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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
THURSDAY. FEB. IS. 1888.
WHILE BANKS FAIL

The banking crisis in Michigan and elsewhere
throws lurid light the failure OF the house of
representatives to pass the Glass bank reform bill.
That bill never was cure-an Many of its best
features had to be whitfield away by compromise to
speed passage through the senate But what re-
mains is an irreducible minimum.
1t would give immediate relief to victims of bank
crashes and nberate funds now held under the
wreckage. It would permit the federal reserve board
to remove bankers who can not be trusted 1t would
in part correct basic abuses by separating banks and
their security aiates by stopping bank speculation
with credit reserves, and by bringing bank holding
companies under control.
1t would allow a restricted experiment in branch
and centralized banking which is exceedingly i'm
portant at a time when thousands of small Isolated
banks have collapsed under the strain.
The strategy of the house leaders at first vas to
smother this bill in committee Now it is reported
that they cooking up an alleged trade-they will
accept the Glass bill if Glass and the senate will
accept Gamers guarantee of bank deposits plan.
Such trade, of course is impossible. Even if
there were large opposition to guarantee of de-
posits-as there is and should be-passage of such
sweeping legislation in the last fortnight of
jammed and flbuster-ridde session is a suggestion
that not be taken seriously
The really ominous aspect of the house refusal
to cooperate in the Glass banking reform is in the
fact that Democratic leaders are responsible. 1t is
not of Republican Democratic conflict block
ing action, or of familiar lame duck obstruction.
The obstructonists the Democratic leaders
who now control the house and who will control
the house in the coming special session Of congress-
There is no use to talk about the great things
which the new Democratic congress will do for the
country, if the Democratic party fail now.
If they will not accept the bill of their own bank
ing expert, which passed the senate by the ire
rnendous vote of 81 to g. after taking up virtually
an entire session of debate they not be trusted
to produce constructive results in the congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
OUTLAW 1T NOW

The people look to the new congress to erase the
ignoble experiment. But they need not wait until
then to rid their country Of Of its intoler-
able by-products. This is overlapping snoopery.
Before the senate is the justice department ap-
preparation bill The house attached a rider for
bidding the courts to use evidence obtained from
tapping telephone wires. BY bare majority of
one, the United States supreme court has made
this action necessary In his majority opinion in
the Seattle overlapping case the Chief Justice
Taft suggested that congress could protect the
secrecy of telephone messages by making them
when intercepted, inadmissble in evidence of fed
eral courts
The four minority justices, Holmes, Butler Stone
and Brandeis denounced wire tapping The latter
warned that terrible retrbution" awaits govern
ment that turns criminal to catch criminals.
AS pointed out by Arthur Garfield Hays of the
American Civil Liberties Union wire tapping is not
a wet issue. The practice nvades the right of men
to the privacy of their homes it violates the spirit
of the fourth amendment against unlawful searches
and seizures
The tapping of telephone wires is the modern
version of the home-breaking practced in colonial
days by King Georges agents. These helped set
off the spark of revolution
"As means of espionage" declared Justice Bran
des, "writs of assistance and general warrants are
but puny instruments Of tyranny and oppression
when compared with wire tapping"
If the senate is wiser than George the Third
it will agree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

