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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Pioneer Conditions

4 NHERARDI and Jewett say truly
~ that one can not heIp but he
impressed by the rapid development
OF worldwide telephony.
They hasten to add, however that
We are in an early stage of deveI-
opment and present service suffers
from the limitations of pioneer con-
Dependence in so many cases
upon single intercontinental cir
cut, which often is shared on q
party line basis between two mr.
more terminal points, is one of these
limitations, they continue.
another is the variation in
TRANSMISSION characteristics and tha
susceptibility to interruption. which
IN the present stage of deveIon-
menu OF radio are characteristic
especially Of short-wave circuits on
some OF the more important routes
Inc rapidity with which the first
steps have been taken is perhans
the pest assurance that advance will
commune TO be rapid as the CONNER
.Ao'AAu III increasing amounts
OF service Develops"
Plans are under way to exteno
greatly the number of circuits and
the points reached, the two authors
say. WV oo'iIoIS
The worldwide telephone not
work when completed, ACCORDING tn
present plans, will link together the
countries having SO per cent of the
worlds telephones and carving on on
trade. =" AolelgA
Closely related to the establish
ment Of intercontinental circ,1its f.
the establishment of telephone
service from European and North
american points to a number of mas
senger vessels normally operating ON
tne North Atlantic and other mas
Senger routes" they say.
In addition, work is advancing
IN the equipment of fishing fleets
Tugs etc, but this service pertains
more directly to the continentaI
telephone service"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Must Feel Prosperity

ID lightly, or wrongly, the peo-
N pie Of this country have been
trained to associate prosperity with
the administration of government,
not as it can be demonstrated by
statistics, but as it can be felt ana
experienced by the average indi-
vidual.
You just can't make ten million
unemployed people believe that a
great victory has been won over de-
preston, or that they ought to for
get their poverty on election day,
because some banks and business
institutions are able to borrow
money from the government.
After telling this country that it
could live and get along all right in
splendid isolation" you can't per-
suade it that the depression needed
to last 6hree years because the rest
of the world was in bad shape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IRON general observation, should say that the
4 woman who does nothing but bring up her chill
dren seldom brings up very good ones.
Hence can not share in the general excitement
about mothers having other work and other interests
The woman who concentrates with deadly earnest
ness upon this single job of mothering WILL in nine
cases out of ten, develop singetrack mind Think
ing so much and continuously about her family
she nearly always ends by thinking for them-and
this is where the mischief comes in.
Admiration for the old-fashioned woman has be-
come almost cult with us. We haven't given any
too much thought to the subject we would muffle
our canlor. To be sure, the old-faShioned mother
did rear pretty fair children and the reason for that
was that she did not spend much time them
She had leisure for the business Since she
must cook and wash and scrub and for the family
year in and year out and since she had many instead
of few children, she obliged to let them alone
most Of the time.
T UCK, too was with her She had no worries
IL about traffic accidents or completes. She gen.
orally lived farm in a sparsely populated dis
trict where there plenty Of room for the young
tsers to roam at large.
Modern children are little slaves. VasSals, first to
parental ideas of how they must be reared, next to
the regulations set up by the school systems and
following that, by the conventions of mechanical
civilization.
And so it seems to me the youngsters need more
rather than less freedom Of spirit They need liberty
to develop their own Municipalities and would be-
eve, be better with far less tutelage from parents
and teachers.
When you consider how many times adults have
been proved wrong in their opinions. it's wonder
that we have the temerity left to make many rule:
for the young In the face of past mistakes how
we ever be sure We are rght2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
NJ. E. Tracy
Saws

HooUer Will Go DolOn Into
History as One Of Our Most
Thoroughly r epudiG TED
Executives.
NEW YORK, Nov. S.-This is the
1 ' tenth time I have sat down to
forecast the result of a presidential
election the night before it took
place. Only once have I felt at all
perplexed. That was in 1916, when
Hughes ran against Wilson and
threw away his chance by giving
Senator Hiram Johnson Of Cali
fornia the cold shoulder.
1t is difficult to see how any i'm
partial observer could have miscal-
culated the result on any Of the
eight other occasions.
Contrary to popular belief, recent
elections in this country have been
far from close. Neither has cam
paigning played much Of part in
determining them. AS a general
proposition, the vote would have
been about the same if taken in
June, instead of November.
Much as that may reflect on pro-
fessional politics, it is to the credit
Of popular intelligence.
The vast majority of people do
their own thinking. The dominat-
ing factor in all campaigns is
whether the party in power has
given satisfaction. If it has not,
arguing does little good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Thirty-Seven Circuits

