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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Measuring Enerqg

TINE energy received from the
Il sun is measured by means of
a device known as the "pyrheli-
motor" Tt consists of a small tube,
at the bottom of which is a black
ened disc of silver.
The disc contains a tiny reser-
voir Of water, in which Their
mometer bulb is immersed. The
tube is pointed at the sun and the
rate at which the water heats is
measured. From this, the amount
of solar energy can be calculated.
The solar constant" that is,
the average amount of heat re-
ceived each minute upon a square
centimeter of the earth's surface,
turns out to be 1874 Galleries. CA
calorie is the amount of heat
needed to raise the temperature Of
a cubic centimeter of water one
degree. A centimeter is about
third Of an inch.)
AS DR.. Meyer points out, 1874
Galleries seem a small figure. But
it is necessary to remember the
size Of the earth. He asks us to
imagine a silver disc one mile
square inclosing $50 tons Of wa
ter.
The sunlight falling on this disc,
he tells us, would raise the tenn
perature Of the water from the
freezing point to the boiling point
in one minute.
ut is this energy" he says,
''that evaporates the water from
the ocean, heats the earth's sur
face, and causes the growth Of
vegetable life.
IF, at a distance of 100000
miles, the sun we're surrounded by
a shell of ice 426 feet thick, the
solar energy would melt the entire
shell in one year"
The amount Of energy so con-
sumed would be the equivalent Of
a mass Of coal equal in tons Of
the figure a." followed by twenty
three ciphers, a mass sixty times
as large as the earth itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

The United States will grow new crop of in
dustral giants result of the depression, predicts
the president of Rotary international. There little
bankrupt don't you cry; you'll be magnate. by
and by.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

Yes preventive medicine is engaging an increas-
ing amount of this professions attention. But it
only coincidence, of course, that nationally
famous clinic announced it was making a study of
hiccups at the moment congress pondered beer
bill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Q-What is an Aes?

Q-What is an Aes?
A coin made Of copper or
brcnze.
Q-How old is former Mayor
James j. Walker Of New York
city?
A-Fifty-one.
Q-What relation is the child Of
my grandmother's sister to me?
A-First cousin once removed.
Q-To what race do the Por-
tuguese belong?
Mediterranean group Of the
white race.
Q-What significance is attached
to chrysanthemums?
A-They staLd Tor wealth and
abundance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

yellow Kid" We'll, the notorious swindler, says
crooks aren't brainy, or they would know how to
make money within the law. Well, honesty and
brains have been passing some dividends too lately
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Lay Down the Cords

TIME essence of Hoover's pro-
l. gram is for this government
to take the initiative, make the
plans, and shoulder the respon-
sibility for what happens.
This government has done too
much of that already.
The time has come to let those
governments that have preached
their contracts, or that are threat
ening to breach their contracts,
come forward with a substitute
program.
The time has come to let those
governments that are pleading in
ability to pay come forward with
definite statement of their con-
dition and what they can do.
1t is utterly unfair to ask the
United States to pass on Europe's
economic situation. or undertake
to formulate plans for Europe's
future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
~. DIR. MORRIS FISHREIN

Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hvgeia. the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Daily Thought

And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Be not afraid because of them:
for tomorrow about this time will
deliver them up all slain before
Israel: thou shall hough their
horses, and burn their chariots
with fire.-Joshua 11:6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Want General Revision

XXTHAT European governments
w want is wholesale revision.
Since existing contracts have
fifty years to run, there should
be plenty of time to attend to
that.
The world is not going to be
smashed or saved by the amount
at stake this year.
What President Hoover proposes
is another debt survey, with an
other period of haggling and an
other set Of contracts.
That is just repeating the per-
Torrance we went through several
years ago, and it promises no bet
ter results. It is like substituting
the Young plan for the Dawes
plan, and you know where that
ended.
New contracts won't be any bet
ter than existing contracts. Eu-
ropes ability to pay can shrink
just as fast as we can make con-
cessions.
What's the use of going on with
such a one-sided game?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

Faith is necessary to victory. :
Hazlitt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

This is the second of four articles by
DR.. Fishbein on the nature and treat
ment of scarlet fever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26

