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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"VXTHATEVER we may feel about it." said a man
v in authority I'VE are drifting toward another
war"
Only the most foolishly optimistic could think
otherwise. Indeed, perhaps the only reason we are
not at the moment engufed in blood is that nobody
has any money with which to fight
The subtle thing that undermines our determine
ton to keep the peace is the business depression
And this depression traced to its ultimate source is
the result of past wars.
1t seems preposterous to say that men could be
stupid to believe that another period of battling
would restore prosperity They are however exactly
that stupid. They think that when the drums begin
to beat, orders for steel and ammunition and soap
and goods and food will begin to pour in
In this they right. Their stupidity lies in
their childish belief that this false squirt in trade
in any would alleviate the economic miseries
of the world. Business would improve but for how
long? Just until we managed to MAIN and kill a
sufficient number of men and to destroy most of
our property. Not minute longer.
Then should have to start to pay all over
agar-to pay for years and decades and generations
Provided of course. that there was enough left of
the civilized races to retain sense of debt payment
honor-which is unlikely.
IT is strange thing that and women will
make the most stupendous sacrifices for war
They proud and glad to go without sugar and
white bread to cut expenses to give until it hurts
and to proffer the very lives of their children
They will endure and endure and endure, as did
the citizens of France and England and Germany
and Italy in 1914-but they will not make one single
sacrifice for peace willingly.
We could stop this depression-if We joined hands
with other nations as we did in the days of the
war-if we thought as sympathetically of the chill
dren of other lands as We did then-if we behaved
as unselfshly did then.
Some of our ideals may have been wrong. But
the thing to remember is that We had ideals
Without vision the people perish" And to have
vision any people must be able to look afar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

Above all, business men feel
sorry for themselves, and get their
wives to sympathize with them,
increasing the evil until it ends
in ruin.
TN the "pidgin English" spoken
Il on the coasts of China, so
letter tells me, many odd phrases
are heard. One phrase most often
used by a Chinese servant is Can
dol" When he is asked whether
this or that can be done, or some
errand run, he thinks a moment
and then says confidently, Can
do!'
Then the order is carried out
quietly, steadily and satisfactorily.
Just now all of us need to make
Can do" our motto. Too many
of us are losing faith in ourselves,
giving up the fight before it is
fought.
Cheer up! Worse than any
financial loss is loss of faith, loss
of audacity, loss of nerve. Buck
up; pull yourself together-no
man is down-and-ou until he
gives up and lets go.
Up, then, and face the future,
no matter what the past has been.
Each must do it for himself, but
by native grit and the good grace
Of God, we can win!
Copyright 1888. by United Features
Syndicate Inc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

IN these dismal days, all of us
u know what it is to feel the
very bottom drop out of us.
There are times when We feel
that we just can not go on any
longer. Whether it be due to
some tragic domestic sadness, or
to some appalling business disas-
ter, does not matter. To be sure,
it is a bit of funk and faintheart-
edness; but there it is-disheart-
ening, depressing, devastating, and
We must deal with it.
The worst of it is, once we
have given way to fit of faint
heartedness, it is much easier to
do SO the next time. And so
on, until an automatic action is
set up in the mind, and it be-
comes a habit.
Then every time we have to face
up to difficulty, we start off a
little on the losing side, half
defeated before the battle begins.
Once such machinery is set in
motion in the mind, it is by no
means easy to stop it.
But it can be stopped, and it
must be stopped. We must break
the tendency to a faint heart, or
else it may in time break us, leav-
ing us flat failure. One begins
to indulge in "the weakening tip
pie Of self-pity," which Arnold
Bennett argued is the worst evil
of modern life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

