Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1928 — Page 4
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Not a Mere Holiday For those who do not have it in their hearts, this day of Thanksgiving will mean little. To some, perhaps, it will be the opportunity to visit the theater or athletic fields, a more sumptuous meal, the shadow of indigestion and a yawn. To others it will be a red date in the calendar, a day upon which no work is demanded. It is probable that no amount of exhortation, no editorial or pulpit appeal, would change the attitude of those who have this view of today and its meaning. But even they will be interested in the origin of the day, and if thoughtful, they may be led into a greater understanding of the real meaning of this nation, and an appreciation of the fact that it owes its greatness of its power to sacrifice and struggle. A little band of pilgrims had faced the perils of the sea and' traveled across an ocean to find a land where they might worship as they pleased, to live their lives free from the official snooping by powers that were quite intent upon searching out heresies of thought and belief. Only the ocean is the same today as it was when they sailed in their small vessel through the storms and waves. It was not a trip of two days in a Zeppelin, nor a week in the luxurious rooms of ocean liners with broad decks and food, glass sun parlors as protection from the gusts and spray. They sailed for months before they found the rocks of New England and steered their ship into a friendly river haven. Indians, not customs officers, stood guard on their arrival. Forests, not skysr aper hotels, met their eyes and from those forests they set about the stem task of building their log cabins as a protection against elements and unknown dangers. At the end of the first summer, during which every member of the family had labored each and every day, the little community, in taking stock, discovered that it had raised enough com to last until a friendly spring should again make earth productive. Because the menace of hunger had been lifted, they met in their simple meeting place to give thanks to the God they had come to worship in anew land for their deliverance from death by starvation. To the sacrifices of these men and women, the world owes much of its debt for liberty. For from these men and women were born the ideals and the purposes which finally found their way into the written laws that guarantee to the people of this country those rights which are now so calmly accepted as commonplaces, but which really represent the struggle of the centuries. The comforts of today, the many the luxuries of life, the culture and the colleges are the inheritances of the generations which have contributed to progress because thought and conscience were freed and man had brushed from his shoulder the stern hand of an authority which insisted upon carving life to a single image and thought to a particular groove. To those who, in a spirit of cynicism, say to themselves that today means nothing and that they have nothing for which to be thankful that they have not won by their own efforts, it migh tbe said that there should be thankfulness that there is freedom to think, freedom to worship or not to worship, free, dom to direct the individual life to any path of either fame or infamy and that it comes as a heritage from brave men who found reverence as well as gratitude in their souls. Those who have inherited the spirit as well as the benefactions of those early pioneers Will give to .the future all that It holds of even greater growth in spiritual and material things. Just as the most primitive of necessities today would have appeared as miraculous luxuries to the Pilgrim.;, the luxuries of today will appear sordid and inconceivably squalid to the comfort which will be enjoyed in a very few brief years. But all luxury, all comfort, all progress is meaningless if there be lost, in any degree the light which guided the founders of this nation in their quest for liberty and freedom from shackles of the soul. This is not a mere holiday, not merely a playtime, not just another day of ease from labor. It is a day, when even those who have searched themselves in vain for causes of gratitude may Anally turn to the one outstanding fact that they are heirs to sturdy souls who had visions and dreams and who were willing to sacrifice to bring them to reality.
