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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
SEND HIM TO LONDON
AFTER HOOVER'S GOAT
.
1T is ALMOST BIGAMY

TINE fact that Mr.. Hoover is very
l. fond of peanuts should make
his presidential experience over
whelmingly delightful, for he will
find millions of them in politics.
These rampant Chinese who are
demanding war with Japan should
think it over with Confucius before
they start anything, otherwise they
will have to work in the laundry for
fifty years to pay the indemnity.
The government Of Quebec has
ordered all beer signs taken down
from the public highways to beau
tify the landscape, but from the
viewpoint of visiting Americans this
utterly will ruin the landscape.
N. V. Reeves of Salt Lake City
who is 1O4 years old and who comes
out strongly for short skirts, has
wonderful eyes for a gentleman OF
his age.
A Chicago boy was sent up for
sixty days for stealing a stove to
keep his mother warm and Miller,
sent up for defrauding the govern
ment out of millions, has just been
pardoned.
Same old country!
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| ANNIVERSARY
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OCCUPATION OF BOSTON
March Is

ANE hundred and fifty-three
~ years ago today General Wash
ington and an unframed, poorly
equipped army occupied Boston af-
ter General Gage and his British
troops had evacuated the city. It
was the first pleasant news of the
Revolution.
For almost year-from July 2,
IT'S, the date Washington took his
place at the head of the army at
Cambridge, Mass, until March 18,
1776--the Americans had laid pray
erful seigeSto Boston, but with the
resources at their command there
was little they could do to dis
lodge Gage and his well-trained
well-fed regiment.
Finally, by a Skilful maneuver at
night, the American army secured
q. position on Dorchester Heights
from which its guns could sweep
the Boston harbor, and Gage re-
moved his army from the city.
Thus, without the firing of a
single shot, the first victory of the
Revolution was won. General Gage
and the American soldiers-did
not know that many of Washing
tons barrels Of powder" stacked in
as conspicuous a place as possible,
contained nothing more deadly than
sand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
II. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"TheSe NeWer Southern
and Western ToaOns
HOMECOMING Remains
the Big IDEAL"
SAYS:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 10

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March ID.
ID 1t looks as though this writer
were fated to hit the high spots,
Ell Paso, just in time to see Juarez
taken; Birmingham just in time to
have little firt with the food
The worst of the flood is down in
the southeastern section of Alaba-
ma, near the Florida line, where
five or six counties have gone
under, but the western part of the
state is not what you would call
dry.
Coming up from New Orleans on
the southern" train, we struck the
yellow, soupy souse in eastern Mis-
sissippi and sQuashed through it
for nearly 200 miles, one great patch
of lazy water after another, and
nearly up to the f1rebox in two
places, with roads and wire fences
diving out of sight, pine trees stand
ing from three to eight feet deep,
poultry and people roosting on the
roofs, little creeks grown a mile or
more wide, and meadows become
good sized, if shallow lakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Flood Relief

I'm calling for a relief of $225,0O0,
Il Governor Bibb Graves says this
is the worst disaster Alabama ever
experienced, with from $4,000 to
10000 people homeless, four or five
towns partially, if not wholly de-
molished, and large farming areas
temporarily ruined.
AS in the Mississippi flood, it is a
case of rehabilitation as well as i'm
mediate need.
ut is case, more over, where no
permanent safeguard seem feasible,
since it grew out of one of these
freaks of nature which can not be
foreseen, and which occur so infre-
quently as not to be worth the price
Of permanent safeguards.
Quick and generous aid for people
have suffered through no ones fault,
or neglect, seems to summarize the
situation, and the aid should include
some provision for the coming
spring and summer, as well as food
and clothing for the next few days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Water Problem
THIS flood was not due to me-

