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Auto Trucks

Notice to Ice Merchants
Two 1-ton White short-coupled lights and
starter. Ideal for ice business. Also 2 Re-
publics at lowest price in very good con-
diton and several other small trucks.
Robert Herson Auto Exchange, 72 Florida
Ave N
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Where to Dine
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Some One Must Act

Public Service Commissioner Cuthbert-
son, who, arbitrarily and without hear
ing, dismissed the petition of Indianapolis
for reduction of electric rates, declares
that company statement to the public as
to earnings is false.
He declares that his order was made on
an entirely different set of figures which
showed no such large income as was set out
in pretty circular asking people to buy
preferred stock
Yet less than four hours before Cuthbert-
son made his order protecting the company,
a representative of that company, at the
office of the company was distributing these
circulars and asking people to invest upon
the basis of it's representations.
One of two things is true.
If the figures printed by the company are
true, then Cuthbertson should never have
made his order dismissing the petition.
If those figures are true, the people Of
this city are being unjustly burdened by this
company and are entitled to relief.
In the opinion of many citizens they
would be entitled to relief even if the figures
on which Cuthbertson acted were true.
But if the figures in the printed state
ment are not true then the company was at
tempting TO sell its stock under false pre-
lenses.
In either case, it is up to Cuthbertson, in
asmuch as the sale of utility stocks is con-
trolled by the commission.
If he feels that the printed statement is
false, then he should at once proceed in the
legal manner to protect the public from i'm
position.
If the statement to investors is true, he
should Immediately reverse himself and
order cut in rates for this city.
The people of Marion received relief on
the statement that in times of depression,
utilities must be kept in line. In Indianapolis,
the people are told that the harder the times
the higher the rates.
The action of the commission is so patent
Iy unfair as to demand action.
The declaration by Cuthbertson that the
circulars of the company, issued for stock
selling purposes, contain false statements
should be the signal.
1t is up to some one to take steps. If not
Cuthbertson, then some official who is not
afraid and is free.
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Not Funny

While administration senators in both political
parties joined this week to deny food and shelter to
those who can obtain them only through the federal
treasury an ironc suggestion for the benefit of the
unemployed came from the Presidents organization
on unemployment relief
The organization calls attention with approval to
steps taken by the Massachusetts, emergency commit
tee on unemployment for maintaining the morale OF
the unemployed. This committee has organized
series of cooperative university courses and invites
those without work to spend their time studying &C
counting advertising business organization business
law, finance, marketing retail selling, craftsmanship
and other aspects of the economic system
Or, if study of finance should seem little mock
ing the committee offers courses in appreciation Of
art, appreciation of music choral singing plastic
arts, leathercraft and metal work.
The excellent intention of the committee readily
is understood, though it is little difficult to
imagine undernourshment and interest in abstrac-
tons going hand in hand.
However, the Presidents organization adds the
last ironic touch to the whole program. 1t says:
1.-THE only practical difficulty encountered by the
Massachusetts emergency committee in arranging for
these cooperative courses in obtaining proper
facilities for the typewrtng course on account of the
large number of persons attracted to it.
"On account of this difficulty, it is suggested by
the Massachusetts committee that other groups con-
templating similar well might omit type
writing"
Maybe this was the logic followed by the admin
istration in opposing federal hunger relief. Perhaps
it because of the general and enthusiastic interest
in eating that it frowned upon steps to accomplish
this useful purpose.
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Keen to the Facts

