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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Regulating Utilities

The federal court, through an opinion written by
Judge Baltzen has decided that the law means what
it says The law in Indiana fixes the city the unit
Of regulation. AS far the lower federal court Is
concerned, this viii remain the unit.
The victory is Pyrrhic rather than real. 1t sends
back to the legislature the task Of amending the law
so that regulation can be accomplished easily and
Justly and in accordance with the development Of
utility service.
When the law written each city supplied
with electricity from a plant within its borders
The day of the super plant had not arrived The
extensive use Of electricity upon farms had not
arrived
The intent Of the law to limit the charges
within cities to decent return upon investment.
Since the law was passed the use of electricity has
increased enormously. 1t has supplanted the man
who stored ice in winter for 1t has
replaced the broom of the servant girl and has taken
the place Of steam and horses in industry and in
manufacture.
Electricity for industrial and domestic use, has
become Of the most important factors in modern
life
The utilities, looking always for chance to
capitalize social increments have found ways of de-
feating regulation. They quite logically said that
service is no longer local matter inasmuch as the
service is now extended in its physical aspects
wide territories
Regulation over wide areas, on the other hand
means no regulation. The cost of appraisals would
nulify any reductions Appeals of the public would
be delayed beyond any period of time that would
give real relief to the people,
Before any decision could be reached if the usual
procedure of the commission were followed firms
and citizens who bear the brunt would probably be
bankrupt
So, while there is rejoicing over the fact that
finally federal court has upheld the law the people
are now faced with the problem of rewriting the law
to make it workable.
II the city unit is maintained there will be no
protection for the agricultural and suburban areas
which are now large users of electricity.
II the unit be established, the law becomes
unavoidable
In the meantime relief could be given if both
the commission and legislature struck at the real
source of most of the injustice.
The holding company is the device used to pry
larger profits from consumers. The purchase of coal
for example, by the local light company takes from
electric consumers at least quarter of million of
dollars year. Its engineering and financing fees
take much more.
The water company, using the same corporation
device oots the people of this city of many thousands
Perhaps unless the utility interests are much wiser
than they have BEEN the public will finally discover
the way out by building its own plants and oper-
ating them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

GONE Of the high-claSS bunk we put out to the
- youngsters these days emanates from educational
Institutions although fond papas and mamas put their
stamp of approval on it,
The falacy of football as a means of moral de-
velopment should be established easily, but most OF
subscribe to the idea of loud cheers. We pretend
to believe, for instance, that stout young man, by
making touchdown for his alma mater, by this
act gain virtue that will assist him in conquer
ing what we pleased to call the Great Game of
Life"
We tell him that when he gets out upon the field
before thousands Of paid spectators he will learn fair
ness and respect for rules and how to bow to defeat
with good grace.
What it does in reality to insti within the young
performer desire to play to the grand stand. And
moral asset that is subject to questioning
have no doubt that large part of our present
plight in the civic, industrial and political field is the
college graduates seek the lmelight and the stand
ards of the football field have become. in many in
stances the standards of life.
XXTE claim Of course, that in football as insother
Wv sports the boy is taught that winning or losing
does not matter, and that the only thing that counts
is how he conducts himself in the game. But the
winners are onized and how chilly is the attitude Of
the student body and the alumni after he executes
his fourth consecutive tumble.
Football, as it is conducted today in most high
schools and colleges, has become refined racket And
grandstanding is national weakness.
It is hard to understand how fine sport that has
degenerated into of major industries and in
which the student is used for exploitation purposes
can help either the cause Of education or ethics
Moreover, the money we waste annually on tough
muscled morons could If rightly applied enable many
worthy boy to acquire knowledge that would III
him for splendid life Of hepfulness to humanity
We need right now more mental and fewer phys.
ica1 gymnastics in our schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Killing the Lame Duck

OF the many barriers to representative government
in the United States, of the worst is the lame
duck session of congress- which the house has voted
to abolish by constitutional amendment.
The constitutional fathers did not intend to erect
this particular barrier against democracy In those
stage coach days it was not practicable for new
congress- to meet soon after election.
So it came about that the old congress functioned
for several months-that is, until March AFTER the
November elections AS there was provision for
special session of congress without call by the Pres
dent the net result YVES that congress did not meet
until thirteen months after election.
BY the time thirteen months had elapsed, OF course,
MANY national problems had changed and others
grown acute The effect was that a congress often
was elected on one issue, and egslated on entirely
new issues not before the country thirteen months
earlier.
Meanwhile the defeated members of congresS-the
.lane ducks"-were controlling legislation after they
had been removed from Office, insofar the voters
were able to remove them from office.
Such crazy system could not have been per-
petuated down through the decades had it not been
of great profit to the political Bosses 1t was duck
soup for Them
Most of the lame ducks wanted political appoint
ments to soft jobs. To such jobs, many Of them
were willing to vote as ordered by those controlling
the jobs Thus the political Bosses ard the President
when he has wished to use it. usually have held the
balance Of power in lame duck sessions
For many years liberals and progressives have
fought to remove this barrier to representative gov
eminent. But always the bosses have won.
IN recent years Senator Norris, now grown old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Barber Shop Sanitation Essential

