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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Tooth Pastes Merely Keep Teeth Clean

sold with the claim that it contains
enough of certain antiSeptic 10
sterilize the gums and keep them
sterile.
The important thing for the aver
age person to remember Is the fact
that most of these preparations are
kept in the mouth not longer than
few seconds and that any effects
which they may accomplish are
quite temporary.
The exact causes of tooth decay
are not known. There is evidence
that the lack Of certain vitaminS in
the diet tends to encourage diseases
of the gums and tooth decay. There
is evidence that insufficient amounts
of calcium in the food may be as
ISOLATED with tooth decay in the
young.
Unquestionably, diseases affecting
the mouth, with the presence of
bacteria, encourage decay in the
adult. Hence, it is advisable to have
the mouth clean for this reason.
There exists an equally important
reason for the regular use of
cleansing preparations in the mouth.
The person with dirty mouth and
with a bad breath is a social misflt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
REASON By Ff fERBFS

VXTE lost good man when Ambassador Alexander
w P. Moore died in Los Angeles, for his engaging
personality enabled him to get close to the govern
ments he met as the representative of the United
States.
After the bright lights of foreign courts his was
a lonely finish in the darkened room Of hospital.
Just as soon Uncle Sam put little punch into
Chicagos crime situation 5000 undesirabes were ar
rested and 500 crimes solved, which would seem to
verify the charge that there has been an alliance
between Chicagos underworld and her official world
But the rest Of the country not infatuated with
Chicagos plan to drive away those she can not con-
Wet or deport, since this means passing the buck to
other communities
Still this is what other places have always done
Threatened to put the offenders in Jail unless they
left town.
IT was rather tough for that Columbus QndD gen.
l. tleman to ship that fox terrier back to his pur-
chaser at Youngstown O., after the poor animal bad
Travelled 400 long miles back to his home.
We would have kept that dog if it had taken our
shirt.
If you're fisherman you realize that nothing but
the most pressing business could have caused President
Hoover to reel in and leave the waters of Florida.
BY going from Miami to Los Angeles Mr. Coolidge
emuates the example of MI. Brisbane and endeavors
70 divide the honors equally between Florida and
California.
IF you are worrying about matters that don't
l. amount to rap, just stop and imagine the frame
Of mine Ole Eielson, who made the long journey from
the United States TO Alaska to help the searching
oarty seek the body Of his Lieutenant Carl Ben
EelSon, whose plane crashed in Siberia.
The interest which Americans have had In this
naval conference has been temporarily eclipsed by
the fall in the price of gas.
We hope this fellow who is to marry Mussolini's
daughter will have smooth sailing with his mother
nlaw for think what he win be up against with his
father-in-law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Most Deliberate

No one can accuse the Governor OF the
state of being too precipitate in his actionS
or decisions. If so accused, he would neeo
onlv to point to the most deliberate manner
in which the demand of the last legislature
for an investigation Of the building Oh
arnories under the old regime is beng
answered.
The public will remember that probe by
a committee of the legislature revealed some
very disturbing and rather suspicious facts
concerning the erection of many state
arnories.
There was involved bank and building
company which was owned by the bank ana
the sale of securities and the saddling of
moral debt on the taxpayers for a long
term of years.
It is true that when the plan was first
preached to the then attorney-general'
Arthur Gilliom, he gave decision that there
was no power to bind the state for period
longer than two years, but this did not
stop the plan of those who found the building
of armories a patriotic duty, but PAY
triotic investment. The people pay.
Most suspicious was the effort to block
any inquiry and indignant and persistent
efforts to stop the members of the leglsla-
ture from pursuing the matter at all.
AS a final decision the Governor promised
to furnish money from the very generous
funds placed at his disposal to employ build
ing experts to discover whether the people
received value from securities on which they
must pay interest for long term of years.
The state board of accounts was ordered
to employ these experts. So far, no inquiry
has been made.
Now that the effort to dislodge a college
president for being mildly pink has failed,
the people will want to know whether those
armories are efficient. This would seem a
good time for the Governor to act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Is Science Right7

