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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
No Rubber Stamps

Citizens will watch carefully the meeting of lead
ers of the legislature for the purpose of outlining
plan of taxation which could be turned into law at
a special session.
The policy of gathering the demands of various
groups and then attempting to find solution Tor
present conditions is fine. But any effort to turn
members of the legislature into rubber stamps to
merely pass on something that the Governor and
the legislative leaders may wish is quite another
matter.
In theory at least the members Of the legisa-
ture we're elected to make the laws. If the Governor
is convinced that the and the workers have
a good reason for demanding laws at special ses-
sion, he should call that session without demanding
guarantees of good conduct The law making re-
sponsbility is not his.
Presumably if these leaders decide program
that is not pleasing to the Governor and his friends
there will be no session. That rather makes the
Governor the lawmaker of the state and petty
dictator.
The farmers have a definite idea of what they
want The organized workers want the same thing.
The owner of city real estate favors the plan. 1t
was killed in the last legislature by the lobby of
northern industriasts and the bankers.
law that leaves the farmer and the worker still
bearing the tax burden will not meet the demands
of the situation.
Members of the legislature should move slowly
before signing blank checks against their conscences
and the judgments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

laws it has made it difficult any longer to identify the
laws of God with the laws of science.
Next perhaps, comes the new astrophysics This
has wiped out the old Newtonian world-machine
which gave liberal theologans such satisfaction in
the latter part of the seventeenth centy-a universe
following fixed and orderly laws and exhibiting the
designing providence of God.
Now, Waldemar Kaempfert expresses it, gone
is the old certainty about the universe Gone is the
old machine. We have an accidental universe of
events in strange geometrcal world of many dnen-
sions time being one of them-a world which only a
mathematician can understand"
Along with this We have the revised views of the
ncomprehensible extent and completely of phys-
cal universe galaxy of galaxies of gaaxies Our
little galaxy of 10000 900 suns and planets (6OOo
000x300000 miles in diameter) is only one of
about million thus far discovered in so much of the
physical universe have brought within our gaze
All this is very upsettng to the geocentric impl-
cations Of Christs mission and his vicarous sacrifice
for the inhabitants of this planet
Biology has made many contributions hitherto re-
garded as challenge to orthodox RECOMMENDATION
versus creation, understanding of genetcs and the
resulting guidance in birth control.
Psychology has distressed many religionists bv its
naturalistc analysis Of what looked upon as
the mystery of the SOUL by its indication that one
can not expect literal perpetuation of the human
personality after DEATH and by its calm natural
stic description of the hitherto mysterious fact of
religious conversion experience and transformation
Inc social sciences have reversed the older religious
conception OF the purpose of life; namely spiritual
salvation in a world to come. The social sciences
contend that the goal of life is happiness here and
now.
Science, applied to the investigation of the author
ship of the Bible has proved that it is not the direct
revelation of God but the work of men running over
period Of more than 1900 years. much of the original
having been lost or greatly altered by subsequent
editorial changes.
From this scanty summary of some outstanding
phases of scientific advances one can discern the
great Importance of the Popes proclamation As
Stunning him to be speaking with due elaboration the
carpng critics of religion and Catholicism will have
slim picking in the future
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
A Courageous Pronouncement

In the rush of holiday excitement, readers may
have missed what potentially is of the most
important and far-reachng declarations in the in
tellectual history of western civilization.
His Holiness, Plus XXI, spoke at the annual meet
ing of the Pontfcal Academy of Science Here he
made an amazingly broad-minded statement relative
to the harmony between science and religion. Re-
ferring to the opening of the Vatican City radio
station, the Pope said;
"This was a new demonstration of the harmony
between science and religion that each fresh con-
quest of science even more LUMINOSITY confirms SO
that one may say that those who speak of the in
compatibility of science and religion either make
science say that which it never said or make religion
saw that which it never taught"
This statement is no less than revolutionary. Few
will realize what a change this implies in official
Catholic policy Back in 1864 Pope Plus TX issued
the SYLLABUS of Errors which condemned the most
nnortant asnects of scientific and scholarly progress
In modern times.
Nearly half century later, in 1907, Pope Plus <
Issued the Encyclical "Pascend gregis" This vigor-
Dusly condemned those Catholic scholars VINO were
endeavoring to bring Catholicism into harmony with
the demonstrated results of science and scholarship
1t seemed for the moment as though science was "
be excluded from the Catholic fold
Now Plus XII apparently takes the advanced posi-
ton that Catholicism welcomes all scentlnc ulSco'-
cries and their implications. No more SlgniiicanS
statement has been made in the whole history Oh
SnrNeenoom Let us see just what is impheo' AiiS
can perhaps, best be made clear by listing the QUIZ
seanuing scientific triumphs most OF winch nave
ni'ierto been opposed by the church.
rofemoSt, we might note the new physics, winch
mas DESTROYED all older theories of scientific causaflon
Aas'ng disrupted the former notion OF fixed sclttinc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
The Great Pyramid
II HUFU-ONEKH, architect Of The

