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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TT is interesting to ponder upon what would be
the robabIe state of mind of married men II
Peter. Amos Renaissance of Romance should occur
For Arno says hat romance will return only when we
accept e truth that occaSioal extra martial betrayal
does not mean tragic betrayal.
He thinks, moreover, that American women exhibit
childish vanity when they resent it, and show a
lack of sef-conhdence and sophistcation.
Arno, perhaps, is correct in his diagnosis of our
attitude to the phanderng husband. But let us sup
pose that every wife took his advice.
The men would be upset dreadfully. l can mag
inc nothing that would so confound the husbands
sweep from under their feet the moorings of COM
pacency.
wife might halt their strayings but would destroy
their belief in themselves. And that would be a
pity.
INDEED, such program would take away most of the
zest of life for men. They don't, as general thing
care two whoops for the ladies they pursue but they
do get tremendous kick out of feeling they are skill
tul in pulling the wool the wife's eyes,
Most OF the candestne affairs that go or these
days, am convinced not the result of naughti-
ness, but of boredom. A man feels his life slipping
away and sees himself forever as sort of domes-
tlce appendange-Mrs. Smiths husband-and so any
trifing departure from the ordinary routine offers
him thrill
Men seldom prefer their sweethearts to their
wives They would be appalled, at the idea of having
to marry their DulcineaS. But they do obtain
pleasurabe excitement from the thought that they
possess the makings of Don Juan
Inc Casanova complex, I have no doubt lies al
the bottom OF every male heart And the life of the
average man is dul-deadly dull
And so these puerile affairs these shoddy ro-
mances these foolish hirtations even those magnih
cent romances that result in divorce and broker
homes, merely are weak flights >from reality--at.
tempted escapes from the kllingN monotony OF life
amid machines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Killing More Trade

s Today the United States tariff commission begins
hearings designed to kill more of foreign trade
Again. Russia to be the goat 1t is alleged that i'm
portation of Russian asbestos violates the unfair
practice" clause of the Smoot- Hawley act
The allegation seems rather far-fetched in view of
the fact that such Russian imports during the last
year amounted to less than per cent of the total In
any event, such small amount of trade is not i'm
portant in ITSELF either for this country for Russia
But this case is important part of the large
movement for destruction of Russian American trade
at a time when factory owners and unemployed
workers by the millions must look to revival of for
eign trade the way out of their suffering.
Before asbestos the embargo hounds were hot
against Russian pulpwood and manganese They
charged dumping and forced labor. But their case
weak that even the anti-Russian officials of
the United States treasury department ruled against
them.
Even though these efforts to erect legal barriers
against Russian products fail nomnaly in the future
in the past they succeed to the degree that they
make trade conditions unsettled and difficult
Certainly Russia not and will not buy in this
country unless give her fair credit terms and
less takesome of her products in exchange There
Is no risk for us on either score.
Russia is the one country during the last decade in
which all foreign bills have been paid according to
recent statement in the British parliament And in
the matter of exchange of goods the trade balance
heavily in fayor-$s5o 100000 during the last five
years.
The drop in our sales to Russia since 1880 has
been SO per cent, while British, German and
Italian competitors have increased their business with
Russia u per cent.
If the administration wants to improve business,
here is one place it can begin at once
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Wealth on PaDer

THE late season of prosperity
4 which deceived us so COM
pletely was a product of figures-so
much wealth here, so much there
and so much somewhere else. but
with little to show for it, except on
the ledger.
And now we are trying to fathom
the depths of this depression with
more figures, just as though thew
could reveal the queer emotions it
has stirred, or relieve the inner
misery.
We actually are trying to rate
human happiness in dollars. irving
to find out just how much we have
lost by counting the bankroll and
how much cash we must put up to
buy it back.
We seem to have forgotten that
some people found it possible to be
happy before mint was established
or an adding machine devised. Con-
yenient as statistics may be, we can
not hope to acquire some of the
essentials simply by counting noses.
Money has come to be a necessity,
but not because Of it's intrinsic
value. What makes money worth
while is the things that can be done
with it. To an alarming extent, we
are disregarding those things while
we count the gold To an alarming
extent, we are mistaking the symbol
for what it symbolizes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Hair Elimination May Be Dangerous

of the spine resembling an animals
tail.
The girl who has mustache
gives it constant concern and tries
to discount it by bleaching and by
many similar methods.
There seems to be no doubt that
the growth of hair is associated
with glandular conditions, since
such excessive growths are likely to
appear in women just after they
have passed through adolescence or
after they have passed the change
of life.
DR.. Agnes Savill recognizes that
the glands and their action may be
at the basis of such excessive
growths of hair, but also points out
that it is extremely difficult to find
just which gland may be responsible
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or to treat the condition on the
basis of such an ill-defined cause.
There is no evidence that the use
of face creams will provoke the
growth of hair. There is no reason
to believe that exposure to wind and
sunshine is responsible.
Since the fashion for exceedingly
light stockings came into vogue
women also have become especially
sensitive about growths of hair on
the legs.
There are some who have felt
that the exposure of the leg in
creased the growth of hair, but
some of the worst cases of excessive
hair on the legs that ere known
have occurred in women who never
have exposed the bare skin to wind
Or sun.
In his next article. DR.. Fishbein will dis
GUS treatment of superfluOus hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27

