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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Vac Poor Bic Rich Man

When you first read Robert W. Stewards plea to
stockholders Of Standard Oil of Indiana for his re-
election as chairman of the board, it is amusing
But on second reading it is pathetic
1t is the case of man trying to answer hiscritics,
and unconsciously condemning himself. Stewards
self-revelation is unanswerable
After repeating the tawdry alibs which never
explain or justify his part in the Continental Trading
Company oil deal with Sinclair, and his conflicting
testimony to the Senate Teapot Dome Investigators
Stewart states the issue between himself and Rookie
feer.
Rockefeller's attorney, in trying to rally stock
holders to GUST Stewart had written to them:
I'VE think of this contest as an opportunity for
the stockholders of the Indiana company to clean
house and show the public that the owners of one
big business will not countenance in their repre-
sentatves such course Of conduct as that followed
by Colonel Stewart"
But how different is the issue seen by Stewart.
He replies:
II am either entitled to reelection upon the rec
ord of my stewardship of the interests of the COM
pany the last ten years. 1 am not"
And here is his proof: zone thing that can not
be denied however is the fact that the present or
ganization took the Indiana company in 1919 at that
time worth $1700000O0 and in ten years. without
asking one cent from the stockholders, has made it
into company worth about $9OOOOOOOO during which
time it paid out more than $2OOOOOOOO cash dvi-
dends."
Proftsl That and that alone Stewards test
in the rotten Continental DEAL That and that alone
Stewart would make the test of his stewardship OF
the interests Of the company" and his right to re-
election.
Well that places Stewart
But what about the stockholders? Which do they
think is more important the Rockefeller issue of
housekeeping the Stewart issue of excessive
prohtsP And If it is money only that they inter-
ested in which do they thin kis better business
Observation-Disclosures management public con-
hdence?
Stewart has stated the issue very neatly for them.
But he neglected in his appeal to their pocketbookS
to remind them that they cannot have both dis
credited management and public confidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Need for More Spans

TT is commonly supposed that
i when a river separates two
states, the boundary line lies some
where in mid-stream, but that is
not always the case.
Texas, for instance, only goes to
her own bank of the Red river,
while Kentucky goes to the opposite
bank of the Ohio river.
The state that owns the river gen.
orally is expected to build the
bridges to span it. Kentucky is not
particularly rich or progressive.
That is one reason why there are
SO few free bridges across that part
of Ohio in which she claims all the
water.
In many instances, the state on
one side of a river is in better shape
to build bridges than the state on
the other side. In practically all
instances, the bridges serve people
who live outside both states.
If any one phase of road con-
struction belongs to the federal
government more than another, it
is the building of bridges, especial
ly over those rivers which form
state boundaries.
The very power by which the
federal government regulates inter
state traffic should make it re-
sponsible for the needs of inter
state traffic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
CAPTAIN Fried

Probably Captain George Fried of the S. S. Amer
lea. would rather make dozen perlous rescues
at sea than be the hero Of such reception as New
York prepares for returning heroes.
But man who still persists in steaming through
smashing weather to the aid of ships in distress ex>
hibiting consummate seamanship and daring, and SO
inspire his that they will tumble into flmsy
boat and take off the crew of laundering hunk wal
lowing among thirty-foot waves-and all without
losing man-must expect to be feted when he re-
turns ashore.
For us soft landluhbers such an achievement has
the thrill OF saga-the mighty saga of the sea- with
its mighty men, and its mmemoria traditions of sea-
manship and Self-sacrifce.
Captain Fried and his men are Of those traditions
We honor them. The world honors them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Even the most easily transparent
of these threads transmits only
from to 10 per cent of the availa-
DIE rays. If several layers of fabric
are worn SO that there is practical
ly no direct access of the light to the
skin, the transmission through the
clothing is negligible.
The Investigators rightly point
out that there is no doubt what
ever that, under proper medical SUI
pervision regular exposure to I'LL
traviolet radiation is most bene-
fetal. But from the fact that adults
have lived .fdlly clothed and in
health for many years prior to the
present discussion of the subject, it
seems likely that it requires but a
small amount of ultraviolet rays to
keep the body in health.
Until we know more about the
biologic effects of excessive amounts
of ultraviolet rays, one should be
careful about overexposhre. Fur
thernlore, apparently the chief pur-
pose Of the ultraviolet rays is TO
produce vitan1in D within the body,
and this is also had in many other
ways. So ",~.> !.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Oscar w. Underwood

