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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
M. E. Tracy Says:
COOLIDGE HAD SUBLIME FAITH

CALVIN COOLIDGE was a typical New Eng
~ lander, embodying the rugged simplicity
assured faith and unbreakable will Of his fore
bears.
In this respect he stood for what once was a
great force and what remains a great tradition
in the making of America. Naturally enough
his thought ran backward and his philosophy of
life was rooted in precedent.
The con1motion and baIyhoo OF present-day
e hn.l e. Liz, IL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
Just Mild Syc0phdnt


DUT when I advertised for a
I'D sycophant, I didn't really
expect to get a servile fatterer.
I couldn't pay adequate wages
for that. All I wanted was some
body who would say on a Mon
day or a Wednesday, THAT was
a pretty swell column you had
today, Mr.. B."
would more or less expect him
to say on a Tuesday or a Thurs
day, mot so hot this time" I
wouldn't be at all surprised to
hear that. And I hope he wouldn't
be surprised, either, to be fired
on Saturday.
Copyright. 1893. by The Timesl
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barrators of yesterdays game.
But I wonder where Mr.. Funk, or
Mr.. Wagnalls, for that matter,
ever got the notion that "a servile
fatterer" and "a parasite" are in
Interchangeable terms.
I've been both. I don't mean
both Funk and Wagnalls. I mean
both parasite and servile f1atterer,
and they are not the same thing
at all.
A first-rate servile fatterer is
worth anything he gets. He earns
every penny and is in no sense a
parasite, The employers jokes I
have laughed at! The sincerity
I have put into saying, Eyes, B.
K, think you really have hit on
something big in that thought"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11

ID AVS Of hope illuminate the
N scientific sky as 1888 gets
under way. 1t may be that the
pessimistic and gloomy views
which began to gain momentum
from 1920 on, and which reached
their climax in the last year,
will be abandoned during the
present one.
The reasons for new hope were
put forth at the annual meeting
of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, held
in Atlantic City just as the old
year was coming to a close.
Until the present time, scien-
lists generally have accepted the
idea that our universe gradually
was running down. The universe
frequently was compared to a
clock that had been wound up at
some distant date and slowly was
ticking away its energy.
Sir James Jean compared it to
a slowly sinking ship. Others
COIlpdI6Q II W 1IIG Jul 1llIlS IL
self out and painted pictures of
the clay when the stars would be
burnt-out cinders, floating in a
cold and dark ocean of space.
All these gloomy pictures had
their basis in the second law of
thermodynamics, the law which
states that energy once dissipated
can never be recaptured.
Additional evidence was deduced
from theories of the expanding
universe, according to which the
component parts of the universe
are scattered farther and farther
apart.
But DR.. r. c. Tolman, brilliant
mathematician of the California
Institute of Technology and init
mate friend Of Professor Albert
Einstein, showed that this view
need not necessarily be SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Germ That Causes Mumps Is Puzzle
: BY DIR. MORRIS FsHBE1N "

BY DIX. MORR1S ElSHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
call Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
I Learn q Ne1U Sin

ATOW, I'm not a complete sap.
~ read the newspapers, includ-
ing the long words and the crime
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
Atomic Energy

MINGLED with these hopeful
1V1 rays from astronomy and
biology, we find rosy beams from
the realm of atomicphysicS.
Many physicists at the Atlantic
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This is the first of two articles by DR.
Fishbein on mumps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-11
Now for Temperance
And Tolerance and Sanity

