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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
The Threat

Whispers (and these happen to be significant,
bring the news that an effort will be made in the
legislature to repeal the law under which cities
the state may adopt the city manager form of gov
eminent.
The explanation is that Indianapolis showed too
great an independence in the last election when it
cast heavy vote for Frank G. Daley for Governor
and Hoover for President and that the politicians will
try revenge by taking away from this city the gov
eminent for which it's citizens voted by so heavy
majority.
1t sounds reasonable. For it is exactly in line
with the habits of thought of those who have dis
graced the state while they controlled it in the
past few years.
Two years ago the legislature amended the law so
as to prevent the people from taking charge of their
own affairs. That was done in futile effort to keep
Duva in Office an effort that failed when Prosecutor
Remy and the grand jury got busy and convicted him.
The politicians like nothing less than to see the
power of patronage and plumber taken from political
machines.
They know quite well as do the people that the
city manager system has made it rather difficult for
the politicians TO use the taxes and jobs of cities for
partisan purposes
Let it be hoped that no one in any position of
responsibility will endeavor to carry out this threat
This city has adopted the city manager system. 1t
is prepared put it into operation But it is quite
watchful when the legislature gets into action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
SpaSnnS Of 4 aW'

New York is having a great spasrn
of law enforcement. Some 700
''vags," buns anci criminals have
been rounded up within the last ten
days. Most of them were little
worse than driftwood, but quite a
number had bad records.
Soft hearted folks already are be-
ginning TO talk about police
brutality" The chorus will increase
as time goes on.
The chief trouble with our at
titude toward crime lies in the fact
that it consists of one CONFUSION
after another. One year we let cut
Threats walk the street; the next we
arrest everybody.
The real background of this series
of raids, which has made Mr..
Whalen famous, whether it has
made New York clean, consists of
failure by the police to do what
should have been done.
Mr. Whalen may have inspired
them with a new conception of duty,
but he did not point out the men
and women to be netted. They were
in New York, and had been for quite
a while.
More than that, the police knew
they were in New York and had
known it for quite a while. Other
wise, they could not have been
located so easily.
When you see an everyday routine
job, take squirt and result in some
thing spectacular, you can rest as
sured that somebody has been lying
down on it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
A Registration Law

Let it be hoped that the League of Women Voters
viii be successful its efforts to obtain registration
law for the state that will protect the ballot.
The women have approached the problem in
manner that must be rather aggravating to the male
political boss who has not yet learned that women
take their politics seriously
They have the unbelievable thing of having sought
the advice of experts on the subject rather than ask
ing just what effect the law might have the
fortunes of particular party particular faction
The last legislature threw the doors wide open to
frauds at the polls when it repealed the registration
law and provided means of checking fraud
That in certain counties of this state such tactics
we're used is something more than suspicion. In this
particular county, thanks, perhaps, to the fact that
exposure of the machine had it's lesson and its fears,
the frauds were not as extensive might have been
expected But there are still rotten boroughs.
The law proposed by the women is designed to
protect the citizen in his right to vote and at the same
time see that honest votes are not nuled by ballots
cast by repeaers or in the of fictitious persons
In the drafting of their measure, the women went
to men who have studied the problem and who have
learned the best easiest and most workable methods
of obtaining these results. They did not to pot-
Clans They went to students of the subject profess
sors in colleges men who have delved into the sub
iect from unsehsh purposes.
That is something new in this state Usually When
election laws are being revamped the bosses try to
. discover some means by which they can make It as
hard as possible for the independent and honest voter
to register his wish They have tried to make it as
easy for machine which desires loot and hard for
citizenry that wants honesty.
1t will be interesting to see what happens to the
law when the legislature begins its consideration 1t
will be interesting to see what the members who still
live in the machine era of politics try to do to
law scientifically and carefully drawn.
The women have hit upon the great problem OF
the state which, after all, is honest ballot.
There can be no such thing as self-government II
the door is left open to corruption and crookedness
There can be no real advance if the elestion ma
chinerx is geared up to fraud and not to honesty.
The members of the legislature largely will write
their own appraisal of themselves in their attitude to-
ward this proposed registration law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Tariff Again

