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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Making Progress

Two cities in Indiana vote today on pro-
posal to adopt tho city manager form Of gov
eminent That means an advance IN puohc
sentiment. even If there should fail to be a
majority u favor Of the change.
r. i, progress because Of the evidence that
public sentiment is aroused on public ques-
tions and al least formidable group OF citi-
zen, have reached the conclusion that the IN
reference Of partisan politics in municipal
affairs can only result in misuse Of power.
1t is progress because Of its evidence that
there are organized groups in other communl-
ties who refus, to Yield to bosssm and dictator
shin. even though it be disguised as party
loyalty
The fight TO establish this law has been
long The politicians have done everything
that ineeu- tv and greed could dictate to pre-
vent the people from receiving decent govern
ment in which party politics plays no part
This city should have been operating for
two years under the city manager law. 1t
required legislature TO prevent the people
from having what they had voted for. After
indianapolis had adopted the system, the
legislature voted to delay the operation of the
law for two years.
The legislature did this i'm an effort to keep
Duvsl i'm office in this city and Males in Office
in Evansville. where the people turned to the
city manager law as defense against bad
government
These two mayors had testified that mn
,oediat,I,. after their election. they had
iourneved under sealed orders to Hiram Evans
TO discuss their appointments. They admitted
quite uubushingly that the head OF the Khan
was the real governing force in these cities.
DuyaH has been convicted and will soon 60
TO iar Males is now under indictment That
indicates the sinsistcr influence of bad city
government upon legislatures, if it proves
nothing worse.
The same forces which coerced the legs
lature into its protectoratc over Duyal are now
irving to defeat the law altogether
They are whispering that they own the
supreme court and tell their followers that
the highest court Will decide that the law IS
illegal That. of course, is pure Islander and
libed upon the court But they stop at nothing
these evil forces that hitch the underworld to
the churches in a political team that permits
them to provl and pillage the public pocket
book.
The infamy Of spreading the statement that
they have secret entrance to the high court
can not be cqualIed.
When the ease i, presentedto the court the
people have every right to expect that the de
cision will he ON legal grounds. not ON private
pleas by grating bosses
With other cities interested in the city man
arer law there is reasonable hope that it will
soon become the rule and not the exception. The
divorce Of all city government from partisan
politics would be even more progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
BILL TO BAN RADICAL
LITERATURE RIDICULED
Tariff Measure Provision "Asinine,'
Declares Senator.

Tariff Measure Provision "Aslnlne,'
Declares Senator.
BIZ Scripps- Hol0ard Newspaper AHiqrcc
WASHINGTON, June 4.-"Ridic-
ulous and asinine' was the char
acterization by Senator Burton K
Wheeler of the section in the new
tariff bill prohibiting importation
OF radical and seditious literature.
Wheeler expects to be joined by
other progressive senators in move
to eliminate the section when the
tariff bill comes before the senate.
The idea that the American
people can't be trusted with such
literature is ridiculous beyond
words, Wheeler added.
ITO those who are so afraid Of
revolution ir this country that they
migha be willing to let customs
clerks censor an our reading on,
social and political movements, let
me say that revolutions arise only
from one cause-intolerable eco
nomic conditions"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
MORE and more scientific medi-
I'VE cine is learning the impor-
lance in the human body of very
small traces Of significant elemenal
substances. OF all Of these none
seems to be much more important
than is iodine.
The normal human body Of $50
pounds weight contains about one
tenth of gram of this substance.
Most Of the iodine in the human
body comes in by way Of eggs, milk,
bread, wine, water and air, and it
is deposited in the thyroid gland.
The thyroid gland is an organ
with two lobes in the throat over
the windpipe. Inside the thyroid
gland are little spaces with a yell
low material known as collOid in
them. The iodine is kept in this
material.
AS the blood passes through the
thyroid gland it takes up some
iodine, but the amount needed is
SO small that the total amount in
the blood approximates six mil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Writers to Get Cash

TTOW should I know? Underlying
Il L motivation is seldom apparent
to the person who acts upon it. I
could reply fifppantly that I did
the story to get 2 cents a word
which was offered by the Sunday
editor of the Tribune for special
articles. That wouldn't be alto
gether a lie.
The story neJ5ed me S18 and
since this was before the war it was
possible to buy a luncheon for two
people and spend no greater sum.
Writing such letters of explana-
ton takes hours and hours, but I
have managed to get around that
difficulty by not answering. Even
50, the momentary estate of the
story as one more bunker in some
school curriculum fills me with hor-
ror.
Worst of all was letter from a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

