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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Laws on Disease

The idea Of curing human mala-
dies by law is as old as the hills.
1t has been tried with regard to
most weaknesses and some diseases.
Time was when men undertook to
rid themselves of leprosy by statute,
when they gave the victims Of that
dread affliction gray gowns and
bells so that they could be avoided
and Stunned by every one.
Though a heroic measure it did
not work. All it accomplished was
to fill the forest and other unin-
habited regions with pestilence. Not
until men learned to be charitable,
clean and scientific did they make
Roadway agaist leproSy.
Kindness and study has enabled
us to do more in the last half CEN
fury than our forefathers did in
the 1000 years of harshess and per-
secution.
Eight lepers have just been re-
leased from the hospital at Carville,
La, as apparently cured, which
sounds startling in view of what we
we're taught up to twenty-five or
even five years ago.
Courageous doctors. patient chem
lists, and above all else the human
itarian attitude that was willing to
give them the right kind of sup
port have won the battle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Legislation acts

People have experimental fire.
quently with the idea of trying to
make men good by law. Generally
speaking, their motives have been
commendable, but in most cases
they have failed to attain the de-
sired result.
Personal publication seems be-
yond the range of statute. 1t is
easier to punish evil through legis-
lation, than to inspire righteousness.
The idea of making individuals bet
ter through mass regulation is con-
trary to the laws of nature. De-
cency is largely a matter of self
improvement and that comes from
within, not from without.
Those who doubt the efficiency of
prohibition are not moved by their
appetite. They believe that 1t has
created a background for organ
lied crime.
In their judgment. bootlegging
and its underworld alliances has
created a singularly, favorable sit
uation for all forms of vice and law
lessness. They can not escape the
impression that prohibition, though
noble in purpose. is far too ambi-
tious an experiment for mere
mortals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Questions and AnSz0erS

cisely on the same level, and not
under the other flag.
What does it mean to dream of
spiders?
One interpreter of dreams says
ito be looked at by spider in your
dreams means treachery; to kill
one, quarrels and i'll luck"
What was the date of the Charles
ton earthquake?
Aug. 81, 1886.
What is a IacrimatOry?
It is a small narrow-necked glass
bottle, types of which have been
found in ancient tombs. Once it
was supposed that they contained
the tears of mourners, but anti
quarians declare that they held I'M
guentS or perfumes.
What is the immigration quota
from Scotland?
1t is included in the general quota
for Great Britain and Northern Ire
land, which is 34.O07. 1t is not def
nitely ascertained how many should
be admitted from Scotland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
An Incredible Proposal
We shall see which wins,

So far civil service examination to establish duly
certified list of national pckpockets has not been pro-
posed
Yet it may be just around the corner.
For in Washington, incredible 1t seems serious
consideration is being given to proposed establish
ment of a duly certified roster of national stool
pigeons.
United States Commissioner Turnage, growing
weary of perjured charges sworn to by informers in
the pay of public dry enforcement agencies, proposes
not abolition of this contemplate system. but ex
tension of it by giving its members the status of civil
service professionals
A better class of stool pigeons, a higher type Of
personnel in the lowest human profession decent
debauchery more tasteful treachery-something like
that seems to be the idea.
And Prohibition Commissioner Doran and Civil
Service Commissioner Wales approve of his plan.
The United States Government has in its employ
several thousand undercover agents and Spies but
far it has had the grace to keep this fact
less dark They are scattered through the different
departments and bear variety of titles.
Persons with underworld associations, whose
names can not be made of record" said postofhce
official recently, explaining before committee Of
Congress why appropriations for one phase of this
work could not be handled in the regular fashion.
spy system, public or private increases wrong
doing. For every crime that is uncovered by espon
age betrayal taking or planting, scores of others
bred by code that breaks down honesty and mans
confidence in mankind.
This is what the United States Government is
doing in sponsoring shopping. It's half-shamed oler
alton of the system has let it grow into a great
and dangerous espionage machine.
Shall this work now continue frankly with the
efficient assistance and benign sanction Of civil
serviceG
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
ominous News From China

