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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Accuses TT. Harrison Soldier

BIZ Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Aug. Glow
ard Burgess, %, Fl. Harrison soldier,
is a prisoner at Eaton, Ohio, charged
with beating Nellie Clark. a Negro
Of this city. on the head with a
hammer. She is being treated at
hospital here. her left eye having
been removed. No motive for the
alleged attack has been revealed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Kidney Pains and
Rheumatism Gone:
Farmer Is Able to Work Again,
After Years of Illness.

Trying to work a farm, while
crippled and in constant pain for
several years, was the hard task
faced by Matt IRELAND, Route 4,
Stockton, Ill. He tells of his recov-
cry, in the following letter:
II suffered from kidney trouble
and rheumatism for several years.
My back ached so I could hardly
bend. My head ached, and the
pains in my limbs were very severe.
I was anemic, my blood was poor,
and I was so weak and dizzy that
my farm work was almost impos-
sible. But today, life looks entirely
different. My rheumatism is all
gone and there are no kinks or
pains in my back. My kidney trou-
BILE has disappeared and my sleep is
not disturbed. I am eating hearty
meals and feel fine m every way.
1t feels wonderful to have good, rich
blood coursing through my veins. I
trace all this change to the day I
started taking Viuna. My wife and
son are both taking it now, with
WOl1QSllul ICOu1OO. NluIld lido OuLCly
been a God-send' to our family.
viuna acts promptly on sluggish
bowels, lazy liver and weak kidneys. 1t
puTifies the blood, clears the skin, re-
stores appetite and digestion, and brings
new strength and energy to the whole
body. Take a bottle on trial. Then if
you're not glad you tried Viuna, your
money will be refunded. 81 at druggists,
or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine
Co., indianapolis, Ind.
" Il II ~ A
The Wonder Medicine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Flies at IS
RN TimeS SnecinL

BY Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Aug. g.
It's never too late to fly. Will
liam F. Kendall, IS, took his
first airplane ride over the city,
and during the thirty minutes
he was up took much interest
in viewing from the sky build
ings erected by a contracting
firm of which he is a member.
He is Civil War veteran and
during his service was confined
for a time in the Libby prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
1000 Smiths Celebrate

GALVESTON, Aug. 6.-More than
1000 Smiths attended Smith day.
here Sunday. Politics had been
barred to preserve harmony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

Actually, this distance is 100000 miles, SO that
we have a model in which forty feet represents 3d.
100000 miles.
The moon, in this model, would be represented by
q seed one-fourth the diameter of the grain of
tard and placed one inch from it, The actual dis
lance from earth to moon is 100000 miles.
Our earth is but one of the eight planets revolv-
ing around the sun. So let obtain other lit
tie seeds.
We will place the first ten feet from the or
ange. This represents the planet Mercury.
The other seeds will be at various distances the
outermoSt representing the planet Neptune be-
ing quarter Of mile from the orange.
The actual distance to Neptune is 2,7000O0000
miles
We can now complete model of the solar Sys-
tenn by obtaining smaller seeds to represent the Sate
lites or moons of such of the planets have them
and by putting these in their proper places.
Now suppose expand our model sufficiently to
contain a few stars
If we let another orange represent the nearest star
and place the model we have built so far somewhere
in the central part of the United States that orange
representing the nearest star will have to go
where in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
The nearest star is $4,000 900 100000 miles away.
And finally if the whole surface of the earth
for model will only have room for three stars
out in the Atlantic, one somewhere in the
ains of Asia and at the southern tip of Africa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
The Redazzled Sucker
FrOm the New York World)


