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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
Is This You?

WHAT is he average American like7 Politicians talk
w about him. Newspapers write about him. Psychologists
hold him up of phantom in their shadowboxng.
The average American is 5 feet 71a inches tall
He weighs 1411a pounds
This announced by Maj Gen Merritte W. Ireland surgeon
general of the army after studying the records of 100000 who
examined for service in the last
How close you to the averaged
The shortest American Rhode Island
Texas and the of North Carolina
they only about below
American
South Dakota averaged any
Rhode Island the ghtes The groups
five pounds above and below normal
Out of each 100 city the army sixy-one
physical defects found The figure only hree
the farm boys This confirms you already
is in the country, close to the soil.
fifth of the Glass were found physically unfit for
military service in the field study This is very
serious handicap for the generation yet
while few physical defects inherited tendency
toward physical defect is definitely known
passed on from father to
Kansas highest physical specimens
Rhode Island at the foot of the list.
Three out Of each 200 examined rejected mental
inadequacies abnormaes On this basis
100000 Americans have hopeesy inferior brains some them
of the vegetable type.
Millions of bits of valuable information each leading to an
important and helpful deduction, be Ireland
analysis of ''the average American
Of all these, the most important
1. The need of greater health education exercise
The need of education for those whose
brains below normal.
The wisdom of cautiously considering the physical
and mental health Of intended mate before marriage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
GOLF DIGNITY

Contrib, Sees No Virtue In Charge for
Playing South Grove.
To the Editor Of The Times
Your correspondent ~Braszie," who
indorses the action Of the park board
charging rs cents per round on the
South Grove golf course, certainly
doesn't belle his name. ffBrassie"
talks about 'exclusiveness" and a
'gentlemen's" game, which is the sur
est way to kill the popularity of golf.
municipality patronized.
In the first place, charging a fee
for the sue of city property Is unlaw-
full. No matter how you attempt to
disguise the action, it is both legally
and morally wrong.
Again, the payment OF a s5-cent fes
doesn't guaranee the quality of the
golfer. The biggest buffers usually
have plenty Of money. while the poor
citizens who do we'll to provide them
selves with clubs and balls, may find
the fee a real hardship, especially if
fond Of golf
Exclusiveness doesn't always make
for dignity either. I know some Of
our most exclusive people are those
who have no consideration for others.
and when analysed their dignity Is
often a mask to hide their true ne
lures.
If Lew Shank allows his park board
to charge 25-cent fee for golflng at
South Grove. I, for one, am in favor
of bringing impeachment proceedings
against him. DRIVER
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
BY PHILIP ]. s1NNoTT


SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. keep
your temper If you can. But II you
do get angry-go into action! Saw
wood. pile bricks, do something. It's
good for your health"
DR.. Walter B. Cannon OF Harvard
Medical Schools department Of phys
iology. thus summarized at recent
meeting results of his studies OF physi-
illogical effects OF powerful emotions.
IF the emotions OF rage or fear
overwhelm us, our bodies are put on
a war footing when there may be no
war to be fought. We are ready for
action-so the best thing Is action.
Attack something-wood piles. an un-
beaten carpet and the like are safest
TO pick on.
Down through the ages nature has
endowed vertebrate animals with In
voluntary mobilization of bodily fight
ing or running facilities in time Of
fear or anger. Through these. the
body ceases all functioning not con-
nected with the fight or fight for pro-
lection"
Further preparation Of the body
noted in such times of stress is secre-
ton of strength giving fluids into the
blood by certain glands
This mobilization Of the bodily
forces was helpful when primitive man
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
Idealism and Booberies

