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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =-
Adopting Child No Hit-O1-DliSs Matter

reason it is highly important to
have some conception of the amount
of mental defect in the ancestry of
the child that is being considered
for adoption.
Some hereditary defects can be
controlled to certain extent
through environment, but it is far
safer to be sure of the heredity of
the child and not to take chances.
Most people who want to adopt
baby want an extremely young one
so that it will not know that the
parents are not its own. 1t is I'M
desirable, however, to adopt a baby
during the first few days of its life.
At least several months should be
given to observation of its physical
and mental state before it is taken
by the family for rearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

an extremely cute baby may be just
the opposite when it reaches 8
years of age. The fat babies get
thin and thin ones get fat; the
curly headed blond 6 months of
age may be a straightforward raven
at the age of Is.
The child with a positive Was
serman test has a condition which
demands a great deal of attention
before it is suitable for adoption.
The child who has come from a
family with tuberculosis may pass
through a long period of invaidism
before it is healthfuI
Mental deficiency can be recog-
nized after three or four months of
age, but some mental tai11ts do not
appear until late in life. For this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Unscramble the Army

When government department gets caught in it's
own red tape, outsiders are not apt to waste much
sympathy it. That perhaps explains in part why
congress after nine years. still is slow in extricat-
ing the department from the awful mess into
which it has thrown the army promotion system.
This mess is important to the public not only be-
it involves injustice to hundreds of officers but
because it is destroying morale, which is the chief
requisite of an efficient army
The story is unbelievably complicated Congress in
the national defense of 1920 provided for absorb
ton of suitable number Of emergency officers in the
regular army, to be chosen by examination the
basis of qualifications. A uniform promotion system
was provided.
The department. in putting the law into oper-
ation had no trouble with officers of the rank of
major and higher. But for inexplicable reason
it interpreted the law to that captains, first and
second lieutenants should be dumped and scrambled
in one batch
AS a result Ieutenants may become majors before
captains and hundreds of the latter are SO far down
on the lists that they never may achieve promotion.
Major-General Peter C. Harris, acknowledgement
at the time the department misinterpreted the law.
has condemned the present unjust system, as have
many other high officers. The war department. itself
has appealing congress two years for legis
lation to correct the situation.
Two bills, the wainwright McSwain bill in the
house. and the Black bill in the senate have been in
troduced for this purpose Apparently the only posi-
BILE objection to the reform is from some of those
juniors who proted by the erroneous ruling But the
real obstacle the legislative jam of this short session.
and the concentration of representatives and senator's
on larger issues.
Congress should not be too busy to right this old
wrong. There is in spending millions of dol
lars on the army with hand and with the other
hand withholding the primary justice essential to
military morale
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NJ. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
SAYS.
mo One but an Addle-
Drained Politician Would
Think of 10,000-Ton
Cruisers for Defense If
the World We're About to
Concentrate Against Us. I"

.nENVER, Colo, Jan. 31-Denver
~ is in the throes of readjust-
ment. F'livvers and free camp sites
have changed the character of its
tourist trade, sugar beets have taken
the spotlight from silver and a mil
lion acres of shale wait only for the
price of gasoline to go a little
higher.
That shale is sure thing bet,
as any reputable geologist will tell
you.
There may be disagreement as to
just how long this country's sup
uply of underground oil will last,
but there can be no disagreement
over the fact that its days are num-
bered.
When the clock strikes, we shall
turn to shale and Colorado will have
another boom.
That snale is worth watching, not
only by the people of Colorado, but
by every other American. Much of it
is under government control, which
means that it could be made to pro-
duce scandal, as well as oil.
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Reeds War Tonmy-Ro
CENATOR REED of Missouri see,

