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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
Justice for Cities

Plain, ordinary justice demands that the
legislature return to the cities the major
share Of the gasoline and automobile license
taxes paid by their citizens to the state high
way funds.
The fund at present is for political pur-
poses and the enrichment of favorites.
In the last primary, promises of roads in
return for political support became scandal
Gus, even if they were Ineffective
Giving back these funds to the cities will
serve two purposes. Tax burdens in cities
will be lifted The cities will be able to give
employment to men who need work and are
now supported by charity.
Unless these men get work soon there will
be little need for any roads.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H ER07{S

GUNNER seems to be the season
~ when questionnaires begin to
bloom. I am in receipt of one sent
by a gentleman from the New MeXi-
co State Teachers college. 1t seems
that he is writing a book called
Masters at Work"
Just why this should concern me
I do not know, but my name is list
ed among the journalists" Ac-
cordingly I feel that such a COM
plimentary request deserves as fair
and full an answer as I can achieve.
Moreover, it helps to fill a column.
Il. What time of day do you do
your best and more effective study
and writing"
I work best after midnight, but
the column is written along about
5 in the afternoon.
%. How much time do you spend
at studying and writing per day?"
1t varies from one hour to three.
80. How frequently do you take
rest periods?"
I take ten or twelve rest periods
every day.
a. How do you 'play'-that is,
what is your favorite form of ex-
ercise during rest periods?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
New York Is Snubbed


THOUGH the province of On
Il tario and the state of New York
can not be recognized officially as
parties to the treaty being nego-
tlated, their interest is obvious and
merits consideration at the hands of
their respective governments.
The Canadian government readily
has accepted such view of the sit
uatlon, working in close harmony
with Ontario officials, keeping them
informed constantly of what is 60
ing on, and acting on their sugees-
lions insofar as public policy war
rants.
Relations between our own gov
eminent and the state of New York
have been less satisfactory. To be-
gin, the state of New York was not
allowed member on the treaty
commission, though she asked for
one and though she could have been
given one without injury, or injus-
tlce to any section of the country.
Since the commission was APP
pointed, the state of New York has
experienced more or less difficulty in
getting information from the fed
eral government. This prevents the
lower authority created by the state
OF New York from formulating plans
and the state government from per-
fecting financial arrangements to
start work if, and when, the treaty
is signed.
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two years. But this has been enough to prove him
one Of the nations new school of statesmen.
He has cut through tradition in seeking his an
nounced goal Equal and exact justice to every cti
zen and every interest" His program has been far
from radical as his enemies, the "salwars" charge
In fact, the safety Of the commonwealth through
the parlous months has been uppermost in his mind
With state senate controlled by his opponents
Governor La Toilette has forced annual state econo-
mics of 100000; effected the largest general prop
erty tax reduction of any state in the Union re-
auction OF ll6 per cent; passed legislation to lift all
state operating costs from the backs of the general
taxpayers, saving them $S,5OOOOO a year; reduced
highway costs to the general taxpayer by another
S85O0OO0 provided localities with $5OO0OOo for direct
relief through state income tax; enacted modern
labor bill Of rights and passed the Groves bill for
unemployment insurance reserves framed a compre-
hensive conservation policy; paved the way by const-
tutiona amendments for a statewide power develop
ment; modernized regulation of utilities.
The picture is pleasing not merely because it re-
veals competent carrying on the tradition of
gallant family. 1t also gives hope that the newer
generation may find way out of the blind fog into
which it has been born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
The La Toilette Idea

In a challenge that recalls the militant utterances
of his great father Philip F. La Toilette just has an
nounced his candidacy for reelection as Governor Of
Wisconsin.
His success means more than just another two
years Of good government for the Badger state Be-
cause the La Folletes have come to personfy Amer-
can liberalism at its best the forthcoming September
primaries and November elections will be watched by
ell America.
Young Phil La Toilette has b -7~ Y only
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that you can do is to turn out q
cheeSecloth column.
BY Monday morning DIETER make
IL saturday afternoon) nobody will
remember whether it was good or
PAD, SO it doesn't make much diff
ference.
I've never been inspired but once
ana that while 1 was reading cow
Tor the sports page ir the days when
Ferdie Schupp and RUDE Schauer
were pitching for the Giants.
L was the man who wrote the
headline which ran, at Never Schau-
erS but 1t Schupps.' That must
nave been sheer inspiration. No.
nody could possibly figure out
thing like that.
IA. What advice or recon1menda-
ton would you give to ambitious and
superior students who want to be-
come successful"
I'd advise them to buy General
Electrlc common, put it away and
forget about it.
copyright. 1882. by The Times,
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Questions and
Answers

