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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20

The law under which the state highways
are built and controlled is very specific in its
demands as to the director of that body.
''The state highway commission shall ap-
point director who shall be chosen solely for
fitness, irrespective of political beliefs or afili
atoms and he may be removed by majority
vote Of the commission for ineffciency, NAL
feasance or negligence of duty, after notice and
hearing by the commission, says the law.
The law tried to prevent this important
work from becoming political in its operations.
That body will now spend $2O,OO0O0O year,
large sun to be placed in the hands Of the
politically minded
What is fitness? The natural Interpretation
would be some knowledge of road building and
Of engineering. 1t is an engineering problem.
It is also problem of honesty, and that means
more than rserely not reaching into the funds
for graft. 1t means mind that sees wrong in
favors, in the taking Of small perquisites, in
the giving or receiving of special privileges.
The members Of the highway commission,
since a change is both inevitable and probably
desirable, should be somewhat cautious in plac-
ing their approval upon any man for director
unless he meets the definition Of the law
strictly, accurately and beyond suspicion.
The immense road fund is too important to
be handed out as political plum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Communism Soon Stops

COMMUNISM in Ysleta does not
" go nluh beyond the land and
the community oven. Families and
individuals are expected to buy or
build their own dwellings, provide
their own food and pay for whatever
else they can afford.
There are twelve councilmen-six
appointed by the Indian agency and
six by the cacique, or tribal chief.
Their control is pretty intimate and
sometimes rough, because of the
power they have to issue or revoke
land leases.
AS might be expected, two parties
have arisen-one opposed to this
system and known as radical" the
other favoring it and known as
conservative.
Again, as might be expected, this
party division is quite as much a
matter of age as political principle.
The progressive group contains few
men over 40, while the conservative
group contains few under it.
Curiously enough, an Abeita heads
each group-Pablo, man well
versed in all the ancient lore and
highly intelligent, being recognized as
defender of the old order, while
Diego, graduate not only of the
albuquerque Indian school, but Of
the University of New Mexico,
champions the new.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
They Talk FIuentIy
because Of agricul

WHETHER because of agricul-
wv ture, education, or fixed resi-
dence, the Indians of Ysleta are very
different from the traditional pic
ture. They are neither inarticulate
nor uncommunicative.
To talk with Pablo Abeita is to
get a clear and complete picture of
the tribes history and present-day
problems from conservative stand
point
To talk with Diego is to get just
as clear and complete picture from
the modern standpoint.
Both men not only know what
they want to say, but have the
ability to say it, and this seems to
be characteristic of the community
Spanish is spoken by every one,
but English is rapidly taking its
place.
While the tourist trade is bring
ing easy money to Ysleta, I can not
get away from the suspicion that
it is teaching some Of the children
to become moochers and panderers.
What the average Indian needs
to learn is the idea of steady work.
Ysleta has made considerable
progress in that respect. as is shown
by its comfortable circumstances.
Though blessed with no oil well or
other piece of good fortune to make
It xich. it is fairly well housed,
clothed and fed. not to mention the
100 autos which it sports.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

If poisoning with mushrooms is
suspected in the presence Of these
symptoms, it is important to empty
the stomach as soon as possible, to
flush out the intestines with salts
and to apply heat to the body. A
physician when called will admin
lister drugs which will counteract
the effects of the mushroom poison
ing.
The death cup form of the am
anita is also called the destroying
angel and the dubious amanita. 1t
grows from three to six inches tall,
has a smooth velvety cap and is
usually white, although it may be
yellow, green or brown.
It looks like the common mush-
room, is usually found in pine for
ests, but occasionally is seen in
fields. At least fifteen to twenty
people are killed each year in the
United States by this mushroom
and many more are made i'll.
DR.. w. G. Farlow Of Harvard uni
versity has formulated rules for
those gathering mushrooms which
should prevent the eating Of the
most poisonous varieties.
l. Avoid fungi when in the but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
I I
SEEMS
TO ME
q q
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

