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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
SAYS:

BOSTON, Oct. 18.-In spite Of
I'D standardized on, this country
contains cities wen great cities
with an individuality. San Fran
cisco is one, New Orleans is another
but Boston takes first rank among
them.
Boston with its narrow, crooked
streets in the downtown section, its
magnificent suburbs and parkWays,
its fine old traditions, historic land
marks and world famous institu-
tions, has something to offer the
visitor that he can find nowhere
else in America. There is only one
Harvard, one old North church, one
Common" and one Quincy market.
From the fish wharveS on At
lantic avenue, to the circular boule-
ward which sweeps around the city,
through splendidly improved parks
for a distance of flfty-flve miles,
Boston is unique.
You miss the skyline which char
acterizes other cities, and of which
they like to boast. You see in its
place a taste for architectural
beauty. Even the higher buildings
show the influence Of culture and
tradition. You discover twenty-foot
streets fanked by facades that de-
serve a better setting. You sense
an atmosphere of solidity, which
would be more impressive If there
were less congestion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Reason

TINE war department is enthusi-
Il astic over a new mount for
anti-aircraft guns which enables the
guns to be moved as easily as field
artillery, but it requires much OPP
timism for one to have faith in the
effectiveness of an anti-aircraft gun
under any circumstances.
London tried such guns against
the German raids, but the only
casualties we're innocent bystanders
struck by falling missiles.
Il
If this German Zeppelin had been
expected during the World war, New
York's interest would have been far
greater than her enthusiasm, and
with this future wartime possibility
in view. Americans should be rec
onciled to all the obstacles the wind
can place in the pathway Of trans
Atlantic flying.
The director of the Catholic Hos
pital Association told a meeting of
surgeons that beautiful furniture,
draperies, and lighting effects in
hospitals were valuable in healing
patients, but the average patient
would prefer that all efforts toward
beauty be concentrated in the selec-
ton of the nurse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
That Salt Creek Contract
you resent it

The department of justice after some six months
Investigation finally has decided that the contract of
the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, for the
purchase of government royalty oil from the Salt
Greek field, is invalid
Whether the department was prodded into
nouncing its opinion at this moment by charges of
Senator Thomas ]. Walsh of Montana, there is OF
course way of knowing 1t is noteworthy, however,
that the department acted within few days after
Walsh had asserted publicly that there was a con-
spiracy of silence among government officials to with
hold facts about the illegal contract at this time
The contract was made on Jan. /, of this year, for
five years. between the Sinclair company and DR..
Hubert Work. then secretary of the interior. The Sim
clair company had held contract for the preceding
five years. which had been negotiated with Albert B.
Fall
Fall secretly had inserted into this original contract
an option for its renewal This the department Of
justice now holds vods the contract because to
the Sinclair company an advantage not accorded to
other bidders
At the time the contract was renewed other oil men
protested Work relied the opinion of the solicitor
of his department, to whom he referred the question:
that the contract not only legal but that the gov
eminent was obligated to the renewal Protests were
carried to the President who turned the matter over
to the justice department
The departments opinion is couched in strictly
legal terms and avoids any reference to possible fraud
1t is recalled however that when Sinclair was on the
stand before the senate public lands committee last
snrng he was asked by Walsh if it not true that
his bid had been received by telegraph several hours
after the advertised time noon Of Nov TO- 1922 SIN
clair did not remember and Walsh said the telegram
was dated late in the afternoon Of that day.
Sinclair had spent part of the week just preceding
Nov 15 with Fall at Three Rivers N M. He denied an
agreement had been reached whereby his bid might be
delayed.
The contract just cancelled is only one angle OF the
Salt Greek operation which the senate is now invest-
eating The field adjacent to Teapot Dome, is owned
by the government and leased to producers 1t is I'M
mensely productive
Estimates are that $175yoooyooo worth of oil had
been extracted up to 1925. Sinclair bought from the
government during the five years of his original con-
tract some 100000 barrels of oil valued at
$34,0o0,000.
The senate committee is investigating charges tnat
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana has obtained
MONOPOLY in the field Robert w. Stewart, president
of this company was of the organizers OF the no
torious Continental Trading Company. Standard OF
Indiana had bought out the Midwest Company, which
had obtained control of Salt Creek leases One OF the
headers in organizing the Midwest Company was H M
Rackmer, now a fugitive from the Teapot Dome wit
ISIS stand in France
The senate committee likewise is investigating
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
DO You Resent the Insult7

