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Evening star., 1929-11-22
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I to think that you had moved away or
that something had happened to you.
What are you doing over here in the
Old Orchard?"
Farmer Browns Boy began to climb
up the apple tree. Unc' Billy saw him
coming and backed out along one of
the branches. Farmer Browns Boy
then reached out and shook the branch.
Unc' Billy hung on with all four feet
and his tail. Down below, Flip and
Bowser yelped and barked with growing
excitement and were ready to pounce on
Unc' Billy the moment he should be
shaken off. Then Farmer Browns Boy
happened to think that those two eager
dogs down below might kill Unc' Billy
before he could get down to save him.
So he stopped shaking. Instead he
climbed down out of the tree, left Flip
and Bowser at the foot Of the tree, and
got a ladder from the barn. With this
ladder he could get to Unc' Billy, and
did so. Unc' Billy saw him coming and
that it was Of no use to try to get
away. He snarled and showed his teeth
but Farmer Browns Boy reached out
and got him by the tail. And then
Unc' Billy tried his old trick again. He
just pretended to be dead.
Farmer Browns Boy took him down,
and when Flip saw that he was bring.
ing Unc' Billy down 1t seemed as II he
would turn himself inside out with ex-
citement. Farmer Browns Boy held
Unc' Billy out for Flip to smell of, but
when Flip attempted to bite Unc' Billy,
Farmer Browns Boy spoke to him
sharply. So Flip learned that he was
not to kill Unc' Billy.
Farmer Browns Boy laid Unc' Billy
down on the ground, and both Flip and
Bowser came and smelled him all over.
Not even when they blew in one of his
ears did he move, and that must have
tickled him greatly. Never did q dead
Possum look any more dead than Unc'
Billy looked. But all the time Unc'
Billy was peeping out under his nearly
closed eyelids, watching everything that
was done. Was he afraid2 OF course,
he was afraid, but he didn't show that
he was afraid. He knew that hts safest
plan was to bluff. He knew that as
long as he remained without motion
nothing was likely to happen to him.
And so without protest he allowed
Farmer Browns Boy to pick him UP by
the tail, put him down on the ground
again, roll him over, and never once
did he move so much as an eyelash.
(Copyright, 1890
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the Old orchard he started over to see
what 1t was all about.
Those two dogs are excited about
something" said Farmer Browns Boy.
81 wonder who or what they have found
now"
When Flip and Bowser saw Farmer
Browns Boy coming they became more
excited than ever. Flip was Ieaping up
at the front Of the tree as he barked
so fast that you would have wondered
how he got his breath. OF course,
Farmer Browns Boy saw Unc' Billy
Possum at once.
WELL well, welll'' exclaimed Farmer
Browns Boy. III II isn't old Unc' Billy
Possurn himselfl It's e long time since
I've seen you, Unc' Billy. I had begun
Evening star., 1929-11-22
Children as Witnesses.

At one time. and not so long ago, the
evidence of a child was likely to be
accepted with not too much reliance,
but the London coroner has recently ex-
pressed himself on this subject. He
says that children between the ages Of
9 and IS years often make the very best
witnesses.
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Farmer Browns Boy Arrives.
Appearances so oft deceive
'Tis hard TO know what to believe.
Farmer Browns Boy