1t has been proved rather convincingly recently
that the two organizations which have made the
loudest claims to patriotism rotten to the core.
We refer to the Thompson gangs with their cry of
America First, and the knights of the Ku-KIux Khan
with their insistence that they are the guardians Of
100 per cent Americanism.
Is it a mere coincidence that these two conspir-
acies against law and order and human decency
should have made the most brazen use of the Ameri
flag?
1t is coincidence. When a set of scoundrels get
together to arrange an elaborate swindle their
cess depends upon how completely they dupe
their victims. They have to find some way of ad-
ministering an anesthetc which will deprive their
victims of all ordinary common sense and of all
power to discriminate critically.
This can be done with drugs. 1t can be done with
liquor. But for organizations dealing with many
people as the Thompson gang the K. K. K. oper-
ated upon it is not practicable to drugs drink
So they use much cheaper and equally effective
narcotic They words.
There words which arouse tremendous emo
ton whenever they uttered. These words have a
terrible power, and there few people in any
munity who have the courage to resist the words
which belong 10 the vocabulary of patriotism and
religion.
they are associated with the most sacred oyales OF
men. They were spoken originally by patriots and
prophets and they evoke almost automatically a
feeling of awe and of reverence.
Because of this the swindler who wraps himself
in the flag or puts the mantle of the prophet
often is very able to hypnotic his victims with
sacred words while he picks their pockets.
This game has been worked again and again in
human history, but unfortunately there are always
plenty of people who know no history and have
learned nothing from it. They provide the innocent
following out of which the Thompsons and the I'm
peral Wizards get their votes and their duespaying
members.
They are the bedazzled suckers who throughout
human history have supported every swindle. Some
body flag at them and they go into coma.
Somebody makes passes at them with sacred
formula and they are overcome with such palpita-
ton that they can't think. They become so be-
witched with words that they will endure almost
anything.
People who know something about human nature
know quite well how the game is worked, and are
their guard. They know that in ninety-nne cases
out of hundred a who advertises his patrio-
tiSm his religion loucly is suspicious character,
Really patriotic and really religious men let
their actions speak for them. Those who have to
make show of their loyalty their ideasm and their
virtue almost invariably have something else to hide
We offer these considerations to the good ladies
of the D. A. R. and to the other excellent people in
this land who in all good faith, but with utter in
experience of human affairs, are helping to create
that gulbility out of which the Thompsons and the
Kansmen and the like make their living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Too Old, Said Mr.. Hughes

Age, like youth, is crime, but in some crcum-
stances either may be misfortune.
Extreme age in the White House is apt to be
misfortune 1t is one, however that the people of the
United States have visited on themselves-and the
occupant of the White House-only few times.
Examination of the record reveals-this in striking
fashion, but it appears that present candidates
for the presidency have not made such an examina-
ton. One apparently has. This is Charles Evans
Hughes.
81 am too DID," said Mr. Hughes.
If Mr.. Hughes were elected President, he would be
&c years old when inaugurated and if he served the
eight years that most Presidents anticipate he would
be rs years old when he retired.
OF the other candidates prominent in the race Mr.
LoWden would be 68 when inaugurated and 76 when
retired; Senator Curtis 68 and 76; Vice President
Dawes, So and 70; Senator Watson 81 and 72. Her
bert Hoover would be 81 when inaugurated and 81
when retired.
Now what does the record reveal? 1t shows that
in all our history only three Presidents have been in
augurated at age exceeding 81 years. OF these
Zachary Taylor, ga, died within year. and William
Henry Harrison, SO, died within month. James Bu-
chanan IS, failed Of denomination.
The instinct of the American people in this matter
seems to be sound.
Regardless of the native ability of the present
candidates and regardless of their present vgor and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Michael Tops His Age i'm Sculpture
Written for The Times bu Win Durant

church of st. Peters into an edifice
worthy of the capital of Chr;sten-
dom.
These we're great painters and
architects; but where could he get
sculptor capable of carving out
the massive tomb, with thirty-eight
figures, which julius wished to pre-
pare for himself as ore Of the art
glories of his age, and promise
that he would long De held in the
memory of mankind.
He heard of Michelangelo's fame
in Florence, and sent for him at
once. Angelo was delighted with
the scale of the work proposed and
the generosity of his new patron.
When he estimated that the tomb
would cost 100000 crowns Julius
said, LET us say 100000"
Copyright, 1923. by viii Durant
TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Last Chance in 1910

The Constitution of the United
States provided that one congress-
man should be elected for each
10000 people and that the ratio
should be adjusted after each CEN
sus. After the 1890 census it was
raised to one congressman for each
$4,000 people which led to an in
crease of the total number from
siXty-five to 108.
In the 1900 census this ratio
was allowed to remain, while the
number of congressman was in
creased from 106 to 142.
BY 1850 the number Of congress-,
men had been increased to 237 I'D
the number of people each con-
gresham represented to 92,422
In 1910 the number of congress-
men had been increased to 435 and
the number of people each con-
gresham represented to 211,817.
No change has been made since
1910, but the population has stead
lily increased until now there is one
congressman to each 172,000 people,
or would be if an apportionment
had been made.
AS a matter of fact some con-
gressmen represent more than
100000 while some others represent
less than 100000, which means that
rapidly growing sections are not
getting the representation to which
they are entitled, while slow grow
ing sections are getting more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Obedience to Laws

