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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Not Easter If It Rains

A ND Easter, the most moving Of
N all festivals, deserves an ap-
propriate setting. Back as far as
the memory of man can be logged
all peoples have paid homage to the
coming of the spring and rebirth
in the fields and forest.
This old metal is FURNISHED in the
Christian countries with recollec-
tions of church music and the heavy
perfume Of the lilies. But if the sun
does not shine upon new buds the
day simply is not Easter.
The thrill of resurrection comes
imperfectIy to the heart when rain
pelts down. All those who are
sensitive must necessarily postpone
their own individual Easter until the
earth is ready to cooperate and to
testify that the stone has been
rolled away.
Nor would I recognize and accept
a foggy Christmas. Christ was born
under stars and high sky. 1 cam
not see the shepherds for the mist,
and when the herald angels sing
there must be no intervening scud.
Thanksgiving is to my mind the
least memorable of all festivals. It
is holiday unblessed by any
spiritual considerations. 1t repre-
sents the Puritan's attempt to be a
good fellow, and this roundhead
revel is Enthusiastically a time OF
excess.
The dish on the day is not fit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Your Body Needs IrOn-a Little

little reason to take extra quantities
of iron into the body The sub
stance is found in considerable
amounts in lean meat. in the y0lk
of egg, in spinach, in cabbage, in
peas, beans, potatoes, milk and
many fruits
For many years the average
American diet was white bread
made without milk, meat, pota-
toes and coffee into which some
skinned milk might be poured
Such a diet was quite likely TO
be deficient in many important in
gradients The scientific students
of nutrition have decided that most
American diets must be watched as
to their content Of iron.
However. one need not necessar-
lily eat raiSinS or excessive amounts
of any other food. There are so
many factors concerned in a diet
that all Of them must be watched
equally.
For some people raisins mean too
much indigestible residue or rough
age.
A shortage of iron reflects itself
promptly in the condition of the
body and any good physician will
recognize the symptoms.
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sistance to be overcome is very much greater when
the drop has been split into tiny particles. Hence a
cloud falls much more slowly than a rain drop.
In still air the average cloud will fall or descend
at rate Of about eight feet a minute
The second and chief fact which keeps clouds aloft
is that clouds usually form in rising currents of air.
The rate OF ascent is usually than eight feet
minute.
The cloud forms as result of the expansion and
consequent cooling of the rising air.
Consequently new material is being added continu-
ally to the cloud by the rising air.
Frequently, when a cloud falls to lower level, it
comes in contact with warmer air and disappears as
result of evaporation.
On occasion, however a descending air current
may bring cloud to the ground where it becomes a
fog.
The important thing to remember about cloud is
that it is not static object. Usually, cloud is con-
tinuously losing material by evaporation while at
the time additional material is being added to it
by condensation.
A true understanding of nature impresses one
chiefly with this fact Something is always going on
in nature. There cycles which always in
operation.
Ones appreciation of nature becomes greater If
one knows and appreciates these cycles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
DEFENDS on Mood

THE fitting time for feast day
T. depends upon the mood Of the
individual. And in the case Of more
soua Der festivals, the same theory
should prevail.
Many have complained that Me-
mortal day is devoted rather more to
double headers than to respect for
the soldier dead. The community
should not be blamed for this, since
it is ridiculous to suppose that mil
lions ever can be pitched into the
same scheduled time.
My scheme is that each citizen Of
the United States should mourn and
rejoice only upon such occasions as
the urge is definite and unmistak-
able. Everybody should be allowed
so many holidays q, year to be en-
ployed by him like cuts in college
course.
Thus, upon some undistinguished
Wednesday, Mr.. A. might rise in
clipper mood. The day is fair. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Genius by EUg0niCS

