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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TTOW chemistry has remade modern life discov-
L ering vitamins, putting bacteria to work, in
venting alloys, finding uses for what were once
considered waste products is told wildly and clearly
by DR.. Harry N. Holmes in "Out of the Test Tube"
DR.. Holmes is professor Of chemistry at Oberin
college, former president Of the American Chem
ical Society, and internationally renowned
thority upon colloid chemistry In the past he has
written several text books. Now he has turned for
the first time to the popularzation of science The
book is published by Ray Long 81 Richard r. Smith
Inc, at So.
He sees the story of the achievements of chem
istry with a proud and dramatic eye. While you
yawn comfortably in your easy chair" he writes,
chemistry wages desperate battles many fronts
against mans insect enemies, yet dominant on earth;
against disease bacteria that have from time to
time threatened to exterminate the race of men,
agains the frowns and mysteries of nature"
TNHERE can be no quarrel with DR.. Holmes for
l. spending the pages of his book in telling the
marvellous achievements Of modern chemistry in
industry agriculture, transportation medicine, and
other fields and for dismissng with a brief para
graph the challenge of wrong distribution of profits
oVerproduction, poor use of spare time"
After all, the achievements of the chemist
glorious and it is not his fault that dynamite very
useful to clear ground for agriculture and to blast
out minerals is also used to make war. 1t is not
his fault that the invention Of the airplane must be
followed by aircraft scandals
And DR.. Holmes speaks quite truly when he says
that the problems of the present will not be solved
by calling moratorium Of scientific research for
ten years"
A S the chapters proceed the reader is introduced
n to the difference between chemical elements
and compounds, the behavior of molecules and
atoms, the difference between Solids liquids, and
gases, the meaning of radioactivity and the recent
discoveries about the electron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

The simple fact that so many
natives marched in the gigantic
parade on Rooseve1t's birthday
recently that there were none to
watch from the sidelines, is funny
yet it holds a definite pathos. An
effort of such magnitude is in
dicative of the feeling down here.
"Oh, they simply enjoyed
marching in the parade" re-
marked one tropical veteran.
Perhaps. Yet, even a casual
study of the native here reveals
the hopefulneSs with which he re-
CARDS the magic name of 'Roose-
velt." I don't believe there are
many on this island who have not
heard of it. Exactly what is sig
nifies to them I don't know. But
there is certainly the element of
a constant if somewhat indefinite
hopefulneSs. Old residents who
regard the entire problem with
cynical Though not hostile) eyes
have noticed it. It's in the air.
n It II
TOR one thing, the new deal
l. has come to the islands, and
the opinion is it's here to stay.
One hears no depression talk
down here. The spirit among the
natives is optimistic. Outside gov
eminent house, the CWA is busily
building new road. Occasion
ally, at the twist of a mountain
thoroughfare one notes a sign
with the words, "CWA PROF.
ECTS" in black letters. Nearby, a
large group of natives is at work.
There is a new spirit abroad.
The public works administra-
ton just has granted 100000 to
carry through a rehabilitation
plan for the Virgin Islands. 1t is
a vast plan Of far-reaching i'm
port, but the idea is being ad-
vanced slowly and methodically.
There is no fanfare of bugles, no
blantant announcements, very lit
tie publicity. 1t is simply NOV
ing effectively and surely toward
q definite goal.
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on the Beagle, upon the record
of which he was to found 1.-THE
Origin of Species" was cropping
for a way to show that no one
has a soul.
The idea of the brotherhood of
man never was stronger in Dick
ems mind than when he wrote
the Christmas tales, and then
was stirred to put down his own
version of the first Christmas,
not for profit, but for his chill
dren.
His last son to live, Sir Henry
F. Dickens, not long before he
died last year, siXty-four years
after his father died and ninety
one year after his father wrote
of the Cratchit fanily's Christ
mas goose, recalled the past:
THE teaching of the Savior
was the keynote of much that he
wrote. In a letter he wrote to me
on Oct. Is, 1868, when I first
went to Cambridge, he says:
GAS your brothers have gone
away, one by one, to each of them
I have written what I am now 60
ing to write to you.
"VOU know, you have never
i been hampered by reli-
gious forms of restraint and that
with mere unmeaning forms I
have no sympathy. But I most
strongly and affectionately i'm
press upon you the priceless value
Of the New Testament and the
study of that book as the one I'M
failing guide in life.
Deeply respecting it, and
bowling down before the charac-
ter of our Savior, as separated
from the vain constructions and
inventions of man, you can not go
very wrong and always will pre-
serve at heart a true spirit of
generation and humility"
Dickens said then that he really
did believe an omnipotent hand
could fashion destiny. But then
there we're no Cambridge courses
in comparative anatomy, the
study of anthropology was young,
and not for siXty-three years was
Redf1eld to write Gods the die
tionary of thousand deities, from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN.

