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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
ARMOUR WIDOW
PAYS OFF Debt
Daughter Also Contributes
to S50,O0O,O0O Liability.

M United Press
CHICAGO, May 9.-The debts
of J. Ogden Armour, reported at one
time to exceed $5O000,000, finally
have been settled by relatives of the
Chicago packer, it was announced
here.
The final settlement consisted of
liquidating a debt of about $18,-
100000 to Armour Il Co., through
the transfer of securities pledged by
the packer. The settlement was
made by Mrs. Armour, her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John j. Mitchell and other
relatives.
The debts were incurred by Ar
mour in promoting several vast en-
terpriseS, including the 55-000-acre
Suffer Basin project in California.
The settlement was made possible
by the Suttter Basin Company bond
holders acceptance of q plan of re-
organization, proposed when inter
est on $7123,000 bonds was de-
faulted Feb. /.
The widow will turn over to the
new company about 100000 in
warrants against the Suffer Basin
land
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
100000 RISK ON BOY

Lad, 10, Insured at High Figure;
Sets Precedent.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May edwin
Weisl Jr., 10. has been insured for
100000, setting an insurance pre-
cedent. Heretofore companies have
refused to place more than $4,000
on a child of that age. The boy
promised to stop playing in the
street
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09

Oscar De Priest, a Negro from the
first Illinois district has been
chosen to succeed the late Martin
B. Madden as the Republican
nominee for Congress. Democrats
concede the election of a Repub-
lican in that district. If elected,
De Priest will be the first Negro
to sit in Congress in more than
twenty years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
MUSIC CONTEST
TO Be TONIGHT
High School 0rCheStraS to
Play at Terre Haute.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, May g.
First of a series of contests on the
program of Indiana States three
day observance of national music
week will be held tonight. High
school orchestras will compete from
Marshall, Ill; Huntingburg, Linton,
Evansville, Bloomfield, Sullivan and
Terre Haute.
After the contest the orchestras
participating will mass for a con-
cert under direction of Prof. Ed
ward Baily Birge. Indiana Univer-
sity. Wednesdays program is a
memorial on the hundredth ami
versary of the death Of Schubert,
the composer.
Girls glee club and chorus con-
tests will be held Thursday after
noon. High schools to be represent
ed are Hymera, Bicknell, Martins
vile, Seymour, Evansville, Lyons,
Rockville, Brazil and Wiley and
Gerstmeyer, both Terre Haute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
PAGE

Charles Harness, pastor OF the
Salem Evangelical Church at Rock
port, declares both city and county
authorities have been lax In efforts
to locate the minister, who has
been missing five weeks.
Aid Of police in other cities was
not asked by officials here, Hof-
mann charges. Detective Chief Ed
ward Suthmeier admits that much
Of the accusation, but said such pro-
cedure has not been the practice
except in cases where the person
sought was wanted on criminal
charge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
Blind Couple at Memorial
Pu United Press

ID OIFFItU I 7 t9o
DECATUR, Ind, May ga touch
ing incident occurred here when a
husband and his wife, both blind,
who had been singing on the streets
here, visited the memorial tablets to
Gene. Stratton Porter. The couple
asked the Elephant Rock gardener
to lead them to the tablet so that
they might read it with their fingers.
They recalled how they had read
books of the late Mrs. Porter and
enjoyed them because they had
brought wildly to them the great
outdoors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09
CAR EXPORT AT PEAK
40,181 Autos Are Sold Out of This
Country During March

BJ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Ameri-
can exports of automobiles estab-
lished new high record in March
with total value of $49,954, 1853, the
commerce department reported to-
day.
Passenger cars exported numbered
40,181.
Canada occupied first position as
a market for passenger cars, while
Sweden jumped from seventh place
in February, to second place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-09

A school board election is which
her champions were victorious
seems to have swung the balance
of opinion in Utica, N. Y, in favor
of Mrs. Mary L. Pryor (below)
school teacher who aroused a
storm of feeling with her whip
ping of Peter Peters (above). She
is said to have punished the 13-
year-old boy with rubber hose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Leaders Are Tinid

Our failure to take hold of avia-
ton in a commercial and industrial
way stands out in sharp contrast
not only to the attitude of other
people, but to our own traditions.
For the last century, we have
picked up every new device which
promised improvement, regardless
of whether it was of our own inven-
tion or not. We have done more
with the railroad, the telegraph, the
telephone, the automobile, radio and
the printing press, not to mention
a hundred and one other innova-
tons, than any other people. With
some of them, we have done more
than all the rest of the world put
together.
One wonders if America is los
ing her pep, her willingness to bet
on human ingenuity, her ability to
appraise innovations. What is the
matter with our billion dollar cor
porations, our laboratories, our huge
manufacturing establishments, that
none of them has ventured forth in
this new field?
The timidity Of our captains OF
industry, so called, is sickening
when compared to the bravery of
the few young men who have
demonstrated what could be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
IILIAM ALLEN WHITE

