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SACRED HEART CHURCH Mass tomorrow Sunday morn ing at 10 o'clock.
 FIR. MERRILL SULZMAN.
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Speakng at banquet rendered Ambassador in Lon SIT John Simon observed resolve to cultivate Uni opy relationship the world And
Seward daily gateway., 1932-05-07

Wo says woman has equal In the Ne1 land rukus the willing but the wome an shyng bricks through ewey helping temseve diamond and wedding rings
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mere Is no denying that the emancipation woman has to become just as tough and depraved as the men
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Kansas to erect statue Nation Evidently foow peceoe or King Amanss of Egypt sgnifvin effeminacy of the who failed give good fight
Seward daily gateway., 1932-05-07

In the good old days bleeding believed to be good fo dently we are back in the good old days
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Community Amusement

That the county officials are seriously thinking Of
borrowing a million dollars from the government to
continue the relief for the needy during next winter
should direct attention to plan for providing
things that can be given without money
1t is now apparent that the community, either by
private charity or taxation must provide food, cloth
ing and shelter for larger number Of families this
year than were on the lists year ago.
That means that many men and women will be
without. work and with nothing but time on their
hands That means that there will be great need
for entertainment as there is for food
The mind never stops. 1t needs some escape from
worry in hard times Its appetite is constant and i'm
perative.
The idle human being must find some way to &C
cupy his mind or he goes tterng.
Night schools are not at present the schedule
of the school authorities The necessity for economy
hit these schools first. They ordinarily provide a
most admirable form of mental occupation for about
5000 each year. This winter if they can be kept
open by volunteer methods that number can be
doubled
But this is but small part. The neghborhoods
must be organized for community enterprises and
tertainments We must go back to the old days when
human beings found it possible to entertain themselves
without spending money.
Recent inventions and complex conditions of city
life have built up the tradition that it is necessary
to spend money to be amused. The change is of
doubtful value 1t can be reversed.
Every neighborhood should have community
center preferably in school house, where neighbors
will again be neighbors and where the vast numbers
who are being isolated from industry belong to
something
The depression might be worth while if it resulted
in creating surplus of neighborly sentiment. In the
end, cooperative methods of amusement might lead
to better industrial fundamentals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
These Reform Waves

LIVERY so often, there is re-
II form wave, generally rising on
the heels of depression.
There is nothing like a depres-
sion to remind people of what
things cost.
But for the panic of '73, Tweed
might have gone. happily on to the
end of his days.
The panic of '93 developed an
other spasm of righteousness, par
ticularly in and around New York.
Each spasm lasted about dec
ade. Then we sank back where
we were.
We will continue the risky see
saw, just as long as we refuse to
apply the same rules of common
honesty and common sense to the
administration of government that
we do to ordinary activities.
There is not. a business institution
in these United States that could
last out the year, if its employees and
it's customers man-handled it the
way officials and citizens do the
government; if they broke its rules
to the same effect, neglected their
duty, tolerated extravaganza and
slipped over so many shady deals.
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Herbert Hoovers blindness to the existence OF any
thing east of Poland
Moreover, Mellon, defender of our capitaIistic
setup has ignored the of money in this transac-
ton, reverting to primeval barter.
Maine has gone Democratic, and the administra-
tons apoogsts thereafter virtually conceded Hoo
vers defeat in November but by now the disclosure
by Democratic Jouett Shouse that the organized
vets spent money in Maine changes their dag
noss and the victory is ascribed entirely to the
wet trend-by the same Republicans who have been
disregarding the two party planks on the subject
to herald to the world that Hoover is the countrys
hope for beer.
The treasury department exempts foolish woman
from paying taxes on her gambling losses because
she thought her system" would beat the game
whereas carefree folks who toss their money on the
table just for the sport of it must fork up to
Uncle Sam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. walter Ferguson

