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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Hope of Dark Horses

Hoover and Smith easily are the
outstanding candidates, each in his
own party, but neither Of them has
corralled a sufficient number of
delegates thus far to prevent it from
being anybody's race.
That, more than anything else, is
what gives the fayorite sons their
excuse from surviving.
Permitting ambition to father
their thoughts, they hope Tor a
repetition of what has happened OH
dozen or more occasions when
some Clark horse came out OF the
melee. leaving the country breath
less with establishment.
Whether they realize the big boys
are playing them for suckers, as is
the obvious case in most instances,
each and everyone of them persists
in the alluring hope that some freak
of fate will pull him through.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Mellon and Couzens

We do wish Senator Couzens and Secretary Mel
Ion wouldn't fight Both are very wealthy men,
Anatole France remarked that in democracy wealth
is the only thing that is sacred If to revere
wealth as we should we must admit that either
of these men could be wrong.
Can't Secretary Mellon find poorer senator to
tilt with? Or can't Senator Couzens attack some
Cabinet minister who only has a paltry million or
so? This spectacle is heart-rtnding.
Surely, S1OOOOOOOO can't be wrong. Yet q
another Of these men must be mistaken. It's all
very confusing to who wants to retain the proper
reverence fdr men of great wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

greater importance She found that an ore called
ptchbende, which contained uranium gave off more
rays than did pure uranium salt.
This, she reasoned correctly could only mean that
there something in pitchblende which was a
more powerful source of the rays than was uranium
Pierre abandoned his own work to help his wife
and the two set to work to find out if they could find
the mysterious something"
Two years later, in 1898, they announced to the
world the discovery of radum.
They had started their experiments with ton of
pitchbende. Gradually they had separated it into its
constituent elements, eliminating them one by one
as possible sources of the powerful rays.
When they finished, their ton of pitchbende had
been reduced to a few grains of radium.
BY 1900 they had established many facts about ra-
dunn and as consequence ideas concerning the
nature of matter were beginning to be developed.
In 1903 the Nobel prize awarded to the Curies
On April 10, 1908 Pierre Curie attended reunion
of the Association of Professors.
After the meeting he was crossing the Rue Dau-
rhine. Perhaps his mind was ON radium instead of
traffic wagon struck him. The wheels went over
him He died from conclusion of the brain
Few greater tragedies are to be fSaIk in hStoln|
Madame Cure was left to carry on a E.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

buttress was a vital imperfection
an external aid indicating internal
weakness; clutches, the merciless
Michelet called them; as absurd as
scaffolding unremoYed; a structure
should stand by the strength Of its
own essential form.
But if we take our place where
the flying buttresses can not be
seen, or if We return from Milan to
Charities and Rheims, the lure Of
Gothic is on us again; we see those
hundred thousand spires rising to-
ward heaven from Europes soil, and
We are lifted up, almost against
our will, by these graceful lines
that from every source and direc-
ton mount and point to the sky.
II
.NXTHY did the great style decay?
w Was it because taste changed,
or because belief began to die?
Doubtless. the return of the Renais-
sano to Greek models in literature
and art, the replacement of color by
line. or decoration by design. I'M
dermined the hold of Gothic upon
the European soul But beneath
that change was a deeper one; men
rciinquished interest in heaven, and
took kindly to Me earth again.
The symbolism Of spire and arch
lost its significance for an age that
had won its spiritual independence
Of the church, whether by the re-
vival of letters or by the reforma-
ton; and the need for vast places
of worship disappeared when faith
was weakened with knowledge, and
piety was forgotten in the wealth
and luxury of the Renaissance.
Science and industry came; and
when the Renaissance was over.
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--- THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION ---
Time and War RaUuge Cathed1uLS
Written for The Times By VIII Durant

