Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1932 — Page 2

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AGRICULTURE, DATING BACK 10,000 YEARS, GIVEN CREDIT FOR RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS Botanists and Animal Breeders Who Lived Far Before Dawn of History Paved Way for World’s Advance, Convention Told. t.y ttrtexor Kerries ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 29.—Man's greatest, single cultural invention. agriculture, is older than his written nistory; it dates back at least 10.000 years. And every plant now in cultivation was tamed from the wild state by unknown practical botanists, scores of centuries before such things as books or even metal tools wherewith to cultivate the soil. The dramatic story of the founding of settled society by the cultivation of food instead of hunting was told here by Dr. E.' D.* Merrill, director of the New York Botanical Garden, who spoke as retiring vicepresident of the botanical section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The title of his paper was “Crops and Civilizations."

‘After sketching rapidly the extremely slow progress of human society during man’s first million years or so on earth, Dr. Merrill continued: “It seems probable that the domestication of animals preceded the domestication of plants, and that for a time the more advanced peoples were those who tended their herds. Establishment of permanent agriculture—that is, the cultivation of plants—was, however, the great forward step that provided opportunity for development of the higher civilizations. Importance Is Vast “The Importance of establishment of agriculture in relation to the development of man can not be overlooked. It was probably the most significant single advance in man’s dcvelopemnt. It should be home in mind that at the dawn of recorded history every basic food pliant now grown was already in cultivation, and every domestic animal already was in domestication. •‘‘lt is true that modern man greatly has improved both cultivated plants and domesticated aniipals, but he has added not a single species to those domesticated by his remote ancestors. “We thus owe a tremendous debt to numerous unrecorded individuals, who in remote ages, long before rpan prepared permanent records, selected from the wild and adapted to their needs through domestication the plants and animals which gave them a permanent food supply, and hence paved ’he way to the development of civilization. i’So long ago did this happen ttot these pioneer agriculturists were forgotten long before recorded history commences, for the beginnings of agriculture all early peoples are lost in mythology. - Supernatural Was Invoked ““Whether In Mesopotamia or Egypt, in Greece or Rome, in China of among the American Indians, invariably the supernatural is invoked to explain this or that basic crop, be it wheat or barley or maize ot rice. Among the Egyptians wheat was considered to be the gift of Osiris; among the Romans the gift of Ceres, and we perpetuate this idea f oday in our common word •qprcal.’ ivThe important centers of origin Ot both cultivated plants and domesticated animals have in general been those regions with a mediterranean type of climate, with no great extremes of heat or cold, am’ with a reasonably ample and well distributed rainfall, or where uffigation could easily be developed; in other words, regions with equable c&mates. Mexico and Feni I-cd ; “In America, the outstanding centers were the highlands of Mexico and of Peru, with secondary centers in Central America and Yucatan; and the food plants basic to-these early American civilizations were maize, potato, sweet potato, lima beans, our common field beans, and barious indigenous fruits and vegetables. ’"ln Eurasia may be listed the Mediterranean basin, Asia Minor, and contiguous areas to the east, limited areas in Central Asia, and in parts of India and China. “For the Mediterranean basin, Asia Minor and Central Asia, the basic food plants were the common cereals, wheat, barley, rye, oats, with certain fruits and vegetables, with silch domesticated animals as cattle, horses, swine, sheep and goats. “For India and China perhaps the n>ost important cereal was rice, but including also others such as millet, sdrghum, ragi, coix and at an early dite, barley and wheat received from the west, with yams and various vegetaoles and fruits.”

Music Began With Flute

Music as a fine art began in prehistoric times when a primitive man discovered that sound could be obtained from a piece of bamboo or primitive flute, Dr. Dayton C. Miller. Case School of Applied Science physicist, told the American Association for the Advancement of Silence today. “"Primitive man discovered mast casually that sound can be obtained from a piece of bamboo, and various sdftnds from longer or shorter pftces.'’ Dr. Miller said. "By fastening together several pipes of different lengths, he was provided with an instrument on which he could sound several different tones in such order as would give him pleasure, and there came into existence the first real musical instrument. a flute, now called by the poetic name, the Pipes of Pan. ■"Another primitive discovery was that a simple pipe accidentally having a hole in the side of the tube, would produce two tones, depending oij whether the hole is open or closed, and that the pitch of the tdhe depends upon the location of tlte hole. The musician inventor made several holes in his flute, located to suit the spread and convenient use of his fingers. Some players used two fingers of each hind, some used three, and consequently several different scales originated. •'■‘The ear became accustomed to the sequence of tones and it so wfirked into the brain of the race that ages afterward it had become the accepted scale.”

