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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"City Planning Has Not
Reached q Point Yet
Where We Dare Ask
Ourselves HON. Big q
City Should Be-"
SAYS:
LAwEs of Sing Sing

VXTARDEN LAWES of Sing Sing
w is right. There is too much
emotionalism in our attitude toward
crime. One minute we yell for blood
and the next we yell for mercy,
each sentimental outburSt succeed
ing the other in rapid and illogical
succession.
How can we visualize the problem
as scientific, much less approach it
in scientific way, so long as such
a mood prevails?
The old idea that one extreme off,
sets another, and that by intersper-
sing sob sister waves with fits Of
violence we strike happy medium
is sheer nonsense. Instead, one ex-
IRENE becomes the excuse for an
other.
After we have had a crying spell,
we are apt to get unreasonably
hard-boiled and vice versa. In nine
cases out Of ten, a period of easy
paroles and pardons is followed by
one of savage Verdicts and severe
laws. Criminals are tempted to go
on and do worse by the flckleness
this indicates. No matter what hap
pens, they look for the next turn of
the wheel to make their road little
smoother. More often than not,
they are right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Orr Indian Debt

Evidences of genuine effort to improve the un-
happy lot Of the governments Indian wards are
visible at Washington
The senate Indian affairs committee is making
a field study of Indian administration, which will
provide congress with facts from other sources than
the bureau of Indian affairs.
The annual report of Secretary West recounts i'm
provements sought. The interior department, West
says is studying the recent survey by the institute
for government research, which was perhaps the
most comprehensive survey of Indian affairs ever
undertaken" This in itself is hopeful, sign.
West says health conditions have been improved
to some extent Additional hospitals and are
fighting trachoma tuberculosis and infancy diseases.
the outstanding health problems Of the race.
Education has been handicapped by lack Of funds
OF $4,000 eligible children about $4,000 we're in pub
lie schools and $1,000 in schools OF the federal gov
eminent Irrigation is being extended, farming and
handcrafts encouraged and housing improved. Land
is being acquired for homeless Indians
These commendable measures only begin
ming To bring the Indian service to the point where
Indians given the humane treatment the gov
eminent owes them, adequate appropriations from
congress are essential.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
TRANSPORTATION

New York transportation lines
carried 1926, 100000 passengers last
year. That is nearly twice the pop
ulation of the earth. About one
half of them were carried through
underground tubes at the rate of
thirty miles an hour or more. The
rate of accidents was surprisingly
low.
All of which goes to show not
only the great advance we have
made in transportation, but what
an important part transportation
plays in city life.
Such cities as New York, Chicago
and Philadelphia would be impossi-
bic if people had to walk. That
it why the ancient world with all
its pomp and power, was never able
to equal them.
There were large cities in Rome
and Babylon, but they were hotbeds
of disease and poverty.
This is the first age in which peo-
pie could dwell together by the mil
lion without exposing themselves to
the ravages of famine and epidemic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Waiting to
Get Into
the MOUie
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THEATERS where legitimate
Il drama is shown hang out an
S. r. o. sign when the seats are
sold out.
Why aren't the movie houses as
courteous to their patronsP And
why do they not instruct their
beautiful glass-caged ticket ladies
to smile now and then, if it is only
while they gaze off into spaceP
And why should their doormen be
so naughty?
One feels a fool, anyway, stand
ing in line in the vestibule of an
ordinary moving picture house,
where one is going to be RECALLED
with a sight of Hoot Gibson or
Mollie O'Day, or even Gloria Swan
son. The only compensation for
such CALLING experience is to
watch the men try to look comfort
able and unconcerned while their
wives clutch them so they can't bolt.
But, in spite Of the fact that all
these movie minions know full we'll
that there won't be more than half
a dozen empty seats for the next
forty-five minutes, they'll take your
money and your tickets and herd
you inside the ropes without sim
gle qualm of conscience or the
faintest flicker of sympathy upon
their wooden faces.
OF 81
stand, feeling more and more like a
woman who is losing her petticoat in
the public square, and along about
an hour afterward you are allowed
to rush in with the rest of the mob.
There is something about that sort
of thing that flattens your pride.
And though the grocers clerk
greets us with suavity and smiles,
and the butchers lad is all agog to
please, not so the hireling who
guards the entrance to the moving
picture palace. In fact, he often
looks as if he would just as soon
keep us out altogether.
Napoleon gazing out over the
rocks Of st. Helena never could have
appeared more weighted with woe
than one of these stiff-necked and
resplendent Nor was Kaiser Will
helm in all his glory ever more dis
dainful than one of these. Indeed,
there is something funereal in his
aspect. He resembles perfectly a
mortician or hired pallbearer.
Sometimes when I go from movie
house to movie house and regard
these mournful and contemptuous
faces, I wonder how we of the
proletariat ever muster up the
courage to sneak in and see the
picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Cassini for example built telescopes 100 and 1856
fet long Bradley used one over 200 feet lor ,.
These telescopes became known at al tele-
scopes, since it impossible to mount and them
in the ordinary way Telescope tubes of the ordinary
sort also impossible and the lenses merely
placed long frameworks
Newton undertook to find out why lenses caused
blurred and colored images
He soon came to the conclusion that the fault was
not in the way the lenses we're ground but in the
nature of light.
In 1866 Newton performed the famous experiment
which disclosed the real nature of light.
He showed that when a beam Of sunlight passed
through glass prism, it spread out into band
Of colors like the rainbow. In other words, white
light mixture Of all the colors of the rainbow.
The different colors but different amounts as
they pass through the glass prism and as result
spread out into band.
1t plain therefore, that the blurred and COL
ored images produced by telescopes were due to the
spreading of the light by the lenses.
Newton believed that the type of telescope then
in use could not be improved very much
Accordingly, he set about to invent type
Of telescope This telescope which will be described
next, is known today as the Newtonian reflector
type Of telescope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
What Limit to Cities?

