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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Ford S Tariff Views

Representatives of highly protected industries who
have besieging congress for still higher duties
the bill being drawn will do we'll to ponder
the position of Henry Ford.
Ford the senate finance committee has been in
formed favors putting trucks and automobiles the
free list His representative previously had argued
before the committee that the importation of foreign
in such small quantity that it did not af-
feet the domestic market. The committee asked for
the view of Ford himself.
Ford is willing to take his chances with the auto
manufacturers of the world, relying produc-
ton and superior management And his suggestion
followed the great danger of reprisals by other
countries would be avoided
The present duty autos is 25 per cent ad va
loren. Other domestic manufacturers have told
the committee that they would be willing to have
this reduced to 10 per cent, with countervailing
clause which would cause the same duty to be i'm
posed on the imported autos of any country as the
duty that country imposed American cars.
The 10 per cent duty also would be intended to
give the President weapon in event of trade war,
under authority granted by the flexible clauses
The truth is that the American people not
whether the duty autos is raised lowered They
that it will change the price of upward
or downward since domestic competition governs the
industry and imports negligible.
The argument before the senate committee has
meant little except that it gave the high tariff sena-
tors opportunity to claim that they we're endeavorng
to lower at least one important schedule
Auto manufacturers themselves were so little in
teresed that they did not trouble to before the
committee until they invited.
Nine of every ten autos in the world are Amerl-
can made Expectation has been increasing largely,
and American manufacturers are establishing assem-
bly, and even factory plants in foreign countries the
industry has world supremacy.
The chief interest in FcrdS testimony, therefore
lies in his willingness to abandon all protection and
his confidence that his farfung plants will be able
to meet anv challenge from whatever quarter it may
come His attitude contrasts most favorably with
that of numerous other industries which have fallen
behind in the industrial parade and can find no
other remedy than the dubious one of more and
more tariff.
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It is not an easy job that President Hoover has set
for the general staff of the army.
He asks for reconsideration Of the whole army pro-
ram. to the end that The present immense and in
creasing costs may be reduced And he asks it at
time when the general staff Just has given its O k
to the largest peace-tme military budget in American
history.
Army budget making is hardly like business budget
making A merchant or manufacturer can base his
spending program his receipts or anticipated re-
ceipts from sales The army has no receipts All
going out and nothing coming in-that's the army.
T. lust spends the peoples money and gives the peo-
pie in return protection Nest if not all this pro-
lection in peacetre is theoretical It would be hard
TO measure real protection in money and obviously
much harder to measure theoretical protection
So the general staff is up against it in way It
can not say: True We spend 5 much money but We
give YOU protection worth that much or more. For
It doesn't really know how much protection it provides
It can't know without war.
It only can imagine all the things that might hap
pen 70 the United States If VIC got into trouble with
another country two three other countries, and
then spend the money necessary to meet these magi
nary dangers The better the Imagination of the gen.
eral staff the better and expensive = our
theoretical protection.
And in the meantime the expense grows For 1928
We spent on our military establishment s266563 865-
For 1929 We spent s3ll 4OOsS7 For 1880 will spend
1881 442 What headed for in 1881. had not
President Hoover yesterday called halt nobody can
say All this in spite Of the fact that in Hoovers
words current expenditures strictly military activ-
tiles Of the army and navy constitute the largest mill
tary budget OF any the world today and at
time there is less real danger Of extensive dis
turbance TO peace than at any other time in more than
half century.
The President makes clear that he has desire to
so down in history tbs expensive peace-tine
commander of the army and tells the general
staff to remove the danger of becoming that Further
more he appears to have idea of the way the gen.
sral staff can accomplish its task of reduction.
For thing he suggests the possibility OF spread
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
CITY Building

Quite as important as the planning oil new enter
prses to add to the resources of the city, and per-
haps more important, is the protection and support
of existing institutions.
Especially is this true of semi-pubic institutions
which advertise the city. Their success or failure
reacts Immediately upon the good name Of the city
The spirit which saves is the spirit which can be
depended upon to build.
The city as a whole owes something to the group
of men who. under the leadership of Norman Perry,
stepped forward when the Eks Club faced financial
crisis and raised half million of dollars to prevent
that institution from disaster.
Those who gave their time and money to this work
we're not animated by a desire to have club. 1t is
probable that they use the building much less than
anv other group of members They we're interested
in indianapolis. They knew that the club served a
useful purpose They knew also that if word went out
that this institution had been forced to make read
iustments and perhaps close, 1t would have bad
PSYCHOLOGICAL effect on the city as whole.
The spirit which saved the Eks Club is the build
ing spirit Cities which possess such leadership and
public spirit are destined to prosper
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May Change His View

