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reading I shall ask her to make a
thoroughly frank statement as to
whether a. reading habit has been
established which will enable her to
enjoy good literature.
Il would appreciate very much
your furnishing me a list of fifty
Of the best books which you con-
slider suitable for the experiment l
have in mind.
The woman in question has read
but little, but has completed the
regular high school course, and in
addition has taken two years at a
we'll known finishing school, She
has golden hair and blue eyes
It would be simple to say if the
hair is just the proper shade and
the eyes of sufficient depth the
young Woman's taste in reading
should not matter. But I must not
dodge responsibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

TXTITHIN the last few years, the
w American Dental Association
has been employing a chemist to
analyze many CT the mouth washes,
pyorrhea cures, combinations of
salts and remedies for pain that are
distributed by dentists who receive
samples from the manufacturers.
In many instances the claims
made for these preparations are
utterly without warrant.
For example: a preparation guar
anteed to remove mucin from the
teeth is found merely to be an
alkaline solution about as good as
baking soda.
Another preparation guaranteed
to eliminate tartar was simply q
weak solution of hydrochloric acid
not a great scientific discovery, but
an absolute menace, encouraging
disintegration Of the tooth enamel.
Another preparation for the re-
moval of tartar was found to be
merely grit and one might as well
rub his teeth with pumice stone or
sandpaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Work, Live Long

XXIILLIAM F. T. BUCKNER who
w died at Paris, Mo, last Sun
day at the age of 101, and who was
one of the last two survivors of the
Mexican war, belonged to a gener-
alton that was more interested in
what it could do than in what it
could see.
Like thousands of other young
men, he went to California for gold.
When he failed to find it, he did
not sit down to worship the scenery,
but went back to Missouri. bought
four thousand head of cattle, drove
them to the Pacific coast, sold out
at a big profit and laid the foun-
dationS of his fortune.
After that he settled down to an
active life as merchant and banker,
which disproves the theory that one
must loaf to live long.
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Responsibility

OBVIOUSLY the making Of such
W a list involves q responsibility
which I do not care to assume. I
have no willingness to run the risk
of dividing fond hearts by setting
my own personal prejudices up be-
tween them. After all, fond hearts
are more than Conrads.
However. I do venture the Sug-
gestions that if the young mans
intentions are honorable, fifty books
are far too many for the expert
ment. he has in mind.
And if 1 know anything at all
about the psychology Of golden girls
some other man with less exacting
literary standards will be chosen as
the favorite long before the tour of
the ten-foot shelf can be completed.
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Rather Frivolous

DUT I am afraid this is rather
- frivolous, and beside the point.
Let us begin with the trite truism
that marriage is at best a gamble.
And so I earnestly urge him not to
compromise his ardor with any
dreary round of fifty books.
Does he by any chance realize
the weight and heft of fifty books?
1t is almost enough to last the aver
age reader for a lifetime. Indeed.
it is the full ration of four dozen
chorus girls.
Let him chance all on a single
volume. But what shall it be. Per-
hapS have always been strongly
attracted by people who like one of
the less successful novels of H. G..
Wells. I refer to Joan and Peter. "
There are certain dislikes which
might well serve as cautionary sig
nails. A young man should go slow
if she does not care for "Porgy" or
Scarlet Sister Mary"
Nor would l think of marrying
anybody unfavorable to THE Bridge
of San Luis Rey."
Copyright, 1929, for The Times
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MUNCIE LEGION POST
AMONG u. S. LEADERS

Only Three Others in Nation Have
Membership Exceeding 1,036.
BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, June 18.-This city
now has the nations fourth largest
American Legion post-Delaware
post, with membership Of 1,036.
It won the honor after a close con-
test with the Fl. Wayne post.
Although figures for the state as
a whole are not available, it is be-
lieved Indiana, ii it does not lead
the nation in membership gains,
will hold a high place.
Paul V. McNutt. Bloomington, ma
tional commander, has offered his
shirt as a gift to the Indiana post
putting the state over the top, and
proposes to remove the garment and
present it to the winner at the ma
tional convention this~summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Paving for the War

