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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-The election is over
and almost every one I have talked
with is giving all credit to The
Times for the impartial manner in
which it discussed merits of can
didateS.
Everybody is hopeful that busi-
ness conditions will improve and
that there will be no unnecessary
suffering until the long looked for
change is brought about.
The election has proved that the
American people can get together
in sufficient numbers, regardless of
creed, color, nationality, and po-
Itical belief for their common good.
Defeat of the G. o. P. can be at
tributed to number of factors-the
depression, the liquor question, the
tariff, the eviction of the ex-soldiers
from Washington, an act which, in
my opinion, was the most despicable
blunder the Great Humanitarian
ever made. After all, the ex-service
men of this country and their rela-
tives and friends had something to
say about the election and did
say it.
In his prediction speeches,
Franklin D. Roosevelt rode into
Republican strongholds and made
direct appeals for their support and
they responded in an overwhelm-
ing manner. This response hardly
can be called a great partisan VIC
tory for the Democrats.
1t was a fusion triumph for the
American electorate against the
present administration and such
barnacles as Watson and Smoot. a
desire to see Andrew Mellon retired
to private life, desire to see Theo-
dore Roosevelt Jr., who has ridden
through life on his fathers coat
tails recalled from the Philippines
and put on the shelf where he be-
longs.
The President-elect has been
given a political set-up that is about
all to be desired The voters have
given him a majority of men and
women of his own political faith
in both the house and senate and
the nation as whole will be be-
hind him.
One great problem that worried
the present administration will be
solved when March 4 rolls around.
BY that time, probably, Dolly Gam
viii know where she is going to sit,
and it's going to be pretty rough
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

Every one knows that the rate
of incidence of tuberculosis has
dropped greatly and the number of
deaths from this disease has
dropped from. 275 a 100000 people
in the United States to around rs
or 80 in most communities.
Notwithstanding the fact that
typhoid fever can be controlled
completely by proper measures,
there still are more than 10000 cases
of typhoid fever annually in the
United States.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
have in vaccination and in isola-
ton certain methods of controlling
smallpox, there still are a Consid-
cradle number of cases and deaths
from this disease.
If infectious disease is to be pre-
vented and brought under control,
people must learn to know the ma
ture of disease, the method of it's
spread, and the methods of preven-
ton.
They must, moreover, do every
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
M. E. Tracy
1t Is Not oar Business to
Make Plans for Revision of
the War Debt Situation.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-There is
IN no deep, dark plot back Of the
war debt situation. There is Just a
lot of bewilderment and confusion.
No man on earth knows exactly
what ought to be done, or whas can
be done. A sort of horse trading
timidity has come to dominate the
whole show.
Governments are offering hints
and suggestions, instead of talking
straight from the shoulder. Every
body wants a conference to find out
what the other fellow thinks.
A conference is no way to begin.
If European governments want an
extension of the moratorium, or re-
vision, they should say so, and they
should be specific regarding the time
OF extension and the amount of re-
vision.
1t is not our buSinss to help make
plans. We have done nothing that
calls for a change. We are satisfied
with the existing agreements. All
we ask is that they be fulfilled.
1t is time that we let European
governments do the worrying over
war debts. If they can't pay, they
know 1t, and should admit it.
The snarl has a bearing on world
economics, Of course, but is it our
cue TO play Santa Claus, without
knowing how much we are expected
to give?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
Drag 1t Into Open

THAT may be water gone by the
Il mill, but we do not propose to
play the part Of suckers to make
room for more like it.
If European governments want to
go on preparing for war, let them
pay their war debts in full. On the
ether hand, if they are willing to
work for peace, we are ready to do
the right thing.
1t is their cue, however, to open
the performance with specific COM
mitments, and, until they do, we
fail to see the desirability of con-
ferences, especially of a private or
private character.
The great majority of us here in
America feel that the time has
come to drag the war debt situation
and everything connected with it
right out in the open.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
Questions and
Answers