a century hence. Nor am blind
to the fact that it is rather cold
comfort to say to any one rocked
to his heels with misery, Don't
worry; the necessary economic adj
juStments will be made in time"
And, even so, I find no emo
tiOnal urge to join demonstrations
to throw rocks through anybody'S
window. The farmers of Iowa
threatened to lynch the agent Of
an insurance company who was
assigned to bid in a mortgaged
farm. Shortly after, the same in
Surance company made conces-
sions to the farmers of Iowa.
Is this cause and effect? More
than that, can the changes in our
world be brought about only by
this kind of direct action? I'll
admit that it is a problem worthy
OF debate. Yet 1 can't help think
ing that if the farmers had car
ried out their threat (and there
seems every reason to believe that
they we're in deadly earnesD they
would have killed a pawn in the
program against which they
fought.
The poor fellow who was as
signed to the foreclosure job had
no more to do with the creation or
the maintenance of an unjust So
cial system than Paul Blocks pre-
cocious little boy Billy.
Again, I fail to see how the
cause of social justice is advanced
when some group of radicals bat
ties with policemen and batter and
get battered. 1t is true that the
police, up to now, have done most
of the battering, but that does not
affect the principle of the thing.
Such cops as have gone down in
TIE crowd have been kicked and
trampled And I still want to
know just how far the principle of
cooperation is advanced when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
HOOUer's ASterOid

NEW asteroids frequently are
~ discovered. Astronomers &C
cord the finder the privilege of
naming it. At first they were
called after NEUROLOGICAL char
acters, but those names soon were
used up.
Asteroids have been named after
nations, cities, colleges, steam
boats, and pet dogs. Shortly after
the World war, a Belgian astron-
omer, in grateful recollection of
Herbert Hoover's work in Bel
GUM, named one "Hooveria."
DR.. Bobrovnikof points out that
there are many objections to the
older theories Of the origin of the
asteroids. He points out that the
explosion theory is not good, be-
cause the total mass Of asteroids
is far less than that Of any of the
planets.
He says that We must couple
with the explosion theory some
explanation to account for the
total disappearance Of most Of the
mass of the original planet.
If these asteroids had failed to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
We Must Face the Consequences

LII these activities have been necessary restriction
credit and the lack OF ability
closing the consequences involve
Those who have Sneered going to learn
something before
to avoid doing the straightforward thing.
habit out under
collapse
adopting
knowing that hopelessy with service and
commodity values that it has
keep right easy escape
Instead of reducing obligations
seek remedies that really them
before broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

nected with the dark or with being
left alone.
Adults should not discuss before
children their own difficulties in
sleeping. Too much excitement
just before bedtime is likely to
make sleep difficult.
For this reason it is extremely
unfortunate that many modern
radio programs planned for chill
dren are exciting mystery stories
or detective stories full Of warfare,
shooting, explosions, and MUIR
ders, rather than the type Of ma
terial that will lead to a rested
mind.
Authorities suggest that the in
FAINT, from birth on, be accustomed
to sleep in a room by himself. But
he should not be so secluded as to
have artificial conditions develop
which are not likely to be followed
later in life.
BY this is meant complete abb
sence Of all noise or the daily &C
tivities of life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

However, children can be taught
70 disregard slight noises, slight
changes in lighting, the position
of the bed and similar external
factors to which it is possible to
become accustomed.
=
TINE one interference that is
= serious is irregularity in the
hour of going to sleep. The child
therefore is best put to bed at
regular hour and if left alone
probably will go to sleep by him
self.
Psychologists recommend that
the attitude of children toward
sleep always should be pleasant.
They should not be punished just
at bedtime.
There must be no possible sug-
gestion that viii induce fear con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

