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The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Efficiency Exports

The Scotchman ho,black-
ened both his eyes SO that
he wouldn't have to buy
smoked glasses.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10

red as long as we use water
scolors.
Our Own Vaudeville
Motorist Hey, farmer;
can you tell me what time
it is?
Farmer-Yeh; it's spring.
Stop, Look and Listen
When an old maid tells
you she's in the neighbor-
hood of 80, the chances are
she's in, the wrong neigh
borhood.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
The Good Old Daze

The reformers don't OBJ
ject to us painting the town
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Our Own Vaudeville
Ace Of Cads

The fellow who took
correspondence school course
in boxing and knocked Lhe
postman oSt the second day.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Daily CROSSWORD Puzzle

S. Go.
6. Plural suffix.
7. Harvested.
8. Cunning.
8. Limb.
10. Bring as clear gain,
il. Derogation.
20. Chinese weight.
%. Lift.
%. Austrian coin (ah,).'
"a. breads.
25. Dowagers.
26. Silver (ab.).
q. Inclines.
29. Pastry.
81. Fish with pointed nose.
81. That man.
3S. Mexican state.
80. Article Of furniture.
40. Maid loved by Zeus.
43. Behold.
Al, Promissory note.
4S. Explosive sound.
49. Mongrel.
81. Girls name.
So. River in Russia.
So. a number.
Sc, A kind Of shot.
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle
The Washington times., 1929-04-10

red as long as we use water
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Momentous Moments

A cashier can consider
she s losing her beauty when
the men begin counting
their change.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
DOWN

/. New England State.
2. Mountain in Crete.
3. Plant.
4. Negative.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
ACROSS

l. Mistake a meaning.
II. Hubbub.
Is. Island on the Gulf of
Riga.
IA. Portuguese coin.
Is. Perceived.
Is. Township (ab.).
II. Affirmative.
18. Mountains (ab.).
10. Swiss mountain.
81. Large boat.
24. Cooked in grease.
26. According to.
%. Floor covering.
80. Poniard.
80. U. S. possession (ab.).
SO. Suffix used in names Of
countries.
81. Mother.
35. Lava of Hawaii.
36. Theater attendants.
80. Sea west of Alaska.
II. Observe.
AZ. Alone (stage direction).
A. Suffix denoting quality.
45. And not.
46. Point.
40. Prefix: together.
so. God of Babylon.
So. Western Indian.
As. Also.
IS. Pertaining to a city.
81. Marsh.
So. Excessive.
The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Maybe I'm Wrong
By John p. Medbury

A man shouldn't get sore
if he has his pockets picked,
It serves him right for
sleeping at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
DISTINGUISHING Women

Back of the movement to repeal the primary law
is the desire of male politicians to get rid OF the
influence of women in politics,-not all women OF
course but the kind of women who study problems,
have conscences and are not seeking political Joos'
The woman they fear is the employed woman
or home maker who takes interest in public affairs
and votes in the primary
They do not fear the woman who plays the
political game in order to get job for herself or
her husband They are content to use that sort in
their squads of whispering wo,nec" when poisoning
with gossip and prejudice is prescribed.
It may be safely asserted that if the primary
law is repealed no woman with an ideal above the
workings of practical politics for What there is in
it will have anything to say about nominations
While it may be admitted that the outcome Of
primaries is often disappointing as witness the VIC
tory of Robinson for the senate and Updike for
congress- the products of conventions offer no guar
antee that these bodies are inspired with omniscence
or real wisdom
The primary has failed because the machine
politicians have found tricks to make it ineffective.
1t has failed only when, by confusion and vast
array of candidates. it has been possible to divide the
weIl-intentioned and permit nominations to go to
the choice of the machine. This applies to the
county Jobs where mere plurality is sufficient TO
insure nomination. In state affairs the trick is
to throw the nominations into convention where
the will of the people be defeated.
Each election an increasing number OF cltlzens Is
participating in the primaries. This the politicians
of the machine kind do not like. 1t IS becoming
more and more difficult to confuse and divide the
people.
The attack on the primary becomes more danger
ous because of the fact that the local Democrauc
organization is ndorsing the plea of the Republican
machine.
The successive victories of Coffin suggests that
there is not that deep division of sentiment between
rarties which permits of successful opposition
perbans Coffin has succeeded becaSse the people saw
no real reason to change from one party to tWln'
It seems impossible that the scheme OF pohVlclahS
Ao DESTROY the primaries can succeed in d1stranchs-
,o the women of the state without tremendous
protest. ,
If the primaries have not succeeded IN getTng rlo
of all the undesirabes, make the law stronger not
weaker.
Instead of repeating the law amend it SO that
a majority vote in the primaries, viii determine the
nominations.
The politicians understand that they must repeal
the law at this session or rever.
next session these birds will be too afraid OF the
people to act is the sinister comment OF one Oh Cne
leaders for the repeal of the law.
That comment ought to give good picture 70
the members of the legislature of just how these
bosses regard them and their fates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
The immigration Middle

