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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
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ANNEXATION OF HAWAII

ANNEXATION OF HAWAII
July 7
ON July 7, 1898, the United States
~ annexed the Hawaiian Islands
in response to an appeal made by
leading residents.
First appeal for annexation was
rejected by President Cleveland,
but President Mckinley approved
the second. The move for annexa-
ton was launched by the progress
sive party, consisting of Americans
and the better elements among the
foreigners and natives who were dis
pleased with the existing govern
ment.
They objected chiefly to the reign
of Queen Liliuokalani, who sought
to nullify the constitution and Sc
cure absolute power The queen I'LL
timately was depc;sed and provi-
sional government organized.
After the United States sent
commissioners to the island to in
vestigate conditions it was decided
at first not to interfere. This heart
ened the deposed queen to seek a
restoration, but when she refused
to grant a general amnesty, this
country proceeded to carry out the
annexation.
In 1900 the islands formally were
organized into the territory Of
Hawaii, and a territorial Governor
was appointed by the president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
Has Been Is Pathetic

YOUNG people do wrong in
Il imagining that a moment of
superiority counts for much, To be
the real thing it must last.
The most pathetic role in life is
that of "has-been."
The happiest people are those who
keep their place in the line, who
plug along at the thing they can do
best, and who continue to live in the
present.
There is nothing to this idea of
leaping into fame overnight and
then retiring.
You don't have to take my word
or any one else's for it. Just look
around you at the people past CO.
Those who have kept at work are
not only the most contented, but the
most interesting. Those who dwell
in the past, who spend their time
recounting what they once we're, are
not only the most disconnected, but
the worst bores.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
THEY'LL Cash In

HAyING hung UP a new endur-
i i ance flight record. the Hunter
brothers propose to cash in No
one begrudges them the revenue
they may collect from gullible
public. but there are too many poor
actors on the stage already, and too
many good ones out of work. The
Hunter brothers have proved their
ability as aviators. Why not stay
with the job?
That is what Lindbergh did, and
he probably will make as much
money out of it in the end as
though he had accepted the vast
amount of money he was offered to
pose as a freak.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
The Human Race Must Have Alcohol
BY JAMES A. REED, EX-SENATOR FROM MISSOURI

And yet a chemical SO useful as
to be absolutely indispensable to
life itself is made the subject of all
sorts of criminal laws and regula-
lions, largely on account of an ash
nine prohibition law, designed to
prevent its use as beverage.
The great industries of this coun-
try which are dependent upon in
dustrial alcohol have been made
the victims of scandals and out
rageous treatment because the gov
eminent, by enactment of the pro-
hibition law. has put such a prem
ium upon alcohol for beverage use
that there is an almost irresistible
temptation to divert it to beverage
use.
Copyright. 1890. by James A. Reed; dis
tributed by Current News Features, Incl
Next: Former Senator Reed will
discuss prohibition Profits"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
Advice

I'm 1914. George McAneny, then
L president of New York's board
of aldermen, organized a committee
on the city plan Of which ne was
chairman and the presidents OF the
five boroughs were members.
To aid the work of this commit
tee, he appointed an advisory COM
nittee of architects and business
men. Norton was the head OF this
advisory committee. Members in
cluded Irving T. Bush, Bassett and
others.
AS Norton once said, "The COM
mittee met in a beautiful room in
the city hall once or twice and
wisely resolved to give advice only
when it was asked for, which was
never"
1t became plain to Norton that
though the execution of city plan
would be an official governmental
action. the task of stirring up the
necessary enthusiasm for it and the
task of doing the preliminary work
would have to be done by interested
citizens.
And so in 1921, with the finan-
cial support of the Russell Sage
Foundation, he organized the COM
mittee on regional plan of New York
and it's environs. The original COM
mittee consisted of Norton as chair
man, Robert w. De Forest, John M.
Glenn, Dwight w. Morrow, and
Frederic A. Delano.
Since then, the committee has
made comprehensive survey and
published it in ten volumes.
Recently popular summary Of
the ten volumes has been compiled
by Robert L. DuffuS, well-known
journalist, and published by Harper
g. Bros, under the title of MAS
tering Metropolis"
Every one interested in the future
of New York-and who isn't inter-
ested in that subject?-will find
Mastering Metropolis fascinat-
ing volume.
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Committee

