Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1929 — Page 5

DEC. 21, 1929.

MINE DISASTER DEATHS ‘CHEAP’ PRICE FOR COAL Three and Half Lives Lost Per Million Tons is Fatality Toll. By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Some sixty lives lost In a coal mine explosion at McAlester,. Okla., are part of the price the country pays to have fossil carbon to burn for industries and homes. Every million tons of coal extracted from the ground in this country costs about three and a half human lives, a cheap price when viewed from the national and industrial standpoint and compared with other countries, but nevertheless dear to the victims and their families. Making mines safe for the miners has been the subject of cne of the country’s most vigorous of safety campaigns waged by the specialists of the United Stales bureau of mines. Eleven mine rescue railroad cars located at strategic points await the recurrent calls to mine disasters, just as hospital ambulances serve communities. Trained in Rescue One or two out of every hundred miners of the country are trained in mine rescue and recovery work. A much larger number, some 365.000, are trained in first aid. Auto trucks equipped with mine rescue apparatus are ready to serve in mining districts, and at the first word of a disaster, the United States bureau of mines experts hurry to the scene of the explosion to organize rescue crews and direct the work. A United States bureau of mines rescue station is located at McAlester so that experts were on the scene a few minutes after the disaster. Prevention, rather than rescue, occupies most of the energy of the mine safety engineers. Lights that will not ignite the gases and coal dust produced in mining operations, explosives that do not set off the dust and gases, mining machinex-y and motors that do not spark, are among the equipment recommended by the government engineers for preventing explosions. Dusting Recommended Dusting the mine with rock dust j to dilute the explosive coal dust is another recommended practice. Although the cause of the Me- j Alester disaster is not known ! definitely, it probably was due to j ignition of gas. The mine probably j used safe lamps and permissible explosives. but it is believed that it was not rock dusted and that the mining machinery was not of the permissible type. The electric motors may have provided the sparks of the disaster. The greatest aid to mine safety is proper supervision, the experto declare. that will see that there is enough ventilation, that the workings are timbered properly and that the safety devices are not neglected. The McAlester disaster is the seventh major mine explosion in this country this year, compared with a total of thirteen for last year. Only Bto 12 per cent of the coal mine fatalities are due to explosions. while over half of the 2,500 lives lost on the average each year are due to rock and coal falls in the mines. Norwegian Steamer Grounds Bv I'nited Press VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. 21. The Norwegian steamer Venator grounded on the beach dive miles from Puerto, Mexico, during a heavy gale. No lives were lost.

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* Painting toys and fixing them over as Christmas gifts for children at the Riley hospital has been lots of fun for pupils of school No. 22, Kansas and Illinois streets. Dorothy Sftmmer (left), Leon Maar and Shirley Bernstein are pictured busily engaged in the toy workshop. Pupils brought their discarded piajdhings to school, where they were repaired under direction of Harry Brown, teacher of shop work, an Miss Garnett Foreman. A big load of toys was placed in the children’s room of the Riley hospital today.

SEEK CONTROL OF POWER SITE Engineer Fights Company in Flathead Area. Bu Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The same method that public utilities developed to bring pressure on federal officials in the Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals fight, now is being used in the controversy over Flathead power sites, it became known here today. Th Flathead - site, said to be the third largest power potentiality in the United States, will be disposed of soon after the holidays by the federal power commission. Applicants for permission to develop it are the Rocky Mountain Power Company, which is related to the Electric Bond and Share Company group, and Walter R. Wheeler, Minneapolis engineer, who operates independently. Wheeler says he intends to sell power cheaply for manufacture of fertilizer in the Flathead district. The Rocky Mountain Power Company is fighting him, although it does not intend to use more than a small portion of the power capacity of the site. According to information sent to Washington by high Montana state officials, the power company now is at- work organizing a barrage of “public opinion’’ to be directed at the fedex*al power commission. “They are working the Chamber of Commerce and many private citizens to wire Washington to give the license to the Rocky Mountain Power Company,” he wrote. “They even had a friend of mine write letters . . . a state appointed officer; also Kiwanis clubs.” CAPTURE BANK BANDITS Two Are Arrested After Gun Battle at Gracemcfit, Okla. Bn United Press GRACEMONT. Okla., Dec. 21. Two bandits who held up the First National bank here and took $1,622 FiTday were captured Friday night after a gun battle in which both were wounded. They gave their names as Joseph Cherry of Ft. Smith, Ark., and Oscar Logston, Tulsa.

CARDINAL TO RETIRE Papal Secretary of State to Be Relieved of Duties. Bu United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 21.—Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state under two popes, Benedict XV and Pius XI, and the only prince of the Roman church in recent times who has had the distinction of serving two pontiffs in that post, will retire within a short time, the United Press is informed from authortative sources. It has bee nrumored for some time that the aged prelate, who is 77 years old, has wished to be relieved from the arduous duties connected with his office. Marriage Licenses Ernest H. Nlebrand. 24, of Central buyer, and Mercedes F. Coleman, 23, of 1103 Central, bookkeeper. Frank C. Glascock, 37, of 36 West Thirteenth, engraver, and Helen M. Hagott, 26, of 36 West Thirteenth. Ora K. Kramer, 24, of 1223 Linden, mechanic, and Margaret R. Lee. 18. of 1223 Linden. William H. Corbriser, 21, of San AnTonio, Tex., student, and Elizabeth H. Maghili, 21. of 3067 College, student.

