Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1934 — Page 10

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INDIA ‘QUAKES' DUE TD GROWTH OF MOUNTAINS Seismic Disturbances of This Nature Occur Elsewhere, Too. Science grrrtce WASHINGTON Jan 26— “Grow-* ing pains’’ in the most tremendous mountain system In the world, which is still getting bigger, are probably responsible for the disastrous earthquake in northern India. The whole south slope of the great Asian mountain mass is a very active seismic region. and shakedowns of major intensity. such as always accompany the upfolding of mountain ranges, can be expected there at any time. It is just short of an even generation since the last major earthquake in that neighborhood. In 1905 occurred the great Kangra quake, which was strongly felt in Simla, summer capital of British India. Major earthquakes in northern India might have been more frequent in recent decades, but for the relief to internal strains in the earth’s crust that must have been afforded by the excedingly severe Assam quake of 1897. in the opinion of Captin N. H. Heck of the United j States coast and geodetic survey.! This was the mast terrific earthquake recorded in the history’ of the world. It was felt over two and a \ quarter million square miles, and caused total destruction of all buildmes in an area of 12.500 square j miles. The tremors it sent through ! the earth were visible on lake surfaces in Europe. Other and more recent earth- | quakes traceable to growth movements of the Himalaya system have caused widespread death and de- ■ structon in Burma. Earthquakes are always most frequent and most severe in regions where the earth’s crust is being wrinkled and folded to form mountains. The younger the mountains the greater the seismic activity. Thus, earthquakes have been few and far between in the eastern United States, where the mountain systems are old. The Rockies, which might be classified as mountains in early middle age, are the scene of occasional quakes, while the Pacific coast, with its young and actively growing Coast Range infants, have earthquakes with considerable frequency. The great mountain arc that starts in Alaska and swings down the western shore of the Pacific through Kamchatka. Japan and the Philippines, is one of the most actively growing mountain regions of the world, and also one of the most lively of the earth’s earthquake zones. STATE SINKING FUND AIDED 206 TAX UNITS $786,399.64 Paid for Funds Tied l’p in Closed Banks. Two hundred six political subdivisions were paid $786.309 64 from the state sinking fund in recompense for funds tied up in fiftythree closed banks, according to an audit for the year made public today’ by the state accounts board. The fund closed the year with a balance of $138,556.76. It is replenished by diversions of interest on all public funds, which amounted i to $922,683.61 during the year, to which was added $14,994.19 in dividends from closed banks.

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RICH CHILDREN SUPERIOR ONLY IN LANGUAGES Intelligence Advantage Over Poor Pupils Not Marked, Tests Show. EU Science Service CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Children of the higher economic and social classes are considered superior in intelligence to those less fortunate mainly because of their superiority in the use of language, Dr. Ethel Kawin of the Institute for Juvenile Research found in a study just reported by her in a book, “Children of Pre-School Age.” Children of a nursery school in the Hull House district of Chicago were compared with those attending a nursery school in Winnetka operated as a joint project of the Winnetka Woman’s Club and the

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board of education and attended; mainly by the children of professional people. The wealthier children received higher scores on the ■ Stanford-Binet scale, but their advantage was smaller when measured by the Merrill-Palmer scale, in which language is less important, and the difference was smaller still when the language tests were omitted. The poorer children excelled on some of the motor tests. This finding justifies serious questioning of the accepted viewpoint that the intelligence of children is greater toward the upper end of the social-economic scale. Dr. Kawin concludes, although she warns that the number of cases in her study are too few to warrant any definite conclusions. WASHINGTON TRIP SET Governor McNutt to Address Press Club at Capital. After delivering an address at the night at Newcastle, Governor Paul V. McNutt will go to Washington. D. C. He is scheduled for a speech before the National Press Club there tomorrow night, and will remain in the capital sevenal days looking after state business with the federal government, including NRA, he said.

PROPOSED TAX DROPS LEVY ON SMALUNCOME Committee Hopes to Send Measure to House Next Week. By Unitfd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Chairman Robert L. Doughton called the house ways and means committee together today to put finishing touches on a new’ tax bill to be reported to the house next week, easing levies on small incomes, and increasing the toll on incomes from dividends and partially tax exempt government securities. The bill is intended to raise from $209,000,000 to $270,000,000 a year. The schedule of income tax rates tentatively approved by the com-

mittee would exempt incomes of SI,OOO for an unmarried person $2,500 for a married one. On incomes from 52.500 to $4.000, the tax would be 4 per cent with

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increased surtaxes beginning at $4,000 of net taxable income. The surtaxes range up to 49 per cent on incomes of more than $1,000,000 a year.