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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Out in the Country

TTALF an hour is quite enough to
L. get us beyond the suburbs and
into that arid waste of speculation
which surrounds every growing
American community, that no mans
land Of expansion which lies be-
tween the farm and table, that
lunatic fringe Of the unearned in
crement.
A few moments of this desclation
and the real countryside appears.
The houses no longer are grouped,
or strung out in lines, but stand.
proudly apart, each on its 40, 80 or
100 acres.
We are now out where land means
something besides a map and a.
sales office, where people have to
work for what they get out of it.
In this particular section, those
who laid out the land were evident
ly methodical, going by the compass,
square mile and quarter section, but
just as evidently, they did not take
the coming Of the railroad into &C.
count, or the course of its right of
way The railroad does not follow
the lines, but angles across them,
leaving wire office and corn row
to run slantwise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 21.-Out of
~ Cleveland at noon on a clear,
crisp Sunday, with Lake Erie to the
right for several miles, as we travel
west before turning south, its water
Shivery blue and white cold ice
pack paralleling the shore at dis
tance of some hundreds of yards.
A parkway runs between the rail-
road and the lake. 1t is interrupted
here and there by factories Of small
settlements which -empted the
land before Cleveland woke up. 1t
is better water front, however.
than most cities can boast, and
stands forth as real monument to
civic consciousness and foresight.
Except for this park and the lake
it Borders, the sights are much the
same as one sees on leaving the
average town in this country
smooth gray streets, f1anked by
small patches of lawn; comfortable
but griny homes; families piling in
and out of flivvers, tall aerials top
ping squat bungalows and, God save
the mark, a craps game under
bridge SO situated as to hide it from
all but train riders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Not So Flaming

So much has been written about flaming youth
and the wildnesS of the younger generation that it is
refreshing to learn what the American Social Hygiene
Association thinks of our young people,
Stories of wild whoopee" branded as idle
TALK and the trend of childhood is regarded as whole
rather than in the direction of moral deterora
ton"
1t is true that hip flask is found here and there
and that youth has adopted new and startlingly
frank outlook toward Ife but the whole there is
nothing to worry about in the opinion of the assoca-
ton, which has investigated conditions in all sections
of the country.
"The flaming youth picture is considerably over
done, one association member asserts, and talk to
the contrary is credited only to those in search of
SenSationalism.
Those of us who know and believe in young
people are thankful for reports such as these.
The child is keeping pace with the times and his
elders will be less critical if they only will do likewise
and seek to understand him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21

Editor TimeS-It would not be the
good business for the legislature to
pass the proposed bill of Mr.. Bene-
dict to amend the Barrett law to
relieve the owner of property from
the payment of interest on legal
assessments made upon his property
for improvements by the city bene-
fetal to his property. When an inn
provement is contemplated by the
board of public works, the cost Of
such improvement is taken into
consideration. This cost includes
the interest on the bonds for ten
years. which bonds are issued by
the city and delivered to the con-
tractor before the work is begun
Under, the ten-year payment plan
the city guarantees the payment of
the principal of a series of ten
bonds in the sum of $50 each and
interest and accrued interest each
year for ten years.
Under the present laws the
property owner is required to pay
this interest in full and there is no
deficit in the fund Under the pro-
posed law, the city viii be required
to give the property owner the
privilege OF paying the face value
of the bonds IN full with interest
then due, and the city pays the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Better Material

TN the case of Grant, the terrain
Il is much fore favorable for any
biographer. First of all the life of
this man is romantic and astound-
ing.
His very defects make him more
human and appealing than is the
great Virginian. Woodward is not
an author who likes to swim with
the current and it was his good for
tune to come to his Grant book at
time when the reputation of the
Silent Soldier had grown a little
furnished
No middle-aged American can
read Meet General Grant" without
becoming more cheerful and feeling
that possibly high achievement lies
still ahead of him. I must admit
that the book did just this thing for
me.
At 40 (the precise age of this
commentator) Hiram Ulysses Grant
was much further from the presi-
dency than am today He was in
every way failure and a thoroly
dispirited and defeated man. To be
sure it took a war to make him
great and famous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21

