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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Every Day Religion
. BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

cision, so unexpected from a pull
pit, that their minds were opened
wide and the reception Of what
followed; namely, that they would
be a shabby lot of fellows if they
spent any serious part of their
$4,000 days in Sinking or whin-
ing or sponging on the more
manful part of mankind.
But it has another lesson, too.
If we seem able to live without
God today, it is because our ia
theirs were not able to do SO.
BY their devotion to God, they
left a precious deposit in Amer
lean life, something too fine and
lovely to be lost. It may be that
their view of life was too narrow,
and that this world is more i'm
portant than they in their other
worIdHness thought it was. Yet
what noble things they kept in
their hearts!
We are living on the sacred
legacy which they left us, where
by they made life better for all.
1t will be a pity-nay, tragedy
if we turn out to be shirkers,
spongers and parasites in regard
to the highest things.
copyright. 1898. United Features
Syndicatel
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Cough Is Spread Easily

ing cough, all sorts of methods of
prevention have been tried, in
Guiding incubation of the blood
from people who are recovering
from the disease, injection of
germs that have been killed, with
the idea that these injections will
stimulate the body to form anti
substances against the germs of
the disease, and many similar
measures.
Use Of the vaccines, which
means a mixture of killed germs.
is thought by many specialists in
diseases Of children to have value
in preventing whooping cough in
children who are exposed, and
also in diminishing the severity
Of the symptoms.
However, there are other ply
sicianS who have had little sue
cess by use Of such vaccines, and
they do not employ them.
fCopyright. 1888 by MA Service. Incl
Next-Care Of the whOoping
cough victim.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON,

were on jury, no more could sentence a
prisoner to death than I could go out in cold
blood and kill man.
This to be sure, is no argument against capital
punishment 1t only happens to be my personal
opinion.
There are, however, a good many arguments
against imposing the death sentence, and curously
enough some of the best ones are received from
proponents of the system. This, for instance:
Capital punishment has not failed as muir
der deterrent. 1t only has failed to be applied A
murderer has ninety-nine chances out of a hundred
to escape the moose If this chance were reversed
the argument advanced by Mrs. Ferguson and other
anti-capital punishment propagandists might have
some weight, but not while public records upset it,
am still not ready to grant the latter part of
this contention. And it seems to me- if the former
is true and that ninety-nine out of every hundred
criminals escape-and asSuredy they dot is sure
and certain proof that the death sentence is not
now preventing crime at ALL
It only means that the hundredth man is IN
justly treated by society that permits 50 MANY Of
his kind to avoid any retributon, and this is the
final and ultimate iniquity.
THIS capital punishment thing is like prohib
- tion 1t would be perfectly grand if it could be
made to work But long as jur;es are comnosed
OF men and women, and SO long as men and women
are emotional rather than rational and so long as
there remain so many loopholes of escape for the
majority, claim that it is utterly unfair to take
the lives Of the rare few.
Why should Mrs Judd 60 to the chair while
hundred thousand other women commit murders
and escape7 Last year one deliberately shot her
husband over such trivial thing as a bridge game
and went scot free.
Is this justice or plain stupidity? If we we're
half as smart as We think ourselves we could de-
wise other methods of punishment that would be
far more effective
If We can't kill all murderers, then we should kill
none. I am emphatically against the state taking
human life. If this makes me sob sister then
sob sister am
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Differ on Rays

nR. r. A. MILLIKAN, Nobel
~ prize-winner and the man
who confirmed the existence of
the. rays, holds to the view that
they are true waves.
DR.. Arthur II. Compton, also a
Noble prize-winner, is certain,
after 5O,O0O-mile journey to
study cosmic rays from the high
mountains of five continents, that
the rays are electrical particles.
Most students of the subject are
convinced that the universe is
expanding, but each expert in the.
field seems to have faVorite.
model of his own.
At the beginning Of the year,
both Professor Einstein and Or.
Willem De Sitter, the eminent
Dutch authority, seemed TO have
some doubts on the subject.
In a joint paper, they stated
that, from the basis Of the theory
OF relatively, space might have a
positive zero, or negative curva-
ture. This was another way of
saying that maybe the universe
was expanding and maybe it
wasn't.
important advances in the world
OF astronomy during the year in
cluded the following:
The conclusion reached from DR..
Joel Stebbins photo-electric meas
urements Of the brightness of
stars that the Milky Way or gall,
aXy is only about one-third as
large as was formerly believed.
Reduction Of the age Of the uni
verse, as a result of the inferences
Of the expanding universe theory
from fifteen trillion years to about
ten billion years.
Discovery Of two asteroids or
tiny planets, the so-called Rein
muth and DelpOrte objects. which
approach closer to the earth than.
Eros, the asteroid which formerly
held this honor.
In the field Of applied science,
the engineers failed to bring for
ward any new product capable Of
leading the world out Of the de-
preston.
In fact, the consensus Of many
engineers, as expressed by tech
nocracy, seems to be that it is
useless to look for any such in
vention or discovery, the machine
having replaced man-power, cnce
for all.
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A GENTLEMAN has been de-
4 n fined as a man who refuses
to take out of life more than he
puts into it. In exposition of this
definition, a friend of mine told
me of a sermon he heard by
JoWett of oxford. The preacher,
he said, did not put it to 200
healthy young men, as quite
likely thing, that they might die
the next night and have to give
God, about breakfast time, an &C
count of their doings. What he
said was pointed:
81 find it set down in tables"
said the preacher, that the aver
age duration of human life, at the
age of q. is about thirty-siX years.
We may hope for a little more;
we may fear a little less; but,
speaking generally, thirty-siX
years, or about $4,000 days, is the
time in which our task must be
accomplished, if it is to be done
at ALL"
NEY friend and some others, as
lV1 they testified, were so cleo
trifed by this quaint piece Of pre-
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Optimism Not Alone


