Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1933 — Page 2

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TWO SCIENTISTS REFUTE PEACE TRENDJHEORY Boston Convention Hears Paper Dealing With 902 Wars. By United Prrss CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Dec. 28. Theories that war tends to disappear with the progress of civilization were refuted today in a paper read before the ninety-third meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper, prepared by Professor Pitirim A Sorokin and LieutenantGeneral N. N. Golovin of the Harvard department of sociology, traced war movements in the histories of Greece, Rome and eight European countries from 500 B. C. to 1925 A D. A study of 902 wars inot battles) was made, and each was considered from five points: The duration of the war, the size of the fighting forces, the number of casualties, the number of countries involved, and the proportion of combatants to the total population of the belligerents. From these five “variables" a total index number was computed for each war. Height in 20th Century The momentous study disclosed that up to the seventeenth century war was “comparatively insignificant," but increased from then on enormously and did not diminish during the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century it decreased considerably, though it still was more than 100 times as great as in medieval centuries, but in the first quarter of the twentieth century, chiefly because of the World war, it flared to an unprecedented height, exceeding the sum total of all wars during preceding centuries in the eight European countries studied. “This refutes the theories that war tends to disappear with the progress of civilization,” Professor Sorokin and General Golovin concluded. “It means also that all the commendable hopes that war will disappear in the near future are based on nothing more than wishes and a belief in miracles. Most of these hopes sprang up in the nineteenth century which, as the figures show, was more peaceful than the seventeenth or the eighteenth century, though much less peaceful than the period from the twelfth century to the sixteenth.” Coffee Checks Alcohol A timely disclosure was offered by two Cornell university professors, A. L. Winsor and E. I. Strongin, who presented the results of experiments which showed that if one would drink and remain able to w-alk a chalk line, a considerable amount of coffee should be consumed with the highballs. Subjects were given small amounts of alcohol and water, followed immediately by generous doses of coffee. It appeared that the “unsteadiness and disturbance of motor co-ordi-nation, “caused by consumption of alcohol alone was decreased considerably by the coffee. The effect was achieved noticeably only w r hen the alcohol and coffee were consumed within a few minutes of each other. If the coffee was delayed to any great extent its sobering effectiveness decreased, an apparent refutation of the widely prevalent theory that quantities of black coffee, taken after extended drinking, send a man home sober. Ear Never Weary The normal, healthy ear is the body’s most alert sentinel, and never grows weary, according to the report of E. M. Josephson, New York physician, who advanced a new- theory of the mechanism of hearing in which the inner ear is believed to convert the mechanical energy of sound into electrical energy, in a manner similar to the action of the telephone receiver. “The electric current thus generated,” he said, “stimulates the nerve ends of the organ corti in the inner ear. each of which is conceived to serve as a filter selecting out individual audio-frequencies of the tone and transmit it t(T the brain. This theory accounts for the finding in the ear of feeble-electri-cal audio-frequency currents.” MAYAN EXPLORATIONS WILL PROCEED SOON Mecca of Yucatan Indians Once Scene of Human Sacrifice. By United Preen MEXICO CITY. Dec. 28. Long buried secrets of the cruel, colorful civilization of centuries ago will be uncovered soon as the result of a contract signed today between the Department of Education and the Carnegie institute. The contract provides for resumption of exploration, abandoned in 1930. of the ancient mecca of the Mayans Chichen-Itza. in South Central Yucatan. where vast throngs once gathered to see young maidens sacrificed alive to the gods of the wells. TEXAS BANK ROBBERS TAKE 3 AS HOSTAGES Bandits Get $40,000, Employes Released Unharmed. By United Preen MARLIN. Texas. Dec. 28.—Texas officers were at a stalemate today in their search for bandits who robbed the First State bank here of $40,000 yesterday, and fled with three employes as hostages. The employes were released last night unharmed after being bound to trees in a wood near Rogers. Texas, for more than eight hours. They were M. V. Bradshaw, vicepresident: Miss Andrew Peyton, bookkeeper, and Lee Humphrey, negro porter. BULLET RICOCHETS. KILLINGPERU BOY, 6 Fatal Accident Occurs as Son Watches Father Butcher Hog. By United Press PERU. Ind.. Dec. 28—Six-year-old Dal# Pritz was dead today, victim of a bullet which ricocheted from frosen grounds after being fired at a hog. The boy was watching his father aid in butchering at a farm near Mexico, Ind., when the accident occurred. The child was struck in the abdomen and died later at a hospital.

FLIERS NEAPING MARK

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Frances Harrell, above; Helen Richey, below.

By United Prenn MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 28.—Frances Harrell and Helen Richey, women stunt fliers, were only a few hours away from anew world’s endurance record for women today as they neared their eighth day aloft. The fliers will have set anew official world's record after 7:09 p. m. They will have passed the old record of eight days four hours and six minutes at 5:09 p. m. today, but they must fly two hours longer for the record to be officially recognized. Their first mishap since they took to the air at 1:03 a week ago yesterday, occurred late yesterday. As the refueling plane circled over their plane, “Outdoor Girl,” to get in position for refueling, its dangling hose mouth ripped into the fuselage of their plane and left a six-inch hole. Miss Richey, calmly leaned back on the fuselage and successfully patched the hole with patching and “dope” rushed up from the airport. She thought nothing of her daring adventure but aviators at the airport said she showed “plenty of calm nerve.” BULGARIAN KJiNG IS ILL Boris Postpones Indefinitely Proposed Visit to Rumanian Ruler. By United Press VIENNA, Dec. 28.—King Boris of Bulgaria is ill with grippe and has postponed indefinitely his viist to King Carol of Rumania, set for Jan. 15, it was reported today from Bucharest.

“Canadian Club” quality—famous the world over—began with Hiram \S alker 75 years ago. That quality, and “Canadian Club” purity, are the products of distilling skill and experience, with the will to produce nothing short of the best. ONLY TIME CAN AGE GOOD WHISKY —and the government guarantees the ripe old age of “Canadian Club” by affixing to every bottle its official stamp which certifies when the contents were distilled. ft HIRAM WALKER & SONS

TWO HONORED BY NATIONAL FRATERNITY Delta Tau Delta Members Attend Banquet at Columbia Club. Cited for their services to Delta Tau Delta, national Greek letter fraternity, Clarence E. Edmondson, dean of men at Indiana university, and Stuart Maclean, head of the English department at Storm King school, Cornwall-on-Hudson. were honored last night at a banquet in the Columbia Club. More than one hundred men from all parts of the state were present to hear the citations delivered by Harold B. Tharp. Indianapolis, national president. Both Dean Edmondson and Mr. Maclean spoke briefly, expressing their appreciation. In 1932-33, for the first time, the scholastic average of members of Delta Tau Delta has been higher than the general allmen average at colleges and universities all over the country, Mr. Maclean said. He recommended that Greek letter societies demand that their members attain an average at least equal to the general student average at educational institutions. Dr. Frank Hutchins, Indianapolis, who served as toastmaster, asserted that too little attention is paid in the majority of educational institutions to instruction in the development and proper use of the mind.

GARNERS DISAPPOINT GREETERS AT DALLAS Shivering Reception Committee Left Standing on Platform. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 28.—A small reception committee that waited in near-freezing weather here today to greet Vice-President John Garner and Mrs. Garner waited in vain. The Garners sent word to their would-be hosts that they were resting and did not wish to be interrupted. The train proceeded toward St. Louis, with the reception committee still standing on the station platform. CHURCH GROUP ELECTS Seminary Head Named President of History Society. By United Press AUBURN, N. Y„ Dec. 28.—The Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Loetschec, professor of church history at the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, yesterday was selected president of the American Society of Church History.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hazy Day Woman Doesn’t Remember Being Beaten.

A sixty-day free “memory course” was promised a witness in municipal court three yesterday when a chorus of “I don’t remembers’ tried the patience of Judge Dewey E. Myers. The hazy recollection of Miss Louise Gillmore, 856 North East street, as to what happened in the early morning hours of Christmas resulted in the dismissal of assault charges against French Childers, Ft. Harrison soldier. Childers was arrested early Christmas morning by Sergeant Claude Kinder when he found Miss Gillmore lying screaming in the street at Delaware and St. Clair streets. She charged that Childers had dragged her out of a nearby apartment house and beat her. In court this morning. Miss Gillmore said she was Mrs. Gillmore and answered ‘I don’t remember” to questions as to whether she had been with Childers and had been struck by him. When she said she didn’t even remember seeing Sergeant Kinder the sergeant exclaimed: “Why, Judge, she called me by name when she came here this morning!” Sufficiently irked. Judge Myers declared, “There is no charge against you now, Mrs. Gillmore, but if you appear in this court again I’ll give you sixty days to improve your memory.”

STATE ROAD NO. 67 HIGHEST IN ACCIDENTS Anderson-Pendleton Stretch Has Most Automobile Fatalities. By Times Special ANDERSON, Dec. 28.—More automobile fatalities occur on State Road 67, between Anderson and Pendleton, than on any other section of highway in the state, James D. Adams, state highway commission director, said today. Mr. Adams further stated that the Anderson-Indianapolis stretch of ro-jd ranked second highest in the state for volume of traffic. He told of an extensive program of road widening in Indiana next year to promote safety and to provide relief jobs.

A CORRECTION Due to an oversight a blanket advertisement was inserted in The Times of Dec. 27th without proper corrections being made. A blanket at 89c was advertised as being a 70x80 part-wool double blanket, whereas it is a 70x80 part-wool single blanket. We regret if our error has caused any one any inconvenience, and hereby offer our apologies. THE STORE WITHOUT A NAME

CWA PUTS 234 MEN TO WORK AT 4AIRPORTS State’s Projects Include Establishment of _ New Field. Work on four airports in the state has been begun as part of the CWA program, giving employment to 234 men, it was announced today by William H. Book. CWA state administrator. The work includes improvement of fields at Bloomington, Muncie and Terre Haute, and establishment of anew field at Portland. The work is being performed under direction of Major Charles E. Cox Jr., Indianapolis municipal airport superintendent, and director of the CWA airport division. Mr. Book announced appointment of Ross Caldwell, 2424 College avenue, to have charge of housing and relief for the transient activities bureau, under direction of Edward E. Lißella, state transient activities director. Plans for conducting a campaign for safety of CWA project employes in the state were announced by Mr. Book with appointment of Neal Dow, Indianapolis, as CWA safety director, and W. Pierce Mac Coy, Anderson, as assistant director. The national safety plan provides for selection of a community safety director in each large city, and a safety director, generally a foreman or timekeeper, on every job employing more than ten men. A man trained in first aid work will be assigned to each project. New CWA projects approved include one for the straightening and widening of Pleasant Run creek through the city. The work will provide employment for seventy-six men with a total of $8,032 wages. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North wind, 4 miles an hour; temperature, 13; barometric pressure, 30.60; general conditions, high scattered clouds, smoky; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, four miles.

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