Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 January 1931 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931,
LATEST TRICK TO ENCOURAGE MILK INCREASE AT PURDUE U.
Lafayette, I ml.—;Some of tlieana dairymen in recent years.
latest tricks in the trade of encouraging Bossy to give more milk on less feed will be discussed on the dairy program at the 1931 agricultural conference, which is to be held at Purdue university from January 12 to 16. Men of nationwide reputation in the dairy field will appear on the program presented by the dairy department, of which Prof. H. W. Gregory is head. The forty-first annual meeting of the Indiana Dairy association will 1 e held on Thursday, January 15, as part of the conference program. Dr. G. Bohstedt, of the University of Wisconsin, is probably the leading authority in the United States on feeding of livestock, and lie will talk on “New Facts About l he Nutrition of Dairy Products.” Dr. C. C. Dobson, Supervising Inspector of the State Livestock Sanitary board, will discuss the control of infectious abortion of dairy cattle ,a disease which has become of increasing importance to Indi-
“New Facts About Protein Feeds” will be brought to the HoOsier dairymen by E. L. Anthony, head of the dairy department of Michigan State college, who is one of the headliners on the
dairy program.
Dr. W. E. Krauss, of the Ohio experiment station, will tell of some experiments he has conducted on feeding iodine to cows, and then testing the milk, to see if it ha ; s enough iodine to preV'entf goiter; he will also discuss the feeding of skim milk to calves. Dr. B. J. Kiilhan, of Michigan State college, will present a discussion of infectious
abortion.
The program of the conference is so arranged that farmers and their wives who are interested in some particular phase of farm and home life may spend the entire week with a program relating to their particular interest, whether it is dairying,' beekeeping, horticulture, livestock producing, poultry, or home making.
WOMEN FORGET; MEN REMEMBER •i. Js. . . Dr. Meltzer Says Alcohol Not Needed by Fair Sex
Wickersham Committee T o Make Report
Cleveland, Jan. 9—(U.P.)—We- Washington, Jan. 9—(UP) men tend to remember more of the section of the forthcoming prohipleasant experiences of life than h 3 jj : } I Q n veport which the Wickerthe unpleasant and men remember sham law commission reassembled
SULLIVAN FIELD COAL MINES WILL EMPLOY 1,000 WORKERS
BY CHARLES C. STONE Written for the United Press Indianapolis, Jan. 9—(UP)—The outstanding development in Indi ana industry and business for thfc. past week w-as the announcement that nearly 1,000 men will be given employment through re-opening of coal mines in the Sullivan field ; and that a sales plan has been de veloped for the Carl H. Beckei company of Columbus by which its products will be called to the attention of 20,000 stores throughout the United States. Mines to resume operations are I he Glendora, Baker, Peerless and Ebbe Vale. The first three nanjed had been operating on a curtailed scale due to labor differences, but these have been settled. The
other pit had been idle about on^^yppm -would cost nearly $10,000,-
month.
The Becker company, manufacturing enamel, floor paint and top dressing, is expected to increase greatly its business through the national hook-up with the stores, according to Carl H. Becker, presiident, who said it is possible that bis factory may become the leading industry of Columbus. Full time operation of the Union Sanitary Manufacturing Company, factory at Noblesville. will be started soon, Albert Ludhim, manager, announced. He said orders on hand assured steady work until spring at least. Anderson’s newest industry, the Hanson-Van Winkle-Manning company, w'ill begin operations next Aveek. It Avill manufacture polishing equipment. W. C. Redmon, head of basket and furniture factories at Peru, expressed confidence that steady operation of the plants will con-
tinue.
Employment for 200 men in the Union City Body company plant Avas assured Avith booking of an order from the Chevrolet assembly factory at Indianapolis. It is believed that the order Avill assure work for the next six months. Work of extending underground
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cables of the Indiana Bell Tele-, phone company in Marion, a $25,000 project, Avill be started soon and aid in relieving unemployment. Several men are being employed in erection of a new pumping station at Bedford’s municipal water plant. The contract price Avas
$13,170.
