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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

ETANY persons have wondered at the comparative
1V1 ease with which blind persons avoid obstacles
as for example, when walking alone down street.
The phenomenon has engaged the attention of
scientists well as laymen
The question usually asked is:
Do the blind possess sixth sense, sort of
compensation for being blind, an obstacle sense" as
it is sometimes called?
DR.. Vladimir DolanSky, a scientist of Warsaw
Poland, who is himself blind has made a study of
the subject. His conclusions are set forth in the
first issue Of the new quarterly bulletin of the
American Braille Press for War and Civilian Blind,
publication devoted to the interests of the blind.
DR.. DolanSky comes to the conclusion that the
blind do have the ability of sensing" obstacles. He
does not believe that it is in any way sixth sense"
or special sense organ but merely an extension of
the other senses to take over function which is
performed for the normal persons by the eyes.
DR. DOLANSKY defines the ability of the blind
~ to sense obstacles as "a structural mechanism
founded the instinct of self preservation, and
with hearing as its handspring"
Many blind persons say that they have sem
sation of rustlng the face when confronted by
an obstacle. This, according to Dr. DolanSky, is "a
reflex physiological process whch'is brought into
action as result OF warnings picked up by the
THE blind agree on the fact that when ap-
preaching an obstacle they have slight sensation,
which it is very difficult to define, of being grazed
on the face and particularly on the forehead the
temples, and the cheeks DR.. Dolansky says.
This incomprehenSible phenomenon has aroused
great interest but also among those who can see"
THREE theories to account for the phenomenon
Il have been advanced. These are known after
their proposerS the Truschel acoustic theory the
Kuntz theory of pressure and the Krogius thermic
theory.
"Truschel observes that the modification in noise
caused by the reflection of the sound waves (for
instance the noise of footsteps) warns the blind
person othe presence of the obstacle" Dr. Dolansky
says
"Kuntz asserts, after numerous experiments, that
the subject who moves toward the obstacle feels
on his face pressure exerted by the air which is
between him and the obstacle.
According to Krogius. the blind person perceives
the presence of the obstacles owing to the difference
in temperature which exists between the skin of the
face and the surface of the objects toward which he
is moving"
DR.. DolanSky by experiments proved the first
theory to be correct. He found blind persons could
sense obstacles even when their faces were covered
by cardboard masks. However they could not sense
obstacles if their were plugged with cotton WOOL
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

YOUR body is full of metals of various types.
Il In the quantities it contains, these metals are
not harmful or poisonous but in larger quantities
they may produce serious effects.
Many metals absolutely essential to life
calcium sodium magnesium iron, copper, arsenic,
zinc, and tin few of those which seem to be
vital in small quantities to proper operation of your
body.
In industries, lead fumes and dust easily
get into the human form. For most persons, how
ever such lead enters from food and drink.
Lead pipes occasionally are used in plumbing and
bottles OF which the glass contains lead may give off
some of the metal to the fluids within them. The
siphons of soda water fountains contain small
amounts Of lead
TT also is possible to get lead into your body
through beans, meat apples, cherries, sausages or
other substances. For instance meat may contain
lead due to the fact that cattle may lick newly
painted surfaces.
Sometimes grape juice will contain lead because
the grapes have been sprayed with lead arsenate.
An American physician has estimated that the
average person in this country takes in from
fifth to one-half of thousandth of gram of lead
each day and gets rid of about the same amount
every day.
While lead in these small quantities is not seri-
ously harmful to the human body, larger amounts
may be distinctly troublesome, and any factor which
may suddenly increase the amount of lead coming
into the body may be serious for health.
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tions of the Versailles treaty for
bidding export of arms and mu-
nitions by Germany has forced
some 10000 men to seek other
employment and has cost vast
sums to share holders in German
arms and munitions plants.
Despite the fact that it assumes
that Germany, Hungary and Aus
tria have not been allowed to en-
gage in the business and that they
have strictly complied, the insti-
tute estimates that in the years
since the war the production of
war material has increased by
anywhere from a fourth to a third
more than in the cruical pre-war
year of 1913.