oh, GOD, Sam, I've seen the
- jungle at dawn, and these fell
lows have stayed here, stuck at lit
tie desks, and never drifted I'VE
steps away from their regular route
from home, to the Office, to the
speakeasy, to the movies, to home. I
was on ship afire in the Persian
gulf"
Ross Ireland, a character in
"Dodsworth," by Sinclair Lewis IS
speaking He speaks for himself.
for the author, for most of us.
Thomas Cook, and all his sons
have prospered because we believe
that somewhere there is a purple
land and trees on which authentic
romance grows. And little trees so
that it may be plucked down by the
passing traveller.
l was in small boat that almost
swamped under the pounding waves
in Cheefoo harbor. I've seen the
sun rise over the flat roofs OF
Peping. I watched 10000 troops
come through mist and land upon
an alien shore while brass bands
played over There"
And ! think it is fallacious to as
sumo that life is more spiced in dis
tant places and that romance is the
sure reward of those who turn their
backs upon familiar things and sail
to the east through days and nights
and tempests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Warning Giueu ON Toadst0OI Poisoning

ton or uneXpanded stage; also those
in which the flesh has begun to de-
cay, even if only slightly.
2. Avoid all fungi which have
death cups, stalks with a swollen
base surrounded by sac-like or
scaly envelope, especially if the gills
are white.
3. Avoid fungi having a milky
juice, unless the milk is red
dish.
4. Avoid fungi in which the cap
is thin in proportion to the gills, and
in which the gills are nearly all Of
equal length, especially If the pileus
is bright colored.
5. Avoid all tube-bearing fungi in
which the flesh changes color when
cut or broken, or where the mouths
of the tubes are reddish, and in the
case of other tube-bearing fungi
experiment with caution.
6. Fungi which have a sort of
spider web or ring around the up
per part of the stalk should in gen.
eral be avoided.
7. Do not collect mushrooms in
or near wooded areas except for
study purposes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Reason

xXTE are all interested In the
w story that Olvany'S resigna-
ton as Tammany chieftain means
that Al Smith is to go to the United
States senate to succeed Wagner,
who is to resign to become mayor
of New York to succeed Jimmy
Walker, who is to be discarded.
The change will be made if Tam
many desires, for it makes and I'M
makes statesmen, regardless of their
wishes.
The last creature of Tammany to
dispute it's authority after he re-
ceived what he wanted was William
Sulzer, former Governor of New
York.
When he declared war on the or
ganization, that war ended in his
being impeached and thrown into
political oblivion.
OF course, Smith would like to go
to the senate, SO would Walker, who
only recently said that it would be
next to paradise.
Abraham Lincoln, also fully ap-
preciated the allurements of this
most desired public station, for he
said only a few months before he
was nominated for the presidency
that he would prefer senatorial
term to the White House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
The Prince Pioneers

The Prince of Wales has not been made regent,
but he is entering upon kingy duties He has started
for instance, to take the starch out of the evening
shirt and to make the evening jacket double breasted
All London, we learn is discussing the fact that
the prince appeared the other night at boys boxing
club in double-breasted dinner jacket soft shirt with
soft rundown collar and cuffs, soft black tie, and
checked pulover. Whatever that may be.
The sofening of the shirt appears to just grand.
The conventional wide open bosoms, stiff like card
board and bullying as they will from the sides and
bottom Of the scanty vest in spite of daily DOZENS
always have been trial And chilly night the
double-breasted jacket would not be bad.
OF course, boxing match is informal and we
know the prince is not going to wear the same coat
to open parliament But we like his pioneering spirit
Three rousing cheers! For he's jolly good
fellow
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Questions and AnSzce1S

