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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

IRON time to time American
4 commentators have grown either
scornfuI or indignant about visiting
British lecturers. I never have
Joined in the chorus of denuncia-
ton, because I used to be a lee
turer myself.
It's hard racket. and I would
grudge to no one the fair rewards
of his arduouS toll.
Well, almost no one. At the mo-
ment the custom of listening atten-
lively to any talker who happens to
come from abroad is being made
more than a shade ridiculous.
I have in mind the tour of Amer
lea by young Randolph, the 49,
year-old son of winston Churchill.
It has not been my privilege to
see or hear the boy in person, but
the little fellow is a likely looking
lad, judging from a brief shot OF
him which appeared in a neWsreel
But what is my amazement to
learn that the callow youth actually
is making addresses before grown
up audiences and talking, in fact,
about Britain's imperial destiny, the
problem of India and the need OF
bristling armament on the part OF
English speaking nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Questions and
Answers

What is the meaning of the names
Arabelle and IneZ?
Arabelle is from the Greek and
French and means virtuouS beauty.
Inez is Spanish and means star of
the sea.
What is the population of North
Carolina according to the 1880 CEN
SuS?
The preliminary count is 3,170,287.
What is GaliIeo's law of falling
bodies?
"All bodies, even the lightest.
would fall at the same rate were
it not for the resistance of air."
Who did Joan Crawford marry in
the picture Montana Moon?"
John Mack Brown.
Who is the chief of the United
States secret service7
w. H. Moran.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Day Full of News

TAKE Thursday, for instance
a with it's account Of the stormy
debate in the disarmament COM
mission at Geneva; of the stabbing
epidemic in Bogota, which sent
forty-f1ve to the hospital in one
night; of the landslide at Lyons,
which entombed fifty; of Senator
Glass cynical comment on the de-
STABILITY of cooperation between
the two great parties, as proposed
by seven leading Democrats; of
Ludendorffs silly predictions re-
garding European war in 1892,
and of the first case on record in
which a high school student was
taken to court for cheating at an
examination. Z
Contrary to every rule of the
game, 1 pick the last named episode
as the most significant, not only
because of its human interest ele-
ment, but because it illustrates a
tendency which is playing havoc
with our scheme of life in America
and which is responsible for many
of the troubles we attribute to
nobler vices.
To hale high school kid before
a bar OF justice because he got
another chap to pass his exan1ina-
ton and to charge him with "con-
spring to break the state educa-
tional laws may be an intellectual
way of meeting the problem, but our
grandfathers met it with nothing
more complicated than a hickory
stick.
In the same way our grandfathers
met a lot of problems which we are
trying to solve with intricate legal
formulae, merely by applying a rea-
sonable amount of common sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
d. a COAT ~, FREDERICK
N1I AOO4N Lands

TN the next congress the strength will be SO evenly
l. divided that the main business will be to keep all
members in attendance important occasions and
this is real job for the usual attendance is far below
the total.
On important matters the roll call in both houses
will be close as it was in the case OF Andrew john
sons impeachment. when one lone senator saved the
President and saved the country from mistake which
it would have regretted always.
This situation makes the senate insurgents all
powerful and vindcates the far sghtednesS of those
Republicans who insisted that the party refrain from
furnishing them for their rregularity, as was Sug-
gested. -.
1t may be taken for granted that Senator Moses
will not for some time again refer to them the sons
of the wild jackass.
THE insurgency of these Republicans may be made
up for in degree by the absence of partisanship
in such senators as James Hamilton Lewis and Bulk
ley both of whom come from Republican states and
hope to stay in Washington by manifesting de-
gree of independence from the party mandate.
The fellows who will be busy viii be the whips of
the house and senate. for they the who are
expected to have all OF their mates on hand when their
votes are needed.
To be good whip one should be able to go with
out sleep and follow fifty different fellows at and
the same time.
THE time is rolling around to help the Red Cross
i in its great campaign to reduce the unnecessary
death rate in maternity cases.
Fifteen thousand women die in childbirth in this
country every year and 10000 of them die
sarily
This situation should appeal to everybody and we
should give all we can so the Red Cross may send
more nurses into the homes OF those who have not
the to protect themselves.
The only other way out is birth control and this
will not be recognized proposition in America for
some time to come.
The fact remains that if poor Americans did not
have children increase IN population would come
from aliens naturalized and unnatErazed, for rich
American go in for cats and dogs and parrots rather
than kids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Everything by System


