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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-06

You'll find it in Dispatch want-ads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Issues Overlooked

There are more people than the
farmeS in need Of relief, and there
are more problems to be solved
than those centering around the
McNary- Haugen bill, Muscle Shoals
or even the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
The really wonderful thing about
politics is the issues it overloks. 1t
settles little that is old and recog-
nizeS less that is new.
Take the present campaign. for
instance, and what are we talking
about that we have not been talk
ing about the last fifty years.
Daniel Webster could not drive an
auto, or turn on an electric light il
he were to come back, unless some
one showed him how. but he would
experience little difficulty in max
ing a good political speech on any
of the questions up for discussion.
Even Thomas jefferson would find
himself quite at home, though not
wholly on the Democratic side, per-
hapS.
In other lines, we yield to in
novation and improvement but in
politics we sing the same old tune.
When was prosperity not an argu-
ment, or the tariff not an issue?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Need New Calendar

Just the same, if an admin
1stration wanted to do something
for the common good, something
that would cost little and save much,
something that it could point to
with pride and that no one else
could view with alarm, there is
nothing safer to tackle than the
Julian calendar and the existing
system of weights and measures.
Yet, who looks for our big
broad-minded, sympathetic, for
ward-looking statesmen, with their
solicitude for the dear people"
and their stupendous grasp of pub
lie affairs, to recognize such prob
lens, much less solve them?
We shall get a revised calendar
of course, and the metric system, but
not through politics. We shall get
them, just as we have gotten most
other worthwhile. constructive i'm
provements through the efforts of
public-spirited citizens, who, want
nothing and seek nothing except
progress. This, too, inspite of the
fact that the Government is the
only authority that can revise the
calendar, or establish a new system
of weights and measures, and that
the problem involved in each case is
clearly one of politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Lazy Statesmen

Pleading the platforms and listen
ing to the speeches, who would guess
that we had abandoned the OK cart,
or that the originality and progress
which share revolutionized industry
mean anything to statecraft?
For years I have waited to hear
some forward-looking statesman
suggest that the calendar needs re-
VIKING, or that the metric system
should be adopted.
Forward looking statesmen seem
to have no time for such novelties.
They are more interested in sched-
ule 'K," or personal liberty as rep
resented by pint of hootch.
The idea of relieving 10000, 900
children from six months or so of
headache by simplifying arithmetic
and establishing a uniform system
of weights and measures does not
appeal to them.
They are sympathetic and for
economy, but one gathers that they
do not like to tread unfamiliar
grounds when searching for wise
cracks and platitudes. One gathers
that they prefer to talk about mat
tiers on which they can find phrases
to repeat and plenty of figures al
ready compiled.
The calendar and arithmetic
would make pretty dry stuff on the
stump for exactly the same reason
that they make pretty dry stuff for
school children and business men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Mrs. Caldwell Should RESIGN

Hoover hardly could be more emphatic and con-
vincing than he is in his statement condemning the
circular of the Virginia Republican national commit
tee woman This direct appeal to religious prejudice,
sent out the leterhead of the Republican national
committee is easily the most vicious manifestation Of
the campaign thus far
1t deserved the quick and angry reputation by the
candidate which it received. Certainly nothing he
has said or done since the day of his nomination
could have led any oyer-eXcited campaign worker to
think he would tolerate any such action in his behalf
There remains, however, step that should be
taken. Mrs. Willie W. Caldwell should resign as ma
tonal committee woman. If she fails to do so VOL
UNFAIRLY Chairman Work should call for her resgna-
ton.
True Mrs. Caldwell has joined in the Reputation
the letters contents saying that the Objectionable
phraseology was not her own, but that of some I'M
named secretary But this Reputation after she
first tacy had admitted authorship of the letter
whole, including specifically the sentence reading,
'NIr Hoover himself and the national committee are
depending on the to save our country in this
hour of very vital moral religious crisis"
Surely there no longer any place for her on the
Republican party's national board of directors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
DYING Too Costly