Gifted Children Lead

Gifted children in high school average about two years younger than their achooimates. Dr. Edna E. Lajnson of the Btate Normal school at Jersey City reported today to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. School careers of fifty-six chil-

Mark Snakes By Hrtetic Service ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 29.—How would you mark a snake so that when you met it again you could recognize it? Many persons probably would answer that they would not want to meet a snake, even once, let alone a second time; but Dr. Frank N. Blanchard of the University of Michigan, and Ethel Finister of the Asheville Normal school are interested in snakes, not afraid of them. At the meeting of the Ecological Society of America here today they described their method of marking snakes by clipping off portions of scales on the underside of their tails, and recording these marks by a numbering system. The clipped scales grow again", but for several years an identifying scar can be made out. Thus it becomes easy to identify a snake that has been captured and released after being measured. The biologists reported that snakes grow more slowly as they grow older, and that snake growth goes on much faster during June and July than in other months.

dren with intelligence quotients above 127 were followed, and compared with careers of the rank and file of high school students. “Gifted children in senior high school maintain a high scholastic achievement throughout the course,” Dr. Lamson stated. “They make a scholastic record that is significantly superior to the rank and file of high school pupils who are two years older, and receive a disproportionate share of scholastic honors.”

Doubts Job Insurance

There is grave doubt whether the risk of unemployment is a suitable hazard for actuarially sound insurance, Professor H. L. Rietz, University of lowa mathematician, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science today. Schemes for unemployment insurance that involve governmental subsidies or governmental participation would have to be undertaken at present practically in the dark so far as appropriate actuarial estimates are concerned, Professor Rietz said. Experimental plans, whether fostered by trade unions, joint agreements, companies, or other agencies should be encouraged, Professor Rietz said, to keep records appropriate for making calculations of rates of unemployment, so estimates of future costs may be improved over those of the past.

Jars Earth’s Origin View

Suggestion was made Wednesday night by Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard that the earth and the moon were born out of the parent spiral nebula that fathered not only the sun but all the others stars of the Milky Way. This scrapping of the most widely accepted theories of the origin of the earth and other planets of the sun's family is sure to create great interest and fresh thought among astronomers. The Shapley theory, outlined to the American Association for the Advancement of science, makes the moon, planets and sun all the same age, the progeny of a “secondary whirl or eddy of the parental spiral nebula out of which the local galaxy, or Milicy Way, may be supposed to have generated.” The conventional theory is that the earth and planets were born when a passing star pulled matter like gaseous taffy out of the sun, and some have theorised that the moon was cleaved off the earth at an even later time. JOB INSURANCE NOT PRACTICAL^ IS CLAIM Step Will Create Burden on Wage Earner, Says Economist. Ry United Pres* CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—Professor R. S. Meriam of Harvard university Wednesday attacked unemployment insurance as impracticable and likely to create a burden on the wage earner. The noted economist, addressing the convention of the American Economics Association, meeting here, declared "unemployment is no more insurable than business failure is insurable.” “Should reserves be built up even in part from an employers’ levy, the burden eventually would be transferred to the wage earner,” Meriam said. He did not believe that a system of insurance built on "an exhaustible reserve system” could stimulate a revival of business confidence. “The theory is untenable because employers will shift their share of the tax to workers.” he said, and the purchasing power of the people will not be increased. 380 ~STAKE~OUT LAND Prospectors File Claims for 382,780 Acres in Montana. By United Pre*# GREAT FALLS. Mont., Dec. 29 Oil and gas prospectors have filed 380 applications covering 382.780 acres of the public domain in nprthern and central Montana since April 4, 1932. when the land was reopened by the federal government to prospectors.

