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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

CALENDAR reform is once more topic Of discus
~ sion among the scientists of the world and
many of them are hoping that something can be
done about the calendar IN the near future.
How the present far-fron perfect calendar has
grown up through the ages by process of trial and
error Is told by DR. Frederick c. Leonard in recent
bulletin of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
DR.. Leonard Is chairman of the department OF
astronomy in the University Of California at Los
Angeles.
He reminds us that there are three natural units
for the measurement Of time. each arising from
different natural phenomenon.
First of all there is the day. fixed by the rotation
of the earth upon its axis
Next there is the month. originally determined
by the revolution Of the moon around the earth.
Finally there IS the year fixed by the revolution
of the earth around the sun.
Now If the lunar month in length equal to
an exact number Of whole DAYS and if further
certain number Of lunar months fitted exactly into
the year there never would have been any difficulty
about the making Of calendars. But such is far
from The case
AS DR. Leonard saws No two Of these units are
COmmenSurable-that Is. no pair. TO speak popularity
possesses a common denomina tor-So that the ratio
Of any two Of them Is what a mathematician calls
irrational number"
ON account Of this incommensurab iitv Of the day.
~ month and year. DR.. Leonard continues, 1t is
manifestly impossible to divide the year into in
tegral number Of months days without obtaining
also unending decimal as a remainder.
The irratlonallty Of these ratios Is what caused
all the difficulties which the anCiens encountered in
their futile attempts TO regulate the calendar by
seeking 10 fit the lunar month evenly into the year
The Roman calandar Dr. Leonard tells us finally
became so hOpeleSSly confused that It best de-
sCribed by a famous remark Of Voltaire
The Roman generals always trlumphed but they
never knew on what DAY they triumphed
Julius Caesar decided to reform the calendar and
IN 46 B. c. he called IN an AleXandrian astronomer
named SOslgeneS TO carry out the JOB
Caesar and SOSlgenes devised the calendar
known as the Julian calendar and this was put into
effect n IS B c. II frankly abandoned the attempt
to keep exact number OF lunar months in the
year.
The Julian calendar introduced the leap year to
mankind. II had three years OF 365 DAYS each fol-
lowed BY 4 fourth year Of 366 DAYS This assumed
that the average year Is exactly $685.. days long.
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Willie IlUDOll,
The Chuck, nemesis of police,
actually, yeah, no fooling, actual
ly got into an argument with a
taxi driver at the Manila bar and
aided the police in giving an
alleged intoxicated friend Of his
a ride in the Black Maria.
The friend was Bobby Lee, OF
light pugilistic attainments.
Patrolman Owen Tevlin and
Harry Hayes we're called to the
Manila bar on the report of =
fight outside its doors.
They found Chuck. Lee and Eu-
gene Haupt, %, of II South High
land street, taxi driver.
Desire to grab a handful of
phones and call for buslOad of
police reinforcements, as was
necessary several years ago when
The Chuckler battled ten, or was
it twelve, cOppers, vanished when
the patrolmen saw that Chuck
was stone sober.
Lee, they charge, had knocked
down the driver while under the
influence of legal heat"
When his lightweight friend
protested against taking a ride
in the police jiggle-buggy, The
Chuckler with uplifted authori-
tative hand, stepped into aid po-
lice.
Go on with the law, Bobby.
G'wan! What do you mean you
won't go?"
Bobby went.
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He EntertdinS EN- All

