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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Debated Schools.

Thoughtful citizens will ponder over the warning
and appeal made in this city by DR.. Wilbur cabinet
member and educator.
His warning is that the school system is threat
ened by the hysteria that is now a definite part of
the depression.
His appeal is that parents must save civilization
by protecting the educational part of our national
life
That the warning is timely is proved by the his
tory of budget making in this city when serious sug
gestion was made by some large taxpayers that the
school year be reduced to few months.
The defation, as a matter of fact, has begun in
Ehs city and in every other city 1t especially true
In rural districts
In indianapolis it takes the form of the abo-
ltion Of night schools and adult vocational schools
Both of these institutions gave hope to large
numbers of young and women who found it
difficult to conditions in times of prosperity and
used these\ institutions a means of advancement
and of culture.
The dehation became visible when the
threat made to close branch libraries At no
other time in all the history Of public libraries have
they been used so widely and intelligenty as in
the past two years.
The branches have been crowded The people
have had time, enforced leisure if it can be called
that and increasing numbers have used that leisure
to acquaint themselves with the history of other ma
lions, the philosophy OF past thinkers the suggestions
Of modern leaders
ANY defation Of living standards that makes edu-
cation of any person any child more difficult will
bring terrible tax from the future.
Dr. Wilbur points out that civilization depends
upon education, not of the few, but of all. In a
sef-governing nation, it is fundamental Free insti
tutions can not endure when majority are con-
demned to ignorance The higher the general level of
education, the greater is public security.
1t may be necessary for the educators to change
the methods. The time may come when volunteer
teachers and cooperative schools may become neces-
sary unless tax systems changed But in every
age the educator has been the pioneer and the leader
The protest against debated schools runs deeper
than OBJECTION to reduced salaries The cause is worth
sacrifice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-I have read in your
paper several communications from
people who think the National Econ
omy League will do many great
things to help reduce the burden
that the taxpayers are carrying.
They state that this league is COM
posed of patriotic, intelligent and
conservative people.
I being an enlisted veteran, and
a member Of the American Legion,
and not drawing any compensation,
want to tell you frankly that if the
government would give me a pen
sion of $1,000 and up to $21,0 900 a
year, as it has given some of the
leaders of the National Economy
League, I surely would be intelligent
enough not to complain about some
one getting $144 year, who really
needs it. Call that patriotic, intelli-
gent, and conservative if you have
that much nerve, but a hog without
briStles is much better.
This Economy League sounds a bit
like another debt moratorium which
finn 1ammed the taxpayers of this
nation out of only SPAS, 900, 900, so
Wall Street bankers might receive
the money that they had loaned
these foreign countries. That was
another patriotic, intelligent and
conservative f1im-ham.
ALI this ballyhoo from the Econ
omy League started when the vet
eran organizations bolted the Re-
publican party.
SEBERT WRIGHT.
Seymour, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Nobel Prize

