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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Reason

TTOOVER'S inaugural address is
4 l. awaited with more interest
than has attached to the program of
any incoming chief executive for
years, for there is a world Of differ
ence between the politicians view
point and that of the engineer.
The politician drifts with the tide,
but the engineer wishes to harness
that tide and make it work for peo-
pie.
Hoover can make his adninistra-
ton unique and the most construc-
tive in our history and we believe
he will.
It may be all right for Hoover to
keep the marines in Nicaragua for
several years, as he is said to con-
template doing, but 1T would be
more beneficial to the United States
if he should bring them home and
have them patrol our border and
keep out the thousands of undesir-
able aliens who are bootlegged in,
The booze interests will make a
great mistake If they exert them
selves to make Hoover's Inaugural
ton the wettest the capital has
known since the Volstead law was
enacted, for we understand that Mr..
Hoover has an adequate amount of
red blood and is able to take care of
all who challenge him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Exit Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge ends his White House term
Monday.
The retiring President deserves neither half the
praise nor half the blame commonly accorded MIN
Accident made him President. A myth-loving pubic
has sought to make him great 1t has been rather
hard on him. grly trying to live up to this picture
He shows the strain
Silent CAL they called him, but he broke all rec
ords in the number of his public speeches
The strong man in the White House, they called
Ain bur from the time he failed Governor to face
he Boston police strike which he later was credited
With settling his public career has been marked by
indecsien No President ever was run over SO often
and so effectively by congress controlled by his
party
Cool and self controlled they called him. But his
nervousness under criticism and his hot temper to-
ward his associates have been well understood IN
Washington.
Many Americans who saw through these popular
Coolidge myths turned about and created other myths
concerning his incompetence. They made him ignor-
ant and petty. They made him weak tool in the
hands of imaginary powers AL of which is nonsense
Though Coolidge was not strong man, he was
his own man. His general policies were those OF the
big interests and big politicians, not because these
policies were dictated outside, but because Cool
dge was that kind of man.
When his heart prompted him, he defed the
bankers and the politicians. he would not listen to
the bankers on foreign debt cancellation; he would
not listen to the politicians farm relief.
His goal was material prosperity for the country
He achieved it--or at least he did not disturb it.
His platform was economy. He made good his pledge.
His weakness and his strength sprang from his
do-nothing temperament This saved from several
quarrels abroad. restrained growing mlitarism and
navalism. and would have saved us from the Mica
raguan and Mexican plumbers had the state depart
ment not. deceived the President.
But this do-nothing temperament permitted indus
trial Embellishments in the coal fields and in the
public utilities to grow. ignored violation of civil lib
critics postponed the prohibition issue and encouraged
the control of government by private interests.
The worst thing, of course. that can be said about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Booming Business

A PRESIDENT of the United
N States Yields vast powers. It
has often been said that he Yields
more than the King Of England.
Though all of that may be true, 1t
conveys an erroneous impression.
To a measurable extent, the
President of the United States Is q
creature of the crowd.
The very nature of our govern
ment makes him so.
He must be an interpreter, as well
as a guide, and concede things, If
ne would get things done.
We should think of that aspect
of the situation more than we do,
and not bind a President before
hand with unreasonable expecta-
tons.
After. all. It is not a Presidents
job to boom business. Insofar as
good business is a by-product of
good government. he may be able to
do so In doing his own work well.
His own work, however, deals with
the administration of state affairs
and that represents quite enough.
We have gone altogether too far
in the assumption that prosperity is
bound up with politics, and that the
occupant of the White House deter
mines in large measure whether we
connect with a payroll Such an
idea is not only illogical, but dan
gerous.
1t can, and has kept able men out
of the presidency.
What is even worse, 1t can and
may break an able man after he
gets In.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Times Readers Voice Vices

