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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
ConViCtS for Prisons

IT will take twenty eight million
L dollars to put the penal in
stitutions of New York in good
shape, according to a tentative re-
port prepared by Dir. Raymond F.
G. Kieb, commissioner of corrections.
Such a condition suggests that
lawmakers of the Empire state have
given vastly more attention to pro-
viding convicts for prisons than
prisons for convicts.
When such a stupendous sum Of
money spells the difference between
what has been done, and what ought
to have been done, monumental
neglect is the only conclusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
Rabbit Fever

XPERTS of the United States
- public health service have I'M
earthed another disease. In vul l.
gar parlance, it is known as rabbit
fever, and human catch it.
Sometimes one could wish that
experts were less jealous in unearth-
ing and identifying new nlaladies.
Most of us would be happier and
about as safe if we remained in
ignorance.
Take this discovery of rabbit
fever. for instance, and what does it
amount to, except something more
to worry about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
The Permanent Cure

Revelations of the seeming lack OF ousl-
ness acumen, if nothing more, in the trans
actions between the school board and c. Z.
Ship, reputed boss of the board, suggest
that there is need of something more per-
manent than supervision of the board OF tax
commissioners.
1t is not pleasant for great city like
INDIANAPOLIS to need the guardianship OF the
state to prevent loss and waste OF the hard
earned tax money of the people.
It is not a proud confession to admit that
any part of the official control of the city
needs the curb of such supervision, espe-
cially when that board openly declares that
the peoples money is being wasted by too
close a friendship with one certain vendor OF
necessities for schools.
If there is any fund which should be too
sacred to be squandered among poltlcal
favorites, it is the school fund.
Il is a travesty to raise huge funds to
educate youth, only to have those funds de-
pleted by unbusiness-like control. 1t is not
worth while educating children If they are
to grow up in an atmosphere where they
can not protect their earnings from SUCH
practices.
Control of Shipp over the local school
board has been notorious. The members al
times almost have boosted of their shackles,
as though they were proud medals. They
have not hesitated to admit that they have
been on close terms.
In their family quarrels they have &C
cused one another of deserving Shlpp lor
Coffin. The revelations suggest that there
is no deep division of sentiment between
these nlanipulators of politics.
Fortunately, a movement is growing 10
overthrow the domination of both Shlpp and
Coffin and restore the public schools to puphc
ownership and control, where the educatlon
of youth and the protection of public money
will be the only aims of the members.
Both these gentlemen are experts IN poll
tics. They know how to put their vasSalS IN
nlaces of power. They understand how oil
vided sentiment and local jealousles can De
used to carry out their schemes and olVloe
those who have only the best interests OF the
schools at heart.
It will be we'll to guard against these men,
and especially Shipp, who, says the TAX
hoard finds business with the board to be
unduly profitable. So,
The uprising of citizens to accomplish
this house cleaning should be unanimous ana
emphatic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor, Times-We appreciate the
policy of The Times in giving full
information on both sides of every
controversial question in which the
public is interested.
We are reading Mrs. Willebrandt's
articles with great interest and feel
that she will give fair and honest
expression of the prohibition situa-
ton as she understands it.
we will also call the attention OF
others to these articles.
Cordially yours,
IDA NJ. ASHBY,
President, board of directors, Y.
W. G. A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
DRYING Up the Nation

THE Association against Prohi-
= bition comes out with another
analysis to prove that the use of
alcoholic liquors is increasing.
Interesting, perhaps, but most
people knew it already.
Press reports, as well as table talk,
have been spreading the good news
for sometime.
theoretically, the nation may be
drying up, but in view of what they
see with their own eyes, or hear
with their own ears, you can't make
people believe it.
What worries them, and what
makes them hesitate to vote for any
change, is a feeling that though
seemingly impossible, they might
make matters worse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

