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follows that B is going to like C,
D and E simply because A does.
This is one of the most common
fallacies concerning marriage. The
world in general holes that people
who are in love with each other
must necessarily be fond of the
same things. 1t just isn't so.
The effort to act if it were so
probably caused 1926 per cent of
the divorces granted in the states
east of the Mississippi in the last
fiscal year.
If, by any long chance, two peo-
pie should discover soon after mar
riage that their interests were pre-.
cisely the same they would do very
well to try to invent some diver
gence in taste and inclination.
Marriage cannot endure without
a reasonable amount of dissonance
Personally, I believe that a wide
scope should be allowed for the pur-
suit Of individual interests.
A husband really ought to have a
few friends whom his wife hates
And she deserves the same privilege
This is practically the only way in
which they can manage to be in
vited out separately.
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IRON sermons and editorials and
l. interviews, 7 gather that there
is a growing body of opinion which
holds that marriage in America is
suffering from an excess of freedom
And it is said that young people
are taking this grave step much too
lightly.
I dissent in my diagnosis. Mar
rage still is marred chiefly by those
who take it too seriously. There is
small hope of happiness for any
young man and woman who gaze at
each other mournfully and say be-
fore they embark upon the adven-
ture: This is a terrible RESPONSE
bility"
Mind you, am making happiness
my test for the success or failure
Of any given marriage. Commu-
mites grow enthusiastically senti-
mental every now and then about
some dear old couple who are about
to celebrate a golden wedding.
do not think that there should
be public dancing in the streets over
the anniversary unless the dear old
lady and the dear old man have
achieved something more than a
feat of infinite patience. I would
as soon huzzah for fagpole sitters.
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slight shadow arranged in groups and often IN 4nes
French 'Moutons.' German, Schafchen-Woken'
The English name, "Mackerel sky, IS an aboreVla-
ton of "Mackerel back sky" The name arose from
the resemblance of the clouds to the pattern not the
scales which is to be found on the backs OF certain
kinds of mackerei.
The fact that the GIRO -cumuus cloud casts no
shadow or only faint shadow proof that the cloud
is thin and contains very little material
The form of the cirro-cumuus clouds seem TO De
the result of local air currents or CONVICTIONS
Those occurring in rows are believed to go on the
cress of air waves or pillows which exist at the meet
ing places of wind layers of different speeds or dlrec-
tions.
We already have pointed out that when cirrus
clouds gradually merge into crostratus 1t is usually
a sign that rain is on its way.
'mackerel sky is also a sign that rain can De
expected If the sky is covered with GIRO unulus
clouds, rain may be expected within twenty-tour
hours.
An old weather proverb says:
"Mackerel scales and mares tails
Make lofty ships carry low sails
This weather proverb-lke many but not a!l-iS
reasonably correct being the result OF pretty good OBJ
servaticns of the weather.
Meanwhile make sure that you know the three
types Of clouds which have been described so lar
You will have no trouble in remembering the Vari-
Gus types of clouds II you learn them one by one as
they are described.
You will find that the knowledge both increases
your interest in the beauty of nature and your ability
ss an amateur weather forecastsr. -.-
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RESPONSIBILITIES

a GAIN and again in advice
4 n columns, I find young hus-
bands and wives informed that they
must not do something or other be-
cause, cit will cause gossip among
the neighbors." Now there is no
reason why a man and woman
should assume all these new and
complex responsibilities to the
whole community the instant they
marry.
I even think that the response
biIity they assumes toward each
other should be vigorously limited.
Marriage is not a miracle. Neither
party is transformed by the cere-
mony and so there should be no
expectation in any quarter that the
lives of the two concerned will be
radically different from their pre-
Yious course.
The man who enjoyed poker be-
fore he fell in love will discover,
unless I am much mistaken, that
the urge remains.
And if he swears off (poker I
mean, he does a foolish thing. BY
so doing he makes his wife stynaie
instead Of an adored object. Mar
riage to be any good must not be
allowed to become a symbol Of
duty.
And 1t should stop short of COM
plete communism. Let us consider
this formula, A---the man, falls in
love with B-the woman, and they
get married. The result Of the
equation should remain a plus B
and not ABB.
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Smallpox Is Preventable Disease

coWpox, was the reason for his I'M
dertaking to develop incubation
against the disease.
Because man of the early middle
ages did not have any idea as to
how this disease might be spread
from one person to another and be-
cause he feared the disease so
greatly, he developed strange no
tons as to the power of the disease
to strike in an unusual manner;
hence the notion developed that
small poX might come through the
air.
In the middle of the nineteenth
century, after Pasteur had made his
fundamental discovery, scientists
began to doubt that disease could
be transmitted by the air route.
There was a time when it was
thought that most of the infectious
diseases could pass from man to
man by this method. Nowadays it
is generally recognized that few
diseases are spread in this way, and
there is even beginning to be some
doubt that moist dropIetS expelled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-16
Quotations of NotabIeS

