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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Be Sure Swimming Pools Are Sanitary

will find out just how the water
that comes into the pool is secured
and what is done to keep it safe.
Recently, / M. Glace, district en-
gineer Of the Pennsylvania state
department of health, has surveyed
conditions relating to pools in vari
GUS places and has called attention
to the excellent regulations which
govern the situation in Pennsyl
vania.
The chief diseases that are trans
mitted through swimming pools are
inf1ammations of the eye, boils and
infections in the ear, chronic in
Examinations of the nose and sinuses,
sore throat, various skin infections
and infections of the intestines with
dySentary.
It is important, in the prevention
of such diseases, that all swimmers
be free from visible acute diseases
at the time they enter the pool, that
there be a shower bath for each
forty bathers, and adequate com
fort facilities for men and women,
and that it be insisted that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Strapped at IS
tempted.

Old age pension surveys in number Of states
reveal that of the 100000 people over IS years old
one Of every three will become dependent either upon
charities or relatives while one OF every five will
incur the stigma of pauperism.
What OF these hundreds OF thousands of our aged
moor? What OF these 20 of every 100 who through
no fault Of their reach the afternoon OF life, only
n pass into crowded insanitary pridekilling
poor farm9
Their number will increase for while science is
Iengthening life. industry is making it cheaper
~serapped at IS" is ar au-too-familiar axiom of
American industry, which requires the swift and
steady hand OF youth machines and requires
Il more exceedingly each year.
Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
voiced the cry Of the children" that loosed the
shackles Of child labor from the hands of the little
ones No one is here TO voice still more pitiable
crv from the aged folks whom sickness. i-luck and
the demands of speededrup machines sending TO
Industrial scrap heap.
This country. now the wealthiest in the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

showers and other facilities be used
regularly by those who patronize the
pool.
There must be adequate dressing
rooms. guard rails, life guards, bath
ing suits and provisions for boiling
them.
The drinking water must be con-
trolled AND bathers must cooper
ate thoroughly in observing the
regulations.
The common use Of all drinking
cups. towels, combs. hair brushes and
other toilet articles should be strictly
prohibited
It is most important that the
water be clear, comparatively color
less and odorless and that chemical
or other diSinfecting methods be
constantly maintained to be sure
that the water in the pool is safe.
If the swimming pool happens to
be in a free flowing stream not con-
taminated Or in a beach in which
the water changes regularly, chem
ical disinfection may not be as i'm
portant as under wholly artificial
conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

There must be some mistake.
never knew any Mr.. Tumpkin.'
NO. he explains that in his will.
He says that he saw your picture
in the paper and that he never
wanted to meet you.
But the eccentric old gentleman
says that once you wrote a column
which interested him and he wanted
to make some little return 1t is
not impossible that the will might
be broken on account Of Mr.. lump
kin's mental condition. but so far
we have been unable to locate any
relative whatsoever.
Would you like to have your lega-
cy in a check or in $4,000 bills?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Another Message

NOR is this the only fortunate
/ message which could come in
over the wires,
The voice at the other end might
say, Il am very sorry to tell YOU
that the newspaper Office burned
to the ground this afternoon and
so there's no point in your writing
any stuff for tomorrow"
Or it could be, III meet you,
there at midnight at the One Hun
dred and Twenty eighth a+' vet sub
way station, You'll kno" by the
big red hat and the vol rose"
While still again some one might
say. we start at 3 and the last
three rounds begin positively at
midnight
From that thin disc inbedded in
hard rubber may come some word
Of wealth, romance. adventure And
so I always run to answer on the
instant, even though it never is the
attorney for Mr. Tumpkin, but Just
another Excuse me. please"
Copyright. 1929. BY The Tines
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croscopic structure Of organisms.
The microscope reveals that all organisms. both
plants and animals built up out of little units or
building blocks known technically as cells
These cells differ in size, shape. and general APP
pearance, but nevertheless. they have many fea-
lures in that it is apparent they are funda-
mentally pretty much alike
When We turn to the chemical analysis OF the cells,
find that they differ to very considerable extent
not only between organisms. but between different
kinds of cells in the same organism.
But again find the differences are OF degree and
not of kind.
Fundamentally. the similarity is sufficient to
Justify. the biologist in considering all organisms as
being formed from the chemical mixture and in
giving single to all living material.
We find third point Of resemblance between all
living material in the matter OF functions.
There are certain functions. growth reproduction,
rnetabolsn response to stimuli, and so on, which
characterizes all living material.
The reader may feel that at this point perhaps re
Should define life" That alas is able to do.
LTD -,nias,s faes re canNnnd no adequate def
nltion} fsalyN 10 describe the APP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Worrying a Busy Man