THE Mexican Wsr ended eighty
Il one years ago, but we still have
one survivor and several widows on
the pension list.
If history repeats itself, We shall
have a pension list in connection
with the World war UP to the year
1000, and probably beyond it, while
Germany will be pairing off repara-
tons and the allies their war debts
until 1891.
But the financial end of it, does
not tell half the story.
Children born fifty years hence
will be deprived of the rights and
privileges which go with civilized
life. because of what occurred in
1914
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

DIDDEFORD, Me.-Asked by the
- merchants association to list
The Seven Wonders of New York
City" Joseph V. Mckee, president
of the board Of aldermen. replies:
I think that it would be far more
profitable for your association and
the men it is asking to cooperate
with it, were they to turn their
minds to the seven least creditable
things in the city of New York, so
that with their help and the help
of the municipal authorities these
might be eradicated"
Mr.. Mckee Is right.
Wonders will take care of them
selves.
What we need to worry about are
those things that should be and can
be corrected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
DiSnnantIe War Machine

THE English speaking world must
IL support Ramsay Mcdonald and
Herbert Hoover in their obvious ef-
forts to bring about a further re-
duction in naval armament.
When that is accomplished it must
go still further.
Disarmament can not be genuine
until it includes all branches Of the
war machine.
At present we are touching only
what is obsolete and what would be
thrown away in few years.
Sooner or later We must deal not
only with the latest improvements
but with probable inventions. not
only with the actual military estab-
lishment. but with the reserve
power back of it. if disarmament is
to be real
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Armed to the Teeth

MO sane human being can look
~ at the world today without
realizing that the elimination of
organized war is humanitys most
important problem. Admitting that
the economic and political structure
is imperfect. that we will always be
threatened by tyranny and that the
right of revolution can not be denied,
there still is no reason why the
governments Of the world should re-
gard it as their first duty to remain
armed to the teeth and ready to cut
each others Threats.
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"A 40 az ilsf7It4Ie
ANNIVERSARY.
Htt zz22.,;,H:tt:z:
WOMAN VOTER FINED

/
ON June IS, 1878, Susan BroWnell
~ Anthony, American reformer
and feminist was fined for illegal
voting at the election Of 1872.
For several years some of the dead
ing suffragists we're convinced Won-
en- we're enfranchised under the
fourteenth Observation-Disclosures the
provision that no state shall make
OF enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities
] Of citizens of the United States.
In 1872. Miss Anthony determined
to make a test and with number
Of other women registered in
Rochester, n. 7. In November, she
cast her vote. She was arrested. On
June 10 of the following year she
was fined $1O0 a fine which she at
once refused to pay and which never
was exacted.
Miss Anthony was born in South
Adams. Mass. the daughter Of a
Quaker. She taught school for fiji
teen wears: was active in total ah-
stinence and anti-slavery move
ments: advanced the belief Of CO.
education of the sexes; and from
the Civil war devoted herself en-
tirelv to the women's suffrage move
ment.
Another attempt was made to OBJ
tain the vote for women under the
fourteenth amendment by Missouri
woman.
The case this time was carried TO
the supreme court, which decided
against the suffragist, ending At
tenpts to obtain the vote by the
fourteenth amendment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Loo Much Bragging

IN this connection. we are doing
J. all together too much Dragging
and too little thinking.
Honest, straightforward progress
requires something more than sight
seeing tours.
If we have any wonders to display,
it is because men worked to create
them.
Ancient wonders mostly are ruined
because succeeding generations were
content to do little more than sit
back and brag.
Ours will go the same way unless
we pursue a different course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Idea Is TIljSi

"TTHAT this reading taste may be
L developed by the reading of a
number of the best books in various
lines, I have decided upon an eX-
pertinent wherein a list of fifty
books must be furnished by you and
a serious attempt made by the young
lady to read them.
when she has completed this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Quotations of NOtabIes

