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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-06
Today's Science
by DAVID DIETZ.

A DEVICE which will check the accuracy of
L watch to within one second in "a hours and do
the Job in one minute has been perfected by engi-
neers of the RCA Victor Research Laboratories,
Camden N. J.
Within few minutes the new device makes
printed record of such detail that a skilled watch
maker tell what is wrong with the watch without
even opening its case.
Charles j. Young and Maurice Artzt are the en-
gineers who perfected the device.
The watch analyzing device. which its inventors
refer to a chronograph, makes of the prin-
cples employed in the transmission of photographs
by radio. The heart Of the system is tuning fork
under accurate temperature control The vibrations
Of this fork therefore provide accurate standard
against which TO check the watch.
The tuning fork controls the speed of an electric
motor which in its turn actuateS facsimile recorder
similar to that used to receive pictures and printed
matter by radio. 1t employs ordinary carbon paper
TO print an ordinary paper.
THE watch to be checked is placed a special
Il microphone case which picks up the ticks and
carries them to an amplifier system. This in turn
eCtuateS the printer recorder mechanism and pro-
ouces a series Of marks on the moving paper.
If the watch is keeping perfect time, the marks.
corresponding to the ticks should along pre-
determined straight line Deyiations from this line
show whether it is running at an irregular rate.
According TO the RCA engineers. an error of one
part IN million can be determined in about eight
minutes Of testing. Such an error would exhibit
= q
in Is inches OF record.
Irregularities in the record such as might be due
10 particular wheel in a gear train show themselves
plainly that a skilled matchmaker can name the
offending wheel before the watch case is opened
because Of the elaborate nature Of the chrome
ID graph system, the RCA engineers say that at
present 1t IS practicable only for large companies.
At meeting Of the Institute of Radio Engineers,
DR. David Luck. also OF the RCA Vcto. Laboratories,
objects. The system is applicable 10 prisons where
Il would detect revo.vers knives files other metal
lie objects concealed upon prisoner.
The entire system consists Of three parallel loops
OF wire IN the framework of a doorway These are
connected TO radio circuit which is delicaelv ball
enced. The introduction Of any metallic object into
the doorway upSetS the electrical balance between
the three loops and causes the radio amplifers 10
operate relays which In turn be used TO light
warning lights. blow sirens or sound any desired
alarm
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But He Didn't Back out

T SPEAK of his prosperity in the past tense, this
Il way. only because a great many of the young
successes of that school left Topping and work
ing their glls on the beach when the Coolidge wave
receded. i know he was prosperous then, anyway
and one of those iluStriouS citizens to whom the
business community pointed with pride and the COL
ege boys looked with envy and hope. trust he still
has his railroad
Months before the Kentucky Derby in May. 1890,
Mr.. Joyce, in a frivolous moment had paid the
entry fee of $25 and nominated his dashing charger
Dick OHara, to run among his betterS in the big
race There nothing uncommon about this, for
sportsmen often nominate horses by the herd at S25
each long in advance, to make them eligible on the
offchance of their showing any merit by Derby day
But it costs additional payment of 10 per cent Of
the prize money to start horse. The prize that
year $50O00
Thus when Dick OHara had lost six races as a
3year-Old prior to Derby day there were every rea-
to suppose that Mr. Joyce would withdraw his
steed and $500.
There was much amusement around the horse
park that afternoon, therefore, when Mr.. Joyce paid
IN his $500, put up boy Dick OHara's ridge and
sent him struttng out before the beauty and the
chivary to run in a horse far above his hum
BILE station. Dick OHara, himself probably
dered why his boss had spent $500 to humiliate him
so, but it was his not to reason why. The earnest
honest Dick OHara merely went out and ran as fast
as he could far he could, then having done his
BEST relaxed and sauntered home pausng now and
again to pluck himself faceful of daisies along the
rail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-06
It's Used Too Loosely

