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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. wAI,TER FERGUsoN

THE nice-lookng blond woman who usually
serves us in our favorite restaurant was gone
yesterday. For six months she had been there
gracious, smiling, deft
Now she is in a hospital for the insane She
left four young children who called her mother and
for whom she had worried and wept until her mind
broke under the terrible strain of contemplating the
future battle she must fight.
Since before the birth of the youngest the father
a handsome strapping spendthrift, has not con-
tributed anything to the familys support. The re-
sponsibIity for his children apparently slipped
from his mind as easily and persistently as water
mill dam.
The matron of the home where the little ones
now live is attempting to force him to take, keep,
and support them, Certainly, as she says it is his
duty.
But just how must we go about compelling peo-
pie to do their duty? In reality there could be
no worse fate for those youngsters than to have
to depend upon their father for care and food and
training. He is the kind of individual who recog-
nizes no responsibility and who never will assume
any.
IT is quite impossible to force person to perform
any act of decency or to live honestly and sanely
and we'll. The story Of prohibition of alimony and
of the long list of statutes designed to compel men
and women to behave properly and conform pre-
sentS succession of failures
None of them has worked ever will work,
because human beings not be improved by laws
rules or regulations.
Husbands will not love and support their wives;
children will not for aged parents; women will
not stay home and rear families; men will not do
their duty by their offspring, no. not for hundred
million laws.
sense of duty and decency must be bred into
the and unless it is, there is meaning to
legislation. We may as we'll face the bitter truth
The higher education falls the church fails; the
court fails, everything fails unless the home func-
tons and children have before them adult examples
of uprightness and nobility and honor in the fam
lily circle and in the whole social structure.
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His hero becomes no individual
nut an entire group. His villain
IS not a Bill Sykes nor a Simon
Legree, but an entire system.
nationally this IS a sound con-
cept. 1t is perfectly true that
partlsans of a new world have no
proper quarrel with this or that
individual but with a scheme of
thIngs. Even so, in fiction or in
oIdma' 1t IS hard to put top hat
ana a frock coat on a system and
expect the audience to hiss with
the same enthusiasm it might
nave Tor some specific city chap
VINO tailed to do right by Nell.
Ihere must be some sort of
bols. 'Si"
Again, think It is difficult In
attack man or a regiment if Won
see the adversary as wholly with
out any merit whatsoever. Such
state Of mind prevents you from
picking out some effective hold or
aiming a crushing blow to a ylII-
nerable spot.
knew fighter once who lost
a bout to a poor opponent because
scouts had informed him that the
IeAow had glass Jaw and was.
also tender around the mid-sec-
ZION. Before my friend could
make up his mind just where to
attack, the bout was over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26
Occidental Philosophy IRradcS Orient

XX7E started CIrianze
w selling it machinery the mechanical knowledge
has made bigger impression than religion
winch went with 1.-THE philosophy of speed aggreveness
Even superficial student
day attitude the compared
out realizing that the parade
1t now is the west which seeks safety behind walls while the
is breaking DarrcadeS The
latest Ideas but the
were our own forefahers They where they
what they wanted.
The great movement of history long
easy TO mistake fads for trends their Japans policy
pears striking resemblance that Of the eighteenth
mat worth
that if the human every second man would
be an Asiatc and every fourth a Chinese
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times-I read an article
in the Star some time back, writ
ten by a gentleman named
Charles Edward Russell, said to
be the head of the Civil Legion.
I think they left out part of
the name. 1t should be Civil
Service Legion. He had written
a letter to congressman not to
pay the soldiers bonus. He said
the legion was composed of men
and women who worked for the
government during the war.
wonder if they were working
for a dollar day and on duty
tWenty-four hours a day, rain,
shine, or anything? I guess they
still are working for the civil
service, while the average soldier
takes whatever he can get, and
now that wartime prosperity is
over he might have suggested,
along with the bonus demand,
that congress annul the $500 a
year increase given civil service
employees along about 1924.
And not make out that the
soldier is the cause of Uncle Sam
being in the red.
Political racketeers are the big
gest cause of it. I'm willing to
surrender my bonus if the rest
will come down to earth.
AN EX-SAILOR and SOLDIER.
Editor Times-We have side
walks where the concrete is bro
ken into small pieces, also where
bricks are missing and should be
repaired.
The county should build walks
along the highways for pedes-
TRANS. They also have the right
of way" though they own no au-
tomobiles.
Give the unemployed work. AS
you say, this will take away the
sting of charity.
CHARLES N. KRAUSE.
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Less Risk, Less Work Popular