CENATOR REED of Missouri sees
~ war on every horizon. To let
him tell it, the world Is not only
arming to the teeth, but arming
against us. Nothing, in his excited
mind, can save the day but those
fifteen 10,000-ton cruisers.
Listen, Q ye dreamers," ne cries,
"listen, and you can hear the roar
of furnaces which are forging plates
OF great battleships. Listen, you will
hear the chorus of mighty hammers
shaping the keels of fighting men
of the sea. Look, and you will see
great engineers planning and
plotting how the American fleet can
be destroyed, figuring the elevation
of every gun"
Yes, indeed. and if you listen
hard enough and look long enough,
you will find men like Reed talking
just such tommy-rot in every land,
which is the only thing that keeps
up the show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
From the Big Town

.NNE of your tribe" says Carroll
OGraham, recently wrote and
caused to be published statements
at once intriguing and depressing,
refer to Mr.. Don Marquis-and 1
earnestly hope he is friend and
not an enemy of yours-who de-.
Scrlbed, in a recent Saturday Eve.
ming Post article, his original en-
trance into New York.
MIR. Marquis, it appears. arrived
IN this city with a matter of 81.
one friend in town and burning
ambitions to be reporter, with
particular leaningS toward writing
a column.
HE found the friend, spent the
81 IN q saloon frequented by the
gay, young reportorial blades Of
that time and got a job.
What I'm getting at is, where
is the saloon? I ask you because
l don't know where to find Mr..
Marquis and you. seeminfly of about
the same age and general dimen-
sions, might conceivably have been
one Of it's customers.
Examining both cases. # would
seem that my arrival here was
more suspicious even than that of
Mr.. Marquis I had more than AZ
knew two persons here and-what
is most inportant-had no desire to
write O. column.
A JOB on a rewrite desk would
have made me happy-and still viii.
I asked a policeman to recon-
mend a speakeasy nearest the Times.
and Herald-Tribune, which he did,
but it couldn't have been the right
one.
What I'm afraid is that Mr..
Whalen or the changing times has
done away with that saloon. civ.
rooms, I see with some alarm, are
hexed by the curse Of efficiency in
This city. speak with some expert
ance, for I've been refused admit
lance to and been thrown from a
good many of them lately. City edi-.
tors report themselves 'in confer
ence' now which shows Just how
far things can go.
20, Mr.. Broun, II you know where
Mr.. Marquis newspaper saloon Is.
and it's still open. I wish you'd let
me in on it. but I'm an earnest
young man and I don't want TO
wind up on the rim in Newark il
can help it.
With $4,000 speakeasies here. TIL
run out Of health and money he
lore ! find the right one Ia my PRES
ent haphazard search.
6Copyrixht. 1929. FOR ina Timsal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Hard Boiled Peace

THIS peace movement, which so
many regard as idealistic, if not
a passing dream is tenseIy practical,
rooted in human need and sustained
by human ambition. It was not
brought by poet and philosopher SO
much as by merchant and inventor
was not popularized SO much by
preaching as by the changed cuss
toms of the work-a-day world.
international peace has evolved
from the state Of a high moral
fancy to that Of hard-boiled COM
mon sense.
The kellogg pact, just ratified in
Paris, and already Endorsed by
majority of the civilized nations, is
not an idle gesture to solace dream
ers, but an agreement which meets
the approval of wage earners, busi-
ness Enlerl. PROFESSIONAL men and
financiers throughout the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

few months in France, and not
sunny France, either. I see and
come in contact with ex-service
men every day who need lift from
the state. A good state, but she has
not taken care Of her soldiers she
sent to war.
Mr.. Editor, you can lock around
yourself and see ex-soldiers of all
kinds on the streets with arms of,
legs off. gassed, and suffering from
every other affection that war
breeds. I am writing this not for
the boys who really need this bonus.
Ask Mr.. Gresham to look around be-
fore he fights too hard against that
bonus. A WORLD WAR VET.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Oxcart Minds