she more Flip the Terrier thought
hozg he had been fooled by Unc' Billy
RoSsum, the more excited he became
and louder he barked at the foot Of the
apple tree in which Unc' Billy had
sought refuge. Even Bowser the Hound
began to get q little Of Flip's excite
ment, and he, too, began to bark in
that great deep voice of his. So when
Farmer Browns Boy came out Of the
house and heard the barking over in
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8. 100000 rupees.
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5. Pickering.
! 6. HadeS.
Z. Sea eagles.
8. A color
9. Tin: chemistry.
10. Postpone.
IL. In time past.
| IL. Relatives.
13. Goddess of dawn.
l8. An English noble.
10. Pertaining to Siamese race.
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26. Gala lily.
27. Small flowers.
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20. Also.
| 81. Shore
80. Seaport in Cornwall, England.
33. Refuse.
38. Lame.
80. White compound in feshy fruits.
40. Article.
Al. Not at home.
AZ. Prickly leaved trees Of the bean
family.
a. Hats.
A. Biblical priest.
As. Egyptian god.
AZ. Horse of a uniform dark color.
48. Next to the last syllable.
SO. Italian city.
54. Water: Latin.
SIS. Explorers base in Greenland.
Sc. Small fish.
ST. Neither.
So. Aegean island.
SO. Dutch town.
60. Anger.
81. Trouble.
So. Youngster.
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Across.
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8. Ogles.
10. Arouse.
IL. Sandarac tree.
is. Decree Of sovereign.
Is. Exchange premium.
II. Favorable introductions.
20. American mathematician.
81. Burmese wood demon.
20. A feminine name.
IS. Rumanian coin.
26. Species of cuckoo.
~. BY way Of.
30. Wrong meaning.
"a. Classify.
35. Spirituous liquor.
80. Highway.
81. Pointer used in a synagogue.
SO. Drone.
80. Chum.
40. Jutting rocks.
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43. Bef1t.
46. Aztec god of war.
a. Greek vowel.
So Danish district.
81 Within Combining form.
52 Moral lapse.
So River: Spanish.
81. Feminine name.
56. Unimportant.
SO. Condemn.
81. Grown up.
65. Melody.
66. Irish: Gaelic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
Localized Terror

For wears an obstacle to just and happy relations
between Pennsylvania coal operators and miners has
been the vicious coal and iron police system. The
Pennsylvania example unfortunately has spread to
Other states.
Despite an increasing reign Of terror by these pr-
ra.c police and the growing demand Of civic organ-
zat.ons. churches and newspapers that their power
be curailcd Pennsylvania operators and elected Off
Gals have continued to support the system
Last winter john Barkoski farmer miner, was
killed brutally by coal and police of the Pitts
bureh Coal Company. in which Secretary Mellon and
his family are large stockholders.
Public sentiment was 50 aroused that curtailment
or this police system if not its complete abandon
ncn was an outstanding issue in the state legislature,
lust adjourned. Governor Fisher, though connected
with the Mellon political organization announced that
The system should be changed and that the state
should take over the task protecting all properties,
regardless of ownership.
IT, looked like nov day in Pennsylvania But
hopes were short lived.
The legislature passed tUo oils. The Musmanno
reform bill was backed by church. civic and labor or
carnations. The Mansfield bill supported by the
companies instead of restricting the private police,
actually increased their powers.
Governor Fisher, to the amazement Of the public,
promptly signed the Mansfield bill.
But such storm of indignation swept the state
that the Governor found it expedent to absent him
self for q few days fishing trip.
The storm is gathering momentum The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor the American Civil Liberties
union and church and civic bodies are demanding
repeal Of the Mansfield measure.
Meanwhile the proposed Hoover commission on
law enforcement might find the Pennsylvania Situa-
ton worth examination. Certainly law of this
kind and enforcement of this kind do not increase
respect for law
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verse action. In the same way
witches used to repeat the Lords
prayer backward.
In connection with this idea there
arose the notion that the way to
have boys was for the mother to
sleep on the right side and for girls
on the left side.
The ancient Hindu doctors said
that if the right eye Of the mother
was larger than the left the eX-
pected child would be a boy. SINH
lar views we're held by the ancient
Jews, Greeks and Romans.
Ii the right side preponderated
in size, or il fullness of any por-
ton, or even in rate of the pulse
or of strength of the pulse, the
forthcoming progeny was antici-
pated to be male.
Among the Hindus and Moham-
medans as we'll there are strict rules
relative to the use of the right hand
and of the left hand for various
sanitary purposes.
These rules arose no doubt in
ignorance and magic, far in adj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
Practice in Dying