MY reason for barring the big deal
wi in Standard brands is the fact
that this involvement definitely may
affect my point of view. Steel didn't
enter much into my daily life or
trespass on the subjects covered IN
the column.
Whole months went by in which
didn't buy single ingot or a CIR
der. But we of Standard brands
make yeast or grow it or whatever
the process is, and We also sell bak-
ing powder as a sideline. We hope
to get some soup and pickles later
on.
The rub lies in this baking pow
der racket. In the old days 1t was
the custom of your columnist to
sheer at the Victorian woman who
knew how to bake and sew, and
went to bed at o'clock. I was for
the new woman who was compan-
ionable and wholly ignorant OF pie
crust.
But. as Karl Marx once pointed
out, We are all under the sway Of
economic determinism. If fem
inism stands between me and divi-
dends, I'm very sorry, but feminism
will have to go.
We can't have women roaring
around the country about their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Change Stocks

II GO with Standard brands now
L The management agreed to let
me in on the ground floor because
they heard what l had done for
United States Steel. purpose to
grow up with the business.
I can't say that I'm terribly
pleased with Standard brands up
to date, because in spite of the long
hours I've spent watching the
ticker, it has only moved one-fourth
point. That wouldn't be much for
Steel, but with Standard brands
it's what we call a squirt.
Not that our corporation isn't &C
tive. On the contrary, hundreds of
thousands of shares change hands
each day The trouble with Stand
ard brands is that it runs too much
in the same place.
A plunger like me would almost
rather see it drop bit than churn
around in this fashion It's acting
like an insect with pin through
the middle. A quarter Of point, It
is true, to S25, for this time my in
terest is substantial. But even SIS
will not go far with the broker S
commission and the government
kitty.
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Questions and AnS7UerS

passes from one to the other without
passing through the lamp, thereby
abbreviating or shortening that par
ticular circuit
What part did Warner GLAND play
in the picture, "The Jazz Singer?
Cantor Rabinowitz.
What is the gross area and popu-
lation of the United States?
The gross area is 3,026,799 square
miles. The 1927 estimated popula-
ton is 116,628,000.
What Is Irving BerIin's home ad-
dress?
20 West Forty-sixth street, New
York City.
What was the last eight-yea
period between leap years?
1896 1904
How can whitewash be removed
from walls?
Soften the whitewaSh by wetting
it literally and repeatedly with a
solution of two pounds of potash
in five gallons Of water and when
softened remove with a scraper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

and q great amount of fun can be had without any
magnifying glass at all.
Let us begin our study with leaves and their struc
ture In general the leaves are the most conSplcu-
Gus part of plants 1t is the leaves Of trees and
shrubs which gives the summer landscape its color.
The botanist divides the leaf into three parts. IT
is true that the Of the various parts are not
of great Importance. But they are OF great con-
venience
They enable us to talk about leaves and refer to
various parts with ease, Just as the names of the
positions on baseball team helpful 1t is easier
to say "shortstop" than to 60 into lengthy descrip
ton each time you wish 10 designate the man playing
that position.
The major portion OF the leaf is known technically
as the blade. The semhke part of the leaf is known
as the leafstalk petiole.
In the case of many leaves. there two little ap-
pendages at the base of the petioe. These known
rs the stipues.
The chief divisions of leaf. therefore, the
blade the petioe. and the stipules.
The blade. itself is characterized by network OF
veins Usually, the largest vein is the middle
of the blade II is known the midrib When there
are several prominent veins. they known the
principal veins.
Veins branching out from the midrib are known as
lateral veins.
The tip of the blade is known as the apex.
The edge Of the blade is known as the margin.
These various parts Of leaves made clear in the
accompanying diagram.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Times Readers
Voice Vie1OS

Editor Times - Now that the
judges from each of our forty-eight
states have decided on the boys to
present to Mr.. Edison from whom
to choose his successor, there will be
forty seven boys left from as many
states who are the cream of our very
best boys in the entire United States.
We surely have in each state a
public spirited man, or firm, who
would gladly take each boy from
his particular state and back and
encourage him. In doing SO they
would develop some of the most
phenomenal electrical inventions of
which We can conceive, and perhaps
one of the forty-seven boys let go
by Mr.. Edison really may turn out
to be the wizard of our times
It would be a wonderful thing for
science if there could be team or
club of electrically inclined men in
each state working under conditions
similar to the one that Mr. Edison
is striving to create, and perhaps
making his unit the head Of the
whole team or club If possible,
about every year or five years, they
could get together with a combina-
ton of brains like that, and things
electrical would be bound to develop.
The teamwork could be united so
Systematically that in case one would
get an idea he could not solve, he
could pass it along, and with the
help of the others, make the idea a
success.
Some of our men of means well
might afford to invest some of their
money in real live young man Of
the type selected in this contest, and
take an interest in him, for it might
mean just as much, or even more,
than setting up monuments or build
ing libraries for the future, as the
real future lies in just such boys.
So with a team like this, working
from all sections of the country, it
is impossible even TO dream Of the
wonderful things they will bring
/ flashing over our electrical horizon
Of the future. L. T. LONG.
1892 East Market street. Indian
apolis.
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87qo a n b 5 TIHe] :
| ANNIVERSARY
.-t:291Ittt.
SETTLEMENT OF DETROIT
Wednesday, July "a.