1AAi 40 AA1NA C4y Vic
re suit of the
water vapor con-
densing back into
water and falling.
The reader who
has followed this
series during the
last few we Elk S
knows that this
view will not do
at all.
Water vapor is
entirely invisible.
The air at all
times includes a
certain amount of
water vapor. This
fact can he q Scar-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

betters, I have accompanied the
other essayists into academic fast
ness.
And I can't say that I enjoy it.
Four or five times a year letter
comes from some student in a dis
tant place. Always the query is
the same-what underlying inten-
ton did I have when I wrote the
story?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
lavid Dietz on Scion
Mystery of Rain
No 372

D AIN is phenomenon with which every one is
IN familiar. Consequently he rarely thinks about
it. Because it is familiar, he no mystery in it,
Yet there are many interesting things about it.
When we come to explain how rain is produced we
find that we are faced with number of difficult
problems
There is vague general impression held by many
people that clouds consist of water vapor and that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's, and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or diSag
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
IT SEEMS TO ME By H B1oUS

little girl in Indianapolis, or maybe
it was Cleveland, saying: My
teacher has given as the subject for
my weekly theme: The character Of
the headmaster in the Fifty First
Dragon. What should I say?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Daily Thought

Do ye imagine to reprove words
and the speeches of one that is
desperate, which are as wind?-
Job 6:26.
~ ESPAIR doth strike as deep a
- furroW in the brain as mischief
or remorse.-Barry Cornwall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Put Up a Front

TN his address to the graduating
Il class at Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology, Professor Robert E.
Rogers said:
BE a snob. marry the boss
daughter instead Of his stenog-
rapher, dress, speak and act like a
gentleman and you will be surprised
at the amount Of murder you can
get away with"
Professor Rogers referred to Har-
Yards habit Of putting up a front
Of assuming that everything it does
is right, of never giving nor argu-
ing, but "blandly going its own way"
and receiving more money and pub
Lefty than any other American uni
versity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
What? Harvard SnobbiSh2

A NEW YORK TELEGRAM re-
IA porter visited the Harvard
Club to find out whether those who
had been through the university
considered it as snobbish as Profess
sor Rogers implied
After getting six interviews in
denial Of snobbery. ne was kicked
out by the manager to prove the
lnni11t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

Mabel Walker Wiebrandt told United States dis
trct attorneys TO prosecute only good strong cases
under the Jones law. Now booteggers will be putting
more water than ever into The stuff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

new mechanical device will do the work of a cash
register, bookkeeper and adding machine, making a
complete record of a sale it is being made Now
some scientist should only invent a machine that
could spell out distation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

EDUCATORS seem about as bad
Il as doctors when it comes to
disagreeing.
One group OF students is advised
to be liberal, while another is told
to be Snobbish.
In his baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class Of Columbia
university, DR.. Howard Chandler
Robbins said: Play the part Of free
men, preserve in its integrity your
personal life and never allow it to
be controlled and dominated by
opinions and judgments which are
forced upon you from without, in
opposition to conscience and rea-
son "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
AYS

Prohibition Has Taken the
Place Of the Crossword
Puzzle as the Most P0pu-
lar Method Of Brain Cud-
Cling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

Looking into their faces, you
shudder at the havoc wrought and
wonder what they might have been,
had Fate been kinder.
This one might have been a great
lawyer, that one doctor, the other
a farmer, business man, statesman,
for they we're the best we had, the
men we called to the colors in II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

THERE are acres of small white
4 tombstones, marked with flags
and flowers, where sleep the soldiers
Of other days, but the thought OF
them is not half so tragic as the
sight of the living wrecks, those
with sick minds in strong bodies
While many will come back, more
of them are beyond recall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

T Asst Thursday We attended the
f. most tragic Decoration day
service held in America.
1t was at Marion, Ind, where the
home built for the survivors OF the
Civil war has been converted into
a hospital for shattered victims OF
the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

D DIV NAUh1eID AAoAAUI4A47
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

Paint or varnish spatters on glass
may be dissolved with turpentine or
alcohol or rubbed off with dull knife
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

ly one million dollars more for the
state institutions under the board of
control than 1t did last year It is
said that II the needs of these insti-
buttons is such as to warrant this large
increase this year, the budget was
wrong in holding down appropriations
last time; If it was right cwo years
ago, 1t is wrong today. However, large
balances from previous appropriations
were available two years ago and they
no longer exist today. An analysis of
the figures also shows that during the
past four years under the budget plan
appropriations for buildings at the
state institutions have averaged slight.
ly higher than for the proceeding six
year period.
Dearth of Orators.
The Minnesota legislature has not
been turning out many orators of late
years. The house is particularly bar
rem in this respect. The glory of the
days when the silver tongued orator
declared you shall not cast this sop
in the face of the backbone of the
State Of Minnesota, is departed from
the house. We talk lot, but we
don't crate much. The senate is much
better 1t has had two splendid ora
torical spasms already and much is
hoped for from it before the session
ends.
The house is gad-about. Last week
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