What makes water hard or soft?
Hard water contains certain min
eral salts in solution, especially cal
cium carbonate. Soft water, such
as rain water, contains little or no
calcium or magnesium salts.
What are the areas of New York
City and Philadelphia?
New York has 308I95 square miles
and Philadelphia has 1914.
How many species of animals are
known?
There are over 100000 species of
animals, divided into classes as
follows: 1000 mammals, 10000
birds, 5000 reptiles, 1000 amphibi-
ans, 10000 fish, 10000 mollusks,
100000 insects, besides a host of
lower invertebrates.
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The committee is convinced that
much Of this could be prevented by
skilled care before and during
childbirth and by adequate exam
ination and treatment afterward.
Such attention unqeStionably
would prevent a great deal of un-
necessary physical disability and
suffering among women.
If a woman already is suffering
from some serious disease and finds
that she is to have child, she
must be treated primarily for the
disease, and the fact that she is to
have child is incidental.
Whether she is to proceed or
how she is to proceed depends en-
tirely on her physical condition as
determined at the time of her first
examination.
Any woman with tuberculosis or
heart disease, for example, should
be constantly under medical care
from the moment she finds out the
fact of the impending childbirth.
Next-The causes of infection.
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Also Grow RadiSheS
DLAYING contract, swimming

DLAYING contract, swimming
l. and dancing the tango.
IS. How long do you study or
write at one sitting. e., one hour
or more?"
Less than an hour.
IS. How many times do you revise
your manuscripts"
I don't revise except to correct
some of the spelling and put in a
little punctuation.
~. In what surroundings do you
do your best work?"
1t seems to me that I do my best
work when ten or twenty thousand
people are in the hall, all of them
booing William Gibbs McAdoo.
g. Do you work on one project
until you have finished it, or do you
have several in process at a time?"
Generally have ten or twelve
things in process, but that does not
take much time, because I never
get started on them. The column
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Says

1t Is Strange That Hoover
Suddenly Should Contract
Such q Violent Case of
ConstitutionitiS on the st.
Laurence Waterway.
NEW YORK, July 12.-Consider-
IN ing his fondness for confer
ences, it seems as though President
Hoover might have accommodated
Governor Roosevelt.
The fact that no binding agree
ment could have been made is of
small consequence. President Hoov-
er has participated in many confer
ences which lacked power to make
binding agreements. Indeed, few
men in his position ever have shown
such a penchant for unofficial con-
ferences.
He has tried them not only to
cure the depression, but to re-
vi SoAAA1C Vic WOI1u. IL Is strange
that he should contract such a sud-
den and violent case of constitution
tits regarding the st. Lawrence
waterway.
The President has acted clearly
within his rights as defined by law
and precedent. He can, if he
chooses, ignore the state of New
York, not only before a treaty with
Canada has been signed, but after
ward.
He can cause useless delays by
merely letting negotiations take a
normal course. He can favor a type
of construction and a proration of
costs that virtually would block
power development.
Such things should not be for
gotten by those who pretend to be
Mortified at what they are pleased
to describe as Governor Roosevelt's
attempt to play politics with the
power issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
Hoover Move Fails

IT was to overcome these seeming
Il ly useless delays and handicaps
that Governor Roosevelt asked for
an interview with President Hoover.
Unless the treaty is in worse shape
than we have been led to believe, an
interview between the two ought to
have resulted in some good.
1t certainly could have resulted in
no harm. One only can guess
whether President Hoover was
moved to refuse by new regard for
rltualism, or disposition to keep
the power issue out of this cam
paign. If the latter, he has failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
FRENCH VICTORY
July IL

