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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Gamblers and Others

A N attempt to distinguish be-
L n tween an investment and a
speculation is the most fantastic
sort of quibbling. 1t is ridiculous
to say the man who sells his hold
ingS f1fty-nine days after purchase
is a gambler, while the fellow who
hangs on two days longer is a sound
investor and the bulwark of the
nation.
The only difference between a
Spectator and an investor is that
the latter says, Lets play three
more rounds and then we'll all go
home"
I trust Senator Glass is not seek
ing to eliminate from American
industrial activity all faint of gam
bling. 1t would be mistake, I be-
lieve, to drive speculation out of the
open market into speakeasies which
might be called blind bulls.
If there is to be no gambling any
more after the bill of Senator Glass
becomes operative, what does the
gentleman from Virginia think will
become Of agriculture" and lie
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Sinclair Is Lucky

It's rather hard Harry Sinclair, getting another
Jail sentence from the supreme court before COM
petng his first term It especially hard consider
ing that the multmillionaire naturally believed his
high powered lawyers who promised to get him of,
That first sentence of three months was only for
contempt of the senate and that didn't sound so bad
didn't exactly brand one a criminal and all that
sort of thing But to get an extra six months for
Jury shadowing is rather hard
That is, it scenes hard-so long as Sinclairs con-
spracy to defraud the government of its essential
naval oil at Teapot Dome is forgotten.
Sinclair is not being punished for that. These
little sentences are only for the byproducts of his
business
So perhaps Sinclair ought to feel lucky, after all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Why All This Darkness?
"GiCe Light and the People
WI Find Their OUn Wdy"

What is it inside OF most of us that makes Us
want 70 pull down the blinds and whisper behind
closed doors when anything vital IS to be discussed?
What is it in officials that makes them think the
best way to handle vital public business in secret
lest the public learn too much?
Here Just as The senate is about ready 10 stuff of
its rule OF secret sessions for consideration of federal
appointments along comes the new national commits
sion on law enforcement and decides to hold its hear
ngs in the dark.
This history of the riSe CT democratic government
could be written in terms Of the opening Of star cham
Der proceedings TO public g4zc Justice liberty, and
peace have advanced only as the closed doors OF
courts legislative assemblies and international con-
ferences have been battered down by the peoples de-
nand for open covenants. openly arrived at
The twentieth century IS too late Day, and the
United States is too enlightened nation Tor these
old and hard-won battles for publicity to be fought
over again. For this iseue goes to the foundations
of our government Government by the people is not
only mockery, but positive danger, unless the peo-
pie have the full facts and information to determine
their popular mandate.
Moreover, such publicity in public affairs is the
only automatic check yet devised against possible cor
r1Ipton inefhciency and partisanship OF officials,
It is therefore no accident but deliberate and
basic safeguard of government that American legS-
aye bodies conduct the peoples business in the peo-
pes presence and that hearings OF such agencies as
the tariff commission and the federal trade commits
1ion on law enforcement should keep open its doors
It's inquiry, authorized by congress. is to be aimed
at tie most controversial and involved problem in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

Editor Times-Stl eet widening
and pavement improvements being
made in many parts of this city are
indeed commendable and source OF
much pride to all loyal residents, yet
we often wonder if one object OF
street widening is not, after all, be-
ing defeated.
BY this I mean the park at will
methods permitted by the so-caued
traffic force.
Capitol avenue north from New
York street has been widened, yet
there is no more room than usual
for the moving motor cars, Where
cars formerly parked two deep on
each side, they park three deep now.
This was an expensive and needed
improvement, but as matter of
convenience to moving traffic north
it Just as we'll might remain as OF
old. The parked cars defeated the
purpose of the improvement.
Some months ago the city coun-
Gil passed an ordinance prohibiting
parking on both sides of any street
under thirty feet in width. The or
dinance never has been enforced.
Take any side street north and you
will see cars parked on both sides
of narrow streets, many using the
streets as garages and not even
troubling themselves to burn tail
lights at night. Particularly is this
noticeable on any side street con-
Meeting with Central avenue.
On North Illinois street, between
sixteenth and New York streets,
there are safety zones, presumably
for protection of street car patrons.
Near Sixteenth street are several
cut-rate stores. Automobile patrons
Of these places park their cars in
the safety zones while they trade in
these shops.
I noticed an officer alight from
street car the other evening and
ne found difficulty in getting over
TO the sidewalk for the parked cars.
He never gave the ordinance viola
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Cancer May Be Caused by Pipe

