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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
More Economy

Raising the salaries Of all the judges in the
state is the playful Interpretation which the
legislature seems intent on putting to the plea
Of Governor Leslie for economy.
Word comes cut from the capitol corridors
that there is a general understanding that the
increase is to be given and that the bill will be
rushed through with as little delay-and pub
hcity-as possible
There may be counties in this state in which
the cost of justice is far too low, but hereabouts
the citizen who grows pathetic over the picture
of overworked and underpaid judges would
brand himself comedian.
If there be any truth left in the biblical
declaration that the laborer is worthy of his
hire, !" the lawmakers might properly hold
some short inquiry into the exact worth of
these laborers in the fields of technicality and
occasional justice.
The proposed bill would fix the salaries in
Marion county at nearly $1,000 month. When
it is remembered that the judges work not more
than five days week, at hours which no union
agitator would think of attempting to reduce,
with two months or more vacation each year,
the stipend does not seem to be exactly beg
carly.
Perhaps it is by comparison with the pay
given to the supreme court judges that justi-
fication is found for fixing salaries at higher
figure. The new scale would give the Marion
county judges 1900 more each year than is
paid in the highest court. There might be
some argument in the fact that the Marion
county courts are not so far behind on their
dockets as is the high court, and therefore the
judges deserve more pay.
But otherwise the only excuse seems to be
that judges have become important politically
to the machine and want the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Many investigators have been
carrying on experiments to find out
in, just what way the food sub
stances act. 1t has been shown by
one investigator that the diet must
contain a considerable amount Of
vitamin D if the teeth are to be
healthful.
Vitanin D is related to the. use
of calcium in the body, and calcium
is the basis of bone formation. AMI
mails kept on diets deficient in vita
min D developed very soft teeth,
while those which had cod liver oil
in the diet showed practically per-
feet dentition. Cod liver oil is the
richest in vitamin D of any natural
food substances.
Vitamin G is the vitamin most
concerned with the prevention of the
development of Scurvy. Numerous
experiments have been done with
diets deficient in vitamin G, and
there is some evidence to indicate
that lack of vitamin G is important
in the production of pyorrhea and
carries in human mouths, but upon
this point argument is still being
carried on, and much more data is
needed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Prosperity and Education

The amazing growth of secondary education in re-
cent years is emphasized in current bulletin from
the department of the interior.
At the present time more than one-half of the
population of high school age is in actual attendance
at high school, In the cities this rate higher
in rural areas it is somewhat lower.
But what is noteworthy is the fact that thirty
years ago not more than one-seventh of the young
people of high school age went to high school. High
school enroments indeed have doubled since so late
a date as 1920
First Of all, this reflects very plainly greater
prosperity But its real significance of course lies in
the fact that education is far general than
it ever before. And since democracy like ours
must have an educated intelligent citizenry this is
highly important.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Romance, Reduction

TNHERE is, I will grant, too much
Il reverence and alteration in the
world already, but kissing the hands
Of ladies has its practical side If
the thing is to be done with any
grace one must bend at the waist.
Here in America there is more
waist-line than romance. We should
seize eagerly upon custom which
promises to reduce one and pro-
mote the other. Not few of our
good citizens engage each morning
in exercises designed to increase
suppleness of figure. The daily dozen
has an honored place in the nation
al regime. But this is mechanical.
1t would be far better for a man
to kiss somebody's hand twelve
times a day than to put the same
energy into the rather dull pastime
Of touching the floor.
And many beautiful friendships
might spring up. It is not well to
stretch merely the unitarian side of
the practice. There is need in our
life of some new form of farewell
or greeting. 1t seems to me that
the handshake is one of the most
unsatisfactory contracts devised by
human kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Hoe Food Reacts Upon the Teeth

