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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Shark Is Guilty

Until more testimony is in, /
" am going to reverse the usual
procedure and consider the shark
guilty until he can prove his inno-
cence. After all, people who live
close to the shark invariably sus-
pect him.
If not technically guilty, he is at
least fish of very evil reputation,
Personally, l don't want any sharks
to come nosing around me, even if
they are under the strictest injunc-
ton not to bite.
Unlike the man-eating shark, I'm
the Cradle of the Deep" performs
a very useful function. Here is q
best-selling book which is forth
right and even proud in its vul-
garity.
Or since the word vulgar" is
subject to so many interpretations,
perhaps "rowdiness" would do
little better. 1t is not ribald in
the sense that it ends to incite las
civious desire, as the law forbids,
but the author does discuss with
gusto and unconcern a number of
things which are generally whis-
pered behind the hand.
Nor is there any exhibitionistic
quality in Miss Lowell's frankness.
Words pelt out as if healthy child
were speaking. IF all of us could
go to sea at the age of IL months
it would be a cleaner and a more
joyful world.
Miss Lowell learned all the short
and ugly words. OF course they
are not really ugly. It is only false
modeSty which has made them that.
So curious is the moral sense of
man that after putting fig leaves
on nudes he proceeds to add sylla-
bles to shock words under the i'm
preston that deviousness is sure
protection against the sense of
shame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
What Children Say

DREACHERS are fond of telling
L their congregations that We
must become as little children If
we are TO enter the Kingdom of
Heaven. But they do not seem
truly to mean it.
At any rate, groWnups seldom are
pleased when mature persons emu.
late one Of the most characteristic
traits of the child. Until he is
trained and educated, little boy is
practically without shame. He is
interested and amused by any num-
Der of things which seem to his
elders obscene or, at the very least,
disgusting. \
have been told by some of the
censors that even if the moral fac
tor is debatable, there are things
which must not be said right out
in print. because they actually are
ugly and Objectionable.
All I can say is that children for
the most part do not find them so.
OAScoIloh, COllCeIu4Ils WHICH SAONH-
ups are so squeamish, seems to the
small boy a thing to be taken as
matter of course and to be men
toned in a loud voice, no matter
who the visiting relative may be.
We train him out of this u1con-
Germ and We do very wrong If we
actually want to be as nature in
tended us. it would be well to pay
more attention to the child before
we break him. He is closer to the.
source.
tcopyright. 1929. for The TimesD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
More Play and Less Work?

Practically all the things we use now are made by
machine in larger and larger factories, and with less
and less hand work What We getting out of it?
Are we being served by the machines, or are we
serving them? eaE
This question Just has been debated indirectly.
Last night at Columbus, o., Magnus w. Alexander.
president of the national industrial conference board
presented to the Ohio State Chamber of Commerce
the more usual view that the machines are enabling
lis constantly to gain in the things which really make
life worth liying-leisure, beauty, happness-while
giving us constantly more things at less cost.
~ Last week. in the New Republic Stuart Chase, dis
tingushed economist presented differing view Inc
machine age has given us more things, he admits, but
tneither has essened costs given us more leisure
beauty and happiness.
In fact he claims from the standpoint of loafng
and inviting ones SOUL" far worse off than we
would have been the inhabitant OF typical town
in the middle ages. An auto bathtub, radio, mean
for their owners endless tnkering. Big factories
which distribute their products far and wide mean
endless work in selling and distributing goods Cuts
in manufacturing costs are eaten up by the greater
effort and cost of selling.
s Manv of. the simple articles we buy actually can
be made in the home at far less cost he claims, Our
cities complex mechanism always being rebuilt, al
ways having streets torn up, cost us tremendously
more work than the simple villages of our fore
fathers
FOR every minute another minute has gone
into running frantically around in wider circles.
ddletown Ca typical American industrial city, might
be happier with fve-hour day, and rather less in
the way Of cosmetics Hollywood films and electric
refrigerators," Chase sums up,
He is inclined to think that our civilization--our
cult of 'thingS"-is kind of ascending whirl, which
sooner or later may topple, when the man with his
chi lrifo bic han
will have the best chance of survival.
Whether Chase is right wrong. he certainly sup
plies refreshing and thought-provoking point of
view in contrast with the more orthodox one ad-
yanced BY Alexander and most other leaders OF the
sn1achine age.p
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
By
Frederick
lands