A member of the New York health
department pleads for the reduction
of funeral expenses. There will be
millions to second his motion.
If anything. the cost of dying has
gone up farther and faster than
the cost of living.
1t now takes from $500 to $400
to get a respectable good burial any
where in this country.
That is a lot of money consider
ing what people get for it.
Style plays big part. You hear
almost as much about it when you
buy a coffin as when you rig up
for dinner dance.
Every aspect of the ceremony has
been professionalism. Undoubtedly
the ceremony has been improved,
but in no respects so greatly as in
the bill.
Other countries-notably Russia
and Germany-have felt obliged to
curb the personal liberty of under
takers. If the bill keeps mounting
we may have to follow their ex-
ample.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

died in 1928 His successor born in northern Italy
in 1929 He was Lazzaro SpalanZani.
Science always has been international. No one ma
ton can lay claim to than share Of the great
names in science.
We shall see the trail of the mcrobe hunters carry
ing us around the world France, Germany, England,
Japan our own United States each will contribute
great names to the story.
Spalanzani seems to have been born with a love Of
science AS boy he spent much time studying the
stars that his playnates named him the "astrooger
He loved to study trees and flowers and birds and
insects. On holidays he would go for long walks
through the woods.
But his father wanted the boy to be a lawyer and
sent him to school to study law
Like dutful young Lazzaro studied law, but
he spent all his spare time reading mathematics and
natural history.
Then one day, he was student at the Uni
versity of Reggie he called upon Valsner of the
great scientists of the day.
The impressed with the boys knowledge
and told him that he would make great scientist.
Then Lazzaro told him that his father insisted
upon the study of law.
So Vallisnieri called upon the boys father and told
him what great scientist he would make.
The father consented, and Lazzaro returned to the
university to begin his scientist 1t was not
many years before he embarked upon his of
microbe hunting, for when he 80 years old he was
made 3 professor at the University OF Reggie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

him and his ailing mother, he slept
on a dirty mattress, clad only in a
soiled sheet. Furthermore, he slept
between his mother and his father,
shutting him off from the good air
he craved and needed.
Think of the luxury that Michael
has at last! His own bed-even if it
is a bread carton-f1lled with soft
pillows, his own clothes and his own
comforts and wrappingsl And clean.
sweet, healthy airl
No, Michael wouldn't be wishful
about those pink-lined basinets Of
other babies. He's got just as good!
His nurse has solved the matter for
him. Her interested auxiliary of
women has provided clothing and
clean pillows and things, her grocer
gave him the box, his brother donat-
ed the skates. and, best Of all, nurse
herself is giving him the excellent
care and attention Of thoroughly
trained nurse through
YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Calcium Is Important Item i'm the Diet

require more calcium since the child
draws on the mothers supply for
the growth of its skeleton.
In the same way nursing moth
ers require additional calcium so
that the child may secure a suff1-
cient amount in the milk.
The child of from to 10 years
requires about twice as much cal
cium as the average adult namely
about 100 of an ounce each day.
Calcium is to be had in the diet
in many forms, but is supplied
particularly by milk. 1t occurs,
of course, in vegetable foods, but
the milk calcium appears to be
in what is called an easily utiliza-
BILE form; namely, it is more easily
handled by the digestive processes
of the body.
1t has been found, Of course,
that milk products also contain
considerable quantities of call
cium, this substance being re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
M. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
II Anything, the Cost of
Dying Has Gone Up Far
Their and Faster Than the
Cost of LiUing'
SAYS