I WILL grant that I have heard the word Fascist"
used too loosely at various times but it has not
been stretched to the proportion of "Communistc"
In many questers of the country the speaker
who defends a mans right to keep away starvation
is called a wd-eyed agitator and red. Anybody
who urges working conditions which will impair
profits in the slightest degree is seditious. Only the
other evening Ham Fish urging the deportation
OF all who urge strikes. He seemingly took the at
titude that this instrument Of labor is never sti-
fed.
II seems to me that American radicals have
right to say that their own selfdscipline contri-
butes far to law and order than do the cap
tains and the kings of industry. Hundreds of
thousands of Communists and Socialists marched
in New York May Day without the slightest
sembIance of disorder. Compared to their behavior
the United States Chamber of Commerce was an
anarchial at its last convention.
At a recent banquet at the Waldorf, cambridge
Colby warmly appauded when he urged pub
fishers to defy the authority of Washington I'M
American and unconstitutional In respect to IA
and much recent legislation the attitude of big
business has constantly been, eve have intention
Of obeying and what are you going to do about it?"
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down one of the most radical and
far-reaching decisions in Mexican
history. Without judging validity
of the strike or merits of the de-
mands, the board ordered the
Huasteca to pay the strikers full
wages, total of nearly 100000
pesos at the time the decision was
made.
If taken as a precedent the de-
cision means that employees can
walk out at any time, with or
without justification, and be sure
of getting full pay while on strike.
Importance of both the radical
and anti-foreign movements will
be determined eventually, it ap-
pears, by the attitude of the small
group of persons who are the real
rulers of Mexico today, as we'll as
by the attitude which fore.e4
countries may decide to aoJpt.
So far, the interests of this
Mexican group have not been en-
dangered and they have not
stepped in, but if at any time they
decide to do so, they will probably
be able to put a quick end to
these movements.
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Here's the Reason