IF what Senator Reed says were
u true, the last thing we should be
doing is build a small fleet of sec
ond rate cruisers. What could they
do in the face of such deviliSh de-
vices as are known to exist, much
less those that are just around the
corner?
What did 10,O0O-ton cruisers do
in the last war? Where were they
when the U-boats were sending
thousands of ships to the bottoma
If we had reason to be scared,
we should at least show some sense
in our preparations, and not fall
back on oxcart safeguards.
No one but an ddle-brained poll
tician would think of l0,O00-ton
cruisers il. the world were about to
concentrate against us, and we faced
the necessity of providing for real
defense.
Look to poison gas, o We word
singers, to germs, to air raids by
night, to a rain Of CHASTITY dew, to
such diabolical engines and instru-
.mentalities as makes men pallid to
contemplate, if you think war is
coming and we must prepare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
EYerybodyIS Doing 1t

COMETIMES I wonder why Amer
- leans have SO great feeling Of
inferiority about our national mu-
sic. Enduring operas may come
chiefly from other lands, but
the world, all the way around, dimes
and dances to Broadway melodies,
Whether this music is good or bad
I am not competent to say. Most
of it I like (for the first couple of
hundred tines, and yet I am sorry
that the conquered territory is quite
so vast. 1t would be pleasant to
find remote spots where the herds
men had never heard of Hold
Everything" I fear it is impossible.
BY now even the Chinese fiddlers
probably have made their own ar
rangement Of the coffee and shoe
lace piece.
These hits from the Broadway
musical shows are admirable in that
they truly and accurately represent
the town in which they were con-
ceiyed and first blared forth. But
it is not possible that the spirit of,
New York is pervasiVe enough to
animate every other community.
When the night club is q patio
with stars in its black velvet CELL
ing, the tunes of the evening should
Groom a little more. Il Wanta to Be
Loved by You" does not harmonic
completely with the Southern
Gross.
My own taste runs to the low
dives of New York rather than to
any speakeasy left naked beneath
the sky. In such a place even the
hardened sinner violates the con-
)Stitution gingerly, for he can not
avoid the feeling that perhaps
some one is looking down at him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
HE MUST BE CAREFUL
TARIFF ON DIVORCES
a q ~
WHOLESALE BANDITS

II ING GEORGE has recovered to
N such a degree he now has only
one doctor. If he had had only one
to start with, he might have been
on his feet long ago.
y
Legislatures are demanding Sc
we're punishment for retail bandits
who hold up gas stations, but they
pay no attention to the wholesale
bandits who incorporate, merge,
water their stock and hold up whole
communities by getting piratical
service charges.
If you desire to be bandit-be
a wholesaler
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

of hearts and Declarer must take
trick with king of hearts. What
card should Declarer now play to
insure game?
The ErrOr-Declarer leads 4 of
diamonds and takes with king of
diamonds in the Dummy where
upon 1t develops that East is blank
of the suit and West holds the jack
of diamonds with three others.
The Correct MethOd-To insure
making game, Declarer must make
five tricks in diamonds. Declarer
plays queen of diamonds to as
certain the distribution Of the four
missing cards in that suit. With
this information, he is in the po-
sition to fineSse to capture all of
them no matter how they are dis
tributed.
The Principle-Endeavor to retain
a commanding honor In each hand
for successful finessing.
copyright, 1929, Ready Reference Pub
fishing Col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

lungs were made
by Borelli, who
lived from 1886
to 1908, per-
formed some ex-
periments with
animals W hic h
seemed to verify
this. A contem-
porary. of Hooke's,
named Lower,
showed that the
blood underwent
a change in the
lungs, in q
from dark red to
bright scarlet.
Gradually, "a
true knowledge of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
This Date in
u. S. History

Jan. 81
1774-Franklin removed from Of
flee as deputy postmaster
general
1601--John Marshall appointed
chief justice Of the United
States.
I848-Congress authorized Wash
ington monument.
1866 Congressional am ndmeut
aholishing slavery passed the
house Of representatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Get Up to Date, Jim

