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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22

TN his speech before the Florida
; State Bar Association, criticising
uro expenditures for the national
defense, Senator King of Utah said
this country had no enemies.
China had no enemies, but she
did have some things other nations
wanted, and they took them; the
citizen, walking home at night, may
have no enemies, but some highway
man may desire his money, and
take that; and if this, the richest
power on earth, were utterly help
less. other nations would help them
selves to it's belongings and direct
the course of its national existence.
Senator Helm, who is from Ala
bama, objected because people who
resented his speech in Massachu-
sets threw mud at him; but if a
Massachusetts, man should go down
to Alabama and make a speech,
advocating the rights of the Negro,
they would throw something harder
than mud at the gentleman from
Massachusetts.
How happy we would be if all our
blatherskites would just keep still!
Il = 4
We are glad to hear President
Angel Of Yale say that his univer-
sity will limit membership rather
than enlarge, for this helps the
small college, and the small college
is q, great national asset.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
That S20,O00,000 Fund

The state this year will spend $200OO,OOO
for state highways. It will come from the 4
cents tackled to the price of every gallon of
gasoline It will come from license fees for
automobiles.
Governor Leslie has asked the highway
commission to secure the resignation Of John
Williams the director of that fund
Williams sends back word that the law
gives him a public hearing before he can be
removed.
The public has deep interest in more than
the politics of the situation This fund is the
largest tax levied for any purpose
There can be no question of the right Of
Williams to public hearing, if he presses his
desires for such an inquiry That is desirable
for many reasons
The highway department has been under
fire at different times for a number of years.
The cry Of politics has always been raised
Often the issues have been clouded by this
cry. And in the past the people have most
properly had the idea that change, even if
justified, could only be for the worse.
The time for dragging the whole conduct
of highway department into the open seems to
be at hand. For it is true that the public have
had very little knowledge. The meetings Of the
commission have been infrequent and secret
The actions of the director have been cloaked
with the general theory that the public had no
right to know.
1t is matter Of common knowledge that
the charges in regard to the sale Of war ma
terials, resulting IN indictments, were followed
by the pulling of secret political wires The
indictments were finally dismissed public
hearing would determine whether the whis-
pered charge that the indictments were the
result of political intrigue, the price being
judgeship, was correct or untrue
Governor Leslie has built for himself
reputation of being somewhat determined
when he reaches decision. His defiance of
Coffin politically added to that impression. It
is not likely that he will retreat from the fray
because Of the underground rumors that he
dare not press his demands for new director
because OF fear of counter charges on behalf of
Williams.
Any hesitation on the part of the commits
sloners who have asked Williams privately to
resign, to make public the basis of their de-
mands for that action could only have most
dlsquieting reaction in the public mind con-
corning the commissioners themselves. Thew
should not place themselves in the attitude of
consenting to purely political change. That
should cause the dismissal of the commissioners
Il amselves.
OF course, the answer to any suggestion
that the demand Of the Governor is for political
reasons will be found in the selection of anv
successor who may be named, if it should be
found that the retirement of Williams is adj
visable.
The selection of an engineer of outstanding
reputation to carry on the important work Of
spending twenty millions of dollars Of the
people s money each year would be complete
reply
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Oklahoma Gusts
reply.

