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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
RH> AM (N D. FREDERICK
Lands

T CKENER showed a lot of character to stav in
- this country and let the Zeppelin 90 to Ger
many without him, for it to decline what
would have been the greatest hour of his life and
the greatest honor which has come to anv German
since Bismarck.
Few mortals pass up such angels food
4
If the heather read in the papers, which possibly
they may not that we have more than 200 separate
religious denominations in the United States it NAV
cause them to question whether the missionary who
brings them salvation represents the true church
1t would simplify matters for the heather and
improve conditions in the United States if the num-
Der OF our denominations could be reduced to some
thing like twenty-five.
This declaration of the French scientist that he
has serum which will make old men young should
be OF particular interest to the WASHINGTON baseball
club Of the American League.
A MERCHANT of Paris, ILL., was told by the
n Mayo doctors he would live 24o days and died
on the 239th day, which shows not the accuracy of
the doctors but the part the mind plays in life and
death
It's always seemed to man up tree as if these
medical experts could patient of his peril
yet leave him something to cling to-
It's not necessary to hand death sentence
You have all seen cases where those who were
given many days to live have returned from the
clinics with doom written all over their faces and in
most cases they die, and then again you have seen
uoCIoIS VINO raolaGeo courage ana hopefulneSS and
who injected the fighting spirit into their patients
even as they slipped into eternity.
The latter is the hero and the philosopher
Horrible as it is this religious war in Palestine is
none of our business
we believe in giving everybody all their rights
under the American constitution and in protecting
them, so long as they stay in the United States
But when any OF our people of any faith or any
nationality leave the United States and go to a
strange land to build nation there let them under
stand that they taking all of the chances and
that We who stay under the American flag take none
of them
CIR HUBERT WILKINS, the famous explorer, hav.
~ ing survived many perils, the last being the Yep
pelin fight round the world encounters the greatest
of all his hazards in seeking successful voyage over
the of matrinony with actress from Aus
tralia
One is astonished to learn that Secretary of War
Good has to take action to save the battlefield Of
New Orleans from becoming pasture
1t there that Jackson with his army of whites
and blacks annihlated the seasoned British army,
led by Packenham, the greatest victory won by
Americans over English.
AS the nation has preserved the battlefeds of the
Civil war should it protect these historic acres of
the War Of 1912.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
The Schools Open

Once more the public schools command
the attendance of youth Of the state and
thousands of boys and girls more or less
eagerly return to the school rooms.
The nation is dedicated to the policy OF
compulsory education. 1t is believed that the
trained mind is the best defense against
evils, either internal or menacing from with
out. It believes that the best citizen is the
one who has been trained to think.
One of life's little ironies is that in this
city at this time it is necessary to organize an
uprising of the good citizens to rescue the
school management from the hands of those
who. such is the almost universal belief are
entirely untitled to manage them.
The handling of business matters in the
school system has not been marked with
any great degree of either economy or wis
dom There is very good reason to believe
that the expenditure Of money has been
directed very largely by a maker of venti-
lators and political boss.
Most inevitably the private control OF
q public school system must in the end, re-
suit in an inferior brand of education. 1t
must, in the end reflect itself in lessened
intelligence and a decreased ability OF the
individual to protect himself as citizen.
Of course, the policy of universal edu-
cation is indicated by the fact that there
is an uprising and a determination on the
part of a very large number of citizens to
end present conditions.
The people undoubtedly will relieve the
Collins and the Ships of any further dicta-
torship. 1t is not within the possibilities
that present conditions can continue, espe-
cially with the awakened public conscience.
The City Manager League has insured
public control of the city government
through its fine recommendations for COM
missioners. Only an adverse supreme court
decision can prevent the new government
from bringing q new freedom to city affairs.
The revolt against incapable or worse
management of the public schools will be
lust as certain if its leaders show an equal
sagacity and conscience in drafting candi-
dates.
The fact that schools are again open
should remind fathers and mothers of their
duty to recapture the schools from the forces
of creed and hate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Tariff Greed

