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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
SATURDAY. DEC. ?. 1888.
CLEAN Up THE STREAMS

ONLY twenty-nine days remain for Indiana
- cities to obtain federal funds for elm
mating stream pollution. Applications for
these government loans must be in Washing
ton before New Years day. Many communi-
ties are letting the chance Of a lifetime slip
by not avaning themselves Of this aid.
municipalities should act immediately. IN
dianas streams are known throughout the
world because Of the prose and verse the
states authors have written Of them. Greed
and carelessness have changed those same
streams from things Of beauty and health to
pestilendal open sewers. Must we have Sc
rious epidemic before our public officials act?
There is another advantage in constructing
adequate sewage disposal plants now Prices
are lower than they are likely to be for many
years. Taxpayers actually Will save money by
building during 1884 Unquestonably the
legislature and the courts are going to force
a cleanup of Indianas streams eventually and
stubborn cities may find that their delay has
been extremely expensive.
If these disposal plants are started within
the next few months thousands of worthy,
unemployed citizens will be given jobs and
hundreds Of building material firms will sell
supplies
The state conservation department is doing
all it can to persuade communities and indi-
viduals to stop poisoning our rivers. 1t has
accomplished much already, but it can not do
the job singlehanded. The public must swing
in behind and demand that their city officials
act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
CHILD NUTRITION

NOV that the well-rounded woman is the
~ vogue again there will be an internal
expansion. GRAVES, butter, pastries anc white
breads are taking their place on the menus
Women are murmuring that they had for
gotten that eating was so much fun.
There is another group in America who
have forgotten, too. You see. it has been so
long since they have had a warm, appetizing
meal. So very long since a table spread with
food has been more than little match girls
dream.
The United States children's bureau esti-
mates that; To-day somewhere in the neigh
borhood Of one-afth Of all pre-school and
school children are showing the effects of poor
nutrition, inadequate housing, and lack of
medical care"
It seems a little cruel that women laugh
lightly about the number of calories to add or
subtract while children wonder if the hollow
places in their stomachs Will go on hurting
forever and ever. No one means to be unkind,
Of course. But thoughtlessness doesn't relieve
perennial emptiness in the stomach. There
isn't much to DO about it except to supply the
vacuum with baked potatoes and milk and
oatmeal. Stomachs are biological hangovers.
Science, with all its understanding Of atoms
and relatively. can't DO anything about them.
A child can't be expected to locate Madrid
and Toxic and Bangor. Me, on pink and blue
maps when his stomach IS empty and his head
light. He doesn't care that wheat IS the chief
export Of Minnesota and corn grows in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois when he never sees the
finished product.
II we would give up some things that we
don't need the situation would be relieved
iu,measurably. In 1880 the United States spent
s2s25, 100000 for drinks and narcotics, $685.
100000 for confectionery and chewing guIE
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Times readers are inrtted to cypress
their Ctetcs in these columns. Moke your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1oords or Iess.)
Bv Guy D. Sallee.
You who are innocent, cast the
first stone.
The courts cry for justice, yet an
unemployed man was sentenced to
sixty-day jail sentence at the state
farm, and fined SIS by Judge Dewey
Myers in municipal court three for
diverting electricity, not stealing it,
but diverting it,
What a difference between a
young judge who prefers protecting
an electric monopoly like the In
dianapolis Power and Light Company
and man like Senator Norris, who
is strangely interested in the people
who send him to congress.
We were told it would be wicked
to let the people use Muscle Shoals
power plant for themselves, in spite
of the fact they paid for it.
It never would do for the govern
ment to go into business for itself.
But President Roosevelt received
charges from his private investiga-
tors that respectable gentlemen
running power plants had been
stealing the power Of Muscle Shoals
from the government and the
people. Would Judge Dewey Myers
sentence one Of these highly re-
spectacle power owners to the state
farm for stealing power from the
people?
The federal tax on electricity Sec
ton GIG stated there is a tax Of 3
per cent on electrical energy for
domestic and commercial use after
June %, 1882. This act required the
company to collect the tax from the
user and pay it to the government.
The tax of 3 per cent was on the
electrical energy consumed, but the
Indianapolis Power and Light Com
pany collected from all consumers
on demand charge, plus the en-
ergy rate.
A former commission, and it has
not yet been changed, gave the
utility sap to the indianapolis
Power and Light Company. which
is 61s cents a socket month plus
the energy rate, which ranges from
Az to 10 cents a kilowatt hour.
The average is now 81 a month,
and the indianapolis Power and
Light Company charges 3 per cent
tax on this sap which Melted tens
of thousands of dollars. What the
people would like to know is, did
the government receive it? An audit
of their books will tell.
Would you say this is stealing
from the people in a respectable
way? Or, putting it politely, is this
diverting the peoples money to the
company's use?
If poor working man steals
electricity from the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company, and you
sentence him to sixty days on the
state farm with a SIS fine assessed
if you will sit as judge and it is
up to you, as you are on the in
I'll swear out a warrant for the
treasurer or any official who per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
Simplicity
BY AUSTIN JAMES