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WINTER REALLY nnUNDAY Sun Then Is at Farthest Position South. Bv Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—'“Goosebone” weather prophets differ in their forecasts of whether the forth* coming winter will be warm or cold, but no matter which it is, it will start on scheduled time on Sunday, Dec. 22, at 1:53 a. m., central time. That is the moment of the winter solstice—the time at which the sun reaches its farthest south position, and is directly overhead at noon on points along the Tropic of Capricorn. Also, the nothern hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the year’s shortest day and longest night. After the solstice the sun will rise earlier gradually and set later, at the same time climbing higher in the sky each day. But though each square foot of ground dally will receive a greater amount of heat from the sun, as it shines more and more directly down upon it, the weather will not get wanner for many weeks. It takes a long time for the earth to absorb fully the heat that it receives, and for it to take in more than it gives off. Then warmer weather begins to come. You may now have an electric clock that never needs winding, or adjusting, and never ticks. Simply plug in the lamp socket, and it will record exactly with the frequency of the electrical power system.

“Listening In Young people are busy folk. There are many interests clamoring for a place in the day. Itrequires will power to set apart a period of time for daily fellowship with God but the priceless value of such a practice has been demonstrated by its results in many a Christian life. A day goes better throughout if it is begun with a quiet period of listening in for the voice of God. Sometimes, among the crashing, roaring sounds of life it is difficult to hear it but it pays to listen in, to keep the ears of the soul sensitive. You say you are too busy for such a period each day. Then your life is not properly planned and you as its architect need to reshape the plan. Come to Church Sunday This advertisement has been made possible by public spirited citizens who wish to make Indianapolis a better and happier place in which to live.

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Tla lat.rn.tlon.l filiform Sondmy School Loosen for Doc. CS. OhrUli.a ObUfotlom to Childhood. Lake BY WM- E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The CongTeeoilonollst THE lesson theme as stated is the topic for young people and adults. The general leeson title, “The Child in a Christian World,” Is a little broader and simpler, and it suggests the consideration of the whole theme from the child’s standpoint as well as from the standpoint of older folks. The text of the lesson in the beautiful story of Mary’, the child Jesus, and the shepherds, is suggestive rather than specific in its application. It suggests first of all the supreme importance of the child, not from any theoretical attitude toward childhood, but simply frdm the practical standpoint of the life forces inherent in a babe. It might well induce in any thoughtful person a reverent attitude toward a new-boni babe when he considers all the possibilities of future development, and power for good or for evil, that are found In that little life. The artist has portrayed the infant Jesus in the manger with a halo of glory around His head, but it is doubtful whether the shepherds saw any such manifestation. The awe and wonder that they brought to the infant Christ were bom of mystery’. Had they not been devout men, mindful of all the marvelous things in God’s economy, they would not have been so ready to bring their tribute to a newborn babe. They showed in the

very act their freedom from narrowness and their teachableness. Contrast with their simple wonder and adoration of the child the spirit of those who rebuked the mothers who brought their little children to Jesus that He should bless them. Here was the spirit that, unfortunately, has been more representative to the world. Even Its educators and its professed Christian leaders have in practice, if not in theory, too often disregarded the child. Their whole ministry has been conceived of for adults, and it is only In relatively recent times that the church has ever begun adequately to see and to perform its responsibilities toward the young. Possibly Christian people have formerly left much of the dealing with the young to the individual home, and there Is a sense in which the home and the parents will always be the most important factors in dealing with the young. But it would seem as fitting to leave all the education of the young to home and parents without any attempt to develop public schools as to suggest that all religious and moral instruction should be on the part of home and parents with no provision for education and guidance in the moral and religious sphere similar to that in public school life. When Robert Raikes began the first Sunday school the marvel was that that Institution should have been an innovation. The Sunday school or church school has justi-

fied its place and mk : ion, but even with the large develc xment of religious education the Christian world lags far behind In the fulfillment of it* responsibilities and the acceptance of its privileges. The problem of moral and religious education has, of course, its very difficult aspects, due to the religious sectionalism which aharacterites the community and to the convictions or prejudices which make wide and general co-operation almost impossible. Perhaps with the progress of the world toward emphasis upon the cardinal virtues we shall attain a stage where it will be possible to make the general work of education more definitely contribute to the upbuilding of moral and spiritual character. Certainly it would seem that no education of youth can be either satisfactory or sufficient which fails In the great purpose. That any one should doubt where Christians should stand upon this matter is strange. The New Testament stands nobly and profoundly for tile recognition of the moral and spiritual possibilities of the child. The profound stress at every point is on love as the rule of life In family relationships and in society. It is the perception of that and in the insistence upon It today that we may hope best to serve the young and fulfill our responsibilities toward every child. The so-called English walnut is not English at all, but comes from China.

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HOLD NEW YEAR PROGMM/T T Variety of Events Slated for Annual Meeting. Checker and chess competitions, handball tournament play and billiard events will feature the annual open house program of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. New Year's day it the central branen. New YoTk and IlUnois street. Five hundred members Mil participate. Milton Munger, checker expert, will meet all eomers. D. B. Luten will meet all comers at chess. Thomas Smith, champion, will engage in annual tournament handball play. Horse pool contests will to be held in the billiard room At 10 a. m. and straight pool contests at 3 pm. Nine exhibits have been arranged, showing facilities of the Y. M. C. A and its work. Boys’ department classes will give an athletic exhibition in the afternoon. At night boxing, wrestling and gymnastic events will be held by senior leaders and a basketball game will be played by the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Big Four railway quintets. A special program mill be given at the swimming pool at 4 o’clock. The Big Meeting orchestra, directed by L. 8. Von Staden, and the Junior orchestra, directed by L. C. Troutman, will play, and “The Freshman” and “The Thief of Bag. dad” will be motion picture features.