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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-09
-Dietz on Science
LOST CONTINENT
THEORY PRODED
BY SMITHSONIAN
Existence of Vast Body Of
Land in Dark Ages Is
Indicated.
BY DAVID DIETZ
scripps Howard Science Editor

A new theory of lost continent,
the effect of variation in the suns
heat upon terrestrial weather, what
the twentieth century scientist
thinks of the law of cause and
effect. the present status of light
treatments for disease, the results
of a decade of bird-banding-these
are some Of the topics discussed in
the annual report of the Smithson-
ian Institution Publication of the
report was announced in Washing
ton today.
Fer many centuries men have
written of a legendary island of
Atlantis. This was supposed to have
existed in the Atlantic Ocean, to
have been inhabited by a race of
high intelligence and fine culture,
and to have suddenly sunk beneath
the waves in gigantic cataclysm.
1t is no such romantic tale which is
advanced in the Smithsonian re-
port.
Proposed by BritOh
The new theory, proposed by Pro-
fessor Albert Gilligan, noted Eng
lish geologist, is thai an ancient
northern Atlantis, a land mass of
continental proportions, existed ap-
Proximately 5OO00,O00 years ago.
Great rivers, flowing through this
ancient continent, deposited the
sediment which forms the upper
crystal layers of the lands now
bordering the north Atlantic-Scot-
land, Scandinavia, Spitzbergen and
parts of North America-he be-
lieves.
The existence of such a CONT
nent must be assumed to explain the
rock formations of those countries,
he says.
Evidence Is Presented
Professor Gilligan believes that
the ancient continent subsidized
slowly through millions of years,
and that a fragment of it still may
have projected above water when
the Norsemen were making their
earliest voyages to Iceland and
Greenland.
AS evidence for the existence of
the continent, he points out that
in Scotland and Norway there are
great thickneSSeS of rock more
than 500 100000 years old which are
sedimentary in origin. They are
quite different in composition from
the rock layers underlying them. 1t
is these sedimentary rocks which
he believes represent the sediment
brought down by the rivers of the
old continent.
Points to DeltaS
The present-day Mississippi
river, with it's tributaries, Trains
an area the size of Europe with
the exception Of Russia, Norway
and Sweden. and it's delta covers
an area of 12,300 square miles" he
Wi IS.
60" ne delta is advancing about 262
feet Per annum and the amount of
detriyus brought down each year
would build a prism 268 feet high
on a base having an area of one
square mile.
The belt of deposits surrounding
the north Atlantic and derived from
the ancient land mass would make
up many such deltaS as that of the
Mississippi, and CORRESPONDENCE the
land mass from which these we're
derived must have exceeded that
which has so far been laid under
contribution for the Mississippi
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-09
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-09

American-made automobiles lead
all other makes ir the island of
Ceylon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-09
aundry Prices That Appeal

We make it EASY for you to use laundry service-b
giving you washing service cheap you can't AFFORI
to bother with washing at home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
SAVING OR NO SAVING?

MEMBERS Of the scientific staff being dis
A'A charged by the United States govern
ment are not long-haired men with peculiar
notions. Neither are they individuals with low
efficiency ratings or those whose services are
rated by superiors as unnecessary.
They are being dismissed, or separated"
anG "furloughed" for one reason only-lack
of funds. That is, in order to save the small
amount of their salaries for use on such prof.
ects as public works
Typical of young women scientists who are
being dismissed is Miss Marjorie c. Lorentz
research worker on metallurgy at the Ma
tional Bureau of Standards.
When builders suspect flaw in the metal
to be used, say in building new airship or in
withstanding the stress of great building,
they may test it by an etching process. They
take cross section of the metal treat it with
the right reagent, and then photograph it.
The photograph, because of the action of
the reagent, will show up exclusions, or i'm
Projections, and also the shape of the metal
particles.
Miss Lorentz has experimental with many
sorts of metals and reagents and has made
convenient tables showing the best reagent
for use with each metal for each purpose
These have been published as scientific papers
Of the bureau. So that now the man who
wants to test a piece of copper just may look
at the table under copper and learn exactly
what is best for his purpose
Miss Lorentz also runs a sort of center
or exchange of information of all sorts on the
subject of metallurgy She abstracts all cur
rent publications on this subject and indexes
them in an up-to-the- minute file. This is
probably the only such information file on
metalIurgy open to the public in the United
States.
She answers letters of inquiry from the
public at the rate of more than 100 every
month, and has daily many other requests for
advice and data by telephone and personal
calls To meet repeated requests for the same
data she has compiled books on several
metals
Her government service, despite her youth
is of fourteen years duration. She never has
held another job but has turned down offers
at higher salary, because she looked upon the
government place as a permanent career.
For saving of 81, 700, the amount of Miss
Lorentz' salary, the government is sacrificing
her important service and closing to the public
this unique source of essential information.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
SPENDING is THE CRUX
nv Dr Harry FImer RarnasN

