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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
TrOubadOu1S Sing Songs of History
Written for The Times By Will Durant

VXTHEN men are harassed with
w poverty they take refuge in
romance. Imagination, which IS the
soul of literature, is a precious boon;
without its Utopias and Elysian
Fields. its perfect lovers and friend
" gods, life would be dark and
lonely thing, full Of necessity and
endless strife; and only a Stole
could bear it cheerfully.
Truth, which we seek so bravely
seldom rewards us with loneliness;
we look at it a moment in dismay
and then fly back to the castles
which imagination builds. AS long
as the earth is imperfect men will
write poetry.
The earth was unquestlOnably i'm
perfect in the days OF Abelard, and
therefore Abelard was wise enough
to be not only a philosopher. but
a troubadour; doubtless he was
happier when he sang songs of I'M
dying love to Heloise, or pious
fealty to the Virgin Mother, than
when he meditated on the real
nature of the world and man.
If one were less gifted than
Abelard, and could not fashion fair
imagery or tender speech, he might,
if rich, pay a jongleur or jester to
provide entertainment at his feasts
and revelries; and even the poorest
could pick up these songs or pups
out of the air as they travelled
from tongue to tongue across the
continent. SO Abelard, aged and
penniless, must often have heard
his own roundelays come back to
him from the Ministries IN the
streets, who never guessed thai this
gray-haired priest had composed
their melodies.
Il
CURELY the pleasant side OF
- medieval history is the tale OF
the troubadours, happy-go-lucky
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02

But there was no evidence that the atoms could be
split up into smaller particles.
The discovery of radium, however, furnished just
that evidence. For it was soon found out that the
powerful rays emitted by radium the result of
the disntegration of the atoms which composed the
radium.
This opened up entirely field of eXplora-
ton. 1t meant that the atom not the smallest
thing in the universe.
The atom itself composed of smaller particles.
That smaller particle to be known the
electron. But many scientists did much important
work before the electron was isolated
1t found first of all, that radum gave off three
kinds of rays which behaved differently.
These rays were named from the first three let
ers of the Greek alphabet the alpha rays, the beta
rays and the gamma rays
Experiments eventually showed that the alpha and
beta rays were not true rays but were minute par
ticles. The gamma rays turned out to be true rays
like X-rays but with wavelength far shorter than
that of the shortest X-rays.
The alpha particles were shown to be electrically
charged positively, while the beta particles were
shown to possess negative charge.
Today we know that the beta particles are mega
tive electrons while the alpha particles denti-
cal with the central portions of nuclei of the atoms
of helium
We find many great names in the list of those who
contributed to understanding of the eecron Sir
j. j. Thomson, Sir Ernest Rutherford Dr. Neils Bohr
and Prof R. A. Millikan four Of the promi-
nent names in that list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Editor Times:

Editor Times:
A few days ago our postmaster
Robert H. Bryson) had an article
in your paper headed, "Postman
Saves Four Miles Daily by Walking
Lawns" In the article he does not
mention that it is a great saving to
the Government. but he said it is
taking a great hardship off the car
riers.
The fact Is that we work eight
hours a day and by walking over
every PATRONS lawn We do not save
ourselves anything. If we go across
the lawns and save fifteen or twenty
minutes a day this way, then as
soon as an inspector goes around
with us and finds us working seven
hours and forty-five minutes. he will
recommend that fifteen minutes
more territory be added to said
route. In this way the hardship
would be on the carrier who walked
across the lawns.
We have the postmaster's orders
to stay off lawns and avoid so many
complaints, but at the same time
he expects us to cross until the
patron orders us off. Then he can
tell the patron he has given the car
riers orders to stay off lawns and
also can ask the carrier for an eX-
PLANTATION as to why he walked on
the lawn. If he wishes, he can de-
merit the carrier for disobeyin9 or
ders.
If he really wishes to save the car
rier some extra steps and take of
a hardship, I will show him how. 1t
is up to the local postmaster Of each
city to let the letter carriers of Sat
urday afternoon, if he wishes.
But Bob" does not and the only
reason that I know of is because he
thinks more of his few friends in
the Chamber of Commerce who
want their mail on Saturday after
noon. than he does OF the 327 car
riers who would like very much to
have, and rightfully deserve, their
Saturday.
When we do get a legal holiday,
and should be off all day, he makes
us work q halliday on the holiday
and then gives us a halliday COM
pensatory time some other dav. This
gives us two half-days off, instead
Of holiday and If you wish to go
any place, you can't because you
have only a halliday at time.
AS an example. Feb. % 1928,
should have been a holiday at the
postoffice. The letter carriers have
our State convention on this day.
This year it was held at Muncie. The
date fell on Wednesday, the light
est mail day in the week and the
twenty-second is one of the light
est days Of the month, but we Indi-
annapolis letter carriers had to work
half a day G. T.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Crime and the Individual

