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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Author Doesn't Cheat

NEVERTHELESS, rather think
" the story will bear rereading,
for I am under the impression that
the author has not cheated at
single point.
One element in Footprints" is
traditional. The crime is contrived
in such a way as to seem to limit
the participants to a known group
Of people. In a lonely ranch house
in Oregon man is shot in his bed
at night. All the members of the
family but one are locked in their
rooms.
A rope extends from the foot of
the murdered mans bed through the
window and to the ground. But be-
fore the shooting, snow fell unex-
pectedly and there is no sign what
ever of any footprints leading away
from the house. Nor does a very
thorough search reveal the presence
Of any intruder
The victim did have an oppor-
tunity to speak a little before he
died His first words were, Got
away" Next he said quite dis
tinctly, Red mask" He spoke the
names Of his three children and then
added, Bring father. I must tell
him."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
An Unbelievable Situation

Were there an armed army at the outskirts Of
indianapolis prepared to take over its government
by force to place it's puppets in power and its COM
1nander in seat of despotism, there would be, let
it be hoped, an instant rush to its defense.
Yet when subtle and sinister group, small in
number but powerful in trickeries, accomplish the
same purpose by STEALTH there is apparently no urge
to defend the right of self-goyernment.
The situation in the legislature in regard to the
city manager form Of government illustrates just how
far the people have lost their right to rule themselves
In the senate there is the empty threat of the
group of politicians that they will repeal the law
under which the city manager form was authorized.
In the house. the amendments to the law, de-
manded by the sincere advocates of the plan, repre-
sentative of vesiths of the voters of the city, are
emasculated by its enemies.
1t would seem to be simple request that the first
election under the law be an honest one, above
suspicion and in charge of officials in whom the
people of this city have confidence.
That, apparently, is most unreasonable from the
standpoint of the politicians who desire to continue
city government feeder for the political
control of the state.
1t would see simple request to demand that the
votes be counted publicly at central point, in
order to avoid even the suspicion of fraud That is
monstrous from the machine standpoint.
The one gesture in behalf of honesty is "con-
cession" that groups of candidates may watchers
to protect them from too fragrant frauds Watchers,
in the past have prevented few frauds.
The battle for the city manager form of govern
ent has been heartbreaking but strenuous. Started
by The Times more than four years ago, it grew in
power because of an aroused public sentiment.
The people look to it for relief from the political
manipulation of public interests They look, hope
fully, to the day when there shall be municipal owner
of special privilege.
To win the war, and it has been war, it will be
necessary for every citizen to stand guard The best
in sight from the legislature is not reassuring The
politicians remain on the job. The people are too
busy earning O. living to give much time to the pro-
lection from subtle invasions.
There is necessity now never before, for a
strong militant organized public sentiment in behalf
of popular government.
The enemy is not at the city gates but is skulking
in the corridors of the legislative halls
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
I I
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

NNE of the best ways to get any
~ commodity which you are after
is to make public declaration that
the thing is rare or noneMstent,
Within a month 1 wrote column
complaining that there were no
good detective stories anywhere, in
spite of the high rate of production.
But now I have just come across
a recent one which seems to me
superb and altogether unusual. I
speak of Footprints" by Kay
Cleaver Strahan.
The jacket does not even reveal
the sex of the author, let alone the
identity of the victim, but by de-
ductive processes I choose to assume
that Kay is a mans name. At least
it was in the days of King Arthur.
Mr.. Strahan is credited with just
one other book, also a detective
story, called THE Desert Moon
Mystery"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
The Doheny Murder

U OS ANGELES authorities have
IL decided to drop the Doheny
case. They Should. When one man
murders another and then commits
suicide, there is little left for the
law to do.
Such crimes are beyond the pale
of punishment. There is no way of
reaching them save through pre-
ventive measures.
When you get right down to brass
tacks, there is little hope of reach
ing any character of crime success
fully, save through preventive meas
ureS.
Except as a preventive measure,
our system of punishment would
have little to justify it. If we can
not eventually teach people that
crime is wrong, whether through
discipline, or education, the stu
alton is hopeless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Hysterical Diplomacy