I care not for the fancy clothes
That mark the man Of means.
Nor would walk the cluttered road
Into eternity.
I'm dressed in humble homespun,
With a patch upon my jeans,
And I'm happy in my own
Sincere simplicity.
Nor ne'er to me has come the call
OF Iimousines or gold,
No caviar nor demi-tasse
Is in my bill Of fare.
Just bread and gravy on my plate
So simple to behold,
And going places? just a truck
To snort a gettin' there.
They say that am just a bum
To lounge the whole day through,
Conventions seem to have no place
Nor claim nor hold on me.
Bohemian perhaps am
In things I say and do,
But that's the Joy O. livln'
In pure simplicity.
And those that trudge the tangled
path
Live jig-saw puzzle days,
Confusion rules their minds anu
souls
Deplorable to see
If they could live one-track lie
And change to simple ways,
Like me, I think, they'd be con-
tent
And love simplicity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
THE LESSON OF SAN JOSE

THE San Jose lynching should mean some
thing more important and far-reaching
than mere notification to the would-be kid
napers of the country.
The administration of justice in America,
publicly declared Chief Justice Taft Of the
United States supreme court. is a disgrace to
civilization, and America, with all of her
churches, schools. intelligence and enterprise,
is the most criminal country in existence.
The other name for American justice is
sloth.
Between the mwderous deed and compile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
Free COuntru

By Times Reader.
In regard to the person or per-
sons who are so against the peo-
pie who spend their money and
time as they see fit in going to
the Walkathon at the state fair
ground, some people would kick if
they were playing football.
I have been out there several
times and have failed to see any
feeble minded or any one who
looked like they needed padded
walls Or floors. Just because we
want to go out there and enjoy
ourselves at something different is
no sign we are ready for the
Central State hospital. There is
always some one ready to squawk.
Let the ones who don't care to go
out there stay away. There is
enough out there without them.
Let them attend to their own
business and let other people do
the same. This is a free country,
or supposed to be, so if you don't
care for the Valuation, don't try
to tell other people what they
should do or where they should go.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
Que StiOnS and
AnSWe rS

Odd the Pope attend the last
Eucharist Congress in Ireland?
A-No.
Q-Name the President Of Mex
let.
A-General Abelardo Rodriguez.
Q--Give the number of bank
failures in the United States in
1880, 1881 and 1882, and the num-
Der of banks that had not been
reopened in August, 1888, after
the March moratorium.
A-Bank failures were as fol-
lows: 1880, 1,345; 1881, 1928; 1882,
1856. On Aug. 70, 1888, there re-
manned 2,870 closed banks.
(Which breeds of hen pro-
duce the larger eggs2
Am general, Brahmas, Coch-
ms, Orpingtons and Black Jersey
Giants.
Q-Who invented the printing
press?
A-John Gaensfeish, commonly
known as John Gutenberg, gen.
orally is credited with the inven-
ton.
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So They Say

I haven't time to die.-Dr. Char
lotte Davenport Of Philadelphia on
her 109th birthday.
I like to knock over policemen
Queen Mary Of England.
The faith that other nations had
in our military equipment in 1914
saved us from becoming involved
in the World War-President Ed
mund Schulthess of Switzerland.
Fan dances are just a fad, the
answer to a world gone sex crazy
Gilda Gray, former shimmy queen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
:: The Message Center ::