Integraph Is Nei0 Machine
That VIII Simplify Teach
ing of Calculus.
BY DAVID DIETZ.

A MECHANICAL device which
IA does for calculus what the
slide rule and the adding machine
do for ordinary arithmetical calcu-
lations has been developed by a
Cleveland engineer. John M. Barr.
Barr. formerly manager of the
industrial motor department of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, now is presi-
dent of the Integraph Company Of
Cleveland. He calls his device for
mechanizing the calculus" the in
tegraph.
The integraph just has been
adopted by Cleveland college. the
downtown branch Of Western Re-
serve university, and a course in its
use is being taught there this Sc
mester by DR.. Charles w. Copper
smith, associate professor Of eng-
neering drawing at Case School of
Applied Science. Cleveland college
operates in utilization with Case
school.
A slide rule Is a source or bound
less amazement to the student who
sees one for the first time.
Having learned to multiply and
divide in the usual manner. he IS
surprised to find that the process
can be. done in fraction of the
usual manner merely by sliding one
graduated ruler within another and
reading of the answer on the grad
uationS.
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Questions and
Answers

Please give the locations of the
most ancient cities of which there
are any records and name the most
ancient one that still exists.
Psychologists believe that the
earliest cities we're built by the
Sumerians in the Tigris- Eupharates
valley, possibly as early as 4,50O
B. G. Some of these old sites have
been excavated. Damascus is be-
lieved to be the oldest city that has
existed continuously.
On what continents were horses
indigenous?
1t is thought now that the evolu-
ton and development of the horse
occurred in the central plains of
North America.
What is the meaning of the name
Betty:
1t is nickname for Elizabeth and
means God is her OATH"
Have the giant redwood trees oil
California been injuerd by cutting
archways through the trunks large
enough for the passage of an auto
mobile?
No. They are able to live anc
grow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Use of Machines

THE adding machine is becoming
L so familiar that the amaze
ment which greeted its first intro
duction into the business world is
being forgotten.
Today, the adding machine, or
more exactly, the calculating ma
chine, for present-day machines
also vii subtract, multiply, divide
extract square root, and so on, are
being used in all scientific labora-
tories.
They have supplanted. to a large
extent, both the use of logarithms
and the slide rule. These calculat-
ing machines are also in general
use by statisticians in banks, insur-
ance companies, and so on.
From time to time, scientists have
developed specialized calculating
machines of great completely for
specialized purposes.
Among these are the harmonic
wave analyzers, such as the tide
predicting machine of the United
States coast and geodetic survey,
and the machine developed by DIR.
Dayton C. Miller for analyzing
sound waves.
Complex machines recently have
been developed by DR.. A. F. Doug
las of the University of Arizona
and DR.. C. G. Abbot, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, for
analysis of sunspot cycles.
The integraph developed by Barr
is not complicated piece of APP
paratus It consists of two celluloid
instruments on the general order of
the celluloid triangles used by
craftsmen and architects.
One instrument performs the
process known in calculus as inte-
grafton.
The other is used in combination
with the first one, to perform the
process known as differentiation
1t is a little difficult to explain
the Importance of these instruments
to the layman not familiar with the
basic notions of calculus.
Their usefulness, however, will be
apparent at once to engineers who
have to use the methods of calculus
daily in their work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Folly in Figures

T THINK the civilized world, and
Il particularly the business side of
it, is suffering from a similar dis
illusionment.
People are beginning to realize
that figures don't and can't tell the
whole story AS might be expected,
it leaves them rather breathless.
They had been quite thoroughly
sold on the idea that figures don't
lie.
Figures don't lie when confined to
their proper sphere, which is inor-
ganic matter, but they are wholly
unreliable when applied to life.
Think of attempting to rate the
work, or influence, of a Shakespeare
IN figures. Yet fools have tried it.,
or something equally preposterous.
Not only that, but they have con-
WINGED myriads of people that the
thing could be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
Supports Old MoraIitieS