THIS flood was not due to melt
H. ing SHOWS a thousand miles
away, or to the collected outpour of
some big river system, but to local
lied rains amounting to as much
as twenty inches in three or four
days at certain places.
One can not contemplate the re-
suit, especially right after crossing
the desert, without prejudice against
the weather.
What would Nevada, Mexico, or
west Texas give for such a soaking,
and what would Alabama not give
to avoid it, one region gasping for
lack of water. while another gasps
for an overdose of it.
1t is impossible to go across this
country without concluding that
water represents quite as big a prob
lem as hooch, that some people find
it just as hard and expensive to get,
while others are just as anxious to
avoid it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

Editor Times-The problem of
children in homes broken by divorce
is pure tragedy. To every normal
child the love of a mother or father
is more real than its faith in God.
To take one of these loves, or the
other, from the heart of child
leaves a wound that never can heal.
Much should be endured rather
than irf1ict this wound. My opinion
is that neither the mother nor the
father who still retains the love and
confidence of the child should be
divorced.
In a case where one or the other
already has forfeited ths faith of
the child, divorce undoubtedly is
best.
Among the sorrowfll figures of
life is that of a little boy or girl
who leaves the mothers home to GO
to a movie or spend the weekend
with the father, who no longer is
entitled to the privilege of a home
But still more tragic is that of the
baby who sees across the street the
once happy home where loving
mother or father has forfeited the
right to care for or to see the little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
ENJOYING Earnings

THESE newer southern and west
Il ern towns, like Birmingham,
Houston, Ft. Worth and San Diego,
are not growing because of their
prosperity so much as because of
the way they are making use of it
to provide better living conditions.
People, especially those of mod
crate MEANS not only are given a
chance to earn money, but to enjoy
it.
Development, whether as promoted
by the municipality or real estate
men, whether in the form of parks,
or subdivisions, is designed to pro-
vide for the great middle class.
Houston, for instance, has about
$4,000 dwellings and about $4,000
of them are single houses located on
big roomy lots. The same proportion
holds true for other cities.
Neither do the houses all look
alike, as though they were built by
the mile and sawed off on the
desired length; nor are they de-
signed on the two and three family
basis, which means one tenant, if
not more for every owner.
Homecoming remains the bic
ideal in these newer sections
homecoming, not for the well-to-
do minority, but for the in-between
majority.
You don't have to pay fifty, or
one hundred thousand dollars to
get a pretty house in a well-laid out
suburbs. There are plenty available
for twenty, fifteen, ten or even as
low as five thousand, houses to
which an architect has obviously
given some thought, and which have
yard room enough for flowers and
a garden.
That is one reason, and by no
means the least important, for the
continued westward and southwark
drift.
Towns Of the north and east
would do well to give it some
thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Reason

TK7E hope there's something in
w the report that President
Hoover thinks of sending Charles
G. Dawes as ambassador to Great
Britain, for we have sent such an
unbroken line of stuffed mattresses
to this court, we should like to OBJ
serve the English reaction to a
human being.
n
Hoover is as strong as a black
smith, but if these Maudlin Mat
ties continue to agonize about his
health they soon will have him in
bed with lumbago or something.
Senator Copeland is the last to
warn the President, telling him that
IhiS Office is poorly ventilated.
Roosevelt never minded this, for
he took the roof off every day or SO.
This mayor of Buffalo, who re-
fused to accept a $4,000 increase in
salary probably figures that he can
make more by going into museum
after his term of office expires.
n
We see where the King of England
has just had two teeth pulled and
it is needless to say that both of
them were crowned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
~ -
By
Frederick
lands

XXTE are sorry to see the kaiser's
w sister driven into bankruptcy
by the Russian tango artist she mar
ried, for when the kaiser opposed
the match We naturally wished it
to be an orange blossom triumph.
Il y
Carlos Josephe of Mexico City has
married Margaret Straton Glib
who is joined to her "Siamese"
twin sister, which is about as close
to bigamy as a fellow can get with
out being indictable.
Il
Some writer could weave a good
play around David Buick, whose
name is carried up and down the
pike by several million automobiles,
but who was run over financially
by the car he created and died a
few days ago in poverty.
There are no Red Cross hospitals
on the battlefield of business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

