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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01

Optimism Reigns, If One Can
Judge From Ne1Us Items;
There Seems to Be a Bright
Side to Everything.
SAYS
THIS is an age Of optimism, to
Il Judge from news items.

THIS is an age Of optimism, to
Il judge from news items.
According to one, telephone users
of New York have been saved three
million dollars because the company
was allowed a raise of only eleven
million when it wanted fourteen
million.
According to another, floods are
useful, since they prove the value
of airplanes.
According to another, those Span
ish scientists who mistook a rusty
hay rake for the skeleton Of dino
saur were not altogether wrong,
since both originated in North
America.
According to another, we shall
learn a lot if we bounce radio sig
mails against the moon and get them
back In three seconds.
According to another, the Moscow
Soviet did not order the silencing
of church bells because of any re-
ligious prejudice, but merely to pre-
vent trade unions and other organ
izations from being disturbed.
According to another, Congress
man Fort, though regarding pro-
hibition as great blessing, says
that it is legal to drink home brew
at home.
According to another, Mahatma
Ghandi puts prohibition in first
place among reforms necessary to
bring about peace in India.
According to another, Senator
Brookhart thinks Mr.. Wickersham
can tell him how to stop such vio-
lations of the Volstead act as he
charges the New York Century Club
of being guilty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Bupahoo

THE vandals are here! They are about to rob
us of army, of navy of normal home lfe of the Con-
Stuton, and all that it implies. Religion itself Is
not exempt from attack
We quote the words of one Of the speakers before
the womenS patriotic conference national defense,
meeting in Washington. Representatives of nuner-
GUS patriotic organizations attended.
The "vandals' to whom the good lady referred are
not only pacists, Communists, Socialists. but other
groups which advocate social changes
Much of the discussion was in vein similar to
the passage have quoted. Pacists in particular.
in for terrific verbal lambaStings. And by paci-
fists meant the various groups working for the
reduction of ornaments and the abolition of war.
whether extremists or moderates
There is no quarrel with these women any one
else for seeking national security and defense The
dispute is not the goal but over the method.
1t is the privilege of these women, who Try to lay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Only the Dry Need Apply

Acknowledgement Mitchell proposes to appoint
district attorneys and United States marShals only
who are dry in appetite and mind. He gives as his
reason that prohibtonists can enforce prohibition
better than anti-prohibtionists.
The matter is scarcely open to argument. man
sincerely believe in the thing he is doing is likely to
get greater results than the who feels otherwise
The earnest believers zeal increases his effectiveness
And yet We are convinced that Mitchell has arrived
at an unfortunate decision
Had he decided merely that men who drink need
not apply would be impossible to quarrel with him.
Obviously the men selected to enforce the law must
not be violators of any law But Mitchell has stepped
off into deep water when he declares he will not in
trust general law enforcement TO who do not
believe in the theory of this one particular law.
In democratic country laws come and go and
it is the duty Of law officers to enforce them while
they remain the books The justice department.
like other departments, should be composed of men
competent to carry out whatever laws may be writ
ten. The development of such personnel is the real
job that faces Mitchell, and he will fail in the job If
he allows the prohibition puzzle to monopolize all his
thinking.
Prohibition is only of many important laws
regardless of what its fanatca friends may think And
if the present test be applied to district attorneys
and marshals then is proper to test them as to the
theory underlying the other laws.
There Is however, a further consideration What
believes is mis- private business. The attorney
general has right to intrude on that privacy An
American citizen has right to entertain any theory
that pleaSes him. Restrictions may be placed on
the practice OF his theories. but his mind may not
be invaded to determine what he thinks
Yet Mitchell is attempting such invasion.
Seriously, we suggest that the attorney general
content himself with subordnates who like President
Hoover can bring honesty and efficiency to enforce
ment, even though they may consider this one Law
only an experiment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Life

THE two greatest achievements
L of 1929 in the field OF bio
chemistry, the branch of chemistry
dealing with life processes, were the
isolation of a poisonous sugar pro-
duced by the tubercle bacillus, and
the synthesis of the respiration fer
ment.
The poisonous or toxic sugar IS
known as polysaccharide, It was
isolated by Doctors Treat B. John
son and r. j. Anderson of Yale uni
versity.
Tests made with the sugar by DR..
w. c. White of the United States
public health service, showed that
the deadly sugar had the effect Of
Immediately killing tubercular ami
mails and that it also had a notice.
able effect upon healthy ones.
DR.. Hans Fischer of Munich sue
ceeded in artiflcally preparing or
synthesizing the respiration fer
ment.
This ferment is a chemical COM
pound know as a haemin. 1t Is the
substance which makes possible res
piration or the reactions of BREATH
ing in living organisms.
Other advances in bio-chemistry
in 1929, pointed out by the journal,
are the use of a new local anesthe-
tic, ethyocaine borate, the use of
ethylene oxide as a funigant, and
the discovery Of the feasibility of
substituting the sodium salt of
malic acid for ordinary salt in the
diet OF people suffering from high
blood pressure, dropsy or Bright's
disease.
Advances in other fields of chem
istry included the evolution Of
self-extinguishing cigaret and a
fireproof match at the United
States bureau Of standards, the
journal states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01