The modern city presents a prob
lem which goes deeper than the
maintenance Of order within its
limits.
How little we understand that
problem is shown by the fact that
city planning has not reached a
point yet where those engaged in
it dare ask themselves how big a
city should be.
When we plan a store, a hotel, a
railroad terminal or much of any
thing else, the first thing we decide
is what the community it serves will
stand. We know perfectly well that
the job can be overdone, and that
if it is overdone some one will get
hurt.
With respect to the city, we take
growth as a matter of course, re-
fusing to concede that it cannot
become too big for its own good or
for the surrounding region to sup
port.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
ChiCago'S Cleanup

John A.. Swanson becomes states
attorney in Chicago, not only
pledged to clean up the town, but
with the reports of six special grand
jurieS to show him what the job in
wolves.
According to these reports, Chi
cago is being MIXED by such COM
bination of politicians and crooks
as seems unique even in the pictur-
esque record of American cities.
Racketeering has not only become
an organized business, but has pre-
sumed to take over the municipal
government.
Policemen have sworn that they
dared not do their duty because of
fear of treading on the toes Of some
higher up and losing their jobs.
Machine guns have been employed
by expert gangsters to clear the way
for graft, hlackmail and monopoly
of every description.
Starting out with control of the
liquor traffic as its objective, Chi
cago's underworld has presumed to
dictate large variety of enter
prises, has collected tribute from a
multitude of small tradesmen and
has made even the largest institu-
tons pay dearlE for its good will.
Mr.. Swanson is Vp against task
which no human being can perform
alone, yet which must be performed
If Chicago and other American cities
are to be saved from organized
viciousneSs.
In this case, as in all others like
it, the result will be determined by
civic consciousness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
WE SHOULD ENTER
THE WORLD COURT
TO HONOR HUGHES

there lies the vast honor conferred
on Mr.. Hughes.
To be one Of its judges is to be-
come a sort Of clarified Phi Beta
Kappa of the universe, for this
tribunal is more than an ivy-clad
terminal for high-powered careers;
it is indeed the very vestibule of
high renown, whose gowned sages
actually may see themselves pass
ing into history and actually feel
their bustS turning to bronze!
n
For the foregoing reasons and
despite all possible objections, this
country should by all means, try
to get into the world court at the
earliest possible date for the purpose
of honoring Mr.. Hughes, that is, if
it can be found in the preamble of
the Constitution of the United
States that this government was or
ganized for the purpose of honor
ing Mr.. Hughes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


1T is possible that in the human
Il animals of the past the appen-
dix had the function Of serving
as a storehouse for food while the
animal was being pursued and
could not stop to eat.
In the human being today it is a
rudimentary organ which has ap-
parently lost whatever function it
may have had in the past. 1t ex-
lists in most cases as a small tube
closed at one end and opening at
the other end into the large in
testines.
Usually the opening allows ma
terial to pass in and out of the ap-
pendix, but occasionally some hard
substance that is indigestible be-
comes lodged in the appendix,
blocking the exit and injuring the
tissue. Unless germs are present,
however, appendicitis will not de-
velop.
In the presence of bacterial Or
ganisms having the power to attack
human tissue, the tissue breaks
down, infectious matter is formed
and as a result Of the presence of
his material the person has pain
and high fever and he may vomit.
He develops large numbers Of
white blood cells which are an at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Reason
VXTHY did Mr.. Coolidge wait I'M

