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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Politics-Hoover Style

Standards are changing in politics as well as in
business. The bunk-shootng spellbnder is becoming
obsolete as the od-time fire sale. The long-hared
patent medicine vendor type of political Vociferator
has gone into the garbage can, along with the dis
honest advertiser who was chased out by Better Bust
ness Bureaus.
Not only are the people wiser and better able to
size up takers, but the radio has put crimp in the
style of the orator who viewed with alarm and pointed
with pride while swinging his like windmill,
and physically knocking the stuffing out of the OPP
position.
For the folks can't see the spellbinder while he
talks into the mike" His long hair, flowing necktie
waving arms and distorted face are not visible The
mechanics have gone out of his speechmakng and only
what he can get over with his voice reaches his au-
dience.
And if he doesn't want his hearers to tune out
and turn the dial to musical instead of verbal jazz
he must talk sense and about something the people
interested in.
All this ought to help Hoover. He isn't an actor.
He isn't spellbinder. He isn't a bunk-shooter.
Hoovers entire career has been that of doer.
Whether mining engineer, great corporation
executive manager of the greatest relief adminstra-
ton in all history or as Secretary of Commerce, he
has dealt with problems quiet-talking. serious
minded administrator of big jobs, a conservator of
time, effort money and human life.
If he isn't smart politician in the old-time sense,
it is easy to understand why But he is sound poll
tician in the new way. We mean the way that
handles the business of government as legitimate
private business is handled-the way that brings to-
geher in harmonious working relation practical bust
ness methods and idealistc humantarianism.
Instead of worrying about how men, women and
children worshiped and prayed, or to what political
party men and women belonged, Hoover has seen
Protestants Catholics Jews and even pagans and
non-believers people Instead of bothering about
the color of the skin Of the starving people of
wasted Europe Asia, he has thought of them only
men, and children, all belonging to the
great universal brotherhood of man.
So it is Hoover the man. the executive the adj
ministrator, the conservator and not Hoover The
politician Hoover the Republican that this news
paper is supporting for President.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Mrs. Withdrawals Work

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt should be with
drawn from the stump-or from the church pulpits
which she is using stump.
If there is any propriety in her continuing appeals
to religious bodies SUCH to vote against the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate, no person, her
self, yet has voiced it. Her own partys candidate
has not, has the national chairman of her party.
There are two obvious reasons for calling her
back to her job in the Department of Justice.
l. She is forcing into the campaign the religious
issue. Where this ultimately will lead none can
forecast but it does not require prophet to see a
long trail of trouble ahead for this nation if the
present election is decided religious issues.
2. She is damaging the prospects Of her own
candidate True it is too much to believe that her
misguided activities will cause Hoover's defeat, but
she will leave him heritage of hatreds.
Unofficial, semi-of1cial, and even official dis
chalmers have come from the Republican cam
paign organization with regard to Mrs. Withdrawals
course. But the simple fact is that she could be
stopped in the time that it takes to send and re-
ceive telegram.
1t is only necessary for the United States attorney
general to call her back to her desk in Washington,
to the job for which the people pay her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

COR pimples. Not all children are
equally subject to the condition.
1t seems to be associated with a
disturbance Of the sebaceous glands
and the amount of grease in the
skin.
Physicians advise, under such cir
cumstances, a simple diet with les
sene damounts of starches and sweet
foods, also thorough attention to
the bowels and their activity.
Excessive and unsuitable clothing
adds to the development and spread
of the disorders of the skin with
pimpleS. 1t prevents proper func-
ton of the skin and deprives the
body of stimulation provided by cool
air and sunlight.
If the child is given plenty of
outdoor air and sunlight on its skin,
the texture and quality of the skin
probably will improve greatly.
This is one of the reason why the
outdoor sunlight gets better results
under such conditions than artificial
light apparatus.
Next: The Nursery School.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

