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An Unusual Incident Implications and inferences that are ceitain to be drawn trom the decision of the fivo judges to reform methods of handling receiverships are more important than the announcement itself. There has been very harsh criticism concerning the manner in which these matters have been handled in the past and especially concerning the size oi fees which have gone to lawyers. Creditors and owners of a concern which falls into the sad days of court dissolution have too frequently found that the majoi portion of the assets was needed to pay foi the funeral ceremonies. The judges now announce that they' have agreed not to take the advice of the attoiney who asks for a receive! in naming such official. The practice of which complaint has been made and which is now' to be abandoned is to name some friend of the attorney as receiver. .The receiver then names an attorney. Both draw fees. In many cases fine attorney will be named as receiver and employs another to advise him. What is more important is the size of the fees given for winding up affairs of any bankrupt concern. Every penny possible should be saved for creditors and owners in misfortune. It would appear from the fact that it was necessary to have an understanding among the judges, and perhaps a formal meeting on the subject, that the judges admit the practice they now condemn has been general. That apparently is a confession and perhaps the public may forgive if the results from the change of methods produces tangible results. The real test will come when the percentages salvaged for owners and creditors begin to rise and the cost of administration is reduced. It is rather a bitter comment that it is too costly to go broke in Indianapolis. The high cost of bankruptcy has been a source of much injustice. The people will watch to see whether the administrative costs fall and especially whether the new order results in the naming of men who are not under suspicion of obtaining them because of political prestige. Wrecking a Tradition A great service with a great tradition—the United States coast guard. Ten of thirty-nine members of this service, charged with stealing and drinking seized liquor in Boston, have pleaded guilty*. Is this an argument for or against prohibition ? Hoover Speeds tht Delegation The American delegation to the London naval conference may be said to be off to England. True, the George Washington, which has the honor of bearing the distinguished group across the Atlantic, will not sail until Thursday, but the real good-bys have been said and Anal instructions given. President Hoover grouped the delegation about him at breakfast Tuesday. Just what he said to them, in detail, is not a matter of public record, but that both he and they talked in a spirit of optimism tinged with caution is known. The President and his delegation feel that a fivepower agreement to reduce the naval burdens of the world can be reached. Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States each will be represented by men whose very character should assure success, but there are manifestly many obstacles to overcome and doubtless it will take time. So, President Hoover warns the American people not to become impatient. Three or four months may be required. The sense of security of each nation must be satisfied, if the conference is to succeed, and as the needs of all vary, progress at times necessarily must be slow. “It is the most important of international conferences of a great many years, and probably the most important for many years to come,” said the President. “The progress of peace for the world rests in a great measure upon the shoulders of the five delegations.” Here are grave words spoken, as it may prove, at a great moment in history. For those of us who stay behind, it will be largely a question of patience. Noe is it always the easiest task—that of those who only stand and wait, Yet it is vastly important that we should not allow ourselves to be swept off our feet by sudden, possible surface squalls, thus throwing about the London proceedings an atmosphere prejudicial to success. “We go to London in a fine atmosphere of international good will and it is the duty of our country to preserve that atmosphere so far as lies within our power.” said the President. The President could give no better advice than that. —s The Key to the Senate The old guard in the senate Tuesday came near to sawing off the limb from under itself. Reed Smoot of Utah, the canniest among them, saved the day. ( The fight was over keeping Senator La Follette off the senate finance committee. The issue was being decided in the Republican committee on committees. Four of the old guard—Reed. Moses. Bingham and Deneen—were so bothered by the possibility of the progressive La Follette getting a seat on that powerful tariff and revenue writing committee that they

