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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
GETS NEW HOTEL JOB
William Wells of SEVERN to Go to
Milwaukee as Manager.

William Wells, for the past few
years, assistant manager OF the
SEVERN hotel here, has accepted a
position as manager of the Hotel
Plankinton, Milwaukee.
Wells, well-known to hotel men
throughout the middle-west, receEo-
" was elected president of the In
diana Hotel GreeterS Association.
Before assuming his duties at the
SEVERN he was connected with the
Roberts hotel. Muncie.
He will take charge of the
Plankinton the approaching week.
His successor has not been appointed
at the SEVERN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
TRIM TREES TO
AID RADIO, IS
EXPERTS PLEA
Owners of Sets Can Help
Reception Greatly by
Use of Saw.

Many letters have been filed by
The Times radio interference man
in the last six weeks and all have
some type of grief that makes radio
reception impossible from some sta
lions or all over the dials.
Letters with more than one sigma
tUEe have been getting the main
attention, due to the fact that if
ten or twenty homes are having
trouble it is certain that there IS a
major interference IN that section,
not confined to any one home.
The interference man has checked
several districts in northern and
eastern sections of the city and
finds the major trouble in most
cases is due to power lines running
through trees, causing them to
ground. This type of grief has been
predominating lately, due TO the ice
covered trees.
In Irvington the radio man
checked and reported hundreds Of
trees that were grounding power
lines. The Power and Light Com
pany states that owners of trees
must act before the tree can be cut
to clear the trouble. Trees are pretty
in the summer time, but also make
summer radio nearly impossible,
along with the heat static. There
fore, if fans want good programs,
the only thing to do is to have the
trees trimmed or topped. If this
were done all over Indianapolis,
radio reception would be much
better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
AMERICANS STUDY
FOR BRITISH ACCENT
u. S. English Is Good Enough for
Yankees Abroad.

81 NEA Service
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The English
language, as it is spoken in Amer
lea, evidently isn't good enough for
some natives of the United States.
At a school of elocution here there
are fifty Americans who have ap-
piled for instruction in pronuncia-
ton.
The method of teaching the Brit
ish method of speaking the English
language to Americans is mot to
destroy their natural accent, but to
soften it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

Ancient Chinese families COM
memorated the death of their rela-
tives by putting up a strip Of wall
paper each time a death occurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Dial TzQ,isteYS
al references are Central Standard Time)

1o.so-wcN C72ol. Chicago-wGN orches-
ira.
il:0o-KCh 1901. Deuver-Music album.
Sweetheart Songs"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
THE FEMALE OF The

MaIc Jersey lMOs1uIIUto NVItIItk
Buzz Nor Bite, but Those Others.
Be- atcd Press
ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. I5.-Ot
the 159.675. 600, 900 offspring Of
overwintering New Jersey mosquito,
1887, 100000 are congenial house
companions, DR.. Thomas ]. Head
lee told an determination society
here.
They are male mosquitoes and
neither buzz nor bite, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

Plum buildings have grown out
of an Elizabethan dish known as
plum porridge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

The Times radio interference man
made a check Wednesday in Beech
Grove to find why radio reception
is so bad in certain spots. After
making a check all around Beech
Grove, several bad points were
found and several dead spots, where
radio reception is impossible, due
to the power lines that run south
of there.
In the check it was found that
the street car line that runs to
Beech Grove has many bad sections
of track and the cars are broad
casting all along the line.
The Beech Grove shops also are
causing some trouble when they
have different electrical equipment
working, as all use high voltage
Through the day the hospital has
been helping the grief along by
using different machines, fans in
this section say, and the interfer-
ence man will make a daytime
check to test the equipment used
and report later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Oxygen Fails to Save Boy

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-Kept alive
for twenty-four hours by use OF
oxygen. George Hooper, IS, died to-
day after having been overcome by
gas fumes. Water boiling over on
a stove and extinguishing the flame
was the apparent cause Of the as
phyXiation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
MACHINE ROCKS BABY