TINE Illinois house of representa-
Il tives has passed an old age
pension bill and some day every
state in the Union will have. one,
for we are not truly civilized so
long as those who have worked hard
all their days must approach the
end of life dreading poverty!
4H t.
This rebel general in Mexico who
was attacked while playing poker
and who saved the jackpot amid fly
ing bullets, remained true to the
purpose of all Mexican revolutions
possession of the loot.
n Il
The annual avalanche of tenders
of summer homes to the President
has started, two of them near Wash
ington being the first.
The offer of our house which we
made to Coolidge stands for Hoover,
but we want to know if he's coming
in time to plant some grass seed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Order Is Demanded

THE old maxim that necessity
l. Is the mother of invention" ap-
plies to mass movement as well as
individual endeavor.
We demand widened areas Of or
der because We need them in our
business.
Nations that have not enjoyed
such mechanical progress and that
have not become bound to such an
inextricable network of organized
production and far-f1ung trade yield
more readily to the traditions of
discord.
Industrial development, or lack
of it, if you prefer. goes far toward
explaining the difference between
conditions which prevail north Of
the Rio Grande and those which
prevail south of it.
In Mexico the political leader
who promised reform Is still the
most important figure, while In
America it is the man who promises
improvement. whether by invention.
exploitation or organization.
Here 1t is easier to raise capital
for new enterprises. There it Is
easier to raise recruits for a new
revolt.
But times are changing there, as
well as here. No one can review
what has taken place in Mexico
since Obregon brought order out
of chaos. without realizing that a
profound alteration in the popular
attitude has taken place.
Though this latest outbreak Is
revolution 1t is a very different kind
that plagued the country between
1910 and 1920. What Is even more
reassuring. it is being met In a very
different way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Wages Are Too Low

VXTAGES are too low throughout
w the textile industry. AS most
every fair minded person admits. AT
the same time the competition Is
desperately fierce. Especially be-
tween the south and New England.
Neither section could make much
advance in wages by itself, without
facing virtual destruction.
The only hope of better pay for
employees consist in a universal raise
"a raise which would be effective
not only in all sections, but which
would include all kinds of mills.
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tally document giving 10 the per-
son named the exclusive right to
use, make or sell some invention.
Who as the first admiral of the
United States navy?
David Glasgow Farragut.
What was the former name of
Duke university at Durham, n. c.?
1t was formerly Trinity college
The name was changed when the
college was endowed by Duke,
wealthy tobacco manufacturer.
What is a decimal fraction and
how should it be written?
1t is one whose denomination is 10
or a power of ten, the denomination
being indicated by the position of
the decimal point. Hence .25 is the
correct way to write a decimal frac-
ton
What was Mrs. Wallace Reds
maiden name?
Dorothy Davenport.
What is the area of the United
States?
1926 89 square miles.
When was Peter Turney Governor
of Tennessee?
1893 1897.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23

Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Bygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE idea that 1t is dangerous tc
i sleep in the moonlight is an
other of the symbolical notions that
afflict mankind.
The ancient Egyptians associated
cats with the moon, not only be-
cause the cat is more active after
sunset, but from the easily visible
dilation and contraction of the
pupils of the eyes of the cat which
resembles waving and waning OF
the moon.
The very term "lunacy" comes
from the word luna, relating to the
moon. In the first place the moons
appearance and disappearance are
periodical as are many of the func-
tons of the human body.
1t is common among superStitious
people to believe that those who are
eccentric or insane are at tier
worst when the moon is full.
Since the moon grew in size and
then waned, it was possible to as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
!! !!
SEEMS
TO ME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