Famed Scientists at Convention

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Professor Robert A. Millikan California Institute of Technology physicist, received the Nobel prize in physics in 1923 in recognition of his researches in that field. During recent years he has won recognition by his investigation of cosmic rays, which he suggests are the “birth-cries” of elements being formed in the depths of interstellar space.

PREVENT NEW MINETRAGEDY 23 Rescue Workers Are Trapped for Short Time in Tomb Shaft. By United Press MOWEAQUA, 111., Dec. 29. Twenty-three rescue workers dug themselves to safety today in the Community Co-Operative coal mine after anew tragedy in the workings had impended when the group was cut off by a fresh fall of rock, and shale. The fall occurred shortly after the rescue squad discovered two more bodies in the north shaft of the mine, where most of the fiftyfour men trapped there last Saturday were working. , Seven men still are unaccounted for but there was no hope they might be found alive. The group of twenty-three workers were cut off from the main shaft for a short time on Wednesday night when the roof of one of the tunnels collapsed. They succeeded in digging their way through safely. It was impossible to bring several of the most recently found bodies to the surface. They were located in a portion of the mine filled with deadly gas fumes. DEMOCRATIC BOSS RAPS BUREAU RULE ‘Unscrambling’ of Government Urged by Peters. By Time * Special WINCHESTER. Ind.. Dec. 29. “Indiscriminate delegation of governmental authority to bureaus and commissions,” was scored here by R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, in an address at the annual Woodrow Wilson memorial banquet Wednesday night. Peters declared Indiana's Immediate problems include reorganization of governmental departments and bureaus, consolidation of administrative units, balancing of the budget, drastic reduction in public expenditures, and an equal distribution of the tax load. More than 600 Democratic leaders attended the meeting.

Hearings on 5-Day Week Bill Will Start on Jan. 5

Strong Subcommittee to Probe Black Measure for Senate. Ry Rcrippg-Hoirard Ketcepaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Expressions of opinion from all branches of industry and labor are invited at the public hearing set for Jan. 5. before a senate judiciary subcommittee on the bill by Senator Hugo L. Black (Dem., Ala.), to limit the hours of industry to the five-day week, six-hour work day. Chairman George W. Norris has appointed a subcommittee, consisting of himself as chairman and the following senators to conduct the hearing: William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho), Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.), Thomas Walsh (Dem., Mont.), and Black. This is one of the strongest sub-

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Professor Robert W. Wood Head of the physics department at the Johns Hopkins university, Wood is one of the most versatile of American scientists. At the Atlantic City meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Friday, he will tell how he solved the riddle of an Egyptian “lost art”—the purple gold of Tut-Ankh-Amen.

China Leads Discoveries Credited to Modern Science Old in Orient. By United Press \ TLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 29.—Modern science suffered a rude shock at the midwinter session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today, when two Chinese scholars blandly reported that the comparatively recent doctrine of evolution was known in China more than 2.500 years ago. In addition, Dr. Amos Benkov Kuan-Chin Penn of Johns Hopkins university, and Dr. Pei Sung Tang of Harvard university, asserted: That a Chinese biologist discovered blood circulation 2,000 years before Hervey. That Chinese surgeons used anesthesia in the third century before Christ, whereas, it was not until 847 that occidentals administered chloroform. That the catheter developed in 1850 was described as the “thousand golden remedies” in the seventh century A. D. That in the .Chow dynasty, 1122 B. C., an anatomist named Chin Yen Jen wrote a theatise on internal organs—many hundreds of years before modern medical investigators resorted to dissection. The Chinese authorities said Tson Tse, a philosopher of the sixth century before Christ, knew of evolution and believed that the horse was man’s immediate ancestor in the evolutionary scheme. CONVICTED OF GAMING Restaurant Operator Found Guilty on Student’s Testimony. Police failed to find a slot machine, but the place where it had been attached aided today in convicting John Rodocker, operator of a restaurant at 618 East Walnut street on a charge of keeping a gaming device. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron imposed a fine of SSO and a sixty-day penal farm term, the latter to be suspended if the fine is paid. The restaurant is located near a large factory, and an empioye of the industry, Carl Compton, 920 North Alabama stret, who is an Indiana university extension law student, testified he lost $20.35 in the slot machine, and that his demands for return of the money were fruitless.