years. Men who favor such insane
laws need to see the result. They
should mingle with our youthful
criminals and learn just how many
real crimes actually can be traced to
prohibition.
Men like Shumaker should go on
a high school Or college drinking
party occasionally and taste the
contents of the ever-ready flask.
Every member of every club,
league or church that worked for
prohibition should be made to feel
thhe sting of its own lash, as Shut
maker is feeling it.
When Senator Jim Reed calls pro-
hibition enthusiasm gone mad" he
certainly knows what he is talking
about, and the honorable ladies Of
the w. G. T. u. out in Iowa who
want every man TO pledge he will
not touch liquor merely are asking
the masculine element to pledge dry
and drink wet. In other words, the
good ladies are aiding and abetting
perjury,
AS far as the populace feeling any
renorse because Mr. Shunlaker tried
to pass judgment on a court Of this
state, and being forced to pay the
penalty is. concerned, / don't think
1t should. Why should he get by
with 1t when no one else could2 If
he is half a man, he will call 1t his
mistake, take his medicine, and be
careful what he has to say when he
W. o. STEARNS.
1906 South Capitol avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Hosting the Flag

InF COURSE, I would want my
", reporter to make public ac-
acknowledgement Of the fact that he
was clothed in no reticence SO. that.
he could not be accused of sailing
under false colors. Such practice is
not easy.
In my brief period as a4political
reporter I conformed to the custom.
But out Of Thompson's book I
wish to quote one episode even more
pertinent to the case want to
make.
In one of his chapters on Taft,
Thompson says that the present
chief justice had a, habit of talking
with the frankness of a child and
never seemed to anticipate what his
words would look like in print. Hea-
describes an episode which occurred
while Taft was secretary of war in
Roosevelt's cabinet. -
"One day when we made our
daily visit" writes Thompson, 1--WE Z
iquired about q matter of consider
able importance which he had taken
up with President Roosevelt. Taft
answered with his usual abounding
fYankness.
He and the President didn't agree
about it and the President had
ovrridden him; he still thought he
was right and couldn't understand
why Roosevelt wouldn't change his
mind.
'Mr. Secretary" said Arthur Wal
lace Dunn of the Associated Press.
speaking in a resolute and signifl-
cant manner what you have just
said is not said under the Injunction
Of secrecy. Therefore, unless you
do enjoin secrecy upon US, We shall
most certainly print it.
But We feel 1t our duty to warn
you that if We do it will have the
most unpleasant consequences to
President Roosevelt, and the most
disastrous consequences 10 yourself.
We strongly advise you to place the
injunction of secrecy upon us. Do
I speak for all Of you gentlemen?
We all said that he did The
Hearst man, looking as If he could
bite Dunn's head of. hesitated and
finally nodded ungraciously."
Thompson goes on to say that
Taft, thus coached and warned, did
impose secrecy upon the correspon-
dents and that as they were leaving
the Hearst man turned to Dunn and
said, Why do you hate a good
story so intensely"
And that would seem to me a fair
question. If there. were complete
frankness IN Washington news we
might have an earthquake in ofaeial :
life.
scopyright. 1923. for The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
By
q -
Frederick
lands

r INDBERGH should heed the
IL warning Of the Mexican off,
Gals and never again risk his life
and that Of his lady by riding in
the mountain regions which are in
tested with bandits.
Gentlemen, interested in procur-
ing rar1son1s could not imagine a
more profitable catch, than this
particular pair.
y q
Millions of former soldiers in all
allied lands watch with anxiety the
battle which Marshal Foeh wages
with death.
The world has no more rlobly
courageous utterance than that
which Foch sent to Paris on des-
perate day in 1914: my right is
crushed; my left is in retreat: I an,
attacking with my center"
That spirit Is what keeps the
marshal alive. a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Fellowship i'm Pruyer

things. Where love is not, there is
darkness.
Love only comprehendeth love,
And knoweth whence it came" {,
So in this home of mine I con-
tinue to learn the meaning of life
and with an understanding heart
enter into the joys and sorrows Of
the world interpreted by love.
PRAYER: My God and Father,
who dost reveal Thyself in the love
of this home of mine, make my
heart pure that I may see Thee. AS
I return hither from all my wander
ings, so lead my hayward and prod
tgal thoughts ever back to Thee, my
sure refuge and my peace. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Official Bulletins