Latest Mechanical Friend TO Man
Puts End to Nocturnal Jaunts.
BIZ United Press
PARIS. Feb. 15.-The latest friend
to mankind is the inventor of an
electric machine which rocks the
baby to sleep when it wakes up in
the middle of the night. The ma
chimes comprises a motor which
operates a connecting rod attached
to the baby'S cradle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
WLW (700) CINCINNATI
FRIDAY

WLW (70O) CINCINNATI
FRIDAY
3:00-U. s Marine Corps band.
4.OO-Tea Time trio
4.30-Livestock report.
4.40-OdiCe boys.
5.O0-Henry Thies orchestra.
5.3O-Crosley Oynacone Diners
6.O0-UniVersity of Cincinnati educa-
tiOnal series
6.l5-Squibbs program.
6.30-DiXie Circus.
-Lamplight melodies.
730-Tne Armstrong Quaker5.
s'0Q-Philco hour.
9.30-Time and weather announcement.
Hotel Gibson orchestra.
lO.00-Slumber hour.
11:O0-Hotel Gibson orchestra,
l1:30-Gonoolyrics.
l2.00-Henry ThieS' orchestra.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

WKBF U4O0) INDIANAPOLIS
(HOosieE Athletic Club
FRIDAY
a. VI.
l0:0O-Recipe exchange.
l0;i5--Studio program.
l0:3O-Livestock and grain market;
weather and shippers forecast.
lO:40-Interesting bits of history, courtesy
indianapolis public library.
l0:45-WkBF shopping service.
P. NJ.
5:00--Late news bulletins and sports.
6:0O-Dinner hour concert.
6:30-Indianapolis Athletic Club.
1.00-Silent.
S:OO-KOnIo la hour.
9:0O-CapitOl Lumberjacks.
i0:O0-Rose Tire Company.
indianapolis Athletic Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

WT8M Go5o kHooyoies) INDIANAPOLIS
indianapolis Power and Light Company
FRIDAY
A. VI.
200 10 $500 Pep Unlimited Club.
I0.Sn-Aunt Sammy's hour.
/ ] .G0-Fuiler-R ydc morning musicale.
NOon-POpular records.
u :2O-Livestock report; farm period.
4:3O-WFBM studio orchestra.
5:O0-Children's knowledge.
5:I5-Record program.
5:3g-Cha pier day from the New
Testament.
5:fj-What' happening, late news from
The indianapolis Times; news
casting.
6:00-Longine's time; weather forecast.
500 70 6:3O-Silent.
6;3O-Jim and Walt, Gloon Chasers."
6:45-Coumbia Club dinner music.
1:15-Studio orchestra.
1:30-Studio recital.
7.45-Studio orchestra.
8:00-Silent.
II :OO-CoIumnist; Longine's time; weather
forecast.
u:15-Charlie Davis orchestra from Co
lumbia Club.
i2:i5-Sign off.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
Discouraging Business
Ambition
Mr.. Forman Asked His Banker Question.

