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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Ware and Others
More money should be voted.

The Reed report puts before the senate the cues
ton whether it will deny seat to Senator Elect
of Pennsylvania If Ware is barred the public will not
be sorry. He has long and unsavory record.
AS to his 1926 campaign for nomination which is
the case in point the clear on his excessive
expenditure of funds his employment of so-ealled
watchers at the polls who virtually were paid voters
the use of dummy contributors to his campaign chest
and the activity of his notorious Philadelphia ring
in forcing his nomination.
But that is not the whole story Wares defeated
opponent, with the help of the Mellon millions, spent
more than Ware, and employed many of the same
questionable practices If Ware is denied senate seat
his successor will be appointed by Governor noni-
mated at the same time as Ware and by similar
methods.
That is not a defense of Ware. But it does reveal
that the problem goes far beyond Ware involving the
whole Of Pennsylvania politics and reaching indeed
throughout national politics. The temptation is for
the senate and for the public to make Ware the goat
and then to sink back with false sense of cleaning
up foul condition
If it is a question of the amount of camnaion
expenditures, neither the Republican nor Democratic
national parties, with their admitted Expenditures of
about $0000000 in recent election entirely disso
ciate themselves from the rotten conditions in Penn
sylvania and elsewhere.
But the truth is that legitimate publicity expendi-
lures in American elections have mounted to such
heights as almost to exclude candidates of moderate
means, and to encourage, if not necesstate shady
practices
There appears no way out of this dilemma, so
dangerous to democracy, except by charging to the
taxpayers the cost of electing their government off,
Gals and by prohibiting the expenditure of any private
funds whatever by candidates.
Tt will not be easy to work out and apply such
system, which involves difficult problems of fund ap-
portionments among majority and minority parties
and of regulating expenditures.
But until we strike at the root evils. by this or by
some other method, the Punishment of a few
political bosses like Ware will not get us very far
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Their Day In Sun


DROBABLY such a statement
l. might be exaggerated in the
case of both Ducky and Lefty, but
for that matter have grave doubts
as to whether young Dusty Rhodes
Of the Yankees actually is as fast as
the great Walter.
The chances are that when the
season rolls around he will be back
in some bush league to get more
schooling. The point which rouses
my interest and enthusiasm is thas
professional baseball is always ami
mated by such a lively optimism.
This is the only living art in which
newcomers do not stifie under the
tyranny Of the dead hand Critics
OF books and music and the drama
preserve certain traditional reti-
cences. 1t is not customary to say
Of any promising young actress that
she seems to be another Duse.
Obscure small towns in Kansas
and Indiana may give each year TO
the nation new shortstops and
catchers, but nobody perambulates
around to find left~handed poets or
sculptors capable Of taking wicked
cut in their inspired moments. Nov
elists may starve in garrets if it
pleases them but not outhelders
who are ball hawks and can hit.
And so / want to know if this is
not cockeyed world in which man
ayers. are always eager to develop
and foster the budding talent of
athletes, even those of high school
age, while the fate Of the artist is
matter of indifference to the COM
munity at large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Only Money Is Needed

The senate patronage investigation has been ex-
tended into the next congress and its scope broadene
to take in all kinds of federal appointments.
In unanimously agreeing to these two proposals. the
senate proves its desire to get at the bottom of con-
ditions in southern states where federal jobs have been
sold and politicians have prospered at the expense of
government employees.
The senate has not gone the full distance however
No inquiry be conducted without funds to pay the
expenses of witnesses the costs of the hearings
The committee has not been wastefu of it's funds
and has not complained although at times the 1ves-
tigation has been handicapped seriously by lack of
money
More money should be voted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
GaIifoEniaIs Dam

CALIFORNIA Is considering the
~ project of building a dam as
large as that designed for Black
canyon on her own account, of
forming lake in the mountains
east of Sacramento as large as
Tahoe and Of turning the Sacra-
mento river in San Joaquin valley.
This project would involve an en-
penditure of more than 100000, 900.
If California can conserve it for
power and irrigation, why can't
eastern states, or the United States
conceive as much to make people
safe along the Ohio and it's tribu-
taries. Or is the east getting f1abby.
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". e.
TRACY
SAYS:
"The East Needs to Wake
Up; 1t Has Not Done as
Much as 1t Could, by any
Means"
SAYS:

GAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 3d.
- Runors of a Franco-Belgian
war pact lasted just long enough
to produce some excited, but useless
conversation.
That is the way of such rumors in
nine out Of ten cases.
Still, we fall for them, in spite of
all the sad experience making wishes
father to the thought.
Those who want this country to
stay out of the World Court, the
League of Nations, or another sem
sible, straightforward movement
to promote peace have lost chance
to point out another "entangling al
lance"
Too bad to spoil the show, but
France and Belgium have made no
war pact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