r IKE a good many Americans, I
- don't get much fun out of
Strindberg, and I wonder why
Ibsen was so consistently gloomy.
Our books and plays are more in
clined to look on the bright side
of things.
From that fact the generaIiza-
ton arises that America is a
cheerful country, while Scandina-
via and all the foreign lands are
tinged with morbid cynicism.
That isn't quite true. Optimism
assays about the same in all coun-
tries if you consider enough
factors. After all, plays and novels
constitute a very small proportion
of Americas f1ctional approach to
life.
Throw the movies in, if you like,
and the best-knoWn imaginative
characters of America are still
outside the list. No figure of
fiction, stage or screen is known
as widely as "a half dozen cartoons.
The comic strip is the chief field
in which life is interpreted to the
American masses.
1t seems to me, then, that
America is not more optimistic
than other lands. We have simply
reversed the formula which pre-
walls elsewhere.
Here we insist on taking JOY and
citation solemnIy. 1t is only in our
lighter moments that we are
willing to accept the deadly
disiIlusion of the cynic.
Copyright. 1888. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Atom Study Advances

TINE neutron turns out to be
4 particle about the size of the
electron, but possessing no cleo
trical charge. Electrons, the
fundamental units of electricity
out Of which the atoms Of matter
are constructed, are either posi-
tive or negative.
Scientists also made important
advances during 1892 in methods
of smashing or disintegrating
atoms.
This was made possible by de-
velopment of new high-powered
X-ray tubes and vacuum tubes,
and the development of appa-
ratus for developing electric cur
rents Of extremely high potentials.
If atomic disintegration can be
done easily on a large scale, it
might upset further the economic
situation of the world, first by
providing immense stores Of power
at low cost, and second by turn
ing inexpensive metals into gold.
The scientific subjects which
held the public eye chiefly during
1882 were cosmic rays, the ex-
panding universe, the Einstein
theory, the solar eclipse Of Aug.
81, and the November shower Of
shooting stars.
The eclipse and the shooting
stars can be dismissed briefly.
Both were disappointing from the
scientific point Of view.
The November meteorS were
neither as bright nor as numerous
as astronomers had hoped they
would be. Only further observa-
tions in coming years will clear up
the mystery of what has hap
pened to the Leonids, as the No
vember meteors are called.
Both cosmic rays and the eX-
banding universe continued to be
the centerS of innumerable scien-
tiflc battles. In the matter Of cos
mic rays, the battle is chiefly as
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It Seems to Me F.. {. by Haywood Broun

Along about that spring I had
so cents. A Catholic kid just
across the tracks told me about
The circus that was coming in a
month. His father was going to
take him. Mine didn't believe in
circuses, but I haG my castor oil
so cents. In two weeks it was
sixty.
-Four days before the circus
was due, a revival preacher hit
town. I was taken to hear him,
and he preached on eternal dam
nation. We sat in the fourth row.
He scared the life out of me. Then
they took up collection. 1t was
for foreign missions. I put every
nickel Of my castor oil money in
the plate. I didn't want to burn
forever and ever, world without
end.
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Least Government Is the Best
.SCIENCI
Science Goes Ahead
BY DAVID DIETz

