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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
A Real Record
lighting.


In leaving the Office of prosecuting attorney Will
liam H Remy takes with him the satisfaction of
having made real record in that Office. The peo-
pie will be fortunate if his successor succeeds in
striking as much terror to the hearts of those who
may be tempted to paths of crime.
The success of Remy, aside from the courage
which he exhibited, very largely from the fact
that he did not hesitate to fight the corruption of
machine politics and engage in bitter battles for
decency
From the very start he refused to go along with
the local bosses He refused to view favor to criminals
as legitimate perouisite of the machine. He re-
fused to liberate those who voted right but acted
wrong.
That was something new in politics. It was ex-
pected that man who had received the support
of political party owed it to the bosses to do the
things that might help the partys success.
It must be remembered that the bosses thoroughly
understood that Remy was not their kind. There Is
the matter of court record that question, the evil
dence that one future Governor offered Governor
bride to keep him out of that Office and put in a
henchman. of the boss.
Remy got his election by boldly challenging the
power of the boss and then making good his chal-
lenge.
He has had a coIorful career. His prosecution Of
Stephenson when that dictator in power was of
minor importance compared with his later indictment
of the Governor of this state and the boss of this
county.
To young men who aspire to political careers. the
policy of Remy should be illuminating. He retireS
with the respect of the community. He remained in
Office as long as he pleased And he kept Office not
by making deals with the boss but by fighting him.
Bright young men should get the moral.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04

system well protected The bony structures of the
skull protect the BRAIN The bony structures of the
backbone protect the spinal cord which grows out
from the brain.
From these centralized structures the brain and
the spinal cord to every part of the body
The study of the nervous system of man has been
intensely interesting.
Nerves are divided into two classes. They are the
senSory nerves and the motor nerves.
AS their names would indicate. the sensory nerves
receive sensations The motor cause reactions
Let us take simple example. A person touches a
hot stove with his finger. Immediately he pulls his
finger away from the stove
1t was the sensory nerves in the finger which re-
ceived the impression of the heat.
1t was the motor nerves which caused the muscles
to contract and the finger be withdrawn.
Psychologists have made careful study of the
action and behavior of We will see next what
they have found out about the three parts Of the
system. the central system. the sensory
nerves and the motor nexyas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
Prophecy of SeereSs

A FRENCH seeress predicts this
IA will be year of tragedy and
disaster. Gazing into crystal, and
going through such other motions
as the art calls for, she finds that a
king will die, that there will be at
least one war scare. that airplane
wrecks will occur, that water will be
responsible for quite a few acct
dents, that two prominent men Of
letters will pass out and that the
living cost will rise.
The lady Is safe. She has taken
in too much territory for failure.
Most of her predictions are simply
bound to come true. Every year has
been one of disaster and tragedy
since the human race consisted of
more than dozen beings.
AS for a king dying, three are in
sufficiently bad shape not to make
the bet particularly dangerous.
AS for two prominent men OF let
tiers passing out, the breed has be-
come so numerous that there are
more likely to be ten.
AS for airplane wrecks, how can
we expect to avoid them, with the
machinery still unprotected and
youth raring to go?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
M. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
II Am No Seer and Pos
sess No Crystal, but /
Can Make Just as Good
Guesses."
SAYS:

HERE is paradox indeed. The
4 4 Germans want to be poor,
while the allies want them to be
rich. S. Parker Gilbert brought
things to a showdown when he
pointed out how we'll the Germans
had done with reparation payments.
That should have made Berlin feel
proud and Paris blue, but it did not.
The bug under the chip is what re-
mains to be done.
Everybody concerned, it seems,
preferred to look ahead rather than
backward.
Gilbert never said Germany was
able to pay in full. What he did
say was that she had kept the
agreement thus far, without i'm
poverishing herself. That was
enough to upset many calculations.
It revived French hopes that the
Preparations debt need not be re-
duced, and it revived German fears
that it would not be.
You can not always tell how peo-
pie are going to take things, even
a plain statement of fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
Who Fights?

