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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-24

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
DO-NOTHING DIRECTORS

The suit brought by stockholders against the di-
rectors of an American subsidiary of the wrecked
Kreuger & Toll corporation for the return of some
$35,00O,00O is text for a we'll deserved sermon on
the subject of corporation director and his duty
This duty is conceived by the Magazine of Wall
Street, without mentioning names, as embracing
more than attendance upon directors meetings and
the drawing of $40 gold pieces
There are many things that this country needs,
but one of the more conspicuous of them is more
directors who direct" says this magazine. I'VE have
observed notable increase in this category. largely
due to hard times retrospection on the part of d-
rectors concerning what might have been if they
had paid attention to the dictionary and less
to the title.
This spontaneous improvement will be acceler-
ated by few more damage suits and become a
stampede if they are successful We haven't much
sympathy with congress- but brass-hat directors who
sit in their clubs and berate that body should re-
member that they are the congress of business.
Have do-nothing directors done any better than do
nothing congressman"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

They kept most of the notices
from the old man after his lase
Carnegie Hall appearance, bat he
hit upon one or two which we're
severe and said to three of us who
were his friends, "You liked; that
is enough"
He was insulated happily against
criticism, for anybody who praised
him became at once a great mu-
slcian and the rest either were
ignorant or malicious. I think the
attitude always has been a useful
one to creative artists.
AS pianist I felt that De Pach-
mann was always reaching out
and trying to bring people in closer
10 himself and the keyboard upon
winch he perched. His style of
concert was not unlike what the
older vaudeville theater called
pianologue.
There was always a running fire
OF comment from the performer
himself. Bravo, De Pachmann!'
ne would say to himself in a loud
voice as he played a passage and
round his Interpretation excellent.
AND he would throw in little bits
OF autobiography and reminis-
cence as he went along. 1t was in
carnegie Hall, as I remember, that
ne pretaced one piece by saying,
l once heard Nine. Schumann
play this. Oh, my Gold!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Pr0tON Was Found

IN time, the positive electron, or
i proton, was identified. 1t now
is believed that the lighteSt of all
atoms, hydrogen, has a proton for
a nucleus. One outer electron is
associated with this proton.
It was thought that the heavier
atoms had nuclei built up of COM
binations of protons and electrons,
while numbers of outer electrons,
ranging from two for helium to
ninety-two for uranium, were as
ISOLATED with these nuclei.
At first, it was assumed that the
outer electrons revolved around
the nuclei. This picture of the
atom as a miniature of the solar
system reached its height in the
Bohr theory, developed by DR..
Neils Bohr of Copenhagen, who
had been a student of Lord
Rutherford.
LII seems more likely today, how
ever, due to the studies of Prince
De Broglie and Professor Schroe-
dinger, that the motions of the
electrons are far more complex.
But if the neutron is a distinct
particle, it means that we must
make changes in our notion of the
interior of the atom comparable to
those occasioned by discovery of
the electron itself.
Scientists were rather pleased
with the nation that there were
just two fundamental particles of
matter, the proton and the cleo
iron.
On the other hand, it always was
a source of mystery why the pro-
ton was so very much heavier than
the electron.
1t would seem as though if there
were just two fundamental
particles in the universe that they
ought to be exactly alike except
for their electric charge.
Now the neutron enters the field
as third, and if there are three.
perhaps there ar others, as vet I'M
discovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
TAXATION AND RECOVERY

The new income tax plan proposed by the Demo-
Gratis at their New York conference Will not prove
very Measuring to those who look Tor progressive
legislation from the Presdent-elect HIS stand upon
taxation must be regarded as major test OF his
realism in attacking our economic problems ana IN
putting us back on the road to prosperity
The income tax plan proposed at the New York
conference flies right in the face Of sound economics
- onnlied both to Just taxation and to the restora-
ton Of prosperity.
II there is any bedrock proposition in this whole
situation It is that taxes must be made light as
nossble on the consuming masses with incomes of
less than S5Ooo The necessary burden of increased
taxation must be thrown on those with relatively
large incomes.
There is no possible chance of restoring prosper
CIV unless the purchasing power Of the great mass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
FRIDAY. JAN. ID. 1899.
AN ECONOMY MEASURE.

