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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Good-Time Nation

WE may be nation of shop
w keepers, as Mussolini and
others have declared, but we have
fairly good time as we go along.
If we are extravagant in our pas
times and recreations they afford
an incentive to work.
Our prosperity owes much to the
fact that we are allowed to spend
our time ard money as we please.
Your average American has some
thing TO work for besides the glory
Of a dictatorship, or even a gov
eminent. That is one reason why
he works. He sees leisure. relaxa-
ton and freedom to satisfy his le-
climate desires as a reward Of in
dustry.
MuSsolini says that democracy is
failure, that people must not only
be directed, but controlled, and that
the liberties which go with our form
of government are more destructive
than helpful. He is trying to show
the world better way, with Italy
as a laboratory. Perhaps he will
succeed, then again, perhaps he will
not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

against the people other important matters It
has put sheris and prosecutors into office who have
made mockery of law. 1t has been the constant
threat to independence of thought and action
1t was his pursuit of political power not of mill
tsnt sentiment for prohibition that brings Shumaker
to his prison door.
He suffers, not martyr to his cause but as VIC
tim to ambition to control government
Personally he will have the sympathy of all per-
sons who lament that his enthusiasm led him into
policies and actions which have no place in America
His imprisonment will neither lessen nor increase
the belief of men and women in prohibition. That
suffers nothing and gains nothing. What is achieved
is most magnificent gesture in behalf of the integrity
OF courts, their freedom from any influence, their
denial Of any supergovernment.
1t is unfortunate that those politicians and states
men who confessedly cringed before the political pow
er of Shumaker when he was trying to save himself
we're not included in the sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
N. E.
TRACY
SAYS
I'VE Mag Be q Nation of
ShOpkeeperS, but We
Haze a Fairly Good Time
as We Go Along"
SAYS
WHETHER Premier Mussolini

WHETHER Premier Mussolini
w is doing a good job he is GER
tainly doing thorough one. His
latest innovation is to ban New
Years greetings. He thinks they
waste the time of public officials.
For the sake of efficiency, he has
excused his associates from extend
ing them.
1t goes without saying that his
associates will excuse those under
them and that the premier's SUCCESS
ton gradually will go down the line
until this ancient convention of
politeness is obliterated.
Let those vino imagine that
America has a mortgage on the eff
flciency bug pause and consider.
What are our time clocks COM
pared to Mussolinis you can'tS?"
even though most of us have to
start work by whistle and keep it
up until the whistle blows again. we
can do pretty much as we darn
please - hooch excepted - between
whites.
In Italy, as Mussolini has made it,
they cannot publish forty-page
newspapers, or even sixteen pages;
can not dance the tango or varsity
drag; can not stay out after 10
o'clock at night; can not organize a
union and strike; can not waste their
time with such frivolities as a New
Years card; can not gum up the
works with municipal elections; can
not do much of anything, in fact,
EXCEPT obey orders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
LET'S HAVE HARMONY
THEIR EYES ARE BAD
FOOD FOR THE DOG

DESPITE all disparagement, the
~ warmed up bird is the best.
The turkey is the only performer
whose encore is always better than
the original number.
n
Mr.. Coolidge is going to spend
much of his vacation on that island
off Georgia, sitting for an English
portrait painter and next to having
your teeth filled, that's about the
most alluring form of high life.
n
While practicing his ancient
profession, a street cleaner in Wales
composed a Christmas song which
mas created a sensation.
We've always wondered what
street cleaners were thinking about
in their periods of meditation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
The Metric System

D REPRESENTATIVE BRITTEN
N will introduce a bill for the
adoption of the metric system next
month. Not one in a hundred will
regard it as of any consequence
compared to farm relief, the Kellogg
pact or the cruiser program. That
Is because they have not thought
the thing through.
You can discount all the benefits
the metric system would bring to
merchants, manufacturers and deal
ers and still prove that it would save
us billions in the school system.
The average child could master
arithmetic as based on the metric
system in much less time than 1t
takes him to wade through the kind
We are teaching. If he only took
three or four months less, which is
reasonable, we would save Stagger-
ing amount every year. What is
more important, we would have
saved his time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Reason

