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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Uncle Sans Pocketbook

Mounting federal expenditures and diminishing
revenues are creating very real problem for the new
administration.
Tax payments March is and June Is will deter
mine the condition of the treasury at the end OF the
present fiscal year July /. small surplus has been
expected but the margin is SO narrow that deficit
easily might appear
Expenditures during the first eight months Of the
year were about s15O,ooO,ooo greater than for the
corresponding period of last year. Receipts were less
by more than s2OOoooOoo
The congress which just adjourned voted the larg-
est budget since the extraordinary demands OF war
time years we're eliminated The total was $46630OO-
O0o an increase of about $350000OO over appropra-
lions for the current year. small surplus Is pre-
dicted for July l. $780, but any considerable addl-
tionaI outlay b. congress, or any stable reduction IN
receipts means red ink.
Figures do not tell the whole story. The last
congress- at the request of the administration ignored
the $48O0OO00 river and harbors bill, and mertorus
pay adjustment and retirement legislation and other
measures There will be enormous pressure Tor acCon
on these at the special session.
It is admitted that pressure for economy and the
utmost care by congress in making appropriations will
not be able to halt the tendency toward increased ex
penditures The government is growing and its adj
ninistration costs continually more.
Congress has committed the country to cruiser
building program. large public building program,
continued aid to the states in road building pro-
gram of flood control, and numerous waterway and
other internal improvement projects are pending.
Unless expanding business provides increased reve-
nues in sufficient quantities. it would seem that the
time is approaching when higher or additional taxes
must be considered to make Uncle Sans books
balance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
-- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
PyO7Yhea Is Real Menace to Man

gums separate from the roots of the
teeth.
When they have once separated
they are not likely to become at
tached again. Moreover, a constant
presence of infectious matter leads
to secondary disturbances in the
body, which may be exceedingly
serious.
The blood picks up the germs
from the pus pockets around the
teeth and carries them to other
parts of the body where they set up
new infections.
Because the teeth are loose and
the mouth is foul, the person with
pyorrhea is likely to lose his ap-
petite. He is unable to chew food
satisfactorily, his digestion is inter-
fered with and he becomes in gen.
eral much sicker than he would be
with a clean mouth cavity.
Because the mouth is easy to get
at, because the gums are tough and
because the saliva keeps the mouth
constantly fabricated, the tissue
stand a great deal of punishment
before the condition becomes SO
severe that it is impossible to delay
attention. For this reason pyorrhea
is usually a chronic rather than an
acute disease.
For this reason also it is neces-
sary to remind people again and
again that the mouth should be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12

looked at by a competent dentist al
least once in every six months, sc
such conditions may be detected
early and given adequate care before
they become so serious that the only
hope lies in removal of all the
teeth, surgical attention to the gums
and provision Of artificial plates.
Among the causes of infections of
the gums are continuous irritation
from the edge of rough crowns or
of filings. A good dentist will see
to it that crown or a filling is abb
solutely smooth and continuous
with the surface of the tooth to
which it is applied.
food particles may accumulate
between the teeth and set up spots
of local irritation and decay. The
regular use of the tooth brush and
of dental floss is necessary to pre-
vent such occurrence. Toothpicks,
and especially pins, knives, forks or
other objects used in lieu of tooth
picks, do severe damage to the deli
cate tissues when manipulated by
a careless hand.
Tartar deposits are just as irritant
as rough filings. Moreover, they
are easily susceptible to the accu-
mutation of bacteria. Pyrrhea is one
Of the most nenacing diseases
known to man and its prevention
depends on constant vigilance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
N. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"There Is No Such Differ
ence BetaOeen 80 and go
as There Used to Be-"
XXTE speak Of this as the era

XXTE speak of this as "the era
W of flaming youth" Actually,
it is the era of flaming old age. It's
real triumph consists in the multi
tude of folks above 70 who are
either hard at work or enjoying
themselves.
Youth always has been vigorous.
Old age has not. That more than
anything else gives the present gen.
Grafton a right to pat itself on the
back.
Civilization has done well by
grandpa and grandma. The jungle
could show as great a percentage of
f1appers and jelly beans, but not as
great a percentage of happy, heal
thy old folks.
There never was a time before
when gray-haired men and women
played such a part in life or got
so much out of it. You have to
look through good many, pages to
find a man of three-score and ten
doing much of consequence in the
past.
The kings and captains of old died
young, as a general proposition.
This was so common, indeed, as to
create the belief that men could not
live long if they worked hard or
assumed any great degree of re-
sponSibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Lineup Is CHANGED