The Senate’s First Task It’s the same old battle that starts next week when Boulder dam comes before the senate. It’s the old quarrel between private interest and public welfare. Two things should not be lost sight of in the coming days. First, Colorado river floods must be cured if economic ruin and possible loss of life is to be prevented in the southwest. Second, it is, in the main, the power industry that is directing and financing the fight to prevent construction of Boulder dam. The power industry does this that the people may not have Boulder dam for a measuring rod by which to judge whether utility companies are charging excessive rates for light and power. These accusations made before on circumstantial evidence are supported now by testimony and records of the federal trade commission’s investigation of the matter. The Boulder dam Job is half done. The fight for the peopie is half won. A little courage and intelligence on the part of the senate can bring settlement of this problem that has vexed the west for so long. It is the first task before the senate and it should be dealt with promptly and wisely. , Amundsen’s Medals Roald Amundsen’s vast collection of medals has been sold to defray the debts of his estate. He died in. debt; and his medals now go to the King Frederick university of Oslo, Norway. It is a rather melancholy thing to think about. Amundsen was one of the giants of his time; yet, when he' died, he left nothing tangible to settle his estate except a collection of medals and decorations. However, we need not waste much sympathy. Amundsen’s name is secure enough. Medals, after all, are only things that serve to call attention to unusual exploits; and Amundsen’s record will be remembered long after the medals have been forgotten entirely.
Wives and Skyscrapers Rebecca West, English novelist, returns to London after visiting America with a distressing tale about the hardships of the American woman. Most Americans, she says, “live in skyscrapers with their women perched high in the air where they can’t keep a dog, much.less keep a family.” Lives of American women materially inclined thus become tragic, she says. This is a saddening picture, and would be alarming if it were true. But, as anybody who lives in America knotas, it isn’t. The percentage of families living in skyscrapers, or anything approaching the skyscraper, is so small as to be negligible. Rather more than 50 per cent of all Americans own their own homes. The amount of misinformation a visiting Britisher can collect about us seems to be absolutely unlimited. Wayward Women The people, during the coming year, will be asked to dig up not only a half million dollars for additional cells in the penitentiaries for men, but provide nearly that much money for anew prison for women. The growth of crime, or rather the number of convictions among women has been slow, much slower than among the males. The present prison has met all the requirements for fifty years. But finally it is to go, if there is to be any sort of either discipline or reform among the inmates. Women have held the conservative citadels against new ideals and new ideas rather stubbornly, but it may be prophesied with some certainty that in the next few years the great difference in crime percentages as between men and women will be wiped out. Crimes committed by women have been limited in the past. Aside from the few cases of murder in moments of passion or in seeking revenge, women in other years were sentenced mostly for petty thefts. Her sex was presumably a bar to the criminal activities in which men engaged. Today woman has demonstrated her equality in the field of crime as well as in politics, industry, commerce and education. Each day brings news of women acting as either principals or accomplices in some bit of banditry. She is found in the fields of auto thievery, of forgery, of embezzlement. Os course in the new crime of bootlegging she has very well represented in crime statistics. Times change. Not even old-fashioned notions of chivalry which hesitated to prosecute any except the most unattractive of females, can stand against progress. Woman is coming into her own, in crime as elsewhere. But when the legislature is asked to spend vast sums for prisons and punishment, it is not unreasonable to suggest that some few dollars be spent in a real survey of crime conditions with a view of preventing it, not merely locking someone up after laws have been violated. The sum of $675,000,000 in stocks and bonds was moved from one building to another in New York City in broad daylight. Rumors that it was only a night club changing its address were unfounded. Bootleggers in Cleveland are reported to be taking up t’.e study of techno-chemistry. Probably just trying to catch up with the undertakers who call themselves morticians. Startling disclosures have been expected from the investigation of the Vestris disaster. It even may be proven that the ship sank because it leaked. An army chaplain in Honolulu announced the other day that a hula dance would be a feature of the Sunaay evening religious service. Join the army and see the world.