TT saas feared. Men who fish and keep their dogs
4 in the house are superior John Wharton of the
Scrpps Howard editorial staff says So and proves it.
The man who gets up before daylight and snares a
black bass he explains need not feel inferior to king
And l am he never does
Mr. Wharton continues: There are men who will
not let their dogs sleep in the room with them
Bu there also are men who burn orphan aSylums and
rob childrenS banks"
The case is lost guess. For 7 gather from this
mat folks-and alas am one of them-who put the
DOG out at night are just poor miserable makeshffs
of human beings
We lack the essential kindness the warm under
standing the divine spark of love that animaes those
who keep their canine friends cushions So if banks
are robbed and asylums burned it may be that the
weak-witted creatures who perpetrate these deeds
are not wholly to blame. They been deprived by
heaven of the highest virtue.
Nature has cheated them. They may be the victims
OF their own noses when their oactory rebel at
sleeping in the same with dog who suffers
from B. o, to say nothing of halitoSis.
IVES, must be wrong For another gentleman
Il Josef MAR of Manhattan also writes that he has
searched his memory and recall no instance Of a
pose of superiority among dog lovers.
Then he hastenS to prove the point by asserting
that never again viii he read anything written by
such benighted creature as myself.
Happily for the world and for dogs my kind are in
the minority Dozens and of columnists notably
the eminent Haywood Broun and the equally eminent
o. o. Mcintyre fill their space periodically by writing
Of the pleasing personalities of their pets.
Magazines and newspapers overflow with the vr-
tuous sentiments OF men and women who adore their
dogs and say so in print Over and over one reads
OF how splendid they think themselves 1t is impos-
sible that so many good men could be wrong.
One other question, however, must be put to Mr.
Wharton and other authorities: As the moral quail
ties Of the fly fisherman superior to those of the man
who uses worms?
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tests of school attainment rather
than tests of judgment and reason
ing power.
Obviously school attainment must
be due to a considerable extent to
intelligence, but whether it is wholly
due to intelligence or only partially
so seems questionable.
Certainly, willingness to learn,
attention, judgment and similar fac
tors must play some part. No doubt,
the child who likes school will pro-
coed much faster than one who does
not.
Apparently, therefore, il would
be better to call the tests mental
tests rather than intelligence tests.
There are numerous instances of
children who did badly in the in
telligence tests and who left school
at an early age, and who later de-
veloped great success in life
through discovering an interest
which was attractive and to which
they gave all they had in them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Mental Test Is Not Infallible

I extremely difficult to evaluate in
telligence without taking into &C
count the conditions under which
those studied have lived.
II y
THERE have been some remark
l. able examples of sudden in
crease in intelligence shown by
children who were changed from
one teacher to another.
For instance, a daughter of a
university professor was found to
have an intelligence quotient of IS.
Her father, after a searching con-
versation with the child, discovered
that she disliked her teacher and
her school so much that she simply
could not make progress in her
studies under the circumstances.
She was placed IN another school.
When her intelligence was studied
six months later, she attained a
rating of 140.
The difficulty seems to be in de-
termining just what it is the tests
actually measure. They seem to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Realtors of the
city, you say in your editorial. RE
sort to Force" in making threats
as to what they will do if the
threatened higher taxes are rail-
roaded through, are showing the
hrst direct threat of revolution.
Do you forget how the United
States of America originated? Do
you forget the war of the American
revolution? Do you overlook the
TACT That the signers of the Decla-
ration Of independence were all ex4
IRENE revelutionists9 Do you not
recall that the underlying cause of
that revolution waSAtaxation?
Do you cast slurs on the name
OF George Washington, because he
had revolutionary ideas and, in fact
used violence to enforce those ideas?
II you think that the property
owners of this city are going to
stand for 1919 tax rate, YOU are
mistaken. Through this office we
are responsible for or control the
payment of about $4,000 a year in
taxes. Should this high tax rate
go through, it will be the simplest
matter in the world for us to with
hold the payment Of this amount.
1t is a certainty that others viii
join the movement, particularly if
backed by the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board. Twenty other per-
sons in a situation similar to ours.
and the amount unpaid would be
100000. When in Chicago some
time ago saw posters in the win
dows exhorting the people of Chi
cago not to pay their taxes.
Whose name was on these post
ers as sponsor? The Chicago Real
Estate Board
You see, the fundamental prin-
ciple involved is that the taxpay-
ers hold the draw-strings on the
purse in their grasp.
And the draw-strings are on the
verge Of being pulled tight shut.
A MEMBER OF THE INDIAN
APOLIS REAL ESTATE BOARD.
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Today'S Score Card