Bristol had . strange viilof Tuesday. People have read md heard about thl great aux, sn extinct species of birds. Nowsdays we have little sukG a more hardy msmbtf of this tribe. Recently enormous notks of them appssred in New York city. Evidently they had been driven ashore during recent storms A motorman on the Bris,ol-Plain. vile run noticed an old bird betwssn the rails Tuesday. Stopping his car he investi- gated and found the bird to be q little auk, although not identified as such until brought into the city. One of the odd things about this festhersd creature is its inability to live on land. It has tiny webbed feet which propei it on the water and ehable it to take to the air. but on land it is helpless and soon dies. Hundreds of them driven ashore in New York died Warnings to those who found them to place them immediately in water were spread through the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Finds England Is on the
 Road to Communism

If present trends in England continue as they are, all of the old family estates and middle class fortunes will vanish inside of three or four decades and Eng land will be well on the way to- ward practical communism.
 So, at least, thinks Harry A. frranck, the confirmed globetrotter, who has just revisited England and has written down his impressions in s.Footloose in the British Isles."
 England's high income taxes are well known. But Mir Franck points out that they are only half of the story. Tho English motor ist, for instance, pays a gasoline tax Of 10 cents Q gallon. Real estate taxes are frequently as high as house rentals. Estate taxes take more than to per cent of large estates.
 The result, he thinks, is a slow but steady revolution in English life. The empire itself may dis solve; ordinary Britishers, says MT Franck, no longer care about It very much. The old spirit Is gone. A cricket match between Australia and England interests the average man far more than such q thing as the recent Ottawa conference.
 For all their absorption in sports, however. MT Franck says that English athletes fail to excel abecause they are too lazy and too fond of afternoon tea to so into serious training"
 "Footloose in the British Isles." If not very profound, is lively and interesting. and Mr F'rancks aryiy of readers will probably cat 1t alive. It Is published by the Gen. tury Co and Is priced at $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26

Washington Amid the un- precedented Democratic elec- ton landslide, there was no upset more revolutionary than the ten dcncy of the negro vote to draw away from It's old place under the republican banner.
 States went democratic which had been republican for decades but the negro vote had been over whelmingly republican since the Civil War. Now 1t has been. split for the first time and politicians do not see how the old tradition pr loyalty to MT Lihcoln's party is gb. Ing to be restored.
 This happens to be factor of considerable political importance There are several borCer states and large northern states where the republicans always previously we're able to start campaigns with sub- stantial nest egg because they had the negro vote so securely in hanb
 There are some states in which cause negro leaders to claim a theoretical balance of power, in. cluding New York, Illinois, Massa- chusetts, Oklahoma, Rhode Island. New Jersey, eKntucky, Maryland. Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio.
 In some of the larger states the negro vote Is estimated into the hundreds of thousands. And there are many congressman and quite q few senators who have to worry about 1t.
 
 If the election gave no other in. ,dication as to the future political complexion of the larger northern states, the apparent elimination of that republican "edge, would seem to promise q significantly larger proportion of doubtful states among those heretofore regarded as normally republican.
 As 1t Is, with the negro vote di. vided, the republican task of win ming back such of those states as voted for Roosevelt will be just so much harder than if the cplored folks had remained loyal to the q, O. F.
 Negro leaders were predicting the detection many months before the campaign began, rejoicing in the negro's political enancipa- tion."
 ~ Tho negro vote cannot be count
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
Liquor Politics

George W. Wiekefsham, who was ehair- man of President Hoovers commission on law enforcement. is quoted in an interview as acknowledging the obvious failure of prohibition. and making some further ob- servations that should be of interest and value as Congress proceeds to change the governments liquor policy. No law can be enforced he remarks unless 1t is backed by strong public sentiment. The object of' prohibition was to create temperate habits. This obviously has failed; and if it has regulation must take it's place.
 The tide of ant-prohibition feeling. as he sees it. has been largely caused by the extreme character of prohibition legislation
 tbs Volstead Act and the great in- tolerance of it's promoters and the aban- donnnent of efforts to persuade people to abstinence. and putting the entire reliance on the enforcement of the law This analysis is clear. and should help to guide
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY
lNaw York ,rImnsl

