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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Warm Bath Curbs Blood Pressure

and serious lowering Of the blood
pressure which lasts but very
short time.
The diet for the person with high
blood pressure should be a well bal
anced diet, proteins providing about
10 per cent of the total calories,
with salt relatively low in amount.
Spices are to be avoided. If the
patient is overweight, he should
plan to reduce his weight slowly
over a long period of time, and he
should drink a sufficient amuont Of
water to provide for carrying away
the body waste.
The majority of people who have
used tobacco over a long period OF
time do not need to give up tobacco
on the discovery Of the fact that
they have high blood pressure, I'M
less smoking can be shown to be
related definitely to the increased
pressure.
One of the most valuable methods
of controlling high blood pressure is
the taking Of moderately warm
baths at regular intervals. It is
understood, of course, that any
chronic infections in the body
should be brought under control
and the removal of such infections
not infrequently results in prompt
recovery from the condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
On the Financial Side

The administration is trying to cut expenses to
avoid deficit and increase in taxes. Savings are
being made in the navy and other departments
year $68oo0OOo below original estimates.
With all the talk of economy however we have
heard of no efforts to curtan amounts spent for
prohibition enforcement Some $4O0O0o0O will be used
this year support the army of dry agents. the
guards feet, judges and officials prosecuting
dry law violatorS, customs agents and border patrol
men. The coast guards fleet is being enlarged and
there is demand for more judges.
And meantime liquor flows plentfuly.
Before the eighteenth amendment the federal gov
eminent collected high as $S65,OoO,OOO year in
taxes on beer and liquor. States counties and cities
collected other millions.
Now the American people spend two or three mil
lion dollars year for drink. In pace of fat
enues, we have huge expenditures for enforcement,
by state and local well the central government
And the enforcement is Intellectual
Money which went into public treasures goes into
the pockets of bootleggers.
In this year of depression and economic gloom,
with millions of unemployed the prohibition situation
well might be considered both from the standpoint
OF the cost of enforcement and the loss of tax rev.
enues
Half billion in taxes liquor, easily colectable
by the federal government another half billion col
ected by local governments plus fifty millions
now spent for attempted enforcement, would give
more than two million men $500 in wages if the
money were spent on public works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
On Being Safe in the Air

CosteS Won Gronau, Hawks and others recently
have dramatized aviation more wildly than at any
time since Lindberghs historic fight to Paris in 1927
But these feats Of bravery far less significant to
civilization than the quiet efforts Of scientists tech
acians and pilots make air travel safer and to
ate out Of aviation something which practical
IL is spectacular.
The tragedy of the R-1o1 makes this good time
10 raise the question of just how safe flying is today
and what the prospects that it will bee more
dependable in the future
This problem is dealt with wildly and sanely by
Cove Hambidge in an article on How Safe Is
F1ying?" in the Forum.
In 1929 scheduled transport planes flew Is. 499
miles in the United States There were 1877 accidents
making 1854 miles travelled per accident Some 100
persons were involved in these accidents and OF these
eighty-one were killed This constitutes one death
to l. $50 miles flown.
The mortality also amounted, incidentally. to
death to 1854 passengers carried.
Mr. Hambidge next proceeds to compare the danger
in air travel to other risks assumed by the human
race In 1929 the number Of deaths in air travel
1888 per hundred thousand carried But the chances
we're far greater Of dropping dead on solid earth from
heart disease.
In 1877 the number of deaths from organic heart
disease we're IT'S per hundred thousand Of the popu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11

Inc failure OF prosperity may be worrying the
government OF this country, but the problem at
washington is as nothing compared with the prob
lem faced in certain governments south of the
1Sthmus OF Panama. In the United States. a busi-
ness depression apt to bring an unfavorable result
at the polls but in South America it is apt to bring
on revolution
II is hardly too much to say that practically all
the current South American revoIts originated in
trade depressons Citizens of any country get FESTIVE
when business is bad but in Latin America they get
downright violent.
It is foolish. Of course, for any country to blame
nara times on the government in power But at least
the situation here isn't as bad as it might be inst
suppose that our dsillusioned voters we're rushing
10 the armories instead of to the ballot box!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
IT SEEMS TO ME By HB BF045S

