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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE best evidence of our inability to meet emer-
l. gencies with courage lies in the fact that we
still trying to things in 1882 by the rules Of
1929
For example, the other day 6O-year-old man.
homeless and without Job. constructed himself a
temporary shelter upon the fire escape of vacant
house. He pleaded to be allowed to remain there
for few days to rest He harmless and tired
and old.
But according to city laws this was not per-
Missile. The policeman made him move on al
though he knew the poor soul had no place to 60
The officer may not have been to blame for this
but certainly the system that forces him to such
action is culpable.
Men always should come before laws Human
welfare is more important than city regulations
comfort and even life is at state, are not worth
making.
And the civilization that is more concerned with
its codes than with its citizens is unworthy one
THE truth is that we are choking ourselves to
Il death with red tape. We founder under its
entanglements like fish out Of water The laws we
have made are devouring We are Sti1ed,
stranged slain by the mutitudnous statutes enacted
TO make us free.
Desperate indeed is our case We can't change
bad law for years because our lawyers can't al
ways find legal precedent to follow and without
precedent any lawyer is lost.
We can't get food to the starving mostly because
the welfare and charitable agencies to which our
the poor applicants starve while they examined
and observed
dying man viii expire before he can break
through the red tape required to enter the average
hospital
Columbia, the gem of the ocean. is suicide. We
have committed ourselves into the hands of the law
makers and they crushing out not only our spirit
but our life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
How It's Done

A TO-ELECTRIC cell Will
"A enable the star to operate the
switches. which, in their turn, will
permit the electric current to flow
through the bulbs 20 illuminate the
pictures.
The photo-electric cell is one Of
the new marvels of science. But it
is an old story of Mother Nature.
For scientists are now convinced
that the principle on which the
photo electric cell operates is essen
TALLY the same principle on which
the human eye functions.
And as yet, no photo-electric cell
equals the human eye in sensitivity,
f1exibility and range.
The photo-electric cell consists Of
a glass bulb coated on the inside
with some metallic substance,
usually sodium.
When a beam of light enters the
cell and strikes this coating, it
causes electrons to be knocked out
of it,
These electrons travel to a small
metal target at the center of the
bulb and form a bridge over which
an electric current can travel.
The photo-electric cell is con-
nected to a relay like the relay used
in telegraph equipment, but more
sensitive. The beam of light fall
ing on the cell permits a current to
flow through it.
This current operates the relay,
which, in turn will operate any cleo
trio circuit, ringing a bell turning
on an electric light. blowing a siren,
or doing anything else which can be
accomplished electrically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Human Nature on Trial

note found on Manhattan bridge after Domi-
MICA sica 54 had jumped into East river should be
pinned over the desks of the members of the new
Reconstruction Finance Corporation board 1t read:
MY body will be found in the river below am
one of the unfortunates of the times Fairly well off
a year ago, now a pauper The failure of one bank
wrecked my business Now another bank threatens to
take our home.
THE gas just has been closed. We have a 2-weeks-
old baby who surely win die. that have no
gas for his food leave wife and seven children
Please save my family funeral expenses Any old
place will do for me-"
Congress has placed in the hands of seven men
named by the President the spending of two bill
lions of federal dollars for public works and hunger
relief The loans are to be made public a month
1t is a political year. Never in our democracy's
history has so much money and power been
trusted to seven appointve officials. And not since
Jobs day have seven plain men been placed in the
way of such great temptation.
Pressure already has begun from the states. Penn
svlvania wants S45000O00 for relief California wants
a third of a billion for self-lquidating works The
states from powerful Illinois to lesser Arizona
moving on Washington.
Influential corporations and individuals soon will
begin lobbying the r. F. C. board congress
has not been lobbied.
Most of the demands will be legitimate many of
them must be met. But all the time this new super
board must keep foremost in mind the families of
the IL 100000 ~unfortunates OF times
Every decision must be made with an eye on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Worth Fifty Strangers

60 many vessels are here, 1 am
- reminded that surely I should
return home with my luggage
checked with secrets. But one old
friend of a freighter skipper is good
for fifty experiences, whereas fifty
shippers, if they are strangers, may
not be good for one.
Oh, sure, the fifty will tell a
stranger whether they had a blow
outside, whether the matches were
torn off by tail sea. And if they
think you are interested in lies,
they will tell you some whoppers,
too, just to be congenial, just to try
to help out.
But rarely are they ultra ultra
confidential unless you have had
ships coffee or a bit of the ships
bottle with them over steady inter
walls. And then, unfortunately, they
may swing to the other extreme;
they may start telling you things
you would feel more comfortable not
to know.
A skipper was put on report for
having dumped waste-boxes in the
harbor instead of outside beyond
the channel currents And another
skipper had found them floating
around and had reported him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
1T SEEMS TO ME BY M MAX