TT<HE spending of money is the crllx and
pivotal element of the capitalstic system
Saving may be greater Christian virtue, but
spending is what runs capitalism. When
spending ceases, capitalism goes into tall
spin.
A forceful argument in favor of more ex-
tensive spending now comes from the pen of
DR.. Arthur Dahlberg author of the much dis
cussed book on Jobs Machines and Capital
ism"
DR.. Dahlberg believes that the time has
come to smoke OUT purchasing power, not to
coax it out. We must force people, not coax
people, to spend
We have run our economic system in ac-
cordance with the pretty theories of meta
physical economists who have reasoned that
people quite automatically will spend as much
as they can-that human wants are Unsuitable
and that no capitalist will pass up an oppor-
tunity to accept interest or profits
But the facts of today prove that capitalists
do not act in accord with these venerable
academic theories
There are today about $40 900 100000 in
bank deposits. Only approximately one half
of this is circulating as in 1929. Our rich
individuals and corporations are everywhere
cutting expenditures and building nothing:
they have reduced their rate of spending to
about so per cent of the 1929 rate"
From 1927 to 1929 some $40 1000 900 900 was
put into new investments, such as capital
plant Since that time new investment oI,,os+
has disappeared
The result has been destruction of pur-
chasing power the dynamic element under
the capitalistic system The rich, who still
have purchasing power, refuse to exercise it.
This leads to wholesale unemployment and
the resulting destruction of the purchasing
power OF the masses. The net outcome has
been an ever-deepening depression.
The government has stepped in to prevent
hoarding OF gold. But this is mere drop in
the bucket compared to the boarding of re-
sources in bank deposits. Feeble efforts are
being made to increase mass purchasing power
through process tax on agricultural products
and through s3SOO,OoO,0O0 appropriation for
public works
But We have s42 ,o0OOOoOOO in bank deposits
which could be forced out and put to work to
create a body of purchasing power which
would make existing efforts appear dribbling
triviality by comparison.
To smoke out this great reserve of pur-
chasing power, DR.. Dahlberg proposes tax
on bank deposits Of up to per cent monthly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07

ment by him. it generally is believed that the
President is inclined to pick the 1926 level (or
average l924-l925. which is about the same as
the proper level for price sterilization at home.
We have heard no better suggestion than that.
But, obviously, until some such sterilization
is achieved for home REPRESENTATIVES, Of
foreign considerations-the farm relief subsi-
dies fixed by the administration and the wage
levels fixed under the national recovery law
will have little meaning.
The most reassuring part Of the picture is
the Presidents disinterestedness. In working
out the most difficult problems ever given a
President, he has no selfish purpose to serve.
In seeking the most effective degree of refla-
ton OF the dollar which had become dishon-
estly dear. in influencing price and wage levels,
he is not trying to stick any one group at the
expense Of another-either creditor or debtor,
capital or labor. country or city
Insofar as the job can be done without
partisanship and with scientific detachment.
he is attempting it.
That fact perhaps more than any other, is
behind the faith by which Americans have
moved prices upward opened factories and
stores, and begun to re-employ the jobless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
MEN WHO RODE THE TRAIL

Tor ten years he followed the believing
herds up the trail to the markets of
Kansas and to the pasturage beyond Thou
sand-mile tricks on COW ponies and back
again-what is there to equal this hardihood
today?
Virtually born a-horseback, George W.
Saunders of San Antonio lived life in the
raw until he could grow wealthy faster as
livestock commission broker and builder and
owner of the Union stockyards at st. Antonio.
When his hair began to whiten he helped
form society for Renaissance and reunion
the Old Trail Drivers Association of Texas
and served as its president from the time it
was formed in 1915 to his death, at 70, three
days ago.
Here in this association were men who
could tell tales. And they were astute enough
to gather yearly in San Antonio to be made
sure of listeners-they listened to one another,
or at least waited their turn while the other
talked and listened raptly to himself.
In the evening they go into a picture show
and in the news reels see the take-off of
twelve hours, twenty-mile jog for the cattle.
They gaze upon the synthetic westerns"
specially procured for them, and there are far
more cheers than jeers, for after all, horse
flesh and youth survive the gaudy trappings
of movie range life which would have been
scoffed out of court by the men who rode
slowly up the long Chisholm trail.
Hardwood? Still, that depends. Life in a
dark, dingy flat calls for its stamina as we'll
as the burning sun of long days behind cattle
on dusty trail, with storms and stampedes
to vary the fare.
And rigors of unemployment are relatively
SO severe that the trials of the old trail seldom
could hold a candle to them. One was the
hardihood of action, the other the hardwood
of resignation
Bring back the hardihood of action some
how!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
CENTENARIANS