President has so many things to do of impor-
lance it's pity that he has to stop so often to
mend the pottery broken by the little boys in his own
party.
There was day when the Republican adrninistra-
tion-and Democratic too-coud be forced into max
ing fool of itself fighting red bogies.
But that particular brand of inanity went out of
fashion some years ago. Now whenever political
group starts drive against the nonexsting red
menace the public at once assumes that there must
be some dirty work afoot those politicians would
not be intent on throwing dust in its eyes.
That was the situation when the hackers of Re
publican organ the National Republic announced
Gently campaign for funds to fight the alleged red
nlenace-and, of course to finance their magazine.
These politicians used the names OF such leaders
as DR.. Herbert Work and Senator James Watson, who
now deny any connection with the campaign.
But the Democrats quick to pick up the
absurdy and reply to it, charging that it was ruse
of the Republican old guard to obscure the high tariff
battle.
So President Hoover, who naturally has SYM
pathy with the red DOGGY creators, now is doing his
best to associate himself and his party from all re-
sponsibty for the fooshness of misguided poll
ticians who happen to bear the Republican name.
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Curiosity

nF course, one good way to avoid
W telephone Interruptions when
pressed for time upon the Job is to
sit tight and let the blame thing
ring.
This is far beyond my capacity.
The very "clang, clang,' of the bell
wears down my sales resistance al
ter a few minutes,
More than that. an overwhelming
curiosity draws me to find out who
it is that's calling. Always the mes
sage fails to bring about any COM
plete wish fulflllment. The man on
the other end of the line actually
wants Oils drug store. Or some
body says that the bill is already
overdue And yet there is a roman
tic potentiality about every phone
call so that its insistent nudge may
never be denied.
This may be opportunity itself
which comes rap. rap and buckety.
through the stiffness. There is one
particular fantasy in my mind
which makes it wholly impossible
for me ever to neglect a telephone
call. I've acted it over in my mind
a score Of times.
Haywood Broun?"
This is Broun.
Mr.. Broun, I am Charles Linick
of the firm of Linick Il Flushing.
We are the legal representatives Of
Mr.. Horace Tumpkin Of whose death
you may have read in the paper
last Wednesday,"
I didn't happen to see it
Never mind. That's of no conse-
quence. Mr.. Tumpkin, who was our
client, until last Wednesday. was a
man of considerable wealth. But
eccentric. Oh. very eccentric. We've
just had his will probated. or what
ever you call it, and it seems that
he has left you s10000.o00.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
An Amazing Admission

When William S Cubertson. member of the
United States tariff commission named minister
70 Runsnia by President Coolidge four years ago it
freely was charged that the purpose was to get him off
the commission where his activities had not been
pleasing to certain influential persons interested m
high tariffs. The charge was denied.
But now it develops that it was true. We are in
6sbted to Senator James E Watson for verifcaton.
Il recommended to get rid Of him" Watson said at
n,,blic committee meeting Il recommended him
Cor foreign service the foreigner the better"
This is an amazing admission not because OF Wat
S,n's recommendation of Cooidge's appointment but
because of Watsons effrontery in telling it at time
when the worst tariff hodup in history is being at
tempted.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By H B2oUH

some dialect. "Begorra me no ban
spika zee English might serve to
stop them.
The trouble is that I never can
keep the conversation all in the
same dialect. My German accent
fades into cockney and after that
a bit of Scotch creeps in. This
merely serves to arouse the curios-
ity of the party on the other end Of
the line. He gets the impression that
a whole staff of servants is on the
wire and that some Of them must
have information and intelligence
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MAGMA CHARTA

