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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06

Coughs, Colds Serious Among Young

schools was much larger than in
those ventilated by the natural open
window method; indeed, it was al
most twice as much.
The investigators are convinced
that the atmospheric conditions pro-
duced by the systems of mechanical
ventilation in use at the time of the
study were associated with higher
respiratory illnesses absence rates
than were found in school with win
dow ventilation.
The report does rot intend to con-
denim all mechanical systems of air
conditioning for this reason.
It is recognized that assembly
rooms, theaters and places seating
great crowds of people simply can
not be properly ventilated in all in
stances by natural ventilation
methods. A school room, however,
offers different problem.
School trustees concerned with
this matter will find in the report
of the New York commission and
of the studies of Investigators in
New Haven ample support for de-
pending on proper window ventila-
ton to secure the best results among
children.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

important bearing on the amount of
respiratory disease.
The New York commissions re-
suits favored strongly the use Of
window ventilation as contrasted
with mechanical systems.
The most recent support for this
conclusion comes from Leonard
Greenburg, associate sanitary engi-
neer in the United States public
health service, who studied various
ventilating systems in their rela-
tionship to catching cold by chill
dren in seven schools located in
New Haven, Conn.
In three of these ventilation was
provided by the control of windows,
in three by fans, and in one by
what is known as the uni-vent sys-
TEN. Three thousand five hundred
ninety eight pupils attended the
schools in which the studies we're
made
Reports we're kept of their abb
sences, of the temperature record,
and of the occurrences Of coughs
and colds among the children.
Total number of absences of chill
dren among mechanically ventilated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06
Watson, Senate Leader

Through the irony of fate, or is it the mockery
of politics, Senator James Eli Watson now becomes
the leader of the senate, dictator of legislation
spokesman for its actions and director, in large
way, of its destinies
starts upon the very difficult task of guiding the
nation to new levels of prosperity happiness progress
Only brief period in the past it was Senator
Watson who loudly warned the people that were
Hoover to be President, we would all be delivered
into the hands of British foes
His agents spent thousands of dollars in an effort
to convince Indiana that "Sr Erbert was the agent
ton would mean the end Of all liberty.
There were parades Of farmers at Kansas City
with the present Lieutenant Governor waving
British flag from soap box and calling upon the
multitudes to the nation from disaster
catastrophe and boil weevil.
1t takes courage not to say crust for the Indiana
senator to give out interviews the day of his eleva-
ton to his new emnence interpreting the view of the
President and interpolating phrases that suggest
he is in the closest of confidence of the White
House.
The situation, nationally, may not be important
President Hoover has cabinet, one of whose mem
bers understands quite thoroughly the intricacies
and bypaths of politics. and there is no danger of
his being led into morass of mistakes.
At home it merely means that the Watson tradi-
ton grows stronger, his grip upon the machine a
bit frmer, his henchmen more noisily arrogant his
influence a little more horrifc to the timid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06
Another First Step


Those who saw the inauguration by radio were re-
minded frequently, ths is the first time in the his
tory of the United States that microphone in the
senate chamber has enabled the public actually to
listen to the doings of the senate"
There was first time when the photographer was
permitted to take into the house and senate
and that was not very long ago. There was first
time back of that when the doings of the legislators
were recorded by stenographc method and made quite
inclusive There first time when the secrets of
the so-called executive session were exposed
All these first times have brought the lawmaking
machinery of the republic closer to it's creators the
people.
We think that end good one. No serious harm
seems to have been done by the mike" to the atmos-
ohere of the senate chamber It was rather good to
VicePresdent Curtis administer the oath to the
new senators.
Now we will look forward to the day when the mic
ophone is installed permanently. allowing the voter
to listen in whenever he is interested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06

