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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
Spiritual Healing Recognized
In Code Adopted By Congress
Act for District of Columbia Leaves Christian Scientists
Free From Licensing

methods of healing. In other words
the object of the proposed legislation
is not to give any monopoly to what
are known as medical doctors,' but
to afford ample opportunity without
discrimination for the practice of any
system, provided only that the prac-
titioner shall have such adequate
knowledge of the human anatomy
and other basic sciences and of his
own particular method Of healing as
is necessary to protect the public
against injury and fraud"
No Restriction on Methods
Even the requirements of examina-
tion and licensing which apply to
other drugless methods of healing
are not applied to those who practice
religious healing. Except for this and
few other exemptions, the act pro-
hibits the practice of healing with
out license or legal registration.
The law is distinguished by the
fact that it lays down no restriction
on the method of practice to be fol-
lowed by the applicant for license
to heal. All applicants are eligible to
practice, provided they can prove
themselves competent and trained in
the particular method of healing
which they intend to practice.
For purposes of general admins
tration commission on licenses,
composed Of the president of the
board of commissioners of the Dis
trict, the United States commissioner
of education, the United States dis
trict attorney, the superintendent of
schools and the health officer of the
District is created with authority to
appoint the boards Of examiners in
the various healing practices regulat-
ed by the act.
Reprint from The Christian Sci
ence Monitor, Boston, Monday, March
A, 1929.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
SIX CYLINDER-
SENTENCES

BY DR.. JOHN w. HOLLAND
There is often good luck In a
good licking.
The clearest head will be found
on the cleanest body
Unearned money slips easily
through the fingers.
i.aziness Is the mother of in
digence; inertia keeps us
inert.
When Miss Optimism rnarries
Mr.. Energy their children
are Go.Getters.
The citiuiel ot life is often
blown NJ from the inside
ny infernai Thoughts
&c 1923 Western News,,ater Union
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
Especial from Monitor Bureau)

Especial from Monitor Bureau)
Washington.-President Coolidge's
signature to an act passed at this
session of congress gives the District
of Columbia a new and broadeneC
law regulating the practice of the
healing art in which complete free
dom for the practice of Christian
Science is granted.
The act provides that it's terms
shall not apply ito persons treating
human ailments by prayer or spirit
ual means as an exercise or enjoy
ment of-religious freedom"
The measure had the approval of
the commissioners of the District of
Columbia, the Medical Society, the
Homeopathic Medical Society, the
District of Columbia Osteopathic As
sociation, the Chiropractic Society of
the District of Columbia, the Wash
ington Board of Trade, and numer-
GUS citizen associations.
Senator Copeland Sponsor
DR.. Royal S. Copeland CD, sena-
tor from New York, a practicing
medical doctor, offered the bill in
the senate and directed it's course
through the committees and the two
chambers. He willingly accepted the
amendment offered by Christian
Scientists, and assisted in shaping
it acceptably to the Medical Society.
The act is the product Of numerous
hearings and conferences held over
a period of several years.
"The bill will not prohibit the
practice of those who believe in
other methods of healing than the
prescribing of medicine or the per-
formance Of surgical operations" the
report made to congress by the COM
mittees that considered the legisla-
ton declared.
Instead, it specifically authorizes
the practice of so-called 'drugless'
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
MACHINISTS
NOTICE!

At the regular meeting to be
held next Wednesday night, the
election of the grand officers will
be held, for a term of four
years. All members are request
ed to attend and vote. Don't
forget-next Wednesday night.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05

day scale $48 week and the night
scale $51. The 48-hour week is con-
tinued.
The contract may be opened in re-
spect to wages only if the federal
governments showing of the cost of
living index number should vary more
than 80 points upwards or down
wards. AS basis for calculation, the
government index number of June,
1928, is accepted. This number is
1000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
AIRPLANES WON'T STOP

Washington.-The next develop
ment in aircraft will be the receiving
and discharging of mail from air
planes without disturbing the speed
of the planes, according to Congress-
man Kelley. He said that tests are
being made for that purpose. The
device is based on the principle of a
reel or wire, dropped from the plane
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-05
WORKERS
Are Never Defeated for
WOmen's Eight Hour Law

Chicago.-"Opponents of the wo-
mems eight-hour law do not under
stand that in every instance their
alleged victory is defeat" said
Victor A. Olander, secretary Illinois
Federation of Labor.
''We nave often been defeated, but
when the result of our agitation has
been compiled, it is shown we have
advanced" said Mr.. Olander. "No
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
A Farm Relief Challenge

