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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
To Equalize Conditions

The Constitution had to be amended to permit the
voters to elect United States Senator's instead of hav-
ing senatOrships auconed of to the highest bidder.
1t has to be amended to permit the taxing of the in
comes Of the rich, the United States supreme court
having blocked such taxation with one of its five to
four decisions.
There now is a supreme court decision which
blocks federal legislation dealing with and
child labor There also is constitutional amendment
for such grant of power to the federal government
pending action by the states. Such an amendment
can be acted on by a state at any time.
The state legislature may have voted it down at
another session. but states may change their minds on
such amendments. When three-fourths of the states
have ratified the proposed amendment, it becomes
part of the Constitution.
It may occur sometime to persons in the textile
and similar industries that federal regulation would
result in uniformity of labor conditions in different
parts Of the country and that there would be less
throat-cutting competition and peaceful labor
conditions than exist now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
M. E. Tracy
Nation Is Running Too Much
to Figures; NelO York Is
Striking Example Of Over
looking the Human Side.
SAYS

THANK the Lord somebody is
L waking up to the fact that
there is a lot Of junk in what we
call education.
DR.. O'Shea, superintendent Of
New York schools, has ordered
grammar eliminated below the
seventh grade, and now comes the
teachers college OF Columbia uni
versity. declaring that children are
getting IS per cent more arithmetic
than they need.
Whether that is true, children
are getting so much arithmetic that
they can't use any Of it very well.
The time spent in cube root ana
unheard-of fractions serves no pur-
pose so distinctly as to spoil any
natural talent that may have eX-
listed for doing simple sums quickly
and accurately.
Fifty years ago our boys and girls
used to get a comparatively short
but intensive course in mental arith-
metic, and what they learned stood
them in far better stead than the
intricate, useless, wasted work they
are compelled to do these days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20

ing night air became well nign uni
yersal,
OF course, the facts are that night
air is just about as good as day
air so far as any effects on the hu-
man body are concerned and that
it is only the unintelligent who sleep
with closed windows sealed away
from enough oxygen and cool air
to carry on satisfactory respiration.
For such conditions as tubercu-
losis the modern physician suggests
sleeping in the open air.
However, associated with sleeping
in the open air there are miner
menaces against whcih mankind
must protect himself, particularly in
countries where there are infectious
diseases carried by insects.
The ancient Romans suspected
that insects could carry diseases, and
as early as 1907 John Crawford Of
Baltimore attempted to prove that
malaria was transmitted by insects.
1t remained, however, for Manson
of India to formulate the scientific
conception of infections in malaria
by the mosquito and for the famous
British physician, Ronald Ross, to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Quotations of NotabIeS

britain desires not merely
- partial limitation Of certain
classes Of warships, but a reduc-
tor applied, throughout the whole
field of naval construction.-Sir
Austen Chamberlain, British foreign
secretary.
z
Mahan has warned that Good
men in poor ships always have beat
en- poor men in good ships" It's the
man that counts-the combination
of unconquerable spirit with high
technical skul.-CharleS Frances
Adams, secretary OF the navy.
I would go to Tinbuctoo for the
joy of fighting a brewer.-Lady AS
tor, NJ. P.
r
Every vice was once a virtue and
may become respectable again, just
as hatred becomes respectable IN
wartime DIR. VIII Durant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Biggest Ever Built

THERE is an Irish city in New
l. York larger than Dublin, a
Jewish city larger than Jerusalem,
an Italian city larger than Rome.
Besides these, there is poor city,
a rich city. a middle class city and
a snob city.
Being the biggest thing ever built
by man, New York requires the big
gest sense Of responsibility.
Those who deal only in figures
never can appreciate this as the
biggest fact.
1t is impossible to make New
York what New York ought to be
without a sympathy for the differ
enceS and SHORTCOMINGS of people
which fits its size.
The problem Of operating a sky
scraper is far different from operat-
ing two or three hundred bungalows
with an equal amount of floor space,
and the problem Of operating New
York City is far different from oper-
ating two or three hundred small
towns.
There is the aggregate to be con-
sidered, as we'll as the ingredients.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Here's to Grandpop

