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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-07
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Times-Our present mayor
I. Ert Slack, has accomplished more
in the past two years than any
MAYOR we have had SC far, and has
shown a nonpartisan attitude in
regard to city employees. The en-
ployes have found out that working
for the city is not a political job,
but good OLD honest labor. They
have to produce the goods, which
gives us our dollars worth OF tax
money.
I heard a Coffin precinct COM
mitteeman remark, Anybody could
ride the horse if he could get in
the saddle" Speaking of horses
reminds us of a former Governor
who preferred black horses.
never have voted the Democratic
ticket vet, but surely will vote for
Mr.. Sullivan and forget party lines
this time. The most ignorant can
plainly see that BOSS" Coffin was
the power that beat us out of a city
manager.
The most ardent Coffin supporters
have axes to grind on the city's
grindstone.
I believe the last straw has bro
ken the camel's back, so let's all for
get this old party hatred and try TO
cure Indianapolis of this political
cancer. Don't forget this-Mr. Cot
fin. the political czar, controls the
convention, and whoever the future
candidate is must dance to Collins
music.
HENRY FUNKHOUSER.
248 West Kansas street.
Editor Times-l read Not Bad
But Desperate" on your editorial
page of Oct. 2, and we are a great
bunch of hymn-singing hypocrites,
aren't We?
we send thousands OF dollars
across the Pacific to help the
heather" and women with children
have to turn bandits to support
their families here in the land of
plenty; and the newspapers squawk
about crime in the q. S. A.
OBSERVER.
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See Physician If You Have RingWOrm

Hence, it is quite likely that this
infection was responsible for REIN
fecting the skin of the patient and
injecting the feet of other people
as we'll.
To overcome this condition, ply
sicians have recommended the wear
ing of paper slippers that can be
discarded, particularly around gym
nasiums and public pools.
Various antiseptic powders are
used to Sterilize the shoes and the
floor.
In the treatment Of the condition,
lotions and ointments ire used
which are so caustic that the pa
tent should not attempt to treat
the condition himself.
Once the condition is cured, 1t IS
extremely important to be sure that
the patient is not r%einfected. Stock
ings and underwear must be boiled
to kill the organism.
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By FR 4ASB4s

Japan is greatly agitated by the uncovering of
- corruption in her government, it being, some
thing like our Teapot Dome proposition, but there is
this marked difference: when the japanese states
man is caught. he commits suicide, but when the
American statesman is caught, he commits perjury
u II
The endless turmoil, attending this project to
chisel a Confederate memorial on Stone mountain
down in Georgia is enough to make Robert E. Lee
turn over in his grave.
With her enormous regard for the leaders OF the
late Confederacy, you would think the south could
finance one memorial. Still, New York City, richest
metropolis in the world, has not been able to finish
General Grants tomb.
This proposed senatorial investigation of all lobby
ing at the national capital would amount to nothing,
for it is so vast the revelations would leave us numb,
and then again things happen so fast in this age we
forget earthquakes whereas our ancestors remem-
bered peddlers.
There's only one way to handle lobbyists: make
each one wear a card on his wishbone with his
masters name inscribed thereon, said card to be
worn on the outside of the wardrobe.
n n n
A ND then again it is hard to draw the line between
n the lobbyists whom large slices of the popula-
ton are for and the lobbyists We regard as sinister,
for in this day capital, labor, industry, prohibition,
law enforcement and 10000 other presumably re-
spectacle crowds have permanent headquarters and
representatives in Washington,
Il II Il
Most of these lobbyists are parasites, enjoying
al cas- AAC at JIG dtAOA SoE4boA az OAC CAPCAioO
of the goats throughout the country who contribute
to pay the freight and our statesmen in Washington
should form a union and agree to listen to nobody
but their constituents back home.
1t was indecent for Senator Bingham of Con-
necticut to have a representative of the New England
manufacturers sitting by his side when his sub
committee went into executive session to fix the tariff
on New England products.
1t was as if a judge should have one of the
parties to the suit advise him as to the contents of
his decision.
A IL of our self-made men from Lincoln down must
N take off their hats to Louise Wallace. the 49,
year-old Chicago girl who won the beauty contest
despite her many freckles.
Freckles must be worn with great discrimination.
Sergeant York, World war hero who captured a
big machine gun nest singlehanded, does not receive
as much publicity as he goes about the country lee
turing as he naturally would. His exploit has been
overshadowed by Herbert Hooveris capture of Texas.
=
We are not surprised that the people of Detroit
are displeaSed to have to pay for Aimee McPherson's
beauty treatments when she was with them last
summer.
After all her notoriety, you would think people
generally would gladly present a permanent wave to
Aimee-a wave of farewell.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the microscope and find the fungus
or organism that is responsible.
Not infrequently, the organism is
to be found, as pointed out by DrS.
Williams and Barthel, along the
sides of the toe nails Or just under
the toe nails, and even though the
condition is cleared up between the
toes, the persistence of the organ
ism around the nails makes reinfec-
ton of the feet very easy.
In forty cases of ringworm of the
feet, the organism was recovered
from the toe nails in every instance,
and in many cases the abnormality
of the toe nails was so light that
the patients disregarded it and did
not even ask the examining physi-
clan about it.
Furthermore, it was found that
the infection around the toenailS
persisted long after the skin dis
turbance had disappeared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-07
A Censorship Joker