TIE sang one very beautiful song about how the
4 good Lord few in through the windov and took
his dear mother away to heaven He said there were
MANY such songs never written down Of course, but
Just passed along from person to another among
the field hands and shanty boatmen along the MIS-
sissippi river and remarked Just casually, that Tor
a few dollars to cover his expenses, he would be
pleased to attend anybodys party almost any eve
ming and entertain the guests.
He has a partner, too, with whom he plays ana
sings duets or maybe tandems and can bring him
along for few dollars more.
The experience of the Memphis cotton carnival
suggests to me that many persons who never have
taken the trouble to have good look at the south
ern states and their way Of living and doing might
find interesting experience on this side Of the line
now that European costs too much.
The greatest hunting grounds in this country are
in the south and people who have been worrying
the waters of the ished-out lakes and streams in
northern states might realize certain goofy dreams
in a section Of the United States, from which they
have barred themselves by habit and prejudice up
to now
I have been finding, also, that the pestiferous
preacher, the political nuisance who caused so much
woe within the last fifteen years has been moved
back his church house and out Of the courthouse
and that life in this offers many attractions to
outlanders who fairly capable Of reasonable be-
havior
Copyright 1894 by Unite Feature Syndicate, 1ncJ
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reserves to settle the newly aC-
quired territory-particularly the
region of the Amur and the Mari
time Province frontier.
BY Russia this was taken to
mean the beginning of japanese
expansion in Asia. She would
have to look sharp if she did not
want to lose her outlet on the Pa
cidc and whatever influence she
may ever hope to have in - far
east.
Russia also knew that to rely
solely on the military to defend
her interests out here would be
fatal. She tried that in 1904-5
in her war with Japan and re-
ceived a licking for her pains.
Eastern Siberia is too far away
from European Russia-it is 1000
miles-for an army to be success
fully rationed and munitioned via
a Sing'o railway.
n
THE alternative was to settle"
4 Siberia and make it able, in
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY GO -ROUND
= BIZ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XKTASHINGTON. May
w
the tail like the
huntsman, dasn't leave him daSnt hold
hotels eche has
o abandon impossible to enforce.
plan however, proving easier said than done.
buSseShave blunty told
they junking of the And to
they business they backed their warning by
specific threats
the authority proposes
o n a body
Following that the industry will the certain
which believe the general
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pointment as head of the bureau
of foreign and domestic COM
merce, was that he had refused
job to a one time secretary of
Red Mike" Hylan, former Tam
many mayor of New York City
Lieutenant Colonel George
A. Lynch, u S, army infantry
officer, recently made NRA adj
ministrative executive, is an ar
dent bowler, frequently spends
his lunch hour at the game
The three great crystal chande-
liers in the east room of the
White House have just been
cleaned. It took gang of
men three days to wash and wipe
the several thousand pendants
and doo-dads,
Copyright. 1884. BY United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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THE WINNING OF THE EAST
Famed L. S. D1i7v Duplicated on Vast Scale by S0Uiet

This is the first Of series of six
stories on siberia. the new Eldorado Of
the soviet Union. now being exploited
on vast scale. An interesting and
timely series. it shows how Russia is
duplicating the great movement Of
America winning Of the west in the
Soviet winning OF the east" This
series is written for The Times BY Will
Liam Philip Simms, Scripps Howard
foreign editor. on his present world
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have but lately been brought here to the Bronx.
The full name is "varanus kOmOd0enSs' Under
Meath this introduction I read the sign which pro-
claimed These giant lizards nhabit the small
island Of KOmodO IN the Dutch East IndleS-east Of
Java They are the largest known lizards, and owing
m their size and savagery have been called Dragon
Lizards.
IN the press Of the metropolis I had read some
thing o these strange reptiles from faraWav KOmOdo
east of Java According TO accounts they measured
something above nine feet I'M length and. according
70 speculation, we're blood brothers Of the monsters
Vnom St George and other gallant Adventures
blessed dsmSels
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Her one hope is to colonize-
to settle" that region with her
own nationals.
That is precisely what the new
masters Of the Kremlin are buslly
and intensively doing.
Already they have spent on this
region more than did all the
czarist regimes put together.
ONE-THIRD the total outlay
~ and it will run into billions
of dollars-to be expended on the
second five year plan will go to
the upbuilding Of Siberia.
Thirty seven per cent Of the
total capital investment in heavy
industry; 40 per cent in coal min
ing; Al per cent in the iron and
steel industry; II per cent in the
non-ferrouS metal industry; 81
per cent in the machine building
idustry. and 81 per cent in the
chemical industry will be spent in
AsiatiC Russia.
On the initiative of Big Boss
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Josef Stain himself, taxes, or
state collections" either have
been eliminated or greatly re-
duced as a form of subsidy for the
far eastern and Siberian settlers
for a period of from five to ten
years.
Fishing is one of the chief oc-
equations Of the people of eastern
Siberia. By the Stain decree, the
price of fish deliveries to the state
the only purchaSer-has been
arbitrarily and materially boosted.
Another form of subsidy.
WAGES paid to both military
w and civil workers out here
have been raised from 20 to so
per cent, and other inducements
as to special privileges, housing,
vacations, and so on are offered
All this was made highly nee
essary when Japan seized Man
churia and Jehol and followed
this by a policy of sending out,
periodically, brigades of armed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
SOCIAL LECTURE SLATED
Butler Class to Hear Matron of
State Mnman's Prison.