THE very least young BrOun and
L his friends can do in 1860 will
be to drink a toast to the memory
of the pioneer who made it possible
for them to squander a fortune.
The handsome lad with curly hair
and eyes too close together will tell
the others, perhaps, Of how Gran
dad Haywood Stinted himself back
in 1929, and through clenched teeth
said, Buy five more shares Of Steel"
whenever the ticker indicated that
the market was going again him.
The wolves Of Wall street tried to
make the old man quit, but they
didn't know his fighting spirit.
He chung to Steel as if it had
been a silver dime, Money went to
IA per cent, and then l5 and still
he said. Buy, buy, buy" And all
about him traders stood and Won
dered. 1t seemed as if this tall,
gaunt man we're himself the product
Of some furnace.
wondered what he used for money.
Little did they know that his
hope for comfortable old age had
gone into the pot, and that he'd cut
his meals to three a day. He
couldn't afford to racket around with
Ziegfeld girls like his grandson. He
Only knew people like the MarXes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Labor S Share
pure anarchy.

The test OF prosperity is Its distribution. enough
OF the saving from production efficiency and mass
output passed on to the consumer? AND does labor
get its snare OF the profits?
The od-fashioned employer operated on public
be-damned and labor damned policy He didn't
ask these questions ana he don't care.
That ATTITUDE has changed. Modern employers
aim at small sales profit and large turnover Ihey
make it their business to have contented and ade-
Quately paid workers.
This change IS que partly to higher ethical stand
ards OF employers partly the more fortunate eco
ponic position OF the United States, permitting
more generous business attitude, and partly to the
increased bargaining power OF organized labor.
But the change Is due chiefly to the basic discov-
ery that exploited workers poor producers, that
industrial strife Is waste and that sustained pros
peritv depends on hgh degree OF capitalization CO.
operation. The new system is supplanting the Old
because it works better tor both parties; is eco
nomically sound.
Each extension Of Iabors growing share IN prohtS'
however. must measure up TO that economic yard
stick At any point labor we'll as capital can dis
turb the process.
This is especially applicable to the latest demand
of the labor vanguard-the hye-day week The i've
day week has been made economically sound IN the
Ford automobile plants. 1t is being extended expert
mentally to the building trades in New York CITY ana
elsewhere. Clothing workers are on the way to at
tanning it. Several other trades are pressing Tor IT,
In some trades, however, labor is delaying the
fve-day week by failure to realize that 1t involves
cooperation that it necessates give as well as take
Some trades in the past have been able to bludgeon
EMPLOYERS into unfair agreements as to working con-
dtions or nave insisted jokers, such as the lake
labor bonus The employer has paid for work he ala
not receive and now is humanity cool to the ive-oay
week proposal
Obviously the wise labor leaders today Will Try
TO take advantage Of the general conditions and
psychological attitude favorable TO the ve-day week
bv renouncing the little iokers and injustices from
which labor may have prohted temporarily but which
now block the fuller cooperation necessary to the
hve-day week advance
The quickest way for a union dealing with modern
employers to get the fve-day week is 70 create
working relationship in which the fve-day week Will
be economically sound.
Labor cannot profit in full measure from the eco
nomic machine if it locks the brakes by means OF
wssteful and uneconomic conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
One Egg, One Basket

I'VE changed my whole system
a In the beginning I owned small
portions of some eight or nine COM
panies, but now I've concentrated.
This has enabled me to consoli-
date a holding Of twenty shares of
u. S. Steel and thirty of United
Corporation Of Delaware. I wouldn't
even think now of fooling with low
priced stocks like Mother Lode Co
alition Mines, which served to hold
my interest a month or SO ago.
And I lied little about my
weight, too; it isn't true that it is
going up. The last quotation re-
corded on Haywood on the hoof was
216 offered and nothing at all bid.
Right now very interesting con-
test is on between Steel and Broun
common to see which Of them will
be the first to reach 200
And as for my grandson, his
chances for that champagne sup
per are fairly dim. ANY time l can
see my way clear in making, say
S165. III not decline to take a
profit.
In such circumstances it would
seem wiser to give the party myself
right now.
In 1860 there may not be any U.
S. Steel. AS a matter Of fact, there
might not even be any champagne.
Nor, as far as that goes, any grand
son.
Copyright. 1929 By The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS-No. ID
Diseases Blamed on Night Air,

