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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-05
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

DALESTINE, central link in the chain that binds
l. together the three continents of the Old World,
promises to become important in the field of pre-
historic research it long has been in the field of
history.
The plain of Jezreel, in the northern part of
Judea, lay on the highway between Egypt and Syria
1t the road that connected continents and as a
result the battling armies of the ancient nations met
there. Judea became known as 1.-The cockpit of
Asia" Nation after nation invaded the land and in
the four corners of the world.
CCHOLARS have long been engaged in unraveling
~ the history of Palestine. 1t is only since the
World War that scientists have become equally in
terested in the prehistoric treasures of the region
Much of the work in the region has been carried
on by the American School of Prehistoric Research
OF which DR.. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale Uni
versity is director. This work is now revealing that
the records Of many town sites and fortress sites
be carried back without break to the dawn of the
Old Stone Age
The attention of prehstorians was attracted to
the Near East by zumofins researchers in caves on
the Syrian coast near Beirut in 1897" Prof Mac
Curdy says. Little was done however. within the
present limits of Palestine until after the World
War"
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No Election Worries

EVERYTHING is up to Mussolini, and everybody
- is relieved of all responsibility in the manage
ment OF the country There is no need to WORRY
about candidates elections and the Italian citi-
zen spares himself the trouble of standing in line
IN olrty cigar store to drop ballot into a polling
poX winch is then tossed into the river pull levers
on machine whose gadgets have been fouled with
gum or halrplns as in the United States of America
Even 4 he were permitted to vote every now
ana again, as treemen are in democratic lands he
would be sure to elect his routine proportion of
grafters barfes, ignoramuses and sockess nuts all
to the detrment of the nation and in the long run of
himself
They have neither Jimmy Walkers nor Big Bill
Thompsons in Italy. They have put it all up to a
tough mug who knocked their heads together and
TOOK charge. MuSsolini, he built this road Musso-
lln he stopped beggars and put them in hospitals,
or put them to work, put them in Jail Mussolini
he made hotels publish their rates and be built big
steamships to carry the flag and pride of Italy into
New York
He went into Sicily and smacked down the same
sort OF hoodlumS who almost took over Chicago a.
lew years ago. He slaughtered those he couldn't
catcn threw others into dungeons for life and threw
the fear of God into the rest
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Contact Glasses

BY Service
CONTACT eye glaSseS-thin shells made tn Ar
inconspicuousy between eyeids and evebau-
have been hailed with considerable publicity Tho
general impression seems to be that they are tbe
latest thing in cosmetically attractive eve glass
something for the person who must wear glasses and
mas the ordinary shell or metal frames uncomfort-
able unbecoming
They have aroused vain hopes and patients ask
ABOUT them, stated DR.. Ray K Daily of Houston,
lex at the st. Louis meeting of the Southern Med
lcal Association. When they are necessary when
they may be useful, and why they can not be gen.
orally used at present was told by DR.. Daily
Ihey are really not very new, for DR.. Daily points
out that experiments with contact glasses have
been made for almost 100 years"
The chief deterrent to their was at first the
technical difficulty of manufacturing them even
for use in the eye condition for which thev are
particularly helpful and for which they were origi-
nally designed.
These technical difficulties have been overcome.
but they are still very expensive DR.. Daily does not
feel they can be generally included in the outfit of
the eye specialist until they have been greatly re-
duced in price and made accessible to the large mass
of people.
THERE are no conditions for which contact
l. glasses are definitely unsuitable Dr. Daily said
One authority finds that persons with inelastic
eyeds or eyes sensitive to smoke not wear them.
Chief indication for their use is the eye condition
known as keratoconuS, said Dr. Daily. This is
cone-shaped deformityNo the of the eye the
condition for which contact glasses originally
devised and for which they do the most good
Vision is improved the condition is kept from
getting worse, and in some cases is actually i'm
proved, it appears from DR. Dailys discussion. For
tuately persons suffering from this condition have
eyes very tolerant of contact glasses.
The glasses may be used for the common
conditions such farsghtedness, nearsightedness
and astigmatism, in which the images not
brought to proper focus the retina Properly
fitted and ground contact glasses helpful
than ordinary glasses in these conditions according
to a German authority quoted by DR.. Daily.
Because the contact glasses enlarge the field of
vision they particularly helpful to drivers. pilots
sportsmen, swimmers and like DR.. Daily pointed
out, even though they not necessity for the
average person with ordinary eye defects Their in
conspcuousneSs of course gives them particular APP
peal for actors and artists
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Slow Train Gives Sense Of Security
on Foggy, Rainy Day, Ernie Discovers