The peoplel of Oklahoma have given and have
taken away.
Two years ago they voted and cheered Henry
Johnston into Office as Governor and now thew hoot
him out. The state senate court of impeachment has
found him guilty of general incompetence" Thus
ends the seventh Governor of that state who is the
NTH to be impeached and the second convicted
It IS not only the right, but the duty of the SOW
ereign people to GUST their incompetent representa-
ives Doubtless Oklahoma has that glow of self
pride which comes with doing ones duty
But perhaps would not be too ungractions to sug
Sest that an angry populace in kicking out an incon
petent Official does not clear itself of inconsistency
in oectinr such man. Johnston is the same man to-
DAY as two years ago. He the same friendly we'll
meaning incompetent when the voters acclaimed him
Persons of other states who turn up their noses
at 01'ahomas weakness for gold-brick politicians
viii do well to remember that most states have been
deceived by similar false fronts For that matter the
American voters have on occasion put such politi
clan in the White House.
Small wonder that democracy is at discount these
days in view of the people; willingness to pick an
official for his babykissing proves, his voice his
wfes social position, his lodge and club connections
his religion his party regularity or almost anything
that has nothing to do with his fitness for specific
public Office. TIE celebrates capacity for electng
second-ratars is amazing.
We should and do always fall back on Lincoln's
reservation that you not fool all the people all
the time, which makes democracy with all its faults
better protection of popular rights in the long run
than autocracy. malevolent benevolent.
But democracy can be better than autocracy and
still be mighty poor-as it was when it made Henry
Johnston Governor.
What's the answer? Nothing dogmatic, no cure
all. surely Probably there is answer. except that
which time can give in the patient working out of the
experiment
Meanwhile, the problem may not be the incapacity
Of the rank and file for self-government but rather
their indifference. Perhaps the explanation Of a
Johnston's temporary popularity is that he supplies
the color which makes politics palatable 70 the people
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gales forced the British ships to for safety to the
open sea.
Weather had defeated the British attacks when
success had been almost within reach
"The hour passed, never to return" says Prof
McAdie "Ten thousand landed then could have
taken and held the heights which later hundred
thousand could not hold"
The British feet tried later to lombard the forts
But the Turks we're prepared by then and floating
mines and submarines prevented the British fleet from
closing in as it had Sried to do the first time.
The weather fought the side of the Turks
throughout the entire campaign against Turkey.
The siege lasted eight months. During that time
the killed, wounded and missing on the side of the
allies numbered 10000 1t has been estimated that
the Turks lost 100000 But the weather finally forced
the allied troops to withdraw.
During the summer months, the hot scorching
winds. known the Etesians worked the greatest
hardship upon the allies
Then as the winter months approached weather of
extreme GOODNESS set in. blizzard which lasted three
days in November cost the allies 10000 men.
The allied leaders saw that evacuation inevi-
table and Jan. the last stronghold was abandoned
Had the campaign against Constantinople sue
ceeded, the war might have been brought to quick
close.
Instead. it dragged on for three more years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
And Dialects

NNCE every week upon the radio
" a lady appeals to all the Riddles
within sound Of her phony voice to
articulate and never slur word or
put an "r" on just behind a final
"W,"
AS one who has never been able
to break himself Of saying, al
sawrit" ii. e., saw it''). my opinion
may be thrown out as malicious and
incompetent. This is no doubt
vile linguistic fault. And yet I
shudder to think Of poor children
being too much hobbled in their
talk.
If it we're within my power to wipe
out the individual eccentricities of
every local dialect, would not do it.
The dulcet tones Of the man from
Georgia often annoy me, but I love
to hear the lady from the same spot
talk southern.
There is an Indiana dialect not al
together beautiful, and yet itserFas
to lend variety to any drawing room.
Some people did not vote for Smith
because he used the "oi" in bird,
as is our native New York custom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
I IT
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

HELEN TERWILLIGER, who
IA caught Chief Justice Taft in a
mistake, finds her fame is irksome
The little girl has been bounded by
reporters and cameramen, and del
uged with letters and kilograms.
. I'm sorry for her, since there is
every evidence that she meant no
harm. But the sad fate of this child
may furnish a moral lesson to older
and less innocent busybodies. If
something fearful always happened
to amateur copyreaders and correc-
tionists, I would be very glad.
I am against the ''Whorners," the
Il Shc',ld and wonders" and all the
ME and / clan. And if any man
or woman corrects your pronuncia-
ton of word in public place you
have every right to punch him in
the nose. No jury in the world will
hold you guilty.
Of course, the people who take
it on themselves to keep the other
fellows English pure and accurate
advance highfalutin' excuses for
their activity.
The adopt an lit hurt me more"
attitude. One might believe that
but for their busting the world
would go to pot and all of US live
in pent houses on Babel. It is not
the love of interference which
moves them, so they say, but only
devotion to the mother tongue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Odds Are Even

