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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

Success" observation-disclosures. Bennett
March of the Champions" ......., Huffer
"Lustspiel Overture" ... Keller Hela
Lucky Slim dedicated to Colonel
tie Ld1noP PfI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M MAGE
sunshine Overture ........... jewell
Marimba Solo, Charles Henzie.
Colossus OF Columbia Alexander
Scenes from Operaland" ..... Hayes
Liberty Bell Observation-Disclosures ollsa
Director Fuglers March" Rosenkrans
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Porto Rico S Governor

Porto Rico is in a bad way. Its economic plight is
wretched Most of its people exist and have existed
for years. at a Transformation point The basic cause
is over-p population There are many other subsidiary
causes and economic Embellishments There is no
quick cure.
In the midst of Porto Ricos slow economic prog
ress came the hurricane. wiping out many Of the
gains blowing the country backward to worse poverty
and misery.
Naturally there is social and political unrest. Par
tculary the people OF practically all classes are dis
satisfied with their status under the United States
Last year the two branches Of the legislature sent
through Colonel Lindbergh their famous Patrick
Henry memorial to President Coolidge-"Give us lib
erty or give US death By liberty they mean free
state status and the right to elect their own governor
With this difficult situation on its hands-dflcut
economically and poitcauy-the United States gov
eminent can not afford to make a misstep.
The immediate problem is to appoint capable gov
ernor pending settlement of the dispute over the DO
htical status of the island
Fortunately, Governor Horace NJ Towner. who fol-
lowed the usual of substituting his resignation
to the administration when President Hoover took
office is said to be willing to continue in Porto Rico
TOWner has the great of long experience at the
post. He has splendid record And of chief impor-
tance. just now he is liked and trusted by the Porto
Ricans
1t is difficult believe reports that young Theodore
Roosevelt is being presented seriously by friends as
candidate for the place These friends can not have
forgotten the part played by Theodore Jr in the Tea
pot Dome scandal And surely they do not recall any
evidences given by him in his brief public career of
fitness for trying responsibility as that in Porto
Rico
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ton of the whole body, with death
the result.
However, healthy adults rarely die
of erysipelas. Newborn children
usually die when this disease attacks
the navel. Old people, people suffer-
ing with Bright's disease or diabetes
and drunkards are more likely to
die of such infections than are
other healthful individuals.
The tendency of most cases Of
erySpelas is to progress toward re-
covery and the physician usually
treats the disease by the use Of suit
able antiseptic solutions and other
methods to prevent its spreading.
When the Doctors Dick discovered
that the streptococcus-the round
shaped germ that lives in chains
which caused scarlet fever, produced
most of its effects on the human
body by means of a poison which it
developed in the body they prepared
an antitoXin against this poison.
Later, DR.. Conrad Birkhaug
studied the streptococcus that
caused erySipelaS and developed an
antitoxin which would attack the
products of that germ.
Today many cases of erysipelas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

WITH a new penthouse apart
w ment to play with, think l
ought to do some mural painting.
just a day or so ago 1 was confess
ing an awkwardness at portraiture,
but murals are much easier.
To paint murals it isn't necessary
to have a model or velvet jacket.
And, anyhow, I have a velvet jacket.
OF course, some mural painters do
60 in for figures. There's always a
demand for symbolism on walls and
you can put a large woman wearing
nothing but a wreath around her
head into the middle Of landscape
and call the whole thing THE Spirit
of the Brooklyn Rotary Club"
wish I had one of those large,
foppy black hats the art students
wear in Paris.
A man with a pickaX, stralnlng
every muscle to dig something up
out of the hard earth at his feet,
could also be an appropriate decora-
ton for a wall and he could be
called 1.-THE Dignity of Labor" or
Column Conducting" or practically
anything you choose.
But intend to go in for flower
murals. Real plants don't seem to
do very we'll out on my penthouse
roof. 1 can't seem to figure out
lust how much water they ought to
have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

THE separate masses generally are larger and
more compact in the middle region Of the group, but
the deneness of the layer varies and sometimes is so
attenuated that the individual masses assume the
appearance of sheets of thin flakes Of considerable
extent with hardly any shading.
At the margin Of the group they form smaller
cIoudlets resembling those of cirro-cumulus. The
cloudles often group themselves in parallel lines ar
ranged in one more directions
Alto-cumulus clouds appear to be due to local air
currents or convictions Just the cirro-cumulus
clouds which they resemble to some extent
The alto-cumulus clouds differ from the GIRO
cumuus in that they larger and at lower attitudes
They frequently form in the early forenoon after
clear sunrise result of scattered air currents in
a layer of moist air.
After shutdown the alto-cumulus clouds frequently
disappear This is because they become cooler after
shutdown. AS result the layer Of air in which they
are contained becomes cooler and contracts thereby
becoming heavier.
1t then will sink to lower level, which is warmer
and consequently able to hold more moisture. AS a
result the clouds evaporate and disappear from view
at the lower level.
This is example of the meteorological paradox
that cooling of air slightly results eventually
in it becoming than it originally This is
due Of course to the change in level which follows
the cooling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
al Out of Stem But II s