With the death of the Eighteenth Amendment and the legal
izaton liquor by December America ends its 10 of
tyranny fanatcsm and enters Of freedom
and let us hope-of temperance.
In looking back at THE Ignoble Experiment. proved
to be- the temptation great dwell the evils which it
wrought.
The list of crimes committed the of prohibition is
long
Contempt for law disregard of personal rights unpara
ed orgy Of doing widespread ntemperance deaths
from poisoned liquor from the uades of enforcement
agents. gang rule akeeering kidnapping high taxes increased
divorce corruption in public office vicious ntolerancehere
is hardly offense against public private welfare which
not created augmented by the prohibition laws.
But though the Hearst led the fight against them
there little profit in recounting them at this date
They useful only warning of the danger into
which any departure from the fundamental American creed Of
Individual rights and respect for the rights others must
plunge the Nation.
Today America looks forward
has shaken itself free from the letters of the Eighteenth
Amendment and from the CHASTITY abuses which the Eighteenth
Amendment brought in its train
It's chief hencforth to restore law and order
che land to break the domination of the criminal make the
Eon and to usher regime of true temperance in place Of
the sordd ntemperance which afflicted the country both be-
fore and after the prohibition regime ~
It is task which will the ingenuity of lawmakers and
which will require the cooperation of every good citizen
But the way at last cleared for national advance toward
and better than this country has
The "Great Mistake" is thing of the past.
The United States its face with confidence the
future.
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A Good Appointment
And An Important One

President Roosevelts appointment of Professor j. Raon
Hayden of Political Science Department of the University
Of Michigan Vice Governor of the Philippine Islands sets
standard in selecting officials for nsular possessions
These positions have too often been regarded political
pums be handed to party in return for their support
in campaign
In many the appontees fitness has been the last
ching considered in making the appointment
Such practice has been particularly dangerous in choos
ing assistants the Governor General of the Philippines
since those islands the focus of American interests
Far East
In the absence of the Governor General the Vice Governor
becomes the nations chief representative in particularly
unstable part of the world Thus the Importance of qualified
man for the place is apparent
Professor Hayden spent several years in Manila during the
administration Of Governor Generals Wood and Smson
Is thoroughly familiar with the Philippines and their people
He is an authority the governmental system of the
Islands, and has wide acquaintanceshp among Filipino
leaders.
On his record he should capaby fill the office for which
the President has chosen him. and prove valuable aid
Governor General Murphy at critical period in Far Eastern
history.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-11
ArmiStice Day
Glory and Sorrow

Again the nation pauses in daily to recall mind
The glory and the sadness of the World Wharf.-The glory of
sacrifice gladly bravey made the sadness of sacrifice
futiey and needlessy exacted.
On this anniversary of the signing of the armce which
brought peace swept world the thoughts Of Amer
leans turn to the Unknown Hero entombed at Arlington
Cemetery.
For in that tomb is the embodied spirit of America, the
sxempcation of nation of those who offer
their all for the preservation of their country.
As the years pass the lessons of the World War fall
and into neglect the while they become
and important it is we'll for Americans turn at least
year that tomb and to the myriads Of small white
slabs which mark the final resting places Of those who died in
that great conflict
Each year attacks made with fresh vigor and unfor-
tunaey with fresh upon the defensive of the
nation
h year the pacstc propaganda gathers fresh strength
fresh enthusiasm for program of stripping these forces
to point where their heplessness would welcome in
vader.
chat peace be by stripping the United States
Of its Army and Navy have enjoyed woeful
Under the slogan of they have aimed blow after
blow at both the Army and the Navy.
They have met with of which is enough
TO alarm every true American.
Fortunately in recent months there backfre
Efforts being made to build up the Navy to the
size which the nations of the world agreed that America
should Efforts likewise being made restore
of the ground lost by the Army through false economies
Unless the which departed heroes
today to be mockery and sham America must continue
and must accentuae these efforts to establish naval and mill
tary forces adequate for the defense of the country
We defeat those who would rob the nation of its de-
fenses unless would invite another struggle which would
add to the silent throngs that sleep at Arlington.
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Three-Minute Journeys
BY Temple Manning