WE have a wholly new lineup
w these days. Grandpa no long
er sits in the chimney corner, whin-
ming or reminiscing. Grandma no
longer rocks and kriits.
There is companionship where
there used to be aloofness, and that
has helped medical science to
achieve its triumph.
One can think of many conspicu-
Gus examples of men who stay
young in spite of their yearS-Edi-
son, growing rubber at 80; Rookie
Teller, playing his regular game Of
golf at 80, and Robert Dollar, in
command of his shipping business
at IS.
What counts far more is the gen.
eral average, the common grouping,
in which young and old commingle
happily, whether it has to do with
business or baseball.
You see it in every sort of gath
ering-in work, in play, in politics,
in education.
Go to beach, a museum or q
Rotary Club, and you find an as
ISOLATION of age and youth which
is utterly different from what it was
even as recently as fifty years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Old Difference Gone

THERE is no such difference be-
Il tween people of 80 and so as
there used to be. One sees this not
only in business, but on the golf
course.
Even two generations back, faith
ers and sons had little in common,
much less grandfatherS and grand
sons. An old man who tried to play
with young folks was considered
silly, while young man who pre-
sumed to take part in the converse
ton of old folks was looked upon
as an upstart.
Such attitude was carried to even
greater extremes with regard to
women. There was definite cleav-
age all along the line because of
age. Children stood in awe of theeir
parents, and in too many instances
had little but contempt for their
grandparents.
More or less tyranny over both old
and young was accepted as the right
of middle life. Affection had a way
of dying with the wedding ceremony,
and "duty" became the watchword.
Children and old folks were taken
care of if they kept their places, but
not without a great deal of COM
plant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12

in which condensed moisture falls to
the earth: rain, snow, sleet and hail.
They differ in form, shape, size and
density.
Are there any wild bison left in
America?
There are three centers of wild
bison in North America: Yellowstone
Park, the Montana Bison Range
and Northern Athabasca. There are
preserved herds in Yellowstone
Park, the Montana and Wichita
Ranges and Canadian reserves.
How long does it take to cremate
a body?
Cremation is completed two hours
after the body enters the furnace
1t takes from twelve to fifteen hours
for the ashes to cool sufficiently to
be removed.
What is the average cost for each
pupil who attends school in the
United States?
For 1924 it was $74.S6 for cur
rent expenses and 5000 for OUT
lays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Myths

GETTING away from the Lin
" coin myth, it. is fair to say that
Ed Howe is not a plain person at
all, but highly complicated and
unusual individual. To be sure.
there are points of resemblance here
and there to other country editors.
since Howe went through the same
mill.
In fact, Ed Howe's closest spir-
itual relative in America is the
very urban Henry L. Mencken.
There is also distinct strain of
Clarence Darrow in the man.
Fifty years of Atchison made
Howe politically a Kansan, but he
seems by some miracle to have es-
capped wholly from Kansas ideal
ism. In fact If the truth must be
told, Ed Howe is a gentle cynic. He
Is even a wisecracking columnist.
So much of Howe's material in
the adhesion. He was reprinted
in metropolitan eastern papers and
it seemed extraordinary that he
was never drafted by the big city.
He explains that nobody asked him,
but there is ample evidence that he
would not have cared to go.
1t seems to me that he picked the
proper forum for his philosophy.
Synicisrn is not popular in America
unless it comes from men with
straw behind their ears. AS a city
columniSt, Ed Howe would have
been assailed as irreligious, want
ing in reverence, egotistical beyond
endurance.
But what is known as a wise crack
if it originates OH Broadway is re-
ceived as homely wisdom when it
springs from a small middle western
city.
This depression is impaired by the
fact that Howe himself speaks
somewhat obviously of columar de-
volepments along the Atlantic sea-
board. Like every veteran journal
list he makes the traditional salaam
to the Importance of news above all
else.
Specifically he is not one of the
plain people because he is essen
TALLY a stylist. What he has to say
is rather less important than the
manner in which he says it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
March IL
GRANTS APPOINTMENT

MaFch IL
A T the beginning of the year
"A 1864 four great battles-Ft.
Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg and
Chattanooga-had turned the tide
Of the Civil war in favor of the
North. All of them had been won
under the leadership of General U.
S. Grant. They were, in effect,
disastrous blows to the south's left
flank, but its right f1ank-in Vir-
ginia-still held its ground.
At this point, just sixty-flye years
ago today, General Grants success
in the west was recognized, by his
appointment as commander -in-chief
of the entire Union armies.
Grants first move was to forsake
his original plan of trying to lead
his western army to Atlanta and the
sea. Instead, he assumed personal
charge of the Army of the Potomac.
Then a ponderous march of united
federal forces began against the
south.
The appointment of Grant to
supreme connnand of the federal
armies crowned the military career
of man who entered West Point
against his win, and who admitted
in his writings that military life was
dlstastefuI to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Some Bad Points