Like the lonely recruit in the army all the rest of
the world is out of step but the United States in its
prohibition march
Within a week, three more foreign nations have
indicated that they think our experiment proves pro-
hbition is the way to solve the liquor problem.
That of course is not surprising. since no other ma
ton anywhere has been encouraged to follow our ex-
ample for long.
Switzerland. which generally is held up as model
for its democratic institutions just has voted against
prohibition We and our crime record under volstead-
ism furnished one Of the arguments to defeat the
measure.
In Great Britain all the political parties feel so
strongly about the American experiment that the
leaders of the conservative liberal and labor parties
have agreed in the general election campaign - ban
all reference to prohibition.
Mexico, with a serious liquor problem its hands,
has turned away from the failing American method
to the temperance method. AS President Gil
plains: Our campaign against drunkenness will not
involve punishments nor force To do away with
liquor We shall not fill the jails. Our campaign is
one of persuasion. We will carry to the humber
classes the conviction that hard drinks harmful
for them for their families and for the nation as well
In enthusiastically supporting the temperance
drive the Mexican press points to the collapse OF the
opposite prohibition method elsewhere.
Prohibition as understood and practced in the
United States would only bring the effects OF
disrespect for law and the inefectiveness says
the Mexican City Excelsior Prohibition only
to add an inducement to the pleasure derived from
drinking: such has been the case in all countries
where prohibition has been given a trial." adds e.
Informador.
But it is not quite accurate to say that all the
world is out of step except the United States, The
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report like popcorn. But then they
slumped again.
And speaking of alcohol, I want
to say good word for prohibition.
1t has ended all nonsense about
moderate drinking
To me there was always something
shocking about the sight of men
and women sitting down to in
Vulnerable glasses of beer. The prac-
tice was unesthetic as well as inef-
fective.
I'm not arguing for alcohol in
overdoses. That's bad. There is no
bore in the world like drunken
one. But when the eye is bright
and the world seems gay and witty
and things come constantly to the
tip of your tongue, delicate and
delicious chemical process has taken
place.
In college they used to say. Il
had just nice edge" From the
top Of that ridge man may survey
the entire work and glory in it. But
there's no getting up there with beer
q lone
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-HEALIH SUPERSIIIIONS--N0. u
Cranberry Won't Cure Erysipelas

are controlled by the use OF this
antitoxin which seems to stop the
disease promptly when it is given
early in the infection.
When the antitoXin happens to be
the specific one against the strep-
tococcuS that is causing the eryslpe-
las. the results are marvellous.
The streptococcus is one OF the
most widespread of all germs and
there are hundreds of varieties. The
eminent bacteriologist, Victor c..
Vaughan, points out that the strep-
tococcus probably has much longer
history than man, and began its as
saults on the animal kingdom long
before there was any homo Sapiens.
A thorough evolutioniSt, he be-
Iieves that man came into existence
as a host to the streptococcus and
that among the good and the bad,
the wise and fools, the streptococcus
always has been one of the most i'm
portant factors in determining NOR
tally rates.
Today the problem Of controlling
streptococci infections is one OF the
greatest unsolved problems that con-
fronts scientific medicine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Love for Mechanism

III we only used our intellect as
L energetically or consistently safe
guarded human life and limb from
these tremendous instruments we
are bringing into existence that we
do in their production we would be
just as happy, and far safer.
Instead of that we are infatuated
with the mechanism, even though it
may turn out a frankenstein more
often than not; are thinking how
we can produce more powerful and
destructive engines for what we call
national defense" promoting world
wide competition in production OF
DEATH dealing devices, clarifying the
ability Of one people to exterminate
another and imagining that by some
hook or crook we are guaranteeing
security for mankind.
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situation is worse than that. The fact is that the
United States is not even in step with itself The
Wisconsin senate on Wednesday, in conformity with
a popular referendum passed by more than two to
one the bill to take the state Of the prohibition
enforcement business.
New York Nevada and Montana have repealed
their enforcement laws, and Maryland from the be-
ginning has refused to enact an enforcement law.
Prohibition is not SO national after all And it is
apt to be less So as data accumulates on the effects
Of prohibition.
Today, for instance Dr. William C. Garvin su-
perntendent of the New York State hospital at Bling
hamton reported to the American Psychiatrc Associ-
alton that the number of first patients admitted to
New York hospitals for insanity from excessive use of
alcohol has increased steadily since prohibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Power Of Intellect