Y HUFU-ONEKH, architect of the
IN Great Pyramid of Gizeh, was
preceded by only three generations
of architects in stone, DR.. Breasted
says.
Conceive then" he continues,
"the dauntless courage of the man
who told his surveyors to lay out
the square base 755 feet on each
side.
This is the first time in the his
tory of man that we are thus able
to put our yard-Stick athwart a FYti=
man flind and take the measure OF
its courage in terms of cubic feet Of.
masonry and colossal achievements
in engineering never again to be-
equa1ed. =
"The Great Pyramid of Gizeh is
thus a document in the history Of
the human mind. 1t clearly dis
closes mans sense of sovereign
power in his triumph over material
forces.
Here, then, was man still I'M
der the tremendous impression of
the physical world, but not vet
aware of the world within him.
When five Or six hundred years
OF desert storms had buffeted the
Great Pyramid, a thoughtful Egyp-
tlan looked up at the pyramids and
sang OF the colossal futility of mere
ly physical survival of the body.
The human soul had entered the
first great age of disillusionment.
We begin to hear remote voices that
proclaim the utter futility of ma
terial conquest"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A GOOD many of our girls are unlike their grand
L n mothers. One of the most striking points of
disSmarity is their refusal to follow their husbands
into unknown neghborhoods
Whereas the pioneer woman was ready to brave
any dangers to trek with her into the Wilderness
a few girls-and let be thankful We can add the
qualifying adjective-now rebel at the idea of moving
from Baltimore to Columbus
Investigations will prove that they are given en-
couragement by indulgent mothers. For the cause
OF this kind of behavior it may be traced usually to
parental influence and teaching, to Discrimination
of mother to be parted from her child.
Yet this is the poorest sort of beginning for mar
ried life, everybody should know And it will react
most disasouSy upon the rebellious partner of the
contract.
E>OR when woman fails to fulfill her part of the
l. matrimonial bargain and begins to work against
rather than with, her mate she worthy of his
consideration, and seldom gets it for long.
Men, therefore, who deserted at the crucial
moment of their lives by young cry-babies who f1y
back to mother who refuse to leave her in the old
home town, almost certain to find better wives
later on who viii work with them and reap with them
the rewards of success.
And what, then becomes of the poor little spoiled
creature who fees at the zero hour? We seldom hear
much of her afterward For she probably drags out
rather drab existence and when she finds herself
aging woman without home or children she may
curse the day she ever listened to her mother or to
her own weak fears. And she viii be justified in do
ing so.
The worst characteristic of the too-prevalent
''mamas darling" type of modern girl is that she Ia
coward. And no coward ever won &r herself love
&C, life or laughter. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EES2S

striking sirnilarities in thought,
can find no indication that Bellamy
was familiar with the work of his
German predecessor.
Indeed, he went directly to the
Declaration of independence as the
foundation stone for his philosophy.
He reasoned that equality meant
nothing unless it included economic
equality and that it was ridiculous
to guarantee liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" to anybody who
worked under starvation wages or
none at all. And so he wrote in his
last book, Equality"
1.-THE two great points of the
revolutionary program-the princi-
pie of economic equality and ma
tionalized industrial system as it
means and pledges-the American
people were peculiarly adapted to
understand and appreciate.
"The lawyers had made Consti-
tuition of the United States, but the
true American Constitution-the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
The Moral Vision.

A s II through the dust and tumult
4 n of an engroSsing conflict man
Tor the first time caught something
OF the yelled splendor of the moral
vision, says DR.. Breasted.
He began to hear the voices
within himself and out of the con-
f1ict of social forces, he gradually
became conscious of the inner
values" he says. Thus the Egyp-
tians were the discoveries of char
acter.
In the museum halls we actually
can look up the evidence of the
transition from the age of material
ism to the aga of conscience and
character.
"You will find in our Egyptian
hall group of statuettes with
which a cemetery official nearly
5000 years ago equipped his tomb.
They represent his household, his
children and his servants engaged
in grinding flour, baking bread,
brewing beer, casting metal.
THUS in the Pyramid Age the
Egyptian conceived his needs in the
hereafter as being purely physical
qualification.
alongside the case containing
the statuettes is cedar coffin with
a raised lid, bearing on the inside
pictures of the food and drink
which carry on the old ideas of the
needs of man beyond the grave.
But on the inside of the lid is a
long writing containing the earliest
1ntimations that happiness in the
next world will be dependent on
worthy moral conduct in this world.
There was a lapse of perhaps
500 years between the cemetery Of
fetal who wanted merely food and
drink in the next world and the
dead man who had his coffin so
painted that as he lay in it and
looked up at the lid, he would have
staring him in the face the new
fact that he might expect felicity
beyond only as he had lived a
worthy life here
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
HEALTH sERvICE-++----
Trachoma Often Cause Of Blindness

