davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

ter day and prefectly harmless snowflake falls near
the eye The person knows that the snowflake is quite
harmless But his eye blinks Just the same.
Tears will flow as the result of certain odors, that
of an onion, for example This is entirely automatic
and beyond the control of the person.
All complex behavior Of the bods is built upon such
reactions. The behaviorists-and even some physi-
ologists-go far rs to say that all human conduct
be explained the basis of refexes eliminating
any idea of free will from the situation. But this is
still open to great deal of argument.
One OF the familiar types of reexes is the so-caed
hexion reflex This consists OF the bending of all the
joints of limb when part of the skin COW
ering 1t receives painful stimulus.
The flexion reflex comes into action when person
touches hot stove. for example. AS as the n-
ger touches the stove the is suddenly bent pulling
the finger away.
The reaction also into play if person steps
nail The leg is bent at oEce. pulling the foot
out of danger.
This same fexon reflex comes into action in walk
ing. Walking consists of alternately extending and
hexing the legs
There is to believe that stimulus goes
from one leg to the other thus controlling the alter
nate extension and hexing Of the legs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

exposed to the air. On the other
hand, people used to being out
doors can stand much colder tenn
peratures.
Children are sometimes dressed
in thin garments with bare knees;
in foreign districts and infre-
quently they wear as many as four
teen different garments. some of
these sewed on for the winter.
In the majority of cases chill
dren are being overlooked, and
as result do not develop any re-
sistances to exposure. insufficient
clothing for the child, however,
may lead to overexposure with
numerous illnesses during infancy.
Perhaps the question will never
be settled until human beings
have standardized clothing as they
now .standardize most ether af-
fairs in human life.
i'd pfAF5, oapi shrdl etaoi etao etao
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

coat of grease, but they are contin-
ually moving.
A man who works at desk in
New York or Chicago may wear a
thick wooden shirt, a WOODEN lined
waistcoat, a tweed suit and wooden
lined motor coat. Riding home in
his motor car he covers himself with
robe and complains of the cold.
Womans dress has changed
greatly in recent years and has
given much concern to the
Psychologists. Professor Leonard
Hill, the noted London psychologist,
points out that a civilized man,
when naked and quiet, finds ex-
posture to still air at 95 to SO de-
grees fahrenheit not unbearably
warm, rs to IS pleasant, so cold, and
40 to SO very cold.
For sedentary occupations he
wants the atmosphere under his
clothes to be 95, and only about 20
per cent of the body's surface is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Stealing an Epidemic

HLASS tubes containing "flu"
VI germs were stolen from doc
tors automobile in London the
other day. Why or for what pur-
pose is beside the mark. If they are
broken, whether accidently or by
intent, q lot can happen, though
nothing might.
Seyenty-five years ago, no one
knew that there was such a thing
as a germ in existence. Possibly,
that is one reason why we got
along so well in spite Of them. Then
again, there might not have been
so many in existence as there are
today.
Science has not only been study
ing germs, but breeding and col
Letting them--hatching them out in
multitudes, bottling them up and
preserving them.
A dangerous business, if some
1unatic or idiot takes it into his
head to rob the incubator and
scatter it's contents. A still more
dangerous business, if some ruth
less war lord decides to employ
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Questions and
AnSzCeYS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question Of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question
Editor The Indianapolis Times Wash
irlgton Bureau, 1922 New York avenue,
Washington. D. c., inclosiug cents in
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot be given. nor can ex-
questions will receive a personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters are confidential. You are
cordially invited to make use Of this
service.
Who gave the order to fire the
first shot against the Spanish feet
In the battle of Manila bay in the
Spanish American war?
Captain Gridley of the Olympic,
Dewey's flag ship. 1t was fired
from a battery of two eight-inch
guns.
When a man and woman meet
in the street who should speak f1rst9
The woman.
What is the shortest prize fight
on record?
1t is said TO be the one that oc-
Cured at Carbondale, Pa, May %,
1886, between Head and Cannon
The fight lasted thirty-nine seconds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