OUTSIDE of this flood, Alabama
" appears to be getting all right,
especially in the Birmingham area,
where the blast furnaces are tuning
up after a tight year.
Because he has heard so much
about it as a great steel center, the
average northerner thinks of Bir-
mingham as just another smooch
on the horizon, just another aggre-
cation of black, griny tenements,
where women pray for clear, windy
Mondays, the town has its share Of
smoke, SCOT and Sulphulous fumes.
Otherwise it could not have an
annual output of 100000 tons if
pigiron, not TO mention many by.
products.
But it has done a lot to overcome
or avoid the bad effect, spreading
out in attractive and unique sub
urban development over the 1000
foot oak and pine-clad ridges to the
south for seven or eight miles.
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but ! suppose 1t
will warm, up
soon"
And, m e a n =
while, every one
is casting about
in the back of
his head for some
o Their topic of
conversation.
The W e a t h e +
re ally deserves
better treatment
at our h a II d S .
For after all, our
lives are very
largely W h a t
thew are because
of the WaathPr
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ances or is less than the amount of
energy put out.
There is a small number of cases
of people whose glands do not func-
ton adequately and who tend to
put on weight on small amounts OF
food, but even in these cases the
gland treatment is important fol-
the glandular condition and not for
the reduction of weight.
Some people use up much more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Q.-Ts it safe to take head
ache powders?

A.-Headache is a symptom
of a disease Of one kind or an
other. The headache powder
merely serves to dull the pain.
Some headache powders are
safer than others. All of them
in sufficient doses are poison
Gus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

New York bookshop advertised that film star
would be hand to autograph copies of Joseph Con-
RAIDS 1.-THE Rescue" There's idea. Why not whoop
up sales of the Bible little by having Clara Bow sign
copies?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

A tobacco company publicity department. issues the
announcement that tuberculosis has been decreasing
in the last twentyeg.t years, during which cigaret-
smoking increased Have you noticed, too, how the
days are getting longer?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

A movement is foot to parole young woman
in Ohio who beat her husband to death after he re-
fused go to party with her. She has been in prison
for several months which makes it appear her case
has been sadly neglected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

Prince Gustaf of Sweden visited New York night
club gave cigaret girl quarter taxicab starter a
dime and the manager of the club refused to give him
bill for the evening. Barring that IS cents Prince
Gustaf almost got his moneys worth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
DAILY THOUGHTS
Then / saw that wisdom

Then / saw that wisdom ex-
celIeth folly, as far as light excel
leth darkness.--.EccI. 2:13.
THE first point of wisdom is to
l. disown that which is false; the
second, to know that which is true
--Lactantius.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Importance of Weather
No. BOG

T~ALK about the weather is regarded today as the
i last resort to reawaken tagging conversation.
When that sudden lull comes which no one ap-
parentIy knows how to break one finally IN des-
peration says Funny how this cold weather is hang-
ing on isn't it?" And some else responds, yes,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
No Cheering Sections

CTILL, no great amount of imagi-
~ nation was used in the staging
of the contest. The examination
was three-hour written test with
out benefit of bands or cheering
sections. Nor was there any pre-
liminary ballyhoo and secret prac-
tice behind locked gates. Next time
1t might be a good idea to let Jack
Dempsey handle the preliminary ar
rangementS.
Sometimes young men write to
me and say that they hope to get
into newspaper work and they want
to know whether a college educa-
ton is necessary.
This is question for which I'm
not well qualified, since education
passed me by while I was under
graduate. Nevertheless, [ generally
say, GO to college if you can"
Occasionally the lecturer may pos
sess a dramatic gift which makes
listening easier than reading. But
this is not the rule. Professors are
chosen for what they know and not
for their skill in imparting wisdom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

Dr. Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin
advises young men to attain economic independence
as soon as possible and then turn to things that in
terest them. Lots of young men, of course will re-
fuse to attain economic independence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Z DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THERE are all sorts OF fads and
l. fancieS for reducing weight,
but there is one certain fact about
weight reduction-no person will
gain in weight if the number of
calories taken into the body bal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
Oh, Shaw