THE suggestion had been made,
l. naturally, that, since my voca-
ton on the west coast has been
somewhat limited to the waterfront.
I should write more about the water
front here.
But, for once, here is the one sub
ject I do know something about
the subject of waterfronts in gen.
eral and of how a stranger has no
chance of gaining entrance to a
shippers mind.
A card may admit you aboard a
freighter and it may admit you into
the captains quarters for talk, but
it will not admit you into the cap
tain's heart.
These freighter shippers will tell
you, and usually gladly, all you ask.
They will tell you the tonnage of
their voyage, the ports visited and if
any of the crew lost a leg or a
watch. But as for obtaining in
innate details about the voyage, a
fellow may as well go talk to Calvin
Coolidge,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

/ more important now than in the
past.
Because of the conditions which
exist in most hospitals built in a
previous era, namely, wooden floors
and small chance of contact with
metal, safety from electrical APP
paratus is secured better by insulat-
ing the apparatus than by ground
ing it.
Wherever there are conducting
floors, the metal work of the APP
paratus should be grounded and
special care taken to insure eff
cheney of the connections.
If patients who are convalescing
are permitted to wear head phones
for radio apparatus, or if they are
undergoing treatment with cleo
trical apparatus, special attention
should be paid to insulation of
the device from which the current
comes, or with which the head
phones are connected.
Inasmuch as many devices are
in use for providing ultraviolet
ray for patients, or for applying
heat through use of radiant energy,
three special precautions are sug-
geSted under such conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

| involved in the art of filming a
sea epic with the navy, and the
executive officers usually unburden
their hearts if you happen to be
around to listen
We were all at sea one day in
the filming of a recent picture.
You may have remembered it.
wherein a windjammer laden with
explosives was supposed to be sunk
by the guns of the big V-type de
stroyers.
But wooden windjammer does
not sink very we'll. 1t can be pep
pered with shells all day long, even
with explosives aboard, but the
wooden hull just lies around on
the surface looking dismal and
battered and funny.
This windjammer would not sink
at all, nor was it known for sure
if another batch of explosives re-
manned on the ship unexploded.
A Brilliant Solution
CUNSET came and something had
- to be done about everything
rather quickly, as the cameras
would not be much good after dark
The assistant directors we're becom-
ing desperate about the lack of a
grand finale, and then one of them
was sure he had the solution.
Captain" he said, Il know! I
got It'll"
What you got?"
Have one of your subs sink
right away and come up in the mid
die of the wreckage waving it's
f1ag'
These hundreds of freighters on
the two rivers here, then, are no
good to me other than to look upon
and go MY, oh, my!" But the
temptation to go down and board
them is strong. all right.
Yet most certainly on boarding
them I will not say, Captain, tell
me an experience" Because cap
tains, you find, are better in having
experiences than in relating them.
They may relate what they think
is an experience, but it usually turns
out to be something else, while the
real experiences are told only ac-
cidentally and after a long, long
while.
Copyright. 1892. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Used in Industry

IN the William Penn celebration,
l. the photo-electric cell will be at
tached to the end of telescope.
The light of the star thus will be
concentrated on the cell by action
of the telescope.
Similar setups are being used
daily by astronomers. However, they
CONNECT the photo-e electric cells to
delicate measuring instruments.
which measure the intensity of the
electric current.
From this it is possible to calcu-
late the intensity of the stars light.
In industry, the photo-e electric cell
is finding an increasing market 1t
is possible to use the photo electric
cell as a controlling device wherever
changes in light intensity can be
used as signal.
1t makes an excellent burglar
alarm. For example, a photo cleo
trio cell is set up so that a light
shines into it across a doorway.
Any one passing through the door,
way shuts off the light
This in turn shuts off the current
from the photo-electric cell and re-
leases devices which in their turn
ring bells and sound alarms.
In the same way a photo-electric
cell can be used to count the num-
Der of people passing through a
turnstile or down a street.
Lighthouses are being edlIinned
with photo-electric cells. When the
sun rises, the light is automatically
turned out
The light also comes on auto
matically if fog arises, since the
fog obscures the sun.
Recently device has been con-
structed which is attached to a
drinking fountain so that the water
is turned on automatically by the
action of photo electric cell when
ever any one bends over the foun-
to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Skipper S Confession