ease prescribe solutions Of zinc and
copper with suitable antiseptic sub
stances for use on the eyelids as
specific preventive measures.
The disease best is controlled by
routine examination of human be-
ings who are associated constantly
in educational, housing or working
groups.
En1igrants, school children, the
inmates of orphan homes and of
homes for the INDECENT, and en-
ployees in lumber camps and in
construction camps should be reg
ularly examined with the idea of
prevention of trachoma in mind.
Delay in the treatment of infec-
tious granulation of the eyelids is
an extremely serious matter because
of the tendency of this condition
to result in permanent blindness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

related to trachoma in this coun-
try is the control of the disease
among the American Indians, and
among the poorer classes in the
foreign population. u
When a person is found to have
trachona he should be excluded
from classes in school or If a work
er in factory from any possible
contact with other workers.
Certainly he should not be per-
mitted to use the same washing IA
cilities, roller towels, and similar
toilet articles in public places which
constitute a source for the spread
of this disease.
Washing in public places should
be preferably with running water,
without having to touch either the
faucet or the stopper.
Physicians who handle this dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
1929 Fools Paradise

MANY still hope that 1929 will
4VA come back, just as though it
could and just as though it were
not a more unhealthy year than
1881.
Sensible folks are beginning to
realize that the depression was not
such mistake as the 'fool's para
disc" which preceded it.
Some commodity prices are down
to the pre-war level, and while that
may be nothing to cheer about, it
is far from being an irremedial dis
aSter.
This country was not such bad
place in which to live just before
the war. Wages were not quite so
high, it is true. but neither were
rents, and if we didn't have the
radio, we didn't have the racket
and gang rule.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
M. E. Tracy
SAYS:

After Wrestling With Prohi-
bition for Ta0elve Years.
the Firms Admit Theg
Made a Mistake. Isn't ii
About Time We Did the
Same?
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Another
L New Years eve goes into his
tory, with. the usual amount of
noise to no purpose. Some cele-
brated it by praying, some by get
ting drunk and some by making
silly resolutions.
Hooch flowed freely in spite of
all the dry raids; tin whistles, COW
bells, autos trained to backf1re and
other sound-producing devices were
brought into action in spite of all
the broadcasting, and, generally
speaking, people conducted them
selves about as they had during the
last twenty-five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
The Almost Perfect State
THEREUPON Bellamy endea.

AAI'AeAIOE yin belldny enQea-
Il vored to outline the structure
OF the almost perfect state. He did
not think America was quite ready
yet. Revolutions which start too
soon stop too soon,' he said.
Many of the things which he Wis
Toned are strikingly similar to GER
tain phases of the Soviet state. but
Bellamy was firm in the belief that
the change would and could come
only through the political power of
an informed majority. He even
thought of one of the existing ma
jor parties becoming the radical
party of the future through public
pressure.
Tt may be that not all his predic-
tons will come to pass, but con-
corning at least one minor phase
of American life Bellamy displayed
an uncanny prophetic insight.
He was, among other things, the
spiritual father of the radio broad
cast, for in 1888 he had his Utopian
heroine of Looking Backward" ex-
plain to a visitor from an earlier
age:
There are a number of music
rooms in the city perfectly adapted
acoustically to different sorts of mu-
sic. Each days program lasts the
twenty-four hours.
"Any one of the four pieces now
going on that you prefer you can
hear by merely pressing the button
which will connect your home wire
with the hall where it is being rem
dered."
And again, "He showed how, by
turning screw, the volume of the
music could be made to- fill the
room or die away to an echo so
faint and far that one could scarce
ly be sure whether he heard or i'm
agined it."
It seems to me that man who
could predict Rudy Vallee almost
fifty years in advance quite con-
ceivably might predict almost any
thing.
copyright. 1882. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Sounds Like 1881