You can get an answer e. any snswer.
able. question Of fact or informstion BY
Editor The INDIANAPOLIS Times wash
ington Bureau, 1922 New. YORK avenue
WASHINGTON. 2: 2; inaecl as:iag cents Y n
advice cannot be given, nor can ex-
tended research be made. All other
questions will receive personal reply
All letters are confidential You are
cordially invited to make use Of this
service.
@. Did Manual play in the state
basketball finals several years ago
at the state Playground coliseum?
A. No city team ever before has
played in the state tournaments
finals since it has been held in In
dianapolis. Manual and Technical
have both gone to the finals, sew
eral years ago, before the tourna-
ment was held in this city.
What national holidays have been
specifically authorized by congress?
With the exception of the act Of
June %, 1894, providing that the
first Monday in September of each
year, known as Labor day, is made
a public holiday, congress has not
passed any law creating a. holiday
that must be observed throughout
the UnioA New Years day, Christ
mas day, Washiilgton's birthday,
Fourth Of July, ete., are observed or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
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Is TIAeI
ANNIVERSARY
.zE91I4
THE BRITISH BLOCADE
March 20

NN March 20, 1873, 116 years ago
~ today, Great Britain proclaimed
a blockade of the Atlantic seaboard
states. 1t was part of the campaign
to win the War of 1872.
At first, the coast of New Eng
land was spared, because its in
habitants were supposed by England
to be favorable to the British cause.
This supposition soon was dropped,
however, ard the blockade was ex-
tended from Halifax to the West
Indies.
Soon after, Britain established
naval base at the mouth Of Chesa-
peake bay. America was in no po-
sition to challenge the British at
sea. The most it could do about
the Intrusion was to darken all the
lighthouses in the neighborhood,
and thus place the enemy at as
much inconvenience as possible.
A number of defenselesS coast
villages were fired upon, but New
York and other large cities were
spared because the British feared
mines and torpedoes.
In fact, two British ships which
ventured too close to New York
missed being torpedoed by narrow
margins. and served as examples to
all the others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Captain Fried's Hobby
fellow

There is an old theory that you can get pretty
accurate picture of a man by finding out what his
hobby is That the theory says, will tell you what
the real man is like better than his performances in
public.
1t may be so, but we're beginning to doubt it, For
Gilbert Swan, New York columnist reveals that
Captain George Fried of the liner America has the
most prosaic hobby of alhe collects postage stamps.
Somehow that doesn't fit the captain at all. It
bespeaks tay-at-home; man untitled for desper-
ate chances and bowling gales 1t simply isn't in
character We have a bunch that a better picture of
the real captain is the one most of us already have
the picture of him bringing his ship, with consum-
mate skill and bravery, up beside another to save
mems lives in raging storm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
A Test of Curiosity

Curiosity is and always has been, one of the
strongest Of human traits.
Not long ago Harpers published mystery novel in
which the final chapter containing the solution, VS.
sealed and offered to refund the purchase price to
any buyer who, having read that far could throttle
his curiosity and return the book with the seal I'M
unbroken
Since then that book has gone through ten print
ings-and only three copies have been returned!
Acute curiosity, say the psychologists is a sign
of intelligence. BY that gauge We must be remarkably
intelligent people And Harpers, incidentally must
be fairly shrewd in its reading of the public mind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
The State Defense

Let it be hoped that the Governor will act very
promptly in the naming of a new armory board, the
terms of present members having expired.
The national guard is rather important part OF
he state organization 1t is dedicated to the defense
of the state Its chief in the past has been on
occasions of great disasters where its members served
missions Of mercy rather than for terror or force
The Governor has signed the measure adopted by
the legislature providing for very complete inquiry
into the building of armores for this guard during the
jackson regime.
TOE plar has been condemned. For it was based on
the wrong etsw of public business and was conducted
in a manner that invited suspicion.
Under that plan large number of armories were
built. They we're all built by the same contracting
hnn. which. is described a subsidiary of the bank
which sold bonds on these armores. The cry was
raised that the state obligated to take care of the
investors The bonds were exempt from taxation as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
SMITH AS A SENATOR
SULZER AND TAMMANY
AS A GREAT FIREMAN