DOSSIBLY there were a few bold
Il spirits in the university who
were prepared to do their protesting
by voting for Norman Thomas. But
the mere matter of the comparative
vote never has been accepted as a
complete characterized by any one.
Mr.. Chapple's fight with Glenn
Frank and the other authorities in
Madison had only a passing political
tie-up. Mr.. Chapple's chief OBJ
jective in campaigning was re
store into respect Whistler's mother
and other old ladies of her age.
Dancing, free love, and free speech
are all upon his blacklist. He ran
upon platform of support for the
ancient moralities. Mr.. Hoover's
position is pretty much the same. 1
do not think the alliance will profit
either very much.
Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Chapple lined
up side by side merely present a
slightly wider target for those who
would use their ballots as if they
were brickbats. The easiest thing
next to beating Hoover is to beat
two Hoovers.
Copyright. 1882. by The Times)
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to unusually cheap brand of denagogery and
clsptrap
Kohler, an admitted spokesman of the plutoerats,
travelled about in cheap and feigned democracy.
Chapple, sngularly obsessed and irresponsible pa
troteer, who has been lecturing about the country
making fervent appeal to the bourbons to muzze
all men with civilized views, descended to even lower
depths.
He travelled in rundown car and camped out at
night to convince the voters that he was man of
the people.
The whole episode is ominous not only for Wis
consin and the United States but also for capalisc
society.
1t is to be hoped that a Democratic victory in
Wisconsin will intervene to prove that democracy and
liberalism not wholly discredited and abandoned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27

Some Things Are Beyond the
Pale Of Arithmetic We
Can't Put Charity, Chdrac-
y ter and Art in Figures.
Says:

NEW YORK, Sept. 27-Figures
IN always have been easy for me.
1 never had to be taught the SIM
pier processes of arithmetic. At the
age of 6. was able to do problems
in complex fractions, or partial pay
ments without much difficulty.
though by methods all my own.
I Go not know how, or when, the
faculty originated. Some Of my
elders regarded it as a gift from
Providence. Maybe. they we're right.
The boy has a great head" they
would say, and, because of their
misguided chatter, I began to feel
the same way about it.
One day I saw an idiot add up
the numbers Of the cars of a freight
train as it went rushing by. That
was terrible shock. Some years
later, saw a gum-chewing girl add
up q column of figures ten feet long
by punching keys on a little ma
chine, and that was worse.
1t was crushing disappointment
to discover that arithmetic was
purely mechanical and had no in
tellectual significance.
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BULGARIA ASKS PEACE
Sept. 81

ON Sept. 81, 1918, Bulgaria made
" oyertures for peace with the
allies, asking for 48-hour truce in
which to make terms In reply,
Great Britain called for unequivo-
cal submission.
West of verdun, the American
troops continued their savage adj
vance, while French troops, east OF
Rheims, experienced success in
gaining five miles in two days
fighting. British, in the Cambrai
sector, advanced on a 14-mile frcnt.
German forces of occupation be-
gan to retire, from Rumania.
British cavalry in Asia Minor
drove Turks northward through
Meezeris and joined with the Arab
forces of the king Of Hedjaz.
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Charity by Statistics

Mis- is a world of tables and
Il statistics, with skyscrapers
standing for progress and charity
measured by the number of free
meals. That is not its least afflic-
ton. Statesmen, f1nanciers,. phil
osophers, and common folk are try
ing to state every sort of value in
figures.
1t can't be done. There are things
beyond the pale of arithmetic-art.
imagination, character.
Some people describe these things
are imponderable.
Napoleon, who was about as cold
FLOODED mathematician as the
world ever produced, said that the
lmponderables were all-important,
even in war.
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Sin0pIifieS Teaching
TINE integraph permits of So
i called graphic solutions Of

THE integraph permits of So
Il called graphic solutions Of
mathematical problems. That is,
the data to be studied is reduced to
a curve which is then drawn or
plotted" as the mathematician
say, on ruled paper.
The integraph then is applied to
this curve in such ways that addi-
tional curves are obtained.
Points along these additional
curves represent. when translated
back into numerical data, the solu-
ton for which the engineers are
seeking.
Barr believes that the integraph
is not only a useful tool for en-
gineers. but that it simplifies teach
ing Of calculus to students.
1T is a well-known fact that a
majority of students find calculus
very difficult" Barr says. Many
students come out Of their course
in calculus with inferiority COM
plexes.
1.-THE integraph. by making the
subject graphic, permits the student
to visualize the mechanics Of cal
culus and so gives him a better
grasp of the fundamentals of the
subject.
THE idea that calculus could be
reduced to mechanical methods
really started with Leibnitz, the
great German mathematician and
contemporary of Isaac Newton, who
was one of the inventors of calculus.
He developed the notion that
mathematics was simply a species of
geerings. He developed certain
geerings which are still used today
in some calculating machines.
Viewed from this viewpoint, in
tegration is the result of the &C
emulation of certain geerings, while
differentiation is the establishment
Of the geer ratio"
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EYo1%

