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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

take Off from a steamers open deck-are less ap
pealng than the great canvas wings of the old Fly
ing Cloud?
Speedy ships are in the American tradition. The
captain of an old square-rigger would never care
greatly for the Flooding voyages Of an ordinary
steam freighter; but he could not fail 60 grow
thusasc over one, Of these thrty-hve-knot YES
sells. Long, slim hus built for knitting through the
wayes-these the dtimer could understand and ap-
preciate.
The method has changed, but not the spirit. The
liner speeding the Atlantic express-train
speed driven to the utmost Of its capabilities hurting
airplanes at the distant shore in order to clip few
hours from its Schedule-this is, truly, the lineal
descendant of the famous clipper, whose shippers
carried upper opsaiS when rival vessels were hoveto
and drove their vessels with eversh eageness that
made Yankee speed famous the world over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Racing the Wind

If the ghosts of the old-time Yankee sea captains
still hover around the wharves of our saltwater pors
as some maintain it is to be hoped that they read
the daily papers.
They would be interested we believe, in the stories
about the new ships which American builders are
Manning for the transatlantic trade interested
even though they might not be willing to admit that
these projected ships would have anything at all III
common with the graceful, white-winged clippers OF
the old days.
If present plans 60 through ten or more huge
ships will be built Each ship will be capable OF
crossing the Atlantic in four days. Upper decks and
superstructures will be copied after those groteSque
warships, the Saratoga and Lexington and each ship
will carry its own feet of airplanes.
The old-timers, we repeat wouldn't admit it; but
these Ships nevertheless will be the lineal descend
ants of the famous clippers of old. In them the idea
that was back Of the clippers will be carried to its
logical concusonand the ghosts OF the larry
old sea dogs will come into their own again
Up until century ago, speed was the last quality
one looked for in merchant ship. The picturesque
gaeons of SPAIN with towering poopS and tub-shaped
underbodes, needed stiff gale, as Conrad said to
move at all; and though the Dutch and English i'm
proved on these models, their ships were still bluff
bowed and wasided built to plod along at the dizzy
speed of four knots if the wind favorable. Trad
Then, about 100 years ago, came change. Mer-
camille competition became keener and the shipper
who could get his cargo there first was the shipper
who made the money. American and British deS
signers began narrowing the body lines and mprov-
ing sail areas Incredibly beautiful and speedy ships
resulted; such vessels as Donald McKay's famous
Sovereign Of the Seas coudd maintain speed OF
twenty knots an hour if the wind held good.
But the wind did not always hold good, and snip
pers discovered that steamships, less graceful and
less speedy, could make better time because OF their
independence of the weather SO the clippers became
obsolete and in few years square sail had practi-
cally vanished
With the passing Of the clippers passed the ro-
nance Of shipping 1t is hard to thrill over rusty
steamer. with her dungareed crew and her trailing
cloud Of black smoke The risks Of seafaring ebbed,
but so did the picturesqueness. Utility conquered
romance.
But now 1t appears that the urge that brought the
clippers into existence is operating again. Once more
ships will take wings And who will say that the
modern wings-speedy arplaneS that alight and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Grieve ExpanSiveIy

The reasons assigned for the
mounting cost of funerals are clear
and understandable. There is de-
creased death rate, an increased
number of undertakerS and dis
position to grieve eXpansively, which
means extensively.
But when all this is said and
done, what are we going to do about
it? Certainly, we are not going to
advocate an increased death rate,
and crowded as the profession may
be. it is doubtful if many of the
undertakers will consent to abandon
it voluntarily.
That leaves the expansive and
expensive grieving as the one pos
Sibility Of curtailment. But what Is
the use of prosperity if one cannot
show it off a little at the end?
When you get down to brass tacks,
the cost of dying is much like the
cost of living. 1t depends on the
standard.
There never was civilization that
ate we'll and dressed we'll, but what
buried its dead we'll. 1t is only
natural that we should give orr
relatives and friends a farewell in
keeping with what they have known
and enjoyed here. The cost is 4
part Of the ceremony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
What Other Editors Think

plants urging him on and offering
assistance it was natural for one
of his disposition and experience
to think all Indianapolis was wait
ing for his newspaper to appear.
Duvall put up 100000 and city
employees responded to his call
with $4,000 more. The paper ran
six weeks and stopped publication
for lack Of money to pay wages
and salaries. Now, in winding up
the conpany's affairs it is made
known the assets are $109, 1925,
and the liabilities $53,460.30. In
all probability the assets will not
much more than cover the liabil-
tiles by the time the receivership
is wound up.
All of which means that for
the pleasure Of conducting a
wholly political newspaper for
some six weeks Duvall paid close
to 100000. And for this money
Duvall got nothing. Shortly
after the newspaper went out
T,uvall resigned as mayor. A fine
example of how a newspaper can
not be established and even if
established what little good it can
do an unworthy Office holder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Cost of Funerals