A CCORDING to the New York
"a World. DR.. Clarence G. Camp
bell says that human geniuSes who
will shape the future world must
be bred the same as race horses.
A fine idea if one only knew
where to begin.
Admitting that physical traits can
be perpetuated, is it so clear that
brain power can?
If our modern experts in eugenlcs
and heredity had set out to produce
a Lincoln, would they have picked
his parents, his home, his eviron-
ment?
On the other hand if they had
lived with Marcus Aureius and
Faustina, would they have looked
for the son Of that great philosopher
and beautiful brute to turn out a
beast?
The human race has been breed
ing kings for years, mating the chill
dren of its palaces with scrupulOus
care. in order to preserve a ruling
class that was fit to rule. What is
the result?
Sparta was founded on eugenics.
Everything possible was done to pro-
duce a race of supermen.
Again, what is the result?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
A Floating Feast Day

THEREUPON for all practical
4 purposes that undistinguished
Wednesday is Washingtons birth
day as far as the young man is con-
cerned, and he celebrates it fitting
ly with a day in the country and an
evening in town.
Late that night, while he is still
refreshed, the boss calls up and
angrily exclaims: why weren't
you at work today?" Washington s
birthday" answers the young man
firmly.
NO" thunders his employer. You
celebrated Washington'S birthday
last Tuesday"
why, now that you speak of it,
SO I did. My mistake, sir Column
bus day
And small harm has been done by
the error, because the day in the
country and the evening in town
and all the cocktails we're just as
fitting for Columbus as for Wash
ington.
Christmas and Easter should also
be movable feasts, but upon small
er tether. Labor day can be cele-
brsted hot or cold, but people who
have the misfortune to live across
the equator, where the seasons end
wrong. can never know proper
Christmas.
There must be a freshness in the
air to make the stars dance with
convincing jubilation. An outdoor
Christmas seems to me unthink
able
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

on $4,000 100000. Later came the Dawes plan fixing
annuities but no total.
Now the allied experts under the leadership of
The American delegation have cut the reparations
total to $4,000 100000 That figure. of more i'm
portance than the hypothetical total for hfty-nne
years. is the annuity scale for the next thirty-seven
years. averaging about S5OO0O0000.
There is serious question whether Germany can
pay that much. Therefore the experts quite wisely
have reduced even further the payments for this
year and next Payments for the interim seven
months ending next April would amount to only
SITS 100000 about half the requirement under the
similar Dawes plan period
These amount seems so small in relation to the
earlier fantastic allied demands that few persons in
Great Britain, France or the United States are will
ing to admit that they are too high, under the
Young plan.
It is significant. however, that Germany has paid
practically no reparations so far in actual fact She
has not been able to pay out of her own pocket.
What she has done under allied pressure is to borrow
money from the United States and turn that over
to the allies as reparations payments And Germany
has borrowed more from us than she has paid out
That is hardly healthy economic state of affairs.
nor does it indicate any rosy future for reparations
Then there is the whole problem of transfer, In
ternational payments cannot be made III gold but in
the long run must be paid in goods and services.
Even if the time comes when Germany can afford
to pay the allies cannot afford to let her pay large
amount, because such dumping of German goods
would ruin trade and industry in the allied countries.
The same is true of allied payment of debts to US
indeed at this very moment We are raising higher
tariff barriers to prevent them from paying US.
SO. whoever won the war, Americans are apt to
pay the remaining costs Of it. Not because the Ger
mans are wicked nor because the allies are welchers
but because Of the economic interdependence Of ma
tons in which the creditor carries the debtor rather
than force bankruptcy for all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Poor People and Brains

NUT in California, a court case
" is in progress to decide what
ails Stanley Mccormick.
Stanley Mccormick not only came
from sturdy stock, but from sire
who reasonably might be rated as
a genius.
He has been afflicted mentally for
twenty-three years.
According to some experts his af-
Fiction is dementia praccoX, while
according to others It is malignant
neurosiS.
Just now he is being treated by
Freudian disciple at the tune Of
$150,000 a year.
One cannot help wondering what
the affection would have been
called and what kind of treatment
Stanley Mccormick would be re-
ceiving were he an ordinary work
ing man?
Poor people are barred from out
most modern treatment, If not out
most modern diseases.
Maybe that is one reason why
they occasionally produce a genius
Maybe, if they are let alone, they
will continue to supply the need.
A good many, if not most of our
geniuses have come from the poor
and good many, if not most of
their families, have run out in the
second or third generation.
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AN OBSCURE MERRIMAC

