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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Hair Shows Freak of Heredity

There were no children with
woolly hair among the descendants
Of her six brothers and sisters.
From one of her marriages this
woman had two daughters. both Of
whom had woolly hair.
From her other marriage she had
three daughters, none of whom had
woolly hair and all the children Of
these daughters have smooth hair
However, for the last three gen.
erations the descendants of the two
daughters with woolly hair show
this characteristic in a considerable
number of cases, proving definitely
that frizzly hair of this type is in
herited as dominant trait.
There is no evidence of any mix
ture of Negro blood with this fam
lily at any point in its history.
All the characteristics are Nordic,
so that the woolly hair must be con-
sidered a special manifestation in
herited as a dominant character
iStic.
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Wesley L. Jones

The death of Senator Wesley Z. Jones will be
mourned sincerely.
More than majority of his fellow-ctizens as now
demonstrated, disagree with Jones' view of the po-
tca issue that made his name best known but there
never have been many to challenge his integrity and
sincerity
Jones deep prejudice in favor of prohibition re-
suited from his experience boy Born on a farm
in the Illinois delta country he was left faherless
at the age of days When old enough to be useful
on farm, he was bound out" to nearby farmer
exchanging his labor for the right to live
That he struggled out from such beginning to
win an education for himself and become in time a
national leader is testimony of his courage and
character.
Drinking in his boyhood days was associated with
cheap village saloons He recounted to friends in his
senatorial days his horror of the village drunkard and
all things else that had to do with the LIQUOR traffic
in his poverty stricken community.
The impress never left his mind and provides the
explanation of his authorship of the harsh ve-and-
ten law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

colored race. The hair never grew
long. It was black and extremely
curly.
The reason the hair did not grow
long was that the curling made it
break off after reaching certain
length.
Before bobbed hair became pop
ular, the women members of the
family were disturbed because they
could not arrange their abnormal
and strange looking hair in man
ner which would prevent annoying
stares by their neighbors.
The hair was light colored, but
not blond, and gray, darker as the
members of the family grew older.
When the records of the family
were studied, going back five gen.
erations, some interesting relation
ships were found.
In the first generation there
we're seven children, of whom only
one woman had curly hair. She
married twice and had, therefore,
two lines of descendants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
A Tax Conference