more sinister in it than that. They
had me backed up against a big
window, fronting the avenue. Pos
sibly the man with the chalk de-
rived a revenue from the display.
Although I could not see what
marks he made, my shoulder blades
seemed to spell out the words, Go
to Joe SpironiS for the best 81 din
ner in town"
Or maybe he was using my back
as a blackboard with which to sig
nal to the blonde girl in the fur
shop across the street. She always
seemed 10 be hanging around when
the cutters held their twice-a-day
life class, with me as the model.
/ must have looked pretty silly,
standing there with, How ABOUT go
ing to a talkie tonight?" scrawled
across my back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
StYle Career

0F course. did get the idea
" after while. 1t is easier to
know what to do than actually at
tend to it. Being a well-dressed man
must be almost a career. Nobody
who goes in for 1t has time for any
thing else. Yet 7 would like it fine.
know it's a hard life. In male
attire, elegance seems to be Syno-
nym for discomfort. Hoover has
been complaining recently about
mis- hair shirts, but I doubt If they
are any more haraSsing than the
conventional Starched ones worn
with evening clothes.
No man has ever been born into
the world who does not seem to itch
a little in the various trappingS
which go with tail coat. Train a
lad from infancy and high collar
still will perturb his chin.
Too much stress is put upon de-
tails which seem to me Of no i'm
portance. Only the other day I cav
a magazine advertisement which
read, How did your carriers look to-
day?" How should I know? I'm not
garter conscious. Good carriers
keep your socks up, and bad ones
don't.
have somewhat the same feel
ing about socks. They should know
their place. Male hosiery should be
seen and not heard
One is entitled to despair Of the
future for the country when men
begin to wear clocks and colored
patterns on their ankles. A mans
ankles ought to be his own business
and be incarsed in sober black.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Limit to Reform

EVEN our most jealous drys
T. would hesitate at banning coffee
or would they?
When the idea Of reforming peo-
Pile through mechanical means gets
going, no one can be sure where, or
at what, it will stop.
History is filled with the record
of curious inhibitions conceived on
the theory that if we poor humans
would cease doing this. eating that,
or drinking something else, We pres
emily would become angels.
The most discouraging part Of it
is that the enlightened twentieth
century and prosperous America
still find us playing the same old
game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
is slipping away SO

W7E1GHI Is Shipping away 50
w rapidly that 1t has disar-
ranged all my plans for the spring
offensive. The fabrics are selected,
out there is no point in having the
tailor make suits for a man twice
my size. At least twice the size 1
will be by the time the Easter
parade begins.
Two of my pet ambitions conflict
for the moment. want to be a
well-dressed man, and a thin one.
The first will have to wait a bit. AS
a matter of fact, was thin once,
but have never been well-dressed
man. The fault is my own. Society
is not to blame. I had my chance.
For more than a year shared an
office at Vanity Fair" with another
contributor who did a monthly col
umn entitled, What the Well
Dressed Man Will Wear" AL my
friends said the association would
be the making of me. They over
looked the strength Of my person.
atty.
At the end Of two months the
editor of the "Well-DresSed Man"
column was coming down to the Of
flee in a red sweater, and they had
to fire him. 1 had held my own.
I believe it was his failure to inf1u-
ence me which broke his heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Sultan Had Millions

MINE widows and thirteen chill
~ dren of the late Turkish Sui
tan are trying to salvage something
of his vast estate, confiscated by
various countries after the World
war.
Greece is said to have offered $780,
100000 for her share of the prop
erty, while Turkey, Syria, and 1raq
are expected to pay in proportion.
If they do, the estate will net
more than billion dollars.
When the Turkish sultan died he
had $4,000, 900 cash on hand, Willie
his annual income was estimated at
more than $15,000,000.
Prosperous as America may be, 1t
does not contain all the multinil-
lionaireS,
II, as congressman Fort declares,
prohibition has helped to make us
prosperous, the late Turkish sultan
might pay similar compliment
Turkey was the first nation to go
dry, and 1t was SO dry as to look
askance at coffee for many years.
Indeed, the introduction of coffee
caused a veritable storm throughout
Islam. Mohammedan fundamental
lists denounced it as stimulant, and
at one time the controversy led to
serious rioting in Constantinople.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
See Bright Side