Many members of congress have paid tribute to
Oscar w. Underwood following his death yesterday.
In way we Ike best these words of Senator George
w. Norris:
"The nest thing that can be said about any man
is that his honor is unimpeachable Senator Under
wood was such man. is word always was good"
itical beliefs the one progressive Republican the
other conservative Democrat. They fought many a
parliamentary battle-but they wavered in their
mutual respect and liking For each knew, the sharp
incisive sometimes bitterly aroused Nebraskan and
the quiet bland seldom unsmiling Alabama that the
other honest
Underwood was, of course, a man of remarkable
ability well integrity. The first four years of
Woodrow Wilson's administration stands now in
American history of the periods of great con-
structive achievement. Without the determined and
Wilson'S legislative program could have been
written into law
His three times before Democratic con-
ventions as candidate for the presidential nomra-
ton. In 1924 it seemed that the ambition might be
realized But. added to his conservatism there was
his outspoken opposition to prohibition and the Ku
Klux Khan, and in the year of the great Smith-Mc
Adoo duel those two things spelled defeat.
Evidence of the respect that the most bigoted
always will be remembered when the Madison Square
Garden struggle is recalled
Alabama, klan-ridden Alabama, responded 1903
times loudly and proudly, Alabama casts twentyfour
votes for Oscar w. Underwood"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Outdoing Romans

THIS country is engaged in the
Il greatest road construction pro-
gram ever undertaken, the COM
plete elimination of toll bridges
should form part of it.
Roads and the travel passing over
them represent our greatest single
industry, remove the auto truck,
garage, filling station and their
allied activities and this country
would take on the appearance of
an economic vacuum There was
never a land or civilization in which
roads played such an important
part. There never vas time
when so much of the public revenue
went for their construction and up
keep.
We are building more roads each
year than the Roman empire had in
its palmiest days, and we are build
ing them just as well, il not better.
Ninety-nine per cent of work, and
probably more, is done through tax
alton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
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II z NSO n

TINE premier of Japan announces
Il that his country does not accept
our exclusion of japanese and will
revive the matter when the time is
opportune, yet Japan excludes Chi
nese just as we exclude Japanese.
I If we had no national defense
Japan would write our immigration
laws, assisted by every other nation
which brings more people into the
world than it can maintain.
Pacif1sts please take notice.
MusSolini issued a little more in
ternational preferred stock when he
arranged for King Boris of Bulgaria
to marry Princess Giovanni of
Italy.
The League of Nations should Or
ganize an expedition for the relief
of the girl who is compelled to pass
up the man she wants and marry to
please the politicians.
e &
This bill introduced in the Ne
braska legislature to compel doctors
to write all prescriptions in plain
English" is not so important, but
we are for a bill which will compel
all inscriptions on monuments and
public buildings to be in the lam
guage of the taxpayers.
In addition to the overflow of
Presidents embalmed in oil, each
department of the government is
damned with portraits of forgotten
secretaries, hundreds of departed
cabinet members having been put
on canvas at public expense.
1t would be far better to put the
pictures and cut the names of the
immortals on a beech tree in the
White House grounds. or if they are
secretaries like Fall, cut them on
a slippery elm.
John McC,itcheon. cartoonist
extraordinary, owns Treasure Is
land but this is the name of the
office-seekers irresistibly associate
with the island now occupied by Mr.
Hoover.
Fourteen brass bands met Mr..
Hoover when he arrived in Miami.
but it probably made no impression
on him at all. as every fellow lie
has met since the election has been
blowing his own horn.
r. y
These scientists who put in their
time, specializing as to whether man
sprang from monkey, boll-wsevil or
cat fish should be put to sorae kind
of useful employment, such as
shoveling snow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Jefferson on LIQUOR