The opportunity is here for an intelligent study
Of the whole field of national taxation Before fed
eral government or state legislatures undertake anv
widespread revisions of their tax systems there should
be called this winter a national conference on taxa
tion with its specific job to allocate as far as pos
sible, the tax of federal state and local tax
ing agencies.
President Hoover favors such program. President
Elect Roosevelt advocates it. Congress and numer-
private groups including universities are making
studies of it.
For years tax experts have demonstrated the need
for coordination of all taxing agencies-city county,
state and national-but never before has the neces-
sity been apparent.
The federal congress will meet on Dec. 5, and
President Hoover will present his budget message
which is to show another large deficit and the
need for revenue. Legislatures in forty or more
states will meet early in the year and all will be
deeply concerned with taxation.
Unless there is some effort to coordinate ma
tonal tax system the actions taken only in these
state legislatures, but also in congress- will add to
the confusion and postpone the day when a CO.
ordinated revenue system is agreed upon.
There is agitation now, for instance for general
federal sales tax but if it were enacted how would
taxpayers of Mississippi and other states who already
are paying state sales tax accept the new levy?
Ihere is q similar cOnIncJ III inheritance taxes,
1.-The most practical relief to the farmer today"
said President Hoover discussing the issue from the
viewpoint of agriculture aside from the general eco
nomic recovery definite program of readjustment
and coordination of national state and local taxa
ton which will relieve real property, especially FARMS
from unfair burdens of taxation which the current
readjustment in values has brought about To that
purpose propose to devote myself"
Roosevelt has said
"The time has come for definite action along prac-
tca lnes-to sit around table and allo the various
tax sourcesl the different kinds of government In
this way shall be able to get rid of double taxa
ton and at the same time we shall be able to make
government expenditures and revenues easily
understood by the average citizen"
Fortunately, the groundwork for such co-ordina-
ton of taxation Hoover and Roosevelt want al
ready has been laid In addition to private studies.
house of representatives subcommittee ways and
means has been inquirng all summer into the clash
of federal and state and local taxation. been
gathering facts.
These might easily form the nucleus about which
the national tax conference could work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-School taxes are no
more sacred than other taxes, it is
proper to reduce teachers salaries
in line with reduced cost of living,
and little more, so the teachers
may learn and teach economy and
self-denial, as most every one else
has been compelled to do in the
last few years. Also, reduce the
number of teachers and subjects,
Is to 80 per cent.
AS nearly as I can find out, half
Of what is taught in the grades is
to qualify the children for high
school and half of the high school
work is to secure entrance to COL
lege.
Mr. McConn, dean of Lehigh uni
versity, has given several years of
special study to the advantages and
the disadvantages of going to COL
lege. In a recent article published
in Parents magazine, he says our
college, las they are" for a consid-
cradle majority, are very bad places.
They offer to one particular type
worthwhile opportunities, to all
other types they offer virtually
nothing; namely, Illustration and
encouragement"
If all this is true, and I believe
1t is, why Is not this time of needed
retrenchment a good time to re-
move the false halo that has sur
rounded our so-called education
system, cut away the dead and bar
rem branches. and work out sys-
tenn at half the cost and double the
value, for those OF our young peo-
pie who will profit by true culture
and national learning?
JOHN FARMER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WYE have been treated of late to a repetition of
wv old-fashioned fairy tales. These seems to be
growing idea that because we have hit snag in the
business current the should make up their
minds to go home and stay there
Yet so far nobody has explained fully how this is
to be DONE how it will benefit the girls if it should
happen.
Because. regardless of theories, and especially if
we keep on with our stupid games it that
we always shall have surplus of women in the
world And if there's anything in the opinion that
the majority should rule, then today the women
would have charge Of affairs in most countries
At any rate, they should be permitted to create
for themselves as happy life as possible with the
often poor materials they have ut hand.
Suppose let us say, that they wish to marry. Mil
lions OF them not of course, because there are
not enough men to go round
Yet they are told by these excellent but imprac-
tcal minneSngers that they should stay home and be
good girls, and by and by the handsome prince will
come riding up and carry them of to magic castle
NTOW, the smart girl knows this is tiresome and
IN discredted story. Too many ladies of the old
regime spent their lives listening for the knock that
never came to make them trust this theory.
And their suspicion is justified Because if girl
wants husband these days she must look for him on
masculine stamping grounds-the business and indus
trial world She'll have uck at all staying at home
and peeking under the bed every night.
If on the contrary, she does not wish to marry,
then she'll be more obliged to get some sort of
job with which to content herself outside tn circle
domestcity.
In either event, staying at home is the most nom
senscal thing she can do.
This is why I shall continue to advocate inteIlec-
tual, economic and normal independence for women
collectively, while recommend marriage and bit of
domesticty for the Individual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

MOT size, not ranges of noun
IN tains, not wide rivers, not even
"the unplumbed, salt, estranging
sea-" but the isolation of ignorance,
of luminosity, Of prejudice set men
far from each other.
Our modern inventions have made
the earth terribly small, so that a
whisper can be flashed round it in
a few seconds; but men still are far
apart. Men may be near enough in
space-drawn together, damned to-
gether-yet as distant from each
other as the poles in language, in
thought, in culture.
In the Parable of the Prodigal
Son, the boy who went into a far
country was nearer to his father
than the boy who stayed at home
the thrifty, respectable boy whose
selfishness made him as hard as
nails, and so cold that one could
skate all around him.
Often a man and his wife live in
the same house for years, yet they
are world-far apart in sympathy
and understanding. No, distance
may not be physical at all, but
spiritual-so near in body yet so far
apart in spirit. Here lies the real
loneliness Of life, which may be as
lonely as death.
What We need is more light, more
love. more understanding. and a
finer skill of engineering to bridge
the gaps and chasmS which yawn
between races, colors, creeds, classes
and sects, that those far of may be
brought near in new sympathy
and fellowship.
Copyright. 1882. United Feature syndicatel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Questions and Answers

