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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Love and Choir Left

Anyhow, the weedy organist who
had wife and three children fell
in love with the young choir singer.
When a man with three children
and wife falls in love with some
body else, you have a problem. 1t
is easy to say that no organist in
that situation should permit him
self to fall in love. But it is silly
to say anything of the sort. Very
few people, in church or out, are
able to say to themselves, NOW 1
will fall in love and now I won't"
Nevertheless, am willing to adj
NIT that the little organist and the
young choir singer could have said
to each other, although we are in
love, nothing can be done about it,"
That has been done.
Lovers who function in this way
may be people of great courage and
character and again they may not.
This columnist does not pretend to
the great wisdom of knowing
whether it is nobler TO hold every
thing or to let go.
1t is easy to be sensible and calm
from seat in the grandstand and
no trouble at all to fiddle if nothing
more than Rome is burning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Hatchet Does Little Good

1t would be difficult to over-rate the response
biitieS Of mother in the bringing either OF sons
or daughters Her trials and trbulatons from birth
on to the end Of the chapter well known The
world sympathizes with the heartaches which come
when her child grows up and falls short of fond
mothers hope and expectation.
And if a mother doesn't know just what to do
about it when her child does what she thinks is wrong,
the rest of us are little better qualified to help her
with advice though we can extend boundIess SYM
pathy.
Take that distraught Kansas City mother who
learned that her 18-year-old daughter had drunk
gin in a saloon What she said or did to the daugh-
ter doesn't appear in the newspaper story all we get
from that that the rate mother went to the saloon
with hatchet and smashed beer stems, whisky
glasses and mirrors.
What effect that had on the daughter don't
know. That may depend upon what the young people
Of her own set thought about it. If they laughed at
the mothers violent eccentricty, then possibly the
daughter felt ashamed of her mother, and bu-
inflated in the sight of her young companions. That
wouldn't improve the relations between parent
and child
The trouble about Furnishing the STEMS bottles
glasses and mirrors is that they don't think don't
know anything about it, and are perfectly innocent
That is, there no reason in the punishment
any more IMAM When a moGler washes WIN soap Une
mouth OF her child who. told lie, or smacks the
hand that stole cookies or jam.
1t wasn't the mouth or the hand that was con-
scously guilty of offense 1t was the mind that
trolled their action.
But the mother couldn't we'll use the Ratchet Oh
her daughters head. 1t wouldn't have helped much
if she had And had she used it the saloon keeper
she might have gone to jail So far as the mother
herself is concerned, maybe hatcheting the STEMS
glasses and mirrors the best she could do to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Ballot Reforms

The only terrifying part of the proposal of the
city manager group for change in method Of cleo
tons is the name which is given to the proposed
system.
Proportional representation sounds complicated.
AS explained by those who advocate its use, there
is nothing hard to understand or to operate.
1t simply prevents small group from forcing
through undesirable candidate in elections and is
way of preventing the bosses from defeating the
will of the people by dividing forces of those who have
the same general view.
1t also. say its proponents, insures the election
of city commissioners who will be fairly representa-
tive of public opinion.
When the city under the system of a city
manager government success will depend very largely
upon the character of chosen as commissioners
If the old Bosses by appeals to prejudice and po-
Htical affiliations, put in control the sort of men
who went into office with Duvall the city will have
the sort of government against which it re-
beIled.
If outstanding men of character and public inter-
est be selected, the city manager plan affords an
easy and effective way to get real business admins
tration of the city's business affairs
The experience Of other cities has shown that the
proportional representation plan has been most eff
fective in the cause of getting the kind
that suits the vast majority of citizens.
In many of the cities where the bosses ruled for
years. this plan of voting given credit for the
cess of the new spirit This is said to be especially
true in Cincinnati.
This is only one Of the ballot reforms which the
legislature should study 1t applies only to the city
manager cities. Other needed reforms relate to the
short ballot and separation of state and national
campaigns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
SAYS:

NNE result of the Rothstein case
" is to give New York new
police commissioner. He has not
been appointed yet, but it is gen.
orally assumed that he will be none
other than Grover A. Whalen, who
has achieved nation wide fame as
Mayor Walkers official greeter and
who is at present general manager
of the John Wanamaker store.
Mr.. Whalen's probable selection is
somewhat at variance with the pre-
vailing idea as to the Importance of
training and experience. Most peo-
pie would not go to department
store for the head Of the greatest
police force in this country, Most
people would consider some special
knowledge of the problems to be
dealt with desirable, if not neces-
Sary.
There have been exceptional cases
to be sure, but as a general PROPOSE
ton, more or less special knowledge
is regarded as ESSENTIAL for a spe-
cial job. At all events, that is the
theory on which our educational
system rests.
Still, and once more referring to
those exceptional cases, Mr.. Whalen
may be the right man. His ability as
an organizer is generally conceded,
and some say that he is a ruthless
diSciplinarian, with the fact that
he once fired seven stenographers to
prove it. Others profess to see
politics in the background, recall
ing that Mr.. Whalen was once an
enthusiastic supporter of former
Mayor John F. Hylan, who was de-
feated by Mayor Walker in 1925
and that his appointment as police
commissioner at this time would
have the effect of weakening Hylan
as a mayoralty candidate next year.
Making allowance for all that Mr.
Whalen deserves a fair chance if he
becomes police commissioner Of New
York, not only as a matter of Justice
but because that is the only way the
people of New York can hope to get
better results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15


not The most interesting item about the observatory
1t is more interesting to note that new types of in
struments and new programs of research have been
devised at this observatory.
Most obServatories in the past came into existence
as the result of the gift of big telescope. Research
programs then had to be shaped to meet the poten-
tialities of the telescope.
But Mt Wilson observatory, built by the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, D. c., followed another
plan.
The plan and it far costlier one than the old
one was to embark upon pressing research problems
and then build the instruments which the research
needed
AS result Offices laboratory and a machine
shop were established in Pasadena as part of the
observatory.
The observatory was built and developed under the
direction of DR. George Ellery Hale, who is now it's
honorary director. DR.. W. S. Adams is the present
director
Many splendid instruments have been built at Mt
wilson. They include the 60-inch reflector the third
largest in the world and the 100-nch reflector the
largest telescope in the world
Special tower telescopes one rs feet high and an
other $50 feet high have been built for studying the
sum-
In addition, much auxiliary apparatus, such as the
interferometer for measuring the diameter of stars
has been added to the observatory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Where Fault Lies

The crime wave, as we call it.,
owes much of its strength to the
citizen who does not care and to
the ward heller who is interested
in protecting crooked henchmen.
There is hardly a political ma
chine in this country but has en-
rolled within it's ranks an element
Of law violatOrS which is safeguard
ed for the votes it can deliver and
which is the curse of law enforce
ment because of the influence it
can bring to bear.
What has been exposed in Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Kansas City and
LIS Angeles is more than enough
to prove the point.
Decent people, rather than the
crooks, are to blame. They have
failed to do their duty. have not
taken the interest in civic affairs
that they should, have excused
themselves on the ground that they
were too busy with other things,
or that the political game was too
dirty.
Politics has taken workers where
it could find them, just as you and
would, has pursued the path of
least resistance and adopted those
methods that experience has proved
to be most effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15

a CCORDING to the University
II of Chicago. the old-fashioned
kitchen is going out and the COM
munity kitchen is coming up the
road, which is not bad thing, for
while cooking is an art, dish-wash-
ing is utterly destitute of appeal to
the esthetic nature.
We believe that nine women out
of ten who shoot their Romeos do
so in response to a murderous i'm
pulse induced by washing dishes.
and in all such cases the jury should
consider such fact in mitigation of
punishment.
y
This age can spare the kitchen
but the rest of the house is going
with it, the dining room, the sit
ting room, the library-every .ocm
but the bedroom and the garage.
Men and women are going out to
work; the f1reside is becoming a
memory and the motto, God Bless
Our Home, a doormat; children are
not being born; the race is passing
and in a little while we will turn
the world over to the beatles, which
in some respects will be a great i'm
provement on the existing order.
n n
This gentleman down east who
proposed to his lady after a court
ship of forty eight years retarded
his spark more than any other
matrimonial chauffeur of our time.
n
The scalding of these students by
their mates at the University of
Michigan calls attention to the sur
prisingly large number of boys III
all states who are sent to universe
ties when they should be sent to
feeble-minded homes.
Il
Those five 500 bills sent to the
conscience fund of the treasury de-
partment we're probably from some
newly appointed prohibition en-
forcement officer, not yet thorough
ly broken in.
Congressman Bankhead's daugh-
ter, Tallulah, has succeeded on the
stage and now former Senator
Cores daughter makes her bow to
the footlights. The children of
politicians should make good in the
theater, for politicians are great
actors.
n
There has been a great deal Of
palaver about the death of James Il.
Patten, who cornered the foodstuffs
OF the American people ano if that
gives one a career, then Jessc
James is entitled to park among
Americas benefactors in the hall
Of fame.
n 4
It's just 100 years since Noah
Webster published his dictionary
and still a great many people are of
the opinion that it was the greatest
thing Daniel Webster ever did.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
her OUTRAGED feelings but it isn't easy see how it