Judge Frank Murphy Of Detroit, speaking before
a group of club women recently had some rather
pertinent things to say about the crime situation.
Discussing the great growth in arrests and con-
victons in late years the jurist said:
THE solution, if we are to keep crime down 70
the minimum, is not in law but in developing in the
hearts and minds of the people those ideals and
capacities that teach selfcontrol This is the task
of the homes the schools and the churches"
Rather well said, we think We can't reform our
selves by starting to work from the outside in Every
betterment that hope to get must begin with
In the individual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, BY The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; liking; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
1. What should you bid initially
when you hold. Spades-x x x,
hearts-A x x; diamonds-A K
clubs-A K x x x?
2. When you hold a sound four
card major suit and a sound FIVE
card minor suit, which should you
mention first?
3. Does a singleton in initial de-
clarer's hand add any value to the
hand?
The Answers
I. One no-trump.
?. The four-card major suit.
3. Hardly ever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
DID Rear Admiral Collard OF

Did Rear Admiral Colard Of
British navy call the bandmd
a bloody beggar," as he claiml
bloody" something else b
ming with "B," as others asser
Was the chaplain of the I
Oak so aggrieved when he ~ (
what the admiral said that he
tested to the latter?
Did the Rear Admiral call
tain Dewar to his quarters
solemnly aver that he did NOT sa
it?
Did the Rear Admiral threatel
Captain Dewar if the latter failed t.
make Commander Daniel introduce
the guests properly at a reception
Were Captain Dewar and Com
mander Daniel justified in itilini
complaints against the Rear Ad
miral for these and other allege'
6iscourtesies?
Such are the grave question
which a court-martial now sittini
at Gibraltar must decide.
No wonder the British empir'
awaits the outcome with breathles
anxiety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Hoover. the One Way Out


While great majority Of voters are partl-
san Democrats or Republicans, belonging to
one party or the other, there has been growing
gradually in this country large number of
voters who don t belong to either party, but
want the best there is in both parties to belong
to them.
Probably better way of putting it would
be to say that they want the best there is IN all
parties to belong to the country.
In selecting candidates for the presidency,
the rank and file in the past have had little to
say. Organization politicians have done the
picking and the voters had merely choice be-
tween two hand-selected candidates. Some
times it meant only choice between two evils.
In advocating the nomination of Hoover by
the Republicans and Smith by the Democrats,
the Scripps Howard newspapers sought to
bring the influence of the rank and file to bear
on the conventions long in advance of the Sc
lection of delegates. Our purpose was to give
the people a choice between the best men IN
the parties instead Of between the worst.
DEVELOPMENTS since that stand taken
have justified, we believe, the wisdom Of it.
There might have been enough public indigna-
ton over the oil scandal even in 1924 to have
defeated the Republican party that year if the
Democratic party hadn t messed itself up so
badly in the Madison Square convention as to
make the people believe it wasn't worth while
to turn to that party for relief.
And Harding's death brought Coolidge to
the front, and he hadn't been muddied up by
the oil revelations or any other scandal.
But now the oil scandal is worse than ever.
On top of it has come the rottenness In In
diana, and the connection of the Republican
national committee with the oil gang. And in
dications point to the nomination by the Dem
ocrats Of Governor Smith, against whom there
has never been breath Of scandal throughout
his long public career.
So it appears that if the Republican party
is to make a serious bid for public confidence, 1t
must discard the entire gang Of professional
political bosses, steer clear of another bed
room conference" and nominate man whose
character is such that the scandals can't touch
him.
In other words, the Republican party must
clean it's own doorstep or have it cleaned by
the Democrats
That is why the sentiment for Hoover
among the great body of patriotic honest and
non.professional Republicans has been grow
ing. They realize that they can t take chance
on such men as Lowden or Dawes or any can
didate Of that type-in fact, on anybody who
might be the choice of the bosses and the big
campaign contributors.
If they hope to hold public confidence, they
will have to have candidate whose character
can stand the searchlight; and one who, In
event Of his nomination and election, can be
depended upon to clean house from within.
Hoover is their opportunity, and as against
Smith their only chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02