own which read: IT send you, learned srs, this last
gift of my dying friend, hoping that his final word
will be agreeable to you"
Leeuwenhoek made several other important discov-
cries about microbes.
He discovered, as De Kruif phrases it, that there
was menagerie in his mouth. For he discovered
microbes in the white film which formed his teeth
1t u.s. of course we'll known fact today that GER
tain types of microbes quite harmless under ordinary
circumstances, be found in the mouths of all
persons
With the passage of time the fame of this Dutch
janitor spread throughout the world
Only two members of the Royal Society," Sir Isaac
Newton and Robert Boyle, were better known than
he was.
Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, ourneyed to
Delft in order to peer through his microscopes The
Queen OF England made similar journey.
He performed many important services for the
world of science, exploding countless mistaken opn
ions by the. skill and patience which he employed in
working with his microscopes.
1t is rather strange, however that he never asso-
ciated microbes with disease
And yet it is not strange. For Leeuwenhoek
was not the type of man given to speculation.
He observer. He only interested in
what he could and he spent his days faithfully
peering through his lenses in search of wonders
The world ewes great debt to old Antony
Leeuwenhoek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Reckless Stock Buying

Thanks to machinery, organiza-
ton and mass production, we have
been able to tune our industrial
structure to a high pitch. Wages
are good, employment is general,
consumption is big and stocks are
earning Unexpectedly high divi-
dendS.
We have done a splendid job thus
far, but let no one suppose it can
not be overdone. There is a limit
to everything, even the amount of
capital our greatest corporations
can stand.
Nothing Of human creation is so
big, or ever will be, that folly can
not wreck it.
The most depressing feature to-
day is the reckless manner in which
people are buying stocks and fore
ing them upward. Billions of
dollars have been added to our cap
ital investment during the last nine
months through nothing more sub
stantial than paper deals.
The prevailing notion is that
nothing can go wrong because of the
Federal Reserve system, that we
have at last found a sure cure for
panics and depressions and that
speculation can run riot without
risk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Americas Opportunity

On the eve OF great adventure one of Americas
greatest heroes faces deficit of 100000.
Elsewhere in this paper Commander Richard E.
Byrd explains his predicament.
There is much however, that he does not tell.
He says nothing of how he and his comrades, I'M
daunted by financial difficulties, have proceeded
with their plans to make the expedition a success
some agreeing to spend two years on a frozen con-
tnent without dollars pay, others assuming debts,
to provide the necessities of life that will make such
sacrifice in behalf of science possible.
He says nothing of how he himself, during his
last week in New York. has had to desert other
eleventh hour duties to go forth and personally col
lect money from those willing to give until
occasions he has had time, his last brief nights in
civilization. to dine only sumptuous glass of
milk and sandwich.
He says nothing of how plans to insure each of
the eighty-one men risking their lives had to be
abandoned because the insurance would cost $4,000
more and the money needed for things
sidere6 more important than mere protection.
He does not say, either that it will be a blot on
the richest nation of the earth if he is forced to sail
with an auctioneer's flag nailed to his masthead.
Commander Byrd has the reticence of most men
of his breed But America cannot afford to be reti-
cent Money is needed and the money should be
provided.
There are more than 1000 miionaries in the
land each contributed only $7O the needs of the
Byrd Antarctic expedition would be more than
oversubscribed. Perhaps some of those mllionaires
yet will come to the rescue.
1t is possible, however, that as usual the situa-
ton must be met by the rank and file of the nation
and women who sending $40 or $25 to the Byrd
headquarters at the Bltmore Hotel New York. will be
making such material sacrifice as this undertaking
demands.
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VXTHATEVER prosperity there
w NAV be in other fields, there