ID FADING of the Graf zeppelin's
N departure on her world flight
carries us back to the time that
Nellie Bly,, New York newspaper
woman, circled the globe by train
and ship in the breath-taking time
Of something like seventy days.
Whole towns went down to the
station when Nellie's. train stopped,
to see the ruthless annihilator of
distance, as she promenaded up and
down the platform in short skirted
suit, fried egg derby and with small
valise swung from her shoulder.
1t makes us chesty, of course, to
hear Admiral Moffet, naval air
chief, say that we are to construct
dirigibleS which will be much
greater than the Graf Yep, but the
longer they are the weaker they are.
They are likely to buckle in the
middle; remember the Shenandoah.
A company in Kansas City has
been formed to rent airplanes to
gentlemen who can not afford to
own them, thus filling a crying need
of the republic.
NXTE may not have our names N
w Who's Who, Bradstreet, or the
Social Register, but there's a good
Time coming.
They are going to take the census
and we are all equal there.
How ones heart bleeds for this
poor, little innocent DR.. Shook. hoy
erlng around the SOS as he reveals
to The jury how he was led astray by
this designing girl in her 20's.
And you will notice. that true to
the form of the cheap villain, lie
Tugs in his wife and aged mother
when his iniquities find him out.
II
They may form plots to break on
of penitentiaries, asylums and
matrimony, but you may rest as
sured that our representatives and
senators at Washington will not
enter into any conspiracy to break
out Of the capitol building.
They are loyal.
After all, Victor Berger had a good
time.
His life was one of turbulence
struggle, suspicion, arrest, defeat
and victory.
Had he been condemned to whittle
IN front OF rural store, he would
have died long ago.
THESE Chinese factions now pre-
Il pairing to go to the mat with
each other in the United States
should go back home and pour their
wrath into the common pool
against the raring Russians.
A hen in France lays an egg
weighing half a pound, but what
does it get her? She can not On
INTO vaudeville, write any syndicated
articles, or sign any paint
testimonials.
It's none Of our funeral, but We
rejoice to see Bishop Cannon beaten
IN the Virginia primary.
whenever any religious organiza-
ton, no matter what it be, starts to
take over American politics, we hope
that it will get it where Nellie wore
the beads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
flaming Age

MYTH disrespect to flaming
w youth, it is worth noting that
Mrs. Anna Skies of Venice, Cal,
celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday
by taking f1fteen-mile swim in
the Pacific.
She started at a. m, and re-
manned in the water twelve and
one-half hours, breasting high waves
and strong tides.
Whether that is record, it hangs
I'D a mark for the present genera
ton to shoot at.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

quired for growth,
movement and re-
pair.
The two pro-
cesses are best
ind e r stood in
their relations to
each other, if we
think of tn e m
from the stand
point of energy.
P h otosynthesis
is the process by
which the plant
obtains a store of
energy. Respira-
ton is the pro-
cess hv which this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
Can't Wait

before he turned his majestic
y back on the unker1pt profess
sion of pugilism, Mr.. James Joseph
Tunney threatened to write what
he predicted would be the most re-
n1arkable book on the prize fight
industry that ever leaped off a
printers press.
1t may be that Mr. Tunney, Sc
cluded in a Switzerland resort, even
now is engaged in composing his
classic denunciation of the sport
which made him a millionaire and
waited him into the social register.
Mr.. Tunney always larnented the
evil star thai logged him to emf
nence over the PROSTATE forms Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

D 1GHT or wrong, the British
IN labor government backs Philip
Snowden in his demands for
modification Of the Young plan.
What is more important, the
British people back the government.
Premier Macdonald evidently has
made a hit at home with his I'M
compromising message.
Partisanship has been laid aside
in order that England may show a
united front.
This means that The Hague con-
ference will fail, unless France and
the other allies make the necessary
concessions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
TT SEEMS TO ME BY WILLIAMS 5GH

good old Alp" Another cheer. The
ready response of his audience
softened the fighting spirit of the
great man.
''Well, suppose I'll have to let
you cheer the Cards, but they're a
lousy team"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

INCREASINGLY as new sub
l. stances are introduced into in
dustry' they begin to have their
effects on human beings and physi-
clans are confronted with the diff
cult problem of determining wheth-
er symptoms arise in workers, due
to the poisons with which they are
associated or due to infectious or
other causes.
There are many diseases which
are associated with a lessening of
the number of white cells in the
blood. Among the many conditions
which may produce this symptom
is chronic poisoning with benzine
or, as it is often called, benzol.
In 1922 benzol was beginning to
be used widely in many industrial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
Dietz on Science
Sun Furnishes Energy
No. ABB

TT IS interesting to contrast two fundamental pro-
L cesses in living plants. They are photosynthess
and respiration.
Photosynthess, the reader of this series knows,
is the process by which the plant manufactures its
food Respiration is the process by which the plant
burns Id or utilities the food to obtain the energy re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

lnept brew masters, piano movers
and truck drivers. Once he said
I'd rather be known as the man
who wrote the Bridge of San Luis
Rey' than as the man who beat
Jack Dempsey"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
How Many Drinks?