at night among children who had
taken long nap during the 49,,
but at the same time that children
who took no nap at all or who
took only nap for few minutes
had a definite reduction in the
total number of hours of sleep in
the twenty-four hours Of sleep in
say, sleeping at night does not
compensate for. the loss of the nap
during the day.
Up to 4 years Of age, a nap
taken in the daytime rarely inter-
feres with sleep at night. How
ever, after years Of age, children
as a rule should not be allowed
to sleep more than one and a half
hours during the day, because this
will tend to interfere with going
to sleep at night.
The authorities believe that chill
dren up to the seventh or eighth
year should sleep twelve hours
daily and at the sixteenth year,
nine hours.
NEXT-Helping to form good
sleeping habits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A FTER a comprehensive view Of the modern
L N scene, would you say offhand that the old
fashioned parent had raised majority of splendid,
upright and honorable children?
Yet that in effect, is what we mean when we
harp upon the necessity for getting back to old
ways old habits, old thinking
Stop and consider. All the great leaders in
politics. in education in business who have reached
the age of so were brought up in the old regime.
That is, they were taught, presumably the moral
precepts of a former age. Have those lessons led
to good or bad results?
Out of the old-fashioned home, where the stern
" honest father laded out the oldfashioned ethics
and where the od-fashioned mother obeyed her old
fashioned husband, came all those men and women
who later gaily spread the propaganda that set us
at each others Threats who built up the deadly
greedy and rapacious business system we now en-
JOY and who taught the codly selfish international
point of view which today endangers the world.
r AM not contending that these people were not
L good Indeed according to their lights, they were
a thousand times better than are. But I do not
see how we can deny that the net result of all
their pious training was bad indeed
The churches we read, have a continually in
creasing attendance Heaven grant, then, that they
give to these questing people some kind of religion
that is more warm and helpful and living than was
dealt out to fathers.
It seems to me that going to church will not
help us unless We put simple Christian ethics
into our daily lives, unless we are willing to use
what we learn at church in our dealings with one
another. Not just with neighbors and friends
but with our business associates our foreign COM
petitors, enemies.
To stand up for Jesus-as the evangelist pleads.
is no good unless you can, at the same time stand
up for the black and his rights for the China
man, the South Sea islander, and even the naughty
Japanese.
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Hitting at Schools

Next in Importance is the Grip
ping of the schools and particu-
larly the decrease in opportunities
for vocational and night study.
Surely the schools should be the
last place to feel the heavy and
clumsy hand of so-called economy.
A third spot where economy has
run wild with disastrous results
is the public library system of the
City of New York. Now, more than
ever, it is necessary to provide the
opportunity for reading for the
very many men and women who
are without jobs. Nor should the
libraries be peculiarly restricted
in the purchase of fiction at pres
ent. 'sAs q n q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

0NE of the greatest triumphs
" of modern science has been
the success of astronomers in
measuring the distances to the
stars. The ancients had no no.
ton of the true distances to the
stars, for to the unaided eye the
stars appear as though all were
stuck upon the inside of an IN
verted bowl, all equally distant
from the earth.
It was not until 1889 that astron-
omers succeeded in measuring the
exact distance to a star. Most OF
our knowledge about stellar dis
tances has been accumulated since
the start of the twentieth CEN
fury.
Probably no subject is a greater
mystery to the average layman
than how the distance to a star
can be measured.
DR.. Robert G.. Aitken, director OF
the great Lick observatory in Cali
fornia, says that the most frequent
questions asked by visitors to the
observatory are, How far away is
that star and how do you know?"
Measuring the distance to a star
is a very simple matter as far as
the underlying principle is con-
cerned. In practice, however, it is
an extremely difficult task, re-
curing the highest Of astronomical
skill.
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So They Say