The senate soon will consider an amendment to
the tariff bill which is a censorship joker. 1t pur-
ports to stop importation of seditious and treason
able publications. but in fact establishes a sweeping
censorship by petty officials.
Such amendment is an attempt in effect to pass
in peace time an act similar to the wartime espion-
age law. It has no place in peace legislation of any
kind. and certainly no place in a tariff bill.
The nation has welcomed with its highest honorS
Premier Macdonald of Great Britain. Yet under the
proposed amendment the socialist and pacifst writ
ings of this statesman could be banned by one Of
several hundred customs collectors. We give MacDon-
aid the key to New York and a bedroom in the White
House; We open our hearts and minds to him when
he comes in the flesh; but when his words come to
us in book form are we going to bolt the door and
run and hide in the closet to escape a radical hob
goblin?
There should be enough. good sense and decency
in the senate to kill this ridiculous amendment. and
enough backbone to prevent its resurrection when the
tariff bill goes to house conference.
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~ZH-0NS~
H7ddAEFl
|ANNlVE4R%SSARY
AAH1LAB
BATTLE OF

OCA III VI A0
Oct.
ON Oct. 7, 1871, a desperate naval
" battle was fought between the
combined fleets of Spain, Venice
and the papal states and a powerful
Turkish armada.
The battle, which was fought near
the Curzolari islands, at the western
entrance to the Gulf of PatraS, was
brought about by the determination
of Sultan Selim II to wrest Cyprus
fre4n Venice.
The feet of the states united in
the Holy League consisted of about
$50 sail, Of which nearly 200 were
great galleys. The allied fleet was
commanded by Don John Of Austria,
the natural brother Of the king OF
Spain. The Ottoman feet. under
Ali Pasha, was of equal numerical
strength.
The battle resulted in victory for
the Christian fleet. About 5000
Christians were killed. while the
Turks lost 10000 in killed, wounded
and prisoners.
More than 100 galleys we're taken,
besides a large number sunk. Some
1000 Christian galley slaves were
liberated by this victory.
The engagement, however. failed
in it's chief object, in that before the
battle was hardly under way news
came of the unsuccessful invasion
of Cyprus by the Turks.
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Spinning Ants