.NNF critic has been csptious
~ about Joan Lowells book 1.-THE
Cradle of the Deep" Lincoln Col
cord expresses doubt as to the au-
thenticity Of the young woman's
autobiography of life upon a sail
ing vessel in the South Sea. It is
his charge that she sometimes calls
ropes out of their names.
Upon the precise issue am quite
incompetent, but such a state never
yet has been sufficient TO make me
hold my peace.
Although I do not know one
ropes end from another I have at
times been in contact with the
truth. And the truth, think, must
always be judged in the large. Thus,
l hold no man liar if he tells me
that he caught a ten-poInd fish,
even though it only scales a. five.
The truth is that it tugged like
ten-pound fish and looked all of
that when first he drew it from the
water. Besides he knew that 4
would cut his estimate in half. And
so veracity was not Knocked
1t is my notion that every person
returning from bright and shining
islands should add on a little some
thing when he tells his story
Myth is a salt by which fine yarns
are preserved for posterity and what
a dull world this would be if every
imaginative maker of legends was
stigmatized as a liar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

sociate the increase and decrease
in the symptoms of mental disturb
ance with this waxing and waning.
This relation of the moon to lunacy
is utterly unscientific.
1t is interesting to know that in
some places warts are supposed to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23

Harvard uni v e r.
sity, thinks that
low visibility due
to nists, fog and
smoke was the de-
termining fac t o r
in the indecisive
outcome of the
battle.
On the a f t e r.
neon of May 81,
1916, Admiral Sir
David Beatty, then
in the North sea
with the British
battle cruisers, re-
ceived word that
the German high
seas feet was out
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writing to Frederick M. Kerby. question
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ttamps for reply. Medical and legal
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Unsigned requests cannot be answered
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service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
. David Dietz on ScieI
Puzzle of ntland
20 No. 81 -

ONE of the puzzles OF the World war was tae Bat
tIe If Jutland in which the British and German
fleets engaged in the North The battle might
have been the most decisive of the war for COM
pete victory for either side might have ended the
conflict.
Professor Alexander McAdie, meteorologist of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Daily Thought

Neither shalt thou swear by thy
head, because thou canst not
make one hair white or black
Matt. $3.50.
are words. and words but
~ but wind.--Butler,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEny

This is the second of a series of arti-
cles on health SuperStitions, to which
man has been prey for ages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23

I'd e IS q q q
opipisns e.
pressed In this
column are
those Of enc
Of Americas
most interest
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
out regard TO
their agree
ment with tbs
editorial attf-
tude Of this
paper
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
What is the partridge berry?

What is the partridge Derry
The nrative partridge berry has
small shining evergreen leaves,
sometimes marked with white and
bright scarlet berries which remain
all winter. The plant is easily col
lected and is procurable from deal
ers in hardy plants. 1t thrives I'M
der evergreen trees. 1t is usually
found in the markets during the
Christmas season.
What is the seating capacity of
the Roxy Theatre in New York and
how much did it cost.
It has seating capacity of about
5000 and cost 100000.
What do letters A. d. before a
date stand for?
Ammo Dornini which means I'm
the year of Our Lord"
Who composed the cast of way
Down East?"
Lillian Gish. Richard Barthelmess,
Creighton Hale, Lowell Sherman.
Mary Hay. Burr Mcintosh, Kate
Bruce, Vivian Ogden and Edgar
Nelson.
What are letters patent?
A grant by the government. 1t is
an open document under seal of the
government, granting some special
right, authority, privilege or prop
erty or comforting some title; espec-
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Questions and AnSNerS