ENTENARIAN likes movie thriers,"
~ reads recent headline relating to the
Tooth birthday of a man.
This old man. born in London, migrating
to New York at Is and getting job the first
day off the boat, has iouneyed all the way
here from 1888 He has crossed decades and
as a traveller crosses nations He has
come from the far places in time and his
tory.
He ought to be a stored traveller All
very old people ought to be. But they seldom
are. Why2
Senility is one answer The flush of life
may have passed. Another answer is that
people gradually care little for the tales of
far travellers What they have to recount is
a drug on the market.
The present is absorbed in the present, the
local in the local. Therefore far travellers
over the years, having no listeners do not
trouble to keep their observations and stories
up to date, and when they finally arrive at the
7Os and sos and COS they are out of step
with their contemporaries
They are more likely still in the far lands
from which they long ago came.
Another reason is that the average jour-
meyer into seneScence is, after all, only an
average person, and the average person alb
serbs little of interest worth telling. He does
not grow richer like some old painting.
When the vast ingenuity of America has
finished devising mechanical speed and eff
cheney, will it not turn to the urgent problem
Of turning out old people adorned with all
the accumulated richness of the lives thew
have lived?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
FEDERAL RACKET DRIVE

FURTHER evidence that the federal de-
partment of justice means business in its
drive against rackets is Attorney General Cum
mings selection of Joseph B. Keenan, Cleve-
land lawyer and experienced crime investigator,
to be assistant attorney general in charge of
the federal war on racketeers and gangsters.
Announcing that he will strike at gang
leadership some of which is intelligent, ed
ucated and expert" Mr.. Keenan, says:
Racketeering has been profession. Be-
cause of the huge returns it has brought into
racketeering men from other lines of endeavor,
including my own.
That last, coming from a lawyer, is cour-
ageous, refreshing, promising. 1t long has
been apparent that high legal skill is at the
command of big shot" racketeers, not only to
defend them in court after arrest, but to guide
them in disgusting and concealing coercive
practices under pretense of legitimate bust
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
FRIDAY. JULY. 7. 1893.
LET'S KEEP GOING

CERTAIN Of the Presidents advisers are
~ reported urging curtailment of the adj
ministratons SO ,3OOOOO00O public works pro-
gram. Their theory is that, since the tide has
turned and prices are mounting, public spend
ing on so large scale is needless.
We trust that this report is untrue If it
is true. the President should turn deaf ear
to the proposal
Much of the recovery 50 far is traceable to
the prospect Of large federal expenditures on
needed and socially valuable public works
Should the government now adopt timid role
in place Of the bold depression assaults that
so far have proved successful, the squirt prob
ably would slow down. Should this occur, it
might be difficult to start forward move
ment.
The timid way was Mr. HoOver's way. 1t
is not the Roosevelt way Experience proved
that Mr. Hoovers public works program was
too small Let us not make the same mistake
again.
To change the tempo Of our proposed pub
lie spending would be unfair to labor, industry
and congress; they supported the recovery
program with the understanding that the gov
eminent would do its share.
Title two of the national recovery act was
the governments pledge to contribute of its
vast credit the specified sum of So 300, 900 900
to prime the industrial pump Many labor
leaders, economists and congressman thought
the sum too small
you can't prime pump with an eye
dropper." Senator Wagner said.
We should not, as Senator Costigan just
has declared, leSTe unemployment of our mil
lions of jobless again to the chance hope
of automatic recovery"
President Roosevelt is fond of comparing
the administrations efforts to win against the
depression to those of a football game. A
winning team will not drop the ball deliber-
ately within a few yards of the goal posts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
decentralization Ebbs

4 t the moment this is not
L N world of brothers, but of sec
| ond cousins, once removed. But il
we are, each of us, to play in our
own backyard and till the indi-
vidual half acre I am not convinced
that the final end of international
arrangements has been reached.
There have been other failures.
There will be more.
Men are magnetized. Eventually
we must be drawn together, though
seas and mountains and monetary
standards lie between us.
We are parting now because of
technical differences. In quarrelling
over standards of silver and gold,
We are overlooking ties much
thicker than provided by any metal.
1t may even be that in the short
run it is advantageous all around
for us to go back to set up some
sort of national self -Sufficiency. For
the short run, yes, but history is a
record Of more enduring tides.
Peace and destiny and universal
welfare never have been short run
matters. Those national antagonisns
which bring about war move some
times as slowly as any glacier, and
they will be rooted out of existence
only when we are able to look be-
yond the breakers which mark our
coast line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
For the Time BeinQ

