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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
I'M OONT FREDERICK
NLAOOlN DS lands

THE other day Indiana made her will
l. and after disposing of her property, provided
that the old family horse should be taken of and
never sold.
Such an act pins much larger bouquet on the
human than many of the things seen the front
page of the daily papers, such industrial mergers
suits for ali1nony and wars and runlors of wars.
Yet many person who is presumed to have red
blood in his VEINS instead of aqua pura turns his
back on an old four-footed comrade nonchalantly
he knocks the ashes from his perfecto and tied to
some servile finish the old horse, with dmming eyes,
picks his way along the road down which he dashed
in better days.
We pathetic picture of this only today. AS
We sat on the porch, we saw an old iron gray Steed
plodding stf1y. tied to wagon load of street rub
bsh. 1t seemed we had known the old boy somewhere
and asked the driver about him.
Sure enough, he had been the old hose cart horse
and when he had hurled himself toward a fire,
flying, nostrils distended, you thought Of battery
flying into action upon the battle field.
There he was, stumbling along with head down,
if brooding the anti-clmax
THIS is the highest price we have paid for the
Il automobe-the passing of the horse, and when
read of the shooting of great herds of wild ones
out west, it brings pain to the heart.
In older days such wild horses we're brought to
town several times year and sold for $40 to SIS to
those who would buy and break them They would
offer the kids so cents to mount and stay on the
wild creatures five minutes, most kids finding them
selves in the road with four and half minutes to CO.
But this thing which we call progress has perfect
control Of its emotions.
1t does not care and the end justi1es the mesns.
The automobile is the highway, the truck is
hauling freight the tractor is pulling the pillow, and
the horse is in the discard.
We may travel faster by motor: We may annihilate
distance by airplane; may rip through space
in rockets, but we never will find friend in all this
lightning transportation comparable with the old
family horse.
LIE was a little slow, perhaps, but he always ar
Il rived The roads not built for speed in
his day, for the mud often up to the hub and 1t
was a days journey from farm to county seat and
back.
He never knew the luxury of being gone over by
an expert every 500 miles and he never was washed
and polished by experts.
And the accomplishing hours he stood hitched
to the rack round the old courthouse square his
driver visited with the merchants of the county town.
or as often happened while his gallant master sat In
some barroom lining his system with alcohol.
How cold it was, those bitter zero days and nights,
with not even a blanket his back.
How he hurried out of the stable at midnight for
the long dash for the doctor when the children
sick how he hauled them all to the county fair how
he took them visiting; how he put In the crops and
how he charged the guns In time OF war!
He's going-this old hero-the best friend human
ity eyer knew. and the world IS poorer TOR It -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

TTHE objects of the sciences are
L more ideal than the objects
OF the churches" Professor j. Nc
Keen Cattell declared before the
delegates of the International Con-
gress of Psychology held at Yale.
Their sacrifices are more Chris
tian."
Such swinging statement de-
serves consideration before it is ac-
cepted or opposed. Probably no
such generalization can be wholly
true.
Science hardly can be acquitted
Of having done its share to increase
the horrors of war. Yet it is inter-
esting to note two episodes which
occurred on the same day, one in
the field of science and the other
within the church.
Professor Cattell devoted a con-
siderable portion of his speech to a
discussion of what science might do
for universal peace. He expressed
the opinion that psychology might
provide the way out.
Disagreement depends to a great
extent upon misunderstanding. 1t
also is true that the familiar Shout
der chip which is known as national
honor in most instances can be ra-
tionalized out of existence by those
who comprehend the underlying
motivation of rage and price and
fear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

water, but there Is held in suspen-
sion about 10 grams of protein, II
grams of fat and IA grams OF car
bohydrate. There is calcium and
some phosphorus but little or no
iron. There is much vitanin A and
B and little C. D and E, but hardly
enough of the latter to meet the
body needs.
In skim milk the yitamin A Is
lost: it takes Ok. glasses to give the
same amount of calories. One-fourth
of a cup of cream gives 100 Galleries
and one-hah cup of cream gives
200 calories.
When it is considered that a full
cup of buttermilk yields only
eighty calories, the reader can de-
eide what he wants to use in his re-
ducing diet.
A cup of clear coffee adds nothing
in the way OF calories to the diet
and nothing in the way Of food
value, but it provides grain and
a half to two grains of caffein
which acts as a. stinulant or pick
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Disaster