DUT l like it. At least l do IN
ID some ways and I realize that
all pleasures are shot with counter
currents. To a tinid man fear is
more stimulating than strong drink.
They say the brave die once and
towards many times.
In that case the brave don't know
what they're missing. A fit of sheer
panic is like a scenic railroad. 1t is
fearful when you slide down to the
depths, but what fun it is to come
out on the other side.
And it's good practice. To die
many deaths is to accept the final
hour with the calmness CT one who
approaches a well-remembered door.
Everybody wants to put his best
foot forward after he has gone and
so I ask that there be carved upon
nv modest slab the epitaph, He
never told taXi-driver, Go
slower.
A brush between a taxi and a
yard engine is one Of the most en-
livening experiences passenger
it's a triumph and in defeat there
will ever know. If you win, of course
is the final consolation of knowing
that you gave away a lot of weight.
Last night we missed f1re-spit-
ting dragon by at least three feet.
The chauffeur sWerved the wheel
at the moment it was needful.
Then he turned and shouted, Am
l driving too fast for you?" Reso-
lutely I answered, No and chung
to both sides of the cab.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25

vt is tragic fact that there are
L nearly 100000 accidental
deaths in the United States each
year. 1t is a tremendous waste that
could be greatly reduced if the in
diYidual would only pause to re-
fleet on his own responsibility in
the problem. w. H Cameron,
managing director of the national
safety council.
Women have gained no freedom
yet except below their knees. They
still have too many inhibitions and
completes. and insist on walking
with their backs toward the sun. =
Ida Clyde Clarke, editor and femi-
mist.
THE American people themselves,
through their control of their gov>
eminent, have brought on each for
eign war in which the United States
has become involved. 1t behooves
our citizens to inform themselves
upon international questions and
conditions, if they would have their
country avoid foreign wars,V-Col.
Samuel c. Vestal, U. S. A. chief OF
the historical section of the Army
War College Living Age)
An extensive survey of almost
any rural community in Nebraska
will show that more than so per
cent of the farm boys between the
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What Is Your Verdict?

woman sat worrying over the problem that comes
10 every parent Her young sons we're at the age when
they were beginning to be curious about sex
What to do? Should she let them learn from the
corner gang? Should she try to teach them herself?
That would take courage, and time. She a busy
mother. Anyway she did not know how to go about
teaching them the simple truths which help them to
grow strong and clean.
Well she would read. She did She read dozens
of books. But all were too technical or too compli
Gated to put in The hands Of her boys.
Again The question, what to do? Finally she de-
cided to write herself few pages explaining the nys
terry of lie and for her boys. And so she solved
the problem OF ali parents.
1t so happened that others learned of what she had
written. They asked to use it for their boys, Then
social workers. Y NJ. c. AS physicians, medical jour
mails and schools borrowed it, Thousands of copies
we're printed. Thousands Of boys all over the country
received from 1t their most precious heritage sane
and clean understanding of sex.
That was wears ago But the demand for the
pamphlet continued. She did not push its circulation
it was not commercial venture She received no profit
from it,
Then one day a mother down in Grottoes, Va,
wrote asking her for a copy. She sent it.
Thereby she became criminal" for it is criminal,
OF course to send obscene matter through the mails
To be sure her pamphlet instead of being obscene
had been written and used to prevent obscenity in
young minds Blu tho law apparently could not di5-
tinguish between black and white.
No one took the matter very seriously. however. OBJ
vously was Just another of those jokes Of the law
which easily could be Strengthened out when the case
came TO trial After all. do not live in the dark
ages cur judges and iuries can be counted to show
an intelligent regard for the intent Of the and jus
tce to the individual At any rate that was the gen
eraI belief.
So Mary Ware bennett went TO the federal court in
Brooklyn n. y. Beside the white-harcd mother of
SO. sat those two proud sons. now grown to strong
and healthy manhood.
There was only one real issue. Was that educa-
tional pamphlet obscene? The defense was ready to
present its overwhelming evidence from social work
ers school teachers, ministers mothers editors and
physicians that it was useful weapon against OBJ
sc1nity that Ii was not obscene either in purpose
in use N fact.
But Judge Burrows ruled that such testimony by
the mothers or by the experts mmaerial and ir
relevant and could not be placed before the jury The
Jury itself said the learned judge, competent to
determine whether the pamphlet offended the COM
mon sense of decency and modesty OF the community
Guilty" was the jurys verdict
This mother faces maximum sentence Of five
years in prison fine of SIS 900 or both. At best
there is only the possibility of suspension Of sentence
without clearing her meme
Who is guilty in this case? We want our readers
verdict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25

