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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
DEATH OF THE LAME DUCK

One Of the few good by-products of the depreS-
sion is the speed with which the lame duck amend
ment to the Constitution was ratified. The weak
ness and dangers inherent in the lame duck sys-
tenn were revealed at their worst by this crisis
In a race Monday for the honor of being the last
of the thiry-six states needed to amend the Consti
tuition Speaker Meredith nurriedly called the
members of the Missouri house together by phone,
so his state could ratify ahead of Massachusetts,
whose house was scheduled to meet for the purpose
in he afternoon
Ratification broke all records for speed. 1t took
submit it, 1t took less than eleven months for
thirty-six states to act. Not state refused to
ratify There may be a unanimous vote of forty
eight states.
All honor to Senator George W. Norris Of Ne
braska for this victory! In battling to end this
clumsy and illogical anachronism, he opposed
by what he called the organized political machines
of special privilege"
How right he was is proved not only by the
chorus of approving votes of the states but by the
sion of history. From row on it will be harder
for buck-passing party leaders, frivolous f1buster-
ers irresponsible politicians to block the will of
the voters.
Now Senator Norris has one more important
amendment. He will set about now to abolish the
electoral college, another survivor of stage coach
days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

THE agreement reached be-
l. tween President Hoover and
President-Elect Roosevelt has a
dual significance.
Tt may mark the first step in a
genuine effort to achieve inter
national economic cooperation.
1t is at least an admission that
the old die-hard position of I'VE
have nothing to discuss" is to be
abandoned.
To be sure, the agreement
covers too small a field. The ar
rangement merely specifies that
the incoming administration will
be glad to receive representatives
Of the British government early
in March to discuss the debt and
also world economic problems"
At the moment these are limited
to those in which "the United
States and Great Britain are mu-
tually interested"
Now, of course, if this confer
ence is to find ways and means
for improving the world situation"
there are several other nation
alities which we'll might be in
Guided. The United States and
Great Britain are a good deal less
than the world. 1t is difficult to
think of concerns which touch
them both which do not also in
volve the necessities of France,
Germany, Italy, China and ia
pan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Speech Defects Need Special Care

have a complete medical examina-
ton, to make certain that the
entire apparatus is physically in
order.
Once this is determined, the
teachers work may begin with
breathing exercises, relaxation eX-
erciseS, the removal of constric-
tons, practice in tone placement
and exercises which will lead to
proper coordination between
breathing and tone production.
The last form is called dysrhyth-
mia. It is concerned with defects
in the rhythm of speech which
may be due to trouble with think
ing or perhaps merely with bad
habits Of speech.
1t obviously is the duty of the
teacher who is endeavoring to cor
rect speech to find out everything
that can be known about the dis
order from the parents. from the
physician, and from the patient
himself, and to plan the system Of
correction on the basis of the
knowledge secured.
This discussion should Serve to
indicate how complicated the
mechanism controlling speech
actually is and also the necessity
for extensive scientific study and
care to bring about satisfactory
control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
DELINQUENT LAND

The other day in Virginia auctoneer put
under the hammer for unpaid taxes one-fourth of
once-rich Spotsylvania county. OF the 900 farms
and plots offered only 200 pieces were redeemed only
fourteen sold. The rest went back to the state.
This is familiar story. In the last five years
tax delinquency sales covered 3l2 per cent of the
nations farms. Farm failures have resulted in
creation of a new public domain of more than
1OO00O,OO0 acres, one-half the size of the federal
public lands.
Some are good farms that in better times will
find their way back to private ownership The bulk
either are logged-oyer regions or submargnal FARMS
unfit to compete in modern agriculture.
Typical of these latter are the 1900 submarginal
farms of eastern state recently surveyed. More
than one-half had been abandoned for tax delin-
quences. The farmers on the other half had in
comes averaging sos a year.
The worst sufferers are southern and lake states.
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, paying the
price of careless logging, have 100000 acres of
tax-denquent lands, at least 100000 of which have
returned to state ownership. Florida, Oregon and
the Dakotas are hard hit
The personal woe that goes with abandoned
fal ms is matched by social Embellishments
New tax sources must be found, schools roads and
towns must be shifted.
Some of the more progressive states tackling
their land problems with vigor and realism. New
York last year planted 100000 trees on its sub
marginal land. Michigan and Minnesota are Great
ing state forests and parks for recreation and game
preserves Wisconsin is turning its idle land into
county parks.
But most states refuse to face the fact that here
is land that for many years is theirs to hold 1t is
their responsibility to recreate social wealth.
crop of private owners at this time means another
crop of heartbreaks.
What is needed is a national land policy evolved
through cooperation of states and federal govern
ment President Elect Roosevelt has said he wants
to move 100000 American families back to the land.
These should be colonized on good land, while the
wornout acres are put to work raising trees
National planning should be applied 70 agri-
culture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