III ly-OCNClI VII JULIO
THERE are at present, Gherardi
Il and Jewett tells us, 81 intercon-
tinental circuits, totaling about
10000 miles in length.
"All are radio circuits" they say.
/ zone, in the New York-London
group, is long-wave circuit operat-
ing at approximately sixty kilo-
cycles; the others are short-wave
circuits in the range between 5000
and $4,000 kilocycles."
The direct circuits connect North
America with Europe, South Amer
lea and Hawaii; also Europe with
South America, eastern Asia, Aus
tralia and Java; also Java with
eastern Asia.
A circuit between North America
and eastern Asia and a circuit be-
tween Europe and South Africa
now are in process of DEVELOPMENT.
Europe and North America. the
two largest highly-industrialized
areas OF the world, contain about 90
per cent of the worlds. telephones.
our two authors say.
1t is natural that intercontinen-
tai telephone business in volume
should develop first between those
Two areas. Here service is main
tanned on a twenty-four-hour basis
ana group of four circuits is in
use.
ELSEWHERE, however, intercontf-
mental connections consist at the
present time of single circuit. o..
more frequently, the part time usa
OF a circuit, the apparatus being ar
ranged to share its time between
TWO or more distant terminals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-In twenty years OF
being a reader and admirer OF
Scripps-Howard papers around the
country, I crave the indulgence OF
the editor and any Times readers
whose toes step on in my remarks
l should say mostly Star readers and
writer's, because this letter really is
more addressed to the Star.
The Scripps- Howard editors have
shown themselves unafraid to cham
pion the cause of the forgotten
man." The editor probably will re-
call old Neg" Cochran, and what a
fighter he was on the News-Bee UP
in Toledo. Well, 1 was an admirer
Of his twenty years ago. I also
read the Columbus Citizen and Gin
cinnati Post, and in any town I'm in
and can't get hold. the Scripps-
Howard papers, 1 feel a loss.
I don't always agree with all the
opinions of the editor of The Times
but a person can not ignore the
fact that The Times is a progressive
paper and a champion of the
masses.
For about nineteen years I have
been a Republican, but after listen
ing to some Of the drivel M. w
Pershing and some others write, ]
thank God 1 am not one of those
diehards who can not change his
political belief.
I would venture to say some OF
these bitter-enders for Hoover, Wat
son & Co., like Mr.. Pershing, don't
know there is a depression on, but
I happen to know that the depres-
sion started for me in 1880 anc
there were at least ten million OF
us then and quite a few more mil
lions since.
Mr.. Pershing always is deridine
ex-President Wilson and praisine
Hoover, Watson, etc. While moi
agreeing with Wilson in intsrna.
tional policy and some Of his other
policies. 1 can not see how he car
compares those times with these. J
never have seen, and hope never
to see again, times like these. He
brings up some arguments about
rents, soup houses, factories heint
closed and so forth from 1914 X
1917 that are so silly and nonsen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

I'm for shorter presidential cam
4 paigns. I don't mean neces-
sariIy that they should start later
in the year, but there should be a
breathing spell.
Each nominee might have a week
or so in August to outline his pro-
gram, and then it might be a fine
idea for all the candidates to go
into seclusion and just think for
five or SIX weeks.
During this lull the rest Of us
could also be thinking. Only the
candidates would be debarred from
talking, of course. During the in
tervals between work and play the
average man profitably might look
around in search of another aver
age man and then discuss with him
calmly enough the points of cleav-
age between the nominees.
But red fire, ballyhoo, swings
around the country, speeches from
the rear platform-all these things
would be punishable by a fine Of
not more than 500 or three months
in jail.
A Chance to, Catch Breath
A FTER a decent pause, during
N which the country might have
time to digest the points involved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
By DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
1T has been estimated that so per
4 cent of all diseases about which
medicine knows most are caused by
attacks, on the human body by
germs capable of causing disease.
If one includes all the diseases
which represent complications and
after-effects of infections of the hui
man body, the percentage probably
is much greater.
Students of infection are inclined
to include four factors as chiefly
responsible for infection of the
body: First, the presence Of a germ
with sufficient toxic power to grow
in the body; second, a sufficient
number of these germs to overcome
attacks by the body against the
germ; third, some special condition
in the body that makes it possible
for the germ to live and grow, and
fourth, some method Of getting the
germ into the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
DRIVES CONTINUE

ON Nov. 8, 1918, the American
~ army drove German troops
out OF the last dominating posi-
ton east of the Meuse.
French troops continued their
orlVe, capturing Mezieres, as the
German ENJOYS discussed possible
peace terms with allied representa-
tiyes.
Prince Macmillan Of Baden re-
signed as chancellor Of Germany,
but his resignation was not accept
ed.
The Bavarian republic was es-
taolished, as revolutionary groups
seized Hamburg, Bremen, Bremen
haven, Cuxhaven and Schwerin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

all, he didn't say the offensive
words himself. He never noticed
them, and they had not the slight
est relationship to his own quail
f1cations or lack of them.
But some chance remark of even
the most obscure partisan some
times will be visited upon the poor
defenseless head of the candidate
himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter-
eSting writer's 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, 1932-11-08
Questions and
Answers

