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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ME casual divorce WILL I trust never become
general There are noteworthy cases where hus-
band and wife agree-largely, imagine for the ben
mt OF the newspapers and gaping public-to 90 SEN
arate ways and say their farewels without rancor
even with gaiety.
They have, so they tell u.s. no grief TO sunnress
And that refuse to swallow w.
For the friendly severance OF the marriage tie is
as unreasonable as platonc love and as impossible
Tor normal people to accomplish
Only the emasculate male and the utterly dissolute
female ever could arrive honestly at such an nm
emotional finale 80 "-A
There are certain instincts that civilizations never
VIII be able to overcome certain tendencies that
educatons do not suppress Love and the possessiye
ness 1t creates is one of them.
NTHEN We become completely ladylike peonle
TOO polite to raise voices in spirited argI-
ment too cultured to become agitated over important
issues, too sophisticated to indulge in emotion we
may marry without love and divorce without regret
Until then, we probably shall remain frail be-
1udoled, and quite human In our reactions to the
failure OF marriage.
For, IN spite Of the sophistries we use to Justify
IL, divorce Is failure. It means that we have not
succeeded IN what is perhaps the supreme effort in
human relationship, the ultimate test of living /.
Inere mays be nothing disgraceful to us in this
failure but assuredly 1t is not thing for which we
should feel proud
AND our manhood and wornanhood can not be
measured by the nonchalance with which we accent
IT, but by eNstruggle we put up to avert it.
Only those who know not the meaning of love and
loyalty ever can accept the fact Of divorce with
equanimitE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21
The Heavier Taxes

While very desperate demands are being made by
the representatives Of large property owners for
drastic reduction of taxation, it remained for John
F. White member Of the legislature, to point to the
heavier burden upon property fixed by private enter
prises.
Houses and buildings are of little use without
the facilities of water, gas and electricity.
The taxpayers asking that the wages of police
men, fremen, every public employe be reduced to
the level of the who forced to live on
"made work" basis They demand that the teacher
be forced to accept huge in wages and that the
schools be closed for two three months in order
to save money
They may be correct in their claim that there is
no money for taxes and that the property owners
will be unable to pay at ALL
Yet the fact remains that one of the reasons
why they have no money to pay taxes decent
wages to public employees that private owners
of public utilities are collecting on inflated Salua-
tons and the huge charges made by holding COM
panies for doubtful if not fictitious services.
The collapse of insult, once the divinity of this
state and its ruler, has shown the methods of
high finance when applied to the utility field. Thou
sands of citizens lost their money in his holding
company bubbles. The public was forced to pay ex-
tortionate rates in order to initiate his balloons
but they could not pay enough.
Every dollar taken by a utility above a decent
return is, in effect, taken from the public treasury
If decent rates prevailed there would be money for
rentals. The water and electric rates in this city
fixed to extent not by the amount of money
invested in plants but by the charges made against
operation for engineering, financing and the pur-
chase of supplies. This is especially true of the
electric company
In turn. the rates have definite effect upon in
dustry. Money paid for power above a decent rate
means less wages and fewer jobs
Perhaps the protesting property owners, generally
to be found lined up with the utilities, may be COM
PEELED their attention to the real taxing power
that is becoming burdensome drive for lower
utility rates would do than cutting wages of
policemen. That plan has its dangers in unsettled
times.
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X-Ray Studies