Clergynen certainly should be encouraged to speak
on social problems But they should be required, like
other mortals, to have some regard for facts. The
other day the Rev. DR.. Caleb Stetson of New York
argued for more divorce laws. He said: Free
divorce with right to marry has not and does not solve
our social problems. Everywhere has been tried it
has failed"
We should like to ask DR.. Stetson for his data.
Free divorce has been fairly tried nowhere except in
the Scandinavian countries and in Russia Here it
has worked extremely well. Many very conventional
Christian observers have praised the results
Nevada is merely an escape valve for our barbarsm
elsewhere. And it would be hard for DR.. Stetson to
prove that Reno has done more harm than good.
Dr. Stetson is entitled to be against divorce if he
wishes to- but neither he any other person is en-
titled to make wild statements the subject whether
for or against freer divorce.
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The fight for American adherence to the world
court is in danger of being lost-perhaps through
mistake in Judgment by court advocates themselves.
Senator Walsh (Dem, Month, sincere and able
defender of the court, and some of his associates
have decided to force the out of the foreign
relations committee and to the senate floor for
a final vote.
Like Senator Walsh, we have advocated Amer
lean adherence to the court from the beginning But
now for the first time, question the wisdom OF
bringing it to an immediate VOTE Perhaps we are
wrong Anyway, the court proponents should not
let snap Judgment determine the result of such an
important issue.
The world court it seems is fated to be the VIC
tim of an unusual amount of partisan chicanery Sue
cessive Republican Presidents have given it lip serv-
ice and little else. They have permitted alleged cleo
ton expediency to delay and distort the ISSUE
Finally, the Root protocol to double-rivet Amer
lean rights prepared by this government and ac-
cepted by the foreign governments.
Victory then seemed near But President Hoover
lost his courage and refused to send the protocol to
the senate After long delay much pressure induced
the President to move. But no sooner had it been
sent to the senate foreign relations committee than
one of the Presidents spokesman helped to tie it
up in committee for more than year.
Now. of course when all international peace
chinery is under the cloud of the far eastern war;
opponents of the court ready to have it brought
out and voted down. They have poled the senate
and are confident they defeat it. They have
found men like Norris and Couzens who once favored
but now oppose it.
If men Of outstanding independence and sincerity
of Judgment, such Norris and Couzens. are infu-
enced by the dark international situation to vote
against the court their switch doubtless viii in
fiuence Others
Though we can not agree with Norris and Couzens,
e readily can understand their attitude. 1t is true
that international peace machinery has not func-
toned during this crisis And it is true that the
world court decision in the AustroG German customs
union case appeared more political than judicial.
But we can not see that this discredits the world
court completely, any more than one of the scores
of partisan decisions handed down by our own SUI
preme court would justify the abolition or boycott
of the supreme court
.gvIewed as a human institution, the world court,
on its record, ranks high. and probably win rank
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Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE business depression, cursed though it be, has
l. been one of the most profitable experiences of
my life. / have no doubt that it will be of inestmabe
benefit to all women.
For have lost forever my belief in the infallibity
of the American business man.
There was time when thought that the person
who had built up even modest industry did so
through the excise of special mental endowment
which had not been vouchSafed to women. Along
with many others, regarded with awe the male who
had amassed millions
Today know better. can see that the Amer
lean man, even the fnancier, is only bewildered
creature laundering along in the dark like the rest
of US and the same victim of chance.
of self-government into staggering proportions;
he has allowed his cities with their magnificent sky
scrapers to become bankrupt. He has taxed himself
into poverty
He has followed the brass hats too far and the
gold he has grabbed now is dross in his hands His
fortunes, built out of the blood of youth and which
appeared so huge and glittering several years ago,
have dwindled sometimes to nothingness.
His securities, material and spiritual have gone,
and perhaps forever He is puzzled uncertain help
less doundering in economic fog which his vision
is unable to pierce.
He is in truth. not a great leader at all He is
only an experimenter and many of his experiments
have failed.
But even so he is to me more lovabe figure,
more admirable being, as he stands amid the ruins
OF his playhouse than he was while he Strutted and
beat upon his drums
He is humbled. He needs our help We must
back him up and cheer him on to a new start
And out of his defation perhaps we shall get a
new vision, the true patriotic concept Then each
can say to himself, Not the politician not the bus-
ness leader. but III am America"
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audibility, she always was difficult
to understand, and those who in
sist that every word a dramatist
sets down is precious had a right to
quarrel with her delivery. But they
overlooked the fact that, while Mrs.
Fiske might keep you puzzled as to
the precise form of a word Or a
phrase, she never lost it's color.
The mood of a scene does not de-
pend upon the precise articulation
of every vowel and conSonant. We
all have known actresses who let
each word proceed from collabora-
ton involving the tip of the tongue
and the edges of the front teeth.
But to me they are thinking brass
in comparison to woman whose
words came bounding out of some
inner reservoir of emotion or in
tellect.
1t was most inexactly held that
Mrs. Fiske was too cerebral and
that in her performances emotion
languished. happened to see her
first in Edward Sheldon's SALIVA
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I ton Nell" This was not then or
now one of the finest plays in the
English-speaking theater, but it re-
mains the show which moved me
most in a long life of theatergoing
People who came to cup their
ears while the words of Mrs. Fiske
ran fast and slow and sometimes
chung together ended by feeling that
it was a fascinating and exciting
sound, whether or not they under
stood.
Some critic-and I think it may
have been Laurence Stallings-once
said that all good plays should be
done by Mrs. Fiske with one
quarter of the speeches spoken and
the rest sneezed into a handker-
chief. She would toss part of line
into the footlights, little of it to-
ward the stagehands and give the
compelling and important part
straight to the audience.
She became, in effect, a sort of
inspired copy reader, and that
which did not matter was always
tossed away.
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Sherlock Holmes
OR. ABBOT'S machine attacks