THE great problem these days,
l. whether in peace or war, is to
keep up with science, to take adj
vantage of the latest discovery and
foresee what will come next.
The French and English thought
to han1string Germany on the sea
by taking away her merchant fleet
and limiting her to 10,00o-ton ships.
If 10,000-ton ships were so ALFRED
important, why was she allowed to
build them.
But let that pass.
Germany has done things the
big -Four" did not consider pos
Sible--not only has regained her
former place as power in maritime
trade, or nearly SO, but has mount
ed eleven-inch guns on a 100000
ton ship, and what is even more
astounding, has welded the plates
OF armor on that ship until it is
virtually seamless hull.
No, no, multiplying wheelbarrows
is the last way we can hope to
achieve safety, success or salvation.
y n
Huffah for Sclance
CCIENCE, thank heaven, is teach
~ ing US more than how to per-
feet mechanical devices, especially
for wholesale murder
Science is sending lis into all
parts of the world for markets and
supplies.
Science is binding us together
with a web of wire, steel and radio
wave.
Science is making it possible for
us to talk with each other and get
acquainted with each other on a
grander scale than was ever before
known.
Science is increasing our depend
ence on each other in thousand
ways. and quite regardless of race
or nationality.
Science, in short, is creating con-
ditions which call for nothing more
definitely and persistently than a
Widened reign of law and order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

The name and address OF the auLnoT
must accompany every contribution but
on request will net be published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words WILL receive
preference.
Editor Unrestricted Saturdays
paper carried story on the inn
peachment of Oklahona's governor
under a headline Woman Defends
Apron Strings Rule for Governors
Office"
Recently read where your paper
had something to say about the
management Of the highway de-
partment and its closed door policy
of the commission and specifically
the general manager. Did the
thought ever occure TO you that
right in your midst you have petit
coat rule.
I overheard a contractor talking
the other day who was laughing
and cussing about the skirt rule at
the highway department. Said all
the offices were managed by girls
or old women with political drags
Better investigate.
TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Life Demands Oxygen
No. 26S

T IFE requires not only food but air well. All
- through life the process OF breathing continues.
The ancients had no very clear idea of why
this One theory that air had to be taken
in to cool and temper the flame of life" whatever
that flame was
The first suggestion that the respiratory movements
of the chest were to pump air in and out of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
I Z :
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

DALM BEACH, Fla, Jan. 81
L Other sections Of America may
make our country's laws. but all the
song rights belong in New York.
And that is said to be more inn
portant.
The hotel orchestra with Lake
warm at its back and enormous
tropical moon just overhead is play
ing an accompaniment to this coll
urnn. But the orchestra is not at
tempting to interpret the spirit Of
Florida in terms Of any native
music.
Naturally the band is playing
YOU'RE the Cream in My Coffee"
And, of course, the encore will be
81 Wanta Be Loved by You" Later,
unless something catastrophe hap
pens, there will be Sonny Boy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the


Health Magazine.
TN the current issue of Hygeia,
l. DR.. A. Levinson has pointed out
some of the important factors to
be considered by people who wish
to adopt a child.
In most instances people pick
out a child because it is dark or
fair, fat or lean, because its hair
is curly or straight, blond or bru-
net. However, the wise couple will
realize from the first that the health
of the child is much more inn
portant than the tilt or turn-up of
its nose.
Experienced parents realize that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

Editor Times-I just finished
reading in The Times that a Mr..
Gresham OF the v. F. W. said ex-
soldiers don't need any assistance.
While I do not particularly need
a bonus from the state of Indiana.
I would not refuse it, because it
would help me to get an education
7 am hoping to get. ] spent quite .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

tooth eleven feet long has been unearthed in
Siberia. The very thing for the volstead law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

Speaking of the movies one of the feminine stars
probably one of those who loves to curl up before
the fire with good book, says Suchansuch soap
keeps ones skin very hawless" Perhaps because
it's 'outstandingly unique"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

Eight thousand Chicago bell boys have been asked
to organize union branch to protect their tips.
After they're through with that job the organizers
might try teaching West Point graduates how to
march.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

The Grand Duke Alexander disputes the choice
of Russian royalists in Paris who designated Nikita
to succeed Nicholas heir to the throne of Russia
Something like picking the, wrong horse after the
race has been run. Ill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