body blow will be struck at the pending tariff
bill if the senate progressive Republicans and Demo-
Gratis are successful in obtaining from the secretary
OF the treasury records of profits of corporations
affected by the bill
Except for a few scattered instances we venture
to predict that most of these records show such i'm
mense profits for the highly protected corporations
that their pleas for still higher tariff rates would be
shown to be Unsuitable greed.
The National City bank in its September bulletin
says that earnings for 536 manufacturing and trad
ing corpora tons increased almost 81 per cent in the
first six months of 1929 as compared with the first
six months of 1928
The combined 1929 profits of these corporations.
so far amounts to $1241 100000
Some increases in profits were startling Thirtv-
five iron and steel companies for instance. have
earned $189o0OoOo, against s93oooooo in the same
period last year. They more than twice as pros
porous this year as last. Yet they would be among
the largest benefciaries of the present BILL both
through tariff increases and through removal of the
tariff on manganese ore, which they USE
Chemical corporations, and those which make ma
chinery, textiles and household goods, all recorded
large increases
About the only industry affected by the bill show
ing an actual loss is leather manufacture five conn
panies reporting deficit of $3,5Oooo1 for the half
year Shoe corporations have earned SLIGHTLY less
than last year, but five Of them show profit of
s86OOoO0
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IT SEEMS TO ME By H B1ouS

THE fame of Bobby Jones as the
L greatest golfer in the world has
heen heralded so widely that his
defeat naturally arouses surprise.
In fact, some have hailed his fall
as if it we're tragedy Of momelS.
To be sure, any one who is at all
familiar with golf must realize that
even a genius may be put out Of the
running by a far less gifted player
when the match is only eighteen
holes.
Perhaps there will be a demand
for nothing but thirty six hole en-
counters next time. 7 don't see why.
Even in golf an aristocracy should
not be established.
It is a good thing for the game to
have Jones lose now and again. It
is a good thing for Jones. The
youngster who put out the cham
pion had to perform prodigies to
achieve his triumph. There is no
fairness in suggesting that the re-
suit was a f1uke, even though it is
likely that Bobby could trim him
nine times out of ten.
What of that? Eighteen holes
may furnish a less eXacting test
than the double round, but it is a
standard golfng distance, and the
verdict deserves respect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Cereals Essential to Good Diet

| The development of the prepared
breakfast foods has done much to
add variety to the cereal diet. By this
means, flavor, palatability and other
ingredients may be supplemented
and increased.
It must be remembered also that
the cereals usually are supplemented
with milk, cream, and sugar and
that these serve to add to their food
value.
The proteins of the cereal. foods
are not sufficient to serve alone as
body builders for most people, and
are best supplemented with proteips
from meat and milk products.
The muscle meats do not provide
much more in the way Of dietary
properties than do the cereals and
must be supplemented with calcium,
sodium and with the various vita
minis.
Such experimentation comes from
such meats as liver, kidney and glib
let's, generally also from milk prod
ucts.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Most of the cereals are rich in
carbohydrate. For example, three
tablespoonful of farina, weighing
about twenty-seven grams, will con-
tain three grams of protein, one
half gram fat and tWenty-one grams
of carbohydrates.
Grapenuts, pulled wheat, pulled
rice, shredded wheat and wheatina
all have about the same composition.
Three tablespoonfuls of any of these
cereals will provide 100 calories to
the body, very small amount of
phosphorus, little, if any, iron and,
in the case of the whole wheat prod
ucts, some calcium.
All of them will provide vitamins
A and B, except that the polished
rice products contain relatively lit
tie of any of these vitanins.
Thus, the cereals are energy pro-
ducers and weight builders, as are
all foods rich in carbohydrates. The
diet of the growing child should be
relatively rich in cereals for the
same. reason.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Make Grief for Selves