is creating such protest that the experiment may be
abandoned.
There is no problem of moment before the coun-
try on which there is great deart Of accurate in
formation Doctors crimnoIogists, economists, and
other observers disagree the fundamental
phases.
No one can say definitely whether more liquor is
being drunk now than before prohibition, or whether
liquor drinking is growing, although there loud
assertions in abundance.
The effect of prohibition the public health sim
ilarly is a matter of controversy So with prohibit
ton and crime, the courts and law national wealth.
public morals and politics, and almost every other
angle
Obviously, if remedies are to be devised unassaih
able facts needed. The controversy has been SO
bitter that facts have been ignored distorted and OBJ
scured. especially by organized dryS,
A study by the new administration will be of value
to the extent that it is fearless and impartial That
doubtless is Hoover's plan. He cannot put it into
effect too soon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Mailing Down Germany

TIME Versailles treaty was de-
4 signed to make Germany help
less. 1t robbed her of her colonies,
reduced her armies, conf1scated the
bulk of her navy and three-fourths
Of her merchant marine, made her
acknowledge responsibility for the
war, bound her to pay huge repara-
tons and prescribed limits that
were supposed to prevent her re-
appearance as a f1rst-class power
either on land or sea.
Among other things, the treaty
provided that she could not con-
struct a dreadnaught type of bat
tleship, which allied statesmen
seemed to have regarded as a
clincher. No big battleships, they
reasoned, meant no big guns, and
no big guns meant no naval menace.
Allied statesmen were thinking of
the past, rather than the future,
were betting that men couldn't do
what hadn't been done. That is
where they made their mistake.
Germany has mounted big guns
on a little battleship. 1t is no more
than should have been expected, of
course, but when men-even the
best men-get it into their heads
that they can nail things down by
proclamation, they are not apt to
expect very much.
Well, if you can put a "big Ber-
tha' on a fiat car why not an
eleven-inch gun on 10,O00-ton
boat, or one of only 5000 tons?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
The Chinese Market

An article in the current Magazine of Wall Street
emphasizes the potentialties of the Chinese
market field for American exporters
There are 40O0O00O0 people in China The vast
majority OF these people at present. use almost moth
ing that does not from their own vicinity But the
new regime in China, seeking to rehabtate the coun-
try, have great plans for raising its economic level
They are now projecting $1OOOOOOO road building
program, and hope it will be merely the first step in
a general awakening.
1t is easy to figure out the tremendous demand for
goods that will if these 40O00OOOO Chinese are
lifted even slightly in the economic scale American
ndustrialsts who prompt in cutivating the Chi
nese field stand to reap huge dividends few years
from now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

CorTTH AMERICA steps out. A

q
= zen of Argentina, of italian
brit vent to Rome and Mussolini
put him into his army, in harmony
with his claim to the allegiance of
italians all over the map, where
upon the president of Argentina
signed a decree, prohibiting all
italian ships from entering the har-
Dor at Buenos Aires, until Musso-
hni back down and back out.
This will knock a hole in the
Duce's prestige in Italy and abroad
and Argentina's willingness to WELD
the club will increase her standing
with the nations of the world, with
all of whom clubs are trumps.
It
Governor Trumbu1l of Connect
cut may make John Coolidge, his
prospective son-in- Law, a major, but
the major will take orders from the
Governors daughter just as soon as
they are married, for she probably
will follow the time-honored prece-
dent and appoint herself briga-
der general.
Governor Roosevelt Is handi-
capped greatly by having to follow
Governor Smith, but if he makes
good and is reelected, the Demo-
cratic donkey will eat out of his
hands four years from now.
II
Monterey, Mexico, has prohibited
Misunderstanding to check the spread of
the grip.
{ What a snap an epidemic must
have in those lands where they greet
each other by rubbing noses.
II
This wholesale beheading of
Chinese officials, convicted of steal
ing public funds, plays havoc with
the widely advertised universal
honesty of those people.
r. y r.
We are opposed to Senator Kings
plan to defer naval building until
another disarmament conference
can be held, because after the last
one, the other nations proceeded to
build, according to the conference
program, but we we're put to sleep
by the perfumed zephyrs of the mil
lennium and built nothing.
An international program means
naYies for other powers, but an
osterInoor for Uncle Sam.
y Il
The University of Texas is teach
ing its pupils to sleep.
We don't know what the program
is. but the sure fire remedy is TO
give them copies of the Congress
sional Record.
- n y
A scientist announces that radio
reception will be very poor during
1929, die to sun spots, which viii be
very annoying to life on the hoof.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
ID ASPUTIN'S daughter goes on
IN the stage, betting on her faith