HARRY F. Gerguson adventurer, seIf-styled
= u Prince Michael Romanof," speaking: cat
least, have the attitude of prince have lived
courageously and have, think, put up the stock of
princes"
Now it to me that this statement is singu-
larly akin to truth. Mr.. Gerguson, cheat poseur.
seeker after false honors though he may be- as
suredly has done nothing unworthy of princes in
their heyday.
Indeed, his little game is comparatively simple
and without harm to any one save himself-and
this can be said of very few notables in the whole
long history of kingdoms.
Many men have deuded themselves with ideas of
greatness and grandeur. And their decisions have
been far more malevoent to their fellows than those
of this fake Romanof"
He, like they, struts upon the stage of life seek
ing to attract the attention of the mutitudes prey
ing upon the credulity of humankind even as
princes always have preyed upon the credulity of
their simpler minded neghbors. And all he asks is an
obeisance, free meal, and plenty of publicity
Would that all the princes of the earth had been
modest in their demands!
Also he holds his title as honorably as hundreds
of the heirs of kings have done-by right of grab
and CAB.
D OVAL lineage, traced back some generations,
always discloses strange figures risen from OBJ
origins that have become sestyled rulers and
leaders of creatures less arrogant and apt than
themselves figures often horrible and monstrous.
whose whims have decided the destnies of millions
of men
But, best of ALL this modern highness abdicates
without Furnishings of the sword AS he reigned
without conquest, so he retires without conflict
Discovered in his frauds he resigns his attitude of
majesty and becomes simple Mike"
Moreover. royal purple was evolved by the deep
staining of princely raiment with the blood of
mon men, and of this at least Michael is gultess
He has played game-and that in truth is what
every other mortal has done who set himself up or
has been set up as lord over many men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
So-CaUed Liberals

A MONG those who lent aid and
IA comfort to the effort to es-
tablish senatorial oligarchy
were church champions of the peo-
pie as Borah, Brookhart, La Fol-
lette, and Norris. These avoWed
disciples of the right of the ma
iority to rule made common cause
with Watson, Smoot, and Moses.
The sons of the wild jackass
took on wings and allied them
selves with the quackery OF the
lame ducks in the Republican
party The kingfish piped them
all into his puddle.
And in the motley crew marched
Shipstead, of the Farm-Labor
party, who paid allegiance to the
theory that legislation in Amer
lea from now on is to be con-
Quoted not by only electing rep
resentatives, but by the whim of
those whose heads are brass and
whose lungs are leather.
If this alliance remains I'M
broken, an ancient concept goes
overheard. We are about to ded-
icate ourselves to the proposition
that government of, for, and by
monologists shall not perish from
the face of the earth.
Copyright. 1888 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
SCIENCE
Is Stages in Mans Rise
BY DAVID DIETz

ton of the arm and hand of high
er vertebrates"
All five stages described so far
have all been creatures living in
water. With stage No. 6. mans
ancestors come out on land. The
sixth stage is the basal amphib-
ians."
Even the modern amphibians,
including frogs, nevis and sala-
manderS, retain so many essen
TALLY fiSh-like characters, espe-
cially in their larval stages, and
in the general pattern of the
cranial and spinal nerves, that
biologists never had any reason
to doubt that amphibians have
been derived from ancient air
breathing fishes of some Sort
Professor Gregory says.
The oldest known amphibians,
whose fossils were dup up in East
Greenland in 1881, are so much
like fish, Professor Gregory says,
that they have been called -four
legged fish"
But we have reached the end
of today's space. The big parade"
will be continued next with Stage
No. 7.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
First Tinlid Step