Other Investigators have found a
relationship of vitamin A to the
growth of teeth.
Apparently, then, all the vitanins
are necessary to keeping the mouth
in health, and perhaps the appear
ance of decay of the teeth, second
airy to the absence of sufficient
quantity of any one of them, is the
result of a general deficiency of
good health rather than of specific
action on the teeth.
Many experiments have also been
done recently having to do with the
excessive amount of acid or alkali
in the food taken into the body.
A great deal needs to be known
as to the direct relationship between
the amounts of acid and the alkalis
in the body.
In general, it is the present opin-
ion that an excess of acid is bad for
the system under most conditions.
There is not as yet available
sufficient scientific evidence to war
rant the conclusion that moderate
variation from the normal of either
acid or alkali is seriously detri-
mental to the teeth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Chicago, Georgia and Crime


The legal qulrks and psycho-medical theories that
once proved SO impressive to Chicago jury don't
seem to mean quite so much in Georgia.
After Leopold and Loeb killed little Bobby Franks
just for thrill" they escaped hanging because of
bewdering assortment of tales about abnormality,
subnormalty congental mental disabilities and what
not
In Georgia young colegan named George r.
Harsh-lke the Chicago pair, rich and clever-took
to committing holdups "just for a thrill" In the
course of one holdup he and companion shot man
to death.
The crime much less atrociouS than that of
Leopold and Loeb. The sort of defense was put
up Aensts told of all sorts of crossed wires in the
young collegians prain
But it took Georgia jury only short time to
vote the death penalty. Harsh is sentenced to
trocution March Is.
Chicago might send some one down to Georgia 20
see how it's done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
High Murder Toll

CINCINNATI is one of the four
~ teen American cities thus far
heard from which show a decrease
in the homicide rate.
In 1927, Cincinnati had forty
eight murders. but only thirty-two
in 1928. That looks good, until it
is compared with the London rec
ord. London had about the same
number though ten times as large.
Even Boston, though much larger,
had only eleven.
The homicide record is one of the
worst blots on American civiliza-
ton. Think of Chicago with more
than 500 during the last twelve
months, or about twice as many as
the British Isles.
Whatever else may be said of
New York, it is much better than
Chicago when measured by muir
der for though twice as large it pro-
duced only about one-third as big
crop last year.
In other phases of life, American
cities show fairly even average.
They have about SO many autos,
suicides, telephones and movie the
aters per thousand inhabitants.
When it comes to homicide, how
ever, the law of averages falls down
completely. Boston and st. Louis,
for instance, are about the same
size, yet Boston had only eleven
homicides last year while st. Louis
had 166, and New York had only
156, though seven times as large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
[ ack of Voltage

7 WOULD be perfectly willing to
l. shake hands with my worst
enemy just before he turned and /
stabbed him in the back. To me
this would not seem unduly treach-
erouS, for a handshake commits one
to nothing.
Only rarely is a circuit set up.
EXCUSE my glove" as they say
in certain parts of Jersey and north
ern Ohio is silly, for the gesture is
hardly any more personal, the
leather being absent.
The people who have tried to
make the handshake significant
have all failed lamentably. There
is the man who endeavors to put
sincerity into it by crushing some of
the smaller bones in the hand en-
trusted to him.
Practically every state in the
Union now has a law which pro-
vides that it is not homicide If you
kill him Immediately after the
break.
And there is the lingerer. He does
not put any crushing force into the
grip, but just hangs on. BY mere
duration he hopes to suggest some
deeper note of feeling.
I am glad to see that casual kiss
ing is making great advances. When
I was a boy, kissing was reserved
exclusively for relatives, and it was
far too good for them. And if she
was not your cousin, then it was
necessary to marry early on the
morrow to make an honest woman
Of her.
People now kiss without commit
ments. In earlier comedies, a kiss
was a surrender. The hero and the
heroine never kissed until just be-
fore the final curtain. If they had
done SO sooner it would have given
away the plot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
TJnthinkab1e9