A leading New York clergyman
recently said there were 100000
persons in this country who were
without religion. That is quite
respectable proportion of our total
population, and hence deserves
great consideration. - Rupert
Hughes, novelist.
Even though we do not serve
cocktails, all of our old friends are
glad to see us.-Rdssel Firestone,
former sportsman, son of the
Akron tire magnate, now a fol-
lower of the Oxford group, Eng
lish youth spiritual movement.
My advice to Roosevelt is to RELY
on young men and to stay away
from us old dodo birds.-ColoneI
E. M. House, former adviser to
President Wilson.
We (Republicans) always can
depend upon a landslide in the
upper income brackets; an over
whelming victory in the Social
Register; safe majority in
Who's Who; a fair chance in
the telephone book; but we be-
gin to be devastated when we get
into the city directory; and that
is bad.-William Allen White, ed
itor Emporia (Kan) Gazette.
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T WANT to return to the some
l. what contentious point of civic
economy.
In the beginning, at any rate,
there was enormous enthusiasm
for any sort of budget slash, re-
CARELESS Of the spot where the
knife went in. 1t seems to me that
the time has come for sober sec
ond thought on just what sort Of
economy we want. Certain econ
omies cost far more than the
community can afford.
First Of all, I would mention the
very serious damage done to pub
lie hospitals in New York under
the policy Of retrenchment. DR..
Greeff pointed with pride the
other day to the fact that he had
dismissed 700 employees Who were
not American citizens, and he
added that in the interests of
economy these workers would not
be replaced. Our hospital COM
missioner endeavored to prove his
patriotism and his parsimony at
the same time.
But what is the result? Bellevue
is badly so undermined that
patients must wait for agonizing
hours for the most simple and
necessary attention.
n e n
A DOCTOR on the staff of that
4 n hospital told me within a
week that it practically was i'm
possible to get blood transfusions
because the city did not supply
the money to pay for them. 1.-The
best we can do" he told me, lis
to find some patient with high
blood pressure and convince him
that he might spare a little blood"
Il thought that old theory of
blood-letting had been abandoned
years ago." I demonstrated.
well" he said cautiously, ut
doesn't do them any harm"
There has been trouble in the
obStetrical departments of several
hospitals, including Bellevue, be-
cause of overcrowding. Gross in
fections have developed. This is
precisely what I am talking about.
Even from material standpoint
economy may prove costly.
1t takes longer for patients to
get well in a poorly equipped hos
pital than in one which is ade-
quately supplied with funds, per-
sonnet and equipment.
We can not afford to support
aldermanic Sergeants-at-arms in
luxury and allow sick people to
get sicker. If through overcrowd-
ing hospitals become places where
infections are developed rather
than checked, the policy Of cut
ting appropriations will certainly
prove an expensive one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

II IERKEGAARD, the great
IN thinker of Denmark, divided
men into two sorts, the drivers
and the drifters. In his famous
book, "Either-Or," he tells us that
he wanted to run after every man
in the street and ask him the
question: Are you alert or inert?
A master or a slave? A creator
or {; creature? A litter or leaner?
Many men, he said, would not
know what he meant. They do
not live at all, they merely exist.
Either man must choose his part
in life, or the hidden forces Of the
unconscious will choose it for him.
Either he will live to understand
life Or to endure it. His worth to
himself, his value to his fellow
men, depends on what his choice
is.
Most men walk the path in
which their feet are set, creatures
Of custom, fashion, convention,
and fad. They do what others do,
say what others say. Their minds
are putty, shaped by the form of
the slogans and catch-words, as
if parrots.
ETTHER man is a helper or a
H hanger-on, a leader or a camp
follower If he is not to be mere
ly bit of luggage, he must make
up his mind as to the role he will
play and play tiff his load,
pull his weight, and earn his
keep.
To reach port he sometimes must
sail with the wind and sometimes
against it-but he must sail and
not drift.
The great day in life is when a
man accepts himself and sets
about to make his life an express
sion of his own ideals-the truths
which he has counted on his
pulse" and which are true for
him.
Nothing can equal the impor-
lance of the hour in which man
definitely accepts himself as part
of the eternal whole, takes his
place, and finds his duty in it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Domestic Debts Are the Real Burden

XXTE going to get trade
standard
because game represents
just hard other nation indeed
While TIE which
trade have been intensified debts
for philosophy that antedates the and entirely
They have
since time nmemoa particular debts represent
far greater than debts they will
resent that
The taxes and tariffs which thought
necessary to what the
paid outsiders but financial within
Tie United labong
load behind a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
A Huge Base Line
CONSEQUENTLY, we can

CONSEQUENTLY, we can pur-
~ sue the following method.
We can point our telescope at the
star in January and again in June.
We then have a great triangle
whose base line is the diameter of
the earth's orbit, a distance Of
186O0O,000 miles.
Actually, modification Of this
method is used. Two photographs
of the star and its neighboring
stars are taken six months apart.
Due to The change in angle at
which the star is seen, it will ap-
pear to have shifted its position
slightly with reference to the other
stars in general.
This shift or parallax, as it is
known technically, then is deter
mined from careful measurements
of the two Photographic plates and
the angles and then the distance
calculated from it.
The parallax is so very small,
however, that the method can be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
BLIND IN ONE EYE