(New York Times)
 The man is to be congratulated and envied who, coming into pos- session of what Lord Macaulay called mot a reflex of heaven but heaven itself" has had the rare privilege and joy Of giving 1t to the country in which 1t Hes. As an- nouficed in yesterdays. Times, Mir William Bowers Bourn of Call fornia has purchased and presented to the Irish Free State the Lakes of Killarney and the islands to which they give setting. He may say with Tom Moore:
 May calm and sunshine long be
 thine: . How fair thou art let others tell-- To feel how fair will long be mine.
 It has been written of this chain of lakes that there Is no human being who would not receive some sort of . thrill when seeing them for the first time. They are not joyous lakes, but the isles they hold are lovelier for their tears. " 'Tis heaveH's own glance" when the sun appears.
 The legend is that St Patrick, though he never reached Killarney, climbed to the top of the tallest mountain that looked down upon 1t, stretched out his hands over the lakes and said, T bless all beyint the reeks" Gall beyond the noun tains), The Earl of Kanmare. its sometime owner, shared its bless- lngs for a sixpence with every one who came. All it's legendary and historic associations. with all the blessings of the centuries ard ita enduring beauty. will now, thanks to this California lover of lakes be Ifeland's own, to share with aIl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26

A Dutch inventor is now defnandins worldwide attention by his noiseless roads. If his experiments prove workable. he eer- tainly will find monument erected in he honor some day. He surfaces the roads with powdered rubber mixed with asphalt. In addition to absorbing all noises the roads are non-skid. Maybe the tire dealers who claim this latter property for their particular brand won't like this so well. but the noise elini- ination is something which ali can praise. In addition roads coated with the preparation can be used within al hour of application. Sounds good, but will it last the lifetime of the roadi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
Fresh Fire Apparatus Up

The scream of siren. flashing red body-and the fire engine passes, he crowds gather. watch it disappear into dis tance, and dispcrsc. The drama that is an intrinsic part of fire fighting seems never to diminish.
 Reaching the scene of the fire. the engine stops the hose is run out the great pump starts pulsating. Perhaps the motor will be called upon to perform for A hours at stretch in arctic or tropical weather. without an instants pause. If it fails, it may mean that another fire has gotten beyond control that more hundreds or thousands or mil lions of dollars in property values have been destroyed-that, possibly. irreplaeeable lives have been needlessly lost.
 Obviously. it's what is under the red paint that counts in fire engine. Good engines and bad look alike-as do imitation dia- monds and real ones, to the lay observer. Most of us couldn't tell the difference be. tween an engine that has been haphazardly assembled by some truck builder and the finest product of the standard maker g art without look at the name plate. But wed know the difference soon enough If difficult fire broke out on our property.
 The best fire apparatus is always ths cheapest fire apparatus. Standard engines arc an honest conomy-non standard ones are luxury that no community can afford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
His First Stand

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has not made his first official decision as president of the United States, but in his capacity as president elect he has assured the nation in convincing fashion that he will be no pusf,- over for Congress. The past three republi- can administrations have more than proved the assertion that Congress rules this nation with an iron hand. It wasn't so in the days of Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt. or Grover Cleveland. With regard to dealings with foreign governments those executives consulted first before calling upon Con- gress to approve of plans or deliberations.
 We have not seen an example of this since the days of Woodrow Wilson. As soon as Warren c. Harding took office Congress decided that where foreign governments were concerned it's word would be law. As result our dealings with foreign powers in the past twelve years have been at the most sketchy and not marked by decision that would be normally expected. May we hope to sec this tone returned with Roosevelts ascension to office. The president IS given authority by the Constitution to carry on negotiations with foreign governments with out first asking congressional permission.
 No one took more advantage of this priv ilege than did the late Woodrow Wilson. And even though he failed at the last to win the necessary legislative support for his plans he more than proved the point that one man can accomplish more than five hundred arguing in circles without knowing fully what the question at point is. If the pres- dent-elect now stands by his guns and refuses to let his own party overawe or override him he bids fair to become far stronger and more commanding executive than many have believed him to be. He has started off well. That augurs well for the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
Public Esteem Deserved

A report of the Sales Research Bureau of Hartford shows that sales of ordinary life insurance during recent. month were some what below those of the same month last year. Yet more than $25.000,000 of new insurance was sold during every working day the average policy being for $500. This means that each day about 7.500 pco- pie either bought their first insurance policy or increased the amount of protection they were carrying.
 As matter of fact. the drop in sales of insurance eight per cent - was good deal less than the drop in income of the public. A constantly increasing percentage of savings is going into life insurance. This is particularly trse in the case of persons of moderate means who cannot afford to take chances. Millions of them are> choosing life insurance as the soundcst most stable and. in the long run, most profitable investment. . Life insurance is a perfectly democratic business. in that the buyer of small policy gets it at exactly the same unit rate as does the buyer of a large one. In the sight of life insurance all men are equal --and that is one of the many reasons why it holds so high place in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
Gasoline From Coal

