Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1933 — Page 9

'APRIL 10, 1933_

—Dietz on Science — SCIENCES OWE ADVANCEMENT TO ASTRONOMY Facts Learned by Ancients Foundation of Today's Knowledge. BY DAVID DIETZ Scrlppi-Hnward Science editor Naburiannu and Kidinnu. Mysterious sounding names. They look like candidates for cross-word puzzles or the closely guarded passwords of some secret order. They are in reality, however, names to which all of civilization owes a debt. The present day is an age of science. The oldest of all the sciences is astronomy. It, was in astronomy that mankind first discovered the existence of natural laws and realized that events happen according to them. "Many authorities feel that the other sciences would have been delayed for centuries if it had not been for the realization of the ex- ! istence of natural law which came from astronomy. We owe a debt therefore to astronomy for all our applied sciences, medicinp, ‘o; example, and the various branches of engineering. We owe a particular debt to the pioneers of astronomy, the great minds who laid the foundations of the study of the heavens. Oldest Were Greeks And that is why civilization owes a great debt to Naburiannu and Kidinnu. For they are the oldest atronomers of whom we have any record. They lived in ancient Chaldea. ’The work of the Greeks in astronomy has been known to scientists for many years. Thales of Miletus, who lived from 640 to 546 B. C., and who is usually referred to as the father of Greek astronomy, taught that the stars shone by their own light, but that the moon shone by reflected sunlight. He also taught that the earth was a sphere. Scientists, knowing of these Greeks, felt that they established astronomy as a science. They felt that the earlier cultures, the Chaldean and Babylonian, were interested only in astrology, the attempt to predict the future course of events from the stars. Careful Records Kept The publication within recent years, however, of a number of i hitherto unknown Babylonian and Greek texts makes it necessary to | revise this opinion of the Chaldeans. The world is chiefly indebted to the industry of a number of Ger- j man Jesuit fathers. Epping, Strass- j maier and Kugler by name, for a j knowledge of these texts. They reveal that the Chaldeans j were excellent astronomers, having j kept careful records of the mo- : lions of the sun and moon for long periods. These texts also introduce us to i Naburiannu and Kidinuu. APPOMATTOX RECALLED Annual Program Held by Patriotic Societies at Ft. Friendly. Rem in*sconces were the order of the day Sunday at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street, when the annual Appomattox day program was held by the Federated Patriotic Societies allied with the G. A. R. Three survivors of the twelve-day battle that brought surrender of General Robert E. Lee and ended the Civil war, were present as guests of honor. They were Joseph B. Henninger,' assistant state adjutant-general; ! James Bird, 1010 Harrison street, j and James Clark, 1127 Eugene street. Henninger described the surrender | of 9.000 southerners and signing of j parole papers by 28.356 others after the surrender to General U. S. Grant. LAKE INSPECTOR ASKED Rigid Control of Water Diversion Is Asked in Court Brief. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 10.—Great Lakes states interested in the su- j preme court decree against the Chicago sanitary district today filed a brief asking that an officer be appointed to enforce the carrying out of recommendations made recently j by Referee Edward F. McClcnnen. j who held the district had been lax j in halting diversions of water from I Lake Michigan. States Poet to Talk Members of the Lawyer Society : of Indianapolis will hear E. A. Richardson of Evansville, poet and hu- j morist. at their luncheon at the 1 Washington Tuesday. Richardson was named poet laureate of Indiana by the 1929 general assembly. Attack Attempt Is Charged Mrs. Peggy Sortwell, 18, of 229 North East street, reported to po- j lice shortly after midnight that j three men, who forced her into an I automobile at a downtown corner, took her to Garfield park and attempted to attack her.

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It’s Gloria’s Privilege If She Wants to Think New Husband Is Good Actor

Warren William Attempts to Be Mind Reader in Movie at Circle. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN, GLORIA SWANSON may think that her new husband. Michael i Farmer, is one peach of an actor, but I have a decidedly different opinion after seeing the two in ‘Perfect Understanding.” Gloria has attempted to be very serious on questions of marriage and j how to act free and independent ‘ while married in this new picture. To my way of thinking. Miss Swanson has not improved in acting ability while living with her husband i abroad. In working out this story,

Muss Swanson attempted to be very modern in dishing out her ideas regard in g modern conduct in marriage. She plays opposite Laurence Oliver as Nicholas, who agrees that they iJudy, played by Miss Swanson) should act as man and mistress. Sounds modern, but it is very ancient. The results are just one mis-