T THINK that the United States
Il never should shut down on i'm
migration, because it is only by an
adnixture of aliens that American
ideals survive.
This came to my mind as was
listening to a speech the other
night Of late I've heard great
many speeches and not all of them
were good. Many we're my own. At
times I find it by no means impos-
sible to bore myself.
But the speech Of which I am
thinking aroused me. B. Charney
Vladeck made it. Possibly Mr.
Vladeck is not widely known yet
outside his own community, but if
that is SO it is a strange thing, for
he is by all-odds the best orator I
have heard hereabouts.
Charney Vladeck was telling of a
day, twenty-five years ago, when he
came suddenly upon life of Lin
coin in the small library of Rus
sian prison. At II Vladeek went to
Siberia for revolutionary activity
against the Russian car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11

son Notre Dame was undefeated, its
greatest achievement being a VIC
tory of IS to Is over the Army team
Of that year.
How do Indians remove their
boards?
The beardless condition of In
dams is a racial characteristics.
Are there any Negro postmasters
in the United States?
There are a number of them.
Do fruit trees ever bloom twice a
year?
Sometimes they will bloom twice
year after they have been injured
in the spring, or when the growth
is checked by a drought, which
tends to give the trees a rest period.
When normal conditions occur, the
trees renew their activity and bios
som. One Of two varieties habit
uaily develop blossoms on the tips
of branches late in the fall.
Has Henry Ford a rubber pIanta-
don in Brazil?
Yes.
On which finger should school
ring be worn?
Usually on the Httlchngsr or third
finger of the right hand.
What part did Dorothy Lee play
in aThe Cuck00s' and What VIII be
the title Of her next picture?
She played the part Of Anita IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
ALLY HEALTH SERVICE

CURED in several members Of the
family, including the parents and
grandparents, and associated with
this constitutional predisposition are
habits of worry and fear. People
With high blood pressure are usually
overweight.
The treatment of high blood
pressure obviously must be related
to the habits of the individual, and
to the possible effects that may be
secured by the giving of certain
drugs.
Many drugs are known, which,
when injected into the human be-
ing, will lower the blood pressure.
Sometimes a sudden lowering Of the
blood pressure is exceedingly harm
full.
The first step is to control the
fatigue, the irritability of the blood
vessels, and the had habits OF the
patient which play some part in
maintaining his pressure at a high
point.
1t also is possible for the compe-
tent physician to prescribe some
drugs which are liberated very
slowly into the blood stream and
which lower the pressure slightly
over long periods Of time.
Such drugs are safer ordinarily
than those which produce prompt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11

Is there a breed Of chickens called
AustraIorps?
They are Black Orpingtons which
originated in Australia. They are
good egg producers, and last year
received recognition in this country
The hen weighs about 61a pounds,
the cock about 81 pounds.
Where did Sheridan start on his
famous ride and how far did he go?
He rode from Winchester, Va,
to Cedar Greek in the Shenandoah
Valley, twenty miles southwark.
What do the names John, Fred
erick, Elsie and Isabella mean?
John, grace Of God; Frederick,
peaceful ruler; Elsie, mirthful. and
Isabella, God is her oath.
What is the surname of the royal
house of Great Britain?
BY proclamation of July II, 1917.
the royal family became the house
of Windsor
What is the real name of Myrna
10y, the motion picture actress?
Where and when was she born?
Her real name is Myrna Will
liams. and she was born at Helena.
Mont, Aug. 2, 1905.
Did Knute Rockne ever play
football?
He was star end at the Uni
versity Of Notre Dame in 1910, 1911.
1912 and 1913 He was captain OF
the team in 1918. during which sea-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
What Is Needed
.DR. WHITE holds the opinion
IL that the facts of mental I,vo;e,,o