TT seems that this very train
was the one that was held up
by robbers near Warren, O., just
the other day. This very conduc-
tor was in charge.
81 told them to go right ahead"
he said. There wasn't anything
else to do I told them to go easy
with the passengers, and not be
tearing the rings off their fingers
and cussing them.
But they weren't interested in
little stuff he said. They want
ed the big money. You never saw
anybody dressed finer than they
were. Expensive suits, and their
pants pressed. They looked like
young business men. But I could
tell the way they went at it they
were professionals, all right. And
they meant business"
The two girls across the aisle
chimed in with questions. The
middle-aged man a couple of seats
back, who was riding on pass,
just stared out the window
The white smoke from the en-
CINE Tapped back alongside the
train so you couldn't see any
thing at all from one side. And
the day was so gray, and the
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BY ERNIE PYLE

DITTSBURGH, Dec. 5.-There
l. aren't many people, I'll tell
you, in this day of airplanes and
stream-lined zephyrs, who get
chance to ride on an old-fash-
Toned day-coach, stop-at-every-
crossroads kind of train.
You couldn't see two blocks, it
was so foggy and rainy, when we
chugged out of the old Erie sta
ton down under the bridges in
Cleveland. Any kind of train, and
especially slow one, feels mighty
good on a day like that. At least
you know you're not going to ram
into the top of the Terminal Tow
er in the fog.
There were about dozen pas
Sengers on our coach.
The young fellow behind lay
down in his seat as soon as his
ticket was collected, and didn't
wake up till we got to Pittsburgh.
The elderly couple ahead had
long talks with the conductor
whenever he came by. They
knew him slightly, I gathered, and
he was glowingly telling them of
his recent great experience.
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DR.. F|SF7BEIN PLAYS HIS HAND CORRECTLY

