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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
It's Old Stiff

THERE will be a stop-and-go
Il signal not only on the street
corner, hut in the apartment,
warning us to feed the baby as
we'll as when to step on the gas.
The eighteenth amendment is
mild compared to what some of
our best minds are cooking up by
way of regulation, whether
through board Of directors or a
soviet.
We already have reduced edu-
cation to a standard brand, and
we are approaching the same
goal through supervised play.
Except for mechanical power,
which obviously is more soulless
than slavery, it is all old stuff.
The Incas tried it some centuries
ago, with a social system that was
virtually automatic in its control
Of the individual.
Every little Inca knew exactly
what he was going to do in life
as soon as he was old enough to
be told; knew that he would be
taken care of until he was IS,
that he would work at some pre-
scribed vocation or trade from
that time until he was 90, and
then be taken care of until he
died.
The Inca civilization was great
in many ways, but not great
enough to Withstand the shock Of
a thousand Spaniards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Posture Of Child Is Important

its little stomach with its con-
tents.
1t is, Of course, natural for lit
tie children to have rather large
abdomens. However, these tend
to become smaller in most cases,
and the position in which the child
stands and walks has a great deal
to do with this change.
THE development Of straight
L legs for children is nowadays
less Of a problem than it was be-
fore mothers understood the ne
cessity for sunlight and plenty Of
the vitanin that is available IN
good cod liver oil.
However, in addition to the
vitamins and the cod liver oil,
the baby should have opportunity
to kick and squirm about even be-
fore it can stand erect.
It is particularly important
never to put too much strain on
the child's bones, muscles, Hga-
ments, and joints. Don't prop the
baby up before it seems to want
to sit up.
If parents will watch their own
posture and ask their admiring
children to initiate them, the ef-
feet is bound to be good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
IMPORTANT POSTS

Because the positions carry no compensation,
many citizens may regard the jury commissioners
as unmpOrtant.
AS a matter Of fact they are as important, if
not more important, than the judges themselves.
These men, from each of the larger poit-
ical parties select the names of those who will
serve on juries which will determine not only the
liberty of individuals but the chance OF justice in
civil courts.
Manipulation of these lists have not been I'M
known in remote years. AS a result justice has
been thwarted.
For this reason, the selections made by Judge
Earl Cox of the circuit court matter OF con-
graduation. Their standing in the community is
a guarantee of clean courts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

YVES, it is literally true; every
Il body is lonesome. The world
is full of lonely souls, especially
in cities. 1t attacks the rich and
poor alike, the brazen and the
bashful. Nobody escapes, and it
drives people to do desperate
things.
1t is the secret Of much of our
hectic gaiety, and our budding
together. At times all of us are
overtaken by the fact that life
is a lonely thing, a something
which even those nearest to us
can not share.
1t seems that women suffer
from loneliness more than men,
perhaps because it is part Of
their lot. Anyway, they put up
with it better; they have to. There
always is sympathy for a lonely
man, but seldom for lonely
woman.
She may be alone because a
long relationship has come to an
end-her heart is like an empty
house. 1t has no tenant.
Men have clubs to go to. Their
spare time is occupied. An extra
man at a party is welcome, but
an extra woman is looked on with
horror. A man can go alone to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

twenty eminent economists and the other in an
article by Alfred E. Smith.
In asking for debt agreement approached an
the same spirit Of generosity with which We went
into the great war" Mr.. Smith points to the very
practical consideration that by insisting on all We
may end by getting nothing.
Using the overthrow of the pro-American Herriot
government Of France on this issue as an example
Of our folly he asks: What shall we gain if we
upset the coalition government Of England or the
conservative government in Germany? Does any
think we shall collect debts through radical
governments which Will have their first plank
complete reputation of all public debts and per-
haps even private debts to foreign nations?"
The twenty economists, headed by the financial
adviser to many governments, Dr. E. w. Kemmerer
Of Princeton university andd DR.. B. NJ Anderson
Jr Of the Chase National bank state:
The urgent immediate problem is the foreign
trade situation Lacking an adequate export mar
ket, agricultural products and raw materials bring
ruinously low prices, and there is an immense I'M
balance between them and manufactured goods.
"As a result, even the relatively scant output Of
the factories is marketed with difficulty. There
should be prompt reciprocal lowering Of tariffs and
prompt settlement of inter-alled war debts. 49,.
Settlement Of inter allied debts should be on a
negotiated basis :. which, promptly accomplished,
will be Immediately beneficial to all countries"
Most of the business men who have expressed
themselves, most of the economists, most of the
newspapers most Of the church and peace groups,
are Of the same opinion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