growth and spread may be prevented
by early complete removal. The
importance of this fact is greater
than can be estimated.
1t is the only certain thing that is
known about controlling cancer in
the human beirg. The hereditary
factors seem beyond control in man
kind
The prevention of cancer there
fore rests on elimination of sources
of irritation ond on the removal of
all precancerous LESSONS, particu-
larly moles, warts, ulcers and ero-
sions, which are subject to irrita-
ton and which experience teaches
may become the basis of cancer.
Cancer of the lip and tongue are
among the most common cancers
of men and have heretofore &C.
CURED infrequently among women.
Cancer of the mouth is found
most frequently among men who
use tobacco to excess, who neglect
their teeth and allow broken or
Jagged teeth to cut the tongue, who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

wear badly fitted, roughened edged
dental accessories.
Some men smoke the same pipe
year after year, holding it always
at the same corner of the mouth
and directing the stream of warm
smoke at the same spot on the
tongue.
1t is believed that thorough clean
illness of the mouth and teeth, COR
rection of all dental defects and
the avoidance of such sources of
irritation as have been mentioned
will do much to lower the incidence
Of cancer of the mouth.
On the other hand, women have
taken up smoking at a rate far be-
yond that of many men. 1t will be
interesting to study the cancer
statistics of the future to find out
how far this change in the habits
of women affects the incidence Of
cancer of the mouth among them
At present they suffer primarily
with cancers of the organs that are
specially feminine and which there
fore do not concern men.
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- 49,
HT q o AM is I'd De-
| ANNIVERSARY
8H :5..y
JAMESTOWN SAVED
JUOp &


ON June 10, 1910, Lord Delaware
~ reached jamestown, at the
mouth of the James river in Vir-
ginia, and rescued from starvation
the English colonists suffering there.
The rescue saved the first perma-
nent English colony in America
from total extinction.
Before Lord pelaware's timely
arrival the hardships endured by
these colonists were the most Sc
we're in American colonial history
They began when Captain John
Smith was forced TO leave the COL
cny to its own resources and re-
turn to England to answer some
petty charges.
When Smith embarked for Eng
land the colony was a Well-provi-
stoned settlement, boasting nearly
SEQ settlers. No efforts TO repIenish
their stores by farming was made,
however.
Six months later, when Lord Della
ware arrived with new colonizing
party this number was reduced, by
starvation chiefly, to sixty.
Lord Delaware, who had come as
the first Governor Of Virginia, i'm
mediately built a fourishing COL
ony, under a government that was
ridiculously pompous for the wilder
ness, but which, nevertheless, proved
highly successful
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Eyes of Glass
XXTE fnanciers have every reason
w tn he sdIrn1.ised AZ Carter

XXTE fnanciers have every reason
w to be surprised at Carter
Glass. Who called that piccolo play
er a statesman? He seems to have
fallen into an ignorant confusion
concerning the nature of stocks and
bonds.
Obviously nobody would suggest
that Macy's, Gimbeps, or Best and
Co., should be forbidden to sell any
article in the shop without first
keeping it around the premises for
sixty days.
Yet if buy any number of shares
Of the three concerns mentioned I
am in a way very practical part
owner of the store in question. If
Macy can buy goods on a Monday
and sell them on Thursday 1 should
have the same right.
My certificate means that I
possess q certain equity in the cut
flowers, not to mention overcoats
and notions.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Hath Magazine.
THE average persons thinks of

THE average persons thinks of
n cancer as a horrible sore or
tremendous growth. That is be-
cause cancer all too frequently is
neglected until it has reached a
serious stage,
In the earliest stage the cancer
is tiny sport, often just little
scaly place on the skin or on the
lining of some internal organ. (
This very early beginning of the
cancer, indeed the change even be-
fore it becomes visible, can be pre-
vented, so far as we know, only
through prevention of the irritating
factor that may give it an initial
start.
Obviously that is so difficult under
many conditions that it can not be
prevented at all
However, once the cancer is rec
ognized in its earliest stages, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Costly War Warning

ITEM years ago it was the Treaty
l Of Versailles. four years ago it
was the Dawes plan and now it is
the Young plan.
Every successive move has seen
reparations Whitfield down.
The allies finally have agreed
that Germany will pay only small
fraction of what they originally
asked.
At that, she will pay the most
stupendous tribute ever levied,
This tribute does not represent the
cost Of the war, or anything like it,
but it represents enough to warn
the next two generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

A SCHOOL principal is one who
~ is paid extra to refrain from
working too hard, so that when
everyone else about the place has
gone tagged or wild, his cool head
will serve as a nucleus OF sanity
DR.. Daniel w. La Rue, professor Of
psychology at the Pennsylvania
State Teachers college.
Your first duty in life is toward
your afterseif. So live that the man
you ought to be may, in his time,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
SOeakeaSieS Decline