Hoover yet may have his way on immigration
policy. The senate immigration committee yesterday
decided to hold hearings this week on the Nye reso-
luton posponing for another year the national origins
revision clause of the present quota law of 1924.
The cabinet commission, charged by the law with
Reproducing quotas the basis of national origin
Of the entire United States population 1920 sub
mtted such table last year, which it termed unsatis
factory
In his speech accepting the presidential nomination
Hoover said:
AS meEl1er Of the commission whose duty it is
to determine the quota basis under the national origins
law, have found it impossible to do so accurately and
without hardship. The basis in effect carries out
the essential principle of the law and favor repeal of
that part of the calling for ANEW basis of quotas
Present quotas based on the 1890 census and in
general favor North European countries, while pro-
posed quotas based on the 1920 census would favor
South Europeans.
Twice congress has postponed operation OF the ma
tionaI origins revision clause The Nye resolution
would authorize third postponement pending further
study by the cabinet commission.
If congress is not prepared at this time to repeal
the national origins clause, sthus formally stabilizng
the present quota basis, requested By Hoover the
next best thing is to adopt the Nye resolution That
would give Hoover more time in which to demon
strate to congress the faults of the proposed revision
Meanwhile, new immigration figures confound ur
gent recommendations by Secretary of Labor Davis for
extending the quota restriction system to Mexico and
other western hemisphere countries. Secretary of
State Kellogg and other cabinet officials from the be-
ginning have opposed the Davis recommendation as
unnecessary and harmful to foreign diplomatic
and trade relations
Now statistics published by Davis subordinate the
commissioner of immigration show decline in mmi-
grafton from western hemisphere countries during the
last half of 1928 The Canadian inflow fell 21.6 per
cent and the Mexican 142 per cent
This substantiates the Kellogg argument that such
immigration can be regulated by strcter border super
vision and cooperation with foreign governments
without imposing the quota system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Make Pnhlic Business Public