I HAVE not the slightest doubt
Il that there is at present general
support for President ROOSEVELT at
titude OF America first, America
second, and America third" Every
leader throughout the world is play
ing his own nation across the board.
So, if you like, the parley is break
ing up in sheer tragedy. But tragedy
is term reserved for those plays
which end with a final record of
failure and Illustration. This is not
the end. A lot of missionary work
has flowed under the bridge. More
must go down the mill race.
This is not a settlement; it is
merely truce. Worse than that, it
is an armed truce.
But the broader view can not be
defeated eternally. After govern
ments have failed, peoples will come
together. We are kin, and not all
the statesmen born can keep US
asunder forever.
Copyright. 1893 BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
Going Far to Say No

THIS seems to me to have been
i the function of America at
the economic conference. There may
be good reasons for our unwilling
ness to participate in concerted
effort to devise a stabilized inter-
national currency. and yet it is a
rather silly business for us to urge
the nations of the world to gather
in conclave merely to hear our
announcement that We intend to go
it alone.
Since nationalism rides rampant
for the moment. there is no good
purpose in assigning praise or
blame. Every representative gathered
in London was eager to get the best
he could for his own country. with
out regard to the welfare of the
world.
1t seems impossible just now
to hit upon schemes mutually adj
vantageous. You can not expect a
group which is oot-strap minded
to think in terms of universal well
| fare.
The cause of internationaliSm has
reached its lowest ebb within the
time of any living man. Even. Rus
Sia's brave experiment has departed
from its original broad vision and
become distinctly home brew. For
all the phrases flung out by some of
the orators the recurrent refrain
has been. Yes, but what do we get
ont of If ."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
THE ROOSEVELT DOLLAR

IN reversing his policy on monetary stabilize
u ton and international cooperation. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is putting all his eggs, for the
time being, in the domestic basket He says.
in effect, that We shall try to improve our own
lot before casting our lot with others in a COM
mon endeavor for world recovery.
AS long range policy of course. that
would be suicidal. But the President advances
it only as temporary emergency policy He
indicates that he is willing to negotiate with
others on fixing the value of money after he
has deprecated the dollar or boosted prices to
a satisfactory level in this country.
What is a satisfactory price level or the
best figure at which to devaluate the dollar?
There is little agreement on that point The
President apparently has not made up his
mind.
He has the power under the new imitation
'sw 10 devaluate the dollar to so per cent of
ITS normal gold content. Instead of using that
control power, for the moment he is letting the
dollar find its own level.
1t is not necessary either to praise or to
criticise the President for this policy. The
truth is that nobody knows which is the bet
ter method. There is no sure way 1t is an
experiment.
The American people have faith in the
President in this experiment. Even Europe,
though offended by the Presidents tone and
disagreeing with his new policy of economic
isolation admits that he has produced more
and better recovery results in four months
than any other statesman or government in
the world in a much longer time
Naturally. Americans are willing to trust
the President, rather than his critics, so long
as he continues to -delver-as he has deliv-
cred since March in an almost miraculous
way.
Though there has been no definite state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
1t Seems
to Me
; BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. July Clifton
~ Crawford. a favorite comedian.
gone these many seasons. had a
story in his familiar monolog about
a reckless friend of his named Her
bert who noted an advertisement in
the daily press
1t read: Colonel Montgomery
Moore. who is about to go on an ex-
petition to Africa, would like to
find a male companion who will
join him in shooting lions"
The advertisement made a deep
impression upon Herbert, and about
o'clock the following morning.
after an enlivening celebration. he
rang the bell at Colonel Moore's
house. The butler was loathe to
admit him. but Herbert insisted
that his mission was important and
that he came in response to a notice
in the papers.
Eventually the Colonel was awak-
ened and came downstairs. Herbert
greeted him cordially. L under
stand" he said. that you plan an
expedition to Africa and that you
are looking for a man to join you
in shooting lions
In spite of the lateness Of the
hour, the Colonel nodded with en-
| thuSiasm.
Well" said Herbert "I Just
dropped around to tell you won't
60"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07

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vinced that creams are valuable for
exceedingly dry skins. Most people
whose skin is dry will have scaling
Of the skin if they use strong toilet
soaps.
Authorities are convinced that
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skins, but not for dry skins.
Fortunately, the skin is a living
tissue and therefore has certain
automatic powers of regulation
The circulating blood keeps the
skin in a healtlful state.
Therefore, the most valuable step
in the care Of the skin is encourage
ment of good circulation. This OBJ
viously is accomplished by proper
diet and hygiene.
Hot and cold bathing may be
useful in stimulating the flow of
the blood in the caplllaries. Cen
tie massage aids also in maintain
ing healthful circulation.