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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

Beauty contests. with their con-
sequent naming of queens" and
'princesses, lower the moral stand
arc of communities, and tend to
dangerous eXaltation Of feminine
vanity as we'll as constituting a par
ody on very serious matters-Pre-
nier Benito Mussolini of Italy
I appreciate the assistance given
the livestock industry by increasing
the tariff on reindeer meat, venison
and other game.-Senator Capper.
Kansas,
Courage and imagination are nee
essary to restore our economic pres
tige-courage to scrap ruthlessly old
fashioned methods and machinery,
and imagination in exploring every
commercial avenue overseas.-The
prince of Wales.
OF course. if some one came along
with a bona fide offer for 100000
I'd have to consider it seriously
Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion.
Z
No one can be a good Christian
and not believe in demons of all
kinds.-H. L. Mencken.
If We transferred all the Mexicans
to Scotland, most of them would
die speedily. If we transferred all
the Scots to Mexico, many Of them
would be millionaires within q
month. William Lyon Phelps
Good Housekeeping Magazine.
To Judge from the Grand Street
Follies" recently opened at the
Booth theater New York;, clothes
made the woman in the gay eighties
and lack of them makes her today.
Francis r pelIanov (OutIook)-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
/ OAG1V1O " WILL BROUN

casting a play designed to win votes
for Al Smith.
He posed with us performers for
the camera men. RaskOb seemed
frightened and i'll at ease. He had
no personality with which to en-
thrall the ingenue who sat on either
side of him. Even q newspaper col
umnist seemed to inspire the great
financier with a mumbling diff
dence.
I wanted to reach across the In
tervening actresses and pat the cap
tain Of industry upon the back and
say to him, "There, there, not one of
us will bite you"
So tinlid was the little man that my
own personality grew benign and
expansive. THE poor fellow hasn't
even got it, u thought to my
self. I tried to draw him out with
chosen remarks on the auto in
dustry and the future of the mo-
tor truck.
He listened attentively, moist
ened his lips twice, but made no
reply Then the mouse-like mag
nate had scanpered away
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

ME are on the threshold Of a
wv rapid expansion in air traf-
fc. The law throughout the forty
eight states and the federal gov
eminent is in the making. The
Aviation Corporation proposes to
become active in securing uniform
ity and stability Of law and pro-
cedure to safeguard life and the
streams of capital flowing into avi-
alton and allied enterprises.-Mabel
Walker Willebrandt.
n
The door is wide open, not only
to cooperative associations, but as
sociations or corporations actually
engaged in marketing of agricul-
tural commodities, owned Or con-
trolled by cooperative associations,
or by individuals engaged as origi-
nal producers of agricultural COM
modities.-Representative Haugen,
Iowa
I have tried 4 long time and found
no way Of avoiding a whipping when
I Go not behave myself reasonably
welI.-Ed Howe. Atchison, Kan, edi-
tor and author.
q
Wisdom is knowing what to do
next, skill is knowing how to do it
and virtue is doing it.-David Starr
Jordan.
q
The supreme court is very much
like Hamlet following the ghost Of
his father. The court follows that
gllostly thing We call the will of
congress. II follows it as Gid the
FRINGE of Denmark follow the ghost,
WITH tinidity and trembling, because
it never knows how far the congress
is going or into what abyss of I'M
constitutionaHsn1 the ghost may
lead it.-Representatiye Beck, Penn
sylvania
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

enough if he had been talking to a
group planning to become prizafght
promoters or marathon maeSuos.
Jack Kearns faunts far more with
dow dressing than Gerard SWope
of the General Electric Company,
Henry Ford could hardly get a.
word in edgewise with John Nc
Graw. Yet, it seems to me, large
affairs are likely to be intrusted to
the soft-spoken and -colored
men Of this generation.
The White House has known no
President better turned out than
Warren G. Harding. If the sculp-
tors are to be believed, Lincoln's
trousers bagged at the knees, while
Warren's we're a Joy in sharp edged
symmetry.
Yet, no man can achieve q Get
tysburg address by the simple pro-
cess Of choosing a lovely necktie and
grinding his teeth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Irritation May Cause Cancer

