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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
CHURCHES TO THE RESCUE

Those who were inclined to regard the recent
declaration of the American Federation as radical
may revise their opinion when they discover that
the Council of Churches, approaching the social
problems from the standpoint of Christ, have
reached approximately the same solution of our
present complexities. "t.......
The demand for unemployment insurance, for
the right of men to maintain themselves and their
families in decency through their own labor instead
of by charity, the abolition of child labor and the
distribution of work are given approval and sanction
by the representatives of $4,000, 900 members of the
Protestant churches.
They find nothing criminal nor Communistic in
the suggestion that men have the right to work.
These leaders of the religious world know
through observation that there is nothing which
takes the spirit of human brotherhood from human
beings more quickly than enforced idleness.
They know that it is rather difficult for men to
love their brothers when forced to live upon the
contents of a trustees basket of food.
They know that hunger, misery and want are
quite likely to make men curse, rather than worship.
They know that the Sermon on the Mount can be
silenced by the cries of hungry children.
Conservative men will, of course, ~criticise the
action Of these churches as an endeavor to enter
fields outside their proper scope. 1t is significant
that the Protestant churches have taken a stand
that differs very little from the announcements of
the pope at Vatican City, who demanded a greater
measure of social justice as a bulwark for re-
ligious life.
Very soon, when churches, labor and intelligent
industrialists and business men combine, the right
to work may be effectively guaranteed to every man.
only when this right is given, can society be re-
lgious or civilized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
UTILITIES

In that public pastime Of attempting to regulate
the rates Of public utilities. queer things happen.
II the utilities fail to produce new tricks. the 0
mission can be relied upon to furnish topics for
speculation. And in se end, the public pays, of
course.
In the present hearing Of the cost Of water. the
sudden shift from bench to counsel table of former
Commissioner Cuthbertson is at least interesting.
Months ago Commissioner Cuthbertson wrote an
order reducing rates for the general public, and
raising them for some large users, including apart
ment owners. The order was the result of an agree
ment between the city, the civic clubs and the water
company.
Commissioner Cuthbertson approved the terms
Of that order which saved small home owners some
part of their bills and the city some part of the
charges for public service.
In theory, at least, it was his solemn judgment
that the rates were fair to every one concerned.
The apartment owners appealed. The case went
to the courts. A hearing on the matter was ordered
by a federal judge.
One week before the hearing Commissioner Cuth-
bertson resigned from the commission. This par
ticular case was in his hands. He presumably had
charge Of all the Investigations made on behalf of
the people.
one week later he appears as the attorney for the
apartment house owners who had appealed from the
order written by himself.
1t is all SO puzzling. The source may be sugges-
tive to others with judicial authority. 1t may open
a new avenue for attorneys.
The public value of the incident may be in its
suggestion for Paul McNutt when he becomes Gov
ernor and starts in to redeem his pledge of making
regulation effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
STIMSON'S DEBT NOTE

The Stimson debt note to Great Britain applies
the fair and reasonable policy laid down by President
Hoover following his conference with President-Elect
Roosevelt. 1t opposes cancellation. But it favors
hearing the debtors case for revision and meanwhile
making the method of December payment as easy as
possible.
This is not a policy based chiefly on idealism or
altruism. On the contrary, it is based on the fact
that the debt deadlock is one cause of world depres-
sion from which this country is suffering.
1t tries to open the way for settlement of a prob
lem which is producing unemployment, bankruptcies,
and misery in the United States.
Finally, it links war debts with the larger and
related issues of trade and rmaments If we are
intelligent, we shall be able to trade debt reduction
for armament reduction and improved foreign mar
kets for our surplus goods.
That would be more profitable for us than the
alternative course of forcing our debtors to default.
The latter course not only would deprive us of
the money represented by the debts, but also would
involve us in further world financial and commercial
chaos resulting from multiple defaults.
Unfortunately, the administration policy as ex-
pressed in this note can not be made effective with
out support of the Democrats and of Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his capacity as leader of the Democratic
party.
Congress alone has power to revise the debt terms.
Congress specifically has stated it's opposition to
any change whatever in the debt status-which ties
the hands of the executive, especially of an execu-
tive who just has been defeated at the polls.
The present session of congress is under control
of the Democrats and their allies. They can
block debt action, as some appear determined to do.
AS an aid to economic recovery, we hope that the
Democrats will cooperate with the administration
in the practical policy outlined in the Stimson note.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
WILKINSON WITHDRAWS