CPEAKEASIES are reported to
- have decreased by 1000 in New
York during the last few weeks.
The thirsty need not be alarmed,
however, since, according to police
estimates, there are 10000 left.
Neither do the causes assigned,
leave the drys much room for COM
fort.
Some say trade has fallen off be-
cause of the summer exodus, other
that competition has grown too
fierce for the little fellow, and still
others that Metropolitan bootlegging
has succumbed to the chain system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
, Mr., MeniOu'S Hats

A CCORDING to Adolphe Men
N jou, the we'll dressed man
should have at least a dozen hats.
Being a movie actor, his remarks
are eXcusable.
Besides, he was addressing six
hundred matters, when he made
them.
AS to us ordinary folks, we are do
ing pretty well, if we can mobilize
one respectable head piece to fit the
season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

No One EUer Has, or EUer
WI Control Education for
any Great Length Of Time.

CTRIPPED Of amendments against
- aliens and disfranchised Negroes,
the reapportionment bill is passed
by the house.
This bill provides that the men,
bership Of the house shall remain as
it is-435-which means that some
states will lose.
Obviously. We can not 90 on in
creasing the membership Of the
house forever in order to prevent
some states from losing.
If anything, congress has become
too big already.
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climate business" about which
there is so much concern?
amer Lakes Chance

z ACH spring the farmer CANDLES
~ when he plants his crops. In
essence he is bidding on red or black
when he decides to plant corn or
wheat Only the farmer is an I'M
fortunate player who generally
manages to choose wrong.
Nor am I acquainted with any
business in which risks are not run
for the sake Of potential gain.
Even statesman is a gambler.
When he selects burning issue
for a campaign he makes a. wager
on the public temper. Glass is pos
sloly a little sensitive about gam
bling because he stuck with the
wrong crowd in 1928.
His proposal should not by any
means be accepted unless he adds 2.
rider providing no member of con-
gresS ever should urge any public
policy unless he is willing to stick
by it for sixty days.
Copyright, 1929, by The Tines,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Anderson Rotarians Elect

BU IIniCS NDtcidf
ANDERSON, Ind, June 8.-Elmo
A. Funk, ice cream manufacturer
has been elected president Of the
Anderson Rotary Club. Other Off
GERS elected for the year are E. w
Cooney, vice-president; II. L. Thorn
as, treasurer; Ben B. Early. secre-
tary; Harry Palmer and M, E. Van
Meter. directors.
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Quotations of NotableS

be possible, be actual.-David Starr
Jordan.
=
Every child is entitled at the
hands OF society to the full develop
ment Of his finest capacities TO ap-
preciate the beautiful and the good.
Harold SAKE futile, assistant pro-
fessor of education al the Uniyer-
sity of Oregon.
n
The classic of all classics in the
Bible.-Calvin Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
When the Housewives Roar

Speaker Longworth and his fellow czars on the
steering committee may be able to muzzle congress-
men refuse permit debate the tariff BILL but
by the time the increased cost of living reaches the
American housewife there won't be enough muSzles to
20 around; and then the debate will become national
The indirect taxation by tariff duties isn't always
perceptible but it can't be concealed when applied to
sugar shoes or any other necessities that part of
every family budget BY the time the next congression-
al election rolls around the returns from the Hawley-
Smoot tariff monstrosity will be coming in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
luckv Furnace Man

An indianapolis furnace man
n paws 81 for ticket on the Eng
lish Derby and wins $S4,75o. 1t
sounds all right until one recollects
how many other furnace men must
have lost that he might win.
The trouble is that most OF us
simply refuse to be impressed with
that side Of it.
What we want to recollect is the
few uhn win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08
Mix Brains With Seed

RUT the American farmer has
0 not found out. Each year he
breaks his back to raise wheat at
a cost of 80 cents a bushel to sell
it later at IS cents. Each year he
is amazed to find this process has
left him less than affluent.
I've always said the farmer was
a fool to rise at dawn and toll until
the setting sun. Seemingly it is his
desire to raise so much wheat that
nobody will want it,
If the American farmers in con-
vention assembled would agree
never to get up before 10 a. M, the
resultant curtailment in production
would bring about greater benefits
than the honest agriculturiSts will
ever obtain through their obsession
for voting the Republican ticket.
However, want to put over the
point love the tiller of the soil
and hate to see him destitute.
want to see him happy. 1t is the
hooked whale which threshes about
upsetting apple carts
In other words, regard with high
disfavor the proposal Of Carter
Glass to tax all sales except those
in which the purchaser has held his
stock more than sixty days. Certain
enterprises have been known to
disappear in less time than that.
Some say the suggestion of Sem
ator Glass is unconstitutional, but
say it violates nature. From the
beginning Of time it has been the
inalienaole right Of man to drop hot
cakes the instant they scorched his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writer's, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Detroit typifes the American melting pot, De-
troter writes to the newspaper. And the melting pot
by the way, produces some pretty good brew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-08