"CONSULTATION with a view to
~ the prevention of war will
protect American interests more eff
fectively than belated efforts to pro-
tect these Interests after war breaks
out. Raymond Leslie Buel New
Republie).
Larger theaterS and lower prices
appeal to me as the only solution
to the present problem of attracting
the public. Sir Alfred Butt, British
producer.
what is needed in the textile
centers of the south is the exercise
of little common sense. The strike
at Elizabethton could be settled in
five minutes if some fair and reas-
enable minded men sat down
around the table. William Green,
president American Federation Of
Labor.
1.-THE movement of industry among
the areas of the country has tended
definitely toward more equal dis
trihution Of manufacturing. The
rapid industrial growth Of the south
and the decline OF New England and
the middle Atlantic states illustrate
this tendency."-Professor Willard
L. Throp, Amherst.
Without harborinS any undue
fear. the children OF tuhercular paT-
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Prohibition in Mexico

president GIL of Mexico is
a one person who refuses to be
dismayed by the failure of prohibi-
ton in this country.
While he does not propose to go
as far as we have in attempting to
eliminate the liquor evil, the various
measures he suggests sound very
much like those being advocated in
this country twenty-five or thirty
years ago.
With an "anti- alcoholic commit
tee" to formulate and carry out the
program, President Gil expects to
adopt the following measures:
Prohibition of the sale of liquor,
except in duly authorized places.
Limitation Of the number of such
places.
Forbidding the establishment of
such places close to schools, fac
tories, barracks and industrial
plants.
Permitting the consumption of
only light wine and beer in such
places.
Providing for the sale of strong
liquor in bottles.
Forbidding the sale of all alco-
holic liquors to women and chill
dren.
Revocation of licenses with high
alcoholic content, and drastic re-
strictions on their importation.
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IRRIGATION for Egypt

EGYPT has set aside $32;OO0,000
Il for the construction of a great
dam and irrigation works in the Su-
dan, which means the application
Of modern engineering skill to an
old problem.
For thousands of years, Egypt has
prospered because of the Nile.
Each year the Nile over1oWed the
land, not only wetting it to a point
Of saturation, but fertilizing it with
thin layer of salt.
The difficulty was that the whole
population had to move to high
ground when the flood made its ap-
pearance, and then move back to
plant and harvest the crops.
Irrigation, as made possible by
the dams and canals which we
moderns have learned to build, will
afford all the advantage without
any of the old-time inconvenience.
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Look Beyond the Labels

During the coming months the citizens OF
indianapolis will do we'll if they carefully scru-
tinize various efforts and movements that are
being launched, all bearing the label Of good
government"
The machine which has ruled this city IN
other days and understands just how profitable
power can be does not intend to relinquish the
perquisites without a battle
There is still a faint hope that decision by
The supreme court viii prevent the people from
putting into operation the city manager form
of government. That hope is very faint. Too
many good lawyers have declared that the peo-
pie have this right for the bosses to hope for
any relief from that source.
The old trick was to divide the people along
party lines, appeal to party loyalty, fight the
battles of the war between the states over
again, call upon sacred memories to hide the
infamies of the present time
That trick has always worked. 1t was one
Of the evils that the people Of this city voted to
Danish when they adopted the city manager
form of government under which the candi-
dates for office viii not be listed by political
parties.
The people know that the politics of city gov
eminent should have no connection with ma
tional issues. There is never but one municipal
issue That is the fight between those who want
honesty, efficiency, decency, and those who
want graft patronage, power and pillage.
So it becomes necessary for the bosses TO
divide the people on other lines, if they intend
TO wiz. They are now busy forming clubs with
high sounding names and perfectly good plat
forms. They hope to Great dissensions and
foment small movements that will permit the
machine to elect its candidates. They know
that their only chance is to have as many diff
ferent factions as possible in the field. They
will have but one slate and one ticket
The problem was increased when the prefer
entail ballot was eliminated. That would have
made it impossible for the machine to win.
If you are invited to join good government
clubs, it may be well to investigate the found
ers of the club Some of them may be real
There are others which bear the Coffin ear
marks. His henchmen and agents are mas
querading as civic leaders, but the mark of
Coffin remains. They will still be his men if
they succeed in getting into office.
In these days, it does not pay to accept
labels. There are too many politicians who
try to put pre-war brand on their politics
when in reality they are peddling the worst of
moonshine.
Ii you want to be really safe, demand to
know what stand the new evangelists took
when the issue of City Manager was before the
people.
1t Is very necessary that the new form of
government be in the hands of its friends, not
Its enemies
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Gf7d0'II Il 4 de :
ANNIVERSARY
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PANAMA CANAL BONDS
NAV 16