HOWEVER, it is essential that
L 4 there should be some direction
over the reading of the aspiring
student. My own faith does not lie
in any five-foot shelf or compila-
ton of nuggets from the worlds
best literature.
And even so I hold that the pu-
pill should be under a certain pres
sure to tackle a reasonable amount
of required reading.
In freshman year at Harvard I
had several English courses and a
vast number of classics assigned to
me as home work. Dutifully 1
would go to he library intent upon
fulfilling some part Of my task.
But on the shelf right next to the
required books there blinked the
work of Shaw, complete. He was
not on my list at all, but there
conveniently at hand were Man
and Superman," 1.-THE Devils Dis
ciples" and all the others.
In my ignorance then knew him
only as man who had written a
play attacked by Anthony Com
stock. 1t seemed to me that this
might very we'll be better stuff than
THE Vicar of Wakefield" upon
which we were supposed to be pre-
pared by Tuesday.
Ny Wakefield time went into
Man and Supernan" L was hav-
ing fun out of Bernard Shaw, not
only because of his own. talents. but
from the additional fact that every
moment I spent with him was un~
deniably spookey. This was sin,
not study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

Sir Joseph Duveen has been named trustee OF
the British National Gallery. Els adverse criticism
of Ia Belle Ferronniere, supposedly famous paint
ing probably let him in on the ground floor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

In straw vote conducted by the American Nature
Association to choose national flower the violet is
running last The violet stands for modesty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

Quite few farmers in western Kansas have taken
to wearing spats according to a newspaper report.
The old west has become country apparently where
you have to die with your Spats on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

l d c as a n d
opinions ex
pressed in this
column are
those Of one
Of Americas
most interest
ing writer
and are pre-
scented wit h
out regard to
{ h cir agree
ment with the
editorial atu-
tude of this
paper.
The Editor.
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Locked

II OOKING back on it all from
L. middle life, remorse does not
assail me. Shaw was better for me
than Oliver Goldsmith would have
been. But the college authorities
could not have known that. If the
professor had made Man and
Superman" the assignment, I prob
ably would have passed that UP and
gone, like a homing bird, to THE
Vicar of Wakefield"
There was one shelf Of books in
the library kept under lock ann key
as somewhat immoral You had TO
get a note from some instructor to
read them. Everybody read those
books. You could always rent one
from some lucky student who
possessed one.
And so / say again that the young
man who does not go to college
should get for himself long and
heavy list OF books which are re-
ouired. After he has that he can
go with singing heart and read
something else.
4copyTight. 1929, for The Iimesl i
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The name and address OF the author
must accompany every constitution. but
ters not exceeding 200 words viii receive
preference.
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That Play Spirit

TT seems to me that it should be
Il entirely feasible for educators to
avail themselves of this same play
spirit even with pupils of the college
age. The undergraduate will work
his head off at almost anything pro-
vided that it is not labeled as q
study.
Each autumn young men go out
and give themselves utterly to the
hard, dull grind of intercollegiate
football. 1t is much more tiresome
than Latin and twice as furnishing.
And yet no youngster is willing to
break leg for the honor of dear
old Yale or Princeton in the matter
OF irregular verbs.
Unfortunately it is not easy to
reproduce the usual conditions of
college competition in the class
room. Currently the newspapers
carry the story that "Harvard's
brain team" can find no challenger
to play during the present academic
year. Last year they met Yale in
English literature and wiped up the
field with their adyersaries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18

David Dietz on Seize
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-03
FOR SALE