Management today has become a
science the same as law and medi-
cine. Responsibility must be dis
tributed all along the line, and SER
vices properly compensated.-W. T..
Holiday, president Standard Oil
Company of Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

An Indiana boy was chosen as the most entertain
ing student at Princeton university We used to think
Tom Hefn was the most entertaining member of
congress- but during the recent battle about rules, it
began to look as if there fortyodd senators who
have Tom backed off the boards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

Of course, it would be a good deal
easier for me to advise the young
man if know what sort of wife
he wants. If she likes "Dombey
and Son" and Little Dorrit." it
seems fair to assume she will be
able to do a little plain mending
and part of the cooking.
On the other hand, if her IA
vorite is Carl Van Vechten. think
it would be we'll to have hired
girl from the beginning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

of the rain or
cloud by flash
of forked light
ming which hap
pens to be invis-
ible to the OBJ
server.
The third type
is known popu-
larly as n e a I
lightning. This
is the sudden
lighting up of
the atmosphere
in the distance
usually low on
the horizon.
1t may be seen
even when there
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
SAYS

The Boys, Who Really Are
Teaching People HoW to
Fly and Making it Possible
for Them TO Hare Safer
and Better Machines, Get
Little Credit.
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- David Dietz on Science
Kinds of Lightning
so. S85

7 LIGHTNING, on the basis of its appearance is d-
l. vided into four general types.
The first is the familiar "forked lightning. This
is the zigzag flash from cloud to cloud or cloud to
earth.
The second is known as sheet lightning 1t is
the sudden lighting up of sheet of rain or cloud.
This is nothing more or less than the illumination
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Daily Thought

But the liberal deviseth liberal
things and by liberal things shall
he stand.-Isaiah 1878.
II IBERALITY should be tempered
IL with judgment. not with pro-
fuseness.-Hosea Ballou.
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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, 1929-06-18

The Optimism With Which
the Fortunate Vjeo the
Plight Of the Unfortunate
Is One Of the GrdudeSt
Things in Nature.
A AMBASSADOR DAWES has ar
IN rived il London and before
John Bull takes his bath next
Saturday night, he will have noted
/ in our rugged. set-reliart foreign
representative, a refreshing contrast
to the rubber-kneed, punk-burning
American in London.
Inasmuch as there's such 2 great
over-Supply of both. we have no par
ticular pangS of regret over this new
war between the Russians and the
Chinese.
Mabel Gilman Corey has re-
opened negotiations. looking to the
leasing of this prince, and if she
gets him We hope he makes her
eat spaghetti three times q day all
the year around!
| n
Rich young Mr. Pine Of Chicago
denies that he is to marry Ruth
Elder, all of which goes to show that
the old fashioned woman who likes
to sit by the fire and sew carpet
rags is losing her appeal
THE army and navy can not bs
i be reconciled sufficiently to per-
NIT a resumption of football games.
but We trust We might be able to
get them to cooperate in event Of
a wal
A. E. Enoch Of Chicago. repre-
senting western railroads. told the
interstate commerce commission
that the farmers are not suffering
from depression.
The optimism with which the for
tunate are able to contemplate the
plight of the unfortunate is one Of
the grandest things in nature.
There's A lot of talk about this
new supreme court building giving
the court a home in harmony with
its greatness. when as a matter of
fact this court now sits in the most
impressively beautiful chamber in
America.
It is simple, classic historic; it
was the old senate chamber where
Webster replied to Hayne. where
Clay made his great speech on the
compromise of 1850, where Calhoun
threw the issue Of secession into the
face of the Union.
INTHEN the house of Morgan
| w effected this merger of public
utility companies, doing business in
upper New York, the stock adj
vanced. which shows that the world
knows chat the same old cOnven-
tional burglary is soon to follow
in the reorganization, stockholders
will be given 2 lot of stock for
nothing and then an Obliging pub
lie service commission will increase
the rates charged the dear people,
so to pay dividends on the watered
paper.
Since the Prince of Wales is not
going to marry the Swedish prin-
cess. he might improve Englands
financial condition and also help the
English breed by soliciting offers
from American heireSses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