CHIPPING men. especially in this
~ country, only make trouble for
themselves in trying to link their
business with the big navy idea.
While they are in obvious need
of government assistance, they
would do much better to look for
it in connection with peaceful pur-
suits.
The American public is not going
to burden itself with an unneces-
sarily large number of cruisers, sub
marines, or destroyers to help them
out, neither can the American pub
lie be black lacked by bought and
paid for howls of patriotism.
If business in connection with
ships or anything else wants less
regulations it must drop the idea of
trying to shape publicity policy So
as to feather its own nest. TaXpay-
ers suffer enough, without being
film flamrned by hired propagandists
and are suspicious enough, without
discovering that they have been
imposed upon every SO often.
Putting aside the moral issue In
volved, one could suppose that in
dustrial and financial leaders could
see the folly of such course. Even a
child ought to know that paid
agents advocating big navy to
get work for shipyards, and paid
lobbyists advocating free manganese
after steel companies have contract
ed for vast amount of it in Russia,
eventually would do their employers
more harm than good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Peace Is Gaining

A LII business is more or less de-
L a pendent on public policy, but
that is a liability rather than an as
set. Instead of putting a premium
on it, those who have the power
should do everything they can tc
minimize it.
This is especially true with re-
gard to that phase of public policy
which deals with war and peace
Popular opinion, not only in this
country, but throughout the world
rapidly is crystalizing in favor OF
measures and methods that will sub
stitute orderly adjustment of in
ternational controversies for arbitra-
ment by arms.
No business can save itself by
defying this noW-horn current Of
thought, and if it doubts the posi-
bility of growing and developing
through the pursuit of peaceful &C
Invites, it would better throw ur
the sponge.
Things have changed not only
during the last century, but during
the last fifty years. War no longer
is regarded as either the primary
objective Of governments, or as the
guarantor Of trade. This change is
illustrated wildly by the attitude
of DR.. Hugo Eckener, who, though
recognizing that the dirigible vir-
tually has become obsolete as an in
strument of war, still believe in il
more thoroughly than ever.
What is more to the point, men in
the street will be quick to catch the
drift of his logic, and to visualize
the dirigible as holding a brighter
promise for this very reason. The
urge is no longer to invent and per-
feet devices that only can kill, or
authorize public policies built on
theory of destruction.
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Ten Million

DUT even the light-year has Be
ID come too small stick for IT,
modern astronomer. For he no
longer is confined by the limits OF
the Milky Way.
Beyond our Milky Way, or galaxy,
as the astronomer calls it, are the
spiral nebulae or exterior galaxies.
Some of them seem to be great coy
lection Of stars like our own Milky
Way, while others seem to be great
globes Of gaseous material
These are occupying the stten-
ton Of many of the foremost as
tronomers today.
The most astounding discovery
about them was recently announced
by DR.. Harlow Shapley of the Har-
ward observatory. He finds that
many of these exterior galaxies seem
to be distributed in groups or sys-
TENS which he has named galaXies
Of galazies.
These galaxies of galaZies in turn,
appear to be organized into super
galaxies of galaxies Of galaXies. It
has also been suggested that these
super-galaxies be called clouds Of
galaXies.
But for their study a, new yard
stick is needed, for the most distant
nebula is a billion light-years away.
Shapley and Or. Edwin P. Hubble
of the Mt. Wilson observatory have
suggested a new yardstick equivalent
to 100000 light-years. You can
convert that to miles by multiplying
it by 6,000O00,000000. AS yet they
have no name for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Lady Luck
TNHFRE is luck in golf. as