1t is well that Federal Judge James H. Wilker-
son Of Chicago is a better politician than President
Hoover. He has withdrawn his name from a sem
ate that stubbornly has refused to allow his pro-
motion to the second highest federal court, the
circuit court Of appeals.
But Hoover, failing to take the hint, says he
would have been glad to fight it out for the Judge.
Il am confident" wrote Hoover to Wilkerson,
that the people at large feel, as do, the i'm
portant and devoted service you have given and the
high contribution you have made to the standing
Of the judiciary of the United States"
The people at large" have not so indicated their
regard for this Chicago judge. Union labor, enraged
over his anti-labor injunctions and receivership
record, took the field against wilkerson's hacker,
Senator Glenn, and helped defeat him.
Seldom has a political faction been rebuked so
roundly as was the nsull-Small- Thompson crowd
of Illinois, with which Wilkerson had affiliated.
Had Wilkerson been forced to run for reelection
in November, there is little doubt that he, too, would
have been retired, along with the hundreds Of cleo
tive judges the voters turned out OF office.
The blocking of Wilkerson's promotion like the
defeat of Judge Parker and the passage of the La
Guardia-Norris anti-injunction bill, is a victory for
liberalism.
Wise Americans know that to win for popular
government the fight must be carried to the judicial
as well as the legislative and executive front.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Waving Your Hat

TT was young Able Lemaitre who
i first showed that the universe
could not be static. Einstein, from
his relatively equations, had
worked out a formula for the cur
vature of space and the size of
the universe.
But Lemaitre came along and
showed that the condition pic
tured by Einstein depended upon
nothing moving. If he, or Elm
stein, or you, or any one else,
waved a hat in the air in such
a universe, that motion would be
enough to upset the gravitational
balance and start the whole uni
verse to expanding or contract
ing.
From his studies. Lemaitre came
to the conclusion that the uni
verse already was expanding.
His view was confirmed expert
mentally by the work of the Mt.
Wilson astronomers, notably Hub
BILE and Humason, who found that
all the distant spiral nebulae were
receding from the earth with the
speeds which increased with dis
lance.
This is the state of affairs which
an expanding universe requires.
Sir Arthur Eddington, the IA
nous British astronomer, who was
a visitor in this country last fall,
said that he was convinced that
the universe was expanding.
He said that Einstein and De
Sitter were quite right in saying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
SCIENCE :
Cosmic Clinic to Open
BY DAVID E

TINE cosmic clinic is about to
Il reconvene in Pasadena. First
of the distinguished foreign Wis
itors to arrive for this winters
session in sunny California is the
Able Georges Lemaitre, 38-year-
old professor of relatively at the
University of Louvain, Belgium.
In January, Professor Albert
Einstein will arrive for his third
winter in Pasadena, and the clinic
will be in full sway.
The first clinic was held two
winters ago, when Professor Elm
stein accepted the invitation of
DR.. r. A. Millikan to come to the
California Institute of Tech
nology as a visiting professor.
Last winter, both Einstein and
Professor Willem De Sitter, ia
nous Dutch astronomer, and au-
thority on relatively, were present.
It was during last years session
that Einstein and De Sitter issued
their brief but bewildering joint
paper, in which they said that on
the basis of the relatively theory,
the curvature of space could be
positive, zero, or negative.
This was a way of saying that
maybe the universe was expand
ing and maye it wasn't.
But apparently few scientists
care for this loophole of escape
from an expanding universe.
Even Professor Milne of Oxford,
who thinks space is just old-fash-
Toned infinite space, such as New
ton spoke of, thinks that the Wis
IDLE. components of the universe
are scattering or expanding in
that space.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Every Day Religion
. BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

five thousand. Our fears are of
many kinds-fear of ourselves,
fears of others; fears of the pres
ent, of the future, of sickness. of
poverty, of death; fear of life it.
Self-fears without reason and
without end. Fear is the great
est enemy of man, making us a
race of creeperS, cringers and
towards, when we ought to walk
erect.
In the olden times man needed
all his fear to make him alert,
watchful on guard, but he does
not need so much fear today, and
he does not know what to do with
the surplus.
1t is another case of overpro-
duction, and fears, once useful,
but now unemployed, turn inward
and tie themselves into all kinds
of knots, irritating u minds,
making our hearts sanctuaries of
suspicious and shadows.
What are we going to do about
it? If our religion fails us in
our fight against fear, it fails
us fatally. But it does not fail
us, once we lay hold of it-or,
rather, when we let it lay hold of
us Only a great religion can
deliver man from this servile,
enervating down-dragging fear,
and of that another day.
Copyright. 1892. United Feature Syndicate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Questions and


Q-Has President Hoover left
the United States since he was
inaugurated? When did he go to
South America?
Ale has not been out of the
United States since he was inau-
gurated, but has was in South
and Central America in the fall
and winter of 1928-29, before he
became President.
Q-Is the pin tree an ever
green?
Ayes.
Q-Is crude rubber on the free
list in the tariff act of 1890?
Ayes.
Q-What is the foundation of
the belief that the hooting of an
owl or the bowling of a dog at
night portends death?
A-Far back, when primitive
man made gods of animals, the
dog was invested in the popular
mind as a deity, with supernat-
ural powers, and consequently was
able to foresee death and give
warning of it by bowling. The
superstition about the hooting of
the owl probably is a variant of
this popular superstition.
Q-Why were the Kentucky bal
lots not reported on election
night?
A-Because a law of that state,
passed in 1912, prohibits the
counting of ballots until 10 a. m.
on the following day.
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Take Your Choice