A considerable part of this, it
says, is due to the vast increase
in the air ornaments.
In 1913 it says the percentage
of world trade in arms and num-
lions was as follows: Germany,
324; France, 8.8; Great Britain,
1913; Austria, 81; United States,
1872. In 1929 Germany is credited
with no export; France has risen
to 1874; Great Britain leads the
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world with 37.8; the United States
has risen to 1876, and Czechoslo-
vakia has more than taken the
place of Austria, with 49, per cent.
THERE are authoritative checks
Il on these figures, because the
League of Nations every year gets
out an elaborate series of statis-
tics on exports and imports of
arms and munitions.
Owing to the labor involved and
the difficulty of getting the figures,
the tables are always behind the
current year. Thus the latest fig
ures issued are only for 1881. But
they show exports of arms total
ing $16,050,500 and exports of mu-
nitions totaling $18,931 300.
There are no authoritative fig
ureS showing how much each
country has spent on home pro-
duction of arms and munitions.
But in countries like Great
Britain, France, Italy, Czecho-
slovakia and Poland, which have
vast public and private factories,
the production was undoubtedly
many times what was exported.
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there were great iron and steel
mills preparing war material for
France.
On the German side there were
similar mills preparing material
for Germany. Soon after war
started the Germans secured pos
session of the whole Briey basin.
This helped them to prolong the
war, but no serious attempt was
made by the French troops to
lombard the sector. In fact, it
was not seriously threatened at
all until the American troops
launched an offensive in that di-
rection in 1918.
The whole matter was afterWard
aired in the French parliament.
1t was charged that French steel
interests prevented the lombard
ment by French forces because
they expected to get back the ter
ritory after the war, and because
there was a gentlemen'S agree
ment between the French and
German armament makers.
r
NNE of the greatest munitions
Oscandals of modern times was
only partially exposed in March,
1888, when there was evidence
that the agent Of a big foreign
ornaments works had bribed or
attempted to bride Rumanian war
department officials into giving
his concern a big order. Before
the. thing went very far, Ru-
manian general shot himself.
Papers, which were badly
wanted, mysteriously disappeared.
A lop-sided trial was held and
one man was sent to prison for
five years.
But the men who are supposed
to be the chief beneficiarieS of
gifts" escaped and presumably
are still holding jobs in the Ru-
manian army and the ornaments
firm is presumably still selling
arms to Rumania.
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that some recovery began. 1t can
not be said, therefore, that they
mark the turning point. But it
can be said that they came in the
last phase of the worst part of
the depression. In 1896 there was
another slump and revival began
in 1897. The annals say that it
came lin spite of severe bitumin-
GUS coal strikes"
THE annals record no further
i important labor troubles until
1901, when there was steel
strike. This was a year of great
prosperity following a brief "re-
cesSion" in 1900. In 1903 we cgain
find many labor troubles" though
it was year of prosperity.
The next period of labor dis
putes is 1912, year of revival
from the mild depression of 1910
1911. Through 1913 and 1919
there were many labor troubles,
eliminating in the steel, coal and
railroad shopmen's strikes. These
were years of high prices and
high profits and great activity.
Then comes the severe depres-
sion of 1920-1921. But it is not
unit. 1922 when the recovery was
under way, that there are serious
strikes in coal and in the railroad
shops. After that there are no
important labor troubles of ma
tional significance until 1888
1884.
That this is perfect proof of the
generalization that labor troubles
come at the turning point of the
business cycle I should not VEN
ture to assert. But the evidence
is good enough to justify lis in
recognizing that our present labor
troubles are by no means unprec-
edented at this stage of recovery.
That is q good thing to recog-
nize. 1t helps to debate the no.
ton that we are confronted with
something utterly new in our eX-
perience. 1t is good to debate
that notion, because to debate it
is to strengthen the hands of
those who wish to take a mod
crate and conciliatory attitude.