What annual sporting events draw
the largest crowds?
The 500-mile Memorial day auto
race at Indianapolis has an annual
attendance Of about 10000, the
largest in the United States, but the
attendance at the English Derby at
EPSON Downs probably is larger.
How many fifth grade pupils are
In public schools in the United
States?
In 1930-31 there we're 1885,, 491.
What is "Seth Parker's" real
name, and how old is he?
Phillips Lord. He is 90.
Are Ford tractors manufactured
in Ireland admitted in this country
duty free?
Ford tractors manufactured in the
Irish Free State are imported into
the United States free of duty as
agricultural implements.
What state does United States
Senator COrdeIl Hull represent?
Tennessee.
How many Negroes are there in
New York City?
The 1890 census shows 495 ,632 in
the New York metropolitan district
and 366,2O2 in New York City.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HF EYG4S2

been the charge that it minimized
the Importance of the individual
in the interest of the mass, in this
respect at least it has tried to single
out the woman who died as a
person in her own right and not
one to be remembered as the woman
who married Stain and bore him
two children.
I find somewhat surprising
touch of sentiment from the official
channels of that land which has
tried to Danish sentiment: ITO the
dear memory of our comrade and
friend. Nodejda Sergeivna Allilu-
ieva, our dear comrade and the
finest person, passed away"
The translation is quite possibly
a little awkward, but in any case
this is a strange state paper. It
is as if some official or other said:
mo, I won't be blunt, I will break
the Spartan code"
On the day before she died, JOS
eph Stain reviewed a victory march
OF $4,000 in the great square of
Moscow. He stood erect and made
no sign or said a word of the dear
comrade who lay dying in the
Kremlin. The state is the state
and a mans inner agony something
else again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
A Planned Order

The American Academy of Political and Social
Sciences announces that it will call national con-
ference in Philadelphia to consider adoption of some
system of national planning for the United States
AT the same time, reports also indicate that nanv
voices will call for immediate consideration of the
La Toilette BILL creating national economic council
as soon as congress conveneS.
Intelligent Americans, from capitalist Owen D.
young to Socialist Norman Thomas are insisting that
we can not longer produce bindly without counting
chaos Production must be geared to the consuming
power of markets. if agriculture and industry are to
be saved
Yet most farm and industrial leaders continue to
dream OF return to the old days of rampant ndivd-
ualism. Apparently they prefer to face more and
greater depressions than accept the security that
will come with social guidance
II we are to prevent recurring overproduction and
recurring stagnation and misery we must adopt:
l. land program to keep our best lands at farm
ing and pension marginal and worked-out acreages
lor growing forests parks, and watershed covering
Also' we must forestal guts in wheat, cotton corn
and other staples through national planning.
2 cooperative industrial program that will keep
the smoke coming from factory chimneys and men
out of breadlines.
economic councils of some kind are functioning
In fourteen countries-Great Britain France Ger
many, Czechoslovaka, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ru-
mania, Poland, Soviet Russia Yugoslavia, China
Japan, and Mexico
In most of these, the councils are advisory and
are composed of delegates from such economic qrons
as agriculture industry, commerce, banking, trans
portation, and the professions
In nation wealthy and individualistic as ours
these things will not easily There will be wears
OF education and experiment, and, doubtless. manv
failures But surely we, who have achieved so well
In production, can evolve more intelligent system
of distribution.
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Contract Bridge Rules

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
Cleanliness Helps to Bar Infection
BY DIR. MORRIS FISh8EIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FIShBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
NUMBER of cases of infectious
L y diseases varies from time to
time, as everyone knows. There
have been great epidemics of in
f1uenza, such as the epidemic of
1918, in which tremendous numbers
of people we're involved, whereas
there were minor epidemics in which
relatively few people are concerned.
Cases of influenza are difficult to
differentiate from the common cold.
Reports of the United States public
health service indicate about 70O,-
900 cases of influenza in 1929, but if
all conditions resembling influenza
were included, the number would
be many millions.
Figures for such conditions as
measles about 100000, chickenpox
216,00O, scarlet fever 10000, mumps
100000, and whooping cough 1877
600, are relatively accurate, since
the large majority of such cases are
reported
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

on Princess Alice to be on the out
side looking in.
hope that the next four years
will see fulf1llment of the pledges
that were made. If this is brought
about, the Democrats will become
the major political party of the ma
ton; if not, the pendulum will
swing back.
Locally, the results of the election
have convinced me that the returns
forecast the eclipse of the Star and
the Indianapolis News as molders of
political opinion.
A DEMOCRAT AND LOYAL TO
THE TIMES.
Editor Times-In answer to the
article I read in The Times about
the Democrats taking over all Of
fees and the remark they made
about Republican party betraying
its own following, and serving false
gods, when the Democratic party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
Comets and MeteorS