The rumble of a new revolution in China seems 10
he Getting nearer Observers in the Far East predict
civil war may come this fall
It is the same old story. nationalist govern
nent comes into power. Folks stand around waiting
to see what happens A few months pass and th9Te
is no millennium. Money does not grow on trees a
vast country impoverished for centuries, remains
hard up People still have to pay taxes Human
iSfaction.
In China, standing by ready to encourage, and
take advantage of, this dissatisfaction are various
self-seekne war lords and their followers. And be-
hind these be it said to the everlasting shame OF
the socaled civilized nations some of the great
powers lurking in the shadow and egging the war
lords on.
The aim of the present conspiracy, it seems, is to
recognize the recently defeated northern miltarist
forces build up the personal armies of such disgrun-
tied provincial war lords will lend aid to the cause
the Marking government from several different di-
rections at
Marshal WI Pei-Fu, 1t appears, is being worked
upon to throw his weight against Marking. Marshal
Wu was one for few hours, master of Peking, but
was robbed of the fruits of his victory by his right
hand man, the so-caled Christian general" Feng
Yu-Hsang now one OF the chief supporters of the
nationaliSts Thus there Is a natural grudge to be
paid of and Marshal WI is counted upon to march
But what is vastly more significant than the story
of WI is the amazing resurrection of the rotten old
Anfu clique, thought to have been dead and forever
buHed some ten years ago. along with its leader, ce
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

II knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 90
N Americas best known saloon
keeper is dead. He was Charles
Henry Ramos of New Orleans. He
operated the most celebrated liquor
establishment in the South for
forty years, but never drank. The
fact that he never drank goes far
toward explaining his success.
Doubt the efficiency of prohibition
though we may, it is impossible to
doubt the wisdom of temperance.
by the same token it is impossible
to doubt the wisdom of total
abstinence when one is not sure
of his ability to remain temperate.
Use of liquor as a beverage may
not be so harmful as some would
have us believe, but it does less good
than others would have use believe.
It's one outstanding advantage is
the pleasure it affords, and when
pleasure is the chief benefit to be
derived, we should be careful Of the
price we pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Miller

scope did for astronomy.
The astronomer had been stopped by another lmi-
tation of the human eye. The distant objects of the
heavens were too far away and consequently too faint
to reveal their secrets to the unaided eye.
But when Calico turned his first little telescope
upon the heavens their secrets revealed to him.
One startling fact after another yielded to the tee
scope The mountains of the moon, the satellites Of
Jupiter the phases of Venus the rings of Saturn
startling discoveries which Calico made in quick
succession.
So important was the telescope that one might
fairly divide the history of astronomy into the be-
fore its invention and the after its invention.
The microscope in much the way introduced
a new into the study of biology although results
not quite quickly obtained.
Paul De Kruif, scientist and author, tells in most
charming manner the story of line of advance
which the microscope made possible in his book, mi
crobe Hunters
The microscope first became efficient scientific
instrument at the hands of Anthony Won Leeuwen-
hook, a Dutchman who De Kruif calls "the frs. Of
the microbe hunters"
The principle of the lens or magnifying glass had
been known in ancient times. quartz lens has been
unearthed in the ruins of ancient Nineveh.
The ancient Greeks undoubtedly understood the
magnifying properties of a lens.
But Leeuwenhoek the first to appreciate the
vast possibilities Of the lens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -
Health of School ChiIdYen-NO. 5

In New York City more than a
million children have been inocu-
lated with toxin-antitoXin without
a single fatal result, and with only
a few cases of illness sufficient to
cause the child to lose day or two
of school following the incubation.
The city of Auburn, N. Y, reports
that there has not been single
death from diphtheria in four years
since that city followed the general
use of the toxin-antitoxin method.
The method is quite simple, in
volving single injection of very
small amount of the preparation
used in incubation.
Every parent should ask the fam
lily physician whether he thinks it
desirable to have the child inocu-
lated against diphtheria by this
method before it starts to school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

THOSE British generals in
i Shanghai who exclude Ameri-
can Marines from the Y. M. G. A.
Bldg, 80 per cent of which was
built by American money, have a
thicker armor of brass than any
British dreadnaught has of steel.
In the midst of this whispering
campaign, Mr.. Smith may be con-
soled by the reflection that we have
had it always.
Some think campaigns in the
early days of the republic were
calm and dignif1ed because the past
is dead and cemeteries are usually
quiet, but in the days of the fathers
the tongues of gossips hung out till
they walked on them and when
Washington left the presidency one
opponent thanked God that "the
monster had passed"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

Vaccination against smallpox is as
safe a procedure as is known to
medicine. Complications are rare
when vaccination is performed
properly, and protection is so GER
tain that neglect of this scientific
procedure represents the height of
foolhardiness.
The other form of preventive in
oculation which must be especially
considered in relationship to the
child's first attendance at school is
toxin antitoxin immunization against
diphtheria.
Practically all physicians are
agreed that this method does in
crease the immunity of the child
against the disease, that the method
is quite safe, and that the ravages
Of diphtheria are so serious that
the method should not be neglected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Women AbsoIved