frequent. It is always important
to consider age groups in studying
the statistics Of any disease.
All sorts Of cancers occur among
lower animals, even wild animals.
and if cancer were primarily a dis
ease of civilization it would not be
found among such species. Finally,
diagnosis among savages is not what
constitutes infectious disease.
Wives do not contract cancer, al
though sleeping with husbands who
have it; physicians do not catch
cancer from the patients they at
tend: those who are doing research
on cancer do not get the disease
from working with cancer material.
Many facts are known about can
GER, but its cause is unknown.
Among the most important of the
known facts is the relationship OF
repeated irritation to the onset OF
cancer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
How Old Is Man7

THE old riddle of whether men
4 develop superior talents as the
race grows older, or whether their
progress is due to borrowing on a
bigger past, remains unsolved.
A human skull belonging to the
paIeolithic age is reported to have
been found in France and to indi-
cate a brain development compare
BILE to that of the present day.
If true, there is something wrong
with the theory that we descended
from monkeys, and that persons are
more like monkeys the farther we
follow them back.
If, on the other hand, the being
to whom this skull belonged was on
earth $4,000 years ago, there is
something wrong with the theory
that the first of our race appeared
in the Garden of Eden $4,000 years
later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Button Your 0yerCoat

TN fact, the professors formula
Il for success may be sirnplified to
the slogan, Shine your shoes and
grit your teeth"
Don't believe it. Anybody who
wants to exchange some brains for
will power on an even basis can get
my trade any day.
Among industrial leaders front
is not very prevalent. Once during
the late lamented presidential cam
paign I met John Raskob. He came
to a studio where newspaper men,
actors and actresses were broad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
A Dry Embassy

IF women can chalk up another
l. victory, so can the Anti-Saloon
League.
The British embassy has gone dry.
Sir Esme Howard has notified the
members of his staff that he will no
longer sign for requests for imported
liquor, and that when the present
supply runs out they can go dry,
or join their American cousins in
patronizing the bootlegger.
Washington processes to be dis
turbed over the prospect that Sir
Esme may lose his social caste be-
cause of such action, and is wonder
ing whether it doesn't presage his
retirement.
More probably It presages his
realization that Ramsay Mcdonald
has become premier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
One Dead Measure
THERE is little sense in discuss

THERE is little sense in discuss
L ing the reapportionament bill
now before congress.
1t has been killed by two amend
ments. One of these amendments
would leave out aliens when count
ing noses as a basis of representa-
ton in congress.
The other would leave out
Negroes who have been denied the
right to vote.
Whether either Of these amend
ments squares with the Constitution,
which is doubtful, they both fail to
square with common sense.
No one knows this better than the
gentlemen who proposed them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
ID OBERT E. ROGERS, professor I

ID OBERT E. ROGERS, professor
IN of English literature and vim
dow dressing, was wrong in more
than any retail way and so it should
be permissible to write a second
column about the heresy spread be-
fore the seniors of Massachusetts,
Tech. 1t is in the glorif1cation Of
front" that I would take the
academician to task.
Your future" he told the boys,
will be decided in the next ten
years. 1t is not so much a ques-
ton of brains as of will. A second
class brain and a f1rst-class will
will get lot farther than a first
class brain and a second class will.
And then he told them Harvard
university had always put up a
front and they should do the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Speaking of SnobS

CPEAKING Of snobbery, haven't
y We enough of it from natural
causes without any encouragement
on the part of college professors?
If the secret of success lies in
marrying the boss daughter instead
Of his stenographer, in buying a
suit with an extra pair of pants, in
keeping ones shoes shined, or in
putting up a big front generally, as
Professor Rogers pointed out to the
graduating class Of Massachusetts,
Institute Of Technology. what is the
use of a college course?
Surely Professor Rogers must
know that man can be a snob
without higher education.
Or was he merely fooling?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