A BOUT month later in Chicago, the angels
L came down and took away Jake Lingle, Of the
Chicago Tribune. As member of the Tribune staff
at the time sincerely believed that the Tribune
executives of Mr. LingleS extra curri-
cular activities, whatever they were but Mr. Hearsts
Herald and Examiner took very Skeptical view
The Herald and Examiner giving Tribune
a painful punching around; day after day, mpugn-
ing Trbunes sacred honor in a brutal manner,
and something had to be done to bring Mr. Hearst's
Herald and Examiner to its senses.
In this crisis our Tribune discovered that certain
of Mr.. HearSts employees had sold tremendous
sweepStake on the late Kentucky Derby high-pres-
surfing the neWSboyS and others along the crcula
ton routes to pedde the chances Our Tribune dis
covered, moreover that the sweepstake had promised
to pay $50 for every ticket which drew a starter.
And finally, our Tribune found out that, by some
miracle all the tickets the sweepsake had called
for Dick CLARA, the horse who seemed certain never
to start.
These revelations, resulting in some indictments,
tended to turn the embarrassment from our Trib-
une to Mr. Hearsts organ of fearless good citizen
ship very little time after that the destructive
criticism back and forth lulled to mutual dig
nified silence
Of course nothing came of the indictments,
and I never have thought to ask Mr.. Joyce II he
had malice in his heart against the promoters of~the
sweep when he reached his decision to pay his S5OO
ana start his tired horse. 1t was a strange case,
though don't you think?
Dick OHara retired from competition after his
Kentucky Derby. The last time heard Of him he
was employed in the dgnihed Office Of liver-shaker
for parish priest in suburb of Chicago TO Wnom
he had been presented by Pat Joyce.
fcopyrght 1885 by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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Your Health
-RY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THIS is the time OF year when the poi!ehS Desih
i TO be blown about by the wind and when those
who are sensitive to them begin to suffer with tne
sneezing coughing and congestion that are Sgnili-
cant of hay fever.
Long before we knew that the pollens were
responsible there was indication that nay
fever came at certain seasons and that II could De
avoided by changing ones residence 10 an area III
which the pollens were not prevalent
For example it has been pointed out that Daniel
Webster suffered from ragweed hay fever Tor 20
years and did not have the symptoms IN 1889 "neh
he spent the summer in Scotland
It is known that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
had hav fever and obtained relief when he went to
the Catskill Mountains AS long ago as 1875 Judge
Gary mentioned the fact that he used to get relief
from his hay fever in northern Michigan
HOWEVER, as persons have Travelled about and
L i as intercommunication has grown, certain
areas which used to have fine reputation for being
free from hay fever have lost their distinction with
the invasion of ragweed coming in the wake OF clvi-
lizatOn.
study has been made Of the distribution of
ragweed throughout the United States over period
of a good many years. and system has been set
up for finding out how much ragweed pollen Is
present in the air at various times.
SOnly the North Pacific coast states were found
to be entirely free.
CALIFORNIA and the southwest are not greatly
~ troubled with ragweed, but good many other
polens that bring about hay fever are to be founo
in that section FLORIDA suffers little from ragweed
pollen but Florida and California and the southwest
pretty warm for summer resorts
In Canada, Winnipeg and upper Saskatchewan
are found to be relatively free from pollen Es-
pecialy unfayorable pollen conditions are found in
Denver Salt Lake City and Landers. Wyo, but the
conditions in these cities do obtain for most OF
the mountain resorts in the same area
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the cOLUOn gin.
Secretary Wallace and his AAA
cohorts keep up an optimistic
front regarding this and maintain
that all is well. But they realize
they have a bull by the tail and
can't let go. Privately, they are
worried sick.
The problem, briefly summar-
lied, is that, although the cotton
curtailment program of the AAA
has almost doubled the value of
cotton, it has simultaneously
raised the price so high that for
eign cotton countries-Brazil,
Egypt, RuSsia-gradually are TAX
ing away the United States mar
ket.
A MEXICAN exports for the
Ayear ended in April, 1885, were
exactly 10 per cent less than the
year before.
British textile manufacturers,
finding American cotton too high,
have encouraged increased pro-
duction in Egypt and India. Bra
zilS production doubled last year.
Meanwhile, American machin-
cry companies are helping to cut
the cotton industry's throat. Their
sale of cotton ginning and har-
vesting machinery to Brazil and
other foreign competitors has
jumped five times over the pre-
depression figure.
To remedy this. Secretary Wal
lace has been talking Of an in
ternational conference to limit
cotton crops. But. although no
one will admit it officially. secret
overtureS by the State Depart
ment to other cotton countries
have met with diplomatic rebuff.
AS long as Mr.. Wallace's AAA
keeps the price high, foreign COM
petitors don't want crop imita-
ton.
Meanwhile. cotton farmers COM
plain that Henry Wallace may be
an excellent Secretary Of Agricul-
ture as far as the Iowa corn and
hog farmer is concerned, but that
he doesn't know cotton.
Take Wallace away from his
hog PEN" they say, and he would
be as helpless as share cropper
trying TO get through the winter
without loans from the plantation
owner.
There never has been a Secre-
tary of Agriculture who knew cot
ton" they conclude; and its time
We had one"
MERELY TO appoint an Agri-
WI cultural Secretary who
knows cotton, however, would
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BIZ NEA Scrrfce
I'll PASO, Tex, May els
L Mexico headed toward Com
munism?
This answer is given by one OF
the group of advisers closest to
President Lazaro Cardenas: 1T
decidedly isl"
We are directing all our ener-
gies to this end" this official stat
ed. Maybe the present govern
ment will not achieve it. If not,
this government will not last long.
Maybe those who initiate the
movement will become corrupt, as
have those who led the present
revolutionary movement. If so,
they will be removed. But the
movement will continue"
1t is unlikely that this group
can count on the entire support OF
Gen. Cardenas or that its strength
Is as great as its spokesman be-
lieve, but there is no doubt that
Mexico Is in the midst of what on
the surface is a definite move
ment toward the left, but which
many persons regard as only a
smoke screen designed to blind the
increasingly dissatisfied working
and peasant classes.
Strikes are growing daily in
number and Importance and are
being used not as a means of de-
Tense, but as a weapon of agrees
sion. Gen. Cardenas, firmly de-
termined to seek the economic lib
Grafton and cultural uplift Of the
masses, has shown himself I'M
questionably on the side of the
workers in every case brought to
his attention.
II ECENTLY, leaving aside all
N other matters, he devoted
three weeks to a trip through
northern and central states, dur
ing which he listened to COM
plants from workers and peas
ants and promised them his
hole-hearted aid.
These classes are obviously his
chief preoccupation.
The minister of education, 1g-
nacio Garcia Teller, declared in
a speech that private property
can have no place in the revo-
lutionary scheme"
His statements have not been
contradicted by any other official,
despite the fact that the agrarian
program of land distribution is
based on private ownership.
A convention of one of the
country's most powerful labor
organizations, the General Con-
federation of Workers and Peas
ants (CROM, is scheduled soon,
and it will be asked to adopt a
platform calling for specialization
of industry; for denial of any
right of private ownership or pri-
vate enterprise; denial OF right
of the government to intervene
in any dispute between capital
and labor, and direct action to
enforce the demands of labor.
Still somewhat vague plans for
establishment of a "proletarian
dictatorship" are being plotted
from within the government 1t
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cure nothing, and the leaders in
the cotton industry realize this.
What the South is up against
is slow starvation or sudden
death.
l. The government can con-
tinue to peg cotton at its pres
ent price and gradually see
the cotton markets of the
United States dwindle to
nothing. In other words, slow
starvation.
2. Or it can pull the peg
from the price of cotton and
bankrupt the South. In other
words, sudden death.
The latter, of course, also would
mean the bankruptcy of the
Democratic party and almost GER
tain defeat for Roosevelt in 1896.
Probably, therefore, it will not
happen. Gradual loss of our cot
ton markets abroad-and in the
past the United States supplied
more than so per cent Of the
worlds cotton-is more likely.
THERE are two other sub
i alternatives also, but they
present almost as much chaos:
One is to reduce the government
loan on cotton.
The other is to reduce the cost
of production by more efficient
seed selection and more mechani-
cation of labor.
The first of these would mean
serious financial difficulties to the
South. The present price of cot
ton is pegged at y cents a pound
through a government cotton loan.
Wallace and some of his advisers
want to reduce this to 10 cents or
less. They are under too great
pressure, however. The President
will not let them reduce.
The second of these would mean
the employment Of thousands of
share-croppers, already suffering
from the crop curtailment pro-
gram. The South could not abb
serb them.
Whichever way Wallace and the
President turn, they are up
against a virtual impaSse regard
ing the future reign of Kirg Coz
ton. They can continue to hold
up his tottering throne-and see
it be undermined from abroad.
Or they can overthrow his
throne and meet the chaos i'm
mediately.
The first Of these is much more
likely.
Copyright, 1883 By United Feature
Syndicate. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-06
Ash COLLECTION
DATES CHANGED
Summer Schedule Goes Into
Effect Today, Nolan
Makes Known.