Mabel Walker Willebrandt resigned assistant
attorney general to survey the national and state
laws of the air. It has been announced that Mabel
quit of her accord which, of course, dispels the
suspicion that she really was given the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

Among other mbecoming costumes was the cloak
of secrecy the United States senate tried to wear in
the Lenroot case Reporters fighting to have the
garment checked at the door.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

President Hoover didn't mention prohibition when
he delivered his charge to the law enforcement
commission Funny that no asked him about
it. either.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18
Woman's Arm Broken

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE. Ind, June 49,
while picking cherries at her home
east of Greencastle. Mrs. Clyde Cash
fell from chair, breaking her right
arm.
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by DR. NORRIS FISHBETN

Editor Journal Of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine
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REASON
.Ry Frederick Lands

Ey Frederlck LAMBS
The Optimism With Which
the Fortunate Tie'o the
Plight OF the Unfortunate
Is One Of the GrdndeSt
Things in Nature.
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THE army and navy can not bs
i be reconciled sufficiently to per-
NIT a resumption of football games.
but We trust we might be able to
get them to cooperate in event of
val
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

Since the Prince of Wales is not
going to marry the Swedish prin-
cess. he might improve England's
financial condition and also help the
English breed by soliciting offers
from American heireSses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-18

A AMBASSADOR DAWES has ar
IA rived il London and before
John Bull takes his bath next
Saturday night he will have noted
in our rugged. self-reliart foreign
representative, a refreshing contrast
to the rubber-kneed, punk-burning
American in London.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-18
War and Emotions

In the last few years the world has heard more clo-
quent pleas for peace than ever before In Its history.
Gradually, the minds Of men seem to be accepting the
fact tina, war is an institution that must be abolished. A
good bit OF machinery to accomplish this has been set
UP. Treaties have been signed, agreement have been
made, to make a repetition Of what happened in 1914 less
easy.
The ncvclists. too, have done their share. Such books
as "All Quiet on the Western Front have stripped war
Of its glar.our, have revealed 1t for noncombatants in
al. OF its filthy horror.
Yet the , is going to be a hard one. We can become
thoroughly convinced that war is a dreadful thing-but
our emotions are stnl such easy prey for the war-rnakers!
In a national crisis We are ruled by our hearts instead
Of our heads; and as long as that remains true it will be
comparative easy for the nations to slip into war again
and again.
The latest Of the --r novels provides striking proof of
this.
IAN Else Is Folly" BY Peregrinc Acland, tells tho story
Of a line officer in a Canadian regiment, sent overseas
with the first hundred thousand and serving in the
trenches throughout the long years to the armistice.
This officer saw war in It's most horrible guisc. He
saw his battalion riddled again and again. at Ypres, at
vimy Ridge cnd along tho Somme. Finally he was dread
fully wounded and put out of action for good. For
months lie existc in a pain-racked stupor at a base hos
pital. He came back to Canada . mere wreck; crippled,
half blind, utterly broken .. body and spirit, cverlast-
ingly disnlusioned about war.
Then, a decade after the armistice, he revisited the
armory OF his former command In q Canadian city. A
battalion Of kilties was just returning from drill. bag
pipes skirling. drums beating. mailed feet crashing on
the pavement. And this officer. watching them and
hearing the martial music, felt his blood stir again just
as it had in 1914.
He knew that war was vile, horrible, blind; yet. swept
away by his emotions, he knew that he would enlist at
cnce If another war came ~along-would enlist because
the bag-pipes and the drums and the bugles would over
power his reason ar sake him one of a cheering war;
bound mob Of enthusiasts.
In that incident the author has put his finger on the
Great hope OF Mars.
We can talk about the horrors Of war all We please:
we can satisfy cur minds that war must be ayertcd; We
can tell ourselves, for years, that war is useless and fu-
tilc-but all of US, to a greater or lesser extent, are
helpless when the flags wave and the bands strike up.
For that reason II will be " long time before war dies.
Our emotions are stronger than our brains. And our
emotions arc still the willing slaves Of wars bright,
tragcaly alluring trappings.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-18