lnR. WHITE holds the opinion
- that the facts of mental hygiene
are more important Fundamentally
than those of physical hygiene.
I'VE have recognized that hygiene
requires a reasonable amount of
rest, a reasonable amount of exer-
else, good and properly selected food
IN adequate but not too great GUAM
titles, pure drinking water and a
thousand other things he SAYS.
But we have not recognized that
all these, and many more, really are
only means to an end, and that
what man lives by really is not food
and drink, but ideas and ideals. de-
sires and hopes, aspirations and am
oltlons, and these are matters of the
mind
Man never has worked out an adj
equate understanding of his mind
DR.. White says.
He always has accepted what he
found there" he says.
People believe or doubt. thew
nope and they fear, but they rarely
ask themselves why they believe or
doubt, or why they hope or fear
These mental facts have been ac-
cepted and acted upon practically
without any consciousness that they
are subjects, or could be made sub
Jects OF scientific inquiry.
we are accustomed to apply our
science only to concrete THINGS
which can be seen, to animals, to
piants, to planets, to crystaIs-not
to these intangible ideas which seem
TO escape US the moment we attempt
to inquire into them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
REASON BY FREDERICK SaSn1S

or course. just as he said about it, Clarence OAR
~ row went back into the criminal practice because
tne arrest OF those Chicago gangsters on vagrancy
charges appealed to his of fair play but before
lts all over well bet those fellows will overpower OAR
row and simply compel him to accept some vulgar
coin. o
you know. pO-N ''00'
Darrow went to the defense of those two sweet
Things as patriotic duty, but after he saved them
Their 1oiKs mortified barrow until he didn't know
where to look by backing him into corner and fiji
ing MS clothes with mazuma.
MONSIEUR BLONDEAU, manager Of the French
I'VE tobacco monopoly, is preparing special brand
OF cigars to be smoked by the ladies of France
1t won't be long until those girls are chewing ple
ana making necklaces of their tobacco tags
Twenty thousand people jan1med the Madrid bull
ring and cheered speakers who made fun of the king
II this keeps up. it won't be long until they make
Aphonso walk Spanish.
From a safe distance, Adolph Hitler threatens to
indict Won Hindenberg. but the old warrior could
get him in closed room, Hitler would die of heart
failure
d EADING that Henry Ford gave Anton Lang an
IN automobile because he liked him in the Passion
Play makes regret that Henry did not see us some
years ago VIXEN We played Hamlet in home enter
tainment.
If, as reported. Bernard Shaw has time and again
declined to accept title, it's the biggest thing he
ever did.
However. he's not entitled to much credit since his
sense of humor wouldn't permit him to take it.
We owe President Hoover debt of gratitude for
one reason
He doesn't compel US to read about mis- golf games
every day.
ss
Carl Ulrich Of Jasper Ind, paid very delicate
tribute to the Preside when he shot restaurant paint
ing fun Of holes because # reminded him Of his wife
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Prohibition AGAIN

EN connection with this Cleveland
4 investigation, with its disclosure
of false affidavits, mistaken charges,
and queer decisions. prohibition is
the bug under the chip, as might be
expected.
Theoretically, the United States
government, as well as most state
governments, is dry, but actually all
sections and communities which feel
like it are wet.
Whatever else may be said Of the
mess, it is showing the power Of
local sentiment even when ex-
pressed by nothing bigger than a
wide place in the road.
Prohibitionists decry the lack Of
cooperation on the part of local
officials, as though it were some
thing which could be corrected with
word Of advice, but local author
tiles merely remember which side of
their bread is buttered.
This noble experiment" has
evolved into farce, with your
Uncle Sam playing the role of goat.
and that goes not only for our large
cities, but for half the Landscape
from Maine to California.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Booze at All Conventions
A ADJOURNMENT of the Anoeri.

