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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
Bull Markets

CTOCKS fall few points Thurs
- day and Representative Black
of New York demands congress
siona1 probe Friday. Fast work,
though not too fast to save the
paper profits.
Representative Black seems to
think the federal reserve board
acted in a tyrannical way when it
advanced the rediscount rate and
issued a warning against excessive
speculation"
Possibly it did. Possibly we should
have let an Anticipated public go
right on pouring water into the
capital investment of major indus
tries until the bubble bursts.
Possibly we should have allowed
the country to continue kidding it
self with the idea that the rise in
stocks meant more money for bust
ness, when, as a matter of common
sense, it meant more of burden.
We have had these bull markets
before, and history SHOWS what hap
pened when they were permitted to
run their course without restraint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
The Fee System

Ending of the fee system for county officials
throughout the entire state proposed in measure
by the board of accounts Whether the salaries fixed
in the measure are too much or too little is de-
battalion question.
There can be no debate over the statement that
the fee system is vicious and should be abolished.
In small counties, the fee system only attract
the inefficient In counties where the revenues are
large t7ae system invites corruption.
Lake county has never enjoyed reputation in the
state for purity of its eIee HchineTy. The results
there have at tnues 3e11n1ined the outcome in the
entire state and have always been under suspicion OF
being manipulated.
Lake county also has Offices that under the fee sys
tenn pay their incumbents more money than is paid
to the President of the United States.
Especially vicious is the fee system applied to
the prosecuting attorney, whose fees, so says the
accountants run to the amazing figure Of 100000
a year.
Much of this revenue comes from the $S5 fee in
the dry law, extended to mean that every common
drunk case is brought within this provision.
This fee has brought no perceptible decrease in
the number of drunks which, of course was the OBJ
ject of the provision if it had any object beyond the
pockets of prosecutors.
The same condition exists in some other industrial
counties which have yet abandoned the fee system
There are very few lawyers in the state or in any
state whose private practice of law brings them any
such return as that of the Lake county prosecutor and
certainly no lawyer in the legislature would be bold
enough to suggest that the legal work of the northern
prosecutor is worth any such generous payment
The salary of every official should be fixed. 1t
should be large enough to properly compensate for
the work done and to remove the official from the
temptation to graft.
When fees are large it IS inevitable that poti-
cal machine will be constructed to grab the perquiSes
and when this machine operates, it inevitably cor
rupts the entire state.
If no other measure is passed by the present legS-
ature this one should surely become a law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

old age is a sort of cancer of the
entire human body.
The degeneratiVe Diseases how
ever-resulting from the wearing out
of tissues-come on gradually, but
are easily detachable by simple tests
such as can be made by any COM
petent physician.
Knowing that the human being is
more controlled by sentiment than
by sense, the campaign for proven
ton of these diseases includes what
is known as the periodic physical ex-
animation with the suggestion that
each human being have a complete
physical examination on his birth
day.
Any one who owns q good motor
car is likely to take it into the shop
at least once every three months for
a general examination and for cor
rection in their early stages of any
developing defects.
It seems quite logical, therefore,
to urge that a similar procedure be
adopted with the human body-just
as valuable a machine as any motor
car.
With all this, however, one must
take into account the fact that 1T is
the kind of body conferred on q
man by his ancestors which is OF
the greatest Importance in deter
mining his length of life.
Highly technical researches made
by Raymond Pearl and others in
dictate that the length of life is a
matter of heredity and that, bar
ring accident and severe infection,
the total years of a mans life are
somewhat well determined by his
birth.
Hence the proper care of the hui
man machine is concerned not so
much with total years as with physi-
cal qualifications and freedom from
pain and disease during those years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
A Look Will Do No Harm

The senate has decided wisely to look into the
proposed sale of the Levathan and other large ship
ping board vessels to D. c. Chapman 81 Co. OF
New York.
The desire Of the shipping board seems to be to
get all the American vessels into private hands as
possible, regardless of the future effect this
may have upon the merchant marine.
AS Senator Mcclellan has pointed out, there are
features of the present deal which require
light.
1t viii do no harm to delay the negotiations suf-
fciently to give the public all the facts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE chief factors in death after
Il As years of age are heart dis
ease, pneumonia, high blood pres
sure, cancer, brain hemorrhage and
kidney disease.
Among the causes of these con-
ditionS, so far as known, are in
fections sustained early in life,
particularly of the nose, throat,
tonsils and sinuses, infections of
the teeth, and spots of infection
elsewhere in the body from which
germs are carried to the heart, the
kidneys and blood vessel walls.
These early infections are them
selves associated with poor personal
hygiene, with overcrowded living
conditions, with residence in damp
places and with undue exposure to
the elements.
Any of these factors, as can easily
be realized, is controllabie only by
social and economic movements
which are only secondarily within
the province of medicine.
Upon pneumonia much research
is being done, and it is reasonable
to believe that it will be conquered
eventually, because the germ cause
is known, and it remains only for
science to find technique for in
creaSing specific resistance.
Cancer is today almost as great
a mystery as it was twenty-five years
ago. Indeed, some scientists and
philosophers insist that senility or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
M. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
"Where We Are Going, No
One Can Guess, but We
Certainly Are on Our
Way"

GAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Feb. g.
~ A gasoline war has been raging
up and down the Pacific Coast.
Though of brief duration, it already
has caused quite a few casualties
and big yell for relief.
independent retailers assert that
big companies have cut the price to
freeze them out.
Agents of the federal department
of justice have been making an in
veStigation. and the federal trade
commission has been asked to take
a hand.
In Los Angeles, gasoline has been
selling at Is cents, though the
wholesale price was 141z, and no less
than forty independent filing
stations have failed.
In San Francisco, the big COM
panies are said to have agreed on
a wholesale price cents lower than
the retail price. Big companies de-
clare that the retail price should be
q cents. but that filling stations
have been selling at Is cents and
garages at II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
AMPUTATED ANTLERS
Indy ESCAPED LOTS
BEATING HIS LIZZIE

THAT was q, beautiful thing for
Il the American Legion to do over
at Effingham, ILL.,, when it buried an
old Confederate veteran with mill
tary honors.
With the reconciliationS since APP
pomattox, the United States is
stronger today than it would be, had
there been no civil war.
A government is the only vessel
which is stronger for having been
broken and mended.
Il y Il
Personality is the outstanding
thing in human relations. The new
man in the machine shop, the lab
oratory, or the business office may
pass his seniors because he has vi
sion, audacity, originality, just as
this Lieutenant Hennekin of the
Marine Corps passed all his military
superiors and captured this rebel
general down in Nicaragua.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution but
on request will not be published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words VIII receive.
preference.
Editor Times-I want to con-
graduate you on, and show my APP
preciation OF. your splendid editor
ial on Thursday; rs Economy a
Joke?"
I think you are doing the tax.
paying public in general a fine SER
vice to bring these things to their
notice. I am glad that we have one
editor in indianapolis who isn't
afraid to take up any matter in
behalf of the public.
We are all for paved roads as
fast as we can get them and are
willing to pay the cost. But it
certainly is nothing more than fair
and just that the public should
know that its money is being spent
70 the best possible advantage. The
present policy of the road commits
sion, that before a road is paved in
a county, the county commissioners
must make appropriations to cover
the new rights of way and in some
cases part of the paving cost, which
of course is an additional road tax,
and now proposing to levy an adj
ditional tax on gasoline and license,
certainly should justify the check
ing up of the whole situation.
II the state road commission by
law has no authority to condemn.
lands for rights of way, the same
having to be done by the county
authorities, it seems to me in all
fairness that the road commission
should be empowered to pay that
expense instead of having it col
lected from county taxpayers.
I think it's time we should have
a real state road system. at pres
ent there is too much delay. Too
much. I think. is demanded of all
the counties. think the whole
thing needs oEerhauling.
First of all. cut out the politics
and put men on the commission
who are trained and expert in build
ing roads, pay them accordingly,
and let the state sell our bonds to
get the money. Without delay, pro-
ced to give us complete state road
system, TO be paid for by every tax
payer according to his ability to
pay. ~
It is not my intention to try to
discredit the good work of Mr.. VIII
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
If Big Boys Are Rough
THE moral of the situation is

TINE moral of the situation is
A. that little fellows can not stand
it when the big boys get rough.
That is something we did not use
to believe.
Fifty, or even twenty-five years
ago, wesregarded price cutting as a
good thing, no matter how it start
ed, or whom it hurt.
Competition is the life of trade, "
we chorused; "bust the trust, keep
the good old cutthroat game going
and let the devil take the hinder
most, while honest John Public
heaps a just reward"
Now we are not so sure 1t looks
unsportsmanlike to let an outfit like
Standard Oil hop little chap at
some crossroads and put him out
of business by setting up a competi-
ton in which he has no chance.
Organized capital, mass produc-
ton and systematlzed business has
caused us to change our minds with
regard to many things.
We can not protect ourselves
against the ruthlessness of a ma
chine age on a free-for-all basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

