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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Ancient Law System

Mr.. Strawn puts his finger on TIC
real trouble when he calls attention
to the slow, inefficient administra-
ton of justice.
The law stands forth conspicu-
ously as our one institution that
still employs ox-cart methods.
Sometimes you wonder if the law
knows that we have such convent
ences as the telephone, telegraph
and combustion engine, not to men
ton airplanes and radio.
1t takes more than half an hour
for Congress to vote by roll call,
though Congress could do so in
thirty seconds with the proper cleo
trical devices.
Any industrial establishment
could examine and classify 1000 ap-
plicants for work, and do a good
job at it, quicker than the average
court selects jury. If the corner
grocery store conducted its business
the way justice is administered it
could not survive three days in the
most countrif1ed section of the
United States.
Franklin's hand press is kept as
a curiosity by the printing trade,
a few spinning wheels are to be
found in museums or garrets, and
occasionally you see a one-horse
shay. but the law still holds sacred
maxims, methods and precedents
that were moth-eaten with age
when these APPLIANCES were in their
glory.
Not only in the court, but in the
schoolhouse and the home, we are
applying seventeenth century rules
and wondering why twentieth cen
fury young people do not observe
them. Young people need about as
much discipline as they ever did,
and would be about as amenable
to it. but not unless it accords with
the time in which they live, with
their opportunities, temptations and
outlook.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
An "OFicia1" Strike

The textile strike at New Bedford Mass, where
thousands of workers are idle as a protest against
reducing their wages to an average Of something like
$18 week, may now be said to be official.
The president Of the New Bedford Cotton Man.
ayers Association has issued bristling statement
charging that the strike is being carried by
nunists and bosheviks
That sort of statement is quite the thing these
days. 1t is easy to make, and will be swallowed whole
by many excellent people, matter how much evil
dence is offered in refutaton.
But it's usually bad indication. 1t is not often
resorted to until all other methods Of trying to break
or settle the strike have failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

TT. wayne NeWS-Senunel
"And first of all, I emerge an
individualist-an unashamed in
dividualist." Thus speaks Her
bert Hoover in the clever little
volume entitled American Indi-
vidualism," ranked by the DEM
ocratic New York Times as
among the few great formula
tions of American political
theory"
This pronouncement Of a great
mans personal philosophy, first
published in 1922, shows that
Herbert Hoover is not simply a
great administrator, an intel
lectual machine, but rather a
warm, sympathetic human being,
strong in advocacy of the in
dividual man, alive to the neces-
sity of individual opportunity,
anxious for the removal of bar
riers which prevent a man rising
above a mediocre level.
In Hoover's discussion of in
dividualism, there is vigor of
thought and dynamic force of
expression. He refers to gener-
ations "inheriting their fathers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

Authorizations: A-ace; liking: O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
A FTER dunmy's cards are laid
L n upon the table face-up, ex-
anime the twenty-six cards in your
combined hands to see whether
game can readily be made before
your opponents win a trick.
If you hold such high cards that
game is assured, proceed to make
it without further delay.
If you are playing in a n1Acor suit
declaration, clubs or diamonds, you
need eleven tricks for game. If
you are playing in a major suit
declaration, hearts or spades, you
need ten tricks for game.
At no trump you need nine tricks
for game.
The quickest way to determine
whether game is possible is to
count the losers"
Then set out to convert the pos
sible losing tricks into probable
winning tricks, your aim at all times
being to make at least three tricks
in excess Of your book at no trump,
four tricks in excess of your book
in major suit, and five in excess
of your book in a minor suit.
Sure tricks in your game may
be few and yet game may be made.
To find in your hand enough sure
tricks to make game without the
use of the working tools" is I'M
usual.
When you hold a "pianola," a
hand so strong that it practically
plays by ITSELF" and make game,
you deserve no glory.
However, when you accomplish
such result with proper flnessing,
ducking, squeezing and throwing the
lead, to the bewilderment of your
opponents and delight of your
partner, you experience one Of the
finest thrills of the game.
With a little application to the
chapters which follow, you will &C
quire a knowledge of these tag
tics which will win for you more
often than waiting for high cards
and will give you more satisfac-
ton as we'll as a decided advantage
over players not so equipped.
(Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference
Publishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