A ND this is said by one who lives
L n not in the hills, but down upon
the plains ME" and 81" are man
aged moderately because he takes
so much practice in their usage.
But as for Shall" and will" I'm
still entirely in the dark. The rules
they taught in school have flown.
I try to pick the proper one by ear,
and I am almost stone deaf. Time
was when clients who pointed out
mistakes could wound me. Now a
happy callousness has been estab-
liShed.
Some Of the most fascinating
takers, whom I know, are men and
women with scarcely a shred Of
grammar Surely it is more impor-
tant to talk in a wise and Interest,"
ing manner than to speak correctly.
why not do both?" you ask. Tt
can be done, but there are barriers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
NEITHER DID CHINA
THROWING MUD AT TOM
MERCHANTS IN CAGES

TCHN BARLEYCORN is exultant,
- for Rhode Island has filed a
suit to set aside the eighteenth
amendment and there is something
about such a mighty commonwealth,
arrayed for battle, which strikes ter
ror to its opponents heart.
The Philippines are to make an
other appeal for independence.
which means only that number
of Filipino politicians are about to
avail themselves of another free
trip to the United States.
If the Philippines were given their
independence, they would keep it
about five minutes after Japan cast
an appraising eye in their direction.
When the American merchant is
inclined to complain because bust
ness is dull, he should think Of the
Chinese merchant who is not per-
mitted to sell the Japanese goods
he has in stock, and if he does SO,
he is paraded up and down the
streets in a wooden cage.
Former King Ferdinand of Bull
garia, now hunting butterflies in
Africa, deplores the loss of his
throne, but he is better off than the
kaiser, who led him to destruction,
for the latter's only pastime is to
fight with his folks.
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| ANNIVERSARY
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SIEGE OF VERA CRUZ
March D

EIGHTY-Two years ago today
T. General Winfield Scott and
his force of nearly $4,000 men be-
gan the bombardment of Vera
Grub in our war with Mexico.
Two weeks before, on March Z.
1847, the feet carrying SCOTS
army anchored a few miles south
of the city, and from here the
troops were landed by means Of
surf boats. Vera Cruz was a
strongly fortified city Of 1000 in
habitants. The attack did not be-
gin Immediately, but on March %,
after a summons to surrender had
been refused.
The siege lasted for four days,
and on March q the city sur
rendered. The battle was a spirit
ed affair in which the advantage
of superior numbers, which the
Americans had, was almost out
weighed by the natural and man.
made Notifications which protect
ed the city.
q. S. Grant, who was to rise to
the supreme command of Union
troops during the Civil war and
later become President of the
United States, was busy during the
Vera Cruz commandment in the
humble post Of supply train tender.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Oliver Street

ITO me the Governor never was
Il more palpably sincere than
when IN grew excited and talked
pure O95fer street.
If perfection means STANDARDIZED
ton, then I must admit that the
educated Englishman comes nearest
to thee ideal. And yet I am not
fond Of the English voice, or accent,
or enunciation.
After ~ long ordeal with Eng
lish. pure and undefiled, I feel I'M
comfortable and itch all over. After
the first half hour I have desire
to rush away to find a Cockney &C
tCopyrIght. 1929, for The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Shirt-SIeeVeS