In spite OF all our sad experience,
is it not strange how Stubbornly we
cling to the you can't" idea as a
pillar of progress?
Comes the school board of New
York, solemnly announcing that
women under five feet will not be
accepted as teachers because they
are not likely to have the right
kind Of personality. That is enough
to make Napoleon and Lord Nelson
turn over in their graves. The for
mer was five feet two and the lat
ter even shorter.
They we're not women, to be sure,
and never tackled a New York
schoolroom, but when it came to q
commanding personality, they
seemed quite able to deliver the
goods. Aristotle said that a short
woman could never be beautiful.
But let it go at that. With all his
hardwood, he lacked the nerve to
say that she could not make other
folks stand around.
Speaking of women, the Travellers
Insurance Company states that they
are responsible for less automobile
accidents than men. A study Of
thousands of cases occurring in
some thirty States shows that
though women operate from is to
Is per cent of the automobiles, they
are only to blame for about per
cent of the trouble. This will be
news to most people.
Nothing is so common when we
men get in any kind of a jam as
to look for a woman driver.
The tradition of female inferior
ity at the steering wheel has become
so common that few men can meet
or come up behind a woman driver
without voicing their hard luck and
the probabilities of a collision.
That's woman, you might
know" is the general expression
when a car does something unex-
pected, or contrary to the rules.
Just one more case in which ira
dition and statistics do not jibe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
copyright. 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY W. W. WENTWORTH
Authorizations: A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
than 10.l

Authorizations: A--ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
A MOTHER illustration of max
IN ing winning trick is by
throwing the lead" When you,
as declarer, hold combinations Of
cards similar to Ace-Queen, adj
ditional tricks may be made if you
con force second ham to lead up
to you, rather than have third hand
lead through you.
This is deity accomplished by the
expert by playing card from suit
that is sure to put second hand on
the lead, so that second hand must
lead up to the declarer.
This maneuver is often utilized at
the end of the game.
An illustration of sluffing. ruffling
and f1nesSing in actual play, hearts
being trump, follows:
Dummy-Spades A K @; hearts
s 4 3 2; diamonds s; clubs 8 8 Z
SO.
East
Declarer-Spadss j; hearts A
QJ87 6; diamonds A 6 4 3; clubs
5 A.
West-Leads diamonds K.
Declarer plans his campaign and
takes with the Ace of diamonds.
A grand slam may be made by
ruffing declarer's small diamonds,
sluffing declarers clubs on dunn
my's spades and fnessing the trump
suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
This Date in =
u. S. History

September 20
1862-Lee's army retired from the
Shenandoah valley.
l873-New York stock exchange
closed for 10 days.
1891-Chester Alan Arthur sworn
in as twenty-first president of
the United States.
What is the meaning and English
form of the Greek name HierOny-
mus?
1t is from two Greek words mean
ing sacred name" The Englshn
form of the name is Jerome.
Who designed the insignia Of the
United States Engineers?
Lewis du Portal, Frenchman
who was first chief of the United
States Engineer Corps-ye modelled
it from the Fra' Ia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

NNA@
medical progress
because many of
the things which
had to be known
to make that
progress possible
could not be
discovered with
the unaided eye.
We can I'M
derstand no W
the microscope
accelerated adj
vances in the
field of medicine
if we remember
what the inven-
ton of the tele-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

Health Magazine.
PRACTICALLY every school in
Il the United States conducted
along scientific lines requires today
that the child bring with him on
the first day of school a certificate
that he has had recent and salts
factory vaccination against small
pox.
Two hundred years ago the per-
son without the scars Of smallpox
on his face was a rare one in the
community; today the person with
such scars is a living testimonial
of his own ignorance or Of that of
his parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Daily Thoughts
The wind bloweth where it lis

The wind bloweth where it list
eth.-JOhn 3:8.
8
THERE are two freedoms--the
l. false, where a man is free 10
do what he likes; the true. where a
mars is free to do what he ought. =
Charles Kingsley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
Dietz on Science ---
Era of the Microscope
100

TNHE invention of the compound microscope opened
Il up new era in medical progress. The eye is a
marvellous and delicate instrument, but it has certain
limitations. Unaided, it MT things smaller
than certain size
The microscope extended the human eye into the
realm of the infinitely small This was of particular
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
BY w. A. MKEARNEY

W. a.
will rule United States
republican
passed control your religious
preserve Constitution guarantees
dictates religious
qualification
State will invaded without
all the other States in rpeng the invader The Constitution also
all domestic
the United elections
this right way preserve
ton
NEXT Some Interesting Facts Constitution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