temperature of the air The air not heated directly
by the sunlight. The waves comprising the suns
rays are too short to heat the air, These are
absorbed by the earth. AS a result, the earth is
heated. The earth then gives up the heat in the
form of longer waves, which heat the air
Some parts of the earths surface will absorb more
heat than others.
Professor Brooks of Clark university cites one
instance where dirt parade ground in Texas had a
temperature Of 141 degrees, Fahrenheit, while an
adjoining field of grass had temperature Of ll2.
The air at the time had q temperature Of 10l.
brick wall or tar roof will become warmer than
the surrounding air
If the thermometer is placed any such object,
It Will not register the correct air temperature.
The thermometer will also fail to register the
proper air temperature, if it is placed in direct
light. since the sunlight Will heat the bulb.
To get the proper temperature of the air. the Their
mometer should be famed vigorously so that steady
current OF air is brought in with the bulb and
the effects OF direct heating by surrounding
duced to minimum
Weather stations usually have the thermometer
and other instruments placed in a small instrument
shelter. The accompanying illustration shows such
a shelter.
The four sides made like shutters that there
is free circulation of air throughout the shelter at
all times The shelter should be placed in an open
space.
If an open space is not available. it should be
placed on the north side of building
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
America Demands Disarmament

One of the functions of craftsmanship is to voice
the hopes and prayers of the common people OF the
world. Another task is TO make real those aspira-
tons in the practical life OF nations.
woodrow Wilson earned greatness by expressing
in a crisis the peoples plea through his fourteen
points Of peace. He failed, with little fault OF his
own to write all those ideals into the covenant OF the
league and the Versailles treaties
Now in another crisis, in which the nations talk
peace but build for war President Hoover has voiced
the cry Of the people everywhere. Through his dele
CATION at the Geneva preparatory commission on dis
armament he has called the other governments to
put the kellogg antiwar treaty into practice by re-
ducing ornaments speedily, and has pledged our gov
eminent TO lead in such agreement.
This is inspiring and magnificent challenge:
1.-THE pact for remuneration of war opens to us
unprecedented opportunity for advancing the of
disarmament, an opposSunty which admits of no
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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS-No. 81 =


vance of modern conceptions of BAG
terial contamination and the trans
mission of disease, yet the ideas
we're absolutely sound from the
sanitary point of view.
Now the reason for burning OF the
right ear or of the left ear is q
change in the amount of blood flow
ing through it temporarily for one
reason or another,
If an ear gets cold the circula-
ton is diminished If the ear get
hot the flow of blood into it in
creases and with more blood the ear
burns.
Of course the ancients did not
understand these delicate mechan-
isnls of human physiology. They
put together their superstitionS
about right and left and their ig-
norance of human physiology and
the result was the belief handed
down through generations: that if
the left ear burns one is being con-
demned or will be come i'll or have
bad luck, and if the right ear burns
the signs, omens and portentS are
favorable.
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postponement. Any approach to the disarmament
problem purely technical grounds is bound to be
inconclusive If we are honest, if our solemn
promise in the pact anything there is no just-
hcaton for continuation Of a war-taxed peace d.
We are willing to agree to any reduction, how
ever drastic to naval tonnage, which leaves no type
OF vessel unrestricted. My government al
ways has felt that need exact balance Of ships
and guns which can be based only upon the idea Of
conhict-What is really wanted is common sense
agreement based on the idea that going to be
friends and settle our problems by peaceful means"
Speaking for the President Ambassador Gibson
outlined certain technical concessions which our
government will make to hasten an agreement, and
invited other governments to do likewise.
As Americans We should be proud of the Kellogg
anti-war pact and the Hoover drive to make it ef-
fecuve for peace through disarmament. May Hoover
succeed!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
World MOnOD0IieS

CHEER obstinacy explains most of
- the opposition to disarmament,
World court. League Of Nations and
other cooperative movements for
international peace-sheer obstinacy
and sheerer politics.
Just to show where we are head
ing, Standard Oil and the German
dye trust enter into an agreement
not only for research work but for
the control Of certain patents and
enterprises.
We have moved beyond the peril
of national monopoly. Now we face
that of world monopoly.
Business is stepping across the
boundary lines Of nations just as it
once stepped across those of cur own
states.
Somewhere there must be an
authority capable of meeting the
inevitable result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
Benefit of Tren1orS