David Dietz on Science
Conquering the Stars
No. 220 THE story of the telescope is one of the most inspiring chapters in the intellectual and cultural history of mankind. It is the story of how man’s mind has leaped the barriers of this little world and conquered the stars. New conquests await mankind now that plans have been made for a telescope with a 200-inch mirror, twice the size of the 100-inch reflector at Mt. Wilson,
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and that the nature of the Milky Way can not be ascertained without telescopes. However, it is far more likely that Democritus merely made a shrewd guess. v The writings of Roger Bacon, who died about 1294, have been taken by many authorities to indicate that this English philosopher and experimenter was familiar with the principles of both the telescope and the microscope. On the other hand, most authorities agree that he never actually built a telescope. A passage in “Magia Naturalis,” written by Giambattista Della Porta in 1558, seems to indicate that Pdrta had put two lenses together to make a crude telescope of some sort. But there is considerable doubt about this, because Kepler, a contemporary, wrote that he examined the methods of combining lenses of Porta and found them unintelligible. Thomas Digges in 1579 wrote in his “Stratioticus” that his father, Leonard Digges, profiting by the writings of Bacon, had put two lenses together so as to make distant objects appear close, evidently a crude form of telescope. Nothing apparently ever came of it, however, and so it may safely be said that though a few experimenters may have stumbled on crude telescopes in the two or three decades prior to 1600, no important results followed. The history of the telescope may be said to start shortly after 1600. The date usually accepted for ihe invention of the telescope is 1609. * There is some question as to the inventor. It seems quite likely that it was invented independently by three Dutchmen. They were Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Jansen of Middleburg and James Metius of Aldmaar. Os the three, Lippershey seems to be most widely known as the inventor of the telescope.
M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Up to a Certain Point Money Is Necessary; Beyond That It Is a Burden.”
“TlfHO gets what he wants,” * asks Thackery, “or getting it, is satisfied?” Who does not want to make a million, or making it, is ready to retire? We keep telling ourselves that money is the secret of happiness, but those who have it know better. Up to a certain point, money is necessary; beyond that it is just a burden. Every human being desires, and rightly so, enough food, clothing, shelter, and entertainment to have a place in the parade. If we stopped there, the creed of prosperity would be sound. The trouble is we think of prosperity as a matter of grades and degrees, with the most happiness at the top. No one is satisfied with enough. More, and still more, has become the common refrain. You hear people say they would be satisfied if they had a hundred thousand, but the majority of those who get it are not. The game is to outdo the other fellow, and that causes most of the trouble. It is a foolish game, because it offers no chance of permanent victory. a a a No One Believed Him “I know there is little happiness in a milliop dollars,” an old New Englander used to say, “because I have it;” yet who believed him? It was like an inveterate smoker advising his son not to smoke. Much of the good advice we get by word of mouth is spoiled by the bad advice we get by way of action. The man who advises other people not to do the thing he keeps on doing wastes breath. What we practice is of greater influence than what we preach. \ There is nothing wrong about per se, but there is everything wrong in the failure to realize that enough is enough. a a a Worse Than Drug The argument that poverty breeds crime is sound up to a certain point, but the worst crimes are not, and never have been committed by the poor. More peopje have been robbed and slain in the struggle of the powerful for more power and the rich for more riches than from any other cause. More people have lost their sense of honor in trying to keep up appearances than in trying to keep out of the poorhouse. One does not have to believe that it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through a needle’s eye in order to appreciate the risks and temptations that go with the unrestrained pursuit of wealth. The effects of morphine are mild compared to those of the moneygrubbing habit. a a a Croesus’ Case Cited Though few people know much about Croesus, his name has become a household word. For more than two thousand years that name has been accepted as the symbol of great wealth. When any one becomes enormously rich it is the custom ,to call him a Croesus. The symbolism if the name ends there, but the story carries it to a grimmer climax. Croesus not only died defeated and comparatively poor, but seems to have found a greater degree of happiness in that supposedly sad state than in the possession of weelth and power. like men, he looked on wealth and power as offering the best guarantee of happiness known