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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
SkiDD0r Dramatic

a S a writer and as dramatic
= \ character the skipper pos
sesseS that rare and valuable quality
Of underStatement. l cite two para
graphs from his report:
He ordered me to heave to. 1
replied: Captain, you have no
Jurisdiction over me. I am on the
high seas outside the treaty waters.
I can not and will not heave to-
Then they fired three or four
blank shots and left me and pro-
ceeded toward the westward. Short
ly afterward they returned with the
~tgnal heave to- flying. I replied
by signal No"
The rest of this amazing deep sea
tale is an epic fertilization of the
word mo. Blank shots solidlhed.
They riddled the sails OF the I'm
Alone. Shells pierced her hull.
roughly estimate that about sixty
or seventy shots struck the vessel. :"
And a little later. 1.-The engineer
reported to me that the water was
over the engine room floor and that
the vessel appeared to be settling
down. Immediately gave orders to
stop the engines and clear away
the dories which, although they
we're of no use, would be something
for my men to cling to in the heavy
sea-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Farming

Despite all the talk of agricultural depression
farming continues to be of the major industries
of the country.
The department of agriculture has issued some en-
tightening figures on the matter.
In 1923 the total value Of United States farm
products reached the amazing total of $90sS 100000
Texas as might be expected leads the individual
states with production worth $7ssoooooo. Iowa
ranks second, with $545.o0oooo and California comes
third with $520oooOoo.
When you see those figures you begin to under
stand the Importance Of agriculture in our national
economy. 1t is easy to see the boost that general
prosperity would receive if improved conditions should
enable the farmers to add Is 90 per cent to their
gross cash income.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
The Pan-American Highway

A number of important things happened in the
closing days of the last congressional session that
most lost sight of in the press more sensa-
tional news
Among these the action of congress author
zing the appropriation OF $4,000 with which the
United States government cooperate with Latin
American nations in study and survey of the pro-
posed Pan-American highway
This roadway, projected to link all the nations
in the new world, is as deserving project as has
suggested in years 1t would bring incalculable
benefits to every nation the continent, from Can
ada to Chile-and the United States would probably
benefit most of all. It is to be hoped that the new
congress will speedily vote the money that the last
congress authorized. The this job is started,
the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Rank Banditry

once more the gunner are after the banks. 1t
has been several months since the local institutions
have been raided.
There is a cause for every effect. To find the
cause is very often to avoid the undesirable result
After the gunner and bandits had run wild
months ago severe policy adopted by the police
department concerning public gambling
1t may have been coincidence, but it is certainly
true that when the big craps games were closed the
number Of bold holdups decreased and almost stopped
That may have been significant 1t may have just
happened but very few things IN this world Just
happen"
For the past few weeks for some unexplained
cause the gamblers are again bold and open In their
operations
There are a number of such places, run by the
same old gang which invite customers
Apparently every one but the police know exactly
where these places are to be found
The same old debate between the police and the
courts starts but the gamblers finish. They finish
with the funds stolen from cash registers They nm
ish with the dollars that should be taken home.
The police explain that the city judges always turn
the gamblers loose ana scold the officers for daring
to make arrests The judges complain that the police
never have the proper sort of search warrants. II
warrants are obtained the gamblers get the tip in
advance.
But the sure phenomenon is that whenever there
is wide open gambling, there bank robberies hold
ups banditry of all sorts
Bankers who object to the visits of gunner might
find it interesting to impress the police with the neces-
sty Of closing these schools for banditry as well as
catching the bandits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

WAL Street Has Put q Def
mite CTimp IN That Most
Popular Topic of Conserva-
tiOn-Hooch."
SAYS:

II knoxville, Tenn, March 3D.
A AS in all other places I have
visited during the last two months,
people here are vastly concerned
over the stock market. Neither is
their concern of the Id-fashioned
academic sort. which ran to politics
and theorizing.
The stock market has become a
matter of bread and meat to mil
lions and that, too, not only through
playing it, because of the way it
affects local credit.
1t is amazing how many profess
sional men, school teachers, small
merchants and even mechanics
have bought shares, or taken flyer
on margins. 1t is equally amazing
how much money has been with
drawn from local banks for this
purpose, or has been sent east by
the banks themselves to take adj
vantage Of the call market.
Punched credit is the result. From
San Francisco to Knoxville, I have
heard nothing so often as the COM
plant that merchants, manufactur-
ers and real estate men find it diff
f1cult to get the loans their standing
iuStif1es.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Worries of Prosperity