TN 1927 the Nobel prize was d1-
4 vided between DR.. Compton and
DR.. G. T. r. Wilson of England for
experiments which apparently
proved the quantum theory Of light.
Compton showed that when X
rays were reflected from crystals,
the reflected beam possessed a lower
frequency of vibration; in other
words, lost energy.
This could not happen, according
to the wave theory. But it can be
explained by assuming that quanta
or particles Of light lost energy by
collisions with the atoms of the
crystal.
Wilson showed that when very
feeble beams of X-rays were passed
through a gas in an alpha ray track
machine, machine which makes
the, tracks of small electrified par
ticles visible, tracks we're obtained
which could be explained only as
collisions between quanta and the
atoms of the gas.
The contradiction between these
experiments and Jne wave theory
led one scientific wit to say that
physicists were reduced to the ne
cessity of using the wave theory on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
and the quantum theory on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Compton himself has compared
the battle between the theories to-
a football game. The score, he says,
is to 0, and the ball is in the
middle of the field.
Many attempts have been made
by physicists to reconcile the two
theories.
Within the last few years, mathe-
NAUTICAL physicists have developed
the theory of wave mechanics which
seeks to make wave phenomenon
of the atom itself.
1t remains to be seen if the study
of cosmic rays will help to Clarity
the general situation regarding
waves and particles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A pROpOs of the discussion about wives school
IN teachers is a splendidly lucid article by waiter
A Terpenning in the current Forum.
The author raises a point that generaHy Is over
looked He contends that the academic policy OF
closing schoohouse doors to married women IS having
an unwholeSome effect upon cnlloren because IL
sbtlv suggests to them that the married state Tor
women lis undignfed unclean and otherwise I'M
desirable for those who engage IN Sucn noOe 1otS VI
service as school teaching"
IF boys and girls" he declares, ARE to be edu-
Gated to respect marriage and parenhood and regular
sex relations as we'll as to emulate the high standards
of fairness and rational living, let their educators
preach and practice such respects and ideals
There's sound sense in that. The entire program
against married women in Professionalism is as
silly and unjust as Ku Klux Klanisn1-tenoS 10 oe-
strov marriage and its sanctitieS. And can not
believe that the American people wish to do that
MIR. TERPENNING, who is parent as well as a
WI teacher-men are accorded that privilege in
America-points out too that to put all wives out OF
the educational system would nullify the huge in
vestnents of money for thousands Of women and he
believes this is piratical the confScaton OF any
other property. Why not?
The person who has educated herself and spent
money learning to teach and who, it may be, has
succeeded in this difficult art finds herself now in
dire situation.
Either she must renounce the thing that every
normal woman wants and is entitled to-married life
OR she must fling away as worthless the time,
money and efforts she put into her years Of training
for this job
The whole thing is too absurd for words. Schools
are should be rum for benefit Of the children
and not for helping industrial programs 1t would
be exactly as sensible to fire all married men as to
put out all married women
Another interesting charge made by Mr.. Terpen-
ming that this movement to GUST wives from school
teaching began long before the present depression
set in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Nature Of LIGHT
THERE are two conflicting theo-

THERE are two conflicting theo-
4 ries as to the nature of light
both visible light and such invisible
forms as the X-ray.
One theory is the wave theory.
1t says that light is composed OF
waves.
The other theory is the quantum
theory. It says that light is com
posed of minute particles, little bull
lets of energy as it were, known as
quanta or photons.
Sir Isaac Newton in his day had
given his support to forerunner
of the quantum theory, a theory
which supposed light to be COM
posed of particles and which was
known as the corpuscular theory.
The experiments of Young at the
beginning of the nineteenth century
established the wave theory Of light
upon a firm foundation. Indeed,
many of the experiments performed
by Young, as, for example, the one
to show the interference Of two
beams of light to form an interior
ence pattern. can not be explained
satisfactorily to this day on any
other theory but the wave theory.
Nineteenth century physicists
imagined that the wave theory was
established for all time. But the
twentieth century saw the corpus
cular theory come back to life as
the quantum theory.
It began with the experiments of
Max Planck, who showed that the
rate at which heat and light is ra-
dated from a body can not be ex-
planned satisfactorily on the wave
theory, but only by assuming that
the energy is given off in little
packages or bullets.
This led Einstein to publish his
famous paper in 1905, a paper that
deserves to be as famous as his first
relatively paper, also published IN
the same year, in which he sug-
gested that physicists boldly accept
the idea that energy and light exist
in the form of particles and not
waves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
M. E. Tracy

