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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

Disease May Cause Loss of Memory
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

This, however, is the result of
observation-disclosures and preoccupa-
ton, and of the failure to give ade-
quate attention rather than any
disorder of the memory.
There are, moreover, many peo-
pie who have a special faculty for
remembering, highly developed
through training, and who are
thereby more successful in occupa-.
tionS in which memory is an i'm
portant attribute.
Doctor Sanger Brown points
out that persons past middle age
who do not remember as well as
formerly need have no fear that
the condition is progressive.
It is merely a part of the general
decline in mental vigor and keen
ness OF attention which occurs in
advancing years.
Elderly persons frequently re-
peat the same story, appear to
exaggerate facts and, in other ways,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
DeadIocked Theories

FINDER such circumstances, how
~ can we hope to recover with
out admitting the necessity of cur
tailment in some branches of in
dustry and the prospect of expan-
sion in other?
What are the unemployed going
to do while this readjustment is in
progress, unless the government
steps in?
Senator La Toilette has suggested
a $4,000 100000 bond issue, but those
who believe that routine expenses
ought to be cut can't see much
sense in it.
On the other hand, some of those
favoring a bond issue can't see
much sense in cutting expenses,
and there you are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
TIT STEMS IN MT nv HAYWOOD
i l. OZG4VAO l. ~ 4V1G d BROUN

agreement. Nor is my attitude sole
ly one of Se1f-protection. Vast
shudderS of horror run throughout
the land whenever a political can
didate ventures to comment on the
private life of an adversary. Surely
newspapers have slipped a little
from their high estate in becoming
somewhat lower than politics.
Walter Winchen has been called q
superb reporter. That is true, but
one reservation must be made. Into
every newspaper office there drift
scores of tips. Somebody thinks he
knows that a public official is go
ing to resign or that a famous au-
thor has been blackballed for the
Communist party or some other
club.
The lead is given to a reporter
and he is sent out to verify the in
formation if possible. But it is all
excellent and a well-respected rule
that without verif1cation these mat
tiers must merely be docketed as
interesting rumors and kept out of
print.
Mr.. Winchell prints the tips. He
uses not only what he knows, but
what he thinks he knows. AS a
result he has scored some excellent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Hitting Below the Belt

Hints here and there indicate that this period
OF distress and fear for workers may be selected bv
utility companies as the opportune moment for de-
prlvng their employees by law of the right to strike
The right of utility employee to strike is dis
cuSSed at considerable length in the current issue
OF Public Utilities Fortnighty which calls atten-
ton to the timeinesS of the subject in the face Of
present economic readjustments"
The article stresses the Importance of service
rendered by utilities and states that "the withdrawal
of the labor of any of these workers would lead to
profoundly serious and possibly disastrous conse-
quences"
AS an alternative for collective bargaining by
utility employees it suggests compulsory arbitration
and points out that if such arbitration Should result
in higher labor costs and thereby threaten to en-
croach upon the fair return that regulation seeks
to provide the utility would be entitled to a rate
readjuStment permitting increased revenue"
At a time when workers sincerely grateful for
any job when the specter of starvation dogs every
foostep the loss of abstract rights to be of benefit
only in the future is not the burning issue that food
and shelter for today and tomorrow is That is why
labor's climb always has been difficult.
Yet this proposal of the utilities, if it is to be
made seriously should be considered apart from the
atmosphere of depression, with regard to its long
time effect, and considered long and earnestly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
There Must Be Somewhere

OF course, it is not easy to draw
~ the line. Some may contend
that whatever commands public in
terest is a matter of public concerl '.
But to some extent rather too
morbid curiosity has been created
by journalism's current concern
with events called blessed.
Unless newspaper men join to-
gether in protest, we have no right
to expect to be received anywhere
save at the bottom of the back
stairs.
Accordingly, I will admit that my
motive in setting down this dissent
ing opinion is governed by selfish
concern for the job in which so
many of us are concerned. I don't
want to have reporters put upon
the plane of prohibition agents.
Naturally, I have no desire to ap-
pear sanctimonious in all this. I
will not contend that I never have
Sinned against canons which seem
to me admirable and necessary.
Moreover, I am well aware of the
fact that gossip and passion for
gossip existed long before there was
a Winchell. 1t may even continue
after there is none. I like gossip.
And no one need suggest to me
that my complaint is founded solely
on the jealousy of columniSt on
his way down against a commenta-
tor coming up the stairs. Particu-
larly since the two have met and
passed each other. I've thought of
that.
After all, the motives Of myself
and the motives Of Walter Winchell
need not be the prime considera-
ton. 1t is the end result which mat
tiers. Some may say that the bril-
liant young commentator on the
passing scene has merely adapted
the small town PAPER practice to
the needs of Broadway.
That is an insufficient argument.
Who wants New York to have the
same sort of underground wires
which make small towns so mean
and so petty?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THO you know" inquiries an inquisitive gentle
u man. .whY high-strung. sensitive and scholar