will be found the doings of the leg
islature written by one who Is familiar
with the doings of the solons. The
is nevertheless interesting. Also read
Rep. Hitchcock's letter in another
column.
County Commissioner Stuart Murray
of the Sixth District, our neighbor to
the south, was in the city Wednesday.
Like our own commissioner, Jake, Mr..
Murray asks for the aid of the dis
trict he represents in his conduct Of
the Office and says that advice will be
welcome. He is willing to meet with
any group at any time to discuss pub
lie affairs of the district. When COM
missioners will listen to the voice of
the people, it means better admins
tration of the affairs of the people.
The same applies to all public officials.
AS stated at the head of the ION
This Occasion" column on the first
page of the Miner, the matter and
comments therein are the personal
opinions of the editor All are open
for argument and we welcome criti-
ciSm, either personal or written. The
columns of the Miner are yours on
any subject providing you will write
in a constructive manner and in Ian
guage which will keep us out of the
libel courts. Sign your name to your
stuff so we can tell who is the daddy
of the effusion. Don't ask us to faith
er it by sending it anonymous. Our
waste basket has capaciouS NAV
and is hungering for anonymous dope.
Sign your name as guarantee of
good faith. The name will not be pub
liShed unless you ask it, We need it
however in order to protect ourselves.
Anonymous letter writer's and gossips
are an abomination. Send in your
innermost thoughts on paper, read
ably written on one side of the paper
No stamp is necessary. We have
nice, new shiny mail slot on our
front door. Sign your name and drop
it into that nice, new, shiny mail slot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01
HERE is WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
ADVERTISING CEASES.

A generation ago "St. Jacobs Oil
was one of the most widely advertised
products in America. 1t was patent
medicine enjoying enormous sales.
When Charles Vogeler, the head OF
this business, died, an expert" went
over the balance sheets and saw the
enormous advertising appropriation.
This expert" trimmed the adver-
Using expenditure to little or rothing,
reasoning that ST. Jacobs Oil was so
well known that it was unnecessary
to spend money any longer to adver-
tise it. Orders dwindled as advertis-
ing contracts ran out; business de-
parted, never to return and it is safe
to speculate that hardly one in fifty
who reads this article remembers or
ever heard of st. Jacobs Oh, one of
the beSt-known products on the con-
tinent 35 years ago.
A similar thing happened to James
Pyle's "Pearline"-a company which
used a 100000 advertising fund as
far back as 1904 and was one of the
best-known, products in the entire
world. The ad fund was Topped off,;
the business went dead. 1t tried un-
successfully to make comeback in
fs14, and sold its plant for junk to
a large soap manufacturer Killing off
the ad appropriation wrecked both of
these prosperous businesses and it
would do the same thing to almost any
great advertising concern today-St.
Louis (Mo0 Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

recommendation goes only about half
as far as 1t should.
Why not also a reduction In the
present per capita limit governing To-
cal tax levies on the iron range?
Why Is it necessary that some OF
these towns on the range spend on To-
cal government several times as much
per capita as is spent In many we'll
governed town elsewhere in Mime
sofa?
And why are these range towns
themselves so blind to the need Of
tightening the ad valorem tax loads of
the mining companies? Concededly.
magnificent public buildings and
schools, municipal responsibility for
many activities that elsewhere are pri-
vately financed, and public payrolls of
amazing length, are all nice things for
a town to have.
But if squeezing these luxuries out of
the mining industry is going to cripple
or kill the mining industry, won't the
towns lose in the long run, far more
than they have been gaining by their
taxing policy?
Of what value elaborate government
tai machinery, If there are no citizens
left on the range to employ it? What
good are magnificent school buildings
going to do anybody, when there are
no more families on the range to sup
ply the children to attend these
schools? It's iron mining that keeps
the range going. Iron mining at pres
ent is paying in taxes more than forty
per cent of the net value Of its pro-
duct; more than one hundred and nifty
per cent of the aggregate OF its pay
rolls.
No industry can long survive with
any such load as that.
All the citizens of the range recog-
nize the necessity of tightening the
load, but most of them want the re-
duction to come out of the occupation
and royalty taxes, which go to the
state at large, instead OF out OF the
local taxes. No chance. In the first
place, the states revenue from iron
taxation, including the States share
of ad valorem taxes, is only a little
more than one-fourth of the share
spent locally. In the second place,
more than third of the states share
is not spent at all, going into per-
manent trust funds, while large part
of the local share is spent wastefully
In the third place, reducing local
revenues would not burden other tax
payers, while reducing the states occu-
pational and royalty ievies would
necessarily mean q higher tax levy on
real and personal property all over
Minnesota.
The legislature, we believe, should
reduce the assessment rate on ullmined
ore to one-third of real value, as
recommended by the commission. But
the legislature should also reasonably
limit the present over Liberal per capita
maximum permitted the local taxing
units.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