Senators who insist that amendment to the
first deficiency bill requiring that all tax refunds ana
rebates in excess of $4,000 be sent to the poard OF TAX
appeals for denomination are to be commenced IL
is time the secrecy surrounding the repayment OF nun
dreds of millions of public money to big taxpayers
be ended Congress year after year is asked TO ap-
propriate vast sums without detailed knowledge OF
how the money is spent. Senator Mcclellan, author OF
the amendment says that more than three billions
has been returned to taxpayers in cash or credits since
1e1S-an secretly.
CONGRESS never has been able to obtain a compre-
hensive explanation steady increase ~ refunds,
which have grown from 100000 1918 to $2o5oOo-
or this year.
Dissatisfaction with the administration Of the in
ternal revenue bureau has been intensified by recent
events One was the abortive effort to collect
SIG 100000 back taxes from Senator Couzens, which
he charged was an attempt to stop his investigation
Of the bureau
Another was the sudden demand of the treasury
for an additional $5000000 for tax refunds at this
session. The president apparently not advised of the
forthcoming request few days earlier had warned
that surplus of only $S7,OOo,oO0 was in sight
Members of congress wondered if the business OF
tax refunding was in such state of confusion that
the treasury would come no nearer IN estimating us
needs for this purpose.
credits to taxpayers at least double the amount
of cash refunds This demolished the treasury's IA
vorte argument that its collections through increased
assessments were vastly greater than its refunds.
Congress discovered as well that the United States
Steel corporation had been repaid S570000o0 on its
istg assessment alone in cash and credits, and that
all negotiations, had been conducted secretly by
small group in the bureau.
Under presenS law list of refunds is sent an
nually to congress, but this gives only names and
amounts Records of refunds greater than $4,000
the committee is not equipped to supply anything ap-
preaching adequate publicity effectively check up
ON the bureau.
Refunds made authority of the internal
revenue commissioner, after hearings by two three
of his subordnates The larger cases reviewed by
the general counsels Office.
This concentrates great power in the hands OF the
commissioner. Awards of millions are made on the
Judgment of two or three unknown individuals. No
Gus decisions The public and congress are COM
pletely in the dark.
The charge of fraud has not been made. 1t is
rather the infinite possibilities fer corruption that has
stirred the senate Friends-campaign contributors,
for instances-might be rewarded and enemies pun
ished, and no one would be the wiser.
The system should be changed There should be
some check on transactions involving such huge
amounts and the possibility OF suspicion should be re-
moved No harm can come from publicity The pub
lies business should be transacted in public
Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Lindbergh in the Cabinet?

The best cabinet suggestion we have heard is Lind
bergh for assistant secretary of commerce for aviation
We are old-fashoned enough to believe that a
President should be free to choose his official family
without advice from politicians and the press Under
the constitution they are responsible to him. and he
is responsible for them to the country.
Lindbergh nor any other outstanding person, would
be cabinet success unless his presence were desired
bv Hoover and unless he personally could work well
with the President
But if it is true, as correspondents with Hoover at
Miami Beach are writing that the President-elect is
considering the great fer member OF his little
cabinet of assistant secretaries, the country will be
much pleased.
Few national heroes ever were acclaimed as Lind
bergh More important, few have worn SO well He is
probably more popular today than when he completed
his epochal Atlantic flight. That is due to his
nodesty and to his continuing aviation exploits.
We are ceasng to think of him as lucky" and be-
ginning to think of him as great"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Times Readers
Voice Viezgs

Editor Times Where does Mr..
Gresham get his stand to fight the
bonus bride? Indiana, state OF
wealth, that can afford a memorial
costing $15,000,00O and $4,000 a
year upkeep, can at least give some
thing that would mean more to
other men and to me than just a
building to look at.
I ask any ex-service man to look
at the work of neighbor states. They
gave a bonus and didn't fight in the
legislature about it. ask Mr..
Gresham to please state the service
he rendered to his country in plain
print, then we all, as ex-service
men. would know why he says mo-
to the bonus bill.
IF the bonus bill were proposed
and voted on, Gresham would be
only one in 10000 to say no" l am
sure many soldiers would be glad
to see the bin passed. They could
get back their government bonus
policies that they borrowed money
on more than a year ago.
If Mrs. Gresham thinks they don't
need it, I ask him to take an IN
ventory of the banks and see how
many borrowed money on the gov
eminent bonus, and how many have
been unable to redeem them.
p. MATHIS,
1886 Lee street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Reason

Ut would be a great thing for the
l. University of Michigan to secure
the services of Mr.. Coolidge, and if
President of the United States
desires to do something after he
leaves the White House, the Office
Of university president is about the
only one he can accept without
mangling the priprieties.
This Ohio woman who, in order
to have children, submitted to two
Caesarian operations in three years,
certainly has done her duty by her
country.
If her husband had gone through
one such operation there never
would have been a second.
Our army has gone to seed, as
regards numbers and equipment, but
foreign nations please will take no.
tice that our military officers are
w veal GWACC cO 44A0S4A SNAN ~ NAA
as ever before.
n
Mrs. Agnes Michal of Chicago is
entitled to a Carnegie medal be-
cause she. whipped a coward who
beat a horse.
Many is the time that man has
harnessed and driven his superior.
II
It was relief to have all the mo-
ton picture people take a back seat
for the grounding, if only for a day.
Miss Muriel Wurst-Dundas, Is
years old, Of New York city, inherits
more than forty million dollars
from her mother, which prompts
the feeling that at least half of it
should be taken to relieve human
distress.
II II
1t is predicted that Hoover will
have three private secretaries, each
drawing $4,000 a year, which is
more than we psy United States
district judges, which is hardly fair
proposition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Therel Therel