A METEORITE of q. almost any
N size is likely to fall anywhere at
any moment. This is not a pleasant
thought. Records of large meteorites
are extremely few, however, and
there is no reason, therefore, why
anyone should worry about it.
The largest meteorite known to
strike the earth in modern times.
landed in northern Siberia, 500
miles north of Taishet, village on
the Siberian railway, July 30,
1908.
The story of this meteorite is al
most unbelievable. News travels
slowly in the wilds of Siberia and
it was not until 1914 that sufficient
stories had trickled into the big
cities of Russia to arouse general in
terest. Then the World war became
the center Of all activity.
Two years ago, however, the So
Wet government sent an expedition
under Professor Leonide A. Kulik
to investigate.
He found that a huge meteorite
had struck the earth, making over
200 depressions, some Of them more
than seventy-five feet in diameter.
Around this area he found the
ground scared and charred as If
with a gigantic blow torch for if
teen miles in all directions.
For an additional twenty miles in
all directions he found trees up
rooted and pointing away from tns
central area. He believes that the
explosive violence with which the air
rushed out from the point of i'm
pact uprooted these trees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE--
Milk ONLY Drink With Real Nutrition

me-up. The same IS true Of tea.
A full cup of ordinary root beer
makes a refreshing drink. but
yields only eight to ten Galleries and
its vitanin value Is highly profile
NAUTICAL.
A full glass Of ginger ale yields
fifteen or twenty ca1ories and has a
very slight kick to it and is pleasant
if one likes it. A cup Of grape juice
yields 200 Galleries.
One gets carbohydrate chiefly in
these soft drinks. A cup of orange
juice or lemonade means 100 to 200
calories and vitarlins A, B and G.
Chocolate drink toddy, matted
milk, and similar enriched milk
drinks are high in carbohydrate and
have caloric values of 200 to 400 for
each cupful that is taken.
The carbonated waters are re-
freshing and slightly antacid, but
there is little of food value, since
what they have depends on their
content of fruit juice and sugar. Any
drink can be enriched as to food
value by adding cream or egg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
New Diseases Here

A CCORDING to report of the
IN Bureau of Labor statistics at
Washington occupationaI diseases
are costing this country $4,000, 000-
600 a year, or about one-tenth of the
national income.
While some of the diseases are
very old, many of them can be
traced to machines or materials of
comparatively recent origin.
There are diseases of the lungs,
such as those brought on by granite,
coal, or steel dust; diseases due to
poisoning, such as those brought
about by lead, mercury or phos-
phorus,. disease of friction, such as
those brought about by the constant
rubbing of the hand, leg or part Of
the body, and diseases of posture,
such as those caused by holding the
pneumatic drill, or other instrument
in some fixed position.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
New Peril for Race

DR. LEONARD HILL, head of the
IL department of applied physol-
ogy Of the British national institute
OF medical research, says that q
new bacillus has been discovered so
deadly in character that a gram
Of its toxin probably would be sufn-
cient to kill 100000 people.
If the art of war centers around
the idea of killing people, as we
have been told by every great mill
tary leader since Agamemnon, and
as every appliance designed to pro-
mote it suggests, and if this toxin
could be produced in the form of
powder and scattered by airplane
as DR.. Hill declares, what need to
worry about 10,000-ton cruisers, or
ten-inch guns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
IT SEEMS TO ME By H BRouS