The directors Of the gas company rejecting the
policy OF the trustees have declared their readi-
ness to carry out the bargain made with the city
ty-tlree years ago under which the city has the
power to acquire and the property Of that utility
They agree that the terms of the, contract are
definite and clear.
The property, under private ownership and the
rulings Of public service commissions and courts
could easily be capitalized at from fifteen to twenty
millions of dollars on which gas could be forced
to pay dividends or freeze
But the city has the right. and it is a Just right.
TO take it by giving back to the holders Of stock
certificates two millions of dollars and assuming bonds
for about five
Those extra millions of uncapitalized value we're
created by the citizens who have paid gas bills during
the past twenty-three years. The extra value came
from the growth Of the city and rightly belongs to
the people.
There can be no quarrel with the ethics or JUS
tce of the contract.
The men who invested their dollars will get exactly
what was promised them.
The city, thanks very largely to the vision of the
late Alfred Potts. and those whom he associated
with him in his dream will get from one utility what
It put into that utility.
1t should be very easy matter to make the
transfer. Yet there is opposition. Spectators want
to grab this fine property Greedy interests will OBJ
iect that the city has not the judgment to
run a plant that has been semi-publicly operated
In the past
The first step ought to be to smoke out those who
fight so that the people can see their enemy. If
there is to be fight let's find out who is doing the
fighting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
Ahead of us

l am no seer and possess no cryS-
tai. but / can make just as good
guesses as this Partisan prophecies.
So can any one else who has given
the slightest thought to the law OF
averages. If you doubt it, put the
following away and see how the re-
suit compares with the forecast
twelve month hence:
Tom Hefiin viii make an anti
Catholic speech, possibly more than
one. A new heavyweight champion
will appear in the prize ring. Mr..
Hylan will not be elected mayor OF
New York. The argument as to
whether prohibition is a failure will
continue Elocution. teachers will
enjoy an unusual period of pros
perity in Hollywood, and at least
one. wild party will be thrown. One
eye Connolly viii crash a gate. Up
sets are indicated in this years foot
ball season. At least 25,o00 people
will die from siiakebite in India.
There will be a great famine in
China If not somewhere else. we
shall continue to make more traf-
fic arrests than any other kind.
The bolshevists viii declare their
government success. Murders in
the United States VIII number about
1QvopQ and suicides aboak 1Aoo&
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
I I
SEEMS
TOME
By HAYWOOD
BROUN
.R. HENRY FAIRFIELD os-

DR. HENRY FAIRFIELD os-
~ BORN. president of the Amer
lean Association for the Advances
ment of Science, took occasion to re-
buke Professor Harry Elmer Barnes.
who argued for a new conception of
God before a session of the organ
ization. Just what the customs and
practices of the association may be
I don't pretend to know, but I'm for
Barnes.
His speech more than any other
directed popular attention to the
proceedings of the wise men and
take it that one of the purposes of
the convention was to acquaint the
public with the latest trends in
scientific thought.
Moreover, ! think DR.. Osborn
went too far when he declared that
there can be no antagonism between
science and religion.
Some of the greatest men Of
science have been very religious
men," said DR.. Osborn.
And yet I do not think that the
religion of a scientist is apt to be
restricted within the boundaries of
old-fashioned Christianity. Ger
tainly it is not easy to conceive of
any great astronomer as thinking
along precisely the same lines as DR..
John Roach Straton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
NV Great Ancestor

II WOULD. do. 1t is not shock
Il ing to admit kinship to some
little fellow swinging upward
through the branches and climbing
hand over hand, with some little
assistance from the tail, toward
tree tops and blue sky.
There is more dignity in that than
in lineal fellowship with Adam, the
cursed and disposSessed. For under
the Darwinian dispensation there
are always loftier branches and
room to scurry high and higher
upon sweating jungle. I choose to
think that Eden lies ahead and not
behind us.
At that same convention Or.
Shapley told his hearers that the
universe consists of something more
than 10,000,e00,000 stars. With so
much territory in which to function,
it is difficult to conceive of God as
one wholly intent upon leading his
chosen people to their appointed
meadows in the promised land.
quite obviously the Old Testament
chroniclers thought of God as a
man, although large one.
Conventional religion aims to
magnify God, but in it's practices he
is ninimized.
Many articles of faith present him
to us as both petty and peevisl.
Why should the Lord Of the light
years be moved to anger because
some little insect upon a whirling
eggshell took his name in vain?
Preachers are fond of saying that
God is infinite, but hard upon the
heels of such statement they un-
dertake to tell parishioners the
divine will in regard to Smith and
Hoover, or whether the Lord would
prefer dry or wet as representa-
tive from the Eleventh congressional
district.
Accordingly, I believe with Pro-
fessor Barnes that the world needs
a larger and more magnificent
conception of the Creator. Mankind
should grow away from the Grip
ping notion of a devil and pits of
eternal torment. Relatively must
always prevail in things theological.
There has always been q keen in
clination upon the part of men to
dodge perplexing problems with a,
pious exclamation, 1.-THE Lord viii
provide"
Perhaps even modernists and fui1s
damentalists can meet upon a COM
mon platform of believing that this
world at least will be precisely what
we make it and nothing none. 1t is
better to toll and spin than be
seduced by the brief glamot of the
lilies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

