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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Business Is Good

Business is good and getting better. The country
is prosperous.
We have more of this worlds goods-individuaIly
and collectivsly-than ever before in history.
Farms and factories producing and more
with less labor. Foreign trade is booming.
These cheering facts we learn from the annual re-
port of the secretary OF commerce.
1.-The volume Of production and consumption for
the year as whole and the physical quantity Of
exports and imports were very large. unemployment
relatively unimportant and the rate of real
and the standard of living of the of the peo-
pie remained higher than anywhere else in the world
said the report
Power production building construction, sales of
department stores chain stores and maorder houses
all showed increases and most of them the high
est ever recorded Railways Continued to furnish
adequate and efficient service and enjoy large traffic
and revenues"
Exports were two and a quarter times greater than
during the fve-year period preceding the The
output of farm products has increased SIS per cent
since beginning of the century, and factory output
100 per cent.
ut is obvious that there is produced for each per-
in the population far greater volume of goods
and services than at the beginning Of the century.
which means of course greater advance in living
standards" the report said.
An effort is made to measure improved material
welfare with statistics Saving deposits, for instance
grew from 1917 billions in 1921 to rs billions in 1927
Life insurance increased from IS billions to 64h
billions
There were a million and half passenger autos
produced in 1921 and nearly three millions in 1927
Sales of radios electric refrigerators clean
ers, washing machines and bathtubs vastly increased
Such in brief is the picture. There dark spots
of The condition of agriculture has not i'm
proved with that of industry and trade. The popu-
lation has increased SIS per cent since 1900 and but
3214 per cent more persons employed in major
industries which creates the serious problem of what
to do with the workers who have been displaced.
BY and large, however, conditions such as to
give real cause for thanksgiving. Nowadays hear
little talk of livng wage" which meant the mini
mum income on which family might provide itself
with food, shelter and clothing. The average Amer
lean wants more than that and most of them seem
to be getting it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Out of War-ProgreSs

Whatever else may be said of war
it has contributed much to sharpen
human wits. One invention has
not only led to another for the sake
of more effective fighting, but in
many cases, those inventions have
found their greatest expression in
peaceful pursuits. Much that we
know about surgery was learned on
the battle field. So, too, was much
that we know about explosives.
Aviation would hardly have Ad-
vanced as rapidly as it has but for
the stimulus of war, while the chal-
lenge it presents as a new inStru-
ment of death and destruction in
spires science to devise new means
of protection.
Ever since the bombing raids thai
made Paris and London shiver with
fright, scientists have labored to
perfect some device by which the
airplane either could be stopped or
shot down.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the
Germans are reported to have one
"a machine, the nature of which is
kept secret, of course, that can stop
airplane motors in mid-air by
hroadcasting a certain kind of wave.
French journals, though divided
between doubt and CONSERVATION,
make much of this alleged discovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Brighter Days for Mexico

PorteS Gil becomes president of
Mexico under peculiarly favorable
circumstances. In the first place,
his Inauguration marks the advent
of civilian authority. In the second
place, he finds his country more
orderly and prosperous than it has
been for many years. In the third
place, he finds a surplus in the
treasury and good prospect of adj
justing the national debt.
1t goes without saying that Gales
and his associates deserve a large
share of the credit. They have not
only brought a great revolutionary
movement to a successful climax,
but without losing most Of its bene-
fits.
AS for the people of Mexico, they
have shown tenacity of purpose, as
we'll as national consciousness. No
one can review what they have
passed through since the Diaz re-
gime came to an end without rec
ognizing qualities that bespeak for
them a happier future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
A Serious Matter

Accounts of the killing of suspected rum runner
and the wounding Of his companion by coast guards
men on Lake Ontario differ.
The coast guardsmen, in their official report, say
the motor boat carrying the two men was proceeding
without lights, that it ignored warnings to STOP and
that it made deliberate attempt" to ram the gov
eminent boat.
They assert also that clearance papers were found
indicating the craft had carried ale that they had
orders to seize the boat sight, and that they learned
from customs agents in Canada that cargo of ale
had been taken aboard. No contraband however, was
found
The wounded man, according to dispatches, said he
tnkering with the engine of the boat which was
disabled that two warning shots heard, and that
few seconds later the machine gun volley was fired
which killed his companion.
It is important that a thorough inquiry be made,
and that all facts surrounding the encounter be
learned.
Killing is serious business. If the govern
ment agents fired to their lives they acted
within the law.
If they did not it is quite another story. It will
be recalled that coast guardsmen few months ago
fired on an innocent citizen Jacob D. Hanson of
Buffalo, in this neighborhood and that Hanson
died some weeks later after becoming blind and suf-
fering great agony.
Chris Dew, who was with the agent accused of
shooting Hanson was one of the crew of the gov
eminent boat involved in the present incident Also
there have been instances in recent months
where coast guardsrnen have fired upon and boarded
pleasure craft in the Great Lakes Complaints to
Washington have been frequent and the conduct of
the coast guard has been criticised in congress.
No one expects an officer to sacrifice his life to
take unnecessary risks, but dry agents have been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Grim Neptune