VXTHATEVER prosperity there
w may be in other fields, there
is more than enough of it in the
stock market. Spectators are so
eager to water the capital of great
enterprises that 7 per cent money
fails to discourage them. They
seem obsesSed with the idea that
they have found a way to become
millionaireS without work.
Two dollar and twenty cent wheat,
about which we have heard SO much
of late, gave the farmers a similar
notion back in 1920. They, also,
bought and borrowed on the theory
that no matter how much they went
in debt, rising prices would pay
them out. The cattle men, too, fell
for the thought.
The depression of 1920 and 1921
was not due to anything the Gov
eminent did or failed to do, but to
lot of unreasonable buying and
borrowing.
Unreasonable buying and borrow
ing lead to the same result, wheth-
er on an Iowa wheat farm, a Texas.
cattle ranch or Wall Street. You
simply can not overload a camel
without breaking his back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

CENATOR CURTIS is too old to
~ continue the arduous campaign
he has been makir g and his present
throat trouble is a sign of lowered
resistance and he should sign off for
a week or so.
When one gazes over the FROST
covered fence of the seventies he
should take it easy.
After all these ages of bitter fight
ing between the Republicans and
Democrats over the tariff question,
it is as great shock for the Demo-
cratic campaign textbook to favor
protective tariff as it would be for
Mahomet to stroll out of his tomb
and indorse Christianity.
n
It's remarkable that those Indians
should have made Mr.. Smith a chief,
for the noble red man has lost more
as a result of firewater than all the
palefaces put together.
y =
We envy Queen Victoria of Swe-
den, just given this island in Lake
Constance by her brother, the late
Duke of Baden.
We've always wanted an island,
not caring so much where it was
or what it was, just so it was an
island.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Reason

DOOR, hurricane-swept Florida!
Il If Ponce de Leon, who went
there several centuries ago to find
the fountain of eternal youth,
should return today he would find
widespread death.
But Florida will dry her tears,
grit her teeth, and go ahead, as
mankind always has done.
This resiliency is the finest thing
in human nature and the best sign
of Immortality, for the human race
would have jumped into the river
long ago, but for an enduring I'M
conscious faith.
n
AL Smith would better not bank
too much on the campaign value OF
Teapot Dome.
On two different voting occasions
the people have demonstrated that
they don't care much about it.
The tea in this particular teapot
is not the "gunpowder" brand.
II
When John Coolidge went to call
on Miss Trumbull he was protected
by a secret service man, but it now
appears the protection was utterly
inadequate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Republicans Tied

Hoover and his advisors apparently
have no stomach for the lack of
muzzling Mrs. Willebrandt. Per-
haps they know the woman too well.
Just how would one go about the
job anyway? Lots of men would
like to have the recipe.
Mrs. Willebrandt could be asked
to resign. of course. and possibly
be made to do so, but to what end?
Her utterances and activities could
be disavowed, but again to what
end?
Would dismissal from the public
service for disavowal of her re-
marks by the Republican managers
stop her from talking? Would it
prove that a reign of tolerance had
been established. or the right of
free speech indicated?
1t would not. 1t would make Mrs.
Willebrandt a martyr and treble
her audiences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Bobby Jones for All

Bobby Jones offers his services to
the Democrats. This should offset
the damage done by Helen Wills
when she came out for Hoover.
Bobby says he does not know
much about politics, but who does?
This campaign started out with
the Democrats clarifying Thomas
jefferson and the Republicans
praising Calvin Coolidge. Now look
where it has landed!
Mrs. Willebrandt seems to have
obtained a mortgage on the spot
light and back alley gossip has
found way to the front pages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