Does Bohemia still use the an
cient white flag with a crowned
lion rampant?
The present flag was adopted
after the formation of the Czecho-
slovak republic, in which Bohemia
is a component state, following the
World war.
What is the address Of "Seth Par
kerr" radio artist?
No. West Fortieth street. New
York City.
How much butter will a gallon of
cream make?
A gallon Of cream containing 30
per cent butter fat will yield about
three pounds of butter.
What is the distance between
earth and moon?
1t varies, but the mean distance
is 248,840 miles.
How old is Douglas Fairbanks Jr.?
He was Is last December.
What Is moratorium?
An emergency decree authorizing
a debtor to defer payment for
given period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Failing Mentality

DUT speaking of lack of Amer
ID lean intelligence, I wonder just
what became of those who an
nounced ahead of time that they
intended to vote for one of the
radical tickets out of either protest
or conviction.
One of the mysteries of the cleo
ton is what became of the I'M
employed vote. The Socialist and
Communist vote combined went lit
tie over million, and it is obvious
that many who chose either Of
these tickets for protest purpose
we're not themselves in desperate
circumstances at the moment.
I mean that Elmer Rice supported
Foster for reasons other than the
fact that his play BLACK Sheep"
failed to click and that neither
George S. kaufman nor Morrie
Ryskind was lured into the Social
ist ranks by direct economic pres
sure.
The Communist party probably
numbers more well-to-do supporters
than any of the other radical
groups, but even if not invidious
distinctions are drawn, I think it
would be high to assert tat more
than so per cent Of the combined
protest vote came directly from
acute sufferers.
And that leaves a bare half mil
lion who voted against the condi-
tons under which they lived. IN
other words, something like 4 per
cent of those completely hoored by
the depression took occasion to be
articulate electorally. Maybe DR..
Burr is right, after all.
Copyright, 1882. bv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Employment Problem

A NUMBER of distinguished au-
IA thorities, both in the academic
and the industrial world, will take
part in the symposium on "Stabili-
eaton of Employment"
They will include DR.. G. F. Ket-
tering, president, General Motors
Research Corporation, and Gerard
Swope, president of the General
Electric Company.
Monetary, credit and capital as
poets of the problem will be dis
cussed by DR.. Irving Fisher, DR..
James w. Angel and DR.. Alvin
Hansen. Science and machinery
aspects will be discussed by DR.. G.
F. Kettering, DR.. Dugald c. jack
son, and DR.. Walter Rautenstrauch.
Sterilization of employment by
means of public works will be dis
cussed by DR.. Leo Wolman and DR..
w. N. Loucks. Gerard Swope and
DR.. H. L. Rietz will speak on en-
ployment insurance.
DR.. Karl T. Compton, president
of Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology, and DR.. Royal Meeker. will
discuss the legislative aspects of the
subject.
Discussion of radio problems will
take place at a joint meeting with
the Institute of Radio Engineers.
Another joint meeting, with the His
tory of Science Society, will be de-
voted to synposiums on THE His
tory of Oriental Science" and 1.-The
History of Medical Science"
Among the other symposiums
scheduled are the following: Late
Pleistocene and Recent Changes Of
Level Along the Atlantic Coast of
North America - Embryonic Deter
mination," The Archaeology and
Ethnology of the Southeastern
United States" chronological Field
Methods" The Psychological Sig
nificance of Birth Legions, "Socio-
logical Statistics" Central Bank
Policy" Primitive Lnguistics," and
Nitrogen in Relation to Crop
Growth and the Use of Nitrogen
Fertilizers"
The reader will note that the pro-
gram is varied. Indeed, the annual
meeting Of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science,
might be regarded as an excellent
cross-section Of all American science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Mind Is Complicated