NE loea OF less work. less effort responsibility
= Appeals TO us very strongly We
ties life "
WIN our living standard protected by high tariffs. with
entanglng alliances trouble
Carefree land. "
That's what the Chinese thought when they built
and burned their scientific
when they crossed the Atlantic wilderness
Western civilization call been
up to the present 1t has
OF n1e as the world formerly understood them
1t has paused nothing
what is through exactly Japan pu
Asia We
would not be where
We that changed that the
continue without being brutal that have discovered painless meth
ods Of progress but Will the Orient believe 1.-THE
waking the power dynamo arpanes guns?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26

7 SAW a propaganda play not
Il very long ago and did not like
it.
In fact, I left at the end of the
first act. Accordingly, I am in
no position to review the drama,
and it might even be better not to
name it. Yet during the hour
which I spent with the sadly
harassed puppets I was somewhat
confirmed in certain opinions
which I hold.
1t seems 70 me that the propa-
ganda PLAY or the propaganda
novel is among the most difficult
Of all forms of al tlstic expression.
Once upon d time I believed that
when propaganda came in, art
leaped out the window. I don't
think that any more.
It always was shallow opinion
and one which can be advanced
only against the weight Of much
good evidence. The art of Dick
ems, for instance, was not impaired
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put in a room by himself and at
tended by a single individual who
is not attending other people.
In cases which occur in homes
under ordinary conditions it
merely is necessary to make GER
tain that the other people in the
family do not come in too close
contact with the patient.
Spread of this disease almost
always is by the hands of the
person who is taking care of the
patient.
Erysipelas usually begins with a
severe fever and chill and asso-
citation with this all the usual
symptoms Of an acute poisoning
of the body, such as headache,
loss Of appetite, vomiting and, in
the case of high fever, perhaps
some delirium.
The disease usually lasts from
five to ten days, the average be-
ing eight days. When the cry
sipelas affects large areas Of the
body, it may continue for as long
as fifteen days.
Next-How erysipeIas develops.
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about the collapse of civilization
and the decay of the race.
If we only knew how much
quiet heroism there is in out-of-
the-Way places, and in persons we
never read about and never see on
the lighted stage, we should not
despair of the future There are
men and women everywhere play
ing the game bravaly and faith
fully with all the odds against
them, and they say nothing about
it.
In the old days the motto of
the church, written over its doors
and its affairs. was Sursum Corda
Lift up your hearts; and that
is the note we must strike again
today, if only to defeat defeatism
and the quiet desperation into
which so many have fallen.
Copyright. 1888, United Features
Syndicatel
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Tragedy of One

GINCE all Of us are more
~ emotional and less rational in
the theater than in the world
outside, I think it is well for the
playwright who would stir us out
OF SNUG complacency to try to
engage our attention in the fate
OF some single individual.
II man says in his play that
million people are starving, he
probably gets less response than
II he shows us merely Bill Jones,
a lone man, beset by hunger
Successful plays depend upon
the process of recognition. A
miracle occurs during the per-
Torrance Of a masterpiece. Each
ego leaps the footlights and en-
lists as some member of the cast.
And you or I much more readily
can fantasy ourselves into being
Bill Jones than we can by
sudden act of imagination become
the middle class or the proletarla1'
(copyright. 1888. BY The Timesl
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Must Be Audience

DUT the test of propaganda
Unjust be to a large extent its
popularity. You can think what
you will about the literary merits
Of Uncle Toms Cabin" yet the
book did the thing which it was
intended to 90.
One can be an artist n an alley
playhouse and say sometimes with
truth that he cares nothing for
the plaudits Of the multitude, but
it is silly to embark upon a little
theater movement designed to
promote economic revolution.
Today a great many people are
embarked upon enterprises de-
signed to stir the toiler into
more acute class consciousness,
and the toiler for the most part
pays no attention whatsoever.
Too many revolutionists live by the
simple process of being taken in
by one another's manuscripts.
1t seems to me that most of
the failures are scored because
the radical writer neglectS the
fact that mankind has not yet
outgrown its traditional love for
an interesting story Both on the
stage and in the printed play
suspense seems essential I could
find none at all in the recent
first night which I attended.
Of the authors sincerity there
could be no doubt whatsoever. 1t
was the work Of a man sensitive
to wrongs which exist within full
sight Of us all, And there was
evidence that he wrote out of a
hot anger when he protested
against these injustices. And yet
somehow the play never famed.
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children as in persons between 20
and 60.
Men apparently have erysipelas
more often than do women, per-
hapS because men more frequently
are exposed to physical injuries
and bad weather conditions dur
ing the winter months.
1T is the general opinion that
l. erysipelas starts most often in
a wound, abrasion, or rubbed
place on the skin and particularly
in those places where the mucous
membranes. such as those which
line the nose and mouth, join the
outer skin.
In hospitals, in the past, there
frequently were epidemics of cry
sipelas because the infectious in
fammation was carried from one
patient to another by attendants
Nowadays the great danger Of
erySipelas in the surgical ward
has been recognized and a per-
son with eFsipelas is promptly
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because he had a social conscience.
Moreover, it does not seem to
me sufficient for any civilization
to justify its economic errors and
injustices by blithely pointing out
the existence in the era Of great
poets and great painters. Greece
itself would have been more glori-
GUS if it had been without either
helOts or SCllptors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26