In his address at the unwilling Of
Andrew Jackson's statue, President
Coolidge took occasion to praise "Old
Hickory" in such way as amounted
to a rebuke for those who wink at
notification"
Jackson" he said, "held the first
duty of a citizen to be obedience to
the laws. even when we think them,
unjustly applied"
Such an idea is basic to the sta
bility Of republican government.
Repeal of laws by notification
should have no place among a peo-
pie that enjoys the ballot.
1t is entirely proper to denounce a
law and to work for its repeal or
modification in legitimate ways, but
it is not in keeping with good citi-
zenship to disobey a law so long as
it remains on the book.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
With Other Editors

not be greatly affected by the
presidential predictions of their
constituents. But members of the
House can not afford this indiffer.
ence.
With them, denomination in a
presidential year may be closely
connected with their attitude to-
ward the candidate who is popular
in their respective districts.
Hence the significance of the
Hoover strength in the House of
Representatives. Rejecting what
the members believe to be the
feeling at home, it indicates a par
allel to the famous horse race in
which, as the newspaper account
had it, Eclipse was first and there
was 10 second.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Reluctant to Change

The reapportionment bill which
should have been passed six or seven
years ago is again before Congress.
Such a bill is supposed to follow
each decennial census in order to
readjust the number of Congress-
men to the population of the vari-
Gus States.
The reason no bill has been
passed since the 1920 census is the
reluctance to increase the size of
Congress, or to reduce the number
of representatives from any State.
If Congress continues to include
no more members than it does now
-435-States like Maine would lose
a representative. If, on the other
hand, it is increased to a point
where such States would be insured
against loss it would become too
clumsy for efficient work, according
to most of the leaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

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 time.
3. 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, 1928-04-17
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928. by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
100
l. When do you rebid a suit if
partner has not assisted?
2. First hand bids. Second hand
overbids. Third hand passes. Fourth
hand passes. First hand raises.
Second overraises. When should
third assist?
3. When should fourth hand open
the bidding?
The Answers
1. When you hold six probable
tricks.
2. One trick for each probable
trick over. two.
3. When he is reasonably salts
fled that he can prevent game if
opponents overbid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

strength, it would hardly the part of wisdom to
fly in the face of clear precedent this year of 1928
Eight years in the White House is cruelty long
time for the youngest and most robust of presidents
The strain of responsibility is too great for any except
the strongest of men,
81 too old" said Mr.. Hughes He said it with
SMILE but he hasn't retracted the statement and he
is not likely to do For it is of the wisest
statements made by the former Secretary of
State and justice of the United States Supreme Court
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
SAYS

THOSE who suffered from loss
4 of property or life by the COL
lapse of the st. Francis dam are
glad that it is a municipality with
which they have to deal, and not
private corporation.
The city of Los Angeles not only
assumes full responsibility for the
disaster, but undertakes the task
of restitution and relief without
waiting on legal procedure.
She has already appropriated ST.
100000 and put 1900 men at work.
Such prompt and generous action
reveals a phase of municipal own
ership with which tho one can
quarrel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Bartender for Tutor

If a college education is worth
$4,000 or $4,000 as some experts
declare, what is it worth to meet
a bartender who can teach an ig-
norant, gawky bellboy how to use
good English and conduct himself
correctly?
But for such an instructor, E. M.
Statler, who passed away Monday
morning, might never have become
one of the leading hotel keepers
in America.
1t was Tom Duffy who stood be-
hind the bar in the Mcclure House
at Wheeling, w. Va, that taught
him to say Il saw" instead of Il
SEEM" and other things which gave
him the right kind Of a start.
The sources of culture and in
spiration are wonderful, indeed!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Smiths Campaign Boosted

1t is quite in keeping with Sena-
tor Helms character that he should
hit on the idea Of coming to North
Carolina and insulting the Governor
of New York, who is spending a va
cation in that State with his odious
clop-trap.
1t is also in keeping with the
Southern sense OF propriety that he
should be denied the use of the
Court House at Winston Salem for
such a purpose.
The episode furnishes a graphic
illustration of the ultimate affect of
Ku-KluXiSm.
Intolerance seldom fails to make
decent people tolerant.
The very forces that hoped to
eliminate Governor Smith by an ag-
gressive campaign of bigotry have
accomplished nothing so distinctly
as to make the way easier for his
nomination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
This Date i'm
Il. S. History

April IL
1790-Benjamin Franklin died.
1877. Pierpont Morgan born.
1861-Virginia, excepting western
counties, passed the ordinance
of secession.
1862-Gen. j. e. Johnson took COM
mand of Confederate forces at
Yorktown.
How many horses are there on
farms in the United States?
The latest census 1929 shows IT,
$4,000.
Where was the picture what
Price Glory" filmed?
At the Fox Studios, Hollywood,
Cal.
Under what circumstances did
President Grant use the words LET
us have peace?"
He closed his letter accepting the
nomination to the presidency, May
20, 1868, with those words.
Judging from their two fights,
would Tunney put Dempsey out in
fifteen rounds?
That can not be decided here.
Is NazimOva, the actress married?
She is divorced from Charles
Bryant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

represent t n e
S un in our
model.
The earth will
then be repre-
sented by a lit
tie seed the size
of a grain OF
mustard.
If we plac e
this mustard
grain 40 fe e t
from the orange,
we will have a
model to scale
of the sun, the
earth and the
di S t a nee be-
tween the two.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Foreign Bodies Larger