ment in Chicago. They are the
women's team of four, mixed pair,
national team of four, and the ma
tional open pair.
The program, however, includes
games every afternoon and night
throughout this week for the anna
teur or home player.
The largest entry of the tourna-
ment is in special amateur pair
game which comes Saturday after
noon and night.
This is open to the novice and
to those who will not be participant
ing in the finals of the national
open pair game. The winners will
receive full masters qualifications.
DR.. Morris Fishbein, nationally
known medical writer, is an en-
thusiastic amateur bridge fan and,
in a recent practice session for the
national tournament, I watched
the doctor play hand which
brought out very good point.
The novice at contract is in
clined to take either too many
illnesses or not enough. A finesse
should be employed only when
there is no other possible play in
the hand
The point in today's hand is
quite simple. The opponents
cashed the first three diamond
tricks. East's heart return was
won in dummy with the ace and
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years to create an army of war
strength. In tie meantime Ger
many will do anything to pre-
serve world peace until she's
ready to hold her own in a war.
In recent months the world has
been flooded with old rumors of
the strength of the German army.
Even with the taking in of the
first conscripts two weeks ago, the
army numbers only 100000. With
in a year this number will be
raised to probably 100000. This is
the regular peace-time army. For
real war the army must be at
least three times this size with
two trained reserves for each
regular.
MORE exaggerated are reports
1V1 of the magical creation of
mighty air force with as many as
5000 planes.
Doubtless some of these fanta-
sizes are a deliberately fostered
bluff on the part of Germany.
She did pour millions into an
orgy of aircraft building, grind
ing out like sausages some 1000
planes that we're practically OBJ
Solete when delivered.
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his Senate service from 1905
through 1917. He was president
of the American Bar Association
in 1867.
Pale, tall, slender and scholar
ly, Justice Sutherland has the
only beard on the bench except
that of the Chief Justice. It is a
Vandyke, accentuating his slender
ness. His voice is weak, and those
in the court room often have diff
f1culty hearing him, but on con-
stitutional points he is listened
to with utmost respect in the Sc
cret conferences where the court
talks over its cases and votes its
decisions.
He is IS, and in recent years has
combated failing health which has
not impaired his mental keenness
one iota, lawyers say.
This year he voted against the
MIRA oil control, NRA itself, the
Railroad Pension Act, the Farm
Mortgage Act, and the Presidents
removal of Trade Commissioner
Humphreys. He also has voted
against chain-store taxes by states,
the Minnesota farm mortgage
moratorium act, and state milk
control.
SUTHERLAND wrote the opin-
~ ion of the court majority re-
fusing on technical grounds TO re-
view the merits of Georgia's Re-
construction Era anti-insurrec-
ton law in the Angelo Herndon
case.
He wrote the powerful dissent
for the four conservatives in the
Minnesota mortgage case, attack
ing this depression farm act as an
unconstitutional impairment Of
property rights and the "sanctity"
of contracts.
With the courts current ten
dency to split on more and more
cases, Justice Sutherland's leader
ship in legal thought is expected
to affect the conservative argu-
ments Importantly.
This tendency was shown in one
day last month in which dissentS
were filed in nine cases, four of
them being Sd decisions. Justice
Sutherland was on the losing side
in only three of the nine divided
cases.
A N 1896 Gold Democrat from
4 = Tennessee. who broke with
Bryan, also sits on the Supreme
Court and fights the New Deal as
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There are a number of under
ground bomb-proof storage sheds
for planes and parts, but most i'm
portant are the bomb proof tanks
Of gasoline. Great underground re-
serves are stored against the day
when the borders may be sealed.
Meantime Germany tries des-
perataly to get from coal and a
few wells sufficient gasoline for
war purposes.
Normally she consumes three
million tons, but the general staff
figures that bv 1896 it will be able
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to produce two million tons re-
Quired for war.
TN building up her army from
l. top to bottom. Germany is I'M
encountered either by antiquated
equipment or old military ideas.
The general staff is not making
the mistake of the air corps by
rushing the production of untried
equipment. 1t calmly formulates
its plans, then pushes them with
incredible speed.
At present Germany is swiftly
building "a divisions constituting
a peace-time army. eventually
reaching So divisions of $4,000 men
each.
The whole country and dicta-
torship exist for the army. Hit
Ter and the general staff command
industry, trade, agriculture and
every phase of national life. In
stead of importing needed butter
for households, the army gets
copper, rubber and oil.
At least II months will be
required to train and equip the
regulars of the peace army.
By training 100000 recruits
annually, war army of 100000
men will be built in five years
if there is no internal breakdown.
Approximately the same time will
be required to equip the reserve
divisions.
THE biggest surprise in the new
Il army is its artillery. Instead
of the old three-inch artillery of
the World War, all artillery regi-
ments are armed with four and
one-half-inch howitZers having
superior striking power together
with the added value that they
can be fired from almost any posi-
ton.
The new German army is
ahead likewise in its mechanical
ton and motorization.
Three fully mechanical divisions
are in the building and a number
of batallions of swift, small tanks
have been completed.
Always the general staff keeps
in mind possible campaign
against Russia. Germany does not
believe she will have to fight
France again.
1t is worth repeating that until
her war army is ready, Germany
is the greatest guarantor of world
peace.
How Nazi Germany-on an I'M
precedented spending spree-is
marching toward an unknown
economic fate. is revealed tomor-
row in the third of three articles
which Frazier Hunt has cablcd
from abroad to this newspaper.
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University of Virginia as class
mate of Oscar Underwood, and
practiced law in Nashville until
Theodore Roosevelt brought him
into the Department of Justice as
an assistant attorney general.
After 1907 he practiced in the
big New York law firm of Paul d.
Cravath until President Wilson
called him into his Cabinet in
1913.
TomOrrow-Brande and Stone.
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Today these hurry-up planes
are being employed by Gen. Goe-
ring for training purposes, and
display of equal haste in pushing
pilots through all-weather flying
is killing 20 men monthly.
The fact is that Germany has
only a handful of real front-line
bombers and modern pursuit
planes.
The most important point is
that she will soon be turning out
fighting planes and bombers at
a rate of more than 100 month.
A new type bomber does 218
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Times Books