II EIGHTEEN years ago today the
l. United States treasury invited
bids for $50,Oo0,OOO worth of bonds
to complete construction of the
Panama canal.
Total cost of this gigantic work
was approximately 1855. 100000, but
$113000,000 of this was written off
to national defense, since it repre-
sented the cost of military features
which would not have been neces-
sary to make the canal merely com
mercially valuable to the nation.
The canal was opened for naViga-
ton Aug. Is, 1914 1t is little more
than fifty miles long; the minimum
depth of the channel is forty-one
feet and in parts of Gatun lake is
about eighty feet.
A five-mile wide strip of land
thanking the canal was purchased BY
the United States from Panama
for S10,OOO,000 plus an annual rental
Of $250,000.
Since opening Of the canal, tolls
have totaled almost $30000,000
About three times as much cargo
moves from the Pacific to the At
lantic as in the opposite direction.
Sugar from Hawaii and oil from
California account for this.
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Russia and Business

ID USINESS is business. Regard
ID less of how they may feel to-
ward Russia from a political stand
point, American merchants and
manufacturers are anxious to trade
with her.
About all they ask is a reasonable
assurance that they will get their
money.
This summer a group of them will
visit Russia under the auspices of
the American Russian Chamber of
Commerce, which should do both
countries good.
It is time that we thought of
Russia in some other light than
that Of politics.
There is no greater difference be-
tween our ideas and those of the
existing system of government in
Russia than there was between our
ideas and those of czarism.
The trouble is that we are letting
the difference interfere with ordi-
nary relations now, when We had
sense enough not to let it interfere
with them in former times.
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ents always should observe certain
precautions. Ruth WadsWorth, M.
D. (Collier's)
y
81 have been advised that for a
comparatively modest sum we can
strip it (the State, War and Navy
building) of its function to repre-
sent the different types of aYchi-
lecture known to man and bring ii
back to the sound classic lines of
the treasury, as congress intended. y
President Herbert Hoover.
g n .
We have respect for Robert e.
Lee, but when we read that monu-
ment $50 feet high just has been
erected to the memory OF JEFF Davis
down in Kentucky, We think of the
garages which could have been
made of the material.
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THE sixty-year old quarrel be-
Il tween the pope and the italian
government has been brought to an
end by a concordat; the ten-year
attempt of Soviet Russia to detroy
religion through repressive measure
virtually has been abandoned, and
the three-year deadlock between
church and state in Mexico seems
likely to be adjusted.
Three hundred, or even one hun
dred years ago, each of the three
controversies would have led to war
Though many people may remain
fanatical in their religious beliefs
a liberal spirit has made sufficient
Roadway throughout the civilized
world to prevent such strife and
bloodShed as once characterized
their zeal.
We have made progress IN learn
ing to adjust difference, even if we
can not overcome them.
That, after all, is a real triumph,
and about the only one that juSti-
fies modern civilization.
The difference between the world
of today and the world of two
thousand years ago is not to be
found in fewer disagreements, but
in the ability to tolerate them.
Time was, when people thought
it was impossible to get along in
peace with those who held diver
gent views, especially in religion
and politics.
After many centuries of futile
quarreling, we have discovered that
il is.
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AWAY From Demncracv

Dangers to democratic government have developed
rom three directions in the Washington fight over
tariff and farm relief. Altogether apart from the
merits or dement's Of subsidy by high protection and
debenture as SUCH these contested issues are revealing
official tendencies to depart from orderly processes
Of representative government.
Republican leaders in the house contemplate re-
tuSing to receive the farm relief debentre bill passed
by the senate 81 to 49, They are certain they can de-
feat the senate bill in open fight, thanks to the
Presidents vigorous opposition to it.
But they do not want to be embarrassed by voting
on it and do not want the risk of its weaken
ing the tariff measure. Therefore they propose to
keep the senate bill out of the house altogether by
the simple expedient of calling it revenue legsla-
ton" which consttutionally must originate in the
house.
This plan is plain legislative trickery. evasion
of constitutional duty. 1t probably will fail perhaps
even before the leaders commit themselves to it off,
cially
Similarly the house leaders planned to prevent de-
bate on the high tariff bill by imposing a gag rule
Fortunately the plan caused such furore it is being
abandoned partly as apt to hurt than help the
bill
But here was case of legislative dictators willing
virtually TO disfranchse the millions of American
citizens and their congressional spokesman opposed
10 the Dill.
The third danger is different in kind. 1t pertains
to Mr. Hoovers action Tuesday in raising the duties
on window glass, flaxseed milk and cream.
We are not at the moment concerned with the
Justice or injustice OF these four specific increases
Nor do we question the legal rights the motive Of
the President in so acting.
But we seriously question the value of the flexi-
bic provision of the tariff law which gives the Pres-
dent this power to change rates I'D so per cent It
has failed In years of experiment it has oper-
ated in fact to boost many rates and lower but few
II has made the tariff commission subservient to
the President It has transferred important egs-
istive function of congress to the President an adj
inistrative Official And it has failed TO produce in
practice any virtues 10 compensate for such serious
departure from the American form Of government
The full absurdity of the flexible provision is re-
vealed by the present situation Here is the Pres-
dent acting legally under that provision and on recon-
mendation Of Q majority OF the tariff commission,
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from the nose and throat Will carry
with them the germs of disease, sut-
ficient in number to affect other
persons.
In the interest of safety against
tuberculosis, pneumonia and other
diseases affecting the lungs partic-
ularly, it is best that people con-
tinue to cover up each cough and
sneeze, however.
When the telephone was invented,
it constituted for the majority of
mankind as great a mystery as did
smallpox. Hence it was not at all
strange that the ignorant should
believe that disease could be trans
mitted by talking over the telephone
wire.
AS long as there are people willing
to believe in telepathy. in the evil
eye, in Witchcraft, and in charms
OF one type or another, there will
be people willing to believe that
disease is caused by the evil spirit
that can fly by magic over vast dis
tances to strike those who are not
protected by the proper charms.
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Can Not Know All
THERE can be perfect union or