fore the eighteenth amendment was
enacted-making and consuming
thousands Of gallons Of fermented
connections.
It may be dandelion stew in the
spring, honey mead in the summer,
and fermented grape juice and hard
cider in autumn. The latest entrant,
home brew, is not so universal, be-
cause robust digestion is a pre-
requisite if one wishes to drink it
and not suffer distress later. Yet
there must be a large sale of the
"makin's" of home brew, because
every grocery has a wall ad" stating
that it has it for sale, and if the
grocer is something Of a Puritan,
there is a further statement that at
is useful in cooking and baking"
Other vendors, though, l notice,
omit the allusion to cooking and
baking, and have instead. 1--WE carry
a full stock of jars, bottles and
caps" One place I saw in a store
window, why bother your neigh
bors, when We can furnish you a
complete bottling outfit for 70
cents?
A Mrs. Grundy snooper, attending
strictly to business, could just about
wreck the civilization OF city ike
indianapolis, e. P. McCASLIN.
1901 Dewey avenue.
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NJ. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
Washington, Wall Street,
MeGico, Albuquerque and
AL the Rest Are Being
Bound Together By q
Web of Modern Com
merce."

A LBUQUERQUE, N. M, March
L Sin the east, one thinks of
the federal government as some
thing aloof and far away, unless it
comes to mailing letter, or get
ting drink.
Out here it is different. Out here,
the federal government gets right
down where people live. Out here,
the federal government is a land
owner, a timber merchant, a well
fare worker among the Indians, a
builder of dams, a water system for
the farmers.
The federal government still has
100000 acres of vacant land in
New Mexico. controls 100000 in
forest reserves and looks after $4,000
red brothers.
This makes the advent of a new
administration big news.
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OLD JOSIAH QUINCY
NOBODY TOLD LINDY
. . q
WEARING THEIR FURS

TOHN B. TAYLOR, consulting
y engineer of the General Electric
Company, has a device by which
light makes music, but he will never
be able to invent a device that will
take the discords out of the music
made by the light that wakes you
up.
If Vice President Curtis ever
broods over his utterly powerless
state, he should contemplate the
superlatively wretched plight of the
King of Italy, for whose daughters
hand three princes now seek the
consent of Mussolini.
Il Il
You, know, some people said Am
bassador Herrick told Indy how to
act when he flew to Paris. Well,
Herrick wasn't with him in that
airplane when he noticed the miss
ing wheel and turned to his lady
and said: 1--WE are going to turn
over, but don't worry" whereupon
he put her in the back seat ana
cushioned her from injury.
Neither was Herrick there when
Indy looked out of the wreckage
and told the newspaper men: Il
have nothir . to say"
AS matter of fact, this boy
should be retained to teach foreign
ambassadors how to act.
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Cycle of Business

TTOW could the three remaining
l. L silversmiths of Isleta, the pot
terry workers of Laguna, the Navajo
weavers and Hopi dancers get along
without tourists; how could tourists
pay their way without business; how
could bushes flourish without Wall
Street, and how could Wall Street
perform without cash.
So we complete the cycle, with
Albuquerque banks sending money
back east to take advantage of the
call market, while local merchants
clarnor for credit.
AS for real estate, not so bad. Real
estate is speculative like stocks, and
little siller" as Andrew Carnegie
used to say, generally can be found
for speculation, no matter how the
shoe dealer, or groceryman feel
about it.
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- -
By
Frederick
Lands

DARTIES have long insisted that
L it is the acid test of regularity
for defeated candidate to support
the ticket, but think of the real
regularity of the gunman who, true
to the code of the underworld, re-
fuses to give the police the name
of the man who has fatally shot
him!
II n
Our hopeleSsly erroneous concep-
ton of human values never was
more forcibly demonstrated than at
this time, when ten Americans are
concerned about the illness of Char
ley Chaplin to every one concerned
about the illness of Marshal Foch.
Il II
In the midst of all this northern
ice, we didn't realize how warm it
is down in Florida until we read in
the papers that the women who at
tended the Sharkey- Stribling prize
fight wore their furs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06
Arts Promised Land