June ~.
TINE Magma Charta, or the Great
L Charter, The name of the ia
nous charter Of liberties granted by
King John to the English people,
was signed TIA years ago today,
June 90, 1915.
The causes which led to the grant,
briefly are to be found in the con-
ditions of the times. the increasing
insularity of the English barons, the
substitution Of an unpopular for a
popular king and the unprecedented
demands for money, coupled with
defeats Of the English army abroad
Smarting under King Johns enor-
NOUS demands for money. the
northern English barons renowned
their allegiance to the king and
marched toward London.
After several futile attempts to de-
lay the crisis the king, promising to
assent to the barons demands,
agreed to meet them in a meadow
between Staines and Windsor, called
Runnimede.
The malcontents presented their
demands in a document of forty
eight articles. The articles we're con-
verified into a charter and signed by
King John, providing for various
civil and religious liberties and
aimed to eliminate the kings cheat
ing and oppression Of the English
people
Although in later years its impor-
portance enormously was magnified,
the charter differed only in degree Y
not in kind. from other charterss
granted by the Norman and earlys
Plantagenet kings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Where viii It End7

0NE wonders where the craze for
~ speed and power will end.
Apparently, each new device calls
for a greater degree of mechanical
life, and in that lies the real danger.
For the last few years, we have
tried to imagine that flying was a
matter of individual effort, courage
and skill. that all it needed was a
race of Lindberghs.
That. more than anything else, is
what has held it back.
Aviation, like the auto, demands
organized production. organized
distribution. Unlike the auto, it
seems to demand organized opera
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
The News of Interest

DISHOP CANNON is found to
ID have made a stock transaction
recorded on Sunday; Czechoslo-
yakia is in row over the teaching
of evolution; a New York theater
doorman is arrested for making an
nouncements on the sidewalk; g
New Jersey mother of six will ask
the court to impose birth control
ON her husband by injunction; the
Republicans In Maine are in tur-
MOL over the wetness of Senator
Gould; all of which is mighty inter
esting, and not without reason.
Such items come close home, they
get right down where we live. And
what is better than all else, they
require little study or thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
THE tenth anniversary Of peace

THE tenth anniversary Of peace
finds Germany denouncing the
treaty of Versailles, denying re-
sponsibility for the war and refus-
ing TO continue law which forbids
the kaiser to come back.
The Echo de Paris, influential
French journal, blames the British
labor victory for such an attitude.
The French government of to-
day and the French governments
to follow says this newspaper,
will be obliged to unite against
those who wish to overthrow all the
conservative forces on the CONT
nent.'
One need not be a prophet to real
iZe that a new alignment is develop
ing with French aggreSsiveness as
the motivating force. Slowly, but
inevitably. England, Germany and
Russia are being driven closer to-
gether, in spite of their divergent
aims and clashing theories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Speeding Up Travel

XXTRIGHT and Curtiss combine,
w taking in eight other COM
panies by way of good measure,
forming a $70o0O,o00 concern and
giving aviation the benefit Of or
ganized, scientific management.
Railroads and airplane companies
working in conjunction have already
started on transcontinental service.
Two more will be started within ten
days.
The man in a hurry can now go
from coast to coast in forty eight
hours.
Ere long the time will be reduced
to thirty-six. When the railroads
are eliminated. as they will be, and
an Affair route is established. it
will be reduced to twenty-four, if
not less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
BY. DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN.
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association ard Of Hvgeia. the
Health Maeazine.