DR. CLARK cites many examples
~ of habits among insects, birds
and rodents which resemble the &C.
tivities Of man.
Certain digger waspS use little
pebbles or little bits of sticks to
smooth down the earth over a
buried victim" he writes.
1.-The spinning ants build their silk
nests by using their grubs which
they hold in their jaws and pass
back and forth from leaf to leaf.
The grubs have silk glands which
the adults lack, so that the con-
struction of Silken nests by ants is
possible only through a curious
system of enforced child labor.
Many insects in their early stages
incase their bodies in a little Jacket
made of various substances bound
together with a web Of silken
threads. The larvae of the cad
disflies make coverings out of sticks
or sand grains.
Many insects have highly devel-
OpeQ social systems, winch super
f1cially seem much like those of man.
as we see among the ants, the
waspS, bees and termites. Some
social ants make use of slaves.
THE very diverse snares of spiders
and of some insect larvae, the va
rious Structures-nests, pitfalls, cells
and others-built by insects and
their often highly complicated tun-
nelings show an engineering skill
and a knowledge of many of the
laws of physics which is quite ex-
trarordinarv."
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Thinking2

A THOUGH hurt, the champion
"A retained his shrewdness and he
had enough breath left to kid the
challenger after the rough fashion
of the ring while they YER locked
in an embrace.
A few seconds later the bell rang
and Benny Slumped into his corner,
very weary. They watered him and
uncorked the smelling salts.
Just as Leonard breathed deep
of the aromatic stuff which brings
the fighter back from the city OF
dreadful night, I heard a co-Worker
in the press section calling to a
telegraph operator: Here, Mac, is
the fourth round of Leonard's fight
story"
So even while the champion sat
in his corner g~oggle-eyed, there was
flashed out to the world his impress
sions upon being hit amidship by a
southpaw. One may ask, But what
harm came of that?"
I can not say that American in
situations crumbled because of the
deception, but I have always felt
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Shocks the JUDGE

WHY, I never heard OF such a
w thing" exclaimed the court,
when Mrs. Carter De Haven, di-
vorced wife of the comedian, asked
him to reduce her alimony.
The chances are he never did.
This is an age when few people
take less than they can get.
Not only that, but the popular
sport is to think up ways of getting
more.
We have sought to ennoble the
art of calling it craftsmanship, but
occasionally it approaches black
lacking.
Through the Shearer case, we
have learned how shipbuilding COM
panies tried to better themselves by
sending an observer to the Geneva
conference, and how the observer"
tried to do more than was expected,
not only by busting up the confer
ence. but getting congress to pass
the fifteen-cruiser bill.
Matching this performance in
courage, though not in Judgment,
was the scheme of a French mar
quis to advertise his recently pub
lished memoirs by having himself
buried alive, with the understand
ing that parties to the plot would
see that he was dug up in time.
Whether by accident, or design,
the parties intrusted with his deli
cate task failed to notify the police
early enough, and when exhumed
the marquis was dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-07
Butler Is Right

GENERAL Smedley D. Butler,
VI who ought to know what he is
talking about, says that Jul method
of enforcing prohibition is like using
'sixteen-inch guns to kill sparroWs."
Enforcement will be ineffective, ne
says, as long as dry agents "snoop
around after half pints on the hip
and let the racketeers and king
bootleggers do business unhindered."
In his opinion, such a system
makes prohibition "the grossest
piece of class legislation in the coun-
try's history"
1t requires no great intelligence to
perceive that General Butler suffers
from an old-fashioned sense OF
honesty.
The trouble with prohibition IS
and always has been that the Amer
lean people lack the courage either
to enforce or repeal it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-07
SCIENCE
- nAVIn DIETZ-
By DAVID DIETZ-
Man Ores His Superior Men
tai Development TO His
Physical Weaknesses.