An ODt0A L M N1LtAAtA NAV
June
TN American naval history The
B name Marrimac is associated
chiefly with the ironciad con-
federate warship which fought the
Union Monitor in the worlds first
battle Of ironclad ships.
A humber Merrinac played a
thrilling part in American history
thirty-one years ago today. 1t was
q commonplace collier to which
chung none Of the glamour assoc!-
ated with the south's unique Mel
rinac. It owes its fame TO the fact
that it was sunk. And not after
gallant fight against a stronger foe,
but purposely. and by its own men
Early in the summer OF 1898, dur
ing our war with Spain, seven
Spanish ships had been bottled up
in Santiago harbor by an American
feet. One June 3, t was decided to
sink the collier at the entrance to
the harbor and imprIsOn the Span
ish fleet.
Lieutenant Richard Hobson and
seven seamen we're entrusted with
the dangerous. maneuver. They
took the ship to the entrance OF
the harbor, under heavy fire, and
sunk her by means Of torpedoe5
aboard. The ship failed to sink at
the proper point, however, and the
crew was captured.
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Quotations of NOtabIeS

there was before prohibition, they
simply do not know what they are
talking about.-Profes5or irving
Fisher Of Yale.
After 1910 the country will
still have available some $780,
100000 acres of potentially cul-
tivable land, an area greater than
the total cultivated land at present.
DR. o. E. Baker, economist in the
Department Of Agriculture.
=
Labor is more interested in pros
perity than is any other class. To
1t prosperity is life, to the others it
is profits and superfuities. Labor
will strive however, to make ma
tional prosperity an individual bless
ing. The nation must flourish, but
it can not flourish on the broad
foundation of mass poyerty.-Rt.
Hon. Romany Mcdonald. P. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
IT SEEMS TO ME By HR REon%

HOLIDAYS don't mean much to
J. 4 reporters It's true that some
newspapers we're not published on
Memorial day, but I had to work
doing the column which I should
have done on Wednesday. And
generally it turns out like that.
Still I am not pretending that it
is tragic to be compelled to toll
when all the others are at play.
Public holidays deserve no great
enthusiasm, because the principle
on which they are based is vitality
uLsound.
am fond of any leave of alb
sence, but I don't want to be pitched
into holiday by proclamation and
general assent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

THERE is no such thing as the
i honor of collective body.
Emil Ludwig, German biographer
T think an appreciation of the
frailty of human nature would
keep US from having an inferiority
complex when otherwise we might
fall a victim to it.-Former Gov
ernor Alvan T. Fuller Of Mas
sachusettS.
If we could all take our own ad-
vice, We might be happier
Professor Charles A. Beard, his
torian.
Art is the purest thing in the
world.-Morris Gest, producer Of
THE Miracle" Outlook
=
When people tell you there is
more drinking now than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

TINE latest scheme Of smuggling
4 liquor is to conceal it in the air
tanks Of life boats.
An Unexpectedly rigid search Of
the S. S. President Harding disclosed
an average Of twelve bottles in each
of the two air tanks of her thirty
life boats.
Ofcers Of the ship say they knew
nothing about it. Not questioning
their veracity, it is hard to conceive
how all the boats could be tinkered
with in such way, without some
one in authority getting a hint.
Putting that aside, our bootleg
ger friends are carrying the thing
pretty far when they fool with the
safety devices Of a liner in order
to get by with few bottles of hooch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
The Senate S Opportunity