PHYSICISTS came to the conclu-
l. sion many decades ago that the
molecules of matter were made I'D
Of atoms. While all facts of chem
istry pointed to this conclusion, di-
rect experimental evidence was
lacking
The problem of just how atoms
were joined together in the atom
could not be attacked until the end
of the nineteenth century, when the
X-ray was discovered.
During the early decades of the
present century, the German scien-
fist, Laue, and the British scientists.
Sir William Bragg and his son, de-
veloped methods for tracing mole
cular structure with X-rays.
Laue caused a beam of X-rays to
be sent through crystal to photo
graphic plate. The plate, when de-
veloped, showed a pattern of light
and dark spots
He showed that this was due to
the DETECTION of the 'X-rays from
the atoms in the crystal. Then Bragg
developed method in which a beam
of X-rayS was reflected from a face
Of a crystal.
They showed that the reflection
took place from the individual atoms
and that their locations could be
plotted from the angles of reflection.
All these studies led to the belief
that each .molecule is a minute
mechanism made up of atoms spaced
about ten-milIionth of an inch
apart and bound together by cleo
trical forces which seemed to be
applied at certain definite points.
AS Sir William Bragg phrased it.
the molecule had definite struc-
ture like that of a bridge girder, the
atoms corresponding to the beams
and the attractive forces to the riy-
cts,
The important point he made was
that the molecule had a definite
shape and size.
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fort it can be made to sound al
most like a rhyme for ribbon"
With Both Fists living


r THINK that Mr.. Anderson will
Il find his richest material not in
mans love for the machine, or vice
versa, but in the hatreds which
certainly do occur. With my own
bare hands I frequently have bat
tered the life out of a keyboard.
And I've know keyboardS to sulk
and to quit in high disdain of the
mental messages assigned to them.
Sometimes a single key will suIk
and go on strike. This can be 60"
which receives such small amount
of attention, or one of the more
favored letters, which suddenly de-
cided to play the game of hard to
get.
I don't know what the trouble
is with 81" That key has been ex-
tremely coy for a week. I don't
think it will be able to make out
any adequate case against me on
the grounds of desertion and neglect.
In sense, Sherwood Anderson
derives not from the modern Rus
sian school, but from that old i'm
perialist, Rudyard Kipling. There
was, for instance, 1.-THE Ship That
Found. Herself" and Mr.. Kipling
always was making locomotives 90
into Sprightly gossip. Why, in
Kipling book every engine could
talk as well as any leopard.
Possibly there is something in
the theory that the mechanical
objects which we think of as inani-
mate do possess ardors of which we
never will dream. After all, you do
see a great many Austins left in
front of doorsteps.
Copyright. 1892. by The TimeD
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NJ. E. Tracy
Says

"Impa8sabIe Cuffs of Tenn
perdmentar Differences Still
Separate Many of Human
ity's Races, Creeds and
Conceptions"
NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.--It is with
IN mixed emotions that one reads
about this latest move Of the ma
hatma, M. K. Gandhi
With millions starving, what can
he hope to gain by going without
food?
In principle, his widely advertised
fast is just a threat to commit sui
eide, unless the British government
bows to his will.
AS a practical proposition, he
hopes it will arouse sufficient SYM
pathy to bring about the desired
change.
1t is idle for us of the western
world to attempt to understand the
workings of his mind. We are
strangers to the training and ira
dition which form their background.
They belong to an age which we
look upon as obsolete.
But let us not forget that they
are in tune with India, or with a
large section of it, at least.
Humanity has not reached a point
where it can be described as homo
geneous. Impossible CULTS of tenn
peramental differences still separate
many of its races, creeds and con-
ceptions.
Knowing that poisonous snakes
kill $4,000 people in India each year,
we find it impossible to conceive why
Hindus refuse to harm, much less
eXterminate, them.
knowing that autos kill even more
in this country, Hindus find it
equally hard to conceive why we
tolerate them.
Tt is all a matter of viewpoint.
We believe in the power of human
to improve conditions. The |
believes in prayer, devotion
and Self-denial.
Each system has its merits, and |
the chances are that each would
profit by borrowing from the
other.
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A Good Investment

The lives Of some individuals have been broken
beyond repair by the economic disaster of the last few
years.
The lives Of others may be turned into pleasanter
and healthful paths If city slums are replaced
with modern apartments as part Of constructive relief
work.
Most of us know too well to need repetition the
evils that result when human beings are forced to live
crowded into dark arIess rooms lacking decent sani
tary arrangements. Health is ruined. ,schndren's
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DTETZ.