WET it is we'll not to be too
l. captiouS. The agreement
reached does mark a considerable
advance from the wholly national
istic feeling which seemed to be
about to engulf America. 1t is a
departure from the ivory tower
notions of William Randolph
Hearst and Hiram Johnson.
While it is true that we retain
our great Chinese wall, we are at
the very least offering to let down
the drawbridge long enough to re-
ceive a few representative foreign
devils.
1t may even be that Mr.. Hearst
himself has begun to weaken on
his original plan of complete iso-
lation. In recent editorial there
was the admission that perhaps
the counsel of perfection might
include a distribution of world
enterprise, assigning to each ma
ton those avtivities to which it
peculiarly was suited.
1t is true that this was dismissed
as visionary and impractical and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

one. 1t is useless to throw a
library of siXty-six books at people
and expect them to profit by our
good intentions.
Like the plays of Shakespeare,
the books of the Bible belong to
one family, but each is different.
Each must be studied in it's own
setting and situation, if we are to
know why it was written and what
it means.
This asks for time and work,
but it is worth it. The new
historical study of the Bible is
little known yet, though it gives
us the old book in a new binding
and with a new meaning.
1t will fare i'll with us if the
music of this mighty book is
hushed among us. 1t is the
mother book of our literature and
the manual of our civilization.
1t is a mirror in which we see
ourselves, and learn not only what
man has thought of God, but
what God thinks of man, and
what He would have each of us
do and be.
Copyright 1888. by United Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor TlmeS-I wish, once and
for all, to set the public right on
south side improvements. I al
ways have been very much inter-
eSted in what is going on in the
way OF public affairs. I happened
to look on the bulletin board in
the street commissioners office
and found that Meridian street
was on for resurfacing and Union
street for reSurfacing and widen
ing.
Immediately called a meeting
Of our board of directors and Off
GERS Of the South Meridian Civic
Club, and we decided to have
meeting with the board of public
works, if such a privilege could be
granted. It was.
We had nothing to do with this
program previous to this. We
only wanted to know what was
what. The improvement we had
anything to do with is Russell
avenue, and parts of Illinois
street to South street, which we
advocated to be included, and it
was, and thanks to the board
members for same.
Here comes the important part.
have heard it said There is no
Santa Claus. The south side gets
nothing; the north and east sides
get it ALL
1 suppose they are suffering
from the deluSion that these peo-
pie get all this without any cost.
On, what a delusiOn. Those peo-
pay their share of these improve
ments, and 1 would not ask any
one to pay for any Improvements
which would enhance the value Of
my property. Anything you get
for nothing is not worth much.
II every one in the past would
have said, Il have not the money
to pay for this" to this day not
one single street or alley pave
ment, or a single sewer, would be
IN indianapolis.
1 am writing this because the
South Meridian Civic Club is be-
ing blamed for these improve
ments, which are necessary, as
our city has been ridiculed for the
bad condition of streets leading in
on state roads 81, 81 and IS by
Columbus and Trevlac residents,
and II some Of our DIRECTORS read
the paper and keep up with cur
rent events, they will read this
article.
But here, once and for all, we
had nothing to do with it.
JOHN G. KIRCH.
1888 Union street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Ja1US Appear