her outraged feelings but it isn't easy to see how
helped matters with the daughter or anybody else
We better might understand this particular case
if we knew what that mother doing from the
time that daughter was born until she grew up and
drank GIN In raising daughters, the first twelve
years are the most valuable.
If intelligence is used in the early years and self
reliance and restraint are taught, along with the
meaning of temptation in its many forms, by the
time daughter is 10 she ought to be able to look
temptation in the eye and tell it to go to the bad
place.
With much sympathy for both the mother and the
daughter and none at all for the saloon keeper his
glassware it is difficult to see how the guilty were
harmed or the innocent helped by this display OF
Ratchet vengeance. Probably more harm was done
the daughter than anybody else
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
artificial Sun Doses Must Be Regulated

Other investigators have shown
that Eradication for many months
of the skin of the rat will cause
changes to take place in the skin
of the nature Of new growths.
1t is an old aphorism in medi-
cine that any medicine that Is
potent for good may also be potent
for harm.
If people begin to take doses of
irradiation in practically everything
they eat or drink, in addition to the
irradiation received from the sun
light, it is possible that even the
maximum safe dose may be ex-
ceeded.
A still greater danger lies in the
fact that people may sometimes re-
ly on small doses of such irradiation
taken in certain food substances
without realizing that an adequate
dose is many times the amount re-
ceived in this way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

controlled conditions to the action
of sunlight.
Already attempts are being made
to sell to the public generally prep
arations of various cereals, ice
cream, yeast and similar products
which have been submitted to the
action of sunlight or of artificial
sunlight, and which probably CAN
provide the body with adequate
amounts of vitamin D.
Unfortunately progress has taken
place so rapidly that nobody knows
exactly how much vitamin D is
necessary for the human body.
Experiments on 4nimals have in
Dictated that tremendously eXces~
sive doses of this substance throw
vast amount of calcium into the
blood stream and cause the calcium
deposits or stones in the kidney an.
in some of the blood vessels.
This dosage is, of course, thou
sands of times beyond the average
dose of cod liver oil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Big Job for Any Man

No man is big enough, brainy
enough, or experienced enough to
90 a good job as the head of the
New York police department, with
out a reasonable degree of CO.
operation. He faces one of the
most difficult tasks in the country
In the first place, he must organ
ize, coordinate and maneuvre d
force of $4,000 men. In the second
place, must protect the lives, limbs
and property Of 100000 people. Ii,
the third place, he must deal with
the most highly developed crime
brotherhood in the world.
Opposed to him are such an ag
gregation of crooks, with such a net
work of political and financial ALI y
ances as could not be assembled
anywhere else, not to mention the
public indifference which prevails
throughout America and the ele-
ment of partisanship which is only
too glad to capitalize failure on the
part of any public official.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
HumOriStS' Gauntlet

To be sure, most of the anger at
him has been expressed in the form
of humorous paragraphs. Herbert
Leigh-Manuell has filled the toe of
every columnist's stocking with
! lleable material.
And in these jokes I seem to find
a certain savagery. If I have no
wisecracks about THE Sayville
Sultan" it may be simply because
I have no great knack at being
funny. However, I choose to main
tain that feel sorry for him and
both his wives.
This column is not intended as a
defense of bigamy. The social struc-
ture probably requires that some
penalty shall be exacted against
those who marry too we'll.
And yet think that no blanket
possibly can cover every case. Each
one must be judged upon its merits.
The bigamist may have sinned
nightly or not so much.
In the light of the rather in
sufficient amount Of data supplied
by the newspapers l should say that
the organist of West Sayville found
himself in tough spot. His sit
uation was such that almost any
thing he did was wrong, because he
seems a rather meager man and
aStigmatic.
But behind thick lenses ardent
hearts can and do beat. There is
something ridiculous about I'M
attractive people being wildly in
love and yet cannot think of it as
altogether funny. After all, pelicans
nronapate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
GOODBYE KITCHEN
RETARDED HIS SPARK
THERE'S REAL DRAMA