EORTY Chinese thieves, disguised
L as ordinary travellers, board a
British ship at Singapore. When
the ship is nicely at sea, they stage
a show that would delight Conrad's
heart. killing three officers, wound
ing the captain, robbing the 1.4O0
passengers and getting away with
100000 worth of loot.
1t reads like a page from the
seventeenth century, and that is ex-
actly what it is. These particular
orientals, and millions more like
them, have gotten nothing out of
their contact with modern civiliza-
ton, except a few deadly weapons.
They can kill more prof1ciently
than their forebears. But their ideas
of when and whom to kill remain
the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every constitution but
on request will not be published Ley
ters not exceeding 200 words Will receive
preference.
Editor Times: Al Smith, in one
of his recent western speeches,
stated that under the cloak OF
Tammany hall many Republicans
we're opposing him on the grounds
of his religious belief. This I'M
doubtedly is true. A good many
people do not believe that a Cath
olic should be elected to the presi-
dency in spite of the fact that our
Constitution provides, Art. 6, CT. 3,
mo religious test ever shall be re-
uuired as a qualification to any
office or public trust under the
United States"
During the late war no religious
test was required of those called
upon to serve, to bleed and to die
for their country's glory. Despite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Reason

II UROPEAN nations will roar over
T. this weeks heated denials that
the head and tail of the Republican
ticket have not had drink OF
liquor.
This definitely establishes Mr..
Hoover and Mr.. Curtis as the two
humps of the camel, but you will
notice one thing that is very omi-
nous-Mr. Curtis makes no promise
for the future, and thereby hanbs
tale.
The vice presidency would drive
any man to drink.
It's the only public station whose
occupant generally is so regarded
as having passed away that they
put up his marble bust during his
term of officel
All he can do is just sit there and
fight cobwebs.
The Senate should adopt a rule
permitting vice presidents to knit
socks for the Red Cross-anything
to keep them from becoming NOR
bid.
We hope this new man, Mr.. Emil
Ito Portes Gil, makes a good presi-
dent for Mexico, but he sounds more
like 15-cent cigar.
He's friendly fellow, and he
works fast; he Rugged all the
American men the very first day
but then there's something about
a newspaper man that just natu-
rally makes everybody fall in love
with him!
There has been an unusually
heavy demand for legal separations
among our motion picture immor-
tails the last sixty days.
The Hollywood health note for
the screen actor is-A divorce a
day keeps obscurity away!
Miss Lauder, Gene Tunney's
flance, goes to Europe with $4,000
worth of clothes.
With $4,000 worth Of nothing at
all, the average American girl could
show Europeans some scenery which
would make them forget all about
the Alps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

II RNEsT COOLIDGE, Wisconsin
II farmer and the Presidents
cousin, has just won the COW call
ing prize at county fair.
The history of the United States
shows few relationships in which
greatness became such an epidemic.
This is going to be terribly lone
some winter for the farmers of the
midwest. Now they're the bellies
of the political ball, all the candi-
dates crowding round to mark their
programs, but after the election the
happy function will be over, the
candidate will go to Washington
and form other attachments and
the farmers will sit, contemplate
the icy world, listen to the mortage
drawing interest-and sadly hum
after the Ball Is Over"
We know of no reason why Sec
rotary Mellon should be permitted
to have that cellar full Of booze,
bunless he has become a minister Of
some kind and uses the stuff for
sacramento purposes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

tanned when the milk is changed
into cheese, with the additional
factor that cheese is a more con-
centrated form Of food.
One and six-tenths cubic inches
of American cheese contains twenty
times as much calcium as fouH
ounces of lean beef and twelve
times as much calcium as one egg
yolk.
There are two types of cheese,
sour milk cheeses, such as cottage
cheese and the rennet cheeses,
which include most of the others.
Swiss cheese has fourteen times
as much calcium as has cottage
cheese, weight for weight. There
fore, all cheese must not be con-
sidered as equally valuable in
supplying calcium.
Cheese is q concentrated food
and is best used when combined
with bread, crackers and other
substances which promote thor
ough chewing before swallowing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Now the Noigeless Street Car