about for forty minutes and then
rest for twenty minutes, being re-
moved from the floor in hospital
carts; usually they were asleep be-
fore they reached their training
quarters. During the first ten days
the chief complaints were sore feet,
blisters, callouses, corns and bum
ions, although many of the dancers
suffered with inflammatior1S of the
eyelidS.
The first disturbance of the body
of serious Importance noticed was
a change in the mental state after
ten days, when the contestants be-
gan to become hilarious, depressed,
or irritable. These changes in tenn
permanent were the result Of con-
tinuous exhaustion.
At such times the dancers seemed
to be Sen1i-conScious, some of them
suffered with decisions or halluci-
nations and some of them we're so
clouded mentally that they did not
seem to know where they were.
A young widow developed a men
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
ADe and Adam

4 ND in the evolution battles
IA before state legislatures It.
seems to me that the liberals have
been a little less than candid. When
the embattled preachers say that a
belief in the Darwinian hypothesis
wars against the literal acceptance
Of the Bible they are quite right.
The conflict should be frankly
recognized. 1t is sharp and funda-
mental. You can not have both ape
and Adam.
Economically and sentimentally
the scientific concept is more APP
pealing. It is easier to hold high
hope and visions Of mans future If
you think of him as having worked
his way up from the primeval slime.
To take Genesis at its word man
has run down not a little from his
starting point Adam, before he fell
was closer to God than humankind
has been since that day He did not
justify the high hopes of the Crea-
tor.
In arguing against Darwin the
preachers have many times thumb
cred out the scornful query as to
whether anyone would choose to ac-
cept monkey as an ancestor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
What Is Whisky?

Once upon a time, in pre-prohbition days. the
whole nation came to attention pure whisky
issue SO important the contest that it went for
settlement to no less person than the President of
the United States
Today though whisky is outlawed it nevertheless
is consumed in vast quantities. and the nation
that once backed 5he fight for purity, rather
alphabetically accepts the presence of rank poison and
goes on its way-the way sometimes of blindness and
death.
Yet the human body of 1929 is no less susceptible
to poisons than the human body of 1907 when Dr.
Harvey wneys what is whisky fight was the most
talked-of controversy of the day.
Wiley, attacking certain type Of distiller de-
eared there was only one kind of whisky. that made
by the pot stin" method of distiling the mash the
liquor then being aged in charred wood.
He assaied the "rectifying" process as one which
produced something that not whisky. The recti-
ners fought back carried. the battle to the depart
ment of agriculture congress- and finally to the White
House.
Theodore Roosevelt took hand and the contro-
versy was ended by an executive order which directed
that straight. blended. compounded. and imitation
LIQUORS must be labeled correctly. The order later was
confirmed by President Taft.
Wilev's crusade was carried in the interest OF
public health and formed conspicuous chapter In
the long history of his fight for pure food and drugs
His description OF pure whisky and the enects
thereof on the human system is interesting IN light
of what people are drinking today.
He drew sharp distinction as to alcohol even
though the alcohol be absolutely pure. and pure
whisky. The former he said, coaguates the proto-
plasl in the cells and is dangerous whereas, testi-
fvins before congressional committee. he said:
The alcohol that is in whisky brandy or rum is
70 mingled by natures operations that it is entirely
different proposition Nature has way of combining
the elements of food which man cannot initiate
therefore when nature produces twenty different
substances. as she does every time whisky is fer
uaented, and 81 twenty of them in the stil
alcohol anon; Them then you put those natural
elements away to become mellow. to marry. as the
zsstiuex says which takes years 70 accomplish. you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
Prohibition Prizes
w. c. DURANT having &C

w. G. DURANT having &C
w quired a. plan to enforce pro-
hibition at the price of $4,000, w.
R. Hearst offers a similar amount
for one to repeal it.
Whatever else may be said of the
idea, it certainly answers the de-
mands of craftsmanship. We are
now assured that both sides equally
will be we'll armed. Is
Among other missiles, they can
hurl their prize plans at each other,
and if these fail to produce the
desired effect, they can fall back
on the several thousand schemes
that we're offered but did not win.
Meanwhile, very few will look for
the problem to be solved. Where
are the prize books, prize essays and
prize songs, not to mention prize
peace plans?
Theoretically, some genius should
invent a way to make prohibition
successful, or get rid Of it, and theo-
retically, offers of $4,000 prizes
should stimulate inventiveness, but
experience suggests that too much
is not to be expected from the
method.
The country will muddle along I'M
til it makes up it's mind in the good
old-fashioned way. Eventually it
will decide whether to tolerate the
miseries of an exalted pretense, or
go back to the pleasures of an ad-
mitted weakness. Until then very
little can be hoped for but a pro-
longation Of the argument.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
The Kellogg Pact