place, the regulations point out that
on one shall act as a barber who
has any communicable disease or
any communicable infection of the
skin.
The barber must wash his hands
with soap and water before serving
each customer. Shaving mugs,
brushes and combs, are to be i'm
mersed in boiling water before be-
ing used on each customer.
Each customer is to have a new
clean towel and the head rest is
to be covered with a clean towel or
paper, changed after each customer.
Towels known as steamers must be
fresh and used only once without
reboiling.
Alum or other materials used to
stop the flow of blood may be
applied in powder or liquid form
only.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
He Carried On

DUT though Calico was blind.
- his minds eye still saw with
keener vision than any of his con-
temporaries.
And so, with the help of a Secre-
tary, and three of his devoted
pupils, Torricelli, Castelli and Vivi-
ami, he continued to work.
Many visitors came to see him.
Among them was John Milton, the
poet. then young man of 20. Here
indeed was tragic meeting, Cali
leo already blind, Milton destined
some day likewise to be blind.
In earlier days, Calico had not
devoted all his time to astronomy.
He had given much thought TO
physical problems, inventing the
pendulum and proving by his ia
nous experiment of dropping
weights from the Leaning Tower of
Pisa that all bodies'fell to earth at
the same rate.
Now, he no longer could use his
eyes, but he still could use his brain.
So he began to ponder once more
upon physical problems.
The result was that he made dis
coveries of greater fundamental
Importance to mankind than any he
had made with the telescope.
He laid the foundation of me-
chanics upon a firm basis of fact
and discovered the laws of motion.
Had Calico not discovered them
when he did, no one can say how
much progress in mechanics and en-
gineering would have been delayed.
1T is possible, of course, that some
one else might have formulated
them very soon after, but it also is
possible that the world might have
been set back a century or more.
In the year 1912, Calico died. In
that same year, Isaac Newton was
born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18

This regulation is of greatest
Importance, since the old alum stick
with dried blood on it permits the
growth of germs which are trans
ferred from one customer to an
other.
Such transfer can not occur
when a powder or liquid is used.
The cloth used to catch hair and
prevent its falling on the clothing
is not to be pressed directly against
the neck of the customer.
The neck should be wrapped with
paper neckband or clean piece of
gauze and the towel is put against
this neckband, which is to be used
only on one customer and then dis
carded.
BARRIERS should refuse to give SER
vice to any person whose skin is
badly infected, or whose skin shows
the presence of eruption, unless the
customer brings his own shaving
brush, lather cup and razor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
SCIENCE.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Calico Laid the Foundations
for the Modern Machine
Age.
THREE hundred sixty-eight years
4 ago, on Feb. Is, Calico was
born. Physicists throughout the
world celebrated his birthday this
year. The National Broadcasting
Company. in honor of Calico, in
vited DR.. r. A. Millikan to make an
address over the radio.
1t was appropriate that DR.. Milli-
kan, Americas foremost experiment
tai physicist, should be chosen to
speak in memory of Calico. For
experimental physics had its begin
ming with Calico.
Calico is best known to the world
as the first man to turn a telescope
upon the heavens. But his work in
the realm Of physics was equally as
important as his work in astronomy.
1t was Calico who laid the foun-
dationS of the modern Machine Age
DR.. Dayton C. Miller, former
president Of the American Physical
Society, and professor of physics at
Case School of Applied Science, be-
gins one of his lectures to his stu
dents by writing upon the black
board a mathematical formula: r
equals m multiplied by a. F stands
for force; m for mass; and a for
acceleration. That formula, which
the world owes to Calico. is the
basic formula Of the Machine Age.
DR.. Miller tells his students. Every
machine in the world is based
upon it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
A Great Intellect