NTALh STREET has put a
w definite crirnp in that most
popular topic of conversation
hooch. What stronger proof could
one ask as to its intimate and uni
versal appealP
Under ordinary circumstances,
the sinking of the I'm Alone, or
That far more tragic affair in
Illinois, where a mother was shot
curing raid, would be fayorite
themes for discussion.
I have heard little talk about
either.
Even the flood, which could be
described as nothing less than a
local disaster of first magnitude,
takes second place.
Ten people allude to the first
100000 share day, 20 per cent call
money and the wiping out of billions
IN paper profits, where one aIludes
to anything else.
Whatever else this may mean, it
shows the effect of prosperity,
People are interested because thew
have something at stake. They
have something at stake because
they had the cash with which to get
it.
The stock market no longer is con-
trolled and manipulated by small
groups. Popular resources have
become the most important factor
to be reckoned with and popular
interest the most important thing
to be served.
This, of course, involves the
necessity Of a peW and higher type
of leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
1T SEEMS TO ME By H RToI%

r DON'T know much about inter-
Il national law, but 1 do know that
all the sentimental and romantic
values lie with the captain of the
little schooner I'm Alone. Skipper
John T. Randell admits that he
carried liquor and he may not have
a legal leg on which to stand.
He possesses something which
seems to be more important. The
man has a glorious narrative style
Besides he got his story in first. If
I were a publisher or an editor I
would sign up Captain Randell on
the spot I'd rather have his me-
moirS than those of Calvin Coolidge.
The rum-runner is the better writer
and his way of life has been less
placid.
But granting that all the virtue
lay with the revenue boats it must
be admitted that the bootleg craft
ran away with a moral victory They
Shelled the schooner for an hour,
but they could not make John T.
Randell heave to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
SUPERSTTIONS-No
MadstOnes Won't Cure HydrOphObia

Sometimes other stones than
those developed in the human body
were used for these magical pur-
poses, includings for instance, stones
associated with great natural monu-
mentS such as the Giants Causeway
or volcanoes.
Hydrophobia is caused by infec-
ton transmitted through the bite of
animals. This infection attacks
particularly the nervous system of
the body, and one of the chief
symptoms is difficulty in swallow
ing.
The ancients mistook the fear of
swallowing for the fear of the water
itself and so called the disease
hydrophobia or the fear of water.
The modern name of the disease is
rabies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

At height of thirty miles the air is only one hun
dredth dense it is at the surface of the EARTH
AT height of fifty miles. the air has become so
thin that it does not exert any measurable pressure
There is some air at this height however This is
proved by the fact that at twilight there is some re-
fraction or bending of the suns rays at this height
and also by the fact that motors "or shooting stars
become visible at this height.
Meteors small chunks of rock coming in from
outer space which become luminous because they are
heated to ncandescence by friction against the earts
atmosphere.
Just how much farther the atmosphere may exist
is problem DR., Willis Luther Moore, former chief of
the United States weather bureau. is of the opinion
that the atmosphere gives out somewhere between
nifty and 100 miles above the surface of the earth.
Meteorologists and physicists are very much in
teresed IN studying the upper reaches of the earths
atmosphere because they think that many OF the
weather conditions the surface of the earth may
be connected in some way with what is going on at
high attitudes
Studies have been made OF the upper reaches by
sending aloft small balloons to which scientific in
strumentS are attached.
These instruments are of the recording type so
that their records be read after the balloon has
been recovered
Balloons are also used to study air currents A
small balloon is released. Its movements are then
followed with small range finding telescope
Interesting data also has been collected recently
by arplane flights though is impossible for plane
to attain the same heights that the small balloons do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Waiting for the Crash

Nov the worry is doubled. Bust
4 ness feels apprehensive not
only OF the shortened credit, but of
the threatened crash in values.
Most everyone admits that bust
ness is in fairly good shape, but not
WITHOUT recalling what a run on
the bank" can do, even though the
bank is solvent.
The way the crowd has gone wild
over a bull market during the last
two years is grimly suggestive.
The majority, those who have not
hesitated to play the game included,
feel that there has been far more
psychology than sense in the boom.
What is worse, they feel that the
psychology could go about as far in
as opposite direction, if it once got
well started.
Every second person one. meets
has the same questions-what is 60
ing to happen, will the slump con-
tlnue, and if it does, what about the
effect on business?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Changing Pockets,

TINE bulk of the so-called for
il tunes that have been. or may
be wiped out, did not exist two years
ago, nor did they represent the
result of toll, genius, or constructive
thinking.
From beginning to end, the show
was about 80 per cent bunch, and
the enormously increased values
largely were matter of belief.
Many individuals have been
tragically elated, and many more
will be tragically disappointed. AS
a whole, however, they will have
about as much left in the end as
they started with.
Those who invested with the in
tention of holding. will suffer little
but shrinkage. Those who bought
on margins will suffer just what the
losers do in ? poker game.
At the conclusion of a poker game,
there is just as much money on
hand as there was at the opening.
1t has merely changed pockets.
The saddeSt part of stock gamb-
ling is not the losers, but the inno-
cent bystanders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Not Bad for Business