We Need More Poetry in oar
Politics, More of the IDEAL
ism Such as Woodrow VII
son Eremplifed.
NEW YORK, Oct. $50 far,
In this has not been q particu-
larry thrilling or inspiring cam
,paign. The major announcements
have run to figures, rather than to
feeling. We have heard much more
about money than about men.
Capital has been discussed as
though it consisted solely of cash
and securities, and labor as though
it included only those engaged in
mass production.
The blah-blah gives small hint
that the American people like music
and romance, or have a sense of
humor. One never would guess that
there is anything like singing in
the background; that the children
like comic strips, or that no po-
litical spelIbinder could hold an au-
dience like Amos and Andy"
Call it frivolous, if you like, but
the American people still are sane
enough to realize that life holds
something besides the hard boiled
philosophy of an adding machine.
There still is a deep hunger in
this country for those things which
can not be bought, but which are
essential to even a reasonable de-
gree of happiness, and there is a
deep regret that they are not per-
mitted to play a bigger part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

heated milk did not grow as we'll as
white rats fed On raw milk.
Then DR.. Leslie c. Frank and as
ISOLATED Investigators in the United
States Public Health Service de-
termined to make careful study of
this point, checking effects of raw
milk and of heated milk on children.
They point out, incidentally, that
very few American children live ex-
clusively on milk, except for a few
weeks.
They are given supplementary
foods soon after weaving. Indeed,
even during nursing nowadays, they
may be provided with orange juice
and cod liver oil.
A study was carried on in some
forty American cities and involved
examinations of almost 1900 chill
dren.
Children who had received raw
milk for more than half their lives
were compared with those who had
received heated milk for more than
half their lives.
1t was found that the children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Economy and Talk.

Candidate Roosevelt is having fun showing up the
Hoover administration in this economy matter. For
all the Republicans talk about saving they have gone
on piling up government expenses
Elect and the problem will be solved says
Roosevelt. We have heard that before 1t is the
stock pledge of every party and every presidential
candidate in every campaign.
Therefore the public dsilusoned by long expert
ence, is not apt to believe the Roosevelt economy
pledge unless he specifies where and how he will cut.
That he has failed to do
When Roosevelt repeats that he will reduce the
federal budget rs per cent he leaves for only
two differences, Either he is talking through his hat
he has decided to drasticay the military serv-
ices and veteran payments.
There is other way in which he can make the
biIion-dolar saving promised. AS Representative
Will Wood of the house appropriations committee
just has pointed out the public debt charges (Which
can not be touched) and the veteran and military
expenditures total $2,70000O0OO
That leaves only 1900 100000 from which to make
the 81 0000 100000 Roosevelt cut-which would be i'm
possible he abolished most of the government
departments and functions altogether.
There are many places for small savings, and some
for medium economies the $600000OO ship
and aid subsidies and the $5oOOOOOO for prohibition
enforcement. But the only large cuts possible are
in the $1,OOOOOOOoO that goes to veterans and ths
$500 100000 of the army and navy.
The reason Hoover is open to RooSevelt's ridicuIe
for failure to economic is not because Hoover is
spendthrift lacking in the same good intentions
which move Roosevelt The reason is that Hoover
and his party could not would not defeat the vet
Grams lobby and the army-n lobby.
If anything the record of the Republicans is bet
ter than that of the Democrats in trying to hold
down veteran and army-navy expenses.
Until Roosevelt and his party make definite
pledges to cut these two major OUTLAWS they not
expect their vague promises of Is per cent saving
to be taken seriously.
Vague talk about economy is the cheapest COM
modify in this campaign and in every other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Special CaSepof Tunney

DOSSIBLY some exception would
J. have to be ruled in favor of
Gene Tunney. Already he has been
made an honorary colonel by the
new Governor of Maine, on the
ground that. he swung many votes
in the surprising upset which oc-
Cured in that state.
This was not a brand new honor
for Mr.. Tunney, who already is an
honorary major in Connecticut. 1t
merely gives him the opportunity of
boSsing himself around when he
goes to Bangor. And then, of
course, Gene Tunney is an honorary
deputy sheriff in the region which
lies around Hale lake.
Accordingly, he comes to the
stump with many qualifications not
connected with the proves which
he once displayed in the ring. ]
suppose a case could be made out
for the colonel-maj or-sherif on the
ground that anybody qualified to
lecture on Shakespeare before the
students of Professor William Igor
Phelps becomes automatically good
enough to speak at a street corner
rally in the Bronx.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