wednesday, July "a.
/ CIEUR DE LA MOTHE CADIL-
- LAC, first conmandant of the
French territory around Lake Mich
igan, made the first permanent set
Element of the site of Detroit on
July "a, 1701,
Detroit, however had been visited
by Frenchmen as far back as 1648,
but history dates its founding on
the day Cadillac arrived and built
TT. Pontchartrain and established
a small trading station.
In 1850, an English force under
Major Rogers drove the Frenchmen
out. In 1778, a new fort was built.
At this time, Detroit numbered 300
living in rude log cabins.
At the end of the Revolutionary
war, Detroit passed into the hands
of the Americans.
However, the English flag again
ruled over Detroit for few months
during the War Of 1872, when Cen
eral Hull surrendered the post to q
British force under General Brock.
1t was returned to the Americans
in 1913.
Detroit was incorporated as a
town in 1902
In recent years, Detroit has
passed the million mark in popu~
lation
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ing the army's development over longer period in
other words, he asks the general staff to imagine
that the possible for which it constantly is pre-
pairing is little farther in tho future than it here
tofore has feared
For another thing, he says the general staff might
see what services and other OUTLAWS have become
obsolete through advance in scientific methods.
Can he mean horses and boots and spurs m the
first instance; he political army posts, in
the second? Maybe. And there is where see grief
for the general staff.
Think of the argument the cavalry is prepared to
put up And think of the battle certain congressman
will offer against pulling down army posts located
at highly strategic points-from the standpoint of
vOtesi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

TT is my feeling that columnist
L is a public servant and that he
should have no secret alliance Of
any sort. Accordingly, 1 wish to
announce that United States Steel
has left my bed and board, and that
1 will no longer be responsible for
the corporation, no matter what it
may do.
Perhaps. I might as we'll admit
that I am a little bitter about steel.
In the days before it acquired that
limousine look I made no bones
about the fact that had ten shares.
Steel was pretty democratic then,
and almost anybody could take a
ride.
It's perfectly true that I stepped
off for a second to tie my shoe, but
how could I tell that the stock
would start on high and whizz up
town without even doing me the
courtesy of sounding a single foot
upon the horn? And so we no
longer speak as we pass by. Steel's
way is not my way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER

cooks, walters, bottle washers and
hair dressers are among those who
most frequently have these erup-
tons that result from the applica-
ton of irritating soaps or cleansing
solutions.
Many of the patent soap powders
or cleansers contain chemicals which
irritate sufficiently to produce the
appearance of chapping on the skin.
Laundresses occasionally affected by
bleaching powder, used to white cot
ton and linen goods.
When the skin of the hands is eX-
posed to such chemicals, it becomes
thin, smooth and shiny and the
ridges disappear and the hands have
a generally red color Sometimes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
StruggIe for Food

NOTHING that We are doing as
~ a nation promises more than
this constant struggle to keep our
food sources pure.
From a physical standpoint, people
largely are what they eat.
From an economic standpoint,
they can not hope to get it at the
right price, unless they protect it
against blight and disease.
Talk about farm relief! What
chance would the farmers have if
such afIctions as the hoof and
mouth disease, the corn borer, the
pink boil worm, we're allowed to run
riot! What would punny half
billion in loins profit them?
Why pests have destroyed more
than that amount in the cotton
fields during a single season. and
the Mediterranean fly could do even
worse
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
People Must Live