IF may be permitted the danger
Il Gus luxury of generalization, I
will hazard the statement that most
of the sweeping denunciation of
women are uttered by men less than
five feet seven and one-half inches
in stature. The Roman who failed
to get a Sabine while the rush was
on went home and wrote bitter Sun
day pieces about the lack of taste in
women.
Great stamping declarations Of
virility and male supremacy come
chiefly from such of us as are lit
tie tinnid.
We sing of dead mems chests and
chant "Yo Ho' of barreled rum be-
cause we fear the sirens will get us
if we don't watch out. There is no
tree so noisy as the clinging oak.
Palpably the theater is largely
dependent upon the favor of wom-
men. And so is American art, lit
erature and music. Culture is al
ways the creature of the leisure
class and women here enjoy far
more leisure than do the men.
Women, = says IRVINE, "have
ruined everything else they have
gone into"
This accusation covers a large
amount of territory and the gentle
man from Ulster should have in
PRODUCED more evidence than the
seemingly sickly state of dramatic
art.
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which small doses of the poisonous
S distances have been injected.
AS a result of such Investigations,
it has now been determined that
the venoms of six species of North
American rattlesnakes contain iden-
tical OF almost identical poisons.
The poisons of the copperhead
and moccasin snakes are practically
Identical, but differ from those of
the rattlesnakes.
The poisons of the crotalus ter
rif1cus or rattlesnake of Central and
South America and that of the
oothrop atrox or fer de lance differ
entirely from those of the snakes of
North America.
The poisons contain not only GER
tain substances which produce
paralysis of nerves and death, but
also other substances the effects of
which on the human body have not
been determined.
In these experiments the chief end
sought is the development of anti
serum with which to prevent
death from snake bite.
1t has been possible to develop
serums for some of the poisons, the
effectiveness depending to some ex-
tent on the amount of poison in
jected by the snake when it bites.
1t has been shown that the rat
tlesnake does not eject the entire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
I Z
SEEMS
TOME
q g
By HAYWOOD
BROUN

CT. JOHN IRVINE, the Ulster
~ playwright and critic says that
the drama is dying and that women
are at fault. In his opinion they
like pretty things" and therefore
prefer comedy to tragedy. Indeed,
he says that musical comedy is the
acme of their taste"
Congratulations are hard to de-
fend or to deny and am suspicious
about al statements which begin
"men Ore" or women don't"
Within mile anybody is likely to
find al great variety among the
males anu .4lisses. People are not
as yet completely standardized.
I seem to find a certain hostility
toward women in the writings Of
st. John IRVINE. Femininism is to
him like red flag to bull. The
audacious FreuGlans might be in
clined to guess that in early youth
he was frightened badly by some
girl beyond the point of prompt
recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Mad Money
XKTOMAN has begun to come O

MTOMAN has begun to come out
w out of the kitchen. The in
crease in prosperity and the inyen-
ton of labor saving devices have
lightened the tasks of the house
wife.
The American grandmother, poor
wretch, had to bake and sew and
had small time for more pleasurable
pursuits. People had to tell her the
name of the current President and
take her by the arm at street cross
ings. The lady now has her latch
key.
And how has woman behaved with
her new-found liberty? Just dandy,
if you're asking me.
Never has there been so eager a.
market for books of substance and
women make up the bulk of the
buyers. Today THE Story of Phi
losophy" sells like Richard Car
vel" Demand for trash dinlinishes.
Chiefly, it seems to me, we must
credit the taste Of women for the
development of the new frankness
in literature and the drama. Most
moves for censorship are masculine
in genesis.
Women simply don't get shocked
with the same readiness as men.
They are the realists of this world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
W. Il.
TRACY
SAYS:
Crime and immortality
Notwithstanding, This
World Is Still Dominated
by Decent People,

