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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. walter Ferguson

CWEEPING generalties always are subject to oues-
- tionng. For this reason, the assertion recently
published by house mothers professors and the presi
dent of the University of Missouri regarding drinking
on the campus hardly can be credited. 1t would be
believed more easily if it had been qualified somewhat
No one is more ready to champion the cause of the
modern boy and girl than l. but when I read that
most Of the elders in charge of such institution
fatty say that there is absolutely drinking going
wonder If the native MisSourian, who is noted for
his doubling propensities. swallow that.
Frankly I do not. Why? Because I know that in
any community where thousands of boys and girls
congregated there is to be certain amount of
miSbehavior, and being a sorority woman myself,
know also some of the discipline difficulties
tered at these student homes.
Undoubtedly the campus Of the University of Mis-
souri, no than any other place. but to be told
credulity
WET here are some Of the statements made by
i house mothers there. I'VE have seventy girls,
says one and know that not one of them drinks
either here or elsewhere"
Another says, 81 know all that goes on ssaong
these boys. Flaming youthl BAIL Drinkngl There
is of it" The president Of the school an
nounces that there never has been case of i'm
moral behavior on the campus.
Now, it would be fine if we all felt Of the
good behavior of children. But alas, that hardly
can be done, if we our brains Youngsters never
have been perfect, and they are not perfect today
In a land where the adult population drinks SC
persiStently, 1t hardly is possible that all the young
people could be teetotalers.
Every student, Of course, does not drink Probably
the majority do not Nevertheless sufficient number
do to make this one of our hardest problems TO ig-
more it is certainly not wise.
With boys and girls drinkinRE together as they Dc
today moral tragedy often is injected into the issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

How Does President Hoover
Erpect to Make the Bank
rupt Farmer or the Jobless
Man Believe His Bread and
Butter Formula?
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Far be it
IN from me to belittle bread and
butter. If starving, would go far
for even small amount. If civili-
zation offered nothing else of inter-
est, would accept bread and butter
as a proper yardstick by which to
measure human welfare.
But why all the tin cans, ice
boxes, orchards and berry patches, if
bread and butter represents the
great common denominatcr? Why
all the slaughter houses, expert ad-
vice on diet, and two-volume
menus?
Besides, have heard that the
japanese prefer rice?
And what could a railroad engi-
neer do with half ton of bread and
butter, even if his weekly wage
sufficed to pay for it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Who'll Believe It2
president HOOVER is long

DRESIDENT HOOVER is long on
L mathematics, especially when it
comes to solving human problems.
With his bread and butter for
mula he has demonstrated not
only that we Americans are better
off than other people, but that we
are better of than we were sour
years ago.
How does he propose to make the
unemployed or bankrupt farmers
believe it?
The farmer sees another side to
this bread and butter racket. He
can't buy but half so much with
the proceeds of old Mooley and the
corn patch as he could once.
But neither the farmer, railroad
engineer nor Japanese laborer is
satisfied with bread and butter.
What we call progress has spoiled
them for that.
If driven to it, all of us could go
back to the hut, quern and open
fireplace, but we expect civilization
to spare us the necessity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
HEALTH SERVICE
Asthenia Calls for Scientific Study

the person involved, with an at
tempt to remove the mental factors
encouraging continuance of the
lack of vital force.
Such patients should have COM
plete and careful scientific study
to discover any specific deficiencies
in the functions of their issues, SO
that these may be bolstered when
deficient.
Above everything else, however
the condition should not be taken
lightly, simply because no certain
disease or destruction of tissue or
organs is found.
A psyasthenic or neurasthenic is
an exceedingly unhappy person
and will not recover a normal con-
dition until the underlying disturb
ances are investigated fully and
controlled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Apparently both
political parties seem to be getting
anxious to do some miracle for Mr.
Common Citizen.
We have seen miracles in the last
three years. Those of US who
thought We were getting on pretty
fair. have seen the country drained
ditched and damned, food going to
waste while people begged. clothing
factories closed, while millions were
going in rags; lumber mills closed
while people were living in driftwood
boxes on river banks and on city
dumps.
Savings banks closed on our say
ings, our wages Debated so we were
unable to buy merchandise. paw
taxes, interest on loans on our
homes. We had our neighbors load
ed up on us for the future, bought
bonds for poor relief. Our farmers
have been relieved of their farms
BY mortgage holders. because we re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

! awaken at / or and remain awake
the rest OF. the night.
There are, Of course, many dis
eases in which weakness is promi-
nent symptom. In Such condition
there may be lack of red blood
cells, failure of certain glands to
supply necessary secretions, or SINH
lar disturbances.
These, however, are not of the
same type as the various asthenias
although anenia and low blood
pressure may be associated with
true asthenia.
Obviously, conditions Of this type
must be attacked not only by de-
velopment of excellent personal
hygiene, and other methods for i'm
proving the circulation, but also by
a thorough study of the mind OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Our Old Friend LiIIiom

