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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
BEER is COMING BACK

The house Of representatives, by wide and con-
elusive margin, has registered the demand of the
country for legazing and taxing Of beer Final
enactment Of the Collier bill at this winters session
is doubtful, however unless President Hoover and
many senators abandon their lame duck dry atti-
tudes
The house passage of the 80 per cent beer BILL
carrying S5-a-barrel tax. by vote of $50 to 165,
leaves doubt that prohibition is on its way out.
Beer and repeal legislation both will be passed
with a rush when the new congress meets in the
expected extra session soon after March T. if they
are blocked in the present session.
In the senate, the beer tax bill, with its poten-
tal Sl50O0O0O TO SIS 600 month federal rev
enue now must run the gantlet of the judiciary and
finance committees There should be no delay.
This bill involves the partial remedy of oppres-
sve law after thirteen years. and, to considerable
extent, the federal credit.
There should be a fair hearing, and open debate.
Then let the bill stand or fall OH its merits On its
merits we have no doubt to its final passage and
signature Only political considerations block
it--and only temporarily at that
Beer is on its way back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Quotations DARK HOUR

On invitation of President Hoover, some seventy
five school, labor and farm leaders will meet in
Washington on Jan. to confer on "the crisis in
education" 1t is hoped, that this conference may
evolve a formula for meeting one of the nations
most distressing problems
Public education in America is in its darkest
hour. On the one hand the schools being
loaded with extra burdens; the other, they
being impoverished by decreased budgets. Hun
dreds of thousands of children are remaining in
school, due to lack of earning opportunities outside
If the ratio of school enrolment to school popu-
Iation that prevailed in 1920 were unchanged today
there would be 100000 more unemployed minors
walking streets in search of jobs. On the other
hand tax burdens press heavily that, for the first
time, schools are being made to suffer.
Never before, say educators, has depression so
affected school budgets.
Certain economies can be made Many schools,
like private business came under the spell of boom
psychology, and overbuilt. But, the whole, edu-
cation has been our least extravagant industry
American schools never have absorbed much
as per cent of the national income, while educa-
ton costs remained about constant in the purple
decade before 1929.
With growing chronological unemployment the
more not less The present crisis recalls the fable
of the foolish farmer who thought he could
money by loading his mule with heavier burdens and
at the same time feeding him less hay.
He saved money, but the mule died.
In tacklng economy, congress would do we'll to
observe football rules and keep one foot on the
ground.
The movie fan who wants a lot of action will
get it if he'll take seat on the aisle.
Nothing so much improves lame ducks loco
motion as pistol waved in the gallery.
There's many slip 'twxt the cup and the lip
and quite probably a Veto
If there's anything more fragile than the spring
in Christmas toy it's New Years resolution
Now is the time to plan next summers garden
and to contemplate those joyous hours you'll spend
there-if you get around to it.
only few more days until thered better
be Santa Claus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
ueStiOnS and
Answers

GLOW did the custom origi-
nate Of standing in the seventh
inning Of a baseball game?
Am the old days of pine
board seats without backs, to rise
and stretch about the seventh in
ming was q natural result of a
desire to relieve cramped muscles.
Somehow to this practice was at
tached a superstition that it
brought luck to the home team to
rise in the seventh inning, per-
haps because the number seven"
always has been associated with
good fortune.
GLOW can parchment papers
be smoothed?
GIN what cities do United
States auto routes 80, 40 and so
terminate?
A-Thirty terminates at Astoria,
Ore, and 40 and so terminate at
San Francisco.
Q-What is the standard value
of gold in the United States?
Where can gold bullion be sold?
A-The price is fixed by law at
$20.67183 cents an ounce. Gold in
amounts of 500 or more can be
sold at the various assay officers.
Q-Do Ethel, John, and Lionel
Barrymore belong to the same
family? How old are they?
A-They are brothers and sis
ter. Lioned is 81, Ethel is SO, and
John is so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE incessant din about feminine freedom APP
i parentlv diverted our attention from the fact
that along with us the men gained a good deal OF
independence.
The usual idea runs counter to this belief, I
know hut it will not bear intelligent examination.
We think of the old-fashioned man as creature
blessed with unlimited liberty. He trod a majestic
path to the corner saloon. He reigned unmolested
by petticoats in his barber shop. He sat regally
masculine before the livery stable and RECALLED his
COMPANIONS with tales that too vulgar for
feminine
Generally speaking the streets were his and he
enjoyed supremacy in his Office. He had so we
like to fancy every opportunity for living his own
life and doing as he pleased
But this pleasant theory is untenable. The facts
do not support it, because our fathers lived in
sge when every man had from one to five ladies'
hanging on his neck. He free only when he
was dead
It was not so much that he must support his
women in comparative comfort, but that he must
arrange his own life in accordance with the fem
inne ideas of responsibility and tradition He lived
in subsection to public opinion and kept up ap-
pearances to the end.
ONLY the renegade and rogue failed to so do.
No gentleman OF the old School forgot what ne
owed his dependent females. He might be unfaith-
full to his WIFE, but he still respected and protected
her.
He might tyrannize over his daughters, but he
telt responsible for them, at least until they got
husbands He might compel lip and hand service,
but he fed and sheltered all the women of his FAM
lily from his grandmother to his fifth cousin.
He was, in short, held by bonds too strong for
individual to break without disaster to himself
the bonds Of social convention that demanded his
loyalty to a castiron code.
Instead Of sitting down ike king among his
minors, the man of yesterday was in reality slave
amid his queens. With every liberty they have
given us, men have attained a couple for them
selves.
And doubt whether they would like to go back
to those glamorous responsibilities, even if by so
doing they could clap all the females into the
kitchen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
DEBT COOPERATION