demonstrate ethat the mosquito
transmits the disease.
His work was still further elab-
grated by the famous Italians,
Grassi and Bastianellu. These men
proved definitely that a certain ge-
nus of mosquito, the anopheles, is
not only the insect that carries ma
laria. but the only method by which
the disease is transmitted from man
to man.
Hence the person who sleeps in
the open air in malarial districts
must protect himself from the
mosquito if he will escape the dis
ease.
Fortunately for civilized man it
has beeen shown that the mosquito
tends to breed in marshes and in
swanps, and the propagation OF
this insect in the south has been
prevented by drainage Of the areas
in which the mosquitoes existed.
Today malaria is an infrequent
condition in the temperate zone,
but the ignorant still fear the night
air. close the windows tightly and
believe that thereby they are pro-
tecting themselves against malaria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Generally Mourned

ITO be sure the tide turned to-
l. ward the end, but Old Broun
was then beyond all materialistic
pleasure. Steel was his religion.
When they came and told him that
it had at last gone above 200, wild
light came into his eyes, and he
said, Buy me fifteen shares at the
market"
They knew his mind was wan
dering, and then he sighed, smiled
that queer, crooked smile of his, and
died. But I doubt very much wheth-
er my FOSTERING grandson will tell
this story. 1t would be out of place
in gay cabaret. The girls wouldn't
understand.
And so, instead Of waiting to have
him drink my health, I'll drink his,
/ though not in any vintage quarts.
Here's to you, young Haywood
Brouns of 1860, and here's hoping
that in your day they'll use a better
quality Of cider and less bicarbon-
ate
All the foregoing is slightly ex-
aggerated. I have done very well
in Wall Street, for at the end Of
ten days I figure that I have lost
His hair turned snow-white the
day the rights broke under ., but
the soul of the man vas tempered
iron. Naturally, the fother traders
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20

The talkies are spelling the oldest
art in the world-the art of panto-
nlirre.-Charlie Chaplin.
= =
1.-THE final adoption of a Gibson
proposal for unlimited armies for
those countries having compulsory
military service would be a comedy
on disarmament and would hang a
war cloud over Europe. "-Rerresen-
tative Britten, Illinois.
"a day of leisure spent quietly at
home would now have for many
people all the charm Of novelty. -
Bishop Of Swansea, Wales.
=
Smuggling is a universal instinct.
Instead of contributing money to
help the vets defeat prohibition in
wisconsin, Raskob would better
give his money toward wiping out
the campaign deficit he helped
create.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20

z SUPPOSE everybody wants to
4 know how 1 am getting along
with my stocks and bonds and my
weight. Actually, I don't suppose
any such thing. Nobody cares. That
is, with one exception, and a col
umnist must always deal with those
things which are closest to his
heart.
If it we're to be done all over
again, I would be bullish on my
weight and be Irish on my stocks.
United States Steel reduces a great
deal faster than I can. But then,
it is a gigantic corporation.
With infinite pains and rubber
shirt I manage to take off a point
and half, and then the evening pa
pers come in and report that Steel
has dropped four or five without
half trying.
I console myself by thinking that,
after all, the money have in Steel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20