THERE are in the United States
Il at least 5000 indoor swimming
pools and no one knows how
many beaches there are along the
shore of lakes, rivers and the
oceans. In 1900 there we're said to
be only sixty-seven swimming pools
in the country.
This has brought about problems
of sanitation of these places, since
the human contacts take place tend
to spread bacteria from one person
to another, and in this way to
spread disease.
Some swimming pools are merely
refilled from streams near which
they are located and the water
which is let into the pool is muddy
and contains sewage. In others, pure
water is let in, but it is used over
and over again because of the eX-
pense Of control and eventually be-
comes exceedingly foul.
The bather who wants to be safe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
REALTY PICNIC JULY I
Annual Outing Of City Board to 2
Held at Walnut Gardens.

Annual picnic Of the Indianapol
Real Estate Board will be he
Wednesday afternoon and nigh
July 10. at Walnut Gardens, Frat
F. Woolling, social affairs chairma
has announced. Sports and col
tests in the afternoon will be fo
lowed by a chicken dinner an
dancing in the evening.
Picnic oubcommittees are: ii
freshm. ats. Woolling and A. H.
Graves: outdoor sports, Edison
Wood and Robert Allison; childreb
entertainment, Lacey Hearn a
John Robbins. and Women's entG
tainment. Mrs. J. Edward Robi
Mrs. T. Z. Grinslade. Mrs. Thon
F. Carson and Mrs. Joseph J. Arg
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Stunts Go Good

MOT that we are opposed to
~ study or thinking, but that
most of us have enough of it in
connection with our own personal
affairs.
Unless the news touches our per-
sonal affairs, we prefer what is in
teresting to what is serious.
That is one reason why We pay
more attention to stunt flying than
to the constructive side of aviation,
why we had rather read about a
transatlantic hop than a merger
of airplane manufacturers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Physical Basis of Life
No. 395

THE flowers that grow in your garden have so
Il many points of similarity with your own body
that biologists today feel justified in considering all
living things as being constructed out of the same
stuff.
Its technical name is protoplasrn- Huxley, the
great English scientist and popuarizer OF science,
called it the physical basis Of life
This does not minimize the difference between
organisms It doesn't take a scientist to observe
+l,a%Al aerno tire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Personal Liberty

COCIETY, politics. even govern
- ment itself. are becoming subor-
dinate to mechanical power.
Men are being swept into one kind
OF organization or another, whether
or no.
Where We used to regard personal
liberty as matter Of law, We now
behold it as a matter of industry, Of
factory whistles. boards of directors,
trade unions and time tables.
At present, We can see little but
the advantage of system and dis
cipline. Tomorrow, or the day after,
we shall face their tyranny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
Quotations of NOtabIeS

We do not inherit our character,
temperament. and special abilities.
The are forced upon us by our par
ents.-John B. Watson. Oiberty)
When laws are Just and wise,
they ought to be obeyed and are
likely to be: but Fhen they are not,
they open very s9nuine problems in
ethics for the decent eitizen-Janeg
Ta:zaeLayy Adams lFnrIina.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

TT is pretty generally known
l. among those who have paid any
sort Of attention to banking condi-
tions in the United States that the
country banks are having hard
time to earn a living. There may
not be a general agreement upon
the cause of this diflculty, but the
fact remains to challenge our at
tentien. Representative MeFadden
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
EnthraIIed by Drama

THREE men dive to their death
l. in Egg Harbor, Viola Gentry is
injured, while her co-pilot is killed,
and Captain Hawks flies from New
York to Los Angeles in nineteen
hours and back in seventeen hours
The drama of it enthralls us, the
daredevil spirit, the gamble with
fate.
The bigger, surer play of engineer,
efficiency sharp and capitalist
seems not only tame by COMPARE
son, but too complex and involved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
We Still Are Human