The pranks which sailors make
Old Neptune perform show deep
understanding of his character He
is not only rough. but plays no fav-
orites. During the last few weeks
he has offered us too many a grim
reminder of what remains to be
done to put him in his place.
Ships have been laundering all
over the world and, to some extent
simply and solely because men have
failed to make use of their knowl-
edge. For instance, there was ship
within forty-five miles of the i'll
fated Vestris. If she had been
equipped with radio, the tale might
have come to a happier end.
Has not radio done enough, and is
not its value obvious enough to
warrant its compulsory installation
on all ships of a certain size and
character?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Natures WAY

Despite the fact that this is age of mechanical
Inventions the ageod forces Of nature still be
enlisted to advantage in doing the work of the world
The Biological Survey of the Bureau of Plant
Industry of the United States Department of Agr-
culture have been experimenting on methods of
helping farmers rid their orchards OF destructive gbs
and insects; and of the best ways has been found
to be the enlisng of army of insecteating birds.
Careful researches have shown the investigators
what birds orchards best protectors. Now
they are studying methods of breeding that will
enable farmer to maintain these birds on his land.
Odd, isn't it? We machinery for more varieties
of work every year; but natures methods of keeping
the insect population in check still to be the
most effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Questions and AmSzCe7,S

the Andes" and bears the following
inscription: Sooner shall these
mountains crurnble into dust, than
Argentines and Chileans break the
peace which at the feet Of Christ
the Redeemer they have sworn to
maintain"
What is the address of the De
Forest Radio Company?
139 Franklin street, Jersey City,
New Jersey.
Is the total number of runs
made in the major baseball leagues
nj the season of 1925 greater than
the number made in the season 90
1920?
A total of 1881 runs were made
in the American League for the
1926 season; 5,612 in the National
League for that season. In 1920
there were 4,893 runs in the Ma
tional League and $3.50 in the
American League.
How many states have laws pro-
hibiting the teaching of evolution in
the schools?
The only states that actually have
laws prohibiting evolution being
taught are Mississippi and Tennes-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
SAYS:

CLERGYMEN busy themselves
~ about queer things. Some Of
them seem to have vastly more
time for politics and literature than
for religion. One makes use of
Thanksgiving day to scold Hoover
for going to South America on a
battleship. "a Quaker on a dread
naught," he says, lis like a cannon
in a parlor." Not pausing to find
fault with an obviously bad smile
it is only fair to say that Mr. Hoo
yer is going to South America as
President-elect of the United States,
not as a Quaker.
In this connection, are we not
hearing rather too much about the
religion of our officials and candi-
dates?
Besides, the South Americans
have done no fussing about Mr..
Hoover'S choice of a battlship, so
why should we, especially those of
us who profess to desire just such
a kind of better understanding as
his journey is designed to pro-
mote?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Thanks in Chicago

Chicago took an original way to
give thanks. AS in many other
cases, necessity may have been the
mother of invention, but let that
pass. To let Mayor big Bill"
Thompson tell it, the people are
getting what they asked for when
they voted for a closed town. With
a reform district attorney due to
take office Monday, the Thompson
police force gave a fine exhibition
of what it could do by way of an
eleventh-hour d monStratio n
against vice, not only raiding sew
eral famous night clubs and gather
ing in 500 prisoners, but smashing
up thousands of dollars worth of
perfectly good gambling parapher-
malta for good measure.
Whether this was done to make
it easier for the new administration
or to show that the new admins
tration had no mortgage on the
cleanup complex, is a question
yorthylzof debate by the best Chi
cago minds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01

fessor of philosophy whom I have repeatedly and
urgently requested to look at the and planets
through my glass; which he pertnacously refuses to
do. Why are you not here? What shouts of laughter
we should have at this glorious folly"
But the passing of years brought events which
were no laughing matter Giordano Bruno was burned
at the stake and Calico, then old man. was made
to recant and forced to spend his declining years
virtual prisoner.
But eventually the truths which Calico had seen
with his telescope we're accepted by the world.
The conquest of the heavens was under way. The
passage of time to see the building of larger and
larger telescopes.
The next important advance in telescopes was sug-
gested by Kepler. The telescope which Calico built
was like the modern opera glass, or more exactly
like tube of the opera glass. It had a convex
lens at the far end and lens at the eye end
Kepler suggested that much more powerful tele-
scope could be built by using lenses at either
end.
1t seems, however, that Kepler's idea was not put
into effect until 1880 when Father Scheiner built
such telescope.
The principle Of the Kepier telescope has been
used ever Stree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
TrayeI-WiSe Mr.. Hoover