President Hoover and President-Elect Roosevelt
are reported continuing their discussions of the
Hoover proposal for cooperation on the foreign
debt impasse. That is good news. 1t is important
that they get together on some method to start
things moving
The responsibility for any debt changes of
course, rests squarely with congress- It alone has
power to revise the terms When Mr. Hoover. a
year ago, asked congress to revive the debt COM
mission we supported that policy And we support
ed him when the President recently repeated that
request.
unfortunately congress apparently will not act
That, of course, is not surprising, in view of its
past attitude Foreseeng that possibility, the Presi-
dent indicated in his debt message that if congress
did not authorize commission he would go ahead
and appoint one. In this connection he said he
would seek the cooperation of Mr.. Roosevelt.
According to the news reports, Mr.. Roosevelt has
replied that he not put himself in the position
of accepting in advance any commitment which
might be made by such body but that any facts and
data it could gather would be very helpful to him
when he assumes office.
1t should not be difficult for the President to
meet these terms No commission can bind con-
gress, anyway. least of all one appointed by a de-
feated President. All that any Hoover commission
could do would be to perform the preparatory and
exploratory work said to be acceptable to Mr.
Roosevelt.
This method means delay in effective negotia-
tons compared with prompt action by congress
which now seems impossible. But this method
means speed, compared With the other alternative
of waiting until March for Mr.. Roosevelt to begin
preparations and fact-ndng for later negotiations
We believe the country will welcome evidence
that Mr.. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt intend to CO.
operate on this issue, which is above party. OBJ
viously fair person will expect the President
elect TO accept any responsibility for any policies
recommended by a commission over which he has
no control.
AS practical matter of preserving the conti-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22

! ~ Cd, according to the view set
W forth by Sir James Jeans in
his "The Mysterious Universe" is a
mathematician. The functioning OF
the universe. according to Jeans,
defies mechanistic explanations and
it is to be understood only IN terms
of mathematics.
Readers who found a universe
which could not be pictured unsat-
isfactory may be interested in an
opposite view taken by Prof. Fred
erick Soddy of the University OF
oxford.
Prof. Soddy is one of the men
who laid the foundations for the
present understanding, such as it
is, of the physical universe.
He was one of the men at the be-
ginning of this century, when
knowledge of the existence of x
rays, radium and the electron was
only a few years old, who helped
explain these phenomena.
He was associated with Sir Ernest
Rutherford in the study of radium,
which led to an understanding Of
the nature of the rays of radium
and to the theory that the atom
consists of a nucleus surrounded by
revolving electrons.
1t was in 1902 that Rutherford
and Soddy demonstrated that the
rays given off by radium were the
result of the spontaneous disinte-
grafton of the nucleus of the ra-
dunn atom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Not Entirely Wasted

the realistic side of begging take
~ for granted that there few captains of industry the
panhanders of the city They to
to
least scientific sort Of charity.
if world general and possibly the United States
particular somewhat intelligence in handling
problems there would be fewer bggars possibly
day at all.
Until each is in position to that his
useful work. and that his
the quite in position to turn
the the street and won't give you
thing, because afraid might squander it."
copyrg by
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structure is the man down below,
whose work, wages and con-
sumption sustain it.
We have become static through
efforts to save and sustain the
paper evidence of wealth.
If the eight or ten million UNI
employed had been kept at work
during the last three years, how
much would they have earned?
More important still, how much
would the turnover of what they
earned have meant?
Vast sums have been modified
for relief, or recovery in one form
or another. We have had charity
drives, bond issues, and recon-
struction corporations.
How much of the capital and
credit thus made available has
been translated into steady re-
liable, constructive labor?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22