THE result of all this is that
Il Washington news has come to
be little more than series of off,
cial bulletins. The reporters in that
restricted city do no more than pass
on to their readers the handouts
which officials care to give them.
This sad state of affairs is brought
home to me by a new book written
by Charles Willis Thompson called
Presidents I've Known and Two
ar-President."
1t is an interesting book, because
Thompson, veteran political re-
porter, now gets around to the bust
ness of retaining anecdotes and
small incidents which were too per-
sonal and revealing ever to be in
cluded in any current new story
Nor do these always score against
the subject. I was amazed to learn.
for instance, that William Jennings
Bryan was extremely kind and con-
siderate to persons with whom he
came into close contact. I had al
ways supposed that the Great Com
moner was wholly selfish and self
centered man.
Obviously, no reporter tells all
about any public man with whom
he comes into close association.
During a campaign I have always
made a practice of taking such re-
porters as I knew after they had
swung about the country with some
candidate, and asking, Wei, what
is he really likeP' And usually this
question has brought forth wealth
of useful information never set
forth in their regular stories.
Now this is a vital point The vot-
ing public has a right to know the
highly personal faults, and virtues,
too, of anybody who is running for
office. Instead we only hear Of such
minor matters as the candidates
views upon the tariff. Every public
man has two faces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
modified and mental changes super

mod1fled ana mental changes super
vene after a certain period.
After the fat of the body. has
been called on to supply energy,
some of the internal organs begin
to lose, including particularly the
liver, the spleen and the pancreas.
Next the muscles suffer and in the
end the heart and the brain.
1t is argued by the food faddists
that fasting clears the blood, but
scientific studies indicate instead
that during the fasting there is a
rise in the non-protein nitrogen of
the blood, a decrease in the chlor-
ides and an increase in bicarbon-
ates.
Long fasts are dangerous and
even complete fasting for short
periods my result in structural and
functional changes in the human
body of great potential harm.
During the war period the Ger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
The Judicial Jester

If there Is anything worse than the humorless
judge who confuses himself with The Almighty it is
the judge who thinks he is vaudeville wisecracler
But if a judge must be funny he should not rely on
the witticisms Of his youth
How can Judge Martin OF New York expect to
preserve respect for the bench he offers ancient
ones like this on wife deserters:
"Go back to your night watchnans Job at the
deaf and dumb intlrmary Fitzpatrick I guess many
a husband envies you the quiet of it,"
The judges hero. Peter Fitzpatrick, had fled from
the noise of wife and nine children. Just how the
mother of those nine children is to find that enviabIe
quiet" his honor did not say But he awarded her
alimony-of $3.50 week
The judge was bound to have his little jokel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association Snd Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
A MONG the most peculiar of the
IA notions promoted by food fad
dists and physical culturists is the
idea that starvation is good treat
ment for all disease.
At a meeting of the Medical So
ciety of London recently several of
the leading physicians Of England
considered the question of fasting
in relationship to human health.
When food is withheld from the
body, the whole chemistry of the
system is promptly changed. The
fat of the body is drawn on to sup
ply energy, weight is lost, the blood
pressure falls, the temperature is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE


man people had only 1900 Galleries
a day. They lost body weight. AL
though there were. fewer cases Of
diabetes and obesity, nervous dis
eases, pernieious anen1ia and diar.
rhea were frequent and conya~
lescence from disease was slower.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

Actually even the digestive dis
eases increased greatly during the
starvation period not only because
the food intake was diminished, but
because the food taken was rougher
in character ,c,,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Earth Proceed Solid
No. 2ss