Muncie business leaders are optimistic for better conditions during 1931. They expressed a belief that no buyers’ strike existed but curtailed purchasing was due to lack of money. Full time operation of the Wood Products company has been rered at Spencer, with fifty persons emnloyed. It had been idle
since fall.
City officials at Fort Wayne are planning a program of public work
President Bankers’ Asso. Says Outlook for Future Is Very Bright
New York, Jan. 9—Rome C. Stcphenso'n of South Bend, president. of the American Bankers’ association, said in a statement yesterday “we will have tile strongest banking situation we have ever enjoyed and one worthy of the highest confidence of all our people” as a result of the elimination of “undeniable Aveaknesses” in the country’s banking structure in 1930. Mr. Stephenson asserted most of the closed banks Avill pay in full or large part, so that the amount lost would he reduced. He said also that “despite the prominence in the news of banking difficulties, only a small fraction of the total banking figures are affected.”
000. The work program proposed includes a new filtration plant, a combination storm and sanitary sewer and grade crossing separations. An improvement program being carried out at the Fort Wayne plant of the Virginia-Car-olina Chemical Corporation Will
cost nearly $10,000.
Buildings and stock of the Great Western Manufacturing company at LaPorte'have been purchased by the Indiana Harbor National bank acting for mortgage holders. In the stock sold Avere 3,604 dish washing machines, made to sell at $15 each hut which brought only 40 cents each. They Avill he converted into watering troughs, as they (were not successful for their original purpose. The bank paid $116,175 for the company’s property. The park board of South Bend plans a $ % 0,000 bond issue for a park expansion program. Practically all Vincennes factories are operating on full time,, including those of the Vincennes Bridge company, Blackford Window Class company, Indiana Board and Filler and Corrugated Paper company, and live Brown Shoe company. Work of clearing the ^site for the George Rogers Clark me-
morial is under way.
shall do business with, satisfying himself as to their reputation, reliability and capability. These qualities are essential to complete the element of safety and dependability in any human institution. Coni Borer Case In Appelate Court
Huntington, Ind., Jan. 9.—(UP) —Frank Wallace, state entomologist, and others, defendants in a suit in which Oavcii Feehan recov ered judgment for $2,000, plan appeal to the Indiana appellate court following overruling of their motion for new trial in Huntington circuit court by Special Judge Wil-
son D. Lett.
The case Avas tried here on a change of venue from Allen county. It lias attracted state-wide interest because of its resemblance with many other potential cases. Feehan alleged that during a campaign against the corn borer employes of the entomologist plowed up a field on his farm causing the soil to lose fertility because the top layer was turned under and mixed with clay sub-soil. , o-——i
the unpleasant to a greater degree than happy occurrences, Dr. Hyman Meltzer, physchologist of the Psychiatric clinic of St. Louis and lecturer of Washington university, St. Louis, today told psychologists of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In a new psychological test given 77 men and 55 Avomeii at the close of the 1929 holiday season Dr. Meltzer reported that he asked each to list all their pleasant and unpleasant experiences during the vacation period. Without warning he asked them, six weeks later, to repeat the listing of experiences. He said that a comparison of the listing showed him that there is a difference in the type of experiences remembered after a
month and a half.
He explained the feminine tendency to forget as Avhat psychologists speak of ah escape mechanism. He stated that in his opinion women are able to forget unpleasant experiences instead of resort-
ing to alcohol.
“Men more frequently than women, even ' in modern days, use what George Bernard ShaAv talks of as the ‘opiate of booze’ to make I them forget,” said Dr. Meltzer. j The ability of women to remember more of the pleasant things of life was attributed to the psycho-
logy of compensation'.
The richer memory-experiences in women,” he said, “‘are a compensation for their poorer actpal
experiences in everyday life.” Qtto P
Dr. fcharles A. Rinde, of Lodi, Calif., in an address today said that experiments he had conducted had convinced him of the existence of five instead of four primary
colors.