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understanding after another. Farmer, Gloria's husband in real life, is cast as a society good-time boy who looks well in a bathing suit but can’t act. Lot of time and money was spent in a cocktail race in Southern France in which the drivers of the speedboats see how many and how rapidly they can drink real cocktails. This scene appealed to me as comedy instead of drama. There is so much talk on the part of Miss Swanson and Olivier and there isn’t much opportunity for real acting. This much to the credit of the picture, all of the shots at Cannes are beautiful and these are really the high spots of Gloria's latest picture. Genevieve Tobin was taken to Europe for this picture, but she has no big opportunity. Have your own opinion of Gloria’s latest. You know my idea—just another picture. Now at the Palace. nan here is another of the MIND READERS’ SERIES We have just had ‘ The Great Jasper” in town and now we have Warren William in ‘‘The Mind Reader.” "The Mind Reader” differs somewhat from "The Great Jasper” in

that “Mind Reader” attempts to be an expose of the alleged tactics of this racket which has taken fortune after fortune from the people, using the words of characters in this movie story. I am concerned only whether this is good melodramatic theater or not. At times it is very feeble and only gets out of that class as William gets

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deeper and deeper into the toils of his profession which he reveals as a fake and the bunk. I really didn’t MOTION PICTURES STARTING TODAY, 5-U P. M. The Biggest British Smash Hit “ROME EXPRESS” “A •Grand Hotel’ on wheels . . . rattlng good entertainment,” gays Motion Picture Daily, starring ESTHER RALSTON CONRAD VEIDT Admission, 25c at AH Times

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feel sorry for Constance Cummings as his ‘‘dear little wife,” who fell for the faking methods of the Great Chandra, the name of the mind reader in this story. The picture goes plainly but mildly melodramatic when Chandra kills a man whose home he had ruined by his revelations to the man’s wife. Chandra's wife is accused and Chandra gets on one awful drunk. He suddenly becomes man enough to take the rap and the story does have one virture —Chandra goes to jail for a number of years. Hollywood direction suddenly becomes •’realistic” and normal in this ending. They just had to punish Chandra, the cheat, in some manner. “That’s my opinion of “The Mind Reader.” Now at the Circle. a a a JAMES DUNN IS GETTING VERY FAT I ask you—What has James Dunn been eating. He is getting so fat. j Anyway he was carrying a lot of weight around with himself in | “Sailor's Luck,” his latest co-star- | ring movie with Sally Eilers. Not that I want my actors thin, | but Dunn has taken on too much ! fat and the many chases, fights and j

more chases didn’t take any of his weight off. There really isn’t much story to “Sailor’s Luck,” and for the life of me I can’t figure out what a sailor’s luck is except that it might be that there is always a boat ready to take him to another port. Sally Eilers is cast as the good little gal who acts modernly free, but

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who is always the good gal misunderstood by her boy friends. The feminine carrying on of Sammy Cohen is not comedy to me. It comes pretty close to being bad entertainment taste most of the time. And the continual souse of Will Stanton gets me rather fed up on this sort of comedy. The real legitimate comedy work is done by Frank Moran, a tough guy, who goes in for musical classics and highbrow literature to give him strength for another fight. Personally, I do not care for this wild comedy acting on the part of Dunn. And Sally Eilers doesn’t have a chance to be human. Write your own ticket for this one. I have done the same. Now at the Apollo. a a a HERE IS A RECORD OF THE W ORLD W AR A. L. Rule had a good idea fifteen years ago when he started to collect shots from various countries of

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| pictures taken during the World i war. Without the roar of cannon and guns, Rule presents his collection under the head of “The Big Drive.” He talks and explains the various scenes during nearly the entire length of the picture. My reaction was that there was too much talk and some of the scenes were too short. Some of the scenes showing actual combat in the trenches preach a terrible and everlasting lesson against the error of war. Some of the scenes in the first half of the movie are devoted to such figures in the World war as theh late czar of Russia, the king of England, late President Wilson, General Pershing and other war lords. The last part of the picture, showing the drive at Argonne, are tremendous and exposes real war as it seldom has been exposed. If the first half of the picture measured up to the last half, “The Big Drive” would be tremendous all the time. And yet at times. I had the feeling that some of the scenes I had seen before in war shots. That’s probable. What did you experience? The same? But here is an attempt to seriously and adequately present on the screen “real war.” It has a tremendous lesson and as a lesson it is valuable, but it could have been better worked out. Now at the Indiana. n n n The Ohio today is offering Conrad Veidt in "The Rome Express.” It opens at 5 p. m. On Tuesday at the Terminal, “Jungle Bride,” with Anita Page and Charles Starrett, opens a three-day engagement. Today’s offering is “Employees’ Entrance.” The Colonial is offering Buddy Kane and his burlesque company. Burglars Fail to Get Loot Burglars who battered open a safe and a fireproof cabinet in adjoining business places Sunday obtained no loot. The safe was in the office of Harry H. Ochiltree, Inc., produce warehouse, 222 West Merrill street, and the cabinet was in the office of the Quaker State Oil Company, 226 West Merrill street.