TINE committee had come into
L existence in 1921 as the result
of the activities of the late Charles
Dyer Norton.
Though We think of city planning
as something new, it is, after a
fashion, quite old. New York got
its first dose of it in 1911 when
Gouverneur Morris, Simeon De Witt
and John Rutherford formed a
committee to draw up a plan Tor
the city which then boosted 10000
inhabitants. Their plan was not
much more than an arrangement
of streets.
The first attempt to draw up a
comprehensive plan for the city was
not made until almost 100 years
later, when Mayor George B. NC
Clellan appointed what he called
the New York City improvement
commission.
The committee made a report in
1907. but after the fashion which
seems so prevalent in American civic
life, nothing was zone dOOuU 'i'0
report.
In 1913 a heights of buildings
commission was appointed, with Ed
ward M. Bassett as chairman. The
work of this committee resulted III
the zoning ordinance and the in
PRODUCTION of the setback principle
of skyscraper construction which
has SO radically altered, and I'M
mensely beautified, the skyline OF
New York.
Nothing had come Immediately
of the 1907 report. But among those
who had not forgotten the plan was
Norton. Norton was a trustee OF
the Russell Sage Foundation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

Publicity Is a Wonderful IN
strument, If Used With q
Proper Sense of Values.
SAYS:

A LII Of us have the desire to do
IA something spectacular. Most
Of Us have SUFFICIENT courage to take
more or less risk for a moment in
the spotlight. Few of us have
enough self-control to resist trying
the stunt road to fame or fortune.
George E. Stathakis goes to his
death over Niagara Falls in a bar
rel. He was chef, but wanted to
be a philosopher. More particular
", he wanted to know how it felt
to be bounced around for minute
or so with the spotlight or eternity
Just around the corner.
Maybe he found out. but what is
the good, since he can't tell any
one?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
REASONS
FREDERICK
Lands

THERE'S lot of propaganda for and against Rus
i STA, but you get true slant the Soviet estab-
iishment from the case of " A. Hatchatourof, sent
here from Moscow to study oil refining, who COM
mitted suicide rather than return to Russia when
ordered back
vesuvius has been in eruption again and the most
reasonable explanation is that it caught it from Mus
solini
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who has been matrimonially
dormant for time, now threatens to marry an
English title.
MY world"
The bureau of statistics announces that the peo-
pie Of our beloved land will consume three billion
cumber pickles this year.
This promises lot of business for the secretary
of the interior.
THE Detroit Institute of Arts is exhibiting num-
i Der of Rembrandt paintings and if Rembrandt
looks down upon it he probably thinks of the days
of his adversely when he made chalk sketches walls
for enough to get a handout.
DR.. de Martel, famous Paris surgeon thinks French
statesmen live longer than American statesmen be-
they drink wine and to prove his he cites
the early deaths of Wilson, Harding, Bryan and
Roosevelt
He overlooks the fact that Roosevelt and Harding
were not total abStanerS while Wilson died from a
mountain of worries and Bryan from overhead.
The truth is that age laughs at habits
Some topeFS wear out hundred corkscrews, while
some Puritans wear out dozen pumps some live to
be hundred and ascrbe it to the fact that they kept
moth out of their lives by smoking and others become
centenarianS and say it was because they never
touched the weed
10 to dozen gentlemen, perched on the whatnot
" of antiquity and ask them: How Gomez" and
you will get bewildering array of answers
One will say it's because he bathed every day and
another because his pores have been locked for sixty
years; another will tell you it's because he wore an
electric belt around his equator and another be-
he carried buckeye in his pocket and the next
will aver it's because he irrigated every spring with
saSsafras tea.
You just can't figure it out, but if we spon-
soring an adventure in longevity We should say:
Work at the thing you like put thermostat on your
emotions never argue about nothings, give Mr.. Bar
levcorn the stony stare keep of state roads on Sum
day, eat half as much you want, never run for
Office, and most important Of al-read this column
every day,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