Just what is it about the subject of cruisers that
makes sober senators suddenly historical and gov
eminent officials run wild? Here ere senators and
the President almost flying at anothers Threats,
and the British government and its Washington
bassador bombardng each other with conflicting press
statements
Even if the two countries were on the precipice
of war; such pancky, conduct by responsible officials
would be deplorabe. But with situation such
the present, when in the future is incon-
ceivable what possible explanation be found for
this general hysteria in high places?
The British press is attacking this latest bit OF
British diplomacy as a "blunder." Sir ESme Howard
issued a formal statement in Washington that
everything points to the early resumption" of
cruiser negotiations with the United States.
Ambassadors do not issue such statements with
out the knowledge of their governments, and Sir
Esme never has been guilty unwttiAgly of an 'indis
cretion." After the London government had per-
mitted the Howard feeer, it suddenly changed its
mind-whether because of French opposition be-
cause of American reaction that the time is not quite
ripe for another conference is not known.
Anyway. the foreign Office promptly repudiated
It's ambassador, with the statement that at is
likely therefore that his maiesys government will be
in a position to make further communications for
some time
Diplomats are accustomed to being made the goats
for their home governments That is neither unusual
nor important But it is important that the British
government has chosen very jumpy moment in
Anglo American relations to go of half-cocked.
With Hoover not yet in Office and British
government due this summer, this not
suspicious moment. to put out naval conference
feelers. Nevertheless, the Howard statement was
worded carefully enough that it might have con-
tibuted to the general desire for conference
az practicable.
But now the British government, by SECOND
statement repudiating the first has made bad mat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Times Readers Voice Vie1CS

his challenge to recognized scien-
tists"? Why not challenge all
corners? I say Amen to Lets get
down to facts" Surely we have
been keeping within the narrowness
of a "man-prescribed" course Of
doctrine too long already. Ministers
tell us that God called them to
preach, yet they all pack up and
90 to school to learn what to
preach. If God calls one to serve
him. he does not call him TO go to
school to learn what somebody else
thought. thinks, or teaches, but TO
learn Of him.
Would RAIDER and his colleagues
be pleased to know that Adam did
not eat the apple? Would they be
pleased to know that the apple did
not enter into the circumstance
which caused the rumpus in the
(so,called) Garden of Eden? 1t
didn't. Would they appreciate the
fact that the Bible positively does
not teach any such nonsense? It
doesn't.
According to scripture, science
and pure logic, according to the
doctrine which they themselves
preach, it is not only nonsense, but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

Editor Times-A recent issue of
The Times carried the announce
ment of a $1,000 award for definite,
scientific proof that Adam didn't
eat the apple!
The announcement states that
the award will be paid to any recog-
nized scientist who disproyes any
part of the Eiible, by the Defenders
of the Christian Faith.
DR.. G.. Winrod, in making the an
nouncement at Cadle tabernacle,
declared, ut is question of put up
or, shut up" Continuing Winrod
says: 1--WE are calling the bluff of
the atheists and the moderrists.
Generalities and theories get US no
where. Let's get down to facts and
quit dealing in generalities."
I am not an atheist, neither am l
a modernist. I am not dealing in
generalities nor superficialities. I
am a fundamentals, taught Of
God. and, therefore, know some
thing about the fundamentals. Also,
I find that no matter how much
men presume to know, it is Ltrle
enough, indeed.
I would like to ask just why P.sul
RAIDER, poster Of the award, limits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
CHARLES G. DAWES
MAKING COPS USEFUL
TWO GREAT HAZARDS

