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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Speed and Prohibition

CPEED prohibition, censorship
- and everything else designed to
make folks safe, sane and moral by
statue, goes back to the theory of
personal publication through mass
regulation.
That theory is opposed to our ira
ditions, ideals and conceptions of
liberty.
1t leaves out the factor of indi-
vidual responsibility, makes no dis
tinction between those who want
to do right and those who want to
do wrong, and imposes the bulk OF
the punishment on innocent people,
What is the. sense in building
autos that will make eighty miles
an hour, and good, smooth roads for
them to run on, and then say they
shall not be driven more than Is,
20 or 35, even though the way is
clear?
What is the sense in Subjecting
careful, conscientious drivers to the
same kind of regulations as the
careless, don't-give-a-damn variety?
There is good deal to this prob
lem of law enforcement besides
court procedure and police ineffi-
cheney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
". E.
TRACY
SAYS:
eve Haze Reached a
Point IN Our Manufac-
tire of Laa0 Where Leg
islatatres Should Use the
Az When in Doubt"

HOUSTON, Tex. March 14.-B.
4 Il H. Cram of Detroit predicts the
production of 100000 autos and
trucks this year, which sounds good
to Texas.
Texas is one Of the three big oil
states, producing not only one-sixth
of the worlds supply, but three
times as much as Mexico.
There is where a good deal of the
money comes from for all the new
towns, Skyscrapers and colleges.
Texas university has acquired an
endowment fund of $l2,000,000
through oil royalties, and the half
hasn't been found, much less told,
yet.
incidentally, web on the uni
versity land has been carried to a
depth of 5000 feet which comes
near being a record, and which OPP
ems up prospects that may change
the whole oil situation.
AS matter of fact, we don't
know very much about the actual
amount of oil available, despite all
the surveying and surmising. About
the only thing we do know is that it
is limited and irreplacable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Slowing Up the Parade

A MERICA now is producing
1 a about 10 per cent of the
worlds oil supply. Worse still, it is
producing more than it can market
efficiently.
That the oil industry is in state
of reproduction, and that this
bodies not good for the industry
itself, or the country at large, is adj
mitted by every one familiar with
the situation. The idea that some
thing should be done by way Of
conservation has become very popu-
lar.
In theory, such an idea is sound.
In practice, it can be made to serve
undesirable ends.
The Texas legislature, which ad-
journs Friday, killed an oil con-
serYation bill because of a general
feeling that it would accomplish
nothing so distinctly as to kill off
small, independent producers.
BY and large, the Texas legisla-
ture killed quite few bills, which
is something more to be thankful
for.
We are in no worse fix with re-
gard to the overproduction of oil
than we are with regard to law.
When the Hoover commission on
law enforcement and its problem
gets going, that is one phase of the
situation it should not ignore.
The multiplicity of laws, as well as
their picayunish, meddlesome char
acher, has some bearing on the
manifest failure of enforcement.
Neither is prohibition the only
example.
One only has to read the speed
regulations of any state, city or
town and then watch the autos go
by to get vivid idea Of the pre-
vaIence of violation and the rea-
sons for it.
We are attempting to slow up the
whole parade in order to prevent
few reckless drivers from being
reckless. The parade simply won't
stand for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
A Necessary Law

Even if it may contain some provisions which
could be bettered the registration law for which the
League of Women Voters is strenuousy demanding
the Governors signature should be signed without
hesitation.
An honest election is the fundamental basis of
any system of democratic representative govern
ment.
The incidents of the last election, in which no
registration of voters required fully demonstrated
that this state did not have honest election. The
vote in Lake county was than suspicious 1t
reeked with positive indications of wholesale frauds
and ballot box stufing.
Indeed it is more than significant that local Off
Gals of Lake county have gone to the extent Of de-
nyng any aid to federal officials in inquiry into
that election, placing themselves in position of re-
belion against not only the government but against
honesty and decency.
The machine in this state exists because it is able
to manipulate the elections and primaries The stub
pencil has been the real ruler 1t is also true that
the fictitious voter and the repeater is rapidly be-
coming more powerful than the real citizen.
The women who presented this law and who forced
its passage over the protest of the bosses have no
political aims. They belong to all parties They are
not the ordinary workers in political headquarters
who expect to get jobs for themselves for their hus-
bands or relatives or who work for pay.
This league nation wide, has demonstrated its
freedom from selfish purposes 1t is intent on pre-
serving for women the rights of suffrage 1t demands
that the VOTE recently obtained is not taken away
from women by fraud and dishonesty. 1t is intent
on preventing the Acknowledgement of women-or OF
men-by crookedness.
The suggestion of the Governor that the women
clean up the politics in Marion county was not
needed The women will do that in time They
have shown every indication Of taking over that job
and of doing it WELL
But they cannot succeed in this county or in Lake
any other of the places where fraud has existed
unless there be laws to protect against frauds.
The league told only the plain truth when it said
that the Governor has it within his power to decide
whether the state shall be ruled honestly or by fraud
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Reason

