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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
The Lindbergh KIDNAPPING

The kidnapping of the young of Colonel and
Mrs Llndbergh was peculiarly dastardly act Not
only red-blooded, but even kind-hearted men and
women will hope that the perpetrators of this
atrocious felony will be apprehended quickly and suit
ably punished. They will wish that this may be
accomplished without injury to the unfortunate in
FAINT victim of greed and degeneracy
Yet the main lesson of the whole tragedy will
have been lost if it does not direct public atten-
ton beyond this particular and deplorabe crime The
bitter anguish of the parents will not be recon-
pensed by return of the child. 1t also must serve
to call the attention Of the public to the humiat-
ing and truly remarkable state of affairs which can
make an episode of this type possible.
The father and the mother of any child, how
ever poor and obscure they may be, have as much
affection for their kidnapped offspring as do Colonel
and Mrs. Lndbergh. Their hearts are as much torn
by the loss of their loved one. Moreover such par
cuts d1 not have either fame or fortune to offer
partial soace. They may have to bear their grief
in penury and want There are scores of kidnapping
yearly iii this fair country of ours. They are
not confined to children alone Not so long ago
distinguished ST. Louis physician was captured. On
the very day of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the papers
told us that the 12-year-old Dejute boy had been
stolen from his parents in Niles, Q.
kidnapping is a peculiarly repulsive and atrocious
crime. Perpetrators should be apprehended quickly
and certainly They should be given stiff sentences
to protect society from their further depredations
But it is not enough to punish those who execute
a particular crime Of this Sort We need to get at
the causes of such acts, that may protect
society from repetition. In any civilized society
parents should feel from this variety of
barbarsIn.
There is more misery and want in Germany than
in the United States. There is much incentive
to obtain funds through ransoms. But Of the
most distinguished of Germans, now travelling in the
United States assured me today that kidnapping
like this absolutely unknown in Germany.
They are rare in most other civilized, European
countries. There is nothing unique about Che United
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Whatl No NudeS2

TT may be that van painting still
i might endure if only the field
endeavor had been animated by
more variety. I feel sure that at
the age of IL I would have been
interested if only the travelling col
lections had included nude or two
nudes.
But if any such designs were ever
struck off, they did not come to
our block. Modern art received no
consideration whatsoever. Wash
ington could and did cross the
Delaware, but all other boundaries
were respected sedulously.
Rebel art was excluded vigorously.
All the scenes depicted were moral.
proper and somewhat inanimate.
Pickett himself, in mad career,
stood like any iron deer upon a
welI-kept lawn. This may have
been art which came to our block,
but it wasn't life.
And we who we're to grow up into
little conservatives and radicals
were one in rejecting the senblance.
We wanted the substance. Some Of
us have encountered it since. I
wonder how the others liked 1t.
(Copyright. 1882. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

lete is ready to give his best efforts
in another event.
The events in most track meets
are so arranged that preliminary
heats are run early, with finals
coming after other events have
given the athletes time to recover
the energy expended in their earlier
eXertionS.
Training enables the athlete to
replace used energy more rapidly
than the ordinary person can, but
if over training has been INDUCED
in staleness will result.
The best remedy for staIeness is
a complete rest for several days
and then gradual resumption of
training activities.
The principal reason for fatigue
in athletes is the fact that their
great exertion causes a great
deal more Tactic acid in the sys-
tenn than can be oxidized at the
time
This condition results in the
rapid breathing and quickened
pulse of the athlete, which con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Rate ReYisiOns

just as an indication of what might happen If the
public commission really desired to apply its
methods of valuation to fit present conditions
and prices the action of the Colorado commission
Denver is Illuminating.
The plant of the electric company Of that city has
just been revaued for rate purposes The plant and
service closely approximates that of Indianapolis,
where valuation of forty or more millions is claimed
the just basis.
The Denver plant has just been valued by the
commission Of Colorado at twenty-five millions.
In arriving at this figure, the generating system
went in for ten millions. The distributing system
valued at six millions. The transformers and
substations cared for another three and half mil
lions
The Denver plant serves 891OO customers The
Indianapolis plant serves around 100000.
Deducting the generating system, the charge
against each consumer distributing and other parts
OF the plants averages $3.50. The materials and
labor are needed in Denver TO reconstruct such
system
Under a similar valuation, the distributing system
here would amount to thirteen millions Add to that
any fantastic figure for the generating plant and there
would still remain many millions Of unjust valuation
here on which rates are charged
The appeal of indianapolis has laid dormant for
months. When first filed, the answer of the public
service commission and the public service utility was
that appraisal would cost huge sums and would result
in raise instead of decrease in rates.
Denver took a different course. 1t seems to believe
that people forced in prosperous days to pay on
cost Of reproduction, based inflated labor
modify prices the people should have advantage of de-
flation in depression.
The Denver rates have been cut as a result of the
investigation.
No action is taken in Indiana. There may be
reason The people will probably discover the remedy
next November, or next January at the latest, when
the legislature meets with lot of new faces
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
SaYS