MORE money for education, more
4VA for charity, more for uplift,
more for reform, than ever before,
with overcrowded prisons, a crime
wave, and child delinquency on the
increase.
What is the matter anyway?
Have we abandoned some old ideas
that should have been kept, or
haven't We gone far enough with
some of the new ones?
Scientists, or some of them at
least, say that the old theories Of
morality are all wrong, that mother
and dad should substitute psychology
for the slipper. and that the modern
school, if allowed to function freely
and adequately, would more than
take the place of the old-fashioned
home; that we should solve the
crime problem through hospitals
rather than prisons, and that the
alieniSt would do better as a judge
than the lawyer; that Freud is a
safer glide than Moses and that
time has come to replace Chris
tianity with a more up-to-date
religion.
What do you think?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
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ANNIVERSARY
.zz9It
ADAMS FIRST MINISTRY
Feb. rs

I'm Feb. Is, 1785, John Adams,
" second President of the United
States, was appointed first minister
to England.
Adams was one of the political
leaders Of Massachusetts, and an in
huential member OF the second con-
tinental congress. He achieved
distinction in diplomatic circles
when he secured from Holland q
loan for the national finances and
negotiated terms Of peace and COM
merce with Great Britain.
Appointed minister to England,
Adams found his post an irksome
one. He believed his service was
DOING his country no good and re-
turned home after only three years
abroad.
In the first election under the
new Constitution, Adams was elect
ed Vice President, serving two terms.
In 1895, on the refusal Of Washing
ton to accept a third term, he was
chosen President.
Adams died July 4, 1926, on the
same day as Thomas Jefferson. John
Quincy Adams, sixth President Of
the United States, was his son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Challenge

DY now the gap is wider. We
I'D didn't get there soon enough.
The fire engines come tearing
through our streets at the first
alarm. 1t is the plan Of these COM
munity servants to quell the blaze
before it fairly has begun.
Our penology is Of a different
standard. In this field Of activity it
is customary to wait until the whole
structure is in flames and then, ac-
cording to a foolish practice, we
pour kerosene on the fire, in the
form of Workhouse or reforrnatory
sentences.
Ruth st. Clair has been judged
a debtor to society. She will pay the
community for her thefts by being
locked in a cell for the rest Of her
natural life.
Just what good that will do any
Of us I do not precisely under
stand.
It would be better to let her pay
the debt by serving as a test case
for the best which modern psychia-
try has to offer. The fact she pre-
sents a difficult problem makes it all
the more interesting.
This is the sort of challenge worth
accepting. Surely, no medical man
Of brilliance wants to move through
the world like Primo Camera, tack
ling only setups
(Copyright 1890. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
- ditor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HySeia, the
Health Magazine.

NNE of the most debatable Ques-
~ lions in medicine and dentistry
today concerns the exact value Of
toothpasteS, mouth washes, tooth
powders and similar mixtures for
the health Of the mouth and the
teeth.
Many physicians and dentists are
convinced that the most any tooth
paste can do is to keep the teeth
clean and polished, and that there
fore any good soapy preparation
that tastes we'll serves the purpose.
However, the preparations avail
able are complex in their formulas
and extraordinary in their claims.
Some toothpastes are widely adj
vertised because of their alkaline
content, since it is urged that al
kaline tends to counteract the ten
dency of the mouth to become acid.
1t has not, however, been proved
thta there is any serious tendency
in this direction, nor that an OPP
posite tendency is especially Yalu-
able.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
SCIENCE
Life Viea0ed as TmpoSSiblity
on Mercury; Venus May
Have Inhabitants.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

lONE side of the planet Mercury
~ probably is red-hot. while the
other is as cold as it is possible for
anything in the universe to get. This
is the strange situation brought to
light by measurements of its sur
face temperature by Or. S. B.
Nicholson and DR.. Edison Petit Of
the Mt. Wilson observatory.
Our observations show that the
surface temperature on Mercury di-
rectly under the suns rays-that is,
at the point where it is noon on
NIercury-is 100 degrees Fahren-
heit," DR.. Petit said.
This is the melting point OF the
metal zinc.
IF there we're any tin, lead. or
zinc on Mercury at the spot where
this temperature obtains, they would
exist only in the molten form
These observations give Mercury
a still more novel position among
the planets revolving around the
sun than it formerly possessed:
There are eight planets revolving
around the sun of which, OF course,
our earth Is one. :"
Mercury is the smallest Of the
eight, the closest to the sun and
the one which possesses the most
eccentric orbit, that is, the one
whose orbit is most fiattened or disv
torted from the shape OF a circle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
A Dubious Memorial