One of the latest and most unique
surveys deals with funeral expenses,
It took two years, cost the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company
$4,000, was conducted by q COM
mittee of distinguished citizens
and involved the study of more
than $4,000 burial bills.
1t proves conclusively that
funerals have gone up in price. Most
people have suspected something of
the sort but they are very glad to
have their suspicious confirmed in
such a convincing and authoritative
manner.
The survey also shows that it cost
more to die in the East than in the
West, in the North than in the
South, in the city than in the
country, which is something else
that most people suspected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Emphasis ON Character

Poverty is a great disciplinarian,
There is nothing like hard work to
make people decent. Those who
have To scratch for what they get.
lack energy to be vicious.
They may be dull and narrow.
but they face little risk OF de-
generacy.
It requires more intelligence and
self-control for rich people to lead
clean, useful lives than for those
who are poor. Americas task is to
meet this requirement.
It would be a shame II the wealth
and vitality of this nation were to
be wasted away in senseless amuse-
ment, yet that can happen, just as
it has happened before if the right
kind of leadership Is not developed.
Hitherto, our educational system
has emphasized ability as the all
important object. From now on it
must emphasize character.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

It is a difficulty which will make
many a theologian sweat; how can
the mind act upon the body ex-
cept through contact and how can
anything have contact with a body
unless it IS itself body?
Emotions, which are usually as
signed to the soul, are obviously
bodily conditions.
Emotion has its seat fixed in the
middle region of the breast; here
throb fear and apprehension; about
these spots dwell soothing joys;
therefore here is the real under
standing or mind of man.
All the rest of the soul, dis
seminated throughout the body
obeys and moves at the will and in
clination of this visceral mind"
n n
CIMILARLY, sensation is a ma
- terial process; every object sends
out particles whose infringement
upon our senses causes the sensa-
ton "the outermost surface is ever
treaming Of from things"
This will become fashionable
science, as radioactivity, after
twenty centuries.
Newton will explain light as the
emanation Of material particles from
the object upon the Ietina; Young
and a thousand physicists will con-
flute him; and the lapse of time will
bring students back to the Newton
ian-Lucretian- Epicurean- Democri-
team view.
So scientific ''verities" are like hats,
which will come into fashion If they
are patiently preserved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

matters of voluntary relief and in
accord with the military ard naval
authorities as a medium Of com
munication between the American
people and their Army and Navy;
to continue and carry on system
of national and international re-
lief in time of peace and to apply
the same in mitigating the suffer
ing caused by pestilence, famine
fire, floods, and other great ma
tional calamities, and to devise ano
carry on measures Of preventing the
same"
When was the first subway con-
Structed and where?
In London, England in 1858. II
was two track road from Edgeware
to Kings Cross. From this begin
ming there was finally produced two
lines known as Metropolitan rail-
way and the Metropolitan district
railway, the greater part Of which
was constructed prior to 1870.
Can an alien who was admitted
to this country as a visitor. and
who OverStays his visit without
proper authorization become a citi-
zen of the United States?
He is not a legal resident and
can not become a citizen unless he
leaves the country and re-enters
in accordance with the immigration
law and stays the required time
thereafter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
DISTINGUISHING Indiana Voters

Unless SEINE change cohee iH1o the political
plans of Senator James Eli Hatson, the Re-
publican voters of this State will be dis
franchised insofar as taking any real part in
the election of the next President is concerned
Reports from Washington state that the
Senator has succeeded in arranging with the
political managers of the real candidates for
the presidential nomination for clear field for
his ''favorite son" trick of obtaining the dele
gates from Indiana of his own selection.
With the probabilities in favor Of Re-
publican victory in November, this means that
the men and women of this State who vote the
Republican ticket will have voice in the
selection of the convention and vote for the
candidate named there.
No matter how much they may desire
Hoover or Iowden or Curtis, they will be at
the mercy of Watson when he gets ready to
trade the Indiana delegates for his own polit-
zeal advantage.
There is something grotesquely humorous IN
Watson clearing the primaries OF any real
candidates under the plea that he IS the
'favorite SON. of Indiana.
~A~
iudred to some extent by the last election,
wherein he barely escaped defeat under cir
cumstances and conditions which invited con-
tests and Investigations as to the methods used
at the ballot box.
The law provides that voters may register
their preference for President
That law was intended to prevent the very
thing which is now happening. 1t was de-
signed to keep politicians from dealing and
bargaining with delegates in national con-
ventions. 1t was designed to let the people
pick their own President.
That Senator Watson seriously believes
that the Nation would accept him as its Presi-
dent or that he has any decisions that Indiana
looks upon him as favorite son is beyond
imagination.
His own party under his leadership has
gone into moral bankruptcy.
His present efforts to save it from complete
overthrow and defeat IS giving little luster
to his reputation.
But because of traditions among preslden-
tial candidates he has pre-empted the Held In
Indiana and is bargaining now with the other
aspirants for the nomination to stay away
from Indiana and disfranchise the voters OF
his own party.
If Watson really believes he is of presiden-
tial calber, if he really believes that he is the
favorite son of his own party he would brayely
invite every other Republican candidate for
the presidency to come into the lists and get
all the votes they can.
To ho docs not he admits weakness and fear.
If he does, the result might be surprising.
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LnCYgtinS Rejects immortality
Written for The Times By VIII Durant