ON July II, 1918, French troops
Ostormed German positions on a
three-mile front north of Cantigny,
and advanced more than a mile in
the face of fierce resistance and fire.
quent counter-a attacks.
They seized and held Castel dur
ing the days fighting.
In Asia Minor, Turkish troops at
tackled British positions in Pales-
tine commanding the crossings of
the River Jordan, but were driven
off with great loss.
In the Balkans, further allied
gains were reported and semi-of-
fetal adviceS said that Bulgarian
troops were offering little resistance
to the allied advance.
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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-
closing 3 cents in coin or post
age stamps for reply. Medical
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 vita
your problems.
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had, except on so much larger a
scale. My company and I had TO
charge of those debts to loss, not
because we wanted to, but because
the man ahead Of me had made
them and they could not be COL
lected. Therefore, my sympathies
are with President Hoover.
1 had one big advantage that he
does not have: My company CO.
operated with me in every way try
ing to solve the problem, while
President Hoover is surrounded by
a lot of political demagogs who
have no thought of trying to solve
the nations problems, but only Of
trying to put the President in a
hole, which they think will react
to their political advantage.
WARREN z. cox G
223 Empire Life building.
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Editor Times-We, as a nation.
are by the action by the nations
at Lausanne, put right up to the
place where We are going to have
to take some definite stand on the
final chapter of war debt settle
ment.
We are going to hear a great lot
of criticism of the administration
now in power at Washington for
any concessions it makes or does
not make.
But, "lest we forget" let us re-
member to put the blame where it
belongs, on the one who made these
debts. 1t is so much easier to make
a debt than to collect it.
Several years ago I was sent, to
Marion, Ind, to run a lumber yard.
A fellow who had run it few
years before had, to make himself
popular, given credit to every Tom,
Dick and Harry who asked for it.
with no assurance that it would
ever be repaid. Our international
debt situation is an exact parallel.
We all remember that after the
war Woodrow Wilson went to Eu-
rope, and apparently through a de-
sire to make himself popular (cer-
tainly through his ego, to which
the European diplomats Played he
just about promised them the
United States. with no positive as
Surance that it ever would be paid
back.
He gave Europe the impression
that we we're a bunch of easy
marks whom they could work for
anything, and got us into this mess.
Now President Hoover and his adj
ministration have the very unpleas-
ant job of trying to collect bunch
of bad bebts made by his predeces-
sor. u
Exactly the same proposition I
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Blindness Fails to Halt As
Economical Researches Of
DR.. EdWin B. Frost.
THE name of DR.. Edwin B. Frost
- Will live forever in the annals
Of astronomy. But the details OF
his career should be known also to
America at large. For it is a heroic
tale, full Of inspiration, particularly
for all those who labor under hand
leaps.
For Dr. Frost, who just has re-
tired as director of the famous
Yerkes observatory, carried on the
last ten years of his work despite
the handicap of blindness.
DR.. Frost has been succeeded by
DR.. Otto Strive, great grandson of
the famous Friedrich Georg Will
helm Strive, a member of the
fourth generation of astronomers
in his family and the fifth member
of it to become the director of an
observatory.
Blindness set in upon DR.. Frost
gradually, his sight beginning to
fail about 1920 He then had lust
completed a fifteen-year study of
hA 81 -.
Orion, measuring their. velocities,
and classifying them as to color.
size, temperature, and so on.
Whether the strain of those fif-
teen years of work contributed to
his blindness or not is something
the medical profession was unable
to determine. Perhaps he would
have become blind no matter what
his work had been.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
Two Great Aduantapes

IMPROVEMENT of the st. Law
l. renee, as contemplated by the
treaty now in process of negotiation
between Canada and the United
States, presents two advantages -
first, a waterway from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic ocean, and,
second, production of cheap electric
power.
Canada and the United States are
primarily interested in the former,
while the province of Ontario and
the state of New York are more con-
cerned about the latter.
1t goes without saying that
Ontario and New York expect to
utilize the dams and storage basins.
which must be built to make the st.
Lawrence navigable, in the produc-
ton of power.
1t also goes without saying that
they expect to be charged with some
share of the cost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
eStIns. writers and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
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F. d. r. and II. FL.

President HooverS reply to Franklin D. Roose-
welt regarding the progress of the Great Lakes St.
Lawrence waterway is of those little crackers in
politics which delight onlookers
In effect the President said Don't bother to come
to Washington. We're getting along nicely thank
you lnasmuch as I have been pushing this water
way Tor ten years. really is delightful to know that
you' too are enthusiastic and will lend it your
support"
But Roosevelt already had made his master stroke.
Republicans out in the middle west were getting all
set to campaign against the Democratic nominee on
the Great Lakes-st. Lawrence seaway issue
Roosevelt is New Yorker-that was to be the line
of reasoning.
Get him in the White House and he's likely to
block this waterway. You know New Workers. Down
in his heart he'd be working for the AlI-American
CNew York state) waterway"
Now they must think up something else They will.
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New dress materials include one which change
from color to another. Just anticipating the fac
of the husband when he sees the bill.
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Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE maternal mortality rate is
the death rate among women
due either directly or indirectly to
the bearing of children. A recent
report by distinguished committee,
under the Craftsmanship of Dame
Janet Campbell, and including rep
resentatives of France, Denmark,
Holland, and Germany, as we'll as
of the health division of the League
of Nations, just pointed out that
the variations in these rates in diff
ferent countries are not to be con-
sidered of great significance, since
1T is doubtful whether the statis-
tics published are prepared in such
way as to enable accurate COM
parsons to be made between figures
given for different countries"
In most countries the death rate
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Six Soviet officials to be shot for grating Evi-
IDENTIFY the Russians don't believe in officials learning
by their own mistakes.
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Enlarged the Universe