R. ABDUL . machine attacks q.
IL problem somewhat similar to
that of the tide predictor or the
Sound-wave machines. But in some
ways it is still more difficult ma
chine.
DIR. Abbot's periodometer is a sort
of mechanical Sherlock Holmes. His
chief interest for many years has
been the study of the sun and in
particular the effect of solar radia-
ton upon the weather.
He has been the foremost figure
in this work, inventing a number
OF Instruments for studying the
suns radiation.
Under DR.. Abbot's direction, the
Smithsonian institution has estab-
iShed observatories on high noun
tains in widely scattered localities
to study the sun.
DR.. Abbot believes that the suns
radiation varies from day to day
and that these variations are the
primary cause of variations In the,
weather.
Now in studying weather from
day to day, DR.. Abbot was inter-
ested in finding whether there were
underlying factors which went in
cycles or periods. If such cycle can
be found, then the task of finding
its cause is considerably simplified.
And that is the purpose of the
periodometer - to take a complex
curve, such as the daily fiuctua-
tons represent, and attempt to find
the underlying cycles or periods in
If
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Diplomatic Hokum

ITO be sure, the world has sent
l. her notes, beautifully worded
and carefully phrased, complaining
of this, protesting against that and
reminding her that she mustn't do
something else.
Flattered as she may have been
by all the sonorous phrases regard
ing her past reputation and grow
ing influence, she was neither dis
suaded, nor scared.
And who can blame her? It was a
meaningless gesture from the begin
ming, lot of bombast which no one
intended to back up.
One solid shot across the bow of
a Japanese ship when this storm be-
gan to break would have done more
good than all the notes that have
been written.
I don't say that the shot should
have been fired, but I do say that
we are not going to get anywhere
with peace by letting off such a poor
quality of steam. We are not 60
ing to stop war by writing letters,
or making speeches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-20
The Tide Predictor

NNE of the early mathematical
~ machieS was tide predictor,
suggested by Lord Kelvin in 1876 at
a meeting of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science.
The tide in any particular harbor
varies from day to day as a result
of many factors, among them, of
course, the position of the moon.
Lord Kelvin suggested a machine
consisting of eccentric wheels which
could be set to represent a variety
of factors. The motion of all these
whels were communicated to
chain which in turn operated a
pointer.
1t was possible, therefore, to set
the wheels to represent the factors
for any harbor The machine then
would predict the tide at any
future date.
Lord Kelvin'S machine now is in
the South Kensington Museum. But
machines based on its principle are
IN use all over the world. The
United States coast and geodetic
survey has one in Washington.
DR.. Dayton G. Miller, former.
president of the American Physical
society, has two mathematical ma
chimes for the study of sound
waves. These are the most thorough
machines of their kind in exist
ence.
A sound wave is q complete vibra-
ton OF the air. DR.. Miller invented
machine known as the phonodeik,
which turns sound waves into move
mentS of beam of light and makes
1T possible to photograph them.
The mathematical machines are
for studying the complex curves to
which the phonodeik reduces a
sound wave. ,.
One machine, known as the Hen
rici analyzer, will separate a COM
pick curve into its component parts
and indicate on dials the mathemat-
ical equation representing those
curves.
The other, known as the Synthe-
sizer, does the opposite trick. If its
wheels are set according to the
mathematical equation, it automat--
ically draws the curves which they
| represent.
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HEALTH SERVICE
Diet Vital Factor in Dental Health

This is the first of three timely
articles on How to Care for Baby's
Teeth" by DIR. Fishbein. The second
and third will appear in succeeding is
sues of The Times.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE Importance of teeth for
health and long life is begin
ming to be realized more and more.
Few mothers realize that the first
attention to the teeth of the child
must begin before it is born. The
mother should visit the dentist
early, keep her teeth clean and well
cared for, and eat the proper food
so that the child's teeth will be
properly developed.
The proper foods include plenty
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8 TO-DAY 50
T IS THE SR
{ WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
.&N9 ofAGN
INNSBRUCK RAIDED
February 20