MR.. S. S VAN DINE is with again. guiding
IV1 Philo Vance through tale which displays very
neatly the detectives profound erudition, and which
also reveals him having unsupported human
side. Indeed there is but one thing wrong with 1t;
it isn't much of detective story
The book is THE Garden Murder Case" (Scrib-
ners So and it tells about gentlemany gamblers
in New York penthouse. One OF the lads gets
murdered just after they get their bets down the
fourth and Vance happens to be on the scene.
The tale is far from satisfactory as thriller;
but il does give Mr. Van Dine chance to show how
much he knows about race horses by Bruce Cation
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vides on New Deal legislation at
this term.
Justice McReynolds is popularity
supposed to have been kicked up
stairs to the Supreme Court in
1914 after he had, as President
Wilson's attorney general, con-
Quoted a series of antitrust prose-
cutions. He was fortnight and
bitter as he is now
Born in Kentucky, he went to
college in Nashville, attended the
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miles an hour, speed unsur-
passed in Europe for this kind
of plane.
XXTITHIN year Germany's air
w force will equal any in
Europe. France still will outnum-
Der the German air force, but half
of Frances planes are unfit for
actual combat. Only America will
have finer bombing and pursuit
machines.
Equally unfounded are reports
of a system of underground
hangers.
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Hollywood Hankerings

"QOY MEETS GIRL" is less bitter than Once in
~ Lifetime" and think it may be little fun
ner, though it is rather unfair to compare some
thlng fresh IN your mind with play which you saw
several seasons ago. At any rate Samuel and Bella
nave not burned all their bridges behind them
rather think they said to themselves And there isn't
any reason why this shouldn't make pretty good
picture after we have done with it as a play"
thought [ detected that Hollywood laundering
"hen discovered that the heroine was being re-
Spectaolized at the end before my astonished and
somewhat protesting eyes. I was for having the
baby in the remain entirely illegitmate inst
as he had been in the beginning
However Boy Meets Girl" is an example of the
type OF play which is done just about as we'll in
America as in any other theater of the world or
better. 1t has the gayety of fresh and ingenious
invention and the eXhilaration of pace Even those
gag lines which are very definitely planted and
prepared Tor pop out as if impromptu because of the
sklll1ui playing and the shrewd direction "Bov
meets Girl as far as my taste goes is far and away
the funniest play in town
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Breaking NetU Ground