MO sooner has the cruiser pro-
IN gram been sidetracked for the
kellogg pact in the senate, than a
house committee comes forward
with an army bill carrying an APP
preparation of $435, 100000.
AS though that we're not sufficient,
it is feared that James A. Reed of
Missouri may gum up everything
by introducing a report on the Ware
case.
There are more ways to block &C
ton than to get it in congress. If
q bill can not be stopped by voting
or f1libuStering, it can be showed
out Of line by calling up some other
bill, bringing in report or doing a
thousand and one other things that
are permitted by the system.
Sometimes log rolling, swapping
favors, or buying each other off in
similarly polite ways offers the one
chance.
1t frequently happens that good
bill can only be saved by promises
to support a bad bill. That is one
reason why we get so many bad
bills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
DanceMa1uthonofL ittle Scientific Value

tai condition known as exhaustion
psychosis, becoming hilarious and
bursting into tears alternately, and
developing the delusion that she
was being maintained against her
will in place of i'll repute.
Most of the contestants developed
fall in the blood pressure with
disturbance of the rate of the pulse.
However, in general, the heart did
not seem to be permanently dis
turbed in any way.
After all such dances prove moth
ing of value to scientific medicine,
since conditions of severe fatigue
occurring in industry or associated
with remarkable athletic feats pro-
vide a far better test of what the
human constitution can undergo
and still recover.
Such studies made in the past af-
firm again and again the remark
able factors of safety that exist in
the human body and the tremen-
dous ability that it has to overcome
severe damage if given half a
chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
Relief for Consumers

The public, which patiently pays and pays and
pays will be glad to learn there is limit to what pub
lie utility companies claim and get away with.
The United Fuel Gas Company of West Virginia
sought higher rates To do this, it sought to claim
as part of it's ratebase the value of its natural
still in the ground Sold without state regulation of
rates, the company commended, the gas might bring
to it $3Oo0O000 to $45,00o,oO0.
This company and the warfeld Natural Gas
Company also sought to stop service in Kentucky if
their rates were not increased The lower courts re-
fused to permit them to do this and also had refused
to increase rates. The supreme court yesterday upheld
the court, and refused to permit the rate base
to be inflated by such gaseous computations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04

make beverage which is tonic and wholesome and
healthfu and nonposonous There is all the difference
in the world between drink Of straight alcohol and
a drink of whisky, brandy. rum"
1t is safe to say that the worst whisky Of Wileys
time was better than the best today.
And, Wileyis description of pure whisky, read to-
gether with the news Of what The New York Telegram
has found in survey of New York's speakeasies will
give the countrys drinking population some idea of
the far reaching" effects of the experiment which has
been called noble in motive
The Wiley standard of purity is out of the ques-
ton today. But the ranker posons at least can be
driven out by raiding where the raids count most
by putting out of business for good and for all those
who sell poison by instling the fear of the law into
the hearts of those who sell wood alcohol a
beverage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04

localizatlon In the
brain.
Com p arative
anatomy. the Sci
ence devoted to
the stud.. of the
different org a n
isrns, shows an in
creasing centrali-
zation of nervous
tissues from the
sim plest creature
to man.
M an has the
m o S t c ON pie x
brain organization
in the world.
The central parts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04

The Bidding South bids one
spade and all pass.
Deciding the Play-West leads
king of hearts, which Declarer cap
lures with ace of hearts. What suit
should Declarer now lead?
The Error-Believing that dummy
should be entered in order to finesse
Jack of spades, Declarer leads 4 Of
diamonds, which is ruffed by East.
Game is lost because opponents also
make queen of spades and ace of
clubs and king of clubs.
The Correct Method No fnessing
in trumps should be attempted. De-
clarer counts trumps and finds that
five are held by his opponents.
These are probably divided three
and two. Declarer should play ace
Of spades and on the next round
king of spades with a fair chance
of drawing the queen of spades.
If the queen of spades does not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-04
STRIPES, NOT STARS
SEARCH THE ATTICS
WHAT ABOUT WARTS ?

xIOU wouldn't think the fight
4 fans would fall for the pro-
posal of Tex Richards to have
somebody fight Jack Dempsey for
the heavyweight championship.
It's too much like having some
body fight the kaiser for the mill
stary championship.
4 II
The League to Abolish Capital
Punishment has too limited a pro-
gram; it should not stop with muir
derers, but should include in its
tender solicitude mad dogs, rattle
snakes, yellow fever mosquitoes and
plague carrying rats.