NEAN assembled higher into the
NI sky and descended deeper
into the ocean in 1882 than pre-
viously had been done in the his
tory of the world.
The new altitude record was set
by Professor Auguste Picard, the
picturesque Belgian, who again
sailed into the shakespeare in
balloon, lettering his record OF
last year. Accompanied by Max
Cosyns, he rose to a height OF
53,153 feet this year, almost eleven
miles.
The descent into the ocean was
made by DR.. William Beebe, who
went down to a depth of 1900
feet off the coast of Bermuda in
a diving sphere which he calls
the bathysphere.
But while these exploits were
spectacular, they are not as i'm
Dortant in the life of the average
man as more prosaic studies con-
Quoted during the last year on
the subject Of why teeth decay.
A series of studies by DR.. Cor
don Agnew of West China Union
university, showing that lack Of
phosphorus, calcium and Vitamin
D are the chief causes of tooth
decay, may turn out to be the
most important scientific event
of the year.
While heart disease and cancer
occupy the concern of the medical
world as two of the chief causes
of death among people of adj
vanced age, it is probable that the
greatest economic loss to the
world is caused by common colds
and tooth decay.
In the realm of pure science,
the most important advances of
the year were in the field of
atomic study. Most important of
all was the confirmation of the
existence of the neutrOn.
Discovery of the neutron was
announced by Chadwick and his
associates at the Cavendish lab
oratory of the University Of Cam
bridge, England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

T GOT talking to a man in a
4 train about tragedy. It didn't
just start that way. Neither of us
said, well, what do you conceive
to be the essential elements of
tragedy?" In the beginning the
topic Of discussion was the Follies,
and from that it worked around to
Antony and Cleopatra" and after
that it was no trouble at all to
swing into agedy.
Perhaps I led the talk in that
direction, because I had a number
Of prepared and sincere conYic-
lions on the subject of tragedy. I
felt and feel that the classic ira
dition has become ineffective.
There may have been day and
age in which life was so full
blooded that nothing more appal-
ling than death could happen to
any one.
An Elizabethan audience we'll
might have been moved to pity
and terror when a character
gasped, choked and sped away to
lace the threat of hell.
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So They Say

I only commenced to work when
I was 50-Former Governor AL
fred E. Smith of New York, on
his fifty-ninth birthday.
We might as we'll admit that we
are a nation of hard liquor drink
ers. I don't know who is going
to drink all the beer and wine
that they plan to legalize. Police
Commissioner Edward P. Null
rooney Of New York.
Nations and individuals are not
comfortably lifted out Of bad
times. They must dig themselves
oUt.-Harry F. Sinclair, chairman
of the executive committee, Con-
soidated Oil Corporation.
If a town has an epidemic, that's
the worst possible time to close up
the hospitals. Any community
that fails in this depression to
keep open it's libraries is making
a grave mstake.-Harry M. Lyden-
berg, president of the American
Library Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
WHEN'S WARFARE WAR?

Among the unpleasant gifts of the new year, the
most ominous seems to be sudden violent resump-
ton of the Sino-Japanese difficulties. The Great
Wall Of China has been pierced, and a steady jap
anese thrust at Peiping itself is now possibility
A situation already dangerous has become more Sc
rious than ever, and solution of the problem is
yet in sight.
And one is forced to wonder, too how much
longer the fiction that this is not really war can
be maintained AS long as the fighting was con-
lined to Manchuria, that thesis was at least argu-
anle but what becomes of it when the troops of one
nation actually invade the central territory of an
other nation?
In actual fact, of course, a very serious war is
raging whatever the diplomats choose to call if.
and the menace to the peace of the rest of the
world is exceedingly real. In this particular field
1888 has got off to a very bad beginning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Build Them Big Is Our Motto

WE have following promoter organizer
w educational bond statesmen for
machinist
We have been training youth to seek not by doing
thing better, but by building something bigger
motvatng thought competition
for the sake kill it the sake profit
What industrial fifty years has become bank
We longer drawing inspiration from like Morse Bell
Edison Melons, and
Youngs for guidance.
The machine becoming instrument of monopoly and the bulk
of becoming the maChne-feudtlSm
There nothing power abusing
it to satisfy organization
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and OF Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE doctor diagnoses whooping

THE doctor diagnoses whooping
l. cough not only by the typical
coughing spells, which usually are
accompanied with redness Of the
face and development of thick,
sticky mucus in the mouth, but
also by changes which occur in
the blood in this disease.
Not only do the white blood
cells increase in number, but a
particular form Of the white blood
cells, known as the single nucleus
cells, or lynphocytes, increases
even more than do the others.
AS has been said, the chief
danger from whooping cough is
not from the disease itself 50
much as from the secondary
pneumonia and changes which
may affect the heart and lungs.
- =
TINE total period OF quarantine
4 may be as long as six weeks.
In attempting to control whoop-
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WhOOping

This is the second of three special
articles by DR.. Fishbein on the nature
and treatment of whooping cough and
precautions to prevent its spread.
THE inoubat iOn period in
Il whooping cough is the period
from two to ten days before the
child begins coughing. During
this period, the child is infected,
but not sick.
Therefore, the youngster who is
exposed to whooping cough must
be watched carefully for at least
ten days after his contact for
signs of whooping cough.
During this period there may
be symptoms resembling those of
a common cold. After the char
acteristic whoOp and the paroX-
ysms of coughing appear, the
child is likely to be able to spread
the disease for at least three
weeks longer.
Therefore, doctors advise that
children be kept apart as long as
the cough continues and for two
weeks after 1t ends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
"Weep for the Living"