The summer schedule for ash and
garbage collection went into effect
today, it was announced by Truly
Nolan, superintendent of collections.
Ashes and garbage will be COL
lected this week in the districts
north of Fall Greek and in the dis
tricts between Fall Creek and
Westinghouse, west Of the Monon.
There will be no ash collection this
week in all remaining districts.
No changes have been made in
the days of collection, but the COL
lections of ashes will alternate every
other week between the areas.
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self, with the public approval Of
Garcia Teller and other officials,
but are not regarded as Of much
importance by those at whom
they are aimed.
THESE leaders feel that it
l. would be decidedly incon-
venient to the United States to
have a Communistic nation just
across its borders, and also be-
lieve their own military and po-
litical strength is sufficient to
meet any threats.
A program of aggression against
foreign companies seems to be
shaping up, with the Aguila Pc
troleum Co., subsidiary of the
British Eagle Petroleum Co., as
the principal victim up to the
present.
In recent months the company
has lost a court decision (to be
appealed involving 100000 pc
SOS ($5, 100000, has been ordered
to pay a total of 100000 pesos
in back import duties as the re-
suit of cancellation of old con-
cessions, and has suffered from
numerous strikes.
One widely circulated explana-
ton of the constant moves against
the Aguila is that a prominent
politician is attempting to get
personal revenge on the British
firm because he is unable to take
out of London, without payment
of large taxes to the British gov
eminent, huge sums that he has
banked there.
Although the Aguila case is ap-
parently an isolated one, there is
a determined move, according to
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the same government official
quoted above, to drive foreign
capital out of Mexico.
1--WE are tired of q century of
foreign exploitation, during which
we nave been working not for our
selves, but for stockholders. in
foreign countries" he stated. eve
propose to end it at all costs,
though it may mean that we have
to go back to eating beans and
tortillaS and living a strictly ag-
ricultural life.
"nNE weapon that has been
~ adopted and will be used
with increasing frequency is the
strike. AS an example is the case
of the Huasteca STANDARD Oil Of
New Jersey Petroleum Co. in
Vera Cruz where the workers have
tied up refinery operations and
have demanded expulsion of COM
pany officials as undesirable for
eigners. This will be followed by
more and more strikes
In the Huasteca case, the Fed
eral Labor Board has handed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-06
And They Cry Out!