Two Texans hold the air endurance mark, but
surely the mark of 172 hours be bettered by
flibustering congressman.
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BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, June s.-Dr.
Forrest w, Freeman has been called
to Chillicothe, O., on account Of the
death of his father, Reuben r. Free
man.
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Some of the profits being made in the stock mar
kets these days are without honor
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REASON
Writing q Column IN q Pull
man Stater0om Is Feat
Calling for Great Skill and
Ingenuity.
Pv Frederick lands

4 IS nara 10 WIAtE Ills AOILA4lAA+
l. We do not mean to say that our
marvellous mental endowments are
not hitting on all cylinders, but We
DO mean to say that We are writ
ing it on the train, headed for New
York. to experience the thrill which
comes only once in a lifetime. TO see
the first of our offspring graduate
from college.
In fact, this column had a close
call from never getting born.
We started to hammer it out on
the typewriter. on which we have
rendered our daily obligatos for
years, when the conductor APP
/ preached and leaned over.
We thought he wanted to make
loan. but he informed us that it was
against the rules Of the Pullman
company to use a typewriter on one
Of its cars.
Instantly We massed all our in
dignations and told that conductor
how the sun never set on the news
| papers using this column, and that
in our very next article We would
| sound a bugle call to the American
! congress, the Interstate Commerce
Commission and other people living
without work, to rise and abolish
the surcharge, that delicate bit
OF interstate porch-climbing by
which the Pullmans, their heirs and
assigns now plumber the Ameri-
cano.
A T this thought, the conductor
L 4 turned pale round the gills and
pointing to a quartet Of Seven-up
players twenty feet in front of us,
said that he was with us, but the
seven-up players we're officials and
they were disturbed by the music
of our literary fliyver
Whereupon we told him to tell the
seven-up players that four card
players, who did not pay their fare,
had no right to be disturbed by an
honest laboring man who did pay
his fare
We accompanied this ultilnatum
with the gesture we always use in
hammering home an eighteenth
conclusion and the conductors
Adams apple registered agitation,
whereupon he went to the seven-up
players and delivered the package
c. o. D.
Whereupon the Seven-up players
nut their heads together and told
the conductor to give us a state
roOm-and here we are.
Ali of which goes to prove that
the meek shall inherit the earth!
n
People, passing our glass exposure,
gaze in and pass with hushed foot
steps, lest they bother the giant of
industry bending over his loom of
thought.
He is Charles A. SchWab. thinks
one; he is Henry Ford concludes
another. for the thought of any,
body's doing anything apparently
useful on Pullman car always
arouSes such Surmises.
a ND meanwhile the rocking of
L y the train muddles ones crystal
utterances.
You reach for period and YOU
grab a semi-colon; you wish to pro-
pound question in type and the
lurching Of the train hands you an
exclamation point, and by the time
the page is finished, it resembles
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The tariff on figs has been increased. Aha, that's
the answer-a fig for farm relief!
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IT SEEMS TO ME By H BE0n%

THEY laughed at me when
a bought United States Steel, for
I had always been a wall flower and
thought f1let mignon was a fish.
Even my best friends would tell me
and it may turn out they were right
if the senate doesn't quit kicking
US fnanCiers about.
Personally I blame it all on the
agriculturalist'S friend and I pos
sess the only practical scheme of
farm relief yet devised. My plan is
simplicity itself. The federal gov
eminent should hire Moran and
Mack to tour the rural regions and
tell just one story at every cross
road.
The familiar patter should begin
at the point about the pigs. You
remember Morans family bought
them in the spring for about four
dollars" and sold them in the fall
for about four dollars" 1t then be-
comes the cue of Mack to exclaim,
Why, you couldn't make any
money that way" To which Moran
would say, we found that out"
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fingers. Didn't King Alfred fight a
war about something like that?
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a ND meanwhile the rocking of
1 \ the train muddles ones crystal
utterances.
You reach for period and YOU
grab a semi-colon; you wish to pro-
pound question in type and the
lurching Of the train hands you an
exclamation point, and by the time
the page is finished, it resembles
a Chinese laundry check.
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Thrifty MUSS0Iinj

NHUSSOLINI is one of those
Iva thrifty souls who overlook
11nf hing