civilization made a clean sweep OF
art"
The cathedrals began to decay,
and the ravages Of time and war
had diminishing resistance from
the fidelity of men. In 1894 fire
burnt down all of the Charities Ca
thedral except the towers; in 1892
revolutionists plundered the church
of all its removable wealth. all
through the nineteenth century
middling artists. commissioned to
restore these Gothic monuments,
subjected them to their conception
of how they might be improved,
and in the great madness of 1914
a hundred shrines Of beauty were
injured or destroyed.
The time will come. no doubt,
when changing faiths will let these
glories utterly decay; mortality is
written upon every life, every re-
ligion and every state. But still for
our age they stand, apparently i'm
perturbable amid our fallen creeds
and our dissolving moral code. And
perhaps when the fibre of our flesh,
our character and our race has
been weakened by wealth and sui
cidal strife, and those nations
which strut the earth today shall
be as poor and lowly as Egypt and
Spain, and the eternal country side
shall have won again its everlasting
war with the city; those poems in
stone which the middle ages wrote
as homes and symbols of their
simple hope will still stand to call
men back to the worship of beauty
and of peace.
Copyright. 1928 by viii DuranD
Go Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
The Manhattan Mind

1t popularity is is believed that il
Smith goes to Houston with ma
jority, ne will win, but that is hardly
safe bet
Most Of those opposing him are
bitter lenders for one reason or an
other Even if they we're not, the
fayorite sons could be depended on
to stand by the ship Just as long as
they could muster 367 delegates
among them.
1t will be recalled that Champ
Clark went to Baltimore with more
delegates than Woodrow Wilson,
and that he gained until he had
mustered enough strength to con-
vince most people that he would be
nominated. 1t will be recalled also,
that he did not lose until Tammay
Hall came to his support.
Tammy Hall is not the bugaboo it
was sixteen years ago, but it is still
something Of a bugaboo in certain
sections Of the country. So, too, ara
Wall Street, prohibition and wh&
they boys at the forks of the cr6
call 'the Manhattan mind" all 4
which helps to make the opposit M
to Smith peculiarly stubborn. 6
put it bluntly, the man is the
tim, not of one prejudice, but
three or four.
If his personality were noN
most romantic fact in Am1
politics today, he would stand
chance. ~
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, BY The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH
Authorizations: A--ace; K-king; O.
queen; LACK; X-anY card lower than

Authorizations: A--ace; K-king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
100
l. When leading through strength,
it is advisable to lead through solid
suits in preference to strong broken
suits?
2, First hand bids no trump. Sec
hand doubles. Third hand passes.
Fourth hand holds: HEARTS, 8;
clubs-7 u; diamonds-A Xxx x;
spades-J 81 5. What should fourth
hand bid?
3. At what point in the game
should you take ruff in strong
hand?
The Answers ksN
1. Broken suits. tsA
2. Two spades.
3. Later in game, unless you can
cross ruff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
City of Long Life

Various cities and towns find many different things
to which they point with pride.
we submit that the town of Monon, Ind, put
its chest out for very good reason.
Monon has 1900 inhabitants. During all of 1927
no child died in Monon, nor was there any death
from communicable disease.
Here is record that means something. Let's hope
that there will be towns in Monons class at the
end of 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

Do sugars and starcheS have the
same effect on the body i'll the pro-
cess of digestion?
Sugars and starches are inter-
changeable, both being carbohy-
drateS. In fact, all Starches are
transformed into a sugar known as
dextrose in the process of diges-
ton. 1t may be said that sugar and
starch are identical in their chemic-
al constitution, but are different in
form, just as water and ice are
Identical except in form.
What are the correct proportions
of proteinS, fats and carbohydrates
for an average person?
The amount of food required ev-
cry twenty-fopr hours rarely ex-
ceeds $500 ealories. About one
tenth Of this amount should be pro-
teins, three-tenths fats and six
tenths carbohydrates.
What is the meaning OF the name
Godfrey?
1t is Teutonic and means Gods
peace"
Where is "The Land of the Mid
night Sun?
The expression refers to all re-
gions about the poles, but especially
. Co the North Polar regions where in
'umEner the sun does not fall
HheA horizon even at midnight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Democrats Chance Best

just at present, the Democratic
camp offers better gamble for
favorite sons than the Republican.
This is because Of the two-thirds
rule.
Governor Smith has much farther
to go to insure his nomination than
Herbert Hoover. While 546 dele,
gates are enough ito nominate the
latter, Governor Smith must have
1872.
So long as there are 367 dele
gates against Smith, each and any
favorite son can imagine that
opportunity is knocking at his door.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Richmond PalIa diunl