ONCE Queen Marie has gone to
~ Paris to try to get her wife-de-
sorting son to return and take the
throne, it goes without saying that
this particular job calls for per-
fectly upright and level-headed
statesman.
Our senators and representatives
will rejoice that Mr.. Hoover is not
going to appear in person and speak
his messages to them, as his two
immediate predecessors did, and if
the President knew how the law
makers fed from the floor when
his message is read he would just
have it printed in the Congressional
Record and let it go at that.
There's no hope now for Marshal
Foch, for he has nine doctors.
Remembering how President An
drew Jackson took the hide off John
G. Calhoun and his fellow nullifica-
tionists in his Washington speech,
President Hoover might pay his re-
spects very forcibly to the New York
lawyers who have banded together
to defend those who violate the pro-
hibition law, when he goes to New
York to address the Associated Press
next month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20

celebrated in most of the states and
in this sense, they are generally
considered national holidays; but
there is no federal law making it
obligatory upon the several states to
observe them as such. The public
holidays created by acts of con-
gress affect only the federal agen-
cies, such as federal offices, national
banks, etc. Each state is left free
to legislate on the subjects Of holi-
days.
Does Iigh and Low German refer
to people or language?
Low German and High German
are dialects. The German language
is divided geographically into Low
German spoken in the Netherlands
and includes Fresian, Dutch, Flem-
ish and Old Saxon. High G.rman
includes the Thuringian, Francon-
ian, Swabian, Alsatian, Swiss and
Bavarian dialects. Modern high
German is the literary language and
the language Of the educated classes
and is known simply as German,
What is the nationality and mean
ing of the name Ameliore?
1t is n Italian name Of Teutonic
origin and the English form is
Amelia. II means work. "ener-
getic."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20

were the arnlories Yet they privately owned
property for long term of years.
The state defense ought not to be a privately con-
Quoted expedition. If the state is to own armories,
and it needs them if the guard is to grow, there
should be hint of private interest The senate
port showed rather profits for those who engaged
in the presumably patriotic enterprise of furnishing
housing quarters.
What is more important is the statement of the
senators who made cursory probe that the guard
under this system no greater in size or efficiency
than existed before the holding companies began its
extensive building program.
Certainly if the state is to be bound for long
term of years to continuous payments there should
be some suggestion that the guard itself will i'm
prove, either in or In caliber of training.
Perhaps general shakeup would be fair pro-
gram in advance of the probe by the board of &C
counts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
M. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
What. the Acreage IN
dian Needs to Learn Is
the idea of Steady
Work"
THERE were, perhaps, one million

THERE were, perhaps one million
Il Indians in what is now the
United States when Europeans
arrived. For the most part, they
consisted OF rowing tribes, without
fixed territory or permanent abode,
A small group-ffteen or twenty
thousand-dVelt in substantial and
well-constructed villages. These
the Spaniards named Pueblo, or
town" Indians.
One naturally would look for
such communities in a fertile and
productive region, but they were
found on the desert. Eighteen of
them still exist-all III New Mexico.
Taos is the most famous, but
Laguna, San Dia, and Ysleta are
rather more typical.
These pueblos are the oldest
towns in this country, outranking
st. Augustine, jamestown, and
Plymouth by at least two centuries,
and containing houses that have
been occupied for twenty-five
generations, sometimes by the same
family.
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1t was the weather that defeated the Spanish Ar
mazda, DR.. McArdie points out, Ship after ship was
wrecked the coast of Scotland and Ireland il the
late summer of 1888 And DR.. McArdie says, Queen
Elizabeth might well have said to her troops you
go home now; there will be invasion The weather
has fought for us"
He also tells US that the weather helped George
Washington win the freedom of the American colonies
In August 1776, the colonial troops under Washing
ton defeated by the British forces under Howe
at the battle Of Long Island British fleet in the
East river apparently had cut off hope of retreat
But the night of Aug 20 was exceptionally foggy.
The lookous the British warships could see moth
ing and under cover of the heavy dense white fog,
WaShington'S forces slipped across to New York.
A fog once came to the rescue of Napoleon. The
campaign in Egypt had gone badly. Affairs at home
were even worse. Napoleon found it necessary to
hurry home.
Nelson's fleet was looking for him on the high seas
During heavy fog, the vessel bearing Napoleon
passed close to the flagship itself Of Nelson's fleet Had
1t not been for the fog. the Frenchman might have
been captured and the whole history of Europe
changed as result
Later, however, weather was to prove an enemy of
Napoleon's campaign into Russia so disastrous.
Rain, which made the roads almost impossible and
delayed the French troops, one of the important
features contributing to the final defeat of Napoleon
at Waterloo
Victor Hugo wrote: IF it had not rained on the
night OF June II 1915 the future Of Europe would
have been changed. A few drops Of rain mastered
Napoleon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
London Fog