TVERY President seeks to have
~ his name associated with some
great event of enduring Importance.
Roosevelt thought that the con-
struction of the Panama canal was
the outstanding achievement of his
administration; Wilson wanted to
go into history as the father of the
League of Nations; Harding hoped
for Immortality through his naval
congress, and now Mr.. Coolidge
thinks the Kellogg treaty, outlaw
ing war, will be the thing that will
crown him throughout the years.
1t will-until there is war.
n u
Throughout the land, state law
makers seek to curb crime by en-
acting more severe punishments,
when the thing we need is the swift
and sure enforcement of the laws
we have.
Cut the monkey business out OF
the administration of criminal law,
then let pardoning boards keep
their hands off those who are i'm
prisoned and criminal statistics will
shrink
If AL Smith wants to make a hit
with the country, he will go up to
Albany and get JEFF, his favorite
Great Dane dog, now disconsolate
over the governors departure, and
take him along on that trip to
Florida.
we are for equal rights for men
and women, but there's something
about the service of women as
jurors in criminal cases which of
tends every idea of decency, as
when those three California women
were locked up with nine men, ex-
cept at night, for ninety-seven
hours of jury room pulling and
hauling.
That's not wonan's business.
= =
After having had so many Mexi-
can presidents back their enemies
against the wall and perforate their
hides with lead, it is a decided
novelty to have President Gil come
forward and rescue fair lady from
drowning in a bathing tank.
r 4 n
It seems a joke for this unending
line of political advisers to pour a.
Niagara of advice into Mr.. Hoover's
ear as to the makeup of his cabinet,
since the country thinks of Mr.. Hoo
YER as having forgotten more about
such matters than his advisers ever
knew.
Il
The senate ratified the Kellogg
treaty to end war, whereupon the
president plucked feather from
the dove and signed it, and now the
same senate will vote for cruisers.
after which the President will
pluck feather from the eagle and
sign that.
It's a wonderful world we're liy-
ing in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Ouini11e Indian Remedy 800 Years Ago

disease was its application to the
wife of the fourth count of Chin
chon in Lima in 1888.
After that time various treatises
were written on the subject, the
first mention in England being pub
lished in 1866
In 1882 book about the bark
was published under the title, 1.-THE
English Remedy or Talbor's Won
derful Secret of Curing of Agues
and Feavers."
Tabor, who was an itinerant doc
Tor. trained as an apothecary, had
studied Peruvian bark and had used
it in restoring health to King
Charles II, when the latter was
seized with intermitten fever.
In 1742 the famous investigator
of botany, Linnaeus, established the
name cinchona in honor Of the
Countess Of Chinchon. From Gin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Vanish Before Headlines

TT is a brown, but not uninterest-
ing landscape, with willows to
mark the meandering water courses
and sometimes the farm boundaries.
There are corn stalks rotting in SER
ried rows, and less frequently fields
of stacked straw. There are apple
orchards, big barns, small houses.
quite a few sheep and some black
pigs with yellow bellies. There are
lightning rods which, for some I'M
expected reason, usually run five to
the barn and three to the house.
There are pools of black water
many of them, owing to the recent
rsin-throwing back the sheen of
sun and SKY.
A glance at the newspaper oblit-
crates it all. Brown grass, naked
trees, sheep, pigs and other nearby
objects vanish before the headlines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Not Convincing