TXTHILE officials were going
Wv round in the dark, wonder
ing who caused Chicagos last gang
battle, Tom Hef1in discovers that
Mussolini was at the bottom of it,
Hef1in has a perfectly uncanny
way at getting at things.
II II
Seats in the reviewing stands to
I see the Hoover inaugural parade will
cost from SO to $40, more than many
such parades are worth.
Roosevelt's turnout was the
greatest of any President, its fea-
lures being as varied as the interests
of Teddy.
The one outstanding delegation
was the bunch of cowboys who came
from Dakota and Montana to see
their old friend sworn in.
II
How grand for Viola Dana, mo-
ton picture actress, and her mother
to get divorces on the same day!
It will not be long until all family
reunions in Hollywood will be held
in the divorce court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Tense Moments

ONE episode may be questioned
" as little unfair TO the reader.
Some will say that the second shot
is not quite justified. To me it pro-
vides one of the most tense mo-
ments of excitement I have known
in any mystery story.
Still 1 do cite Kay Cleaver Stra-
han for one false touch. The most
stupid woman in the book is given
the best speech. Irene says, IN a
moment of irritation:
"You go about, every one CT you,
buttered with precedent, creased
with traditions.
Like the pig at the circus, one
tries to get hold Of you. and tradi-
tons slip you through ones hands,"
And in the delight Of that re-
mark, Footprints is a detective
story to which one may cling. It
is not clogged with the grease Of
precedent.
Copyright. 1929. for The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Gas and Rumor Wars

TIME Oil war has struck San
i Diego. Some places are selling
gasoline as low as 10 cents, though
the majority hang out for a higher
price. Everyone is looking for the
big companies to take hand, how
ever, which means a more general,
if not bigger cut.
AS though this were not enough
to make the tourists at home, the
rumor market of Mexico has begun
to function in good old fashioned
style. One report has it that the
federal commander of west coast
troops is planning to divide the re-
public. An ambitious yarn to say
the least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Try to Build ChiIdS Resistance

It was found that the children in
the institution average in weight
about the same as those elsewhere
in the community and that any adj
mitted below normal weight rapidly
gained weight under institutional
care so that they soon approx
mated the normal
The significant fact was deter
mined that the body weight of the
child did not bear any relationship
to the occurrence of pneumonia or
to the frequency with which chill
dren developed this disease.
Neither did the body weight seem
to bear any direct relationship to
the number OF deaths that occurred
in the children who developed pneu-
monia, except for infants under 6
months Of age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"There is Little Hope Of
Reaching any Character
Of Crime Successfully
SAGE Through Preventive
Measures"
SAYS:

GAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 19.-Still
~ bent on checking crime, congress
takes up the Jones bill, with its
maximum penalties of five years in
Jail or a $4,000 fine or both for
bootlegging. Reed of Missouri, soon
to retire, shouts in bitter, sarcastic
denunciation. His biting words may
have some effect in the senate, but
very little out here.
Southern California is all prohi-
bition, the sentiment growing
stronger as one approaches the
Mexican border. Is this due to con-
venience, or moral appreciation?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
NUR public life loses its most
W interesting figure on March 4,