NTO line of human activity tells
IN the story of the changing order
more effectively than the difference
in the matrimonial approach.
In older days the utterly needless
high-fyer was the youth who drove
his horse from one town to another
to call on his girl" and now Indy
flies from one nation to another.
II a. II
There is talk about Secretary
MELONS declining to serve in the
Hoover cabinet and 1T is true that
Mellon was not enthusiastically for
Hoover at Kansas City, but any
man who has moved from Pitts
Eurgh to washington will hesitate
to trade daylight for total eclipse.
Il =
If Teddy were alive how he would
delight to meet this gentleman from
northern Michigan, who recently
choked a wolf to death with his
bare hands!
Senator Curtis may make a
speech when he is sworn in as Vice
President, but he will not make the
senators sit up and take notice as
Charles G. Dawes did when he
went after them for killing time.
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as compared with a loss of three to
five pounds among high school boys
participating in basketball and
football games.
Five days after the race the aY-
erage gain in weight for the con-
testants was three and one-half
pounds. The heart and lungs Of the
athletes remained normal before,
during and after the race.
It is we'll established fact that
overexertion sometimes is followed
by appearance of sugar in the ex-
eretions of the body. Two of the
contestants we're found to have SUI
gar in the excretions Immediately
after the race, but this had disap-
peared a week later.
Preparation
DR.. L. w. OIds, who conducted
the tests, feels that the two-mile
eross-country run is not too severe
a. trial for high school runners, but
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Times Readers Voice VjezoS

lesalized and as such deficits will
continue in the future, so the law
reads.
The treasurer is authorized to con-
tinue such payments until all bonds
are paid. The section further pro-
vides that to reimburse these funds
an annual tax of one cent on each
500 of taxable property shall be
levied until the improvement fund
shall be sufficient to make up the
deficit This deficit still exists.
But in the meantime the city has
been paying off the bonds and the
interest, all of which is guaranteed
by the provisions of the bond. "It
is so nominated in the bond"
In 1927 the legislature repealed
this wide-open privilege af prepay
ment and required the property
owner to pay the assessment and
interest in full. Since 1927 there
has been no deficit under the oper-
alton of this act. Acts 1927, page
452. SAMUEL L. SMITH.
Editor Times-There Is testimony
tconing from the ranks of the
medical profession ITSELF to the eff
feet that progress in medicine is not
largely dependent on the use of
animals for experimentation" as
was stated in your question and an
swer column recently.
Manufacturer of serums and
vaccines are indignant in denounc-
ing the anti-Viyisectionist as a SEN
timentalist The vociferous defense
of the practice of vivisection has
succeeded in making the unin-
structed laynan accept veritable
creed of vicagious atonement, a
doctrine that man may escape the
consequences of his sins against
Natures laws of health by placing
his suffering upon the animal crea-
ton"
The president Of the American
Anti Vivisection Society rightly has
said, IF we proclaim ourselves men,
we must prove our nanliness and
look for benefits TO ourselves else
where than in the torture of those
humble creatures to whom we are
as gods"
A FRIEND OF ANIMALS.
--------------------
When were Jack Dempsey and
Gene Tunney born?
DEMPSEY was born June "a. 1895,
and Tunney May 20, 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Killing the Primary

Unless the people make a very strong and
immediate showing before the house of repre-
sentatives, the government of this state viii be
placed permanently in the hands of the machine
bosses.
The senate, by a narrow margin, has voted
to repeal the primary law and throw all nomi-
nations back to the convention system.
The whip was cracked. The discredited
politicians and newspapers which admit lack
of confidence in themselves on the part Of their
own readers, were able to control enough timid
or ignorant members
Every crooked politician in the state was
at work to bring about this result. Those who
have been in jails and those who have narrow
ly escaped jails, worked together. They seem
to have influence STILL
The action was a ghoulish dance on the
grave Of the late Senator Beveridge. AS long
as he lived, none of those who were so tri-
umphant in the senate yesterday, dared to ven
ture upon so bold pillage of popular govern
ment.
The plea that the Republican state platform
promised a repeal of the law was used effective
~. It was of course dishonest plea. The
pIedpe was never referred to in any campaign
speech by any candidate No newspaper dared
TO suggest to the voters that they were to be
deprived Of participation in the nomination OF
candidates No newspaper, even those winch
have been loudly demanding redemption OF
i the "party pledges ever suggested during the
}campaign that such promise had been made
The pledge was promise of the bosses to
themselves. They knew that even though they
had at times succeeded in dominating the prl-
maries that the people might some day ARISE
in their wrath.
The pledge was promise to dlsffancnlse
The women voters Of the state. The bosses well
understand that with the primaries abolished
thew can laugh at women's clubs, at the groups
working for decency in state affairs, at all the
women except the professional woman pohtl-
cian whose Influence and sentiments are IN hne
with their own.
That was the real purpose. The women nave
been learning rapidly. They are responsible Tor
laws and measures for honesty IN eiectlona.
They are hitting at fundamentals. That worries
the bosses. They have hit back.
There is still chence in the house But II
the women of the state want to protect thelr
votes. they must rise in such numbers ana IN
s,,cb wrath that not even the most venal or the
most timid or the most backward member can
misunderstood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