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cast votes in favor of a junior senator and thus violated the seniority rule. • It will be recalled that the senate is pretty well controlled by committees, which in turn are in most cases controlled by the old guard. The secret of this old guard control is, of course, the unofficial seniority rule under which length of service determines a member’s committee rights. The old guard tried to put Senator Thomas on the finance committee, despite the fact that Thomas had not requested the place and is junior to La Follette, who had requested it. Only the wily Smoot, apparently, was calm enough to realize that although the progressives for once would profit by the seniority rule, to overthrow that rule probably •would end in-complete rout of the old guard. So Smoot refrained from voting, thus deadlocking the committee on committees. On more legitimate grounds—those of representation of the progressive group and those of his own personal fitness for finance committee membership— La Follette deserves the place. The old guard's opposition to him, therefore, can be understood. But it will be interesting to see whether the o.d guard will dare tinker with the seniority system, which hitherto has perpetuated reactionary power in the senate. Another Appeal The Kentucky legislature has been asked again to save Cumberland Falls from development by the Insull power interests. The appeal comes from T. Coleman Du Pont, former Delaware senator and native Kentuckian, who renews his offer to buy up the land around the Falls and present it to the state as a permanent park. Du Pont is the leader of the conservationists who have been fighting the Insull application not only in Kentucky, but before the federal power commission. So far they have been able to save the falls, despite the efforts of the Kentucky Governor and other state officials to turn it over to Insull. The Kentucky legislature must realize by this time that Cumberland Falls is far more valuable to the state as a scenic beauty spot than a power project. It is not the only power site possibility in the state and if allowed to remain undisturbed will be far more attractive and far more profitable to Kentucky as a park.. Freedom of the Streets Ambassador Manuel Tellez of Mexico has set an example that other dignitaries in Washington well might follow. When a group of Communists chose Mexico’s embassy as the scene for one of their periodical demonstrations here in protest against one thing and another, the police as usual rounded them up and marched them off to a station house. Thus far, the procedure was along traditional lines. The same thing happens not infrequently at the state department. The difference came when the ambassador protested to the police and insisted that the demonstrators be released. When the officers declined, he asked the state department to intervene and request the release of the prisoners. This was done. Tellez not only is blessed with a sense of humor, but he sees no great harm in the public exposition of views that do not coincide with his.

REASON By H landi l s :K

WHEN the news reaches the star upon which Oliver Goldsmith now resides that a copy of the first edition of his ‘ Vicar of Wakefield” recently sold in London for $2,500, it will probably remind Goldie of that day when he was so poor and so cold that he ripped open his feather bed and crawled into it to keep from freezing. a a a One of the greatest improvements that could be made in the matter of prohibition enforcement would be to select all our bootleggers from among gentlemen who are childless. As it is now, every time one of them is sent over the road he leaves from nine to twelve children to mourn his departure. a a a Some say that these plots to break out of prison are due to overcrowding and others say that they are due to the fact that prisons are not up to date, but we have a sneaking suspicion that now and then one of the attempted escapes is due to a desire to get out. a tt a MAC McMURRAY, Indianapolis barber, states that the late President Harrison liked to have his head rubbed hard, which has always been our own idea of high life. If we ever get a stranglehold on Dame Fortune we intend to have a line of head rubbers, standing in single file and as soon as one sinks from exhaustion, another will take his place and carry on. a m a Following this airplane crash at Bolling Field in which five were killed and this other crash at Amarillo, Tex., in which five more bit the dust, the statistical evangelists of aviation will now make their bow and endeavor to establish the proposition that man in the air is much safer than man on the ground. a a a The people of his home state seem bursting with a desire to please Senator Borah, for no sooner had he criticised prohibition enforcement than the citizens of Mullen, Idaho, went to bat and arrested and convicted twenty-four of the inhabitants, including the mayor and all the members of the common council. a a tt We are wondering if this apparent willingness of the government at Washington to consider granting the Filipinos their independence may not be just a clever piece of propaganda, issued for its possible effect on England at the coming disarmament conference at London, for John Bull would be willing to make almost any occasion to keep Uncle Sam in the Orient. a a TWO ancient fictions were scrapped this last week, the first one being the notion that deep-walkers never hurt themselves, which was repealed when a citizen of California fell down stairs and broke his neck, and the second one being the impression that one can not drown without going down for the third time, this being knocked into a cocked hat by a citizen of New York who jumped into the Hudson and never came up. a e a W’e hope that these suspicious South American countries will not find any threats of American imperialism in the fact that some of our surgeons at Johns Hopkins hospital just have operated on the president of the Dominican republic and removed his left kidney. tt a a A dispatch from New York states that business leaders are sure that 1930 will be a full year, and if it’s so, it will be a busy year lor the coroners.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: A College President Fails to Give as Clear a View of College Sports as Does a Champion Swimmer, in Their Interviews. PRESIDENT LOWELL of Harvard theorizes on the problem of college sports. George Kojac. champion swimmer of Rutgers, tells what he knows about it from personal experience. As between the two, Kojac makes a clearer and more convincing statement. One finds it easier not only to understand what Kojac says, but to get the point of it. Most problems, when you come to think of it, must be translated and solved" in the light of personal experience. a a a Kojac tells how his education appeared to become a matter, of na-tion-wide concern after he had made a good athletic record in high school, how he was invited to attend this or that college, how he received letters, telegrams, and even personal visits from prominent alumni, and how it was intimated in one way or another that he could get by with little cash and just as little study. He tells how he became suspicious, because the thing seemed too good to be true, and how, after thinking it over, he decided that if education was his object in attending college, he would better forego the ease and luxury that were offered in exchange for his presence as an athletic star. a a u Took Unusua! Course KOJAC picked out Rutgers, where he was promised nothing, but where there was a good premedical course. In that respect, he probably can be regarded as exceptional. Most boys find it difficult to resist the temptations thrown their way, not because they are lazy, not because they lack ambition, but because they have become infatuated with the idea that pre-eminence in sport must mean something of great and permanent value. Neither should they be blamed for such an infatuation, since it was put into their heads by older people, and since the cheering crowds at every game appear to confirm it. * 8 The tragedy of the thing consists not in the money squandered, or the time wasted, but in the false illusionment of youth. Thousands upon thousands of young men are coming out of our schools and colleges every year, content in the belief that they have made a secure niche for themselves in life by running, jumping, or cutting up other didoes in a superior way. The shock of discovering that it does not do them much good in a business or professional sense, and that they have bet on the wrong horse, is doubly discouraging, because it might have been avoided on the one hand, and because it comes too late on the other. a u u Both Are Dumb OVER-EMPHASIS of sport finds a logical reaction in the overemphasis of culture. At one end of the line we have the subsidized athlete, getting by on his brawn. At the other end we have the bookworm, who considers it vulgar to toil with a dumbbe One is about as bad o~ as the other when it comes to fitness for the struggle with modern life, but both are being glorified as the best products of our educational system. . While one crowd yells itself hoarse in the stadium, another is clamoring over the necessity of dead classics. The vast majority of boys and girls who are not obsessed with the ambition to become prodigies in either modern athletics or ancient literature, but who want the chance to lead useful, decent lives, are left out in the cold. It is a case of star-gazing all round. It's Different in U, S. PRESIDENT LOWELL refers to the Greek idea of sport as opposed to the Roman idea, with the justifiable inference that most people would favor the former, if they understood the difference. Most people do not understand the difference, largely because this is neither Greece nor Rome. Most people feel that while America can borrow ideas here and there from the past, it can not remodel the present structure to fit them. Greece and Rome were unacquainted with the blessings of football, or baseball, just as they were unacquainted with those of the automobile, jazz and the skyscraper.