CACRAMENTO, Cal. - Dictator
y Rivira says the Spanish revolt
has been crushed. Less prejudiced
witnesses are not so sure. It makes
little difference who is right.
Time was when trouble in Spain
meant trouble for most of the world.
Now what is left of that once all
powerful empire ruled by Charles v.
can turn somersaults without
causing more than slight rifle.
If development of the new world
forms the browning glory of this age,
the decline Of Spain is its greatest
tragedy.
Out of the territory once con-
trolled by Spain, nineteen republics
have been formed, as we'll as good
part of the United States.
Spanish priests had built twenty
six missions on the Pacific coast, a
days march apart and running from
the Mexican border to San Fran
cisco Bay, while our ancestors still
were wondering what lay beyond the
Rocky Mountains.
Interest in Spanish affairs comes
easier in California than in the east.
Strange as this may seem, it
illustrates those national character
istics which determine the rise and
fall of an empire.
The Spaniards went far for the
treasure and converts while the
English took what was nearer for
settlement.
A Pizarro in Peru, or a Cortez in
Mexico, seemed much more prophetic
of the future greatness than a
Winthrop in Massachusetts,, or a
Lord Baltimore in Maryland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Indy Leading Way
ToLoNEL LINDBERGH cele
~ brates his twenty-seventl

COLONEL LINDBERGH cele-
~ brates his twenty seventh
birthday by starting from Miami to
Panama with a sack of mail in his
airplane.
Most young men would be content
to rest on the laurels he has won,
or think they would If they had
won them, however, they would not
be the contented kind.
People have advised Colonel
Lindbergh to quit, some of them
very wise people, and all of them
with the best of intentions.
If he took their advice, he would
not be the man he is. would not
continue to set the fine example
he does.
Lindbergh was born to go on, to
lead the way, to try what scares
n ost of us, and none knows it bet
ter than he.
There is no hope of inducing him
to quit so long as he has youth and
vigor, for which we should al be
thankful.
What he has done and the kind
Of character he typifies has been
little less than a god sent to this
generation of boys AS an air pilot
he has been marvellous, but as
type of manhood, he has achieved
the proportions Of prophet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
Spanish Traditions

CTILL, Spain did not proceed
- without leaving worth while
landmarks and traditions.
One can feel her influence in
California even at this late day, not
as the conquisator might have
hoped, or could have guessed, but
through the better work of mis-
sionary and architect.
There is a movie theater in Sac
ramento modelled after the Alham-
bra. It's the real thing, too, with
courts, gardens, rejecting basins,
five-foot water jars, tiled recesses
and colonades, occupying an acre
of ground some twenty blocks out
from the business district, with
plenty of parking space.
I am told it was designed as the
first unit of a new community CEN
ter, and that the real estate men
who built it expects his reward by
way of rises in the adjacent prop
erty he controls.
Be that as it may, he has done
something artistic and unique,
something that can not be dupli-
Gated in any eastern town of 100,-
600 and that would not be in Sac
ramento but for Spanish tradition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-05
College Morals

A CHICAGO pastor rises to re-
"A mark that college students
have improved in their morals dur
ing the last two years, despite pet
ting and hip pocket TASKS.
A California judge, with twenty
years of experience on the bench,
says that crime is not on the in
crease, but that we are arresting
folks for raft Of newly discovered
offenses, which makes it look that
way.
Some will regard the pastor and
the judge as overly optimistic, but
more will believe them right.
1 am not disposed to argue the
point. Whether college students
have improved during the last few
years, there is still room for them
to continue, and whether crime is on
the increase, we could get along with
far less.
Crime and immortality notwith-
standing, this world is still domi-
mated by decent people, especially
the younger portion of it. And you
can still find an example of self-sac-
rifce or heroism to match every
piece of thuggery.