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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Unanswered Questions

Reports that federal grand jury at
South Bend is about to inquire into the con-
ditions of the elections of 1926 at Lake
county raises one question.
Why has there been no official inquiry
into the matter until nearly three years after
the election, at which time it will be remem-
bered, Senator Watson obtained a certificate
of reelection by few scant thousands, and
Lake county contributed several thousands?
Each day the news dispatches concerning
the federal probe of the conditions in the
Calumet district suggest that there has been
a condition Of lawlessness that could hardly
arise over night or between meetings of
federal juries
Disregard of the prohibition law seems to
have been but one phase of lawlessness. The
enforcement of other laws seems to have
been spasmodic and peculiar. The suggestion
is broadly made that certain violatOrs have
been protected and that the entire purpose Of
the local officials was to keep themselves in
the offices some of which bring, under the
fee system, larger returns than is paid to the
President of the United States.
lIllS Illdy DC S6I uONIl do CCI IelIiI. w lAiAN
it may never be impossible to completely
enforce the prohibition. laws, their general
violation can not be accomplished if there
is any sincerity on the part of even small
portion of either the local police or the fed
eral agencies. When the violations are gen
eral and open, there must be desire OF
enforcement agencies to permit violations.
After the grand jury reaches the bottom
of this apparently foul mess other govern
ment agencies might we'll investigate condl-
tions which made it possible for such
conditions to grow and continue until they
became an accepted part of the community
life.
If there was fraud in the 1926 election,
some reason exists for delay of three years
in making inquiry.
If there has been long-continued violation
of federal laws, the agencies charged with
enforcement should be called upon to explain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

of life, provided they take exceed
ingly good care of themselves.
In many cases the course is rapid
and the person dies from a hemor-
rhage into the brain or from the
bursting of blood vessel elsewhere
in the body. In many instances
death occurs from heart failure and
sometimes from diseases of the kid
neyS.
The chief problem which con-
fronts the physician in handling a
person with essential apprehension
is to change his nervous tempera-
ment, to make him stop worrying
and to calm him down.
Young people in families in which
there are many cases of high blood
pressure and representative nervous
systems should be warned against
too strenuous exercising and dis
couraged from entering careers in
which high tension life is necessary.
The doctor studies the patient
habits of life, his business habits,
his methods of eating and his en-
tire home and social life. The pa
tient is told to avoid worries or
little details that others may take
off his shoulders; attempts are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
A Man of Vision

The passing of Robert Llieber means more than the
sense of personal loss felt by his close friends and
acquaintance. The city a whole loses a man
whose vision far reaching and whose senses OF
public responsibility keen, alert and unselfish
He was the man who dreams with a practically
to make his dreams come true
He was among the first to sense the important
part that was to be played by the moving picture
and his genius had much to do with direction OF what
was not only an industry but important factor IN
the daily lives of all the people. 49,.
Chosen as a trustee for the gas company to succeed
the late Alfred Potts. he gave unsnted service not
only to the building OF the company but to the
preservation of the ideal of his predecessor His at
titude on that matter never questioned. His
one concern was that no mistake should endanger
the rights of the people their final ownership OF
that plant.
The power to dream, the ability to achieve, the
courage to accomplish his And to these was
added civic conscience. He was real citizen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Care Needed in High Blood Pressure

made to free him from annoyahceS
and aggravations.
Usually an hours rest and abSo-
lutte relaxation after lunch are adj
vised, and the patient is encouraged
to sleep at least eight hours each
night.
Mosenthal has advised the spend
ing of weekend every month at
home in bed. The idea of a weeks
vacation annually now has given
way to two weeks vacation in the
summer and the winter for eXecu-
tives engaged in high tension work
and a similar procedure is urged
for those suffering with essential
apprehension.
Golf, walking and mild exercises
generally are urged; always with
plenty of rest after the exercise.
The diet should be soft. Meat
seldom is permitted more than once
each day and then in moderate
quantities, and the quantity of salt
is usually regulated also.
Such patients do we'll to avoid
constipation by control of the diet,
since it is very easy to set up in
them purgative habit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
With Eyes So Big