NHAN'S physical weakness, the
1FI fact that of all creatures lac
is the least able to survive in a
primeyal wilderness, has resulted
in mans mental development. This
is the conclusion of DR.. Austin II.
Clark, distinguished biologist Of the
United States National museum.
To prove his point, DR.. Clark has
made a survey of the animal king
dom from which he points out that
evidence of mentality always accom-
pany physical weaknesses.
While DR.. Clark admits that mans
bodily structure resembles that OF
the ape more nearly than that OF
any other animal, he calls the evo-
lutionists to task for ignoring the
mental differences between men and
apes.
Turning to a study of those habits
commonly assumed to depend upon
mentality, DR.. Clark points out that
the most striking similarity is to DC
found between man and insects.
1T so happens" DR.. Clark writes
in the Scientific Monthly, Official
publication of the American ASSo-
citation for the Advancement of Sci
ence, that the closest parallel to
the activities of bhe insects and
their allies are not among the YER
tebrates or backboned animals
where we should expect to find
them.
Furthermore, among the verte-
brates the birds as a whole come
rather nearer to man in the scope
of their mental attributes than do
the other mammals. while ~.lnong
the mammals, the rodents. rats,
mice, beavers and their relatives
are the most similar.
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Questions and
Answers

In what role did Sophia Braslau
make her debut in grand opera?
AS Feodor in Boris Godounov."
with the Metropolitan opera Com
pany, Nov. %, 1913.
How Is plug chewing tobacco
made?
BY moulding loose leaf in metal
frames under hydraulic pressure
and wrapping with sound leaf and
pressing again. 1t may be favored
with licorice, vanilla or other sub
stances.
Who is the speaker of the United
States house of representatives?
Representative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio.
Who was the last man out IN n
final game of the 1926 World Series
between New York and st. Louis?
Babe Ruth. He was tagged out by
Hornsby when he attempted to steal
SecoR6
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-07
The Babe

DUT the most heroic literary eff
- fort achieved by any ~articulate
athlete belongs to Babe Ruth, and
w. o. Mcclellan was the first TO
celebrate the exploit.
During the training tour when
Ruth collapsed and was carried to
the hospital unconscious, his copy
appeared just as regularly as ever
in the pages which had subscribed
for the syndication.
1t was McGeehan's theory that
the Babe escaped from his cot each
night by means of a rope made of
knotted sheets and staggered to the
telegraph Office with his copy.
Indeed, at one time the passion
for signed articles by performers
grew so strong that. a morning pa
per all but engaged Papyrus, the
celebrated English horse, to tell its
readers just how he felt while rae
ing Zev.
Copyright, 1929, by The Times
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Tobacco Stocks Boom

ar more immediate interest, the
" sterilization of cigaret prices
resulted in a tremendous advance
of tobacco stocks.
According TO some. that was what
put the market back on its feet Sat-
urday.
Whether such a conclusion is or
rect. the market certainly got back,
Wiping out the losses suffered dur
ing the previous two days. though
not in such a way as to rchabilitatc
the losers.
What really happened was that
five billion dollars were shaken out
of one set. OF pockets and then
poured into another.
Financial sharps tell us that such
ups and downs are essential to sus-
tain business.
They say that it would, be impos-
sible to form corporations, sell
shares and mobilize money, without
unrestricted speculation.
They may be right. but what did
business lose by the Thursday slump
and what did it gain by the Satur-
day rise?
Thirty representative Industrial
stocks fell for an average of four
teen points Thursday, and a little
more Friday.
Saturday, they recovered an aver
age Of sixteen points, which about
evened things.
Those who profted in the scram-
BILE are we'll satisfied, while those
who lost are not.
The important point is that no
one could have profted except
through the losses of some one else.
If that is sound economy, poker
should be rated with U. S. Steel.
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IT SEEMS TO ME By BRoUS

Tender in defense of the light
weight championship and 1 sat in
TIE press section as a novice with
my first big sporting assignment.
In one of the early rounds things
did not go so well with Benny.
Tender fetched him a p%rodigious
left-hand clout in the middle and
Leonard clinched to get his wind
back,
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NHIss MARJORIE OELRICHs of

MISS MARJORIE OELRlCH0 OF
I'VE. the Oelrichs says that she
didn't write the article which ap-
peared under her name in Liberty
And the editors are said to have adj
mitted unof1cially that this is So,
but they assert that she sanctioned
the manuscript when the ghost had
done his work.
I hope the dispute may grow into
a war against all ghosts and serve
to free the haunted magazines. And
newspapers, too, for that matter.
In fairness to Liberty, it should
be said that the practice OF employ
ing UNDERSTANDS in the writing
game is common and that usage at
least has given approval to the prac-
tice. But it has always seemed TO
me a questionable device. 1t lSnt
so much immoral as ridiculous.
Well do I remember my first shock
about journalistic ethics in days
when I was younger and more naive
Benny Leonard was fighting Lew
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