IN 1866, Schiaparelli, the famous
l. Italian astronomer who first OBJ
served the so-called canals of Mars.
published a book on meteors in
which he pointed out that the orbit
of the meteoric swarm ,.hich caused
the August shower of meteors known
as the perseids was identical with
the orbit of comet observed in
1862.
This comet, named according to
custom after its discoverer, was
known as Tuttle's comet.
The following year, Leverrier, theI
great French astronomer, who was
one of the discoveries f the planet
Neptune, showed that the orbit of
the Leonids was identical with the
orbit of Temples comet, discovered
in 1866.
This gave impetus to a general
search for connections between
comets and meteoric swarms.
The Andromedes, meteors due
near the end Of November, have
been identified with the orbit of
Biela's comet, a small comet which
split into two in 1916 and disap-
peared entirely in 1852.
From the fate of Biela's comet, it
is apparent what the connection be-
tween comet and a meteoric
swarm is. The swarm is a byprod-
uct Of the comet.
In all probability, Temples comet
and the Leonids were probably once
upon a time, perhaps at the begin
ming OF the Christian era, united in
one large comet.
This comet may have split in two
or perhaps exploded. What re-
manned of the original large comet
is now Temples comet. The part
blown of now forms the Leonids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

T WAS strangely moved to come
L suddenly, in a newspaper, upon
the item that Nadejda Alliluieva
died during the night in her resi-
dence in Moscow. Beside the story
there was a picture of a woman of
startling beauty walking through a
snowy Russian street and above it
the caption wife of Stain, Soviet
Dictator"
They order such things better in
Russia, I think, for the official an
nouncement said, 1.-THE friend and
devoted aid of Comrade Stain. "
Perhaps even to the point of self
consciousness there was the attempt
to say, Before all else she was a
human being" and to make her
death belong to her.
The Russian press made no men
ton of the fact that she was the
wife of Stain. Instead, the an
nouncement went that "she served
the party and remained both active
and modest in her revolutionary
duty. She always has tried to i'm
prove herself and has been among
the most active comrades in indus
trial activity in recent years"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
The Radiant Point

IHE modern study of meteors
Il may be said to have begun
with observations of the great
shower of 1888.
fortunately the shower not onlv
was observed by the uninformed
who assumed it meant the end of
the world, but also by trained as
tronomerS.
The astronomers kept accurate
records of the directions of the
various meteoric trails. When these
were analysed, they disclosed an in
teresting phenomenon.
These trails, if projected backward
INTO the sky, all seemed to originated
in single point.
Astronomers of the time perceived
that this was an effect of perspec-
tive. If you look down a railroad
track, the rails seem to meet in the
distance.
1t means, therefore, that the
meteorS must have been moving in
parallel lines when they entered the
earth'S atmosphere.
In other words, that the meteors
must have been moving in a great
swarm when they entered the
earth'S atmosphere.
Since 1888, astronomers have
proved the existence of MANY other
such meteoric swarmS, though none
which give SO good a show as the
LeonidS.
In each case, the point from
which the meteors seem to come. the
so-called radiant, has been estab-
lished, and the swarm named for
the constellation in which it seems
to be.
The Leonids get their name from
the fact that the radiant is in the
constellation of Leo or the lion.
An examination of old records
traced the history of the Leonids
back to 902 A. D. The records show
that brilliant showers have been
occurring in November at 33-year
intervals ever since that date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
When System Breaks

DROBABLY the world never will
Il hear much of the story Of this
one who lived in the shadow of a
great man and still had stamina
enough to die under her own name.
I always have been less inter-
ested in the pattern of people than
in their variation and alterations.
7 am curious to know what a dedi-
Gated revolutionist does when she
cuts her classes.
1t is a strange and probably a
magnificent adventure which the
Russians are conducting, but it
seems to me that in the face of
death they act about the way we
all do.
I wonder if they really think that
they have abolished God by teach
ing the children in school that the
state is an old gentleman with a
long white beard.
Copyright, 1882. by The Times)
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Daily Thought

For the day is near, even the
day of the Lord is near, a cloudy
day; it shall be the time of the
heathen.-Ezekiel 1913.
1t Is some compensation for great
evils that they enforce great les
sons. -Bovee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