NUR public life loses its most
W interesting figure on March 4,
when Vice-President Dawes turns
his Office over to Senator Curtis.
Charles G.. Dawes is direct,
SQUARE, brave and capable, and he
would make a great President.
The Dawes family is fine eXcep-
tion to the rule that American faml-
lies diet: for it has come down from
Concord and Lexington and has
PLAYED a gallant part in peace ana
in war all along the line.
n
IF we had our way aobut it we
would change the highway motor
cycle COPS, who accomplish little or
nothing, into a travelling hospital Tor
ailing Lizzies, having it carry gas
and oil and be equipped to change
and vuIcanize tires.
Il
We imagine there's lot OF envy
in the indignation of Chicago's Of
fetal crime pursuers over the kill
ing of those seven bandits, as that
single transaction handled more
crime in ten seconds than the courts
of Chicago have been able to han
die in ten years.
The papers say Lindbergh may pc
married in New Jersey.
The Lone Eagle should bear IN
mind that most of the mergers Ell
fected in that state have been badly
inflated.
II
It's all right for congress to pass
this bill to deport alien criminals,
but it won't amount to much unless
we use the army and the marine
corps to patrol our borders and keep
those who are deported from being
bootlegged back.
II n
Lindbergh was made a colonel be-
cause he flew from New York to
Paris and John Coolidge was made
a major because he became engaged
to be married, so here you have the
relative rating of two great hazards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Another method involved arrange
ments which lessened the number
of contacts between the children.
The most recent studies have con-
cerned the relationship of the nu-
triton and body weight of the child
to its resistance against respiratory
infections and pneumonia in par
ticular.
In order to evaluate their results
properly the investigators had to
establish normal weights for chill
dren of the type studied. These
weights were compared with the
weights of the children who de-
yeloped pneumonia.
During a period Of twelve years
sos cases of pneumonia occurred
among 1894 children under five
years of, age admitted toJthe insti-
tuition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Hooch. Horses Irrigation

HOOCH, horse racing and Boul-
L Il der dam play large part in
local conversation if one may judge
from what is heard on trains and
in hotel Hobbies. Real estate pro-
meters already have seized on
Boulder dam as the signal for a
great lot selling spree.
You can buy a lot, ranch, a
farm or a subdivision most any
where in the Colorado basin,
whether up stream, or down stream,
and get quick service in a half a
dozen cities.
Local branches of the federal
land office are being swamped
with inquiries, and have issued a
general warning against too much
optimism.
Meanwhile, the tri-state pact,
seven-state pact, the lower basin
group and the upper basin group
remain to be brought in to accord
with Arizona playing a lone hand
against the bunch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Fellowship i'm Prayer

an injury. Nor can afford to
waste time on vain regrets. Let me
remember not with anxious fear, but
as a cheerful incentive to diligence
that the night cometh.
PRAYER: My God and Father
who knowest both my abilities and
my limitations, 1 pray Thou wilt
make me both eager and humble.
Beyond my striving, giving me
simple trust in Thee who are able
to over rule my failures. Make me
diligent without anxiety or discour-
agement. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19


NNE of the chief problems of
W medicine today is to build up
in bodies of children resistance
against infectious disease, particu-
larry respiratory diseases, such as
coughs, colds, influenza and pneu-
monia.
In the Home for Hebrew Infants
in New York physicians have been
carrying on experiments with vari-
Gus methods.
Attempts were made to build up
resistance by the use of ultraviolet
rays alone, but the results were not
so outstanding as to warrant the
belief that this method creates Spe-
cif1c resistance against such diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Flying in LinneIight

GAN DIEGO is a real flying base
~ not only because of the govern
ment training schools, but because
of the interest taken by civilians.
One can fly from here to Los An
gelesi in ninety minutes, or San
Francisco in six hours. Many peo-
pie are doing it.
Like the auto, the airplane seems
destined to serve Individual needs,
to make for independence rather
tnan organization, especially in con-
nection with the older and slower
modes of transportation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
- ~
By
Frederick
lands

XXTASHINGTON is on the road
w to be the raost beautiful cap
ital in the world, but every time a
mid-Western man reads Of a great
architectural addition to PennSyl-
vania avenue, he wishes the seat of
government were a thousand miles
nearer to the center of population.
Il +
We take no stock in Senator Jim
Reeds prophecy that the American
people will rise and smash the pro-
hibition amendment.
The people of the United States
never will rise except in the seventh
inning and then only to stretch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
This Date i'm
u. S. History

February IS
fell to a depth OF TWEEN
ty feet. in New England.
Baptist Puollcatlon
Society organized
1946AFirst Texas legislature met
at Austin.
1872-Metropolitan Museum OF Art
in New York gave its first ex-
hibition.
1901-First territorial legislature IN
Hawaii convened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
: David Dietz on Science
Sun Emits Fire
No. 2S3