Z EARTHQUAKES are proof that the interior of
- the earth is solid and not liquid or molten as was
once imagined.
Earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement
or slipping of a section of the rock. This sudden
movement sets up trenors which sometimes do violent
damage in the immediate vicinity. It also sets up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
This Date in
u. S. History

March 2
699-French colonists entered
Louisiana.
1s41-First daily paper issued In
Brooklyn, N. Z.
is61--Dakota and Nebraska or
ganized as territories.
1S64--U. s. Grant made a lieuten-
ant general.
ference with General Grant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

waves which trav-
Ell out In all di-
rections and can
be detected and
measured thou
sands Of miles
away on instru-
m e is designed
for this purpose
and known as
seismographs.
he's e waves
consist of three
types. One trav-
els along the sur
face of the earth.
The other two
travel throug h
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

MEDITATION: The home is LIES
primary school for us all our lives.
AS love is the only law of the home
that will work, so we learn that it
Is also the only law for society, for
the world. Love is enlightenment.
It reveals the. quality and the in
tention which are at. the heart of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

Coolidge is that he was silent In face Of the blacklist
governmental corruption in our history.
The best thing that be said is that his faults
and his virtues were much like those of the
American of his time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

Q.-What kind of toys should
be given to a baby under year
of age?
A.-Washable, smooth, large
enough to prevent their being
swallowed to put into the nose
and ear, and light enough to
prevent his hurting himself
when he hits himself acci-
dentaliy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

Spyrldion Polychroniades, Grecian minister to
YugoslaVia celebrated the coolest day in two CEN
turtles by swimming an hour In the ice-caked water
of the river at Belgrade. Some day Europe will nut
in few bathtubs for these fellows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

An aviator who has been in I'VE smashups asks
Tor divorce at San jose Cal, relating that his wife
stays out late of nights and it makes him nervous
Maybe he fears she has gone in for little high flying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

Ideas an
opinions ex~
pressed In this
column ar
those Of one
of Am ericas
most interest
ing writer
and are pre-
scented " ith-
out reEard 20
their agree
ment with the
editorial ath-
tude OF this
paper.
The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

The name and address Of the authsr
must secSEppauy every contFth hon but
On request VIII no4 De publshed. let-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

The Michigan women who killed those babies W
be just as severely dealt with as if they had bee
caught with pint OF liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

In one OF the New York night clubs a magician
has been added to the entertainments The real
magic however. is performed by the fellows who can
change bottle OF ginger ale into $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
Topic for the Week
lent AND MY HOME"

Memory Verse for Saturday
every one that loveth is begot-
ten Of God, and knoweth Godp Il
John AID Read: / Corinthians
13.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

The Prince of Wales horses have been sold. What
a blow to the American hunnor industry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02

David pietz ON Science
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

beautiful brick buildngs-the kitchen, whose
fireplace Is the largest in this countryside, Of
all these Colonial Kitchens with their mighty
hearths; the coach house, incloSed by vine
covered brick walls, with the beautiful house
used as school or guesthouse or Offices The
slave quarters are entirely gone.
The few bricks that remain of the wall, which
once ran for miles about, incloSng gardens
and orchards. are buried under earth and vine
and shrub like the mounds Of some old battle
field. Here and there about the grounds lie
bits Of the old stone balustrades Of native stone
which once defined the terrace where so many
Virginia beaux and bellies came gladly to
Stratford'S distinguished hospitality.
These scattered columns, O few worn steps,
alone remain of that balustraded terrace which
saw the final tragedy which marked the pass
ing of Stratford from the possession Of the
descendants Of the first great "Emigrant' Lee.
ONE HUNDRED years ago this Summer the
little Margaret Lee. only child and idolized
by her father, "Col. Harry" Lee, and heiress of
Stratford, ran in her play out upon the high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