He said that experiments have') Indianapolis, Jan x 9.—Described shown that there are five separate as a model piece of social welfare types of color mechanisms in the legislation, a hill to establish an retina, the light-sensitive lining ofjold age pension system in Indiana the eye. They are sensitive to red, will be presented to the General yellow, green, blue and violet. Vio-1Assembly which will convene let was the color he designated as j Thursday- The bill is sponsored the fifth primary sensation. >by the Fraternal Order of Eagles At the-closing general session of f0 r a decade the leading advocate
today to complete, will place blanie for enforcement failures in part on corruption, local politics and negligence by local officials, the
United Press learned today. After a study of voluminous evi-
dence, members of the commission are known to feel that weakness of city and county officials in some localities accounts for some of the most flagrant disregard of the prohibition laws. This aspect of the problem, it is understood, will be emphasized as a major contributing factor to diffculties of enforce-
ment.
The report, it is said in quar-. ters close to the commission, will recommend no fundamental changes in federal prohibition laws, and will not recommend legalization of beer, a national referendum or any alteration of the 18th amendment. Instead, it is said, it will emphasize continuation of Federal activity with greater state and local cooperation. It Avas the expectation that a.l members of the commission would
One sign the report. However, several, including Federal Judge William S. Kenyon, while concurring in the report, are likely to do as United States Supreme court justices do occasionally — append separate opinions taking issue Avith some
points.
Indications today Avere that the report would be in President Hoover’s hands at least early next Aveek. When it is to be made public Avill rest with the president. The Supreme court, meantime, is moving with unusual speed to decide the question of constitutionality of the 18th amendment raised in the recent opinion of Federal Judge William Clark of New Jersey. The case, in which the 18ln amendment was held to have been adopted unconstitutionally, has been set for argument before the Supreme court, January 21. An optimistic forecast for prohibition enforcement was made last night by Prohibition Director Woodcock, who told the manufacture and business committee of the anti-Saloon League that he was more optimistic about conditions now than Avhen he took over his
post last July.
EAGLES’BILL TO BE PRESENTED
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tto P. Deluse Outlines Plan of Most Humane
Measure
the association last night Dr. Paul H. Heyle, of the United States bureau of Standards, whose models of his conception of the fourth dimension have been on display at the exhibition hall throughout the
of that form of relief for the
worthy aged.
Discussing the proposed measure, Otto P. Deluse of Indianapolis, chairman of the Eagles Indiana
week, will give an illustrated lec- °l ( l a sa pension commission, said
ture on “Weighing the Earth.” He Avill explain liow the weight of the earth estimated at six thousand miiion tons has been ascertained to a high degree of precis-
ion.
ROAD SCHOOL TO OPEN AT PURDUE
Noted Engineers Will Dis cuss Latest Railway
Problems.
today:
“In the old age pension bill, there is a combination of the humane and economical that should appeal to every Indiana citizen. The measure incorporates those features found best in the experience of Instates having pension huvs. We feel that placing the minimum age ^at 65 is right, as it is too well known to require extended com incut that industry is setting the deadline for employment at young-' er ages. The pace of modern machinery under the lash of the de-
as far as is humanly possible toward assurance that only those worthy will receive aid. A fine of $500. imprisonment for one year, or both are penalties provided for fraud in obtaining a pension. “Another feature is that the bill creates no new commissions or offices to administer pensions. That work Avould be performed by the present county commissioners and auditor. The cost of the system would he borne equally by the state and county. “There are also provisions that a fierson Avith relatives capable of supporting him shall not receive a pension, nor will one be paid to a pefsojtt Avith property of a value of $2,500 or more. “Ndt thh least’ of the good points of the old age pension system, is the fact-there is every reason to believe that eventually it Avill bring lower taxes. In those states where it lias been in operation long enough to provide reliable statistics, pensions cost about onehalf the amount required to maintain an old person in a poorhouse “The time will come, we believe when o gdleaepnsbnws- ? (‘TT when old age pensions will in.'; 1 universal in our nation. Therefore, it would appear the part of wisdom to enact the pension bill for Indiana at once. Just, humane, economical aud inevitable, the old age pension is the propter substitute for the unjust, inhuman, expensive and dreadent poorhouse, a relic of the England in Queen Elizabeth-’s reign three centuries
ago.”