The old Cathedral, built in the
twelfth century, is beautiful
example of Spanish Roman ar
chitecture and art.
The facade of the university is
probably the greatest jewel in
the crown of beauty that is Sala-
manca. Beautiful indeed is the
rich stairway uniting the upper
and lower cloisters of the build.
ing. One fingers long in the
famous university library, with
it's great vaulted ceiling and
wonderful carvings. Scholars
read and do research work. It
is hard to believe that without
the great chamber, the press of
modern life claims Salamanca
for its own.
The Palace of Monterrey
Stroll through the glorious
courtyard of the Casa de Ia Con-
chaS and drink in it's beauty and
the perfection of the facade, the
patio, staircases, wrought iron
balconies and carvings of this
edifice that is among the most
beautiful in Europe. Another
model and marvel of Spanish
architecture is the Casa de la
Salina, part of the Palace of
Monterrey, with it's filigreed bat
Elements, it's carvings Of marble
and stone. The city is like a
museum of architecture, and
even if one is ordinarily indif-
ferent to old buildings, it is i'm
possible not to be touched by the
slumbering beauty of the old
palaces, churches and schools
that comprise the city. One
strolls out of the squares into
quiet, shady streets and every
step discloSes a patio, some
carvings, a porch, an escutcheon
of some noble family all telling
their mute yet eloquent story Of
q glorious past, when the church
j.: represented the spiritual power
and the MOBILES went forth to
battle for their faith, their coun-
try and their people.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-11

Conditions throughout the
Island of Cuba seem swiftly to
be going from bad to worse.
The worse they get, the harder
it will be for the Roosevelt
administration to discharge
American responsibility under
the Plat Amendment without
American intervention.
Under the Plat Amendment,
Cuba acquiesces in the right of
the United States to say that
she shall never "put herself
in the hands of any other
power, whatever her necessities,
and in our right to insist upon
the maintenance of free and
orderly government throughout
her limits"
Cuba further engages under
this amendment never to con-
tract a public debt, the service
upon which can not be met
from the ordinary revenues
which Cuba collects.
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Treaty Obligations

Cuba consents under the
Plat Amendment to American
intervention, whenever in the
judgment of the United States
intervention is necessary to
preserve Cuban independence.
to maintain a Government
adequate for the protection
of life, property and individual
liberty" and to discharge all
of the obligations with respect
to Cuba which the United
States assumed under the
Treaty of Paris.
It is a matter of common
knowledge and of incontrover-
tible fact that Cuba has for
a long time been deprived of
the protection of the kind of
government in Cuba which the
United States guarantees under
the Platt Amendment to main
tain.
Unless such government is
soon set up by the Cuban
people themselves, the compul-
sion of events there and else
where will force American in
tervention as a last resort, de-
spite all efforts of the Roose-
welt administration to avert it.
To date the President has
had a free hand in dealing
with the problem arising from
Cuba's desperate plight. Pub
lie sentiment for the most part
has supported his efforts to
bring order out of chaos in
Cuba without Intervention.
One reason for this support
is to be found in the general
realization that the Cuban prob
lem was inherited by the
Roosevelt Administration from
the administrations OF Coolidge
and Hoover.
Had either the Coolidge
or Hoover administrations dis
charged to the full American
responsibilities under the Plat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-11
Series of Blunders

1t is easy to point out several
major mistakes which have
been made by the Roosevelt
administration in its handling
Of the Cuban situation.
But the sum of these mis-
takes is small when compared
with the series of plumbers made
under the two preceding admin.
istrations in disregard of Amer
lean rights and obligations as
we'll as Cuban rights and obliga.
lions under the Plat amend
ment.
American intervention in Cuba,
under the administration OF
Theodore Roosevelt, was en-.
tirely peaceful. It paved the
way for a popular election which
the Cuban people desired.
It is not improbable that
American intervention in Cuba
under the administration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt might
prove as peaceful as was that
of 1906. But the first Roose-
welt took no chances when he
interviewed. He was prepared
for the worst, and the dem
onstration of force which he
made in Cuba at the outset of
intervention enabled him to
avert the use of force.
(Copyri,h t 1893, The Washington
Times)
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Machine Cogs