A S to his greatness. I must adj
"A NIT that Woodward did not
quite convince me. In fact, the au-
thor begs the question little by
constantly stressing the way in
which destiny played for Grant,
once his luck began to turn, around
the age Of 40.
Writing about the battle Of Bel
mont, woodward says:
Grant went into cabin and lay
down on sofa to rest, but he was
there only a moment. He got up
almost Immediately to see what was
happening on deck AS he rose a
musket ball cut clearly through
the boats wooden side and splin-
tered the head of the sofa where
he had been lying"
But the luck of Grant concerned
other things than hair breadth es-
capes, which must be part of the
life of every soldier.
On the basis of Woodward'S book
it seems difficult to class him as a
great commander, even though the
biographer insists that he was.
Meet General Grant stakes the
major portion of its claim upon the
Vicksburg campaign.
The author declares that this was
one Of the most brilliant exploits
in American military history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21

.cheaa comes, as the active principle,
quinine, a drug which is of the
greatest Importance today in the
treatment of malaria and in many
other diseases.
A substance derived from Gin
chona has been found to have spe-
cial virtues in certain forms of
pneumonia.
Many students of history believe
that several ancient civilizations fell
because of the inroads of malaria
upon the people.
The discovery of quinine ard of its
use in controlling this disease repre-
sents one of the greatest accom-
plishments of scientific medicine,
and, as can be seen from this brief
outline, is as romantic as the search
Of northern explorers for the North
Pole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
I I
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

M. E. WOoDwARD's Meet
w General Grant" is almost
certain to find more lasting popu-
larity than his earlier biography OF
Washington. Such popularity must
be deserved, and the fact of the
matter is that Woodward likes
Grant and never seemed to grow
warm over Washington.
A biographer, to be successful,
must be animated by love or hate.
Boswell set the more prevalent style
by dishing DR., johnson up all gar
landed in idolatry. However, it is
not impossible to write with flu
ency about people who move us to
wrath or bitter envy. To write a
modern book of this type there is
Paxton HibbenS "Beecher."
But I hol dthat a calm, dispas-
Sionate and neutral biographer is
generally poor stuff. A biographer
is primarily an advocate-for the
devil or the deceased.
\ When Woodward came to write Of
Washington he found himself deal
ing with a man already canonized.
Accordingly, the biograpler under
took to bring him back into focus.
Indeed, the subtitle runs 1.-THE I'M
age and the Man"
But Woodward did not have suf-
flcient audacity or material to sug-
gest that Washington was at best
this country'S stepfather and so the
end result was a rather nagging
book which did not satisfy those
who come to great mems lives to
worship or even please the others
who wish to scott.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Splendid Isolation

MORGAN and Young will help
Iva to fix German reparations;
Pennsylvania killer says he will
die game in the "llot seat" and
probably has by this time; Hughes
is not available as secretary of state.
What a world we live in.
Splendid isolation" cried the late
President Harding, and people
flocked around him as though it
were jewel Of wisdom.
Old problems, such as what to
have for dinner, whether it is cold
enough for overshoes, where to go
next weekend, or what color to
paint the kitchen, remain close at
hand, but the newer problems range
far afield. Those aerials, as well
as the headlines, speak mostly of
expanded horizons. People not only
have learned to take an interest in
distant things, but to appreciate
the advantage of it.
Splendid isolation indeed. What
about coffee or bananas; what
about the tariff on wood; what
about the market for automobiles
in another land and how can De-
troit grow without it?
II
CPLENDID isolation-what does it
~ mean, with Morgan and Young
getting ready to take ship for Eu-
rope, with our banks and corpora
tons betting billions on the develop
ment of Latin-America, with every
day seeing some new branch estab-
lished by an American firm on the
other side of the world, or some new
variety of foreign goods on display
in the local market?
For half a century and more,
British strategists have fought the
idea of tube under the "channep'
but only to have the airplane and
dirigible reveal the stupidity of their
attitude Men, thinking in terms of
peace and constructive effort, got a.
saner perspective of the future
When parliament opens on Tuesday
and the subject comes up for dis
cusSion once more, it will receive
sympathetic attention. The day is
not far of when England will au-
thorize that tube.
Argument. especially when backed
by little but prejudice, when rooted
in little but tradition and designed
to accomplish little but personal or
political triumph, has been the curse
of the world.
What this age calls for is not men
clever enough to make other men
believe the moon is green cheese,
but men with sense enough to know
that it isn't.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Why All the Hurry?