THERE is luck in golf, as in most
= other sports. AS far as I know,
chess is the only field Of human
competition in which chance has
been reduced to a minimum, and
for that very reason it is also one
of the dullest of pastimes.
Luck can have much to do with
success in politics, industry, or even
art. I do not see why it should be
barred from the golf course.
A few believe that the processes of
science owe nothing to chance, but
Newton needed to get a break with
the apple, and Franklin's thunder
storms seem to have come along at
a convenient moment.
Moreover, a friend of mine who
is engaged in medical research tells
me that many of the greatest dis
coveries in his field we're made by
men who we're upon the trail of
something else. And Columbus, SO
the teacher said, was looking for a
northwest passage.
Men engaged in pursuits far more
important than the attempt to win
the amateur golf cham pionsllip have
been obliged to submit to the die
tates of fate. Jones does well to
take his debacle calmly.
He cut a shot too fine and fell into
a pit. Napoleon did the same thing
at Waterloo. Bobby should anoint
himself with the satisfaction which
comes to those who failed while
greatly daring. It was a reckless
stroke and not tinid one which
sent him to the sidelines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09

XXTILLIAM B. SHEARER sues
w three shipping companies for
S250,o00, alleging they have paid him
only $4,000 on a 100000 contract.
Since the contract covered less
than three years, and since Mr.
Shearer's activities appear to have
centered around the naval confer
ence at Geneva and various govern
ment activities at Washington, it is
not surprising that President Hoo
yer would like to know why.
What could Mr.. Shearer have
done for the shipping companies
that would be worth 100000. There
is no evidence that he was trying
to sell ships, or stock in shipbuiIding
companies, or even the idea of pri-
vately owned shipping enterprises
in peaceful trade.
Indeed. his services can be re-
garded as valuable to ship owners
only in so far as they tended to
prevent the adoption of national or
international policies which would
cause governments to buy, or sub
sidiZe, fewer ships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Paid Propaganda

If armament and ship building companies are
employing undercover propagands and lobbyists to
defeat the governments naval reduction policy. they
should be driven out into the open and dealt with
accordingly.
Pressure should not be allowed to sidetrack the
department of Justice investigation started by Presi
dent Hoover and the senate inquiry demanded by
Senator Borah
1t already is clear that certain groups will try
to make goat of the notorious jingoist William B.
shearer-and let it go at that Similar ruses were
attempted during investigations OF the Harding ao-
ministration. when underngs were to be shouldered
with all the blame.
we have no sympathy with the views OF Shearer
We often have pointed out the evil wrought by him
and his kind But We recognize the right of shearer
at Geneva or Washington elsewhere to oppose the
policies of the United States government
Whether Shearer is sincere in his mitarlstlc agi-
tation or whether he is war-monger for PERSONA
profit are matters between that gentleman and his
conscience with which the public is little concerned.
Whether he has been cheated out of quarter mil
lion dollars in unpaid propaganda fees he charges
in his suit against three large shpbuding companies
is not IN itself matter of public interest.
II It is fact that companies building cruisers
secretly employed agents to break the Geneva dis
armament conference and force big cruiser con-
tracts on this government that constitutes one OF the
most sinister revelations since the World war;
Under no conditions could such activities by COM
ercial interests be justified and under conditions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Hope for Peace Increases