The Belfast Gas works in Northern Ire- land has made a cheap creosote product which it claims is an excellent substitute for gasoline A local bus company after testing 10000 gallons of the fuel. is said to have found it so satisfactory that it is preparing 70 of its buses for its regular use. Private motorists can purchase the stuff at abou: eight and half cents gallon. Gasoline costs more than three times as much there. The special tank and earburetor which must be installed for using the ereosote fuel cost something of course but the economy of the new fuel soon pays for them. The com pany working out this product has given the formula and explained the methods of using the product to all British companies The high cost of gas is one of the chief handieaps to development of motoring.
 There is probably nothing really new about this Irish product. It has lang been known that explosive fluids similar to gaso- line can be distilled from coal. The 3el- fast gas people are probably using processes similar to those used widely in this country by gas manufacturers. who obtain creosotc and other hydfocarbon compounds as by products. Gasoline thus produced is some times mixed with pettolcum gasoline, we shall probably obtain all our gasoline from coal when our petroleum resources have been exhausted. Meanwhile. we shall prob ably leave this process mainly to Europe. We have plenty of gasoline; and fot cheaper power, we seem to be turning to diesel mo- tors which burn fuel oil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
So They Say

No one can say we're taking the depression seriously, --Afton L. Herbst, Indianapolis att torney, father of two sets of twins in eight months. Beer won't last five years if the saloon is allowed to come back. Former Mayor Frank x. Schwnb, of Buffalo, ex-brewer.
 
 Of course do lot of singing at homo, and in the bathroom, too.
 Lawrence Tibbett. baritone.
 
 am confident the day will come when Mir John 4,Public will think nothing of having breakfast in New York and dinner in Los Angeles.
 --hoscoe Turner, upon flying from New York to Los Angeles in IF hours 33 minutes. &y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26
WHOLE OF SHERWOOD ISLAM
 NEEDED
Bridgeport Telegraml

f'he Fairfield County Republi- can Organization did well In recoil1- mending that the incoming legisla- ture purchase the Elwood prop erty in connection with the Sher- wood Island State park. That prop erty has already been acqired by lease and is in actual use. Its pur- chase by the state will put the seal of finality upon the transaction ini- tiated last summer by the state park board.
 However that move does not go far enough. The committee ap- pointed by tho 1881 legislature recommended in their report last April, ''that the state purchase all the property on sherwood island as the best location for state park, It was in furtherance or this recommendation that the state park board acquired the El- wood property, with the option to purchase, subject to ratification by the legislature. 2
 But the Elwood property is only one of q number of private prop- critics still remaining wholly with- in the area of what must eventu- ally be the state park proper, or commanding land necessary for parking purposes. right of way, and SO forth. It is strongly to be recommended that the legislature, without undue delay. authorize the state park commission to finish the fob which 1t has begun and to acquire the whole of Sherwood is- land.
 It may be said that the more important property ownerA. what ever their opposition may have been in the past, are now resigned to the park as inevitable and are ready .xo surrender their holdings for fair condensation. The Ef- woods refused a private offer. say ing that they would rather let their homestead and farm 20 to the state and n matter of justice to the remaining owners (whc will otherwise Dc isolated by the. park) 10 acduire the private properties ana make one continuops park Of the island, as recommended by the state ccnifinissiofl,,
 Connecticut will then have q really adequate park at Sherwood island. The state should not leave tfiis task half done, while 1t be- gins to tinker with Calf Pasture beach. stratkord point or other fu- ture possibilities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-26

consflss and all groups that seek lo sxrf- sie iailsunee in Congrsss. as it psoeseds to sstablIrh new system of federal control.
 It is evident that excetses must now De avoided. Neither extreme and uncomprom- ising drys nor extrsme and uncompromlsng vets can have their way. if the new plan is to succeed. It must be tolerant, without undue Iaxity. It must be seaFed to suit the moderates the middle-of-the-road peo- pie = and to persuade peopse to temperate rather than compel them. Otherwise 1t can- not win the popular support necessary for success.