WHATEVER else may pe Salu
w of the modern attitude, it
can certainly see the bright side OF
things.
Even such sharp critic as Isaac
Marcossan says that we shouldn't
sell MuSsolini short" because Primo
de Rivera has fallen.
Probably we shouldn't, but 1t
must make II Duce feel rather I'M
comfortable.
Like millinery and perfume, dc
tatorship is more or less subject to
the whims of fashion.
The Spanish upheaVel may amount
to nothing more than q local dis
turbance. On the other hand, 1t
may indicate general swing in
popular sentiment.
Reverting to the New York Cen
fury Club, Senator Brookhart has a
letter which alleges that real gin
cocktails" are served at its monthly
dinners.
The club was organized by Will
liam Cullen Bryant and others to
promote the arts and sciences.
If the cocktails are real, who will
deny that it is doing that very
thing?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Times Readers Voice Vices

spiritual development, but somehow
it doesn't seem to work that way.
If it did, we ought to be an ex-
tremely devout nation, as one of our
statesmen has said IS per cent Of
the American people are living in
poverty.
Believe it or not, 3 per cent Of the
people of this nation own more than
80 per cent of its wealth.
If any one doubts this, can fur
nish the proof.
In reply to President Hoover's ap-
peal for cooperation in boosting
prosperity, some state Governors re-
sponded with a plan to build more
and larger prisons to relieve the
congestion.
We, as a Christian nation, should
be proud of the fact that we can fill
our prisons and asylums faster than
we can build them. When The
Anti-Saloon League and all the pro-
hibition folks can see that it's just as
wrong to make a profit on hat, a
suit, or a plug Of tobacco as to
make it on a quart of liquor, then
and only then will we as nation
start upward to a glorious manhood
and Womanhood.
w. B. SCHREIBER.
622 Lexington avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Zeppelin

COMMENTING on the fight OF
~ the Graf eppelin, the journal
says: THE Graf Zeppelin was not
exclusively a chemical triumph
Yet it is doubtful if it could have
circumnavigated the globe without
the help Of various obscure per-
sons in laboratories and plants.
These obscure persons fueled It
with ethaue, derived from natural
gas for its return trip to Germany
from America. Later. when the
Graf Zeppelin set out from Toxic
for It's trans-Paciflc fight, its fuel
bunkers contained pyrofax mixed
with hydrogen; the last leg of the
journey was made with mixture of
pyrofaX and natural gas.
Nor was Edisons electric light
entirely chemical dream come
true. Nevertheless, a great deal of
chemistry seemed to have mex
tricably merged into its history by
the time Henry Ford staged its flf
tieth anniversary for his old friend
and brought Einstein into a mil
lion American homes through
barrage Of intercontinental static in
the first international broadcast OF
its kind"
The journal also states that there
was an increase in chemical imports
and exports in 1929.
"Organized effort to promote safe
ty in the chemical industry produced
constructive results" the survey
continues. Significant advances
were made in the development of
processes and equipment and in the
utilization Of products"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
SCIENCE
Sensational Advancement Is
Forecast in Field Of Chem
istru During Coming Year.
BY DAVID DIETZ'

SPECTACULAR advances are
y looked for in the field of chem
istrv in $780, This optimism grows
out of the record of 1929.
Advances in 1929 ranged from
practical aids for the field OF avia-
ton and other industries to dis
coveries in the theoretical realm OF
atomic structure.
In prolonging human life. In aid
ing aviation, in revising old con-
cepts. in building up industry at
home and abroad, in developing LOT
American men of science a world
wide system of abstracting chemical
literature. in effecting industrial
cooperation. and in the advance
ment of industrial chemistry and
chemical engineering. 1929 mirrors
a long list of conquests,' says a
statement of the American Cheml-
cal Society.
1T was" the journal states, the
year of the Graf Zeppelin's flight
around the world, of lights golden
jubilee in honor of Edison's first
modest electric lamp, of the death
of Baron Auer Won Welsbach, who,
among other things, made the gas
light of yester-year practicable.
ut was also the year when physi-
cal chemists. breathing hard on the
trail of the mathematical physicists
leading into the land of wave me-
chanics. found that the once funda-
mentally simple gases, oxygen and
hydrogen. were, after all, mixtures
of iSotopeS.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Easy Digestibility Vital for Invalid