The tariff bill is before the senate committee. AS
passed by the house it was worse than the
measure reported out by the ways and means COM
mittee The result of consideration on the floor was
to increase duties on $50 articles while reductions
of consequence were made. Scant heed was paid to
wel-founded objections to vital administrative
changes.
The debate was in fact little more than shadow
boxing since the outcome certain. Republican
leaders kept the house firmly in control making such
concessions as we're necessary to placate few groups
who believe they we're not getting their share OF the
millions that will be taken from the pockets Of con-
sumers The membership of the house at large was
not permitted to offer amendments.
Duties on sugar, clothing food shoes, building ma
terials and other necessaries are increased. Many
manufactured articles, already highly protected, are
given additional protection they do not need
There is small justification for many increases
Consumers will be taxed beyond reason for the bene-
fit of small groups The sugar tariff, for instance, VIII
cost the farmers of the country far more than the
relatively small number of beet sugar growers Will
gain, to say nothing of other consumers.
Many OF the agricultural tariffs will benefit the
farmers but little while the increases on manufac-
tured articles are certain to impose added burdens
The senate finance committee, We are told, expects
practically to rewre the bill The committee should
1t has an opportunity to consider the interests OF the
consumer which got small attention in the house.
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T LLOYD GEORGE, titular head Of
u the Liberal party, says he
would not Join with the Laborites,
which implies that he might act
with the Conservatives.
Lloyd George has said he would
not do so many things, however,
that he did do later on, that no
one places too much confidence in
the latest declaration.
A curious feature of the British
election is the difference between
the popular and parliamentary
strength shown by each party.
The Liberals. for instance, though
polling one-fourth Of the popular
vote, only elected one-twelfth of
the Commons, while the Conserva-
tives, though polling a larger pop
ular vote than the Laborites, have
rty-eight less members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
The Puritan ON Parade

pUT the Puritan always can be
4< trusted to make a botch OF
pleasure. He had only two speeds.
One was piety and the other in
ebriety.
Release through gayety and fri
volity was not within his capacity.
Naturally he has turned prohibit
ZIONIST in our own day. Liquor al
ways had him beaten. Only by
being dry can he avoid getting dead
drunk
The Puritan of old New England
strove to numb his fear Of hell, and
it took strong dring in vast guam
titles to make him forget the brim-
stone.
And the whole tradition OF
Thanksgiving is largely one OF des-
perate efforts to escape the gross
ness of mortality by WalloWing in
heavy victuals. It is an application
of the old principle that freezing
man should be rubbed with snow.
ANY one OF Cne Ola SAXON Thames
we'll may have smiled from his seat
in heaven as he watched his gloomy
roundhead grandchildren gu2zle in
the name Of God.
The Puritan made an annual
burnt Offering large and generous
to the Lord. but then he proceeded
to sit down and eat the offering for
ne was greedy as we'll as pious.
However. it may be that I am a
bit too emotional about the matter
of heavy feeding. Possibly that can
be explained by the fact that
through terrific eXertion I managed
to reduce four pounds upon Me-
mortal day.
Copyright. 1929 BY The Tines
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o n e = thouSandth
inch in diameter.
The average rain
drop, which is
one sixth of an
inch in diameter,
is the equivalent
of 100000 aver
age cloud par
ticles.
1t is a fact, of
course, that the
pull of gravity is
the same whether
a rain drop exists
as q single drop
or as millions of
particles.
But the air re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

THERE is a political deadlock in
Il England.
Though the Laborites have a
plurality in parliament, they lack
a majority, while the Liberals, with
the smallest membership Of all
three parties, apparently hold the
balance of power.
With a dozen or so results miss
ing, the Laborites have 288 mem
bers. the Conservatives. $50, and the
Liberals Sc. with nine scattering.
The total membership Of the
house Of commons is 615, requiring
308 for a majority.
The Conservatives and the Lib
erals could obtain bare majority
by uniting, while the Laborites and
Liberals could obtain good work
ing ajority.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Cloud DrObIetS Small
No. 37I-

CLOUDS as the reader is aware by now, consist
~ of either particles of water ice The question
which arises at once therefore, is why clouds float.
Water is about 800 times heavier than air. 1t
would seem. therefore, that cloud would fall with
considerable rapidity.
Two things. however. tend to keep clouds aloft
The first is the extreme smallness of the particles
comprising the average cloud Most OF them are about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
Daily Thought