Daily Thought

The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.” —Psalms 14:1. tt m A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. —Moliere. What is the most extraordinary play ever executed in football? This is somewhat a matter of opinion, but possibly one of the most unusual plays ever executed was the sixty-yard run in the wrong direction, made by Bill Riegels, center on the California university team, in a game against Georgia Tech, Jan. 1, 1929. A historic trick play occurred in the Carlisle-Har-vard game of Oct. 31, 1903, in which the ball was secretly slipped beneath the back of Charles Dillon’s jersey, which had been specially prepared for the purpose and Dillon ran past the whole Harvard team 105 yards for a touchdown to win the game. Such a play is now barred by the rules. Has any President of the United States ever been a member of the Roman Catholic church? No. What is the value of a United States 25-cent piece dated 1838? | Coin dealers offer 25 to 35 cents for them. , ~. . r ■

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Early Attention Important in Cancer

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT is generally recognized that the best method of controlling cancer is early diagnosis and surgical removal for the vast majority of cases. Certain types of cancer, particularly of the skin and of the organs peculiar to women, are treated with radium and sometimes with exceedingly successful results. Recently the cancer research committee of the Marie Curie clinic in London has summarized the medical experience with the use of radium in the latter type of cases throughout the world.

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I’VE often wondered why it is that performers on a radio program always must be traveling somewhere. You know how it is. First of all the announcer tells us that the soprano of the pig-iron pixies is in a canoe ascending the Amazon. And it is from the middle of that great river that we of the invisible audience hear her singing “Old Heidelberg.” The tenor of the troupe is discovered on the Albany night boat and does “Katinka” there, while the pigiron pixies’ jazzbo band is pictured by the announcer as climbing Mt. Blanc while they pause beside a glacier’s edge to render “Why Was I Born.” It had not been my notion that I would ever be caught up in this mad whirl, but last week I graciously consented, for hire, to appear on a commercial hour. My first surprise was a note requesting me to show up at 9 o’clock on the day of the big event for a “dress rehearsal.” I was puzzled as to costume and aghast at the hour. However, the ordeal was not so bad, because I didn’t turn up. But at noon, or thereabouts, the director of the program talked things over with me. mam Too Puzzling "TXTHERE,” he asked, “do you W wish to be spotted?” I looked nervously at my Vest and he caught my conclusion. “You don’t get the idea,” he explained. “Where do you want to be when you give this talk or monolog or whatever you call it?” “I thought we were doing it right here in the studio at 8 o’clock tonight,” I said. The director smiled pityingly. “Yes, yes,” he assured me, “but I mean to the eye of the imagination. For instance, one of the people with us is a famous fashion editor. I will tell the radio audience that we have found her in the smoking room of a liner crossing the English channel. You see, it gives atmosphere.” “How would it be,” I suggested, “if you discovered me reclining on the big sofa in my sitting room? That’s a very comfortable sofa.*' The director shook his head. Apparently, he did not feel that any of the millions of invisible listeners would be Interested in my sofa. With a wave of his hand he dismissed the project.