Q-What is the origin of the
Chow dog?
Ats native home is in China,
particularly the northern portion,
where these dogs have been bred
for many years. No specific data
are available regarding their origin,
but from the general characteristics
exhibited by representative indiyid-
uals today, it is practically certain
that the ancestry traces back TO
dogs of the Arctic, particularly the
EsquimauX.
Q-What is the purpose Of the
Official Gazette of the patent office?
1t is weekly bulletin containing
information about patents issued,
including reissues and designs, with
portions of the drawings selected to
illustrate the inventions claimed,
illustrations of trademarks pub
lished, and decisions rendered by
the courts in patent cases and by
the United States commissioner Of
patents and other special matters
of interest to inventors.
Q-How can temperature, ex-
pressed in fahrenheit be converted
to centigrade?
A-To convert temperature from
fahrenheit to centigrade subtract
80, on account of the difference in
zero points, and multiply he remain
der by So. To reduce centigrade
temperature to Fahrenheit, multiply
by 9-5 and add 80 to the product.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Two Opposing Views

TINE development of physical
Il theories of the universe have
been in the hands of two sets of
scientists, the experimental physi-
cists and the theoretical physicists.
1t is not an easy matter to define
the dividing line between the two
and often one man is both. But in
general, we may regard the expert
mental physicist as the one who
seeks to understand nature through
direct experiment, while the theore-
teal physicist seeks to take the
work of the experimentalists and
weave it together into one compre-
hensive theory.
Perhaps it might be said that the
chief tool of the experimentalist is
the experiment, while the chief tool
of the theorist is mathematics. Ap-
parently DR.. Soddy, himself an eX-
perimentalist, feels that the the
oriSts are trying to move too fast.
He sets forth his views in the
preface to his new book, The In
depreciation Of the Atom" He says:
THE fundamental reconstruction
Of our outlook upon the world Of
matter, energy, space and time
which now is being attempted,
mainly as a consequence Of the sue
cesses of the theory of relatively,
seem to neglect the ordinary phe-
nomena of nature in favor of the
exceptional
1t has not yet succeeded in giving
us any consistent or complete men,
tai picture in place of the older and
more mechanical views.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Every Day Religion
. BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

nEAN SPERRY of Harvard
- tells us Of an old clergyman
in a New England mill town who
used, once a year. to preach
sermon about the stars. One year,
when the sermon was too tech
nical for terrestrial wit and too
long for human patience, his GU
rate protested.
Here. in this town." said the
young man, where wear busy
making and selling cloth, I can
not see the value of a sermon on
astronomy"
The old preacher smiled and
replied: my dear boy, of course
it is of no use at ALL but it greatly
enlarges my idea of God" From
that day to this the curate has
realized that an enlarged idea of
God is necessary, not only in re-
ligion, but also in the long run,
that men can not make good cloth,
or sell it honestly, without such
ideas.
But what have the stars to do
with writing sermons? Much,
very much. The point is that if
man knows his own subject, or his
own work, and nothing else, he
really does not know the one thing
he is doing.
He must know some other sub
ject in addition to his own, and
must be able to bring a larger
outlook into his work, and so es-
cape the dangers of na1rowness
which beset the man who knows
only one thing.
n II
EOR the same reason, when Sir
IL Roger de Coverly was seeking
a clergyman for his parish, he
sought for "a man of plain sense
and learning who understood
little of backgammon" He wanted
a man who could preach, and also
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-We are
IN entering the fourth hard
winter. Except for a specious ele-
ment of optimism which buoyed
us up at the beginning, we are
right where we were in 1929. In
spite of all the government has
done, we have failed to make
Roadway.
Let those who will attribute this
to misfortune. prefer to regard
it as the result of mistaken policy.
BY and large, we have taken
care of people at the top with
credit and those at the bottom
with charity.
How can buying power be Gre
ated on that basis?
Of what use is it to loan big
corporation money if there is no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22

This is the first of a series Of four
articles by DR.. FiShbein on the nature
and treatment of scarlet fever.
CCARLET fever, no doubt, was
- known to the ancients, but it
is only within the last ten years
that it actually has been thor
oughly elucidated.
1t is an acute infectious disease
that comes on suddenly, with a
very red rash which disappears
gradually, and which is followed
by peeling of the skin.
For many years it was known
that a germ called the streptococ-
Gus was associated with scarlet
yer, but it is only recently that
the definite relationship of this
germ to the cause Of the disease
has been established.
The proof is in the fact that
the germ can be found in the
throat, the blood and other tissues
of people who have the disease,
that the disease can be produced
in human beings by putting the
germs into their bodies. and that
there is reaction in the skin Of
a human being who does not have
tho disease when the toxin or
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play a game, and thus be the
more human.
In the same way, man who
knows only medicine does not
know medicine, and we are gen.
orally right in distrusting the
thought of a man which does not
balance itself with an acquaint-
ance with what other men, in
other fields, have heard and seen.
It is difficult for any of us to
take another view than the one
from his own window, as difficult
for the man at the university win
dow as for the man at the cottage
window. But we must learn to do
it; otherwise, our outlook is dim
and distorted.
Copyright, 1892, United Feature Syndicate)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
It Was HIS Money