DY far the most impressive fea-
ID ture of the Chicago worlds
fair in 1893 was the worlds con-
gress of religions, and there is to be
another one at the Chicago fair to
be held in 1888.
Let us hope there will be enough
tolerance in the United States by
that time to enable the members
Of our reception committee to re-
frain from going to the mat With
each other while welcoming the
followers of Mahomet, Confucius
and Buddha.
If Lottie Pickford's pictures do
her Justice, then the gentlemen who
engaged in that fight for the con-
troll of her affections should pro-
coed with all possible haste to have
their eyes examined.
After seeing the children of this
age, wading around in a cloudburst
of Christmas presents, one concludes
that they do not get the thrill we
used to feel in the old days when
dollars were as big as cartwheels
and presents we're few and far be-
tween.
Parents who seek to manicure the
dining room department of their
children should not let them read
the papers which tell Of the Presi-
dents throwing food to his dog
while eating supper on the dining
car.
Now that it develops that this
Bolivia Paraguay turmoil is over
the control of oil lands, it should
be easy for the New York COM
manders Of the rival factions to get
together and avert war.
1t is strange that our great lubri-
cant should cause so many inter-
national hot boxes.
An Austrian ART expert removed
an outer coat of paint from pic
ture and found a masterpiece by
Tinoretto, valued at half a million
dollars, which suggests that if one
could only remove the paint from
some of the ladies, there's no tell
ing what antiques might be discov-
cred.
q
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university, declares that
periods of great prosperity are
dangerous and his warning doubt
less will strike terror to the hearts
of the farmers.
Mr.. Hoover thought it was a great
crowd when Rio Janeiro turned out
$4,000 strong to welcome him, but
Just wait until the Office seekers
greet him in Florida.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Don't Give Up the Sh'

THERE is, I imagine, pretty
l. eral agreement that alcoht
gross quantities will generally
productive of harmful effects.
But certainly there is no abs
proof that liquor in moderatiC
destructive to the human syI
In any case 1t was and is
strous to fill up children with
debatable contentious spread
them as true gospel.
Education of this sort was
ceived in rank emotion. Thel
no desire to make each lit
and girl a seeker after the
truth and nothing else but,
to save them all from the CT
rum even if 1t became neces
do a little lying for the sake 4
conversion.
I hope that Malcolm Aim
the age of 10, has not gro
cynical that he is willing
his school companions fed IN
semi-stones of precious PROF
as a substitute for bread. s
There is a law hereabouts
it illegal to write out a Ct
less than So. Does Malcolm
believe that If I sat down
made one out to bearer
that civilization in thes
States would Immediately
In fact, I am much inc
raise the ante to $l.99 and
entire sum as a prize for
schoolboy essay upon the
Under What CircumstaI
Good American Entitled
Respect and Obedience to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Name Sounds Familiar