Questions and Answers

What kind of football is played bv the schools and colleges of the United States? Intercollegiate or Rugby football is the game played in this country with an oval ball, and soccer or associaticr. football is played with a round ball. What language is spoken in Iceland? The language spoken and written in Iceland in the present day Is almost precisely the came as that

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

At present in many of the great cancer clinics both the radium and surgical methods are used in such types of cancer, and it is still being debated which one is preferable. This would indicate that both methods yield good results in many cases and both methods fail in other types of cases. For the application of radium special devices are necessary which permit introduction of the radium or the radium emanation in tubes directly to the point where the cancer is situated. In the presence of complicating conditions, such as infections, severe anemia, diabetes, heart disease or tuberculosis, it is necessary to be especially cautious.

“It doesn’t have to be in the present. We can put you in the past or even the future. Anywhere you want to be.” m m m Looking Up SURELY this was a handsome offer and I tried to concentrate and remember some particular time and place where I had acquitted myself with honor and glory. There must have been a long pause, because he interrupted sharply to say, “You were in a show, once, weren’t you?” Looking about to see that we were alone, I muttered weakly “Once.” “That’s fine. We’ll put you back on the stage in that show. What theater was it at?” “The Century Roof.” “Fine. Now we’ve got it. This is just the setting we need.” I didn’t want to spoil his fun by telling him that out of a long and varied career, my brief appearance in “Round the Town” probably was the most catastrophic experience of my life. I even remained mum about the fact that since we closed the owners have decided to tear the theater down. They tried burning sulphur candles, but that was no use, and so they agreed that it would be better to start all over again from the ground up. No reason came to my mind why I should be on the stage of the Century Roof now. In fact, none developed during the time that I actually was there. To be sure, the setting did give me a chance to revive one or two jokes out of that unlamented charade. m m m Better Spot IF I ever get hired again for radio I will have some better spot thought up for myself. I will have the announcer discover me in the Thanatopsispoker game the night I filled the straight flush in hearts. Every man can remember a fewthin gs in his life of which he has a right to be justly proud if' only he is allowed time enough to think back. Yet, and if ever, next time, with the entire expanse of the past from which to choose, I might be tempted to go way back to select something of world-wide importance. I might live again in the guise of

spoken and written at the date of the colonization in the ninth century—the ancient Norroena (northern) or Danish tongue, which presents close affinities to Anglo-Saxon and which, the sagas, state, was readily understood not only throughout the Scandinavian countries but also in England. Who were the Scythians? Wild tribes of Russia which invaded the borders of Palestine in the time of Jeremiah. _

The studies show, how'ever, one fact that is especially important; far too many cases of cancer in young as well as in older women are being neglected until it is too late for more than temporary amelioration. Eighty per cent of the cases seen in the Marie Curie clinic in London were already inoperable when first seen. One of the greatest experts in France, Regaud, in a recent report to the League of Nations, advised the formation or special consultation centers for cancer which might be in close touch with laboratories so that the proper examinations could be made for early diagnosis of this disease.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to then agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

some notable ancestor and pull a longbow at Hastings. I could be old Horatius Broun who held the bridge. Or Beau Broun who taught Brummel how to dress. Or the Broun who put up the money for the first voyage of Columbus, taking the jewels, of course, as security. And yet, even so, I think there was merit in my first suggestion. The big couch would have been by far the most comfortable of all, (Copyright. 1930. bv The Times!