Health Magazine.
XXTHEN the child leaves its home
w and attends the ordinary
school it sometimes becomes subject
to contamination Of parasites affect
ing the skin.
Indeed, it stands the same chance
that its parents take in their daily
lives, with the addition that it is
constantly in intimate contact with
the same group.
Thus school children are not in
frequently disturbed by head lice
and scabies or the itch. The head
louise is becoming less and less fire.
quently a disturber of school chill
dren, owing to the fact that regular
inspections are now made in well
managed schools.
This parasite is extremely prolific.
A female will lay from $50 to 300
eggs at the rate of about seventy a
day.
Promiscuous interchanging of hats
and hair brushes serves to spread
the parasite. Following irritation
set up by crawling and biting, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
copyright. 1928, by The Ready kei-
erence Publishing COMPANY
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations; A--aee; K-king' O.
than a 1O.j
A THOUGHTLESS play with
N the following holding would
result in the loss of a trick for the
declarer:
Dummy-Spades, A 10 8.
East?
Declarer-K @ 8 Z 6.
West?
On the first round of spades the
declarer should play small from
the dummy and take with the spade
king. If the missing spades are all
in one hand and either West or
East makes this obvious by discard
ing from another suit, the declareI
learns the location of the jack and
play accordingly for its capture.
If the declarer plays the spade
ace on. the first round, the proba-
pility of capturing the spake jack
becomes a gamble.
The player must at all times be
on the qul viVe to employ the
twenty-six cards nationally rather
than trust to luck. Study the rea-
soning in the following illustration:
Dummy-Diamonos, 4 8 2.
East-Blank.
Declarer-A Us.
WeSt-Leaos diamond K.
Declarer must Immediately read
Vests hand as also containing the
diamond queen. Declarer should
therefore refuse to take the trick on
che first round, playing the 5. The
result of this play is that West is
encouraged to continue leading the
diamond suit and declarer will win
tricks with both the diamond ace
and the jack.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Questions and
AnS70erS

How long does a moth live?
The adult seldom lives as long
as one month. Moths are more
likely to die between the seventh
and fourteenth days after they,
emerge from the pupa. y
What is the duty on diamonds?
Rough or uncut diamonds, 10 per
cent ad valorem. Cut, but unset,
20 per cent. Set diamonds, 80 per
cent.
Which Presidents of the United
States were elected while serving
as Vice President?
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
and Martin Van Buren,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Reliable Testimony

Having coaxed or cajoled their ancient
enemy, Thomas Adams of Vincennes, into sup
port of Leslie and Robinson, the managers of
these candidates are now hoping that the il
lustrious services of Adams will serve to turn
attention away from the acts Of their principals
and more especially from the insistent activ
tiles of Governor Ed Jackson.
The politicians have discovered that the
people are rather tired Of horse trading Gov
errors who sell animals to dragons for fancy
prices.
They have discovered that the people have
not forgotten the Governor plea of the statute
Of limitations after witnesses with regulations
for veracity had testified concerning an effort
to purchase the prosecutorship of this county
with money and an offer Of immunity to War
rem McCray.
They have discovered that the people Of
this county are rather tired of Boss Coffin and
his methods of government which gave the
people Duvall and the city rather bad
reputation.
That is the reason they are sending Adams,
who is probably acting under the misguided
theory that there is some connection and some
and Robinson with that of Herbert Hoover, out
into the State to indorse Leslie.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the
evidence of Adams concerning Leslie is mat
ter Of record and rather plain.
It was given to the people in the spring.
over the radio, through the columns OF his
newspaper and in his public addresses.
bo Of
cerety resulted in many thousands of Repub-
licans casting a vote for Adams in the primary.
And just to keep the record straight and so
that the people may not forget, they should
read again this statement made and printed by
Adams on March 20:
'fYou cannot remain silent, Mr.. Leslie, the
people of Indiana want the facts. l challenge
Mr. ,sie why he refused an investigation OF
the charges made by the probe committee.
'Not a man raised his head or hand in the
1926 election in the 1924 election or in the 1925
or 1927 Legislatures.
"The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
the Speaker of the House cried up and down
the State and denounced us. Now they all
in the Big Parade, joy producers for good
government.
"Let S call the roll
"Was Mr.. Leslie there? No. He was not
there and he stifled the right of petition when
he was speaker-helped to caucus against in
estigation-ignored my demands for pitiless
publicity or public hearing.''
And once again on April II, Adams gave
his testimony concerning Leslie, in this public
appeal:
81 am asking you to ask Harry Leslie to tell
you who cracked the whip last winter when
he as speaker of the House and the most
powerful Republican member, assisted in
sitting an investigation of corruption in this
State.'
Well, so far as is known, Leslie has never
answered. The people, of course, do not need
the answer. They know who cracked the whip.
For reliable testimony concerning Leslie,
the statements of Adams in the spring, not
now, are to be commended.
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SIGN OF IMMORTALITY
= n
A WEAK BRAND OF TEA
THEY ARE THE GREAT