CTAGE NO. 2, according to Pro
- fessor Gregory, is represented
by the "anriarchs" of the Devon
ian age. This was perhaps 300,-
100000 years ago.
These strengthening forms
had the head and body inclosed
in an armor of bony plates and
propelled themselves by a pair of
pointed appendages that remind
us of the walking legs Of crabs,
he says.
Their chief contribution to
mans eventual appearance, &C
cording 20 Professor Gregory,
were jaws. They mark the di-
viding line between true jaw
bearing forms and so-called jaw
less forms.
Stage No. 3 is represented by
the ''pre-sharks," which came a
little later in the Devonian age.
Their scientific name is the "acan-
thodians"
They possessed paired fins, the
forerunners of mans paired arms
and legs. In addition, they pos
sessed better developed jaws.
Stage No 4, likewise in the De-
vonian age, is composed of the
earliest known forerunners of the
modern bany fishes. They are the
basal ganold fish"
Their heads we're covered by
bony armor. According to Pro-
fessor Gregory, the evolution of
the bones composing this armor
can be traced through fish, am
phibians, reptiles and mammals,
to the bones in the skull of man
himself.
These early fish also exhibited
puddle-like fms, a step nearer
hands and feet. In earlier forms
the fms were mere folds of skin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

THE save the because forever trying
l. to instead Of the whole.
We children dphtheria
them with
save" they
kill a warden.
throw
other people out of work and the true when save
by cutting number public employees.
We devil labor
for sell goods he
We look device grand matter how much
especially
promises to save" cent little effort
We have saved" labor until there doesn't be
left go around
We have money
business than
it that Of communities resorting to scrip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

NUR fathers were folk of one
" book, and that book was the
Bible; but it is not so of their sons.
The Bible still is the best seller,
but it is easy to be misled by
figures. Because so many Bibles
are sold does not mean that they
are read.
The Bible is classic-that is to
say, like other classics, it i S
praised, but not read. Even church
folk who would be ashamed of
not having a Bible in the house
do not open it once a year.
Why is the greatest of all books
left in neglect? Lack of time, for
one thing. The Bible is library
of 1900 dim, crowded, gray pages,
and this is a swift age. Every
thing must be brief, bright, breezy.
A deeper reason is that the Bible,
as a whole, is not easily under
stood.
Stung by shame, a man starts
to read it through, but gets stuck
in the middle Of LeviticuS. He
tries the New Testament, and
goes on the rocks in Romans. He
can not make out what it is all
about, except in few great pas
Sages. No one could induce him
to try it again.
II n
1t is not enough to tell people
to read the Bible; they must be
shown how to do it. Long ago
Jowett said that the Bible must
be read as we read any other book,
since that is the surest way to
find out that it's unlike any other
book.
1t must be broken up into pieces,
and its books mastered one by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Development of Hand

TINE fifth stage in the evolu-
l. of man is represented by the
lobe filmed fishes" which -four
ished as the Devonian age, was
coming to close.
The tendency toward the evo-
luton of freely turning paddles,
presumably out of fin-folds,
reaches a climax among the lobe
filmed fishes" Professor Gregory
says.
A particularly important branch
of these fishes is known E The
"fan-finned" branch.
THE paddles spread out like the
sticks of fan" ne says" and the
bony rods nat support them seem
destined to- give rise to the skele-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

This is the escond of two articles by
DR.. Fishbein on defective speech.
A MOTHER disorder of speech,
L n called dysphasia, also is of
the nature of mental weakness,
since impairment of the power of
language is brought about by a
weakened mental image.
1t is recommended that fatigue
and disappointment be avoided by
every possible means. Moreover,
tests and exercises should be
arranged in graded form, work
ing from easy to hard tasks, and
thus developing ability.
The fifth form is called dys-
phemia, again closely related to
disturbances of the nervous
system and of the mentality.
This form includes neurotic
lisping, the rapid speech as
sociated with nervousness and also
suffering and stammering. In
such instances it is necessary to
find in the mind the cause Of the
stammering.
Speech Improvement is in
separable from mental and ply
steal hygiene. In the treatment
of such cases, there are relaxa-
ton exercises, breathing exercises,
systematic training in speech re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