William Jennings Bryan and other
noted evangelists have been fond OF
drawing a distinction between Wis
dom and goodness. Bryan used to
say that it was better to have a
sound heart than fine education.
He felt that knowledge without
denominational religious fervor was
a danger rather than a blessing.
don't agree. 1t is not possible,
I think, to draw a line between
virtue and understanding. have
never known a person of f1rst-rate
intelligence who was not a good
man.
There may have been such, but
surely they are in an insignificant
minority. Injustice and wisdom are
not compatible. There is no clever
ness in cruelty. Hate, prejudice, and
aggression almost wholly are mott
waited by ignorance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

nouncement and of Canada's similar announcement
With all boaSting about our peace plans the
actual arbitration record of the United States has been
than that of any other major nation-largeIy
because the senate for years has emasculaed arbi-
tration treaties sent to it,
If we are so backward that we can not follow
Great Britain and others in accepting compulsory
world court jurisdiction should at least after all
these years of pickering be able to tag along at the
end of the procession with special Root reser-
vations.
Few more tasks before President Hoover more
important than prompt submission of the pro-
tocol to the senate There is no for the year
delay proposed by Secretary of State stinson
yesterday.
Without world court membership and arms reduc-
tion the Kellogg treaty renouncing is hypocrisy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
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ANNIVERSARY
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MKINLEY AssAsSLNATED
Sept. 6.

Sept. 6.
VxTuLIAM MCKINLEY, twenty
w fifth President of the United
States, was shot fatally by an as
sassin while attending an exposition
in Buffalo, N. Y, on Sept. 6, 1901.
Mckinley held a public recep-
ton in the temple Of music, in the
exposition grounds, on the after
noon of the 9Th and it was then
that the shooting took place.
The one fatal bullet of the two
fired was found to have passed
through both walls of his stom-
ach, but due to the Presidents
sound constitution, it was at first
believed he would recover. But he
suddenly underwent a change for
the worse and died Sept. IA.
The, assassin was identified as
Leon Czolgosz, Pole, having reput-
able parents in Cleveland, O., but
who had come under the anarchist
influence and been taught to believe
that all heads of government we're
enemies of the people and ought to
be killed.
The assassin was arraigned In
county court Sept. II and on Sept.
20 was sentenced to be executed, In
the state prison at Auburn. within
the week beginning Oct. "a. -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Don't Count Cost

MATERIAL progress is breeding
4F4 new and powerful supersti-
ton in favor of size, speed and
power. Otherwise, civilized people
would not be so content to pay the
price.
We are shocked, and rightly so,
at the number killed in Palestine
during the last ten days.
If those ten days ran true to
form, three times as many were
killed by American automobiles, but
we are not shocked.
We have come to a point where we
are willing to count the cost only
in spots,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Master Mind

TINE public mind generally re-
i fuses to accept this fact, be-
cause it carelessly accepts mislead-
ing catch words. Readers Of crime
news and mystery stories hear much
about "the master mind" He is the
arch-villain who sits and plans deV-
iItries for hirelings.
Fiction writer's and reporters nave
pictured him as verSed in science
and wise as any serpent. But this
individual does not exist. Here and
there we may unearth some slick
crook, but it is foolish to confuse
mere sharpness with true intelli-
gence,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Life Is First

VX7HEN T h o m a Jefferson
w enumerated the inalienable
rights, he put that of life first, and
the chances are that most people
agree with him.
That being so, what do we gain
by saving people from smallpox, or
consumption, only to kill them with
machinery2
Secretary of State Cook an
nounces that there were 1900 more
deaths in Massachusetts during the
first six months of this year than
during the first six months of last
year.
What Is even more startling, be-
tween 4 and per cent were due to
violence, while affections Of the
heart accounted for more than 20
per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
NJ. E. Tracy
What Do We Gain By Saving
People From Smallpox or
Consumption, Only to XII
Them By Machinery?
SAYS:

CERGE vORONOFF, who has won
- worldwide distinction as a
transplanter of glands, says he is
going to produce a race of super
sheep.
He says he is going to GO this,
moreover, not only to "confound
the skeptics," but to provide cheaper
mutton and wool.
Admitting that his success proba-
bly, would convert many a doubling
Thomas to the gland-grafting the
DRY would it necessarily bring down
the price of mutton and wool, unless
he developed a super-grass with
which to feed the super sheep?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Indifference Increases

ONE need not believe that
" progress should stop in order
to recognize the necessity of paying
more attention to its cost.
The prevailing Indifference to the
sacrifice we are making is develop
ing into little less than blind and
stupid faith.
We worry a great deal about the
tolls taken by such maladies as
tuberculosis and cancer. We have
waged a successful campaign against
the former and are trying to start
one against the latter.
Meanwhile, occupationa1 diseases
and accidents are coming we'll to the
front as cause of death.
Not only that, but diseases that
obviously are stimulated by the
shock and strain of modern life ap-
pear to be increasing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
True to Form

Once more the Coffin political machine
indicts itself. Once again it reveals its in
farnies, its lack of any decent regard for
public welfare, its vicious viewpoint OF gov
eminent.
Where it can not rule, it ruins. Where
it can not pillage, it destroys. Where 1t can
not profit, it snarls it's contempt for the
public welfare.
The civic organizations interested IN re-
ducing taxes, appalled, by the high cost OF
bad government, demanded reduction of
expenses. 1t pointed out very specifically
spots where there was apparent waste.
At once county council, dominated by the
henchmen of the coffin machine seized upon
the appeal as an excuse for rendering power
less the official who is not a slave to this
organization and to give more money to the
offices under the control of the machine.
The organization was very anxious to re-
duce the expense of the office of prosecuting
attorney. There the machine revealed itself
thoroughly. It does not like an efficient
prosecuting office. It does not like, person
ally, or officially, Prosecutor Stark.
The machine, in order to work smoothly,
needs either prosecutor who will be blind
to the iniquities of it's henchmen or so handl-
capped as to be unable to match the machine
criminal lawyers who appear for gangsters,
election crooks, bootleggers and other Grim
inals generally supposed to contribute largely
20 the success of Cofinism at the polls.
So under the plea of economy, the council
proposes to reduce the number of assistants
of Mr.. Stark to point where his office can
not hope to get convictions, and especially
convictions of those who receive machine
sympathy when caught.
At the same time, the council proposes to
raise the salaries of the deputies of Sheriff
Winkler. now the fair-haired favorite of
Coffinism. Just what these deputies have
done to entitle them to more money should be
listed among the new mystery novels OF the
year. Just how they have earned more pay
remains unexplained.
Certainly conditions in the county, the
enforcement of law, the safety of highways,
do not suggest that these increases can be
regarded as rewards of merit. The only
other explanation is that they are useful to
the machine in elections.
The policy of the reductions and increases
is so shameless that it should condemn for
ever the machine and those who serve it.
II, is the same machine which plots to de-
feat the City Manager ticket this fall and
put it's men in power at the city hall. 1t is
the same machine which is a factor in state
government and works so smoothly with the
Lake county rottenness.
High taxes, wasted funds, pampered pets
are but part of the cost of Coffinism. The
other is the destruction of any official who
attempts to do his duty and not take orders.
What a place this will be if ever the office
of prosecutor falls INTO the hands of this
machine.
Let it be hoped that the civic organiza-
tions interested in economy will protest
against the handicapping of justice just as
strongly as it rebels against extravaganza
and waste.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Questions and
AnSz,e9S

Who composed the main cast of
the motion picture "Brotherly
Lover"
Karl Dane, George K. Arthur,
Jean Arthur, Richard Carlyle. Ed
ward Colinelly and Marcia Harris.
Does mercury attract silver?
There is no substance that at
tracts silver, but silver will amalga-
mate with mercury so that II 1t
passes over mercury it may be
caught and held.
Will diamonds burn?
Not if they are thrown in fire,
but diamonds will burn IN the
presence of oxygen. Fire might in
jure them so seriously that the value
.zWould be destroyed. ........-.-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
It's All Super

