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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Hockey Benefits Far Outweigh Perils

to give up hockey altogether-one
from injury to the kidneys and two
from injury to the knee.
Obviously this is a very low per-
centage of danger as associated with
AIRY sport; certainly far less than
occurs in football, in which among
$4,000 players there would quite
surely have been deaths and many
serious injuries.
BY comparison with football, it
is interesting to realize that the
greatest danger comes from COLI
sion with other players, which is
the most prominent type of injury
in football.
All sports carry with them an
element of hazard. Considering the
good that is to be derived from
hockey, it would seem to hold a
high place for its contribution to
muscular movement, grace and
speed, without contributing any
thing like so large an element of
danger as is involved in other
sports.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Hard 10 StraddIa

a S has been pointed out by this
IN writer several times, prohibit
ton is not going to be Straddled, or
sidestepped so easily this trip.
The depression has showed up its
economic weakness in too vivid a
light.
Taxpayers are beginning to real
ize that it is costing them much
more than the bill for enforcement
indicates.
The idea of coughing up an extra
billion for the government each
year, while b~ootleggers and rack
eteers get rich is becoming irksome.
1t might be different if there
weren't more s~peakeasies in this
country today than there were
saloons fourteen years ago, or if the
jails and prisons were less crowded,
or if divorces we're fewer, or if
many other promises and expecta-
tons hadn't gone sour.
One by one the various candidates
are speaking out on this subject.
Million by million, the people are
lining up. This is not a stampede,
but the evidence of a slow, deep
change in sentiment. Those who
are wise will recognize it Els such.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

average number of persons injured
is 0.33 per cent.
In SO per cent, the injury was
caused by the hockey stick, in 10
per cent by the ball, and in 43 per
cent by accidents which were not
particularly hockey accidents, but
might occur in any sport; for ex-
ample, a fall or collision with an
other player.
Of the injuries caused by the
hockey stick, 43 per cent affected
the head and 80 per cent the legs,
II per cent the arms Dr. hands, and
7 per cent the body generally.
Only three of 80 players injured
by the hockey stick, and only three
of the Is injured by the ball were
incapacitated for playing longer
than a month.
However, of 81 players injured
through other causes, such as COL
lision with other players, 20 were
unable to resume playing after a
month.
Three players out of $4,000 haI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
People Voice

Editor Times-During the trial Of
Coroner Fred w. Vehling a group of
local undertakers was called to pass
opinion on some Of Mr.. Vehling's
funeral bills. These men all re-
garded the bills as reasonable. But
the newspapers of Indianapolis have
been just a bit vague in making
their report of the circumstances
governing the result of this in
quiry.
The story in one paper notes
that these men thought $500 to $500
reasonable for "caSkets." They i'm
ply merely "~caskets," whereas. Gu
-iously, the three re~ceptacles in
question were Of zinc, obviously Of
the group Of coStlier metal coffins.
Several newspaper accounts en-
tirely omitted the fact that three
Clark metal vaults were included in
the bills. Further, the bills in
question include the price for grave
lots, for digging and covering them,
and for three tombStones.
These cemetery items do not gen.
orally come under the funeral di-
rector's bill, although the papers
reported the cas- as implying so.
And even the comparatively small
item Of embalming was not stressed
in the manner it warranted, consid-
ering the decomposed condition Of
the bodies in the case.
This article simply Is intended to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

NOTHING ever caught fire while
y I was at the Palace. But as
an old alumnus Of the theater, I
naturally was interested in the story
of the blaze which occurred while
Sophie Tucker was taking an encore.
I'm glad the damage to the build
ing was comparatively slight, for
one never knows when an audience
will forgive and forget and demand
a Encouragement.
Although my qualifications as an
actor may be slight, I happen to be
a superb fire risk. You see, in the
case of my personal appearances
there n no encores. If the act
before closing had been my mono
log instead of Sophie fuckers songs,
there would have been no need TO
ask the audience to leave eXpe-
ditiously and in good order.
Among all the theaters of the
town there is none possessing such
palpable personality as the Palace.
Although spacious, it is the most
intimate of showshops. Now and
again the management INDUCES in
the hereSy Of seeking novelties, and
generally innovations are unfortun-
ate.
In all truth, the assembIage con-
stitutes a sort of fraternal order in
which the members demand the
regular temperance of the old
favoriteS, n after another, with
only a decent interval for spacing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Other Side of the Moon