Written into the proposed changes of the high
way commission law, designed to abolish the I'M
sayory conditions which have existed for years in
that department. is proposal for real economy.
The new board, composed of men who will work
at the job instead Of listening to politicians, sales
men and contractors, will have power to purchase
materials from state institutions.
The prisoners of this state could easily manufac-
ture all the materials used in road building and save
millions Of dollars to the citizens.
The state farm is located near one of the great
producing districts of the state Brick plants
could be operated at both Pendleton and Michigan
City
The bids received from the cement makers for
the present year suggest the necessity for such action
The bids with one exception, identical They
called for an increase of 20 cents barrel the
price paid last year. That suggests the lack of COM
petition.
The problem of how to use prison labor must be
solved in advance of the operation of the national
law which will prevent the export of prison-made
goods across state lines.
The logical customer of all such output is the
state itself and ways of using prison labor for
state use must be devised.
The purchase of road materials has always been
conducted on basis to invite suspicion that poll
tics and other factors had more to do with awards
than desire to save money for the people.
If road materials be manufactured by prison
ers, the money saved might go far to pay the cost
of the maintenance of these Institutions burden
growing and already intolerable
At the same time men in prison can not be kept
in idleness Idle men rebel go insane.
The replacement of the present highway commits
sion with one framed along lines that guarantee
greater economy and more efficiency is plainly indi-
Gated.
When to it is attached measure for state use
of prison made materials no member of the legisa
ture should hesitate to approve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

Of Americans is preserved and If possible strength
ened
The standard McGraw-Hin publication, ''The
Business Week. makes this proposition very clear.
The great majority of manufactured goods and
agricultural products including those which sales
taxes would be levied, purchased by families with
incomes under $1,000, about threeffths by families
with incomes under $4,000, and about one-ffth by
families with incomes under $1,000.
Families with incomes of $4,000 and less paid 10
per cent of the total amount spent for consumers
goods and services but had only 80 per cent of the
total national savings Families with incomes of
more than $4,000 paid only 81 per cent of the total
amount spent for consumers goods and services,
but had 70 per cent of the total savings.
Indeed in 1929, some 100000 families with in
comes under $4,000 spent $65. lab 100000 and saved
S37460 900 00O-less than one-sxteenth Of what they
spent. The 513 persons with incomes of more than
81 spent $4,000 900 and saved 81 0OO-
twelve times much as they spent and nearly
third as much as was saved by 100000 families.
These figures are devastating in their implica-
tons as to sound progressive taxation policy. If
want prosperity, must have increased pur-
chasing power So far as taxation is involved, this
can be secured only through lifting the burden on
the and raising heavier taxes from the very
wealthy, who much and spend relatively little.
Proceeds from the taxation of the latter must be
put in the hands of the masses through public works
projects, unemployment insurance and the like.
This strategy is sound from the most resoluteIy
capitalstic point of view for, Benjamin Marsh
of the Peoples Lobby expresses it, "the most pro-
ductive investment of capital in America today is to
enable those who produce it to consume"
The tax plan suggested at. the New York confer
ence of Democrats deies progressive economic doc
trine 1t proposes for example to raise the tax on
a $4,000 income from $40 to $50; and on $4,000
income from 500 to $120
AT the same time, it would raise the tax on an
income of $4,000 from $500 to only $1oS4O; on an
income of 100000 from $So1Co to $685. $3.50; on an
income of 100000 from 1858 600 to $2s3, 4So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE important topic now is democracy. But
- RICH this minute am far more concerned about
what is happening to English grammar.
One feels now and then the dangerous imperma-
nency of the world in which we live, especially
when the standards of spoken and written English
crumble under us.
I think person who has spent many years of
busy life trying to learn the proper use of will"
and shall" is justified in expressing resentment
against the educators when they suddenly right
about-face" on all the old rules
Yet the National Council of English Teachers
God save the mark-recently voted to approve such
bad colloquialisms as ut is me" "Who are you
looking for?" Invite whoever you WISH" "had
rather" and they have made farther and further
and shall" and will" synonymous
Those of us who have labored and Sweated
through the years trying to meet the requirements
of the pedagogs now find ourselves facing new
world. 1t is almost disconcerting if one found
that two and two do not make four.
1T seems that the crudities of American speech are
l. not yet sufficiently widespread to satisfy the
teachers. And once the dixie is down, where will
the flood cease?
If certain fundamentals of grammar no longer
are dependable, and we are going to revise text
books to suit the questionable taste of the hack
writer and the slovenly speaker, how long will it
be, do you suppose before we hear again that sag
ging careleSSness of IT taken it" even the more
reprehensble 81 seen" or Il have saw?
The jargon hears from young people who
possess high school diplomas, and that passes for
good English or even good American, is enough to
make you wonder what the teachers have been
doing.
Now we know They've stopped working. And
to justify their failure, they propose to rewrite the
grammars to suit the exigencies Of the unblushngly
commonplace. Oh, shades of Mr.. Reed and
Mr.. Kelloggl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Correct Child's Defects Early