all remnants Of food, empty tin
cans or bottles, and body waste.
1t helps get rid of camp garbage
which attracts flies and insects.
In the disposal Of waste by the
use of the spade, they should be
buried at least twenty-five feet from
any stream or body of water and
should be buried deep enough so
that they cannot be dug up by an
finals or gotten at by insects.
A spade is also useful in putting
out permanently camp fires which
may set fire to fields and forests.
If every camp fire would be buried
properly under six or eight inches
of dirt, vast sums of money and
many lives would be saved that are
lost today by forest fires.
One Of the worst nuiSances in any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Useful Tips for Summer Campers

camp is the insect pest, and of all
the insect pests, flies and mosquitoes
are worst.
The camper should protect him
self against such insects. This he
will do by the use Of proper screen
ing or netting and by proper sani-
tation Of camp surroundings, par
ticularly if he is concerned with a
permanent camp.
In most of our States malaria is
not frequent. No doubt, danger of
the mosquito bite today is primar-
lily the irritation and the secondary
infection that sometimes follows
through scratching.
The irritation is relieved by a
weak solution of camphor or men,
thol. which physicians prescribe
mixed with suitable lotions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Questions and
AnSzUeYS
What is co-insurance?

What is cO-insur1nce?
Insurance in which two or more
parties are jointly responsible for
any loss which may come up
on certain specified property,
specifically, a form of insurance in
which the insured, in consideration
of a reduced rate of premium, agrees
to maintain insurance upon his
property to a certain extent, say 80
per cent of its actual cash value,
and failing to do so becomes his own
insurer for the difference, and in
case of partial loss is jointly re-
sponsible with the insurance COM
pany in that proportion.
How did Andrew Jackson get the
SObriquet "Old HickOry?"
1t was conferred upon him in 1913
by his soldiers. Parton says: The
name "Old Hickory" was not an
instantaneous inspiration, but a
growth. First of all the remark
was made by some soldier, who was
struck with his commander
pedestrian powers, that the general
was tough. Next it was observed
that he was tough as hickory"
Then he was called Hickory" Last
ly the affectionate adjective "old"
was prefxed.
Who wrote Though the mills of
God grind slowly, yet they grind ex-
ceeding small; though with patience
he stands waiting, with exactness
grinds He alp?
1t is from the Sinngedichte Of
Friedrich Won Logan.
What is the weight Of cubic
foot of water?
About 625 pounds under ordinary
conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
T1iIliOnS of Miles A10ay

VEGA, the beautiful bue-white star which is al
v most overhead these summer nights, has always
attracted the attention of Some of the ancient
Egyptian temples, built about 1000 B. c.. were con-
srcted so that the light of Vega would shine through
rows of pillars and fall upon the altar
Vega is about eighteen light-years away. Miles are
too small for astronomical measurements So the as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Mass Activity Spreads

The home and small communities
are no longer such social centers as
they once were. We now gather in
thousands, where we once gathered
in tens and twenties. Fifty million
of us receive the details of a prize
fight as it occurs, or listen to a po-
litical speech as it is delivered,
where no more than $4,000 could
have done so a generation back.
Mass activity has come in with
mass production. Morality, like other
things, is being accommodated to
meet the needs Of the multitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
NNCE more we come to the
~ question of whether youth is