ROLLER SKATIN3 POPULAR
maud for mass production is re
sponsible for - the situation. Richmond, Ind., Jan. 9.— (UP) — “Making the establishment of Raller skating is a popular spor: pensions mandatory on counties in-jafc EarTham college here. A new stead of optional, is another tea-j$5,000 floor lias been installed ture of the Indiana hill marking an | through efforts of the Earlham
Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 9. Road advance. An optional biil is man-jWomen's club and the college alii construction and maintenance, ifestly unfair, as it denies to the iletic department has purchased sev
France Mourns for Outstanding Hero
Paris, Jan. 9.— (U. P.)—France mourned her “savior,” Marshal Josepii Joffre, with all the splein
Public Has Large Part.
Asserting it is the public, in the end, Avho pays the main part of the penalty if unfortunate results follow upon departures from sound banking practice, Mr. Stephenson maintained that the soundness of banking as a practical matter of fact is “a community problem in Avhich the public has a part to play as Well as bankers and government
officials.” d or due one ot tlle generation’s Dwelling at length on the re- outstanding heroes as the old sollationship of the public to banking dier’s funeral procession passed stability, Mr. Stephenson said: through the streets of Paris from “The function of government in Notre Dame cathedral to the In banking is to promote and enforce jvalides today. careful banking administration! Joffre’s body was placed in a through the system of exaftiinatioh |circular sacristy inside a square and supervision. This, however, | tent, draped with black and viodoes not relieve the individual de-jlet, at the Inyalides. Battle positor from the necessity of judg-jwere arranged in the formation o* ing and choosing carefully as to his j mounting guard. A Napoleonic banking relations. He must in-lbronze stood in each of the four quire for himself into the clHmqeter|corners around the marshal’s restand type of institution and men being place.
problems will undergo a severe grading ai the seventeenth annual road school of Purdue university, to bo held during the week of January 12 to 23. The school Avill be held by the engineering extension department ami the school of civ.l engineering at Pimfue, cooperating with the Indiana State Highway Commission, Indiana County Highway Superintendents’ association; Indiana County Surveyors’ and County Engineers’ association, and Hie Highway Materials and Equipment association. The road, school brings together engineers, contractors, and officials interested in the construction and maintaining of city streets, township, county and state roads. Talks and demonstrations Avill be given, presenting the latest developments in this field, with practical experiences of engineers in handling some of the situations that arise
in road work.
The speakers on the program include several Purdue engineer-' ing professors, Indiana county and city engineers, surveyors, and a number of men from other states, with wide experience and recognized reputation in road and street work. Dr. E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue university, Dean A. A. Potter, dean of the schools of engineering; and Dr. W. K. Hatt, head of the school of civil engineering are prominent among the Purdue officials who Avill have a part on the program of the five day school. A considerable portion of one day will be devoted to the equipment of materials show, which is always a feature of the road school. The most modern equipment, in the way of trucks, graders, scarifiers, and the like; and materials, such as cluverts, dust preventives, and surfacing materials, will be included in the show. Tlie school is open to all who are interested in road problems, and no charge is made. The attendance last year Avas 590 for the ^school itself, and several hundred
more inspected the show.
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old of one county what
those of another.
“Every provision to insure against fraud is provided in the bill. The requirements for United Steves citizenship, a period of cob-
given lefal hundred rink skates to be used
by students.
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Schoolroom blackboofcds need no longer be dull black, since a method of making enameled hoards in
tinuous residence and the like go colors has been devised.
Brings Message to President Hoover
From King Fuad I. of Egypt
THE FELLOW WHO WANTED THE EARTH.