the French would prefer French Names the Germans
would prefer German names, and so on. Latin names
necessary for science is international in its scope
If keep in mind the fact that cloud names indi-
cate their appearance and keep in mind also the Latin
in remembering the cloud cassifcationS.
We must also keep in mind that clouds of different
types occur at different heights. We therefore,
divide the clouds upper clouds intermediate clouds
and lower clouds
The upper clouds include the first two in our CLASH
fcation the cirrus and the cirro-stratus.
Cirrus" is Latin for curl" 1t will be remembered
that the cirrus clouds which are the highest OF all,
resemble curlS or whisps of tufts
Stratus" is Latin for spread out" Our word
stratum comes from the same Latin word.
Therefore a cirro-stratus cloud is a cirrus cloud
which has been spread out" 1t will be remembered
that the cirro-StratuS cloud very thin sheet OF
cloud occurring at high altitude.
The next three clouds constitute the intermediate
clouds They are the cirro-c uuuS alto-cumulus and
alto-stratus
"Cunulus" is the Latin word for heap.
The cirro-cumuus clouds. it will be remembered,
consisted of small rounded masses the so-caled
"rnackerel sky" They therefore clouds OF a
cirrus type which have been punched into heaps.
ALTO" comes from the Latin word meaning high
1t is prexed to the next two types OF clouds to dis
tinguish them from similar clouds which, as we shall
see. occur at lower levels.
'Alto-cunulus" are obviously rounded masses OF
cloud while alto-stratus is sheet-like Layer They
differ from cirro-cumuus and crro-stratus IN that
they are heavier and at lower levels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Policemen on Parade

A MONG other things, it takes
IA $1,000 policemen to run New
York, one to every 400 inhabitants.
Five thousand of them paraded
Saturday afternoon, a mighty
aggregation, to demonstrate the
majesty of the law.
One would look for poise as well
as power, in such an aggregation,
not to say a sense of humor.
The Stalwart 5000 passed the
headquarters of the communists,
where a forty foot red banner. sport
ing the slogan, down with Walkers
police brutality" was displayed.
Such banner did not mean much
even to the communists.
Indifference, or laugh would
have killed its effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
City Bonds

Some concern is being shown over the fact
that the city is rapidly reaching the limit of
bonded Indebtedness. The debt at present is
little more than eighteen millions Of dollars
No one has suggested that the projects for
which the bonds have been issued were not
necessary. The city is compelled to build hos
pitfalls buildings and other conveniences Every
city has done the same. Growth demands much
Each year the debt grows and after fifteen
or twenty years. more bonds are issued to re
finance those which are outstanding Each year
the taxpayer finds himself faced by big in
terest debt.
The situation is such that citizens who hope
to escape may be interested in the suggestion
of Henry Ford as to means Of financing all
projects Of cities and states and the govern
ment where bonds are issued.
He proposes to put the projects on a cash
instead Of credit basis by using he power Of
the government TO coin money.
Instead Of selling bonds and paying interest
at the rate of per cent year. the cities
would issue the bonds, deposit them with the
government receive the face value in cash.
Each year instead of paying interest at
per cent the cities would raise the same per
cent now paid for the use of money, return it
to the government, where it would be de
stroyed
At the end of twenty years, the money
would be destroyed and the bond retired, fully
paid.
1t may disturb great many people who
find the project interesting TO know that Ford,
the financial genius and industrial wizard,
merely borrows this idea from General Jacob
Coxey Of the famous army Of the unemployed.
For more than thirty years Coxey has had
bill for this purpose before congress. At the
last session, it had the support of an even half
of the banking committee Of the house. These
statesmen find nothing unsound about it.
1t is very certain that the huge burden Of
interest ON public projects ezacts great toll
from industry and business and this city seems
to be near the point where something must be
done.
The city can not stop building. 1t appar-
emily can not stop borrowing. If it could stop
paying interest and pay the principal on some
of its debts, it might be in an easier position
Organizations of citizens who are interested
in civic growth and finance might write 10
either rord at Detrou or, much better, to
General Coxcy at Massillion o., and lind out
ABOUT the plan. 1t might work. 1t may be
ruinous but SO Is interest.
vi course those who invest in lax exempt
bonds to escape income taxes viii find the plan
pure anarchy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
By DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