LLOYD GEORGE, Premier of Britain, is the king of press
L. agents. Would that America had one like him.
The whole world is ready burst crying the
old England and orrepongy bitter against the
vllainous Uncle Sam-thanks Little David.
David has been telling the world Great Britain favor forg
ing the debts the allies her. fact would give her the
greatest pleasure do them this little favor Onmark how the
little Weman puts ony long America Britain
for payment Britain is heplesSl
Sacre Uncle saml shylock, If it for him and
his greedness, what lovely world this would be-
So is the world thinking
What America needs press agent of her Mr. Hard
Mr. Hughes somebody might do little Lloyd Gorgeng
their own hook and put things in their right place.
1t may be that certain of cancellation of debts
all round the only We do know But from
Missouri and be shown, nobody in the world
liberal than the American with his money.
The cancellation of 81 100000 of debts
owed by the allies the United States going the
world
What good will it do this country-or the world for that
make the allied present bill
lions only have them take the money and fighting
warsY
Europe first her order mill
then take stock of how much how little she pay.
If she ALL by making sacrifices, she ought to be
made to pay all 1t her fooshnes which brought
the IT, however after she has reduced her budgets
limits it is discovered she really pay then America may
take entirely different view of the situation.
Some highplaced publicity of the David Moyd-George
order ought to make this plain the world
America not without her ideals but neither she sucker
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
REPORT SHOWS
PROGRESS MADE
ON ROAD PAVING
Bulletin Issued by Hoosier Mo-
tor Club Gives Condition
of Roads.

Continued steady progress in hard
surface paving work on the National
road east and west Of Indianapolis is
reported by the touring bureau OF the
Hoosier Motor Club in a statement is
sued today.
East OF Greenfield the detour now
starts at the city limits, the motor
club stated, and while the contractor
turns traffic east at the first road, the
motor club advised through motor
lists to continue on to the third road
south of the National road, which the
club has marked Thoroughly all the
way into Dublin. Wayne County. thus
avoiding all the present construction
gaps. The first road south of the Ma
tional road is advisable for local trav-
elers wishing to go to Charlottesville
and Knightstown. This road is not
good in spots, while the through route
marked by the motor club is in splen-
did condition generally, 1t was stated.
The eastern barricade is still be-
ing maintained at Dublin, although
several miles OF pavement have been
completed to the edge of Stra ughn.
Business interests at Straughn are
preparing 10 BTdue the street IOnSSlQe
the new concmrete pavement. The mo-
tor club states that with tbs side
section Of the main street in Straughn
graded traffic likely will be permitted
to come west from Richmond to that
city before. detourtng. The west bound
detour is to the north OF the Ma.
tional road, and in sections this de-
tour is rough Only about eighteen
miles of pavement remain to be laid
between Straughn and Greenfield, d.
vided into two gaps. one between
Straughn and Knightstown. and the
other between Charlottesville and
Greenfield.
West Of the city the construction
work is proceeding steadily, some han
dicap being reported on account of
slow shipments of cement and other
materials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
Bibliologid Brands Dogn1ntic Religion
Unfit Catechisnp for Gr0zving Youth
By NEA SerVtcs

By NEA SerVice
Copyright, 1929. by NEA service.)
BALTIMORE. Aug. 14.-This is
what Is the matter with us, said DR..
Hendrix Willem Van Loon in an in
terview today:
Dogmatic religion is losing ground
everywhere in the world.
Democracy is in a bad way every
where in the world.
We take ourselves too seriously and
don't smile enough.
Mankind staggers under burden
of self-conscious gloom.
DR.. Van Loon is used to saying
starting things as we'll as doing them.
His famous STORY of Mankind" shook
the traditions of history teaching.
Now he is about to upset. certain
Bible traditions with his new book,
1.-THE Story of the Bible" This is to
be followed with volume on the
Renaissance to show there was once
a time when people got fun out of
life.
Then he plans to write a STORY OF
the Eighteenth Century"
1.-THE sectarian churches" he says.
have lost their grip on the people
despite universal spiritual curiosity.
Nothing is more pathetic and more
general than the blind cropping for
spiritual concepts. Witness the New
Thought volumes-Ralph Waldo En-
erson served up with some spiritual
cod.liver oil.
LAS an intelligent man, can't very
we'll send my boys to a sectarian
church or Sunday school 10 listen TO
the outworn ideas tossed about in
those places. AS for reading the
Bible, the Old Testament is hardly a
book to give any child as a guide for
his conduct unless thoroughly revised.
Van Loon says THE Story OF the
Bible" was written for his two boys
because he didn't want to expose them
TO shopworn notions in church and
Sunday school.
Religion, politics. education. the
arts and other conponents Of cultured
life" he says, have been hamstrune
by a vague conception that there is
something sinful in having good
time. I am impressed with the gloomy
face Of civilization; we take ourselves
much too seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14