DI Ohs MOhhAS EAOAAOLA4N
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Mage zine.
A BOUT 1857 a Swedish physl-
n clan named DR.. Gustav Fan
der began to use mechanical
means for massage and exercise.
These machines we're the first
ever used for the purpose. Since
that time various devices have
been developed, including the hobby
horse, popularized by MI. Coolidge,
and all sorts of vibrators, shakers
and springs, as well as machines for
manipulating and vibrating the
muscles Of the human body.
In a recent consideration of
the use of these machines, the
council on physical therapy of
the American Medical. Association
condemns them, although not I'M
reservedly, for several reasons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
Fooled by Rainbow

DUBLICITY is a wonderful in
Il strument, provided it is used
with a decent sense of value.
But the press agent has led us
into many strange paths and too
many young people are being
fooled by the rainbow dreams with
which he regales them.
To perform some stunt and then
win a fortune by exhibiting oneself
like the rubber-necked man or fat
girl seems an easy way to solve the
problem of existence, and it would
be, were the public not constantly
on the watch for new sideshow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
"YOur Obedient Servant"

1t is interesting to read that the American state
department has sacrificed a time-honored custom of
diplomacy to modern efficiency
Up to this time all official state department letters
have ended with the fowery old phrase, Il have the
honor to be, sir, your obedient servant" Now how
ever, by an official order they are to end with the
modern Very truly yours"
All this is as it should be- but it makes one won
der what diplomacy is coming to. The very essence
of it is high-fown phrases and fowery language.
What will ever happen if it gets stripped down to
its essentials? Can diplomats stand the shock?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

are "functionally iterate" Imagine, he says, what
it would do for prosperity if every of these could
be brought up to the buying standard of even the
average American family.
New desires are created, desires for soap sheets,
vindow-shades shoes as well as a taste for newspa-
oers and books.
Here may be found one answer to our problem
Of overproduction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

Among the things that keep our mind busy this
summer is the thoughtful speculation over what the
late William Jennings Bryan would say if he could
hear the current charge that the Democratic party
is influencing Wall Street to depress stock prices
and so dscredit the Republican administration
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

Prison inmates are reported to be attempting to
organize union. They want to go out on strike.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

Dry agents raided Ohio restaurant and seized
100 bottles of whisky hidden in boxes labeled soup
That, doubtless. explains the origin of the phrase,
From soup to nuts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

The expression, "She just sweeps off their
feet easily can be understood since advent of those
trailing gowns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
no whom does Luxemburg belong?

1t is an independent grand duchy
Of Europe, rulec, by the grand OUCH
ess, II. r. II. Charlotte.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
DAILY THOUGHT

Woe to him that cOveteth an
evil covetOusness to his house,
that he may set his nest on high,
that he may be delivered from the
power of evil.-Habakkuk 2:9.
To the covetous man life Is a
and God lets him wres-
tie with it as best he may.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

ELAVORING extracts, such as
Il vanilla, ginger and lemon. are
made with the use of alcohol. It
Is q necessary ingredient in man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

younger people Of today. He said, under date
Of November %, 1896:
Dear Washington: In few hasty lines COW
ering your sisters letter on Saturday last
promised to write more fully to you by the
post of this day. I am now in the act Of per-
forming that promise.
1.-THE assurances you give me Of applying
diligently to your studies and fulfilling those
obligations which are enjoined by your Creator
and due to His creatures are highly pleasing
and satisfactory to me. I rejoice in 1t on two
accounts: First, as 1t Is the sure means Of
laying the foundation of your own happiness
and rendering you, If it should please God to
spare your life. q useful member Of society
hereafter; and. secondly, that may, If live
to enjoy the pleasure, reflect that have been
IN some degree instrumental in effecting these
purposes.
"You are now entering into that stage Of
life when good or bad habits are formed
when the mind will be turned TO things useful
and praiseworthy or to dissipation and vice.
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Fix in whichever it may. it will stick by you:
for you know it has been said, and truly, that
as the twig Is bent 50 will 1t grow This IN
a strong point Of view shows the propriety Of
letting your inexperiences be directed by ma
turer advice and in placing guards upon the
avenues that lead to idleness and vice. The
latter will approach like a thief. working upon
your passions encouraged, perhaps by bad
examples the propensity to which will increase
In proportion to the practice Of it and your
yieldings. This admonition proceeds from the
purest affection for you, but do not mean by
1t that you are to become q stole, or to deprive
yourself in the intervals Of study OF any rec
reation or manly exercises which reason APP
proves.
'Tt is well to be good terms with all your
fellow students and am pleased to hear that
you are so; but while courteous behavior
is due to all, select the most deserving only
for your friendship, and before this becomes
intimate weigh their dispositions and char
acters well. True friendship is plant Of slow
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Relics in Lewis Collection