A 5 to the finest play now being shown hereabouts,
4 "A would pick Maxwell Anderson's "Wnterset J"
DlStlnctly THIS Is play which breaks new ground
IL is good melodrama to begin with, but do
not hold with those who think that Anderson should
nave done it straight" He is defending and sue
cessfully defending, the playwrights privilege to deal
with current problems without being bound of neces-
Slty TO adopt the realistic approach.
or late there has been too much dispoSition to
rule all fiction and drama out of the court of capital
cases unless the form were strictly naturalistic
Critics on the left bark have been pretty severe
with Wlnterset" and have been inclined to label it
as Well-lntentioned, but muddled 1 rather think
that they are emotionay upset by having the hang
ing judge treated as if he too, were a human being
But 1t is this very role, superby played by Richard
Bennett, which seems to to mark Andersons
greatest achievement. Anderson breaks with the
tradition of heroes and of villains and shows the
Judge to be one more individual bound to the wheel
OF the system in which he lives and actually racked
to insanity by the role to which society consigned
him. 1t is, believe, revolutionary concept
than 1t would have been to provide him with horns
and tail.
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leader in trust
busting u n d e r
Woodrow w i'll
son, and appar-
emily still holds
= to his ideas of
that era.
J u S t i C e
McReynolds is
one of the two
b a C h e ! o r S
among the nine,
a t a | | a n d
e a u n t = f a ced
gentleman of 10
who is noted for
his MIN b | e
I o n g ue a n q
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a spade dnesse taken, West show
ing out.
Now, to make the contract, DR..
Ffshbein had to find the queen of
clubs in the West hand. True
enough, if the club finesse failed,
his contract would be defeated two
tricks, but if it succeeded the con-
tract would be made.
Therefore. DR.. FishbeirA was
right in taking the club finesse, as
this gave him the extra needed en-.
try for finessing the spades.
Copyright, 1885, NEA Service. Incl
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BY HERBERT LITTLE
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.
w George Sutherland is re-
garded by lawyers as the strong
man of the four man conserva-
tive bloc on the Supreme Court.
During the '20s, before Chief
Justice Taft and Justice Sanford
died, the conservatives had a clear
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satirical attack by employing precisely the plot
at which they aim their shafts of ridcUle Boy Meets
Girl" does tell the story of boy who meets a girl
Of course, the Spewacks hardly out to have their
plot accepted as anything more than thread on
which to hang wealth of incident In all probability
the Hollywood satire is made effective from
the fact that it is written from the inside and by
pair OF authors who to have at least sneaking
affection for the factory, even though they ambaste
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bitterly as would Carter Glass or
James M. Beck.
He is Justice James Clark
McReynolds, who was the party's
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TO F1ITLER'S GERMANY
Na2H Bluff Europe With Fast-Buh Noy Obsolete Air Fleet

The truth about Mani Germany's pres
ent and prospective military strength is
one Of the things Frazier Hunt wanted
TO find out at the start of his reportorial
tour of Europe. The facts of the Ger
man war machine now in the making
are contained below in the second of
Hunts uncensored cable dispatches.
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windows so misty you couldn't see
much from the other side either.
So we just rode.
We stopped every little while.
The engineer handled the train
smoothly enough. 1t wasn't an
unpleasant ride at all. The coach
was a little chilly, so that when
you lay over in your seat for a
nap you felt stiff and chill when
you woke up. Every once in a
while you looked at your watch,
and said to yourself, "A third of
the way now or Half the way
new"
A GIRL in leopard coat got
\ on at youngstown. She read
The youngstown Telegram clear
through, then worked the cross
word puzzle, then laid the paper
down I wanted to ask her for it,
but she was pretty, and she might
think I was getting smart, so I
let the paper go.
I read three pieces in TIE At
lantic Monthly, but it was hard to
keep my mind on them. 1t seemed
better just to stare out the win
dow, even though you couldn't see
anything. One article was about
being a widow 1t suddenly &C.
Cured to me, sort Of funny like,
that I could never be a widow. I
didn't finish the piece.
A few miles outside of Youngs-
town the train stopped. 1t was
sort of open country on either side
of the train. After long while
we backed up a few hundred feet,
then waited some more. Nothing
ever passed us. Finally we started
and went on again, as though it
were an afterthought. Slow trains
always have at least one stop like
that, just to keep up interest.
AS we got nearer Pittsburgh, we
stopped oftener. So many people
got on and off the train. I lost
track of the individuals. The
coach was half full when we
reached Pittsburgh Everybody
seemed sort Of somber, like the
day, and few of them talked to
each other.
We pulled in on the dot. Three
hours and Is minutes out of
Cleveland. You could have made it
in three-quarters of an hour by air
if the day had been nice. But the
day wasn't nice. Everybody got off
the train and carried their bags
up the platform. Nobody said
anything to anybody else, and you
couldn't tell from their faces
whether they were glad to be in
Pittsburgh or not.
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and wound up with this perora-
ton which electrified the tomb
like silence that normally marks
court sessions:
THAT never was the law, it
never ought to be the law, and
the shame and the humiliation of
it all no one of us can foresee."
II Il
THERE is virtual certainty
Il that he will be in the con-
sentative camp if the court di-