DEOPLE unacquainted with the
i problem sometimes say we ave
paying too much attention to plants
and animals, that what we ought
to do is look after our own kind and
let them go.
That sounds all right, until one
stops to think that plants and ami
mails are what we live on, and that
if they become unhealthy we are
bound to-
This great battle we are forced
to wage is not for COWS, pigs, corn
cotton or fruit, but the human be-
ings who eat them, and who alb
sorb everything they contain,
whether good. bad or Indifferent.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By H B1oTS

may possibly get them coming and
going. For the good old-fashioned
stay-at-home bodies we have bak-
ing powder.
Others more venturesome and
lf-indulgent may need our yeast,
which makes you thin. At least we
say it does. I believe it is also good
for the complexion and it can be
obtained from your neighborhood
grocer in little chocOlate-c covered
pellets.
This is what is called $3.50 diet.
The chocolate makes you fat and
the yeast makes you thin. I'm very
much afraid that this is the stuff
our stock is feeding on.
Copyright, 1929. for The Times
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MobiIizing of Experts

r Asst year Florida shipped 24,0Oo,-
IL 900 boxes of citrus fruit and
$4,000 carloads of vegetables.
Florida could remain under
quarantine. of course, as she is now
but not without sending up the price
of fruit and vegetables, and no
quarantine could be made SO
effective that the infection might
not spread.
That is why the federal govern
ment has set aside s4,250O0G, why
the greatest experts have been called
in and why no less than 5000 men
have been modified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

SOAP Powders Often Have Bad Effect

the folds between the fingers split.
Fats found in many soaps have
irritant properties, and soap made
with cotton-seed and cocoanut oil
are found to be more irritating than
palm and talloW soaps.
If the person affected can give up
temporarily the application of wa
ter and the irritating soap to the
skin, the condition will tend to re-
cover, particularly if the skin is
kept covered with gloves and with
any bland ointment.
On the other hand, the continual
ton of the occupation keeps up the
source of irritation and the condi-
ton is not likely to be cured very
promptly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Nature UnConQuered

WE have not conquered nature
w to such an extent that we
can afford to knock off too often
and fight among ourselves.
There still is a good deal to be
done in this country if it is to be
made safe for the dinner table, or
work shop,
Where are the Chestnut trees that
once f1ourished on Long Island, or
the apple orchards of Connecticut?
Civilization can't sweep over a
land and then neglect it, can't cut
down, clear away and introduce new
growths, without fighting to protect
them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Citrus Growers Worry

TOO tame, you say? Well, you
Il wouldn't feel that way if you
were a grapefruit grower down
around Orlando, and you may not
feel that way when you go out to
buy grapefruit next winter.
These minute pests of nature are
not to be regarded lightly. Look at
what the gypsy moth has done to
Massachusetts, or the boil weevil to
cotton. The Mediterranean fly, if it
got good grip on Florida, would
destroy millions of dollars worth of
property; perhaps, hundreds of mil
lions; and you and would help pay
the bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

nelp1ul n1dgnl1ylng
glass. If you feel
that you wish to
spend more. so
much the better.
More pow r f u l
magnihers are to be
had at prices rang
ing up to SO.
There also are
small portable COM
pound microscopes
which sell at prices
from So to $40 But
again, let us en-
phasize that the
willingness to use
your eyes is the
chief requirement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one 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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Brains Taxed by Flies

DUT why worry? Haven't we
ID trouble enough closer home,
with our gang wars, bootlegging
scrapes, prison rebellions, bank
wreckings, politics and heart balm
suits?
And if that fails to fill the bill,
what about the merging, monopoliz-
ing and mimic war?
Or if the picture still seems too
drab, what about the real war now
going on to save the state of Florida
"a war in which little flies are tax
ing the best of brains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24

MOST housewives know that pro-
WI longed exposure of the skin to
humidity or water softens and
washes away the outer cells Of the
skin, and that in this softened con-
dition the skin forms suitable
breeding ground for germs.
For this reason specialists in dis
ease of the skin inquire particularly
as to the occupations of women who
come for advice with eruptions on
the hands.
Laundresses, maids, domeStlcs,
housewives, scrubbers, barmaids,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-24
Disturbing the Balance

MATURE, if left to herself, es-
~ tablishes balance which per-
mits the fittest to survive, but when
we upset it by destroying the forests,
killing off the song birds and bring
ing in foreign products, as we have
done, she becomes helpless for the
time being at least.
That leaves the war for men to
wage Neither is it an easy war,
or one in which the stake is small
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lat causes an electrical short

What causes an electrical short
circuit?
When two wires carrying current
to electrical apparatus are accident
ally joined through faulty insula
ton or other wise the current has
been short circuited For instance,
the two wires which connect floor
lamp to the house circuit become
hard and touch and the current
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Structure of LeaUeS
No. 416

THE garden is a source of beauty, and-h YOU DO
/ your own gardening-a source of healthy eXer-
else If you will botanic, TO very Old-fash-
Toned word, as we'll garden your garden will prove
source of great fun as we'll as valuable knowledge
You need no equipment other than your garden and
a willingness to use your eyes A small magnifyng
glass or pocket microscope will help. You need not
spend much money One dollar will buy you a very