MAT was dirty trick I did on
Il him." the first skipper con-
fessed over the coffee. But a guy
has to protect himself, don't hep
He then whispered, of course. that
he had made a stencil of the other
vessels name and had painted the
stencil on every old box he could
find before tossing them over the
side.
A there is the thievery between
vessels, especially naval vessels.
Only, of course, it is not called
thlevery. 1t is, rather, merely a
gentlemen's agreement between
crews on "how to get along" for the
good of their own ship.
One chief boatswain, for instance,
was all a-jingle over having just
obtained better heaving line from
another vessel. Another navy vessel
was making fast alongside his own.
The heaving line was thrown as
usual and the hawser drawn aboard.
He saw that the line was too good
to be returned He made quick
transfer then with an old one of his
own and heaved the old one back.
The only catch in the program
and the only reason the chief boat
swain told me the story at all was
the fact that on examining the
splice in the new line he found it
was the same line which had been
taken three months before from his
own vessel. All such things as this,
from sextants to chains to cans of
paint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN


Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
TINE ministry of health in Great
Il Britain has recently issued a
memorandum for distribution to
hospitals, nursing and GONZALES
cent homes, and clinics, calling at
tention to the dangers from the use
of electrical apparatus, even of low
voltage.
The memorandum was stimulated
by a fatality recently reported as
due to an electrical treatment given
to patient in bed.
1t is pointed out that the bed,
if made of metal, should never be
in such position that it may act
as a means of grounding the pa
tent through contact with radi-
ator pipes, or even with a radio
apparatus that is grounded.
Because of introduction of teIe-
phones, radio apparatus, heat
baths, resuscitation devices, cleo
trio pads and machines for using
light in the examination of thu
eye and ear, this question is far
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ,

Light Which Has Been on
Way From, Stars for $50
Years viii illuminate VII
liam Penn Pictures.
CTARLIGHT that started on its
~ journey toward the earth in the
year William Penn arrived in Amer
lea will be used to turn on the
switches to illuminate pictures OF
Penn when the 250th anniversary
of his arrival in America is cele-
brated next October at Philadel-
phia, and oxford, England
The star at the enc If the ham
die of the Big Dipper probably will
be used to turn the trick. 1t is $50
hght-years away.
That is, its light takes $50 years
TO reach the earth and therefore
the particular beams of light from
that star which are reaching the
earth this year started toward the
earth in the year that William Penn
arrived in America.
Light travels $4,000 miles a sec
ond. A lght-year, the distance that
light travels in one year, is opproxi-
mately 100000, 100000 miles.
The light from the star at the
end of the handle of the Big Dip
per, therefore, has to cover $780,
900 900, 100000 miles to get to the
earth. It's no wonder, then, that
it takes $50 years to do it.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to note that all stars are so far
away that light-yearS are the only
convenient unit for measuring their
distance.
The nearest star is four and
third light-years away. The most
distant stars within our own galaxy
or Milky Way are about 100000
light-years away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Your Questions Answered

You can get an answer to
any answerable question of
fact or information by writing
to Frederick M. Kerby, Cues
ton Editor, Indianapolis Times
Washington Bureau, 1922 New
York avenue, Washington. en-
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and legal advice can not be
given, nor can extended re-
search be made. All other
questions will receive a per-
sonal reply.
All letters are confidential.
You are cordially invited to
make use of this free service as
often as you please. Let our
Washington Bureau help with
your problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
@ TO-DAY SO
N IS THE ny
Z WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
'&S9 ofNSE
GERMANS DEFEATED
.JuIv %

July u
I'm July %, 1918, the German
~ High Command threw several
fresh divisions into the Marine
salient in an effort TO stop the adj
vance Of the victorious American and
French troops.
During the morning the allied
forces beat of several strong
counter attacks and during the aft
ernoon resumed their advance.
Epieds fell into their hands before
nightfall.
Allied observers said that nearly
fifty German divisions had been
engaged in the fighting in the
Marine salient. Losses in this group
had been tremendous.
British troops continued their
gains in the Hebuterne region.
Definite announcement was made
that the car of Russia and members
of his immediate family had been
shot on July is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Daily Thoughts