TINE rejecting type of telescope
Il is easier to build for two reasons.
First, since the light is reflected
from the Silvered top of the mir
ror and does not have to pass
through it, block of glass which
would not make a satisfactory lens
will make satisfactory mirror.
Second, the engineering problem
of mounting the mirror at the bot
tom of the telescope tube is much
simpler than mounting a lens at the
top.
At one time, the Mt. Wilson OBJ
servatory in California held a mo-
nopoly on big ref1ectors, with its
60-inch reflector and its 100-inch re-
iector The 100-inch telescope, of
course, still is the largest in the
world.
The 6O-inch telescope, however,
eventually was equaled by one Of
similar size built for the southern
station of the Harvard observatory,
the Harvard Kopje conservatory at
Bloemfontein, South Africa.
And it was surpassed by the To-
inch telescope built by the Dominion
metaphysical observatory in Vic
toria, B C. More recently. it was
surpassed by the 69-inch reflector
at the Perkins observatory of Ohio
Wesleyan university, Delaware, o.
Now It is to be surpassed a third
time by the new Harvard 61-inch
reflector.
When this goes into operation the
standing will be as follows: First,
the 100-inch at Mt. Wilson; second,
the 72-inch at Victoria; third, the
69-inch at Delaware; Fourth, the
61-inch at Harvard; fifth, the 60
inch at Mt. Wilson and the 60-inch
in South Africa.
But this score-card will have to
be revised when the new 8O-inch
telescope is completed in Texas. and
it will have to be revised a second
time when the gigantic 200-inch in
California finally is built and put
into operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
BRITISH DRIVE FORWARD
September Is

ON Sept. 10, 1918, British forces
" on the Hindenburg line near
st. Quentin launched great attack
on a twenty-mile front and drove
forward more than four miles, TAX
ing thousands of prisoners and
many villages.
French troops operating on the
same front encountered more stub
born opposition, but held positions
won against several furious counter
attacks.
British, Greek and French forces
operating against the Bulgarians in
the Balkan peninsula continued
their drive. taking forty-ive villages
and entering Bulgaria at one point.
The situation of the Bulgarian
army was critical, and Bulgarian
ENJOYS were reported requesting i'm
mediate aid from Germany and
Austria il Bulgaria was to continue
IN the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Autos for Officials

MAYOR Mckee of New York
1V1 City has created quite a SEN
sation by eliminating a few expen-
sive autos.
They we're closed cars, used prin-
cipally for pleasure.
One of them, which was put at
the disposal of former Mayor Walker
and which Mayor Mckee might
have retained, cost $4,000, not to
mention the chauffeur and gasoline
bill.
The mayors assistant had one,
though not so expensive, and so did
the mayors secretary and executive
secretary.
All told, there were seven, directly
or indirectly, connected with the
mayors Office.
Then there were twenty-five de-
partment heads, each of whom had
fine, limousine, with a chauffeur
employed at public expense, as we'll
as gasoline and repair bills.
Do you think Standard Oil would
have stood for anything like that
during the last three years, Or even
in pre-depression days?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

