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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
War in Its Place

TITO some extent this novel may be
l. classed as a war book, but the
war is not part of the essential con-
flict even though there is vivid detail
of life along the Italian front. And
there is quite lot Of existence in
hospitals back of the line. But this,
too, is woven into the swing and
scope of the story.
An irrelevance is almost certain to
creep into discussion Of "a Farewell
to Arms" There will be talk as to
whether it should be censored or not
and Boston or some other city of
that sort may act against it. If so,
it will be pity.
Undeniably there is frank talk at
times, although Hemingway has
been willing to indicate certain
shock words with dashes. Little
harm is done by this. A 10-year-old
child could supply the missing let
tiers.
I think the novel is one of the
most eloquent love stories I know,
but if anybody challenges me on this
I'll shift my ground and say that
no one can compare to Hemingway
in scenes where men sit down to-
gether to engage in talk which is
not for publication.
In fact, not a single figure moves
across the pages of "a Farewell to
Arms" who seems to have the Slight
est notion that he is a character in
a book.
Copyright. 1929. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
1T SEEMS TO ME By HE BRo3}S

TIME proxinate has for me a
Z peculiar spell, and the book be-
fore my eyes, if it is good at all,
transcends the ancient piece of
literature with a months mold
upon it.
Last nights play tends to be more
vivid and valuable than anything
produced in late July. I care not at
all about the SHOWS of yesteryear.
There is more tingle in tonight's
slight frost.
After this wordy explanation I
want to go on record as thinking
that "a Farewell to Arms" by Er-
nest Hemingway, is the best novel
written by any living American.
Indeed, I am tempted to leer at
the dead as we'll and shout toward
the churchyards, did you ever do
anything half so good?"
Possibly in a months time my en-
thusiasm may hive cooled into the
belief that "a Farewell to Arms" is
a superb story That is the absolute
limit of my caution.
When "Arrowsmith," by Sinclair
Lewis, was hot off the presses it
seemed to me a landmark in A1neri-
can literature. To the best of my
ability I did cartwheels in front of
the booth where it was published.
Now I think there may have been
too much heat in my transports.
But what of that? If not the book
of the century it still remains a
swell novel. So let it be with the
latest work of Hemingway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Who Sits Where?

Social Washington has been making itself more
and ridiculous since Charles Curtis became Vice
President and he and his sister, Mrs. Dolly Curtis
Gam, are much to blame any
Mrs. Gam is the Vice PRESIDENTS official hostess,
although just why it is necessary to have is for
the reader to answer.
The social war began when Curtis took Office and
has been going on ever since.
The real purpose of Premier MacDonald's visit to
the United States in the interest of naval disarma-
nent is being lost sight of in the furry what
guests will welcome him at banquets and receptions
and where they will stand or sit.
Official Washington takes its social life and its
social precedences too seriously This is republic, a
democratic form of government without nobility and
presumably without CASTE
What the people want in washington is govern
ment that functions for their benefit not one that
gets into a snarl every time a visitor from
abroad dinner party is held
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

aduIterati on, substitution, or
evidence of Spoilage; it must be pro-
duced under clean conditions, pro-
tected from dust, dirt and flies, and
it must be handled by people free
from communicable diseases.
Almost everyone now realizes
that an infected food handler can
pass his disease on to other people.
Unfortunately, legislation and the
enforcement thereof for the control
of food handlers has not been de-
veIoped efficiently in most commu-
mites.
Obviously, physical examination
of every person who handles food in
any way in restaurant, hotel, or
barbecue emporium is an almost
impossible task.
1t is not necessary to know, of
course, whether the food handler
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

What is the origin and meaning
of the name May?
It is from the Latin Maia, god
dess of growth.
When was the eagle first used as
a national emblem of the United
States?
On the seal of the United States
which was adopted June 20, 1882.
What was the origin of the Irish
wake?
The custom of the wake originat-
ed in Ireland, but the time of its
origin is lost in the obscurity Of the
past. 1t is parallel to many practices
among primitive people of sitting up
with the corpse to prevent his soul
from prowling around the homes of
the survivors. 1t was found to relieve
the tension of relatives and friends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
The Bow Grows