ONLY somebody told with indignation
~ he given had
into speakeasy buy beer The who told the
that he had scoded the beggar severely.
property
his with will
begging the apocrypha
responsibility
certain rich who hailed by individual
asking the ground that hungry
Certainly, lunchroom
which follow
Richard Harding Bbber the
may vagrant
although sueted
But this beggr ate with good will and his wealthy benefactor
himself the
When time to leave the Good Samaritan discovered that
combined
He
I'll both and produced 81 at the cashiers
terribly that" said the IF will
only Office with I'll back Hop into this taxi
beggar smiled unkindy fashion
good buddy
worked going let stick
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
SCIENCE
Theorists Go Too Far
BY DAVID DIETz

"In this exposition these purely
symbolic and physical meaningless
conception enter only so far as they
are unavoidable.
THE objective is rather the inter-
probation of the ordinary properties
of matter which the new views
singularly fail to account for"
And again he says, Personally, I
more and more come to regard the
purely formal and mathematical
presentation of physical theories as
a disguise and evasion of the real
problems rather than as any solu-
ton to them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Daily Thought

Be patient therefore, brethren,
unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth
for the. previous fruit of the earth,
and hath long patience for it,
until he receive the early and
latter rain.-James ST.
=
DATIENCE is nobler motion
l. than any deed.-Bartol.
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4 Thorough Book

DROF. sODDYs book sticks to
Il the field which he outlines for
himself in the preface. 1t is a very
thorough review of the important
advances in atomic study from the
discovery of radio activity by Bee
querel in 1896 up to the present
work on cosmic rays by Millikan
and Regener. The book is published
by Putnam's at S..
1t should find a place upon the
library shelves of all students Of
modern scientific theories and I
recommend it as Christmas
present for any one interested in
such theories.
While the book is written in such
language that a layman easily can
understand it, its thoroughness
makes it slow reading.
Soddy assumes that the reader
wishes the whole story and proceeds
to give it to him.
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Lest We Forget

is good thing the whole for be
IN organization
who
symbol wrong.
Most brought
died
There probably
all other professions But they must be exceptional
All testimony
the sidewalks OF New York from
American went to add
AS I remember, his cents
much experiment myself thought
might a
work but then the weather cold newspaper
and sociological enthusiasm and anyhow,
III defer my amateur panhandng until weather
high mighty
many take the bggar There
Of
in alcohol is at least as
of
homeesness and cold just natural
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market for the goods it manufac-
lures? Of what use to pay divi-
dends out of borrowed capital?
There are those who believe that
business depends on the security
market and that the most legiti-
mate use of credit in times of de-
preston is to bolster it. But which
came first, industry or stocks, pro-
duction or speculation?
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TT is, of course, possible that
i people are infected with mild
attacks of scarlet fever which are
overlooked, and that as a result
they later are protected against
the disease.
Scarlet fever is one of those
diseases which happens once in a
persons lifetime and then is not
likely to happen again. In other
words, one attack of the disease
protects.
Occasionally scarlet fever is
spread through milk or through
the excretions or secretions of
persons who are infected, but
spread through food is far less
frequent than the spread directly
from person to person.
Most people are interested to
know whether the scales or the
skin that peels off after scarlet
fever will transmit the disease.
Apparently it will not do so un-
less it is contaminated with the
secretions of the nose and throat,
and then it may.
NEXT: How scarlet fever "be-
HAYES"
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anu SAID BeggarS
oeggars huniiate US then might
When the expressed with anv
Hahk at all becomes evident that
upon nigh moral grounds but
obviously most the who side to ask
not members of the deserving
But We live in climate condition ought make
thirst and shver in wntry winds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-22
Plagued By Delu8ion

XXTE are plagued with the de-
w fusion that wealth can be
accumulated by paper deals, that
shares of stock are more impor-
tant than the enterprise they rep
resent, and that the last thing to
be thought Of in our economic
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nuity and influence of such commission after Mr.
Roosevelt enters the White House. it would seem
wise for Mr.. Hoover to name several outstanding
Democrats.
Doubtless, the foreign governments would be
more inclined to furnish information to such group
than to solely representative of the party going
out Of power.
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the heditu Magazine
poison taken from the germs is
inoculated into the skin.
r
CCARLET fever usually comes
~ on in epidemics that are
worse in the winter or fall. The
chief factor is contact, usually of
a child, with some one who has
the disease.
Most of the cases develop in
children between 5 and - years
of age.
There is probably something
that the child gets in its blood
from the mother which prevents
children below l year Of age from
catching the disease in most
cases.
Scarlet fever does not spread
nearly so rapidly as measles; ap-
parently only about one in ten
people who come in contact with
cases of the disease later develop
il. e