The noiseIess street car. We knew it would come.
1t lust had to- With rubber-tired buses creeping
peacefully along on highways the laundering,
8creeching, fat-wheeled electric tram has become
aNlbsolete. Also nuisance
- From Cleveland comes the news that at the
bnual convention Of the American Electric Rail-
|Seay Association car with noiseess wheels was
shown Between the fange and the inner rim of
the wheel is a section of rubber, said to take up
vibration and to still the clatter the tracks. And
the car shown reduced in weight to half the
weight of the car generally used.
Car lines are feeling the effects of the competition
not only of the motor bus but of the fleets of
driven fivvers If they to survive they must not
only be stiled, but must give better and more COM
Portable carriage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN,


ONE of the substances most
" needed in the human dietary
is calcium, the substance response
BILE for the building of bones and
teeth, as we'll as for many other
functions.
1t is concerned in the general
handling of mineral elements. in
the actions of the muscles and Of
the heart, in the use of iron, and
in the stability Of the nervous sys-
TEN.
Unless the body has sufficient
calcium, bones do not develop
properly and there may be con-
fractions of the large bones and
stunted growth.
The average adult person requires
about O.45 grams of calcium per
day, which is only about 1-6O Of an
ounce.
Women who are having children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

TINE President has not denied
L that he will become the head
of the American Telephone Com
pany after March 4.
Looking over his life the tele-
phone company found that Mr..
Coolidge has held public Office ever
since he was 81 and naturally they
were strongly attracted by gen
tleman who never once in all his
life left his receiver down!
n
It looks like somebody somewhere
along the line purposedly had left
a technical gate open so Loeb and
Leopold could get out.
If this comes to pass, it will dis
credit courts more with decent peo-
pie than any other thing that has
occurred in America in fifty years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Dietz on Science -
Microbes Are Hunted
No. 1863

"A NToNY LEEUWENHOEK the Dutch janitor who
n made finer microscopes than any one before him
discovered the existence of microbes But when Leu
wenhoek died it looked though microbes would re-
man nothing more than a scientific curiosity.
For neither Leeuwenhoek nor the member of the
Royal Society," to whom he communicated his discovery
seemed to have the slightest idea of the role played
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Shades of a baby basinetl


What would small Michael say If
he could see and mediate upon the
luxury of other wee things folded
lovingly away in their down-t1lled
coverlets, lying in their silken-lined,
cream-colored hand-painted, care
fully shade baby basinets that wheel
about noiselessly on rubber tires!
Doubtless he'd laugh heartily,
since he's that way, cuddled there
in his cardboard box, manfully
stenciled all over with large red and
black BREAD signs! And certainly
the only comment he might bethink
himself of would be:
Say, Nom, how about putting a
little oil on brothers skates so this
box will roll around more quietlyP"
Maybe you won't believe it, but
N1ichael's box is a luxury compared
to what he had to tolerate at first.
Until the Public Health Nursing AS
ISOLATION nurse came to look after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Times Readers Voice Vices

the fact that the United States
was, at that time, about one-siXth
Catholic, the records Of the War
Department show that approx
mate 40 per cent of the United
States Army and 60 per cent Of the
Navy were Catholic. If Catholic
is good enough to fight for his
country, why should he be denied
the privilege of holding the highest
office within the gift of the nation?
The United States never has had
a Catholic President out Of the
thirty that have held that office.
According to population there
should have been five. Much of
the opposition to AL Smith because
of his religion has come from
Protestant minister sand bishops,
many of whom have left their
churches and their pulpits to travel
over the country preaching, instead
of the word of God, nothing but
religious bigotry and intolerance.
Christ drove the traders from
the Jewish temple with the words,
"This is a house Of God and you
have made it a den of thieves. "
Verify many of the Protestant
houses of God today are being
made a cesspool of politics. The
Catholic churches on the other
hand never have and are not now
taking any part in politics today.
AL Smith has made New York
a good Governor, as is evidenced
by the fact that he was sent back
three times to guide the destiny
of that commonwealth. He never
has permitted his religion to inter
fere with the administration of the
affairs of that office and there is
no reason to believe that he would
change his policies if elected Presi-
dent. TOLERANT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

by microbes in
the drama of
life. And ap-
parently t h er e
was no one with
the skill or in
terest to carry
on LIE e u W e n
hooks wtrk at
the time.
His successor
t h e second of
the microbe
h u n t erS, was
born a few years
after the Dutch
janitor's death.
LeeuWenhoek
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
This Date in,
L. S. Hist