" WILLIAM ALLEN Will Il,
wv Americas best known coun-
try editor, pauses long enough in
New York on his way to Europe
to point out that "the American
people is interested in something be-
sides politics" Maybe the wish
fathers he thought. The recent
verbal round MIR. White had with
Governor Smith hardly turned out
in such a way as to make him crave
more political excitement.
Putting that aside, he not only
has right to his opinion, but his
opinion may be worth considering.
He would give politics Glow 49,"
he says in an index score to popu-
lar interest, while he would give
baseball a mark of 40"
The report that four girls at the
Kansas State Normal School went
without stockings, he explains
caused more of a sensation among
the readers of his paper than any
political item appearing the same
day, but what does that prove?
If Kansas is still in a mood to
get excited over four bare-legged
girls, does it follow that other parts
of the country are?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Our Foreign Loans

The Commerce Department announces that for
the first half of this year approximately $S4OOo00O0
in new foreign capital issues were offered for sale in
this country The total for April, May and June was
the greatest in the history of this country.
What is the significance of this tremendous export
of American capital?
Matthew Woll vice president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor believes that through these loans for
sgners are ping up debts they not pay and that
as a result American capital will come to dominate
many industries which compete with those in this
country
He sees grave danger the high standard OF living
of Workmen in this country in having American CAPT.
tasts competitive industries abroad and would
like to see the export OF capital checked.
The Wall Street journal argues however, that If
these loans we're not made much OF our present vol
ume of exports could not be financed and many
American workingmen would be thrown out OF jobs.
1t is necessary the financial journal asserts, to
lend foreigners money that they can buy our
products and keep us busy
Reduced to its simplest terms-say, lending your
next door neghbor money right along that he can
hire you to work for him-such proposition sounds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Europe Takes Lead

Politics is not the only thing of
Importance in which we take too
little interest.
The idea of watching, listening
and bench-warming while somebody
else entertains us has come to play
dangerously serious part in our
existence.
Nothing could be finer than the
tribute we paid Lindbergh and other
f1iers, nothing could be worse than
TIE way we have failed to take adj
vantage of the trails they have
blazed. Other people see the prac-
teal possibilities of aviation. We
are still enthralled by its romantic
and adventurous side.
Strange as it may seem. this
country, renowned for its mechani-
cal genius, commercial shrewdness
and ability to organize, is permit
ting Europe to take the lead in put
tins aviation on the map.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
The Newsboy, a Merchant

1t always has been more or less American
tradition that the newsboy is poor fatherless young
chap who supports widowed mother and, probably
sister or two by the pennies he makes selling papers
Now comes the Census Department to announce
that very few newsboys in this class. Most of
them come from good homes, it says, and not
driven to selling papers by hard necessity
1t is good thing for us to recognize this. The
newsboy is ambitious young business man, putting
in his spare time wisely and proably He is learning
early in life things about the world of business that
most young men do not learn until they reach their
majority Selling papers is an excellent training
school.
1t is not by accident that many of our promi-
nent business and professional earned their first
pennies in that way.
Don't pity the newsboy who sells you your paper.
Admire him, rather energetic, capable young
American who Us ambition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
j, S, Loves the Circus

Last Saturday twenty-five public
service airplanes landed at LIE Bour-
get field, Paris, with 112 passengers
and six tons OF freight, while twenty
airplanes departed with 10 passen-
gers and five tons of freight, max
ing total clearance of forty-two
planes, 282 passengers and eleven
tons of freight.
There is not an airport in the
United States that can touch that
record.
There is not an air transport cor
poration in the United States that
can compare with the Lufthansa of
Germany, either as to present
equipment or preparations for the
future.
The Lufthanss has not only per-
fected a hookup which covers Ger
many and adjoining countries, but
has contracted with the Dornier
Company to build feet of gigantic
airplaneS for trans-oceanic travel.
We are making a tragic mistake in
supposing that stunts represent the
most worthwhile, or even the most
interesting side of this new science.
If it does not mean something SINH
lar to what the railroad meant 100
years ago, OF what the automobile
meant thirty years ago, it means
nothing.
If it is to be confined to the cir
Gus realm, we are wasting lot of
time and money. If, on the other
hand, it represents new and in1S
proved method of transportation as
the engineers and capitalists of
Europe think, we are missing Won
derful opportunity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25