DURING recent years much has
~ been said of the wide extern
sion of the condition known as
ringworm of the feet.
The popularity of golf, with the
wide use of public shower baths, the
extension of the gymnasium and of
the swimming pool seem to be asso-
ciated with the large incidence Of
this condition.
1t is marked by the appearance
on the feet of soft corns and swell
ing, blisters, itching and moisture
between the toes.
The specialist in diseases of the
skin is able to take scrapings of the
material and after treating it with
proper solutions to examine it under
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Daily Thought

Wherefore, my beloved breth-
rem, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
james 49,
q y
The angriest person in a con-
troversy is the one most likely to be
in the wrong.-Tillotson.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those. of
n of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Probably that dog that won the prize recently for
having the most feaS started from scratch.
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Washington isn't having any world series this
year. but has not been deprived Of its regular Fan
trial anyway.
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that the newspaper profession was
a fine one, and I never liked to see
the ghosts troop in.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-12

Credentials: Cd Resolutions: (e)
nominations. Appointment Of COM
mittees by President G. T.. Dinkle:
3-ta) Rules and order OF business;
Obj Auditing: (c) Credentials; Cd
resolutions. te) nominations.
11:25-Address, Z. T.. Womack,
cashier State Bank and Trust Co,
McAllen, Texas. Trend OF Business
and Financial Outlook at the Pres
ent Time" Announcements.
12.00-NoOn. Adjournment.
Afternoon Session-J0int
Convention hall, Baptist church.
l.. w. Bevan, president Retail
Merchants Association Of Texas,
presiding.
1:30-Report Of committee on
rules and order Of business.
1:35-Report OF legislative COM
mittee, Carl II. Mueller, chairman.
1:45-Report of Robert Stern.
chairman committee on amalgama-
ton.
2:30-Address by Geo. Mendell
Jr., general counsel, Retail Mer-
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STUDENTS

Continued from page one.)
included Miss Ester Weller Of
Brownsville. James Huffendick OF
McAllen, and Steve Wray of Donna.
These three popular university
students from the Valley. together
with Fred Wagner of Brownsville.
member OF Delta Sigma Phi fra
ternity. we're also named In the
guest list of ri Kappa Alpha fra
ternity. which entertained with a
sport dance the same night.
Arthur Klein OF Harrington. stu
dent in the school OF law. has been
placed OF the student Y. nj. G. "a.
council. Klein Is taking his first
year OF law work.
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FIRST GROUPS

sContinued from page one.)
van, president. Retail Merchants
Association Of Texas.
l0:40-Annual report OF John Z.
Phillips, president Associated Retail
Credit Men Of Texas.
l0:50-Annual report OF @. Z.
Dtnkle. president Texas Retail
Credit Bureaus.
l1:00-Annual report OF II. T..
Levy, secretary-treasurer. Retail
Merchants Association Of Texas.
11:10-Appointment or commit
tees by President L. W.. Bevan: T.
CAD Rules and order Of business: (b)
auditing; (c) Credentials; Cd Res
Dlutions: (e) Nominations. Appoint
ment Of committees by President
John Z. Phillips: 2-(a) Rules and
order OF business; OBJ Auditing; (c)
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TEX-MEX ACCIDENT
RECORD

z LAREDO. May 11-tP-Hav-
ing the lowest casualty rate. the
Texas Mexican railroad has again
annexed the award Of the Railroad
Employees National Safety contest.
The railway has filed a clear ac-
cident record with the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The Texas-Mexican railroad. styled
the Infant prodigy in class / COM
petition" was designated winner
over a group of 81 contestants for
the second time in as many years
Its accident record was unmarried
for 1927 and 1928.