THE growth of cities and the increasing COM
Il pexity of living tend to make you more than
ever dependent on plumbing as a safeguard to health
You absolutely must have pure water to live and
you also must be protected in the matter of sewage
disposal Otherwise there is likely to be infection
which may lead easily to an epidemic
In most communities today these matters are con-
trolled by departments of health and bureaus of
sanitary engineers, which regularly investigate pro-
visions for supplying water and disposal of sewage
10 make certain that contamination does not occur
Nevertheless, even under the best of circum-
stances, accidents do occur Sometimes through ig-
nOrance, sometimes through error, and invariably
when conditions develop which permit drinking
water to become contaminated by sewage, great
numbers of human beings fall i'll.
D ECENTLY in a large industrial plant repairs on
IN the water supply became necessary and plans
we're made to attend to the matter during holiday
This plant equipped to fill the boilers with water
from the river at times when the regular city water
supply was not available River water could be
pumped into the boilers by the same system of
pumps that took care of the drinking water supply.
The engineer who turned the river water into the
boilers over the holiday forgot to close valve, so
that when the employees came back to work some
days later, large numbers of them became i'll with
serious diarrheaS. Many of them developed amebc
oysentery, and quite few contracted typhoid fever
a great cities develop and additions are built
to plants of various kinds plumbers should not
add new water supplies to old without serious con-
sideration Of the possibility of contamination.
Any cross connection which will permit the mix
ture Of contaminated water with fresh water is
constant menace to health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
A Proper Cause for Heartbreak

DRINIO CARNERA spent three years in the
eighth grade, funking his course in jabbing each
time. But he was reSolute. I want to be loved"
he muttered to himself, and exposed his nose once
more to the Furnishing taps of the professor.
Last Thursday night I saw him come to the CEN
ter of the ring and face Tommy Loughran, of
the greatest jabberS of all American ring history
Primo tented once and then let his left dart like
young cobra embroled with a mongoose. But
Tommy couldn't thwart that jab. It smacked against
his mouth.
In its way that first left jab of Cameras was as
perfect anything ever done by Michelangelo 1t
had composition and form and rhythm. It was in
its own small way masterpiece But did the audi
ence take it in that spirit? They did not Primo
did not, upon the instant, become one with the
name and fame of NIichelangelo At least, I think
not. There is record that Michelangelos ears
ever were assailed with the long drawn howl of,
Send that Wop back where he came FRONT" 1
think that the great heart of Camera broke in that
first round and that it had a right to break.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

SAAAcIt4 oO41 CAANA NAeA0eo AANNAs
THE men who refused to
scab found themselves out Of
employment. We decided to sell
our little bungalow of which we
were so proud and move to a
farm where we always would
have work.
Reared in a farm myself 7
naturally hesitated. to bring the
youngsters here, but could not
see anything else to do. Our
land has been logged off with
only a few acres in cultivation.
It was a great undertaking for
a man of 40. We had a debt
on the farm of almost $1,000
and we had not been able to pay
any on the principal and, for
the last five wears no ir+ereSt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN


MOVIE exhibitors from all over
WI the state today were in In
dianapolis previewing the new
product of Warner Brothers at
the second annual Warner trade
screening, being held today in
thirty-f1ve key cities.
The previews got under way
this morning at 1920 at the Am
baSsador theater, which will be
closed to the public until 6 to-
night.
The entire morning session was
devoted to "As the Earth Turns"
made from the successful novel
of the same name by Gladys
Hasty Carol
Jean Muir and Donald Cook are
cast as the two young New Eng
land farmers in las the Earth
Turns"
Following a luncheon at noon,
Gambling Lady" with Barbara
Stanwyck. Joel McCrea, and Pat
OBrien was scheduled to be
shown.
Governor Paul V. McNutt will
address the exhibitors and guests
following the showing of this
movie.
AT 3 o'clock, journal of Crime, )"
based upon one of the most sue
cessful European plays, will be
shown. Ruth Chatterton and
Adolphe Menjou are featured in
this film.
At AIS, Al Shmitken, local War
ner manager, will give the sig
nal and the pride of the Warner
lots, Al Jolson in Wonder Bar"
will be reflected upon the screen.
Supporting JolSon in Wonder
Bar" are Dick Powell, formerly of
Indianapolis. Kay Francis, Dolores
Del Rio and Ricardo Cortez.
Warner representatives are con-
f1dent that these four pictures all
will be banner movies of the year.
They have so much faith in their
product chat all four pictures are
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lar too sensitive 10 pupIlC
opinion.
His pride bruises easily. He
wants TO be loved, and in order
to gain the appreciation Of the
fans he clubs smaller men about
with his right hand. And when
he says in dumb show, Look
at this vanquished gladiator
whom I lay at your feet" quite
naturally Camera expects plau-
dts. laurels and acclaim. But
what he gets is "Boo!"
I am told that the mind OF
Camera is built for cargo rather
than speed. Nevertheless, 1 think
he has every right to be puzzled
at the nature of the reception
which Miami accorded him
when he kept his heavyweight
,r4~,--- r,r,o,. rTOf11r1v TOiIUhran
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
ROOSEVELT PRAISED
BY NEW YORK NEWS
Pledge to Withhold Hostile Criti-
cism Causes Paper No Regrets,