A DJOURNMENT of the Ameri-
1 n can Legion convention finds
four dead and 500 in the hospitals
at Boston because of poison hooch.
Mrs. Peabody charges that law
enforcement officials were lax, and
you can bet your bottom dollar they
were.
Police Chief Crowley say that Mrs.
Peabody evidently saw more than
his boys did. which would not be
particularly unusual
The prohibition administrator
will start drive, now that it's all
over.
But what is the use Of repeating
the nonsense? Things have come
to such pass that any good reporter
can write the story of a great con-
vention beforehand, whether it's
legion, or just common folks getting
together.
We simply don't think Of assem-
bling for any purpose these days
without hooch. and the entertain
ment committee that couldn't corral
a supply would consider itself
failure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
64dE5kAEEF iEf7f4s
IANEI9ER$ARY|
DUTCH SETTLEMENTS
October IL

ON Oct. II, 1914, the states gen
W eral Of Holland named the
country around Manhattan Island
New Netherlands" and granted
charter for its settlement to Am
sterdam merchants.
The states general previously had
passed a law comforting on those
who should discover new lands the
exclusive privilege Of making four
voyages thither before others could
have admission to the traffic.
The ordinance excited consider
able activity among adventures. A
number of merchants of Amster-
dam and Hoorn soon fitted out five
ships. This feet. during a suisse
quent exploring expedition. touched
the mouth Of the Great river and
the Manhattans, Long Island, Cape
Cod, Delaware bay and other points
on the east coast Of America.
The united company by which the
explorers were employed lost no
time in obtaining the exclusive
trade Of the countries thus explored
They sent deputies 70 The Hague
to report their discoveries. AS
result, special grant In their favor
was issued and settlement estab-
ushed in the new country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Unjust to Many
ME practice of punishing people

TINE practice Of Furnishing people
4 by fine may have its merits,
but they are hard to discover when
it ignores the ability to pay. when
it exacts the same toll in all cases,
and takes no account of a defend
ants condition.
A 500 fine means nothing to some
people, while it means the difference
between enough to eat and actual
hunger to others. If fines were de-
sirable, why not base them on a
weeks income, or a certain per cent
of the individuals net worth? What
kind of justice is it that imposes
hardship on one person and lets
another off with a mere gesture for
the same offense?
In settling the war account. we
have found it impractical to make
the punishment fit the damage, or
the guilt, and have been compelled
to recognize the factor of economic
capacity.
If that represents justice among
nations, why not among men?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11

aton Even the suicide rate is far higher than the
aviation death rate
The death rate from automobile accidents is about
twice as high 1000 persons were killed in automobile
trafc In the United States in 1929 as compared to
tne elghy-one killed in air transport Indeed it seems
Almost as sale TO go in the air as to stay at home
No fewer than $4,000 were killed by accidents in their
homes in 1929
Why is it that the average man regards air travel
as nothing short of foohardy gambling with deatn9
Mr. Hambidge believes this is due to two main cauees
In the first place air travel is mysterious and novel
Inc general run OF men understand the nature and
causes OF automobile accidents An airplane crash
mas something of the awesome and occult about it
In the second place of the most basic of mans
instructive fears is that of falling This NAV have
been due to the fact that mans ancestors were per-
haps, arboreal in their habitat
In spite of the marvellous progress in increasing
the safety of air travel it still falls far short of that
In rail transport The number of deaths here is one
passenger to each 3OO0O0OO0 passenger miles travelled
thus making the railroads about 200 times as safe
as alrplanes What Of the future? Along what lines
may We look for improvement?
Eighty per cent of air accidents take nlace in take
ons landings, staings and spins. Hence these are
the crux of the problems of greater safety We pst
devise an airplaneperhaps already forecast in the
autogyro-which will climb quicker and more steenIv
and land more slowly and safely.
Multmotor machines reduce the danger from,
StaIiing The Diesel engine may eliminate fire risk
0eCIer radio communication and fog generators of
one kind or another will reduce the risk of LANDING
and crashing also will great increase in the
number of landing fields
better quality of more vigorously trained pilots
likewise will help. Some 28.4 per cent of the acct
dents on scheduled air travel in 1929 were due to the
Incompetence and poor Judgment of pilots More
careful selection and better technical training of pilots
VIII remedy this defect far as it can be done in anv
SITUATION which involves the human factor
IL Is not at all absurd then, to say that aviation
certainly has passed the stage of experimental novelty
IL is safer than railroad travel in the days of Abraham
Aincoh-tnat is prior to the air brake and automatic
coupler And science has far better hookup with
"V4S'on To-Day than it had with rairoading in 1865
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Improving Mankind