ton was the only salvation did appen-
dicitis lose it's dread reputation. Some
thing of the sort must be done in the
case Of cancer.
Cancer is confined almost exclu-
sively to adult life. Largely because
of neglect and ignorance. nine out
of ten cases are fatal. Yet if proper
precaution and treatment were OBJ
served, it is probable that more than
half Of these deaths could be pre-
vented.
There are three forms OF unneces-
sary worry about cancer. People often
believe it is contagious. hereditary or
g. blood disease. 1t Is none of these.
The most dangerous thing about
cancer is that it's onset is frequently
painless. If it were painful from the
first most people would take warning
and less cases would be fatal. 1t is,
therefore, the part of wisdom for all
adults to have insidious sores that
have been irritated for some time ex-
amined.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
CHEF PERNOLLET

By BERTON BRALET.
NNhe greatest cook in the world is said to be
~ fernoIet of the town of Belley, Franee)
ANoME oards may pirate of warriors great
~ Or Statesmen mighty in debate,
WHO sit amid the halls of state
discussing many questions:
tut 1<asptre to touch my Tyre
And sing with tervor and with FIRE
OF him whose one aud sole desire
is pleasing our digestions:
Thus a wreath eternal lay
A laurel ever-yernal lay
Beneath the Gslliv kelly.
AND on the load of Pernollet,
Chief Pernollet of Belley
wv ELL-NAMED the town of such re-
wv nown,
Who're monarch. merchant prince or
clown,
With gustatory bliss gulp down
Roasts, ices, entrees, salads
To come across the special sauce
OF Pernollet, makes words q losa,
And makes the verstflers toss
sheaf OF noble ballads;
Such cooking might we'll earn lag
From poets who could turn a lay
AS well as Keats or Shelley,
To celebrate Chief Pernollet.
Chef Pernollet of Belleyl
OH. gluttouy may Justly be
I Viewed as q sin of low degree,
~ But Pernollet's great cookery
Entirely iustiles It;
And gourmets come to fill their tum
With food that leaves them wholly dumb
Except to say I'm. yum. yum, yum
To show how much they prize 1t.
So. all good-livers learn a lay
That sings the fame of Pernollet
His soups. his meats. his Jelly;
AS I a wreath eternal lay
On Pernollet of Belley
Copyright 1922, NEA Servtce)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14

APPLE down the Great Lakes
from the mines. so far this season are
three-fourths bigger than in the cor
responding period a year ago. Steel
men would not be building up their
stocks of ore unless reasonably sure
they Will need it this winter.
CHAMPION
u. B. Chase, Jr., in a New Orleans
contest, is declared champion crawf1sh
eater of the world. He ate five buck
etsful, weighing sixty pounds In the
shell. The speed record goes to George
Luthy, who devoured 100 crawf1sh in
two and a half minutes.
This may be unimportant news, but
it would be dull world without peo-
pie like Chase and Luthy. Back of
events like the crawflsh tournament,
you see the American sense of hui
NOR. our safety valve.
MARINE
Manning American ships with
American citizens is just as impor-
tant, in building up a merchant ma
rine, as having the ships under the
American flag.
So you approvingly chuckle "Okeh!'
at this news: The Shipping Board re-
ports that in twelve months it placed
s4,782 officers and men on American
ships. And ninety-two out of 100 of
them We're American citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
RADIO PROGRAM
Indianapolis (Hatfield) wOH.)

Indianapolis (Hatfleld) WOH)
central Standard Time
Evening Program-Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday. $50 TO 10 p. IN.
Musical Programs
Daily Programs Except Sunday
1000 to HOO A. M.-Musical program
with special features
Bond grain and live stock market
reports at 1915 a. m.
/ 100 to 2 100 P. M--Musical program with
special features
Closing bond and grain market re-
ports at l 80 o. m.
4 100 to 3 100 P. M-Musical program with
special features
Closing live stock market at 4:15 .. M
Baseball scores at 40 p. m.
4 ;30 P. M.-Police notices.
Sunday Program
600 to II 100 A. M.-Recitsl (Discon-
tinued July and Augusta
indianapolis (Ayres- Hamilton) WIKI
Daily Except Sunday.
IL 100 to II 80 a. M-Musical program.
IL 80 A. M.--Weather reports and fore
cast ass meters.
1900 to IL :30-Musical program.
IL 80 P. MARKET reports.
200 to 2:30 ?. M.-Musical program.
$50 P. M.-Bureau of Agriculture market
500 to $3.50 P. M--Musical program.
5: 100 P. M.-Baseball scores.
1000 P. Milne and weather reports
4S5 meters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
Har1urd Psychic Recommends Hard Work
As Remedy for Sudden OubmStS of Rage