rREE If the biggest banks in Chicago voluntarily cut the
interest rate on Stock Exchange loans from to per
cent setting d good example when things got bad"
Eight uer cent is usury The 15 and 20 per cent that some
money lenders been getting in New York ought 70 mean
iai That which against the law in ONE place snouo Dc
against the law in another, EVEN in Wall street
Wise bankers know that all the funds OF their banks
for stock gambling sCourng legitimate business customers
il bad for the country and bad for the banks in the long run
They know it NOW .
Mr. g. Forman an able merchant OF Rochester N " saio
the other day to Mr. Well president Of the Rochester Security
Trust Company Wat would have happened had gone to
thirty years ago. telling him young meant to work hard
and wanted credit to build up business?
Thirtv wears ago worth the bankers while to notice
me- / eot credit and did build up my business. q man
as good as am better had asked for the same accommo
dation during the speculation he would be told
Don bother me- my money invested in gambling loans
in Wall Street Ten years from the banks are gong TO
need and will wish they had the business that might have
been built by encouraging and financing the ambition OF
young business men,
INTELLIGENT bankers viii think that over Thirty years
standing Of his business the ability to inspire con1oence ana
thorough knowledge Of his trade.
The banks lent him the small amount needed to estaohsn
what il now one Of the most successful businesses in Rochester
And for many years Mr., Foran has been depos1tng mil
lions of dollars in the banks
Thousands of young business men, able to do what Mr.
Foran did thirty years ago. and possessing Mr. Foran
equipment of ambition, ability and integrity are brushed
aside mot sufficiently important to interest real 1--we
banker =
stock gambling Can money at usurious interest rates
don last forever. The bankers know it now.
But youth ambition and will last long this
country does banks should not discourage them or hurt their
own future by putting themselves entirely on pawnshcp
basis.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
More Schools and Less Fools
BIZ Herbert Kaufman

IKE the old dary who heard the whistle blow and
IL remarked Its ean' time for folks but it's just
liz clock for me- million American citizens and az
many intending citizens hear the calls Of opportunity
and haven't the means to respond.
Democracys boasted guarantees Of equality cancelled
by eracy To be ignorant is to be deaf dumb and blind
Men free to choose and occupations at will
can only be bestowed by knowledge.
who read write and speak the language Of the
nation incompetent to share the boons of progress to
efficient service to compete for leadership better
their condition maintain with contemporary thought
mind compelled to pow through life with the make.
shifts of intelligence handicapped farmer attempting
to cultivate unfertilzed with crooked stick
brain beyond the Of community pollens cannot
hope to blossom into noteworthy utility produce salts
factory yield from its labors.
An ignoramus however natvely endowed encounters
riers every and deadlines in all directions.
alien who persists in the Of his mother tongue and
refuses the chance to acquire speech his environ
ment limit his expectations to the least renuneratve
areas of employment.
Industrys effort to protect unsed workers from mining
factory hazards constantly baed by inability to
warnings and interpret the significance Of safety
devices.
the printing The ure Of tenement districts and
racial huddles is the schooroom.
The that bound such diversely bred and
widely spread population in patriotism and concerted
purpose state and federay enforced statute which
imposes upon every citizen of these United States certain
standards of terac that the messages Of the Pres
dent the enacmen Of legislation and the codes under which
may be comprehended by the hilbily and the alien
There still thousands of communities similar to the
on the Rapdan where Hoover
of Colonial utterly Of facts and conditions
long familiar to the youngest primary pupils.
There still commonweaths in the Union where genera.
after generation inherit ancestral benightedness and
deprived of the advantages through which others Of
us have meanwhile progressed and prcfited
far they concerned pure food laws health regua
tons sanitary codes and usury penalties do not exist
Congress consistently enac legislation in their interest but
craven pospones action the Americanizaton BILL which
would compel learn the constitutional rights and the
myriad maretsof which science has accomplished and
invention has achieved apd pathology has discovered
/ neglect
welfare It's balance sheet can't afford numbskulls.
nteracy contribute its due share to general upkeep
nteracy is squanderer OF energy red enyan invita-
tion to fraud and swndle.
niteracy unfit parent and dangerous guide and
counsellor.
niteracy favorts quarry of the quack the dema
gogue and the scoundrel
1teracy imperls etfcency CIVIC reform aoos
prosperity.
/ we'd have half many fools there twice a. many
schools.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