The record shows clearly enough
why such an attitude is justified,
and from the record of past eXpe-
rience one can draw, believe,
certain very useful ideas for judg-
ing these controversies.
r ABOR unrest at the end of a
IL slump is fundamentally a
sign that labor has recovered con-
fidence in the economic future
and is taking steps to participate
in the profits. In the worst phase
of a depression there are no
strikes because labor is too fright
ened.
The docility of the wage Garner
might almost be called his equiva-
lent of boarding. He boards his
job fearing to lose it. But when
revival begins his courage revives,
and since his courage revives, and
since we have not yet reached a
level of civilization where the wage
bargain always can be made in
diligently, the wage earners' new
courage takes the form of unrest
and strikes.
(Copyripht 1924
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TXTORLD trade, as a whole, has

VXTORLD trade, as whole, has
w shown steady and very
large decrease. World export in
munitions has shown much less
decrease. If 100 is taken as the
index for 1928, by 1888 world trade
had fallen to SO. But export trade
in munitions had fallen only to IS.
And export trade in munitions
only tells small part Of the story,
because IN many big countries the
munitions factories have been very
busy arming their home lands to
the teeth.
Arthur Henderson, former Ia
Dor minister of foreign affairs in
the British cabinet and at pres
ent chairman of the League Of
Nations disarmament conference,
estimates that the average of the
military expenditures of sixty-one
countries during the last five years
has reached the enormous sum Of
$4,000, 100000 per annum.
A German statistical institute,
which studies this armament
question from a purely business
standpoint, estimates that the Sec
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
- By Dre10 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHNGTON, 29-Athough his through the Panama
w month off, the President has detail
long he
stop islands Panama what he will
at Hawaii he will end at San Fran
cisco, home direct by train The new seamlne train may
hauling The is plnched
Moscow
Captain Miner who speaks Russian
StimSon, Of state recently staged
American Association Several
leaders But there notable abseneAorney
gast
the invited
about Cummings prosecution of
calls this persecution
ton.
administration bets in its ar-fung drive to
other due Uncle Sam It's latest
the millions dollars
assessments of old prohibition violation
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This book lists the main eco
nomic and political events of each
year of American history which
made it or marked it as a year of
prosperity" recession" depres-
Sion, or revival
In the year 1878, great depres-
sion began. 1t continued tor three
years. During this whole time
there we're no significant labor
troubles. But in 1877 there were
severe railroad strikes, necessitat-
ing the calling out of troops, and
there were the famous Molly
Mcguire" riots in, the coal dis
tricts.
Now 1877 was the turning point
of that depression. Revival be-
gan on the stock exchange and in
the following year the recovery
got under way. The labor troubles
of the seventies conceded with
the ending of the depression.
After that it was not until 1885
that the annals record important
labor disputes. There we're anti
Chinese riots that year, and we
learn that there was continued
recovery somewhat hampered by
labor troubles"
These conflicts conceded with
the end of the depression that be-
gan in 1884. The next period of
serious trouble was in 1894, with
strikes on the railroads and in
the bituminous coal industry. 1t
was also the year Of CoXey's army.
These events took place at the
bottom of the depression, for it
was not until the following spring
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took him for a page, ordered him
to run errandS.
Excluding the increase in vet
Grams benefits and government
workers pay, congress has kept
within about $33,000,000 of the
Presidents budget recommended
tionS for the coming fiscal year.
=. This is not a bad rec
ord Minnesotas blind Sena~
tor, Thomas Schall, was a passen-
ger on the steamship Mt. Vernon
formerly the German liner Crown
Princess Cecilia) when she was
torpedoed Sept. II, 1918, by
U-boat 200 miles out of Brest.
Thirty-eight members of the crew
we're killed by the blast, but the
ship was able to limp back TO
Brest for repairs. Mrs. Curtis
Dali, and the other children of
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
are enthusiastic admirers of the
army, navy and marine corps
bands. However. when dance
is given at the White House they
insist on a good, poppy jazz band.