GTfLL, 1t must be Remembered
- that the man who pinned for the
road to Mandalay was not an mag
NATIVE fellow. He dropped in Lon
don, not because of an excessive
capacity for romanticisn, but be-
cause he lacked it.
The drizzle and the gritty paving
stones broke down his morale. The
soldier Of the song fear was
gross materiahst He longed for a
dawn which came up like thunder
and was blind to more subtle effects.
Shanghai has a pleasant sound,
and Rio is lovely name to put in
any ballad. I'm ready to admit that
Long Island City falls less trip
pingly from off the tongue than does
the Vale of Kashmira. Quincy, Ill.
fails to suggest the same chance for
adventure as Yokohoma, Japan.
Granting that no spot in all the
world is too isolated or too slicked
up to harbor strange happenings, 1
am still Of the opinion that New
York is richest in romantic pos
sibilities. And I don't mean Green
wich Village.
Copyright. 1929. for The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Live by Odd Jobs

VSLETA gets its living by farm
Il ing a narrow strip along the
river, selling curios and doing odd
jobs. The women not only bake,
weave and scrub, but do all the
plastering. Of the 200 men under
80, practically all have had the
chance to get high school educa-
ton, but less than 10 per cent have
taken full advantage of it.
The government is modified
communism, the land being owned
by the community and leased to in
dividuals or families by the coun-
Gil. Once land has been leased it
remains the property of the lessee
as long as it is occupied or used. 1t
can be inherited or sub-leased,
though not to an outsider, except by
consent of the council.
Save for such changes as were
made necessary to accommodate the
Indiana agency and United States
supervision, this type of government
is the same as it was when Column
bus left Spain.
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- -
By
Frederick
lands

ONCE President Hoover doesn't
~ like the Virginia resort which
Mr.. Coolidge selected for summer
White House, he probably will be
up against the terrible hardship of
selecting a vacation spot from
among several thousand wonderful
estates, rendered for his use.
It's better to let the President
visit around the republic than to
stay all the time along the eastern
seaboard.
II II
If Germany has any gratitude, she
will let Trotski into her domain,
for he and Lenin did the job Ger
many sent them to Russia to do
upset the Russian government and
remove it as an opposing force in
the World war.
= 4 Il
If Mr.. Hoover persists in his in
tention to displace off1ceholders with
his personal friends, he will be
known as a great fireman, as well
as a great engineer.
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m a n RI o Q S
chiefly because
they were suf-
fering from lack
Of water. A sud-
den and severe
t h u n d e rStorm
not only sup
piled water, but
frightened the
barbarians suff-
GENTLY to give
t h e R om an
forces the upper
hand. AS a re-
lit these forces
ere kno wn
thereafter as the
T h u n d erin g
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
David Dietz on Science
Weather Wins Battles
no. 308

XKTEATHER by playing important part in the
w fortunes of war, has been important agent in
shaping the history of the world Instances Of this
have been collected by DR.. Alexander McAdie, pro-
fessor of meterology at Harvard university
In TIA A. D., the Roman forces under Marcus Au-
relus Antoninus the verge of defeat by Ger