hill with safety razors, and the
only additional expense will be the
high scaffOlding to be erected for
the unemployed to use while shaw
ing the grass. It would be danger
Gus to use lawn mower unless at
tached to a balloon, as the lawn
mower would get out of control and
fall down on the passing trucks and
automobiles. Anyhow, We are drift
ing away from the machine age,
and safety razors are not exactly
machines.
Cy Foster, Of Carmel, says the
state is going to NOW the grass with
cosmic rays. He heard that down
at the state conservation depart
ment.
BY A Hoosier
Last Saturday noon, about forty
men drew their $12 each for twenty
four hours work at the South East
street wood yards, and were they
happy? Some had no shoes, others
had no sox, others hadn't clothes
enough on to wad shotgun.
Monday morning, every one re-
ported. Eighteen pairs Of new shoes,
new sox, overalls and gloves, were
counted, and every one was happy,
but it didn't last long. We were
notified to go to Tomlinson Hall to
register and were notified to go
home and they would send for us,
as soon as they had some more
projects. Well, some of us have
registered ever so often since last
July, so we should have a good
pedigree by now. Some of us had
a square meal Sunday for the first
time in months. Well, now what?
No baskets, no coal, no flour, They
tell us we are on our own now. We
haven't had flour since october.
What can we do to get to the front?
Are there any human people left,
or is it just politics, greed and
graft? Where are Louis Markum
and John Kirch, our friends? How
much has Mr.. Book done? And in
the name of our Lord, why were we
put in the hands Of the Chamber
of Commerce?
Why, Mr.. Engineers, are the
basket-men not able to be good
workmen? Well, I'll tell you why.
When you sat down to your banquet
table, did you get up with your
stomach scraping your backbone?
Have you tried to take $2.40 for
four of you to live on week in and
week out? Sift some of the corn
meal in your brains. In place of
feeding us chix fodder, give us a he
mans grub and we will do he-mans
work. Watch your highways and
find when the money goes out of
indianapolis. Well, will we have
anything to be thankful for? /
think not. But I still think God is
in his heaven.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-02
Science
DAVID DTETZ
scrlpps-Howard Science Editor

TINE invention Of nothing was the
l. greatest invention Of our pres
ent era The introduction Of this
invention into Europe about 500
years ago was the turning point in
a development without which the
progress Of modern science. industry
and commerce would have been I'M
possible.
Let us hasten to explain this
Chestertonian paradox. BY moth
ing" we mean the zero or cipher
Of four arithmetical notation. the
concept of a symbol to represent
nothing.
The story Of this intensely I'M
portant symbol is only one Of a
number Of fascinating tales told by
Dr. Tobius Dantzig in Number. the
Language of Science a revised edi-
ton Of which has just been issued
by Macmillan at $3.50.
Civilizations rose and fell during
the first 5000 years Of mans history.
Each left behind a heritage Of
philosophy, religion, art and litera-
ture.
But in the field Of arithmetic.
there was, after 5000 years, only
IAN infleXible enumeration so crude
as to make progress wellnigh i'm
possible, and a calculating device
so limited in scope that even ele-
mentary calculations called for the
services of an expert"
TINE counting device, still In use in
4 rural districts of Russia and
China, is the abacuS or counting
board. In one form, 1t consists of
wooden beads strung on a row of
parallel wires in wooden frame.
Few people realize, DR.. Dantzig
tells us, that the device was in COM
mon use throughout Europe only q
few centuries ago.
If you want to realize what arith-
metical calculations meant to a
European citizen of the twelfth CEN
tury, forget for the moment, what
you know about the Arabic numera-
ton with its digits from Il" to 49,"
its 20" and its principle of position.
BY position we mean the conven-
ton by which the place of a digit
indicates whether it stands for units,
tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.
Now then, try and multiply the
Roman numerals NCMXII and
CLVII together. AS Professor Dant-
zig says, Computations which a
child now can perform required
then the services Of a specialist, and
what is now a matter Of a few
minutes meant, in the twelfth CEN
fury, days Of elaborate work"
NUR Arabic numerals really came
" from India. They were Indian
numerals which the Arabs adopted
in the tenth century, he tells us. At
the beginning of the thirteenth CEN
fury, these Indo-Arabic numerals
were introduced into Italy.
You might think that the Arabic
system would have been hailed at
once. But instead, a battle began,
a battle that lasted until the
fifteenth century. The opponents of
the abacus were unwilling to give it
up and in some places laws were
passed to prohibit the use of Arabic
numerals.
And as usual" Professor Dantzig
says, prohibition did not succeed in
abolishing, but merely served to
spread bootlegging.
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petrated this steal of federal tax
from the consumers.
The provisions are that you
sentence the individual in proper
ton to amounts diverted by the I'M
employed worker. OF course, we all
know that you, or any other judge,
can not sentence a corporation, to
jail. There is one law for the COM
mon man, and immunity for the
captains Of industry.
The federal government might
take cognizance Of this tax racket.
The electrical users can group
themselves and sue for refund,
which would amount to tens of
thousands of dollars.
The peoples only hope against
utility rackets is to own them col
lectively, in fact all industry must
be owned by the people eventually
why not now,
Privately owned industry has
ruined the United States and en-
shaved millions of people. There is
no control as yet placed on in
industry and commerce that would
benefit the people. If there is, why
then are we still in the economical
omelet?
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Daily Thought

Ye have lived in pleasure on the
earth, and have been wanton; We
have nourished your hearts, as in a
day of slaughter.-James SIS.
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BY Wild Bill.