National Museum Has Unusual Group OF
Interest toAmericans- Nellie CustiSL ezviS,
Adopted Daughter Of Washington, and
the LeqUis Famiy-Kenmore,
Abingdou and Woodla70n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

IPON his arrival at Ethan the sad news
was impaired to him by DR.. Craik and it
Is said that the grief Of the Father Of His
Country knew no bounds" and that he "wept
like child" Upon being conducted into the
death chamber he found Mrs. Gusts standing
beside the death bed Of her husband, weeping
bitterly Washington tenderly clasped her in
his arms and when he had recovered his COM
posure said to her:
IT adopt his two younger children as my own
from this hour and shortly afterward George
Washington Parke Gusts and his sister Eleanor
the future MRS. Lawrence Lewis-were taken
to Mount Vernon and placed in the care Of
Mrs. Lund washington, whose husband was
managing the generals property at that place"
Here they were reared and educated with the
greatest care and both throughout their lives
rejected credit upon their foster parents.
As in everything he undertook in his life
dime Washington was not unmindful Of the
responsibility he had assumed in the raising
OF his stepson's children, and not only cared
for them in their youth, but even continued
q watchful care over them until the end. In
his advice to George washington Parke oastas,
the younger OF the two children adopted. ~
conveys his intense interest In his admonitao1s.
which might even be pEOftahly followed ~ tps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

CCORDING to the local automobile
records, about every fourth person
in Washington owns or operates q
car, and although this would indi-
cate that about every person living
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Sunday Morning Among the Cross-W Words

80 Joins.
"a Demons.
IS Sends out.
SO Hurried away.
80 Allow a deduction
40 Sell in small
quantities.
Al Dresses up: slang.
AZ Reputation.
AZ Give.
A Ancient Grecian
coins.
As A clique.
46 Means.
Al Dispute.
48 Province in
Luzon, P. I.
40 Bandagfs.
so A rubbing out.
81 Claims.
So Closed cars.
54 Thin fabric of
silk and worSted.
81 Rents again.
So Weights for gems.
81 Goddess of the
moon.
62 Mourn for.
sc Comes to a point.
81 Exhibition.
10 VentureSome
person.
II Slovenly women.
70 Trial.
IA Solemn compact.
rs Social group.
II Popular fruits.
70 Low quarter of
city.
70 Genus of thorny
trees.
80 Dispatch again.
81 Mentally
deranged.
80 Pull.
SO Manifestations of
an object.
"a ASiatic country.
IS Household linen.
86 Academic
exercises.
88 Movements of
the waters.
80 Cleaned.
80 A Latvian.
SO Seagoing vessel.
95 Small birds.
81 Juice of trees.
SO Contend.
100 High mountain.
101 Beverage.
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Continued from Seventh Page