1 Why Be Discouraged By Col
lapse of the Peace Machine?
1t Took 500 Years and
More to Found a Modern
Republic After the Ideal
Was Born.
NEW YORK, March 8.-Aristide
IN BRAND passes out while the
guns at Shanghai mock his great
est work. A sad requiem, but typi-
cal of life. Those who undertake
really great things must not expect
to see them finished.
Inability to realize the time and
education required to put it on a
solid basis, much less to get it
working smoothly, has been the one
great weakness of the peace move
ment. 1t represents the most revo-
lutionary idea since the birth of
Christianity, yet there are those
who expect it to be put over in
generation.
Age-old habits of thought can not
be overcome with any such speed.
The peace movement will not
mean much until a majority Of
people throughout the world has
been committed to it, not in theory,
but as a safe, practical program.
That involves little less than a
wholesale revision of human his
tory, especially from the standpoint
of conclusion and conception.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
CataIYSt Present

NNE of Professor Warburg'S chief
~ contributions to science has
been to show that the process by
which the cell utilized oxygen to
burn its fuel and thus produce
energy depended upon the presence
of a chemical catalyst.
A catalyst is a substance which
permits chemical reaction to go
on at temperatures and pressures at
which it otherwise could not take
place.
Professor Warburg showed that
the catalyst in the cell was a COM
pound of iron, known as an iron
porphyrin ferment.
How precise and delicate the work
of discovering this ferment was can
be cleaned from the fact that it is
present to the extent of about one
part in 100,000000.
1t is believed that the oxygen
carried to the cell does not react
with the foodstuffs or fuel, but first
combines with the iron porphyrin
ferment. 1t is suspected that there
are other ferments present, but
these have not yet been isolated.
1t is thought that Professor War
burg's studies will aid greatly in the
investigation of cancer.
Cancer is not a germ disease. It
is a condition in which normal cells
of the body no longer act normally.
They cease their natural func-
tons and devote all their energies
to growth. In time they undergo
changes, becoming the type Of cells
known as cancer cells.
Most authorities feel that con-
quest OF the cancer problem de-
ponds upon a complete understand
ing of the normal cell first.
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tinues long after his exertion pc
Rod is over.
Increase in the amount of oxy-
gen taken in, however, is valu-
able only in so far as the increase
does not go beyond the amount
the blood vessels are able to carry
to the body.
Increased pulse is valuable only
to the point where the heart is
receiving blood as rapidly as it
tries to send it out.
This speed is governed by the
rapidity of the circulation back to
the heart and not by the rate at
which the heart can pump it back
These relative increases are
high in the trained athlete and
allow him to recover quickly. In
persons not in training, they oc-
cur in lesser degree.
These rules apply principally to
short distance or dash men. The
next article will go into the mat
ter from the standpoint of the
distance or endurance runner.
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miss as certain familiar street
scenes. I mourn for the moving
vans. When see people dispos-
sessed or changing apartments of
their own free will, am minded to
ask, Can spring be far behind?"
With us March, April and May
were more colorful than is the
present custom. Each transfer
wagon constituted a sort of am
bassador from the Metropolitan
Museum. In those days it was the
custom not to thrust the more pop
ular art forms into the cellar, but to
slap them upon the side of NOV
ing van.
Thus, when I was 10 or II I was
privileged to watch Washington
crossing the Delaware, Pickett'S
charge at Gettysburg and the Mon
itor and Merrimac. AL these came
to our block. If American art had
not penetrated into the homeland
it had not-at least, it could be said
that it fingered just outside the
door,
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the slogan of mo taxation without
representation"
Perhaps it was the fault of us
adoleScents of West Eighty-seventh
street that art now has disappeared
from those vast spaces on the van
side. When we had cur chance,
don't remember that we gathered
around these public galleries to ex-
press appreciation of the artist or
to manifest in any way that the
message which he gave out to the
world had come home to us.
Instead, we stood about and
scoffed at the shabby impediments
of our gypsy neighbors. The gifts
of gold and green and scarlet we
took as a matter of course. Pos
Sibly We assumed that furniture
might not be moved save under
some patriotic aegis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08