to this world, but, according to tradition, Solon set him right. Solon, you remember, became famous as the law-giver of Athens, but not unitl after he had trained himself for the job by traveling throughout the known world, studying customs of various peoples and talking with all the kings, scholars and legislators he could find. Among others he visited King Croesus at Sardes, who seems to have taken advantage of the occasion to strut a bit before the humble Greek. After he had impressed Solon in the usual way, he asked the latter whom he considered the happiest man in the world. It was his thought, no doubt, that Solon would flatter him by saying, “Croesus, of course ” In this, however, Solon disappointed to proud king. Instead of naming Croesus, he described the contented lot of a modest acquaintance and wound up by saying, “Count no man happy until he is dead.” That, too, is an aspect of the symbolism commonly overlooked. a a a Cry Saves Life Croesus, so the legend runs, called on Solon as the wisest man in the world while waiting for slaves to light his funeral pyre, and calling, saved his life, for Cyrus, who had taken his capital, heard his cry, and thinking it referred to some strange god, demanded that Croesus be spared, that he might explain. That is another aspect of the symbolism commonly overlooked. a a a Clings to Wrong Idea In essentials, the experience of Croesus has been repeated over and over again, but still we cling to wealth and power as the all-im-portant goal. Still, the world visualizes them as offering the most certain assurance of happiness. Still, that type of prosperity which runs to palatial establishments, display and the control of other men’s fate challenges our admiration and ambition. Still, the multi-millionaire, the chairman of the board, the promoter of trust and combine is looked upon by the majority of people as not only successful, but happy,
now the world's largest telescope. The telescope was first turned upon the heavens in 1610. There have been attempts made to prove that the ancients used telescopes, but without any great success. It has been argued, for example, that Democritus announced that the Milky Way consisted of myriads of stars
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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyjteia, the Health Maxaslne. THE child who when young learns to eat the proper foods will have no difficulties with its diet later in life. If through infancy it receives its meals at regular periods and these meals consist of the right kind of food properly prepared, the child will have an appetite at the proper time and eat at the proper time. Regular periods of feeding aid in the establishment of self-control.
In his consideration of this subject, Dr. Lawrence T. Royster emphasizes the importance of regularity in feeding through life. Meals should be served punctually, and
Thanksgiving is worth while, for it does us all good to call the roll of our blessings one day in the year, since we spend the other 384 calling the roll of our calamities, real and imaginary. If those home-sick Pilgrims, grateful for bare existence, could establish it, we who have more than any other people in the history of the race should find no difficulty in observing it. s Twenty couples, all of them married fifty years, just have been photographed in Los Angeles, which is little short of marvelous, when you consider how close Los Angeles is to Hollywood. In this picture, not one single calf was on display, and this, too, is little short of marvelous. * u a Through all the wild weather the super-dreadnaught Marlyand encountered, Mr. Hoover did not complain, thinking possibly how the ship of state was tossed by the storms of war while Lincoln and Wilson were its pilots. u n Explorers claim they have found the missing link in an African jungle just north of Cape Town, but as he lives in a hole in the ground and worships a grasshopper, we haven’t missed much. m n n Ex-Atcorney-General Daugherty claims that he induced Harding to appoint Hoover Secretary of Commerce, and if this is so, then Daugherty rendered the country more service before he entered the cabinet than afterward. u * a The religious service of the Twen-ty-first infantry at Honolulu last Sunday night was featured by a hula dance, which was very appropriate in a way, inasmuch as it suggested the scenery worn by our first parents in the Garden of Eden. n u m When John Barrymore went to get his last marriage license he gave his age as 41, but when we first saw him in Cincinnati twenty-two years ago he was in imminent peril from whiskers. If John is only 41, then we are only learning to walk. * Twenty-one million gallons of liquor were consumed in Germany during 1927, which would indicate that all of them, except the former Kaiser, have drowned their grief.
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Develop Child’s Food Habits Early
QUESTION—When does the infant first speak? ANSWER —Toward the end of the first year the average child begins with something that sounds like papa and mama. Girls, as a rule, talk from two to four months earlier than boys.
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Time to Dig In!