ATOW comes Captain Jean Fran
L els De Willard with a French
name and French war record.
But who was born in Arkansas, pro-
posing to fly around the world in
ten days.
Who is bold enough to say that
he can not do it, or that if he fails,
some one else will?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Women Score Again

XXTHILE searching the S. S. Re
w public for hooch, customs
guards discovered eight stowaways
in a small closet.
Four of them were women. Just
one more victory for the fair sex.
Soon women will sit with their
feet on the 1nantel and smoke. Then
there will be no world left for the
better half Of this race to conquer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

JuSG Oil W I o II 9
from one end to
the other.
The second class
is p erh ps the
largest. For farm
ers and sailors
have been watch
ing the weather
for centuries. The
watcher a Nv a Y 5
has been import
ant to them.
They could not
f all t 0 m a k e
S oun d observa =
tons in that time.
But they lacked
ti7a coie-7tiHo Io+o
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Wanting the Moon

NR take the case Of the German
" professor who has just won a
first prize for offering a plan on how
to establish communication with the
moon.
By drawing on recent scientific
discoveries, he is able to offer a
unique proposition. Yet his idea
OF a, projectile in which man could
make the trip belongs to Jules
Verne
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
IuIeS Verne, the Seer

VULES VERNE was one of the
y greatest seers that ever lived. The
success Of his predictions lies in the
fact that they we're founded on sci
entiflc knowledge.
Preposterous as they seemed two
generations ago, many of his
predictions have come true. Some
Of them, indeed, have been ex-
ceeded.
Men laughed when he said that
the world could be circled in eighty
days, but it has been circled in less
than thirty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

CIVILIZATION seems to rest on
~ the fact that men have more
knowledge rather than better brains
as the race grows older. Take the
recent eruption Of VesuyiuS and
compare its description with that
written by Pliny 1850 years ago.
We can get the news quicker, to
be sure, and photographs which
Pliny couldn't. But when it comes
to skill in painting a word picture
CT the occurrence, most Of our mod
ern scribes VIII have to admit that
he had them beaten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

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, 1929-06-07
TI-iun7p1S

TOE WILLIAMS has commented
y upon the triumphs achieved by
Jack Kearns and G. G. Pyle through
good tailoring and an engaging
smile.
There is not doubt the advice Of
Professor Rogers might be sound
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Association and OF Hygeia. the
Hath Magazine.

EQlJOr journal CI tue american IIeulCdl
Association and OF Hygeia, the
Hath Magazine.
VIGOROUSLY difficult to
~ judge are statistics concerning
cancer.
The crude death rates indicate
that cancer is increasing in fire.
quency because more people are dy-
ing of cancer than did formerly.
The figures show also that more
people are living beyond IS years of
age than did formerly and cancer
is a disease of advanced ages
primarily.
The figures also show that better
educated physicians are diagnosing
cancer earlier and more frequently
than formerly.
All these things are reflected in
the records for cancer. According
to Vedder it seems reasonable to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Daily Thought

Whose loveth instruction low
eth knowledge; but he that hateth
reproof is brutish.-ProverbS 1871.
CAPACITY without education is
~ deplorable, and education
without capacity is thrown away.
-SasN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
Clouds and Full Moon
No. 375'

THERE are weather proverbs and weather proverbs.
l In fact, there are three kinds Of weather pro-
verbs.
There are those which represent real observa-
tons and give real causes There those which rep
resent real observations but which contain faulty and
cratic reasoning And there are those which are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