DUT upon their own assertions I
- would indict them down to the
last blue-stockinged heel. Take the
classic Cyril who first piped up,
Whom are you?" George AIDE, his
creator, explained that the lad had
been to night school.
I hold that most of the gross
mistakes in grammar arise less from
sheer ignorance than a little knowl-
edge coupled with much fright. 1t
is the urge for elegance which leads
us into error. For a month I have
kept careful but silent count and
1 find that ME" is almost never
put in the wrong place.
I am not counting such phrases
as tits me" for that I hold is en-
tirely permissible. Almost all the
errors ground around 'I"-my IA
vorite word. 1T was so good Of
you to take Mae and I to supper
after the show" says the beautiful
blond. And she may add, BE
tween you and I the kid got just
a little potted."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
By
Frederick
lands
MISS wILHELM1NA ROBINSON

MISS WILHELMINA ROBINSON
Ava of Boston, announced on her
Tooth birthday that she hated all
men and ascribed her long and
happy life to the fact that she
never married, all of which means
that Wilhelmina is still peeved be-
cause a certain gentleman never
played his banjo beneath her win
dow.
President Hoover was wise to Sc
1ect a citizen of Honolulu for Gov
ernor of the Hawaiian islands, the
old practice of giving the prize to
some resident of the U. S. A. prop
er being bitterly resented by the
outlying inhabitants.
Il Il
A Russian botanist claims that all
races are related because the grain
they raise is almost identical, but a
stronger proof of this relationship
is the fact that we fight each other
all the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Quiz Age-Not Youth

XKTHEN you get right down to
w brass tacks, this matter of
human relations, especially in the
field of sex, is not entirely the prod
uct of environment, custom,
religious teaching, or moral code.
Individual emotionalism has a great
deal to do with it, and that gener-
ally involves, not one, but two or
more individuals.
You have got to know what kind
of woman she is before you can
tell what the man will do, and what
kind of a man he is, as well, not to
mention the way they react on each
other at the precise moment of
trouble.
1t does little good to know what
they were ten years previously, how
they felt, what they believed, or
even how they had dealt with some
one else under similar circum-
stances.
Some, who have never shown the
slightest indication of violence in
their lives, adopt the gun-shot
remedy, others content themselves
with weeping in the beer, while still
others yell for a new law.
We gain a little in our attitude
toward such matters, but only by
thinking in terms of principle
never by imagining what we would
do.
What enables us to think in terms
of principle better than anything
else is a good working knowledge of
results, a knowledge that follows the
incident through and includes the
end of the drama, as well as the
second act.
Who have been the happiest peo-
pie when the curtain went down,
and how did they deal with the.
problem? On the other hand. who
have been unhappy, even though
they seemed to triumph at one time
or another?
Nothing proves how a given idea
of marriage, divorce, or sex relations
works like the condition of old peo-
pie who have tried it. If we were
to approach the problem from that
standpoint and demand less vapor-
izing on the part of young folks,
we might make more Roadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Fish Isn't Valuable as Brain Food

to unfavorable influences, the brain
responds more quickly to intoxica-
ton by way of the blood, to anemia
or to any other force related to the
blood than any other tissue Of the
body.
1t is currently believed that a
large amount of food is unfavorable
to mental work, since the demand
placed upon the digestive organs re-
quires more blood in the abdomen
and less in the brain.
Almost everyone feels tired and
sleepy after large meal. The
brain worker does better with small
meals Of easily digestible food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Questions and AnSzgerS

to fasten to a battlenent let herself
down into his arms. The call was
sounded, the maid caught the rope
thrown to her b. her lover but fast
ened it insecurity so that she fell
to the stones beneath the window
and was killed. Her body was then
and there changed to wall flower,
so a new form of beauty appeared
where one more priced had been.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

mental effort. The great naturalist
Agassiz, knowing of the statement
by Buchner and being informed by
the eminent chemist Dumans, the
teacher of Pasteur, that fish con-
tanned much phosphorus, put two
and two together and argued that
the eating of fish would be espe-
cially good for the brain.
Actually there is no one food that
has more value for the brain than
any other.
1t is important that the brain
be properly nourished with good
blood supply, and since nervous
tissue is especially quick to react
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and OF Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