MIR. HOOVER'S cohorts are ex-
N1 pressing keen delight about the
election returns in Wisconsin. This
is hardly time when anybody
should grudge Republicans whatever
crumbs of comfort they may de-
rive from the current political sit
uation.
And yet, as an impartial OBJ
server of the 1882 race, I must pro-
test that the primary scarcely spells
a vindication for the great en-
gineer.
If liberals deserted La Toilette in
his hour of need, they did so largely
because of their belief that no hope
longer existed in the party to which
he gave ostenSible allegiance.
1t is salutary that the progressive
machine in the state went down to
defeat The fiction of the label was
becoming little too preposterous.
Young Bob, the senator, and his
brother Phil, the Governor, are no
more Republicans than I am, and
it is an excellent idea that the whole
organization should be compelled to
run up its true colors.
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eral group failed to win majority
representation. Indeed, one of the
most interesting speeches in a dull
week was that delivered by a Madi-
sqn judge who commented upon the
fact that the state had turned
straight once again.
He mentioned the manner in
which the Wisconsin delegation for
many years invariably brought m a
minority platform, which was duly
voted down by the assembled post
masters.
1t was the proud boast of the
speaker that down payments were
to be made for every indignity
visited upon the stalwarts by men
whom he termed renegade Repub-
licans."
But though the people afflicted
with the La Toilette idea may be at
the moment a minority faction in
the Republican ranks they are for
all that well organized and compact.
They Might Change Sides
A T the slightest signal from their
"A defeated leader they will
march in bulk. over to the enemy's
trenches with all flags flying. Her
bert Hoover has gained no new
friends; he simply has established
the validity of one more revolt.
One Of the most interesting fea-
lures of the Wisconsin battle was
the triumph of John B. Chapple in
his contest against Senator Blaine.
I think it is highly unlikely that
young Mr., Chapple is actually on his
way to Washington.
He is likely to find the judgments
which operate in an election of
much sterner stuff than those which
prevail in a primary. And yet if
Mr.. Chapple goes down to defeat in
November, the state will suffer in
some respects and also the nation,
not to mention certain writer's of
columnar comment.
IL NIL Olldpple Ad1Ao' we nave oil
lost talking point. Whatever the
prophecies, he is still in the running
and if elected John B. Chapple will
stand revealed as the silliest of all
the senators.
I am aware that this is a large
order, but I have both read and
listened to the speeches of Mr..
Chapple. No man now prominent
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in public life can match him in the
creation of pure nonsense.
He has played a formula for more
than two years. The premise on
which he began was the assumption
that the University of Wisconsin
had gone completely Communist.
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WTHEN women get superfuous
VVhair on parts of the body
where hair ordinarily should not
develop, they are likely to become
exceedingly unhappy about it.
Frequently they resort to all sorts
of dangerous methods to get rid of
the hair and try all sorts of
schemes, that have no effect, for
the same purpose.
The condition is not unusual.
Every sideshow in a circus has the
dog-faced boy and the bearded
woman.
There are, of course, cases on rec
ord of human beings who have had
thick growths of hair at the base
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-27
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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.
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Daily Thoughts

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to
do, do it with thy might; for there
is not work, nor device, nor knowl-
edge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
whittier thou goest.-EccIesiastes
$40.
Unless We put heart and soul into
our labor, We but brutify our ac-
tions.-H. w. Shaw.
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Sell the Wheat

china's starving people will benefits and probably
American farmers too if the federal government goes
through with the proposal to finance the sale of 49,
100000 bushels of wheat to that country
First sale from the farm boards "stabilization'
stocks several weeks ago was pitfully small, in the
face of Chinas needs but it served to demonstrate
that satisfying the Orient needs also furnishes good
outlet for of the surplus of wheat that
piled up in private as we'll as public elevators. Why
more was not sold by the board to China is somewhat
obscure.
This new deal apparently. involves wheat held by
the boards co-operatives, the sterilization corpora
tons stock of cash grain having fallen to about
100000 bushels This corporation might have
enough in futures contracts to negotiate the 900
to be secret now.
But whoever is the seller, it is fortunate that the
federal government is acting again to help some
of the wheat surplus out of this country.
Mrs. Hoover is pictured operating a sewing ma
chine. A stitch in time saves nine votes.
Anyway, the romance between Marilyn Miller and
Don Alvarado took our minds off Jean Harlow.
Considey Gandhi 1t is not always necessary tc
have fine clothes to teach a lasting lesson.
Perhaps the man who can avoid paying an income
tax should be drafted as an expert on the immgra-
ton law.