PERSONALLY, I have seen little
Il on this journey across the
United States and back again to
warrant the belief that the nations
business structure will be seriously
shaken, no matter what happens.
1t is true that something like
$20,000,000,000 worth of water has
been forced into the capital invest
ment by one Of the most protracted.
if not spectacular, bull markets in
history.
If all of it were to be squeezed
out, we should have lost but little
more than it takes to buy and oper-
ate our autos each yes md most
of that goes for joy riding.
If the cash involved were lost,
there might be more cause for
alarm, but in the majority of cases,
it merely has changed hands. In
the majority of cases there is little
to show for all the whoop-la and
commotion, except mass of paper
transactions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
RiddIed

THEY riddled the I'm Alone I'M
L til she blew at every seam.
The sails came down, the bulwarks
went. but the forces of law and
order could not shoot away the
captains mo"
Il believe I was the last to jump
from the ship. My bow was then
about twenty feet under water and
her stern about ten feet in the air
and she was beginning to dive"
It can hardly be said that Skipper
Randell quit his ship. It was the
ship which quilted him Literally
The American navy had shot his
craft from under him and he and
his crew leaped of into the storm
tossed gulf where one was drowned.
Down went the Scotch and gin,
good Scotch and gin, with salt wa
ter on the side.
I like to think that the last yes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

The famous scientist Pasteur dis
covered a method of developing re-
sistance in the body against by
drophobia to which the name Pas
teur treatment has been given.
Since development of the Pasteur
| >ctment in 1882, hydrophobia has
been brought under control.
Rabies is spread principally by the
homeless stray dog. When a person
is bitten by a rabid animal, he
should have the Pasteur treatment.
The disease is controlled in any
community by strict enforcement of
the muzzling ordinance and destruc-
ton of stray dogs.
The person who depends on a
maidstone when bitten by a rabid
animal is likely to terminate his ex-
lstence with hydrophobia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
WE'LL Mr., Adams?
NNTHAT would have hannened

w HAT would have happened. /
:" wonder, if, by any chance
CHARLES Francis Adams, the score
tary OF the navy, had been aboard
the cutter Dexter. Adams is q
skipper himself and a good one too
though he has done his SAILING
without benefit Of auxiliary engines
If he had felt it was his dutv
to sink the spunky I'm Alone no
doubt he would have done so, but
sinking good fast ship seems to
Sallormen almost as much a pro-
lanatlon as burning an orphanage
would seem to us on land.
But whatever the course OF events
as they might have befaIen in the
presence of Charles Francis Adams.
l feel certain he would have ex-
tended hand of fellowship to the
Canadian skipper and said. THAT
was quite a run you gave US"
Leg irons are hardly fitting for a
man who has signaled, "You NAV
fire if you wish,," and then faced
LIle IuSuaQe.
1t never has been prohibition
which objected to so much as the
tnngs which go with it. The I'm
A!one was sunk in the same week
which saw recommendation from
the Methodsts that any foreign
diplomat be handed his papers if he
refused to take on American alb
stinence.
II America is determined to be
bone dry I have no doubt that in
the end America will be just that.
But don't see why good manners,
good fellowship. and decent human
feeling should have to go by the
board along with rum.
Copyright 1929 for The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Navy Wins Another

nF course, the victory lies with
~ our American arms, and yet I
doubt whether the admiraIs and the
ensignS will talk much in the long
nights about this fight as they
might sometimes discuss even yet.
the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Nor will school children be asked
each one to give a penny to save the
Dexter from the junkyard. Oh, yes.
we won, but let's not talk about it.
We got the ship and one of the
sailors, but we never got the skip
per'S Eyes" We sailed down good
liquor, but not the soul of John T.
RandeIl.
TO my surprise, on going below
after supper, was told that 1 would
have to submit to leg irons. 1 re-
marked to the captain that 1 did
not consider that I was a prisoner
OF war and had no intention of do
ing anything rash. But he assured
me that it was his orders, and as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

vestigation showed that she had been murdered and
that the murderer had disposed OF her body by the
simple expedient of leaving it in the and abandon
ing the car.
1t is surprising to learn that that auto with its
CHASTITY freight could have stayed at curb for four
days unnoticed. But the American city dweller has
way of minding his business. He doesn't get
nosey when something little out of the way happens
in his neighborhood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