lNQIllC OOuIlUO ! QllllllQI
A S matter of fact, no piece of
i N federal legislation has been so
enormously advertised as the Vol
stead law. There may be some
vaguenesS as to Interpretation of
certain trick cases, but in the main
the average citizen is we'll aware of
what prohibition is all about.
Why wouldn't he? It has been
the favorite topic of conversation
wherever one or more gathered for
the last ten years The man or
woman who violates the Volstead
act does so with his eyes open, will
fully and, am afraid, in most in
stances, gladly
The embarrassing thing about the
schoolboyS composition is his ready
acceptance of the new notification
which has become popular through
prohibition practices.
] refer to the tendency to endow
extralegal bodies with various re-
Sponsibilities for enforcement Twice
in q short article, Malcolm Almack
suggests that the federal govern
ment cooperate with the American
Legion in the business of bringing
about the better functioning of theI
law.
Once he blandly suggests that the
authorities at Washington should
propaganda through the churches.
Can it be that the teachers in NAL
colm's school have been so remis;
chat they have failed to imposi
their little pupils with the necessitfV
Of the priceless tradition of compiled
separation between church and
state?
Moreover. Malcolm has studio
American history badly if he fails
realize that the greatest DANCE
which threatens our form of 90,
eminent is the possibility of c.
ercion through any sort of oligarcf
ic organization.
Washington himself set a pred u
dent when he discouraged the for
ing OF a society of men who l
fought with him in the Revolut
for fear that such a body mi
come to assume powers reserved
The Constitution for duly elec
representatives. In later days
country was agitated by a Mas
issue.
The G. A. r. played at one
such a part in politics that q
American should pray at nigh
be delivered from any bloc rule
the legion. And surely the stor
the khan should be enough to
vince even a boy of is that not
but harm can result when pri
citizens band together to assume
dicial and legislative functions
Also young Malcolm refers g
ingly to one of the sorriest char
in the history of the American
lie schools He speaks of the
that every state in the UnioI
a law requiring that the ha
effects or alcohol be taught 4
schools" A
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
- ~
By
Frederick
lands

DUSSYFOOT JOHNSON, en-
4 route to the orient, declares he
will drive liquor from the Philip
pine islands in short order, but he
is a little doubtful about his ability
to make China dry on this trip.
Inasmuch as China has something
over half a billion people, we sub
NIT that Pussyfoot should make a
second trip on her account, and
stay at least six weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

kinds Of tissues.
First, there is
epithelial It's S u e.
The cells compris-
ing it are known
as epithelial cells.
The S k i n, the
! i n l n & of the
mouth and throat,
the coat of the
stomach and intes-
tines, and so on,
are varieties of cpl
thelial tissue.
Next, there Is
connective tbs S u e.
sue. This includes
a wide varie t y.
Tendnns. hnneR.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
This Date i'm
u. s. History

Dec. 20
l778-British captured Savannah,
Ga.
835-Seminole Indians coded to
United States territory east
of the Mississippi for S.
100000.
1845-Texas admitted to the Union.
863-Arizona organized as a. ter
ritory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Common Bridge Errors
AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Declarer would not be able to return
to Dummy to establish the remain
ing clubs. Played correctly game is
assured.
The PrincipIe-DO not remove a
re-entry that you will require to
establish a suit.
Copyright. 1928. Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

school boy OF this sum $1,000 has
gone to the pupil and the rest to his
school. Something of the blame for
most disturbing performance must
be divided between them.
Malcolm d. Almack, the winner,
seems to be a pleasant, fresh-faced
lad and 1 trust that Durant will be
suitably romorseful when he reads
that he has bribed likely youngster
into public priggishness.
Surely no American lad of Is
would seriously suggest that every
citizen should play the role of spy
and informer if he had not been
dazSled by the gold of Durant.
Young Almack maintains in his
contribution that the laxity of en-
forcement rests largely upon lack
of knowledge of the Volstead law.
He seems to think that If everyone
knew just what the provisions of
prohibition legislation we're there
would be mad rush to conform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Tissues Form Body
No. 246

TITLE microscopic units called cells are the build
II ing blocks out of which all living organisms,
plants and animals built
The cells make up tissues The tissues in their
turn comprise the body of the organism. tissue may
be defined as structure built up of number of the
same kind of cells.
We distinguish five different types of cells in
the human body which go to make up five different
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

ASSOCIATION ana OF hNHeldt the
Health Magazine.
TODAY golf is probably the most
Il popular sport in America, if
one takes into account the actual
number of persons who play as
compared with the number that
look on at other games as played by
professionals.
There is no actual scientific evil
dence as to the value of golf as a
sport from the health point of view,
although there is a tremendous
amount of opinion on the subject
that it is a safe and satisfactory
sport for men and women of all
ages.
1t therefore seemed worth while
to the SturgiS Research Fund Of the
Burke Relief Foundation to provide
for series of careful Investigations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Daily Thought