but what was beneficial then may be
harmful now.
Civilization has not eliminated our
proneness to fear or rage. Such func-
lions are not governed from the cere-
bral hemisphered. so once they are
set in motion. they cannot be checked.
Anger prepares the body for hard
work. Let hard work be the outlet
for the mood 1t util!zes the effer-
vescing energy. accomphshes some
thing, exercises the body. and at the
same time. diverts the mind from the
cause of anger.
There is one method better than
hard work, however. That is letting
nothing drive you into a rage, espe-
cially If you cannot do anything 70
better conditions by your augmented
powers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
BIZ PAIL z. COOLEY

Anserico's Foremost Radio Authority
Many city folks who have grasped
at radio as a delightfully."- fascinating
novelty may be expected to tire Of
it soon.
Their efforts toward getting the best
out of radio meet frequently with dis
couragernent Electric elevators,
flashing signs. steel buildings. cramped
quarters and Ightning-shy landlords
all bar them from pleasures which
are experienced by their more fortu-
nate brothers in the suburbs, the
small village or the farm.
Country folk appreciate radio most.
They do not have the varied forms
OF entertainments which their city
brothers enjoy and are therefore much
more sppreciative of the programs
broadcasted by the larger stations.
They can rig UP their sets easily.
In most cases, supports for the an
tenna wires grow near the house. If
not, the wires OF a fence, when prop
sraly arranged, make a very good
aerial There are no steel buildings
20 absorb the feeble impulses.
No Lightning Fear
The farmer has no fear of light
ming. He has lived in the open with
il He knows that the wires which
pick up the radio signals will bring
no more lightning than the tele-
phone line.
During winter months when life on
tia farm has the least to offer, radie
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
DRY LAW AUTHOR
ASSERTS REPEAL
CAN NEVER COME
Sheppard Ayers Modification of
Amendment May Mean Rigid
Substitute.
BRANDS EFFORTS FUTILE
Texas Senator Derides Move
by Wet Forces to Combat
Volstead Act.
By LEO r. SACK,
Times star Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-"Wets
who are putting up money to help or
CARNATIONS which are fighting the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol
stead act and candidates who are dig
ging deep into their pocketbooks to
run on light wine and beer platforms
are the most conspicuous easy marks
of the century"
Rather discouraging to the thou
sands of folks in Missouri, Ohio and
other States who voted for wet can
didates in the recent primaries, per-
haps, but Senator Morris Sheppard Of
Texas. author of the eighteenth
amendment and it's sponsor during
it's arduous passage through Con-
gress, doesn't intend to have his baby
kicked around too much.
Expects Few Changes
Senator Sheppard says at is utterly
futile" to attempt to bring back wine
and beer and he warns that attempts
to modify the Volstead act may result
in additional legislation which will
make the United States las dry as the
Sahara desert."
1.-THE eighteenth amendment is as
permanent a part of the Constitution
as any other section of that great in
strument," he says. THE Volstead
act is being administered with increas-
ing efficiency, and If there are any
changes at all, it will be to strengthen
the law.
"A few people are making money
out of organizations propagandising
wine and beer, but their agitation is
making no headway. The people un-
derstand that restoration of any form
of intoxicating liquors would mean
the overthrow of prohibition.
Light Drinks Worse
"As a matter Of fact beer and wine
always has been more dangerous than
whisky, because it is more seductive,
more palatable and more tempting to
first drinkers"
Aside from the determination of
Congress to turn down wine and beer
Senator Sheppard insists:
ANY act Of Congress which would
restore intoxicants in any form would
promptly be declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court.
There Is no use for people to fool
themselves. Prohibition is here to
stay"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED

You are always careful about your
appearance and do not consider house
work an excuse for being untidy and
unkempt You provide yourself with
neat house dresses ard are as attrac-
tive in them as you are in more for
NAL attire.
Then If you are taken unawares by
the morning caller, you do not have
to apologize for your untidiness or
risk displeasure by refusing an ap'
pearance,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14

Q.-What are the general principles
OF adding machine constructions
A.-The mechanism of adding ma
chimes is based on the principle that
our system OF writing numbers has
place value, 10 units making 1 ten,
10 tens making 100, and so forth. The
units are placed around the circum-
terence Of a wheel, the tens in the
same manner on a second wheel, the
hundreds on a third wheel, and so
forth. These wheels are operated by
keys which cause the wheels TO turn
onetenth. two-tenths, three-tenths,
ETC., of a revolution, depending on
whether the key depressed is I, Q, 8,
etc. At the end of a complete revo-
luton the unit wheel engages the tens
wheel, causing it to move forward
one-tenth Of a revolution. In the
same maner the end OF each complete
revolution of the tens wheel the hun
dred wheel moves forward one-tenth
of a revolution; thus carrying is pro-
vided for 1t is possible to subtract
on the machine, but not by reversing
the mechanism, as might be supposed
Subtracting must be done by adding
a process known as complementary
subtraction. Instead of subtracting
the number, we add it's complement
Multiplication can also be performed
by considering 1t as continued add
ton. To multiply q by 43 we strike
81 three times and 270 four times, the
result being the product.
Q.-How many miles of railroad
were there in the United States in
1855? In 1920?
A.-S5,OS5 in 1865; in 1920, $685..
s21.O4.
Q--Who designed the first seal of
the United States?
"A committee was appointed to
suggest design, but as none of the
committee could draw they called into
consultation Eugene Pierre du SINH
there. The design was accepted by the
committee but never used. No seal
was cut at the time and several years
passed before it was again taken up
for consideration. The first seal as &C
cepted and used was designed by Will
liam Barton and Charles Thomson.
The distinction of originating the
arms of the United States cannot just
~ be accorded to either but belongs to
both, with the larger share of the dis.
tinction to Thomson. This design was
accepted on June 20, 1882, and became
the first seal Of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-14
'PROH|S' Glide
kEITH'S PREXY
FOR DRY jokes
Wheeler Scores VaudeviIIe's
Buffoonery at Expense
of Prohibition.
THEATERS PROFIT BY ACT
Declares PIayhouses Accrue
Millions Through Enacted
Statute.
THEATERs PROFIT BY ACT
By C. G. LYON.
Times staff Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Nation-
wide prohibition is no joke. 1t Is
nothing to laugh at or ridicule. I'm
bedded as it is in the very cellar
foundation of the Government-thei
Constitutional should be treated as
deadly serious proposition.
If vaudeville folk don't quit poking
fun at it, dry folk VIII stay away from
the theaters and then the box Offices
will suffer, and the he and she actors
will have their salaries cut or maybe
be fired altogether and then maybe
they'll starve worse than ever.
One OF the finest pieces of hot
weather literature offered the parched
Washington public this summer is a
burning letter Wayne B. Wheeler Of
the Anti-Saloon League has sent E. F.
AIbee. head Of the Keith vaudeville
interests, on the subject Of "Albee
actorEngs" cracking jokes on the
stage at the expense Of prohibition.
Theaters Profit
Cant you see" he writes AIbee.
that prohibition has helped the
theatrical business? Prohibition
closed 177,Ooo saloons. Theater re-
ceipts increased s633,ooo,ooo under
prohibition in 1921 and millions Of peo-
pie now go to the theater and movies
who never attended these places be
fore. The theater manager that will
encourage the outlowed liquor trade in
the fac eof these facts is ungrateful
and worthy of censure by a fair
minded public"
Moreover: I'VE learned some time
ago that wet organizations we're max
ing determined effort to get those
on the stage to ridicule and oppose
prohibition. The theater is not sup
posed to be a propaganda forum.
When it is its manager ought to be
frank enough to advertise wet
speech and their allegiance to liquor
so that those who are in favor Of ths
Constitution and its enforcement may
know what to expect"
The clear-cut inference in the Anti
Saloon Leagues stand against prohi-
bition joke-cracking in the theaters is
that millions Of drys could be induced
to stay at home and crack jokes at
the theater box Offices