between the Mesaba and Cayuna
ranges. Some of the owners Of the
$50 or more mines on the older ranges
closed by excessive taxation measures
on the part Of the down state legisla-
ture. wish them no bad luck, under
the present conditions, equivalent to
finding iron ore.
Mile Bunnell, founder Of the Du-
luth Herald and for % years publish
er of the Duluth News Tribune, died
at his winter home in Santa Barbara,
California. He left Duluth after Nov
ember and at that time was not con-
sidered as ailing He was found dead
in bed Saturday morning. Mr.. Bun
nell was staunch Republican and he
exerted considerable influence in poll
tics in this state before his removal
to California. He will be missed.
A tax bill has been introduced in
the legislature to change the primary
ballot to one having all Of the party
nominees on one ballot regardless of
political designations instead of sep
arate ballots for each party as now
prevails The bill was introduced by
trict who claims that this would give
more privacy to- the ballot and do away
with the embarrassment and the
necessity of declaring party affilia-
tons. He also states that a larger
vote would follow the acceptance of
the bill and make the vote more repre-
sentative of the wishes of the people.
Senator Lommen further stated that
many stay away from the primaries
simply because they could not afford,
for business and other reasons, to
declare their party Affiliations public
ly. The bill would do away with the
talking one way and voting the other
and would also do away with calling
for one kind of ballot in order to
nominate the weakest candidates and
then voting for strong candidate on
the opposition ticket.
On the inside pages of the Miner
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01
UNCLE SANS DEBT.

Figures made public by the treasury
department at Washington recently set
out that the gross total of Uncle Sans
public debt on December 81, 1928, was
ST, 309, TAG, 1876, which was decrease of
$726, sos, 315 during the year. It was
stated further that cash in the general
fund on the same date amounted to
$269, 543 ,96846 as against $272, 342, 801. 10
one year ago, and that the part of this
money not needed to meet current ex-
penses would be applied to reducing
tn public debt still further.
These figures give us a little sample
of the governments financial house
keeping as conducted by Secretary
Mellon and his assistants A reduc-
lion dollars on the public debt in one
year is certainly not bad record. And
in addition to reducing the debt in
this staggering sum there was on hand
for household expenses at the end of
the year more than quarter Of a bill
lion dollars, some Of which, when the
running expenses of the government
were met, could be used to reduce
Uncle Sans debt still further.
Every year we have report along
this same line, showing record for
economy and business efficiency which
has rarely been equalled anywhere If
at all in the history of the world
There has been steady reduction of
the debt from the beginning Of Secre-
tary Melons administration of the
treasury and at the same time federal
tax rates have been reduced from time
to time as the circumstances war
ranted. Secretary Mellon is hanging
up a record that will stand out for
long time to come.-Ishpening Iron
Ore
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01
WANTED TO RENT CONCRETE
HIGHWAY.

"Of all things In this world today,
the most rentable thing is a concrete
road or road of comparable type"
says the Houston Chronicle, in urging
bond issue for improving the high
ways Of Texas. There is absolutely
nothing for which there is so much
demand. But you have to have 1t be-
fore you can rent it. Gasoline tax
is road rent. BY increasing thousands.
the customers are ready to pay that
rent But you can't rent them until
you have them.
a few planks each week out of your
pay, and so try to finally build house
that way? You don't do it that way
Nobody else does. Nobody finances
anything that way. And there Is just
as much room for common sense In
road building as there is for just plain
good common sense in house building
or anything else.
That's the way they build big office
buildings too. The most of the office
buildings in Texas have bond issues.
and the rents each month pay the in
terest and monthly proportion of
the principal In their own affairs
hard-headed business men do it that
way. They are not so foolish as to
think of building an Office building a
room at time out of such current
revenues as rooms already built are
bringing. They issue bonds, build their
buildings, and liquidate the bonded
Indebtedness with the rents.
THAT is the way the railroads, COM
petitors of the highways were built.
The railroads never attempted to ex-
tend their lines out Of money current
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01
ADVERTISING ONES TOWN.

Of the subject of advertising ones
home town is mentioned, most people
imagine it means spending lot of
money for paid advertising. Yet a
great deal of such advertising is done
with practically no expense to anyone.
Every time people send away a
picture post card showing scenes In
their home town, they advertise that
community.
Every time you send away copy
of your home town newspaper, you
give one of the best forms of adver-
Using, which creates an impression in
each issue of the business and attrac-
tions of the community.
Every time you give favorable
mention of the activities of your home
town in conversation. or by letter, you
advertise it. In an enthusiastic place,
such advertising is tremendous fac
tor in promoting community growth"
Salem News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-01

school aid and school appointments.
Koochiching county paid the state
but $11, 905, while the state sent it a
check for $122,792.