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NEW DRIVERS' LICENSES ARE PUTJN SALE Every Driver Must Obtain One in Next Few Weeks, Is Order. New driver's licenses went on sale at ’ the statehouse and all license ; branches today and every autoist must have one within the next few weeks, it was announced. Under the 1933 statute the licenses must be procured annually, price being 50 cents. The charge covers notary fees. A million of the new licenses were printed under the McNutt administration for $2,600. Under the regime of Otto G. Fifield. former secretary of state, the same number cost 882,000. In Indianapolis the licenses may be procured at the statehouse or any one of the following branches: Jones & Maley, Inc., 2421 East Washington street. Smith & Moore, Inc., 528 South Meridian street. Ernest Marker drug store, 801 Virginia avenue. Meridian Service Company, Inc., 2421 North Meridian street. West Side Chevrolet Company, 2419 West Washington street. Broad Ripple Auto Company, 819 East Sixty-third street. Rose Tire Company, 930 North! Meridian street. Sears, Roebuck & Cos., 355 North Alabama street. City hall, 202 North Alabama street. Hoosier Motor Club, 1840 North Meridian street. Wounds Self With Air Gun A shot from an air rifle was removed at city hospital Sunday from the left thumb of Arthur Miller, 17, of 338 East Minnesota. Miller pulled the trigger of the gun while his thumb was on the muzzle. Reports Home Is Robbed Paul Hess, 401 East Michigan street, manager of the Athenaeum, reported to police his home was robbed of a gold watch valued at SSO and $1 in small change Sunday night.

Let’s Explore Your Mind BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM, D. Sc.

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1. In the highest sense, yes. The poet sees deeper into the truths of life and destiny, his scope is wider, his world is larger, Matthew .Arnold, school teacher, poet and philosopher, said that poetry is the expression of the mind when it most nearly approaches the divine. When the scientist has reached his limit he goes to the poet and achieves a release of his imagination into new realms of truth. Men have lived great lives without science, but they can not live great lives without poetry. Science is concerned only with fact, but poetry expresses the true, the beautiful and the good. It is, therefore, greater and truer than science. 2. No, it is sound only for a dictator. If our aim is to develop a great society of intelligent people, the more they know, the more Intelligently can they

govern themselves and develop a rich, influential and significant individual, as well as national, life. 3. Men in general believe that women do most of the worrying, but that is probably because the woman is worrying about something that does not worry the man, while he has worries of his own. Professor L. M. Terman, psychologist of Stanford, tested large groups of children, both those highly gifted, even chiidprodigies, and ordinary children, aged 9 to 15, using what is called the Woodworth-Cady test for tendencies toward worry and nervousness. He could find very little difference. Some psychologists find somewhat more women than men are introverted and tend to think more of their personal troubles, but the differencies are so small that men will have to give up the notion that women do nearly all the worrying.

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RACE HATRED PLEA WINS IN ATTACK CASE I Jury Takes No Note of ‘Hoax’ Story of One White Girl ‘Victim.’ (Continued From Pace One) buying the two principal defense ’ witnesses. Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief counsel for the defense, moved for a mistrial. This trial won’t be worth a pinch of snuff from now on,” he cried. The fair-minded judge, Edward E. Horton, wore a face of suffering. He had kept down the mounting race hatred which, from the first,! had enveloped this trial. His judi-; cial fairness, his open-mindedness* his passionate desire to see true justice done had kept down mob violence. Now at the words of Wade Wright the crowd's emotion welled out like a punctured boil. Appeal to Be Taken By l (lift’d Press DECATUR. Ala., April 10. The verdict of a white jury condemning Haywood Patterson, 19-year-old Negro, to the electric chair on the charge of assaulting a white girl, will be carried again to the United States supreme court, it was indicated today. Most assuredly we will appeal this case,” Samuel S. Leioowitz, New York attorney, asserted inv mediately after the juiy announced the result of its eighteen hours' deliberation Sunday. “We’ll take it up to the highest court of our land that once before hurled this mess back into the laps of the bigots, and we’ll continue to. fight until hell freezes over, not only, to save nine innocent men, but to uphold the good name of our country to the rest of the world.” Meanwhile, the state went ahead with preparations for retrying Charlie Weems, second of the nine Negroes charged with attacking two white girls on a freight train two years ago.

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