Copyright, 1894. by United Feature
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
BY MILTON BRONNER

oNDoN May of
IL of gold flow the pockets
but the time in the United States and Europe
hurting
become far less pleasant place in which spend
their dividends there steady
caou international
makers who always themselves
national patriotism.
who materials
things pretty much their their
that
respective nations defend themselves against possible
But this claim stripped
with mpartiay they sold their
note their country, but to all Corners
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1t has not been very long time, as time goes,
since Mr. insult emitted a squawk which Shivered
the steel timbers of big publishing plant in New
York because photograph of him which was print
ed in trade periodical did not show him at what
he conceived to be his BEST
1t was not undignifed picture, to be sure,
being merely the head, shoulders and paunch of
distinguished magnate and power. But Mr.. insult
thought it did somewhat less than full justice to
the majesty of his face and figure and was moved
to protest.
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Hugh Dalton, speaking in the
British house of commons N
March, 1926, charged that the
Australian, New Zealand and Brit
ish troops in the Gallipoli cam
paign in the World war were shot
down by shells the Turks had
bought from a British armament
firm.
Speaking in the French cham
Der of deputies in Feb. Il, 1882,
Paul Faure charged that French
troops. were shot down by guns
which the Bulgarians and Turks
had bought from a great French
armament firm.
DURING the World war there
- was a striking example of
the interna tional workings of the
dealers in death. There was a
big firm which was registered as
British.
It had factories in both Ger
many and Great Britain. 1t had
German and British shareholders.
In May, 1915, British and Ger
man agents got passports from
their respective government and
met on neutral territory, where
British holders of shares in the
German factories got British
shares in exchange for them and
where German holders of shares
in the British plants got Ger
man shares in exchange for them.
BY this pretty scheme the Brit
ish and German investors in
these stocks were protected against
the loss of their principal and in
terest in what was then an ex-
ceedingly profitable business.
A N even greater scandal was
N the mystery as to why the
Briey iron basin on the frontier
between France and Germany was
not bombarded. On the French
side of the frontier before the war
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has manifested a lovable side
of his character which, for many
years, he neglected to reveal
and even, at times, apparently
took pains to conceal from the
public and particularly from the
newspaper people. He has been
affable, accessible and winsome
to journalists and cameramen
who used to find him bruSque
and growlly when they could find
him at all, which was seldom.
He has been pictured in the
papers burying his nose among
the dewy petals of an innocent
bloom, dandling a little child
upon his knee-cap and being.
in round, approximate numbers,
a gentle, kind and dreadfully
misunderstood old man
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The bulk of these claims consist
of taxes on illegally produced de-
natured alcohol. Some $780,
900 is involved, and the justice de-
partment has a good chance OF
collecting a large portion of it.
The great dome which tops the
Capitol does not rest on the build
ing proper, but on huge rollers.
. This is to allow for expan-
sion and contraction during hot
or cold weather. The vast
steel cone moves back and forth
approximately a quarter of an
inch, expanding in summer and
contracting in winter.
Major George L. Berry, presi-
dent of the PreSsmen's Union, and
NRA division administrator, was
runner-up to Charles w. Bryan
in 1924 as Democratic vice-preSi-
Dental candidate. f. Berry al
ways has cigar in his mouth,
but never smokes one. =.
Thomas w. Hardwick, counsel for
the house Nazi investigating COM
mittee, which is soon to hold open
hearings, is Georgian who
served five terms in the house,
and one, 1919, in the senate.
.. During the latter part of his
senatorial career he incurred the
bitter hostility of President Will
son by resolutely opposing the
espionage and sedition acts.
IN its unsuccessful tax drive on
i Andy Mellon, the government
charged that the one-time Re
publican Secretary of the Treas
ury had ATTEMPTED to evade
payment of $716,144 on his 1881
income tax. . The department
of justice bureau of investiga-
ton has the records and finger
prints of over 100000 criminals
in its files. j. Edgar Hoover,
black haired, swarthy chief Of
the bureau, is a bachelor, lives
with his mother, and has two
hobbies, tennis and collecting
antiques. One of the choice
anecdotes of his congressional
career told by Tammanyite Rep
resentative John j. Boylan, con-
Germs his being mistaken for a
United States senator while
patient at a famous sanitorium.