DY one of those curious quirks in
- our complex scheme of politics,
the ultimate fate of James j. Walk
er was Snot decided along the side
walks of New York, but in the small
ish towns and pasture lands of the
State of Maine. When Maine went
Democratic, Walker went blooey.
The relationship between the Pine
Tree State and the somewhat less
adamant Walker may seem OBJ
scure, but it is really very simple.
Tammany likes Walker, but there
is something the Hall likes even
better than it's bonnie prince. Tam
many always tries to play winners.
The organization never came to its
present strength by backing lost
causes and leading the front line of
forlorn hopes.
When the surprising news was an
nounced from way down East, Mr..
Curry said he had expected it all
along. This may be little less than
completely accurate, for the boss
never even would have played around
with the project of Walker re-
Mobilization if he had realized from
the beginning the certainty of Mr..
RooSevelts election.
Rolling BandWagon Along
A MONG the tigers there is small
N love for the Governor, and if
there was a chance to aid in his
defeat, open revolt might be sane
toned. But it is beyond Tam
many's power to stop Mr.. Roosevelt.
He now is in the comfortable
position of being able to lose New
York and still sweep on. to victory.
Under the circumstances, he will
not lose New York.
Mr.. Curry has no intention OF
putting up a last-ditch fight to no
better purpose than to ALLEVIATE the
Democrat who will sit in the White
House. The possibility of federal
patronage is heavier in the scale
than. a willingness to salve the ego
of a playboy politician.
The organization will give Walker
three cheers, but not a nomination.
It realizes that the little fellow has
gone over the top of the hill and
Tammany prefers to stay on the
sunny side of the mountains.
And so in far-off Maine they blew
"taps" over the political career Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Questions and
Answers

Who were the first printers in
England and America?
William Caxton was England's
first printer. He learned the art
at Cologne, and, with Colard Maui
sion, started business at Bruges, re-
moving in 1476 to Westminster,
where he set up press at the Red
Pale" in Alnonry. In the United
States the first press was in Cam
bridge, Mass, in 1888. The Rev. j.
Jesse Glover had left England with
it, but died on the way over. It
son Matthew, a lad of Is years, who
was set up by Stephen Day and his
had some knowledge of printing.
Mas James A. Garfield, chair
man of the resolutions committee of
the Republican national convention,
ever held public office?
Hs is the son of President James
A. Garfield, and entered politics in
Ohio in 1896 as a member of the
Ohio State senate. In 1902 he was
appointed United States civil service
commissioner and was secretary of
commerce and labor in the McKin-
ley administration and secretary Of
the interior under Roosevelt.
Who holds the world diving rec
ord in an ordinary diving suit?
Frank Crilley of the United States
navy descended 306 feet during the
salvaging of the submarine off Homo
lulu in 1917.
When will the Chicago worlds
fair be held and when was the
last one?
"A Century of Progress EXPOSE
ton in Chicago is scheduled to
open June l, 1888. The last worlds
fair, held in the United States, was
in Philadelphia, from June to De-
cemher, 1926.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
First Big TeIeSCopeS

TINE first big telescopes were of
Il the type known as refractors.
The refractor is the most familiar
type to the layman.
1t has small lens or eyepiece
at one end and big lens or "obiect
glass" at the other.
Among the big telescopes of this
sort built during the latter years
OF the nineteenth century, were the
26-inch refractor for the United
States naval observatory, the So
inch refractor of the Lick observa-
tory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal, and the
4O-inch refractor of the Yerkes OBJ
servatory of the University Oh
Chicago.
The 40-inch refractor never has
been surpassed in size. 1t is I'M
derstood, of course, that the size of
refractor refers to the diameter
of the big lens, or object glass.
Two problems have prevented
the building, of large re-
tractor The chief one is the diff
Guilty OF casting lens larger than
forty inches in diameter.
Several attempts to date have
been failures. A second difficulty
but one which no doubt could be
solved if the lens were once pro-
duced-is the problem of mounting
the lens at the top of the tube.
When it is remembered that the
mirror of the 10O-inch telescope
at Mt. Wilson weighs about eight
tons, it will be seen that this is no
simple problem.
All telescopes larger than the
4O-lnch have been reflectors. The
reflector uses concave mirror,
instead of an object glass.
This mirror is mounted at the
bottom of an open tube and con-
centrates the light upon a small
auxiliary mirror at the top of the
tube, which in turn reflects it into
the eyepiece.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ
Epidemic of Big Telescopes
Comes; Several Giant Ones
to Be Built IN Near Future.