DUT to get down to the modern
ID world, I think that in some re-
spects I am better off than Colonel
Lindbergh. 1t is hard to under
stand in just what way flying faS-
cinateS that gallant youngSter.
There is no evidence in any news
story that he has ever felt fear,
and long hops made without bene-
fit Of tremors would seem to be pref
ty dull business.
We've heard that Colonel Lind
bergh rides alone and no one ever
has said that timidity perched upon
his right hand
To whom, then. does he talk dur
ing the long night hours? Under
the stress OF terror is it possible to
carry on long and earnest CONVEX
sations with yourself?
For instance, I suppose I've said
to myself a hundred times, Don't
be fool, that dog isn't going to bite
you" And generally was right
However, it is the exception which
provide the excitement. And maybe
I would go upon a war time ship
through a submarine zone once more
before I die.
Not that I like submarines, but
never since have I known such wild
10y as that which stroked my spine
when the U-boat dropped behind
and we saw the port Of Bordeaux.
Since Lindbergh knows no fear, I
don't see how he can get much thrill
when, on a misty morning, he spies
some black -speck of land after a
dark journey over water. Probably
a taxicab ride down West street fills
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
L l. O1IL1V1O L ~ 1NlL BROUN

II MY me, sirs, l am a coward,
~ said the old gentleman in
Stevenson's story, The Suicide
Club" At any rate he said some
thing like that Nobody is going to
demand that a columnist should
have such a passion for accuracy as
to compel him actually to look UP
his quotations.
Besides, I merely want a text ON
which to hang some praises Of
timidity.
Mankind always has known that
fearIessneSs was a weakness. There
will be no discussion here of the
sad young man in ancient days who
said, ITO hell with the mammoth"
and never came back to the family
cave at nightfall.
You see they left few, if any de-
scendantS, and nature seems to feel
that the timid are the fit, since she
bestows survival upon them.
1 would rather pin my case upon
folklore than science. Generally it
represents a truth more ancient
and profound than any passing
verify discovered by the expert
ments.
And you will remember that in
the story there was a prince who
could neither shiver nor shake.
Quite rightly, he diagnosed his con-
dition as an ailment and went out
into the world to seek a cure.
Ghosts and monsters failed to
terrify him and he eventually was
brought back to normally with no
better remedy than pail Of cold
water. Very probably he relapSed
into imperviouSness later on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25

XHTIsCoNsIN takes her liberal
W ism straight No poison in
the hooch, no tax on cigaretS and
no censorship for the movies.
New York is willing to trail along
with regard to hooch and cigarets,
but not with regard to censorship.
Even the Freidburg Passion Play,
which passed muster all right in
the middle west, seems headed for
trouble on Broadway.
New York has a law, by heck,
which forbids impersonation Of the
Deity, no matter what the motive.
That law has been on the statute
book eighteen years, but to such lit
tie purpose that most every one had
forgotten about it.
Why was it not enforced when
The King Of Kings" came to town,
or 1.-THE Passing of the Third Floor
Back" or "A Servant in the House?"
Probably for the same reason that
the Volstead act is not enforced,
except on special occasions.
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thinking Is DANGEROUS

IT is getting dangerous to think
4 in these United States, much less
TO talk out loud.
Scarcely a day passes but that one
hears of some disturbance, trial,
conviction, or prison sentence be-
cause of opinions, expressed or sus-
pected.
Down In Pittsburgh, the univer-
sity is in an uproar because some OF
the students wanted to hear man
talk about the Mooney case; Roger
Baldwin Of the Civil Liberties Union
is barred from speaking III New
York high school for no other reason
than that he is Roger Baldwin and
the D. A. r. eXpels Mrs. Ballle for
opposing the blacklist.
Not pausing to argue as to Wheth-
Ell it would do any particular good
for university students to excite
themselves over sucn cases as that
of Tom Mooney, it is obvious that
somebody needs to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
Costly Stubb0rnn0SS

CHEER obstinacy explains 2 good
- many things that are disguised
with better excuses.
Among others, it explains the by
play over farm relief in the senate.
Cannot senators understand Eng
lish, that they think they can get
away with the debenture scheme?
President Hoover has said as
plainly as any man could that he
would veto it.
Either those senators supporting
it are dumb, or playing politics at
public expense, making a gesture to
the farmers we'll knowing that the
house, or the President can be de-
pended on to save them from their
folly.