One hundred eleven years ago. the founder of the
Democratic party in the United States, and the ex-
ponent of republican principles of peoples govern
ment, contributed his thought to the present. day
debate on the relative merits of whisky light Wines
and beer and the use of the taxing power on these
commodities.
writing from Monticello Dec 10, 1918. Thomas
jefferson said:
81 rejoice as a moralist at the prospect of re-
duction of the duties on wine by national egs-
latire 1t is al, error to view tax on that liquor
as merely a tax on the rich. 1t is prohibition of
its use to the middling class of our citizens, and
condemnation of them the poison of whisky which
is desolating their houses
mo nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and
none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes
ardent spirits as the common beverage. 1t is, in
truth, the only antdote to the bane of whisky. Fix
but the duty at the rate of other merchandise and
we can drink wine here as cheap we do grog; and
who will prefer it? Its extended use will carry health
and comfort to much enlarged circle.
Everyone in easy circumstances Gas the bulk of
our citizens are will prefer it to the poison to which
they now are driven by their government. And the
treasury itself will find that penny apiece is more
than a groat from a single one
"ThiS reformation however, will require time. Our
merchants know nothing of the infinite variety of
cheap and good wines to be had in Europe; and par
tcularly in France in italy and the Grecian Islands;
as they know little also of the variety of excellent
manufactures and comforts to be had anywhere cut
of England
Nor will these things be known, nor of course,
called for here until the native merchants of those
countries to whom they are known shall bring them
forward exhibit and yend them at the moderate
profits they afford. This alone viii procure them
familiarity with us, and the preference they merit
in competition with corresponding articles in
use"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
LISTEN, PACIFISTS
PUT 1T IN ENGLISH
ALL BLOWING HORNS

A S a climax to his economy prog
L A ram, President Coolidge asks
congress to appropriate $4,000 for
an oil painting of himself to be
hung in the White House.
Personally we should prefer to
see this money spent for geraniums
or for some iron dogs for the White
House lawn.
The president is all right, but the
White House is running over with
enormous portraits of departed
Presidents, some of the masterpieces
being in the attic, some in the base
ment, and some in the pantry.
y q n
The Guatema1ans are at it again
in one Of. their periodical revolutions
and we sincerely hope that nobody
buffaloes the government into send
ing the marines down to participate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
I Z
SEEMS
TOME
by HSYWOOD
BROUN

DAhM BEACH, Fla, Jan. 26.-
\ One does not speak of rope in
the house Of the hangman or men,
ton "the hurricane" here in Florida.
But. If pressed, the inhabitants win
talk about "the storm"
1t has always seemed to me that
newspaper accounts of great disas-
tiers lack a personal and intimate
quality. In covering the whole
range of calamity, the experiences
of the individuals are sighted.
I wish I had the ability to set
down the dialect Of the Florida
Negro, because the man who BIZ
cycled me around in a wheel chair
this morning made me see and feel
the big wind more wildly than I
had ever done before.
You see, he was talking about
himself and his house, and not of
the whole wide sweep of devasta-
ton. He told me of the f1ercest
hour and of how his roof 'riz up
and then riz down again"
Seemingly the hurricane was for
ever considering carrying it away
entirely and then thinking better
of it. And the third time it danced
in the air only to fall back-ker-
plunkl-he decided to have no
further share in this cosmic game
of tiddliwinkS, and went away from
there.
And he told me of how he went
down the streets, crouching against
the storm, and the manner in which
the tlercest gusts would send him
| spinning and bind him with the,
loose telegraph wires which lay
about the streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Touch of Nostalgia