A GOOD many plays which
IN shoot out directly and We
hemently to arouse the social con-
seriousness of the spectator leave
me about as I was when I entered
the theater.
On the other hand, I manage
to get worked up quite frequently
by some passing line or situation
in play which has no propa-
ganda For instance, it hardly
can be contended that S. N. Behr-
man enlisted as a crusader when
he wrote Biography"
AS far as the ear or the eye
can reach, he merely wanted to
compose a pleasant light comedy
with a dash of pathos suitable for
a superb actress. Ina Claire be-
ing available, the playWright's pur-
pose has been fulfilled.
And yet it was Biography"
rather than Elmer Rice's. I'VE,
the People," which set me to TAX
ing stock as to my own respon-
sibility and attitude within the
world around us.
A brief speech by Earl Larri-
more has been buzzing through
the attic and the cellar of my
brain ever since 1 heard it. The
precise phrazing is forgotten and
does not matter for this particular
purpose.
Tolerance and L0zineSS
MIR. LARRIMORE, cast as a
1Y1 young radical has a line in
which he assails the heroine for
what she calls her tolerance" He
asserts that she merely is in
venting another name for laziness
and inertia.
And I went away saying, "Is
that true of me?" Is it always
so that when a man says. "Of
course. I want to hear both sides,
he actually is motivated by a de-
sire to delay action by getting be-
logged in discussion.
For more than a year I have
been getting a good many letters
in which 1 am assailed for not
speaking cut about public wrongs
with sufficient vigor. Sometimes
the phrase is your old vigor."
I am not conscious of being any
less indigant than I was five years
ago, or ten. 7 am much more
sure of hich side I am on. My
graduation from liberalism oc-
Cured automatically more than
three years ago, even though it
hardly was Summa cum laude.
However, it may we'll be that I
have carried with me some of the
old technique into the newer rad
ical role. I still can't see the
conflicts of the world as being
battles between archangeIS and
demons from the pit.
Perhaps am too SNUG about
my own tolerance. That is a rather
common failing. Still, I never have
gone to the length of asserting
that I had captured the philoso-
phic point of view-the detached
attitude.
And save in the case of little
slams which might have been bid,
do not fall into the easy escape
of saying, What difference will it
make one hundred years from
now?" Come to think Of it, I don't
even say that about the little
slams.
A Hundred Years Hence
OF course, much that is being
~ done now. or ought to be
done, will make vital difference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Detective Police

THE story Of the asteroids is
Il one Of the most interesting
in astronomical history 1t is the
surprising tale of the "astrono-
mical detective police"
In 1772, Johann Ebert Bode
pointed out that the distance be-
tween the planets increased in
orderly progression, with the ex-
ception that there was an I'M
usually large gap between Mars
and Jupiter.
This progression became known
as BODIES law, but received no
particular attention until Sir Will
liam Herschel discovered the
planet Uranus in 1871.
The distance Of Uranus from
the sun was approximately that
called for by BODIES law.
So in 1900 Baron Franz Won
Zach, director Of the observatory
at Gotha, Germany, organized
twenty flour astronomers into
what he jokingly called the
astronomical detective police.
They divided the sky among
them and began a telescope search
for the missing planet, which, &C
cOrding to BODIES law should be
between Mars and Jupiter.
They worked all year with no
success, but on the night of Jan.
1, 1901, the first night of the
nineteenth century, an Italian
astronomer, Giuseppe Piazzi, at
Palermo, Sicily, discovered a tiny
planet in the gap. He named it
Ceres, after the traditional god
desS of the island.
Astronomers were surprised by
its tiny size. But other surprises
were to come. Additional planets
were discovered in the same region
until today more than 1000 are
known.
Ceres, the largest, has a dia-
meter of 490 miles. Others have
diameters Of as little as ten miles
and have been described as
mountains broke loose"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

form a planet. then there is no
reason why our moon or any of
the satellites of other planets
should have come into existence.
In regard to comets, he points
out that it is a welI-known fact
that many comets have disinte-
grated into swarms of meteors.
A very large comet, he says,
might have broken up into the
asteroids. He does not think it
unlikely that such a large comet
might have existed.
"Paraphrasing Kepler, we may
say that comets differ from one
another as much as do the fish of
the sea-" he adds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Questions and
Answers

