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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
What Kings Cost

Ever since Germany has been a republic the dis
grunted monarchists have been yippng all over the
place that taxpayers should take notice that So
called republic costs than real monarchy.
The assertion has been made so often that most
Germans believed it, 1t remained for Professor Grebe
delve into the figures of the present and the past
and show that this claim of the Junkers like so many
others, just simple, hundred per cent lie.
He finds that the cost of the various republican
ministries, the Reichstag and other governmental
machinery is not to exceed 100000 marks per
year. On the other hand the Hohenzolerns cost
Prussia 100000 marks; Bavaria paid its Wittes-
bergs over four millions; Wurtempurg paid its royal
house over 25Ooo0O Baden paid out 1,312,ooo Hesse
discussed 1855 900.
In other words, kings, princes and grand dukes,
with all their parasites and hangerson cost the Ger
people just double what the officials of the re-
public do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

1t is unWise for the people of this
country to ignore international dis
turbances.
Storm clouds are gathering for
England in the east. They may
mean nothing or they may mean
much.
The average American prefers to
be disiniterested, just as he did at
the beginning of the great war. 1t
is pathetic to recall how generally
the great war was misunderstood by
average Americans when it broke
out, how they viSualized it as a
quarrel between kings, how they
thought of it as furnishing a market
for food and munitions, and how
they thanked God" they were not
in it few months before they we're.
One distinguished writer is CRATE
full that we hold no mandates, as
though that were a guarantee of
immunity from trouble.
We held no mandates when
Europe blew up. We had no no.
ton that we would be involved. We
could not see how events we're shap-
ing themselves, how destiny was
weaving a net around us from which
there was no escape.
BY the same token we can see no
possibility that upheavals in the
orient may have vital effect on us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

The leaders of the medical profession still have a
number of problems to solve but over many oil
their old enemies they asserting an ever-lncreas
ing mastery.
Figures issued by the United States Public Health
Service show that 1927 saw the typhoid fever rate
sink to lower figure than before. In that year
there were recorded only twentysix of typhoid
per 100000 inhabitants-less than half the number
reported in 1917
There are many diseases against which medical
science at present can do little. But it is becoming
apparent that the dreaded typhoid fever is one of
those maladies that eventually be made practi-
cally unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
Racial Enn1itieS Stir

The demand of Egypt that Brit
ish troops be withdrawn does not
originate in such an impersonal love
for liberty and independence as we
understand, but includes racial and
religious antipathies that sound the
depths Of human feeling.
The same thing is true of the
desert tribesmen who are mobiliz-
ing under the leadership of Ibn
Saud; of the hordes Of India that
are forming for revolt; of the Per-
slams refusal to grant airways.
The swarming millions of the
East have been easy to handle, not
because they liked it, but because
they lacked the means to organize
and express their aspirations.
They are taking our machinery
and methods as fast as their low
earning capacity permits, but they
are not taking our faith, cur ideal
ism, or our viewpoint
While Christian missionaries have
converted eight or ten million
Cinnamon. Mohammaden mission
aries have converted thirty or forty
million and it has cost us dollars
where it has cost them cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
Saving Petroleum

Hubert Work, secretary of the interior has asked
the governors of the oil producing States to cooper
ate with the Federal Government in getting uniform
State and National laws to help conserve our petro-
leum resources.
We can only hope that his efforts lead to success
Ordinarily we fail to realize just how much our
civilization is built on oil; just stop and think for
minute what would happen if should wake up
tomorrow and find our oil all gone Our entire social
fabric would be dsorganized.
Oil conservation is one of the most important
problems facing us today It is to be hoped that Sec
rotary Work and the governors can find effective
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION -
Church Rules Life of PEOPLE
Written for The Times bN VII Durant

From their cradles to their
graves the church surrounded them
with colorful pageantry and ritual;
they were initiated through bap-
tism into the brotherhood of Chris
tians; they marched in magnificent
festivals behind the Virgin or the
Cross; they were relieved of fes-
tering conscience by confessing to
their priests and had no need Of
psycholanalysts; they were nour-
iShed and renewed by eating the
God in Holy Communion.
They we're married by a splendid
ceremony that burned the vow into
their memory. as not a mere legal
arrangement, but an obligation Of
honor to be maintained through
veal and woe. In their suffering
they were comforted by the church,
and in their poverty they might ap-
peal to her and be heard.
And when they died the priest
was at hand to give them the last
ointment, to shrive them of their
final sins and to console them with
the promise that their death
would be an awakening into ever
lasting happiness.
Men are more powerful today
than they were then, and they
know incomparably more; but in
our restless age, shorn of belief and
hope, and almost Of charity, they
have 'ost a certain simple happi-
ness which uplifted and ennobled
the poverty of the Middle Ages.
Copyright 1927 by Will DuranU
TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