ON February 20. 1918, Allied avi-
~ ators raided and bombed the
Austrian town of Innsbruck, scor-
ing many direct hits and killing
many Austrian soldiers.
German troops continued their
advance into Russian territory de-
spite the announcement by Moscow
that Russia was ready to submit.
In Champagne, French troops
broke through to the third German
line of defense on front of nearly
a mile. More than $50 prisoners
and several machine guns were cap
tured.
German forces on the western
front, augmented by constantly ar
irving divisions from the Russian
zone, were very plainly preparing
a tremendous blow at the allied
lines.
In Palestine, British forces drove
the Turks back more than three
miles east of Jerusalem.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

of milk, fresh vegetables, eggs, fresh
and cooked fruits, the coarser
cereals, and sufficient amount of
calories to provide energy. Foods
to be avoided are the sweets in ex-
cess, meat in excess, pastries, and
highly seasoned foods.
During the early months it is
not necessary for the expectant
mother to eat more than her usual
amount of food, but during the last
four months the amount of food
must be increased slightly in order
to provide sufficient amount of
material for building the tissues of
the child.
There used to be notion that
it was not safe for prospective
mother to visit her dentist, but it
now is realized that the dentist can
do the necessary dental work with
out serious harm or shock, and that
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Life Work of Mrs, Fiske


THE legend of aloofnesS has been
Il built up concerning many per-
formers, but the case of Mrs. Fiske
it literally was true. Beyond the
requirements of the drama, she
would be there whenever three or
four were gathered together.
Yet even this reticence was bro
ken down by one of her passions.
Mrs. Fiske lived and died for au-
dienceS and dumb animals. She
would go to any banquet room,
radio station or hall if accorded an
opportunity to protest against cruelty
and, in particular, the trapping of
wild beats. Fur always rubbed her
the wrong way.
She was the heroine of many
plays and as many anecdotes. The
best remembered concerned her
first meeting with Charles Hason
Towne, who long had admired her
art from afar.
Finally, he managed to get him
self admitted to the wings of a the
alter where she was playing, and as
she made her exit, Mr.. Towne rap
idly recited poem which he had
written in her honor. THANK you,
dear, dear Mr.. Electrician" said
Mrs. Fiske, and swept on her way.
Every mimic in the world has had
her start by getting up an imitation
of Mrs. Fiske and Ethel Barry
more. For encores, if any, Che
Waller and Sophie Tucker are en-
ployed. The mannerisms of Mrs.
Fiske always were palpable and
never modified.
And it was these same tricks of
voice and manner which led to the
founding Of considerable school
which maintained that Minnie
Fiske, far from being a great ac-
tress, was an indifferent one. This
group had been pretty well routed
long before her death.
And, indeed, Mrs. Fiske was an
arch example OF Shaw's dictum that
if you have a fault which you can
not master, it is well to make a
virtue of it.
Voice Among the Voices
THAT is precisely what Mrs.
4 Fiske didNFith her enunciation.
From the point Of view Of mere
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it is better to take care of the teeth
Immediately than to permit bad
conditions to go on for months.
OF special Importance for build
ing sound teeth are vitamins c, D
and A.
Vitamin c is found plentifully in
orange and tomato juice and in the
fresh vegetables; vitamins A and
D particularly in cod liver oil and
egg yolks.
The physician should see the
prospective mother just as soon as
she knows that she is going to have
child and advise her regarding
the taking of cod liver oil or of
excess vitanins in the form of
concentrates.
Next: The Importance of proper
diet for baby'S teeth.
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Taking IbSen to Iowa

A MONG the legends surrounding
L A Mrs. Fiske was the belief IN
some quarters that she lived on
bread and crusts to bring Ibsen to
people who did not want him. This,
Of course, is arrant nonsense.
Minnie Madden Fiske was a
great trouper and great Snowman.
She could and did pit Ghosts"
against Uncle Toms Cabin and
get away with it.
It is my personal feeling that I
have seen several of her Ibsen roles
played better, but 1 came to realize
the explanation. Not even Mr.. Ibsen
was able to portray folk who
measured up to Minnie Maddern
Fiske in the vitality of personality.
I never have known any one who
succeeded more completely in con-
vincing me that human fiber can be
tough thing and everlasting.
(Copyrigtt. 1892 by The Timesl
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Questions and
Answers

How many church edifices are
there in the United States, and
what is their total value?
There are 210,924 church edifices
valued at $3.50 ,50O,610.
What is the population of CaIifor-
MIA?
5.677,251.
How many drains are in a liquid
ounce?
Eight.
Where and when will the Ameri-
can Legion convention be held in
1882?
At Portland. Ore, Sept. q to "a.
Has Mahatma Gandhi ever Wis
tied the United States?
No.
Is the population of Pittsburgh
greater than that of st. Louis?
st. Louis has 821, $50 and Pitts
burgh has 669,817.
What does the name Natalie
mean?
Christmas child.