Under this caption, fractional
Politics." the FIT. Wayne News
Sentinel discusses a charge Of the
Indianapolis Star that Secretary
Hoover is being used as a stalking
horse of those who are playing
factional politics in Indiana.
The FIT. Wayne paper rightly
points out that Senator Watson
for many years has capitalized on
factional politics for his own good.
The text of the editorial in the
Fl. Wayne News follows:
THE Indianapolis Star says that
Secretary Hoover is being used as
the stalking horse of those who
are playing fractional politics in
Indiana. 1t certainly comes with
poor grace for newspaper that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

was IN 1896.
That S a m e
year Madame
Curie, the wife
of Pierre Curie,
a French col
lege instructor.
decided to see
if any OF h e r
substances gave
off these same
rays.
S he discov-
cred that tho
rum gave of
similar rays.
But she made
a second dis
cnVerV of nNni1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Editor Times :

Editor Times:
The hope of Senator Watson that
he may secure the nomination of
his party for the presidency is by
no means so unfounded as you seem
to think. For more than two years
he has been conducting a very
adroit campaign.
That he long has been subServi-
ent to the beneficiaries of our pro-
tective tariff cannot be doubted, and
yet he hopes to get many votes
from the agricultural States.
He has supported the AIcNaS~-
Haugen bill and perhaps has fooled
many farmers to the extent of be-
lieving that if he we're President
he would do something to relieve
their economic ills. He is favor
ably located to do this.
No candidate, of either party.
east of Indiana and north of the
Mason-Dixon line, can hope to get
the united support of the farmers.
Thus he can say to the East "You
know me, Al"
To the West he can say, Have
I not supported the legislation you
have been demanding for the last
two years?'
When it comes to that stage of
the convention when few bosses
meet at midnight in a hotel room
to decide who shall receive the
nomination, his henchmen can say.
Jim Watson is the only man who
can get the votes of the farmers
and at the same time make the
East shell out the campaign funds.
We must have him to win this cleo
ton"
In case OF his nomination and
election, there can be little doubt
that he would give his support TO
the manufacturers, rather than to
the farmers. True, he might be
willing to sign some bill. such as
the McNary Haugen bill in its pres
ent emasculated form, in which it
can be Of no benefit to the farmers.
But he would not. in face of those
who benefit from our protective
tariff, sign such bill as was passed
by the Congress and vetoed by the
President a year ago.
Please do not underrate the fact
that Jim is a slick one"
HORACE CHADWICK.
MorristoWn, Ind
Editor Times:
have ofttimes wondered II It
was not the publicity that was given
to your fair city, of the record
breaking mayoralty race, orSof an
other Governor being jealous of a
former Governor trying to break
into the penitentiary, that has kept
automobile manufacturers from
putting horns or sirens on their cars
that they send into this city. so that
people would not recognize the
make.
If I had not recognized the fact
and had been sleeping instead of
keeping my eyes open, would have
been knocked down a dozen times
the past week. 1 think one man
didn't like it because did not get in
front Of his car and he used vile
language, but 1 didn't feel inclined
to please him.
The police department ought to be
commended for the work it is doing,
warning against these hit and run"
drivers. Why can't the public help
them by blowing their horns-I
mean the automobile horns? That
would help considerably and it
would mean another step toward a
larger and better indianapolis.
Yours till the auto horns come in
fashion.
r. CLYDE NELL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