Association and OF Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TIME human brain consists large
L ly of a fatty material containing
chemical substances known as
cholestero1 and 1ecithin, and the
tissues of the brain are compare
lively rich in phosphorus.
Brain material is digested rapidly
in the stomach and will not make
brains any more than any other
food that may be taken. The idea
that fish is especially valuable as
brain food is grounded on the
belief that fish is especially rich il
phosphorus
Many yeas ago student named
Buchner said, without phosphorus
there is no thought" This statement
is true only in the sense that the
brain contains phosphorus and
without the brain, thought is I'M
thinkable.
There is no proof that an in
creased amount of phosphorus in
the food is especially favorable to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Daily Thought

If I forget thee, o Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cum
ning.-Psalms 1875.
y
THERE is no remembrance which
i time does not obliterate, nor
pain which death does not termi-
nate.-Ceryates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22

dJJempU 10 1Orce
the DardenelleS
and C a p t u T e
Constantinople.
In February,
1915, the British
tried to run past
the forts in the
Dardanelles. The
attack came as
a surprise to the
T Il r K S and it
looked at first as
though it was
going to succeed.
But a sudden
oh q n o. O in the
weather, bring
ing in southwest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
David Dietz on scient
Weather Prolonged War
No. 80

THE WORLD WAR might have ended three years
i earlier if the weather had not changed as sud-
denly as it did in certain part of the world in
February, 1915.
That is the opinion of Prof Alexander N1cAdie, me-
teoroIogist of Harvard University.
The change to which he refers frustrated the British
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22
Another Liar Repents

There apparently is complete and unanimous
lineup of the liars who away the freedom of
Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. The two men
have been in San Quentin prison, California, for
twelve years. convicted of bombing preparedness
parade in San Francisco in 1916
Yesterday, Estelle Smith, who swore at the trial
that Billings was the man who threw, the bomb, made
All affidavit which said her identification false
and she never was sure about the matter.
One by one every other witness who helped the
state convict beginning with the preposterous
Oman, Oregon cattle man. who many miles
away from San Francisco at the time of the
plosion, has been exposed and discredited Miss
Smiths affidavit caps the climax.
Already the judge who tried the case, all the living
jurors the captain of detectives and captain of police
who made the arrests and helped work up the case
repeatedly have asked CALIFORNIA; Governors for
pardon. Governor Young belatedly has promised to
review the case later this spring,
Mooney and Billings labor leaders 1t haS
been charged that California employers took advan-
tage of the war hysteria to convict them and get
them out of the way. Young must act, or permit the
blot Of this case which has done much to blacken
CALIFORNIA; name, to continue.
In the face Of the array Of evidence, it is
inconceiyabe that he will delay freeing the two men,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22

Where does jade come from.
There are two kinds, jadeite and
nephrite. Jadeite is found in China,
Burma, and many parts of southern
Asia. Nephrite is found in Khotan
(Turkestan) and the Kuen-hun
mountains, Irkutsk (Siberia) and
New Zealand.
Where was the picture ben Hur"
filmed?
The galley scenes were taken at
Leghorn. Italy. The rest of the
picture, including the chariot race
in the circus Maximus, was filmed
in California.
How often is a population census
of the United States taken?
The Constitution requires that a
population census Of the United
States be taken decenially. The first
census was taken in 1870 and the
most recent, the fourteenth, in 1920.
The next census will be taken in
1890.
What is the legend concerning
the wall flower?
The wall flower had its legendary
origin in a castle on the Tweed,
whose lord had fair daughter who
fell in love with the son of a neigh
Dor who was much hated by her
father. Discovering the secret, her
father confined the maid to her
room in the castle. Not to be out
done. the lover gained admission
to the grounds OF the castle and
played .ais lutte beneath her window
and sang to her in tales which he
knew she would translate readily.
In this tale he told her to slip from
her window at certain time Of
night and he would contrfFe to
throw her rope which she was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-22

Senator Hefin called the reporters squirrels the
other day. You can't reproach a for being lit
tie squirrely with SO many ripe nuts around.