Regarding the question as to
whether the number of Congress-
men should be increased it is in
teresting to note the size of similar
legislative bodies in some other
countries.
The House of Commons in Eng
land has a membership of 615, the
Chamber of Deputies in France a
membership of sos the Reichstag in
Germany a membership of 493 and
the Lower Chamber of the Italian
Parliament a membership of 396.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
ON THE SUBMITS

ON THE SUBMITS
TN the year 1903 one of the most
L powerful of the many powerful
personalities that have filled the
papal chair assembled the throne OF
the Fisherman. Julius II was not
content to be the ablest statesman
of his time, he was resolved to mark
his era as the peak Of Renaissance
art in Rome.
He gathered about him now the
finest group of artists that had ever
come together on Italian soil;
Botticelli, Perugino, Raphael and
Titan were to decorate the Vatican
and the Sistine Chapel; Bramante
and Raphael were to rebuild the old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Dietz on Science
Room for Three Stars
avid Dietz on Science
No. 26

DEFORE we book passage to go sailing around the
D universe on rockets, let us understand something
about the scale of the universe. Perhaps it will make
us less ambitious in our plans
We most easily understand the size of the uni
by pretending to build model of it,
Suppose obtain an orange and decide to let that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

When was the conference at
Washington on limitation of naval
armament and what countries were
represented?
President Harding issued the
formal invitations Aug II, 1921,
and the conference opened Nov. II,
1921. The countries represented
were the United States, Belgium,
the British Empire, China, France,
Italy, Japan, the Netherlands ana
Portugal. The plenipotentiaries of
the United States were the Presi-
dent of the United States, repre-
sented by Secretary of State Charles
Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge,
Oscar w. Underwood and Elihu
Root.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Harrisburg CPaO Telegranb

Harrisburg tPa.) Telegraph
Pussy-footing on the part of
friends of Herbert Hoover in
charge of his candidacy in 1920
did more to ditch his presidential
chances than any other one thing.
Evidently this year the secre-
tary is charting his own course.
He never has been personally
pusSy-footer and his determined
policy in the Ohio and Indiana
presidential primaries shows that
he is more intent upon an in
dor5ement by the voters than he
is IL getting the nomination by
playing for delegates behind the
screen.
He has taken a courageous
course and must realize that much
of his strength in the Kansas City
convention may hang on his show
ing in these two States.
New York Evening Post
Hoover supporters are entitled
to a feeling of satisfaction over
the manifestation of sentiment for
their candidate in the House.
Only one-third of the Senators
come up for denomination and re-
election at any one time.
Most Of them, therefore, need
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

which seemed to rest some SUI
per-human burden. 1t was
Michelangelo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

Was Chief Justice Marshall cor
rect in calling the United States
''The American Empire?"
Not in the political sense in which
the word empire generally is used.
In an empire, the sovereign or head
of the State bears the tile of en-
peror or empress-a title which has
come to imply the possession OF
monarchical power in its highest
form. The United States is a re-
public and therefore has not the
nonarchical form Of government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Questions and
AnS7OeTS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby, question
ii ngton' Bureau Bur f 1925 New York Ave,
Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents
in stamps for reply. Medical and le-
tended research be made. All other
questions will receive personal reply.
All letters are confidential You are
cordially invited to make use of this
free service as often as you please
What is the origin and purpose
of the American Red Cross, and how
is it managed?
1t operates under charter
granted by an act of Congress,
effective Jan. 5, 1905, authorizing
the American Red Cross ito fur
nish volunteer aid to the sick and
wounded of armies in time of war
in accordance with the convention
of Geneva; to act in matters Of
voluntary relief, and in accord with
the military and naval authorities
as medium of communication be-
tween the American people and
their army and navy; to continue
and carry on a system of national
and international relief in time of
peace and to apply the same in
mitigating the suffering caused by
peStilence, famine, fire, floods and
other great national calamities, and
to devise and carry on measures for
preventing the same" Calvin Cool
idge is president of the organiza-
ton and John Barton Payne is
chairman of the central committee,
which is the governing body, and is
composed of eighteen persons, six
of whom represent the Federal Gov
eminent and are appointed by the
President. National headquarters
are located at Washington, D. c.,
and from it the activities of 1881
chapters are directed through three
divisional headquarters.