OUCH big eyes, grandmama-
~ Something of the old mood
came on her once again and she
stared and stared at the lifelike
figures wrought by the artist.
Suddenly, she all but leaped from
her seat. 1t was not imagination.
The likeness was there. The line of
of the mouth was identical. The
eyes the very same. She stole a
glance across the table. Now she
saw him more truly than before.
Those were not kind eyes, nor was
it a truthful mouth, no matter how
pleasantly he spoke.
I'll thank you to put me in a sub
way train, a LenoX avenue local, .
said Estel,e coldly. MY mother is
awaiting me and my brother, who
is policeman, will be at home at
most any minute"
AS a matter of fact Estelle was
an old child and had no mother,
but her ruse succeeded. Mr.. Bye
walked with her to the Times
square station and did not even
attempt to kiss her goodnight as he
handed over nickel for her fare.
That was as far as I ever got
with the story. Polishing it of
seemed too much trouble. The Gre
alton of compelling atmosphere
would have been too difficult, for, as
I have said, Jacks really never was
much of restaurant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
The Cost of RacketS

A writer in the October issue of Harper's Magazine
estimates that the various "rackets being prac
ticed in Chicago cost that city total of $13600000O
year. which figures up to about $45 for every man,
woman and child in the city.
That is the price Chicago is paying for having al
lowed the underworld to establish itself Or rather,
that part of the price, that doesn't include any of
the indirect losses caused by vice and awlessness. 1t
simply the total in cold cash that is extorted from
the pockets of Chicago citizens each year.
Chicago, it is good to note, is gradually making
Roadway in its fight against its underworld. 1t will
be long, slow fight; but Chicago at last is aroused
and the gangsters losing their power by degrees
But it will be long time before the situation is
really cleaned up. Meanwhile, Chicagos citizens will
continue to pay their $45 apiece.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23

those who consider polo dude game of the idle rich
but no man who polo game would con-
tend that anybody but hemen achieve distinction as
players. And it is the he-men who die with their
boots on whether they be rough-riding frontiers
men o. polo players. She-men don't master either
a COW pony or polo pony.
Neither wealth nor poverty regulates the mascr-
Unity of men, which may find its outlet in laying
brick riding horseback or mastering industry. But
wherever you find it you find dread of dying a
lingering death in soft bed, with death coming
through exhaustion of all physical faculties.
The swift, sudden death while in full physical
career is much more desirable There is of the
torture of anticipation of the anguish that must
come to a real when he dies slowly, and only
after his body has run down and collapsed.
Thomas LIE Boutillier died the ideal death
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Still Going Up

Brokers loans have increased for the fifth sue
cessve week.
They reached $656s 100000 last wednesday, an all
time peak. This was 100000 more than the figure
for the week before. For than month now
the weekly totals have been above S60OOOO0,OO0.
Loans by New York banks, those for the accounts
of out-of-town banks and those for the accounts OF
corporations and Others all showed szeabe increases
last week. It is noteworthy that the out-ot-town
banks increased their lendings in Wall Street during
the week by S56OO0O00, which means that the con-
centration of money in New York bitterly COM
planned of, continuing.
Strangely, the steady increase in speculative loans
in the face of warnings by the federal reserve board
bankers economists corporation heads and others has
attracted comparatively little attention in recent
weeks The reserve board, after its warning OF last
February and its subsequent increase in rediScount
rates apparently contemplates further pressure
Brokers loans stood at about S4,5OO,OO0,OOO year
ago. and there was widespread complaint at the alb
sorpton of credit in speculation, including threats OF
congressional action Since that time they have in
creased by S2OOOOOOOOO and apparently the end is
not yet.
Perhaps the reason for the present complacency is
that business is booming never before. Also, the
country's credit supply to be ample, although
interest rates are above those of year ago
1t would seem to be clear however that the present
process can not continue indefinitely. Congressional
action is probable unless the pendulum swings the
other way between now and the regular session in
December.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
1T SEEMS TO ME By H BRoTS