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
intervals permit the stomach to empty, which promotes better digestion and gain in weight. Meal times must not be hastened. In this regard breakfast is the worst of all the meals, since children tend to sleep late and gulp their breakfast in order that they may get to school on time. Many schools which have a regular 9 o’clock hour establish occasionally one day in which the beginning of school is advanced for one hour. Here the tendency is again to hasten the breakfast on that day, and thus to interfere wtih the regular eating habits of the child. If the child is properly fed at meal times, there is little reason for feeding between meals. Indeed. few mothers really know whether or not children eat between meals and how much they eat at such times. The mother should have a record of such feeding in order that she may guide the diet properly and understand the occasional loss of appetite at dinner time. Children tend early in life to develop certain food prejudices, in-
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By Frederick LANDIS
UP to date everybody except exSecretary Fall has been accused of responsibility for the sinking of the Vestris. a a a American travelers have just been shot and robbed by Chinese bandits. Why any American should go clear to China to get this thrill is beyond the average comprehension.
Diamonds are trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win four of the five tricks, against a perfect defense.
* -9 H—None D—7-3 C—A-5 NORTH S—A h S—None H-None <2 H-A c —B t 2 D—K-4 C—Q-9-3 C—K-10 SOUTH | S—None H—4 D—lo-6-2 C—B
LAY out the cards on a table, as shown in the diagram, and study the situation. See if you can find a method of play that will net North and South four of the five trick. The solution is printed herewith:
Tl|p Solution
FOR a puzzle of so few cards this is not at all easy. South leads the ten of diamonds, North plays the seven, and East wins with the king. East, to prevent a cross-ruff by North and South, immediately returns trumps, and South wins the trick with the six, West discarding a club. Now the deuce of trumps is led,
cluding among other things, liver spinach, cabbage and carrots as foods which they avoid for one reason or anotherl It is unfortunate perhaps that nature has placed in some of the least tasty food substances the important vitamin factor that are necessary for proper growth. Doctor Royster suggests that as soon as the infant has reached the age when it can begin to take semisolid and solid food, the food should be placed before it anl the child left to eat the food or not as it determines for itself. If the child refuses to eat, he should be allowed to leave the table at the end of the meal, but should not be fed again until the ' next regular feeding time, no matter how hungry it becomes. If this manner of handling the child is persisted in, it will soon learn to eat the things placed before it. Farmers who raise animals for showing at fairs feed their animals selected diets at regular intervals. The human being's interest in developing prize stock should be at least as scientific as is the farmer’s.
KEEP THANKSGIVING tat NOT A SINGLE CALF THE MISSING LINK
THE disclosure of this sale of a million dc.lars’ worth of bogus “antique” Italian sculpture should warn future American buyers to stick to the old reliable busts of Daniel Webster. a a a Grand Duke Alexander, brother of the late czar, is coming over to lecture about conditions in Russia, but Alex doesn't know any more about the conditions than anybody else who reads the papers, the fact that he is alive being conclusive proof that he hasn’t been back to Russia. a a a Austria wants us to loan her some money, but she hasn’t anything to offer as security, except a past.
and both East and West are squeezed. If West discards his spade, North discards his low club, and vice versa. Then, If East discards a club and West has already done so, both North’s clubs are good. If West has discarded a spade, North wins the last two tricks with the ace of clubs and the nine of spades. If East discards his heart, South wins the next trick with the four of hearts and North the last trick with the ace of clubs. Although the squeeze on both East and West at the same time is interesting, of equal interest is North’s play of the seven of diamonds on the first trick. If the three were played Instead, North would be forced to win East’s diamond return. Then no matter what North leads, East and West will easily win another trick. The puzzle also is defeated if the club, or any other than the ten of diamonds is opened. (Copyright, 1928. NEA Service. Inc.)
This Date in U. S. History
Nov. 29. 1775—An American privateer captured three British ships. 1832—Birthday of Louisa M. Alcott, novelist. 1863—Confederates withdrew from before Knoxville, Tenn. 1869—Treaty for annexation of Eanto Domingo negotiated.