DAUL McNUTT, national COM
mander of the American Lee
gion, is going over the country max
ing some fine speeches against the
divided loyalty of foreign-born
Americans, but our politicians are
more to blame for this than any
body else. :,
In the last campaign, as In all
previous ones, the prejudices OF
great groups of foreign voters were
appealed to.
If our politicians would stop
uouring ice water into the melting
pot we would soon have nation in
stead of an international geological
garden.
If these two Knoxville doctors
were intoxicated when they per-
formed a fatal operation on a boy,
then the Tennessee medical colleges
should give their guinea pigs day
off and subject the 1nebr1ated
medicos to vivisection.
+ II n
AS MIR. Coolidge sits in his old
Northampton law Office and writes
articles for dollar a word, he
doubtless thinks how different 1t is
from the old days, when he turned
a discriminating ear toward ap-
preaching footsteps to determine
which creditor was calling to pay
his respects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Causes and Treatment of Halit0SiS

behind the nose are the most prom
inent causes of foul breath.
The diagnosis and treatment OF
such a condition is a problem for a
specialist. Anyone can, however,
with cleansing solutions, clear cut
deposits of secretions, and crustS
after these things are formed.
Simple solutions, such as a tea
spoonful of common salt in a glass
of warm water. is satisfactory for
most purposes. Occasionally small
amounts of boric acid or other mild
antiseptics may be added.
It is important to know that
washing of the nose and cavity be-
hind is a delicate matter and that
serious results may follow the fore
ing of infectious matter into the
tubes which lead from the nasal
cavity to the ear.
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ANNIVERSARY
65s2I5
wHITNEY's INVENTION


March IA
.nNE hundred thirty five years
~ ago today, March IA. 1894, Eli
Whitney obtained a patent on the
cotton gin and laid the foundation
for the Civil war.
No single factor in our history
has had a greater effect upon the
political and economic life Of the
nation than the invention Of this
mechanical means to separate the
seed from cotton fibre.
Before its invention, from eight
to ten hours work was required to
clean pound Of cotton. Since one
field hand could produce about $500
pounds in good season, it took
twenty-five slaves working 1G0 days
to get his output ready for market.
Hence no cotton was exported be-
fore the introduction of Whitney's
gin. The year after, however,
/ 100000 pounds were exported and
the year following about $3.50, 900
pounds.
The south soon found cotton
growing to be its most important
industry. Slaves became increasing
ly in demand to grow it and thus
began differences between the
north and south which resulted In
the Civil war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
AND THEN CAME RUTH
POURING ICE WATER
NO MORE CREDITORS

president HOOVER should fol-
Il low the advice of his friends
and cut out the daily noon recep-
lions which were started by the late
President Harding, for they are
more of a drain on the executives
vitality than the real business of
his Office.
To know that you have to shake
hands with 200 people every day
when the clock strikes IL consti-
tutes a mortgage on Presidents
peace of mind, also his health.
n II Il
Ruth Bryan Owen carried off the
honors at the recent re-
ception given to the women of con-
gresS in New York City and she will
likely be the outstanding repreSen-
tative of her sex in Washington.
And there's a reason.
Numerous f1iers have come very
close to crashing against the dome
of the Capitol at Washington, but
it will probably not be lighted until
there is a casualty, after which the
proper authorities will conduct an
investigation"
Il
Very likely by this time President
Hoover suspects that all who came
to march in his inaugural parade
stayed to apply for a public Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia the
Health Magazine.

TINE advertising of mouth
washes has made the word hall
tosis significant to every one.
The presence of foul breath is an
indication of diseases of the mouth,
of the stomach, of the lungs, OF the
nose and throat, or of some other
tissues adjacent to the mouth cav
ity.
Halitosis is not a disease with a
single cause, but is a symptom re-
sulting from many possible causes
The first step in the control of hall
tosis is detection of the cause.
Among the most frequent causes
of halitosis is decay of the teeth.
This can be determined only by
regular dental inspection. Lack Of
cleanliness of the teeth will carse
mild degree of halitosis.
Infections and pus pockets
around the teeth will cause much
more severe halitosis. Someti mes
the odor does not come from any
disease affecting the teeth. hut is
due to infection in the torsils.
The little crypts or pockets in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
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By
Frederick
lands