ton of the five with relation to each other.
You will have no difficulty in finding the Great
Dpper in the sky. The dipper, you will remember,
is the basis of the constellation of the Great Bear
Next trace line from the pointers in the Great
Dipper to Polaris, the north star.
Polaris is the tip of the handle of the Little Dip
per- or the tip of the tail of the Little Bear as tho
constellation is sometimes called
Continue the line from the pointers to Polars
about equal distance beyond Polaris 1t will bring
you close to the "W' of five stars which form the
basis of the constellation of Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia, you will recall, the unhappy queen
whom Father Neptune, god of the ocean, hurled into
the sky because she would not stop Dragging OF her
beauty
Between Polaris and Cassiopeia, you will find the
Eve stars which form little house with high
peaked roof. These five form the constellation of
Cepheus.
King Cepheus the husband of Cassiopeia. He
was globe-trotter and hero accompanying Jason
in his search for the golden fleece.
Finally, trace the wandering path of Draco the
dragon.
The tip of his tail is between the pointers and Po-
laris lying just a little above the line which joins
them.
Draco coils up around the bowl of the Little Dipper
and then swings back away from Cepheus, ending
in diamond-shaped formation of four stars. These
four form the head Of the dragon.
If you can identify the five consultations just out
lined, you on the road to becoming an excellent
amateur astronomer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Municipal Gas

In the complexity of politics and various is
sues on which men may differ, there is one
matter so important to this city that some pub
lie body should see that it is not overlooked.
The contract with the local gas company is
= soon to expire and some legislation may be
needed from the Legislature in order that the
city may take advantage of its rights and OPP
portunity.
The company was formed under conditions
which intended and provided that the plant and
its facilities would or could become the prop
erty Of all the city, with fuel furnished at cost
and private profit eliminated
The business has become very profitable,
but there is no reason to believe that the own
ers are not ready and willing to comply with
the terms of the franchise or contract, under
which the city may take it over and operate it
for the public.
With the establishment of the commission
form Of government and the elimination OF par
tisan politics from city affairs, the city will
escape the usual danger to publicly owned en-
terprises which arises from the fear that they
would be operated for political advantage.
The administration of Mayor Slack and the
present city council is fixing a standard for
public service which will not be relaxel under
the new commission. The people are getting
an object lesson, by comparison, between city
government under political machine and a
city government which has no political ambi-
tions or private pledges.
study Of the gas question and the, posi-
bilities for public ownership is imperative.
Some public organization or a group of public
organizations might we'll give it immediate
thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Clarifying the Mail Clerk

The mail clerk never has been a very romantic
figure
Times are changing, however, and modern science
is about to pitch the gray uniformed clerk into a
position Of color and pcturesqueness.
The Postofice Department announces that it
shortly will establish airway postal service in
which clerks will fly in planes and sort the mail en-
route just as is done now railways
Large new planes providing space for clerks and
sorting rooms, are being prepared, and it is
expected some will be placed in operation portions
of the transcontinental route.
Many postal clerks have already applied for trans
fer to this branch of the service. This is an
interesting development. The mail clerk is about to
become one of those gamorous beings the rest of
envy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Why a Sheriff?

Recent events in this county raise the ques-
ton as to- whether there is really need of
sheriff, at least as far as the suppression of
crime and the protection Of property by that
office is concerned
The very effective drive of the local police
against crime and the source Of crimge will be
futile unless there is similar drive upon places
and conditions which exist, apparently unmo-
lested on the outskirts.
Road houses, so-called barbecue stands,
dance halls and other resorts which might
correctly advertise themselves with a picture
of white mule have sprung into existence in
such numbers as to suggest that those who for
mery operated dives inside the cities under
stand the trend of trade.
Of course there are many of these places
which are respectable. Not all of them cater
to this outlaw trade and traffic. But it is
matter Of common knowledge that the other
kind is far more numerous.
In the late crime wave, the larger number
of holdups and jobs of auto. banditry occurred
outside the city limits and it is quite probable
that those who participated got their last Jolts
of booze which sent them out with guns from
some Of these places which are not molested.
The present sheriff advertised that he has
but three deputies with which to cope with
crime and criminals. The conspicuous lack of
any effort to run down the perpetrators of the
largest crime, that of the holdup Of the Broad
moor Club was at least suggestive to those who
were seeking soft spots for crime.
Stamping out dives and joints inside the
city will help, of course. But as long as SINH
lar places can operate safely outside the three
mile limit there will be crime.
1t is true that the sheriff has the grave re-
sponsibility of running the Coffin machine In
this county and that may take time and effort
But he should have time enough to make an
effort to discover just what his three-or is
it thirty-deputies are doing to help out in
the general drive for a clean community and
safe county.
Not all the dives are in tenement districts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