PRIMARILY, we Americans are
l. moving merrily forward on the
assumption that systems can be in
vented to do away with personal re-
sponsibility, just as systems have
been invented to do away with in
dividu&l crafts and trades.
We are playing with the idea of
runaing society along lines some
what similar to the United States
Steel Corporation, just as though
moral development required nothing
but mechanical efficiency, and just
as though this thing we call coop
Grafton were not limited by insur-
mountable barriers.
There is no such thing as mass
production at the birth or death of
human being. Those are two oc-
casions when we have to go it alone,
and there are lots of occasions in
between, if we only realized it.
Parents have responsibility
which the state never can assume
So have school teachers, and a lot
of other people.
A constantly increasing number
of people, however, are permitting
themselves to be sold on. the idea
that the state can assume every
thing. They are being sold on it
because it allows them to believe
that through taxation or authority
they can escape most, if not all, the
ills to which flesh is heir.
The philosophy is just Commun-
ism in another form. If carried to
its ultimate conclusion it would
land us right where Russia is today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Views of Times Readers

be of use to every taxpayer, I wish
to call your attention to a difference
between telephone and telegraph
rates that your commission perhaps
would be interested in investigating.
I find that station to station
call between Indianapolis and Vim
cenens at 7 p. m. costs some 40
cents. That is, if talk to any one
in the house, but if I wish to talk
to the subscriber of the phone, a
call costs me S1.10. also find that
a fifty-word night letter over West
ern Union, messenger service in
cluded, costs only 80 cents.
1t is apparent that something is
wrong. Either the telephone COM
pany is charging too much, or the
telegraph company is not charging
enough, standing a chance of losing
money.
also find that the rate for cleo
trio current at my home at 2106
South Emerson avenue, which is
about five miles from the power
plant OF the Indianapolis Power and
Light Company, costs just twice as
much as current does at Broad Rip
pie, the same distance north of the
power plant, Or at Emerson and
Michigan streets, the same dis
tance east of the power plant, and
we might draw the same conclusion
in this place, that the company is
perhaps losing money in the current
that they are supplying at the two
places mentioned; therefore we sug-
gest, now that the campaign is over
and the regular routine and order is
in the statehouse, that these mat
tiers be considered.
GILBERT S. WILHELM,
President Property Owners Pro-
tective Association of Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
M. E. Tracy
We Americans Are Assuming
That Systems Can Be In
rented to Do Aa0ay With
Personal ResponsibiIitn.
SAYS:

HOT or cold, fair or foul, pros
i 4 porous or depressed, the day
never ends in this age Of high
power press and quick communica-
ton without bringing forth several
stories. any one of which could be
developed into a column, if not a
volume
Out of the billion or more human
beings with whom We have come to
dwell in more or less intimate times.
some always can be depended on to
be silly enough, bold enough, or
queer enough to make good reading.
The difficulty is to separate chaff
from wheat. 1t requires little less
than super-editor to square head
lines with copy. Too many times I'M
important incidents get far more
publicity than they deserve, while
those of real consequence go prac-
tically unnoticed.
"Straws show which way the wind
blows" We say. but with scant ap-
probation of how distinctly it ap-
plies to the news.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
On Wrong Path