"We are not creators any
longer, but cOgs in the machine.
When one cog breaks the VhOle
machine stops, as it has stopped
.noWadays, and all the cOgs
fall into idlsness.
1--WE concern OurselUes sVith
things that don't concern as.
We are Glrpays in too much of
a hurry, in a frenzy of ner.
Vous excitement. We go round
and round, like child on the
Oooden horse Of a cGrrOusel,
getting nOsUhere, ciutchins
UGinly at the brass ring Of
wsalth or fame. All that is
urong today is that the WOrld
hos lost ies sense Of values.
When It gets that back there
will be no more depressiOn."
When Yantorney, the contem-
plative bootmaker, feels that
life is rushing him too much,
he drops his work, leaving the
fashionable ladies to lament,
and goes to the farthest ends
of the earth to seek quiet and
peace. Not long ago he boarded
q train which carried him to
MarseilleS. Then he took a
steamship to Bombay, and from
Bombay he travelled up through
India to the high Himalayas.
The king business is in a bad
way these days, and grand
dukes are driving taxicabs in
Paris. Very few Of the an
ointed of the earth amount to
much when their chairs are
kicked out from under them
and they have to go out and
hustle for q living. But the re-
cent passing Of one great noble
man, the Grand Duke Alexan-
der of Russia, saw the departure
from this troubled world OF a
man of intellect and Of Sensi.
bilities-certainly the best OF
the Romanoffs. and well able
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Conditions May Compel
Intervention in Cuba
By James T. Williams, Jr..

Amendment, the Cuban peopls
would not have been subjected
to the intolerable tyranny Of
government by political assassi.
nation which was their bitter
portion during the last years
of Machado's brutal rule.
When Machado coerced the
Cuban congress into adding
three years to his constitutional
term Of office, the Government
at washington informed him in
advance that such an action
would be in violation of the
Cuban constitution. Machado
believed that the United States
did not really mean to do any,
thing about it; and events
proved him right.
Again when the Machado
government requested American
representation at his Inaugural
ton, the washington Govern
ment was advised by able au-
thority to deny this request in
order that the Cuban people
might know that the United
States strongly disapproved
Machado'S violation of the Gu
ban constitution.
Instead of pursuing such q
course which would have re-
suited in the retirement of
Machado years before he was
driven out, the Washing ION
Government tamely acquiesced
in Machado's wishes, and diplo-
matte relations between Havena
and washington continued with
out interruption.
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The Human Side of the News
Philosophic Shoemaker-Royaltys Lean Days
BIZ Edlpin C.. Hill.

All Paris Is talking about
Yantorney, bootmaker of the
Place Vendome. For Yantorney
is not only the greatest shoe
maker in the world, the veritable
Leonardo da Vinci of footwear:
he is also a philosopher to
whom all France listens.
''The trouble with the wOrld
today" says YantOrney, schol-
arly bOOtmaker of the Place
VendOn'e, sis that it has come
to think thGt bigness is every
thing. Raising up the false
god Of bigness, it has lost it's
sense Of beauty in Workman
ship; the incompGrGbly pre-
eiOus thing Of beautiful hand
iWovk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-11
Alexander Tells Ford