VXTHY did Mr.. Coolidge wait I'M
w til sunset of his presidential
day to seek to have other nations
accept our reservations, so we could
get into the world court?
1t may be that, like everybody
else, he forgot all about this court
and came across it in the White
House attic while getting his things
together to turn the premises over
to the Hoovers.
When you go to move, you al
ways find lot of things you had
forgotten about.
The other explanation is that he
wishes to hand a bouquet to Mr..
Hughes, who having been made a
world court judge, would experience
a sense of incompleteness, should
America continue to stay out, and
Mr.. Hughes is entitled to much
from Mr.. Coolidge, having led his
campaign in 1924, then served ably
as Secretary of State, after which
he and Mr.. Borah sustained the
same relationship to the G. o. P.
in the recent contest that Mr.. Ruth
and Mr.. Gehrig sustained to the
Yankees in the last world series.
Even if we should go into this
court, our reservations would keep
all of Uncle Sam out of it except
his eyebrows; he would not hang
up his white beaver and sit inside
the rail with England, France, ia
pan and the others, but would just
open the back door far enough to
squint inside, ready to run if the
court should start to try him for
something.
The other judges couldn't even
ask ETr. Hughes what he had for
breakfast without first getting con-
sent of the United States senate!
r r.
Even so. Mr.. Hughes would APP
preciate it if Uncle Sam would just
enter special appearance and file
a demurrer or make a motion to
quash-anything sufficient to leave
few tracks which he could point
to. If some day the sultan of He'd
JAZZ or the maharajah of Indore
should arise and ask him how he
happened to horn in as judge.
=
If we continue to stay out, Mr..
Hughes will be minister pIenipo-
Tertiary and ambassador eXtraordi-
nary from nowhere; he'll just sit
there as hopeless1y detached as a
Kansas summer kitchen Ter a cy-
clone.
We can imagine nothing so
heartless as to let him go over there,
a man without a country, unless we
should enter a pedigreed turkey in
an international poultry exhibit,
then refuse to let it take its wattles
along.
With all the reservations differ
ent nations have made or shall
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Lie Ullu Y u i v y
with all telescopes
prior to Newton's
day was that they
did not give clear
| m a 6 e S. TIL e
images were al
W a Y S somewhat
blurred and ringed
with colors.
To get q W a y
from these diff
culties, longer ano
longer telescopes
were built, since
the difficulties were
less in telescopes
Of long f o c a
strength.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Baths In 346 B, c.,

Cities of the ancient world had
culture and luxury, but only for the
few at the expense of the many.
DR.. David Moore Robinson of
Johns Hopkins university has Just
unearthed the ruins of Olinthus
which was captured and sacked in
346 B. c. He not only found COM
Portable bath tubs and exquisite
statuary, but other evidences of
wealth and refinement.
When it came to taking a bath,
however, your old Olinthan did not
turn on faucet as we do but sat in
his marble basin and had slaves
douse him with buckets of water.
That meant that bath tubs were for
the rich only.
The difference between ancient
and modern civilization is that the
former flourished on the bowed back
of poverty.
The Greek or Roman millionaire
might have lived in ease, but his
workmen and their families could
not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
- ~
By
Frederick
lands

make, this court will not be able
to cut much ice.
It will be more exclusive than
effective and more pompous than
powerful.
If it inherits the charming traits
of its papa and mamma, the League
Of Nations, it will find its real mis-
sion in permitting great powers to
do as they please, but holding small
powers to strict accountability.
y y
The world court will not amount
to much, but it is very select and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
The Solution

IN this problem, discarding and
l. forcing the lead play a highly
important part.
South leads the six of spades,
West plays the deuce, North wins
with the jack, and East discards a
heart. North then leads the ace
Of spades, East discards the queen of
clubs. and South a club. North
next leads his last spade.
East discards the queen of hearts,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
This Date i'm
u. s. History

Dec. 4
1682-Penn held an assembly at
Chester, Pa, to organize the
colony.
1783-Washington took leave of his
officers.
1S65-Congressional committee APP
pointed to consider recon-
struction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
WHY is the sun yellow?
Daily Thought

A tirRe to cast away stones, and
a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to
refrain from embracing.-Eccl. 3;5.
n
DAY follows on the murkiest
IL night, and, when the time
comes, the latest fruits will ripen.
Schiller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
NezgtOn Makes Discovery
No. 224