XXTE have adopted constitution
w al amendment, for no reason
in the world except that a few could
not drink without getting drunk and
have instituted an elaborate system
of juvenile penology to attain re-
suits which once we're attained with
good advice on the part Of parents,
backed up with nothing more mys-
FERROUS than a slipper or a hair
brush.
The whole setup goes back to pre-
cisely the same state of mind which
produces this high school kid in
court TO be treated as criminal,
if not a traitor, with his mother
weeping lest dad find out what has
happened, and three teachers very
much embarrassed over the aft
davits they are obliged to make.
If we continue to tread this high
brow path, it is not illogical to sup
pose that the time may come when
a grand jury will be called in if a
boy throws a spitball, while a case
of speaking out Of turn may go to
the supreme court for adjudication
as to constitutional rights.
It's an intriguing prospect when
you come to consider it in all it's
details and possibilities. Those who
think we struck bottom with the
eighteenth amendment would do
well to observe what kind of laws
are being proposed and what kind
Of offenseS are being made subject
to judicial procedure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-


Discovery of Ancient Tomb
IN MesopotansiG Expected
to Throio Ne10 Light on
Customs of AsiGtic Nation.
DISCOVERY of an ancient tomb
- in northern Mesopotamia con-
tanning terra Gotta sarcophagus,
pottery and beautiful bronzes, just
has been announced by the Univer-
Sity of Pennsylvania Museum
Archaeological expedition.
The expedition, under direction
of Dr. Thraim A. Speiser, made its
discovery at Tell Billa.
DR.. Speiser believes that the tomb
belonged TO the period of the Per-
sian dynasty known as the Ashe-
mind dynasty. This dynasty ruled
from $40 B. c. until its conquest by
Alexander the Great in $50 B. G.
The discovery is particularly val
liable because the tomb never had
been entered. It is the heart
breaking experience as a rule to find
that thieves have plundered a tomb.
Because of the valuable objects
put into tombS in ancient days,
many tombs we're plundered within
few years of the royal burial,
sometimes within month.
For that reason, Psychologists
hope that the Tell Billa find will
throw much light on the history and
customs of its period.
A complete description Of the
tomb has not yet been received
from the expedition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
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BOOKER WASHINGTONs
BIRTH
November IA

ON Nov. IA, 1853, Booker T.
~ Washington, American Negro
educator, was born on a planta-
ton near Hale's Ford, Va, the
son of mulatto slave.
After the Civil war he went
to Maiden, w. Va, to work in a
coal mine. With the elementary
education he acquired at night
schools, the young miner entered
the Normal and Agricultural insti-
tute at Hampton, Va. He later be-
came an instructor.
In 1881, with a reputation es-
tablished for educational work
among Indians, Washington was
appointed to establish a colored
normal school at Tuskegee, Ala.
He opened the school in a dilapi-
dated house and church, with thirty
students, and himself the only
teacher, but he left it with many
buildings, much land, 1900 stu
dents and 1876 teachers.
He acquired nationwide atten-
ton for his ability as an orator
and his work for the education
and improvement Of his race.
Harvard gave him an honorary
degree in 1896, as did Dartmouth in
1901.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Editor Times-I have been read
ing "Tarzan." which has been ap-
pearing in pictorial form in your
paper for some time. I have quit
using hair tonic, as his adventures
are so Embarrassing AS the Scotch
say, very wisely, "a penny saved is
penny earned" and save sew
enty-nine of them every time miss
bottle of hair tonic.
But, tell me, how does Tarzan
live way out in the jungles, far
away from the barber shops and
places where razors are sold, and
vet the lad never needs a shave?
Maybe it's the close shaves he has
with lions and the natives that keep
his face clean.
You are doing a great work with
these classics, by Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs, in pictorial form, as it costs
too much to buy the cloth bound
books to suit the average purse
these days.
No one misses the price Of a pa
per daily and dollar and half
! is too much for a book. A dollar
and a half will buy several meals
or drinks. Or pay the first install
ment on an overcoat!
There is one kick, though, If you
would say it plain, and that's the
hero is an Englishman. Why not
print some stories dealing with
Americans when this Tarzan story
is finished? A good companion story
dealing with Americans and life in
Chicago would be 1.-THE Jungle by
Upton Sinclair, which can be pro-
4 duced easily.
/ The eyes of the U. S. A. are on
Chicago at the present time, and
THE Jungle" is a dandy story about
that city.
Yours for homegrown heroes.
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