Relations between Great Britain and the United
States in bad way. That creates serious stu-
alton for all the world because Anglo-American
friendship must be the chief guarantee of interna
tiona peace
The most dangerous aspects of this growing
Anglo-Amercan conflict in economic, political and
naval affairs is the well-meaning official conspiracy
of silence Instead of facing the facts there been
denial of the facts. This is costly folly.
Insurance of peace rests in the desire of both
British and American peoples for peace. Public
opinion would force the two governments to recon-
Gle their conflicts, but the public thinks that all
is well. Out of such ignorance is born in times of
crisis sudden establishment and the madness of war
Beatedy this policy of official silence and denial
IS breaking down President Coolidge in his Armi-t
ce day speech revealed the anxiety of this govern
ment. Because the public and press were not pre-
pared for the facts, the President generally was ac
cused of belligerency.
Perhaps his phrasng was too provocative but his
job was not to prettify ugly impasse. Anyway he
started people to thinking on both sides of the At
lantic.
Now comes j. Ramsay Macdonald with similar
revelation Macdonald is not only former premier
and foreign minister of Great Britain, and present
leader of His Majestys opposition in parliament; he
is expected by many to be premier again after the
May election.
"rThe relations between the United States and
Great Britain grow increasingly unhappy" MacDon-
aid writes in The Nation 1.-THE usual committees OF
friendship are being formed-always an ominous sign
and the usual signals of faith in doubt are being
flown such as: War between the United States and
Great Britain is unthinkable.' When hear that
am reminded of the sailor who in dire peril ex-
pressed thankfulness that his religion still was left
Everyone wants peace, but no one will accept and
pursue a policy based upon peace assumptions The
practical policy Of the United States and Great Bri-
tain is exactly the same that which preceded and
prepared for the late Let us both get to close
grips with reality"
After blaming the present naval rivalry upon the
adrniraIs of both countries, and concerning the
Anelo-French military and naval alliance policy OF
the London government he says that passage OF the
handing American cruiser bill at this time would
have the moral effect abroad of "a great blow to the
nation from which the kellogg pact originated"
MACDONALD proposes an official Anglo-Amercan
conference of twelve prominent public men, TO
meet and drag from the obscure corners OF suky sus
nieion the things which make difficulties between us.
That is precisely what the scrpps- Howard news
raners have been calling for. That is why we want
the cruiser program postponed
Rt 70 be successful it is important that sucn ON
al conference be held after Hoover has squared away
IN once and after the British election If such con-
ference can not reach an Anglo-American agreement
our Wanted peace is not peace. but preparation
for war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

TIME former kaiser kindly re-
J. moved all doubt of the wis
dom of Americas decisive partici-
patton in the World war by saying
in his new book that he and his
ancestors always proceeded on the
theory that they were "adninistra-
tors of Gods will"
Whenever any politician begins to
regard himself as the prize bull of
the universal pasture, it is time to
dehorn him, particularly when one
of his horns is the greatest army in
the world and his other horn is the
second greatest navy.
IllaSmuch as President Little OF
the University of Michigan is a
birth control propaganda. he did
the proper thing to resign.
Whenever a teacher puts aside the
arts and sciences to carry a trans
parency in a sex parade, he forfeits
his right to preside over the educa-
ton of young men and women.
y y
An extremely capable West Vir-
ginian recently ate eighty-six raw
eggs at single session, and it is
to be deplored that nobody had the
presence of mind to put him upon
merry-go-round and convert him
into an onelet.
Instead of refusing to draw that
$4,000 salary as Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Alvan T.
Fuller should have taken it and dis
tributed it among the Massachu-
sets fellows who have gone broke
playing politics, for it would have
given them almost so cents apiece.
Spain is likely to ratify the KEEL
log treaty, abolt shing war, which is
only natural since war has almost
abolished Spain.
Florida is now holding real re-
ception with both Smith and Hoover
in attendance.
Having no offices to distribute,
Smith is on the mainland, but
Hoover is on an island.
=
The Daily Mail of Hull, England,
announces the great scientific dis
covery that a lady's eyes will not
water while peeling onions if she
will only place a drawing needle
between her front teeth, but what
the world needs is something that
will keep one who has eaten onions
from becoming confidential
=
Lenin, the leader Of the Russian
revolution, has been dead five years,
but his memory is the greatest
force in the red government. which
is not strange, since most political
leaders become exceedingly popular
after they enter the cemetery
q
Secretary Mellon will get the first
new dollar bills that are issued.
which is entirely proper, since he
has most Of the old ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 25-This
~ city has had sixteen auto
fatalities since the first of the year.
That is at the rate of two every
three days. What more could one
ask to prove its up-to-dateness in
the strictly American sense.
Auto fatalities have come to rep
resent the bloodiest page in our
record. Many of them are due to
carelessnesS, but very few to GRIM
inal intent. Large cities show a
rather lower rate per 1000 autos
than rural sections. This especially
is true of business sections where
traffic is regulated.
The problem of auto fatalities
grew out Of mechanics, and it is to
mechanics that we should look for
remedy, to systems and methods
by which cross currents can be
guided by each other with a mini
mum risk of collision, to under
passes, or overhead ways for
pedestrians, to signals at every i'm
portant highway intersection,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Common Bridge Errors
AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
~ w. M. WENTWORTH