False witnesses did rise up;
they laid to my charge things that
/ knew not.-Psalms 35:11.
Z
Ut is more from careIessness about
Il truth than from intentional lying
the world.-Johnson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-Tbe Editor.
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SAYS

Our BootIegger Friends Are
Carrying the Thing Pretty
Far When They Fool With
the Safety Devices Of q
Liner to Get By With q Fen
Bottles If H00tch.
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for any but those Of heavy APP
petite and feeble palate. Except
when served as hash, the turkey is
distinctly Second-rate bird, not fit
to fly with ducks or chickens. And
the goose is best Of all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

sun is bright. Work seems more
inappropriate than usual.
"Why, bless my SOUL" says the
young man, this morning feels very
much like WaShington's birthday"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03
REASON
BY Frederick Lands


- BY Frederick Lands
Bryan Would Turn Over in
His Grace II He Knel0 His
Daughter Voted for Pro-
tectiUe Tariff.
XXTILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
w probably turned o.4r in his
grave when his daughter, Ruth Bry-
an owen, member Of congress from
Florida, voted for the protective
tariff bill, for he held that the tariff
was the sum of all denominations,
making his national reputation in
the house OF representatives in 1898
by his speech against protection.
Industrial values are booming and
agricultural values are dropping.
When the assessor comes around the
industrial world hides its personal
property. while everything the farm
er owns is in plain view.
Do you wonder that the farmer
favors a state income tax?
n
Those roars of diSapproval with
which Europe greets the new tariff
bill at Washington reminds one
that Europe has written China tar
if laws for many years and she
now would write ours if we were as
weak as China has been
And for good measure, Europe
would also write our immigration
laws
A national defense works in time
Of peace as we'll as in time of war.
THERE S no limit to the term
i of the Illinois legislature and it
still is in session and going strong
/ SO no matter what misfortune may
! overcome other states they can
/ glance at Illinois and reflect that 1t
might be worse.
!
It would he fortunate If the Uni
versity of Iowa were the only insti-
tuition that subsidized athletes but
as a matter of fact almost all insti-
! buttons have done the same thing
and q lot of the high schools are
doing it in basketball
n
j The supreme court did the proper
thing 10 refuse citizenship to Ro-
Ska SchWimmer. the Hungarian
pacif1st. who declared she would not
fight for the country in time of
war. Still. there's no practical diff
( ference between her attitude and
that Of the one who gets exemption
because he is con5cientiously OPP
posed to defending his homeland.
And if the government can eX-
cuse the latter, it might as we'll adj
nit the former.
KTOU can't see where Mabel Willie
4 brandts experience in the pro-
hibition service would qualify her
& W oElAt oil tlICcC q tipll NOlllEHAiAN'
which are said to be bidding for her
services. unless it be the fact that
the Hoover administration gave her
the air.
Anna Gould, daughter OF the
late Jay Gould insisted on marry
ing the man she wanted, Count &c
Castallane. who proved TO be an
endless liability, but she refused to
let her son marry the woman he
wanted. so he ended his existence.
The memories Of some dear par
entS are short
The presents that Indy and Anne
passed up by having a secret we'd
ding we're equaled only by the in
demnity Uncle Sam passed up, when
the peace treaty was made at Paris.
II
The Russian government is TAX
ing all the bells out Of church bel
fries and melting them for use in
industry
/ A perfectly wonderful country-to
stay away from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

Ed Howe the famous Atchison (Kas) editor says
newspaper men have become so powerful and clever
that they are the real force and hope of future worthy
DEVELOPMENT. That ought to be worth raise.
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David Dietz on Science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-03

THERES no limit to the term
i of the Illinois legislature and it
still is in session and going strong
SO no matter what misfortune may
overcome other states they can
glance at Illinois and reflect that it
might be worse.