Ut is the custom for every New
n Yorker more than 40 years old
to grow reminiscent at the slightest
provocation and to weep over the
dead and gone days. The most sue
cessful show on Broadway at the
moment is one which undertakes to
maintain that Manhattan of the
1905 was practically Utopia.
I can't remember back with the
authentic veterans and the COS are
just shade before my time, but
it seems to me that much of the
sentiment is influenced by the en-
chantment of distance.
The bicycle age found me still a
f1edgling. Rector's and Martins and
the bar of the Hoffman House are
dim memories to me. Even so, I
venture to say that the New York
of the present day is just as ro
mantle and exciting as in any period
of it's history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Remembers When

T CAN remember when But did
Il know Jacks and the romantic
ccloring now showered upon that
defunct resort is proof that they
all look good when they are far
away.
In plain truth Jacks was a sec
ond-rate restaurant which served
Indifferent food of a coarse sort.
No attempt was made to cater to
whimsical or imaginative diners.
The food was plain and the Sc
lection limited. Still, only the ma
terialistic judge a restaurant by the
extent and quality of the menu.
Jacks had the indefinable some
thing. The proper word in our own
tongue escapes meas it so often
does If esprit means what I think
it does, that may suffice. Other
wise I offer elan.
At any rate Jacks was in tune
with the infinite. This achievement
you understand was not a twenty
four-hour affair. The place was as
dull, conventional and depressing as
any other restaurant during the
greater part of the day. launching
at Jacks was no adventure. Even
dinner offered little glamor.
The soul of the establishment
slept and renewed itself throughout
the usual waking hours. The spirit
of Jacks took very seriously the in
junction that sleep before midnight
is more valuable than that obtained
at any other time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
u, S, Once Racket Victim

MERE is very little new IN the
u racket, whether one measures
it by cleverness or bravado.
Though few remember it, this re-
public of ours, as well as most Euro
pean governments, once were the
victims of a racket.
In 1898, a fine, new frigate left
Portsmouth, N. H, with twenty-six
barrels of silver dollars in her hold.
She herself was destined as a
present to the Bey of Algiers, while
the dollars were sent as the regular
tribute which he received from this
country to keep his piratical sub
jects within decent bounds.
When he and his colleagues OF
Tunis and Tripoli raised the ransom
charged for American sailors from
$500 to $1,000, President jefferson
thought it time to call halt. which
led to "the war with the Barbary
states"
That war was merely to stop a
racket" and when it was brought
to a successful conclusion, the peo-
pie said that America had done the
world a great service.
y
Though we have hesitated to give
it the name, the custom of inducing
governments to maintain big navies
so ship builders could get work
really is just another racket"
Charles S. SchWab, head of the
Bethlehem steel works, is to be con-
graduated for repudiating it.
It is little short of revolutionary
when man in his position says
that he would prefer to see battle
ships scrapped, but it reflects a def
mite change of human sentiment.
Time was when metal workers
thought that they made more money
by forging swords.
Now they know that they make
more by forging plowshares.
A plowshare can be used to pro-
duce something with which to buy
another, but a sword can not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
The Ideal Death
December

Thomas LIE Boutillier II, who, according to news
paper reports, was prominent in sports and society,"
fell from his horse during polo game at Meadow
Brook Club near New York City, dead of heart
disease.
The fact he played polo indicates that he
rich. for only men with abundant means can afford
this most expensive of all sports His prominence in
society is additional evidence of wealth.
Anyhow he died with his boots on. However rich
he may have been cuts no figure There nsy be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
H7d oA;1F' If lg17t7e7
ANNIVERSARY
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BRITISH WARSHTP TAKEN
Sept. 23