committees to handle a piece of legislation named in a long while. The progressive element predominated, and is an indication of the importance in which the proposal to shorten hours of labor is held by Senator Norris, dean of the senate progressives. The bill provides that no goods manufactured in violation of the five-day week, six-hour day, may be transported in interstate commerce. Senator Black is hopeful that organized labor will be represented at the hearings, while correspondence reaching him already has indicated that his proposal will be backed by some manufacturers. The Black suggestion is not a “share-the-work” bill, but an effort to regulate all hours of labor in industrial establishments so that industry as a whole may be placed on a shorter week, with no reduction in the standard of wages ahd living normally prevailing.

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Professor Arthur H. Compton Compton, of the University of Chicago, one of America’s leading physicists, was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1927. His special research has been on X-rays and related radiations, and during recent months he has directed a world-wide survey of cosmic rays, on which he will report at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Friday.

TWO DEAD IN TRAINWRECK Wabash Officials Say Switch Had Been Tampered With in Illinois. By Times Special JACKSONVILLE, 111., Dec. 29. Wabash rail officials said today deliberate tampering with a switch caused the derailment of the road’s passenger flyer en route from Detroit to Kansas City Wednesday night in which two trainmen were killed. The train ran onto a siding and struck an oil car, setting it afire. Those killed were Engineer John Rapp, Springfield, 111., and Fireman H. L. Myers, Decatur, 111. No passengers were serious injured. A baggageman and a Negro cook were in the hospital with injuries. Investigators said the switch lock had been broken and the switch turned, sending the train into the siding. The accident occurred on the outskirts of the city. Seven passenger coaches remained upright on the tracks. The engine and baggage cars were overturned. WIDOW QUIZZED IN TEACHER'S HILLING $38,000 Insurance Starts Hunt for New Clews. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Revelation that Edwin Schildhauer carried 838,000 life insurance sent detectives seeking new clews today into the mysterious ‘ride” slaying Dec. 10 of the handsome high school bandmaster. Announcement that Schildhauer’s life was heavily insured and that his policies had been kept in the safety deposit box of his mother-in-law led to questioning again of Schildhauer’s pretty widow, who told police she saw him kidnaped by two men an hour before his body was found. Officers said Mrs. Schildhauer had told conflicting stories since the slaying, and the inquest was continued while she was ordered to produce the insurance policies. Police have questioned Mrs. Schildhauer and her mother, Mrs. Louise Birkinshaw, repeatedly as to why Mrs. Schildhauer waited, an hour before notifying police of her husband’s abduction.

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INSURANCE FOR JOBLESS URGED IN SWOPE PLAN Head of General Electric Lays Program Before Nation’s Scientists. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Dec. 29. Creation of great unemployment insurance reserves as a method of stabilizing the social structure was urged by Gerard Swope, president or the General Electric company, at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here. Co-operative provision of four forms of insurance, in which worker would join with employer, were stressed by Swope. These fields, accident, death, old age, and employment insurance, he held, should be thought of in terms of years rather than on a weekly or hourly basis. It was in the relatively newly considered field of unemployment insurance, however, that Swope made his major proposal. He outlined the program of approach to national stabilization. Plan Is Outlined 1. We must decide in what volume and what kind of products we want industry to supply and how to have industry organized to be of service. 2. We must secure for workers in industry an assurance of minimum employment per year at a compensation adequate to enable them to live in accordance with a standard of living that we want to maintain and can maintain, with the requirement that the employes themselves analyze, understand and accept their responsibilities, and contribute toward solution of the problem. 3. Where we have not advanced far enough to give assurance of employment, unemployment reserves should be built up and maintained as a' separate reserve by each unit. 4. Every employe “who receives less than a specific compensation” shall contribute to the plan. 5. The employer’s contribution shall equal or exceed that of the' employes. 6. Provision of a “minimum waiting period before such benefits become effective.” 7. To have the minimum of such benefits adequate to provide for food, shelter and clothing. 8. To provide such benefits over a sufficiently long period without calling on the state or society for ! relief or charity. Technocracy Upheld, Assailed 9. To “make provisions for such unemployment emergencies as may transcend the usual periods of unemployment, which can not be met by the regular unemployment reserves, by calling on all other employes of that particular organization for contributions and also on the employer for similar contributions.” Professor Walter Rautenstrauck, head of the department of industrial engineering of Columbia university and a member of the “technocracy” group, stressed the human element in the study advanced by the group of which he is a member. He argued that “the problem of personnel is perhaps the most vital of all.” Charles P. Kettering of Dayton, 0., ridiculed certain phases of technocracy and described as “nonsensical” the idea of building an automobile that would last for fifty years. He declared that a. $2,000 automobile of today would be worthless in ten years, even if never used, because of style and model depreciation. I “We hear a lot about technocracy,’* he said. “The only thing I have to say is that I wish I had some of its sponsors as my competitors in the automotive industry.” James W. Angell, professor of economics at Columbia university, urged action by the federal reserve banks tending to relieve unemployj ment by indirect control of the total money volume of business. The old Egyptian idea that linen was the “purest” of textiles is borne out by the fact that linen is the least favorable medium of any textile for growth of germs.