finessed twice. How can this be
accomplished?
The Errors-Declares plays 2 Of
spades and takes with queen of
spades.
The Correct Method-Declarer
plays 2 of spades and finesse 8 of
spades. Then he takes a diamond
finesse playing queen of diamonds.
After that he plays to queen Of
spades and takes another diamond
f1nesse playing jack Of diamonds
Now he draws trumps and game
is assured.
The PrincipIe-If necessary, take
deep finesse to establish re-
entry.
copyright, 1929 Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Senator's Secrets

NOBLE senators want to know
IN how the supposedly secret roll
call of Roy o. Vests confirmation
leaked out. Who can blame them,
after trying SO hard and failing SO
miSerably?
If Secretary Mellon can keep tax
refunds dark why can't noble sena-
tors do as well with their roll calls?
What has happened to this au-
gust body, as Cicero would say,
what has become of its power, pres
tige and privileges?
No wonder there is burning de-
bate, with Mellon as target for
many envious illusions. or that
Norris of Nebraska, one of the I'M
scared few, sarcastically should re-
mind his colleagues that what they
need is to learn how Mr.. Mellon
"does it,
LET the daylight ill.," shout noble
senators when campaigning for
votes, but when it comes to the
risk of offending the powers that
be or the people back home, they
prefer to have their noses counted
in the dark.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
DEHORNtNG THE BULL
WHAT A FINE OMELET
MELLON GETS MAZUMA

ID IP," the distinguished horn
IN toad which lived for thirty
some years without refreshments in
the corner stone of the courthouse
of Eastland county, Texas, has just
passed to the great beyond.
Some say his death was due to
becoming chilled, but it's our own
notion that he never recovered from
the shock when Texas went for
Hoover.
n
Gamma Walska's successful per-
Torrance at Chicago comes as a
great relief, as her many failures to
produce had about convinced the
country that you can lead a Gamma
to the footlights, but you can't make
her sing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

Was Hog island used as navy
yard by the United States before
the World war?
Hog island shipbuilding plant did
not exist befo the United States
entered the W I'd war. In 1917
contract was let by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation for the construc-
ton Of this yard. to build CONNER
cial vessels for war work; the yard
was built during the war and finally
turned out about 100 ships. All ef-
forts to sell the property failed for
lack Of what the government con-
sidered adequate offers. and the
yard, not now in use, Is owned by
the government and is In charge
of the United States shipping board
It vas never used as a navy yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Not a Mark of Favor