TOR instance. the head must be
Il held correctly if the jaws are
to meet and the teeth are to bite
as they should.
The chest must be held correctly
if the heart and the lungs are to
perform their functions to the
best advantage.
The feet must be right and the
legs correct in their relationship
to the feet if the child is to walk
at all, let alone run, jump or
dance.
Furthermore. the relative posi-
tions Of the exterior portions Of
the body are significant in rela-
tiOnship to the positions Of the
internal organs such as the lungs,
the heart, the liver and the intes-
tines.
The position Of any one part of
the body is likely to affect all the
other parts.
A child that is overfed may
have a strong forward curve to its
back for a while TO carry around
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
SCIENCE.
New Science Era Here
BY DAVID DIETZ

Since the problem of stellar be-
havlor is essentially a problem in
the behavior of atoms. DR.. Shap-
IeyS pronOuncement means that
much work must be done in the
realm Of the atom.
In this connection. it is inter-
esting to note that the glorifca-
ton of mathematical rules at the
expense Of mechanical models
never has pleased all scientists.
Sir James Jeans and others in
UNFOLDING the mathematical ma
ture of the universe, have said
that the behavior Of the atom was
such that it defied the making of a
suitable model or picture. that if
could be explained only by mathe-
NAUTICAL formulate.
Opponents to this view how
ever, felt that the inability to
make suitable picture or model
meant only that we did not as vet
Know enough about the subject
among those who have been
outspoken in their protests of this
taxing refuge in mathematics has
been Professor Frederick Soddv
eminent scientist, who made manV
OF the important discoveries in the
Held Of the atom between 1895 and
1910. -o'' anu
such recent discoveries as that
Oh Inc existence of the neutron, a
parucIe like the electron. but
without any electric charge. would
seem to indicate that Soddy and
right are
apparently we are not yet in
possession Of all the facts
one thing is certain; there *
plenty Of work for the scientists 10 10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

the theater, to a restaurant, but
a woman must have a consort.
Yet men suffer from loneliness,
too, either in isolation in space
or insulation Of spirit. Some peo-
pie can not get close to their fell
lows, and are doomed to live aloof
and alone.
tt
IN Australia there is a sickness
4 called "bush-madness." 1t is
born of loneliness, and takes the
form of talking. Those who suf-
fer from it talk to the trees, to
the fire, to a horse, a dog, any
thing, just for the sake of hear
ing the human voice, even if it be
their own.
Is that why we talk so much to
any one who will listen? One
meets a man casually, and he
tells his whole life story in de-
tail. Is it "bush-madness' in an
other form?
To be able to be alone and yet
not be lonely, is one of the finest
arts of life. Next to it-or, may
be it is the same things to help
to destroy loneliness in others.
What a blessed business! Here is
the meaning of religion, if we
know how to use it.
Copyright 1888. United Features
SvndiCatel
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Questions and
Answers