Inasmuch as Harry Leslie remains silent,
day after day, concerning his charge that
Frank G. Daley federal prosecutor, was either
negligent or corrupt and refused to prosecute
crime until clicked to glory by Judge An
derson, the inference must be drawn that he
deliberately intended to mislead the voters of
this state by base SANDER.
The charge was slanderous. Judge Ander
son promptly denied it's truth and added that
Daley had been "vigilant, jealous and up
right
There is no contest of veracity between
Judge Anderson and Harry Leslie. The people
will believe Judge Anderson.
There is left but the conclusion that Leslie
had hoped to gain votes and power through
libel upon his opponent for office and that he
had deliberately tried to deceive the voters of
the state. If he were merely imposed upon by
the polecats Of politics who are very close to
his campaign and who include every discred-
tied lieutenant of Stephenson placed on state
pay rolls or expense accounts it indicates that
Leslie, his SANDER exposed, does not dare af-
front them by withdrawing and apologizing.
The insult of course, was not directed
solely against Daley, who probably does not
care. At least he has no reason to care about
30 silly lie.
The insult was to the voters Of the state
when their intelligence was affronted by such
charges and the belief held by Leslie that he
could gain confidence by destroying his oppo-
nent with a lie.
1t is now openly admitted by the politi-
clans of the state that the one hope of Leslie is
that great uprising for Hoover will so center
public attention that the good intentioned Re-
publcans will be afraid to split their ballots
and will cast straight votes in their enthusiasm
for the secretary.
That is the chance of Leslie, and it is a
condition which the real friends of Mr..
Hoover deplore.
They believe that the thing for which
Hoover stands in politics demands driving
from power of the influences which are direct
ing the Leslie campaign.
Only man who is stalking his hopes on
something outside his own record would dare
to insult the voters Of Indiana by first making
a baseless charge and when exposed, refuse to
withdraw it.
That is the insult to Indiana How far do
you resent it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
FaddiStS Battle on Qualities of Bread

age or bran. not available in the
more sophisticated food.
If we lived almost entirely on
bread or flour. it would be exceed
ingly important that whole wheat
bread be eaten instead of white
bread.
However, most people nowadays
eat mixed diet, which includes
not only flour but milk, vegetables,
fruits, eggs and meat. With such
a mixed diet all essential vitamins
are provided in abundance, and the
very small differences in content Of
vitamins in whole wheat as against
white bread is of little Importance.
From the practical point Of view
whole wheat flour does not keep as
we'll as white flour and in moist,
warm weather spoils rapidly.
One Of the most important attri-
butes of the modern diet is its ap-
petizing character.
There does not seem to be any
question that white bread is more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Another Oil Lease

Atty. Gen. Sargent finds another
oil lease made by former Secretary
Fall TO a Sinclair company invalid
This lease has been running for six
years, and government royalty oil to
the value of $33,0OO,O00 has been
obtained under it. The attorney
general finds it is not a binding
contract for two reasons. In the
first place, it was not made in the
manner required by law. In the
second, it contained an option which
was beyond the power Of Secretary
Fall to grant.
This lease was in the Salt Greek
field, and had nothing to do Will
Teapot Dome.
One wonders how many more
illegal leases Secretary Fall made
and when we shall come to the end
of his mismanagement Of the in
terror department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS
SHE HAD NO MAKEUP
BEAUTY IN THE NURSE

CTATISTICS show that very few
~ people in London take a bath
every day, which proves that they
are very much like the rest of the
human race.
This telephone conversation be-
tween President Coolidge and King
Alfonso of Spain would have been
a complete flop, but for the fact
hat Alfonso was able to speak
English.
We are not surprised to have this
British scientist say that bravery
depends on the amount of sugar
fellow has in his blood, for every
body during the World war that
saw the American army in action
agreed that it was the candy!
Il
1t is not surprising that King
Boris Of Bulgaria gets more joy out
of his zoo than anything else, for
a bunch of wild animals is much
more peaceable than any of thl
folks you can find in the Balkans.
n
There is not much anxiety over
the disappearance of this Com
munist candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, for if any fellow has to get
lost it's just as well for it to be
Communist candidate for Office.
n
Possibly President Coolidge APP
pointed Senator Borah's nephew to
that federal judgeship down in
Louisiana to make up for the $400
which that nocturnal visitor took
from under the senator's pillow in
Omaha.
n n
It's a shame that this London
girl who won the beauty prize for
the British Isles without the as
sistance of any makeup cannot
make a fortune writing testimonials
for Mother Nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

appetizing than the whole wheat,
which does not appeal to the palate
Of many persons.
The people who eat whole wheat
bread are likely to eat much less
bread than those who eat the white
flour products.
Bread is one Of the most useful
and inexpensive Of all foods and a
large part of our agricultural in
dustry is based on the consumption
of wheat and wheat products.
A lessening in the demand for
these substances produces serious
economic conditions.
The advantage Of whole wheat
flour from the standpoint of rough
age is important for those who re-
quire an irritant of some sort to
stir their intestinal action.
For many people such irritants
are harmful and their use may re-
suit in serious disturbances of the
intestinal tract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