song birds who, armed only with a
Lutte and tune, tramped from town
to town, from lady to lady. and
from court to court, singing of fair
women and brave men.
There were many species of this
carefree genus; in the far North
they were stern skalds, inditing
verse Eddas or prose sagaS Of thun-
derous gods or terrific warriors, Of
Thor and Odin and Friga, of
Sigurd and Brynhild and Olaf
Tryggvason; in Germany they were
mlnnesingers, developing the end
less fairy stories Of their people into
the legend of the Nibelungenlied,
and the tales of Siegfried, Tristram,
Kundry and Parsifal; in England
they we're Ministries and gleemen,
Of names unknown to us, who sang
in rude alliterative verse the tale Of
the doughty Beowulf, or created
the poetry and prose of King Ar
thur and his round table of valiant
knights and seekers of the Holy
Grail; in France they were jongleurs
and troubadourS, remaking Char
lemagne into a god in the story
Of Roland and Oliver, and almost
creating romantic love in their
haunting albes or dawn songs, in
"Aucassins ct Nicolete," and in
Roman de la Rose"
These chanted tales revolved about
two fcci which have always been
allied; war and love, with a dash OF
piety thrown in; for love could not
be quite romantic if it were not
taken tremblingly as a delicious sin.
In the story of Isolde and Tristan,
the love-motif is independent and
alone; there is nothing here but de-
votion and desire, burning like clear
flames; and when the tenderness OF
music is added, the theme becomes
hypnotic, like some enchantresS'
eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
With Other Editors

successor to E1ennings, it does not
seem within the range of reason
that he can step into the place
and do the work as we'll as his
predecessor had learned to do it.
That will take years.
The reformatory was located at
JefferSonville when HenningS was
first appointed a trustee of the in
stitution. He served during one
of the most important periods of
the institution, having a promin-
ent part in the planning, construc-
ton and practical completion of
the new institution at Pendleton.
New board members were accus-
toned to seek his advice. The
present efficient management of
the States largest penal institu-
ton is the result.
Hennings was regarded as an
authority on parole and pardon
cases. The young man who be-
came a prisoner by circumstances,
and deserved another chance, al
ways found a friend in Joe Hen
ningS.
He found employment for them,
helped them get back on their
feet, and was always keenly inter
ested in their welfare.
The hardened, untruStworthy
criminal soon learned that there
was one member of the board from
whom he could not expect more
than he was entitled to receive.
Reviewing Hennings' long and
valuable service to the State, it
does not seem that there can be a
logical reason for the refusal Of
the Governor to reappoint him
for another term.
The new member of the board is
president of a Marion motor truck
firm. His company was known to
have been a strong advocate Of the
now famous Road Ripper bill,
which Governor Jackson support
ed several years ago in an effort
to reorganize and gain control of
the State highway commission.
So it appears that the Governor
is willing to let the reformatory
administration suffer to take care
of friend to whom he wishes to
repay a political debt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02