THEY refuse to call it desert
A. here, "semi-arid' being the
word, and they speak confidently
of the possibilities of dry farming.
AS a matter of fact, quite bit of
dry farming is being done, but let
that pass.
Desert, or semi-arid, the region
is one of alluring secret, not to say
deep mystery.
Here was once not only an in
land sea, but afterward a civiliza-
ton, and if one does not care to
del7e so deep into the past, here
are towns that we're old when CO.
lumbus discovered Anerica-Indian
towns, known as pueblos, which had
history before the pilgrims landed.
Here are irrigation canals that
have been carrying water for at
least 500 years and houses that have
been lived in for forty generations.
Small wonder that writer's and
painters have come to regard this
section of New Mexico as prom
ised land, or that American art has
gained something of value through
contact with it.
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Reason

MIR. HOOVER is the first Presi"
lV1 dent to come from west of the
Mississippi river, and there is in the
hearts of the millions who live In
this great section feeling OF graf
ification, long denied.
If Josiah Quincy, long since dead,
who was in congress when Louis
lana was admitted to the Union,
tuned in on the event, we wonder
how he felt.
He greeted Louisiana's arrival
with the bitter proclamation, "Who
knows but what some day states
west of the Mississippi will seek
admission to this Union!
eff that day ever comes the peo-
pie of New England will feel free to
secede!"
It's a safe bet that these law
makers, who let important bills &C
cumulate until the last day of the
session naver came down to break
fast at home until the mush is all
cold.
Wishing to change the subject
from the impeachment trial of her
Governor, Oklahoma now claims to
have live toad which she dug out
of stratum of the pleistocene age,
where it had slept for 100000 years.
It will not be long until some fell
low who makes mattresses will get
it's signature to a testimonial.
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gravitation. Then We will examine the work of Clerk
Maxwell and Michael Taraday. We now will see how
their theories of electromagnetic phenomena con-
ficted with Newton's theory of gravitation And
finally, we will see low Einstein has ended this con-
fiet with his new theory which combines electro
magnetic and gravitational phenomena under one law
Newton's theories were based upon the belief in
certain absolute entities. These realities which, ac-
cording to Newton, we're absolute and invarable in
cluoed space, time and natter
Space and time according to Newton were absolute
and unchanging.
The changes which we're undergone by matter were
regarded merely as changes in position in space AS
result motion also regarded real and absolute
Newton also noted the existence of attractive
between matter and in his famous Principal" ex-
planned the motions Of the heavenly bodies on their
basis. These attractive forces known under the
name of gravitation.
Newton's law OF Universal gravitation states that
every particle IN the universe attracts every other with
force which is proportional to the product of their
masses and nversey proportional to the square of the
distances separating them.
The forces OF gravitation according to Newton are
associated with the particles and their effect in
is distributed. according to the simple law of the
square of the distance.
Newtons law WIS sufficient for mechanics, but as
we shall see, certain difficulties arose with the deve-
opment Of knowledge Of electricity.
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JingIing of Coins

TN the matter of foreign relations
A the responsibility of Calvin Cool
idge is little more direct. Never
in all our history has America been
hated outside its borders as it is
today.
In fact, I wonder if any nation
e~er has been so heartily disliked
BY all it's neighbors far and near.
One Of the reasons for Germany's
failure in the war was the amount
of irritation which its international
policies had caused. 1t does not
seem to me a sound thing that ev-
cry mans hand should be against US.
OF course some Of the accusations
which foreign nations bring against
us are not justified. It is difficult
to be the wealthiest and the most
popular nation at the same time.
But the most documentary sort Of
tact should have kept Coolidge from
waving our bank roll so constant
ly in the face of impoverished lands
across the sea. Again and again
Calvin made speeches in which he
contrasted our happy state with
that Of war-wracked Europe. It
was not kind, polite or even good
business. What ills may come out
of our official arrogance time can
tell.
Still worse have been our Mica
raguan activities. To the lands be-
low the Isthmus. all Of them, Amer
lea stands today as bully, intent
upon interfering with internal af-
fairs which do not concern US
I think no one should hail CALVIN
Coolidge as good angel until time
has shown us the velocity OF the
air currents which arise from the
winds he sowed while he held Of
fee.
Copyright. 1929. BY The Timssl
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Times Readers Voice Viez0S