NNCE more we come to the
~ question of whether youth is
growing better or worse.
Miss Margaret Slattery, a relig-
ious teacher, and John R. Voorhis,
president of the board Of elections
of greater New York, disagree.
Contrary to what one might ex-
pect, the religious teacher regards
the younger generation as "the
most honest and conventional" we
have had in years, while the VEN
cradle politician believes that the
people of his boyhood we're better
than those of today.
My own thought is that standards
have changed much more than
human nature, that the mechanism
of modern life makes it necessary
to do things differently. that speed,
congestion, apartment houses, radio
and innumerable other devices leave
us less choice in the matter than
a purely moral attitude suggests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

tronomer adopt
ed the unit of a
light-year. It is
the dis t a n C e
light travels in
a year.
Light h a S a
speed OF 10000
miles a second,
Therefore, in a
We ar it would
travel 100000
100000 m ii e S.
That is a light
year.
he nearest
star, Alpha Cen
tauri, visible
only in tn e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
7 IFE in the open is pleasant in
IL the summer; it is, however,
surrounded with hazards of which
few people know and which are
disastrous unless carefully consid-
cred.
In considering preparations for
safe camping, DR.. Walter M. Dickie
of the California State Board of
Health points out two OF the most
useful tools that a camper can car
ry are a spade and an AK, and the
spade is the more useful of the two.
A spade permits the digging Of
trenches and the leveling of the
camp site. 1t is useful for burying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
This Date i'm
u. S. History

July %
l757-Benjamin Franklin reached
London as ambassador from
Pennsylvania.
l847-Brigham Young Lecame head
Of the Mormon Church.
l866-Third attempt . lay an At
lantic cable proved successful
and Queen Victoria and the
President exchanged greetings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Daily Thoughts

Every mans work shall be made
Manifesto Cor. 1913.
4 4
XXTHY has no religion this COM
w mand above all others: Thou
shalt work?--Auerbach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

Headlines you never see: CHORUS GIRL, BRIDE
OF HEIR, SPURNS ALIMONY, RETURNS TO HER
ART.
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What Other Editors Think

privileges without their fathers
capacity for service"
He finds the summa felictus in
personal achievement. He de-
plores the grading of character
and ability "by a Tammany Hall
or a bolshevist party or some
other form of tyranny"
when he wrote this, there was
no thought of his becoming a can
didate for President in 1923, or
that a man who, as William
Allen White puts it, is welded
to Tammany and proud of his
unholy alliance" would be his
opponent in that campaign.
Hoover need make NO quest of
leadership in the questionable
byways of Tammany, or any such
organization anywhere. He can
find it, and has found it al
ready, in the freely grinding mills
of competition, for, as he says,
Leadership is a quality Of the
individual" and democracy
must stimulate leadership from
its own ranks"
Such leadership "can not be re-
plenished by selection like queen
bees, by divine right or bureau
cracies." Let the demagogue feed
on mob emotion, taking his claim
to leadership from emotion,
rather than from intellect and
progress and achievement. Hoov-
er never will advance such a
claim.
His beliefs on individual oppor-
tunity can be summed up in
single sentence of his own crea-
ton: 1--WE adopted the ideal of
equality Of opportunity-the fair
chance of Abraham Lincoln"
It is surety that, during the
campaign just now put under way,
the figure of Herbert Hoover, the
great advocate and exponent of
individual rights, will emerge with
steadily increasing clarity.
Hammond T1meS)
Farm leaders who have been
pointing to Governor Smith as the
Moses to lead the agriculturists
into the promised land, are more
than a little worried over the
latest demonstrations in the
Democratic camp.
1t may be that Raskob, of the
General Motors Company, who
has been made chairman of the
Smith committee has a heart full
and overlooking with sympathy
for the farmers of the country, but
his environment does not sustain
that thought.
Raskob is of the hard pave
ments, and his only knowledge of
farm problems has been gathered
in Wall Street, where he has been
playing with bulls and bears.
The suggestion that Owen D.
Young, of the General Electric
Company is the Smith choice for
Governor Of New York also brings
clA4OJlAC4 AA4cl4A 411bO Vic I4CJulG
whose knowledge of canyons is
confined to those in downtown
New York, created by the high
buildings, and whose farming &C
tivities are of the Park Ave. win
dow box variety.
The Democrats in this case,
after weeping over the plight of
the farmer, must be congratulated
on their courage or bravado in
their selection of experts on city
movements, even while they are
trying to dry the farm tears.
(Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette)
Instruction has been given the
new Marion County grand jury by
Judge James A. Collins, presiding
over the Criminal Court in that
circuit, that attention be given to
ballot frauds which are alleged to
have been committed in the Indi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Bridge Play
Made Easy
BY ". W. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
than 100
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(Ft. Wayne JournaI-Gazette)