have to pay the price For the last war proved that
European conflict win suck us in, whether we will
or no.
1t is our show over there. The greater the growth
OF European mitarism the greater the need for ef-
fectiye American cooperation with all the counter
forces in Europe making for peace.
The Kellogg pact was one step. An embargo on
arms to belligerents will be another Adherence to
the world court will be still another. working agree
ment with the League of Nations will help And
leadership in joint limitation of ornaments will
do more
This is no time for Encouragement and whining
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
I I
SEEMS

BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

LIE has all the speed of Walter
L 4 johnson at his best, say the
newspaper dispatches from the
south, and so know that spring,
the season of resurgence and re-
cruits, is practically here. And soon
we will hear of new Ty Tobbs and
lads with hands like those Of Honus
Wagner.
OF all American activities base
ball alone has tuned itself in such
way as to give full scope to the
aspirations Of youth. Mute in
glorious Millions the world may
have sighted, but no good left
handed pitcher was born to blush
unseen.
Always I have doubted The IA
nliliar saying that the world would
beat a pathway to the door Of the
man capable of making a better
mouse trap, but it is true in the case
of any who possess a good curve, re-
inforced by an effective fast ball.
For almost two years I haven't
seen a single baseball game. but no
one reads the news from the train
ing camps more intently. I could
wish that the same passionate in
terest IN the discovery of new tall
ent extended to other fields of en-
deavor,
There ought to be some spot in
Florida or Texas to which young
poets could be sent in March or
February. Then we might read of
a Ducky Holmes or a Lefty Lee
who had gone south to timber up
his sonnets and bake his lyric writ
ing wing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
This Date i'm
u. S. History
February 20

February 20
1680-Fatfer Hennepin explored the
upper Mississippi river.
17s4-John Wesley established the
Methodist conference system
1844-The great gun Peacemaker on
steamer PRINCETON exploded
and killed Secretary of War
Usher and Secretary of Navy
Gilmer.
i361-Georgia seized the mint at
Dahlonega.
Congress passed the thir-
teenth amendment.
Territory Of Colorado or
ganiZed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Cross Country Suited to School Boys

igan volunteered to submit to COM
plete physical examinations a week
before the competition, just before,
just after and week later.
There is no doubt that cross
country running places a severe
strain upon the tissues of the body.
Extensive studies have been made of
marathon runners, indicating a loss
of weight during competition.
The ages of the high school boys
studied varied from Is to 10 years.
Six were underweight. The average
loss of weight in the two-mile cross
country race for the thirteen con-
testants was one and a half pounds,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

Ille name and ADDRESS OF the author
must accompany every contribution but
on request will not be published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words viii receive
preference
Editor Times-By Section 1045O,
Burns Indiana statutes, the legisla-
ture provided that whoever desired
to exercise the privilege of paying
any Barrett law assessment in full
after the expiration of the first year
of the lien of such assessment such
privilege could be secured by giving
six months notice in writing to the
treasurer in advance of the time
when any payment became due. In
such case the interest on the de-
ferred payments was stopped.
But the bonds issued by the city
to contractors to guarantee the de-
ferred payments and interest with
which to pay for the improvements
as they were made continued to pay
interest for the full period of ten
years. A deficit has been created
under this law running into millions
of dollars. The seriousness of the
situation caused the taxing boards
to employ a staff of accountants to
audit the account books pertaining
to the Barrett law and such a force,
under Hillman, an expert account
ant, has been at work on such ac-
counts for more than two years and
the work is not completed.
Ever since 1915 this privilege of
prepayment which stops the inter-
est has resulted in an enormous
deficit and the city has been COM
PEELED to pay these bonds out of the
improvement sinking fund, the gen.
eral fund or any other fund The
stopped interest thus is passed on to
al taxpayers who pay interest on
BENEFITS accruing to the property Of
the individual
The legislature recognized that
such deficit would occur and pro-
vided by Section 1o453, Burns Re-
vised Statutes of Indiana, that
where deficits in improvement funds
have arisen by operation of law on
account of prepayHents of assess
ments, that is, before such assess
ment become due, whereby pay
ments on such assessments and in
terest have been fully paid and
stopped, then the acts of the treas
urer in paying Improvement bonds
and interest coupons out of taxes
collected on other property not COW
ere0s1y ssacn bonds and coupons are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Topic for the Week
LENT AND MY HOME"
Memory verse for Thursday.