A S might be expected. the first
N results of such a radical change
are not all satisfactory. Older peo-
pie have shown a tendency to be-
come frivolous. while the young
have shown as equal tendency to
presume on their privileges. In the
end, it will work out all right.
No revolution can occur without
some confusion at the start, and
this altered attitude with regard to
youth and age hardly can be de-
scribed as less than revolution.
1t is the socially democratic ideal
breaking down one more barrier, the
passing of one more type of class
rule. In the end, we are all going
to be better, happier and wiser be-
cause of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Sedate and Settled

DUT this will no longer get rise
ID out Of me for 1 find in the auto
biography that this praise of the
sedate and settled comes from a
man who spent his early life as an
itinerant printer, whose greatest
love is orchestral music and who
sold a thriving newspaper property
while still hale and hearty to ex-
press himself in a tiny weekly pub
lication where all barriers were
down.
At no point in "Plain People" does
Ed Howe convince the reader that
he possesses the soul Of a business
man.
4SHis tributes to those who can
make So grow where previously
there were none arise simply from
the familiar Freudian spring of de-
fensive mechanism. In Atchison an
artist has to pretend that he is
something else.
Ed Howe writes prose of sort to
make every other journalist bite his
nails in envy. 1t is seldom beauti.
full but few have ever written with
more clarity.
And I suppose Ed Howe is one Of
the plain people because he never
went to college and left school for
the printing shop while still a boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Old Thought Useless

A DOZEN treatises have been
a written about such men as
'old Parr'' and jenkins to prove
that selfishness or Iaziness, or both,
accounted for their years.
Until recently people grew up
with the idea that those who wished
to live long must eschew ambition
and suppress their energy.
Great age was regarded as
proof of uselessness, and those who
attained it were treated accord
ingly.
This helps to explain the witch
craft delusion, in which most OF
the victims were grand1nthores.
Civilization has not only given
people better health in their de-
Ginning years, but-what is just as
good-it has given them a degree
of respect and consideration they
never before enjoyed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Faith More Joyous

II IFE was tough proposition
- when it left only a few short
years in the middle for anything
like free action-tough for princes
as well as peasants, and tougher on
old folks than any one else.
Youth could stand it, because
youth had something to hope for.
Old age had nothing except what it
could get out of religion.
The way old age was treated until
a few years ago furnishes much of
the explanation for the peculiar
drift of religion-its weird concep-
ton of heaven, its Qualification of
death, its pretended longing to get
away from the here and go up
yoinder.n
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
- -
By
Frederick
lands

Ut detracts greatly from the dig
4 nifty of his great Office to think of
President Hoover showing his
tongue to DR.. Boone every morning
at 6 o'clock when the medico comes
to inspect his condition.
n
The postmasters of the United
States are trembling in their boots
lest Mr.. Hoover place all of them
on the waite wagon behind the
members of the cabinet.
II 4
Jim Reed is trying to preserve his
museum value by denouncing fell
lows who talk dry, but drink wet,
but the only way an ex-statesman
can keep the limelight is to take a
trip round the world.
+ Il Il
Our government is worried, lest
these Americans, crossing the Rio
Grande to see the war, will get shot
and Mexico is worrying because they
get to see it without buying tickets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12

ticular were the
center of discus
sion. One W a S
1.-THE Dynanical
Theory of Elec-
from a gnetism."
The other W a S
the "Electronag-
netic Theory of
Light"
M q x W e ! !
worked out a set
of equa tion S
k ow n as the
Maxwell equa :
tons to explain
the behavior Of
e lie C tronagnet;c
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Reason

RER. COOLIDGE was wise to de-
Iva eide to write. his first maya
zine article being very interesting in
what it tells and very attractive in
it's revelation of the ex-president as
a home-spun gentleman of the best
type.
He tells what he has to say in
simple, neighborly fashion, as If he
were talking to you at his f1reside,
and this is art.
His statement that all the glory
of his high office passed with the
death of his boy brings him nearer
to the people than all his official
acts and utterances.
r. II
Fay Lanphier, ex-beauty queen,
got a divorce when she told the
Judge her mate threw light bulbs at
her.
If he really lid it, he was not
only brute, but spendthrift.
This INSTRUMENTATION would be
very serious if it had as many
privates as generals in it's ranks.
Il + II
An effort is being made to rescue
two gentlemen who fell into the
crater of Vesuvius, but if they get
out the chances are that they will
be very hard-boiled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
/ II
SEEMS
TO ME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN
HAVING heard much of Ed Howe

HAVING heard much of Ed Howe
\ Il for many years, I was natur-
ally anxious to read his autobiogra-
ply, Plain People" as I had seen
almost nothing of his works. I be-
gan the book with preconceived
notion. The internal evidence has
strengthened my estimate. There
is an Ed Howe myth. Howe seeks to
perpetuate it in the very title OF his
book.
Let me say at the outset that the
myth has nothing to do with Ed
Howe'S ability, but merely seeks to
place him in a role which he has
never played. When a man gets to
be known as "the Sage of Potato
HILL it is fair to assume that the
community thinks of him as a
homespun fellow who is at least
first cousin to the famous average
man" discovered a year or so ago
by the American magazine.
This same assumption has been
made in the case of Americans
greater than Ed Howe. Many speak
OF Lincoln as if he were in life the
typical product of the prairie some
what glorihed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Deficiencies