Are the diplomatic representatives
of Bolivia and Paraguay in the
United States ambassadors?
They hold the rank of minister.
What is the term of thee Governor
of New Jersey?
Three years.
When did Christy Mathewson play
his last game in a world baseball
series?
Oct. II, 1913, when he pitched for
the New York Giants against the
Philadelphia Athletics and was de-
feated. to 1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

Telephony Has Reached the
Stage Where Conversations
Can Be Carried on BetlCeen
Any THO Continents.
DEVELOPMENT of worldwide
- telephony has reached the
stage where it is possible to carry on
conversation between any two
continents on earth.
In some cases, this can be done
by direct circuit. In others, either
Europe or North America must be
used as relay or switching"
point.
This development, which has
come about in the last five years,
was described bNBancroft Gherardi,
vice. president and chief engineer of
the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Company, and Frank B.
Jewett, president Of the Bell Tele-
phone laboratories, in a paper pre-
sented before the International
Electrical Congress in Paris.
Overseas radio telephone expert
ments were carried on in 1915. The
human voice was sent from Wash
ington to Paris and from Washing
ton to Hawaii
The war, however, delayed further
developments at the time.
The first inkling which the public
received of what was in store was
when a radio link was established
between the California coast and
Catalina Island in 1920
This radio link made 1t possible
to carry on a conversation with the
telephone users of the island from
any telephone in the United States.
I'm 1927" Gherardi and Jewett
tell us, after a period Of intensive
experimentation and development
work, commercial service between
Europe and North America was
opened to the public.
This was the first step in the ex-
pansion of telephone service from
continental scope to a worldwide
scope"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

and more the education system must absorb the new
leisure" caused by machines.
4ax-r1dden communities can remodel their tax
system, effect economies in elimination of graft and
OF useless governmental units pry loose from the pay
ron mountaineering officials and make other necessary
and desirable economies.
The public schools should be the last, not the
first to suffer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
One More Plot Story

n
~ Ruth Nichols had crashed in
a plane dedicated to a nonstop
flight across the continent in the
interest of President Hoover. I'M
mediately it was darby limited by
a minor official in Republican ma
tional headquarters that the plane
had been tempered with. He quite
evidently was pointing in the direc-
ton Of the Democrats.
But could anything be much more
preposterous? Miss Nichols is an
excellent flier-one of the best
but, as far as I know, her reputa-
ton as an orator is far more frag-
mentary.
To put it frankly, who would care
whether she got to California to
make a speech for Hoover or not?
To be even more blunt, jdst what
masses are palpitating to hear Hoo
yer or Roosevelt once again?
When will any Of these candidates
learn to get off the stage and give
the voter chance?
(Copyright. 1882. BY The Times
Where is Liberia Do Negroes hold
office there?
1t is a Negro republic in West
Africa, where only Negroes can vote
and hold office.
Where does the Yukon river rise
and empty?
1t rises in a number of small
streams and tarns in British Co
lumbia, its main forming basin OF
reservoir being Lake Bennett, anC
empties into Norton sound, BerinG
sea, about sixty miles southwest Of
st. Michael.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

new school for apartment house janitors has
been opened in Kansas City, Well gladly pay the tut
ton of ours if he'll try to learn something about
keeping us warm in winter and cool in summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

Soviet Russia has started drive to make mar.
rage offices more cheerful anything to keep the
prospective husband from realizing his peril.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

The principal difference between an amateur and 6
professional these days to be that the amateur
is so much more professional.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
Daily Thought

A little one shall become a thou
sand, and a small one a strong
nati0n.-Isaiah 1922.
I would rather be right than
president.-Henry Clay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

Frances plan to organize European peace army
reminds us of the man who puts his finger in a
mouse-trap to see if it will work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

Those states in the east that are driving eacE
others trucks off the roads are winning lot of sup
port-from the pleasurecar motorist!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

American Fleet Irritates Japan"-News story
Well lot of American taxpayers know exactly hoy
the Japanese feel, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