Evolutionsts will be rebuked by five million dol
lar memorial university in Dayton Tenn to be erected
by admirers of the late William Jennings Bryan to
commemorate the last stand OF the Great Commoner.
The press notices say:
In the same building where John T. Scopes taught
his biology class the theory of evolution and brought
on the ant-evolution trial, the Bryan Memorial uni
versty will open for its first term next September with
a faculty each member of which will have affirmed
his belief that the Bible is infaIibly true
According to F. E. Robinson president of the
ISOLATION which is raising 100000 to build and
COW this university, there will be letup in
struction OF the administration building and it will be
completed from subscriptions already obtained from
friends and admirers of William Jennings Bryan"
It will not be necessary here to take up the ques-
ton OF the wisdom of establishing institution of
higher learning OF this sort. There would seem to be
plenty of its kind already But there is question
10 the wisdom OF erecting this particular monument
70 the memory OF the famous Democratic leader.
Bryan embraced some sterling causes and fought
for them with conmendable courage and persistence
These are the things for which he viii be remembered
by posterity.
Bryan Will be esteemed for his brave If futile fight
against irresponsible putocracy. Next would come his
battle against imperialism and his crusade for world
peace including particularly his effort to arbi
tration treaties.
Finally one could not overlook his nsistence upon
logic. honesty and fairness in applying international
Law to the beligerents in the World war uxsSsss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25

Editor Times-I have suggestion
to offer on the subject Of unem-
ployment which 7 think would be a
solution If carried out.
Well. here it goes:
If all shop owners who have put
women to work to reduce expenses
would weed out all the women not
compelled to work, that have hus-
bands working, or are able TO work,
there would be enough jobs for men
to put two-thirds Of the jobless men
TO work.
OF course, there are some Jobs
that are feminine by nature, but
these Jobs should be held by Wom-
en- who have no other source Of in
come.
There are hundreds Of cases
where men are employed making
big wages and their wives are work
ing and making almost as much as
they are and in positions where
some man should be so he could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
A Chance

TN a previous column about the
l. case, I spoke Of the young wom-
an as a girl who never had had a
chance. In a sense, this may seem
unwarranted, but I am prepared to
stand by it.
There is every indication in the
record presented by Maher that
Ruth st. Clair was slanted in the
wrong direction from the start.
Yet, even before the complete case
history was made public, I had no
other impression. was, and am,
perfectly ready to admit that in this
instance, and in many others, re-
form is long shot.
But concern for lost sheep is
neither silly nor sentimental
1t seems that from her earliest
childhood, Ruth st. Clair mani
tested rebellious tendencies against
all constraint.
I am in receipt Of a letter from
her cousin, who writes, Ruth has
two brothers and sister. The boys
and the other girl get along very
well, without applying to the chart
ties. They are quiet, well-educated,
reputable people, whom one can't
conceive as scratching the front
page.
You have to go deeper than pow
erty and illiteracy for a facile ex-
PLANTATION. Ruth was incorrigiole as
far back as I can remember. We
are of the same age. She always
manifested a distaste for authority.
"She was a prey to every tempta-
ton. Desire for a thing became an
obsession with her. She brooked
no restraint, and took more than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
AnCientS Had Wisdom

NV J ILtG W IOOOIlI
CTILL, the ancient world was not
~ without its wisdom. If it built
conservatively, it built Solidly, and
If it discouraged experiment, it left
room for art, culture, and the i'm
agination.
We can not become a, race of
nomadS and do worth while things
at the same time.
II the law of motion has its ad-
vantages, it also has its risks.
Desirable as it may be to alter
and improve the superstructure of
civilization, f1rnlness and durability
must be recognized as the most es-
Sential qualities of its foundation.
Basic customs, convictions and be-
lefs can not be changed over night
without confusion.
Because of what has been achieved
along mechanical lines, people are
assuming too much. There still is
a deal of difference between a good
automobile and a good human be-
ing.
We can produce a good automo-
bile in one-tenth Of the time that
we could twenty years ago, but it
takes the child just as long to
grow up.
Further than that, it takes just
as much patience and personal con-
tact to acQuaint the child with his
privileges and responsibilities We
have endeavored to shortcut the
process, and, perhaps, that accounts
for some of the trouble we seem to
be experiencing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Venus