completely as we. At least they ate
as heartily and drank as deeply and
with fewer puritan inhibitionS.
They we're not subject to coffee,
but they knew how to make good
wine and beer. They tasted on
Fridays-fsh was a delicacy to
them. II is true that their manners
we're rude; not until the fourteenth
century were forks used; and Queen
Elizabeth. Louis XIV and William
SHAKESPEARE, still ignorant of this
new invention. or disdainingit, ate
comfortably with their fingers.
Homes were simple. but they were
pretty; and the weary tourist of to-
day finds his best moments in leav-
ing the hot stone walls and pave
ments of a modern thoroughfare
and losing himself in the narrow,
incalculable alleys under the pic
turesque over-hanging windows and
balconies, the crowded peaks and
gables, of surviving medieval
street.
IN THESE homes there was not
Il much liberty. but there was much
consolation. At night the whole
family knelt together at their chairs
and recited the rosary aloud. Mass
on Sunday was a dream and a
feast; there the village met, ex-
changed gossip. compared hats, and
made designations for the week;
and the fine Gregorian Chant of
the High Mass thrilled their hearts
with a melodious piety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
KokomO Dispatch

In his speeches in Carroll
County, John E. Friedrich made
his position clear concerning the
public service commission of In
diana. He put himself emphati-
cally on record for the abolish
ment of the commission If it can
not be made to function in the
interests Of all the people.
Mr.. Friedrich quite truly charges
that as at present constituted and
operated, the utilities board is in
reality a taxing body which is
used as a tool for selfish interests.
This is all wrong, because the real
purpose for which the bureau was
established was to serve as a
protection for the public and to
establish equitable relationship
with public service corporations.
Another sensible stand which
Mr. Friedrich takes is that
411h1l4CApdlAy N'WlICQ QlAAAJACo dllQ
farmers cooperative telephone
companies should be taken from
jurisdiction of the state commits
sion. He points out plainly that
such companies ere purely local
and consequently should be fully
under the control of the COM
munities where they operate.
Mr.. Friedrich does not mince
words in his treatment of bureau
cratic government as it has been
built up at Indianapolis. I'm
doubtedly most folks will agree
with him that what is most
needed is prudent pruning
throughout the entire structure of
the State administration, by
capable man. That is the best
way to reduce expenses and at the
same time add to government
efficiency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
Hoover and the Hoosiers

81 consider Herbert Hoover a man with a
marvellous mind My contact with him causes
me to believe he knows more about more
things than probably any other man in the
country. He is a human encyclopedia of infor-
nation.
"Indeed he knows about most everything
under the sun, save one, that of politics. His
lack of understanding about politics makes it
difficult for his friends to convert sentiment
into delegates
So spoke Senator James E. Watson OF In
diana few months ago.
In spite of the Senator's solemn pro
nouncement Of Hoover s unftnesS, several thou
sand Indiana SUPPLEMENTARY thousands
more than legally necessary-have proclaimed
their right to vote for Hoover in the State s
presidential primary.
Apparently, in the minds of these Indiana
Republicans, Hoover's lack of knowledge con-
corning politics is not a fatal weakness. 1t
might even be suspected that they regard 1t
as part Of his st@ength.
Indiana has lot Of Republican leaders
who know about all there is to know about poll
ties One of them, powerful leader, IS now
in prison. Another, an unfortunate Governor,
is lust out Of prison. Still another, an unfor-
tunate Governor in another sense, has just been
acquitted by pleading the statute of limita-
TONS These are three in long list.
And jim Watson, he knows all about poll
tics. He knows, for example, that the hardest
thing to be in national convention is IA
vorite son. So he announced himself the
favorite son of Indiana. That meant that
other candidates--th0se who know all about
politics-were supposed to leave his State
alone until the time came, at the convention,
when he would be ready to do business with
the highest bidder.
jim may have no idca-or should have none
of being nominated for the presidency Jim
in contrast to one of his Ohio nelghbors-has
a sense of humor He has an idea that he will
control the Indiana delegates and make the
best possible personal bargain at Kansas City
before he turns them over to anybody else.
But the rank and file of Republicans in
Indiana know something about politics. Not
everything, like Jim, but something. They
know all about favorite sons and they know
lot about jim They have decided that, this
time. they will not deliver themselves INTO
Jim S keeping for the period Of the Kansas City
convention, if they can avoid it.
They asked Hoover to allow his name to
be entered in the Indiana primaries. Indiana
Republicanism has been fighting two years,
they said, to clean out the boys who know so
much about politics. Come over and help us
they said.
They said it in such numbers as to make
clear they were voicing the State IS earnest de-
sire Hoover said ENTER my name "
So the fight is on in Indiana. 1t should be
grand fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
The Canal Almost Outgrown