A ND to a surprising degree it is
IA a world apart. The people
who attend the two-a-day seem to
be quite a distinct sect from the at
tendants at plays and musical COM
edies.
At any rate, the man Or woman
who has been we'll known for years
in variety often is discovered as a
new sensation the moment he or
she crosses the channel and lands
in the legitimate.
1t hardly will be a matter of sur
prise if I venture the statement
that actors are inclined to discuss
the stage to the exclusion of most
other subjects. But, even SO, they
lack the single-minded devotion OF
vaudeville artists.
People who appear from two to
four times a day, with an increased
number of performances on Sunday,
have no time to keep up with new
twists on the tariff or even the
latest developments in Shanghai.
To them 'the act" is everything,
and it becomes a sort Of Ark of the
Covenant, not to be touched without
tragic consequences.
} I know a short story writer who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Shameful Clubbing

THIS country needs men with
L foresight, not hindsight. It is
in no position to waste time quar-
reling over who did most to bring
about the small start already made.
AS a matter of common knowl-
edge, the surface hardly has been
scratched.
There is as much unemployment
as there was a year ago, if not
more, and the wage level is con-
siderably lower.
People are displaying wonderful
capacity in adjusting themselves to
the continuance of hard times, but
this must not be mistaken for re-
covery.
Every one hopes that the meas
ures being adopted by the govern
ment will prove effective, but it is
a hope, not a fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Too Early to Crow

THE forthcoming campaign will
Il be conducted along partisan
lines, of course, but something be-
sides mere partisanship will be
required to turn it.
The poor showing made by Re
publicanS gives Democrats an adj
vantage.
Such an advantage means moth
ing unless translated into con-
structive work.
Excellent as the work done by this
session of congress may be, it rep
resentS little more than a begin
ming.
The depression is not over by any
means. Even if it we're, there would
be the problem of preventing others
like it.
No party, no leader, and, above
all else, no aspirant for the presi-
dency is in a position to crow over
past performances in connection
with the existing situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Ocean Currents

THE surface oceanic circulation
n rather closely conforms to the
general scheme of atmosphere cir
culation that has been outlined.
I'VE have in both the North At
lantic and the North Pacific in
tropical regions a movement of the
surface waters toward the western
sides of the ocean basins" DR..
Vaughan says.
In the Atlantic the water moves
along the eastern side of the islands
off the North American continent
and off the continent itself toward
the northwest, north and northeast,
and recurves in the region of the
west wind drift across the Atlantic.
On the eastern side Of the At
lantic there is DETECTION toward the
south and southeast, and ultimately
a vortex is completed, within which
is the Sargasso sea. There is a
similar vortex in the South Atlantic.
I'm the North Pacific we have the
Japan current which, as is generally
known, flows northward and north
eastward off the east Asiatic coast,
eastward across the Pacific south of
the Aleutian islands, and then is
DETECTED toward the south and
southwest.
westward flowing equatorial cur
rents are we'll developed in the At
lantic ocean, where they lie mostly
north Of but near the equator.
There is no strongly developed
equatorial counter current in the
Atlantic. However, the Guinea
stream, which is very near the
equator, flows from west to east.
In the Pacific the equatorial cur
rents are developed strongly and
there is a pronounced equatorial
counter current which lies slightly
to the north of the equator"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Permanent Highs