THE morning after, they crawled
Il sleepily forth to find that more
bombs had been mailed, that the
Italian and Argentinian embassies
in Washington were under guard,
that Chicago's tax rolls for 1928 and
1929 had been declared invalid, that
prophet Gandhi and the viceroy of
India had failed to agree, that Japan
had gained virtually complete con-
troll of Manchuria, that the Firms
had turned down prohibition by a
three-to-one vote, after twelve years
of noble experimenting" that the
germ Of infantile paralysis had been
isolated, and lot of other things
that sounded just like 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Not So Different

XXTE are living in the same world
w that existed last Thursday.
There has been no change, except
such as occurs during any two days.
Nature took no note that a mile
post was being passed, and if the
calendar hadn't said so, the wisest
of us never would have guessed it.
The cue is to take up" where we
left off and "carry on"
We have kissed Nothing. gobd-by,
and there is nothing ahead contrary
to the memorable laws of evolution.
or the inevitable conseq uences of
our own folly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Still in the Mire

T IKE 1881, the new year finds us
L. struggling to get out of mire
which is not wholly economic in
character.
Fad, freak and fashion have had
something to do with the breakdown
of business, especially those which
have crept into law.
Prohibition, the tariff, bureau
cracy, duplicate departments, in
fated pay rolls-what have they
cost?
No, indeed, you can think of much
worse calamities than going back
to some of the conditions which
prevailed just before the war and
starting over again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Firms Admit Mistake

A FTER wrestling with prohibi-
n ton for twelve years, the
people of Finland admit that they
made a mistake. Isn't it about
time that we did the sameP What
is the use of keeping up such a
tragic farce?
Even the efforts at enforcement
have ceased to be sincere, while the
habit of law-breaking with regard
to liquor has led to the sanction
and encouragement of many kinds
Of crookednesS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02


Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
OF the infectious conditions
~ which attack the eye, trachoma
is by far the most serious problem
because it is most prevalent. 1t
has been shown that this disease
is spread by direct contact with in
fected people and indirectly by con-
tact with articles freshly soiled with
the discharges of those who are in
fected.
Trachoma, or infectious granula-
ton of the eyelids, is not in itself
dangerous to life, because practical
ly no one dies of this disease, but a
vast amount of blindness is caused
by trachoma and all this blindness
is preventable.
One of the most serious problems
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
At Two Great ShrineS

TN the American schoolroom the
L pupil is asked to study and
reverence the Declaration of In
dependence and the American Con-
stitution. That is difficult, because
if he studies both he will find that
they say, in many respects,
dramatically opposite things.
Reconcile, if you can, "AlI men
are created free and equal and mo
person held to service or labor in
one state, under the laws thereof,
escaping into another shall in con-
sequence of any law or regulation
therein be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be de-
Iivered up on the claim of the party
to whom such service or labor may
be DUE"
To be sure, this was wiped out
in 1865 by the adoption of the
thirteenth amendment, abolishing
slavery, but it will suffice to indicate
that there had occurred certain
cooling of the revolutionary spirit
between the signing of the Declara-
ton and the signing Of the Con-
Stitution.
It was inevitable that such a pro-
cess should take place. A price of
500 pounds was on the heads of
those who signed the Declaration.
They were enlisted in cause which
might quite probably be overthrown.
No man who is willing to risk his
head is going to be too finicky about
his property rights. After the
victory many revolutionists re-
membered that they were also large
landholders.
It hardly will be denied that the
Constitution is studded with checks
and balances for the preservation
of the social order as it stood in
1887. There had been a great po-
litical upheaval, but the economic
repercussions were slight.
In many vital respects farm
laborer in Virginia lived in approx
mately the same circumstances
under George Washington as he had
lived under George the Third.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
Billions for LeggerS

nURING the last decade, we
- have been paying bootleggers
a billion dollars or SO each year.
Before the war we paid the fed
eral government an excise tax and
contributed large amount to cities
and towns through license fees.
If prohibition represents any
moral gain, which is doubtful, it
certainly involves a money loss
which should not be overlooked
when trying to account for the fed
eral deficit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02

T HAVE imposed a job on myself
Il for the new year. am going
to get a baseball bat and beat the
living daylights out of everybody
can reach in an effort to bring home
the conviction that the only way out
of chaos lies in fellowship.
People bristle at the word $50
cialism," so there will be no great
harm in meaning precisely the same
thing and calling it, for a little
while, industrial democracy"
The least logical and the most
effective barrier to the growth OF
radical thought and action in this
country has been the cry: "It's I'M
American" And yet the seed Of in
dustrial democracy was planted here
more than a decade before the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century.
The vision of the cooperative
commonwealth was enunciated in a
document known to all of us and
needed by very few. There is a
reason.