People who read the headline, Easy Money in
Wall Street" are likely to be msled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
nv nR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

This IS the NTH OF a series Of twelve
articles on the health Of the child in
school. Next: Care Of the Eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

A botaniSt and physician are candidates for
president in Australia We offering the botansts
friends. gratis, the "apple day. idea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
The u. S. Constitution

Constitution Week
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20


Is helum an inf1ammable gas?
No, and for that reason it is used
in dirigibles.
How can a, Japanese become an
American citizen?
japanese cannot be naturalized in
the United States, but a child Of
japanese parents, who is born in
the United States, is a citizen by
reason of birth.
When an American flag is dis
played in a foreign country, what
position should it have in relation to
the flag of the country in which it
is displayed?
The American flag, when flown
abroad, is always displayed at the
left of the flag Of the country, pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

So far civil service examination to establish duly
certified list of national pickpockets has not been pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20

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Nogales international., 1928-05-01

Phoenix-Large vein Of $40
gold ore discovered in Union Ex-
tension mine Is miles north of
here.
McNary-Cady Lumber Corp
oration of this place shipped over
100000 feet of lumber from
mills during March.
Winslow-Survey of extension
of East Second Street completed
with view to eliminating two re-
verse curves at east city limits.
Casa Grande-Peoples Arizona
Gas & Electric Company pur-
chases local municipal light, pow
er and water plant.
H0lbrook-First National Bank
building here repainted.
Willcox-Airdrome here on
Cummings school section dedi-
Gated.
Nogales international., 1928-05-01


in Coconino county, which will be
open for 81 days beginning June
/, under the homestead and desert
land laws.
In the cases of the land open
ed under the hometead and desert
land laws, qualified former serv-
ice men of the World War are
give preference rights. Persons
claiming a preference right to the
land superior to that of the sol
der also are accorded entry
priv. leges.
Nogales international., 1928-05-01
Five Tracts Of Land Are
Open For Homestead Entry

1928, and tie latter opened to
surface entry only under the
homestead and desert laws, for
81 day period beginning May IA.
The South Dakota plat, in Law
renee county, consists of q
342.04 acres, part of which is the
Black Hills National Forest. 1t
will be opened for 81 days, be-
ginning May 26, under the home
stead ard desert land laws.
A total of 22,944.75 acres COM
prise the Arizona lands, located
Nogales international., 1928-05-01
AVAILABLE AREAS ARE IN
UTAH, CALIFORNIA, SOUTH
DAKOTA AND ARIZONA
Written Especially For
international
Through Autocaster News Service

Washington, D. c., April 30
The General Land Office of the
Department of Interior, in max
ing public the notices OF entry,
has announced that five tracts OF
public lands, two in Utah, and in
Cal fornia, South Dakota and Ari-
zona, have been opened for entry
under conditions provided by law.
The California land, consisting
of eight farm units of lands with
in the TuIe Lake division of the
Klamath irrigation project, has
been opened to homestead entry
under public order of March 80,
1928.
In addition to the qualifications
required under the homestead
laws, an applicant for these lands
must satisfy the examining board
appointed for the Klamath project
that he is possessed of certain
qualifications as to industry, ex-
perience, character, and capital
as will give reasonable assurance
of success by the prospective set
tier.
The Utah lands are in two
tracts, one of 21,5O2.18 acres in
San Juan county, and the other
of $50 acres in Kane county. The
former tract is opened under the
homestead and desert land laws
for 81 days beginning May Is,
Nogales international., 1928-05-01
Obituary :i!!:t!!::!!||.a!;'!|r
ALBERT J. ARENs

Albert j. Arens, 43, of San Xa-
vier, Sonora, formerly of Nogales,
died here at o'clock Thursday
morning. He is survived by his
wife and two children. Arens
came here from San Xavier about
month ago. Some time ago when
he was a resident of Nogales he
was employed as an engineer at
the city pumping plant.
Nogales international., 1928-05-01
II. A. LINDLEY

H. A. Lindley, M. D. about 55
years of age, died at $3.50 o'clock
Thursday evening, victim of
heart trouble. He scame to Nogales
a short time ago from Mexico and
was interested in mining in this
district. Undertaken Frank Car
room is endeavoring to locate re-
latives of the doctor.
Nogales international., 1928-05-01

Sahurita-Minerals and Metals
Corporations new ore mill COM
pleted.
Nogales international., 1928-05-01

Clarkdale- Construction COM
pleted on new Santa Fe Railroad
bridge over Bitter Greek here.