THE spirit of Chesterfield, the
Il Lord of Good Manners, is
lowering closely over the United
States, with Hoover denouncing the
injection of religious bigotry against
Smith and with Raskob denouncing
the fellow who said Hoover had oil
holdings in Latin America.
II n
The head of the national woman's
party would better try to help the
working women of the land, instead
of agonizing over the domicile law
which makes Gamma Walska pay
duty on her two million dollars
worth of diamonds.
The more one reads of the devil
ment of college students over the
land, the easier it is to understand
how Abraham Lincoln got along so
we'll without any higher education.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
BoSton'S Civic Pride

Boston is a monument to Ameri-
can sacrifice and achievement, a
living illustration Of the changes
that have taken place since Euro
peans landed on this continent and
of what those changes have cost.
1t began as a Puritan community.
1t now contains a polyglot popula-
ton with the foreign-born and those
born of foreign parentage in the
! ma ority.
Most curious of all, perhaps, its
earliest traditions survive. Boston
seems to possess a mystical power
of weaving people into its life, its
habits of thought and its back
ground, regardless Of where they
came from. No group of people are
more loyal to the city's past, or are
more jealous in safeguarding its tu-
ture than the Irish. They protect
its every landmark and tradition
with jealous care. Whenever bust
ness has tried to encroach on the
Common" for instance, as it has
on several occasions, Irish mayors
have fought to prevent it. To them
the work of the Winthrops, Win
slows and Endicotts is sacred. So,
too, are the churchyards and burial
plots where rest the men and wom-
en- of a bygone day.
Regardless of racial or religious
consciousness. Boston is dominated
by such a spirit of civic pride and
devotion as pervades no other city
in this country. That not only gives
it a personality, but explains why
it has been able to overcome so
many natural difficulties, and con-
tinues to occupy such prominent
place in social economic, and par
ticularly, educational affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

Editor Times-"Give Light and
the People Will Find Their Own
Way"-That is, when their vision
is not obscured by propaganda.
When the light shineth in dark
ness, the darkness comprehendeth
it not. When a corpulent man is
trying to reduce and the scales
show his weight 1891, he will ig-
more the half pound. Likewise the
lean man who has had a SIS bill
changed into silver before he takes
his daily invoice of his avoirdupois
forgets about the money in his
pocket and rejoices with exceed
ingly great Joy over his few ounces
of gain.
Having found my own way,
intend to keep on in the even tenor
of that way, even though it leads
through a wilderness where wild
beasts beset me on every hand
At the age of IA became an
ardent advocate of temperance. 1t
was not called prohibition then. !
lived on a farm and had neither
time nor money to call my own,
but was determined to raise so
cents, the fee required to become
member of a local Good Tenn
plars lodge.
Although living in a Methodist
neighborhood, I managed to dig
enough ginseng in the forest on
Sundays to raise 80 cents, then the
sale of a CASTOR pillow point to a
junk dealer brought the remainder
After becoming a member, our
lodge planned an old-fashioned
celebration and delegations from
other lodges and Sunday schools
from fan and near with flags, ban
ners and fife and drum corps at
tended in gala array. At our next
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

lodge meeting a brother preferred
charges against four young men
members for drinking sweet cider
just from the press at our late
celebration and recommended their
expulsion, but the lodge voted only
b mild reprimand.
I had partaken of the same bev-
erage and without thought of it
being wrong, but fortunately
escaped the fanatic brothers eagle
eye. AS I said, it was just sweet
cider and I can not see how what
was both just and sweet, could
hurt any one.
1t was warm weather and the
brother may have been afraid it
would ferment and create alcohol
after being swallowed. His actions
soon placed our lodge with the
relics of thespast. He later dis
covered that fanaticism is a poor
weapon with which to fight for the
promotion of any good cause.
Had he been prompted by the
real Christian spirit, he would not,
afterward, have gone to the other
extreme and shortened his earthly
career by drinking what was not
"just and sweet"
The conceited Pharisees who
thanked God that they were not
as other men called Jesus a wine
bibbler and a glutton, but the COM
mon (sense) people heard him
gladly. Fanatics all come in the
same class whether for or against.
Jesus invited the people to take
his light to the whole world. He
did not, like the slave master, force
them to wear it, and then load
them down with burdens too griev-
Gus to be borne.
Give light and the people, eX-
cepting fanatics, bigots and free
thinkers, will find their way illumi-
mated with divine understanding.
PETER. E. GRIMES.
4934 Broadway.
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charges that many of the original leases on the field
were obtained through fraud, threats and intimida-
tion," as charged in report by special assistant 10
The attorney general years ago. and that trans
actions surrounding the development were Saturated
with fraud"
The Salt Greek operation has been obscured in re-
cent years because of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills
scandals though the familiar figures of FALL Sin
clair, Backmer and Stewart were involved and
charges made from time time did not get the atten-
ton they might otherwise have.
1t is to be hoped however, that the senate commit
tee will get the whole story when congress reconvens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Economy BaIIy-Hoo