Pickle packers have found way to beautfy the
pickle. Would you call that pretty pickle9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
DAILY THOUGHT

For even when We were with
you, this we commanded you, that
if any would not work, neither
should he eat.-H Thess. $40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

TTNLESS a man work he cannot
~ find out what be is able to do.
--Hammerton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

ideas sno
opinions az
pressed IN this
coiu N n are
those Of enc
Of Americas
most interest,"
Ing writer's
and are pre-
sented With.
ous regard TO
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
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David Dietz on Sci.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22

Washington University, will be the
guest of honor and speaker.
Capitol Council. Royal Arcanum.
meets tomorrow night, 8 O'Clock, at
Pythian Temple. Regent l.. B. D'Orsay,
Massachusetts Society of Washington
will give a dance and card party
Thursday evening in the ballroom of
Wardman Park Hotel. Special cabaret
features. Cards, $50 o'clock; dancing,
O'Clock.
The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will meet for the last time
this season Thursday at pm. in Cos
mos Club Hall.
Rev. J. H. Randolph. pastor of Mount
MOriah Baptist Chuch, will preach a
special sermon at the Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church Thursday, pm, under
the auspices of the j. E. Willis Memo
rial Club. All welcome.
Capitol Lodge, No. g. Order of Shop
herds of Bethlehem, will hold its regular
meeting Thursday, Odd Fellows Temple,
4l9 Seventh street northwest. Enter
tainment and strawberry festival to fol-
low.
Women's Alliance of All Souls Uni
tartan Church will meet in Pierce Hall,
Fifteenth and Harvard streets, Friday
May "a, IL O'Clock. Maj. r. Y. Stuart
of Forest Service will be the speaker
Luncheon served at l o'clock, Mrs. Earle
hostess.
An entertainment in aid of Cutting
ton College, Liberia. will be given in
the parish hail. Epiphany Church, G
street, Friday, 3 pm. Mrs. Elizabeth
Phillips will give humorous and dra-
matte readings and boy approximations
Members of the Washington Readers
Club will present the statue scene from
The Winters Tale" Vocal and instru-
mental music by Miss Cornelia Hark-
ness and Mrs. Bruce r. Campbell.
Alpha Delta Phi luncheon, Friday,
Hotel Gordon, 1890 pm.
The Woman's Benefit Association will
give card party for the benefit of
the clubhouse at 1850 Massachusetts
avenue, Saturday, May IS, $50 pm.
Public invited.
The Washington Unit League of
Coast Guard Women will hold rum
mage sale at 93l G street northwest
Friday and Saturday, May "a and IS
The proceeds of this sale will be used
to carry on the welfare work of the
league among the personnel of the
Coast Guard.
Wilson Normal School Alumnae As
ISOLATION will hold banquet at the New
Willard Hotel Saturday. May 25, at $50
O'Clock. Tickets may be secured from
Charles Hart.
Benefit card party, sponsored by Fed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22
Death Ends Kindly Act.

Dare Devil Orion's" last perform
ance on the tight rope was to- aid the
family of an elderly man who had been
killed by a truck. In private life Dare
Devil Orion" was Theodore Gappa. 81,
q former tight wire star. He insisted in
leaving a sick bed to perform at the
fair at Southall, England. to raise
funds for the family, but collapsed on
the rope and fell so feet to the grund
Gappa's daughter met her death in the
same way several years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22

meet at the same time, thereby expedit-
ing consideration OF the utility appoint
ments and afford an opportunity to take
up the real estate financing question
at the same time
A group of civic leaders was invited
to give the committee their views on
the utility appointment and it was ex-
pected the meeting would result in
favorable action on both names. The
only protest the committee has received
was from E. c. Riegel of the Washing
ton Consumers Guild
With regard to the real estate financ-
ing situation, the subcommittee on
banks and insurance planned to sub
nit to the full committee a substitute
resolution in place of the one origi-
nally offered by Senator Brookhart in
which he asked for an inquiry. The
subcommittee will not make public the
contents of the new resolution until it
is laid before the full committee.