A New York engineer addressing the New York
Chamber of Commerce. predicts that the Panama
Canal either must be enlarged in few years or
duplicated by a second inter-ocean waterway
1.-The Panama Canal now" he says, "has almost
reached the point where it not handle the trade
passing through it."
This is interesting. 1t was only few years ago
that calamity howlers were calling the big canal
useless burden asserting that it not being used
enough justify its existence One hopes that they
heard this engineers speech
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
With other Editors

Much of this propaganda is 50
smooth, so well written and illus
trated that it is hard to find what
it is all about.
Much of this stuff is only to pro-
mote a certain commodity without
paying the newspaper for its pub
licity. There are hundreds of Or
CARNATIONS, hundreds of offices, all
devoted to the free publicity plans.
These propagandists range all the
way from the cheap effort to pro-
mote the sale Of an article to favor
for the League of Nations and the
World Court.
Some of this stuff does little
harm if published. their only
wrong being that they steal the
newspapers space. Others en-
deavor by false insinuations and
statement to place certain ideas
in the public mind, either in favor
of or against some plan or general
feeling. 1t is these which the news
papers have to watch with suspi-
ciouS eagle eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

The Rules
/. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or a given number of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at a time.
8. You must have a complete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order of letters can not be
changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
Kokomo Dispatch

Kokomo Dispatch
Revolt Of members of the
Daughters of the American
Revolution against the official
commitment of their organization
to Secretary Wilbur'S naval pro-
gram is of less Importance in its
immediate phase than in its
broader challenge Of the assump-
ton on the part Of the high Of
ficials of the d. A. r.. of prerog-
alive to speak for its entire mem
bership.
The D. A. r. situation is by no
means exceptional. Rather is it
typical Nor is the complex
peculiar to organizations of
women.
Not infrequently there appear
majestic declarations that the Ma
tional Order of Spoilers or the
United States Chamber or Fedora
ton of Brotherhood of this or
that gives its Endorsement to or
registers its protest against some
proposal or policy. and, more or
less generally, it is assumed that
the official utterance is the con-
certed voice of the thousands of
members represented, although
there has not been the semblance
of referendum or even a straw
vote to determine the proportion
ate weight of the individual
opinion of the membe, ship on the
matter
Everybody knows, or should
know, that quotations of mass
opinion of this sort are subject to
discount.
The American, man or women,
has a penchant for Joining" and
is a good and loyal member of his
organization and an adherent to
its purposes and principles.
But the oath of membership
does not abrogate the individual
right to think and act, and par
ticularly in political experience
there has been frequent demon
stration that the control of these
various groupings is apt to be over
estimated.
Neither the organized vote nor
the organized opinion of such
groups is measurable by their
membership lists.
Plymouth Daily Pilot
One of the chief duties of the
newspaper editor today, and one
on which he spends a good deal
of time. is to keep out of his paper
the tons of propaganda with which
every newspaper Office is deluged.
The general public knows little
of this propaganda and can hard
ly realize the work it entails upon
newspaper office to get it all into
the waste basket. 1t is often very
hard to see what the propaganda
is working at and how he expects
to receive benfit from his dope"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
World as an Ideal

We talk much about the world,
but generally in an idealistic philo-
sophical sort of way.
One gathers the idea that the
rest of the world appeals to the av-
erage American as something to be
made over by speeches and plati-
tudes, as presenting problems which
require no more than a debate, OF a
formal agreement to solve.
That is because he does not know
it, has not come in contact with its
stern, unyielding realities; cannot
picture every fourth man as
Chinaman if the human race were
stood in line and every second as
an Asiatic cannot imagine Islam
as a ell-organized fanatical faith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09
The Time Is Coming

Meanwhile VIC are trading with
the Orient, building it up as
market for our own products. draw
ing on it for raw materials, en-
couraging our industries TO estab-
lish branch houses in it and grow
ing more and more dependent on it.
The time is soon coming. if it is
not already mere, when disorders
in the Orient will have a direct
bearing on cur prosperity, when they
will 60 straight to our pocket-book
and touch us in the same way that
the German sub campaign did.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

A gun seventy feet long, weighing $4,000 pounds,
In to be set in the defenses of the Panama Canal.
Lindys good will fight grand thing, and all
that and its effect really ought to be lasting etc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

In Chicago a grand jury indicted a garage man
for fraud in making his income tax return Justice,
though blind, occasionally gets glimpse of what it's
all about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