Q-Is it true that Franklin D.
Roosevelt is the only man to be
elected President of the United
States whose mother was living at
the time of his election?
At is not true. Presidents
whose mothers were alive at the
time Of their inaugurations were
Washington, Madison, Monroe, J.
@. Adams, Polk, Johnson, Grant
Garfield and Mckinley.
Q-What does F. o. B. mean?
A-"Free on board" referring to
freight shipments loaded on cars.
GLOW is candied citron pre-
pared?
A-Peel and core the citron and
cut 1t into strips Of desired length
and thickness. Allow a pound Of
sugar to each pound of citron.
Make a syrup of one cup Of water
to pound Of white sugar and
cook the citron in it until tender.
Lift with a skinner and lay on a
platter. Add enough ginger to
give the syrup a slight flavor and
boil until very thick, stir in a little
lemon juice and add the citron.
Stir and boil slowly until the
citron is coated with sugar. Lay
on platter to dry. Dust with
powdered sugar.
Q-Has the federal government
appropriated any money for the
Chicago worlds fair?
A-One million dollars has been
appropriated for goyernmnt eX-
hibits.
Q-Is there a distinct Ameri-
can language?
A-The American people speak
the English laguage, although
the vernacular in this country
contains distinctive American
idiomS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
PENITENTIARY FOOLISH

some taxpayers are complaining because tax
money is used to teach children to pay.,
This is simply the old attack on the playground
system.
But supervised play has proved its worth over
period of years
Police and prison authorities are its most fervent
boosters, because they realize that it is better to
spend money on Fairgrounds than on courts and
penitentares
Let's not be penny wise and penitenttarv foolish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Taxpayer Is Stuck at the Finish

INSTEAD of employing
one group to another with the taxpayers shoulders
place just though
we nave permitted the income of this country shry
one-haIt Tor of
Inc luuonment Of
capital the other kind capital will
AS matter of
Stroylng
agriculture all
The two essentials there must be
an equitable distribution of losses mobilization of credit
should be with the thought of putting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

This IS the second of two articles
by Dr.. Fishbeln on sleep for children.
IF good sleeping habits are es-
l. tablished early in life, they
tend to persist. 1t is recognized,
however, that there is consid-
cradle individual variation in re-
quirements of sleep and that there
is not yet sufficient scientific
knowledge to make absolute rules.
New born babies sleep most Of
the time except as the demands
of nature serve to stimulate and
awaken them.
The desire for food, pain in the
digestive tract, sudden noises or
flashes of light or sudden changes
in the temperature Of the body,
will awaken the baby.
If. therefore, the child is kept
warm, is placed in the crib in such
manner as to avoid muscular &C
tivity, if the stomach is kept free
from discomfort by proper feed
ing, if the clothing is not too
tight and the room not too warm,
the child probably will sleep well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Daily Thought

But we see Jesus, who was made
lower than the angels for the suf-
tering of death, crowned with glory
and honour; that He by the grace
OF God should taste death for
every manufacturers 20.
IT is what we give up. not what
Il we lay up, that adds to our
lasting store.-Hosea Ballou.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
So They Say

The technocrats seem untrou-
bled by the thought that the bray
of a donkey might employ more
transversion of units than a song
by Lucretia Bori, or that the ex-
plosion Of dynamite factory
might use up more thermal units
than the production Of tech
nocracy report.-Professor Horneu
Hart Of Bryn Mawr, member Of
President Hooyer's committee on
social trends.
bear my fate with resignation,
for the Lord knows what he is do
ing.-The former Kaiser Wilhelm
on his 74th birthday.
Forty years ago. one Of our
prominent statesmen said, I'VE
are all of US Socialists nowadays"
and it is still just as true as then.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British am
bassador to the Urited States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17

Where the coming
While modifying
busly passing laws which reduce
Inc new bankruptcy Will
10 no less than floating
That that reduced
greatly.
Lie insurance companies building and associations
gage concerns voluntarily reducing suSpendng
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
NJ. E. Tracy Says:
WHO'LL PAY THE FIDDLER?