BECAUSE it was found that the
- heating of milk in the process
called pasteurization made is safer
as food, most of the milk used in
the United States today is pas
teurized.
In fact. competent authorities
assert that 8715 per cent of all milk
now used has undergone the heating
process which destroys germs.
Following discovery of the
vitamins, those who advocated the
taking of raw milk have contended
that the heating affected adversely
the healthfulness of the milk and
it's capacity to aid growth.
Much of the argument was based
on certain studies carried on at
Ohio State university and also at
the British National Institute for
Research in Dairying, which indi-
Gated that white rats fed on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
What Is the PurpoSe2

NTHAT is the purpose of all this
w calculating, promoting, ex-
plotting and mechanizing, except to
make people stronger healthier and
happier, not as unconscious agents
of some mass obsession, but as
thinking individuals; not as phys
ical specimens, but as spiritual
beings.
What is the use of all this Striv-
ing and struggling to accumulate
more wealth, build taller buildings
and assemble bigger machines, if
the benefit is beyond personal en-
joyment?
To what end are we creating and
perfecting a great nation, if not to
expand horizons for plain men and
women?
We have invented contraptions
that can count money and foot up
bills, but not that can produce a
occasional" or paint a Rem
brandt"
We have not only lost freedom,
but the desire to talk about it. That
is why we long for self-expression,
which is just another name for free
dom, though many seem unable to
realize it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Stunted Children.

A little more than a fourth of all 10 to 15-year-
old boys the United States were at work for wages
In 1900 The 1880 census figures show only 81 per
cent of the boys between these ages gainfully en-
ployed-
This is one instance in which decline of employ
rnent is q thing to cheer instead Of deplore.
OF course. part Of the decline is due to the fact
that there were fewer jobs of all kinds in $780, Yet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Need More Poetry

WYE need more poetry in our pol
w itics, more of the idealism such
as a man like Woodrow Wilson
exemplified.
We want to believe that human
progress can rise above bread and
butter as a common denominator,
that the joys and sorrows of NOR
tai existence can be expressed in
more vivid terms than a double
entry bookkeeping system permits.
We want the privilege of dream
ing in the moonlight, even if there
is power monopoly, and of holding
hands, even though the telephone
makes it possible to talk smush
across the ocean.
We want politics to show some
signs that it is aware of those
hopes, fears, emotions and aspira-
tons which have endured through
out the ages, and from which we
can not escape, even if we could.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

One of the finest things done in this campaign
is Roosevets refusal to be photographed at Lincolns
tomb in Springfield, which the candidate visited as
inconspicuously as possible.
1t is a little thing-but the kind that reveals a
mans character. The common practice of prohteer-
ing politicians trading upon the flag and great names
exhibits the low state of our political life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

pity the nominee of this conven-
ton" Undoubtedly it was his in
tention to express sympathy for any
man burdened with the heavy load
of campaign tasks, but it seemed
less than the most felicitous phras-
ing for a Democratic gathering.
And from that point the major
went on in terms at least as tact
less. When the sheriff returned to
his seat in the working press sec
ton the gentleman who was han
ding his syndicated writing looked
at him sourly.
Gene" he said, "never get up
again to make a speech without hav-
ing it prepared"
mo-" the newspaper executive
added, 81 have an even better rule
than that for you, Gene. Never get
up to make speech at ALL"
But no one who has been with
the marines will ever quit as easily
as that after one reverse. Demos
themes, who was not a marine, but
a Greek orator, walked along the
beach with pebbles in his mouth. I
don't remember now just how this
rocky road to success served to i'm
prove the delivery of Demosthenes,
but evidently he did conquer his
early liabilities.
And so it was with Tunney. Upon
that lonely shore he walked, and
what he used as material for teeth
gritting I can not say. All we know
is that he went to Maine and won it.
n
For Country and for Yale
MO such clear claim can be es-
IN tablished for either Able Booth
mr. Christian Caoya The democrats
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