THE most spectacular features of the suns struc-
ture are the great prominences These are great
tongues of luminous gases extending far out into
space from the suns upper atmosphere or chrome
sphere.
They may be thought of as great tongues of fire,
for they great masses of gaseous material chiefly
Iox,J-0 LaI;,,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Topic for the Week
LENT AND MY WORK"

Memory Verse for Tuesday
81 must work the works of him
that sent me, while it is day; the
night cometh, when no. man can
work" John 9:4). (Read: Matthew
6:25 to 49,
MEDITATION These are solemn
words. Let me take them to today.
What have accomplished to JUS
tify the life and the abilities with
which God has endowed me? And
what am doing now? The sigh OF
Cecil Rhodes may have an echo in
every mind-"So much to do, and SO
little time" Life is much too short
to spare any time for utilities. 1
may not stop to resent or retaliate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Discipline and Education

DISCIPLINE is and always has
~ been form Of education. Re-
taxation of it in our schools and
colleges may not be discarded as a
reason for the prevalence of that
anti-social complex, which is at the
bottom of this so-called crime wave.
If children and young people are
not taught the necessity Of accom-
modating themselves to the needs
of society and good citizenship, and
thought by example, rather than
precept, how can we expect them to
grow up with the proper apprecia-
ton of their obligations?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

also a very grave prostitution Of
truth. Yes, I agree, let's get down
to facts and put up or shut up.
wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom; and with all
thy getting, get understanding.
JOHN 3. DICKEY,
2S74 North Dearborn street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

What is the story of Ruben
STEMS "Kammenoi?"
1t is an attempt on the part Of the
composer to picture in music a very
beautiful woman whom ne met. He
portrays by strains her facial ex-
pressions. starting with the sombre
look represented by bass notes, and
passing through various phases to
the livelier moods. An account Of
the episode is contained in Mes
ages of Music" by Henry Brenner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19


There are two prominences. One, the quiescent
type maintain their shape for days at a time 1t is
thought that they are buoyed up by pressure of the
suns light.
At the end of a few days, they sometimes blow up,
however the material rising to height of 10000 or
10000 miles with a velocity of $50 miles second.
The second type the eruptive, resemble great foun
tain-ike volcanic eruptons and are sometimes blown
out with great velocity.
These great explosive eruptions seem to be con-
nected with sunspots due to the release of energy
in the spots They often contain the heavier chemical
elements which have been blown up and made bright
by the intense activity.
once heard DR.. F. R. Moulton of Chicago asked if
he ever thought the solar prominenceS might be
blown so tar out OF the sun that they would reach
the earth was interested in his answer, for there
wouldn't be much LETT Of the earth if this happened
He said the earth had been in existence long
Time perhaps two billion years. Since 1t hadn't
happened in all that time, there wasn't much chance
that it ever would happen.
But, he said, you can't reason that way. just be-
cause thing never happened is sign that it might
not happen So he said that he had just one piece Of
advice to give his listeners. Tat was to "be good
Surrounding the suns chromosphere is sort of
great silvery halo called the corona Like
the choromosphere. it is only visible during total
eclipse. The corona is composed OF thin gaseous
material
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

Cruisers may be the best way to obtain peace, but
we've found that little candy always works pretty
we'll at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

1t is predicted science eventually will be able to
control the weather If science is WISE it won't try
anything like that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

Girls on Mars are reported to have six legs apiece
The very place for scotchman to get his money!
worth at burlesque show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

Professor Einsteins scientific formula probably
won't make fortune out of science but think how
profitable it might have been in the laundry business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

George Washington, they say, never told a lie. But
then George never went into the oil business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

combined saxophone and bagppe has been in.
vented. Scientists also discovered lethal gas
recently.