minor degrees Of dental and visual
disorder.
In these children the defects
most commonly found are dental
decay, ricketts,, disease of the ton
sis and adenoids, anemia, abb
normalities of the heart and rheu-
matte symptoms.
TT is exceedingly important that
l. children Of this age who suffer
with correctible defects be found
at the earliest possible moment,
because disease in the years from
l to 5 may make lasting i'm
preston on the health Of the child.
A survey Of this report from
Great Britain indicates that the
care of both the preschool child
and the school child in the United
States is better in general than
that given TO children abroad.
American methods of organiza-
ton and the general interest Of
physicians in the care Of the child
in this country seem to have led
to the type Of cooperation among
physicians, parents, and health
departments which yields the best
results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Among Larger Pygmies

4 ND that is a notion which
IA leads us to such palpable alb
surdities as figures carved upon
the sides of mountains and "the
largest mural paintings in the
world" Not to mention that
giant motion picture theater which
was but lately the worlds larg-
est music hall.
De Pachmann may not have be-
longed among the great pianists,
but he was supreme as an inter
prefer of Chopin. 1t was some
English critic years ago who re-
ferred to him as the Chopinazee.
And there was much in this pun
to meet the eye, for De Pachmann
was curiously squat in figure, with
long arms and hands dispropor-
tionately large. When the mood
was on him, he seemed almost to
swing back and forth upon a
grand piano.
I heard him play several times
in his apartment here, and once
in a Carnegie hall concert, which
Infatuated many of the better
critics. He had become old and
his eccentricities had grown upon
him, but he remained for all that
in state of grace.
To him a piano was an intimate
instrument, and as 'miniaturist,"
Carnegie hall presented a canvas
too large for his scope or interest.
He liked to play where four or five
were gathered together. There
are too many fools in any thou
sand" he once said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Old Issue Faced IN NelU Form

ME leisure possible eighteenth century
France led to another though scarcely obnoxious
high jnks.
here is little reason that leisure made possible through
machine despotism would
possible by human despotisn
The deadenng influence hand and
dlsclpnne on the other, with both
Bitter
Vages OF human despotsm against its benefits.
Inc responsibility of providing food shelter clothing ideas
cal! not be showed of concentrated
SLINeInlg the intellect of those who
we nave come to a merely
Shoud nave TO light our back backgrounds we
mechanical power to be made the basis tyranny Wise
limitation appears the only alternative
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
THE RECEIVER RACKET