AoV. 29, 1928
Sinking of Vestris Is Scandal
This is the last article in the daily series on the Vestris sea disaster, in which Charles Johnson Post, noted marine expert labels the foundering of the Lamport & Holt steamship as more than a disaster, as a scandal. Every child was drowned and only eight women were saved. The only hope to end such occurrences he declares, Is in a complete and basic revision of our whole archaic sea trade and ship construction laws BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST (Copyright, 1928. New York Telegram Cos t “ r TT'HE roots of this sea business,” I said a shipping man to me ‘go right into the marine insurance field. If you penalize ship owners by levying Just as high insurance—auu marine insurance is high, anyway—after they put in safety devices as without tnem, you can’t get thorn to put them in. Marine insurance underwrites today are, in effect, giving a premium to unsafe ships—or ships that lack proper and modern equipment." Os course this would be entirely a sympathetic appeal if the ship owners had ever shown any energy ni demanding the revision of sea standards up to modern safety standards. But, as it stands, the real logic of its appeal lies in the revelation of the drastic necessity of demanding one of the most thorough overhaulings of our sea situation. Everything about the sea—practically speaking and as revealed by this scandalous Vetris sinking—is a most amazing revelation of an archaic ship-owning and ship-in-suring indifference to human life, either of passengers or crew, and a history of opposition to legislation that would mean modern, (scientific appliances and stucture for safety of ships and human life. a a a SHIP owners in the past have failed in voluntarily assuming their proper responsibilities to the public. Having failed voluntarily, there remains only the compulsion of law. Do not forget those drowned children and only eight women surviving of the Vestris passenger list. Marine insurance interests have failed, of their own moral responsibly, to take reasonable steps to safeguard life and the hazards of ships; other insurance interests with keener conscience have, in other lines of hazard on shore, effective and far higher insurance principles and practices. Reducing insurance premiums on ships in which the risk was less, through installation of additional or superior safety equipment, is not only good business, but it is sound morals and sound ethics. But marine insurance interests have failed voluntarily; there remains for thejn. too, only the compulsion of the law. This drastic overhauling of our complete sea legislation is the debt that the congress of the United States owes to the drowned women and children of the Vestris. It is the only apology that we, as a nation, can make to those pitiful and unnecessary dead. And should these ship owners and unfair marine insurance interests sit in as honored advisers in this drastic overhauling—after their thrifty failures of the past? No. Their trust is, and has been, to their profits solely—and, give them credit, they have not deviated from that trust. And because they have not deviated there has been a Vestris. Nor should the marine insurance interests be intrusted with shaping the sea legislation that will safeguard lives and compel recognition by them of adequate property or life saving equipment. They have thrown the weight of their years to profits for themselves and against greater security of either life or property at sea. n st st SHIP captains, men of the actual sea, naval architects, insurance minds of the land that are generations in advance of the encrusted archaists of marine insurance, engineers in the fields of safety devices and experts in their reliability and soundness, and public-spirited minds in the fields of statesmanship and social legislation are the types that must be chosen. It Is men of these types of experience and public spirit who can bring out of this outworn and crazyquilt patchwork of sea traditions and sea evasions a legislative sea code that will no longer be an affront to our sense of public morality and proper decency. It is minds like these upon which the public must depend in this emergency. The whole sea structure, its outworn and actually dangerous insurance standards, its ship owners and their carefully preserved “traditions of the sea,” the shifting and preserved legal evasions that impose no burden of security for human life on ship owners, together with the rooted customs whereby no unsafe ship—unsafe in the light of science and engineering—ever can be as unfit for use as long as her owners can insure her or get her past some trivial inspection. It must be overhauled, drastically overhauled, and made to fit with decency into the civilization and moralty of this day of ours. Congress can do it. Let it strike hard and deep and effectively. Let us demand that they do—and demand that they do it now, at this next sitting.
Daily Thought
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. —Psalms 107:14. a a a THERE are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to*do what he ought. —Charles Kingsley. What was the area of Mexico prior to the Treaty of 1848 with the United States? Prior to 1848 Mexico claimed 1,611,683 square miles of territory that included Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and northern California. The present area is 760,093 square miles. Under our present system of elections would it be possible to elect a Republican president and a Democratic vice president? No.