Pledge to Withhold Hostile Criti-
cism Causes Paper No Regrets.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 6.-The New
York Daily News, which embarked
year ago on a journalistic expert
ment by pledging to withhold hos
tile editorial criticism of President
Roosevelt for at least one year ito
give him every chance and encour-
agement to lead" announced today
it had found no cause to regret the
pledge.
I'VE are glad to report today
the newspaper said editorially, that
we never have regretted that pledge,
and that we have been in sympathy
with almost everything the Presi-
dent has done or tried to do of pro-
posed to do"
On the strength of his first years
record, the editorial concluded,
President Roosevelt is lone of the
three greatest Presidents we ever
had"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
IMMORTAL DICKENS MARCHES on
a Christmas Carol RezgaLs Him as a Man of Deep

This is the fifth of series of articles
describing the life, personality and
career of Charles Dickens, whose
posthumous Life of Our Lord" is now
running in The Times.
BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times Special Writer
"~OD bless us every one!'
VI said Tiny Tim, the last of
all"
1t would be unfair to Dickens
not to recall the words as among
the best remembered in the Ian
guage-as automatically its hertz
age as Lay on, Macduff!" or
"Brutus was an honorable man"
"A Christmas Carol" of which
they are a part near the end, dis
closes with what deep emotion he
thought of Christmas. 1t reveals
that in his mind it was not only
a time of bibulous goodwill but
religious holiday, and it was for
him to write for his own children
his own version of the New Tes-
lament.
Without mention of the Christ
mas stories no consideration of
Dickens could show him whole.
They, as facets, flashed hints of
the man.
He was sentimental in London in
1843 Chen he was 81, for there
he wrote of Ebenezer Scrooge re-
deemed. The next year he went
down among the olives and orange
trees of Genoa, and there he was
bitter. There he wrote another
Christmas piece, 1.-The Chimes"
and caStigated cant.
THAT was the cant which C.
i K. Chesterton says Dickens
made seem a vague and vulgar
Benthamism with a rollicking
tory touch in it. 'It explained
to the poor their duties with a
cold and coarse philanthropy I'M
endurable by any free man
He fell furiously on all their ideas
the cheap advice to live cheap
ly, the base advice to live baSely;
above all, the prepoSterouS pri-
mary assumption that the rich
are to advise the poor and not
the poor the rich"
He could impale, on words, poll
tieians, and did. He could impale
barristers, and did. And in his
private life keep his equanimity.
But when he wrote the Carol
he cried. He lived it, and between
scenes he Stalked London byways
at night for miles, with Bob
Cratchit, of the Carol" with him.
1T was we'll worth it." says
Stephen Leacock in his new biog-
raphy. In it's own form and as
converted into plays and dia-
logueS, recitationS, and, later,
moving pictures, "A Christmas
Carol has quite literally gone
around the world. All the world
knows at first or second hand of
the marvellous transformation of
the miser, Scrooge, and all the
world has rejoiced in the sheer
beautiful idealism of it.
Literature has no finer picture
than the redeemed Scrooge at his
window in the frosty Christmas
morning, waking to the ringing
bells Of a new world.
n n
TT is a world that is open to
i each of us at any moment
for this is the point of the story
at the mere cost of opening the
windows of the soul. 1t is of no
consequence whether "A Christ
mas Carol is true to life. 1t is
better than life"
That it was better than life
seems true enough, for while
Dickens was cropping for a way
to open the windows of the soul
Darwin, back from the voyage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
In CitV TheaterS

NTHER theaters today offer:
" Kate Smith on the stage
and I've Got Your Number" on
the screen at the Indiana; Pop
Cameron and the three Camerons
on the stage and THE Poor Rich"
on the screen at the Lyric;
David Harum' at the Apollo;
burleSque at the Mutual and
Rialto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
-The Theatrical World--
Movie Exhibitors Here to
See NelU Warner Films
The Theatrical World.
by WALTER d. HICKMAN

being shown today all over the
country to exhibitors and critics.
Carl NieSSe, manager of the AM
basSador, and Sterling Wilson are
assisting Mr.. Shmitken in enter
tanning the exhibitors.
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MORE SEA SERPENTS
BEACHED IN FRANCE
Two Latest Monsters Resemble
CherbOurg Specimen.