Ut is said that young French
Il man was able to assume, or.
more accurately, was unable not to
assume, six different states, which
fairly might be called personalities.
The memories attached to each of
these states were different, though
only one was completely exclusive
of the others.
Such instances are unnecessary to
prove how delicate and complicated
the mind really is, or how much
we have yet to learn for even a
rudimentary Knowledge of its work
ings. That is the job before us
however, if we would accomplish
anything worth while in the strug-
gle to produce a better race.
The battle for improvement real
~ is against our own weakness,
and they are rooted deeper in the
mind than in the body. Psychology
is not only the most obscure, but
probably the most important,
branch of science we yet have ven
tured to develop.
1t is singularly appropriate to the
world in which we Iive-a world
which represents the translation
of thought into gigantic mechanisms
and institutions, and which grows
more and more dependent on the
sanity Of thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
sSaYS

The Raymond Robins Case
Brings to Public Attention
One of the Most Perpler-
ing Phenomena KnoiOn to
Medical Science.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21-The dis
IN covery of Colonel Raymond
Robins in mountain village of
North Carolina, where he was pur-
suing he career Of footloose
prospector under the name of Rey-
nolds Rogers, brings to mind one
of the most curious and perplex-
ing phenomena known to medical
science.
It is hard enough to understand
how a man or woman can suffer
complete or even partial loss of
memory, and then regain it. When
it comes to the adoption Of a diff
ferent personality, which is as
sumed, or shaken off, without the
victims control, the riddle becomes
hopelessly battling.
Because they can think of no
other explanation, laymen are apt
to regard it all as f1rst-class sham
ming, but too many cases have been
recorded, studied and authenticated
to permit of such an easy explana-
ton.
The psychological lapse Of Colonel
Robins, if such it can be called, is
tame compared to some others that
have been brought to light. The
name he chose, as well as the news
paper clippings he made and the
political attitude he maintained,
show that Colonel Robins had not
lost all connection with his. past.
There are cases on record, however,
in which such connection was alb
solutely broken.
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Historic Importance

THE symposium on coSmlc rays
L promises to be Of historic I'M
portance. 1t will bring together
some of the chief students OF the
subject, among them DR.. r. a. Mil
nkan, famous physicist of Califor-
MIA Institute of Technology, the
man who confirmed to existence Of
the rays, and DR.. Arthur H. Comp
ton of the University of Chicago,
who recently returned from a So
000-mile journey to study cosmic
rays.
DR.. Millikah and DR.. Compton,
both holders of the Nobel prize in
physics and the only living Amer
leans to have received it, hold quite
different views upon the nature of
the rays.
DR.. NIilnkan believes that they
are waves. DR.. Compton regards
them as electrified particles.
Other speakers in the symposium
will include DR.. w. F. G. Swami,
director of the Partol Research
Foundation of Swarthmore Pa, DR..
Gordon L. Locher, DR.. H. V. Neher,
and others.
DR.. Swami and his colleagues at
the Bartol Research Foundation
have carried on extended studies of
coSnlic rays, designing special ap-
paratus for the purpose.
The symposium at Atlantic City,
by bringing together the chief
workers in the field, ought to shed
much light on the present situation
and point the way for future re-
search.
It goees without saying that re-
ports of the symposium will be
awaited eagerly by scientists in all
parts of the world.
Among the symposiums on med
ical subjects will be one on FILTER
able Virus Diseases" and one on
tuberculosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21