No one knows just how many
delegates either Smith or Hoover
has sewed up right now.
Hoovers most enthusiastic sup
porters are claiming 470, while his
opponents concede $50
Smiths hackers are claiming be-
tween 400 and 500, while his foes
admit nothing. except that he can
not be nominated,
Averaging the result, it looks as
though Hoover might have some
thing like $50 yet to gain while
Smith needs about twice that num-
Der.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
The Rules

The Rules
l. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or a 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 time.
3. You must have a complete word
Of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order of letters can not
no changed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

VIRGINIA MINERAL SPRINGS,
Va, March 31.--Since leaving New
York two weeks ago I have been
in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ten
nessee, Alabama and Virginia. With
the exception Of Alabama and Vir-
ginia, all these States have favor
lite sens in the presidential race.
Illinois is blessed with two favor
lite sons and New York might be
if Charley Hilles could only find
some one to heed his earnest pray
erS.
Poor Charley, he deserves better
luck for all he has suffered and
made other folks suffer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Fame, and Then Tragedy
No. IL

TINE discovery of radium by Madame Curie was
Il the climax of a sequence Of important scientific
events. Let us trace the steps briefly.
Sir William Crookes discovered that an electric
discharge caused the walls of tube to be-
come phosphorcscent. Prof. Wilhelm Roentgen dis
covered that such tube gave off X-rays.
Prof Henri Becquerel discovered that the salts Of
uranium gave off rays similar to the X-rays. That
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
What are the Three Wis
kPvs2n

Little Apes Of Nikko,7
monkeys that appear in
decoration among the ancient
of Nikko, Japan. The three are
follows: Mizaru, who sees no el
Hikazaru, who hears no evil, a.
Mazaru, who speaks no evil. Il
legend is simply a moral to po
the wisdom Of minding ones o
business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

Here's headline from some city in Illinois Union
Agent Shot Five Times; Won't Talk" Guess the
name of the city and how many times has to
be shot there before he will CAB little.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

Where are United States coins
made?
The coinage minis are located at
Philadelphia, Pa; San Francisco,
Cal, and Denver, Colo. In addition,
the assay Office at New York; minis
at New Orleans, La. and Carson
City, New. are conducted as assay
Offices; and assay Offices at Boise,
Idaho; Helena, Mont. Seattle,
Wash, and Salt Lake City, Utah,
conduct important supplementary
work.
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With Other Editors

is supporting Senator Watson to
charge anybody with playing fac
tional politics.
Watson never played any other
kind of politics. Indeed. he has
caused the Republican party in
the State of Indiana more grief
than, perhaps, any other man in
the State. The only reason he en-
tered his name in the Indiana
primaries as a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina-
ton was for the purpose of con-
trolling the delegation to use it
as he sees fit.
He is no more sincere in this
candidacy that he is when he
promises appointment to every
seeker for Office who approaches
him. Indeed he is no more sim
cere than when he advocated
county local option some years ago
while a candidate for Governor.
HE is no more sincere that he
is when he boasts of his loyal Re
publicanism and then turns
around and fights several of the
administrations major policies.
He is no more sincere than he is
when he declares himself opposed
to the primary and then viciously
criticises the resolutions commit
tee of the Republican State con-
vention for Incorporating in the
perty platform a plank urging the
repeal or modification of that
measure.
THE word sincere is not a part
of his vocabulary. Senator Wat
son promises all things to all men.
He always has and he always will.
Mr.. Hoover is more than can
didate, he is an opportunity for
Indiana. His candidacy offers an
opportunity to do the very thing
that the Indianapolis Star some
months ago insisted that Mr.. Wat
son do, namely, to clean up the de-
plorable situation in Indiana and
again place this grand old State
in its rightful position among the
States of the nation.
MIR. Watson has assumed the
position of dictator of Republican
politics in the State and therefore
he cannot escape the responsible
ties that go with the job. He has
failed. and has failed miserably,
and the indianapolis Star knows
he has failed"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-31

A lawyer seeking a divorce in Chicago sat on the
witness stand, asked himself questions and then an
swered them At last case without objections.
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EDITOR
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David Dietz on Science
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