~NN"NS
a crime within our boundaries necessary thing
We shall need to get behind this and other kid
napngs and study the psychology motives, organiza-
ton and operations which make them possible. We
shall have to understand how they are related to the
getting something r-nothng psychology so power
full in the United States that lies at the bottom of
racketeering.
kidnapping is specially atrocous application of
the prevalent notion that only saps work"-to use
Courtney Terretts striking characterization of the
ethics and psychology of racketeering
But we also need to pass beyond an understand
ing Of the pattern of kidnapping activities and let
this case focus attention upon the prevalence of
other revolving crinles-murder robbery war, and
the like
We must come to realize the disgracefu condi-
ton in respect to crime which exists in the United
States. This can not be blamed on prohibition alone
1t is due to a traditional lawlessness.
1t is due to the lack of the development of highly
trained professional police, entirely ncorruptble such
exist in most European countries. It is due to an
intimidated populace which does not dare to testify
against gangsters.
Even more humiliating than the commission Of
crime is the fact that eyewnesses do not feel sure
enough of public protection to attest their knowl-
edge regarding a reprehensibe felony. All of this
creates that confidence of probable escape which is
a chief influence in the encouragement of crime in
this country.
Let the Lndbergh calamity dramatic our ma
tional disgrace and stir us into a determination tg
rid ourselves Of it. And such determination must be
based upon something more vital and intelligent than
temporary indignation and high blood pressure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
PARIS is RAIDED
March s

ON March 8, 1913, a heavy Ger
~ man attack in the Ypres-Dix-
nude sector of the western front
forced back British troops, but the
advantage gained was rendered
slight by several British counter
attacks.
Raids on Italian positions in
northern Italy by Austrian troops
were repulsed. Italian headquar-
tiers also announced that heavy
Smelling of Austrian troop move
ments was believed to have an
hicted heavy losses.
British troops in Palestine ad-
vanced more than three miles on
an eleven-mile front in a renewal
Of their offensive against the Turks.
Many coastal villages were taken
by the British in the movement.
Paris was raided by German air.
craft and thirteen persons were
killed and fifty wounded by bombs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Questions and
Answers

Are aliens in the United States re-
quired to become naturalized citi-
zens after a certain number of years
Of residence?
Alien residents are not compelled
to become American citizens. If
they entered the United States
legally and are living in this coun-
try peacefully and have means of
livelihood, they can stay in this
country as long as they desire.
How old is middle aged person?
In the medical profession the
term applies to persons between As
and go years. The characteristics
of middle age come earlier to some
and later to others, but that is a
fair average.
What is legitimate theater?
One presenting stage productions
of drama excepting vaudeville and
burlesque.
How did the term Ground robin"
meaning petition or protest signed
by large number of people, orig
mate? =.
It was originally used to desig-
nate a neck ruff worn in the six
teenth century. Gradually it came
to be applied to a form Of petition
on which the names we're signed in
circle to obviate giving particular
prominence to any name or names.
What percentage of registered
automobiles in the world are in the
United States?
THE total world registration in
1880 was 34,603, 176, of which num-
Der the United States had 26,-
523,779.
Is the word lawyer in the New
Testament?
It is there eight times, three in
the singular and five in the plural.
How many labor unions are affili-
ated with the American Federation
of Labor?
About lot national and interna-
tional unions, besides numerous d.
rectly affiliated local bodies.
How many Japanese are there in
California?
The 1880 census enumerates e7.-
z56.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Lob for EIohterS

DACIFISTS are not going to make
L this world peaceful. The job is
for fighting men. The sooner we
realize that, the better it will be for
all concerned.
Had the world sincerely been
committed to peace through a reign
of law, Japan would be surrounded
with a Gordon of steel today.
Let such an example be set but
once and any nation will think
twice before starting war.
We are a. long way from being
ready to set such an example.
If war becomes too annoying, we
are willing to join others in gen.
eral effort to stop it, but that is all.
In spite of the many declarations
we have made we do not regard war
as a crime, unless, or until, it has
reached certain proportions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Energy PRODUCE

A LII Professor Warhu ) inves-
L Atigations. however, are unified
by the fact that they fundamentally
are concerned with the problems of
how the individual cell produces
energy through chemical processes.
This problem is the most funda-
mental in the whole study of the
cell. Viewed from the physical
point of view, the living cell is a
machine for absorbing fuel and by
chemical processes turning it into
energy.
In plain cells, the fuel is a sim
pie chemical substance, for ex-
ample, the carbon dioxide of the
air. Animal cells require complex
foodstuffs as their fuel.
One of Professor Warburg'S great
contributions to science has been
the development of methods of
studying living cells without kill
ing them.
For many years biologists have
been dissecting cells, staining them
to make their various structures
visible, and studying them under a
microscope.
But it has been obvious to BIZ
ologists all along that there we're
vast differences between the liv-
ing cell and the dead cell.
Professor Warburg developed
methods by which cells could be
studied without injuring them.
Many biologists, of course, have
studied the living cell by study
ing simple structures, such as the
one-celled amelia, or some simple
plant cell like yeast.
Professor Warburg developed a
method by which a thin strip of It's
sue cut from a more complex or
ganization could be kept alive in a
suitable medium so that its cells
could be studied under the micro
scope in a living condition.
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Art and the Moving Van

lust why the perturbation of
y American history should have
been taken over by the transfer in
dustry do not know, nor what it
was which induced the van men
to make this splendid contribution
to the development of American
citizenship.
I am reminded that the Ernsts,
a little up the block, always moved
when seni-annual bills came due
and that it was their custom to be
carted in a van which displayed
upon its sides a spirited design rep
resenting the embattled colonists
throwing the tea into Boston har-
Dor.
Twice a year that particular
wagon came to our block, and each
time it carried the Ernsts little
farther across the tracks. AS a
youth I caught no symbolism in this
alliance, but now I understand that
the hard pressed family was trying
to abate local gossip by clinging to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
In the Cav NinAfieS