The Grand Duke was badly
down on his luck after the
Bolsheviki broke loose. That
fantastic person, Alfred LoWen"
stein, the Belgian plunger. OF"
fered him a job as social secre-
tary at $4,000 a week. Badly
as he needed money, Alexan.
der turned it down.
Alexander visited Henry Ford
in Detroit and found occasion
to tell Mr.. Ford that one of his
statements was incorrect. He
quotes Mr.. Ford as replying
with a smile of tolerance: 'This
is the first time in IS years
that I have heard anybody use
the word wrong in talking
about me-" And the Grand
Dukes comment was: "A man
cannot possess a billion dollars
and not be right, at least in his
own estimation.
A fine example of the Grand
Dukes pungent style OF writ"
ing, pretty much that OF a
first rate American newspaper
reporter, is this bit about the
nineteen twenties:
1.-THE 192O's crashed in like a
drove of pursued madmen'
They promised to hang the ex'
lied kaiser before Christmas.
and the King of Greece was
bitten to death by his pet
monkey. They carried the body
of the Unknown Soldier to a.
sumptuous rest under the Arc
de Triomphe, and disabled
poilus were begging along the
line of the solemn procession.
They sounded IL colossal sirens
to announce to the population
of Paris that a man named
Georges Carpenter had just
been knocked down in far away
New Jersey, and a president OF
France was picked up on the
railroad track at dawn, clad
only in a pair Of silken, sky
blue pajamas. The 192Os
marched on, past nightclubs ana
breadlines."
Copyright 1893. King Features
Syndicate 1ncO
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'membered beauty? For in
some strange way you have
been comforted. Did she really
hear you-that mother whose
voice has not answered for so
many years? Were you for
that instant really a little
child again. loving and trust
ing. without doubt and fear?
Scat the scent of a flower,
at the sight of a curving hill,
at the sound of an old hymn,
the years will roll away. And
there, once more will be the
trail unwinding in the still,
bright light
Tired tonight? Wishing. with
all your discouraged heart and
bewildered brain, that the years
would turn back for you-give
you once more, just for an in
slant, the peace and the faith
you knew as a child? Yes?
Then. listen!
Lead, kindly light"
ooh, how quickly it comes
back, my dear! How easily you
remember-you, who thought
you would never remember
againD
Lead, kindly light,
Amid tn encircltng gloom,
Lead thou me on:
The night is dark
And / an, far from home,
Lead thou me on"
$50 dark. so far. so lost,
poor frightened one! If only
somewhere you could clutch a
hand. Someone who cared, and
who could understand. Once
but SO 1ohg!-you thought that
you could go alone. But
now
keep thou my feet,
/ do not ask to see
The distant scene:
One step enough torW me-"
(The distant scene? God,
only you know what that scene
will hold. These troubled days!
The changes come too soon.
Battered and weary, we would
lay our burden down. But
something holds us. Is it your
hand, God?
We cannot see you. Is there
proof you care? This only-in
the darkness we have felt
you there! Through all the
nightmare of our sin and shame,
some secret Presence has burned
in us like a flame. Through
bitter loss and failure, pain ana
fear. some voice has whispered,
"child. be steady; I am here!"s
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

$50 long thy power
Hath blest me,
Sure it will
Still lead me on
Ger moor and fen,
Ger crag and torrent, till
The night is gone."
(And then, my Father. ..
then? Will there be rest at
last for those who are so tired?
Will there be joy for those
who've wept so long? And
praise for those whose fun
bling hands have failed? And
cleansing for the poor, weak
souls who've Sinned? And
maybe-maybe-will we see
them, once againO
"The night is gone!
And with the morn
Those angel faces smile
Which / haze loUed
Long SINCE.
And lost dWhile!"
$50 dark now, God. But you
have seen so many mornings
come. Oh, help me stumble
through this darkness, safely
homeD
Copyright, 1898, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Salamanca

Salamanca
A quick trip through Spain
just keeps one longing for more.
And so, perhaps it is best to
stroke out Spain from the itine-
rary altogether, unless some time
is to be spent there. So much
to see, such scenery, such pag.
eantry, such color, such a COM
bination of the old and the new,
Subtly blended, that it is a crime
to forego any of it.
For instance, the traveller in.
cludes a few hours stay at Sala-
manca and finds himself un.
able to leave the lovely old town,
and so it goes, to the total de-
struction of the carefully pre-.
pared and pruned schedule:
For Salamanca is redolent
with beauty, tradition, history,
poetry. It has managed to pre-
serve the grand air that have
been a part of the town when
it housed the university that was
one of the most celebrated in
Europe.
Beautiful Public Square
Perhaps the most significant
blending of the old with the new
is in the splendid Plaza Mayor,
the most beautiful public square
in Spain. Modern motors pass
through this gem of baroque ar
chitecture. Native handicraft
and fine modern wares are dis
played in its lovely shops. fash
ionable restaurants play host
to a cosmopolitan crowd and
under the pillars of the Pabellon
Real, tradesmen and wealthy
manufacturers pass the time Of
day with clericS, lawyers, doc
tors. Salamanca is a manufac-
turing city, and a thriving, mod
ern one at that. The banks Of
the Tonnes river are dotted
with factories. Church towers
and factory chimneys are ada
cent, silhouetted against the
deep blue sky. And somehow
they blend, in this strange old
city.