MODERN views of the universe
AVA put their chief emphasis upon
energy, regarding matter as a sort
OF concentrated energy.
These views can be traced back
to Calico. There is a direct suc-
cesSion from Calico to Newton to
Einstein.
The modern conception of energy
grew out of GaliIeo's laws of mo-
ton. Though no one could have
foreseen the ultimate result of
these laws, one contemporary. Fra
Paolo Sarpi, seemed to sense it. for
ne wrote in burst of enthusiasm
To give us the science of motion
GOD and nature have joined hands
and created the intellect of Gall
ileo."
In 1909 Calico made his first lit
tie telescope and turned it upon the
heavens. Wonder after wonder met
his sight. He was the first to be-
hold the mountains upon the moon
the four moons of Jupiter, the cres-
cent phase Of Venus, the individual
stars OF the Milky Way. BY his OBJ
servations he established firmly the
Copernician theory that the sun.
and not the earth, was the center
of the solar system.
But tragedy as well as success
came to Calico. In 1887 this same
Calico, now lonely prisoner at
Arceti, having been forced to re-
cant his astronomical beliefs, went
blind.
"Alas," he wrote in one of his
letters, your dear friend and serv-
ant is totally blind. Henceforth this
heaven, this universe, which by
wonderful observations I had en-
larged a hundred and a thousand
times beyond the conception of for
mer ages, is Shrunk for me into the
narrow space which I myself fill in
1t. So it please God: it shall there
fore please me also"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
BY ROBERT F. PAINE

XXJASHINGTON'S latest move
w indicates initiation, and in such
policy there is danger, just as in an
emergency case there always is
some danger in surgery.
The phraseology of the new
measure is ito provide for advance
ment of funds by federal reserve
banks to member banks that have
no further eligible paper" and one
of the most important provisions
permits government securities to be
used as the basis for issuance of
new currency to an estimate of
about $2,500,000,00
But, United Press informs that it
is the intention to issue the new
securities in denominations as low
as SO. Fine!
An entering wedge can be driven
far into the depression and strong
pull made on boarding, by taking
the people into partnership in ap-
plying remedies. That is exactly
what has been done, to highest adj
vantage, in other national financial
emergencies.
Why follow the usual channels of
inviting proposals made to the
federal reserve through bankers,
brokers, etc.? Why not invite
popular subscription to the govern
ment obligations, enormous quanti-
ties of which the government surely
has to offer?
Let the people inl
IN the fierce panic of the 70's,
Il when Secretary John Sherman
brought about resumption of specific
payments. congress authorized him
to issue SO and government bonds
of as low denomination as $50. The
people bought the resumption bends.
In the World war, emergency sub
scriptionS were opened, through the
postoff1ces, in thrift stamps of 25
cents, war savings stamps of IS.
There were United States bonds at
$50 and the banks even carried
on the installment plan scores OF
thousands of the purchasers there
of. The people bought Liberty
bonds till it hurt.
/ Today, France issues its ohliga-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
PuSSYfooting PaSSe
Prohibition.

DOTH parties are split on prohi-
ID bition, and that scares the
politicians Unable to guess which
way the cat would Jump, politicians
prefer to play safe.
Well, there comes a time when
no one can play safe by pussyfoot-
ing. That time is here with regard
to prohibition.
People have been thinking and
talking about this monumental farce
for more than a decade. Nor has
the thinking and talking been with
out effects. Millions of minds have
changed since war fever swept the
eighteenth amendment into being.
The illusionment that prohibition
would reduce crime has been dis
Sipated in the worst era of gang
rule, racketeering, murder, theft,
wife desertion and broken homes
from which this country ever suf-
fered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Too Many DiScards

THE chief trouble with poker is
Il that there are not enough good
hands. Too much of the game is
consumed in locking at cards, ours
ing and tossing them away. If
there were a person who played
simply to win and for no other rea-
son, he probably would not come
into more than one pot out of every
six or seven.
Save for the dullnesS and mean
spirit of the proceeding, one might
do excellently by following the rule
to cast aside anything less than a
pair of queens.
But this is not intended to sound
an utterly pessimistic note. Poker
can be reformed, and from within.
The remedy is easy Nothing more
is needed than the simple expedient
of making the deuces wild. Some
would also include the treys and
one-eyed jacks.
But I'm against that. Civilization
isn't ready for such radicalism. -Four
jokers are enough.
Copyright. 1892 by The Timesj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Official Winking