TN glad that Eva lie Gallienne
a plans to revive Molnar's Lii
liom" this year, for there is a play
after my own heart. The hero, as
you may remember, went through
even the fires Of purgatory and
came out unchanged. Tales of this
sort seem to me more reassuring
than stories of repentance, remorse
and conversion.
One likes to find stability in per-
sonality. The notion of heaven itself
may be little disturbing, because
1t is a place where man, according
to all accounts, is magnifed. BY
this process he may become finer,
but he also becomes different.
This seriously comprises the as
surance that in that realm we shall
meet again and know all those we
loved. Few of us have loved people
for their potentialities. 1t NAV be
that it was not even the virtues of
these others which drew us. close.
Vices and prejudices were essential
notes In such tunes of temperament
as we found endearing.
Perhaps we liked Alexander for
arrogance, Charles for mendacitv.
and Louise for downright depravity.
How can we know any of them if
they are to be reconstructed
through redemption?
It Is conceivable, of course. that
IN the kingdom of the blessed We
shall find little waiting group. one
OF whom wears a tag saving. At
am Alexander" or This is Charlie"
or Here is Louise"
But this is an Alexander who
says, "Of course, may be wrong. as
so very often am" This is not
the Alexander whom we knew and
liked on earth. If there is to be a
friendship, it will have to begin ALI
over again. The man is a stranger.
And Louise-the winged Louise
remarks, tits a lovely afternoon
for righteousness"
With sinking heart we travellers
will realize that it will continue to
De flne weather for coed deeds
through all eternity. It is a Louise
20 command admiration, awe and
respect. In other words, Louise has
died. AAe'S
downright. 1882. BY The rimeD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Questions and
Answers

What kind of motors has Kaye
Don's speed boat, Miss England III?
The type of the motors, devel-
oped by the British air ministry, has
been kept secret. This type has
won for Britain, speed records in
the air, and on land and sea. About
all that is, known is that they
have twelve cylinders. were built by
the Rolls Royce company, develop
4,400-horse power and weigh only
thirteen ounces a horse power.
Which states held presidential
primaries this year?
New Hampshire, North Dakota
Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland
California, South Dakota, Ohio
West Virginias New Jersey, Oregon
Alabama, Florida and New York for
district delegates only.
What part of the country Is
called "dOwn east?
The coast states Of New England,
especially Maine, which is termed
way down east"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
AUsTRIA's PLEA DENIED


ON Oct. IS, 1918, President Wilson
" refused Austria's request for
peace, stating that the independence
of the Czecho-Slovak and Yugo-
Slav nations had been recognized
by the United States and that with
these nations would rest the decision
as to any peace terms proposed by
Austria.
Americans penetrated the Kriem-
hide line at several points between
the Argonne and the Meuse and
forced the Germans to retire to the
F'reya line.
Allied armies reached the Dutch
frontier; Americans and British ad-
vanced southeast of Cambria and
the British extended their gains east
of Douai.
The French reached the Hunding
line in Champagne and captured st.
Germainmont. The Germans began
evacuation Of Brussels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

lieved the farmer Of his produce at
one-fourth its value.
We stopped public and private i'm
proVements so we could enjoy our
slum districts, and we let our
homes fall into decay for lack of
paint, roofs and inside decorations.
We insist on rugged individualism
and ragged people. Our conscience
has been drugged to believe that the
gold standard has magic to supply
our human relations, by cutting
down every necessity for high
standard living.
Our politicians have proposed beer
to drown our thinking capacity, so
we can forget the past and not
notice the future relief programs"
Education, religion and govern
ment watch awe stricken, but indif-
ferent, while we are consumed. If
the idiotic destruction OF human
values continues, with it will 90 all
the progress Of education, religion
and government.
The program seems to have the
earmarks of damnable conspiracy
to put the people of America into
bondage for q few who decree and
control. Shall it be ali for one CT one
for all2 oNLoOKER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
His Medical SURVEY