Miss Marion Gallup, matron Of
the Womans prison will speak at
Butler university tomorrow night
before Mrs. Walker Winslow's class
in modern social problems. Miss
Gallup will speak on Delinquent
cies."
The class meets at 7:3O D. m in
Arthur Jordan memorial hall 1t is
part Of the university division of
evening and extension courses.
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fair ENOUGH.
WESTBROOK PEdLER

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nav 21-Ths is the week Of
the cotton carnival IN Memphis the cotton
festival in Little Rock Ark. and the strawberry
festival in Humboldt, Tenn
Other celebrations Of the same kind which are
held IN this section of the country are the water
melon festival at Water Valley. Miss the peach
festival at Forest City Ark and the cheese festival
at Colhervile. Tenn.
The idea is SPREADING RAPIDLY and look forward
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SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Is
ANNOUNCED AT BUTLER
Emma Lou Thornbrough Wins
Kappa Delta Pi Plaque.

Miss Emma Lou Thornbrough
Butler university senior, has been
awarded the Kappa Delta Pi schol-
arship plaque for the school year
now closing. it was announced to-
day by officers of the educational
society. Miss Thornbrough will be
honored at the annual dinner Of
the organization tonight.
The award is made each year to
the senior, majoring in education,
who ranks in the upper 10 per cent
Of her class enthusiastically and has
been prominent in activities. New
officers of Kappa Delta Pi will be
installed at the dinner. They are
Mary Newly, president; Shirley
Harvey, president; Edna Cabal-
ger. recording secretary; Helen
Clever. corresponding secretary, and
Florence Hinshaw, treasurer.
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hopefully to the holding of the
cod-liver oil carnival in Glo'ster.
Mass. and the observance OF nut
and bolt week in Bridgeport.
Conn. Brick and tile week in
Perth Amboy, n. j.. and the hard
coal carnival at Scranton might
be attractive too.
The Memphis celebration be-
gan as a promotion stunt for
local movie theater a few years
ago, Business was very bad and
the manager Of the theater con-
ceived the not too original idea
of running a parade which would
lead the citizens up to the turn
stiles of his picture house. He
thought cotton would be an ap-
propriate motif in the parade
and planted bales Of it along
the curbs and excited the interest
pie who are, naturally. among
the city.
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H6emC Me
By
Haywood BROUN

DRONX ZOO. Bronx Park. MAY 21.-Buckety-
- bucketv and lippetr-lppety aray re 90! Once
more the nose Of the covered wagon is headed
toward the west the rolling plains where the buffalo
rosned the untaned wilderness Of the early pioneer
And speaking q buffalo I decided TO stop and
look At some living specimens before invading the
territory where they have become prehistoric The
700 here boasts one Of the largest herds known any
where along the Atlantic seaooard.
But I must admit that after brief survey there
is little in a herd Of buffalo 10 hold even city
dVeler spe.lbound To a very striking degree the
buffalo lacks individuality You are under no i'm
pulse to single out one as Rover and call another
sport. When you've seen two you've seen them all
Even in his IIvehest moments the buffalo seems al
most persuaded 70 become a robe.
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Dividend Payment Cnt

CHICAGO, May 21.-The board Of
directors Of the Indiana Hydro
electric Power Company declared a
dividend of one-half the normal
dividend on the 7 per cent cumula-
tive preferred stock Of the company.
The dividend Of 87i9 cents share
will be paid June Is, Of record May
81,
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SCHOOL EXERCISES SET
Crispus Attacks to Graduate POI
in Cadle Tabernacle June l.