President Coolidge wants Congress to postpone the
proposed cruiser building program and authorize only
paper" ships, instead.
His idea is good one, far as it goes. 1t takes
care of the economy for delay recognizing the
danger of federal deficit foreshadowed by the present
budget which does not include hundreds OF millions Of
dollars needed for farm relief federal buildings
flood control The Coolidge proposal is also official
admission that no immediate naval emergency exists
But the President does not go far enough.
To authorize only paper cruisers is to reduce the
proposition to gestne-a gesture, however which
would tend to destroy the value of that opposite ges
ture. the Kellogg anti-war pact.
The Kellogg pact does not dispense with the need
for larger navy. if and when Great Britain finally
refuses to translate the pact into practical terms OF
naval Irritation through equality But why not give
the Kellogg pact chance to have its effect in Lon
DOM
In addition to reasons of economy of disarmament
tactics and of friendly relations with the British peo
pie there are important technical considerations
which make this a peculiarly bad time for wholesale
cruiser construction.
One of the necessary risks of putting millions of
dollars into navy is that it may go out CT date and
become junk overnight. That is what happened to
capital ships of all nations when England launched
the first dreadnaught. Well maybe the next few
years VIII pFlng such a. EeFoiuson III clusei Soii-
struction
Germany just has loated mystery cruiser said to
surpass all known cruisers and mary capital ships.
The Ersatz Preussen carries li-inch guns compared
with other s-inch gun cruisers.
With imminent cruiser changes, and the whole
question of the relation of aircraft to ships stu unde
termned would it not well for to go slowly for
year or 50 as a matter of sound investment and
sound defense policy?
Also there is a probability unless an Anglo-Ameri
can cruiser agreement is reshec soon, that the Wash
lngton treaty. Uniting aspitaf ships viii not be
nsvsd. If that happens the entire problem of naval
defense wiz be changed, the balance between battles
ships and cruisers win be alsered and need win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
WE'VE ENOUGH LAWS
e - ~
LOCKING UP WOMEN
a
HE'S A REAL HERO

Ut rs hardly sensation for Mr..
Il Smiths followers to claim that
he was cheated out of the presi-
dency, inasmuch as rascality and
politics have trotted along together
in all lands and in all ages and in a
way it would be cruel to separate
them now even if we could-and we
can't.
Il r.
When you are calling the roll of
heroes, don't overlook Edwin Ire
main, the 2o-year-old boy in Phila-
delphia, who, paralyzed for seven
teen years, has just been awarded a
high school diploma in recognition
of the work he has done to educate
himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Party PIedges''

If there were needed any argument against
the repeal Of the primary law in this state, 1t is
the very manner in which the so-called ''party
pledge for repeal was written by the Repub-
iean convention.
Not a voter of the party had anything to do
with that piece of political chicanery.
When the state convention met, committee
On resolutions was appointed. 1t was COM
posed, as usual, of men who were selected by
the bosses. They were chosen for their skill
in preventing anything happening which might
be embarrassing to the machine.
To make it sure that there would be no In
surrection on the floor Of the convention, rule
was adopted that all proposals should be re-
ferred, without debate, to this committee.
1t was this committee which wrote the
'tparty pledge" to repeal the primary. 1t was
a fine year to write that pledge. Very few
delegates in the convention knew that it was
in the platform. They were too busy speculat-
ing on the probable nominations or with the
workers for the different candidates to pay any
attention to that document.
The rules would have prevented fight,
even if any delegate who was friendly to the
primary had chosen to make one.
The party pledge became the edict Of the
bosses who do not like it and are afraid that
perhaps four years hence it may be more diff
cult to get their own sweet way within that
party.
They know how to handle conventions The
primaries are becoming more and more diff
cult. That is because a larger number of
women are taking an interest in politics.
To repeal the primary law means that the
women voters of the state will be disfranchised,
insofar as they have any voice in the naming
Of candidates.
The women are voting in the primaries.
You can imagine how many and of what sort
would take part in garage or back room con-
ferences to pick delegates.
The repeal of the primary is the answer of
the boss to the growing influence of women in
politics. He understands that with the primary
it is harder to get his ticket across. The local
boss can give evidence of this development.
The members of the Legislature from Marion
county have only to ask themselves where they
would have been, had it not been for the pri-
mary, to get the answer.
The delegation, for the first time in years,
is for the most part free from servitude to Boss
Coffin. They won their nominations in the pri-
maries over the selections of the boss. Had it
not been for the primary, this county would
have a delegation fighting the city manager law
instead of upholding it.
The growth of the power of the people
alarms the bosses. They see an end to dictator
ship. That is the real reason the forces of ma
chine and corrupt government are pressing
hard for the repeal of the primary law.
The forces of good government should take
the field. The League Of Women Voters should
be especially alarmed If the primary is re-
pealed their meetings will be as futile as gath
ering of inmates in an insane asylum or group
of newsboys in back alley.
The situation is critical. It needs action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE

a PPARENTLY the first knowl-
4 n edge of the use of the bark of
cinchona to be definitely established
was published in 1889 by one De
Jussieu. This writer stated that the
town of Loxa, Peru, was using the
bark as early as 1000, when an In
dian chief told a Jesuit missionary
from Spain that the bark was of
value for the treatment of inter
mittent fever.
The bark was called quina -quina,
which meant bark of banks, which
shows that the Indians attached
special value to the preparation.
According to G. j. S. Thompson,
the first authentic record of the use
of cinchona in the treatment of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

interest yet to become due, which
the property owner now is obliged
to pay.
To change the law as proposed
will create another deficit which
the city will have to make up by
taxing all Of the people to pay for
an improvement beneficial to the
property holder only. The measure
should be defeated.
S. L. SMITH.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
Hoover's Commission

President-Eie Hoover has informed senators that
he will appoint commission to study the prohibition
situation after he takes Office Presumably it is
his purpose to make the inquiry as unpreiudced and
Independent as possible.
Announcement OF Hoover's intention at this time
will foresta possible action by congress and leave the
matter entirely in Hoovers hands. This is as it
should be, for congress, because of partsanshin on
both sides of the question would be unable to colne
itself to ascertaining facts.
And facts needed. Prohibition institu-
ton. as well as enforcement. should be examined.
There is need for data the extent of drinking
whether it is increasing diminishing, and informa-
ton the relationship of prohibition public health
crime public morals, and economic condition. and
on other phases of the problem.
We need to know if prohibition be enforced
and if it can not. what is to be done about it.
Facts like those Hoover proposes to seek should
make solution of the prohibition problem simpler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
This Date in
u. S. History
Jan. 22

Jan. 20
l621-E Erection of buildings began
in Plymouth, Mass.
Washington appointed COM
missioner to survey the Dis
trict of Columbia.
1921 Mexico permitted Americans
to coIonize Texas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21
DAILY THOUGHT

How long wilt thou sleep, o
sFuggard? When wit thou arise
Ont of thy sIeep7-Proverbs So.
II AzINESS breeds hun10rs Of
La the blood Galen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-21

jack of diamonds and trick is won
in Dummy with queen of diamonds.
How should Declarer plan his cam
pslgn to insure game?
The Error: Declarer plays 2 of
hearts Ia king of hearts. Then
jack of hearts is led and 8 of hearts
played from Dummy.
The Correct Method: Declarer
is certain of making two diamond
tricks, three club tricks and fou.
heart tricks if hands are correctly
played. Declarer should play Q of
hearts and overtake with king of
hearts. Then he should play jack
of hearts and overtake with the
queen of hearts. After the ace Of
hearts is forced the clubs will be
winning tricks.
The Principle: Overtake one high
card with another high card if
necessary TO prevent blocking.
Copyright. 1929, Ready Reference Pub
fishing COmpanVl