THO you know" inquiries an inquisitive gentle
II man. why high-Strung, sensitive, and scholar
ly men live complacently with cowiSh Wives?"
1 am glad this correspondent uses discrimination
in his choice of adverbS, since the word complacent
ly makes this an easy one to answer. The common
term in such sentence is happily" and this gives
an entirely different meaning to the question.
Such men live complacently with cowsh wives, I
suppose, because they able to please themselves,
pursue their work study without interference.
But don't ask me to believe that they ever live
happily with such creatures.
In the first place. have no patience whatever with
the propaganda that all men prefer dumb women.
Heaven knows we've had plenty of stupid advice
dished up for us, but this bit of foolishness is by
all odds the harmful 1t contains vestige Of
truth or good sense.
DUMB men prefer dumb wives Intelligent ones
~ never do And the girl who is urged to build
her plans for marriage the sort of she has
in Stimulating haf-wit is victim of the greatest
Of all feminine deluSions
Men of reasonable intelligence do not choose
their friends for their moronic traits Why, there
FORE should they such standard in the selection
of a partner for the closest intimacy of life and
condemn their children to be mothered by simple
ton?
This, of course. is not to say that many smart
Iuen have not married dull women. That usually is
the victory of infatuation over good sense.
And many of these men, being gentlemen and
humane live out their years with the wives they have
chosen But in so doing they never attain the highest
happiness possible to men in the welded state.
No marriage is happy unless both husband and
wife can supply mental as well aS physical stimulus
Ia the union
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
The Nervous System

PSYCHOLOGY and physiology
l. must, in many cases, investi-
gate the same phenomena. It is
impossible, for example, to under
stand psychological phenomena
without an understanding of the
physiology Of the nervous system.
But many psychologists feel that
there is more to psychology than
the physiogoly of the nervous sys-
tenn or the reactions of muscular
tissue,
These facts were emphasized in a
recent address by Professor Edwin
G. Boring, of Harvard university,
the retiring chairman of the psy-
ctology section of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science. Speaking upon "The
Physiology of the Consciousness"
he said:
"My thesis is that Scnetific psy-
chology needs more than to become
the physiological PSYCHOLOGY that
Wundt originally called it, and that
we are not entirely without the
means of proceeding in this direc-
ton.
Psychology, it seems to me, needs
to save for its own uses both con-
seriousness and the nervous system,
and it must have both if it is to
survive.
"Once upon a time psychology
had some hope of getting along
without a nervous system. There
was a time when introspectionistS,
like Kulpe and kitchener, would
have hailed with avidity any step
that brought psychology nearer to
being a descriptive science of the
facts of experience, science that
could get along with introspection
as its only method and could leave
the nervous system and the stirnu-
lus ruthlesSly in the outer darkness
of physiogoly.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

REEMORY is so valuable an at
1V1 tribute to success that au-
thoritieS in conditions of the
mind have given it most careful
consideration and study. Memory
is developed early in life.
If the portions of the brain in
volved in memory are injured by
disease or physical damage, or if
they are affected by the changes
that come on with old age, men,
DRY begins to weaken.
The changes associated with old
age involve, in some cases, harden
ing of the arteries and a diminish
ing circulation of blood to the parts
of the brain that take care of men,
DRY.
There are many people who
only apparently are unable to re-
member well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
New Jobs Needed

THERE is much of our capital
4 which never will go back where
it was five years ago. Also, there
are many workers. The coal indus
try furnishes a vivid illustration in
point. But just because the market
for coal is shriveling, should be get
cold feet with regard to better roads
and bridges?
The major problem in connection
with the coal industry is to find
other work for thousands of men
and millions of dollars, and the
same thing is true with regard to
several more industries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Matters of Record
I WORKED once on a newsp