PUT tragedy must be recast for
- the sake of agnostics, Unita-
rlans, UniVersaists and some of
the COngregationaliSts. We can
not be expected to weep when
some sorely harassed and tortured
character in play slips from the
clutch Of circumstances into pro-
found sleep or perhaps into friend
Iy awakening.
Our emotions will go out rather
to the figure who must take his
pounding. We can not fully COM
prehend the notion that tragedy
consists Of madness or sudden
surceaSe. 1t is for the living that
we should weep.
Unfortunately, there was small
opportunity for argument with
the man on the train. He stifled
discussion with an overreaching
agreement. Indeed, he took the
theme away from me. Long be-
fore I was done, he said, You're
quite right"
%AAcNV W do 1CoS GlldIl UdCGlQl.
There was nothing more for me
to say.
However, he wanted to talk. I'm
tragic figure" he began.
He seemed hale and prosperous,
but the pause was only a slight
one for dramatic effect. 1T hap
pened a long time ago." he con-
tinued. Il was a boy, but that
doesn't make any difference. Peo-
pie think that things whcih are
done to you before you are 10 or
20 don't matter. That's nonsense.
Il lived in Bridgeton, N. j., and
we were Methodists. I was
brought up on he'll fire and castor
oil. When 1 was II the old doc
tor died, and a young one came
along. He said that castor oil
was fine, but he had new theory.
He thought it ought to be per-
suaded into people instead of be-
ing poured down their Threats.
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1.-The money I was going to
spend on the circus was going to
help send a missionary to China.
That's what I call tragedy"
Didn't you ever see the cir
cus?" I asked him.
eyes, I did. I don't know
whether it was the same circus,
but it was one like it. I saw it
when I was % years old. And it
was a bum show. That's part Of
the tragedy"
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to whether the rays are waves
entering the earth's atmosphere
from the far reaches Of the uni
verse or whether they are cleo
trified particles originating in the
upper atmosphere, perhaps as a
result of the suns influence.
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Daily Thought

Even so faith, if it hath not
works, is dead, being alone
James PIT.
CHARITY is the scope of all
~ Gods commands. - Chrysos-
tom.
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Questions and
Answers +.

Q-State the population Of Be-
lvia, and the proportion of In
dams to whites.
A-Estimated population is O.
9749O0, Of whom 1,586,650 are In
dams. 426,200 whites, and $50, 900
mixed.
GLOW long must an enlisted
man in the army serve before he
can retire?
Ale can retire after an active
service of twenty years, and IS
automatically retired after thirty
years service.
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Ne1O Minister IN T0aUn

THAT sounded a little i'm
Il moral to my father and
mother, but a doctor is a person
of authority, like minister, and
he made them take his ideas. I
don't know whether he persuaded
them or poured it down their
Threats. Anyway, it was fixed up
that whenever I took castor oil 1
was to get a nickel.
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Radio Is Outstanding Example

TAKE radio instance
example but because its operation enough
to be understood
Radio already has been brought the chain Each
day. particularly each millions to be
instructed by voice entertained by orchestra inspired by
Wcacker Convenient doubt
The that assemble TO- 90 so
instrument well
a song should sung originality
themselves
Educators tell that impossible teach children by eurng
the theory sound.
by looking
a pictures, athletes sitting grandstand.
only develop it.
Least Government Is the Best
MACHINERY shouldn't interfere with that and wouldn't but for
1V1 the unreasonable which it the
necessary
system
however which organized control
AS Thomas Jefferson said the least government the best and
whether
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Al Smith, on his ffty-ninth birthday anniversary
SAID ne felt just as good he did at 40 or So 1t
goes without saying that's a whole lot better than
he 1elt right after the Democratic convention last
summer.
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husbands who took seriously their wives re-
quests not TO get them anything for Christmas are
just getting back on speaking terms again.
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the Russian hardly excels the
4 ndiyidualism
children should
ground
/
department
for philosophy indeed said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but
now and then you'll find big league baseball mogul
who'll trade even
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The successful man we like best is the one who
attributes his fortune to hard work, perseverance
clean living, and the 100000 left him by his late
uncle in Oklahoma
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
WE LIVE IN BANKERS AGE

IN considering present-day social trends, let
L us not forget that philosophy is older than
mechanical power, that human nature pre-
ceded both.
If this were the first time religious infu-
ence had declined. or the home had lost out as
an economic center, We would be justified in
holding machinery responsible.
It is Northumberland fact. however, that
ancient Rome, though quite unaware of tin cans
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