IN the stage, betting on her faith
er's fame to attract the crowd.
Just another illustration of what
has happened to the theater. Art
has fallen prey to the box office
What most managers want is the
crowd, and they are just as willing
to get it by exhibiting freak as a
great performer.
Neither is such an attitude con-
fined to the United States of Aneri-
ca, though some people would have
us think so.
In Europe, inpresarios are just
as canny and just as bizarre as they
are here.
Rasputin's daughter may be
possessed of great talent, but her
pulling power at present consists in
the fact that she was the child of
a mystic who dominated the Rus
sian car, did more than any other
individual, perhaps, to make him
and his rule unpopular, appeal to
the morbid curiosity of all peoples
and die by violence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
I Z
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN
II HAVE a good tip on the market

II HAVE a good tip on the market
n for you," said a well-known
comedian in his dressing room last
night. He shall be nameless be-
cause he has been mentioned in this
column too frequently and because
he was doing me no favors. On ac-
count of recent unfortunate oc-
currence in New Years eve poker
game I was obliged to fall back
upon the familiar objection,
"Whatn I use for money?".
"Oh," he answered, II thought
you might like to have the fun of
reading the financial page and
watching it go up"
And, as a matter Of fact, there is
fun in that. Owning no share in
any corporation, whatsoever, I still
peruse the stock reports with reg
ularity. I have always felt that
there might come some time a de-
cline so radical that it would be
necessary for me to step in and sup
port the market.
In the meantime I have not been
idle, for it's my practice to make
mind investments. I said mind not
mine and consequently l did not
even bother to ascertain the stock
which Harpo Marx was boosting.
1t would be oil or silver and UNI
doubtedly speculative. Actors are
VIGOROUSLY addicted to wildcat
schemes. Easy come, easy go. I
work hard for my pay and Accord
ingly 1 always choose something
substantial before 1 say, Now If l
only had the money I'd buy 100
shares of that"
But for the lack Of capital l would
be one of the richest men in Ameri-
ca today. Mentally I acquired q,
huge block of Radio in the days
when that company was way up
town. OF course, there were many
times when the temptation to sell
was very great. On the day the
stock first went above 100 I had to
wrestle with myself
eff 1 owned that 1000 shares and
I sold it at the present price 1
would have a fictitious profit of
$120,000," I kept saving to myself.
But something of the blood Of the
old bandit Burns is in me and nerv-
ing myself up to a scorn of piffling
gains 1 exclaimed, "Let it ride"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Crisis in Cotton Oil