CERGE VORONOFF is just one
- more poor mortal who thinks of
bigneSs as an unmissed blessing.
He visualizes a race of Super-sheep
and possibly race of super men as
the all-important objective.
Others prefer super power, super
speed, or super but it
all goes back to the same idea.
just now British and American
statesmen are discussing 10,000-ton
cruisers and ten-inch guns, as
though they spelled the difference
between peace and war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Problem

n n USEUMS ike 10 nave HleGSOI@
lVl ties upon display. Professor
Merrill preferred to subject them to
chemical analysis. When the
meteorite is small, real problem
is involved.
A thorough chemical analysis
means that by the time it is COM
pleted, there is no meteorite left.
In this connection, astronomers
here recalled an amusing remark
which DR.. Merrill once made.
Speaking of a meteorite. he said,
'I would rather not have it and
know what I didn't have, than 20
have it and not know what I had"
The work of Or. Merrill showed
that all meteorites could be divided
into three classes, known as the
iron meteoriteS, the stony meteorites
and the iron-Stony meteoriteS.
The iron ones consist chiefly OF
iron associated with nickel and
some traces of other metals.
The stony ones consist chiefly Of
a heavy mineral known as peridotlts
chemical mixture of iron, silicon,
magnesium and oxygen.
The iron-tony metecrites, as their
names indicates, are a mixture Of
the other two types, composed chief
ly, therefore, of iron and peridotite.
The constitution Of meteorites has
led to the theory, now generally held
by biologists, that our earth has an
iron core surrounded by a great
layer of peridotite.
This is because it is felt that both
our earth and the meteorites origi~
mated in material hurled out Of the
sun and therefore would have the
same general composition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

a MERICANS are a drinking peo-
N ple-that is to say, we consume
vast amounts of coffee, tea, milk,
cocoa, soft drinks, modified drinks,
and even yet liberal quantities of
alcoholic liquors.
The average man who drinks a
drink seldom thinks of what it
means in the way of nutrition or
food value. He drinks his drink
because he likes it, because he gets
kick out of it, because he has
been in the habit of drinking it.
Milk comes the nearest to being a
perfect food of any of the drinks in
which human beings indulge. A
glass of milk provides about 200 cal
cries.
Most of the fluid is, of course,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Larger Planets

Upon somewhat higher plane
" it seems to me that we are not
likely to find petty meanness and
parochial prejudice in any man who
has scanned the skies and mapped
the courses of the stars.
The astronomer who knows the
size sof Betelgeuse will not be torn
by grinding jealousy when he looks
out the window in the morning ard
observes his neighbours new straight
eight and streamline motor.
During the late campaign I lis
tened to a Republican worker who
Illuminated against what he called
the Ignorance and superstition" of
AL Smiths church, and when he
paused to light cigar, he quickly
said, "Not three on one match,
buddy"
Copyright. 1929. by The T1mes)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Daily Thought

Nevertheless, if thou warn the
wicked of his way to turn from
it: If he do not turn from his
way, he shall die in iniquity.-
Ezekiel 1873.
TIE who has 1t In his power to
II commit sin, is less inclined to
do so. The very idea of being able,
weakens his desire.--Ovid .-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

The most characteristic quality of
every criminal is stupidity. How do
you suppose the police would make
so many arrests if it were not for the
weakness of the lawlesS?
Criminality is moronic. Again and
again it has been pointed out that
the average bank robber, almost the
highest cult in the profession, works
long and arduous hours for meager
pay.
Honesty still is the best racket.
Sinclair Lewis can make more
money out of a single novel than
the best bandit in America can OBJ
tain by holding up mail car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06

Here is another article in the series,
s'Know Your Food Values" by Or.
Morris Fishbein.