TITO some extent "The Sun Also
l. Rises" was pageant for mem
bers only. Although I liked the
book, it was easy to understand the
dissatisfaction of those who found
it formless and rambling.
The Hemingway of that book was
good but also a little precious. He
had not quite completed his Lard
merriam apprenticeship and at times
he strained himself in holding fast
to the belief that all emotion must
be strangulated and inarticulate.
Still, it might be said, what shall
it avail man to catch the echoes of
commonplace speech if he loses his
own creative soul in the achieve
ment? So far as Hemingway prog
ressed in "a Farewell to Arms his
reportorial facility is merely an in
cidental virtue. By now the man
has warmed up. He's getting his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Stricter Laws Needed on Food

has fiat feet or bowlegs. 1t is i'm
portant, however, to know that he is
not subject to active tuberculosis,
septic sore throat, diphtheria, or
chronic tonsilitis; that he has not
typhoid fever; that he has not
communicable skin disease, or in
the case of males, at least, any
venereal disease.
Most states are beginning to de-
mand at least certification Of every
food handler that he is free from
the conditions mentioned. To have
such certif1cation, it is, of course,
necessary that the food handler sub
nit to partial physical examina-
ton.
There seems to be no doubt that
rigid enforcement of such health
laws will do much to improve the
health of the community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Questions and AnSN'e1cS

in their distress over his death. An
other theory is that people sat up
with the corpse until burial to
keep the rats, which were abundant,
away from the body. There is an
old popular tradition in Ireland that
st. Patrick, just before his death,
asked his friends not to mourn, but
to rejoice, and the better to Go this
they were each to have liquor to
drink to make them happy.
Is there a way to determine the
age of tree by looking at it?
The age of a standing tree can
only be computed by means Of an
increment borer, an instrument es-
pecially designed for that purpose.
It cuts a round cylinder about the
size of a pencil. from the bark to the
center of the tree, on which the
rings can be counted.
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| ANNIVERSARY
84Ezs1t4
FRANCE GETS LOUISIANA
Oct. l.


Oct. l.
I'm Oct. 1, 1900, Spain relin-
" pushed Louisiana to France.
Louisiana then embraced all the
present state of Louisiana west Of
the Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota west of the Missis-
sippi, the Dakotas, Nebraska, most
Of Kansas and Indian territory, and
all Of Wyoming. Montana and Colo
RADIO west of the Rocky mountains.
Three years later, the United
States bought Louisiana from the
French. In 1904, the region south
of latitude 80 degrees was organized
as the Territory of Orleans, while
the country north became the Terri
tory Of Louisiana in 1905 and the
Territory of Missouri in 1912.
When the state Of Louisiana was
admitted into the Union in 1912,
its economic development was rapid
and was accompanied by constitu-
tional changes which harmonized
the old civil law with the principles
of the common law and republican
institutions.
The state of Louisiana today
covers an area of 48,506 square miles
and has a population of approx
mately 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Women CompIicate TangIe

THERE are great many women
4 at work in the textile mills,
and their presence has helped to
keep wages down.
In spite of the argument that
women should receive the same pay
for the same service as men, they
are not getting it in most occupa-
ticns.
What is worse, most industrial
leaders doubt whether they should.
Henry Ford goes SO far as to pre-
dict that they will be eliminated
from industry.
While this writer disagrees with
Mr.. Ford, he does not believe that
general parity is possible between
the sexes.
There are certain things that
women can do as we'll as men, and
there are some things that they can
do better. On the other hand, there
are some that they can not and
never will be able to do as well.
The thought that we can unsex
the human race is one Of those fan
tastic dreams for which old maids
are responsible.
II =
AS a general proposition, women
can be depended on to vote with as
great intelligence as men, and
probably with a greater degree of
conscience.
So, too, they could be depended
on to fill a great many offices with
credit to themselves and profit to
the community.
It will be long time, however,
before women constitute 30 per cent
of the ditch diggerS or men 80 per
cent of the kindergarten teachers.
The idea of parity, except in lin
tied cases, is impractical, and no
one knows it better than the nor
NAL women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-
City Planning Expert De-
cldreS Pdrka0dys are One
Solution IN Congestion
Problem of Cities.
DARKwAYs are one solution t

DARKWAYS are one solution to
l. the crowding of modern cities, in
the opinion of Charles H. Cheney
of Los Angeles chairman of the city
and regional planning committee of
the American Institute Of Archi-
tects.
A parkway, to quote Cheney's de-
scription, is "a route limited to pas
senger vehicles, and made excep-
tionally agreeable as route of
pleasure travel by every possible
means, but especially by the feeling
Of openness that comes only with
plenty of width and by an ample
enhancement of trees, shrubs and
other paintings in the parallel wide
sidewalk areas"
Civic experts gradually are begin
ming to realize that the artist as.
we'll as the engineer must be conA
suited in city planning for two rea-
sons. Economic values are one rea-
son. Public health is the other.
"High-class residence cities, proud
of their appearance and attracting
large numbers of visitors, find it
profitable to create show drives end
parkways $50 to 800 feet wide aid
well lined with trees and Towering
shrubs, connecting up the various
parks and principal points of inter-
est around the city," Cheney says.
There is justification for provid-
ing such a parkway or boulevard as
one of the main thoroughfares OF
city wherever conditions are such
that commercial traffic can be taken
care of in other nearby routes.
"a parkway or boulevard may be
used mainly by people going to and
from business and yet give them a
great deal of incidental recreation
and pleasure"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
California