The question of how much liquor is being drunk
under prohibition has been disputed widely So too,
has the effect of prohibition public health.
Dry spokesman contend that the per capita con-
sumption of alcohol is only fraction of what it used
to be- and that as consequence the nation Is
healthier They offer figures to support their argu-
ments The vets insist that alcoholic beverages
are being drunk than when saloons licensed,
and that diseases arising from the abuse of alcohol
are at least as common They, too, offer
figures.
The trouble is that adequate information is lack
70 ing Obviously no one knows the output of sugar
whisky the alley stills that abound in every city,
or of the stills that exist in the remote rural and
mountainous regions, or how much home brew and
wine is made Statistics dealing with public health are
admittedly unreliable and inadequate.
Professor Irving Fisher recently devoted book
to proving that the consumption of alcohol is only
a small part of what it was in the old days. He
sought to refute the arguments of Hugh H. Fox Of
the United Brewers Association, who had made an
exhaustive survey and reached opposite conclusions.
And so goes. One set of figures confounds another
Now comes the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment with tract prepared by John G. Geb-
hart director of its research department. which shows
"a distinct and steady rise in American liquor con-
sumption and intemperance since prohibition went
into effect" 1t is claimed that years careful study
was given all available indexes bearing the subject
Various charts and graphs presented
The association found: Seizures of distling appa-
rats have increased steadily; seizures of liquor have
grown year after year; deaths from alcoholism have
reached their pre-war level, after showing sharp
decline; the alcoholic death curve of industrial
workers shows they drink much as any other
group; alcoholic insanity and cirrhoss of the liver
are increasing; arrests for drunken driving have
grown vastly; and on
These findings Will be disputed Drys will say, for
instance that the seizures of stills and liquor show
greater police vigilance and less rather than more
drinking
However this study will challenge the attention
of every calm thinking person who is concerned over
the obvious ills that have in the train OF the
volstead act.
Meantime, it is matter Of common knowledge
that liquor in almost every community is plentiful
and fairly cheap No statistics are needed to
show that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

Joe Williams, sports editor
of the New York Telegram,
Is "batting for Haywood
Broun" while the latter is
enjoying a vacation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

What is the value of a United
States scent piece dated 1912?
Collectors value them at 5 to Z
cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

How fast does human hair grow?
About two inches per month. 1t
is said to grow faster in the summer
than in the winter, and during the
daytime than at night time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

writer says that all you have to have to get into
Washington society is suit of evening clothes And
if Mrs Gam is there, perhaps you'd better bring
your own chair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

What is the value of a United
States gold half dollar, dated 1856?
There. never has been such a coin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

In descending stairway should a
woman precede her male escort?
The woman follows the man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

Do horses always sleep standing
up?
They can sleep either standing up
or lying down. Their habits vary in
this respect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

The home of recuse was searched in wisconsin
and $500 was found. He must have been non
union recluse to have so little as that around.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

breed of wingless chickens has been developed
in Kansas Some day scientists will turn their atten
ton to something really worth while and may pro-
duce chicken without neck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
SAYS:

The Farm Board Has Been
Organized Only q Few
Weeks, bat Euen IN That
Short Time Hos Given Tan
gible Proof of It's Policy
and Capacity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

An Arkansas heifer died after it choked on roll
of bills the farmer had lost in the pasture. Maybe
the farmers shouldn't be relieved, after all-think
of the poor heifers!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

nerce of science of invention. It is symbolized by
such names as Locarno, the Bremen, the Graf
Zeppelin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
Daily Thought

No man also having drunk old
wine straightway desireth new;
for he saith, the old is better.-St.
Luke 5:39.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

NLD wood best to burn, old wine
" to drink, old friends to trust
and old authors to read.-Bacon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
BY DIR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13
REASON
By Frederick Lands

By Frederick lands -
After All, Victor Berger Had
a Good Time; HIS Life Was
One of Turbulence, Strug-
gle, Defect and Victory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

They may form plots to break out
OF penitentiaries, asylums and
matrimony, but you may rest as
sured that our representatives and
senators at Washington will not
enter into any conspiracy to break
out OF the capitol building.
They are loyal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-13

A company in Kansas City has
been formed to rent airplanes to
gentlemen who can not afford to
own them, thus filling a crying need
of the republic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Senator Norris Persists

Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska will rein
troduce on the opening day of the next session his
constitutional amendment to end lame duck sessions
of congress, such as the one sitting. We COM
mend his persistence.
The arguments against allowing men who were
defeated in November to sit through the short ses
sion, and keeping newly elected members from TAX
ing their seats for thirteen months, too well known
to need repeating So with the arbitrary ending of the
short session March 4, whether its work has been
completed or not.
The President short session proves necessity for
change Congress is compelled to neglect important
legislation because of limited time Other legislation
will not get the consideration it deserves. Some
measures will be killed because opponents can pre-
vent consideration in the crush of the last days.
With only three weeks remaining, congress has be.
fore it such important matters extension of tire
radio commission, coal legislation, inland waterways
reapportonent railroad consolidation the Ware con-
test tax refund publicity, regulation of cotton ex
changes outlawng of labor injunctions and this by
no means exhausts the list.
times, but always has been defeated in the house,
where the lame duck sessions help the leaders keep
members in line. However, there is tenable argu
ment against its adoption, and some day there will
be house with vision enough to concur in the
ate's action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19

ter intellectually worse, opening itself to the charge
of further blocking disarmament negotiations This
follows reauthorzation of two postponed British
cruisers.
We cannot share the nervous foreboding of some
American circles that all this is evidence of sinister
British policy Rather inclined with the Brit
sh press, to put it down to sheer stupidity
But that British stupidity is matched by naval
leaders in the senate. They were not content with
premature authorization of fifteen cruisers, but
they must rush construction as though war were to
be declared tomorrow morning.
They defied Coolidge and Hoover, who are pre-
paredness advocates but in position to know that
immediate building is unnecessary and inexpedient.
Coolidge and Hoover favored dropping the time con-
Struction clause from the bill.
Now senate committee has overridden the Cool
idge naval budget estimates by inserting $4,000
appropriation to begin five cruisers at once in
addition to the appropriat n for the second lot of
five cruisers for next July.
That is, they getting ready to start ten
cruisers this year. besides the eight now building and
besides the five additional for next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Spare Witnesses

THEN there is the much discussed
Il "attack" on Mrs. Ruby Ramsey
of Oklahoma, with the subsequent
court proceedings at Tia Juana and
the light thrown on the method
of administering justice in Mexico.
Mrs. Ramsey did not have the re-
quired two witnesses, wherefore, she
failed to prove the point, as the
judge carefully explained.
Max Miller, writing in the San
Diego Sun, advises American women,
who are about to be attacked,
robbed, or otherwise mistreated in
Mexico, to be sure and take plenty
Of witnesses along.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Solved Years Later

A LII this, hope, suggests mys-
N terry enough, but the killing of
Richard Quilter is solved twenty
eight years after the event by a
woman detective, who does not even
visit the scene of the crime and who
never meets any member Of the
family.
The solution lies in her analysis Of
a number of letters written before
and after the murder by the IL
year-old daughter to Richard Quill
ter and his 19-year-old son. The
solution, after it has been pointed
out, lies quite palpably in these let
tiers.
Every reader can do as much as
the detective if only he retains well
enough and associates facts which
seem insignificant at first telling. I
was not able to do this and it made
me ashamed of myself.
You might have better luck.
The structure of the story seems
to me extremely dramatic. The
novel begins twenty-eight years az
ter the death of. Richard Quilter
and the detective, or rather crime
analyst is called in, because Neal,
VINO was 10 on the night of the
shooting, is beginning to show signs
of mental crumbling.
He confesses to several people
that he shot his father. The de-
tectiye is called in to determine
whether this is an hallucination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
Army Promotions

The army promotion plan which has been adopted
by the senate and will reach the house in the form
OF conference report has settled to some extent the
controversy raging over this question since the
World war;
The plan assures all officers of promotion but does
not correct injustces in rank brought about by the
war department system of ranking men on the basis
of length OF service.
This newspaper has favored the Wainwright-Mc-
Swain bill, which adopted by the house. The
senate compromise only partially carries out the
intent of the house bill.
But the compromise the best obtainable in the
senate, with adjournment so near. There will be
other congresses and other opportunities of getting adj
ditional benefits for the men who saw their IA u~
taken away and others showed ahead of them by the
department ruling, misinterpreting the law
From the standpoint of the entire army the senate
bill does much good and accompishes more than
many of the officers expected from this congress- It
should be adopted by the house and signed by Pres-
dent Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-19
No Sherlock Holmes

DUT perhaps the most striking
AS thing about this particular de-
tective story is that it owes nothing
at all to Conan Doyle and Sherlock
Holmes. It is almost the only book
of the sort which I have read in
fifteen years which was not definite
ly modelled after the manner set by
the modern master of mystery.
In fact, the detective who moves
dimly in the story speaks not more
than couple of hundred words and
is a minor figure in the scheme of
things.
1t is left to another character to
name the culprit, and so ingenious
is the solution that every reader is
bound to say, Il wonder why never
thought of that?"
at least accepted the explanation
fully and thought, "Of course" al
though up to the point of revela-
ton never had once suspected the
character in question.
Well written and ingenioHSly de-
vised, Footprints" does depend
somewhat upon its surprise which
comes in the precisely final word of
the narrative.