He was invited by the commander
or a nearby United States army
post to review the 10000 troops
stationed there.
u
T OVELLY Seniora Espil, the
IL Chicago girl who married the
Argentine Ambassador, is taking
her Spanish seriously. Though
she never knew a word of it a
few months ago, she was seen in
Rock Greek park the other day
sitting in her car reading the
life Of San Martin. There
were too many telephone calls at
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home, she said, so she escaped to
the park. John Dickinson,
erudite assistant secretary of
commerce, is having hard time
filling the post left vacant by Will
lard Thorp when Roosevelt with
drew his name as Chief of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. Dickinson offered
the job to Stacy May, director of
the Rockefeller foundation, an
ideal selection. May wired back:
mo respecting man would
take the job after the way Roose-
welt let Thorp down.
THE ambassador of Peru, elo-
l. quent Manuel de F'reyre, has
a larger collection of pipes than
any other member of the diplo-
matte corps. ). Senator Hatfield
of West Virginia put his finger on
a state department sore spot when
he wanted to know why the trade
treaty with Colombia had not been
sent to the senate. Ordinarily,
treaties are sent to the senate inn
mediately upon completion, and
the state department secrecy
has aroused suspicion. i. Justice
Stone, one of the most delightful
members of the supreme court,
personally designed the house in
which he lives. 1t is repete with
f1repaces, and it's garden is one of
the coolest in Washington.
The ony thing the justice over
looked was a mint bed.
THE CCC is doing some excel
Il lent work, in educating the
youngsters in It's camps. Many of
them hit the road" before they
had even a Semblance of an edu-
cation. All are eager to learn.
Most of them also are tremend-
ously interested in current social
problems-especially the question
of whether society owes it to a
man to provide him with a job.
:. Some of the best CCC educa-
tional work is done by Nat Frame,
formerly of the University of
West Virginia. The Wagner
CoStigan anti-lynching bill has
been amended to apply only to
cases where the victim is taken
from 1.-THE custody of any peace
officer" e. This would hit only
about half the lynchings. From
1918 to 1884 there were $50 lynch
ings. Only Isl victims were taken
from peace officers.
CENATOR MORRIS SHEP-
~ PARD, although only SO, is
the dean of both chambers of
congress in length of service.
He has been member of the
legislative body for thirty-two
years. :. When he first entered
the house he appeared SO young
that some of his colleagues mis-
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EMERGENCY SCHOOLS
CALLED SUCCESSFUL
More Than 1000 Teachers Paid
S172,612, FERA Chiefs Report.


Success of the emergency educa-
ton program in Indiana, sponsored
by the federal emergency relief ad-
ministration and the state board of
education was cited today by DR.. P.
R. Hightower, director.
The educational program, which
came to an end May Is, had en-
rolled at its peak 32,499 students, &C
cording to a report made at FERA
headquarters in Washington.
The program started in December
with an enrolment of 1886 persons
and climbed steadily to 2,416 in
March, dropping to 1000 in April.
There we're 1904 unemployed teach
ers employed in this activity. They
received a total salary of $172,612,
it was reported.
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X-RAY MAY CURE SLICE

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May 90.
An X-Ray machine has been set
up in golf ball factory here to
inspect centers of the pellets. 1t
is said that balls with imperfectly
conferred cores hook or slice. Once
detected, such a ball is discarded.
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plant will rot be permitted to
open until negotiations have
been held. The plant stands now
riddled by stones, with every
window shattered.
You wanted an open shop"
cried one of the strikers, land
now you've got it,"
But 1 do not see how anybody
can watch the battle along the
Toledo front without coming
away with the feeling that the
strike may degenerate into
weapon as barbarous and aimleSs
as war. Half an hour before l
got here a crowd of strikers and
strike sympathizers caught a
strikebreaker and stripped him
naked. Beaten and bruised and