Washington dispatches tell of the anxiety
Of the President and Republican leaders over
collapse of the wheat market. The price OF
wheat has been declining for two months and
now is below d dollar bushel. This is more
than 20 cents under the price OF a year ago, and
is the lowest in fifteen years. Other grain quo
tations are similarly depressed. Cotton IS down.
The situation obviously Is fraught with
serious economic and political consequences.
Farmers will lose hundreds of millions of dol
lars Their buying power will be curtailed
materially, which viii react on business and
industry generally. The market went to pot
after campaign in which spellbinders had
nromised immediate and effective aid. and at
time when congress was endeavoring to make
good these promises.
So TAR. neither congress nor the administra-
tion appears to have worked out relief meas
ures President Hoover brought about re-
duction in freight rates on wheat of about
cents bushel to relieve congestion in interior
storage points and to lay down export grain
more cheaply on the seaboard.
This caused slump in world prices, which
reacted on the American market, the net result
being that foreign production absorbed the
advantage of the freight rate cut Now early
massage of the farm relief bill is being urged,
so its provisions viii more quickly become
operative.
How this will help in the present situation
it is difficult to understand. The bill provides
for loans to sterilization corporations set up
through co-operatives. The machinery is COM
plicated, and months must elapse before the
necessary organization work is done. and the
machinery begins to function. Presumably
these projected sterilization corporations would
buy vast quantities of wheat and create an
artificial shortage, thereby elevating the price.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

meantime. new wheat VIII reach the market in
SIX weeks
There has been great deal Of bunk about
farm relief, and apparently there is no magic
device to cure the farmers ills. Congress has
studied the subject and discussed it for eight
years and has not been able to enact helpful
legislation. 1t seems to be powerless in the
present emergency.
There is too much wheat in the United
States and in other countries. Coming harvests
promise to increase these SURPRISES. Until they
disappear prices will remain low. Insofar as
the United States is concerned. the eventual
solution lies in the curtaiIment of production
to a point where the 42-cent wheat tariff VIII
become effective.
Meantime, it looks like the farmer would
have to pocket most and probably all his
losses and hope for better days to come. Legis-
lation can go only 50 far in upsetting economic
laws, promises Of politicians t. the contrary
Notwithstanding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

tanned with suitable instruments such as the hygro-
meter or the dew point apparatus.
cloud, has been explained, is itself the result
of the condensation of the water vapor in the air
cloud always consists of either minute dropletS Of
water or minute crystals Of ice.
Condensation of the water vapor in the air takes
place only on condensation nuclei as we have seen.
These condensation nuclei tiny particles OF dust
A more elaborate explanation is sometimes given
for the formation Of rain but this also is wrong Dr.
Humphreys OF the United States weather bureau,
writes of it:
The familiar pretended answer. is, in effect that
somehow the air is cooled until condensation occurs
the various nuclei present and that the larger Of
the droplets thus produced that happen TO be well up
in the cloud fall to lower levels thereby encounerng
many other particles and through coalescence with
them growing into ful-Sized drops.
But, as implied this explanation explains nothing.
In the first place there so many nuclei present
in the atmosphere-hundreds at least, and usually
thousands to every cubic inch-that division OF the
condensed vapor between them leaves every one quite
too minute to fall with any considerable velocity.
Then, too, calculation shows that if particle
should fall in the manner supposed, through cloud
mile thick and pick up everything in its path
il still would be a small drop.
That is, rain is not formed in this simple manner.
as also obvious from the fact that cloud may last
for many hours without giving any rain whatever
The explanation viii be discussed mex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE o.

lionths of the total amount of blood.
The iodine in the body represents
about four hundred thousandths Of
l per cent of the body weight. All
the iodine in the body equals there
fore about one-tenth of grain and
this is to be found for the most part
in the thyroid gland.
The interesting discovery was
made within the last quarter century
that the frequency Of goiter in
many localities was due to the fact
that children did not receive iodine
regularly in their food.
True. they we're eating the food
substances supposed to contain 10
dine, but the iodine itself had to
come from the soil into the food
substances eaten by the children or
into the food substances eaten by
the chickens that provided the eggs
or by the COWS that provided the
milk
Studies are being made of the soil
of the various states in our coun-
try and remarkable variations are
found in mineral content. Thus in
areas near the seaShore there are
considerable quantities of iodine
and this substances is profuse in
seaWeed.
But as one gets farther from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Iodine Lack May Cause GOiter

shore there is less iodine, although
areas on mountain slopes not too
far in may again have more iodine
than those between the shore and
the mountain
In the Great Lakes area and in
the far northwest which are fed by
glacier waters the iodine is small
in amount and in these regions in
our country goiter is most preva-
lent.
Iodine is then one of the most inn
portant substances in the body even
though the amount needed is less
than one part per billion.
Exact studies of the soils OF vari-
Gus places should be made with a
view to supplying the deficiencies
perhaps at their source. In many
communities through the advice Of
family physicians, through schools
and through public health officials
the public has been instructed as to
the necessity of providing proper
amounts of iodine to insure the
prevention of simple goiter.
The deficiency is made up by the
use of solutions containing iodine,
of iodized salts, and of special tab
lets containing iodine. Already
there is a lessened amount Of goiter
in these communities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