October /
1800-Spain coded Louisj
France.
1864-Price Of gold dollar
$1.93.
1867-New York Legislatu
all public schools FRI
1890-Congress changed
err bureau from TIL
partment to the ]
of Agriculture.
1892-Chicago University
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
Daily Thoughts

To give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning
the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness.-Isaiah 61:6.
n y
THE sweetest of all sounds is
i braise.-Xenophon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

What will be the combined weight
of four pounds of fish in eight
pounds of water?
Twelve pounds, if no portion Of
the water overf1ows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

Philadelphia district attorney says he discovered
that a police captain, drawing $3.50 a month, has
banked $4,000 in four months time Just the man,
obviously to help Mr.. Coolidge out with that $4,000
600 deficit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

LEANING ON EVERYONE
THE PRESIDENTS DOG
q
THEY ALL HAVE A SHOW
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

Edna Ferber, vexed by the customs officers search
at the pier. is campaigning for Al Smith If
you've had to stand in the street cars your way
DOWNTOWN, it looks as th9lgh AIS your man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

With It's splendid aims, don't you suppose Chi
cago should be the greatest place In the world for
finishing schools?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01

David Dietz on
Evening star., 1928-05-19
PLAN TO OVERRIDE
PRESIDENTS VETO
Senators 0ddie and Jones to
Fight for Bills Among
Eight Rejected.

The authors of two bills in the Sem
ate which we're vetoed yesterday when
President Coolidge rejected eight re-
Gently passed bills of minor character
announced that they will ask for votes
to override the President.
The Senators are Oddie, Republican,
of Nevada, author of a measure to ap-
propriate $500 900 for roads on pub
lie domain and Indian reservations, and
Jones, Republican of Washington. au-
thor of bill to permit Indians in his
State to file claims against the Govern
ment in the Court of Claims.
Other Measures Vetoed.
The other six vetoed measures origi-
mated in the House That chamber was
busily engaged when the Presidents
message arrived, and its reading was
put off until tomorrow. Two of the
House measures related to postal en-
ployes.
One would have granted to those as
| signed to night duty an additional 10
per cent of their hourly pay. Another
would have granted allowances to
! fourth class poStmaSters for rent, fuel
| light and equipment.
| A third House BILL. in addition to
co-ordinating the health activities of
| the Government. would have set up a
nurses corps in the Public Health
| Service.
Promotion Asked.
| OF the others one would have pro-
NOTED Capt. George r. Armstrong, re-
| tired. to a lieutenant colonel on the re-
| tired list and another would have given
| hearing before a retiring board to
Edmund f. Hubbard. former captain
| in the Regular Army.
| e~-----
Evening star., 1928-05-19
FUND TO COMBAT CANCER
APPROVED BY SENATE
Neely's Bill Passed Authorizing
$5O,OCo Appropriation for Sci
ence and Health Services.

The Nicely bill authorizing $4,000
for the Public Health Service and the
National Academy OF Sciences to conf
bat cancer i'll this country was passed
by the Senate late yesterday.
Arguing for the bill Senator Nicely,
Democrat. West Virginia called atten-
ton to the degree to which science
had won control over other diseases
and said cancer remains the uncon-
querahle and defiant foe of the human
race" He gave figures showing that
from 1850 to 1923, the cancer death
rate In Great Britain increased more
than 49, per cent and that from 1921
to 1926, the annual cancer death rate
In the United States mounted from
Sc in each 100000 population TO 94.9.