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Dr. James L. Barton, vice-president ( of the Near East Foundation,, has just returned to the, United States bearing a written message from King Fuad I. to President Hoover cxpressHig the gratitude of the people of Egypt for the work the American institution has done for , the people of his .country. The Foundation maintains clubs, night
1 ronton, A\ is., (UP) Mr and schools and playgrounds for 2.000 refugee boys and girls in Cairo and Mrs. Thomas F. Lawrence, Avho | A i exandr ia. Picture taken on board the S. S. Lafayette with'officials will observe tiie 67th anniversary ot the Foundation. Left to right: Barclay Acheson, executive secof their marriage here in the fall, Hetary, Mr*, carton. H. C. Jaquith, associate secretary. Dr. Barton, claimed another distinction when'iip. Barton served as secretary of the board of Foreign Missions for they completed their 40th year of over thirty years and was Moderator of the International Congress of
living in the same house recently. Congregational Churches for ten years.
A most important piece of legislation is" scheduled to come up before the next; legislature. This is the drivers’ license law and every man, woman land child in the state is vitally interested in the passage of the measitre. The new law, it is hoped, Avill be patterned after the standard act now in effect tin eleven states and the District qf Columbia. These states are California, Connecticut. Massachusetts, 1 '. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Vermont, Rhode Island, Arizona and New Hampshire. There are five other states whlcii have a sub standard form of law, lacking one or more of the provisions set JJirth in the standard law as recommend od by the National Conference oi. Street and Highway Safety. An exhaustive study of the work ing of this law in the states mentioned above slipAvs a remarkable reduction in motor vehicle fatalities since the adoption of the law. In nine of these' states there have been 29 per cent fewer fatalities than there would have been if these states had experienced the same increase as the non-license states. Some salient points of the model drivers’ licence bilj are as follows: No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a (highway unless licensed by the- ( State Vehicle De-> panment, except those driving road or farm mjuchinery or operating an olficial vehicle of the U. S army or navy. Non-residents over sixteen, li censed at home are exempt; it coming from a lion-licensed state, may drive their own ears for 30
days.
License is not issued to petesous junder sixteen or ehufliYmiv’s licenses to persons muter eighteen; noi to habitual drunkards, drug addicts, the insane or feeble-minded, those I Unable to understand signs in English, or those aliDeted with such physical or mental disabilities oi disease as to prewnit reasonable control over a motor vehicle. When the law is first exacted all persons who li£ ve driven to. one year may obtain! a license within three months on (written application but without} examination. Thereafter all new drivers must first obtain a temipovary instruction permit; then!, within sixty days, fill out an application for li cense and pass the examination. The state commissioner may des Ignate local officiate to give exam Inations. The eoriimissioner may require re-licensing not more than once every three/ years. Chauffeurs’ licenses must be renewed annually. / All courts shadl report to the state departments all convictions for violation of motor vehicle laws ind may reconi intend suspension of license. / The department must revoke licenses in easel of: manslaughter in operation of motor vehicle; driving under i influence of liquor or drug; perjury in connection with the motofr vehicle laws; conviction of reckless driving three timfes in a year; failure to stop after an accident; any felony in which a mot.<>r Vehicle was used. The department may suspend a
license if it believes that one of the above mentioned offense* has been committeed; that the drive - has recklessly or unlawfully contributed to ati accident; or that he is incompetent to dri\ r e a motor vehicle or in a habitually reckless or negligent driver. Any person denied a license or whose license has been revoked may appeal to the courts. The applications of minors under eighteen must be signed by the parent or guardian or employer who then becomes liable for any negligence in driving by such minor. Employers of minors under eighteen who permit them to drive, and persons who furnish motor vehicles to such minors, are
likewise liable.
MORE FUNDS TO BE AVAILABLE
Congress Makes Appropriation Today for Unemployment Relief.
HEADACHES TO GET ATTENTION
Champion Headacher Will Remain at Hospital Three Months.