THIS effort to keep the dollar up has resolved
l. itself into a game OF tag, with the federal
government as it
The R. F. c. stands out as our cutest inven-
ton by which to supply money without work or
taxes.
States and cities are competing with private
institutions TO get slice Of the federal dough.
One wonders who Will pay the fiddler.
Presently there will be a call for more cash at
nd Il nrl1r- +,r-,-
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"WHATEVER we may feel about it," said ma
in authority, I'VE drifting toward anothe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Sleep Training Can Be Given Child

This IS the second of two articles
by Dr.. Fishbein on sleep for children.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08

tent threats against any player
Both have we'll rounded games
and plenty of fighting spirit.
Shore has been a topnotcher in
the Middle Atlantic regions for a
half dozen years. He is also a vet
eran of several national Junior
tournaments, at one time holding
one half of the national junior
indoor championship. Since he
graduated from the junior ranks,
he hasn't been able to turn in as
impressive performances as be-
fore, but he is a tough young
racquet wielder at all times, thor,
oughly schooled in the Subtletles
of the game; smart and coura,
geous.
Latona is an inspirational player
and he will have plenty of inSpi-
ration battling in his first national
tournament.
Nothing is impossible for him to
get and he seems to be everywhere
when he is on top of his game.
More erratic than either Welsh
or Shore, he is also more danger
Gus because of his sudden inspira-
tions to outdo himself.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Thirty Long Years

No profession in the world
has been so conservative as
baseball. It is a tribute to the
founders of the game, the Clark
Griffiths and the Charley
Comiskeys and the Ban john
sons the Connie Macks and the
Nick Youngs, John K. Teners,
John A. Heydlers, Garry and
August Herrmanns and John T.
Brushs and the Charley Eb-
bettses, the Carney Dreyfusses
and others who escape us at the
moment, that they builded so
well that their initial idea of or
ganized baseball has held up
over the better part of 80 years
with a minimum of changes.
How few other professions
have weathered the time so
we'll?
The law, medicine, science,
philosophy, literature and busi-
ness pursuits have time upon
time undergone radical reor-
ganization since baseball was
born; yet organized baseball is
today conducted upon exactly
the same basic lines as it was at
its birth, in the year of 1908.
Again we say, that is a tribute
to it's founders.
Now what has happened?
This!
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Public Taste Changes

The public taste is different
this year than it was last and
So on down through the years.
There is not enough sustained
interest in all of the teams in
both leagues to enable more
than half of the magnates to
make money, if indeed that
many operate on a profit now.
Something must be done to
pep up the interest in the
cities which plainly are not
bound for world series competi-
tion. No matter how much
money a man has, years OF tall
end and second-division clubs
will wear down his wealth. One
former millionaire who owns
a big league team is broke and
III now.
It isn't a good business the
way things stand, unless you
have a team that is up there
or thereabouts. And even for
the wealthy sportsman, and
there are several such who own
major league teams, it isn't a
good sport unless you are in
the upper bracket.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08

In the mems singles Barney
Welsh, seeded fifth, figures to be
the Capitals strongest bidder for
the crown, but, the recent District
Public Parks tournament proves
that his two townsmen, Tony La
tona, whom he beat in red-hot
final, and Frank Shore, Barney's
victim in a stirring Semi-final
match, are nearly on par with
him.
Last year Barney gave Arnold
Simons, of Louisville, ultimate
title winner, a terrific battle be-
fore succumbing in the second
round.
Welsh is admittedly much i'm
proved player this season, not
only having learned more tricks
of the trade but also having
acquired considerable needed con-
fidence. He has put up grand
battles with such nationally
known stars as George Lott, Eddie
Jacobs. Jacob Hess, Wilmer Hines
and others, players who are rated
superior to the best in the public
parks field.
Shore and Latona are both po-