A S A REPORTER, the author Of
n plain People" has certain de-
ficiencies. His account of his early
life in a seni-frontier community
at the time Of the Civil war is fas-
cinating and vivid. but of his long
adventure with the Atchison Globe
he says very little.
Nor can I agree with those critics
who say that Howe has spread out
a long panorama of middle-western
America.
He has done something better
than that. Instead Of tracing that
progress Of a nation he has traced
the development of an individual.
Copyright 1929, for The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
. David Dietz on Science
Max70eU Explains Light
No. 301

IN 1873, the world saw furore like that which at
tended announcement of Einstens recent theories,
or, for that matter like the which had attended
the announcement of Newton's theory of graytaton.
In that year, j. Clerk Maxwell famous British ma
thematcian, published his monumental treatise,
Electricity and Magnetism" Two chapters in par
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
BY DIR. MORRIs FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

DYORRHEA means a flow of mat
l. ter. However, the flow of mat-
ter, or to speak of it scientifically
pus, is not the most significant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12

thing about the disturbance of the
mouth and teeth.
The important fact is that the
condition becomes chronic and that
as a result of this the tissue of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Q.-Is it possible for the hair
to turn gray over NIGHT?

A.-Several people have
claimed that they have seen
the hair of an individual turn
gray over night, but the evil
dence is not thus far sufficient
to convince scientific investiga-
tors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Questions and AnSzgerS

You can get an answer TO any answer.
able question of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question
Editor The Indianapolis Times Wash
tngton Bureau. 1922 New York avenue.
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot be given. nor can ez-
tended research be made. All other
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
A. letters are confidential Yon are
cordially invited to make use Of this
service.
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ideas ap
opinions ex-
dressed in this
column ar
those of one
Of A m eriea's
most interest
ting wF lite
and are pre-
scented W b.
out regard to
TIL cir agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude of this
paper.
The Editer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
Daily Thought

AS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will / comfort you; and
ye shall be cOmforted in Jerusa-
Iem.-Isaiah 66:13.
n
TT is a little thing to speak a
a phrase Of common comfort,
which by daily use has almost lost
its sense: yet on the ear of him who
thought to die unmourned it will
fall like choicest music.-Talfourd
What is bright stock motor! oil?
This is term applied to highly
viscuous oil having a fairly light,
color and that is free from turbidity.
Many motor oils are made by blend
ing bright stock with light oils in
proportions that supply proper
viGcoSity OF body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-12
What is the difference between
hail, snow and Sleet?

What is the difference between
hail, snow and sleet?
All three are formations of par
ticles Of ice, but they differ in form
as follows: Snow is tiny particles
of ice formed in the air when the
watery vapor is condensed at tenn
peratureS below freezing. Snow
crystals have several typical forms
which are very beautiful in geometric
patterns. Sleet is formed when
small compact particles of ice fall
from the clouds. They differ from
snow in being compact and more or
less spherical in shape. When sleet
masses are as large as one-fourth
of an inch in diameter or larger
they are spoken Of as hail or hall
stones. There are thus four forms
Nogales international., 1929-05-14
CIRCLE ZFRODE0
LOOMING UP BIG

"This years fourth annual Pata-
gonia rodeo at Circle 2 ranch is
looming up bigger than ever be-.
fore" it was declared Saturday by
Ed Bohlinger, a visitor here from
Patagonia. "Each succeeding ro-
deo has been bigger than the pre-
ceding one".
Last year more than one half
the cars were from outside the
county.
Six yearling beeves were barbe-
cued last year and there will be
seven this year.
Music will be furnished by the
25th Infantry Band.
Nogales international., 1929-05-14
new BUILDING
FOR GRAND
AVENUE

A new building that will be
credit to the city is to be erected
on the west side Of Grand avenue
south from the Bowman Hote4 to
Elm street, it was learned yester-
day by the Nogales international.
F. F. Rodriguez, owner of sixty
feet of the property from the Bow
man Hotel south, has cleared off
one of the four shacks on his pre-
misses and occupants of the other
three have been given notice to va
cate. 81 was ashamed of those
shacks. They should have been
torn down two years ago" said Mr..
Rodriguez yesterday.
1t is reported that ]. E. Wise,
owner of the remainder of the
property up to the corner, has CIV
en- the Lee Woh Grocer and the
Electric Shoe Shop notice to va
cate.
The proposed building, it is re-
ported, will cover both the Rodri-
suez and Wise property.