BY Wild Bill.
The most expert job Of sodding
ever performed in Indiana is on new
road 81 North Meridian street,
north of White river. The state
highway commission has plastered
huge ninety degree bank belong
ing to some wealthy real estate
owner) with long haired grass which
can be seen by taxpayers who roll
by and crane their necks to look
up at it. This grass is growing
forty feet high up the bank and
looks like a drop curtain in an Irish
theater. Artistically, it vies with
the Indiana murals at Chicago.
I think this expenditure of so
large sum was we'll warranted,
because it will keep forty men en-
ployed every summer for years to
come, cutting the grass up the steep
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DLEASURE makes our youth in
Il glorious, our age shameful
Steele.
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Pontiac

Pontiac 1929 Sedan-New tires Q17E
all around. Looks and runs O1 ~
good; a real buy at this price.
L. p. STEUART, Inc.
1928 14th st. N. w. Open Evenings |
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Pontiac 1929 COach-second series, 6
wire wheels, trunk, we'll tenders.
paint and rubber excellent. Easy
terms and trade.
STEUART MOTORS
6th and N. Y. Ave. n. w. Nat. 5000
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La Sale


Lincoln 2-Pass. COupe-Four Q1OS
wheel brakes balloon tires. U1OO
A real bargain.
WAKEFIELD MOTOR co.
113O Conn. Ave. N. w. Dist. 1850
Lincoln 1926 Convertible Coupe @1GE
Good running condition. U1OO
WAKEFIELD MOTOR co.
1880 Conn. Ave. n. w. Dist. 1880
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Plymouth 1882 sedan-Liks 09N0
new in every way.......... DOtO
BLANTON MOTOR CO.
SO n. Y. Ave. n. f. Nat. 6666
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Plymouth

Plymouth 1881 Convertible @CI0
COupe-Original paint in ex- WAfV
cellent condition; tires are good; mo-
tor quiet; terms and trade.
BLANTON MOTOR CO.
33 N. Y. Ave. n. Il. NAT. 1856
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Nash
Oakland

1927 Oakland COach-Many miles CIO
MODERN AUTO EXCHANGE
23O3 18th st. N. W.. col. 1885
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ssMAY DAY.
USED CAR B ARG AIN 81
Pierce-ArroW

Pierce 1880 Sedan - Distin- Q7IS
Kuished car. The velvety feel ID tO
Of its powerful motor will convince
NASH ORR. 1883 i4th NV. DEC. 4419
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1899 Plymouth p. A. Coupe COAX
Dark blue, new tires. A UOtO
real value in cheap transportation.
H. b. LEARY, JR. & BROS.
1923 14th st. N. w. NO. 6S26
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1882 Plymouth 4-dOOr Sedan. COAX
Guaranteed mechanically and SDOtO
otherwise.
MODERN AUTO EXCHANGE
1908 14th st. n. w. col. 1895.
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OIdsmobiIe

OldsmObile Sport Coupe, 1929 Q1E0
Rum b e seat wire O1OV
wheels trunk rack: two-tons tan
finish bargain. Terms.
POHANkA SERVICE
1926 goth St. n. w. Dist. 9141
Evening star., 1933-08-06
SUMMER CAMPS.

CATOCT1N.
Private camp for children. located DO
miles west OF Rockville on Route %; re-
duced rates for August. Address Mr.. and
Mrs. T. A. HUGHES Dckerson. Nd. Phone
Buckeystown 37-F-21. H.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
AIDING MURDER CHARGED
New Mexico Sheriff Asks Punish
ment of 2 Under New Law.

ESTANCIA, N. Mex, August (R.-
Under New Mexico's new law, which
makes an accessory to a crime liable to
the same punishment as the person
committing the crime, Sheriff Rex
Meador of Torrance County yesterday
charged Charles Spencer and John Lay
man of Mountainair with first-degree
murder for the death Of his son, VIII
liam Meador.
Spencer and Iayman are charged with
aiding Jack Layman, ex-convict and
fugitive from justice, who is alleged to
have fatally wounded Meador, deputy
sheriff, in gun fight at Mountainair
last Friday night. Spencer is a broth
er-in-law and John Layman brother
Of the hunted man.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
CEDARHURST,
ON CHESAPEAKE BAY.
NEAR SHADY SIDE. MD.

DEVELOPED. REFINED COLONY.
ELEC.. GOOD ROADS. HARBOR
SEND FOR CIRCULAR.
WALTER M. BAUMANN.
Thomas Circle. MA. 62o9.
BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED BUNGALOW.
5 rooms. kitchen and bath. running water.
rrigidaire, artesian we'll. electric lights.
and bathing: situated on Potomac River
between Morsentowno and Rock Point.
month. Phone Cleveland 1870. ~