tally a document giving to the per-
son named the exclusive right to
use, make or sell some invention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20
Results Yesterday
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Louisville .... ''' 900 ito 900 10 s
Yarmouth, Davis, Nelson and Peters;
lineup. Moss, Ober and Thompson.
St. Paul ......... 900 oIo gal 13 I
Toledo ............. o20 900 600 ? 1
Hopkins ana Tesmer. Fenner; Buckeye.
Mcnamara. Parmalee and McCurdy.
Minneapolis ....... 900 o2o 600 2 Z I
Columbus ~ 900 022 10x- ) IS 0
Benton Brillheart and Kenna; Maxton
and Shinault.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York .......... roo 3o2 o02-14 20 0
Philadelphia .... 300 0ol 100 5 g 4
Fitzsimmons. Mays and OFarrell: Roy.
Collins, Elliott and Lerian.
66inci9nati ......... oio 100 900 10 2
Doak. Haid and Wilson; Kolp. Kemner.
zahniser and Sukeforth.
Morning game.
Brooklyn ......... 900 900 500 2
Boston ............. 900 o02 DOL I
McWeeny. Elliott. Pattison and Deberry:
Hearn, Jones and Collins, Spohrer.
Afternoon game
BROOKLYN ........ OOl 900 Ooo-l 3 I
Boston ............ 900 1903 DIX g 0
Vance Dudley and Deberry, Henline:
Brandt and Spohrer.
Pittsburgh at Chicago. postponed, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia ....... 900 00l 000- 0
New York .......... 900 900 1lx- 0
Quinn and Cochrane; Hoyt and Ora
boWSki.
Chicago ........ 900 900 041- 0
St. Louis .......... 900 1870 000-4 8 2
Faber. McKain, Dugan. Connally and
Grouse; Coffman, Blaeholder, Stewart and
Schang.
Detroit ............. 600 300 OlO-4 9
Cleveland ........ 900 DOL 33x-7 8 l
Sorren Prudhomme and Shea: Hudlin,
Terrell and l.. Sewell.
Boston ............. OUU UUU Olu-
Washington ........ Ito 00l COX 7 I
Morris Durham and Heying, Berry; Mar
berry and Tate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20

II must he understood OF course that
this was A technical and not personal
criticism And yet. IL must be embar-
RAISING to pick up j paper and read that
your feet or TrilbyS, do not conform TO
the set standards OF lovelineSs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20
Shooting Par

T OCAL golf officially will get I'M
IL der way next Monday night
when the Indianapolis District Golf
Association holds its sixth annual
meeting and dinner at the Colum-
bia Club. The time is $50, accord
ing to the announcement of Cliff
Wagner, veteran secretary. DR.
Goethe Link will preside in his ca
pacity as president of the organiza-
ton and he has designated the din
ner as an honor affair to Ed Len
nox, veteran local golfer and globe
trotter
Globe trotterS usually have some
interesting tales to narrate and Ed
undoubtedly will spiel off some golf
yarns learned on his recent trip to
foreign countries.
Cliff tells us that Mayor L. Ert
Slack, for the past year quite a
golf enthusiast, and several other
notables also will talk.
The fare to the dinner, talks and
so OH is 50 and reservations should
be made with Wagner. Cliff an
nounceS that the evenings menu
will be most interesting, appetizing.
and entertaining, as well as inStruc-
tive from a golfing standpoint. Then
too, if you have close acquaintance
with the goddess of luck you are in
line for a nice prize.
Mrs. Charles A. Kelley has been
elected president of the Coffin
Women's Golf Club. The Times was
informed Friday. Mrs. Frank Payne
was chosen vice-president, and Mrs.
Mazur, secretary treasurer. A club
tourney, the first of the year, will be
held Thursday afternoon at Coffin.
Avalon opened up last week with
an open house affair to show off the
new clubhouse and added a couple Of
heavy social functions at the close
of the week to bring to Avalon
members the realization of just how
nice clubhouse they have.
Roy Smith, who again is pro at
the club this year, states that the
links have been improved 100 per
cent over the winter. Very few
memberships are available in the
club and with everybody enthused,
Avalon members promise other
country clubs run for their money
this year as far as membership en-
thusiaSm is concerned.
y
Highland plans big year with
its new fairway watering system in
use. Neal Mcintyre, who spent a
very good winter in the south, again
is pro and Chuck Garringer is his
chief assistant. George w. Klein,
president, recently announced the
season schedule and along with it
made known that the popular team
matches with the indianapolis
Country Club will be continued. The
dates have been set as July 8 at the
L c. C. and at Highland. Aug. 10.
In addition to the championship the
Jack sTrimble trophy viii be at
stake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20
Glasses Aid Chick Hafey of Cards;
Drives Out Three Homers at Cincy
Star Outeder OFF to Great Start in Opening Series of
Big League Season.