The reaction was bound to come Too many DEM
ocrats distrust a high protective tariff to swallow
that hoary Republican principle whole without diges
tive pangs Perhaps if candidate Smith and Mana
ger Raskob had ueen successful in the late
campaign with their acceptance of Republican tariff
the Democratic discomfort would not have been felt
so soon.
Anyway. a leader of southern democracy, who was
considered potential presidential candidate last time
and may be mentioned again is reviving the tradi-
tional Democratic cry for lower tariff.
Representative Cordel Hull of Tennessee denies
that high tariffs are the of present American
prosperity which ne attributes to unlimited ma
terials and foodstuffs superior labor power, macn
cry and efficiency High tariffs cripple foreign trade,
Just at the time wheh our agricultural and industrial
problems turn upon expert of SURPRISES he argues.
HuIls leadership. is service to his party and to
the country for whatever the respective merits of the
high and low tariff principles, it is clear that an in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

nosis may mean all the difference
between life and death.
Recently DR.. A. H. Southam has
listed some of the causes of acute
abdominal pain in children, the list
being an indication of the impor-
lance of early scientific medical at
tention in such cases.
Acute appendicitis is the most
common emergency in which there
is sudden, severe pain in the abdo-
men. Usually the condition be-
gins with severe pain localized over
the appendix region, with nausea,
vomiting and high fever.
In occasional instances the ap-
pendix may be in an unusual posi-
ton, the pressure may not be suft1ci-
ent to produce the fever, the child
may not react with nausea and
vomiting, and then diagnosis be-
comes difficult.
In many cases parents are much
too ready to give large doses of
castor oil, with the result that the
irritation of the bowel produces a
rupture of the appendix and makes
the condition far more serious.
In some cases severe infection OF
the lung may produce nerve stirlu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Abdominal Pains Need Diagnosis

lations which are reflected down.
ward over the abdomen, so that
pneumonia may give the symptoms
of appendicitis.
Other conditions which occur and
which are particularly difficult are
acute distractions of the bowels due
sometimes to worms or irritations,
but in the vast majority of cases in
infants due to pushing in of one
part of the bowel into another, ex-
actly as one turns sock inside out.
In this case the symptoms are sud-
den, with periodic attacks and
screaming.
The child may lie quietly between
attacks, but the attacks themselves
are so severe as to produce a ter
rife reaction. Here also a scientific
diagnosis is of the utmost impor-
lance for the saving of life.
The parent who wants TO be safe
will take no chances when the child
complains of severe abdominal
pain.
A scientific diagnosis made early
will give mental relief to the family
if the condition is merely too much
dessert, and save the child's life II
it is something more serious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02

development the bone cels develop from the perios
teum.
The gradual development of the bones in the
human body is highly interesting The bones at first
are entirely composed of organic material. They are
to use the technical phrase cartilaginous.
AS time goes the bone cells begin to precipitate
calcium salts and the bone becomes permeated with
mineral matter. This hardening process is known
ossification.
Complete ossificaton does not take place until be-
tween 20 and 25
Microscopic examination of bone shows structure
like that shown in the accompanying diagram.
The little circular structures which make up the
bone known as Haversian systems.
The bone cells in the little spaces between the
concentric rings.
The bones comprising the skeleton are joined to-
gether by lgaments which wrap over from one bone
to the next.
A thin membrane the ends of the bones
where they meet. In the joint is ubricatng fluid.
The membrane is known the Synoval membrane
and the fluid as the synovial fluid.
The bone joints are all very delicate and highly
important structures.
Injuries or infections of them among the most
serious conditions which medical science is called upon
to deal with.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
N. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
"Cledniag Up Crime Is q
Good Deal Like Cleaning
Up a House-You Haze
to Keep EverIastingly at
It,"