Q-Where is the Lido?
At is famous island resort
near Venice, Italy.
O-Has the United States gov
eminent loaned money to Central
and South American countries
during the Hoover administration?
A-NO.
Q-Give the date of the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration in New
York City?
A-Sept. Is to Oct. 9, 1909,
Q-Give the location and num-
Der Of the Finger Lakes?
A-They are a group of thirteen
glacial lakes in central New York.
O-What was the number of
American casualties in the World
war?
A-There were 10000 killed, in
Guiding deaths from all causes,
and 234,30O wounded.
Q-Where were the scenes for
the motion picture, Tess of the
Storm Country" laid?
A-Along the coast Of Maine;
The opening sequences were on
board a schooner at sea.
Q-What does the name Lillian
mean?
Alt is derived from the Latin
and means pure as a lily"
O-HaS a pension ever been
granted to retired President of
the United States?
A-No.
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lines Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times-Modern art will
prevail in the murals that will be
part Of Indiana's exhibit at the
Chicago Worlds Fair. These
murals to be done by Thomas F.
Benton will be executed in a stvle
winch viii not be, in my opinion.
appreciated or wholly understood
Oy the public Of Indiana.
Our state, which long has stood
1or the best in literature and in
art now submits to being a dump
ing grounds for the works of this
passing fad in art.
Inns movement, originated in
france a few years back. now ig
oelng abolished in the French
schools. They are going back to
SOUND principles in art which IN
diana long has appreciated and
approved. on"
The people Of this state not
only will pay dollars for tbeee
murals, but, what is more than
V44dI' tHey VIII be interested in
seeing them at the Worlds Fair
1t IS my belief that Mr.. Benton's
modern Interpretation will not do
justice to the story of Indiana's
progress and her place in national
history.
The citizens Of this state will be
amazed at the oddities of these
Al-tashioned designs. They viii
command wonderment, instead of
praise.
1hls state surely has within her
bounds artists Of thorough train
ing, capable Of executing these
murals. l am wondering. if these
murals afterward should be
placed in the State House. as
understand they will be, of how it
might, at some time or other, re-
hect upon those who approved of
this commission.
ROGER FREY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
WAR DEBT PRESSURE

Week by week, the demand by American citizens
for settlement of the debts problem increases
In reading the scores of New Years forecasts, 1t
was noteworthy that the business men, bankers and
economists almost without exception listed debt
settlement as essential to business revival in the
United States.
In addition, there have been this week two out
standing statements on the subject, one in the pro-
gram presented to President-Elect Roosevelt by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Daily Thought

Thus saith the Lord, as the new
wine is found in the cluster, and
saith Destroy it not; for a
blessing is in it: SO will I do for
my servants sakes, that may not
destroy them all.-Isaiah 65:8.
II INDNESS has converted more
~ sinners than either zeal. eio-
quence, or learning-F. w. Faber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

IT is always hard recognized The
conservative will call
on as usual during alterations The radical
into the house and warn it skipping phases
Around here revolution
length portrait Of Karl Marx walks frame pats
Hllquit on the head, and sings the "Internationale"
For the Communists the official consist Of Coriss
Lamont calling up Malcolm CoVey at the New Republic
saying Guess who this
But while the orthodox dogmat looking to the v
for signs and of the revolution
quite possible that less addicted NAV carry
through the right under the gazers
The gentlemen
vast amount OF attention. although nothing philosophy
Of and the machine which
and before the Socialist
Edward BeaN incidentally
author assumes with the increasing prophetic inspiration
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
1t Seems to Me:
BY WOOD BROUN

THE three-year study of American life made
j. by the Presidents committee seems mild
enough if one is to judge by the headlines.
There is nothing particularly startling for
instance, in Hoover Board Warns Of New So
cial Trends" In fact, in this slipped version
nobody knows whether he is expected to put his
shoulder to the wheel or lock the brakes.
In fact, we have been talking about trends
for so many years tlfat we are a little slow to
grasp the fact that a tendency has become an
aCtIali.v ever have ,.ar..o fo01;,--~ ~. 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

we are going to plan leisure, since
that is the only way to keep in
dustry going-sO many hours for
the movie, so many to drive the
automobile, so many for the radio
and SO ON.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