EORTY MILLION years ago
L little insect-eating animal
climbed tree. That was
critical moment in the history of
mankind, for modern man owes
many of his characteristics to that
incident The little fellow that
took to climbing trees was one OF
mans ancestors, according to Pro-
fessor William K. Gregory,
famous authority upon evolution.
The climber resen1bled the tree
shrews Of today but was a more
primitive type, Professor Gregory
says.
He places him as Stage II in his
big parade" the evolution of mod
ern man from a primitive pre-
fish that swan in the oceans of
400,000000 years ago.
Let us review the earlier stages
Of the parade very quickly. Stages
l to 5 were fish. They developed
paired fins, the forerunners of
arms and legs. They also de-
veloped jaws and the rudiments
of mans brain structure.
Stage 6 was a primitive amphib-
ian, "four-legged fish" that be-
gan his life in the water but fin
ished it on land.
Stages Z to 10 were reptiles, egg
laying creatures that lived their
whole life on land. Stage II was
a tiny reptile-like creature who
really was the connecting link be-
tween reptiles and mammals.
Stages IL and f3 were primitive
egg-laying creatures with both
rep i n and mammalian
characteristics, represented on
earth today by the duckbill platy-
pus and spiny ant-eater of
Australia.
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Questions and
Answers

Q-What date in the Gregorian
calendar corresponds to May Z,
1881, in the Julian calendar?
A-May 10, 1881.
Q-what are short and long
waves in radio transmission?
A-Short waves are below 200
meters; intermediate waves are
between 200 and $50 meters; and
long waves, used in ship and COM
mercial radio biography, range up
to 10000 meters.
Q-Are the husbands Of sisters
brothers-in-law?
Ayes.
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erysipelas.
TINE condition called erysipelas,
L or st. Anthony's Fire, is an
acute inflammation of the skin
caused by the steptococcus, an
organism Of the same type as that
which causes scarlet fever and
many other infections.
Apparently the condition was
known in the time of the ancient
Greeks and Romans. In fact. the
greatest writers of those days.
Hippocrates, Galen and CELSIUS, all
described this condition and cred
tied it to living under unhygienic
conditions.
Finally in 1882, a German in
vestigator proved the specific
character of the disease by iso-
lating the germs and injecting
them into animals.
1t has been recognized that cry
sipelaS occurs most often during
the months from October to
March, and in fact reaches its
highest frequency in March.
The disease is not so common in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26
The American OpoSS1ln1

CTAGE No. IA is represented by
~ tiny mammals that f1ourished
100000 years ago at the begin
ming Of the Mesozoic Age, or Age
of Reptiles.
Stage No. Is is represented by
opoSSum-like marsupials that
fourished about 100000 years ago.
A marsupial is a primitive NAM
NAL whose young are born in an
undeveloped state and carried in a
pouch on the abdomen. The liv-
ing marsupials include kangaroos
and opossunaS.
Professor Gregory calls the
American opossum our oldest
and most precious living fossil"
Unfortunately" he says, most
Americans appreciate the opossum
more for those qualities which
have earned for him the title of
African turkey
1t rather pains me to hear of
great statesmen taking a holiday
down south to hunt these poor
animals to eat, when they ought
to be securing them for the
museums of the future or labor
ing to establish opossum sanctu-
aries.
THE opossum has an American
ancestry which would make even
the longest known human gen.
ealogy look like a last years birth
record from Ellis island.
For Barnum Brown, our curator
Of fossil reptiles, found in Alberta
a foSsilized skull of an early men,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26
RESCUED!

just as it was about to slip off the front page
Technocracy does comeback all dressed up in
the scarlet of a menace
It's rescuer is Naturalization Examiner Michael
McCaul of the United States labor department. Mr.
McCaul in Oklahoma asked a group of applicants
for American citizenship this chiIl-provoking cues
ton:
DO you favor the present government of the
United States, or would you advocate its overthrow
for Technocracy?"
Several of the would-be citizens including col
lege professor, had to admit that they didn't know
what Technocracy was Just between US we are
bit hazy about what it means ourselves but we're
mighty glad to have it catalogued at last.
If it is just another menace, like pacihsm inter
natlonalism or other subversvesms. Perhaps the
thing to do simply is to pass law against it.
Instruction in clog dancing for boys" included
in an agricultural course, has been condemned by
Colorado taxpayers. The boys probably won't mind
much, SO long there's interference in extra-cur-
ricular hey nonnie- nonnie and hot cha cha"
Virtue is its own reward but the recipients at
times, seem a little disappointed.
Opponents of Soviet recognition now can point to
another irreconcilabe difference in customs of Rus
STA and the United States. They've Just shot six
in the spring primaries.
Since the Eugene ONeiu influence has put that
thinking out-loud" wrinkle in the movies there
ought to be a lot of silent films
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The Order of Prinaates