VXTOMEN were elected to the
w legislature in thirty eight
states last November. One hundred
forty-f1ye of them now hold seats
fifteen senators and 100 represent
atives. Sixty-eight were elected for
a second term and twelve for a
fourth term. In the aggregate, this
represents gain of nineteen over
two years ago.
Connecticut ranks first in women
legislators, with q total of twenty.
Ten states have no women in
their legislatures, though some OF
them have had at one time or an
other. The change of attitude is
more significant than such statis-
tics.
Whatever else may be said, wonl-
en- have done enough to disSipate
resentment at their presence in pub
lie service. Men no longer rave be-
cause they have to sit with women,
no longer sneer at the prospect as
ridiculous. Thirty years ago much
of the conversation with regard to
women in politics revolved about
their supposed sphere" You sell
dom hear the word these days. II
women ever had a sphere 1t has
gone the way of the hustle and leg
of mutton sleeves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Reason
TT is safe to say that Mussolini's

TT is safe to say that Mussolini's
L. commission which has thrown out
histories used in Italy's public
schools will see to it that Italian
patriots get the credit which is due
them
This is not done in the United
States, where some histories, written
by denatured Americans and which
disparage Washington and other
inmortals, are placed before our
children.
We should hold another Boston
Tea Party and throw overheard
every school book which belittleS
the heroes of the Revolution.
LOYAL inhabitants of Boston who
contend that their city is the hub of
the universe should take drastic &C
ton against Professor Shapley,
director of Harvard university OBJ
servatory, who claims that this earth
is $4,000 light years away from the
center of said universe and light is
presumed to travel at the rate OF
$4,000 miles a second.
= Il
Our inability to abolish Mr.. Bar
Ieycorn is nothing alongside Soviet
Russia's failure to abolish Santa
Claus, the sale of Christmas trees
having held up over there despite all
opposition.
Russia should get Mr.. Durant to
offer prize for the way to do it.
n
Senator-elect Ware of Pennsyl-
vania may be desperately i'll as re-
ported, but Senator jim Reed of
Missouri probably feels that it is a
plan to defer the effort to unseat
Ware until after March when Reed,
his great antagonist, will retire to
private life.
The great manufacturers ana
bankers are not the only people who
are confident that 1929 will bring
great prosperity.
Harry Sinclair'S lawyers are posi-
tive about it.
DR.. Carey CraySon, president Of
the Gorgas Memorial Institute at
washington wants the Latin people
to join in an effort to stamp out
disease. but the Latins will probably
decline if this involves anything as
revolutionary as taking a bath.
n II
The inhabitants of the former
German islands in the Pacific ocean
still wear the mother hubbards
introduced by our missionaries,
which reminds US that if Old Mother
Hubbard were with us now she
would find that her cupboard is not
the only thing that's bare.
E y y
Spain is introducing the dial tele-
phone system and this should Gre
ate a strong bond of sympathy be-
tween that land and our own.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Test of the Job

DUT, of course, DR.. Fosdick was
- not combining his dictum to
capacity for leadership. His gen.
eralization was based upon the be-
lief that ministers are, on the whole,
our most public-spirited citizens.
And that / would also deny. The
average minister does not begin to
take his job as seriously as does
the average newspaper man. More
over, the ethics of journalism hap
pens to be upon much higher
plane. -
I will gladly contribute SIS to any
pastor who can prove to my salts
faction that he has worked as hard
or done as much good for this
country as H. L. Mencken. There
is no accident in the fact that so
many sermons are preached about
the Sage of Baltimore during the
course of any year. All these dis
courses are derogatory.
Men of the cloth realize that
Henry is working the same side Of
the street and doing better job.
The average minister is probably
at base just as good human material
as the garden run of reporters. If
he falls lower in the moral scale the
fault is not his own, but that OF
the conditions under which he
laborS. M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Eordls Optimism

