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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
We Need Swamps. Too

Part of Lloyd Georges program for relieving I'M
employment is the draining of swamps.
Let England learn from the experience of the
United States and rot do too much of this. We re-
claimed SO much swamp land that the effect was to
force the water into river channels that would not
hold it, causing floods.
We found we added new land to the farming area
while old land, equally good was withdrawn from Gull
tvation, for there is limit to the amount of land
which profitaby be cultivated. Then we found
that there was real demand for swamps to provide
for the migratory birds, and to hunt in.
Now there is a demand for refooding many
swaps carefully and SO extensively drained Con-
gress just has provided for system of migratory
bird refugees most Of which will consist of the once
despsed swamp land.
Nature did not make mistake as many of us
vainly suppose when she provided swamp lands as
part of her grand scheme.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Hoover and the Pie

THERE is little doubt that Presi-
4 dent Hoover was announcing
a general rule when he said that
southern postmasters would be
selected for their fitness and warned
the Republican patronage peddlers
to lay off.
1t has been suspected for long
while that he would tolerate no such
practices, whether in Dixie, or Ohio.
Indeed, such a suspicion operated
heavily against his candidacy in
those hectic pre-convention days.
More than one prominent Repub-
lican sought to undermine Hoover
by whispering that he would be
nothing less than a car, especially
in the matter of presidential ap-
pointments, and that the boys need
look for no pie in case of his cleo
ton.
Even though they looked for it.,
the boys can not help being little
disappointed to have their suspicion
so quickly and candidly confirmed.
Be that as it may, the general
public is rather we'll pleased. A
President who dares to be honest
with regard to postoff1ces can be
depended on to be honest with re-
gard to other things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Al Caught at Last
THE federal government at la

TINE federal government at last
u has gotten something on Scar
face AL Capone.
Mrs. Willebrandt caught him pre-
senting false affidavits to escape ap-
pearing before the grand jury.
Considering all that has been
written about AIS horrendous ca
reer, it sounds like catching julius
Caesar stealing apples.
But it will go down in our legal
record as a nightly triumph, some
thing to match the Earl Carroll
bath-tub scrape.
This man is supposed to have
been a great gang leader, "over-
lord Of Chicago'S underworld" as
some will have it.
Many details Of his picturesque
career are supposed to be known,
even to the extent of murder plots
and wholesale corruption.
When it comes right down to
brass tacks, however, the best our
great federal department of justice
can do is tag him with getting doc
tors to say he was sick when he
wasn't.
Either an idol has failed or the
law has made a bad tumble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
It's a Bond ANYWAY

CTILL, bond is a bond. Perhaps
~ mine is a prior lien and then
again it may be that it isn't. The
days are still too short for any
thing like a complete investigation.
A prior lien would be little more
satisfactory. AS I understand fin
ance, that would give me inalienable
rights in the physical properties of
our company. Any year the AZ was
not paid cheerfully and promptly,
would be entitled to go out with an
AK and get my money back in tele-
graph poles and copper wire.
If two bond-holders want the
same telegraph pole, 1 suppose a
court action is necessary.
But, then, I am under the i'm
preston that bond-holders don't
vote. They merely come along and
loot the dead after the battle has
ended. If the market continues to
need my support, as seems likely at
the moment, propose to buy rail-
road bonds.
Specifically the bonds of roads
which are not doing very we'll. It
would be a thrilling thing to stop
train upon a defaulting road and
order the passengers all to aIight
with the curt explanation, Get out
Of that smoking car. The right
wheel belongs to me-"
A Well-rounded business mans in
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Survey Graphic from the April number of which these
statements are taken.
1t is the story of the last five years, the magazine
says, and is likely to be the story for some years to
come What has happened in several typical plants
Of typical industries thus is outlined:
machine shop employs thirty men with ten
new machines, doing the work it required 225 men
to do with twenty old type machines. The rest got
weeks notice.
A rubber company now makes $1,000 tires day
with $500 men, against production of $4,000 eight
years ago with $4,000 men Most of the change is
due to machinery
A tool, company produces 40 per cent more tools
with go men than it used to do with 480 men, The
surplus 200 likewise got weeks notice
And SO it goes.
senate committee has studied the problem The
unemployment conference called by President Hard
ing in 1922 and headed by Herbert Hoover still is
active and is expected indeed, to make report soon
on recent conditions. TIany other agencies are
spending time and brains to see that men may get
work to earn their bread.
There are problems more in the public eye than
unemployment, but none, venture, which will fur
nish drastic test of the strength and skill of
the man in the White House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Joy of the Surprise