DUT who cares to speculate on
1s such situation. with Anbassa =
dor Dawes declining to array him
self in knee pants and a Scotch
golf club trying to get Ramsay Mac
Donald back on its roster.
Whether We have gone sex mad
as Rabindranath Tagore declares.
We still prefer human interest
stories to the problems of statecraft.
For one thing. they are much east
er to understand. For another We
are human.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

pAldb D4lCNC al = VI "
men d Gus differ
enceS between a
human being, a
frog. and a head
Of cabbage. And
no scientist tries
to minimize these
differences.
But science has
shown that these.
differences are
in m ny ways,
differences Of de-
gree rather than
diff er e n c e S OF
kind.
This Is particu-
larry true when
we get to the mi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

civilized land without national old age pension
system of sort, and in China old age is as con-
secraed as here it is neglected After three centuries
of every other sort Of progress the United States still
is satisfied with the Ezabethan poor law system Of
1901
The legislative season just closed has added four
states including California, to the valiant little
band Of commemorative flying the new old age pen
sion banner Yet while these four adopted pension
laws, twenty-five legislatures rejected them. Isn't
1t about time Uncle Sam took the lead in pointing
the way to a really civilized national policy toward
the problem Of the aged poor?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

The FeUo1c Who CaHes
"Nedr-Beer' Is a 7
Poor Image of DjStdnc
-Ry Frederick lands

THIS Chicago gentleman
4 laughed so hard at a Joke
he fell off his porch and fractl
his skull, probably was laughing
this proposition to help the far
by increasing the duties on lun1A
cement and window glass.
Strongheart. famous police dog
motion pictures is dead.
He was a great performer, but
fame rested on the fact that he W
the only screen artist who never hi;
been divorced.
Yale university made a perfect3
horrible mistake the other day wheo
it conferred the degree of doctor d
laws on Attorney General Mitchell.
who knows something about law.
President Hoover shook hand
with 1176 visiting ladies and gen
tlemen the other day.
Mr.. Hoover is in luck that We d
not greet each other by rubbing
noses as they do in the islands o
the sea.
The people of Iowa are excited 70
fear near beer will be taken ava
from them. but the fellow that call
it "near-b beer is a very poor juf
of distance.
THE insanity experts and
4 gland feelers are getting req
to festoon the court room at Colu
bus, O., with Latin phrases wi
the Shook murder case opens.
One good vigilence committed
worth more than all the crirni
courts in America
What the farmer really needs
not a higher tariff, nor a markell
system. but law which will CONF
all automobiles to eat corn.
In his last magazine article, M
Coolidge says that the duties of Il
presidency are appalling, but accord
ing to reports, he hopes to be ar.
palled again in 1882.
The United States senate shoulj
have waited to install this machin
cry to reduce the amount of hot all
for it may not be necessary.
Tom Hehin may not be renonai
mated.
n
Al Shaw Of Chicago was fine s.
for driving through Gary at the rat
Of fifteen miles an hour.
If he had gone through that slow
ly on election day they would hav,
voted him fifteen or twenty times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
800 AT WET CONGRESS
World Anti Prohibition Delegates
Drink Toasts With Wines.

BIZ United Press
COPENHAGEN, June 2e.-Drir1k-
ing their toasts with eleven differ
ent wines. 300 delegates to the IN
ternational Prohibition con-
gress reaffirmed their conviction
that prohibition legislation is harm
full and adjourned their tiaree-day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

The telegraph companies are trying to "humanize
their service. But haven't the wires been full of
human touches for years?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29

An Englishman writes from New Zealand to claim
he discovered the saXophone. That's like calling
somebody names over the telephone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-29
NJ. E. TRACY
SAYS:

A NeW Alignment Is Derel-
oping Against French Ag-
gresSireness. England, Ger
many and France Are Be-
ing Driven Closer Together.
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David Diekz on Science