TINE weather here has been too
L. hot to handle and so I must fill
nv space with some rambling recol-
lections of reading done a good
many years ago. If I had my life
to live over certainly would never
accept any job which made it neces-
sary for me to do reviewing.
The dissemination does not de-
pend wholly upon a conviction that
there are other things which can
perform more felicitously. Chiefly
/ chafe at reviewing books because
it takes so much of the fun out OF
them.
I am an unfortunate who mas
been paid at times to attend plays
and watch baseball games and criti-
CHE new novels. I've lost my
amateur standing in three major
phases of amusement.
Everybody knows that the thing
by which you make money is never
as much fun as recreations, which
are more costly. Seemingly my
hope of a pleasant old age must be
founded largely upon a continuous
poker game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Enthusiastic Reader

A ND yet from the age of 10 un-
L A til 16 there can hardly have
been a more enthusiastic read in
the whole United States. No out
door sport was half SO fascinating
to me as the novels Of Sir Walter
Scott.
I don't suppose I've met an adult
in twenty years who spoke of Scott.
The Waverly novels belong to the
dying classics, although I trust that
"Ivanhoe" and "Talisman" are not
yet forgotten by the younger gen.
erations.
Some few years ago Christopher
Morley made a collection of mod
ern essays in which he included a
piece of mine called The Fifty
first Dragon" I don't know why.
Not that it isn't an excellent piece.
I regard it extremely highly, but it
is a short story and no essay at all
In the course of time Mr.. Nor
ley's book has teen used by a num-
Der Of high school and college Eng
lish classes. Clinging with deter
mination to the coat-tails Of my
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Sympathy for Gill

TT was my intention to telegraph
Il the teacher and implore her to
desist, or to urge the pupil to re-
bellion. In the first place the head
master in the story didn't have any
character. At least I gave him
none.
In fantasy 7 saw the little girl
writing a D minus theme on The
Fifty First Dragon and thereby
failing to graduate with her class.
Because of this he2 father and
mother might take her out of school.
And possibly all the time she was
genius. Maybe they forced her
to take up a course in a business
college. 1t was while she was serv-
ing as a typist in the First Ma
tional Bank that she met Gerald.
Two months after the baby was
born he deserted her. And it would
by all my fault.
If the teacher had given her any
thing else to write about, the whole
thing wouldn't have happened.
Copyright. 1929. by United Press
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
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SURRENDER OF TRIPOLI
June 4

SURRENDER OF 1hlfOLt
June
ON June q, 1905, the new United
" States republic signed a treaty
of peace with Tripoli, and set an
example of national pride for all
the ageless nations of Europe to
emulate.
Our war against the Barbary
states of the Mediterranean coast Of
Africa-of which Tripoli was one
was waged in protest against the
custom of paying tribute to escape
piratical attacks upon our ship
ping.
Practically all the nations Of Eu-
rope paid this tribute as a neces-
sary evil America, however, de-
cided that it was an international
outrage and war with Tripoli, the
most insolent of the Barbary group,
began in 1862.
For several years after Tripoli's
formal surrender, American ships
occasionally were harassed by Bar
barry pirates, but not to the extent
those of other nations we're.
AS a matter Of fact. this war was
fortunate for America. 1t forced
Jefferson to abandon his "gunboat"
policy and start to build a real
navy. and it provided an excellent
training school for our officers and
seamen. Both we're to our advan-
taSs IA tbs EaE aS LILA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Dry Puzzle New Fad