"YALTER w. LIGGETT, author of the maga-
w zine article, "How Wet Is Washington IS
reliably reported to have been asked by the
Grand Jury whether he had bought any liquor here
to have replied that he had then to have been asked
where and from whom he purchased the liquor, ana
to have refused to answer this question.
District Attorney Leo A. Rover owes it to the pub
lie to state definitely whether this version Is correct
If it is, then Mr. Rover is guilty Of discrimination
in failing to have Mr.. Lggett jailed for contempt
of court.
Mr. Rover showed no hesitancy about having the
three Times reporters jailed when the very same
question was put to them and they refused to answer
To be sure, Mr. Liggett quite properly refused %
answer the question propcunded to him and ne should
by no means be jailed u
obligation to answer the same question and neither
should they be in jail.
What is the fine line of distinction that Mr.. rover
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
Tidiness and Cleanliness Among
High School Pupils

TT unfortunate that exaggerated reports should have gained
headway the alleged purposes Of the Board of Edcation
to deny diplomas the future to high school graduates who
may neglected cleanliness in their high school
Washington children mighty neat and tidy lot of pub
lie school pupils and must take goodnaturedy the
less severe and und kidding they will get the Board
Educaon proposed rule requiring good school records of
cleanliness as well as Of department and study.
II is quite doubtful that the board will attempt lay
any hard and fast rules this sensitive subject because
dangerous and unfair thing to attempt other
baings in the matter Of welkept bodies personal ap
4aarance.
Carelessness in bodily attentions and untdness in dress
unfortunate and do most harm to those guilty of this neglect
The Board of Education should most assuredy stimulate pupils
keep themselves physically attractive though their
clothing be most ordinary but the board may get pretty
girl graduate any such absurd ground alleged made
quate Of water and soap.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
4ere Are Some Questions For Dlr. ROUe
PahIe Have ermaton-or Action Preferably Action
Action, Preferably Action
The District Attorney Should Let the Public

draws between the two cases, if any? And why
should Mr.. Rover make fish Of one and flesh of
another?
Consistency, thou art jewep-but apparently
not worn in the diadem of the District Attorney.
Mr.. Lggett is quoted saying that just before ne
went into the Grand Jury room he told Mr.. Rover in
Mr. ROvers own office that he was prepared TO give
detailed information regarding rum party given at
local hotel by member Of President HOOvers Cabi7
net at which each guest was given quart OF cOnfis-
Gated whisky furnished by the Department OF Justice
If this is so Mr. Rover why did not the Grand Jury
question Mr.. Liggett regarding this rum party!
And why, Mr. Rover, when Mr.. Liggett went be-
fore the Grand Jury, did you not accompany him
yourself and ask him the questions yourself, just as
you accompanied each of the preceding rum nvesti-
CATION witnesses?
Why, instead, did you entrust the questioning of
this most important witness to your youngest as
sistant?
And why was he kept before the Grand Jury only
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

make you q lady nor a SILK
hat and q valet make q gen
tleman,' any more. You can't
tell your banker from your
bootlegger either by his accent
or the, cut of his evening clothes
these days. EVERYBODY'S
going high-hat now. Even the
best burgla~- and seCond-storS
men do their t1ightwork In a
tuxedo and wear a gardeaia in
their button-hole
'"The aristocracy Of today Is
the ariStocracy of ACHIEVE
MENT! And Of PERSONAL
TTY! And the ariStocratS Of
today are men like Col. Charles
Lindbergh. and Thomas A. Ed
ison, George Bernard Shaw and
Ramsay MacD Donald
'sBut what makes them ariSr
tocrats'?" asked Mrs. Divot.
because when you meet
them, whoever YOU are, the
honor and the pleasure and the
glory are all YOURS!" returned
Mrs. Green. And when yon
shake hands with them, 1t IS
you, not they. who will re-
member it and BOAST about
it! That's what makes an aris.
tocrat. today, yesterday and
forever"
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Anyone who hopes to achieve
success, even the average, must
know more. or at least as Ynucu,
about some Oone thing as any
other one, and not only know
but know how to do-and how
to utilize his experience and
knowledge for the benefit Of
others. Vail.
Many men have been capable
Of doing wise thing, more a
cunning thing, but very few q
generous thing. Pope.
A business that makes moth.
ing but money Is q poor kind
g business. =Fe>as
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
THE RRY-GO-ROUND : By Helen Rowland