1T MAY be true that I am too
Il much sentimental to play the
game I've outlined. I remember L
stayed awake all night on tte1after-.
noon that Chicksha Cotton Oil.
touched As. -
couldn't look at mayonnaise for
week. But have my practical,
side and it is fair to say that I
suffered even more when I partici-
pated in the ownership of industries
Once I had 100 shares of Anneri~
can Sumatra Tobacco on a very
conservative margin. That was the
year Of the late spring and I would
wake up with a start at midnight
whenever the wind howled about the
gables Of my home in Eighty-f fifth
street. Have they taken the tender
plants in for the night?" / would
wonder, and toss back and forth in
an agony of apprehension.
And a certain sense of power was
conferred upon me. I thought Of
the little room in Chicago. where
Harding was nominated and the
smoke which curled up above the
heads of all the Republican bosses.
Some of that Vapor, I felt sure,
came from our own Sumatra.
Personally cigars make no appeal
to me. Whenever I feel the urge
to smoke one I eat a mutton chop
instead. I find this keeps me trim
and vigorous. But in imagination
1 pit my teeth continually into one
of our own perfectos. In fact I
began to behave like a cigar smoker
and act in masterful manner.
When an Office boy said that he
didn't know where he could get any
copy paper l clinched my teeth and
groWled, IF you can't do the job.
I'll get man that can
When he cringed at this display of
sheer, raw power, relented. Don't
call me sir" I admonished him.
You're not working for me. You're
working with me- want to feel
that every man in this plant is my
friend"
However, it got tiresome after
awhile. SO strongly did 1 think
tobacco during my association with
American Sunatra that in some
subtle way began to reek of. the
weed. I was so much a mans man
that my jaws ached from cIinc1ing
my teeth. After month / decided
that / would trade in my forceful-
ness and get my charm back. Be-
sides, I had profit Of s98.75. Now
I can sleep at night. don't care
how the wind blows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
CLUBS ARE TRUMPS
Il e =
HE'S ONLY A MAJOR
HARD TONFOLLOW AL

a lot has been published about
IA the Presidents craftsmanship
in shooting birds down in Georgia,
but it wasn't in it with the sports
manship of that farmers wife in
New York who ctoked a fox to
death to save the life of the old
family dog.
II II
President Hindenberg should not
be so indignant over the refusal of
the allies to remove their troops
from Germany before the payment
of the war charges, for at the end
of the Franco-German war, Ger
many kept her soldiers in France
until the indemnity was paid, and
France fed the soldiers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Dletz Oh selehce--------------
Actions Are Re9exeS
reader whc
No. Pa

TINE reader who would become familiar with what
n psychologists have to say about the nervous sys-
TEN of the human body must acquant himself with
the term reflex"
The word figures as much in modern psychology as
in physiology and Watson the founder of the school
of psychology known as the behaviorists insists that
the whole story is Stold in one word.
reflex has been defined a reaction to a stimu-
lus. The simplest types of reexes have been called
the automatic because they are entirely out of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

persons control.
They are some
times called the
unlearned refiexes
because they are
exhibited almost
Immediately after
birth.
The blinking of
the eye is a good
example of an au-
tomato reflex. If
an object comes
close to the eye,
the eye will blink.
1t may be that
t h e person is
WALKING IN q win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

The Bidding-South opens the
bidding with one spade. West bids
two hearts. North passes as he does
not hold normal support in spades
and any other bid would be mis-
leading. South bids two spades and
all pass.
South might also have opened the
bidding with two spades: an initial
bid of two in suit denotes the
exact holding of six cards in that
suit headed by the ace, king and
queen.
Deciding the Play - West leads
king of hearts and on the second
round captures another trick with
the ace of hearts. Then West leads
king of clubs which Declarer cap
lures with ace of clubs. What suit
should Declarer now lead?
The Error-Declarer tries to eS-
tablish diamonds at the first OPP
portunity and leads that suit.
Inc COFTect NActlVO SOoA 90
he is on the lead, Declarer draws
opponents trumps, playing ace, king
and queen of spades in that order
with the probability that the five
outstanding trumphs are divided
three and two.
Then the diamonds are estab-
lished and game is assured for, if
opponents lead any other suit after
winning ace of diamonds, Eeclarer
wins the trick by ruffing it.
The attempt to establish the dia-
monds tco soon may result in sac
rificing the game as opponents.
having won two tricks in hearts and
one in diamonds may continue the
diamond suit with the possibility Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
This Date i'm
u. S. History

Jan. s
1781-British, under Benedict Ar
mold, plundered Richmond,
Va.
1784-England relinquiShed soyer-
eighty over colonies.
Congress voted $4,000 to Kos
ciusko, Polish patriot, who
aided the colonies during the
Revolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Common Bridge Errors
AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

winning the next diamond trick by
ruffing. There is no necessity of
taking this lone chance of losing the
game.
The Principle-Draw trumps when
you can do so without surrendering
control of them and have side suit
which you can readily establish
thereafter.
Copyright, 1929, Ready Reference Pub
fishing Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