Every holder of insurance policy-which in
cludes most of the families in the United States-is
a creditor of the railroads and thus has a financial
stake in the pending debtor relief legislation.
Allowing reorganization through debt reduction
or moratorium by agreement with reasonable por-
ton of the creditors rather than by the longer and
often disastrous bankruptcy method, the proposed
law would give emergency relief to wide range OF
corporate and individual debtors who are victims OF
the depression
But. because of the large number of citizens
affected, directly and indirectly no part of the
legislation will be more important than that cover
ing the railroads.
1t is common knowledge that the bankruptcy
racket has been particularly bad in the past in the
case of certain railroads which fell victims to unwse
or unscrlpulous bankers Experience shows that the
courts alone can not afford adequate protection or
regulation of these vast and complicated reorganiza-
lions; there are too many loophoes in the law, and
the Judges are too busy and too inexperienced in this
highly specialized field.
Costly experience also shows that the sole fed
eral agency equipped for such expert supervision OF
railroad reorganization, the interstate commerce
commission, lacks sufficient legal authority.
President Hoover, in his special message to con-
gress on Wednesday, stated
The provision (of the proposed law oeanng
with corporate reorganizations should be applicable
to railroads and in such the plan of reorgan-
ization should not become effective until approved
bv the interstate commerce commission"
This purpose can not be achieved, according to
the experts unless the powers of the I. c. G. are
increased First the c. G. should have full author
itv in dealing with given reorganization from the
beginning rather than come in belatedy after bank
ers or others have set up dummy organizations to
escape the courts Second, the L G. G. should have
ADEQUATE control of the railway during the entire
process of reorganization, with division OF authority
and iurisdictional conflict reduced to minimum.
Too many killings have been made by Wall Street
IN this field of railroad reorganization. The public
pays
For the new law to wipe out the need for tech
nical foreclosure proceedings is all to the good, but
that will eliminate one of the few existing safeguards
Therefore, at the time the law should set
I'm other and better safeguards for the average I'M
rotected stock and bond owners, including the little
fellow whose all is in an insurance policy or saw
ings bank
The proposed law may make bad racket worse,
,,1ess il gives the interstate commerce commission
full protective powers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Times Readers
Voice Views .

Editor Times-What is the mat
ter with the south side?
When the Big Man from the
North" condescended to come to
Indianapolis and show us" how
to run street car system, he gave
the residents of the south side
one of the hardest blows they
ever have received in re-routing
Shelby street cars over the now
existing route.
While it is true he has given
us the latest thing in new cars,
he has disconnected the people,,
hurt rental property, forced some
to ride the buses, others to get
out their "flivvers," caused some
to walk, and incidentally reduced
the income of the street car COM
pany.
Some will be forced to move to
other parts of the city, where they
hope to get better and more con-
venient service.
This condition has been brought
about by routing the cars from
Virginia avenue over South street
to Illinois street and then north.
If he could have selected a dirtier,
more rotten, and inconvenient
route, we suppose he would have
done so.
We have no objection whatso-
ever to the running of cars out
Illinois street; that part is o. K,
but we want them run over Mary
land or Washington street west
from Virginia avenue, eliminating
the hardships he has forced upon
us.
He also has done an irreparable
injury to the city market, caus-
ing many customers to discon-
tinue patronizing it on account of
the long walk to and from Illinois
street.
Again: What is the matter
with the south side?
Residents of the south side
have taken SO many hard blows
on the chin that this last one
has about knocked them out COM
pletely.
We are sending out the S. o. S.,
but we have about lost all hope.
A TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

TN other words humanity recognize
ing the ambition greed, ingenuity strong personalities
Now why hasn't somebody thought
Why do that good no matter how
much havoc it creates suffering
Leisure
and what going o
going study cultivated say some but to what ndq
numbers of
vastly effort finding surplus
physical than in becoming cultivated
leisure possible
wild parties, and novel ideas particularly
The leisure made possible greatest ex
pastimeS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