And he said, of a truth / say
unto you, that this poor widow
hath cast in more than they ALL
st. Luke 21:3.
such sacrifices the gods
~ themselves throw incense
Shakespeare.
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Questions and
AnS1Oe1-S

You can get an answer to any answer
able question OF fact or information by
Editor The indianapolis Times Wash
ington Bureau, 1929 New York avenue,
washington D; c. ins d9;Iag cents 81. IN
tended research be made. All other
questions will receive a personal reply.
Unsigned requests csnnot be answered:
cordially invited to make use of this
service.
How did Lincoln Beachey, the
aviator, meet his death?
He fell and was killed in San
Francisco bay March IA, 1915, while
flying German Taube monoplane,
trying to duplicate the stunts he
had been doing previously in a BIZ
plane.
Is the sale Of animal fur in coats
scarfs and neckpieces prohibited by
law anywhere in the United States?
All states have laws regulating
trapping and killing Of fur bearing
animals, restricting them to certain
seasons, but nowhere is there a
restriction upon the sale of peltries
manufactured into garments.
Is it permissible to send unsOlic-
tied merchandise through the mail
to prospective customers?
The Watson bill to prohibit send
ing merchandise that has not been
ordered through the mail has not
been passed by congress, conse-
quently there is no inhibition at
y1recay1f
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

award 10 MAJOR
Mills has been
paid for an ex-
position of the
twice told and
the obvious. In
this there is no
great harm. The
S a m e qualities
have frequently
won rich reward
in other Amer
lean literary
efforts.
Much more I'M
fortunate h a We
been the con-
sequences of the
$4,000 offered for
an ESSAY from q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
I I
SEEMS
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

THE money which w. G. DWant
4 put up for prohibition prizes
seems to have been squandered TO
singularly little purpose. The chief
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

The new thrteen-mont calendar idea surely wi
fail What we need is fewer frSts- of-the-montf
rather than more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

The Bidding-South bids no.
trump and all pass.
Deciding the Play-West leads 2
Of spades. What card should De-
clarer play from Dummy?
The ErrOr-Declarer takes with
the queen of spades in Dummy and
loses his contract
The Correct Observation-Disclosures
plays of spades and takes with
ace of spade. If Declarer we're to
take with queen of spades he would
probably be unable to establish the
club suit. Opponents would hold off
playing ace of clubs on the first
round of clubs. They would play
the ace of spades thereafter and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

Mary Garden said recently she thinks men ar
superior to women. Mary said it before Christina
of course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

Ideas and
opinions ox-
pressed In this
oolu m n are
those OF one
Of Americas
most interest,"
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
out regard 10
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Importance of Figures

MOST everything in life harks
1VA back to figures. That is why
we have all the trouble with arith-
metic.
Though America has more use
for figures than any other country,
perhaps, she has the clumsiest sys-
tenn. There is no relationship be-
tween the various tables of weights
and measures in common use, no
regularity of treatment. The child
has to learn each Of them sepa-
rately.
A year or SO of every life is
squandered in useless wrestling
with avoidable fractions.
In dry measure eight quarts
make peck, but in liquid measure
four quarts make a gallon. The
gallon has no relation to the peck.
In linear measure three feet make
yard and sixteen and one-half
feet, or five and one-half yards,
make rod. An acre contains $50
square rods. More than one kid
has wasted nights sleep trying
to find out how many square yards
1t contains.
In the metric system all tables of
weights and measure not only have
a common basis, but are developed
by units of ten. Liquid measure,
dry measure, linear measure, weights
and cubical contents are all co-or-
dinated. You do not have to figure
IN tWelfthS, ninths or Sixteenths.
The whole operation is built around
the cipher and the decimal point.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

Theodore F. Shuey official reporter Of debates, ha
served sixty years in the United States senate, Maj
can get used to almost anything
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Why, Mr.. Secretary?