ELEXNER visited the 155 medical
4 schools then in existence in the
united States and Canada. He
found many of the schools lacking
IN personnel and equipment.
Many of them were overcrowded
and had low standards of Admission
AS a result of his survey. about half
OF the schools were forced to close
their doors.
Two years later he published a
survey titled Medical Education in,
Europe" In it he pointed out the
direction in which medical educa-
tlon should go in America.
In 1912 he became assistant ser
rotary of the general education
board Of the Rockefeller Founda-
ton and in 1917 he became secre-
tary.
In 1919 he outlined to the board
a plan to reorganize medical edu-
cation In the country by concen-
trating on the development of a
half-dozen schools that would equal
the best of Europe.
"OAlAA u. fVOCkeleIler Jr. approved
the plan and asked the cost. F1ex-
ner said $5O,OOO,0O0. Rockefeller
lawyer told him that SIS 900 600 was
available to make a start.
Flexner said he preferred to wait
until the whole job, could be done
In a few months another SIS 600
600 was available. He still waited
Soon after, he got the sum he
wanted.
Flexner's idea was that the
schools should be built so per cent
with Rockefeller money and so per
cent with local money. He chose
Rochester, where there was a GOOD
university, as one Of the towns.
He approached the late George
Eastman and told him he wanted
sl0000,O00 from him. Eastman off,
fered $2,500.000. FIexner refuseds
In the end he gave in.
You're wasting your time" he
told FIexner. You ought to be sell
ing kodaks."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
The Electoral College

Senator Norris promise in Philadelphia to fight
to abolish the electoral college, as he has the lame
duck session OF congress- is good news Here is one
American college that has only the political bosses
in its roofing section.
This institution was Anticipated 100 years ago.
when Andy jackson urged the popular election of
Presidents. The electoral college leaves the nation
at the mercy of the big party conventions and the
party BOSSES
1t makes the candidacy of All independent almost
impossible. Another evil is the unit rule whereby
all the electoral votes of state are counted for the
candidate who wins bare plurality of that states
popular vote.
1t is possible for presidential candidate to
win plurality of popular votes yet lose the election
in the electoral college Jackson in 1924, Tilden in
1876, and Cleveland in 1888 all had popular plralities
but lost in the electoral college.
The present system DISTINGUISHES rninorities In
1928 Smith received 15O1644S popular votes Of
these 1640220 gave him total of eighy-seven cleo
toral votes; 1325622S of his popular votes won him
not single electoral VOTE
He polled 100000 in New York to Hoovers $780,
OOO yet Hoover got all forty-fve of New Yorks cleo
toral votes
The electoral college should be abolished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
A Born Teacher

NEANER was born in Louis
vile, one of nine children HE
iather had taught school in E,,ro o-1o
Oe1ore coming to this country.
money was scarce in the Flexner
laHllIy and so the BOYS went ~
scnooi IN the morning and worked
III the afternoon. AS the older how
completed school and took f1lI-tin,s
JooS' they began to contribute &c -
Vhe education of the younger bovs
In this way Abraham was 49,
through Johns Hopkins university
he returned to Louisville start
ing a School for children. He had a
magnetic personality, as well as an
enthusiasm and passion for teach b
ing, and soon he was GETTING hovv
ana girls ready for college st tbs
age of IA. ~ 'iie
President Eliot of Harvard ostos
MN TO write a paper outlining his
methods, and students began to
come to his school from as far awaU
as South America. way
Inen when his school was heoi,,
ming TO make him rich. he tales
The matter over with his wife cJa
had married Anne Crawford who,
Iater distinguished herself as
playwright " d
They. decided to drop the school
and go to Europe to work ana
study. : Flexner had ideas about srrt
education and particularly Aneri
can education which he wanted 70
work out. He felt that educatioo
IN THIS country was still in its in
fancy. 4'S III
As, As a result of his trip, he pub
Hshed, in 1908, a book called 3Tbs
american College" 1t was sharn
ana frank criticism of the short
co1nlngs OF American institutione
One of the men who read if wos
Henry Pritchett, president of the
carnegie Foundation for the AL
Vancement of Teaching.
Pritchett asked FIeMner to mako
similar survey of medical edlIcae
ZION In the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Seem About the Same

II MYSELF never have known any,
= body who changed very much
even under terrific pressure. The
war, for instance, was an experience
almost beyond the capacity of en-
durance, but I know hundreds of
people who came out of the conflict
precisely as they were before.
I am thinking Of a friend of mine
who used to write about athletic
sports in highly romantic way. If
Yale made last-minute stab to tie
Harvard, only to be repulsed on the
courtyard line, my friend was sure
to telegraph a story in which this
episode in the game would be COM
pared to Pickett's charge at Gettys-
burg.
Then he went to war, and I
thought that when he came out he
might realize that no football game
really deserves to be ranked among
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE condition asthenia, involv-
4 ing weakness and fatigue, fol-
lowing influenza, has been ascribed
to constitutional inadequacy, to dis
turbance of the thyroid gland, to
low blood pressure and to similar
departures from the normal state.
There are some cases in which it
has been found that the adrenal
gland does not function adequately,
and people who have this failure
always are tired and weak.
Drs. E. L. Bortz and G. M. Piersol
describe a special form of insomnia
which affects such people. They go
to bed and fall asleep promptly
around 9 or 10 o'clock, but they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
>TT CEENTO tn MT ~, HAYWOOD
L OAL4V1O ~ WILL b1 BROUN