Or. McCoy's menus suggested for
the week beginning Sunday, October
goth.
Sunday
Breakfast: French omelet. made
Of the whites of eggs and milk,
stcued figs, Melba toast.
Lunch: Buttered macaroili,
cooked spinach. ray celery.
Dinner: Jellied tomato consonrne,
broiled chicken. string beans. baked
egg plant. Cauliflower salad, Ice
cream.
Monday
Breakfast: Coddled egg. 2 or >
| slices of crisp bacon, stewed prunes,
Melba toast.
Lunch: Eight-ounce glass Of grape
juice.
Dinner: Vegetable soup. salisbury
steak, spinach, turnips and tops. sal
ad of sliced tomatoes with celery
junket with whipped cream and fruit
Juice.
Tuesday
Cottage cheese, Melba toast, apple
sauce.
Lunch: Baked ground bcets, com
bination salad of celery, tomatoes and
small green peas on lettuce.
Dinner: Mushroom soup, roast
pork. steamed carrots with parsley
salad of cold asparagus (cannedD
baked apple.
Wednesday
Breakfast: Baked egg, Mclba
toast. stewed raisins.
Lunch: Oranges as desired.
Dinner: Broiled lamb chops, string
beans, cooked celery, Mccoy salad
pineapple gelatin.
Thursday
Breakfast: Coddled eggs, Melbs
toast. SteWed ~apricOtS.
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beef, buttercd vegetables. spinach,
head lettuce, raspberry whip.
Friday
Breakfast: Toasted breakfast food
with cream mo sugar.. stewed figs.
Lunch: Raw apples as desired,
with glass of milk.
Dinner: Baked whitefish. cooked
lettuce. salad Of sliced tomatoes,
jello or jell-well, no cream.
Saturday
Breakfast: French omelet. Melba
toast. stewed prunes.
Lunch: Sandwiches of wholewhcat
bread. lettuce and peanut butter.
Dinner: American cheese. cooked
cucumbers. asparagus. Salad Of to-
matoes and celery. sliced pineapple.
Baked eggplant and tomatoes:
Peel eggplant. cut into cubes and
steam until tender in a tightly COW
cred pam. Into a casserole put a
layer of the cooked eggplant. a layer
of sliced fresh tomatoes, OF the pulp
of canned tomatoes, and sprinkle
generously with chopped celery and 2
little salt if desired. Repeat until
casserole is filled. Bake tightly COW
cred in a moderate owe twenty min
utes. Serve with butter and grated
cheese.
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A Good Indication

There have been those who have seriously doubted that
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Jr, would make quito as good
a governor as the people Of Porto Rico ought to have. To
these skeptics, Colonel Rooscvelt's inaugural address
ought to come as at least q measure Of reinsurance.
In it the new governor Of the island admitted, quite
frankly, that he has still a great deal to learn about
Porto Ricos problems. and pledged himself to study them
and solve them so far as It lay within his power.
This speech In itself. to be sure, does not constitute a
successful administrat'- but its general tenor Is favor
able. There Is always something very encouraging about
hearing a man admit that his new job Is utterly strange
to him. Colonel Roosevelt's frank avowals lead us to
suspect that ne may surprise his critics and turn out to
be an excellent .overnor.
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that bcgct and maintain freedom. as all history has
shown.
But. great though the credits be. the debts remain.
I am concerned about removing them. and / will not sec
those debts with rosy spcctacles simply because there
are enormous credits. Nor will the labor movement. rs
a whole. While millions are too poorly rewarded for
their toil-as in the southern textile industry-whilc
great numbers arc thrown aside BY tho machine, which,
is OF itself a good thing; while en- era that should bring
plenty and happiness to all who have the willingness to
work denies that plenty and happiness to great numbers,
We have something to remedy, We have a constructive
fight to make"