TNHERE was drama in it when
4 that live convict from Brook.
lynn warned the youth who hao
committed his first ofTense, to &C
straight
The most effective campaign
which could be waged would be 70
have life prisoners appear, hand
cuffed and in prison yarb, and lee
ture to budding bandits on the dis
advantages of going crooked.
= n
There's something about the
spectacle of the shooting of clay
pigeons by Mr.. Coolidge, the COM
mander in chief of the army and
navy, that does not exactly measure
up to ones lust for realism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15

led. West wins with the queen. If
West now returns diamond, East
at the next to last trick must lead
from his jack-seven of spades to
South's king-ten or king-nine. If
a spade is returned by West at the
second trick, the same situation oc-
ours, only at an earlier point in
the play.
If East wins the first trick, the
quen must fall when South plays
the king on the second round IF
spades. But if South opens with
the king of spades or a diamond,
East and West are at once assured
of four tricks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Don't Care Public

In New York, as well as in other
large cities, crime has benefited by
nothing more distinctly than the
way the morale of police depart
ments has been broken down by
public apathy and partisan politics.
We have plenty of policemen in
this country to handle our crimi-
nails, and they would do it if they
felt that the public were behind
them and that politicians were not
constantly undermining their work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15


ONCE it has been shown that the
- human being when he moved
indoors lost a great deal of the value
of sunlight for proper nutrition and
growth, various means have been
suggested for providing him with
the suns rays artifcially.
Thus cod liver oil, which con-
tains vitamin D, has been charac-
terized as bottled sunshine"
Vitamin D is developed in the
body through irradiaticn. 1t has
also been shown that highly con-
centrated preparations of vitamin
D may be obtained by submitting
a substance known as er~"eterol to
the action of the suns rays.
Experimental investigations have
revealed the fact that it is possible
to store up sunlight in foods of
various kinds through submitting
these substances under properly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15

40 AONoOSO ID OiOOO
feet high
The building
of the observa-
tory necessitated
the making of a
roa up tn e
mountain side.
H u n DIRE DIS Of
tons of material
had to be taken
up the mountain
side to erect the
o b S crv t DRY
dones and build
ings.
But the tons
of brick and steel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
This Date i'm
u. S. History

December Is
1778-Virginia ratified the articles
of confederation.
1791-First ten amendments to Con.
Stitution went into force
1836-Patent Office and postoff1ce at
Washington burned.
1857-House of representatives &C.
cupied new chambers for first
time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
The Solution

COUTH'S object here is to cut off
~ the re-entry in the West hand
before the diamonds are led. To
do so, he must of course lead a
spade, but his choice of the card
in that suit must be made with
some care.
One of the two lower spades is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Up to the People

When politics has called for
canvasses and watchers, have the
so-called respectable people re-
sponded? They have not. No, in
deed, but the bootlegger, the rum
runner, the dive keeper, the
gambler, the fence and all their
kind have come out in force. Pro-
lection has been their reward of
merit, with the result that an adj
ninistration of justice is baked in
thousand different ways.
Every one admits the system is
wrong, but wants it corrected with
out going to the root of the trouble.
Your average good citizen is dis
gusted with rotten politics" as he
describes it, but he is not willing to
go out and play the game as he
should, unless driven to it, by some
intolerable condition. When he is
driven to it, he finds little diff
ficulty in obtaining the right kind
of cooperation.
The average cop is not a bad man
Neither is the average judge or
jurWman. About all they ask, and
about all they need is the right
kind of leadership at the top and
the right kind of backing from the
public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15

= - "a y
much whether
it is true that
all the world
loves a lover.
People under a
fierce emotion
may easily bore
us. Neverthe-
less, I think we
owe them pa
thence.
Accordingly, I
am frightened
by the way in
which the pub
lie and all the
n e W perS
h a We yelped
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Daily Thought

But if the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall live
thereby.-Ezekiel 1919.
4
IT is no sin to be tempted; the
Il wickedness lies in being over
come.-Balzac.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
Nez0 Mt. Wilson
No. pa

TINE Mt Wilson observatory on the top of Mt Will
Il son, near Pasadena Cal, is of the most inter-
eSting for number of reasons.
One is that it possesses the largest telescope in the
world. Another is that its staff numbers some of the
worlds beSt-knoWn astronomers.
Pasadena, most readers know, is suburb of Los
Angeles. The mountain top on which the observatory
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15
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SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

"THE FRONT PAGE" amused
4 me little because the news
papermen of the play met with such
exceeding harshness the plight of
girl who was over her ears in love.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-15

Philadelphia is considering placing memorial
tablet in honor of General Smedley D. Butler who was
ousted head of the police force by politicians be-
cause he tried to clean up the town Adding insult to
injury.