GOMEHOW I can not appreciate the beauty of
~ tall buildings when at their feet crouch men
and women and children wan with hunger
And wherever go in my country, that is what
see. Several very wonderful, very rich very splen-
did works of man. into which have gone millions of
dollars and an untold fortune in dreams, all ringed
about with squalOr and poverty and human misery
Cities whose towers scrape the sky, whose CEN
ters seem made of gold wear skirts sewed with
frayed fringes of woe, Uttered filth, tumbledown
houses, babies creeping in the dirt, empty eyes
staring from grimy windows, gaunt and battered
men; frail, defeated women, horrors unspeakable
We like to exhibit to visitors the things of which
we are proud. And civic pride at least in America
is a strong characteristic. Only we are proud of
such strangs things sometimes
NEARLY always there objects which we
have created out of brick or stone or marble
wide wel-paved streets, smeared too often with
blood our green parks with their signs asking chill
dren to keep off the grass; Our fountains iron pro-
tected in which babies may not battle when the
days are hot; churches closed to the poor, our
exclusive clubs into which those who are starved
for beauty may not enter, our opera houses, where
only the fortunate may go
And how carefully We avoid showing our less
lovely possessions Seldom do we visit them our
selves.
We do not say to our own ears These too, are
mine, these long streets Of despair, these wastes of
ugliness, these lowlands of languishing mortality
where hope is dead"
Yet how can any town or any city or any gov
eminent, for that matter. build permanently only
with stone and marble and brick?
Today, it seems TO me- We have enough sky
scrapers enough smooth white roads, enough golf
courses. But do not, my friends. have enough
human beings who are happy, nor enough small
homes that are free of fear.
America, whose dreams always have been so
high and fine must needs dream now for while
of tall men and comely wel-fed women and sturdy
babies. For these are the true riches a nation
should be able to boast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
This Would Be q Good Time

IN the of Missionaries hey talk OF Socialism
IN time Frankly it that get now
ad by now mean within period OF eight
wait century
In spite accompanying SYMPTOMS
has been difficult people
depression We are watching the end of epoch.
NO believe that
carried precisely which obtained in 1000
At least person people seem to have cana
for believing anything. '
n year we Will all of us recognize much
we 40 now the complete which
way of life I'm afraid I'll the
and the German in the sashed at his neck With his
curved and marvelously sharp blade W. ''
Never touched he German
All said the Gurkha,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
ANOTHER CONGRESS ACTS

The venerable congress in Washington has been
offered a valuable suggestion by a congress Of youth
sitting in Chicago.
The Student Congress Against War, with $50
delegates from universities and colleges in all parts
of the country, has condemned military training
in schools and summer camps as Integral parts of
the countrys war machine and methods of dis
seminating 1ingoistc propaganda"
They were thinking of the cost of the training
in terms of human values. But their resolution has
meaning also in terms of tax dollars.
The training so bitterly rejected by young men
in position to know it most intimately is costing
this country $6692O08 in the current fiscal year
This money pays for army instructors, rifles, and
other equipment summer camps for college men
not in financial need Of vacation at government ex-
pense summer camps for others who do not go to
college, but are recommended for these pleasant
vacations by their congressman.
1t pays for publication of manual on Citizen
ship" designed to teach youth along with the arts
of force that moral political and economic in
stitutions are perfect, that monopohes are sacred
that government of the masses is communistic that
working classes need the stimulation of poverty and
hunger
Services essential to the mental and physical we'll
being of hundreds of thousands of children will be
sacrificed SO there may be federal funds to teach
these things to youth to prepare them mentally and
physically to kill one another
The congress in Washington has been looking
for ways to cut the federal budget. The congress
in Chicago has pointed out how this may be done
and how at the same time, a positive accomplish
ment in the direction of peace at home and abroad
may be made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

DR. SHAPLEY dismisses pres
II ent theories Of stellar eyolu-
ton very quickly He waves them
aside as inadequate and super
fetal
He is pleased to see so many new
big telescopes being built, because
he thinks that by working hard
for the next ten years we may be-
gin TO develop some new theories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