nNE of the great triumphs of
~ present-day science, however.
is that it is actually succeeding in
applying the scientific method to
the subject of mind.
Man has become for the first
time profoundly interested in his
own affairs" says DR.. White.
He is applying scientific methods
to their study and calculation. and
he is beginning to insist that the
great facts of science as they are
discovered in all it's various realms
shall be made to point in his direc-
tlon, that there shall be asked the
question, OF what value is this fact
to me. how can I profit by it. how
can mankind be improved by its ap-
plication?'
The twentieth century has given
olrth to this great interest. which
rapidly and certainly is gripping the
imagination of peoples in all parts
OF the world, and man is APPLYING
MS ingenuity in attempting to dis
cover answers to the questions that
nave puzzled him for generations:
why do people become mentally
III? Why do they become Criminals
what is the meaning of unhappi-
ness and discomfort? How can de-
Structive habits be modified? HOW
can the energies that are being
poured into useless activities be re-
captured for the commons good?
DIFFICULT as some of these ol1es-
ions may seem, unanswerable as
tney may appear, it nevertheless is
true that we are moving in the di-
rectlon OF better and better solu-
lions; that progress is being made
slowly perhaps, but after the man
ner OF science, with certainly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
Here Are Some PuzSIers and Their Ans7oers

1.-THE Cuckoos." Her next appear
ance will be in Half Shot at Sun
rise"
What is the purpose of the tariff
on imports?
The general purpose is to protect
American products and to raise
revenue for the government
Which blind United States sena-
tor has a large German police dog
to lead him.
Senator Thomas D. schall Of Min
nesota.
When was the American baseball
league organized?
In 1900, but it did not become a
real major league until the follow
ing year.
How large is the great Sahara
desert?
1t probably covers an area not
less than 100000 square miles, and
its greatest length exceeds 5000
miles
Was the alien land law Of Cali
fcrnia passed in 1913 or in 1920?
The law was passed IN 1913. In
1920 another act was passed to pre-
vent alien Japanese from holding
lands in the names Of their minor
American bern children.
What is the value Ct a United
Sirfes half dollar dated 1902
Il is catalogued at 50 to IS cents
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ,

Knowledge of Mental Hy
giene Is Viewed as In1por
tGnt as Knowledge of Phys
icGl Hygiene.
THE reader who would keep
= abreast the latest developments
of the scientific world now must be-
come acquainted with the branch
of science known as mental hygiene
The knowledge is well worth ac-
curing, not merely from the stand
point of satisfying ones curiosity,
but from the standpoint Of useful
ness as well.
Many authorities are convinced
that a knowledge of mental hygiene
is fully as important and useful as
knowledge Of physical hygiene. In
fact, in many cases, they would re-
gard it as more important.
There is nothing mysterious
about mental hygiene except that
we always have thought Of the mind,
when we have thought of it at all,
in terms of our ignorance ABOUT it,
and have felt that it was a great
unknown territory" says DR.. Will
liam A White.
DR.. White, who is the superin-
tendent of st. Elizabeth's hospital
at Washington, D. c., is one of the
worlds greatest authorities on the
subject.
I'VE long have been familiar with
the term hygiene and we have rec
ognized its significance as an effort
to live healthy lives" he says, "but
we have thought of it in terms of
our physical bodies and their func-
tons and not in terms Of our
minds