such I told him that I could onlv
submit to force"
l am, also, surprised. 1t would be
interesting to know just who issued
the order. There were ships and
seas before there was a Volstead
and the tradition of deep sea sailors
mas always been that a gallant foe
deserves fair words and courtesy
a1ter you have conquered him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

the earth, the at
mosphere grows
thinner and thin
ner.
If the atno-
sphere had a uni
form density from
top to bottom, it
would extend up
ward only five
miles above the
earth's surface.
But the atmo-
sphere extends to
a much greater
height and the
density falls of
very raniClY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
= David DietZ on Scit
so Miles of Atmosphere
No 315

force OF gravtation is responsible for the earth
Il retaining an atmosphere. The tendency of the
atmosphere to fly off into space But gravity holds
it in place
The atmosphere ic thickest or densest-to Use a
more scientific and exact eXpression-closest to the
earths surface As one ascends above the SURFACE Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
Murder Parked Four DAYS

The average American, it is to be suspected minds
his own business pretty WELL after all.
In Detroit residential district an automobile
was left parked at curb four days. No one went
near 1t. Its presence highly unusual, of course
but the people living nearby didn't give it thought
Finally policeman investigated. Looking inside
the car he found the lifeless body of woman. In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE belief that nadstones will
l. cure hydrophobia is one of
strangest of superstittions.
Hydrophobia has been known as
a disease from the earliest times.
Tt apparently was recognized that
some dangerous material came into
the body with the bite of the dog,
and the obvious attempt on the part
of an unknowing people was to put
something on the bite that would
draw out the poison
Since the development of stones
in the body of man or of animals
was not understandable to these
ancients, a magical influence was
attached to the stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's, 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, 1929-03-28

tige Of the I'm Alone was her lit
tie signal flag which cried out,
No above the gale until the waves
sucked her down and the gallant
negative nailed to the mast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Miner Is Entitled to All He
Asks"
IF we are going to continue to let
Il scientists lecture on birth control
to the boys and girls in our state
universities, we should ask the Fee
jee Islands to send a few missions
aries to the United States.
We are not surprised that the
county commissioners refused to let
the children skate in the court
house at Fairfield, Texas, for that's
entirely too much action for any
court house.
n
1t created establishment when an
Arkansas farmer put up the sign
Hunt all you please" yet this is
! the identical sign those who are
posed to a national defense wo
put on the United States, and Ia,
letters would be big enough for all
the world to read.
American and British power COM
binationS are bidding for the
the Shanghai municipal electricity
plant, but if the people of Shang-
hal know their business they won't
sell it to either of them, but will
keep it municipal.
n
The most tragic result of this
Mexican war occurred in PENN
SylYania when the head of a mill
tary institute called in the young
son of the rebel general, Aguirre,
and told him his father had been
executed, whereupon the boy, with
out batting an eye, saluted and re-
! tired.
Mexico is inferior in most things,
but no nation eXcels her in nerve.
Police Commissioner Whalen of
New York wants President Hoover
to favor legislation to control the
sale Of firearms, to keep them out
| of the hands of criminals, but In the
first place the law could not be en-
forced and in the second place all
the criminals have them now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kinnan Of
Walla Walla, Wash, have been mar
ried' seventy-three years, which is
much longer than all the married
people in Hollywood have lived to-
gether.
Florida has just produced
strawberry which measures five and
one-half inches in circumference,
but this isn't in it with the rasp-
berry Florida handed to northern
investors.
T'HE trouble about ex-Attorney-
4 General Daugharty's defense
of his administration is that it is
something like seven years too late.
This horrible coal mine disaster
in Pennsylvania which claimed
more than thirty victims moves one
to observe that a coal miner is en-
titled to all he asks.
If President Hoover does not wants
any vets or dry on his commission
to investigate the violations Of the
VolStead laws, he will have to select
gentlemen who drink half and
half"
u
These German newspapers which
claim that the late Marshal Foch
showed them no chivalry when the
terms of the armistic was arranged
should recall how Bismarck struck
the table until the ink well danced
when France asked for terms at the
end of the -Prussian war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Etiquette Note: The young man asking father
Tor his daughters hand has to be prepared to an
Swer the question Of whether or not he can furnish
a1mony sufficient to support the girl in the style to
which she has been accustomed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

New York critic says the talkes, In bringing to
every Main Street the music shows of Broadway will
give the small towns kind Of civilization They
may be able to overcome it. however
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Warden Shook of Atlanta resigned after objecting
to the practice of sending federal spies to prisons
But to date we haven't seen anywhere the headline,
"Snook Scores snoops and Cops Sneak"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

The saying that women's work is never done Il
becoming nearly true these days. with so many labor.
saving devices to keep working.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28

Today's question: why do they call so many of
the cities along the Florida coast line watering
places"2