And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes, part of potters' clay,
and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided; but there shall
be in it of the strength of iron 4,
fOrasmuch as thou sawest the iron
mixed with why cIay.-Daniel
2:41.
The hen of our neighbor appears
70 US a goose, says the oriental
proyerb.-Mme. Deluzy.
How much salary do judges of the
world court receive?
Fifteen thousand Dutch forms, a
little more than $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-The newspapers
state that Melvin Traylor's man
ager was offered several thousand
dollars to withdraw his name from
the Democratic presidential race.
The fellow offering the money rep
resented himself as a Roosevelt
man.
There are questions to be raised.
Was the representative an anti
Roosevelt man, who knew the story
would come out and perhaps affect
Roosevelt's chances? Or was the
representative a Roosevelt man,
sincerely bent upon an honorable"
but dishonest piece of business?
Grand I am wondering-could
Roosevelt managers deliberately
and shrewdly have sent repre-
sentative" over to Traylor's man
ager, knowing the story would come
out and obviously affect the most
prominent Roosevelt man. in
stead of Roosevelt? Because Roose-
welt men Immediately charged the
plot ridiculous" They could win.
anyhow, with the aid of Hearst and
Speaker Garner.
Yet here is something, a follow
up to that affair. When Al Smith
found out Texas and California were
to swing, his confidence in Garner
waned. He tried to get Garner on
the phone in Gamers hotel in
Washington.
Finally, after much effort, the ho-
tel manager informed AL that
Speaker Garner did not wish to
speak with Alfred E. Smith" A
reason for Smiths loss of faith and
Carriers discourtesy.
INTERESTED.
Editor Times-Regardless of the
orys who have held the whip hand
over our candidates in the last
twelve years, the Democratic party
came out on dripping wet plat
form and the opposition party
played both ends against the mid
die, catering to both wet and drys,
which means its defeat ir Novem-
Der.
But, of course, their presidential
candidate, Herb, hasn't the slight
est idea of whether he is wet or
dry and all he has accomplished
so far is to prove that he is a sue
cessful fisherman.
Now Herbert is fishing for votes,
and let's not be suckers again and
get caught on his hook in Novem-
Der, and hang up again for four
years, like dried herring.
BY cleaning out the statehouse
We might be able to control our
public utilities, and if the lobby
lists don't control with the dough.
have government by the people.
READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
The Price of Submarines

Loss of the French submarine Promethee, with
sixty-three men aboard emphasizes once more the
tricky, dangerous nature of all undersea craft Not
year passes without tragic submarine accident in
navy other. Cruising on such craft is risky
occupation in peace time.
The worst of it is that in the present state of
naval strategy and tactics, the submarine seems to
be essential part of fleet The responsible naval
authorities who its abandonment are relatively
few
No nation will give up its submersbles unless all
other nations do and the chances for getting inter-
national agreement on no-submarine treaty seems
exceedingly slim.
The Submarine has black record in peace as in
war If international agreement to abolish it not
oe had let us hope that some genius will invent a
ship, or new protective device, that will make it
obsolete The price of maintaining it is terribly high
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22
Makes Life Pleasant

= = y = - Y I~~N = " =
DUT none of this really annoys
- the crews. To the contrary,
it all helps to make life worth
while. But what is starting to an
hoy them now is the call being
made on them by picture COM
panies.
The directors apparently lose all
sense of direction once they are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

Mr.. Miller, author of az
Cover the Waterfront" is
conducting this column
during Mr.. BrOun's vaca-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

Then, few days later, the second
skipper was reported on the same
charge. Waste-boXes from his YES
sci also had been found in the har-
Dor close to the piers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

Higher postage rates cost A. T. and T. $21 900
more for mailing dividend checks But there are
plenty of our big corporations who would like to
spend similar amount for similar purpose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

need SO desperate as to make father of seven chill
uen Jump to his death in sheer madness Dominica
Seas family and the are the ones that must not
be betrayed.
We have put human nature to terrific test. Let
us pray that it prove worthy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

No Business Enterprise Is
Big nough to Stand
Alone, 1t Must Have Help
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-22

Light Which Has Been on
Way From Stars for $50
Years viii illuminate VII
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
DAIRY INDUSTRY
PLANS EXHIBIT
OF MACHINERY

NEW YORK, Sept. 20. U.P)-The
tremendous inroads made by mach
inery in the processing and distrib-
ution of milk and milk foods-one
of mans oldest tasks-will be DEM
onstrated at the Dairy Industries
Exposition, in Detroit. October II
to q.
The exposition. occupying five
acres Of floor space, is expected to
bring to Detroit some 10000 dairy
products manufacturers, students,
government and state officials and
research workers, from all parts
of the United States and a score
OF foreign countries. The exposi-
tion, this year the largest indus
trial exposition in the country
presents in miniature the elabor-
ate mechanical system daily set in
motion in order to make possible
the delivery, in fresh and sanitary
form, OF milk and other dairy foods
TO the city dweller.
Concurrent with the exposition
there will be meetings of the In
ternational Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers, the international
Association of Milk Dealers, the
American Dairy Science Associa-
ton, the Ohio Swiss Cheese Asso-
citation, the National Creamery But
termakers Institute, the Dairy En-
gineers Institute.