Il seems to me audacious for these same men to
cry out that liberals and radicals are endanger-
ing democratic government and traditional free
institutions. I defy anybody to name any radical
leader who has done as much William Randolph
Hearst to promote the doctrine of take the law
into your own hands" The methods used to break
the general strike in San Francisco are spreading
rapidly throughout the country. The formula is
fixed and simple. If any labor group is troublesome
70 an employer he merely shouts red" and assumes
that the community will back him up in any sort
of violence which he may choose to visit his
opponents. If that isn't Fascism just what is it?
Surely it will be fair to call it Fascism until
thing worse comes along.
Again and again 1 have seen editorials in Sc
called conservative and awabiding sheets in which
ter complaint was made against the continuance
d sderal relief The suggestion has even been
made that rich citizens refuse to pay, which is
indeed kind Of carrying counsel to Newcastle.
And I say fatty that those interests which war
against the maintenance of relief are advocating
violence a scale which this country has never
If pinned down to the consequences of their
words they maintaining that America should
lquidate its unemployed millions by a process of
slow quick starvation.
And these the very men who hold I'D their
hands in holy horror at what they call the ruthless
ness OF radical dogma. If We are to preserve
American liberties we must forthwith protect not
Just the great and the entrenched. We must get
back to the ancient doctrine that is the oppressed
whose rights should be the first consideration of
democracy.
IcopyrlGht 1881
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Benefit Card Party Arranged

Koran Temple No. 80, Daughters
of the Nile, will hold a benefit card
party next Monday afternoon at the
Banner WhitehilI auditorium.
Directing arrangements are Mrs.
Hazel Uhl, chapter queen, Mrs.
Libby Braughtigam and Mrs. Alma
Schoenholtz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-06
RELIEF SCHOOL DATA
ARE SOUGHT BY STATE
Survey of Is Counties Ordered to
Determine Work Desired.

Fifteen representative counties in
Indiana will be canvaSSed for data
on which to establish an emergency
vocational education program, &C
cording to plans announced today
by the Governors Unemployment
Relief Commission.
The canvaSSerS will seek to deter
mine occupational opportunities, vo-
cational DEFICIENCIES and existing
faculties for vocational training.
Unemployed teachers will be used to
make the survey, John Dillon, super
visor of vocational education, stated.
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W00DMEN INITIATE so
Central Indiana District Session Is
Held at Castle Hall.

Sixty candidates were initiated
into the Woodmen Of the World yes
terday at a central Indiana caravan
district meeting in Castle Hall
Building. Degree teams from Frank
fort and Logansport conducted the
ritual. Arrangements were made for
the observance of the forty-fifth an
niversary of the orders founding at
a district meeting in Frankfort
June 6.
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Many Go to Convention

A large delegation from the In
dianapolis White Shrine, headed by
Mrs, Carrie Lee Jones, worthy
high priestess, will attend the
White Shrine of Jerusalem con-
vention tomorrow, Wednesday and
Thursday at Cleveland.
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Carnation Sale to Be Held

Marion County chapter, Ameri-
can War Mothers, will hold its
annual Mothers Day carnation sale
Saturday. Proceeds will be used TO
assist veterans and their families.
Mrs. Minnie Rigg is general chair
man, assisted b.. Mrs. Ida Harvey.