reminder Of an episode Of the Civil War.
troop Of colored Federal troops was encamped
near Stratford Some stragglers came, late at
night, to the door. There was just one person
In the house, q Southern woman but she ives
armed. She talked to those stragglers in terms
they were able to understand. Cowed they
left her. But not before one Of them, seeing
his own reflection in that mirror and terrified
at the sight. had run his bayonet into the glass.
Or so, at least, the story goes.
In one wing on the second floor is the great
drawing ROOM where the portraits once hung.
In the other, biSected by hall opening into
the garden, with beautiful arches over recessed
inches, is a bedroom of royal proportions, with
exquisite fireplace and cornices, and two rooms
which now. with the hall. are open to the
visitor. These are the white and exquisite
room, where Gen. Lee was born, and the little
nursery, where he was placed as a child.
The fancy for the letter H is quantity seen
IN the removable brass plates over the door
hinges, the paneling Of doors to form the
witches cross" while in the grounds near by,
laid upon axes still like the letter H, are three
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Sky Legend
Bv David Morton

There. eras moon and there eOas rain, as qcel,
Out Of the same sky, at the selt5ame time;
Of all the al7sren legends that men tell,
This had the arangest and the niloerest rhyme;
More like moon remembered out of story,
1t strayed ab0qe the tOqcn into q sky
Of stormy darkness and Of mourmtM glo'y
Til both the storm and glory had gone BY.
So-it is even. so-that life may be
-. For some :. remembered glory and dark pain:
II moon so clouded and so shapeless groom
1t gives not light enough for one to see
More than a dim, lost qr0nder that qCas kn0oOn
Far off, before the falling Of this rain.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23

THE HARROWGATE
1888 New Hampshire Ave.
i, 2, 9 rooms, Kitchen
cite and bath apart
nents in this beautiful
building, admirably To-
Gated, now available.
Newly painted and deco
rated. FRIGTDAlRE.
First-class service.
! MODERATE RENTALS
See Resident Manager
JOSEPH McREYNOLDS
PROPERTIES
The Washington times., 1929-03-23

CLARION APT.
l4a5 NEWTON STREET N. W.
CLOSE TO STORES. SCHOOL. CAR LINES
AND BUS.
1 room aho pain ....' pISvvVV
Z rooms and bath ......-...... 81 .5O
Corner and Southern Exposure
WALTON APT.
14I6 R STREET. N.
WITHIN EASY WALKING DISTANCE
OF DOWNTOWN
1918 Kalorama Road, N. w.
CLOSE TO STORES. SCHOOL CAR
LINES AND BUS
Z rooms and bath corner apt. $50 90
rooms and bath. corner apt. 5000
Porch and Southern Exposure.
A. S. GARDINER
9a2 Investment Bldg. Main a34
THE BOND APTS.
1890 New Hampshire Ave.
New Building OF 95 Apts.
Now Ready for Occupancy.
1 e and 8 Rooms and Bath.
Prices, $sO.5O to $50. so
Electric Refrigeration
ELEyAToRs sERyIcE1sHowERs s
The Washington times., 1929-03-23

81, 500
rooms. elec. garage 3 lots all eony
Exchange city prop. Line, s44s, clevs. $3.50
The Washington times., 1929-03-23

so ACRES NORTH OF WASHINGTON, for
equity in houses or one-trust apt.
Two small houses, colOred. one clear, one
1st trust, for residence not over So. 500.
Equities in three rented homes for de-
tached house.
Groom residence. colored. Columbia
Heights free of encumbrance: will take
small property and bal. under first trust
PETTY & PETTY
1924 Vermont Ave Man 2A37
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
$3.50

Overlooking Sherman Cir.
Large, Colonial brick home. 8 well
sleeniriS porch inclosed as room, break
fast porch screened and front porch
full width of house, hardwood tloors'
hot-water heat. electric lights. two;
car garage (heatedl. Deem lot and
paved street and alley This is an
unusual opportunity. and II you are
looking for home, don't fail to see
this before buying
PHONE SERVICE UNTIL Q P. N.
C. A F RITZ
1918 14TH ST. MAIN 9OSO