A graduating class numbering 207
members, the largest in the history
Of the school. will receive diplomas
at Crispus Attacks high school
commencement exercises in Cadle
tabernacle, Friday night. June l. In
Guided in the 2O7 are members of
both January and June classes.
Senior class exercises will be held
in the school auditorium THURSDAY
night. Senior vespers will be held
in the same place Sunday night,
May q. Rev. H. H. Black, Allen
Chapel, A. NJ. E. church, will be the
speaker
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These items consist of the fact
that hanging fire within the NRA
are a number of noncompliance
charges against transit companies.
No action has been taken on them
for six months.
Why there has been no crack
ing down is mystery. The
complaints have been shuf7ed
from one division to another,
each apparently passing the buck.
NOUNG Henry MOrgenthau
i was surprised one morning
to read a columnists report that
he was about to be sent abroad
as ambassador to France to make
room for Barney Baruch as
secretary of the treasury.
1t was news to him. And so,
apparently, was it to President
Roosevelt.
At any rate. about noon of the
same day the treasury chief got
a little note on White House sta
tionerv. which read
AS Al Smith cabled the pope
November s. 1928. 'unpack
ITO insiders. there was nothing
Il surprising in the sudden &C
ton of Oklahoma'S inf1ationary
Senator Elmer Thomas in offering
an amendment to Scuttle the Pres
ldents "Truth-in- Securities act.
Progressive infationists were
amazed over this display Of tory
ism. But they didn't know their
man
There isn't a trace OF real lib
eralism IN Thomas economic
thinking. His imitation believing
is unadulterated politics.
Oklahoma has always been a
hot-bed of monetary popuhSm.
More money CrankS emerge from
its boundaries than oil kings.
Clamor for monetary experiment
tation pays good political dlvl-
dendS. and Elmer has his eyes on
the main chance.
The tip-off on Thomas Is to be
found in two minor slde-lights.
/. He was a De Paw university
clasSmate OF DR.. "Eat-and-Ten'
Writ. When the latter uncorked
his fantastic tale of brain trust
Red-revolution. Thomas went
wringing his hands in grave
alarm.
,. In his everyday attire, the
Oklahoman IS one Of the best
dressed men in congress His tall.
erect. white topped figure IS
draped by expensive tailors in the
most patrician manner. But the
photograph which usually appears
in newspapers and magazine pic
lures the senator from Oklahoma
in tattered overalls. He put them
on after one Of his imitation har-
rangues end then called IN the
news piers.
IT is a lucky thing for goat
L eed John H. Fahey. head of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation,
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Place of the Dragons

A ND so I turned to a still more
"A ancient strain Of life 70 cap
ture some CLINT Of the romance
which I hope to find upon the
open road between here and
Bridgeport. Somewhat after the
manner OF Galahad and Launce-
LOT I. TOO, have quit the round
table for the high quest Of ad-
venture. OF course. I can not
quite abstain up 10 the Galahad
standard or keep pace with the
license Of LamCelot Yet when
knight errantrv was mentioned I
naturally thought Of dragons and
remembered that specimens Of
these supposedly extinct monsters
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And The Chuckler, with an "aW
shucks" at the thanks from po-
lice, went home while Lee faces
charges of assault and battery
and drunkenness.
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Chuck Helps Police
Cops Pleasantly Surprised When One Time Foe Helps
Load Battling Pal Into Black Maria