The soldiers bonus bill having been
killed in the legislature, no further
letters on this subject will be printed at
this time.
Editor Times-Many years ago 1
remember seeing a comic picture
in newspaper, showing a cat
crouched upon the floor near a
hole in the wall, through which
could be seen the tail Of rat. 1t
was entitled Great Expectations. +"
For many months the people Of
the United States have harbored
great expectations regarding the
outcome Of a prize contest as to
"the best way to enforce the eight
eenth amendment, or our prohibit
ton laws" The winning essay i'm
presses us with the belief that "a
mountain has labored and brought
forth a mouse"
The "how" to enforce the prohi-
bition law could be inscribed on the
margin of a postage stamp, and
would be compressed into just three
words Cant be done" The same
answer is equally applicable to the
Hearst offer for the best method Of
repeating the eighteenth amend
ment.
An overwhelming majority Of the
people, by voice and vote. show that
they favor the prohibition laws, and
by the daily routine in their home
life, that they are equally opposed
to its enforcement. as regards its
bone dry features. Our best people,
peaceful and law-abiding, are the
rule, not the exception, who are
doing Just as they and their FORE
fathers did for a hundred years be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06
New England Dinner

HARDING rode into Office upon
4 Il a wave of popular appreciation
OF the good fellow type. When we
came out of the schoolhouse where
woodrow Wilson presided it seemed
pleasant to be met by hearty man
like Harding who was ready to slap
any shoulder which came within his
reach.
Naturally there was rebellion
against such jovialty when we saw
that it could cover up the activities
OF a Daugherty or a Fall. Two posi-
tives generally produce a negative
and so we got Calvin Coolidge.
Gladly we all sat down to the fru-
gality of a New England boiled dim
ner.
Much may be forgiven New
Highlander. One Of the cardinal
principles in American politics is
that no candidate for the White
House must ever indulge in Jokes.
Although Coolidge, hardly a Will
Rogers, did indulge himself in a
certain number of slight and sly
Wiseoracks. And yet the country
readily forgave him. This possibly
was foreseen by that astute Journal
lst, Henry Watterson, years ago be-
fore any of us had heard of Calvin.
Charles Willis Thompson in
Presidents I've Known" recounts
the advice the great Kentucky edi-
tor once gave to John Sharpe Will
liams of Mississippi.
Il have noticed in you," he said
to the brilliant southerner, "a
tendency toward both wit and
humor. When you get to Washing
ton, John, curb it, strangIe it, kill it,"
But, John, if you find that this
courseis to strong for you; if a
time arises when you positively can't
help saying something funny, then,
join, say it with a slight nasal
twang, so that you may be suspected
OF New England ancestry"
The true test Of Calvin Coolidge
VIII come in the next twenty years.
In some respects it was an excellent
thing for him to sit still, hold his
peace, and let nature take its course.
Coolidge, to be sure, was in no way
responsible for the birth and growth
Of the khan. He gave it no en-
couragement. But he never raised
III hand against it. And those who
think that the organization is dead
or dying have only to ponder ever
the fact that it was strong enough
to keep Colonel Donovan out of the
Hoover cabinet, because he was
Catholic.
Again, Coolidge had no part in
the making Of prohibition nor has
he personally demanded any OF the
excuses to which this r-ovement
has committed US.
Still it was the pen Of Coolidge
which made the punitive Jones bill
a law. Sooner or later somebody
must tackle the problems which
Coolidge was content to side-step.
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The Alamo Massacre
MARCT-- 6