XK7HAT the present generation
Wv wants is peace and prosper
ity and what it believes is that nei-
Their is possible without the other
Such men as Hoover and MacDon-
aid are not enunciating original
ideas when they advocate the 1ini-
tation of military establishments
and the substitution of judicial tri-
binals, but are interpreting a popu-
lar sentiment.
Neither is the popular sentiment
born of pacif1st preachment or boil
shevist propaganda Men of the
greatest courage, men who have
shed their own red blood, men who
have shown that they were not
afraid to engage in battle, are COM
i ing to believe that there is a better
way to settle disputes than whole
sale murder and that much of the
wholesale murder men have COM
nitted in the name of patriotism
was inspired by arbitrary and arti-
| fetal means
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tests on thousands Of subjects and
finds that nasculinity is waning. At
least he found what he termed fem
mime traits in the thinking of many
of his male subjects.
I have no idea just how a scientist
handles this question, but I know
that a great deal Of rubbish is talked
by critics of literature and paint
ing as to what is virile and what
isn't in art forms.
Plenty Of reviewers will say with
absolute confidence that an anony-
nous book is by a man or a woman.
7 don't know how they do it, and
as a matter of fact, their guesses
are wrong Just about half the time.
Surely, it isn't as simple as picking
out every staggering adventure
story as male in it's origin and as
signing boudoir books to women. The
most delicate and searching study
of feminine psychology which I know
was written by D. H. Lawrence,
while "The Sheik" was written by a
woman.
Professor Terman finds that mas
culinity in America is declining, par
ticular1y among married men. This
need present no difficult problem.
If the process continues it will be
simplicity itself to change the gen.
der terms about. The trousered peo-
pie can be called Women" and the
skirted ones Men" But maybe
the trousers will change, too.
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of journalism. The young men on
the Telegram have a habit Of re-
ferring to me as Uncle Haywood.
To the Scripps striplings anything
beyond 30 seems senescence. And
now another blow has fallen. In
an interview with P. G. Wodehouse,
Milton MacKaye of the Post OBJ
serves: 'It developed that Mr..
Wodehouse, born and brought up
in England and reporter Of its most
idiotic moments, had as much right
to reninisce about Jacks as Frank
Ward O'Malley or Haywood Broun."
lCopyright, 1929. BY The Tines
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| ANNIVERSARY
.Es GHt5
CALIFORNIA JOINS UNION
Sept. 9


I'm Sept. 9, 1850, California was
" admitted to the Union as a
free state.
The admission of California was
made possible by the famous COM
promise measures of 1880 passed by
congress in a general settlement of
certain questions arising out Of the
struggle over slavery.
Henry Clay had offered to the
senate. in the spring Of 1850, gen
eral scheme of adjustment, which
provided that California saould be
admitted as a state with her free
constitution; that territorial gov
eminent should be created in the
other portions of the Mexican ces-
sion without reference to slavery;
that trading within the District Of
Columbia in slaves brought there
for the purpose Of sale should be
forbidden: that there should be a
more stringent fugitive-slave law,
and that Texas should release all
claims upon New Mexico in return
for the assumption by the national
government of the old Texan debt.
Despite spirited debates. congress
passed practically the whole Of
Clay's plan and by the end of Sep
TENDER the bills all had been
signed by the President
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
Light-Y0ar

THE light-year is the distance
Z which beam of light travels
in one year. The speed Of light, like
the speed Of radio, is 10000 miles
a second.
In a year, therefore, a beam of
light will travel 6,000,000,000,000
miles. This distance constitutes 2
light-year.
On this basis. the nearest star is
four and third light-years away
Other stars are ten light-years awaH
Still others a hundred. Still otheY
a thousand.
The Milky Way looks to the un
aided eye like a f1lmy streak
luminous cloud across the sky. T,
telescope reveals it to be composs
OF millions upon millions of stars.
Some of those stars are 1900 ,
light-years away.
The light-year is not only a CO.
venient unit, but one of dran1at
significance.
The light-year not only tells Il
distance Of the star, but the numb
of years it takes a beam of lig
to reach the earth from the star
Suppose you gaze up at the sta
tonight. The particular beam
light which reaches your eye fro
one star may have started on i
Journey when Washington We
crossing the Delaware.
Some other star is so far awe
that King Tut was still ruling
Egypt when the particular beam c
light which now reaches your ey
started it's journey.
And some other star is 80 f.
away that the gigantic dinosau
still roamed the earth, when i;
beam started toward the spot wheI
Won now are.
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Seuarating Sexes

T WOULD like to know much more
Il than the newspapers afford about
the methods of Professor Lewis NJ.
Terman, who read paper to the
assembled psychologists at New Ha-
ven on masculinity and fenininity
Of mind.
The good professor made mental
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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 disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper!-The Editor.