A COMPARATIVELY small bomb
n hurled from the skies could
do more damage than that gas ex-
plosion in the Cleveland Clinic and
a Zeppelin could bring it overseas
in the night.
The dunn dun bullet, or even six
teen-inch gun has become almost
as obsolete as the wheelbarroW.
If intellect has made it possible
for the common man to dwell in
ease, it also has made it possible
for a genius to destroy whole cities,
What is worse, it has made it
possible for the careless individual
who holds no more than = Subordi-
nate position to cause such destruc-
ton Of life and property as was be-
yond the capacity Of ancient minds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Showing Up Nature

A BOUT mural painting again, I
IN believe that I will start out by
doing picture of brick wall. And
I'll paint it directly on the brick
wall of my roof. In this way I hope
to show up nature by revealing how
much more exciting art can be.
I had a picture like that in the
old house. My brick wall looked
nothing like the background against
which it rested. 1t was much better.
The bricks of ordinary commerce
had faded to a dull, salmon pink,
Mine were almost pure scarlet.
Moreover. the wall I painted had a
weaving quality. It was almost like
an ocean wave.
The only trouble with painting in
the city is that the people round
about take so much interest in your
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

T%HE present is a period Of great
Il change. Manufacturers in
quality at lower cost. This means
new machinery, better processing
and, therefore, designs and mater
ials that will Withstand more severe
tests than ever before.-Howard
Coonley. president Walworth Com
pany.
Get sold on the idea of making
your daily bread as ably and zest-
fully as you know how. Learn to
find fun in your job, whatever it is.
james D. NIoone, president of the
General Motors Export Company.
(Forbes nagazine)
Democracy, based on candor and
confidence in the people, can and
will ucceed-Newton D. Baker,
former secretary of war.
What is the law? I give it to you
as my mature judgment, without
intending to offend others enter
tanning different views, that no po-
liceman has any right to kill per-
son Tor viola the prohibition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Peril for Indifference

WE have a way of getting used
w to what occurs all the while,
no matter how horrible it may be.
The fact that $50 persons were
crushed and mangled beneath the
wheels of our automobiles on
Wednesday and Thursday was very
little because the same thing oc-
ours every two days.
If they could be assembled in one
place in the space of few moments,
we would realize the enormity If
lust as we realize the enormity OF
this hospital disaster.
What is more, we would realize
that it is due to the same factor,
indifference and carelesSness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
IInfriendIY Public

THAT part of the public which
i leans out Of adjacent windows
is unfriendly to painters. At least,
that has been my experience. None
of the comments hurled down are
ever kindly.
I don't understand why. Painting
is the least interfering Of the arts.
If a modern composer lived next
door, I might have reason to COM
plain, for he would probably be
working on something called U. S.
Steel Largo. There would be fac
tory whistles and the crash Of ham
mers against molten metal,
A modern novelist can make HIM
self pest for, if he puts big
book in your hands and says viii
YOU please read ito" there is the
necessity of actually looking over
ten or twenty pages before an opin-
ion can be rendered.
Some of these children who lean
out Of windows, but never sufficient
ly far, to scott at my paintings are
probably the sons and daughters
or second cousins Of singers.
There's an art which really justi-
fies complaint. When any amateur
butterfly is dying, the whole neigh
borhood is in on the high notes.
But my painting is a silent pro-
cess. The only noise is slight
grooming. At the top of inspiration
I am inclined to hum "Old Man
River" but only the first two bars
CT the chorus, and those very softly.
Copyright. 1929. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Waiting for Calamity

ATOW that the Cleveland Clinic
~ has been converted into
charnel house, that science has
turned on its masters, that the care
lessness and oversight of some in
dividual has spoiled the work OF
thousands, something probably will
be done with regard to the use OF
cheap X-ray films.
While something is done about
that, however, a multitude of Turk
ing dangers will go unnoticed, a
multitude of risks will be taken, a
multitude of lives be placed in jeo-
pardy until calamity wakes us up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Too Many Details

T IKE the individual boy, the in
- dividual mind can do no more
than click in spots.
There was a fireproof door in the
Cleveland Clinic designed to shut
under heat.
1t would have shut had a pipe
been in the way.
The chances are that the pipe
was put in the way by some one
who never thought Of what the
door was designed to do,
The chances are also that no one
noticed the pipe.
Too many details in the mechan-
ism, too many wheels, shafts, pull
leys and pu- hbuttons for the human
brain to keep track Of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Evil Not Intended

MO one intended that explosion
~ in Cleveland, yet it is as bad
as having some lunatic or criminal
set it off.
We are shocked because of its sud-
deness and extent, yet, if Wednesday
or Thursday were average days, as
many people we're killed by automo-
biles in this country as met death
in the Cleveland Clinic.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia! the
Health MapaZine.