FIVE ROOM partly modern house, 9
bed rooms, cast front, near school,
for sl7OO.
FIVE ROOM modern stucco house, .
bed rooms. well located OH pave
ment. near schools, full basement,
fer 1850.
SIX ROOM modern dwelling. 3 bed
rooms. we'll located on Eighth street,
for $4,000.
NEW NINE room modern stuccu
dwelling. including 4 bed rooms. sun
parlor. full basement partitioned off
laundry tubs. plate glass in livin.
room windows, French doors and
front door. very large living room
new stuccO garage attached to
house.
SIX ROOM modern stuccO bungalow
2/ rooms and SUI parlor. oak
floors. full basement. kitchen cab
met. heated garage. near school. for
$3.50.
NEW VERY desirable bungalow, =
bed rooms. very we'll built. full base
ment latined and plastcred. room
finished off iii basement. breakfast
nook: anyone wanting to buy a first
class desirable new bungalow should
sec this.
EIGHT ROOM nearly all modern
dwelling located on Eleventh street,
4 bed rooms, pump and windmill
cistern, with IS foot frontage, gar
age for 2 cars. all for $1,000.
FIFTY FOOT lot close In OH Eroad-
way and other lots for sale.
GEO. M. REGISTER.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-03
ADVERTISEMENT ron sIDs

Sealed bids for the construction Of
q Sanitary Sewer on Sixteenth street
from Broadway to Main Avenue. In
gswsr Improvemsnt District Numb.r
Dakota. Will be received BY the Board
Of City Commissioners Of said City
until eight o'clock p. H.. October 2lst.
1893. Plans and specifications are on
file In the office Of tho City Auditor.
The following approximate quanti-
ties are given Tor the guidance Of bid
40 linear feet Of eight inch sewer
pipe,
manhOIe.
All bids shall be made upon a basis
ri cash payment for all work TO b
done.
Work shall be commenced on or be-
fore November Int, 1929. and COM.
pleted not later than November 18th.
Each bidder shall state in his bid
the rate Of interest the warrants shall
cent pet annum) which shall be re-
cefved and accepted by him ut PAR
In payment for the work.
Each bid must AlgO be ACCOMPANYING
BY q certified check for Five Hundred
s(e!00.00l Dollars. made payable to the
tho board OF City Commissioners, as i
guaranty that the bidder will. II su.-
ceGsful, enter into and execute q con.
tract for the performance OF the work.
Each bid must also be accompanied
BY Z bidders bond IN a sum equal 10
section sio7. Compiled Laws d North
le. or, q city c.mm,,sisr.r.
ftserves the ssshf e re3sst anx 81 AZ
e's sssls.,s = = 1 ci9s Hselss;r.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-03
UNDERWOOD WOMAN
MISSIONARY SPEAKS
METHODIST MEET
Indianapolis Bishop Discusses
Three Most Beautiful Pas
sagss in the Bible
(Tribune Special Scryicc)

Williston. N. D.. Oct. 3.-Miss Jessie
Pfaff. Underwood. who will leave In
a short time for missionary work In
east Africa. was scheduled to give a
lecture on foreign missions here this
afternoon before the Methodist Epis-
copal conference.
Referring to them as the three most
beautiful passages In the Bible,
Bishop Edgar Blake. Indianapolis,
told the assembled ministers this
morning that no part Of the scrip
lures is Of greater preaching value
than the parable in the second and
fifteenth chapters Of Luke and the
fourteenth chapter Of John.
In speaking on the parable of the
lost sheep. Bishop Blake said that the
sheep were not bad but were separ-
ated from tho flock. that the coin was
not counterfeit but was lost to cir
culation. Thus. he said. men are lost
in sense of being separated from God
and need only to be found.
Among officers named yesterday
were: Assistant treasurers, H. ].
Gerhard. Hettinger: Carl Meier.
Valley City; Oscar H. Swenson. WASH
burn: ]. Ralph Mcneil, st. Thomas:
E. L. Shotwcll, Clyde, and Arlo Albre,
Tolley.
Rev. A. r. Henry was named sta
tistician with the following assistants
w. J. Hedland, Hunter: Frank A.
Runner, Hope: H. j. Empire. Crystal:
Walter Dodge, Maxbass: Otto KIM
Ter, Donnybr0ok: Samuel Brooks. Linz
ton. and j. w. FriSbie. Makoti. Like
the other appointces they r clergy
| men.