CTAGE No. II, as already stated,
~ is little insect-eater, resem-
bling the present-day tree -shrew,
that took to climbing trees
100000 years ago.
That was at the beginning of
the Cenozoic Age, the age in
which mammals took dominance
of the earth away from the dino
saurs, who had ruled the Age of
Reptiles.
Professor Gregory calls these
tree climbers pre- primates."
Stage 18 is composed of the ear
lest true primates.
There is one fraternaI order
to which all Americans belong by
right Of birth, though few are
willing to admit it, says Professor
Gregory, that is, the Order of
Primates.
This ancient and honorable Or
der has an antiquity vastly ex-
ceeding even the claims of any
that hold conventions in the big
hotels; the bones of it's founders
have been discovered in the
Bridger formation of Wyoming.
Their estimated age is about
100000 years.
This most important skeleton
had the pleasure of naming in
honor of the president of the
American Museum of Natural
History, Henry Fairfield Osborn"
This original primate, accord
ing to Professor Gregory, had five
fingered hands and feet well
adapted for climbing.
1t also had skull that was a
marked advance over previous
mammals. 1t had forty teeth,
however, where in the anthropoid
apes and man, the number has
sunk to thirty-two.
Professor Gregory's big parade"
will be concluded Friday.
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Every Day Religion
: BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

THE political situation in Ger
II many serves to recall one of
the astute sayings of President
Won Eindenburg. What do you
do when you are afraid?' asked
an intimate one day. Il whistle"
said the old soldier with a sly
twinkle in his eye.
But I never have heard you
said his friend. Not yet was
the Iaconic reply of the man who
has done more for his country
than any other man Of this gen.
Grafton, by sheer courage and
force of character.
Of all human qualities, surely
courage is one of the noblest, if
not the greatest, and the root of
every virtue. Without courage we
can do nothing; it is three parts
Of the battle of life.
A wise teacher has told us that
faith is reason grown courageous,
and if our courage falters our
faith let's 60 and falls. Men may
puzzle their heads as they will,
but the religion of courage can
not mislead us. Courage is the
fountain of hope and the har-
binger of faith.
Il II
WHOEVER will take the open
w road fearlessly in all wealth
ers, face up to life, whatever
befalls. shall find that truth is its
treasure and joy its trophy. Once
we get the habit of being brave,
we have come very near to the
secret OF happiness, if not of life
itself; and perhaps it is courage
that we need more than anything
else just now. There is too much
faintheartedness, too much de-
spondency, too much tiresome talk
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
ORIENT GOES PROGRESSIVE

PRESIDENT ELECT ROOSEVELT has in
dorsed President Hoovers Far Eastern policy.
This government will so right protesting
denouncing and filing its grouches for future
reference. Meanwhile, Japan takes Manchuria,
with China waiting vainly for a nonaggressive
world to come to her rescue.
Obviously, We stand on the threshold of a
new era which many have interpreted as con-
sistlng OF electric lights, four-hour days, radio
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So They Say

The legitimate theater is making
It's exit from American life
Arthur Hopkins, eminent producer
and writer on the drama.
You can't adopt politics as a
profession and remain honest
Louis McHenry Howe, personal
adviser Of President elect Roose-
velt,. addressing students at Co
lumbia university.
Education too frequently is
thought of as the discipline of in
telligence, with character left out.
DIR. Arthur E. Morgan, president.
Antioch college, Yellow Spring, o.
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the restessness OF ceaseesS boil of ambition the
instinct OF adventure the irresponsible gamble with fate
We OF the world rather tired We have had
OF exploitation We like chairs smooth
ROADS and gooey candy We would all
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A Devastating Calm

DOSSIBLY one may grow too
l. angry 10 write effectively. IN
der such circumstances the au-
thor covers too much territory.
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Insect Our Ancestor
SCIENCE.
BY DAVID DIETz

Der of the opossum family en-
bedded underneath a dinosaur
skull. It's estimated age is about
100000 years"
Stage No. l6 is represented by
better developed mammal whose
young are born alive 1t is repre-
sented today by insect-eating crea-
lures or 'inscetivores" found in
Madagascar.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Erysipelas Is Spread Easily
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medi.
cal Association and of Hygeis, the
Health Magazine.
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This is the first of three articles by DR..
Fishbein on the nature and treatment of
erysipeIas.
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Virtue is its own reward but the recipients at
times, seem a little disappointed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26

Since the Eugene O'Neill influence has put that
thinking out-loud" wrinkle in the movies there
ought to be lot of silent films.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-26

Next-HOw erysipeks develops.