Old Neptune, we are informed,
paid Mr.. Hoover's ship the custom
airy visit as she crossed the equa-
tor. shaving, claiming, ducking and
otherwise impresSing his impor-
lance on a thousand or so Polly
wogs"
Having crossed the equator not
once, but fourteen times, Mr.. Hoo
yer could look on and laugh.
This is just one more illustration
of what travel and experience have
done for him.
Just as he made the acquaintance
of old Neptune on several previous
occasions, he has made the &C
quaintance of those problems il
connection with the outside world
that occupy so much of a Presi-
dents time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
HO70 MSuIin Helps Diabetic Child

Is days old, and weighed only Sc
pounds. Since she was Sc inches in
height, she was % pounds under
weight.
She was taken to the hospital,
where her diet was regulated and
where she was given regular doses
Of insulin according to her condition.
She had been losing weight at the
rate of three pounds day when she
was admitted to the hospital, but
gained two pounds by the end of 5le
first week in the hospital.
At the end of three weeks, she had
gained four and a quarter pounds
and by using a proper diet and
insulin, was taking care Of the sugar
in her body satisfactorily.
After three months, she had gained
1914 pounds. and after three years
and a half, 35 pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Shirt Studs
ice he was lust a little boy.

Once he Just a little boy.
- From tt valley Of the shadow he came.
"Out of the nowhere into the here" and through
the ills of childhood he went, as do all babies every
where, with father and mother suffering the anguish
that all fathers and mothers suffer when baby is ILL.,
And health, and childish prattle and play, and the
Christmases and the birthdays. And the first day of
school and the other milestones that mark the path
from the>cradle to maturity.
1t is the story of every baby that was born and
of every parent
Then the father became rich: Titan in the 9Os
and Croesus when the reaper called; and something
happened in those years.
There was a quarrel over marriage, and bitterness
which money alone could not assuage.
There break soon after the mothers death,
and riches alone failed to prevent-perhaps they
helped cause.-the bitterness that grew between father
and son,
And so in the will of the rich man. that bitterness
is dramatized
Il give and bequeath my white pearl shirt studs to
my son. Allan A. Ryan"
The parting message from the father who left
$3Oo0oooOO, to the who was the little baby
Ironc last testament to the most pathetic of all
estrangement; the hatred between father and son.
Did all his wealth and all his power compensate
Thomas Fortune Ryan for the bitterness which he
took with him to his grave?
We think not GSMEM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

have shown normal growth and de-
velopment.
In Hygeia, B. Frank Nicholson
gives a record of the case Of his
daughter under the insu1in treat
ment.
The family noticed one day that
the little girl had developed an in
ordinate appetite, was drinking ire
mendous quantities of water and los
ing weight constantly.
She was taken to the family
physician, who found by the usual
tests, including a study of the ex-
erection from the kidneys, that she
was suffering with diabetes; in fact,
she was in such a severe state that
she was in imminent danger of loss
of life
At that time she was 10 years and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
Reason

A FRIEND of ours is peeved be-
IA cause his boy is interested in
radio, instead of law, and while he
doesn't know it. he wants his boy
to be a lawyer so he can inherit
and conserve a splendid library.
This is as if an editor should wish
his son to be an editor, so he might
inherit pair of scissors.
A boys idea of what to do is more
sacred than any parents notion,
especially since parents may be ut
ter strangers in qualities and in
temperament to those they usher
into life.
A father and a mother may be
mere vehicle, transporting lives
from nothingneSS into being; there
may be no more affinity beween
them than between the ship and
the bananas it brings from the
tropics.
Now and then a child breeds back
generations, displaying elements so
strange they astound the drab fam
lily circle; he may have burning
lava in him, yet have extinct vol
canoes for parents.
He may come into the world
bearing a cleaning torch, handed
him somewhere out yonder amid
the stars b. some forgotten anceS-
tor, and when he does the world
says "Geniusl"
Then there's the influence of I'M
known environment, for environ
ment need not cling like leach to
the life it shapes, psychic phenomena
telling Of results Of fleeting environ
ment which put fiction to shame,
the one who has been touched, for
good or i'll, by the passing hand of
Chance being utterly unconscious of
it.
There's story of an Austrian
peasant, densely ignorant, but who
recited pure Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew while in delirium.
His doctor explored the peasants
life and learned that when he was
only one year Of age, it had been
the habit of an old monk to carry
him in his arms as he walked back
and forth, reading Latin, Greek and
Hebrew aloud.
n
On the theory that all that ever
enters a normal mind stays there,
lying dormant perhaps unless some
violent pressure brings it forth, the
doctor satisfied himself he had
solved the mystery.
Many who specialize in psychic
matters hold heredity and environ
ment to be the sole architects Of
human destiny, but in this they
wander to extremes.
II
A familiar case of heredity is that
said to have helped fashion Ma
poleon, the story being that while
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
No Mussolini Needed