Memory Verse for Thursday.
"And shalt talk of them when
thou sittest in thy house" Deuter-'
onorny $50. (Read: Deuteronomy
6:6 to 12.1
MEDITATION: Here II any
where is to be found the secret of
the Jewish people and their remark
able history. Their religion was
founded on the home. It's primary
observances we're domestic not pub
lie. It was the subject of CONVEX
sation In the family circle
So it was made familiar 10 the
children from their earliest years
and they never could forget. BY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

contrast how reticent we are on the
subject of religion and especially in
our honest
Silence may easily be interpreted
as indifference, or at least as con-
fession that religion though neces-
sary is not interesting. r1ust see
to it that this thing which Is of
the greatest concern to me shall
enter more into my talk at table
and by the fireside
PRAYER: Almighty Father by
whose compassionate care even the
solitary are set in families. / pray
that Thy presence may not be lid
In the secIusion of my home. In
the sacred intimacy OF the family
make me faithful witness to the
nope that Is IN me. and to the
beauty Of my most holy faith. Amen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

that at least six weeks preparation
is necessary and that care must be
taken not to overwork the runners
during the period of preparation.
Only recently have scientific tests
begun to be made of athletes in
various fields of sport. 1t seems
quite obvious from the highly i'm
portant results of this investigation
that such tests should be made in
all sports, particularly concerned
with growing boys and girls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

CONSTRUCTION of this floating

CONSTRUCTION of this floating
~ airport three hundred miles at
sea. half way between New York
and Bermuda, marks the beginning
of ocean flying as a business, for the
future will find the sea dotted with
such airdron1es and passengers TAX
ing the air route from hemisphere
to hemisphere with much less fear
than was felt by the first steam
train passengers.
Il
Senator Elect Ware, now in Flor
ida and insisting that he is too sick
to come to Washington so his cleo
ton contest may proceed, will regis
ter a marked improvement just as
soon as March 4 comes and jim
Reed, his eternal opponent, leaves
the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Failure to Vote

A BOUT half the citizens of Chi
IA cage stayed away from the
polls.
Their absence more than anything
else explains how and why big Bill''
Thompson pulled through.
Like other rights, that of voting
means little, unless exercised.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Daily Thought

For the wicked are like the
troubled sea, when it can not rest,
whose waters cast UP nire and
dirt.--Isaiah 57:20.
n
VXTICKEDNESS is q. wonderfully
wv diligent architect OF misery,
OF shame, accompanied with terror,
ard conmotion, and remorse, and
endless Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
Q.-What causes excessive
perSpiration?

A. Excessive perspiration
may be the result of some seri-
Gus general physical condition
or may be associated with ex-
IRENE emotional reactions. It
is not q normal condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

T~HE records have just been made
l. available of a special study
made in the Michigan State Normal
college of the two-mile cross
country run as a form Of athletics
for high school boys.
Thirteen boys who were students
in high schools in the state of Mich
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
RaYageS Noticed

KNOW I wouldn't complain be-
u cause the ravages Of time have
already been noticed in my work by
very many. In fact, such criticism
take as a complaint since deroga-
ton is usually accompanied by some
statement that once upon time l
was much better.
That's certainly possible, but for
gotten stuff is always praised more
highly than that which can be
touched and handled Everybody
says that the great Eugene Field
was the American columnist beyond
compare and there are probably not
fifty persons in America who have
the slightest recollection of what ne
did when he was hireling of q daily
paper.
At Harvard Bliss Perry annually
told a story which I believe comes
from one of the Spanish noyelists.
Tt was of an old priest who decided
that he would retire while stilI at
the height of his powers and in or
der to pick the proper time for exit
he hired young assistant whose
job it was to listen TO the Sunday
sermon and report the precise mo-
ment when diminution began to set
in
The association persisted for some
three months and then on a certain
spring morning the young man said,
IF I may be permitted to say so, /
think that your discourse today was
just shade below your extraordi-
nary average tt was, you will un-
derstand, a marvellous address, but
just a fraction away from your
finest
why, you young fool said the
old priest, Il never preached better
In my life
r. S. The young man lost his
job.
sCopyrisAs. .laza u me rsmsss
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snowstorms in the southern cities of Italy! Have
they no chambers of commerce there?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28

Dean Inge of London says that in a million more
years man may be really noble creature. Flatterer
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Traffic note If you don't believe coppers can be
both bulsh and bearish just try talking back to one
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cas- an
opinions ax~
pressed In this
column arr
those Of one
of Am criea's
most interest
ing writer
and are pre-
scented " h.
out regard to
til cir agree
ment with the
editorial atu-
tude Of this
paper,
The Editor.