PRIMITIVE man in tropical coun-
A. tries uses clothes primarily for
display. He is not concerned with
keeping himself warm. He does not
have to protect himself against the
elements, and he soon becomes ac-
customed to the bites of insects.
People differ in their ability to
stand exposure. The swimmers of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
Daily Thought

Wrath is cruel, and anger is
outrageous; but who is able to
stand before envy?--Prov. 27:4.
TOW bitter q thing it is I'd look
i into happiness through am
other mans eyesI--.Shakespeare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

Sing Sing life prisoners have lent themselves to
scientific experiment by swallowing cameras that
photograph the stomach. Just wait until the Holly
wood publicity men hear about this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

Is it safe to use aluminium ufeT-
siIs for cooking?
The United States Public Health
Service, after many tests. has de-
clared that food suffers no harm
from being cooked in aluminium
ware.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

the English channel spend twenty
four hours in the cold sea protect
ed only By wool bathing suit and q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

Those who entered the talking marathon in New
York could choose any subject they liked. What a
noble opportunity for the lady who has just had
her appendix removed!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygcia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
80 g
By
Lands

DRESIDENT COOLIDGE should
l. send a message of sympathy to
this California football player who
lost the game for his team by be-
coming confused and carrying the
ball to his own goal, for he needs
It more than all the kings who have
received White House consolation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

I'D as an d
opinions az
pressed in this
c OIu m n are
those OF one
Of Americas
most interest
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
cut regard TO
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti+
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05

David Dietz on Science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-05
W. e.
TRACY
SAYS:
SAYS:

Some Day, Perhaps, Men
VIII Learn That Force
Can Not Be Regulated By
Prescribing the Kind of
instruments a Country
Can Make"
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13
PRESIDENT MEXICO LIFE THREATENED
 AND ALSO GALES
LETTERS ALSO THREATEN TO KIDNAP MARRIED DAUGH-
 TER OF CALLES

MEXICO CITY, Feb, 13, P)- President Portes Gil and Gales have received threatening letters and bombs were found in the houses of prominent members of the Nationalist revolutionary par ty which is pledged to preserve the policies of Obregon.
 The Gales letters also threat ened the kidnapping of his daugh- ter, Ernestina, who is the wife of Thomas Robinson, formerly of New York, but who is now engaged in business in Mexico City.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13
sOLDATs HOPE ALsACE
 RESTORED ID FRANCE

PARIS, Feb, 13, (P-George s. Scapini, a wounded veteran who visited the United States last year to attend the American Legion Convention at San Francisco, en- tered the Parliamentary debate on the situation in Alsace presenting the views of the poilue who thot that province might be restored to France.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13
WILL FILE CHARGES
 ACA'NsT TWO IN CASE

RIVERSIDE. Calif., Feb, 13, (A'- An aftermath of the Gordon Sted- art Ncrthcott murder conviction was the announcement here by Deputy District Attorney Earle PedW,ne, that he will file charges against Sanford Clark and Cyrus c. Northcott in connection with tue alleged Wineville, Calif., chicken ranch staying.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13
RANKING PLAYERS

BOSTON. Feb. B. (P)-William Tildea and Helen Wills were named he ranking tennis players of the United States for 1928 by the Unit ed States Lawn Tennis Association. Francls T. Hunter was ranked as second among the men and George Lott Jr., third
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

Brunswick Monographs and Re cords. SCHALLERER'S ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

WE SERVE THE BEST ICE CREAM MANUFACTURED IN SEATTLE 50 PINT-S1.00 QUART. WE DELIVER. The Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

Suits to order at Feysers Taiicr Shop. Phone Adams 91.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

If you taven't erteo rye. eruhn's Baby Beef you have missed some thing, friends!
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

Nl<sAZrNss. AND NEWSPAPER sSC&IPTIONS TAKEN. Schal- .l.er's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-13

clea neas enc rne uesa o' meats vue ynetto. enye.3rahn.