Two Latest Monsters Resemble
CherbOurg Specimen.
By United Press
CHERBOURG, France, March G.
France crashed out with a world
record in sea serpents today.
Two Serpents were washed ashore.
one at Urville, the other at Greville,
to reinforce the one beached near
here last week.
The new serpents are of the same
family as the tllirty-foot Cherbourg
monster, of a strange, unclassified
species, which brought experts of
the National Museum of History
from Paris.
Nothing is known of their or
binary habitat. Examination has
revealed only that they are mon
sterS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer
"XXTE are hayshakers," S,

"XXTE are hayshakers7 says the letter from the
w woman in Idaho.
I'VE are hayshakers, but of necessity not through
choice.
worked for the street car company In 1919 there
was a strike He did not wish to strike and we had
managed by careful saving to put some money each
month in the hope of being able to educate then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
-Capital Capers-
Roosevelt Is Magic
Virgin Islanders Given New Feeling Of Hopeful
ness by Mere Mention of Presidents Name.
BY GEORGE ABEL

OF THOMAS Virgin current visit of
~ the islands and later that PresidenD is
notg generally I write
few who do know about enthusiastic They predict
great genuine hosabe islands are
capable something pathetic least in these
friendly gueess natives hard please They love show
ing loyalty devotion guide their
dnSin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
CCC MUST VOTE AT
HOME, BOARD RULES
Workers, College Students to Regis
ter in Own Counties.

Civilian conservation corpsmen
$1,000 in Indiana) must return to
their home counties for voter regis
tration the state election commission
has ruled.
No provision is made in the law
for registering absent voters.
Commissioners also ruled that
college students must go home to
register, point ruled on previously.
Although the city and county bal
lots will be separate in the primary
election, no voter can call for but
those Of single party, it was ruled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
Ii Seems to Ne
By
Haywood Broun

NTIAMI, March 6-Several defnitive biographies
1VI have been written about Primo Camera by now,
and assume that these works describe the manner
in which some prize fight fancer first saw the Vast
Venetian and decided that there might be gold in the
Man Mountain. But whatever the circumstances, it
was most unlucky afternoon for the unfortunate
Italian who wears the heavyweight crown. By dint
of training Primo has learned to take blow upon
the chin or chest without wincing but the giant is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
94-YEAR-0LO CITIZEN
REGISTERS FOR VOTE
Richard Miller Is Oldest Person Yet
to Report.

Age is no deterrent to a citizens
franchise, if one is to believe re-
ports from voters resignation head
quarters at the courthouse.
Oldest person yet to be registered
is Richard Miller, 1109 North West
Street. Mr.. Miller is "a. He was
born in India, and became natur-
allied United States citizen in Madi-
son county in 1857. Mr.. Miller was
registered Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
As Latin Logic Would Run

ZOE WILLIAMS informs me that the champion
~ told him he could have put Tommy away in the
fifth if it had not been for the hystericaI screams
of a woman which distracted him But I still hold
that all hope of vital victory fed from the Italians
does not think fast, he has superb Latin logic. 1
have not seen him since his pyrrhic victory, but
know that he must have said to himself in those
first few seconds.
think the stream of consciousness ran about as
follows: During the long days and the long nights
L struggled to get this thing they call technique
could smell apple blossoms outside that barn in
upstate New York where I worked so patiently
One! Two! One! Two! No, no. you big bum; that
isn't it at all It's whip. It's sword. Forget
about power. Let it float. Let it fly. If your nose
has stopped bleeding I'll try it on you. Columbus
Michelangelo and, in a somewhat lesser way, PUG
cini We Italians do not quit any art until We are
masters. Jab at my nose and you shall see craven
upon it Italy"
And it went through the days and weeks
and the years until Primo had learned and was
ready to exhibit his masterpiece. Swish! BAN!
Boo! Never was even a Corbett or a Tunney any
heater. Once again. Swish! BAN! Boo And
then it that the great heart of Camera cracked
He looked to the sky, where the silver gaeon was
having quite messy time with the Clouds and he
cursed his fate.
I give you back" he cried although quite inaudi-
bly,, " my days and weeks and months. I've learned
technique. I've got 1t. I've mastered it. And now
these PhiliStineS do not like it. 1t has been quite
useless. They do not love me-"
Copyright. 1884. Timesl