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BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS —January 8— ON Jan. 8. 1815, the last battle of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was fought at Chalmette, near New Orleans. After failing to batter down the American lines by a cannonade, the British, under Major-General Sir Edward Pakenham, decided to try an assault, which was made the morning of Jan. 8. The British attacked with spirit, but were met with such a heavy cannonade and with such a storm of bullets from the rifles of American troops, mainly backwoodsmen from Tennessee and Kentucky, that in less than half an hour 2,000 men, including Pakenham, were shot down, and the assault failed. The American loss was but eight killed and thirteen wounded. The battle helped to quicken the yet feeble sense of American nationality. ,

Snakes There Is perhaps no subject in the realm of natural history on which so much misinformation and superstition exists as that of snakes. The human race, possible as a result of racial memory from the time of prehistoric ancestors, has regarded snakes as its enemies. The story of the Garden of Eden makes the Tempter take the form of a snake. Our Washington Bureau has prepared a bulletin full of interesting and informative material, drawn from the best authorites on reptiles that tells all about snakes, the harmless, the harmful and the poisonous snakes, their habits, breeding and other interesting facts, myths and superstitions about snakes, treatment for snake bites, and so on. You will find the bulletin full of facts that you want to know about these reptiles. Fill out of the coupon below and send for it: ■ CLIP COUPON HERE NATURAL HISTORY EDITOR, Washington Bureau,''"' The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin SNAKES, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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SCIENCE Bv DAVID DIETZ Henry Fairchild Osborn Contends Human Race Is 900,000 Years Older Than Scientists Have Supposed. THE human race is at least 900.000 years older than scientists have supposed. That is the contention of President Henrj Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City. Dr. Osborn, who is also research professor of zoology at Columbia ; university and < ne of the world s greatest authorities upon the subject of early man, discussed his views j her 2 in an address at the meeting oi ! the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Most scientists place the age of | the human race at about 100,000 ' years. , , However, Dr. Osborn in his address here stated his belief that the hyman race is at least 1,000,000 years old. , . . Scientists believe that it is about 25,000 years since the retreat of the glaciers. The glacial age, known j scientifically at the pleistocene Age. Is believed to have existed for several hundred thousands of years. The age before that is known as the Pliocene. Most scientists think that man as we know him today developed during the rigors of the glacial oKe. Dr. Osborn, however, believes that the human race was already in existence as a distinctive division of nature at the start of the glacial age. mam 'Dawn Men’ IN support of his theory. Dr. Osborn advanced the fact that chipped stone implements known technically as eoliths have been found in excavations with the fossils of animals known to have existed in the Pliocene age, the age preceding the glacial age. These eoliths were found by Reid Moir, an Englishman. Dr. Osborn said that Abbe Henri Breuil, noted French archeologist, had recently pronounced these chipped stones as | undoubtedly true eoliths of human ! workmanship. Dr. Osborn also contended that ! the skull and jawbone found near ! Piltdown in Sussex, England, and j constituting the so-called Piltdown ! man, were of Pliocene origin. There has been considerable discussion as to whether the rock layers in which the Piltdown man was found, were of Pleistocene or Pliocene age. The Piltdown man has been named Eoanthropus, which is Greek for “dawn man.” Dr. Osborn contended that the size of the skull of the Piltdown man indicated a brain comparing favorably with the brain of present-day man. From this fact, he deduced the opinion that Piltdown man was able to use implements and probably spoke a language. Dr. Osborn also expressed the belief that the skull and other bones found at Trtnil, Java, and named the Pithecanthropus, have been misnamed. Pithecanthropus was also a large-brained “dawn man.” mum Brain Ratio DR, OSBORN denied that mankind is in any way descended from any of the existing great ape stocks. Evolutionists have never said that man is a direct descendent of any of the existing apes. They have contended, however, that the great apes, the chimpanzee, the gibbon, the orang and the baboon, had sprung from the same stock which gave rise to mankind and that the division into these various branches took place in the not distant past, a matter of 100,000 or 200,000 years ago. Dr. Osborn maintained that man’s immediate ancestor was a creature j very much like present-day man | whom he named the dawn man. He said that mankind had a. common origin with the other mammalian stocks of the earth, but insisted that the human stock branched off at a much earlier period than that usually conceded by evolutionists. Daw r n man, according to Dr. Osborn, had his beginning as a separate species even prior to Pliocene time. He placed his beginning in Miocene time, the geological age preceding Pliocene. According to this, dawn jnan may have had his beginning as much as 10,000,000 years ago. Dr. Osborne believes he is justified in assigning this long a period of development to the dawn man because of the relatively large skulls of man in comparison to that of the apes. He pointed out that the ratio of brain weight to body weight in man is one to fifty, while in the gibbon, the “brainiest” of the great apes, the ratio is one to sixty-six. In the gorilla, the ratio is one to 150. Dr. Osborn also disagreed with evolutionists who contend that the development of the human race took place in a wooded area. He believes that mankind developed in a plateau region of flat grassy plains.