THAT'S all changed now. I speak
Il not as cad, but as a truthful
man when I say that I've kissed
people who would not wipe their
dirty shoes upon me. Indeed, I re-
allied as much while I was kissing.
Right here we may note a sound
objection to establishing a kiss as
the conventional form of friendly
greeting. 1t has been said that the
handshake is too standardized. The
trouble with the kiss is that it varies
so enormously in voltage.
Frequently in movies there is the
scene where their lips meet quite
idly. And the first thing you know
there is string Of asterisks all the
way across the page, and in the
NOR ming her stern and righteous
fatE er has put her and the little de-
pen lent out of the house into q
raging snowstorm. However, few
run the risk Of being shaken as
much as all that by single kiss.
But it can be disturbing Not in
frequently one does get more thrill
than he bargained for. It would
not be good thing for business
man to begin his day by kissing ali
the employees in turn.
A certain military discipline
necessary in great industrial enter
prises would be in some vague way
disturbed. And yet If he merely
shakes hands sufficient warmth is
generated to insure loyalty and
team ply. If he kissed hands all
around, that would be excellent for
the waistline Of the captain Of in
dustry, and I doubt if it would hurt
the business apprecibiy.
fcopyright. 1929. for The Timesi
-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

The Bidding-South opens with
one spade and all pass.
Deciding the Play-East wins first
trick with ace of hearts and South
wins second trick with king of
hearts. Declarer observes that he
has two losing clubs, possibly one
losing diamond in addition to one
heart trick which he has already
lost.
He can not afford therefore TO
lose any tricks in damon e if game
is to be made. Diamonds must be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Evolution Laws

TEXAS has disappointed the rest
4 of the country. The rest of the
country fully expected that anti
evolution law to get into the leg
islature even if it failed to get by.
To read of its death by order of a
committee is little less than shock
ing.
Appropriately enough the COM
mittee that did the killing was that
on criminal Jurisprudence.
FundamentalistS hope that Ar
kansas will retrieve this mirfortune
but who knows.
People are learning as they go
along. One of the things they are
learning is that no liberty counts
for so much as the liberty to think.
Thinking has brought us such
progress and prosperity as we en-
joy. Much Of the thinking may
have been wrong, but some of it
was right.
In order to give those who think
right a chance, we must leave the
door open for those who think
wrong.
Many os the devices registered in
the patent Office are useless. but
who would prohibit invention be-
cause Of that.
Let us think. let us theorize, let
lis dream. Above all else, let us
teach our children that that. and
that alone, is the basis of civilian
ticn.
Whether evolution explains crea-
ton, we may find ways to take adj
vantage Of It in breeding plants and
animals, II not IN improving our
own state. which, after all IS the
iY,,r,oyfay,t o11eSfi0n.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Daily Thought

So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth: 1t shall not
return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which please, and
it shall prosper in the thing where
TO sent it.--Isaiah SSH.
WITHOUT knowing the force of
w words it is impossible to know
nen.-ConfuciuS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
Germanv,s New Cruiser

Dispatches from Europe indicate that Germany has
launched cruiser that may revolutionize warshp
construction.
Limited by the Versailles treaty to eight warships
of 10000 tons apiece Germany has just launched her
first one While held in the 10O00ton class it is said
to be far more powerful than any ship of its size
afoat 1t carries 11inch guns and is said to have
new type of armor far more effective than anything
in existence.
1t would be interesting if Germany, through i'm
proved technical methods should be able to develop
fleet that could rank with those of her conquerors
teresting yet not surprising after ALL Modern war
becoming more and more matter for technical ex-
perts, and Germany can meet any country in the
world in that field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

elimination of bacteria is desirable
But these things seem to be second
airy in Importance to the food
brought to the teeth by the circu-
lating blood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
This Date in
u. S. History

Jan. rs
1819--Uniyersity of Virginia estab-
lished.
1898 Battlesllip Maine entered
Havana harbor.
1901 Mine explosion at CEiesWick,
Pa. killed more than 200
miners