THENEY, who urges nationwide
~ expert city planning. calls "moreN
breathing space in American cities,
the major objective of such plan
ming.
There is need, he feels, for more
impressive scenery for nerve
strained, city strained men, women
and children"
California just has passed a "plan-
ming act" This act makes it man.
datory for each city, county ancE
regional planning commission u
make and adopt a master plan
which gives sufficient attention to-
parks, parkways and Fairgrounds.
Cheney urges other states to fol-
low the example of California.
"This is a distinct step forward
in the progress Of the country" he
says.
CALIFORNIA; new planning act went
into effect on Aug. l. 1t supersedes
a less definite act passed in 1927.
The 1927 act followed the recon-
mendation of a model standard
planning enabling act by a commit
tee headed by Herbert Hoover, thet
secretary of commerce.
Cheney points out that city life
has become so complicated that it,
is impossible to plan adequately I'M
less the plan takes in a whole re-
gion.
1--WE know that it is not practical
to locate a school building or the
local playground for the children
who arc to use the school, without
taking into account the centers Of
present and future child population"
he says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
The Lake County Problem


Some days ago Federal Judge Slick Of the
northern district gave out correspondence
between himself, Senator Watson and Ma
tional Committeeman Thurman denying that
he had ever told Senator Watson that the
probe of Lake county would result only in
the indictment of few bOotleggers and
that no one would be caught for election
frauds.
Aside from whatever improperly there
might have been in such discussion,
whether such a statement was made or not
made is Of no great Importance.
What any three men may say, either for
the satisfaction of idle curiosity, or for more
serious personal interest, cannot affect the
real problem.
The people are more properly and vitality
interested in whether the long session Of
the grand jury, the activities of prohibition
agents and department of justice sleuths re-
suits in more than the capture of boot
leggers.
1t has been openly charged the elections
in Lake county have been fraudulent The
primaries at which federal and state officials
are nominated are under suspicion.
The vote of the county has changed re-
suits in the state and in 1926 was important
enough to have changed the affairs of the
nation.
Had it not been for the large majority
given to Senator Watson in that county at
that time, the nation would now have diff
ferent leader in the senate directing the
writing of the tariff law.
1t is the investigation of these alleged
frauds that are Of public interest and vital
public interest
The bootlegging there has a somewhat
different Importance than the violation of
prohibition laws in other countless for there
is now the additional charge that the viola
tors were given immunity because of their
participation in the election Irregularities.
That prohibition violations have not great
" interested the federal authorities might
almost be matter of judicial notice, if the
ease with which. several hundreds are now
raided and caught be an indication.
Several hundred bootleggers do not go
into business over night. The business must
be apparently safe to attract so many.
If there has been any reason why the pro-
hibition agents have been so unsuccessful in
the past and so greatly successful after at
tention is called to the open charge Of con-
nection between the violations and election
frauds, the public has a right to know the
reason.
The most damning charge is that for
many, many months there has been on file
in one federal office an affidavit charging
that the protection began after an alleged
conference of politicians and high officials
and that the inactivity of federal agents
dated from that conference.
That is important. The people have a
right to know the truth or falsity of such
a charge. The best evidence is knowledge
as to when bootlegging became recognized
industry in Lake county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Fairgrounds

DROPER city planning gradually
l. is conquering many of the old
bugaboos of real estate. An old
fear, for example, was that school
or playground would depreciate
neighboring property Frequently,
as a matter of fact, it did.
This can be obviated by the prop
er planting Of trees and shrubs.
ITO be a good neighbor, each
school and playground should b9
thickly planted with screen 81
shrubs and trees twenty to for
feet wide, outside the playgrouN
fence" Cheney says.
ut is a we'll established fact tlhss
residential property facing pun
park gains in few years 10 t.
per cent more value than PROF
not near park" he
Cheney's point is that
yard or playground can be nj g
combine with it's primary FIJI
all the beauties and ADVANTAGE
park. W.
Cheney feels that there is
ular need that more attentI
paid to the matter of small
within the city.
cat intervals about the city
should be outdoor beauty spoEs
the restful recreation Of botlg IA
and young" he says. q
'In each distinct part Of the ity
there should be a neighborhood
park of fifteen to fifty acres, form
ing a general adult recreational cen
ter"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

back and shoulders into narrative
by now.
I know of nothing more pro-
foundry moving and poignant than
the end of this new book and no
check is put upon the emotional
flow.
When people are hurt, they cry
out. And when they love, they say
as much and at some length. The
grim Tipped period of Hemingway
has been set aside. He no longer
fears eloquence or even fowery
phrase in season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

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 CT
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
HIGHER WAGE Needed