Human nature is much the same, whether you
find it in the president or the brakeman of railroad
And because it is difficult for any of to learn
the art of self government find it necessary for
organized society to protect itself from ignorance and
greed by resorting to political government for relief
period of severe legal regulation of railroads
was inaugurated years ago. The railroads
brought it on themselves, simply because they didn't
know how to govern themselves in their own as well
as the publics interest
Now one railroad president complains of too much
interference by political government President Han
nauer of the Boston & Maine is the complainant. He
says reduction of rates has been in part purely
matter of politics; and complains not only of the
pressure of congress the Interstate Commerce
commission but also of organized labor legislative
representatives.
Then this troubled executive turns to Mussoini.
saying: "NIussolini would have this job done by
perts well qualified and answerabe to him for correct
solution We don't want to be governed by Mussoini
but we must get the same results through an en-
lightened public opinion, which only from
more attention to the subject by men equipped to
lead in the NATTER.
What President Hannauer wants is Mussolini tao
tics without MusSoini. But doesn't he prove by
his own complaint that railroad management isn't
competent to manage the railroad business and get
along with the public? Certainly nobody is in better
position to influence the public attitude toward rail-
roads than the men who run the railroads. and if
the public attitude is unfrienoly it isn't the fault
of public that attacks railroad management merely
for the fun of the thing.
There must have been a cause, and railroad man
agement must have been responsible for the cause.
Everybody who knows anything about the earlier
history of railroad financing and management knows
there cause.
In the meantime, there has been a slow, but
steady development toward self-government in in
dustry There are men of vision in the industry
who see this and helping it along by intelligent
treatment of the public interest
If all executives were as wise and far-seeing as
some few are, both the public and labor would be
glad to look to management for justice instead of
going to political government.
The railroad industry doesn't need either Musso-
ni or Nussolini tactics. What it does need is the
vision intelligence and understanding necessary for
Self-government. When it gets these the public will
let the industry govern itself. In the meantime
governmental regulation is not only necessary, but
imperative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
LET YOUR CHILD
a q g
FIND HIS PLACE
y y e
IN LIFE'S GAME

who he is nor what he is; you only
know the miracle of birth brought
him to your home.
q
Failures are not due so much to
inferiority as to failure to find ones
place in the tangled scheme of
things and much of this failure is
due to parental interference with
youths enthusiasts.
n
The child may make mistakes, but
he will pay all the penalties.
You have no right to make him
pay for your mistakes.
American fathers and mothers
should take this view, since the
right to make ones own mistakes
is the very essence of liberty and
self-goVernment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01
The Solution

TN this problem the lone trick is
l. won by reducing to a minimum
a cross-ruff by East and West.
South leads his trump. East will
now be compelled to lead diamond
to North's ace at the final trick,
or West will eventually be forced to
lead his club or his spade to South.
But if South opens with a club
or a spade, East and West will win
all the tricks with a complete and
uninterrupted cross-ruff, since every
one Of their trumps is higher than
the two held by North and South.
Often during the course of a game
it is advisable to lead trumps when
your opponents control the trump
suit. Watch for these occasions,
and make use of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01

see. A resolution was adopted by
the Florida legislature which while
not having the force of a law, tends
to prohibit the teaching of evolu-
ton in that state. In Louisiana 1t is
forbidden by order Of the state SUI
perintendent of schools. Evolution
bills were proposed in 1927 in West
Virginia. Missouri, Oregon, Wash
ington, Arkansas, North Carolina,
Virginia, Kansas and Maine, but did
not pass.
What is sodium chloride?
Common table salt.
How are arrangements made for
a party visiting Washington to make
a call on the President of the United
States.
Arrangements are made through
the secretary to the President at
the executive offices, White House.
1t is usually necessary to make az
rangements through one Of the
members of Congress from the State
from which the group comes.
Why is green usually considered
the most restfuI color to the eye?
Largely because of the prevalence
of green Ia nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-01

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What is the story of the erection
of the statue in South America
called 1.-THE Christ of the Andes?"
In 1908 the South American Re
publics of Chile and Argentina,
having happily settled by arbitra-
ton a long-standing boundary con-
troversy which threatened to involve
the two countries in war, mutually
bound themselves by treaty to re-
duce their military and naval
ornaments and for stated period
to submit every matter of dispute
arising between them to arbitra-
ton. Upon one of the highest
boundary ranges of the Andes
Mountains the two nations have
erected a colossal bronze statue Of
Christ as the sacred guardian of the
peace to which they are pledged
The statue was unveiled. March Is,
1904. 1t is called "Thf Christ OF