Instruction has been given the
new Marion County grand jury by
Judge James A. Collins, presiding
over the Criminal Court in that
circuit, that attention be given to
ballot frauds which are alleged to
have been committed in the Indi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

David Dietz ON Scienc,
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copyright, 1928. by the Ready Reference
Publishing Company
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-12-07
Gay Party in Prospect
Neu nedueu WaICerS Will A00 u
Color of Cabaret

All the plans for the cabaret
at the Country Club on Satur-
day night of next week (Decem-
ber 15) have been perfected,
and a fine party seems to be in
prospect.
The first course of the turkey
dinner will be placed upon the
tables promptly at Z o'clock by a
corps of red-headed walters.
These are the members of the
Red Head Club, and their en-
gagement came through the good
offices of Harold d. Meyer,
their patron to whom they yield
homage as the reddest of the
red. Mr.. Meyer is chairman of
the committee which has in
charge the arrangements for the
party.
After the dinner will come the
cabaret performance-playlets
burlesques, singing and dancing,
and limitations. Three of the
actors are professionals; the
rest are volunteers from among
the members of the club. Alex
Mendenhall's orchestra will play
during the performance and for
the general dancing afterward.
Reservations may be made
with Mrs. j, C. Lyons, but none
can be made after next Wednes-
day. This is a party which
other than club members are
eligible to attend. The fee is
81 a plate.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-12-07
Chapel Hill Chaff

The other afternoon had to
consult an old newspaper on the
second floor of the University
library, and when l had COM
pleted my task. decided to look
at the pictures and statuary in
the central hall. In a corner
was a bronze bust of Zebulon B.
Vance. Only a few feet away
was a statue of the Venus de
Milo. At first, in the rather
dim light, thought Vance was
looking straight at her, and it
occurred to me that this was a
happy position for him to be in.
But in a moment saw that he
was faced off at an angle. /
looked furtively around to see
if anybody was in sight. Nobody
was; so l walked to the corner
and turned the bust on the pedes-
tal-turned it about % degrees,
so that the eyes of the statesman
were direct upon the celebrated
beauty. Louis Wilson and all
the rest of these people in the
Library can look at Venus
whenever they want to-" said
to myself. "Why shouldn't
Vance?" stood back a few feet
and contemplated with satisfac-
ton the change | made, and !
could almost imagine a flicker
of a smile beneath his mustache,
Continued on page eight
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Five Planes Here Now
One Used by Durhamite for Week
Ending at Winston-Salem

Five planes are now quarter
ed in the new hangar in the air
port two miles north of the viii
lage. One of them belongs to
William McGalliard, who got it
in Chicago, and one to Robert
Kreitz of Durham. The other
three belong to G. A. Noah and
Yawger Pickall, who conduct
the airport under the name of
the North State Aircraft Com
pany.
Mr.. McGalliard brought his
plane to Chapel Hill last month.
He is studying aviation with a
view to entering it as career.
Mr.. Kreitz keeps his plane at
the field here because it is the
landing field nearest to DnThRm.
He flies to Winston-Salenn and
back at almost every weekend.
Two young men, one a Caro-
lima student and the other a
Duke student, are taking regular
lessons from e. H. Broken
brough, the pilot-instructor who
came here when Messrs. Noah
and Pickall embarked upon their
venture several months ago.
The North State Aircraft
Company has qualified as agent
for both Eaglerock and Mono
coupe planes. The latter, as it's
name indicates, has a closed
body. The company has sold
two Eaglerocks in this state,
one in Lumberton and one in
Winston-Salem.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-12-07
HUNTSMEN ACTIVE
ASSEASON OPENS
Game Warden Durham among
Those Who Succeed in
Killing Turkeys
LAW REQUIRES LICENSES