A T the moment, you can pick
the kind of an expanding
universe that appeals to you most.
The fashion has not been def
nitely agreed upon.
DR.. r. c. Tolman, mathematician
OF the California Institute of
Technology, and DR.. Edwin P.
Hubble of Mt. Wilson observatory.
think that the universe goes
through cycles, expanding at times
and contracting at others.
E1nSteln's universe is a contin-
uously expanding sphere. De Sit
ter thinks that the universe is
cylindrical. Lemaitre thinks that
at present our universe is less
symmetrical in shape. He calls it
an expanding elIipsoid.
LemaitTe undertakes to picture
n past as well as the future of
the universe. He believes that if
we go far enough back into the
past, we come to an ancient day
when the whole visible universe
was condensed into one unit, a
massive super-atom, if you care
to call it that, with a diameter of
several million light years. "a
light year, the distance light goes
IN one year, is six trillion miles.)
The universe, as we know 1t,
grew out of the expansion and
accompanying disintegration Of
this sHper-atom, Lemaitre be-
lieyes.
In those early days, Lemaitre be-
lieves, radioactive elements much
more powerful than radium, must
have existed. You could call them
super-radium, if you please.
He believes that the coSmic rays
are remnants Of these s~uper-active
elements, still wandering around
the universe to remind us Of the
days when the universe was a
lusty infant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Place to Express Self
TINE home is essentially a mat
u of self-expression. Those
who aspire to own one usually

A READER in Iowa writes:
A"A QUESTIONABLE recently was
sent to the. student body of a COL
lege, asking them to indicate any
subjects upon which they would
wish the visiting preachers to
speak.
"A large majority of the
students replied: Let them tell us
how we may conquer fear What
is the matter with us when our
young people are so afraid? Have
we lost Jul nerve?"
The world is in the grip of a
white-faced fear, which seems to
have seized all classes of people
in its clutch, the educated and the
ignorant. the old and the young.
One of the surprising facts of
modern life is that the safest and
most comfortable civilization the
world ever has known, is the vic
tim of a nervous, imaginative,
foreboding fear.
1t is as if a warm of fears had
been let loose upon us, like the
plaques of Egypt, tormenting us
with all sorts of terrors.
n Il q
A FAMOUS editor listed five
n major fears in our genera
ton, but he might have made it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
A Change IN Point of Viem

N those days we were told that the voice of the people was the voice
y OIL COO. But now all that is changed. These gentlemen are fohhno
TOOTH and nail for delay and quibbles and fiibusters.
Inc very last thing they desire is an opportunity for the people
u te several states TO pass upon the problem. They would maintain
70! Eo Inc last ditch a defeated, repudatod prohibition in the face of a
To them, as to the fathless thrty-three, a landslide is n % more
a grain OF sand blown by an idle wind. How great a majority
ooS n ISSUE have to get before it becomes binding in American
l am not among those who think of prohibition a paramount
N1anV more pressing problems confront the government. But if a plat
form pedge as to one issue may be brushed aside lightly there is no
assurance. whatsoever that any article in the Democratic creed is Sc
riously intended.
governor Roosevelt will be called upon almost Immediately to
SnoW ms capacHy Tor fulfilling party promises. If a plank is only a
pleasant sound, then a platform is nothing more than a series of nets
SET against the wind to catch the passing guls.
Copyright 1882 By The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
TO MOST PEOPLE THE HOME
is THEIR PERSONALITY OUTLET

be themselves in the way they
live than anything else. You just
can't eliminate the family from
society without inviting a danger
Gus condition, nor can it be pre-
served without a strong element of
home ownership.
Capitalism probably is more de-
pendent on home ownership for
its maintenance than on any
other factor, and home ownership
includes much more than a coat
closet, a folding bee, a bathtub, or
even conditioned air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Known for Centuries

ranches and remote districts and
had never had measles.
= = 4
MEASLES among a people who
Iva do not have anything re-
sembling resistance through her
edity may be a most serious and
fatal disease.
For example, there was a ter
rife epidemic of measles in the
Farce islands in 1916. There were
1900 inhabitants on the islands
and 5000 of them had the disease
in a few months.
There also was a great epidemic
in the Fiji islands in 1875, when
a British ship carried measles to
the islands.
Out of a population of 81 1000
there were 10000 deaths in a few
months. Part of this was due to
the great virulence with which the
disease attacked a community
without resistance.
Much of the fatality is ascribed
to the fact that so many people
were sick at the same time that
there were not enough well people
left to take care of the sick. Some
died of starvation and many from
lack of care.
NEXT - Precautions against
spread.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY. DR.. MORRIS FISHBE1N
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