Editor Times: 1t seems as if those
Republican editors who have been
meeting here and there in several
Indiana cities during the last week
are not at all particular as to whom
they associate with. Men deliber-
ately snubbed at the Republican
State convention were taken into
full fellowship and allowed to make
keynote speeches. so to speak. 1t
was rather amusing and at the
same time no doubt embarrassing
though, to "eat crow" right in public.
Harry Leslie said at the time of
the Kansas City convention that
Hoover could not carry Indiana, but
now is proclaiming him as the
farmers best friend. 1 think that
the November election is going to
demonstrate that Hoover can carry
Indiana, but Leslie and Bush can
not.
No fewer than 100000 of us who
supported Hoover in the May pri-
mary are going to see that Leslie
and Bush come empty handed from
the polls. That puerile act of Bush
at Kansas City-yelling for Hoover
and waving a British flag-is an I'M
forgivable offense. We are going to
resent it by casting our votes for
Daley and Drake
E. P. McCASLIN,
1901 Dewey AYE,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
Falling Down on Job

We have cheered ourselves hoarse
by the million, we have torn up
telephone books, city directories and
Bibles by the thousand tons, we
have set four Inch headlines by the
mile and have expressed our admit
ration in acres of printed; we have
ration in acres Of printed slush; we
have written songs, made movies
and talked for hours over the radio;
we. are ready to admit that our
Lindberghs, Chamberlins, Byrds
and Amelia Earharts are immortal,
and it would be easy enough to
raise cash with which to provide
them with monuments and medals,
but when it comes 20 taking up the
work where they left off, to betting
money on the venture they risked
their lives to prove practical. to or
ganizing for the commercial exploit
tation Of an enterprise they have
demonstrated as feasible, we are
falling down on the job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25

authorizations: A--ace; K-kinE;, O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
VOUR partner declares a club.
l. Immediately it is incumbent
upon you to interpret your part
ner's bid. What differences are
you to draw therefrom? Ask your
self. why did my partner choose
a minor suit? Why not a major
suit? Why not a no trump"
Your partner has conveyed to
you both positive and negative
information.
You have been informed that your
partner has a sound club bid but
does not possess either sound
major or sound no trump bid.
Your partner has also delivered
this message to you-"Partner,
please cooperate with me by fur
nishing me with any information
that may improve the bid; major
declaration or a no trump declara-
ton would be most welcome if
sound"
10 make game IN minor sui
requires a total of eleven tricks. in
a major only ten tricks and in
a no trump only nine.
1t therefore is obligatory after
your partner has made a minor
declaration, if your hand contains
over one quick trick preferably
about one and one-half for begin
ners) properly distributed in the
other suits, to furnish such informa-
ton as will better or improve the
bid.
This may be accomplished by
bidding another suit or no trump.
If your hand contains mora
than one quick trick, you should
furnish information by bidding in
the following order:
1. A major suit as strong as
defensive bid.
2. No trump if two of the suits
other than the one bid are stopped.
8. The other minor if it is as good
as a defensive bid.
You should always be on the
qui vive to change your partners's
minor bid even if you possess only
the minimum of support for a bet
tering bid.
Copyright. 1923. by the Ready Reference
Publishing Co..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-25
tGary Post -Tribune)


The appointment of John j..
Raskob as chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee as-
founded the country. Owen Young
and Melvin Taylor had been dis
cussed for the position and the
appointment of neither would
have been especially startling al
though either might be said to
represent big business.
But both might also be said to
belong to the old order. They are
not the sons of immigrants and
they fit into things just as our
leaders of the past have fit. But
Raskob is the son of an immigrant
like AL Smith.
He is also a Catholic like Smith.
His rise in business has been
meteoric, a worthy parallel of
Smiths astonishing career in
politics.
Mark Sullivan recently in the
Pcst-Tribune gave the best sum-
nation of this situation we have
yet seen and if one wants to re-
ally get an idea of the forces nov
moving in our politics he should
read this article.
The impression one gets in talk
ing to people at random is that
the popular election issues will be
religion and prohibition, but Sui
Ivan suggests the deeper signif1-
canoe may be the city against the
country or more specifically the
newer immigrants versus the Pu-
ritan.
That is a crude way to put the
thing but the essence of the stu
alton is just that. And as re-
suit a great ideal of heat can be
looked for in the campaign.
Civilians go up and down but
never does the civilization in con-
troll go down without a struggle.
AS a result we may expect vast
deal of real viewing with alarm
until November.
New forces have been forcing
the paths of politics since the war
and now we are at the cross
roads.
With the election of Hoover we
shall continue the orderly devel-
opment of our Government I'M
der influences not dissimilar to
those of the past, despite the fact
that our civilization is already
being influenced in a striking de-
gree by our newer immigrants.
With the election of Smith
would come a sharp break with
the past, a break that no one
could predict would not be bene-