Enlarged the Universe
II NEVER heard DIR: Frost allude to
Il his blindness. Perhaps his atti-
tude was something like that of
Calico, who wrote to a friend:
ALAS, your dear friend and serv-
ant is totally blind. Henceforth
this heaven, this universe, which by
wonderful observations I had en-
larged a hundred and a thousand
times beyond the conception of for
mer ages, is shrunk for me into the
narrow space which I myself fill in
it. So it pleases God; it therefore
shall please me also"
DR.. Frost also enlarged the uni
verse by his observations. He first
came into prominence at the be-
ginning of the twentieth century.
At that time, astronomers Just
were beginning to learn the posi-
bilities of the spectroscope, a com
bination OF prisms which analyses
the light of star by dividing it into
spectrum or rainbow.
This new way of studying the
stars, which combined astronomy
and physics, became known as
astrophysics and DR.. Frost became
one of the great leaders in the de-
velopment of this branch of sci
ence.
DR.. Frost was born in Brattle-
boro, Vt, July ID, 1866. He was
educated at Dartmouth, Princeton,
PotSdam and Strsssburg. He Joined
the Yerkes observatory staff in 1893.
becoming one of the brilliant group
around DR.. George Ellery Hale, then
the director.
In los, when DR.. Hale went to
California to found the Mt. Wilson
observatory, DR.. Frost became the
director
Since 1905, DR.. Frost has also
edited the "Astrophysical journal"
The Yerkes observatory and the Mt.
Wilson observatory have main
tanned the closest cooperation in
their research program.
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In Japanese movie houses they pay man to tel
the story of the film as it goes along Over her
We have plenty who do that for nothing
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In The Times a
lew days ago I saw letter from
Mrs. Reno and one yesterday from
another. My experience has been
the same with the water company.
The first payment, after lowering
the rate, was $1O8. The next was
S1.94. This one is $1.72. In place
of $1.oS, it looks like they have
raised the rate to SLIP. The old
rate was better for me.
EDWARD T. SMITH.
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is practically the only thing that
ever gets finished.
49, How do you work to get the
most out of your time?'
I tell John that if anybody calls
up I'm in the country.
Il. How do you keep your notes,
materials, suggestions for projects?"
I write them down on the backs
of old envelopes and stick them in
the right-hand trousers pocket.
When I want them, I look in the
pocket and they have disappeared.
81. Do you keep your mind on
one project to the exclusion of all
other things, or do you allow your
mind to be susceptible to various
infiuences?"
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Skilled Care Needed for Childbirth
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHREIN

This is the first of four articles by DR..
Fishbein on Maternal Mortality The
second will appear in Wednesdays
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Took Active Part

T SAW DR.. Frost a number Of times
l. at scientific meetings after his
sight began to fade. No one, of
course. can say what struggle must
have gone on In Dr. Frost's mind.
But it was apparent to all who
met him that he had won the
struggle. He was in good spirits,
taking an active part in scientific
discussions and conversations.
After his sight completely was
gone, he continued as director
of the YerkeS observatory. He
could no longer carry on observa-
tons himself, but he could aid 9TH
erS with the advice and counsel of
mis- many years of work.
A few years ago I heard him give
a lecture. 1t was illustrated with
Stereopticon slides, some of Which
he had made before his blindness
and some of which had been made
after his blindness.
At first it seemed almost uncanny
to hear this blind man describing
and explaining to an audience pic
lures which he himself never had
seen.
But though he never had seen
these pictures with physical eyes,
he had seen them through the eyes
of his colleagues and through the
eye of his mind
1t reminded one of that great
pioneer, Calico. That great genius
went blind in his old age. But he
kept on working. He could not see,
but he still could think.
And after he went blind, Calico
formulated his laws of motion, the
laws upon which Newton later built
his great treatise on gravitation, the
Principal
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Sometimes Gone for Days

7 FIND that my mind wanders. 1t
i is wandering right now. My
conscience or some other inner voice
is saying, Hurry up and let's finish
this silly QUESTIONABLE, so we can
go somewhere and have drink"
II. Do you do your best work
when people are around you or when
alone?"
That all depends on the people.
Visitors who curl up with a good
book and a cigaret are no trouble
at all. I don't even mind guests
who turn on the radio,
The only sort of kibitzer who tries
my nerves is the person who looks
over your shoulder as you are writ
ing. And this is particularly true on
bad days. It's trial enough to know
yourself that the. stuff is pretty
feeble without letting any one else
in on the secret.
"13. Are you inspired suddenly by
a big idea or must you ponder over
an idea for long time before it is
crystallized sufficiently to write it?
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No lime for POndering

IN this business it isn't possible to
i wait for anything to crystalline.
Hot or cold, the words have to be
Rocked down and dragged out When
there is an idea, that is so much
velvet. But if there is nothing
available but cheesecloth, then all