeches Mr.. Roosevelt is to make.
Why don't you try to smoke out
Hoover ad make him clarity his
attitude on the great question of the
campaign? Stick to him, you helped
produce him.
In the meantime, our progressive
candidate will let the country know
in no uncertain manner his stand
on every vital issue in this campaign.
When he gets ready he'll talk tar
if and other matter you are wor-
ried about. 1t doesn't look becom-
ing for you to even suggest, let alone
dictate, what Franklin D. Roosevelt
has to say in any manner whatso-
ever. You're just trying again to
elect Hoover.
ELDON D. SHAUL,
Russiaville, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
IT SEEMS TOME BY HE Ry02%

more than an appropriate figure in
a pattern of his own design.
His was an airnless death. No
lofty pertinence softened its absurd
ity. Even his last words were a
stammered half-phrase from a SEN
tence.
The dying Romeo said Gin part) !:
Come. bitter conduct; come, unsavOry
guide!
''ThOu desperate pilot, now at once
run on
''The dashinE rocks thy sea-sick weary
bark!
''Here's to my lOve!-O true apothe-
cary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a
kiss / die"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Credit System WeakenS

T7INANCIERS started something
Il when they began to talk about
the ability to pay as the proper
basis on which to revise interna-
tional debts.
Nations are entitled to no more
consideration on that ground than
are individuals. If a government
should be relieved because it has
signed more notes than it can meet,
why shouldn't common folks? s.
Postwar chaos has revealed a
startling weakness in our credit
system.
We suddenly discover that the
fluctuation of values, the ups and
downs of commerce, the changes
which affect income, have definite
bearing on debt.
We discover that our method of
declaring that state, a corpora
ton, or a person owes SO much, re-
CARELESS of conditions, simply does
not work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
TINE small nodules of tissues
L called the parathyroid glands
are found in pairs on the back sur
face of the two portions of the
thyroid gland.
Removal of the parathyroid
glands results in production of
commissions and an excessive SEN
Sitivity of the nervous system.
Associated with this there is a
spasm of all the muscular tissue in
the body, including that of the heart
and the bowels, as well as the
bronchial tubes.
Again one must differentiate be-
tween complete absence of the Sc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

Scientist Is Convinced That
CoSnatc Rays Are Electrons.
by DAVID DEFY

Scientist Is Convinced That
CoSnaic Rays Are Electrons.
ID ECENT announcements con-
N corning cosmic rays and
atomic disintegration bring to mind
the old familiar story about the
man who called up his lawyer and
explained his difficulties.
They can't put you in Jail for
that" the lawyer treasured his
client.
oh, yes?" responded the client.
I'm J telephoning from the Jail
right now"
Returning from the Arctic Circle.
Where he made observations of the
coSnlc rays, Professor Arthur Comp
ton announces that the. ravs
are detected in the neighborhood
OF the north magnetic pole in sl,ch
way as to convince him that thew
are particles, namely, electrons. the
fundamental particles of negative
electricity.
buC the weu-known penetrating
powers of the coSmic rays is some
thing which physicists never have
associated with electrons. Cosnnic
rays are able to penetrate six feet
OF lead. The most powerful X-ravs
are stopped by few inches of lead
ElectronS never have been known
IN experiments to penetrate more
than thin sheet of metal as for
example the aluminium window" in
certain types of vacuum tubes.
since cosmic rays were so much
more penetrating than x-rays II
was assumed that they were waves
ike A-rays, but thousands of times
shorter. '-'--''
II the cosmic rays are electrons
Chey are doing something that
scientists had supposed electrons
couldn't do. 49, 0A''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
About the Neutron

nT5ER experiments which. ,nss5
~ accepted notion of atomic he
havlor include those of Chadwick in
England. ''A VIM III
he found that certain substances
when bombarded with the alnhs
rays Of radium, gave off swift-n1ov-
ing particles of great penetratino
pUWer' Ihese particles. however, ex-
hlolt no electric charge.
consequently, he called these mar
tlcleS neutrons. The old theory has
oeen advanced that the neutron is
a close union of a proton. the fun
oamental particle of positive elec-
trlclty with an electron, the funda-
mental particle of negative cleo
tricity. '-90
Ogher experiments have shown
that the alpha particles of radi,,r1
40 not come off with equal intensi-
Vles' put with variety of velocities.
In still other experiments. sub
stances bombarded with alpha par-
tlcleS OF radium have emitted alpha
particles in their turn, which moved
With much greater velocities than
the original bombarding particles
The problem of accounting for Che
energies of these long-range alpha
particles, as they are called, is a Diff
ficult one.
Here again is a case of atoms be-
having in a way which physicists
thought they couldn't.
To some observers, this may be a
disturbing state of affairs. But to
my way of viewing the situation it
is a most encouraging and hopeful
one.
Within recent years, many physi-
clsts have been talking about the
hopelessness of making any model of
the atom. They said that the atom
oehed attempts at picturing it.
AS result, they took refuge in
mathematical equations, speaking of
slX-dimensional space, and ten-di-
mensional space, and so on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Life Among BaptiStS

JUST once Shakespeare did write
- tragic play about character
who lived on after the final curtain.
He told one tale in which the plight
of the central figure depended upon
the fact that the man was com
PEELED to continue and to play out
q. role to which he was neither suit
ed nor accustomed.
Length of days merely served to
heighten the pitifulness of his harsh
fate. Shylock left the courtroom
condemned to be a Christian.
Copyright 1882. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
Daily Thoughts

OF the rock that begat thee
thou art unmindfuI, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee.
deuteronomy 32:18.
Ingratitude is treason 20 mankind
Thomson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

Did you ever notice how verbose some of these
silent" political candidates can become if paid al
regular rates by the days periodicals?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

The United States just has presented the Marine
victory memorial to France, as a return gift for the
Statue of Liberty Probably the next gift that
between the two will have to wait for another war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

railroad has laid off" five vice. presidents. The
unemployment situation must be reaching a crisis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

Scientists say the oyster works twenty hours da
He must write wsecracks for the newspapers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22

Seventy-flve well-known American business mer
are on committee investigating the United States
war debts Our only advice is that they hire one gooo
bookkeeper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-22
HEALTH SERVICE
Peril in Parathyroid Gland Removal

This is the third of series of fve
special articles by DR.. Fishbein on the
part the glands play in the human body.