A MOTHER restriction was re-
IA moved from the expanding
glory of the Republic when that
school board in Ohio not only re-
fused to reprimand a teacher for
spending her time, showing the pu-
pills how to dance the Charleston,
but after her demonstration of the
art, recommended it as indispensable
to juvenile culture.
II II
With the opening of the baseball
season and the springtime charm OF
Washington, our statesmen will find
an extra session far from disagree
able, and then they will also be far
away from postofice candidates.
Since DR.. Boone, the Presidents
physician, has called for sugges-
lions in the matter Of providing
suitable exercise for Mr.. Hoover,
who does not like to walk, permit
us to suggest that he runs very well
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the tonsils become filled with in
fictitious matter, even with decay
ing particles of food; this ma
terial given off definite odor
with each breath. 1t is possible
for a physician to squeeze out
these crypts and then to clean the
surface with antiseptic solutions.
Gargles are sometimes effective
in washing off the surface, but
many people do not know how to
gargle correctly. Furthermore, such
measures are only temporary.
If the tonsils are severely in
fected, and if there is very bad
odor from an infected throat, surg
ical removal of the tonsils Is neces-
sary to cure.
Infections in the nose with crust
ing and particularly in the spaces
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Pleasing Iudge

DIVORCE is not necessarily an
II ugly thing. The courts and leg
islatures have made it that. In many
states. New York for instance, the
law demands bitterness from psa
litigants.
Indeed, the New York law places
such emphasis upon infidelity that
1t offers a reward for immortality.
1t win grant no relief unless the
husband or the wife sins. And in
many cases neither of them wants
to sin. They merely wanta divorce.
Why should they be unfaithful
merely TO please the judge2
And like many another statute,
our local divorce law is a great
breeder of hypocrisy. If the appli-
cants refuse to sin, they may get
by with the semblance OF miscon-
duct.
But there must be pretense. The
law simply viii not accept the fact
that a man and woman may want
to say, "Good-by and good luck.s
(copyriEhts 1929. for Ths Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
FeminiSnn Threatens

.nIVORCE, even the free use Of it.
II indicates TO a great extent a
growth in civilization. Feminism
threatens marriage in the sense that
it makes it less stable. When each
party to the contract retains his or
her right to definite individuality
the chances of happiness are much
increased.
Also the chances Of disagreement.
One Of the fundamental facts in
freedom is the right to disagree.
Moreover, I think it is a mistake
to look upon every marriage which
ends in divorce as q failure. Only
gross materialists can be content
with such theory.
Idealism demands higher stand
ard Of human value. It is quite Dos
sible for two people to be raptur-
ously happy for a year, or ten years,
and then drift into a state in which
their relationship falls to a lower
level. And these two are not foes,
but rather friends of marriage il
they say, This isn't good enough
any more. Let's end it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

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service.
How did the banana get its name?
Early inhabitants of the east be-
heved that the banana plant was
the source of good and evil and
that the serpent which tempted Eve
hid in bunch of the fruit. I'm
doubtedly this legend influenced the
early classif1ers who designated two
species of the plant as musa para
disiaca (fruit of paradise) and musa
sapientum (fruit of knowledge.
The common name banana was
adopted from the language of an
African Congo tribe and first came
into use during the sixteenth cen ;
fury. Prior to that time the fruit
was called apple of paradise and
Adams fig. The term plantain was
given to fruit which, while it is
closely related to the banana, is
edible only after being cooked.
What caused the death of the
boxers Harry Greb, Tiger Flowers
and PanchO Villa?
Harry Greb died in hospital in
Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. %, 1925,
following an operation for the re-
moval of fractured bones in his nose
caused by an automobile accident.
Theodore Tiger) Flowers died in
a private hospital in New York, Nov
is, 1927, while undergoing an opera
ton for removal of a growth over
his right eye. Pancho Villa died IN
a hospital in San Francisco July IA
1925, while undergoing an operation
for an infection of the throat that
developed from an infected tooth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Questions and AnSzge1cS

What is the value of a United
States So gold piece dated 1878?
From 1925 to S..
What element is contained in
both water and air?
Water and air alike contain oXy-
gen. Water is a compound OF
hydrogen and oxygen and air con-
tains nitrogen, oxygen and argon.
What is the address of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.?
Oyster Bay. N. Y.
What is the record attendance at
a baseball game?
The. largest number Of persons to
witness d baseball game was 1900
at the opening game of the 1927
season * the Yankee Stadium, New
York, April II, 1927.
What is wind?
Air in motion resulting from at
mospheric pressure by which air IS
forced to move from a place of high
barometric pressure to place of
lower pressure.
What proportion of prominent
persons in the United States are col
Iege graduates?
Out of 24,278 persons whose biog-
rapnies appear in Who's Who in
America, 14,055 were college grad
yates; 1922 attended college, but did
not graduate; 2,756 finished high
school; 1890 had common school
education only; 1914 gave no educa-
ton data, and 1888 were self-edu-
Gated or privately educated.
Where in the Bible is the verse
"CalI upon me and / viii answer
thee and show thee great and
mighty things which thou knoweth
not?"
jeremiah, chapter 80. verse 2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
I I
SEEMS
TOME
By HAYWOOD
BRoUN
JUSTICE JOSEPH MoRScHAU-