vile, N c. and made bit of fame for himself
in foot ball track and field events and in SWIM
ming.
White was for three years captain of his foot
ball team held the State record for the pole
vault, competed in the javelin throw and shot
put and was member of the State champion
ship relay swimming team.
Not content with athletic laurels, Bert rescued
IT persons from drowning and holds the high
est Red Cross award for life saving.
1t while playing foot ball, during his
attendance at Rollins College, Winter Park,
Fla. that he made his first chute jump. When
not at school he hung around airfields.
A ND, here's secret! He doesn't like para
chute jumping at all. He wants to be a
Aggravated to fly then, more than anything
else but something always obstructs this deep
rooted hankeringi
Presently White went up North to George
washington University at Washington, D. C.
He was all set to be doctor. But Washington
has ai.ports and flyers Which was tough on
medicine, because Bert had friends at these
fields and spent most of his time with them,
dreaming of flying.
With some effort Bert obtained an appoint
ment to Brooks Field as a flying cadet in the
Army. The day of days was at hand and life
was one glorious hop. Farewell to cadavers
and dry lectures. He was in his senior year,
but gave up school without regret
But the obtuse fate that pursueS him didn't
let up bit. Five months were enough to con-
vince Army instructors that Bert was not for
the air service. He was inglorously washed
out" He doesn't like to talk out'it; the
perience of having his dreams shattered was
a painful one.
Bert wandered over to San Diego, discon-
ISOLATE. Luck gave him a tiny break, Lieut..
Frank Page had some obsolete wartime planes
unassembled which had been sold to the Caddo
Company for use in its picture, "Hell'S Angels"
just being contemplated then, in 1927. The
antiquity of the models stumped Lieut.. Page,
but White familiar with them from his
tinkering with similar ships owned by Springs
back home.
He got the job of assembling them, then wan
dered to Hollywood and set record. His first
day there he landed job with the "Hell's
Angels" company in charge of the ancient
planes' then being bought up all over the
country.
George Schaumm companion from Brooks
Field cadet days, arrived, also, and the pair
hustled up all the SE-5s, FOkkers and Tom
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Grand Champ Of High Di0ns.'

miles," and kept them running. For IA months
he worked on "Hells Angels" in keeping the
antiques going. Then he was transferred to
another Caddo unit, but stayed on only two
months.
WORK with the flying picture gave Bert an
opportunity to hy-but not the way he
wanted Sundays he made jumps at various
fields in and about Los Angeles. This went on
for all of the IA months and some time after,
so you see Bert has jumped quite a number
of timesm
During that time he had his only narrow
escape of lengthy career.
Over Glendale Field, since enlarged, Bert did
wing. walking and stunts on a rope ladder at
tached below plane of an air circus. He had
a bunch one Sunday and followed it. When
he descended the rope ladder below the ship
a chute attached to his back.
The plane the field about 200 feet
in the air. Bert was gayly hanging by one leg
to the rope ladder, waving his hands at the
crowd. Suddenly the Hisso motor gave a sad
cough and ceased to function.
There was no time to Chamber back up the
ladder. The bunch had been right. Bert
dropped off, pulled the ring and landed in q
peach tree orchard bordering the north end
of the field. He was scratched. but unhurt.
The pilot glided safely to an adjoining field.
That's the only time ever wore a chute
doing StuntS," says White.
AT Ocean Beach, near San Diego, Bert had
a contract for three jumps. His landing spot
the beach. On one side he had the ocean
and the other roller coaster
IF landed in the roller-coaster it would
break every bone in my body" White points
out cheerfully. IT landed short in the ocean
twice and on the beach once"
THE amazing thing about this slim, boysh
daredevil, or perhaps it's an explanation.
is his lack of fear. He cannot understand the
emotion. Now, he explains, he knows his para
chutes and all about them. To drop is safety
itself, he asserts The''chutes do not fail But
even when he didn't know the temperament of
the Devices he apparently was unafraid.
The sensations while falling depend upon
how successful a jumper is in controlling his
body, says White.
Sometimes he tumbles head heels and
that is not at all pleasant. When his fall is
executed properly. he is in perfect swan dive,
from which position the recovery to normal is
rapid and not strain when the chute opens.
I'm making a long delayed drop. I'm per-
fectly aware of what is happening below me.
Even while tumbling I can see the field and
the cars and the people looking up 1t is no
trick TO pull the ring-you have plenty of time
to think about that" is his explanation.
White is through jumping now, and is sales
manager for parachute manufacturer. But
there is still something lacking. Now want
to learn to hy,' says Bert
tCopyright, 1900