CRITICS of books and of plays
~ are fond of saying, ''The
trouble with the work Of this author
is that the character which he pre-
sents does not develop"
Many of the most interesting
modern plays are in revolt against
this assumption that the story of
man or woman must be the story of
growth or decay. I don't believe that
is the way people function.
When we say of somebody that he
has grown enormously in the last
| few years, we don't actually mean
that he has changed fundamentally,
but merely that he has had greater
opportunities to strut his stuff.
OF course, a painter or a novelist
may improve from year to year. 1t
even has happened to newspaper
columnists, although much more
rarely.
But the fact that man begins
to understand his medium a little
better does not make him new
personality. Shakespeare was Shake
speare before he became SNAKE
speare.
= II
Play Called Success Story
r HAVE specifically in mind John
i Howard Lawson's play, Success
Story" which seems to me one OF
the most moving and interesting OF
current dramatic attractions along
Broadway. In several of the reviews
/ gathered'that it was the saga OF a
young idealist ruined by big bust
ness. A young man with aspirations
took himself into an advertising
agency, and look what happened to
him.
That hardly is fair to the play or
to advertising agencies. Next to
revival meeting, an advertising
agency is the most fertile field in
which to rub elbows with texts about
good conduct and experiments noble
in motive.
The tragedy of the brilliantly con-
ceived Mr.. Ginsburg in Lawson's
play is, of course, internal. And all
tragedies of any consequence lie
there. If an automobile darts around
corner and extinguishes a bril-
liant and useful citizen that Is lam,
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entable. But it isn't tragic.
mean in the sense of artistic pat
tern.
The thing has no form. Possibly
some genius could make a superb
play out of the mere aimlessnesS of
existence. 1t would be difficult. We
prefer to feel that there was reason
and motivation in the final doom.
In fact, to venture upon the diff
cult business of defining art I sup
pose that it is the human endeavor
to find a reasonableness and a de-
sign in all the scattered business of
life and death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

the fifteen decisive battles of the
world.
He served year in the Argonne
and Whereabouts, and when he re-.
turned he wrote the same football
story all over again; only this time
the Harvard stand on the courtyard
line wasn't Gettysburg, but the ma
rines at Chateau hierry. Nothing
had happened to my friend inter
nally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

One of the Most Important
and COlorfm Figures in
American Education Is DR..
Abraham Flerner.
DR. ABRAHAM FLExNER, d.
- rector of the new Institute for
Advanced Study, which Just has
signed Professor Albert Einstein for
life job. is one Of the most impor-
tant and colorful figures in the his
tory Of American education.
He has, perhaps, impressed him
self as much as any other one man
upon the trend of American eduea-
ton.
The fact that he is not yet salts
fed with that product is significant
for the future.
DR.. Flexner has organized his
new institute, which was made pos
Sible by S5,0O0,OOO gift from Louis
Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld, be-
cause he feels that at this time
America needs new type Of educa-
tional institution.
This is not the first time that DR..
Flexner undertook to remake a por-
ton OF the nations educational
framework.
That he has started his present
venture by signing the worlds
greatest and best-known scientist is
proof that he has lost none of his
old abilities.
FIexner until. few years apo wos
secretary of the general educstio ,o
BOARD Of the Rockefeller Founda-
1t IS to Flexner that we owe tbo
TACT that America today POSSESSES saas
group OF medical schools eoua1 70
Che nneSt of Europe.
IL was Flexner who saw the mood
ol such schools in America ana
Went TO work to see that thew wero
endowed, organized and establishes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

The nation is mobilizing in its individual conmu-
mites to that the 100000 needy do not lac food
clothing and shelter
This is most important immediate national
problem. We may become upset by tariffs.and world
trade, BY prohibition and power and partisan politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
Daily Thought

Fear none Of those things which
thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil
shall cast some of you into prison,
that We may be tried; and ye shall
have tribulation ten days; be thou
faithful unto death, and 1 will
give thee a crown Of life.-Reve-
Iation 2:10.
Genius is mainly an affair OF
energy.-Matthew Arnold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this celumn 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 paper.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

Yep the depression must be good for the health
Of the country. Medicinal liquor Withdrawals dropped
80 per cent in the last year. the government reports
Only paltry 100000 gallons were withdrawn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

President Svinhufvrud OF Finland has pardoned
1000 persons imprisoned for various liquor ofenses
After the celebration lot Of them will be back in
again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19

President Hoover, in reminiscent mood recalls the
joy of sliding down hill on ones tummy" But the
world hasn't found it much fun