THE combined effects of the diff
l. ference in the amounts of solar
energy that impinge upon the sur
face of the earth. the rotation of the
earth upon its axis and the exist
ence of the continental areas are
to produce in the atmosphere over
the oceans five more or less per-
manent areas Of high barometric
pressure, DR.. Vaughan says.
Two of these are over the Allan
tic ocean and are respectively known
as the north and south Atlantic
permanent highs" he continues.
Two are over the Pacific ocean,
where they are known by names
corresponding to those for similar
areas over the Atlantic, and one is
over the Indian ocean.
These highs r approximately in
latitude 30 degrees to IS degrees on
each side of the equator in the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, and south
OF the equator in the Indian ocean.
Between the northern highs and
the equatorial region in the north
ern hemisphere we have the north
east trade winds. Between the
northern highs and the equa-
torial region in the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans we have the south
east trade winds.
THE Indian ocean differs from
the Atlantic and the Pacific in that
it is subject to monsoon winds, part
ly controlled by the relative pres
sure in northern Asia.
THE monsoon winds, however,
mostly affect the surface circula-
ton in the Indian ocean and ap-
pear to have relatively little infu-
ence on the deep-water circulation.
"On the north side of the two
high areas in the north Pacific and
the north Atlantic and on the south
side of the high areas in the south
Pacific, south Atlantic and Indian
ocean are the region of the west
wind drifts.
1.-THE west wind drifts of both the
northern and southern h~emispheres
are marked OF their polar sides by
lines or areas known as the polar
fronts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
SIGHT Saving

According to Lewis H. Carris, managing director
of the National Society for the Prevention of Blind
ness, there are $4,000 school children in the United
States suffering from defective vision and only. 1000
of these are being given special education.
Only fourteen states, in fact, provide special edu-
cational facilities for such handicapped children
This is cruel neglect and discrimination.
The 1900 read from books with large type, learn
the touch system on the typewriter, sit in well-lighted
rooms and are cared for by specially trained teachers
The other $4,000 are Jumped with more fortunate
children, allowed to lag and become sullen, sometimes
allowed to develop warped mentalities, even Grim
lnal tendencies.
The difference in cost between special and regular
education is slight, the human values involved are
great and lasting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

Element imposed by force or in violation Of the
treaties, and to join in international economic action
making such protests effective.
Effective league action is impossible without full
cooperation Of the three great p-owers-America,
France and Britain. Because of her unique position
in the league and in the far east. Great Britain is
the key to that international cooperation.
The United States government, which has COM
pensated in part for its earlier plumbers by its lead
ership during the last two months in support of the
treaties, can not preserve the treaties alone if the
British government continues to give tacit support
to the Japanese miitarists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Says:

No Party, Leader or Presi-
Dental Aspirdnt Is IN Posi-
ton to Crow OUer Past
Performances in COnnec-
ton With the Depression.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Some of
IN his recent utterances suggest
that if John N. Garner we're to be-
come President, he would do vastly
more worrying about whether he
got the credit than whether he de-
served it.
That is a bad impression to create
at this time.
The people are not looking for a
leader who can be as small-minded
as some one else.
Those Republicans who have been
trying to give President Hoover all
the credit for what has been done
have only made things a little
harder for him.
When Garner gets down in the
gutter and rolls with them he only
does the same for himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

create a little better understanding
Of the facts. I think those under
takers are entitled to some little
vindication for their actions, alb
stract p~rejudices regarding the trial
itself Notwithstanding.
OBSERVER.
Editor Times-Some time ago I
read in the Peoples Voice where a
man criticised the Salvation Army,
saying he went to them for clothing
and they wanted to charge him for
for them. Well, I can not dispute
his word, but I do not think any
one should say a word against the
Salvation Army, especially in these
depression days, for my family
would not have had very much to
eat over Christmas if it hadn't been
for those good people, giving us a
basket Of good substantial food.
Who stood by our boys in the war,
rlsking their own lives to feed the
soldiers? They did more then, and
are doing more now for the people
than any other charity organization,
and I am taking this opportunity to
thank them and may their good
work go on forever, and God bless
them. I always viii have a good
word for the Salvation Army.
MRS. z. 7. z.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFoSS

that Americans are lacking in that
theatrical loyalty which obtains in
London, and perhaps in Paris.
AS far as the legitimate stage is
concerned, there are not half a
dozen persons-and I would put the
number even lower-who are as
sured of a following, come what
may.
In this modern age the play is
the thing and the actor a mere sub
ordinate who may be applauded in
November and ignored in a show
which happens not to please in the
following February.
But vaudeville is built out of
allegiances which may be ancient.
A team such as the Marx Brothers
is certain to be received with enthu-
siasm, even when the current offer
ing comes from the bottom of the
barrel. Vaudeville remains a citadel
of old lace and lavender.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

invariable tears up the contract if
the magazine to which she contrib
utes alters her stuff by so much as
the elision of a comma. 1 regard
her as a person possessed of a great
degree of integrity.
But her passion for her work, and
nothing but her work, pales beside
that which inspirits any traditional
vaudeville team. After ten or
twelve years an act becomes set,
and not so much as a single piece
Of business, let alone a line, can be
blasted out of it.
n n II
Freshman at the Palace
XXTHEN I m%atriculated at the
w Palace it was my original mis-
fortune to follow a couple named
Barry and Whitlege. Their patter
was so ingenious and amusing that
I came forward as an orphan at
the opening performance and sew
eral which followed.
AT last 1 learned enough Of show
0lNoAA4COO w 4C4QCSO b1lC
for a spot in which I would be less
obnoxious to the audience. They
shifted me around so that I was pre-
coded by a trained dog. He wasn't
very good, either, and things ran
much more happily thereafter.
In trying to learn the secrets of
the profession to which I had de-
voted myself for q week, I took
occasion to stand in the wings each
afternoon and evening and watch
Barry and Whitlege. 1t seemed to
me that they put over a c%arefree at
mosphere.
The funny things they said ap-
peared to be wholly an inspired i'm
promptu. After their New York en-
fgagement they went abroad and
were gone for two years. Upon their
return I caught them once more al
the Palace. They were just as funny
and precisely the same. Not so much
as a turn of the hand had been al
tered.
And then I knew the secret
Nothing in the theater is good i'm
promptu until after the sixth or sew
enth year.
Downright. 1882. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hvgeia, the
Health Magazine.

Nov that football casualties
IN have had due attention, med
zeal experts r beginning to focus
their attention on the winter sports
basketball and hockey-which
also are associated with a con-
siderable number of injuries.
A German Investigator recently
has recorded observations on inju-
ries received in hockey as they oc-
Cured in 2,152 games in which
more than $4,000 players took part.
He divided all the injuries into
two groups, according to whether
the persons affected was obliged to
give up playing from three to five
minutes or to abandon the game
altogether.
In mems teams the incidence of
injuries was OBS per cent; in boys
teams 0.25 per cent; in women's
and girls teams, 0.34 per cent. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
How About Prohibition?

T Under such circumstances, a
" presidential candidate only re-
veals his lack of caliber by pausing
to handy words over credit for the
little that has been done.
There are several more important
and interesting subjects for discus
sion.
There is a war in the Orient, for
instance, a disarmament conference
at Geneva and a tariff in England.
If these seem too far away, there
is the good old standby of pro-
hibition.
Whether Democrats or Republic
ans, people throughout the country
would be delighted to hear from
Garner on that topic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
tx TODAY So
T IS THE SP
WORLD WAR \
&G9 0AGN
U. S. ARTILLERY IN ACTION