Union labor leaders have been doing so much
straight thinking on domestic issues recently that
1t is a DIT surprising to encounter such muggy-
mindedness and insutarity have marked some of
their recent utterances on foreign policies.
Organized labor wants early restoration Of in
dustry and trade. Yet in direct negaton of this
IDEAL President Green of the American Federation
of labor has come out in opposition to Russian recog
milton. On the same day 300 college professors rep
resentng 26o colleges in fortyve states urged Soviet
recognition upon President-El Roosevelt.
Trade experts say that our non-recognition policy
has destroyed good 80 per cent of our once
thriving export trade with Russia, that we have
tossed some $100000,000 of annual Russian business
to Germany, Italy and England.
Mr.. Green may have been proving himself a con-
servative to offset his recent militant declarations
He proved himself also a poor economist.
Similarly, Messrs. Matthew Vol and Michael
Flynn of the federation have added their voices to
the appeal of fanatical protectionists crying for
higher tariffs. In view of our own low wages and
commodities, our idle factories and long breadlines
their fear of foreign cheap labor has an element of
grim humor.
Far from being flooded, imports in 1923
at their lowest level in twenty-seven years. AS to
the plan for compromising duties, now preached
in the Crowther BILL it should be recalled that the
United States tariff commission last spring reported
relatively little difference" in the value of imports
from gold standard countries and those which had
abandoned it.
The commissions chairman Mr. OBren, opposes
compromising duties on the ground that it would
hurt our best customer, Britain, and would hurt
our international relations that ALREADY bad
enough" Messrs. VOL and Flynn, it will be recalled,
helped to hawk the trade killing Grundy tariff in
1890 as method of restoring prosperity.
Doubtless they will find trade resistance to tariff
goldbricks stronger today
Some 100000 American families directly are
suffering from unemployment. There are about
100000 jobless wage in this and other
industrial countries.
American labor leaders should be demanding
restoration of world commerce and prosperity,
rather than more trade barriers to deepen the de-
preston.
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According to figures supplied
me, books, which are the life
blood of a library, face a cut this
year of IT per cent, which may be
increased to 30 per cent because
some of the other appropriations
are inadequate and there may
have to be a transfer from the
book fund.
Certainly it should be unthink-
able to reduce library stats any
further. Elimination Of employees
would mean the closing of branch
libraries, whose reading rooms are
crowded. Nor should salaries be
touched. The average salary of
library employe in New York City
is $1,636.
Naturally, reading has increased
enormously in all our large cities,
and the need is for greater facili-
ties rather than pairing off of re-
sources which are essential. In
particular, libraries deserve every
encouragement just now, since the
average reader is tackling serious
books more avidly than ever be-
fore.
Sheer necessity has forced a
great many people into a consid-
Grafton of the world in which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
1t Merely Might Help the Bankers

II us not make similar with respect to these war debts
Gung mat reduction cancellation unavoidable let
e thlIg LOT what 1t sa perfectly
designed 10 relieve European governments and make international
!tIe more secure at the
1hese European governments international bankers will
not give american taxpayers anything
nope that an adjustment
which that American taxpayers to make another
trbutlon to the common NAV helm
When you get night down brass cancellation
OF DEBTS should thought
but matter of
they whether way to make
International bankers who have loaned these
OF dollars themselves
debt
of collecting. The Of the propaganda S
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