WHENEVER spring comes round
w Or fingers just about the cor
ner, I begin to remember this city
as it used to be in the days of my
childhood And that would be all
of thirty-five years ago. I can't
remember back to the days when
city hall and Rudy Vallee were way
uptown, but I can recall a time
when truck farms still stood along
Broadway, and Walter WincheIl was
quieScent under a cabbage leaf.
Indeed, I played baseball badly in
vacant lot where now an apart
ment building of twenty stories
towers. And, naturally, 1 went to
Mouquin'S, Jacks, the Cafe Martin
and other gay resorts of Manhattan,
although not until I had turned the
edge of adolescence and become all
OF IA. My early life was shell
tered.
But when I think back to early
memories it is not so much the cafes
and the dear dead dives which I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Collapse No Surprise

TITO those who have anything like
L clear perspective of the prob
lem, the present collapse of the
peace machine means neither sur
prise, nor disappointment.
No matter how enthusiastic they
may have been over the idea, they
have not shut their eyes to the stu
pendous labor its translation into
action imposes.
They have understood that there
would be wars in spite of what was
done at the outset, and more wars
to keep up the work.
In other words, the world is due
for more or less extended period
Of strife, regardless of courts and
peace pacts, and after that it is
due for another period of strife in
their defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Studies of LiUing Cells by
German Biologist Of Vital
Importance in Cancer
Study.
/ DRoFEssoR OTTO wARBURG.
4 German biologist, recently
awarded the Nobel prize in medi-
cine for 1881, has been a pioneer
in the study Of the physics and
chemistry of the living cell.
His studies are of fundamental
Importance to the whole science of
biology, and of particular impor-
lance to medical science, because OF
the light they throw upon the prob
lem of cancer.
All living things, both plants and
animals, consist of cells. The
simplest forms are one-celled types,
like the algae, which are one-celled
plants, or the amelia and parame-
cum which are one-celled animals.
A human being consists of billions
of cells.
But in the last analysis, the ply
steal behavior OF a human being
is problem in cell behavior. Ply
Biological processes begin and end
in the cells of the tissues involved.
Professor Wurberg's investigations
during the last twenty-five years
appear to cover a wide range Of
subjects. There are investigations
of cancer cells. There are studies
Of photo-synthesiS, the process by
which the cells of green plants turn
the carbon dioxide of the air and
the water Of the soil into sugars
and Starches.
There are studies of certain types
Of bacteria which possess the abil-
ity of absorbing the nitrogen of the
air and turning it into nitrogen
compounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
japan Unchecked

Japan has violated the spirit, if
u not the letter, of every peace
agreement that has been made, par
ticularly with reference to far east
ern affairs.
Had she been in sympathy with
those agreements, she would have
consulted other interested nations,
and the League of Nations, before
entering Manchuria. She would
have done the same thing with re-
gard to the Chinese boycott before
attacking Shanghai.
Had the rest of the world been
honestly and sincerely committed to
the ideal back of all the councils
and conferences that have been
held, it would have acted imme-
diately after Japan's initial move.
II
Why Be Discouraged?
WE have far to go before hui
w man sentiment is sufficiently
crystallized against war for effec-
tive action to be taken at the first
sign of its outbreak.
But why be discouraged? 1t took
500 years and more to found a
modern republic after the ideal was
born in England, and it took even
longer to scrap the superstitions of
polytheism.
It takes many air castles to build
real one, but that is no reason
why we should stop dreaming about
them, or quit trying to realize our
dreams if they seem good.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those IF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are nTe-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreeHect
with the editorial attitU6e Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHREIN

Edltor journal OF the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
FATIGUE for the athlete, as a
4 rule, is planned and prepared
for in advance. For that reason,
ordinary fatigue is not dangerous
for the track man. for instance.
But if that tired feeling" per-
sists after the body has been given
ample time to repay the energy
debt" against the body then it is
time to study the causes and re-
move them.
Research has shown that a track
athlete in good condition can re-
cover 48 per cent of his lost energy
in five minutes after an exhaust
ing dash. Within fifteen minutes,
his recovery is 81 per cent COM
piete; in forty-fve minutes, it is
95 per cent complete, and the ath-