Governor Smith was justified in
ridiculing some of the economy"
arguments put forward in defense
of the Republican administration.
They are silly, if not misleading.
Service, rather than saving, has
come to be the gauge by which we
measure efficiency. The new bust
ness philosophy has taught us to
distrust "pennypinching.
What interests the people of this
country most is not the mere cost of
government, but whether they get
full value for their taxes. Not only
the nation, but states and cities, are
spending three or four times as
much as they did fifty years ago.
They are doing this because of a
well developed public demand for
increased service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

the same acid that
is in sour milk.
Growth a n d
multiplication is
a sign of life. Pas
t e u r concluded
that if he could
get a few of these
rod like things
into some known
liquid, he could
soon tell whether
they were alive or
not.
He made a mix
ture of pure sugar
and water and
placed q few OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN,
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and OF Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
A MONG the largest groups of
IA faddist visible on the Ameri-
can scene are the white bread fan
atics. They are probably exceeded
in number only by those who believe
that a bold bath every morning will
keep every one healthful.
Linked with the campaigns for
and against white bread are ire
mendous commercial interests.
The opponents Of white bread
say that it is a civilized food and
hence must be the cause of cancer.
since cancer is largely a disease of
civilization.
The evidence is not at all salts
factory that savages suffer less with
cancer than do civilized people.
Flour made of whole wheat con-
tains some of the vitamins in con-
siderably larger amount than does
white flour. 1t also contains rough
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
This Date i'm
u. S. History

Oct. 18-
154O-De Soto fought Indians in
southern Alabama.
Massachusetts limited Suf-
frage to church members.
destroyer Williams tried for
heresy.
1963-Gen. Grant assumed charge
of western armies.
1892-New k-Chicago telephone
service begun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Call PaStenr to Paris
No. 1874

DASTEUR set out to prove that the little mi
croscopc rod-like things he discovered in that vat
which would produce alcohol were living growing
things.
He set out to prove that just as the yeast gobues
in the healthy watts produced alcohol so these things
in the sick watts caused the production of Tactic acid
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18
Daily Thoughts

Is there no balm in GiIead? Is
there no physician there?-Jere-
miah 1922.
4
GIVING comfort under affection
NJ requires that penetration into
the human mind, joined to that ex-
perience which knows how to
soothe, how to reason and how to
ridicule; taking the utmost care
never to apply those arts improp-
erly.-Fielding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

An inspired headline writer announced that the
Byrd south pole trip will reveal the last of the worlds
great secrets Aha! the reason why pedestrian tries
to beat an automobile at the intersection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-18

A wife, her mother and her grandmother sued for
divorces in the same week. If they all married
to the same man, that would be news.
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Apple growers now urge everyone to eat two apples
a day. Probably the theory is that the more doctor
you keep away the better.
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Questions and
AnSZOe7.S


Editor The Indianapolis Times Wash
ington Bureau, 1922 New YORK Ave-,
stamps for reply: Medical and legal
questions will receive a personal reply.
nsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters ti,s are conhdeptiai You ar. are
What does the annual expOrta-
ton of motorcycles from the United
States amount OF?
Twenty-Five thousand six hundred
and seventy motorcycles were ex-
ported from the United States in
the calendar year 1926 and 14,469
in the calendar year 1927.
Who wrote the books of poems
entitled Indians Love Lyrics" and
"Stars of the Desert?"
The author is Laurence Hope,
which is a pseudonym for Mrs.
Adela Florence (Cary) Nicholson.
How many Greeks are there In
the United States?
According to the 1920 census the
Greek population of the United
States was 221,76
What is the meaning of the name
Schwartz?
It is German and means black.
What is pebble POWDER"
A gunpowder prepared in cubes
or prisms, sometimes as large as
two inches on a side. 1t is slow
burning; also called cube powder
and prismatic powder.
What is the weight Of a bushel
of wheat?
Sixty pounds.
What is the average yield per
acre of wheat and rye in the United
States?
Preliminary figures for 1926
showed the yield of wheat an acre
in the United States was 14,7 BUSH
ers and of rye ia bushels.
Is Babe Ruth a native born
American?
Yes. He was born in Baltimore,
Md, Feb. Z, 1894.
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Fish are fond of music, professor discovers. JUS
as you've suspected in the night clubs.
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Times Readers Voice Viez0S

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution but
ters not exceeding zoo words win receive
preference.
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David Dietz on Science
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Is Babe Ruth native born
American?
Yes. He was born in Baltimore,
Md, Feb. z, 1894.