steal I shall not try to answer them.
1 just will let the readers who lived
during those days answer more in
detail if they so wish.
Mr.. Pershing I notice, mentions
some of the miners who have gone
back to work in Indiana and the
1000 men going back to work at the
Beech Grove shops.
Well, Mr.. Pershing, if I under
stand correctly that he was an ex-
newspaper editor, should know how
that is worked. If they say 1900
went to work, it was more likely 600
or maybe sixty. I and thousands of
others have answered some of those
ads and found them wanting in
truth.
Now, in closing, 7 want to say that
this letter was written by an ex-
Republican, and when I say Eek" I
mean very much SO. I hope the
readers will bear with this poorly
written epistle, because I am not an
ex-editor, but a machinist who has
lost about $4,000 in. wages during
ILLS 11OONCI -Clk1ChCA4-144- CNS4 y PSN
depression.
After twenty years of dumb vot-
ing, am going to vote intelligently
cast a vote straight for the So
cialist party.
I would rather waste my vote, as
they put it, than to vote for either
of the two old parties, and I figure
for the first time in my life I am
using my vote intelligently.
One last word, Mr. Pershing: If
President Hoover and Senator Wat
son really wanted to do so much
for our country, why did they wait
until the tail-end of the admins
tration, or just before election?
j. c. KENT.
408 North New Jersey street.
Editor Times-I am convinced
firmly that the grand old Hoosier
state is going to do herself proud
ON Nov. by sending to the United
States senate her gifted son, Frede-
rick Van Nuys. How wish every
citizen in Indiana knew Fred Van
Nuys as 1 know him.
I am speaking particularly as one
associated Nth him in the 1913 and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

That Canadian farmer who sold two steers for
$1515 and then had to pay freight bill Of $3.50 on
them lucky at that. He didn't lose money on the
deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08

They say the horse is coming back This may
mean more stable employment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Telephony Has Reached the
Stage Where Conversations
Can Be Carried on BetWeen
- IT. Da4.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

This practical suite of two
pieces makes an ideal combina-
ton for the small apartment
home. as the davenport conceals
a full size double bed. out of
sight during the day, but ready
to be used any time desired.
Upholstered in homespun tap
estry.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-11
THE LOVELY POTATO

The per capita consumption of potatoes is four bushels
In other words each fulgrown American consumes four
bushels of potatoes every year. and other vegetable
boast such popularity Yet, strange it may it
hasn't been many years that the owy Irish potato had
bad reputation, when prominent writer actually de-
cared that st is despsed by the rch and deemed
food for the meaner sort of persons"
Go into any home today, any home anywhere in this
broad land for that matter and ask what vegetable most
used The will invariably be the potato Guilt
walton, sfu cookery and low prices have brought this
staple commodity to its present popularity. They
of the cheapest and most filling foods and they furnish
important nutrients besides We produce millions of bushels
annually in this country yet Russia and Germany outrank
in total production Ireland gets lot of free adver
tsng out of the yet the Irish potato first dis
covered in South America by the Spaniards who followed
Columbus and the word potato" is Spanish.
King of the vegetable world you'll find the lowy potato
being served the most expensive hotel and in the cheap
est lunch in the home of the poorest person. and
in the home of the richest Nothing fit in and
satisfy the human appetite WELL So don't let these
tangled diet fads you away from the potato 1t is
still the greatest blessing nature has provided in the
table line.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-11
Brown Eyes Neither
Stronger Nor Healthier
Than Blue, Says Expert

Do brown-eyed persons have strong
er vision than those with blue eyes :?
According to M. ]. Julian, director Of
the Better Vision Institute of New
York, it is popular fallacy that the
color of the iris has any efec5 upon
the power of vision or with the health
of the eye.
The iris is curtain, Mr.. Julian ex-
planned, which admits light into the
interior of the eye through an opening
in its center, called the pupil. The iris
is composed of tissue which expands
and contracts freely, is plentifully
supplied with blood vessels, and more
or less heavily colored with pigment.
Eyes which are heavily pigmented
are brown, or almost black. Brown
eyes endure the light, however, more
readily than the blue because of their
heavier fermentation, but this simply
means that in strong light the pupil
of the brown eye contracts less than
the blue in shutting out the light.
In some instances, Mr.. Julian con-
tinued, children are born without any
coloring matter in the iris, in which
case it is perfectly transparent and
has the appearance of a piece of lace.
A reddish glow comes through the iris
from the blood vessels in the back OF
the eye, which gives rise to the be-
lief that these persons, called alkinos,
havepink eyes. Succh eyes, suffer
from even ordinary light because the
transparent iris affords no protection
and their vision is apt to be defective.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-11
THE FARM

Work the farm is hard, but it is not so hard as
work in many industrial empoyments and laborsavng de-
vices have made easier than it used to be- The farmer
taxed in many beyond what he thinks is fair but
is the city worker All ALL a farmer leads, through
fat years and lean, healthier and independent life
than the industrial worker. young people the
farms realized that if of them imbued with
respect for agriculture and realized that there is dignity
in honest toll, larger number of them would remain
the land and take in the city sights by automobile after
the chores DONE and not toll in cities and have only
two weeks of 81 in which recreation among the
from which they fed The farm is long way from
being the ideal place it would be if burdens did not
cast many clouds above it. But with these clouds
it's still the finest place Americans have yet found to i've
and the finest place to bring up future Americans