T WORKED once on a newspaper
L with man named Swope. He
said: Whenever anything becomes a
matter of court or official record,
I'll print all I can get if it's a good
story. I'm not going to omit good
divorce case simply because some of
the details are Objectionable to
some people.
But I'm not going to anticipate
news by saying that Mr.. R. and
Mrs. R. had a fight and that prob
ably Mrs. r. is going to sue him
for separation. And It's none of
my business where a man dimes or
with whom or whether he goes home
at midnight or in the morning. /"
With that J am IN complete
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ'


Introspectionists and BehGUi-
oriSts War OUer Psychol-
ogy Methods; Conscious
ness Presents Problems to
Various Schools.
TINE problem Of consciousness is
4 one of the largest and most
difficult problems facing the mod
ern psychologist. Everyone feels
that he knows what he means by
the use Of the word consciousness,
yet the psychologist is at a consid-
cradle loss to define the word.
Certain schools of psychology,
notably the behaviorists, would
abolish the word altogether. One
wit, describing the situation, said
that first psychology lost its soul,
then its mind, and then its con-
Sciousness, so that nothing is left
but behavior.
A1oGler suggested LhaG the IN
Scription, Know myself" which
appears over the doorway of a ia
nous psychological laboratory, be
changed to read, Behave your
self"
All psychologists, however, do not
go as far as Watson and his school
of behavioriStS, who would abolish
the use of the word consciousness.
Watson holds that there is no
such thing as thinking. He calls it
"subvocal talking" to your
self under your breath. To him,
thinking is just one more method
of physical behavior.
Most psychologists, however, and
certainly the newest school of
"Gestalt" psychologists, would dis
agree with Watson.
Much of the discussion grows out
of the approach to psychology.
Many Investigators are inclined to
regard psychology as a branch OF
physiology. Physiology deals with
the function, or if you will, the be-
havior of the human organism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
M TO-DAY So
{ WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
~ 9GSN
ADOPT SOVIET
Jan. Is

NN Jan. Is, 1917, the Soviet gov
~ eminent was adopted by Russia.
The constituent assembly of Rus
STA voted:
Russia be declared a re-
public of SovietS. The Republic
of Soviets is formed on the basis of
a free alliance of free nations IN
der the constitution of confedera-
ton of national Soviet republics.
The Revolutionary committee of
the Ninth Russian army sent a
two-hour ultimatum to the Russian
military authorities demanding free
passage for Russian troops through
JasSy.
King Ferdinand of Rumania was
placed under the protection of the
allies.
German raids south and west of
the Disc were repulsed by the
French.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Mutually Helpful

lust as an ordinary individual,
y who doesn't pretend to know
whether the Culbertson system of
playing contract bridge is best for
war or politics, fail to see why
both plans shouldn't be tried.
1t strikes me that the condition
of the country's revenue indicates a
cut in operating expenses, while the
condition of it's unemployed indi-
Gates the desirability of starting
something.
Further than that, it strikes me
that each scheme would help the
other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Idle Credit Idle Men
president HOOVER has sail

president HOOVER has said
L. that we can't squander our
selves into prosperity, and we can't,
but neither can we worm ourselves
into it by pinching pennies.
We face very complicated Situa-
ton - a situation in which idle
credit is doing quite as much dam
age as idle men.
Many people and many inStitu-
tions are without credit. They have
no choice but to curtail. Others
have more credit than they know
what to do with, and they should
be given a better chance to use it..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Views of Times Readers

Editor TimeS-The recently organ
lied Liberty party's platform asks
that the banking system be owned
by the government, no other banks
permitted, public ownership of all
utilities and trustified industries"
But do its speakers inform their
audiences that the only nation with
banking system completely owned
and controlled by the government
is the Soviet union, with its State
Bank of the U. S. S. R. and sub
salaries?
The Communist manifesto of
Marx and Engels, proclaimed in
1847, had among its immediate de-
mands, :'the Capitalization of credit
in the hands of the state by means
of national bank with state capital
and exclusive monopoly. Central
ization of all means of communica-
ton and transportation in the
hands of the state"
The Socialist movement all over
the world, in every nation always
has advocated government owner
ship of banking, utilities, and trusti-
fled industries.
Do the promoters Of the new
Liberty party publicly acknowledge
these facts or expect to get support
for their borrowed ideas by ignoring
the universal label of Socialism they
have always borne?
ROY WILSON.
1912 Graceland avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
'xKTHAT can I do about Walter

w Winchell?" woman asked
me, and then she went on to ex-
plain. "What he has said about me
is not true; it is very embarrassing,
and, besides, it's none of his bust
ness"
The last point seems to me the
most important. A great tradition
is being smutted over. Of course,
Mr.. Winchel is by no means the
only sinner. But he is the most
skillful and the most successful.
The newspaper profession ought
to be jealous of its own ethics. The
members of the craft have right
to consider themselves as cogs in
the community fully as vital as doc
tors or lawyers. 1t should be very
vitality our task to establish rigidly
the definition of what is news and
what is mere intrusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

ideals and opinions EXPRESSED
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Objections to BevarioriSm