NTE question whether the ma
w tional Republican committee
can muzzle Mabel Willebrandt, if it
wants to do so, for she rapidly is
accumulating a Chautauqua value
which will enable her to snap her
fingers at any who would threaten
to disconnect her from her public
position.
Clarence Darrow wasn't a very
good sport to say he had taken
drink with Hoover, even if he had,
but it now appears that Hoover
never saw him.
To invent an intimacy with gen.
tleman in the limelight is a pastime
which always has appealed to GER
tain temperaments, but usually the
one with whom the intimacy is in
vented is dead.
Within the last year we have
heard of several bush league states
men relate confidential chats with
the late Woodrow Wilson, when in
fact they never saw Wilson, except
at a distance.
II Il
will Irwin is ultra enthusiastic
when he says Mr.. Hoover has the
largest mind now in captivity.
The most widely advertised peo-
pie are not necessarily the greatest.
The greatest minds in this world
are possessed by the scientists, the
inventors and the discoveries, but
the boisterous professions, law, re-
ligion, journalism, and politics make
the most noise and reap an eXagger-
ated rating.
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lest Free Speech

AS I understand it, free speech
includes narrow, as well as broad
minded folks, and tolerance means
little unless it applies to those with
whom we violently disagree.
Any one can be tolerant to his
own crowd and shout for free speech
as long as it permits him to say
what he wants.
Free speech that runs to gag rule
and tolerance that must abide de-
nunciation are not the genuine
articles.
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This Date i'm
u. S. History

Sept. %
68-MaSsachuSetts towns held
convention to consider |
coming of British troops.
1777-General Howe led the BritBh
into Philadelphia.
1779-John Adams appointed to
negotiate a treaty with Great
Britain.
1910-President Taft put all as
sistant postmasters under
civil service rules.
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Times Readers Voice Vices

show up the old organization ring"
The slogan for Indiana might well
be, Nov is the time for all good
Hoosiers to learn how to Scratch"
1t is rather amusing to hear an
old-timer in the. Tammany crowd
plead for sympathy on the grounds
of a whispering opposition and
other "unethical methods"
An attack upon Smith from the
point that he is an active member
of the Tiger pack justly can be con-
Sidered closely associated with the
religious one if the roster of Tam
many is to be credited. (Al brought
this up)
A list of the members Of the last
General Assembly, who are can
didates for office and the way they
voted on several important matter
last year would be rather in
structive.
Your paper deserves great credit
for its fearless articles and let us
sincerely hope that the results in
November prove that they have not
been printed in vain.
S. j. WILLIAMS.
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. David Dietz on Science
MicrobeSAl7gayS With Us
No. 166

A NTONY LEEUWENHOEK, the Dutch janitor,
N who was made a fellow of the Royal Society for
his discovery of microbes kept his promise to the
society.
He had written them, upon receipt of their mag
nificent diploma, "I will serve you faithfully during
the rest of my life'
For fifty years he continued to send the society
Lett rcofh Lob
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Servations.
In 1923 at
the age of Oh
he lay upon his
death bed. He
sent for a friend.
He motioned to
two letters lying
upon the table.
Send them to
London to tie
Royal Society," -
he said.
And the friend,
Hoogvliet W a S
his name, did
so, enclosing a
brief note of his
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Daily Thoughts

Let every man be fully persuade.
ed in his own mind.-ROmanl
14:5.
y
CONVICTION is the conscience
~ of the mind.--Chamfort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27

Is 1t correct to say II feel bad"
or 81 feel badIy?"
II feel badly" is correct. Bad,
an adjective, cannot be used to
modify a verb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.