liams as director of the road COM
mission. think he is gentleman
and a man of high business ability.
Probably no other man would have
done better under the same con-
ditions. It's the system I diSap-
prove of, and I think am express
ing the views of vast majority of
the public.
I Again want to commend you for
your courage and ability in the
fights you have waged in the last
few years to free our state from the
rottennesS that held it~>by the
throat. I wish we had more editors
like you. OSCAR HOUSTON.
EllettSville, Ind.
Editor Times-Who is this Arthur
Gresham who sets himself up as the
spokesman of all soldiers, sailors
and marines?
Did he personally conduct ques-
tionnaire and ask each veteran
where he stood on the bonus ques-
ton?
1t is my opinion that he is only
playing to the grand stand, and that
his statement is about as reliable
and Informative on the subject as
mine would be on the selection of
Hoover's cabinet.
In all public questions there is
always some self-elected person who
rushes to the front of the platform
and in loud tones says. 1--WE don't
want this"
Because at the time he is clothed
in little brief authority and is suf-
fering from an inflated ego. he uses
the pronoun I'VE" little recklessly.
to say the least.
In arriving at his blanket opinion
on ths bonus question, Mr.. Gresham
did not consult me, and from in
Quiries I've made there are many
other veterans who did not receive
a QUESTIONABLE on the subject.
Perhaps 1 being only private in
the rear rank. my esteemed con-
temporary did not think it neces-
sary TO consult anyone who had his
thinking done for him during the
war.
AS for the tax burden-did that
august body, the legislature, think
of the poor, overburdened taxpay-
ers when they so lightly voted mil
lions for the World war memorial?
The memorial may be all right for
those who are not so busy trying to
exc out an existance that they have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
Good With the Bad

A DMITTING the possibility,
IA though it seems preposterous
in some respects, why imagine that
it contains no compromising values,
no unforeseen blessings to make up
for the defects. no opportunities for
human nature to function as of
yore?
We have had considerable Of
revolution during the last 100 years
such revolution as has changed
many routine customs and conven-
tons, yet we remain pretty much
like our great-grandfathers, or
great-grandfathers, in all the eS-
sentials-hoping, loving, fearing,
hating. aspiring, doubling, believ-
ing along the same old lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

COMPLAINT is made that mem
~ bers of the National House OF
Representatives do not attend the
sessions, but this always has been
so. At times, the floor is aband-
oned, save for the presiding officer,
the statesman speaking and the
stenographer, but let leader speak
and the seats fill rapidly.
And almost all the time there's a
hum of conversation which sounds
like a. hundred Swarms of bees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
Common Bridge Errors
AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
By ". w. WENTWORTH

should win the first trick with king
of diamonds, then play ace of clubs
and 9 of clubs, overtaking with
queen of clubs if king of clubs is
not forced, continuing clubs until
it is forced. The ace of diamonds
now serves as the re-entry to make
the remaining clubs and game can
not be prevented.
The PrincipIe-When holding a
suit headed by queen Jackie in
dummy, and AK in closed hand
or vice versa, it is usually a win
ming play to capture the first trick.
copyright. 1929. Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

what look place IN that period.
M. A. PRATT.
Editor Tirnes-R plying to P.
Mathis as to why Gresham opposes
the soldier bonus bill now before
the legislature, I would like to say
that he opposes it for the same
reason that many thousands of
other tax burdened citizens oppose
1t.
To my way of thinking, the man
who stayed at home and labored in
the shops and factories, often de-
nying himself many of the comforts
of life to support the army, is just
as much entitled to compensation
as the man who went to war, but
do you see any of the military or
CARNATIONS rushing to the legisla-
ture with bill to pension them, no,
it is a one-sided affair with the
slogan, get all you can.
w IlOb USlIcFS OIl6IG Is man
or woman in Indiana who would
not be willing to vote for a bill to
help any soldier or sailor who was
disabled in the service and who is
in need, but there are too many ex-
service men who want to live with
out work, and this gimme" busi-
ness is beginning to get on peo-
pies nerves.
The bonus bills have been the
means already by which many mar
row gauge politicians have been
elevated to powe- and the sooner
it is ended the better for both SOL
der and the taxpayer
am an ex-service man.. having
served with the First Tennessee
regiment in the Philippine insur-
rection, but I never have asked for
even a small pension for two rea-
sons: First, because 1 do not be-
ieve that / am entitled to it, and
second, because I do not believe in
commercializing patriotism.
w II MONTG0NTTPv
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

The third article of DR.. Fishbein's
interesting series of seven articles on
'The Human Body and Its Care" is pre-
sented- here. The series, in pamphlet
form, can be obtained from the Ameri-
can Library Association, Sc East Ran
dOlph street, Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

The Bidding South bids no.
trump and all pass.
Deciding the Play-West leads 5
of diamonds. How should Declarer
proceed to make game?
The Error-Declarer takes first
trick with ace of diamonds and then
illnesses queen Of clubs which is won
by West with king of clubs, thus
blocking the club suit and sacrific-
ing game.
The Correct Methed-DecIarer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
Mechanical Men?