BY DIR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TINE color of the skin Of new
4 born baby is, of course, indica-
tive Of the state of health and OF
the nature of the diet given to the
child.
A gray color of the skin should
not be present in a normal child. If,
however, the volume of the blood is
decreased greatly, and if the child
receives an insufficient amount OF
ultraviolet, the skin is likely to
have gray appearance.
The skin of a normal child is
resilient and apparently full OF
blood. In the absence of q proper
diet, the skin promptly becomes
loose, flabby and inelaStic.
In case the child is receiving an
insufficient amount of iron or Of the
necessary vitamins, the skin be-
comes exceedingly pale.
The normal baby also has a
good amount of fat under the skin.
If one picks up a fold of the skin
on the abdomen, it will be found
that the fold will be at least one
half inch thick, which is due to the
fat under the skin.
If, ON the other hand, the child is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

For instance, it would have been
no bad thing to remind the political
education group and also the swag-
gering STRIPPING that when the great
war broke out Randolph S. Church
i'll was precisely years old.
And that when it ended he had
reached the complete and mel
lowed wisdom of 8. In the days of
the mud and blood in Flanders
Ranny sat in a sandpile and Dashed
lead soldiers one against another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Goat Glands

The ~gullible and the credulous' gave John r.
BrinkIey goat gland doctor, 10000 votes for Gov
ernor Of Kansas says William Allen White of En-
poria They had to write in his the ballots,
Tor he ran as an independent
1t was the Submerged quarter of the electorate Z
sLgs white, that supported the grotesque Bysnkley
be same crowd that sustsins tTsmmany aSA the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
The Continuous Radio

The advantage Of the radio, it pointed out soon
after its Introduction, is that you shut it off.
But, we have discovered this does not apply to the
neighbours radio to the radio in the hotel lobby
the drug store or the barber shop which often
blare forth Jazz records educational talks adverts
ing pleas and grooming tunes from morning till night
Here's something for the anti-noise crusaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Soldier Suit

TN the newspaper accounts there
L is no mention of anything but
the most respectful attention for
the words of the precocious fire.
eater who ratified a toy tin saber
in full view of the audience.
It would have been fitting if some
subsequent speaker gently had
called to tie attention Of the
listeners a few chronological facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Voice Chances

r WOULD not deny the right Of
L opinion to any one. Thoughts
of an interesting kind may come in
adolescence.
Yet it gives me horrid turn when
I see a youngster set up in public
to unsheath the sword long be-
fore there is any particular point
in his having recourse to razor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to sheir
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this uaper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
Daily Thought

In much wisdom is much grief.
-Ecclesiastes 1:18.
It Is not wise TO be wiser lthan
Is necessary -Quinault.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

What is the population Of the
Philippine Islands? What race OF
people predominates? What is the
leading religion?
The total population, according to
the Philippine census Of 1918 is
I0,314,31O, chiefly Of the Malay race.
The Roman Catholic religion has
the largest membership there. This
body reports 9,724,965 adherents.
The total number Of Protestants is
les, 235. There are 24,363 Buddhists
and 443,037 Mohammedans.
What animal appeared with Lon
CLANCY in ''The Unholy Three?"
1t was a man made up to rep
resent a gorilla. It is said to be
the most startling animal imper-
sonation In the history Of the
screen. The name Of the man was
Fred Hunes.
Is pure gold Is or "a carats7
Twenty-four carats Is pure gold
and Is carats has six parts alloy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