STEMBERS Of Mr. Hoover's COM
AVA mission on lawleSsness must be
oppressed by a sense Of the utter
futlllty OF their investigations. since
the bar associations Of the country.
our greatest legal experts, have told
us time and again how to curb
crime, yet their recommendations
nave been water on a ducks back.
Unless this commission is expect
ed to recommend a change in the
manner OF handling prohibition.
which recommendation is expected
to serve as a shock abSorber for a
change in procedure. its members
should adjourn and go fishing.
If the English people wish to
hang on to their reputation for fair
play, which reputation has been
largely conferred by themselves.
they will stop plotting to deprive
The labor party of the fruits Of its
victory and insist that Macdonald.
the Labor leader, be made premier
Lindbergh seems to be on fair
way Of winning the Obscuritv en-
duranCe record, all of which is be-
yond the understanding Of that
large portion Of the republic which
employs publicity agents.
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ne atle9, u M y ~aSs-7I re-
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JAYS IoI-o" ing IleI IeIeaSe aller nav
ing g oeen Sc sentenced etl 10 oeath IN III
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we W oeen warned lIlat II d 5000
them there.
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~ o' +ooo1, 4U1 0iltGS2 ou are soIl3
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'0'''0 VIC ofA1II Oh Ol4e Slleep'
Inc papers say that Gamma Wal
ska appeared IN her French theater
wearing her famous emeralds. which
IS an unusually large amount for an
actress TO wear IN Paris
The secretary of the interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur. sneaEino 81
Beaver college. said that man bed
improved verv little since eavaoar,,
and that MANY sti11 have s+raraa ,o
Iefs. o w
COrreo+ r-7,o s-,,....-- .,,-,
this tariff hin mas r. ~ foi. -0 ti5oi.,
benefit '''0-i
gr-1zr- -.
- ii7" 9pap7-o announce IN Dig
- Il { d q ! Il e tIlat Llndoerghs
" -Uo "oeS IloI oII!-N or smoke
Inc IacO Chat tIle tlme has come
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
SAYS

Soon Woman WI SIT With
Her Feet on the ManteI and
Smoke Then There
Win Be No More Worlds to
Conquer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

Los Angeles aviator won the solo endurance
record the other day, which doesn't mean so much
after all because there are good many people whose
ueighbors are musicians"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

According to the Atchison Fzan) Globe. one OF
the leading citizens is great help to his WIFE, olng
the lawn mover for her before he leaves the house IN
the morning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

Kansas woman who owned $50 acres OF land
was arrested in bank robbery the other day. Who
has a better right than she?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

ships can sail from New York and other American
ports every day without adequate protection for safety
and lives Of crews and passengers.
Congress should act promptly on the Wagner pro-
posas for survey Of the problem and complete
remedial legislation.
Remember the Vestris!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

It's perfect summer. One day you get tanned
and the next day your overcoat hurts your shoulders
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

Another sure sign Of spring is when the doWagerS
of the village start rehearsing for local revue pat
termed after the Ziegfeld shows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

A small town is one where the courthouse yare
has to be moved to find the benches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

Bill Hart is going to appear in talkie. Won't it
be interesting to hear him say, Darn it,?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

David Dietz on Science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07
REASON
BY Frederick Lands

BY Frederick Lands
Germany Is Smiling Orer the
Var Debt Settlement,
Many Things Can Happen
in Thirty-SeUeH Years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

It doesn't make much difference if
somebody did steal the diplomas of
these University of Des Moines
students, for unless you are going
to teach, you might Just as well
leave the skin on the sheep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

ME newspapers announce in big.
A he a dimes that Lindbergh S
bride does not drink or smoke.
The fact that the time has come
when such a thing is news in the
United States does not make a fell
low throw out his chest. particularly
if he has one or two girls coming
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

The papers say that Gamma Wal
ska appeared in her French theater.
wearing her famous emeralds. which
is an unusually large amount for an
actress to wear in Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-07