Steel Balls AID Steel Springs
GiUe Interesting Informa-
ton on Molecules IN Scien-
tifc Tests.
D ECENT experiments with models
N of atoms at the Johns Hop
kins university may point the way
to developments OF the highest i'm
portance in the field of atomic
physics.
By use Of steel balls to represent
atoms and steel springs to represent
the attractive forces between atoms,
the Johns Hopkins scientists have
succeeded in making models of mole
cules which behave as molecules
are known to do.
1t is believed that with these
models it will be possible to study
many problems of molecular struc-
NNN~ WA@@SAA ~ AoA nave OC1lGQ DIlN-
sicistS who have attempted to at
tack them mathematically.
In making their models the sci
entists have followed the example
OF engineers who study the problems
involved in the building of suspen-
sion. bridges, gigantic dams, sky
scraper towers, and the like, with
the aid of models.
The study of molecular behavior
had been rendered difficult lately by
the fact that the mathematics in
volyed were so complex.
In fact, it looked as though some
problems could only be studied in
an approximate fashion because of
the excessive number of terms in
the mathematical equations.
The use of models, however, is
likely to speed up the work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21
Questions and
Answers

Who was the first Roman EN-
peror and founder of the Roman
empire?
Gaius Octavious Augustus.
Who was Ulysses?
One of the Greek heroes in the
Trojan war and principal charac-
ter in Homer'S epic, THE Odyssey"
Who are the United States sena-
tors from New Jersey?
Hamilton F. Kean and W. Warren
Barbour.
How old must horses. be. before
they can qualify as race horses?
Two years old.
What is the largest railroad GEN.
ter in the world?
Chicago.
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SUBMARINES TOLL
September q

ON Sept. 81, 1918, the United
~ States shipping board gave out
the information that German sub
marines, during the period from
August, 1914, to September, 1913,
had taken toll Of 7157,O88 tons of
shipping in excess Of the tonnage
turned out in that period by the
allied and neutral nations.
The rout of the Hindenburg line
commenced, with British troops
breaking through the line east of
Epehy and Hargicourt.
A vigorous protest against the
Bolshevist reign of terror was is
sued by the American government.
The United States also asked all
neutral and allied governments TO
follow suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21

Health Magazine.
OF all the glands of internal Sc
~ erection in the human body,
more has been learned about the
thyroid and its functions than of
any other.
The thyroid glands lie in the
throat, one portion on each side of
the windpipe. The giving Of small
amounts of the active principle of
the thyroid gland raises the activ-
ity of the chemical ihterchanges in
the body and for that reason it is
much used for encouraging reduc-
ton of weight.
In underactivity of the thyroid
gland, practically all the excretions
and SecretionS of the body are di-
minished There is slow breathing
and heart rate, a lack of perspira-
ton and even lessened action Of the
kidneys and the bowels.
The temperature of the body is
lowered on account of lessened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21
A Nice ContraIto Tone

DUT, though my typewriter can
ID not speak, I have known it on
occasion to chirp-a sort of "cheep,
cheep'' sound. And on a few red
letter days the old girl has sung.
The tune is called "The Groom Of
the Keys" and as far as can make
out it runs
Polling down the ribbon
Got to make a livin'.
One more sentence to cross"
I might explain that the word
living" is pronounced "libin'" in
sort of poor imitation of deep
southern dialect. BY a supreme eff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-21

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 paper.-The Editor.
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| Was One of a Crowd

NF course, I can not speak from
" deep experience. Anybody who
couples my name with that of a
certain young steam shovel is being
unfair to both of us. I just hap
pened to be passing by. The shovel
curtsied, and I waved. That's all
there was to it.
For several years I have lived in
the same apartment with portable
typewriting machine, but I can't say
that the close association has ri
pened yet into real affection. Frank
ly, she bores me. And if don't
bore her, why, then, she's less than
human.
Sometimes I have wished that the
typewriter machine could talk back,
but upon mature consideration I
always have decided that things had
better remain as they are.
It would be disconcerting to have
the machine squeak suddenly in the
middle of a sentence: We'll, are
you good and terrible today? You
don't mean to say that you get paid
for writing this stuff"
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NHERWOOD ANDERSON is sick