What is the function OF protein in
body building?
Protein is fuel for the body and
provides also a certain important
element, nitrogen, which in the case
of children is needed for growth and
to keep the bodies of both children
and adults in repair. Without meat
or some substitute Including milk
meals would lack this bodybuilding
material Foods depended on for
protein are: Milk, skim milk,
cheese, eggs. meat, poultry, fish,
dried peas, cowpeaS and nuts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Ohio Question Mark

The week opens with a grd
question mark in the sky abe
Ohio. Beneath it lies a dead ms
but who thinks of that?
Though young, the campaign
1928 already has gathered enouS
Roadway to leave small time 1
sympathy.
1t is on with the argument, VIII
a few faithful friends attend to
last sad ceremony!
Has Herbert Hoover been hIN
or hasn't he?
Though seeming to imply dis
spect, such a question on milljHl
of lips pays former Senator Tran
Willis high tribute.
1t makes no other conclusio
possible than that he left a rec
vacancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
ChiCago'S CutthroatS

The question mark above OhAlo
not the only one to darken westt
skies.
If people are concerned oven
effect Of Senator Willis death, tl
are also concerned over condik X
in Chicago.
What began as a farce has becdG
a tragedy.
There was an element of com
albeit a grim one, in big ~
Thompson's balderdash about pi
British propaganda and the nee,
sity of saving America from t
deadly intrigues Of historical VIZ
ers, while gangs of bootlegg'
fought with machine guns in t
streets of his own city.
One finds it hard to laugh, no
ever, when the cutthroats turn
politics.
The Small Crowe-Thompson N
chine has ceased to be the har.
less patron of hoodlunliSm viii
most people thought.
It's roughneck side is no lonl
confined to the cellar and the stu
The terrorism it tolerated in
haunts of vice has broken loo
The thugs it allowed to fight aInc
themselves want bigger game. II
are no longer content with the 2,
ter, but demand to rule the tov
and it looks as though they vi
succeeding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02

and that the
atom was indi-
visible.
G h e m 1 C a
compounds are
C o m p o Sc d of
minute particles
C allie d mole
culeS. TheS e
molecules, in
turn, are made
up of the atoms
of the chemical
elements. For
e x a m pie, a
molecule of wa
ter is composed
of two atoms
of hydrogen and
e -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02

1. The idet, of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or given number of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at a time.
3. You must have complete word
Of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order of letters can not
be changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Loss of a Leader

But if the question is a tribute,
some of the ways in which 1t is be-
ing answered are not.
To say that Herbert Hoover has
been hurt is to say that the cam
paign against him is stronger with
Willis gone, and that is to deny the
latter had any personal following or
influence.
Among others, I have taken fling
or two at Senator Willis, but I have
never belittled him to that extent.
Regardless of how one might dis
agree with him, it was nonsense
to suppose that he was not a force
in Ohio politics, nor that the anti
Hoover sentiment in that State did
not owe great deal to his leader
ship.
Thousands of Ohio citizens were
ready to vote against Hoover for no
other reason than that they liked
Senator Willis.
They no longer have that a 5 an
incentive.
One cannot argue that HooveY h.
been hurt without arguing that for
mer Senator Willis popularity va
of no account
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
No. Is

TINE discovery of radium completely revolution
l. lied all scientific theories to the nature of
matter Every theory in the field of physics and
chemistry advanced since 1900 has been influenced
by the discovery of radium
For until radium discovered it was assumed
that the atom was the smallest thing in existence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Anderson Herald

Governor Ed Jackson has re-
placed Joseph E. Hennings as a
member of the board of trustees
of the Indiana reformatory for APP
parently no other reason except
that he wanted to give the place
to political friend.
The change was made at the ex-
piration of Hennings' third term
and his tenth year as a member
of the board. The announcement
came as a surprise to reformatory
officials and the public, which long
ago had learned to appreciate
work for the betterment Of the
institution.
without casting any reflection
on the ability of Omer K. York, Of
Marion, who has been appointed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Does the hair grow after 3