Sept. %
NN Sept. %, 1779, John Paul
" Jones. whose exploits won him
great renown as a naval officer in
the American Revolution, defeated
the British warship Scraps after
three hours desperate fighting.
Jones was sailing from France to
Scotland in the ship Bon Homme
Richard in a squadron OF three
American and two French. vessels.
Of Marlborough he fell in with a
feet of forty-one British merchant
men returning from the Baltic and
conveyed by two powerful men-of-
war, including the Scraps.
On the evening Of Sept. %, Jones
engaged the Scraps in battle and,
after a desperate battle, in the
course of which the Scraps and
Bon Homme Richard we're dashed
together, the Scraps surrendered.
The Bon Homme Richard was
damaged so badly, however, that it
sank two days later, the crew in the
meantime being transferred to the
Scraps.
For This victory Jones was
decorated by King Louis XVI OF
France and, upon his return to
America, Congress voted him a gold
medal, passed resolution com
mending his zeal, prudence and
intrepidity," assigned him to the
command of a new ship and pro-
posed to create for him the rank OF
rear admiral.
The British, however, regarded
Jones as a private and refused TO
recognize the validity OF his
captures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Complex

4
1V1 new psychology to support her
view that defects promote genius.
Her argument in brief is that de-
fects lead to an inferiority COM
pick. An inferority complex leads to
a desire to be superior. When the
person has genius, his inferiority
complex becomes a tremendous drive
which enables him to develop that
genius.
Perhaps there is an essential diff
ference between a scientific genius
like Nicholson or Shapley and a lit
erary genius like Shelley or Poe.
It is the good fortune of this
writer to be acquainted with many
members of the National Academy
of Science.
These men, it seems to this writer,
enter science in pursuit of science
and not in pursuit Of fame. In
stead, they all prefer to keep on
working away in the quiet Of their
laboratories.
A good example is DR.. A. A.
Nicholson, past president of the
academy, first distinguished service
professor of the University Of
Chicago, and in the opinion of most
authorities, Americas most famous
scientist.
Though past rs, he is embarking
upon new experiments.
When asked why, he gave the
same answer which he gave when
asked why he embarked upon a
scientific career; namely, that he
found it more fun than anything
else he had ever heard about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Link Is Weak

DUT individualism can not be
ID eliminated. No matter how
big the. bank is, it must have its
messenger boy, and if that messen-
ger boy happens to be weak, the
bank gets into trouble.
Milton Alter, working for SIS a
week, found himself carrying half
a million in securities from one Of
flee to another last Friday morning.
What is worse, he found himself
unable to resist the whisperings OF
temptation.
An acquaintance, as he tells the
tale, persuaded him that both of
them could make some easy money
if Milton just would hand over the
securities and forget about it.
Milton did, receiving a dollar for
his share.
Young men with sharper wits, but
no better judgment, organize the
same idea into racket" threaten
ing damage, or promising protection
to tinnid folks.
No less than $50 particular rack
cts are said to be going on in our
great cities.
First and foremost, there is the
bootleg racket. Then there is the
milk racket, the arson racket, the
poultry racket, the dyeing and
cleaning racket, and. SO on, almost
ad f1nitu1n.
The basis is to form a gang OF
thugs that will break windows, over
turn trucks, or kill people if need be,
and then collect graft from those
willing to pay for immunity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23

Real Estate, Like Most Other
Phases of Human Progress,
Has Passed Beyond the
Realm of IndiUidudlism.
SAYS:

A CCORDING to a report just
L n issued by the Institute of Steel
construction, 150-story skyscrapero
are possible, but those of seventy
five stories promise the best profit,
provided the land on which they
stand is worth eight million dollars
an acre or more.
A 150-story skyscraper would be
about twice as high as the Eiffel
tower, three times as high as the
Woolworth building, and four times
as high as the Washington
monument.
1t sounds appalling, until one
learns that two mountains just
have been discovered in the Pa
cif1c ocean beside which such sky
scrapers would look like toys, but
which are of little concern to
navigators, since their tops are "a
mile or so under water.
Though maSsed wealth and or
ganized industry make it plausible
to talk about 150-Story buildings,
and Gig h t-million-an-acre-la land,
most people will have to worry
along without them.
To most people, five-room fiat,
or a fifty-foot lot in the suburbs
stands for achievement.
Real estate, like most other
phases of human progress, has
passed beyond the realm of in
dividualism.
The size of buildings and the
value of land have come to depend
on cooperative action, and the
genius who increases them does it
by getting the crowd to adopt his
plans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
SCIENCE
Both Good Health and Fame
Can Be Won IN the Intel
lectudl Field.
BY DAVID DIETZ