THIS nonsense about not getting
4 discouraged, since no phase of
law enforcement ever attained per-
lection, has little to do with the
case.
Violations of the prohibition law
are occurring not in spite of the
best our officials can do, or sincere
opposition on the part of the public.
AS a general proposition, they are
winked at, if not encouraged.
The thousands of speakeasies
which flourish from one end of this
country to the other do not suggest
a criminal minority. The income
tax returns of bootleggers do not
suggest lack of patronage.
The people are against prohi-
bition. If they weren't, it could be
enforced.
Stampede for Repeal
bride has caused us to hesitate.
L It's humiliating for a great ma
ton to admit mistake, particu-
larly in so short a time and after
all the shouting.
The American people don't like
to stand up before the world and
confess that they adopted law
which they can't stomach. But that
is better than to hide behind a smoke
screen of notification as they now
are doing.
Sentiment has been changing
with regard to prohibition ever since
it went into effect. Each succeed
ing year has seen fewer and fewer
advocates of the dry cause. During
the last two years, the drift away
from it has verged on a stampede.
Prohibition is being recognized as
a source of political corruption, an
agency of crime and breeder of
social disorder, especially among the
young.
The demand for a showdown
grows more and more insistent, and
political leaders would do well to
heed it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18

in the service Of cleaner government, has devoted
much of his time to this fundamental reform Six
times he has put it through the senate only to have
it die in the house. Last year, when victory seemed
in the house. an amendment was attached, de-
stroying it.
Although the resolution passed by the house
Wednesday differs in details from the Norris
measure, compromise should not be difficult. The
result will be submission to the states for ratification
of constitutional amendment changing the dates for
opening Of congress and presidential Inauguration
from March to January, and aboshng the lame duel,
and hxed-length sessions of congress entirely
Final victory will be delayed until the Presidents
has been persuaded to sign, and then for several
years until three-fourths of the forty-eight states
have been induced to ratify the amendment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Questions and
Answers
Who vas Guana F.arker2

Who was guiana f-arker?
A Comanche chief and the most
influential leader among the three
confederated tribes Of Kiowa
Comanche and Apache, in south
western Oklahoma.
How can tobacco stains be re.
moved from the teeth?
Moisten bit of absorbent cotton
with houride Of ammonia, and hold
it on the teeth for a minute. BE
careful not to let the chemical touch
the gums or get into the mouth and
throat. After removing the cotton
rinse the mouth thoroughly with
plain water.
How does the student enrolment
of the English universities of OK
ford and Cambridge compare with
Columbia university in New York?
Columbia has 1920 students. the
largest enrolment Of any college or
university in the world. The en-
rollment Of oxford is approximately
$500 and Of Cambridge about 5000.
Is the University Of California at
Berkeley or at Los Angeles?
1t is at Berkeley, and there is a
southern branch at Los Angeles. es-
tablished in 1919, with an enroll
ment Of 6,511 students.
Is the Rose Of Jericho" mentioned
in the Bible?
It is mentioned in Sirach 24.14.
one OF the books Of the Apocrypha,
not included in all Bibles,
What nationality is George Ber-
uard Shaw?
Irish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
Law Made MoCkerv

IMPRESSION has blasted the
~ final hope that prohibition
made prosperity, no matter what its
other faults.
We know now that business can
go broke and men lose their jobs
without the saloon.
What is more dismaying, we know
that the general violation of one law
leads to the wider violation of all
laws.
Call it disloyalty, uncontrolled
appetite, pure cussednesS, or what
you will, but the fact remains that
a sufficient number of people are
ignoring prohibition to make it
mockery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18

can we'll understand, an impossible
situation. Here is the unfortunate
equation: 1t is no fun to play ex-
cept with valued friends, and it is
bitter business to win money from
them. Night after night I have gone
home heartbroken, and occasionally
this was because / had lost, but
more often because I had won.
And at such times I have tossed
wakeful almost till noon wondering
whether Dave could afford to lose
so much, and, in fact, the agony
has gone deeper, for I have even
wondered whether he had it to lose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18

that all this is Supposition) would be
regarded as an insult. Tt is risky
even to play hands badly and to lose
on purpose.
The victim of harsh fate wants to
feel that he has weathered the gale
and righted himself without any
outside aid. Even though all those
who cruise about bleed for his suf-
feringS and long to see him again on
even keel, the storm-racked one per-
sistS in regarding them as his
enemies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the

EDITOR journal OF the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
A BARBER shop, conducted with
"A some conception of what con-
stitute sanitary regulations, is a
safe place for any one and a most
satisfactory concomitant to modern
existence.
Conducted without proper safe
guards Of the customers health, a
barber shop may be a menace to
the whole community.
For this reason, several states
have adopted rules regulating the
conduct of barber shops and beauty
parlors, but many communities are
completely without such regulation.
In Ohio, the public health coun-
Gil has issued regulations which
very well might be followed by
every other community. In the first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-18

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are nrc-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.