Does the hair grow after q
son dies?
According to the United 81
Public Health Service and
authorities there are no autE
cases on record where the hs
a human being has grown
death. The belief appears d
based on the fact that theI|
shrinks after death and the
sequent change in the face
the appearance of growth Of
However, there is a belief OF
part Of many persons that
growth does occasionally take |,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Times Readers
Voice ViezOS

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request VIII not be published. Let
preference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
FL. WAYNE JournaI-Gazette


That there is need OF a thorough
inquiry into the rumOrs, charges
and suspicious concerning the adj
ministration of the public deposi-
tory law and the management of
certain banks in Indiana seems to
be established.
Prosecuting Attorney Homer r.
Miller, of Howard County, who is
still investigating failure of the
American Trust Company, a Ko-
kOmo bank, says he will press his
inquiry. There is no reason to
question that he should.
The Howard County grand jury
in adiourning announced that it
had been unable to return new in
dictments. but urged that the next
grand jury take up the inquiry
and carry on.
From D. C. Stephenson and
from Stephensons "black boxes"
much disturbing evidence was OBJ
tanned, and it seems to be the
clear inference that indictments
we're not returned solely because
there had been no corroborative
evidence obtained.
If that can be procured the
course is clear, not only in Howard
County, but in any other counties
indicated by the facts that already
have been uncovered.
The Howard County prosecutor
repudiates sensational statements
attributed to him concerning a
great conspiracy in the country
which seemed to indicate a treas
enable plot to disturb the govern
ment.
That is not for Indiana to u1ves-
tigate. The thing with which this
State is directly concerned is
whether the State depository act
and the State banking laws have
been violated by Indiana banking
officials and officers of any banks
in Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
Does the Bible say that a woman

Does the Bible say that woman
should not wear mems garments?
Deuteronomy, twenty-second
chapter, fifth verse reads: "The
woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither
shall a man put on a woman's
garment; for all that do so are
abomination unto the Lord thy
God"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
NJ. E.
SAYS.
SAYS.

"Mack of the Trouble of
This World Goes Back ia.
Minor AccideRtS-CarQ
less Words, ThoughtIeSA
Acts and Things of M
Consequence"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-02
The Atom Is Exploded

David Dietz on Science
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
AMERICAN ACTOR
DIES AFTER VOYAGE
Rex Clergyman, 81, Expires
in HaWe Upon Arriving
in France.

T." the Associated Press,
HAVRE. France, August 1l.-PcX
Clergyman, one Of Broadways hest
Juvenile actors, died At the City Hos
ptal late Yesterday shortly after he
arrived here aboard the steamship De
Graesc. Mr.. Clergyman became Ill dur
ing the voyage. The American consulate
has taken charge Of the body. which
probably will be crcmatcd at Rouen.
tThe actor who was 81 years old.
was a native Of Grand Rapids. Mich.
and had recently appeared in the prin-
opal male role In The Trial Of Mary
Dugan)
NEW YORK. August II N,.-Rcx
CLERGYMAN Broadway actor, died Of
septic poisoning. A. H. WOods. producer
Of the last play in which the juvenile
appeared, was informed by cable from
France today.
Clergyman started on a months va
cation a week ago and WaS to have re-
Sumcd his role as leading man in The
Trial Of Mary Dugan" when the play
opens in Chicago next month.
His love for the theater was inherited
from his mother Myrtle KGOn Cherry
man, q dramatic reader Of Grand Rap
ids, Mich Clergyman attended Col
gate and Michigan Universities and
then went into q bank He worked in
the bank Just 10 weeks when he de-
cidcd to be an actor. He first went 10
Los Angeles, and followed his movie
work with a period in stock in San
Francisco, where he was given four
year contract by Tom Wilkes
His New York debut was with Mar
ioric Rambcau in 1924, in The Valley
Of Content" after an engagement in
Chicago with the Duncan Sisters in
"Topsy and Eva"
Seven years ago he married Esther
Lamb at OwosSo Mich. They were di-
vorced recently. They had one son.
Rex. Besides his mother. a sister. Mrs.
M. Howard Tilgman Of Wayne, Pa,
survives