Ills - Tic al ~ VI tNO dAt4C4te pg LIZ
Fishbein on sleep for children.
CLEEP, as a factor in develop
~ ment of the child, is given
special consideration in a recent
survey of the growth and develop
ment of the child, made under
auspices of the White House Con-
ference on Child Health and Pro-
lection.
Even though numerous physiolo-
gists throughout the world have
studied the phenomena of sleep, it
has not been possible to determine
satisfactorily just why we 60 to
sleep, why We remain asleep, or
why we awaken.
There are numerous theories,
however, all Of which have fair
amount of reason behind them.
Most Of these theories are based
on the idea that fatigue gradually
develepS in the body, due to action
of tf nerves and muscles, and
that result chemical changes
occur which lead to the develop
ment Of sleep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
SCIENCE
Stars Distance Found
BY DAVID DIETz

applied with success only to the
nearer stars.
In the cases Of the most distant
stars, it is too small to measure
with the most delicate instru-
mentS.
At the present time. six Amer
lean and one English observatorieS
are cooperating in a program of
measuring stellar distance by the
parallaX method.
Recently, results Of the work
to date were assembled into
catalOg by DR.. Frank Schlesinger,
director of the Yale university OBJ
Servatory. 1t gives the distances
of 1870 stars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Que stiOnS and
Answers


Q.-When was Grants tomb on
Riverside drive in New York city
dedicated?
A.-April 81, 1897.
Q.-How many bases on balls did
Babe Ruth draw in 1922
A.-One hundred thirty-eigh&
Q.-What political party had q
majority in congress when the
United States declared war on
Germany?
A-Democratio.
Q-Where in the Bible Is one
verse that states that zone day is
with the Lord as a thousand
years?"
Ascend Peter 3:s-"But be-
loved, be not ignorant Of one
thing, that one day is with the
Lord as thousand years, and q
thousand years as one day" A
similar verse is Psalms 90:4--"For
a thousand years in thy sight are
but as yesterday when 1t is past,
and as watch in the night"
Q-Give the date Of Mardi Gras
in 1892?
A-Feb. 9.
Q-When did P. T. Barnum
start his circus?
AIN 1871.
Q-Is there a magazine called
"QST'?
At is a radio magazine pub
Hshed by the American Radio Re-
lay league Of West Hartford, Conn.
O-When a gentleman is walk
ing with two ladies, should ne
walk between them?
Ale should take the outside
of the sidewalk, the same as when
he is walking with one lady.
Q-Give the Jewish population
of the world?
At is estimated at 15,630,O00.
Q-Who won the 100-meter free
style swimming race for men in
the 1882 Olympics and give his
time?
A-Yasuji- Miyazaki of Japan
won in 582 seconds. In the semi
finals, a day earlier, he established
a new Olympic record of $50
seconds.
Q-Name the man who at
tempted to assassinate Theodore
Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912.
A-John Schrank.
Q-How many daily, weekly
and semi-weekly newspapers are
published in the United States9
A-Dailies, 2,241; semi-weeklies,
371, and weeklies, 10.7O2.
Q-What is the value Of a Lin
coin penny dated 1929?
Att is worth only its face
yalue.
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Backs for Burdens

TT seems to me that as yet we
L are wholly on the wrong foot
in regard to economy, both civic
and national. 1t is, of course,
highly desirable that swollen bud
gets should be massaged back into
reasonable slimness again, but 1
would not put a scalpel into the
hands of inexperienced financial
surgeons. don't think the body
polite is strong enough to live
through such drastic remedies.
Instead of talking about broad
ening the base of taxation, we
might as we'll face the fact which
other nations already have &C
cepted with only a minimum
amount of grumbling.
When any government wants
to raise money, it must seek out
first of all the people who have
it. The weight must fall both by
justice and necessity upon the
boys in the higher brackets.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBE1N
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

During sleep the reverse process
goes on and when fetigue is over
come the body wakens.
However, it must be pointed out
that the hours Of waking and of
sleeping usually are rhythmical
and associated in periodicity with
the movements of the planet on
which we live.
= II
THERE usually is a drop in the
l. blood pressure during sleep.
The sleep becomes more intense
during the first hour and then
gradually lessons.
Young children tend to sleep
more quietly than do older chill
dren, but there are also differ
ences in the sexes, the time of
the year and other factors.
In one series Of scientific inves-
legations it was found that there
was slight tendency to sleep less