MANY people take gloomy
1V1 view of what such devices
portend. In their opinion, the
human race is headed for a kind
of slavery worse than that of the
dark ages.
They picture men and women as
shackled to shaft and pulley, as
mere automatons. incapable of in
dependent thinking and doomed to
a life in which romance, adventure
or personal thrill can play no part.
Even such a clear-minded scholar
as Lord Birkenhead falls an easy
victim to this pessinistic complex.
Within $50 years, he says, we will
be having synthetic milk, if not
synthetic babies, shall be employing
the newest EinStein theory to slow
up the world until the day has been
heightened to forty-eight Aer-rs,
shall be working iz- than two
hours n dag and living twice as
long as we do now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09
Now, an Electric Eye

W7E have drifted far into mech
w anized life, but not as far as
we shall The future is simply vi
brant with revolutionary inven-
tons.
Where we are going, no one can
guess, but we certainly are on our
way.
1.-THE field of electricity barely
has been scratched" declares E. NJ.
Herr, president of the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company.
No one can follow even a small
part of what is occurring every
day without realizing that Mr.. Herr
is right.
Last Thursday night John F.
Briesky of the same company dem
onstrated an electric eye" in New
York, which watched while he
dropped a match in a pail of kero-
sene and gasoline, and turned on
a fire extinguisher too quickly for
those in the audience to realize what
had happened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

Feb. 8
1773-Birthday of William II. Har-
rison, ninth President.
1914, birthday Of Samuel j. Tilden,
American statesman.
1825-John @. Adams elected Presi-
dent by vote OF thirteen states
in congress.
1861-Jefferson Davis elected Presi-
dent of the Confederacy.
l865-Lee assumed command Of all
confederate forces.
186T-ConfreSs admitted Nebraska
over the presidential veto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

How many jews are there in the
world?
The jewish Year Book for 1927
says that the total Jewish popuIa-
ton Of the world is more than a..
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

Where was the '1and of Goshen
that is mentioned in the Bible?
In Egypt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

GdcanA an
opinions ex-
pressed In this
coIu % d are
those Of one
Of Americas
most interest,"
ing writers
and arc pre-
scented with
out regard TO
their agree
ment with the
editorial stti-
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

What part did Mabel Scott play
in the motion picture, Behold My
Wife?s
Lali, a half-breed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

time to gaze at it, but veteran
broken in health as a result of the
war, feels as though he were monu-
ment enough to remind him of
what took place in that period.
M. A. PRATT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

What Is the area of the earth?
The superficial area of the earth
Is 196,940.000 square miles. 1885,
200 square miles of water and
square miles OF land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

The name and address of the author
must accompany every contribution but
on request viii not be pubnshed. Let
preference.
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THIS DATE IN U. S. HISTORY

fCopvright. 1929. Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-09

A Michigan gentleman has been
sent up fer life for stealing beans,
and a lot of people ought to be sent
up for splitting them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

to the many more who realized his
reputation.
Physician, scientist, investigator,
author, educator, churchman, occupant
Of many positions Of honor and trust,
such an individual is always an asset
to the community in which he moves
and labors. The great and the I'M
known alike mourned his passing; testi-
fed to his ability and his jealous
devotion to his profession and to its
ethics. They offered this testimony by
spoken word, by resolutions, by piles
Of letters in which there lay, side by
side, the condolences of high Govern
ment offlcials and Of their wives and
those of colored janitors and of humble
folk from far away, and particularly Of
his fellow practitioners whose own
careers had been made more fruitful
through his writings and his personal
help. And on Sunday, thronging to
the Joint memorial service held in his
honor, they renewed their testimony.
DR.. Richardson held many honors,
many interests ana many convlctlons.
Outstanding among the last mentioned
was one to the effect that what aspiring
doctors need most is not more tnple-
ments, more appliances-invaluable as
these adjuncts are-but more appllca-
ton, more study, more knowledge. His
own career offered striking example
of what persistent eager studiouSneSs
and activity may accomplish. In a
letter written from Vienna when, As q
youthful graduate in medicine, he was
a disciple of the many noted specialists
to be found in that capital, he said,
with no thought of self-praise but only
of f-satisfaction, During the past
year I honestly believe I have not
wasted more than ten minutes Of time"
During the ensuing forty-odd full years
Of his life it is doubtful If he wasteo
many more than that.