CIR ISAAC NEWTON, whose chief work the
- information of the law of gravity, also played
an important part in the development of the tele-
scope In addition byproduct of his work with the
instrument without which much Of our modern astro-
nomical knowledge could never have been collected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Chicago will seek the original Noahs ark on
Mt Ararat for the 1888 Worlds fair. A boat with
capacity like that could be sold at profit after
the fair to beer importers along the Detroit river
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

What division of the A. E. F. in
the World war had the title "Sun-
shine Division?
The Fortieth division, to which the
National Guard of Colorado was
attached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

7 AY the cards on a table, as
- shown in the diagram, and
study the situation. See if you can
find a method of play that will net
North and South four tricks. The
solution is printed herewith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

An Illinois woman asked divorce because she
couldn't awaken her husband, the combined noise of
twelve alarm clocks failed to bulge him. At one
time Or other that man must have been an apart
ment lanitor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Sir Thomas Upton says he has remained a
bachelor because he could have only one wife if he
married, whereas he would want three or four That
should remove any doubts you might have had that
Sir Thomas really is a challenger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Several persons were injured in New York the
other day by falling slippery sidewalks and break
ing hip pocket TASKS People should keep away from
slippery sidewalks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

Once upon time there was country so small
that it didn't even have goodwill hier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04
Questions and
ANS1OeTS

You can get an answer TO any answer
writing to Frederick M Kerby Question
Editor The Indianapolis Times Wash
ington Bureau 1922 New YORK Ave-.
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot be given, nor can ex-
tended research be made All ether
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All letters are confidential You are
cordially invited to make use Of this
service.
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advice cannot be given, nor can ex-
Rase % receive e PERSONAL e
nsigned requests cannot be answered.
All ietters are connoenClal you are
cordially invited to make use OF this
service.
Who is 'ROxy?"
His name is S. L. Rothafel and he
arrived in New York in 1897 from
the town of saltwater, Mimi, where
he was born in 1885. He was mes
senger boy in several small depart
ment stores and subsequently en-
litsed in the Marine Corps, serving
in the Boxer Rebellion and winning
a medal. After seven years with the
Marines he opened little movie
theater in Forest City, Pa and
later went to Minneapolis and Mil
waukee where he began to attract
attention as a manager Of unusual
talents. In 1913 he retur ned to New
York to manage the Regent
Theater; a year later he was man
aging director of the new Strand,
the first really pretentious film
theater in the country. Subsequent
" he directed operations at the
Rialto and Rivoli, and in 1920 he
moved to the Capitol, which he
managed with enormous success and
in connection with which he gained
national fame as radio broad
caster.
What was the cause of the Trojan
war?
At the marriage Of Peleus and
Thetis, Eris (Discord), who alone OF
the gods had not been invited to the
wedding, flung among the guests a
golden apple inscribed For the
most beautiful" June, Minerva and
Venus disputed for the apple and
referred the decision to Paris, who
was then a shepherd on Mt. Ida.
To influence his judgment, Juno
promised to give him power, Min
erva martial glory and Venus the
most beautiful of women. He de-
cided in favor of Venus and re-
ceived from her Helen as his rewar.
He then abducted Helen, wife Of
Menelaus, king of Sparta, which
brought about the war.
What is the Sheppard Towner
maternity bill?
1t provides for federal co-opera-
ton with the states in promoting
the welfare Of maternity and in
fancy. The children's bureau of the
United States department of labor
administers the act. 1t provides an
appropriation Of $1,240,000 per year
for five years, to be divided among
the states which accept the terms
of the act and raise their proportion
of funds to add to the federal APP
preparation.
Why Is the sun yellow?
The atmosphere Of both the sun
and earth interfere more with the
passage of light rays of shorter
wave length, those towards the
violet end of the spectrum, than
with those of longer wave lengths,
those towards the red end. If the
sun could be seen through a smaller
length of atmosphere 1t would look
bluer than it does, and it actually
does look redder when seen through
q eyraata,s Iay,utb IF ntu1Oeohare ot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

- David Dietz on Science -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

One way to lose your standing is to sit around
The Washington times., 1928-06-01

Tile shift IN locale from
Paris % Amsterdam. he init
mates. win be like walking out
on CALI. Curri To hear from.
bone recital Ii the Bronx.
The Washington times., 1928-06-01

The foundation Is strengthened by
just 50 much. With the wood clubs,
especially from the tee, am not
so certain that II Is OF Importance.
George Won Elm, who Is probably
the best iron player among the
amateurs, is almost flat.fOoted
player with those clubs. There IS
an amazing economy Of footwork,
especially after the hackswing Isl
completed. Abe Mitchell Is another.