JUSTICE JOSEPH MORSCHAU-
y SER of the New York supreme
court has a very simple remedy for
what he calls the divorce evil" He
would abolish all divorce. In the
same way it would be possible to
do away with auto accidents by
abolishing autos. Nor would any
drown if all of us remained on
shore.
AS a matter of fact, think that
the phrase divorce eviI' is inaccu-
rate. You must go back of that.
Divorce is not the disease, but the
form of treatment. Essentially what
we are called upon to deal with is
the marriage evil"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Coolidge Writes Well

Calvin Coolidge, listed a magazine writer
instead of President displays, in his first article for
the Cosmopolitan an ability to use simple, vivid Ian
guage in a way that many more experienced writer's
might envy
Telling of the death of his son Calvin, the former
President writes
"When he went the power and the glory OF the
presidency went with him."
Whole pages of skiliful writing could not have
told lis as much as that brief sentence It presents
the whole picture of heartache loss and desolaton.
Aspiring writer's might do well to study the UNI
adorned powerful style of Calvin Coolidge, magazine
writer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Daily Thought

And they spake unto him say
ing, If thou be kind to this peo-
pie, and please them, and speak
good words to them, they wiz be
thy servants forever Chron.
1877.
81 y q
THE drying up Of single tear
a. has more of fame than she'd
ding seas OF gore.-Byron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Behind Digits

TT is the custom of preachers and
A. publicists to look at any increase
in the divorce rate as an indication
of decline in civilization. This seems
to me an over disqualification of a
complex problem.
No investigation of marriage or
divorce is at all scientific if it deals
with straight statistics. There was a
lower frequency Of divorce in Amer
lea fifty years ago, but the research
man ought to Chamber back behind
these figures.
The important question is whetf-
er the married people of that day
were better off. Does the higher
percentage Of enduring relationships
mean that married people were hap
pier or that men and women, par
ticular women, were once content to
pocket greater quantities of pride?
I am in no position to be dogrnatic
about the matter, but there seems
reason to suppose that the state of
marriage is on higher level than in
the days of our grandmothers. 1t is
easier for woman to make a living
in 1929 than it was in 1879.
1t is fair to point out that few
primitive peoples have ever suffered
much from the divorce evil. In
communities where the man is lord
and master the wife naturally abides
with him even when she would be
away. A lower rate of divorce may
mean higher rate of suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

Michigan is to choose state bird in April II
you have been in Detroit recently you probably won't
be able to understand it if the bird designated isn't
the Old Grow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

University of Chicago student is going to
Borneo to study savage life. Why doesn't some ont
tell him about Chicagos loop district?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

George Washington poor flute player, says
Harvard professor. In this day Of stark criticism
you'll have to admit that's pretty nice thing to
say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

ideas sn d
opinions ex
pressed in this
column arc
those of one
of Americas
most interest
ing writer RS
and are pre-
seated with
out regazd TO
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

David Dietz on Science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Without Hostages

A ND, of course, Justice Nor
IA schauser leaves out the weakest
link in his position by seeming to
assume that all married people are
parents.
What about childless marriages?
Has the state any possible reason
to insist upon the preservation of
such unions as exist without
children and without peace or hap
pineSs? / think not.
If Mr.. A and Mrs. A are In a
constant brawl, it is to the advan-
tage of the community that they
should divorce each other before
the situation becomes complicated
by the advent of any children.
I know there is a popular belief
that unhappy marriages sometimes
take a turn for the better when a
child is born. I have seen the plays
and motion pictures in which q tot
comes down the stairs to say, "Muv-
yer, why don't you led daddy up?
He seems to be all cl1t !"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14
Benefit to Children
JUSTICE MoRsCHAUsER sa,

JUSTICE MORSCHAUSER says,
d More persons who now seek
and get divorces could compose
their differences and live together
to the end of their lives with re-
sultant benefit to their children and
to society if they knew the law
would not grant to them divorces,
but only separations"
People who are forced to live to-
gether will naturally do so, but /
am not at al sure that coercion is
a good means by which to achieve
reconciliation. Moreover. I am Curl
Gus to know just how children are
ever benefited by being brought up
in an atmosphere of rancor.
Indeed, if there is to be compul-
sion I am much more in favor of
compulsory divorce than compulsory
marriage. A paternalistic state
might say with certain logic to a
couple here and there, 'You two are
ordered to quit this continual bick-
ering and get a divorce. This or
der is issued for the sake of your
children and the good of the state"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-14

What is the value of a United
States So gold piece dated 1878?
From $3.25 to IS.