Why is it that the Alabama Power Company is
permitted to purchase electricity from the government
at Muscle Shoals for two mills klowatt hour, while
Muscle Shoals City, municipality is refused the same
power at four mills kilowstt hour2
Secretary of War Davis says 1T would not be for
the best interests of the United States" to sell power
to the municipality power that now is going to
waste
Why is it against the best interests of the United
States?
Isn't the power plant there? Isn't it being oper-
ated? Isn't the power going to waste? Isn't the
money of the citizens of Muscle Shoals City as good
as that of the Alabama Power Company?
Secretary Davis has made mistake. of the
most serious of his administration head of the
war department.
He has made ruling that establishes precedent
against municipalities purchasing government power
and has prevented an experiment in cheap power that
might have the effect of lowering rates all the
country.
If there is some good reason for denying this ap-
plcaton, we would like to know what it is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
BY DIR. MORRIS .7IsHBEIN

This is the FIRST Of a series of three
articles on the Physiology OF Golf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
More PIutoCratS

CPEAKING of the prosperity we
~ enjoy in this country, Carl
Snyder OF the federal reserve bank
Of New York says that there are
between thirty and forty thousand
American millionaires, where there
were only 1000 in 1914.
He says that this enormous in
crease in the tribe of plutocrats can
be explained in several ways.
First, there is the deflation of the
dollar. Second, there is the boom
due to the late war Third, there is
the stock market. with such oppor-
tunities to make money by gam
bling, as we're never before known.
when fortunes can be made by
gambling in pieces of paper" says
Snyder, "of what attraction are the
unique virtues of industry, sobriety
and thrift? These are temporarily
thrown into the discard, reluctantly
and discontentedly to be resumed
when the house of cards has
crumbled."
A lot of truth in that statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE.
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David Oietz on Science
The Nome nugget., 1928-10-27
SMITH TAKES ANOTHER
 RAP AT HERBERT HOOVER

BOSTON. Oct. 25, R9 = The Madison Square Garden speech of Herbert Hoover today drew fire from Governor Al Smith who today carried the Democratic standard in to Massachusetts,, which is normally Republican State.
 Smith was welcomed very noisily. One hundred policemen re re- quired to keep order in Vne big shouting crowd.
 Smith accused Hoover of using words which concealed, rather than conveyed his meaning. He replied to the statement by Hoover that Hoover let the cat out of the bag when he declared the Democratic theory of public ownership and de- ve!opment was State Socialism,, and he was greeted by chorus of "boos" which swept the audience, followed by shouts and laughter when the Governor added: Well, how do members of Congress feel who voted for the development of Muscle Shoals by the Government
 The nominee thus said that MT. Hoover placed in the Socialist Party a number of these alleged under the Republican bann, saving: Senator Borah ought to return home to- night because he has been disowned by the leaders of his own Party"
 Several times the Governor had to appeal to the audience to be quiet SO as not to lose time. Over thirty stations were in the radio hook-up.
 One of Smiths appeals for silence was: Now, if you orators in the gallery vii just keep quiet" am near the end of this speech.
 The audience got out of control as the Governor started his state ment of what this government really and actually needs"
 The Governor was addressed by Mrs Frank Wilson. relative of former President Wilson, saying that Woodrow praised Governor Smiths ability.
The Nome nugget., 1928-10-27
HALIBUT COMMISSION
 STARTS OUT FROM SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Oct. 25, (P) Deter mined to find out about a part o. the life of the halibut. a winter ex- petition of the International Fish cries Commission sailed for the Gulf of Alaska today.
 They hoisted upon the Halibut schooner Dorothy thousands of dol lars worth of valuable instruments and gear to sweep the halibu. banks for specimens of large and small halibut
 Twenty-two University of Wash ington graduates of the school of fisheries, head the expedition. with Lawrence kask and Ralph Brick son, both 22 years of age, who will help elevate the gear, under the