In the opening game OF the sea-
son, Chick hit a homer of Red
Lucas, who had been working eff
fectiyely. enabling the Cardinals TO
start the pennant race with vic
tory.
The chances are that if this con-
tinues, Hafey's optician will start
advertising. for Chick took to
glasses as a last resort and with
pronounced success.
Few Make Good
Few ball players have made good
behind spectacles in fast company.
There was Lee Meadows and Car
men Hill, and the rest can be
counted on the fingers OF one hand.
When he finally decided to resort
to glasses, Chick" confessed that
it seemed to him like a last resort.
I'm try them for a season, and
then If I can't make good III get
out and admit I'm licked" he said
early this year.
From the way he has started, he
apparently will make good, and his
return to form may mean big
things for the National League
champions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20
Kansas
Event Draws
Many Stars
Indian Shines in Decathlon;
Notre Dame, Indiana
in Relays.

. a. LAWRENCE, Kans., April 90
Clouded skies and a field made
muddy by heavy rains the last
twenty-foW hours faced some 1000
athletes, representing the cream Of
schools, colleges and universities Of
sixteen states and Hawaii, who we're
here today for the seventh annual
Kansas Relays.
Ray Conger, John kuck, and
Dave Abbott, stars of Olympic fame,
we're to appear early this after
noon. Conger was to run a special
race with John Faulkner, Oklahoma
A. and NJ, Missouri Valley cham
pion.
A copper skinned Indian boy
from Haskell Indiana Institute,
which is located here, Friday after
noon furnished the thrill for spec
tators at the first half of the deca-
thlon. He is Wilson Buster
Charles, 2O-year-old. full-blooded,
Oneida Indian.
Charles made a sweep of the first
FIVE events, leading nine contestants,
He outpointed the favorite, Tom
Churchill, defending champion Of
Oklahoma university. Charles total
points Wer 4.149Ol29 and Churchills
we're 3.656.0853.
Today's events IN the decathlon,
included those in which Charles is
weak. They include high hurdles,
discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500
meter run. Fridays events we're the
100 meter dash; broad jump, shot
put, high jump and 400 meter run.
Texas, Iowa State, Kansas, Notre
Dame, Nebraska. Illinois, and Iowa
we're ready to step out in the
peppery dash relays which we're won
by Notre Dame in 1927, with a meet
record time of 4l.6.
Illinois and Indiana we're seen as
potential record breakers in the
four mile quartets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-20
Fights and Fighters

NEW YORK-Jimmy Maloney, Boston
heavyweight. defeated Con OKelly of Ire
land on a technical Knockout in the third
round of their bout at the New York
coliseum Friday night. Referee Danny
Sheridan stopping the fight when the
loser sustained q severe cut over his left
eye.
BUFFALO. N. Tommy Paul. 1l994,
buffalo, outpointed Charles Pinto, l2lh,
Buffalo. six rounds. Mickey Paul. il7l2.
Buffalo, outpointed Frisco Grande. ZIG,
Philippines.
DETRoIT-speed and aggressiveness
gsys a Segf o oSer P Po Rd pe
troit. Johnny Mellow, Detroit lightweight.
ha. IN the second round of a scheduled
ten rounder.
BOSTON--Fighting with an injured left
hand. Andy Martin: Boston teatherweight,
outpointeo Eddie Shea of Chicago in a
tenround bout before 5000 fans at the
Boston Garden. Eddie. Curley. Boston
featherweight. outpointed Benny Carter,
Denver ten rounds.