MARCT 6
ATINETY-THREE years ago to-
IN day $50 Americans died in one
of the bloodiest massacres in our
history. They were members of the
American garrison of the Alamo, an
ancient mission church at San An
tonic, Texas.
The merciless attack, on March 6,
1896, was led by General Santa
Anna, who by series of revolu-
tionary gesteures had put himself
at the head Of the Mexican gov
eminent. 1t occurred just four days
after Texas r declared its indie
pendence of Mexico.
The butchery caused great excite
ment in the United States. Re
member the Alamo" became as
stirring phrase to Texans as "Give
me liberty or give me death" was
to the Amer can colonists half
century before.
And on April 81 of the same year
the Texans, under Sam Houston,
overwhelmingly defeated Santa An
mas army of 1900 men at San Ja-
cinto, and took Santa Anna himself
prisoner.
During all this while the United
States maintained a neutral posi-
ton. 1t refused to become involved
even when he Mexican congress
failed to ratify Santa Annals prom
Use Of independence for Texas, given
when he was taken prisoner at San
Jacinto.
It permitted, however, reinforce
ments for Houston to pass over
American soil.
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this state until the people register their will and
have that will made effective.
The people and probably will often make
mistakes which they will later correct
But as long as fraud is permitted and condoned
and invited. there will be a growing disgust with
all government.
The people gain, in this incident, only new proof
that these good fellows" who serve the machine
exist through the highest form of treason They get
protection.
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1t is pointleSS to
talk about con-
hicts b e t W e e n
Newton and Elm
stein. The work
of Einstein is a de-
velopment upo n
the work of New
ton.
Let us begin
therefore, will
the work of New
ton. We will see
next how Einstein
extended this in
his special and
general theories IF
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I I :
SEEMS

By HAYWOOD
BROUN

TT is too soon to hazard a guess as
4 to what history will say of Calvin
Collidge. He seems to be safe from
falling into the obScmity of the
Folks and Pierces and yet he is an
outsider in the long odds which can
always be laid against anybody's
finishing among the truly great.
Whether you like Coolidge or not,
and most distinctly I don't, it is idle
to deny that he has been a success
full President. America is well
pleased with him.
Destiny may even make him a
candidate to succeed himself at some
future time. Fate has been ex-
tremely kind to Calvin Coolidge.
He is generally hailed as the
founder of Americas new prosperity.
And yet nobody has ever been able
to show conclusively that any Presi-
dent could make a boom with his
back and shoulders or avert a panic
with well-chosen words.
Certainly the factors in financial
welfare are vastly subtle and COM
plicated. An earthquake thousands
Of miles away, or a revolution on the
other side of the earth may prove
potent tonic to factory in Ohio.
But though President can not
do much to bring about prosperity it
is within his power to upset apples
by violent gesticulatoins. Cal has
never rocked the cart. He has kept
to the middle of the road.
Such a safe course has appealed
to the present temper of the Amer
lean people. After the ideaIism of
the Wilson administration and cor
ruption of Harding's rule, the time
was ripe for the placid honesty of a
New Highlander, even though he
happened to be of small bore.
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Q.-How much does the av-
erage baby weigh at birth?
About 7.35 pounds.

more likely to catch cold than are
adults, and in them the, disease is
usually more serious.
Studies have been made by the
New York commission on ventila-
ton and by other investigators
which indicate that the methods of
ventilating schoolrooms have an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-06
Web of Commerce

NTASHINGTON, Wall Street,
wv Mexico, Albuquerque and all
the rest are being bound together
by the web of modern commerce.
Hollywood, though unintention-
ally, sets up a new style capital; the
closing of border towns because Of
revolution stops the flow of rum;
country merchants in Minnesota fail
because country banks have sent
their surplus to New York; sight
seers from Iowa; Colonel Stewart
offends John D. Rockefeller by his
conduct before senate committee
and there is fight on for control
of the Standard Oil Company Of
Indiana which may affect the en-
tire industry-you can't tell what is
going to happen these days because
of some occurrence, no matter how
small, or far away.
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Close to Revolt

TN the East, one thinks of Mexico
L. not only as another nation, but
another race.
Out here, a third, if not half of
the population, is descended from
the same stock, speaks the same
language and cherishes the same
traditions.
Thousands of New Mexicans talk
of Gales, Manzo, Aguirre and
Portes Gil in the same familiar way
that New Workers talk of Smith,
Mills and Governor Roosevelt.
Out here, Mexican politics is an
intimate affair. The revolution is
not just one more rumpus abroad.
1t may easily mean the loss of a
brother, uncle, or cousin.