The jobless of New York who selling apples foi
sustenance apparently demonstrating that at times
applejack may be something other than drink.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Ware OUTFIT, and elects men like Big Bill Thompsos,
in Chicago.
wherever it be segregated by demagog, it
becomes menace to civilization" says White.
The sage Of Emporia probably knows what he is
talking about. He made himself famous in 1896 by
writing editorial. Whats the Matter with
Kansas" and he ought to know what's the matter
with the state
But what White doesn't attempt to explain is why
the Submerged" fourth Of the electorate found SC
little to attract them in the two major parties. Ger
tanly the Brinkey vote is rebuke to both of them
and indication OF deep undercmrent of dissatis-
faction which could not find expression in any
other way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Il confess, said the prince of Wales that to make
a speech worries much trying to play good
golf" But it makes difference whether you get the
birdie at one or the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Two wresters former football players, knocked
each other Unconscious by meeting head-on in a
recent match. AS though you could keep football
players away from skull practice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Take tip from me-" as the emperor of Abyssin
probably said, when he gave away dimes at his cor
onation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Editor Times-The following let
ter has been sent to Governor Les
lie: Judging from your kindly atti-
tude toward the rank and file Of
citizens in the recent campaign, and
your seemingly fraternal desire to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

This is the second of series OF four
articles by DIR. Morris Fishbein on nutri
ton of the child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14

Editor Journal OF The American Medlcal
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-23
Leather Goods
$3.50 to SIS Values

ACotl1C1 OOOOS
-3S Collar Bags, $l.00 to $2.5o
values; Brown Leather Pullman
slippers, $1.00 value; so
Picture Frames, $1.00 E0o
40 Leather Key Cases, as
sorted leather belts. soc OSc
value
Leather Handbags, soiled.
$ ssiSs to $1,000 ~ Price
Street Floor.
Linens
SO Bath Mats, seconds Of $1.o0
grade: dark colors; full 40
size
go Turkish Towels, seconds of
$500 grade: solid colors; zGC
heavy weight. Each. 80. SOO
Two 7-piece Linen Luncheon
Sets, Spanish hand embroidered;
So 54-inch size; were Sl5.05
go Boxes Cocktail Napkins.
pure linen; 6 in box; reg. 70
S1.00. Special, a box. -.
--24O Linen Da1nash Table Nap
kins, 17-inch size; gold
borders; hemst t C h e d: 7No
Were lee each. ........
80 Pieces Birdeye Diaper Cloth,
~ inches wide, 10
yards in piece; reg. 97 Ok
$1.59 Q piece. .....
Kann's-Street Floor.
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HOnefttings

Curtain Strips, lee to H.
39c values ............. AON
la Velour Portiere
Strips, $500 to $3.50 Ct OK
values ..............
Remnants Curtain and ORA
perry Fabrics, 29c to ACC To-
values. Yd.. ~
Remnants Curtain and ORA
perry Fabrics, sec to e8c 7Oo
values. Yd..
Remnants Curtain and Dra-
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$198 values. Yd.
IA Cretonne Folding @C %
Screens, $500 value. %@'>
Curtain Strips, sec to COc
csc value ...............
-5O-inch Sunfast Drapery DAM
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values. Yd............. w
Tapestry w all
Panels, $1.98 to $2.98 CT 90
values ..............
"A Red Cedar Go or
Chests, $27.5o value %AG'~0
-2S Pairs Half Sash Cur 90
tains, sec to csc values. ~
Assorted Pillows, 31.0o 7OO
to $1.98 values ......... ~
"A Rayon Bedspread Sets,
soiled. e29.96 to S49.96 @7S
values .................
rs Pairs Velour Drapery Sets,
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$3.50 values ....... ~
IS Glider Couch
H m m cks. s17.sS 90 zS
value ..............
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Gloves
SIS prs. Fabric Gloves,
novelty cuff. $2.25 o.
value ....
80 prs. Children's Fabric
Gloves, novelty cuff and one
clasp. Sizes 2 to 6. soc QOo
value
- prs. Children's Capeskin
Gloves, tan. $2.25 Ct *
value .............,..
liz prs. ChiIdren's Mocha
Gloves. GRO: $1.75 0Sc
Fd1uC
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