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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
SATURDAY. JAN. 7. 1899.
THE BANKER SOLUTION

Members of the legislature should regard with at
least skeptcism the suggestion of the bankers
for the control of rates for petty loans.
The bankers ask that limit be put on those
who enter into the CHASTITY business of charging
3a per cent month to desperate human beings for
the use Of credit.
They ask that those who go into the business
have at least $4,000 Of capital With the rate at
this high figure just why any large amount of money
is needed to get start toward millions is not ex-
planned, unless there be desire to participate
For at least two years the bankers propose
that nothing be done about matter which has been
Of considerable interest in the past sessions of the
legislature and in which corrective measures have
been defeated through the most corrupt methods
employed by any lobby.
The petty loan business is well intrenched in the
politics of the state It's representatives sit in the
high councils of both the political parties.
What the bankers propose is that the business
be put in the hands of few, cutting down compe-
tition, but still permitting the monstrous rate of
interest to be charged to those who can least afford
to pay for credit.
If it be impossible to get legislation, after the
bankers committee has given it's pontiflcal blessing
to the business, the only way that the people can
find freedom is through larger use of cooperative
credit
Within the last eighteen months the fremen of
this city have found what can be done by combining
forces. Before that date the pay envelopes of many
OF the hremen tapped each three months by
the high rate lenders For very many, that tax
meant less food, less clothing and more worry
credit union was formed and it is the proud
boast of the f1remen that not one member is now
under bondage to these interests. BY cooperation,
the fremen have solved their own problem.
At time when money is excessively dear, when
measured in terms of wages and commodities the
AZ per cent year boys getting about twice as
much as they did in days of prosperity.
The banking mind is not the one to solve what
Is essentially human, not financial, problem.
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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 f1fty-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 egalize.-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-
solidated 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 its 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
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

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, friend of mine told
me of sermon he heard by
JoWett of oxford. The preacher,
he said, did not put it to 200
healthy young men, as a 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 81, is aboutsthirty-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"
My friend and some others, as
1Vx they testified, were So> cleo
trified by this quaint piece Of pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Atom Study Advances
TINE neutron turns out to be a

TINE neutron turns out to be a
l. 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 1882 in methods
of smashing or disintegratlng
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
1892 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-
tons in coming years will clear up
the mystery Of what has hap
pened to the Leonids, as the No
yember meteorS are called.
Both cosmic rays and the ex-
banding universe continued to be
the centers of innumerable scien-
tific battles. In the matter OF cos
mic rays. the battle is chiefly as
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Optimism Not Alone

T IKE a good many Americans, I
IL 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 generaliza-
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 fictionaI 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 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
elation solemnly. 1t is only in our
lighter moments that we are
willing to accept the deadly
disillusion of the cynic.
Copyright 1888. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

II GOT talking to a man in a
Il train about tragedy. 1t 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 tragedy.
Perhaps I led the talk in that
direction, because I had number
Of prepared and sincere convic-
lions on the subject of tragedy.
felt and I feel that the classic ira
dition has become ineffective.
There may have been a 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 well
might have been moved to pity
and terror when a character
gasped, choked and sped away to
face the threat of hell.
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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
rhanful part of mankind.
But it has another lesson, too.
If we seem able to live without
God today, it is because our ia
theirs we're 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
worldliness 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. 1888 United Features
SyndicateJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

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 had 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. L put every
nickel of my castor Oil money in
the plate. I didn't want to burn
forever and ever, world without
end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia. the
Health MaRazine.

THE doctor diagnoses whooping
Il cough not only by the typical
coughing spells, which usually are
accompanied with redness of the
face and development of a 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 lymphocytes, increases
even more than do the others.
AS has been said, the chief
danger from whooping cough is
not from the disease itself SO
much as from the secondary
pneumonia and changes which
may affect the heart and lungs.
. y
THE total period of quarantine
l. may be as long as six weeks.
In attempting TO control whoop-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
SCIENCE:
Science Goes Ahead
BY DAVID DIETz