The secretary Of the interior.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, speaking at
Beaver college, said that man had
improved very little since savagery
and that many still have strange be-
liefs
Correct The farmers thought
this tariff bill was to be for their
benefit.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
UNITY OF JUGOSLAVIA TASK
NHANDS OF NEW STRONG MAN,
Problem Is That of Ironing
Out Racial Lines to Form
Homogeneous People.
Gen. ZivkovitCh EnergetiCaIIy
Performing Duties-Wipes
Out Old Provinces.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, December 1.-The task
OF making over Jugoslavia from ma
ton split by racial and religious differ
ences into a homogeneous people pos
seSSed of a national consciousness has
fallen largely upon the shoulders of
Gen. Pera Zivkovitch, selected by King
Alexander to head the dictatorship gov
ernment substituted last January for
the quarrelsome parliamentary regime.
Immediately after he took over the
job the general called the newspaper
men of the capital to a conference, and
said:
II have asked you to come here so as
to make your acquaintance and to tell
you that the government over which
have been called to preside is govern
ment which intends to work"
Working Ever Since.
That was all, and ever since he and
his colleagues in the royal cabinet have
been working and reforming. They
started by abolishing political parties
and recently dividing the country into
nine new districts, based upon geo.
graphical convenience, thus wiping out
the old provinces which set Serbs, Croa-
tians, Dalmatlans, Slovenes and Monte
negrins apart from each other.
When the reforms started the country
was officially called the kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." Even this
name has been changed, and it Is now
the kingdom of Jugoslavia."
Leader so Years Old.
The general is so years old. He is of
medium height, but makes an imposing
figure in the uniform of the royal guard.
which he nearly always wears.
He is a master technician of cavalry
and several times in the. World War
saved the Serbian army from destruc-
ton during its epic retreat. In 1917 he
was made commander of the royal
guard. reorganized it into division, and
was right at hand when King Alexan-
der needed a strong man to head the
dictatorship.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
ST. PETERS DOME
IS ADJUDGED SAFE
italian Architect Holds Gu
poIa Is in No Danger of
Collapse.
BY Radio to The Star.

BY Radio to The Star.
ROME, December CONTRARY to
the reports which have been circulated
for several years, the cupola of st.
Peters Is in no danger of collapse. This
verdict was reaCi:cd by Senator Luca
Beltrami, Italian architect from Milan,
whom Pope Plus XI intrusted with the
task of thoroughly inspecting and ex-
amining the cracks in the vault of the
dome which few years ago led to the
suppoSition it was doomed There Is
not an inch of the ancient basilica
which has not been inspected.
Beltrami has had experience, as he
was also called to inspect the cracks in
the equally famous building, the
Roman Pantheon. Now that the work
is finished he has handed in an elabo-
rate report. His opinion is neither
that of Bramante. the Florentine archi-
tect, who in 1900 began the work of
constructing the BaSilica, or Michael
Angelo, who after the disastrous interim
of Antonio San Gallo, who continued
Michael Angeles plan for the dome
was perfect. 1t was after his death that
certain notifications were made by
Giacome Della Porta-Domenico Fon-
tana, whereby the domes weight was
increased to 10000 quintals. He made
changes also in the interior of the
church. Beltrami made extensive re-
search of the archives of st. Peters and
also the Vatican Library, and discovered
that the cracks in the dome appeared
soon after the church was completed.
Added to this it suffered from earth
quakes. The greatest concern was felt
in the eighteenth century when Bene-
dict XIV commissioned the famous
architect Van Vitelli to repair the
cracks and straighten the dome. He
placed five iron bands around it. A few
years ago an American architect was
allowed to make model of the dome
for an American museum, and gave
warning that the cupola needed re-
pair. At present the weight of the
cupola is not on four pillars. arches or
a main foundation, but on the exterior
building and is not vertical. Hence the
reinforcement is not needed in the main
foundation.
What is needed now is to replace the
imperfect repair work of recent years
by thoroughly cleaning the LESSONS and
reinforcing the cracks by means of in
jecting cement. No radical repairs are
needed, nor do the present ones include
removing the travertine blocks, but a
modern restoration. Cardinal Merry del
Val, head of the "Fabrica of ST.
Peters" has already arranged for the
work to begin without delay. Suitable