XXTlIEREVER there is ignorance
w there is superstition. Our
knowledge of malaria is the prod
uct of recent scientific investigation.
Long before such knowledge deYel-
oped, man thought that epidemicS
we're due to pestilential conditions
Of the air.
Indeed, it was believed that
sWamps and lowlands generated
noxious vapors which spread to
neighboring communities and soiled
the air. The very word malaria
means bad air.
After great wars there were I'M
buried men and animals lying about
aid it was supposed that these
generated gas through decay and
decomposition. Hence these locali-
ties were summed especially as unfit.
1t was thought that the fietid ami
mails and the spirit of the dead pol
luted the air and that the spirits
were abroad, particularly at night.
For this reason, the fear of breath
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
E7do ATF Is T|1eI
| ANNIVERSARY
H :tz!22;ttA4
DEATH OF COLUMBUS
May 20
is the anniversary Of the
L death Of Christopher Columbus

NOLJAI Is tuG anniversary Oh bIlC
L death of Christopher Columbus
in Valladolid, Spain.
History has treated the memory
of this great discoverer more kindly
than the men Of his own time
treated him. AS a result, the i'm
portant dates Of his life are fixed
more definitely than those in the
lives of many more recent historical
characters.
He died, in poverty and obscurity,
on May 20, 1905. A few months
before he had made a futile trip to
Segovia to plead with the king for
some recognition Of his rights in the
lands he had discovered. He pleaded
in the name Of his son.
Columbus body was placed in the
Carthusian monastery at Seville, but
in 1912 it was removed, with that
of his son, Diego, to be inferred at
San Domingo.
When that island was coded to
France in 1875, a transfer was again
made, to the cathedral Of Havana.
Then, when Spain lost Cuba in
1898, the bones of the father and
son were taken back to their home
land and placed in the cathedral Of
Seville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Not All figures

INDEED, New York is a big city,
Il big in the amount of brick, stone
and steel which men have piled up,
but bigger still in the variety of its
interests, hopes, faiths and atti-
tudeS
1t is more than so many human
beings. so many taxicabs, so many
skyscrapers, so many electric lights
or pounds of spaghetti.
It is a mass of humanity thrown
together for many reasons. milling
and Stewing over the age-old prob
lem of trying to get all of its feet
in the same trough without too
much hurt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
No Sense of Huln0r

QUT we take such things very
ID seriously in the metropolis.
A district organizer Of the COM
munists was arrested and the BAN
ner torn down, which fed the
martyr complex" that is commun-
ism's chief stock in trade.
Men protested, women Wept, and
children cat-called.
There was a grand rumpus all
around. Twenty-six were taken
into custody, nine Of them children
and many of the rest women.
When booked at the police station,
they were subjected to the verbal
fire Of q. wise cracking lieutenant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Everything in Figures

NNE effect Of this overdose of
~ mathematics has been to Gre
ate the impression that everything
runs to figures,
About all we do now is count
noses. stories of skyscrapers, miles
of streets and dollars in the bank.
When the Merchants Association
wants to prove how big New York
is, it collects a staggering array of
computations, as though that told
the story-so many babies born an
hour, so many buildings erected
day, so many quarts of milk con-
sumed, so many conventions enter
tanned, so many theater seats, so
many hospital beds
One can get everything out of it
except the human side Of the
picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Daily Thought

Owe no man anything but to
love one another: for he that low
eth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 1873.
Il
r Owe is the GROWING grace of
L. humanity, the hottest right of
the soul, the golden link which binds
us to duty and truth, the redeeming
principle that chiefly reconciles the
heart Of life, and is prophetic of
eternal good.-Petrareh
Of what is brass an aIIoy?. Was
it used generally by the ancients?
Brass is an alloy of copper and
zinc in various proportions. The
alloy was known to the Romans
though bronze, the alloy of copper
and tin, was more commonly used
BY the ancientS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20

despalrS OF ever
keeping five types
in mind, m NC h
less ten.
Let us review
the five and see
if we can not fix
the differences be-
tween them.
First a ord
about the cloud
n a m c S. Lik e
m UGH scientific
Technology, they
are Latin. 1t is
true tn a t W e
might prefer Eng
fish names RlIf
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looked at him in amazement. They
exactly $11223, which I contend is
an excellent showing for beginner.
That amounts to a deficit Of less
than $4,000 a year, and from that
I can deduct the $40 which hope
to get in dividends.