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So There! Actress, Peeved at Her Sweetheart. Weds: All ‘Big Mistake.’

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Elinor Faire By United rress TTOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.—A record for short-lived Hollywood marriages was established by Elinor Faire, dark-haired actress, today when she announced she would seek an annulment of her marriage to John Daniels, young broker. The couple flew to Yuma, Ariz., for the ceremony two days ago, returned three hours later and separated immediately, the actress revealed. Characterizing the marriage as “just a big mistake,” Miss Faire promptly became engaged to Frank Clark, film stunt flier, with whom she had had a lover's quarrel. “I was blue after having quarreled with Frank.” she confided, “and I thought I’d show him how smart he was. I haven’t seen my husband since I left the airport.” It was Mrs. Faire’s second marriage.

COLDS ARE NOW REACHING OUT FOR VICTIMS! Be Wise —Be Careful —Adopt This Simple Precautionary Measure!

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ThE story of what happened after Daisy Gleason sprained her ankle and Sheila Shayne joined the show in Daisy’s place makes “Spotlight” an unforgettable serial. It’s a love story of the stage by H. W. Corley —colorful, exciting, romantic. Watch for “Spot* light” beginning Tuesday, January 3, in The Indianapolis Times

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WOMEN'S TOWN TAKES ITS TAX FIGHT TOCOURT Williams Creek Seeks to Prove It Can Operate Under Low Levy. Question of feminine superiority in politics was being put to test in court today as women officials of the town of Williams Creek launched their fight to retain a 35tax rate instead of $1.21 as fixed by male taxing officials. Waging their battle through Clair McTurnan. attorney, the women, constituting the town board, contend that the suburb of north Indianapolis can be managed on the tax rate fixed by themselves, lowest in the town’s history. None of the women were in eourt as the hearing started. Male officials of the town are being represented by Walter Clarke, Marion county attorney. Mandate Is Sought Williams Creek, believed the only town in the United States entirely controlled by women, was ordered incorporated Jan. 4 by county commissioners. Dispute over assessments of land and personal property arose because ; exact location of the town's southi ern boundary line was not settled I until after March 1. date fixed by j law for assessment of property. The suit seeks to mandate Charles A. Grossart, county auditor; Charles H. Bailey. Washington township assessor; Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, and Robert E. Sloan, county assessor, to place the 1933 levy, as fixed by the town board, on tax books. Asks Immediate Hearing Members of the town board are: Mrs. Helen Spradling. Mrs. Hazel C. Baum, Mrs. Elizabeth Arensman and Mrs. Carolyn Payne. Birney D. Stradling. a resident, also is a plaintiff in the suit. Bailey assessed the town’s property as part of Washington township, outside Indianapolis. The town demands an immediate hearing in court, declnirng in the complaint, it is without fire and police protection and owes money for street improvement. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.f South southeast wind, 10 miles an hour; temperature, 33; barometric pressure, 30.18 at sea level; general condition, clear, smoky; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, l!i mile; field, good.

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