Virgins pay-boy high
vaewagon police today planning Chuck
present valley the regulation w T u
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that his appointment is not up
for confirmation at this session of
congress.
He would most certainly never
get by the throat-cutting gang OF
Democratic patronage-grabber
now ruling the senate. They
would nail his hide on a fence.
Fahey, a quiet-spoken but de
cisive New England publisher,
former president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce. is
known on Capitol Hill as the
toughest new deal nut that job
snatching statesmen have to
crack.
The solons have almost given
up trying to force deserving
Democrats" on him.
And how they resent it! Men
ton of his name in a group of
Democratic legislators is certain
to start flow of torrid invective.
Fancy plays no taYorites. He
is just as hard boiled with cab
met members as with congress-
men-a lesson Big Jim Farley Is
learning-much to his startled
disgust.
Fahey is even refusing to an
swer the telephone when jim
calls him up.
There is real +eason behind
Fahey's strong antipathy to po-
litical appointees. When he was
advanced from mere membership
in the Hole to its Craftsmanship,
he found his organization sunk
with incompetent politicos.
"Seaboard Bill Stevenson, lame
duck South Carolinian whom
Fahev displaced, had packed the
Hole with juicy henchmen re-
CARELESS of capabilities. The re-
suit was number of juicy scan
dals which the administration
still is trying to clean up.
Fahey has changed all this. AL
though the Norris amendment.
which would have placed all Hole
appointments on a merit basis,
was thrown out of the house.
Fahev has quietly enforced it just
the same.
THE painting which draws the
greatest crowds in the eva
exhibit in the capitals famous
Corcoran Art gallery is entitled,
The Horses End-or the New
Deal" 1t shows a broken down
plug gazing mournfully over a
fence at a line Of workmen going
into a factory Federal reserve
banks may no longer purchase
stocks for customers. according
to an Interpretation of the 1888
banking act just issued by Comp
troller of the Currency "Jefty"
O'Connor. This profitable
business Is banned on the ground
that stocks can not be claSsed as
investment securities. One of
the serious" complaints against
DR.. Willard Thorp by patronage
grabbing Democrats. who forced
the President to withdraw MS ap-
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BY WILLIAM PHILIP sINIMs

ScTipps- How ard Foreign Editor
Copyright. 1894 BY NEA Service Incl
NLADIVOSTOK, May 21.-One
' Of the most crucial human
mlgrations IN history, and GER
tainly the most important of our
time, is IN full swing in Russia S
far east
Americas epochal winning Of
the vest is being duplicated to-
dav by the Soviet Unions win
ming of the east" but on far
more grandiose scale and with
far more at stake.
Backed by all the resources at
MoscOW's command Russians by
the thousands are f1ocking to ST.
IBERIA There, they are colonizing
on the land and creating new in
dustrial Centers. in a desperate ef-
fort TO hold this area against
feared encr0achment on the part
Of oriental imperialists.
Instead of emierating in the
covered wagons" of our ancestors.
the MuscOvite settlers are coming
TO the far east in third and fourth
class trains and in box cars Of the
continental 40 and 3" variety so
well known to American dough-
boys in the World war
Day after day I have watched
these trains pull by, the first time
IN modern history that a great.
planned migration of people has
flowed from west to east. For
once the traditional trend has
been reversed.
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IN this 1884, version of covered
L wagons, the conveys seem to
alternate. First train of pioneer
settlers-men, women, and chill
dren, burdened with all conceiv-
able kinds Of personal and house
hold effeCts-then a train TANNED
with troops with full equipment,
from field guns and airplanes to
wartime soup kitchens.
But then this is no ordinary
migration 1t is the result of
two clashing civilizations, Occi-
dental and oriental Japan is
openly bidding for domination of
the far east and Russian now
quite definitely realizes that she
can not maintain her foothold on
the Pacific by arms alone.
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the curbs and excited The interest Of The cotton peo
pie who are naturally, among the aristocracy Of
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IT is a lucky thing for goat
L eed John H Fahey, head of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation,