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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1930
Page
9
The piece argues mass production powered America’s postwar boom but warns the Grundy tariff bill risks retaliation and market loss. It links auto industry exports to national wealth and employment, notes a collapse from 181 million to 97 million in three months, and calls for focusing on conduct-based insanity tests in crime.
The piece questions President Hoover's newly announced commission for business conditions, noting two prior commissions in 1922 and last year's economic changes report. It urges using the Wagner bills to enact the Hoover unemployment commission's 1922 recommendations without delay, arguing that concrete results matter more than commissions.
A debate on how to define right and wrong in insanity defenses. The Motelito case at Auburn prison features Dr. Frank L Heacox testifying Motelito sane despite claiming moron level intelligence. The piece contrasts absolute medieval notions of right and wrong with life experience shaped ethics.
The piece argues that Pennsylvania deserves priority in corruption probes tied to campaign finances. It cites alleged fake registrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, notes lobbyist Grundy’s charges against Atterbury, and contrasts actions by James J. Davis. It urges Nye's committee to investigate in the Pennsylvania primary looming next Tuesday.
The Society of Friends, tracing the prison idea to 250 years ago in West Jersey and Pennsylvania, urge a overhaul of prison discipline. They condemn crowding, miserliness, and parole flaws, urging humane reform and a push toward imprisonment with hard labor as a rehabilitative path.
The reminiscence recalls frontier legends like Beers Dick Pawnee Bill Buffalo Bill Wild Bill and Captain Jack Crawford as part of a youth culture of dime novels and outlaw myth. It notes Deadwood Dick born in England in 1845 and dying in boots off while the West drew crowds to the Gold Rush era.
M E Tracy argues about the future’s mystery and life’s risk while railing at censorship and libel. He notes judges will decide if Moore's A Story Teller's Holiday is obscene and questions where art ends and vulgarity begins. The piece cites Nansen’s death, Ames’s recovery, Pulitzer prizes, and science’s authority.
Albert Einstein, born May 14 1879 in Ulm, German Empire, rose to fame for relativity and Brownian motion. He studied in Switzerland, became a professor at Zurich, led the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and later held the Leiden chair of physics after Nobel honors.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes many stammering schools rush to remedies without diagnosing individual causes. He cites a study by Dr John A Glassburg showing Europe views stuttering as speech difficulty, while in the U S it links to sound reduplication and hesitation. Emphasis on psychological factors, breathing training, and education as key to proper treatment.
In a 1930 Times column, a writer criticizes the Anti-Saloon League leader M. M. McBride, likening his proclamation that prohibition is a divine instrument to idol worship. The piece questions if leaders act under godly guidance or mere political expedience, noting the ally system and the idea that majority will may not be God.
A daily Bible quiz presents five questions on well known passages including the shortest verse origin the Book of Numbers naming Miriam Pentecost naming the meek prayer and a final beatitude. Yesterday's answers listed Nathaniel John 1 46 the ark and family count Ecclesiastes 1 9 two thousand cubits and Hagar Genesis 16 15.
A Q and A compilation covers hair color distinctions battleship guns and ship weaponry 60 A D era warfare common items in use Bolivia capitals Sucre and La Paz star counts and coloratura soprano traits including runs and trills.
A daily thought reflects on Matthew 15:57 about a prophet’s honor at home. It compares a man’s true standing to a thermometer’s level observed by the world and quotes H. W. Shaw on perception and character.
Dr. E A Speiser at the American Philosophical Society argued that archaeology and texts upend old views of civilization origins. He maintains the earliest culture centered in Susa with Elamite art and metallurgy, spread across Mesopotamia and into Persia, suggesting a single Alpine stock extended across the Near East before Sumerians and Semites.
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