MAN assembled higher into the
Nl 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 stratosphere in a
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
portant 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 ad-
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 we're 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
Whooping Cough Is Spread Easily

ing cough, all sorts Of methods OF
prevention have beer 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 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.
Copyright. 1888 bv NEA Service. Incl
Next-Care Of the whooping
cough victim. 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
"Weep for the LiUino"

RUT tragedy must be recast for
- the sake of agnostics, Unita-
r1ans, UniverSaliSts 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
ly 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 was done, he said, You're
quite right"
That was less than tactfuI.
There was nothing more for me
to say.
However, he wanted to talk. I'm
q tragic figure" he began.
He seemed hale and prosperous,
but the pause was only a Slight
one for dramatic effect. ut hap
pened long time ago." he con-
tinued. 81 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. was
brought up on hell fire and castor
oil. When I was IL 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Radio Is Outstanding Example

radio the most outstanding
simple
Radio already has been brought under the chain system Each
millions to
instructed entertained by orchestra inspired by
Convenient, doubt
S you assemble so young
instrument we'll
a much originality in amusing
Educators tell that impossible to teach children by urng
them and life the theory sound.
by looking
pictures, o athletes sitting n grandStand.
develop or 1t.
Least Government Is the Best
MACHINERY shouldn't with that wouldn't
1V1 the unreasonable which
organized
would be
There however, which organized control
undesirable
Jefferson said is
life, whether official
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Ne1U Minister IN ToaU11

"THAT sounded a little i'm
l. moral to my father and
mother, but a doctor is a person
of authority, like a minister, and
he made them take his ideas.
don't know whether he persuaded
them or poured it down their
Threats. Anyway, it was fixed up
that whenever I took castor oil I
was to get nickel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

This IS the Sec0nd OF three special
articles by DR.. Fishbein on the nature
and treatment of whooping cough and
precautions to prevent its spread.
THE incubatio 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 II ends.
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Questions and
Answers

Q-State the population of Be-
livia, and the proportion Of In
dams to whites.
A-Estimated population is a.
974,900. of whom 1,586,650 are In
dians, 426,2 whites, and 962 900 :
mixed.
Q-How long must an enlisted
man in the army serve before ne =
can retire?
Ale can retire after an active
service of twenty years, and IS
automatically retired after thirty
years service.
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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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Build Them Big Is Our Motto

XXTE have been following the promoter organizer
w Our educational system turning
every expert
We have been training youth to not by doing
thing better, but by building something bigger.
moivating thought competition
for the sake kill it for the sake profit
What industrial fifty has become
longer drawing inspiration like Morse
looking MELONS,
for guidance
The machine becoming instrument OF monopoly and the bulk
becoming the machne-feudalm
nothing with mechanical abusing
to satisfy for organization and control
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

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, 1 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"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Differ on Rays

Differ on Rays
DR. 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 H. Compton, also a
Noble prize-winner, is certain,
after a 50,000-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 a favorite
model of his own.
At the beginning of the year,
both Professor Einstein and DR..
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 gal
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 differences
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, once
for all.
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 a sudden violent resump-
ton of the Sino-Japanese difficulties. The Great
Wall of China has been pierced, and steady jap
anese thrust at Peiping itself is now possibility
situation already dangerous has become more Sc
rious than ever, and no 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 the fighting was con-
lined to Manchuria, that thesis was at least argu-
able; 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, very serious war is
raging whatever the diplomats choose to call it:
and the menace to the peace of the rest OF the
world is exceedingly real. In this particular field.
1888 has got off to very bad beginning.
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the
ing collective effort for indvidualSm
More 1000
advanced
ground upposng original
them.
We TO the front office than the mechanical
for philosophy of life it, indeed
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
WE LIVE IN BANKERS AGE

TN considering present-day social trends let
us not forget that philosophy is older than
mechanical power, or that human nature pre-
ceded both.
If this were the first time religious influ-
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
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

Husbands who took seriously their wives re-
quests not to get them anything for Christmas are
just getting back speaking terms again.
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bird in the hand is worth two in the bush but
now and then you'll find big league baseball moguI
who'll trade even.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

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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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
result of the suns influence.
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Al Smith, on his ffty-ninth birthday anniversary
said he felt just good as he did at 40 or So II
goes without saying that's whole lot better than,
ne felt right after the Democratic convention last
summer.