THERE can be perfect union only
Il where there is perfect separate
ness. No two people can ever under
stand each other until they know
that there are things which they will
never understand.
A man will love a woman who
knows him a little better than the
rest of the world does and synnpa-
thize with him twice as much. The
world, perhaps. misjudges and mis-
understands him two out Of three
times. And she, the adored one,
comprehends him half the time.
That is enough. 1t should not be
much more. There should remain
in the mind of every individual some
little corner guarded by a great sign
reading, Keep Out-This Means
You"
Copyright. 1929. by The Tines
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygein, the
Health Magazine.
IN the middle ages the most dread
4 disease for mankind in general
was smallpox. So common was the
condition, that the unusual person
in the community was the one with
out the pits and marks of smallpox
upon his face.
Today the person who carries
about such scars is a monument to
the ignorance and stupidity of his
parents who refused to permit him
to be vaccinated. Smallpox is a pre-
ventable disease. Since the work
of Edward Jenner, it has been def
nitely established that vaccination
confers protection in the vast ma
jority of cases.
Essentially, vaccination is a
means of giving the person a mild
attack of the disorder. An obserVa-
ton made by a dairymaid to Ed
ward Jenner, namely, that she could
not get smallpox because she had
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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.
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thin sheet of whit
ish cloud, som e -
tim S appearing
like a tangled web
and sometimes COW
ering the whole sky,
giving it a milky
appearance.
CLOUD Forms, -
official publication
of the British Met
eoro logical Office,
describes the GIRO
cumulus as follows
"Mackerel sky
Small roun d e d
m a S S e S of white
flakes without Shad-
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fixing the rate four OF the worst disputed sched-
ules in the whole tariff range
And all the while congress-the body constitution
ally empowered with this responsibilities not only
in session. but actually in the midst of framing gen.
eral tariff law including those four schedules.
It might be that most citizens much rather would
trust Herbert Hoover individual than this con-
gress to frame scientific tariff law. But that is
quite beside the point.
This continuous concentration of greater and
greater power in the presidency of which this tariff
making prerogative is only example, is a mega
ton of plan of government. 1t tends to destroy
one CT the basic safeguards of government by the peo-
pie. No good can come of it.
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Repentance

Y THINK a reckless gusto becomes
marriage. Romeo and Juliet, !
should say, made a success of theirs,
although they never did reach so
much as a wooden wedding. Their
only anniversary was moonlight,
which is, to all spiritual intents,
more weighty.
1t is my complaint that all too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-16
MackereI Sky Rain
No. 1856

livery ONE is familiar with the expression, "a
II mackerel sky" The clouds which form it are
known technically as This is the third
type of cloud in the official list.
The first it will be remembered, the cirrus, the
thin wiSps at high altitude, known popularity as
mares tails" The second was the cirro-Stratus a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-16
Common FaIIacy

THIS is important. Before mar
l. riage A was very fond of three
friends whom we shall call G, D and
E. Marriage is not going to alter
this fondness, but it by no means
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Daily Thought

A fool uttereth all his mind, but
a wise man keepth it in till after
wards.-Prov. 29:l1.
= -
VXTELL, God give them wisdom
w that have it; and those that
are fools, let them use their tall
nts.-Shakespeare.
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When President and Mrs. Hoover entertain for the
cabinet members this fall why not invite Mrs. Gam,
Mrs Longworth and all the other warning factions to
a nice buffet lunch?
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There are lots of girls who would go through any,
thing for man, including his bank account.