TUST now prohibition is in style,
u and those who are not too busy
trying to enforce or break it, pass
the time away by arguing what
ought to be done about it.
Prohibition has taken the place
of the cross word puzzle as the most
popular method of brain cudgling.
Mr.. Durant has spent $4,000 for
a prize plan Of enforcement, and Mr..
Hearst has spent another $4,000 for
a prize plan of modification.
The latest contribution to the up
roar is message" issued by
twenty-four leading business men.
Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison and
Robert Dollar among them, calling
on the nation to back President
Hoover's prohibition program and
give the eighteenth amendment an
honest chance"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

in 1900, the same index number
today, as shown by the index Of ag-
ricultural productivity, shows an
output AZ per cent larger than at
the beginning of the century.-Wil-
liam o. Scroggs Outlook.
I hope the time will come-I hope
to God it will come soon-when
men high in the Official life, when
a President Of the United States
will not undertake to pay private
political debt by elevating men to
the judicial position for life.-Sena-
tor Norris Nebraska
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
NIOLatIngI the Law

A MOTHER New York Telegram
IA reporter Jared forth the same
Gay to experiment with the problem
of law enforcement.
In the space Of three hours he
violated more than thirty three
state, city or national regulations,
but without mourning so much as
an unkind word.
Among other things, ne raised
dust on the city hall steps with a
stolen broom, spat on the sidewalk,
manhandled shrub in city hail
park. tore up and scattered news
papers, flung banana peels into the
street, iostled girls, used profanity,
used 9, postage stamp after washing
off the cancellation mark, bet on
the weather, INSTRUCTED traffic while
having his shoes shined, nlutilated
a sign on an ash can. smoked cigarets
in the subway, failed to pay his
fare on a street car, sneezed with
out using his handkerchief, and
took part in loud conversation with
strange girls in a corridor of the
federal building, all of which is
contrary to law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
If They Gould Live Forever

If everlasting life we're possible, with continued
physical and mental health, it we'll could be wished
for two men-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Louis Brandeis Of the United States supreme court
Presidents, senators and congressman come and
60 and make little impression on the advancement
Of civilization. Members of the supreme court are
there for life, unless impeached; and there is little
danger of that So the longer the lives OF the two
most learned and most liberal members of that court
are prolonged, the better for development of our
American civilization
1t is true, Of course, that the majority rules in
supreme court decisions and that in the Judgment of
liberals that majority has been for many years as
1t is now rcactionary It also true that the opinions
of Holmes and Brandeis are ineffective in most cases
because they are minority opinions
In the long however public opinion will
catch up with the present vision of these two great
judges and what are now minority opinions will be-
come majority opinions and the law of the land
1t is interesting to note that the most learned and
the most liberal mind on the United States supreme
court is housed in the oldest body for Justice Holmes
in years is the oldest member of the court The
passing years have couded his marvelousy clear
vision impaired the briliance of his intellect His
opinions and those of Justice Brandeis will become
classics to students of the law when some of the
present-day majority opinions will have become dust
OF dead past and their authors have faded out of
human memory.
And whatever President Hoover may do in the Wav
OF constructive craftsmanship to win place on the
scroll of fame nothing he will or can do will have
more influence the future of our country than the
kind of minds he appoints to the United States SUI
preme court
1t may take years to overcome the influence in our
national life for which the reactonary appointments
OF Harding and Coolidge are responsible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Buried by Statutes
THE tragedy of it is that the 7

THE tragedy Of it is that the ma
L ton can not give the eight
zenith or any other amendment ar
honest chance without neglecting its
duty in a hundred and one other
directions.
No sane man can review the ma
tons problem in this respect with
out realizing that law enforcement,
net only as applied to prohibition,
but as applied to about everything
else, virtually is hopeless, until
large percentage of ordinances,
statutes and even constitutional
amendments beneath which it has
srothered itself is cleared away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04

THE people who have built up a
l. successful industry want to
manage their own business affairs.
They do not want any strutting sa-
trap of the federal government nos
ing around in their business-Sena-
tor Glass, Virginia.
The silk stocking was invented in
the sixteenth century, but only dis
covered in the twentieth.-Ellen
Wilkinson. (Pathflnder0
=
Although there are no more farm
ers IN tbs United States Low than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-04
Too Many Fool Laws

VXTHAT one gets out Of this re-
wv porter's experience is not the
idea that he was particularly bad
chap but that there are a lot of fool
regulations in this country which
have no bearing whatsoever on pro-
hibition.
Thanks to the splendid co-opera-
ton of our various branches of gov
eminent, we have produced such a
volume of law as the average man
" ould be unable to read during his
lifetime, much less understand, or
obey.
The result is that we have to take
it in detail, chasing thieves one year
while we ignore every other class Of
violator, pursuing bootleggers the
next and making life miserable for
a small percentage of auto drivers
all the time.
The situation has grown so hope
less that it is necessary to start a
drive every SO often to remind our
selves of some set of laws that most
everyone had forgotten.