to Be Built IN Near Future.
DIG telescopes seem to be an
- nounced with such rapiditv
these days that it is somewhat diff
ficult for the casual reader to keen
them all in mind.
Last week, astronomers from all
nations, attending the meeting of
the international Astronomical
Union witnessed the laying of the
cornerstone of the Oak Ridge sta
tlon Of the Harvard observatory. a
few miles from Cambridge. Mass.
This observatory is to house a 61-
inch rejecting telescope.
1t was announced that the in
strlment to be completed in a few
months, will be the fourth LARGEST
telescope in the world. But that
announcement wasn't very old be-
fore it became apparent that II
would not hold that distinction for
long.
A new big telescope is being
planned which will make it neces.
sary for the ratings to be changed
again.
The second announcement was
from the University of Chicago and
the University of Texas. The two
have joined hands to build an 30
inch telescope on one of the noun
tain peaks in the Davis range of
Texas.
Inc new telescope, when COM
pleted, will become the second larg-
est in the world.
1t is hoped to have it in OPERA
ton by 1888.
But ratings will have to be re-
viSed when the 20O-inch telescope.
planned by the California Institute
of Technology is built.
1t will be the worlds largest and
so every other telescope will be
put back one place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19


Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
4 LMOST everyone now knows
L "A there are tests which are sup
posed to measure the mental ability
of children and of adults.
Physicians have been inclined to
consider these tests of some value,
but are not inclined to accept them
in toto, as proving certainly the
mental capacity of those tested.
One psychologist feels that the tests
show the limits of the possibilities
in educating a child.
However, it is not safe to say
that the mental future of the child
can be predicted at IL years of age,
since some children mature much
more slowly than do others.
In a consideration of this sub
ject, Professor E. j. Swift points
out that no two individuals have
exactly the same environment or
the same experiences, so that it is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

--Says
We Hare LegisIated Until
No Group of Officials Could
Enforce Our LdWS."
Says

NEW YORK, Sept. ia pecu-
!. y liar conception of honesty to-
ward all forms Of government and
public business has developed in
this country.
1t is a technical, quibbling con-
ception, sustained largely by the no.
ton that whatever one can get away
with is right. 1t bears slight resem-
blance to the conception of honesty
which prevails in private life.
Absurd laws, machine politics and
popular indifference are chiefly re-
sponsible for this curious state of
mind. OF all three, popular indif-
ference is most responsible.
Citizens can not expect their Of
ficials to be strait-laced and i'm
partial as long as they tolerate the
things now going on.
We have legislated until no group
Of officials could enforce our laws.
We have made it impossible, even
for the average traffic cop, to do his
duty.
We have established regulations
that we do not expect to be gen.
orally obeyed, that we know could
not be generally obeyed. We ex-
cused such action on the ground
that it enables officials to meet
emergencies.
AS matter of common knowl-
edge, it is the by-product of impulse
and emotion in nine out of ten
cases.
Law Breaking Common
GONE man slips on a banana
- peel, wrenches his knee and
runs to the legislature demanding
law.
Some woman gets the idea that if
certain practice were stopped, it
would benefit the community, or
state, and does the same thing.
Popular indifference leaves the door
wide open. There is no one present
to challenge the demand. Citizens
are too busy Scraping enough to-
gether for taxes.
Officials have become hardened to
their excessive task.
The mountain of laws and regu-
lations continues to grow. The more
it grows, the less practical and pos
sible honest enforcement becomes.
People laugh, just as though
somebody else were to blame, just
as though it were all a comedy in
which they had no part, or for
which they paid no price.
Breaking the law, whether from
carelessness, or by deliberate intent,
gets to be common.