CHERWOOD ANDERSON is sick
> of love. At least, he has grown
weary of its literary interpretations.
81 have hunch," he is quoted as
exclaiming, that affairs of the
heart aren't so very interesting to
read about any more.
1--WE been trying to get into the
feeling of the factories, to find the
attitude of the workers toward the
machines
This, to be sure, is not brand
new idea, even among the literati
of this country. Eugene O'Neill
once wrote a play about a young
man and a dynamo who were that
way about each other. The play
was not success, but perhaps that
was simply because O'Neill was
ahead of his times.
In the years to come, we may
have a modernized version of
Romeo and Juliet, in which it turns
out that he is washing machine
and she an electric refrigerator.
And in the days to come it will be
a romantic sight to watch the stage
door johnnies hanging around the
entrance to the Ford plant and
waiting for the tractors to come out.
y Il n
Love Among the Autos
r AM no Casanova, though I would
4 like it fine and yet I remain du-
bious as to whether mass produc-
ton and the five-year plan have
ended for all time mans preoccu-
patton with lyric verse and the ro-
mantle novel.
1t seems to me that when you've
known single four door sedan of
any make, you've seen them all.
Or possibly the practice of issuing
each spring the models of 1884, 1885
and 1886 is an attempt 20 rouse once
more the passion of the tickle.
Even among the most machine
crazed proletariat I doubt that Mr..
Anderson's query, "How is little Or
lika today?" ever will be answered,
oh, she's walking out with a
Buick"
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BY DIR. NORRIS FIsHBEIN

This is the second of series of five
special articles by DR.. Fishhein on the
part the glands play in the human body.
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Judge Not: That Ye Re Not Judoad

Whether the petty criminals scattered about
through the bonus army numbered O69 as Attorney
General Mitchell states or twelve as General Glass
lord, superintendent of police in Washington con-
tends, is not a matter of supreme Importance
Even if there were 1869 or more this number is
surprisingly small considering the economic encourage
ment to the commission of petty crime in the last three
years The number of those who have failed to allow
starvation cold to force them to steal bread or
clothing is amazing
But even more to the point is the desirablitv Of
rebuking those who would raise the hand Of scorn
and contempt against members of the bonus army on
the ground of delinquency. The public is reason
ably familiar with the personnel of the great mag
mates Mr.. Hoover has called to Washington to offer
him aid and counsel since 1929 and with their activ-
tiles in American society,"
1t seems that it not too good taste or discretion
on the part of Mr.. Hoover to concentrate with spe
CHIC vehemence upon the ant-socia character of the
bonus army.
After all, is it so much to have been run in
Tor having caught ride on freight train than to
have wrecked whole railroad systemq Is it more
disastrous to society to have stolen bottle of milk
than to have conducted banking in such fashion that
more than fifth of banks have failed and i'm
poVerlshed millions of widows and orphans?
is 1t more vicious 70 have conducted lottery than
W nave DaCkeu up wall Street gambling with hun
dreds OF millions of dollars belonging to the publcq Is
1t more reprehensible to have smashed law in q.
drunken brawl than to have smashed the countrv,s
credit?
Is 1t more deplorable to have deceived few p11bIe
persons with respect to the quality of some petty COM
modify costing less than dollar than to have deceived
the whole country as to the state of our business and
financial conditions, thus causing millions to lose
money in in-advised inyestmentsp
few reflections like these might chasten Mr.
Hoover and his associates They well might recall the
aomonition of Jesus that only he who is without sin
is qualified to cast the first stone
Our criminal code is no adequate or exact measure
OF the anti-Social character of an act
DIRT sufficient to fill train of railroad cars 400
miles long was dug from New Yorks new subway
system Which ought to be enough to supplv both
political parties in the coming election
feminine columnist advocates that married men
wear rings on their thumbs-just as if they hadn't
been wearing EN- in their noses all the time.
We're strong for the fve-day week but of course
the plan shouldn't apply to those two weeks when we
get vacation.
The motor car is blamed for a great many acct
dents. But how about the drivers?
Don't worry if you haven't got the price of hair
cut 'Write poem.
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which is thirty-six times as much
as in England, and that is not fair.
We do not get anywhere except
that We are taxed heavily and our
industries are closed. Let our gov
eminent take over the General
Electric and build as it has the
railroads and highways. If Presi-
dent Hoover can not think Of any
thing better than raising more taxes
and putting it into fancv buildings,
he would better hold the money and
pay the bonus or some other way
to get it into general circulation
w. F. S.
Cambridge City.
Editor Times-In the Sept. 9 issue
of The Times, Page 9, you have an
article, Corn Borer Spreading" I'M
der which occurs the following para
graph:
In 1929, corn borers totaling 419
were taken from one acre plot on a
farm in Steuben county, and 1850
in 1892 from the same acre."
Although Steuben county has es-
tabIished a reputation for the corn
borer, believe there Is a home
county farmer who can eclipse the
above record easily unless he uses
the hand picked system.
On wednesday. Sept z, I pur-
chased six dozen ears of corn at the
south side market. Every ear except
two was infected with the corn
borer, most Of which were fatter
and healthier looking than those ex-
hibited at the state fais.
r. A. EuDALY.
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Daily Thoughts

Whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do it with thy might
Ecclesiastes $40.
Enthusiasm is the breath of
genius.-Beaconsfield.
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The motor car is blamed for great many acc
dents. But how about the driversp
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Fast Unto Death

n ANDHI knows. his people and
VI their problems. He is Qbsessed
with the idea that certain reforms
are necessary. He has devoted the
best part Of his life to their es-
Enlistment.
His chief weapon has been pas
sive resistance through self-sacri-
fee. He has preached and prac-
ticed it for the last twenty years.
This fast which is supposed to
result in victory or DEATH" comes
as logical climax to his career.
Win, lose or draw, it will make him
immortal among his followers and
their descendants.
What Gandhi does not know is
occidental psychology. With few
exceptions, he has made no deep, or
lasting, impression on the western
world.
England accepts him as just one
more difficulty in managing India,
even for India's own good. Ameri-
ca accepts him as just another weird
and interesting fact in the march of
events,
Scholars find something worth
studying in his doctrines and meth
DDS. Average people regard them
as fundamentally opposed to the
philosophy of western civilization.
Setting Back the Clock
~ ANDHI has succeeded in STIR
" ring up considerable mass emo
ton in his own land and among
those whose background makes them
susceptible to his methods of ap-
peal.
Whether they know what it is all
about, or have a very clear idea of
what would happen if the reforms
he advocates were put into practice,
is another story.
.Gandhi has been far less success
full in his negotiations with British
officials, not because they lack SYM
pathy with all his suggestions, but
because most of his suggestions ap-
peal to them as negative, rather
than constructive.
In their judgment, the main pur-
pose of his efforts is to set the clock
back, to undo, rather than do; to
teach that the past is better than
the present, and that men must turn
primitive if they would succeed in
their search for happiness
Western thinkers admit that we.
may be putting too much faith in
machinery, but they do not admit
that machinery is to blame.
They contend that men can be
decent in the employment of speed
and power, and that the problem
does not rest on destruction, but
education.
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were strong for the f1ve-day week, but, of course
the plan shouldn't apply to those two weeks when We
get vacation
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Don't worry if you haven't got the price of hair
cut. write poem
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TTT CEENTC I'M MI ~ HAYWOOD
i OLL4V1O ~ WILL ~b1 BROUN

In fact, I gravely suspect that the /,
loom is seldom light of love to the |
weaver and that no vacuum cleaner
is hero to its valet.
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feminine columnist advocates that married rner
wear rings on their thumbs-just as if they hadnr
been wearing EN- in their noses all the time.
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Editorsa Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.