"Of course there Is, as there
always has been and always will
be-" said Mrs. Green. But
the aristocracy Of today Is not
the aristocracy of blue-blood
and ancestry as 1t used to be
In the South. Nor the aristoc
racy Of culture as 1t once was
In Boston even the aris-,
tocracy of wealth, as it has
been in New York and Palm
Beach.
"Just the fact that your
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

HOW easy it Is to excuse your
I1self for not saving money.
Others are to blame II your
savings account is not expand
ing.
II other members OF your
family did not spend so much
YOU might, do much better, you
say. Not infreuuen5ly you tell
them this. At the came time
you are not making any great
Self-denials.
II you have no family very
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

Praise has different effects,
according to the mind 1t meets
with: 1t makes wise man mod
est, but B fool more arrogant,
turning his weak brain giddy.
F'elttAm.
They are thu most frivolous
and superficial OF mankind who
can be much delighted with
that praise which they them
sedves know to be altogether
unmerited. Adam Smith.
People viii pretend to grieve
more than they really dea and
that takes off from their true
grief, swift
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

6GT'M all fused and bothered!"
Il said Mrs. Green. "You see,
John has promised to take me
abroad this winter-and ! don't
know what to do about King
George"
about King Georgeq" re-
peated Mrs. Divot, wonderingly.
Whether to high-hat him or
to ignore him or just take him
up and be pleasant with him,
explained Mrs. Green. Now
that this country is in so strong
for 'airy-Stocracy, one has to be
awfully careful. You can't al
ford to know EVERYBODY"
"oh. dearl Oh, dear!" walled
Mrs. Green. I'm afraid my so
cial standing is lost forevefl ]
spoke to the garbage man this
morning! I even spoke pleas
antly. and asked him about his
wife and childrenl"
did you shake HANDS with
him?" demanded Mrs. Green, in
horror.
NO" said Mrs. Divot. II
didn't have my gloves on. But
what rs an aristocrat and IS
there an aristocracy these days.
anyway"
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
ONCE-OVERS

likely you blame your friends
for their announcement Of your
expenditures. You tell yourself
that If your friends spent less
you would save more.
Yet you seldom obiett to any
line of amusement your crowd
suggests by way of having q
good time.
You want 1t understood that
you are mot a "piker." you
want to be considered q good
fellow.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

great-grandfather bore a title
and went to court in a peri
Wig, or the fact that your great
great-grandmother danced with
George Washington, gives you
no prestige with the people
who know that your husband
sells bonds or tractors or gas
stoves for a living and that you
drive your own last year ar.
Neither does an ermine coat
and an imported limou-''
The Washington times., 1929-11-13


zine article?
And Mr.. Rover have you yet summoned the Cab-
net member who "threw" the rum party and whose
name was given to you?
And if you have not, why have you not?
Are you afraid to step on Cabinet members toes?
And why, Mr.. Rover, didn't you have Mr. Lggett
questioned about the alleged official Senate bootleg
ger and the alleged six bOotleggers to the House of
Representatives mentioned in Mr.. Liggetts maga-
zine article?
Is it fair inference Mr.. Rover, that you are
afraid to step on the toes of Senator's and Represen
tatives, as well as those of Cabinet members?
These are all questions uppermost in the minds of
thinking people who are honestly interested in clean
ing up rum-ridden Washington.
Please, Mr.. Rover let the public have information,
or action-preferably action.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

IL minutes, when it takes longer than this time to
read the astounding charges contained in his maga
zine article?
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MIST RE COIDi

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zone frontage about 1000 feet on paved
road rear line about 1000 feet on Northwest
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per acre. Convenient terms to responsible
party.
MOORE & HILL, INC, /:
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