Name the months in the Greek
Calendar?
Hecatombeon, Metageitnion, Boz
dromion, Pysansepsion, Men1acter-
ion. Poseidon, Poseidon End Tin leap
years., Gameiion, Anthesterion,
Elaphebolion, Munychio, Thargelion,
Scieophorion.
Does the mayor of New York city
receive a larger salary than the
Governor of the state?
Mayor Walker received S40,0 a
year, but his successor, Joseph Nc
Kee, has reduced it to $4,000. same
as the salary Of the Governor.
When and where was Bob Dalton
killed?
Oct. 5. 1892. while the Dalton gang
was raiding banks in Cofeyville,
Kan.
For what purpose is the U. S. S.
Nitro used?
AS an ammunition ship.
How many ounces in dekagram?
It Is 0.3527 ounces, avoirdupois.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H REoES

over, it seems to me that the Ro-
mans chose the better way. At least,
that empire was good fellow while
it had it.
Time has elevated its Importance
far beyond all the strangers who
overthrow it. Rome was ready to
fall. 1t had made its peace with
posterity. Even the least noble Of
the Romans could afford to say,
after me the scholars and the
tourists and the picture post cards. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
SCIENCE
1000 Scientific Papers VIII
Be Read at Annual Con-
Glaze at Atlantic City.
by DAVID DIETZ-

ctuVe az Atlantic Clty.
QETWEEN Christmas and New
ID Years day, Atlantic City win
enjoy the distinction Of being the
scientific center of America.
At that time the famous ocean
resort Will play host to the annual
meeting OF the nations largest and
most important scientific organiza-
ton, the American Association Tor
the Advancement of Science.
A feature Of the meeting will be
a large number Of sympoSiums at
which specialists from all parts of
the nation will speak.
The subjects chosen for these
joint discussions range from Cos
mic Rays and The Physiological
Relations of the Pituitary Body to
Sterilization of Employment" and
Radio Problems"
1t is expected that about five
thousand of Americas leading SCI
entistS will attend the meeting at
Atlantic City. AS uSu-l, the meet
ing Will be divided into some fifteen
or more sections, each section deal
ing with a branch of science-as-
tronomy, biology, botany, chemistry,
engineering, medicine, ETC., etc.
4. More than one thousand scien-
tihc papers, dealing with the latest
advances in all fields Of science,
will be presented at the meeting.
The president of the society this
year is DR.. John j. Abel, distin-
guished psychologist of Johns Hop
kins university. DR.. Abel Will Ne
one of the speakers in the sympo-
SUM on the pituitary gland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21
Minister ForgetS Identity

1T was more than forty years ago
4 that stranger came to Norris
town, Pa, bought little stock, and
started candy store. He gave his
name as A. j. Brown, paid his bills
regularly, and though having little
to say about where he had come
from, or what he had done
previously, acquired an excellent
reputation.
After about two years, he woke up
one night, remembered that his
name was Bourne, that he was a
Methodist minister who lived in
Rhode Island, and nearly went in
to Mysteries when he discovered
that he was in strange room.
This case was reviewed in an ex-
haustive paper by Weir Mitchell and
made the subject of thorough in
veStigation by the London Society
for Psychical Research.
1t was learned that Mr.. Bourne
had been subject to strange psychic
phenomena in his youth and once
had been hypnotized when he was
made to assume several different
characters.
1t used to be thought that double
consciousness, or dual personality
was the limit, and it used to be ex-
planned on the theory that some
thing had caused the two halves of
the brain to act independently of
each other, instead of synchroniz-
ing.
But men and women have been
found who not only took on one
extra character without being able
to prevent it, but several, each with
its peculiar memories and attitudes.
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Germany has outlawed one of its Oldest nudist
colonies the Adolf Koch school, because sit gradually
has lost its gymnastc character and is encroachine
on the province of medical treatment" And we
thought all the time that the chief objection was lack
of clothes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-21

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The EDITOR.
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Daily Thought

And there shall arise after them
seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the
land of Egypt; and the famine
shall consume the land.-Genesis
41:30.
Hunger is sharper than the sword
Beaumont and Fletcher.