TTENRY FORD views the new
L i year with optimism. That
means something. With a pay roll
OF $720, 900 a day, he cannot afford
to gamble too much When he in
creases it by $4,000, as he has an
nounced he will, you can be pretty
sure that he believes business is on
the upgrade. His call for 10000
men can be taken as a genuine
prophecy. When man bets 10
that extent he means it.
Besides, Mr.. Ford is old enough
to know the danger of lunches. He
would not be increasing production
by 20 per cent, unless he had some
thing to go on better than guess
work. If he wants $500 more cars
a week than he has been making,
it is because he knows they can
be sold.
If the market has increased for
Ford cars, it has increased for other
things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
I I
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN
.R. HARVEY EMERSON FoS-

DR. HARVEY EMERSON FOS-
IL DICK, writing on THE Chris
tan Ministry in the Atlantic, finds
several things amiss with organized
evangelical religion, but he adds;
Say what evil one may about the
churches, they still are the reser-
voirs of moral enthusiasm and seri-
Gus ethical interests TO a degree not
true of any other institution
I dissent. In America the news
paper has become a far more effec-
tive ethical and moral instrument
than the church.
In the last twenty years the
churches have had little to do with
progressive movements in this coun-
try.
Prohibition is almost the lone
achievement of evangelical Chris
tianity. Even if this reform is half
as beneficial as it's adherents main
tain, the chores accomplished by
the churches would still seem some-
what slim. Moreover, it is not UNI
fair to add that newspaper aid has
not been inconsiderable in the pro-
hibition movement, although some
of the most influential journals are
uncompromisingly wet.
The greatest failure of organized
Christianity has been in the matter
of world peace. Only a handful of
ministers stood out against the war,
and neither the League, the World
Court nor the Kellogg pact has
been much aided by the churchmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Cleaning Up Crime

Cleaning up crime in city Is a
good deal like cleaning up dirt in
a house. You have to keep ever
lastingly at it. If you let it go too
long, you are likely to scrub off
some of the paint when you get
to work.
Politics, as practiced in this
country, has taught us one harmful
lesson. and that is to depend on
change OF administration, rather
than on faithful service.
We are finding it very difficult
to develop civil organizations that
function steadily and continuously y.
Our interest is centered in getting
the job, rather than in seeing 1t
done well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
The Rowing Reporter
is far more possibility

THERE is far more possibility OF
Il movement in journalism. WEn-
doubtedly there are papers fully as
subservient to their advertisers as
are the churches to the richer dea-
cons, but the reporter can leap
about from one job to another with
an ease denied to the preacher.
The press of America is largely
conservative, but the conservatismis
red radicalism compared to the
Standpat atmosphere of American
churches. Consider, for instance,
the late Frank Crane. DR.. Crane at
an important moment in his life
had to decide whether he would
conform to dogma which he did not
believe or quit the ministry. With
great courage he threw up his job.
In course of time he became one Of
the most influential and successful
of columnists. His power as q syn~
dicated feature writer was vastly
greater than that which he exer~
cised while he wore a twisted collar.
Nobody, I trust, will deny that the
entrance requirements Of journalism
are higher than those exacted by the
ministry.
The minister does not have 10
keep up with new developments Ike
a doctor, a. lawyer or an editorial
writer. All too often his appoints
ment is for good behavior.
For such irrelevant things as inns
morality and high jinx he may be
set down, but he can easily get away
with offenses much more serious.
For instance, have never heard Of
a case in which minister was dis
missed for downright stupidity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Eternal Youth
WYE are getting sensation, as we'll