Chicago, Jan. 9—(UP)—The 12 year-headache of Theodore Roberts 23, Lake Geneva, Wis., electrician, Avas adjudged yesterday^ to be the worst of all the pains detailed by 750 applicants, and ha Yyas ^selected as a laboratory subject for the benefit of medical setepce. Roberts was ihstalte'd in the quietest room in the University of Illinois on West Polk street, to keep his promise of developing a first class case of migraine headache every two weeks for three mouths in the hope that scientists may find a remedy for the malady. For submitting himself, Roberts will be paid $50 a month, Avill receive meals prepared by a skilled dietician, and will be lodged in the hospital’s best quarters. In addition, he’ll get Sundays off, pains or no pains, and probablyy other holi-
days. i
“I have headaches that arc dandies,” Roberts declared, Avith a touch of pride, after his selection. “I’ve had them fever since I Was 11
Washington, Jan. 9—dUP)—Additional funds to aid unemployment, totalling $66,302,149, art provided in the war department appropriation bill rtaken up today by
the House. It eauies $446.0-l.loh. lul d nobody has been able to give
for military and non-military activ-
ities.
Though the measure is for the fiscal year 1932, beginning next July ,the unemployment relief ap propriatlotis provided are to bv come immediately available upon its passage. These include $60,000,000, for rivers and harbors projects and the rest for various activities, such as repairs, construction of barracks, work on national cemeteries, to give employment to the jobless. ( . The $60,000,000 carried in this bill and the $22,500,000 in the emergency measure already passed brings the total available for rivers and harbors projects in the next tAvo years to $168,000,000 with other money previously appropri
ated.
Upkeep of the military establishment for the next fiscal year is to cost $334,956,880. For non-mili-tary activities, which include rivers and harbors, national ceme'tei'ies and .the Panama Canal, a total of $111,067,270 is inovided: A standing army of 118,750 men, 11,972 officers and 6,500 Philippine scouts, the same as the present army, is provided. An increase from 190,000 to 195,000 in the nationui guard also is provided. The committee recognized the new weapons of national defense developed from the World Avar by appropriating approximately $38,000,000 for the air corps, about $3,000,000 more than last year; $1,304,000 for the Chemical Warfare Service to experiment in poison gases, and $227,000 for the tank service.
PIGEONS CHANGING TIME
Huntington, Ind., Jan. 9.— (UP) —'Pigeons roosting on the lianas of the Huntington County con. thouse clock here, have so interter red with operation of the mechanism that it no longer is accurate according to Charles Labertevv, custodian. -—-r -o - There is a flow of approximately 800,000 gallons a day from the springs in the Hot Springs National park, Arkansas.
me any relief. I guess I inherited them, because my mother had them as far back as I can remember. “The doctors tell me I’ve got one of the best cases of Migraine they’ve ever run across. The symptoms are what they ought to Tie— every tAvo weeks, I get a terrific pain on one side of my head, usually the left. It attacks my eyes, blurring my sight on the same side ami makes me a wreck. “I can’t eat, I can’t work, I can’t sleep when that migraine gets started on me, I jdst remain in hod for days at a time, waiting for the
pain to ease.
“All kinds of doctors and specialists have examined me, dosed me with pills, and ihgdieihe, regulated my diet, given me all manner of treatment, but while they agree it’s a sAvell case o! migraine, they haven’t been able to stop it.” The hospital hopes to discover the cause of nugfaihe and a successful treatment as well through the three months’ observation of
Roberts’ pains.
0: Heavy Sentences Given Young Men
Logansport, Ind., Jan. 9.—(UP) —Sentences of five to 21 yenvs in the state reformatory were passed here upon three men Avho pleaded guilty on charges of crimihnally assaulting an 18-year-old girl after abducting her from her escort, Audrey Hatfield. Herbert Wendt, 22, Harold Wilburn, 22, and Alvin Cooper, 23, were sentenced by Judge John B. Smith in Cass circuit court. Their only excuse for the attack Avas that they had been drinking, although all denied being drunk. None had a police record, so far as known.
The Field Museum is displaying Avhat it believes to be tl^e oldest piece of peAvter im existence, a tablet found in a Chinese tomb, and inscribed with a date equiv)alent to A. D. 85. •