Feb. "a
ON Feb. "a, 1918, American ar
~ tillery silenced a German bat
terry in the Toul sector of the west
ern front IN one OF the fercest ar
tillery duels of the month.
The German auxiliary cruiser
Wolf returned to Kiel on that date
after sinking eleven allied vessels
during a fifteen-month cruise as a
raider in the Atlantic, Pacific and
Indian oceans.
AT the same time, the Spanish
ship Igotz-Mendi, with a German
prize crew aboard, was driven
ashore in Denmark and interned by
the Danish government. Two
Americans were included in the
twenty-five prisoners aboard.
The Russian government an
nounced its complete acceptance of
German peace terms, although Leon
Trotski threatened to resign his post
as foreign minister because Of the
drastic terms.
Fighting on the Italian and west
ern fronts was confined principally
to artillery fire and local trench
raids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
SCIENCE
DAVID DIETZ-

Circulation Of Air and Circu-
lation of Ocean Waters
Haze Important Bearing on
Weather.
THERE is a complex relationship
\ between the circulation of the
earth's atmosphere and the circula-
ton Of the waters of the ocean
which has an important bearing
upon both the weather and the
ocean.
This fact is pointed out by DR..
Thomas Wayland Vaughan, direc-
tor of the Scripps Institute Of
Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal.
Many problems Of weather fore
casting, or oceanic phenomena, and
Of the distribution of life in the
ocean, depend upon an understand
ing of this relationship.
Two basic factors contribute to
the circulation of both the at
AAO1RAANAC aAA0 EAk 0AGdAA ndNEAC
They r the suns heat and the
earth's rotation.
In addition. the air and the ocean
affect each other because of the
phenomena of evaporation and pre-
cipitation.
IF the earth were stationary and
the sun revolved around it, there
would be heating of the atmos-
phere and the waters of the ocean
in tropical and %subtropicaI regions
and expansion of both air and wa
ter DR.. Vaughan says. Both air
and water, where heated, would
move upward and flow toward the
poles, in the region of which both
would be cooled, and there they
would sink and return to the trop-
ical and %subtropical regions as lower
cool currents.
The scheme, however, is by no
means so simple, for the earth ro-
tateS on its axis and this causes
a detection of the movements of
both air and water"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
Acting for the Actors

TT was my impression that a large
L part of the throng which habitu-
ally is to be found within those
walls consists of actors who are out
of work. Or, to put it in potter
terms, they are resting. Theater
business being what it is and what
it always has been, the Palace is
assured of a capacity audience.
Nowhere is there any group more
technically minded. In a certain
sense, vaudeville constitutes the
highest of all art forms, since ap-
probation is extended less to the
substance of the material than to
its manner. Generally it is held
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are Dre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement OF disbursement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24

Chinese bandits who reduced the ransom of an
American from $1,000 600 to $1,000 must have been
reading the stock market news.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-24
What is tho difference between
climb and ascend?

The verb climb implies difficulty
in making way up or down a hill,
ladder, tree, etc., and also implies
physical exertion with the aid Of
hands or feet in man and animals
or tendrils in plants. To ascend,
on the other hand, does not neces-
sarily imply physical exertion. One
may ascend to the top of a building
in an elevator without exertion or
descend a toboggan slide by the pull
of gravity.
The Washington times., 1932-09-26

The eye as an optical in
strument may be compared to
a camera on a tripod. The
eyeball is the camera, and a
bony socket in the skull, the
orbit, is the '~ipod. The eye
ball is moved from side to side
and up and down and obliquely
by six voluntary muscles. Each
of these muscles is attached at
one end to the eyeball and at
the other to the edge of the
orbit. The visual centers of the
brain are so trained that these
muscles move both eyes to-
gether so that synchronous Wis
ion is obtained.
The optic nerve passes from
the back Of the eyeban through
a hole in the back of the orbit
into the visual center Of the
brain. This center has many
connections with other centers
controlling bodily movements,
and the close association of
the visual and motor centers
allows us to direct motions
accurately. When vision is lost,
when YOU are in a dark room,
you can still move your mus
cles, but you make the hesitat-