TINE year 1882 will go down in
Il scientific history as the be-
ginning of the great revision, if
we are to judge from what Dr.
Harlow Shapley, internationally
famous director Of Harvard OBJ
servatory, said here before the an
nual convention Of the American
Association for the Advancement
Of Science.
During the last few days I have
attempted to suggest how 1882
might go down in scientific his
tory I suggested that as re-
suit Of DR.. Joel Stebbins' studies,
which showed the Milky Way to
be only One-third the size pre-
viously imagined, 1882 might be
remembered as the year when the
depression hit the Milky Way.
I also suggested that it would
be remembered as a year Of con-
fusion because of the battles over
Cosmic rays and the expanding
universe, and because Of new dis
coveries in the realm of the atom,
which seemed to upset old estab-
lished physical laws.
DR.. Shapley, viewing the con-
flict of contradictory theories in
astronomy and physics, calls upon
astronomers to throw overheard
their old theories and to begin to
accumulate additional data upon
which new theories can be built
If scientists respond to DR.. Shap-
ley's call, 1882 will mark the end
of a scientific era and 1888 the be-
ginning of a new one.
A Faster Era
NNE scientific age began with
" Newtons theory Of gravita-
ton and ended, centuries later in
1895. During it, scientists de-
veloped a mechanistic view Of the
universe which to them was wholly
satisfactory.
The next era started with dis
coverv of X-rays in 1895. X-rays
were followed by other startling
discoveries -radio-aCtivity, radlum,
the eIectron, the quantum theory,
relatively and cosmic rays
Science moved faster in this era
and decades served in place OF
centuries. BY 1929 scientists once
more built up completed picture
of the universe.
The layman will find this
picture summarized, in reason
ably simple language in Sir James
Jeans book, THE Mysterious Uni
verse" This new universe sub
stituted mathematical laws for the
mechanistic views Of the previous
era.
And now it looks as though the
picture won't do. Dr.. Shapley tells
us that there are more objections
to present-day theories Of the
origin Of the moon. earth, and
stars, than those theories can met.
He tells us that we will have to
abandon the idea that the moon
was formed from material torn
from the earth while the earth
still was molten, and that the
earth and other planets were
formed from material cast out
by the sun.
He says that it is probable that
moon, earth, planets, sun, and
stars are all the same age, all
formed simultaneously from the
condensation Of one parent CASE
Gus nebula.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Tired Of Doing Anythjng

M11IN year the realization will home that our economic
system literally has been decapaed Modern machinery has
mace Vn Old forms impossible And all that
thing about ~ u N'4is any
1t IS by certain immediate wav out will b Nv
radical readusment leadership That can ban %
~ ~ ~ '00 i''0'i "S d pres
lakes no vision to talk about what going happen hundred
lies Immediately your feet ~ " "N"'
WI EVERYDAY the American toer himself one Of the
noTeo million rulers Of only one catch in tho
scheme He must do ~ - '"0
lCopvrIh. BY The Tmel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05
Consolidate the Gains

nOING things, especially in
~ creative way, seems to be
mans destiny or, if not that, his
surest method Of attaining a rea-
sonabIe degree Of satisfaction in
life.
The last few generations have
been quite happy in their work.
They have been discovering, in
venting and improving all sorts of
devices. They have wrought
great change in methods Of work
and habits of life.
They have gambled with Fate,
some Of them winning and more
Of them losing, but all of them
getting kick out of the play and
all of them a little stronger be-
cause of it.
Now we propose to consolidate
their gains, take the mechanical
set-up they have left and stabilize
it.
We are going to provide jobs for
everybody even if we have to get
down to a three-hor day and a
three-day week.
After we have planned industry,
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which is much more important
than its effect on trade.
1t is unnecessary to belittle
the benefits Of modern industry
to realize that it includes disad-
vantages, or that its most inpor-
tant aspect is not the leisure it
makes possible, but the physical
and psychological effect of that
leisure.
1t requires ambition and in
genuity to develop an automatic
machine, but it requires neither
to sit down and watch one OPP
crate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

Already some folks are finding thta their New
Year resolutions won't hold water
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-05

Charity never seems swceter than when you
enter it in the exemptions column on an income
ak return.