7 AM NOT one to ask the waiter,
l. What is this omelet la Peggy
Hopkins?" I don't want to be told.
I want to be surprised.
And so, when it gets a little slower,
I propose to buy Haygart appearing
on the curb. All I know about Hay
CART is that it has "rts wi" But
don't even hint what they are.
want to work this out by my
self. Haygart is probably a new fuel
or a food product. It certainly
sounds all right to say, white
horses eat more Haygart."
I am also interested in the cop
pers. The red metal, as 1 call it,
seems not yet to have struck a
stabilized price.
Some shrewd operators tell me
that care must be exercised in re-
gard to the coppers. It seems that
some of the miners are wearing out.
Even if they pay 81 part of that
must be figured in your own per-
sonal account for depletion.
But this seems to me a niggardly
way to look at the matter. 1 my
self am depicting just as fast as any
mine. Who wants an investment
good for perpetuity? Why should
my heirs buy champagne for chorus
girls as yet unborn?
My motto is a short mine and a
merry one. We take nothing with
us when we go and so why not leave
it now with Texas Guinan?
Copyright, 1929. for The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

"Wby Should an Unframed
Peace Officer Be Allowed to
Exercise the Privilege of
Life and Death Over Inno-
cent People?"
SAYS:

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March
~ 29.-An inexcusable atrocity,
this Illinois liquor raid, in which a
mother was shot and gallon of
wine discovered.
Vets seize upon it as an argu-
ment, just as drys once seized upon
the drunken murderer, or wife beat
ing.
Pass a law, or repeal one, has be-
come the cry which succeeds every
revolving incident. That is the prin-
cipal reason why we have so many
revolving incidents and so many
foolish laws.
We have reached a point where,
If a f1apper slips on banana peel,
someone is ready to yell for a law
against eating bananas, and some
one else is ready to kill his grand
mother for doing so.
In so far as this Illinois episode
involved the killing of an innocent
person over nothing, it is just one
among hundreds.
We have had too many such
episodes since prohibition went into
effect, but that does not mean we
were free of them before.
Though it was several years ago, I
still can see the dead face of high
school lad who was shot to death by
officers when he tried to run away
from kids craps game which they
had raided.
We can pass, or repeal all the laws
we like, but so long as we put guns
In the hands Of nit-wits, such trag-
edies will occur.
We are so solicitious of the mean
est murderer's rights as to give him
lawyer, pay judge to see that he
has a fair trial, let jury decide his
guilt, or innocence and grant him
an appeal to the highest court.
That being so, why should an un-
trained constable, deputy sheriff, or
peace officer be allowed to exercise
the privilege of life and death over
innocent people.
The city of London says they
should not, and disarms its police
force.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
HEALTH sUPERsTITIONs-No. T.
Whisky for Snake Bite

ample, solutions of potassium per-
'manganate which has the power of
oxidizing and rendering innocuous
any of the snake venom that it
may reach.
1t includes also the injection
into the body of antivenins or
substances prepared by immuniza-
ton of animals against snake
poison. These substances have the
power of opposing the snake poison
in the body.
The change represents transition
from empirical and symbolical
medicine of the past to the highest
type of modern specific scientific
medicine.
The belief that it is dangerous to
eat fish and celery at the same meal
is one of the popular food combi-
nation ideas, others being that it is
dangerous to eat lobster and cream,
Strawberries and cream, proteins
and carbohydrates, pickles and
peaches, and indeed all sorts of
other combinations, according to
individual notions.
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The actual facts of the matter are
that in the human stomach and in
the Intestinal tracts food substances
are submitted very promptly to the
action of digestive fermentS and
combinations are not much harder
to digest than individual substances.
In order for the substance to be
digested, it must be thoroughly ma
cerated so that the fibers will be
broken up and so that the gastric
and intestinal juices will be able
to gain access to all portions Of the
food substances.
For this reason, hard cheese and
celery should be thoroughly chewed
since cheese contains fat and it is
difficult for the digestive juices to
break through the fat layer and
since celery contains a good deal
of fiber which may form an indi-
geStibIe residue.
Much of what is said by food
fanatics relative to combinations of
portein and carbohydrates is fall
lacy without any basis in scientific
study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Betting on the Future

CIR GEORGE PAISH, the British
~ financial wizard, says the world
is sick with borrowing money.
Borrowing money is just another
form of betting on the future, or
speculation as we call it.
The infatuation has taken a deep
hold not only on individuals, but on
communities and states.
The idea of betting on a steady,
uninterrupted rise in values, or of
letting the next generation pay the
bills, has grown enormously fashion,
able.
Nothing has done more for it in
this country than the demand for
good roads and the instaIlment plan
of selling luxuries.
The extent to which America has
mortgaged herself, however, for
these and similar purposes is small
when compared to the debt incurred
by the old world for war.
What is still more encouraging, we
have the roads, or some of them at
least, and a part of the luxuries to
show for our obligation, while the
old world has little but military
triumph which the next generation
will ind it very hard to translate
into bread and meat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Unemployment in Prosperity