TWENTY FIVE stages in the
i evolution of man from
primitive 'pre-fish" that swan in
the ancient oceans of 100000
years ago to the human being OF
today have been traced by DR..
William K. Gregory, professor OF
vertebrate paleontology at Co
lumbia university and curator OF
comparative anatomy at the
American Museum of Natural His
tory.
Professor Gregory calls his
twenty-five stages an attempt to
piece together the broken story
of the big parade that nature
has staged across the ages
He makes no attempt to trace
mems ancestry back to the orig
inal one-celled organisms which
are thought to have been the be-
ginning of all forms of life, but
starts with the earliest known
''notochordS.'
A vertebrate is a creature which
has a backbone. The earliest YER
tebrates did not have backbones
such as are known today, but rods
of fairly stiff cartilage, known as
"notchordS."
Stage No. in Professor Greg
ory's big parade" is the pre-
fish," or ostracoderm, to use the
scientific name, of 400,000,000
years ago. They existed in the
geological period, known as the
Ordovician.
"These pre-hshes were bilateral-
ly symmetrical with a median
axis or notochord," Professor
Gregory says. "They moved by
lateral fluctuations OF the body,
by contractions Of W-shaped mus
Gle segments.
THE head was of the complex
vertebrate type, including BRAIN
case that contained three pairs
of main sense organs"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Shoot at BuLISeye

DUT hope we soon will grow
- up to a realization that the
only possibility of betterment
which lies within the choice of
the world is a straight shot at the
bullseye. This, among other
things, is good technique.
IF our concerted aim strays,
we still may be somewhere near
the mark. If we try for nothing
more than the edge of the tar
get, it is quite likely that the ar
rows will fall to earth-heaven
knows where.
OF course, danger still threatens
from an important quarter. The
beSt-laid schemes of Presidents,
both elect and current, have often
been slain by hostile congress.
The legislative I. @. of the mo-
nlent seems to be about eight and
one-half years old, and, at that,
am leaving out Senator Johnson.
He is unlikely to agree even to
the possibility of friendly confer
ence. His spear knows not even
a second cousin beyond our ma
tional borders.
One of the most discouraging
things in the congressional stu
alton is the fact that the so-called
liberal and radical senators seem
to be the most hidebound in their
refusal to accept any phase of a
new order. This was strikingly
illustrated in the vote on the clo-
ture motion.
1t is hard to picture anything
more undemocratic than a filibus-
ter which throttles the right to
call for a show of hands. Yet in
the group which gave support to
Louisiana's road company Mus
solini were practically all the men
who like to move on parade as
progresSiveS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

moval from anxiety and fears, or
perhaps corrections of anxieties
and fears through explanation
and, finally the awakening Of
self confidence.
When self-confdence properly
is established there becomes
possible a complete coordination
of the mind, the voice, and the
body without which good speech
is impossible.
=
MANY people suffer with forms
4VA Of the sixth type of speech
Observation-Disclosures vary
ing degrees. This type includes
a sudden loss of the voice, thick
ness, whispering, cultural noises,
breathing noises, nasal tones and
similar irregularities.
It is possible that these may be
caused in some cases by actual
changes or abnormalities Of the It's
sues, such as constructions in the
tone passage, disturbances Of the
vocal cords or other irregularities
in the throat, nose or mouth.
1t, there6pre, is important that
every type Of voice defect first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24

And in this list I have left out
many others who belong to the
family of nations and should be
at the council board. There is,
for instance, quite stable going
concern called Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
So They Say

Politicians are not our best
minds.-Dr Charles Clayton Nor
rison, editor Of the Christian Cen
tury.
What teachers do out of school
is thei- own business. I never
heard that matrimony ends a wo-
mans ability. nor that celibacy
insures it,. H. Bair. superinten-
dent of schools, Shaker Heights,
Q.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-24
Daily Thought

For this is the love Of God, that
we keep His commandments: and
His commandments are not griev-
ous.-I John SD.
VIRTUE is the beauty of the
Y soul-Socrates.