yeast, peas, beans and nuts, liver,
heart and brain tissue; vitamin c
from oranges, lemons. grapefruit,
tangerine, ripened tomatoes, from
the green vegetables and other
fruits.
The best form Of protein for sat-
isfactory growth includes lean meats,
fish, cheese, milk and eggs. Dried
beans and lentils contain as much
protein as lean beef.
The carbohydrates are to be had
from sugars and starcheS, and the
fats are represented in the oils,
butter and fats Of meats.
The invalid diet must contain
some of all these things, selected
particularly with a view to easy
digeStibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Hence, DR.. R. H. A. Plimmer
suggests particularly white
diet" consisting of white meat,
white fish, served with white
creamed sauces, white cereals in
buildings and gruels.
In many cases of invalidism, fruit
and vegetables must be limited be-
cause they are likely to cause too
much activity in the bowel asso-
ciated with hatulence and indiges-
ton.
A Square meal" Is one which
supplies all of the vitamins and
correct amounts Of proteins, carbo-
hydrates and fats.
VitaminS A and D can be had par
ticularly from cod liver oil, fish roe,
egg yolk and butter; vitamin B from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
TT SEEMS TO ME By HF BFo0H

in my new suit, the spring rains
began, and in half an hour the
creation looked like all the rest OF
my clothes, which were unpremedi-
tated garments supplied at moder-
ate cost to anybody willing to walk
up two flights.
Somehow or other, clothes just
don't seem to cling to me. My JOB
as a columnist very seldom reC1ires
me to crawl around on my hands
and knees, and yet, before a month
is done, I have to tack when walk
ing against head winds.
But this, of course, is another
year and decade. Things are going
to be very different. When better
waiStlines are built, Broun will ehave
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
S$ZZETxNSSS~
blTIt1e
| ANNIVERSARY
.tEsttt5
SECESSION OF TEXAS
February /

nN Feb. l, 1861, Texas seeded
~ from the Union, despite the
opposition of Sam Houston, its
Governor.
Removed from the center of con-
flict, Texas saw little actual fighting
during the Civil war. The federal
forces captured Galveston and held
it for three months, but two at
tempts of the Union forces to enter
the state from Louisiana were de-
feated.
The last battle OF the war was
fought on the Lower Rio Grande,
near Palo Alto, a month after Apo
nattox.
Following the period of recon-
struction constitution was sub
mitted to the people in 1869, when
congressman and state officers were
elected.
AT the election In November, 1872,
the Democrats secured control of
the state and have since held it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
The Billboard

+ RECALL when my family decid-
l. ed that I should try a real tailor,
to appear something more alive
than I generally do.
There passed weary time. Again
and again had to go back to the
shop while an expert In freehand
drawing did designs on my back,
which looked for all the world like
a chart of the movements of the
ball in the Harvard Yale game.
Perhaps there was something
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
By DIR. MORRIs FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeis, the
Health Magazine.

TINE invalid's diet is usually con-
Il sidered to be one which will
place minimum amount of bur-
den on the organs of digestion and
provide material for taxing care OF
the wastage due to the ordinary
physical activities as well as those
due to disease.
OF particular importance to the
invalid Is the provision Of all
necessary food substances in rather
concentrated form, since it IS not
possible for the invalid to handle
a good deal Of bulk OF rough
age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
It Rained

CTILL, in all fairness to the tailor
- and his assistants, some Of their
time must have been devoted to
honest effort. Yet, work as they
would upon their charts, they could
not prevent a tumble.
Twelve hours after I left the shop
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this uaper,--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Who was Jenny Lind?

A celebrated singer, popularity
known as "the Swedish Nightin-
gale" born in Stockholm, Sweden,
in 1920, and died in 1887 at NAL
vern Wells.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Daily Thought

Bear ye one an0ther's burdens,
and so fulfill the Law Of Christ
Galatians 6:2.
Laws are the silent assessors Of
Tod.-W. r. Alger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01

The advice to speed up is o. k-if you're not go
ing down grade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01
Questions
and AnszOerS
Who invented the electric chair
for infiicting the death penalty?

Who invented the electric chair
for infiicting the death penalty?
1t was not an invention because it
was known that an electric current
would kill, as shown by experiments
upon animals made under the SUI
pervision Of George E. Fell, Buffalo,
N. Y. A New York commission con-
sisting of Elbridge Gerry, A. P.
Southwick and Matthew Hale was
appointed to investigate humane
ways of infiicting the death penalty.
In 1888 they suggested the construc-
ton Of a chair in which the criminal
could be placed for elctrocution
Such a chair was devised by E. F.
Davis, state electrician OF New
York in 1888 1889.
What moving picture has cost the
most to produce?
Ben Hur" is the most costly mo-
ton picture ever made. The pro-
ducers are said to have expended
100000 on it. The rights to the
play and book alone cost $1,000, 900.
There were 10000 persons in the
cast and three years were required
to produce it.
What IS the heaviest recorded
rainfall in the world and in the
United States?
The heaviest for a single day was
forty-six inches, June II, 1911, at
Baguio, Philippine islands. The
heaviest In the United States In one
day was 23.11 inches at Taylor, Tex,
on Sept. 8 and 10, 1921.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-01

The present sometimes makes up for the past
II you give it to your wife after a quarrel