a -
w as science, from the New
York gathering. One savant wants
to see mental hygiene" substi-
tuted for religion, while another
rails at the death tradition"
Everybody is against the death
tradition" and has been since the
first funeral
Nothing lures men like the hope
of eternal youth" They have
prayed, fought and supported a
multitude of quacks to realize it.
Old Ponce De Leon searching for a
fountain in Florida was the six
tenth century forerunner of DR..
Veranoff with his monkey glands.
From time ilnmemorial men have
believed that nature, God or their
own ingenuity held the secret OF
prolonged life on death.
When science takes up the idea,
it merely borrows a page from the
oldest catalogue of faith.
Maybe the chemist, the physician,
the faith healer, the psychologist
can find way to lengthen the span,
but nothing has occurred this far to
lift such a proposition beyond the
realm of fancy. Though science has
made some progress in prolonging
the average of life, it has made none
in prolonging the maximum.
A Roman census of the Campana,
taken in the reign of Vespasian, dis
closed about the same percentage of
centenarians as did a recent census
of Massachusetts.
If the English chroniclers are to
be relieved, no human being now
alive has attained the age of "Old
Parr," who eked out his 152 years,
without bath tubs, violet rays, anti
toxines or gland operations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Valley Vacations

GONE such concession should be
- granted to the preacher. He is
asked to live up on plane which
provides atmosphere so rarified that
he can not get sufficient oxygsn to
maintain his vigor.
Years after his death the bi0gra%
pliers began to study the life OF
Henry Ward BeecEler. Some of these
investigators felt that they had good
reason to believe that there was
fire rs well as smoke in the ACCUSE
tons made against him.
And these conclusions wefe trun1-
peted about as if to show that
Beecher was a monster who shout
have been expelled from his pr
I can't see that. If Beecher sid
this is too bad, but do not see
his !. usgressions have in any
invalid ted his message.
The Plymouth church would
been insane indeed if it had
missed a brilliant and iagp
leader because of human weak
cuppOoC b4lC LIDoCobf llCWSt
equivalent to the preacher Il
daily columnist, but the jC0
greater opportunities than
pulpit.
A clergyman's task is to Pre-
the love of God and the Ios
man. But even the most 81
must have their Sunday NOR
when the tides of devotion
rather slack.
On such occasion it should
privilege Of the preacher to pi
all-America football team or d
the proper stance for a long NJ
shot. After SUCK digressio
could come back upon the fold
Sunday with renewed ferVor to
the heart Of sinners.
I rather think the clerical
is a mistake. II doesn't give
wearer room to nod.
copyright. 1928. Tor The xIale
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
ANOTHER TEA PARTY
A BLOW AT BOSTON
RUSSIA AND DURANT

TIME inmates of our penitentiaries
will indorse enthusiastically the
insistence Of the members Of the
American Society for the Advance
ment of Science that there is no
such thing as sin.
Governor Small of Illinois, who
recently pardoned five murderers
evidently holds the same opinion.
II q
Senator Curtis announces that he
will not abandon the American peo-
pie by resigning his seat in the
United States senate and such a
sacrifice answers the cynic who
holds that patriotism is dead
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02

N a ure found
that out more than
a billion years ago.
The insideS of the
bones are filled
with marrow. The
marrow is really
par t of another
system of the body,
for the blood cells
are manufactured
in the marrow.
The outside of
each bone is COW
cred with a mem
brane known as the
periosteum. III the
early stages of hone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
Common Bridge Errors
AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

thus exhausting East Of all spades.
Thereafter Declarer plays the
suits in the following order:
ID Diamonds. 90 Clubs. CD
Hearts.
In playing the diamond suit, ev-
cry finesse is taken toward East, so
that West never obtains the lead
until game has been made. The
club suit is thereafter played, and
in all probability four tricks are
made therefrom.
The Principle--The holdup should
be exercised whenever opponent can
thereby be prevented from throw
ing the lead to the strong hand.
copyright. 1928 Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-02
- David Oietz on Science
Nature Does Well
No. 249

A CERTAIN type of sophisticated person loves to
n criticse nature No doubt some things in ma
ture could be improved. But close student of ma
ture only can be awe-struck at its marvels.
For example the typical long bones of the body
are hollow. Modern engineering students have found
out that the structure which combines the greatest
strength with the greatest lghtness is hollow CYL
iuder