OUJGCllUlIS " DGVdl IUI 1911
TNTROSPECTION, that is, the at
l. tempt upon the part of the psy-
chologiSt to explore what went on
in his own mental processes, failed
to yield satisfactory system of
psycholog, Professor Boring says.
1.-THE reaction of behavioriSm
against this state of affairs by the
complete rejection of the introSpec-
tive method was very natural, even
though it represented throwing
out of the baby with the BATH" he
continued. theoretically you can
answer for animals, by tests of dis
elimination or by observation of
continued reflexes, any of the ques-
tons about sensory or perceptual
capacities that have been answered
for human beings by the use of the
interpretive method.
"And what can be done with ami
mails in general can be done with
human animals. Nevertheless, the
behavioristic method is not always
advantageous.
Sometimes it yields results that
are less univocal than those gotten
by an interpretive method. Some
times it is terribly laborious and no
added precision is gained for the
AIDED palms."
Professor Boring would have us
admit that psychology is not pc
culiar among the sciences, that in
troSpection is as much a method
as any of the other methods of OBJ
servation, that it is a method
whereby on the basis of experience
we establish the existence or occur
renee of mental realities like sem
sations or seen movements or any
of the other phenomenal objects
which introspection yields"
We will continue the discussion Of
Professor Behring'S views of con-
seriousness in fnmO1-rouy's article
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

An ethnologst offered to take eight "tenderfeet'
exploring adventure to South America for
$5O0O But they would get more adventure for their
money if they let it be known they would carry it
down some street in Chicago
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

Is the proverb God tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" in the
Bible?
No. 1t is an old English proverb.
In Sterne's Sentimental Journal, il
is given in italics as a quotation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

Members of the Alimony Club jailed at White
Plains, N Y. have radios in their cells Which, with
all the crooners on the air. is almost reverting to
capital punishment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
1912 Graceland avenue.

Editor Times-We read. in the
papers almost daily some article on
the subject of taxation and how
taxes should be reduced. Usually
it is an appeal for a reduction in
some ones wages or the abolish
ment of some position. The high
way trucking interests, because they
were asked to reduce the size and
weight limit of their trucks on the
public highways, have been grant,
ed an Injunction restraining the
state from enforcing the new truck
law, pleading discrimination.
wonder if the taxpayers of IN
dianapolis realize to what extent
these highway trucking interests
are using and damaging their
streets and alleys in the collection
and delivery of traffic and that
they do not pay cent Of city We
hicle tax.
we have variousalocal trucking
concerns also Chants news
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

Germany has stopped paying reparations Well,
now that we know we're not going to get the money,
we forget about it and see what we can get out
of the depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18

SNIP might be driven BY false sense Of mperiastic
patriotism to such position.
But we can not understand why the Hoover adj
ministraon, sworn to uphold American treaties re-
fuses to cite Japan for their violation and refuses
to confer with the other ninepower nations for joint
action, provided by that treaty.
We repeat what We said when Secretary Stinson
sent his weak note to Japan on Jan. z:
GAS the record stands today, the United States
is open to the charge made abroad that it does not
formally invoke the treaties now, for fear these same
treaties some day may be invoked against American
imperialism"
The issue is not Manchuria, but the worlds peace
machinery. The issue is not alone whether japan
break the treaties with the tact consent of the
other powers, but whether in the future some Amer
lean or European imperalistc government can start
a war without being challenged verbaIy-much
less challenged with diplomatic or economic boycott
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-18
Daily Thought

That they may offer sacrifices of
sweet Savours unto the God of heav-
en-, and pray for the life of the king,
and of his sOns.-EZra $40.
The best way of worshiping God
is in allaying the distress of the
times and improving the condition
of mankind
When and from whom did Jack
Johnson win the heavyweight box
ing championship of the world?
He knocked out James j. JET
fries at Reno, New, July 4, 1910.
What is the Negro population Of
the United States.
1ia8el,14s.