Last year was one of the good years for American
business and industry, so far production and
profits were concerned In many lines we produced
more than ever before in one year. Yet the number
of people at work Il per below that OF 1921
when the country produced far less.
"Those who employed shall earn more than
ever before but fewer shall be called to work. and
more shall be unemployedr-that is the promise of
1929 to American wage-earners, according to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

One is heliun the gas used in airships today. The
second is neon, the gas used in the electric lights
in advertising signs. The other two are named kryp-
ton and Xenon.
Our atmosphere also contains slight traces of ozone
hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid and ammonia.
The lower part Of the atmosphere also contains
dust and bacteria
The dust in the atmosphere performs very use
full function The scattering of light which results
in the general illumination of the atmosphere is due
the reflection of scattering OF the suns rays the
particles of dust.
Were it not for the dust particles in the air. the
air would appear black The direct rays of the sun
would illumine The objects on which it fell But the
space between objects would be black just as at night
the space between the twinklng stars is black.
Careful chemical analysis reveals that an average
sample OF air has the composition shown in the table
below. The figures refer quantities per 10000 parts
That is the figure 2o65 81 after oxygen means that if
sample OF air were divided into 10000 parts 2065 "a
OF them would be oxygen Gases which are present in
amount less than 0o05 parts have been omitted The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Questions and
4 uSzOeYS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question Of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M: Kerby. Question
ington Bureau. 1922 New York avenue.
Washington. D. c.. inclosing 2 cents in
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
tended research be made. All other
questions will receive personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters are confidential. You are
cordially invited to make use Of this
service.
What is the form of oath taken by
the President of the United States?
Il do solemnly wear Cor affirm
that I will faithfully execute The Of
flee of President of the United
States and will faithfully execute
the Office of President Of the United
States and will, to the best CT my
ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United
States"
How many soldiers and widows OF
soldiers who served in the Civil war
are drawing pension from the gov
eminent?
According to the recent report OF
the Commissioner of Pensions there
were 106,790 soldiers and 226,650
widows of soldiers on the rolls.
What is tho address of the Ameri-
lean Road Builders Association?
81 West Thirty-ninth street, New
York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
81 DIR. MORRIS FTsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE belief that drinking two
y quarts of whisky will cure
snake bite is probably synbolical
magic based on the idea that the
whisky will produce the vision of
snakes and that the vision will
remove the effects of the bite.
The treatment of snake bite in
this manner would have the ad-
vantage of putting the person into
a sufficiently unconscious state to
permit dissection of the point at
which the snakes fangs penetrat-
ed and the application of a tour
1iquet to prevent diffusion of the
poison throughout the body.
Modern medicine does not call
for the use of whisky in the treat
ment of snake bite. In the mod
ern technics, various antiseptic
substances are applied directly to
the snake bite, including, for ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Different Now

DUT NOW conditions are quite
ID different. Wall Street has be-
come front page stuff and Pennsyl-
vania fights for a place in the sun
mot an advertisement along with
the box score of the training camp
game between the Yankees and the
Dodgers.
Headlines such as Securities in
Wild Crash" can not fail to fascin-
ate. When it was called to my at
tention that there had been a loss
of more than $1,000000,00O in the
value of leading securities, I could
not refuse to feel an interest. Now
was the time for all good men to
come to the aid of the market.
could not idly sit by while the
economic structure of my country
tottered. Money should not lie idle
in the bank where moth and rust
doth corrupt. Wall Street needed
me.
Besides, the paper said that good
securities were being thrown over
board and mashed in the nav of
stop-loss orders. 1t seemed time
for bargains.
BIZ in the end I bought a bond
International T. & T. AZ con 80 do.
However. my international T. bond
is not like others. 1t combines the
best features of investment and
speculation. P1-~ investment is for
widows and orphans. I'm far too
young to want either security or
per cent.
The catch in my bond is that it
is convertible. I'm a little vague as
to what it can be changed into and
Just where. So far I must confess
a shade of disappointment. During
my first few days with international
T. g. T. our common stock rose
prodigiously.
Ev~- n afternoons when every
commodity was dropping, Interna-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