rs it possible to win both good
A health and fame in an intellec-
tual held? Popular opinion tradi-
tionauy has said No" but the first
scientific inquiry into the matter
answers, at least for the field of
science, with a YES"
The popular opinion always has
been twofold. 1t has held first,
tAat only those with i'll health were
likely to enter intellectual pursuits,
and second, that those who did en-
ter with good health eventually
broke it down by the rigors of using
their brains
H. L. Mencken summed up the
general feeling by remarking that
no healthy man ever became a phi
loSopher.
Helen Leonard presents the evil
dence for this point of view in a
most impressive manner in the cur
rent issue of Plain Talk, in an ar
ticle titled DO Defects Promote
Genius?" She tells us:
Demosthenes suffered. Pope was
a hunchback, Caesar, Napoleon and
Dostoyevsky were epileptic. Stein
metz was dwarfed. Byron had a
clubfoot.
tuberculosis inflicted Shelley,
Synge, Poe, De Quincy, Jane 6a-
stem. Thoreau, Sir Walter Scucs.
Voltaire and Emile Bronte.
Temporary insanity held Sir Isaac
Newton. Daniel Gabriel Rossetti,
Coleridge, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer,
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary.
The famous Samuel Johnson was
a hodge-podge of diseases, scrofula,
asthma, dropsy and govt, while Bee
thoven wrote his greatest music
after he had become deaf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Healthy

NFFSETTING this imposing ar
W ray of historical data Is a re-
can't survey made by Dr. Ales
Hrdlicka, famous anthropologist of
the United States National Museum.
DR.. Hrdlicka made careful phys
ical examinations of one hundred
members of the National Academy
Of Science. This organization, linn
tied to $50 members, is composed Of
the most famous scientists in
America.
DR.. Hrdlicka's survey completely
upsetS the old notion Of the Scien-
fist. AS he phrased it himself, in
stead of showing the scientist to
be a case of strong mind in weak
body, it showed him to be a case OF
strong mind in a strong body.
DR.. Hrdlicka found that his 100
scientists were above the average
in health and physique.
In fact, his figures led him to
exactly the opposite conclusion to
that reached by Miss Leonard. He
feels that only the person with ex-
ceptionally good health is able to
undergo the rigors of scientific work.
In addition, he adds a reassur-
ing note. Most of his scientists
were advanced in years, and he
found no evidence that hard, intel
lectual work had in any way i'm
paired their health.
He feels that no one need worry
that hard thinking will shorten his
life.
In fact, it. is possible that hard
thinking will add a zest to living
which will increase ones health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
h Health Magazine.
IN his consideration of high blood
Il pressure before the meeting of
the American Medical Association
this year, DR.. Arthur S. Granger
stated his conviction that the
heredity of the patient and the over
irritability of the nervous system
were responsible for the high blood
pressure in the majority of the cases
in which some definite change in the
body could not be found which
would explain the condition more
certainly.
High blood pressure of this type
is a progressive condition. There
is no certain cure.
AS the person advances in years,
the pressure seems to become higher
and higher and as the kidneys and
heart break down in their functions,
the patient becomes gradually worse.
In most instances, it is possible
for such patients to live for years,
even beyond the normal expectancy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-23
Ridinghood There

THE introduction of the fairy
l. tale motif is not altogether ir-
relevant, for one room in the place
was turned over to the mural cele-
bration of the familiar legends. I
can't remember all the figures on
the walls, but I am certain that Red
Ridinghood was there.
Once I thought of doing story
about Miss Hood of Jacks somewhat
in tradition of o. Henry. The hero
inc was to be a chorus girl just as
beautiful as she was innocent.
At the beginning of the narrative
she would be discovered dining in
Jacks with a rounder no better than
he should be. The girl had no
means of knowing his true character
when she accepted his invitation