Help, for it implies that pity is a
kind of amiable weakness. No so.
1t is one of the mightiest forces
on earth.
In the wonderful story of "Rab
and His Friends" when the stu
dents in the hospital crowd into
the operating room, they seem
careless and heartless; but they
are not.
Don't think them heartless,"
said the good physician. In them
pity, as an emotion, ending in it.
self, or at best in tears and long
drawn breath, lessons, while pity
as motive is quickened, and
gains power and purpose. It is
well for poor human nature that
it is So"
Yes, indeed; and when this ter
rible time has passed, pity as a
motive must not end. 1t must
make use of all the facts of cci-
ence, and the finest Sagacity, to
put an end to the crazy, clumsy
plight we are in, when people
starve in world where there is
too much food.
Copyright 1888. United Features
Syndicatel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

TN Great Britain during 1881 al
l. most 100000 school children
we're examined by physicians and
health Ciicers, with view to de-
termining the presence of cor
correctible defects.
Moreover, an additional million
children were studied because of
the occurrence of unusual symp-
toms or conditions.
The three million children ex-
amined represent almost so per
cent of the total number attend
ing school in the lower grades.
The commonest defects found,
in their order of frequency, were:
Skin disease, large tonsilS and ade-
noids, defects Of vision, eye dis
eases apart from croSs-eyes, other
disorders of the nose and throat,
malnutrition, infection of the ear,
Squint-or cross-eyes, deformities,
defects of hearing, and nervous
diseases.
Six hundred thousand Of the
children were found to have COR
rectible defects, of one type or
another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

II KNEW De Pachmann, who
L died in Rome last week, and
among the artists he was rare in
that he lived up to the most
fantastic and f1ctiona1 concept of
the great musician.
If playwright undertook to set
him down as a character in a
comedy, any audience would be
dubious as to the authenticity of
the figure. 1t would seem as if
the dramatist strained too much
after a bizarre effect.
And yet the eccentricities of the
man we're not Alterations.
always felt that sound
philosophy underlay his curious
concert manners.
I note that Leopold Godowsky
has referred to him as a min
iaturist." His field" says the
composer, "was limited, but with
in its narrow range he was
supreme and inimitable."
Underneath Godowsky's COM
pliment seem to catch some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
d. O1Os N4O1NANAO 1AO@A@A@N
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TINE authorities emphasized
l. particularly the necessity for
proper cooperation between the
physician and the family, as well
as inspection by the school nurse
to detect defects at the earliest
possible moment and to secure
suitable correction.
In Great Britain attempts have
been made to develop special
classes for children with certain
types Of defect.
1t has been found that it is
difficult to get children into
class called stammering class,
when they stutter and stammer,
but it is a fairly simple matter to
get them to attend a speech class.
Great Britain also is paying spe-
cial attention to the question of
the preschool child; that is, the
child between l and 5.
Twenty-seven per cent Of such
children are found to have ply
steal or mental defects, including
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
SCIENCE
NeutrOn Not a Blend
BY DAVID DIETz

ton to attempts at smashing the
nucleus.
In fact, when we speak of
smashing the atom, we really
mean smashing the nucleus, since
the outer electrons seem to be
held very loosely and to be lost
and regained with great ease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
Both Words and Music

nURING waltz the old
- gentleman sometimes would
get up from the piano stool,
cayort about for a step or so, and
then sit down again. And always
there was a muttering and chat
tering from him as he swung high
in the treetops, intoxicated by the
sounds which he brought forth
from the big black box.
Temperament is an ungainly
thing unless it is part Of the Or
ganic structure of an individual.
I do not like to see any artist slip
into a mannerism as if it were a
garment. But these moods Of De
Pachmann were in his marrow
1t seemed to me then and II
seems to me now that the finest
of all who deal with sound ana
shape and color must be those VINO
look upon their own creation ana
cry out aloud, "Bravoi"
(copyright. 1898. by The Tines)