The chief ones are
composed of oxy-
gen, nitrogen, wa
ter vapor and car
bon dioXide.
These four make
up almost 100 per
cent of the earth's
a t m o sphere. The
next most inpor-
tant constituent is
argon. Argon is an
inert gas. There
are four other in
ert gases in the at
mosphere, two of
w h i C h are better
..nown to the pub
lie TO-DAY.
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vestment should have some common
stock. This is not bid to be placed
upon any sucker list. Many new
companies already honor me with
circulars giving me the right to get
in on the ground floor Of new issues
But it is my intention to play the
market not by vote, but wholly by
ear. 1t isn't any fun to know all
about the issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Daily Though hit

For the thing which | greatly
feared is come upon me, and that
which / was afraid of is come
unto me.-Job 3:25.
.
PROSPERITY is a great teacher;
l. adversely is a greater. Posses
sion pampers the mind: privation
trains and strengthens it.-Hazlitt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Air Complex Mixture
No. S16

TINE earth's atmosphere is a mixture OF number
4 of gases 1t might really be said that the earth
had number of atmospheres, for each gas in the
mixture behaves just as it would if others were not
present.
From this point of view, the earth has four impor-
tant atmospheres and number of less Importance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

Chorus girls fled in scanty attire from fire in a
New York theatrical boarding house. group of
trained eas kept their heads and let their trainer
pack them safely into valse. flea in scanty attire
wouldn't be noticed in the street anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
REASON
By Frederick Landis

IN IL 4 \ w i
By Frederick Lands -.
Hoover Shoes Coolidge Hoa0
Economy Really Can Be Eff
fected, Giving Up His Yacht,
Mr.. HOOVER knocks Mr.. Cool
Iva idge into cooked hat as an
apostle of economy by giving uo
the yacht Mayflower which Mr.
Coolidge and several Of his predeces~
SorS used for weekly trips down the
Potomac at an annual cost OF 5000. :
COO and the time of 148 sailors.
Mr.. Hoover gave the boat up be-
cause ne thinks it wrong to waste
the money. Besides he would rather
go fishing.
Which reminds us OF the story
Of the late Colonel Robert G. Ineer-
soil, who was asked by a friend TO
take a drink. Ingersoll eyed the
tempter solemnly and said: my
friend, 1 promised my grandfather
on his deathbed that would never
take a drink of intoxicating LIQUOR
and besides just have had one"
t.
The effort now being made to re.
store the birthplace of General Rob@d
ert E. Lee in Virginia reminds us OF
the greatest thing he ever did. It
was after the war when Lee had
become president of washington
and Lee university. Representatives
Of an insurance company came to
Lee and offered him great salary
to become the head of their come
pany and Lee told them he knew
nothing about the business. s.,
Then they told Lee that his name
would be worth the money and he
replied that the fame won for him
by his soldiers, living and dead. was
not fo~ sale. ~
Il et
TINE charge of this New Jersey
l. woman that her husband buried
her in sauerkraut reminds us once
more that we never known what we
are eating. I'll
Great Britain would better become
excited over her starving people at
home than work herself up over the
sinking of her rum runner in the
Gulf OF Mexico by our coast guard.
The boat which was sent to the
bottom has been notorious
offender for years and was suspected
of smuggling booze, dope and aliens,
and if guilty it should have been
sent to the bottom long ago. +
Il
We wish there were some way to
take sthe Stillmans and their Indian
guide, Beauvais, their divorce suits,
their libel suits, their SANDER suits
and all their other court room ac-
tivities and bury them half way be-
tween Honolulu and Guam.
NFEXICANS say General Escohar
1VA may cross the border and 90
into the talkies, as he has a good
voice aid is a good actor. r.
He ought to make good, too, as
a profes sional dancer, for he has
been very light on his feet ever
-since General Gales started after
him.
n
This country was honored in exs
traordinary fashion by the French
to have the Stars and Stripes tie
with their tricolor on the coffin of
Marshal Foch, also to have two
American soldiers on guard.
Foch had far friendlier feeling
for Pershing than for any other all
lied commander.
II
There is a tragic inequality in the
distribution of water in the United.
States. All over the south people
are being drowned, yet Chicago has
to wage fight against her sister
states to get enough water out OF
Lake Michigan to float her sewage
into the Mississippi river.
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tional T. & T. swan upstream like
a salmon. But this didn't seem to
have an effect upon the bonds. They
seemed to be lacking in school spirit.
Perhaps it's all just a good joke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

President Hoover has sent tie White House horses
back to the quartermaser and closed the White House
stables. Further evidence of an economically stable
government?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

........- David Dietz on Science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

There is a tragic inequality in the
distribution of water in the United
States. All over the south people
are being drowned, yet Chicago has
to wage a fight against her sister
states to get enough water out OF
Lake Michigan to float her sewage
into the Mississippi river.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

THE charge of this New Jersey
l. woman that her husband buried
her in sauerkraut reminds us once.
more that we never known what We
are eating. i.