The open season for quail and
wild turkey began last Saturday,
and the hunting fever is run
ming high in Chapel Hill. In
the drugstores and the barber
shops and other centers of gos-
sip a new tale is passed around,
almost every hour, of game that
was bagged or game that escap-
ed. Out along the highways in
every direction from the village
the motorist sees men with guns
and dogs tramping through the
woods and over the fields.
About 1,400 licenses have al
ready been bought in this
county, in compliance with the
statewide game law passed two
years ago. and Game Warden
Moody Durham says that more
are being issued every day.
Westcott Riggsbee, who lives
beyond Mt. Carmel church to the
south of Chapel Hill, was the
first huntsman who reported a
kill of turkey. He was out
early Saturday morning, only a
little while after the witching
hour when the open season be-
gan, and he got his bird on
Edwards Mountain in Chatham
county.
"At" Pendergraft, the custo-
dian of the old Mason place to
the southeast of the village, kill
ed two turkeys in the Guthrie
Woods Monday morning.
Game Warden Durham him
self made a successful expedition
Monday. He went out to the
woodland near Cedar Grove, Sc
cluded himself in a thicket, and
Continued on page sin)
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ALUMNI TO DINE
AT Inn TONIGHT
This Feast VIII Be the Opening
Event of Associations
Annual Assembly
SESSIONS TOMORROW ALSO

The annual assembly of the
University of North Carolina
Alumni Association win begin
at $50 this friday evening
at the Carolina Inn with an in
formal dinner; informal mean
ing that the diners are not ex-
pected to wear evening clothes.
A. B. Andrews, '93, president
of the association, will be the
POSTMASTER. Kenneth Royal,
IA, of Goldsboro, will make a
talk on '"The Alumni Office: It's
Significance and Work" Presi-
dent Chase's topic will be COR
ganized Alumni in the Life of
the University"
The class secretaries will meet
at $3.50 Saturday morning un-
der the Craftsmanship of w. S.
Bernard, 90. Mr.. Bernard and
other active workers in Alumni
organization have found that
the class is the most logical and
cohesive group for the main
tenance of a steady interest
in the affairs of the Univer-
sity. At the meeting Saturday
there will be a discussion of the
methods of class officers in
keeping the members of the
classes in touch with one an
other and constantly familiar
with what is going on here in
Chapel Hill.
The business session of the
Association will open at 1890
Saturday morning. After the
executive secretary and the
treasurer have reported there
will be nominations of the Off
GERS who are to be elected by a
mail ballot. Then will follow
the election of directors-at-
large and a report by one of the
alumni representatives on the
Athletic Council.
The visiting alumni will at
tend the Carolina-Duke game in
the afternoon.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-12-07
Rigsbee New Police Chief

Fl. L. Rigsbee has been ap-
pointed by the town manager to
be chief of police of Chapel Hill.
He succeeds w. T. Sloan, who
took office as sheriff this week.
Mr.. Rigsbee was formerly on the
Durham force. He came here as
assistant to Mr.. Sloan about two
months ago, and he has COM
mended. himself to the people of
the village by his energy and
watchfulness, his courtesy, and
his good appearance.
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A Wandering Letter
Harris Check Goes Astray Because
Whitfield Calls This a City

l went into the drugstore
Tuesday afternoon and found
Isaac w. Pritchard, H. A. Whit.
field and June Harris marveling
over a letter that had just ar
rived from New York.
Mr. Whitfield mailed a check
November % to Mr.. Harris, ad.
dressing the envelope: "J. T
Harris, City" "City" evidently
misled the post-office clerk
here and the letter was put in
the New York bag. In New
York it was delivered to j. T
Harris, 10 w 18th street. He
slit it open at the end, took out
and put in again the check,
wrote Opened by mistake" or
the outside, and returned it to
the post-office.
The New York post-office
sealed up the slit and sent the
letter back to Chapel Hill, and
Mr.. Harris, who had been in
quiring anxiously of Mr.. Whit
field why he hadn't got his
money, received it Tuesday Of
this week. This ought to teach
people here not to call Chapel
Hill a city.