Since the soul shares the ma
terial structure of the body, it grows
with it, and with it decays.
There is no immortality.
What Shall the dateless worlds in dust
Back to the aforementioned and unknown
And this, frail Thou-this fame OF yes
Burn on forlorn. immortal and aloneP
Did Nature, in the nurseries Of the night,
Tend 1t for this-Nature whose needless
Like some poor shipwrecker sailor takes
And casts il bleating on the shores of
lghtS7
What is it therep cry is all 1t is
It knows not If its limbs be yours or his
Less than that cry the babe was yesterday
The man tomorrow shall be less than this.
Tissue by tissue to a soul he grows
As leaf by leaf the rose becomes the rose,
Goes from the bubbles when they burst,
he goes.
Flakes on the water, on the water ceasel
Soul Of the body, melt and sleep like these
Atoms to atomS-weariness to rest
Ashes to aShes-hopes and fears to peace"
In truth Lucretius rejects immor-
tality for that same reason which
makes most of lis long for it; the
fear of death.
He takes quite as seriously as his
enemies the thought of another
world. but he has not found life
so smooth and sweet as to wish for
its eternity.
He does not believe in hell, ex-
cept as synonym for our exist
ence on the earth; and since death
does not cast us into Hades, it
ceases to be an evil, and may be
met with a certain philosophical
superiority.
Copyright, 1928. by VIII Durant)
(TO Be Continued)
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Bossy ellis says that he never ex-
pected to become a national figure.
Maybe he hasn't Maybe he has al
lowed himself to be surprised too
soon. Other young men have jumped
into the headlines for week or a
month only to see them fade just
as quickly.
Shouts and applause do not mean
very much, except as an outlet for
leisure time.
We have to have something to
while away those empty minutes, and
what is better than a real novelty,
such as the mayor of a New Eng-f
land town. who makes profanity
fashionable in the newspapers?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

COUL and mind are evolved with
- the body. and are material as
the body itself.
For when the soul is seen to move
the limbs or rouse the body from
sleep, or alter the countenance, or
guide and turn about the whole
man; and when we see that none
of these effects can take place with
out touch, nor touch without body,
must we not admit that the mind
and the soul are of a bodily
nature?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

1.-THE American College, says
Owen D. Young, must prepare
students to use advantageously the
leisure time which the machine age
has provided and will continue to
provide increasingly That is a real
idea.
Prosperity tests the worth OF q
people, or civilization, like nothing,
else.
Mechanical power has made
prosperity more dangerous than
ever.
This is not the first time thar
people have acquired a sufficient de-
gree Of prosperity to provide spare
time and cash, but 1t is the first
time they have been so widely dis
tributed.
In Rome under the Caesars, in
Spain under Philip II, in France
under Louis XIV, there are spare
time and cash, but only for a few.
The fact that those few were able
to create such havoc should be a
warning to us.
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One of the men, perhaps accident
ally, shot a hen, the property Of
a nearby farmer. What cid the
Governor do? Why, next day, I'M
known to the others. he looked up
the owner of the fowl and paid
for it.
Governor Jackson is a pleasant
man to meet and many things can
be said in his favor. But the
proper place to say them is in
court when the case gets started.
Gary Post Tribune
The interesting financial eX-
perience of John Duvall, late
mayor Of Indianapolis, during a
brief six weeks newspaper expert
ence deserves something more
than passing notice.
Duvall, like many embryo poll
ticians, imagined the newspapers,
all of them, we're not giving him
a square deal and being in the
high and mighty political Office he
then occupied he thought it would
be an easy matter to start a paper.
Duvall, being bland and child
like, did not know that thousands
of others had had the same idea.
And being surrounded by syco-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Nation of HandCIappers