GONE people believe that pouI-
- tees of cranberries will cure
erysipelas.
If ever there was a burning red
disease it is erysipelas, known in
deed by the population of an earlier
day as st. Anthonys fire.
The very basis Of the treatment Of
eruptionS Of various types by pc
culiar poultices is the doctrines on
which such doctrines as homeopathy
are found; namely, similia similibUs
curantur, or like cures like.
Hence for all red and burning
eruptions, red hangings are hung in
room and red poultices are con-
sidered to have special virtues.
Erysipelas is one of the most wide
spread Of diseases, since it repre-
sents the infection of superficial
wounds by a germ that is exceed
ingly common.
When this germ attacks the skin,
there is irritation, sometimes burn
ing, sometimes the formation of bis
tiers, sometimes a generalized infec-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Going Too Far

GONE who have given the matter
y serious thought, believe We have
gone too far, that the time has
come to call a halt. that our ability
has developed out of proportion to
our Judgment, that we are not fit to
make wise use of the power we
possess and that the great need OF
this age is a cessation of the fevered
race to produce more mechanical
wonders until human character can
acquire keener appreciation OF
their significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

THE disaster att Cleveland, the
Il fight of the Graf Zeppelin and
the interment of vast quantity OF
blue cross gas in concrete vaults in
Germany combine to form a dra-
matte picture Of the age in which we
live.
The razor's edge no longer is
sharp, the railroad train no longer
swift, the lever Of Archimedes no
longer powerful. -
Man has become a puny thing in
comparison to some Of his creations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Congressional Reapportionment

Human nature being what i is, it is too much to
expect the senate to turn with enthusiasm to it's next
task, reapportionment
Thirty-three senators come from states that will
lose membership in the house of representatives if
this bill passes lose also strength in the electoral col
lege chances for committee assignments and other
important advantages. Most of these thirty three
can be expected to fight to the end against abstract
jusice and national interest opposed to political
Self-ntereSt.
Therefore it becomes the painful duty of senators
from those states which will be unaffected by the
change to discipline their unfortunate colleagues
Congress must obey the law if it expects plain
citizens to do So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Menace of Neglect

THIS thing we call science means
L responsibility as we'll as privi-
lege.
Science magnifies our power for
both good and evil; nor does evil
depend solely on intent.
Negligence can be as dangerous
as righteousness.
We have come to point where
we not only need to be right minded
as we'll as careful.
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Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

The name and address Of the author
must accompany every contribution, but
on request will not be published. Let
tiers not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference.
Editor Times-I see in evening
papers Of last week that the
council is going TO make room for
a combustion engineers assistant.
What is the reason forty inspectors
can not clear the stacks Of those
plants with the kind Of stokers used
at the present time?
There is a coal burner or stoker
that will eliminate black smoke. Let
the council or board Of public works
investigate and clear stacks of the
city and Riley hospitals. Then they
will have cleared stacks and in
creased boiler efficiency.
P. B. FITZPATRICK,
423 North Holmes avenue.
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Flowers Go Boom

Y ACKING a watering can, nave
J. been using a cocktail shaker be-
cause it has a strainer at the top
Possibly somebody left gin it in by
mistake. because when I got through
the geranium's were fairly barking
at each other.
For an hour or so 7 never saw
more up and coming flowers. All the
buds we're coming out with loud
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Quotations of NotabLeS

law. except in self defense.-Repre-
sentative Brand Of Georgia.
I have never seen man who
could do real work except under the
stimulus of encouragement and en-
thusiasm and the approval Of the
people for whom he is working
Charles M. Schwab, chairman Of
the board of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation.
Fate bestows its reward on those
who put themselves in the proper
attitude to receive them-Calvin
Coolidge.
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IT SEEMS TO ME By H B2oUH

work. I doubt if the dentist next
door will ever get another tooth
filled, once 1 am launched upon my
creation of masterpieces.
And there are always children
to jeer at any young artist. Why
aren't these brats in school, learn
ing about Rembrandt and Rubens
and getting a proper respect for
men who put paint on canvas?
/ myself, would rather be Rem
brandt than Rubens I wouldn't
have to provide lunch for any OF
the nudes that Rubens painted.