NEVERTHELESS, I'm terribly
4 V glad I left New York on a
visit. Friends and readers have adj
vised me for years that I was much
too provincial and that there really
were other places.
And while I stuck ON Manhattan
island I was in no position to say
that no other resort compared to
our dear metropolis.
It's rather silly to advise anybody
to get away from New York. It
can't be done. AS we drove through
the palm trees and entered the ho-
tel the bellboy who took the bag
remarked. We'll, how is the old
poker game going in Room Zip"
And recognized recent exile
from the algonquin.
I went to the golf course and ON
the first tee Clare Briggs was driv-.
ing of. RUDE Goldberg was sit
ting on the porch and Grantland
Rice just coming in the gate. How
can you get away from city which
sends forth so many emissaries?
But for me the trip is already
great success. I've had my moment.
At the entrance of the bathing.
houses there lurked a news photog-
rapher. arSs he said, I'm from the
NEA, would you mind posing?'
The people Of the press are so
importunate. and this was the first
time in my life I'd ever been asked
to pose for anything. 1 thought Il
was great. but do wish I had re-
membered to hold my stomach iii.
fconyyight. 1922 for rho Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Times Readers Voice Vices

salary or alimony and sigh, II got
so lonesome at home"
They are the downfall of many
young girls. they cause married
women who stay home TO become
dissatisfied. They snub the unem-
ployed woman's clothes or house
furnishings. They make them Bit
ter when they explain how to raise
six children on budget systen
with an income of SIS a week. Still
those parasites buy hose at SIS a
pair.
I am not bitter, for have made
success of married life, and
would not change places with the
highest Salaried woman on earth,
or Mrs. Hoover, either. for that
matter. I have a wonderful hus-
band and fine children.
Those demagogs of consequences
ought to try their homes a while.
Discover the good points in their
families, also do the work. There
is no time in q home to become
lonesome. and I for one would take
in washing rather than let my chill
dren's characters be formed by paid
mothers.
IF a man has the responsibilities
of a family ne win be much bet
ter citizen and wiz not break the
law. But how can the be self
respecting when their wives are
enameled, hair dyed, short skirt
wage hounds" drawing more than
a husband.
Let the woman be fair and give
the man a chance to keep fam
ily. Divorces could be prevented If
the wife svnnId a,Se her kitchen and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26

preference
Editor Times: America demands
a solution for dealing with bandits
gunner AMI bootleggers. This crime
wave can be stopped successfully
had men turned to law-abiding citi-
zenS.
No man with position, properly
paid, would go out and stick up
another man. Where are men go
ing to find paying jobs? All the
equal rights sit tight in the sal
airy boats. They are stars, while
unemployed slen walk the streets.
This does hot refer to widows, un-
married or young women. but to
wives living with their husbands or
drawing alimony. Put ttoSe broad
minds in their places.
They want equal rights. Give 1t
to them in their homes. The mother
with children, the girl with aged
parents or the one compelled to
make a living wants and demands
equal rights" too. A woman with
two means Of support does not need
10 draw a large salary.
have young sons and daughters
who win be wage earners soon. Can
they find employment Probably
not. for those fur-coated parasites
enjoy all available jobs. This con-
dition Is what makes men desper-
ate. Men bootleg because there is
no employment.
we demand @afe" fo5 the gun
men. but employed wives are gun
women. They take the husbands
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26

ITALY now joins Germany, France
n and England in showing lower
birth rate, which is not surprising,
since men and women must be
heartless to bring into the world
children, doomed to be stabbed and
shot and gassed. If the world isn't
wise enough to stop war, it should
be decent enough to stop breeding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
SAYS:

TOvINGTON, KY, Jan. 26.-If
~ you want to see Americas out
standing example of what toll
bridges can do to hold back the
development of a community, go 70
Covington.
Covington is directly across the
Ohio river from Cincinnatfs busl-
ness district. The running time
between them, whether by street
car or auto, is ABOUT five minutes.
Thousands of Cincinnati people
would be living in Covington but
for the toll.
Increditable as it may seem in
this day and generation, there is
no free bridge.
The four privately owned bridges
have not only made fortune after
fortune, but have created a 1op-
sided, inconvenient growth.
Cincinnati remains all in Ohio,
with its residential districts all one
side of its business district, which
means that many of its people are
travelling from four to six miles
daily when they could reduce the
distance one-half by living in Ken
lucky.
Nicely as such a condition may
fit local pride and state patriotism,
it hardly squares with common
sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Questions and
AnSze,erS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question Of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question
nston Bureau 0 isa2 New YoTk a wasn
washington. D. g. inclosing 2 cents in
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot be given. nor can ex-
questions will receive q personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot be answered
All letters are confidential. You are
cordially invited to make use OF tf1ii
service.
Is it permissible to use the word
company" for example Smith Dry
Goods Company, without permission
Of law?
1t is entirely permissible to use
the word company" as suggested.
What is the address of Mrs. Bert
Acosta?
Rockville Center, Long Island
Where was the movie shooting
Irons" filmed?
In California.
Can You give me the famous
limerick which is said to have been
Woodrow Wilson's fav0rite?
For beauty am no star,
There are Others more handsome BIZ far.
But my face. don't mind it,
For I am behind il,
It's the people in front that / jar.
To whofn does Siberia belong?
Siberia is Russian territory and is
under the control Of the government
Of soviet Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
NO Excuse for Toll Bridges

COMMUNITIES, especially when
~ they become large and con-
gested, need nothing so much as
freedom to grow naturally, normally
and Symetrically.
A toll bridge except when built
by the public and designed to pay
off it's own cost, is not only a
nuisance but economic injustice.
What would a toll bridge be worth
without the road at either end?
Who builds and maintains the
road? Why should the public. build
and maintain hundreds of miles OF
road and then let some private COR
poration bridge a 1000 foot gap for
the sweet privilege of leyying trib-
ute on it ever after?
You just can't reconcile such a set
up with ordinary intelligence. There
is no more excuse for toll bridges
than there would be to let individu-
ais or corporations grab half-mile
sections out of our main highways
and put gates at either end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26

The Bidding-South opens with
no-trump and all pass.
Deciding the PIay-West leads 6
Of clubs, 8 of clubs is played from
Dummy and East plays jack of
clubs. What card should Declarer
play?
The Error-Declarer takes with
the queen of clubs.
The Correct Method Declarer
should win this trick with ace Of
clubs to encourage opponents to
continue leading the club suit. BY
false carding ace Of clubs, East is
induced to believe that West holds
the king Of clubs and the queen
of clubs.
Declarer now plays the queen of
diamonds forcing the king of dia-
monds. Opponents will probably
return to a club and DecIarer win
win this trick with king Of clubs.
The jack of diamonds is played
and ace of diamonds forced SO that
the diamonds are established and
game is assured. Il East had re-
turned heart instead 81 a club
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
A Door Left Open

CTILL was sorry the matter ever,
~ came up. Il,
had been advised not to say any
thing about the hurricane down here.
Besides, it was not entirely thought
full Of me to insist on picking a con-
versation with the bicycle taxicab
man, since he needed all his wind
to pedal his vehicle containing, as
it did, q precious and a heavy load
of human freight.
However, have always had an
enormous curiosity about the emo
lions of people in time Of stress, and
which ones pray and which do not.
In fact, I asked him whether the
fearful tumult of the heavens had
moved him to pray, and he said that
it had.
Moreover, this was just the OPP
portunity for which he was looking.
Pulling subscription blank out Of
his pocket he described the damage,
done to the little church where he
worshiped, and wanted to know
whether I would subscribe to the
building fund.
Among other things he said that
a contribution would bring me luck.
Accordingly I am a dollar share !
holder in the new ediflce.