INSTEAD of capitaliZing the stu
L alton, Governor Gardner of North
Carolina employs it as the basis of
peculiarly strong statement with
regard to conditions surrounding
the southern textile industry and
what should be done to correct
them.
A higher wage is necessary, he be-
lieves, while shorter hours should
be established, and the mill village
abolished.
Trite as that may sound, it goes
to the root of the evil.
Workers in southern textile mills
are VIGOROUSLY underpaid, and the
fact that they are underpaid ex-
plains, to some extent at least, why
so many mills have sprung up in
that section.
AS to the mill village, it primarily
was designed to guarantee the con-
tinuance of low wages, to make the
workers helpless, to place them in
a position where they could not
strike Without the risk OF being
thrown out of their homes.
Political gospelIers, however,
especially of the radical type, can
serve no good purpose in the south.
What the workers want and what
they need is not crusade in revo-
lutionary doctrines, but a little
hard-headed trading.
Their salvation lies not in the de-
velopment of new political faction,
but in improved working conditions.
They would profit far more
through the advice of intelligent Ia
Dor lie a d ers tn n through the
preaching of soap box orators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

about the same cloth as the rest of
us, which makes him to my mind
magnificent fellow. Not too much is
he burdened with conscience. He
can look honestly at the dawn and
greet each day as new.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

Health Magazine.
IN New Jersey, according to the
L health officer, Dr.C. V. Craster,
one typhoid carrier was responsible
for thirty-f1ve cases of typhoid
fever and three deaths in the city
of Newark and seventy-two cases
and three deaths in the state of
New Jersey, before he finally was
captured and put where he could
not continue to infect the food of
other people.
Health authorities are agreed
that certain factors are definitely
required to establish the safety and
quality of food.
The food must be free from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
Daily Thought

Go to the ant, thou sIuggard;
consider her ways, and be wise
Proverbs 6:6.
A poor idle man can not be an
honest man.-AchilleS Poincelot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
NJ. E. Tracy
North Carolina Authorities
Are to Be Praised for Their
Action in the Gastonid
Case.
SAYS;

MINE of the sixteen defendants
IN in the now famous Gastonia
case have been discharged, while
charges against the other seven have
been reduced from first to second
degree murder.
Whether this is victory for the
defense, it certainly is triumph for
justice.
Whatever else may be said of
North Carolina, it refuses to emil
late the attitude of Massachusetts in
the Sacco- Varzetti case.
Not only the trial judge, hut the
entire state administration, appear
determined to be fair.
r
The death of Police Chief Adler
holt, around which the Gastonia
trial centers, came about as the re-
suit of trouble due to the textile
strike.
That simple statement, however,
falls far short of explaining the stu
alton.
There was not only a strike, but
an admixture Of communistic prop
uganda.
AS a matter of fact, many en-
ployes were as bitter in their attitude
toward the strikers as we're the mill
owners.
Under such circumstances, it
would have been easy enough for
a biased judge or a biased admins
tration to put on a political show
The authorities of North Carolina
are to be congratulated on their
restraint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01

money of the foreign and northern mill owners who
went down there to exploit the south.
The remaining question is whether labor is to be
permitted to organize peacefully under its consttu
tional rights
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-01
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
FARMS o SALE

16 acres near Brownsville, all
in cultivation. good house;
about three acres bearing
grove. good citrus land. Price
$12, 10000. good terms.
Phone 1234-W. P. o. Box 135.
Brownsville. Texas.
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IN the Spring a Young Mans Fancy-Say Buy That Used Car To-day
q -ADVERTISEMENT

OF said Court, who shall receive
such compensation as the Legis-
lature may provide"
Sec. 2. Said proposed Constitu-
tional amendment shall be submit
ted to a vote Of the qualified elec-
tors Of this State at a special cleo
ton to be held throughout the
State on Tuesday, July 16. 1919, at
which election each voter opposing
said proposed amendment shall
scratch off Of the ballot with q pen
or pencil the following words print
ed on said ballos: For the amend
ment to the State Constitution pro-
viding for a Supreme Court Of nine
members. and for continuous ses-
sion of that Court" and each voter
favoring said proposed amendment
shall scratch off the ballot in the
same manner the words printed on
said ballot: Against the amend
ment to the State Constitution pro-
viding for a Supreme Court Of nine
members, and for continuous ses-
sion Of that Court" If it appears
from the returns of said election
that a majority Of the votes cast
are in favor Of said amendment,
the same shall become q part OK
the State Constitution.
Sec. 3. The Governor shall iSSR
the necessary proclamation for said
election and have the same pub
lished and said election held aS
provided by the Constitution and
Laws of this State.
Sec. 4. The sum Of Five Thou
sand ($5, 00O.00) Dollars. or so much
thereof as may be necessary Is
hereby appropriated out OF the
State Treasury to pay for the ex-
penses Of said publication and
election. N
Approved February 10, 1928.
CA correct copy.
JANE Y. McCALLUM,
Secretary Of Stats.