AS a people we know how to earn
money. Our weakness lies in the
way we spend it. To a measurable
extent, we are becoming crowd of
spectators, lookers-on, of hand
clappers.
Our physical culture is too largely,
matter of watching some one else
go through the motions at so much
a seat.
Prosperity has done nothing so
distinctly as to teach us how not to
take a part in sports.
The good thing about golf is that
You have to play it to get any en-
joyment out OF it. The bad thing
about baseball and football is that
you do not.
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; liking: O.
queen Jack; X-any card lower
than 10.)
I. If by making a certain play you
can make four and game, should
you risk another play where you
might make five or only three?
2. At what stage of play should
you try to prevent opponents from
game?
3. Declarer bids one no trump.
Partner bids diamonds. Declarer
holds A K x in diamonds, what
should declarer bid?
The Answers
1. Make the four.
2. Earliest opportunity.
3. Three no trump.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Popularity of SURVEYS

Surveys have become popular,
which is something else that might
be explained on the theory of spare
time and cash. When we cannot
think of anything else to do, we
generally can find a business, sit
uation or a problem that needs to be
surveyed.
The occupation is not only legiti-
mate but occasionally informing.
Besides that, it provides work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

l. The idea Of letter golf is to
change one word to another and do
it in par, a given number of strokes.
Thus to change COW to HEN, in
three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW,
HEN.
2. You can change only one letter
at time.
8. You must have a complete word
Of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not be
changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

Changing Of the name Garfield
Ave. to Grant st. was protested to-
day by a resident in a letter to Mr..
Fixit.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: A few days ago work
men removed street signs on Garfield Ave.
and replaced them by new signs changing
to read Grant ST..
This street has been known as Garfield
since it was laid out and am appealing
to at least twenty-five property owners
in two blocks who are bitterly opposed to
this change. I wish you would see what
READER.
The name OF Garfield Ave. was
changed to Grant st. some time ago
by the city council and the change
of signs is just being made, accord
ing to John E. King, former council
man, now with the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company.
King said the change was order
ed on request of the Indianapolis
postofice because Of confusion in
mail delivery. Your only course of
action would be to persuade the
council to order the name changed
to Garfield.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02


Editor Of The Times: Roy M.
Swartz, president Of the Sherman
Emerson Civic League Federation of
the Community City Clubs, at the
Chamber Of Commerce Friday night,
Jan. 81, said it appeared that civil
service may be reinstated after most
Of the Republicans are replaced by
Democrats.
He quoted the mayor as having
expressed approval of re-establish-
ing at some time civil service for all
officers in both departments below
the rank of captains. Officers above
this rank are executives and should
be appointed by the mayor.
I have been a member of the In
dianapolis police force more than
twelve years and have never held a
promotion. I wish to state that
civil service as conducted in the In
dianapolis police department in the
past has q tendency to demoralize
the department. Should look on
until the political pets are promoted
then as has been done in the past?
We are told suddenly now If the
rest of you want to go up you can
take the civil service examination"
The stronger your politician is in
this examination the higher your
grade will be-
Civil service. the way it has been
conducted in Indianapolis, is the
strong arm of the politician to pro-
tect his friends as long as possible.
You will have to find something
better If you want to fool the poll
tician. There are other problems
our civic leaders should not over
look in our city government which
should not be left in the dark by
giving the police and fire depart
ment the front page always. There
is class Of people in this city that
think the police and fire depart
ments are the whole city govern
ment. These departments will take
care Of themselves if left alone.
Too many dictators have always
brought on a calamity in any bust
ness or government.
FRED G. HESS.
2015 N Illinois st.
To the Editor:
I am taking this way of letting
the people of the city know Of some
Of the good things the police officers
Of our city do for us. Saturday dur
ing the cold weather officer Huxley
found a woman with seven children,
from Is years old to a babe in arms,
in distress without any coal or bite
to eat.
Officer Huxley ordered coal ana
groceries and waited there until the
oal and groceries came and he
knew they would be all right until
Monday, when the churches and
charitable organizations, which he
notified, could take care of them. I
think officers Of this kind should be
surely praised. A NEIGHBOR.
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Times Readers
Voice Vie1US

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
tiers not exceeding 200 words viii receive
preference.
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Perhaps one Of the reasons the Anti-Saloor
League doesn't run couple Of dry newspaper is thu
Congressional Record
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

Ohio reports no peace in sight in the coal contro-
versy and our cellar says pieces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

President Cosgrave called Chicago an "unbeiev-
able city, And here, all the time, had thought 1t
was only the mayor who spooflng us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

People used to think the world was fiat. Then 1t
was found to be round. But it's still just little
crooked in spots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

An animal that was half skunk and half cat was
exhibited at cat show in Boston the other day.
We always have been great admirers of the skunks
facial contour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02

Geraldine Farrar says youth is largely in the mind
We've noticed that, too.