had to have measles. In fact,
mothers used to expose their chill
dren to the disease, with the idea
of getting it over.
Now it is known that the dis
ease is definitely transmitted
from one person to another and
that it is possible, by exercising
precautions, to avoid the disease
in most instances.
Measles is essentially a disease
of childhood. More than half the
cases occur in children under 5,
and more than 90 per cent occur
in children under 10.
There are occasional epidemics
Of measles in which considerable
numbers Of persons are affected,
even those Of advanced years.
In such cases it usually is found
that the persons stricken have
come from rural areas and have
previously not been exposed.
For example, there were severe
outbreaks of measles among the
soldiers in the training camps in
1917 and 1918. because large num-
bers of recruits came from farms.
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TTOME ownership can not be put
IL on the mass production basis
without wrecking the very pur-
pose it was designed to serve. A
mile of owned houses has about
the same psychological effect as a
mile of rented houses, if they are
all alike.
No room for personality, feel
ing, or the artistic sense with
which every human being is born,
to a greater or less degree, and
on the encouragement of which
more depends than we commonly
think.
There is the germ of s~elf-con-
fidence and self-reliance in the
thought that one not only owns a
home, but has had something to
do with its location and design,
and that germ is as important for
society as for individuals.
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the racketeer. Fun must be spon-
taneous. And no amount of study.
viii give you spontaneity. You
can't take lessons in how to have
a good time, although this seems
to be our favorite delusion.
To be enjoyed, dancing must
be done with abandon and I'M
self-consciousness. Grandpa and
grandma, who dashed and cavort-
ed about in a way that appears
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
A Certain SlowneSs IN Transit

N TINS age votes should be express trains and not stage-coaches. We
\ are inclined to be a little condescending to the people who lived in
Tn Gays OF old when weeks were required for a newly elected repre-
sentative to get to congress. AS things stand now. the TRANSPORTATION
may be fast enough, but the transition from old ideas to new is far
more tortuous.
SOMEBODY should wake up the thirty-three seepers in the Demo-
Cratc party and shout in the good ear of each that prohibition a
Tepuolated IN the last election. And somebody ought to % around and
VIt Int members of the Anti-Saloon league and other dry-hards.
II might be well to remind these gentlemen of a phrase which thew
USED frequently back in the days when they were in the saddle. They
Aea men TO talk of "sportsmanship" and to argue that even those
of the majority. -"
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that relatively did not settle the
matter one way or the other, but
that he was convinced from his
study OF the structure of the atom
mat the universe was expanding.
The Able Lemaitre still is con-
Vlnced that the universe is *
pandlng. He says that the OBJ
serVations of the cosmic rays fit
IN very well with his notions of
an expanding universe.
1t may be, therefore, that this
Belgian savant may help to set
Tie the argument over the nature
OF cosmic rays now raging be-
tween Millikan and Compton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
1t Seems to Me:
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

THE most important thing about the defeat
OF repeal in the house is the testimony
which it offers as to the unresponsiveness of our
national legislature to popular opinion.
Since this probably is the last lame duck
congress, there is no need to so into the obvious
improperly Of allowing defeated representatives
to go back to Washington and express their
will
But the failure to obtain a two-thirds vote
can not be hlamed wholly on fhnse lau-makers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE filming of a picture required an old-fash-
Il toned round dance. The story goes that Holly
wood players had so much fun doing it that they
STAYED all night on the set to practice the figures.
How little real fun we have any more! 1t is a
lost delight. The efficiency experts who swarm over
the land like a plague of grasshoppers have killed it.
They represent Big Business, and after them comes
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. q II " q
forms. A great
deal has been
written and said
about German ex-
periments with
glass. But, some
how, the PROPOSE
ton never has
seemed to take
W /, excep t
among people
who could not
help themselves.
TIL m e t a l
house, though Of
fering dis'tin t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
MEASLES is one of the oldest
wi diseases known To mndern

MEASLES is one of the oldest
1V1 diseases known to modern
medicine. There is some evidence
that it may have existed in the
early Christian era. It even is
described in the writings of ply
sicians of the seventh and ninth
centuries.
However, it was not until the
seventeenth century that it was
distinguished clearly from scarlet
fever and it was not distinguished
definitely from smallpox until
the eighteenth century.
Two of the greatest names in
English medicine are associated
with these two observations.
Thomas Sydenham distinguished
measles from scarlet fever. and
William Whitening, who intro
duced the use of digitalis, dis
tinguished measles clearly from
smallpox.
The English word measles re-
sembleS a word in Sanskrit. ma
sura." and the German word is
"masern."
p n y
Tor a long time it generally
L. was believed that every child