How are purees of vegetables
made?
Stew the vegetables with as little
water as possible. Season well and
while hot put them through a fine
sieve, to make q SOFT smooth mass.
If too thick they can be thinned
with hot water, stock or milk. If
too thin, they can be cooked down
over hot water.
Who played the part of the min
lister in the motion picture, "Sensa-
ton Seekers?"
Raymond Bloomer.
How many automobiles were man
ufactured in the United States in
the first six months of 1927?
l,779,334 passenger cars, 24S,506
trucks
What is the best timber for fence
posts?
Red cedar, yellow locust black
walnut, white oak and chestnut.
What is the home address of John
McGraw?
is w. Forty Fourth ST., New York.
AT the Dempsey Willard fight at
Toledo, Ohio, in July. 1919, what
were the cOlOrs of the trunks and
belts worn by the fighters?
Willard wore blue. trunks with a
belt of red, white and blue. Demp-
sey wore white trunks, also with a
belt of red, white and blue.
How is French drip coffee made?
BY pouring boiling water very
slowly over freshly and finely
ground coffee and allowing it to
drip through two strainers into the
bottom of the pot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

Editor Times: Referring to an
article in The indianapolis Times
hes ded Teachers May Spank
Children. Judge Rules"
Has Judge Clifford r. Cameron
of municipal court any children in
Marion County schools? If not, how
can he justly make this kind of a
ruling against the parents of the
King boy?
have girl in the lower grades
and she has been jerked by the chin
and spanked by her teacher three
times I know of. With that kind
of a ruling her teacher will think
she can handle her any way
I guess the only chance the
parents have is to get up a petition
and have the teacher dismissed
from school. In my case, I can get
several parents to sign same whose
children have had the same treat
ment as mine.
Please advise who this petition
should be taken to. K. r. r.
Judge Cameron has no children
in Marion county schools. Your
petition should be filed with the
school board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

tiers not exceeding 200 words will receive
| preference.
Editor Times: I've been free to
voice my disapproval of some things
I have seen in The Times. Now I
want to show my appreciation of
things I approve. You editorial re-
Gently, what Is A RADICAL" was
very fine, only you didn't give the
answer to the question.
Now Webster says the word
radical pertains to the root as
fundamental origin, as a radical
truth or error. Hence one may be
radically right or wrong. However,
only those radically right are con-
sidered Radicals.
I think we have very radical
Governor, yet he is not considered
so by the majority of people. He
undoubtedly is very radically wrong,
as he has sunk to the lowest depths
of error.
Take for example. Gene Debs and
Woodrow Wilson. Both were very
radical Most people consider Debs
radically wrong and Wilson radical
ly right. Webster says in politics
radical means "a person who ad-
vocates a radical reform
Radicalism is the doctrine Or
principle of making radical reform
in government by overturning and
changing the present state of
things. w. B. SCHREIBER,
622 Lexington Ave.
Editor Times: 1 noticed in The
Indianapolis Times of Feb. 20 an
article by j. Ed Burk that your po-
lice department needed an addition
of $50 men to cope with the crime
wave and the growing population
of your city.
AT one time, I was a resident OF
Indianapolis, and I still believe it
to be one of the best cities in the
country. Naturally I keep pretty
we'll posted on its affairs.
agree with Mr.. Burk, and very
likely had given the matter a
thought before he did. He also
urges the various civic and COM
mercial clubs to take action Now
that's the thing to do and your
Chamber of Commerce should be
the leader However. I fear that
they, the clubs, and citizens. as
we'll, will follow the old slogan of
Let George Do II"
You people of indianapolis APP
preciated the fact that in l.. Ert
Slack you have a very good Mayor
1t may be of interest to you and
your citizens to know that Hamil-
ton, Ohio, has gone under the city
manager form of government. We
hired an outside man, Mr. Price. of
Florida, and his salary is $4,000
a year. We also have seven COM
missioners. some of whom are Leo
WEIGH, Mr.. Ferguson, Mr. Meyers,
Mr. Bierman, and Mr.. Burke, who
is appointed mayor
Mr.. Price is sure on the job and
his plans will, no doubt, be a great
saving of money for our city.
So you people of indianapolis get
back of Mr.. Burk and other city
manager form of government
workers, to make it a reality in 1890.
And in the meantime, see that Mr..
Burk's suggestion for more police
men is carried out.
A. ]. GAZING.
Iar,iIto,, Ohio
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tiers not exceeding 200 words will receive
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N. T..
TR4C Y
SAYS.

"The Screaming Millions
Of the East Haze Been
Easy to Handle, Not Be-
cause They Like 1t, but
Because They Lacked the
Means to Organize and
Express Their ASpira-
ti0RS.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-09

Who played the part of the min
lister in the motion picture, "Sensa-
ton Seekers?"
Raymond Bloomer.