of New Haven thought that they
had the Yale-Hoover quarter back
in tough spot when they un-
earthed the fact that last year he
had not registered.
But Mr.. Booth met the challenge
with great candor and replied that
last year he had been so intent
upon yale football that his mind
had no room for other concerns
which seemed at the moment less
important.
Yet, though the answer was frank,
I feel that it betrays the funda-
mental weakness in sending orator
athletes out to enlighten the public
upon problems of national concern.
Each, I fear, is too much bound up
in his own speciality to give counsel
of general utility.
When industry stands blocked,
with foErth down coming up, and
about forty or fifty yards to go, it
will not do to turn to one whose
only quick suggestion would be to
pass or punt or try a dropkick.
And if anybody asked Babe Ruth
about the depression he might quite
conceivably reply: What do you
mean depression? Didn't I get
SIS, 900 and make more than forty
home runs?"
(Copvripht 1922 nv The Tines1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
First Flight in Chicago

TT has not been my privilege to
Il hear or even read any Of the
prepared addresses of the heavy
weight economist. but I did sit in
upon what I think was his first
campaign appearance.
1t was in conjunction with the
vaudeville show which Eddie Dowl-
ing ran for the delegates while they
were waiting for the resolutions
committee to determine the exact
proportion of moisture in the air.
I remember that when called to
the microphone Mr.. Tunney said, II
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

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, 1932-10-22
Seymour, Ind.

How does Norman Thomas get
the money to travel around the
country in his campaign for Presi-
dent?
From contributions Of individuals,
just like the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis. The Socialist campaign fund
is much smaller than that Of either
of the other major parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Daily Thought

Now this say, brethren, that
flesh and blood can not inherit
the kingdom Of God; neither doth =
corruption inherit interruption
I Corinthians 1850.
No man is hypocrite in his
pleasures. Johnson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
SCIENCE
Scientists Wage Tie Battle
OUer Origin of CoSmic
Rays.
BY DAVID DIFTZ-

SclehtlStS wage Tie Battle
OUer Origin of Cosmic
Rays.
THE present battle over the ma
Il ture of cosmic rays may be re-
garded as part of a war which has
been going on in the world of SCI
ence for more than a decade. It is
the war Of the wave versus the par
ticle.
Leaders OF opposing forces in the
cosmic ray battle are DR.. Robert
A. NIillikan and DR.. Arthur H.
Compton, both Nobel prize winners
and both scientists who started
their careers at the University of
Chicago in the laboratory of the late
DR.. A. A. Nicholson, the first Amer
lean to win the Nobel prize in
physics.
Compton still is a professor at
Chicago; Millikan is chairman Of
the executive committee Of Cali
fornia Institute of Technology.
Millikan, who first confirmed ex-
istence of the cosmic rays, believes
that they are waves coming into
the earth's atmosphere from outer
space.
Compton, who just has returned
from a 50OC0-mile journey to OBJ
serve cosmic days from the vantage
points of five continents, believes
that they are electrified particles.
He comes to this conclusion from
observations which appear to indi-
cate that the rays are detected by
the earth's magnetic field.
Compton has also played q role
in the larger battle Of the wave
versus the particle. In fact, he was
awarded the Nobel prize for his
work in it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Where Is Little America?

1t is the site Of the main base
established by Admiral Byrd for his
south polar explorations and is To-
Gated near the Bay of Whales on
Ross sea. about eight hundred miles
from the south pole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

Who administered the oath as
President to Calvin Coolidge when
he succeeded President Harding?
The oath was administered by his
father in his home in Plymouth, VT.
Later he took the oath again in
Washington before Justice A. A.
Hoehling Of the supreme court of
the District Of Columbia.