LeOhldS scheduled for Spec
tdculdr Display in Heavens
Tonight.
A CCOUNTS of the meteoric
N shower of 1888 serve to show
how spectacular an event may take ,
place if the shooting stars perform
equally well this week.
The Leonids. as the November
shooting stars are called, are sched-
uled to appear this week. They
probably will be at their best to-
night, Wednesday and Thursday
night. Look for them in the east
ern sky between midnight and sun
rise.
So spectacular and awe-inspiring
was the shower of 1888 that MANY
persons, unfamiliar with astronomy.
assumed that the end of the world
was at hand.
Astronomers who viewed the
spectacle estimated that more than
100000 meteors were to be seen from
one observing station during the
course of the night. At times they
were as thick as snowflakes. It
seemed as though the sky was rain
ing fire.
The might that the stars fell" as
it was called for years after, was
Nov. II, 1888. The meteors ranged
in size and brilliance from faint
streaks to great bursts of light as
bright as the planet Jupiter or
Venus.
One meteor the size and brilliance
OF the full moon was reported.
One observer recorded $50 meteors
IN fifteen minutes. It was estimated
that the shooting stars fell at the
rate Of 10000 an hour. Many of the
meteorS left trails visible for two
and three minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

let Al Smith run, what was it serv-
ing but false god? I think part
of our depression was caused by
mixing religion and politics too
much.
If the Democratic party is so fair,
why has it not showed it in the city
administration? Every Office or job
that does not require TIE hardest
labor to perform is held by Demo-
Gratis. Our hospitals, statehouse,
courthouse, mayor, police force, fire.
men, many others too numerous to
mention, are given to Democrats.
If our police force was weed~d out
and good men put in their places
our city and young generations
would be much better protected.
TAXPAYER AND CITIZEN.
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Puritanisnn Persists

DERHAPs it is the better way.
L But it is difficult. 1t has been
tried, and whether or not it has
succeeded is a fit point for argu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

At the Chicago worlds fair in 1888, a building
made of paper will be exhibited And that's pretty
good use for some of the paper we've heard of during
the last few years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

An insurance company suggests, "The next fir
may be yours" Trying to cheer up everybody?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

Breaking Down Traditions
D UssIA is trying to break down
IN a great many presidents and
traditions within the span of a
generation. And, though the chief
complaint against the state has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

That campaign saying about grass growing in tn
streets" might have been worse. It could be growing
in the cornfelds, you know
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

What is the Japanese population
in the United States and Hawaii?
United States, 138,834; Hawaii,
139,631.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

When school fires coach, that's not news Blu
it is when it keeps him after defeat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15

They say beer is coming back, but we haven't seen
any signs yet on the drug store windows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ

Leonids Scheduled for Spec
tdculdr Display in Heavens
Tonight.
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Fuel Prices Down.

Fuels declined. which is attributable
to the very small decline in bituminous
coal and lower quotations for coke.
The eight specific groups which were
lower last week were industrial, agri-
cultural, fuels, on-ferrous metals, paint
materials. textiles (fine and coarse)
and vegetable oils The groups which
remained unchanged were building ma
terials, hides and leather ferrous metals
and paper and pulp
Most important price changes in the
McGiu wes-iy price indices:
Evening star., 1932-11-27
PAUL BESTOR DEFENDS
FEDERAL LAND BANKS

Federal Land Banks are not the
"hard-boiled" institutions which they
have been represented to be in recent
public discussions of the Federal Land
Bank system, according to Paul BeStor,
farm loan commissioner. Mr. Bestor
sets forth his defense of the system in
an article in the forthcoming number
Of National Sphere, a Washington
monthly magazine. He says in part:
While the volume of loans has de-
clined they nevertheless have granted
substantial number during the spe-
cial emergency existing since 1929
From January l, 1880, to September 80.
1882, they have granted 28.562 loans in
total amount Of Sl09 697 900.
While the banks hold only a part
OF the total farm mortgage debt of the
country, the competitive influence upon
interest rates and commissions has ex-
tended their benefits generally to
farmers obtaining loans from other
!. lenders.
Conditions which have prevailed
during the last few years have made
the administrative problems exceedingly
complex and not the least Of the prob
1 lens is the one Of maintaining sound
| institutions and. at the same time, giV-
| ing ample consideration to all the facts
| and circumstances affecting the case OF
each applicant for new loan and OF
each unfortunate farmer who is de-
| linquent in the repayment Of the
j money which he has already borrowed. '