"OUR study of Venus indicates n
" temperature Of Is degrees be-
low zero on the planet Venus" DR..
Petit says.
But we know from direct obServa-
tons of the planet with the tele-
scope that we never see the SUR
face of the planet Venus.
THE planet is covered with z;
thick layer of clouds. Occasionally
we see darker spots which may be
mountain tops poking through when
the clouds are a little thinner.
Therefore, the temperature which
we measure on Venus Is the tenn
perature of the upper side of the
clouds. Furthermore, we get the
same temperature readings for all
parts of Venus, whether we measure
the side Of Venus where it is day
or night.
consequently our temperature
reading must be for what is known
as the isothermal layer. that is
the layer Of the atmosphere where
the temperature is the same all over.
"Our earth has such a layer. 1t
is seven miles above the surface OF
the earth. It's temperature is 81
degrees below zero, or four times
as cold as the temperature we get
from what is evidently the same
sort Of layer on Venus.
This makes things look pretty
good for Venus. Of course we can
not say with certainty what tenn
perature on the surface of Venus
might be.
But since Venus is clouded, the
temperature must be high enough
at least to permit the existence OF
water vapor in the sky.
1T is also of interest to point
out that Venus is about the same
size as our earth, having diametefs
just a little smaller than that Of
our earth.
80 while it is impossible TO make
any positive statement about life on
Venus, it is not unreasonable to say
that if any planet is inhabited, 1t
probably is Venus"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Crescent

TUE to the fact that Mercury is
~ closer to the sun than the earth
we do not always see all its lighted
side from the earth. Consequently
in the telescope, Mercury appears -
go through phases like the moon.
When it is a crescent, 1t means
that part of the lighted side and
part of the dark side are turned to-
ward the earth. =
"a measure of the temperature at
the crescent phase gives an aver
age of 260 degrees" DR.. Petit says.
I'VE are convinced from this rapid
decline in the temperature meaSure-'
ment that the theory that Mercury
always keeps the same face turned
toward the sun, just as the moon
always keeps the same face toward
the earth, is correct.
1--WE believe, therefore, while the
face toward the sun may be red-hot.
the temperature of the other face
is that of the SO called absolute zero.
that is, the temperature of empty
space or 459 degrees Fahrenheit be-
low zero.
"We are also convinced that there
is no atmopsehe upon Mercury.
"It goes without saying that life
as we know it would be impossible
on Mercury"
DR.. Petit and DR.. Nicholson made
their measurements of the tenn
perature of Mercury with a device
known as the thermocouple. This
consists of a juncture of two diff
ferent metals within a vacuum cell.
This cell Is placed at the end OF
a telescope and the image of the
planet focused upon it. This heats
the juncture and generates an cleo
trio current of less than a bill
lionth of an ampere.
A delicate ammeter measures this
current and the temperature of the
planet is calculated from it.
The two scientists also have meas
ured the temperature of Mars and
Venus and come to the conclusion
that conditions which would support
life are more likly to exist on Venus
than on Mars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
r1 OrrNNC TN MI HAYWOOD
| | OGE1VlO l. ~ Y1% 0V BROUN

me that every unruly and incor-
rigible youngster of 8 surely Is
damned to become habitually GRIM
inal.
Our civilization Is a pretty sorry
proposition if we are going TO sit by
and watch the steady march from
juvenile delinquency through reform
school, jail, and finally life SEN
tence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Keep Money Moving

PROSPEROUS as we may be, we
4 have not arrived at a point yet
where we can afford to sit bach
and live on the dividends.
Even the few who own the most
of it hesitate to take that chance.
With regard to money, as witt,
regard to most everything else, we
depend on motion.
Time was when gold in the toe
of a sock was regarded as wealth
but nobody thinks of it that way
now.
We measure prosperity not BY
what We have, but by what we car
do with it, by the way we can turr
it over, make it work and repro
duce.
The wall Of Jericho just has beer
unearthed.
1t was constructed three or foul
thousand years ago, when the goa
of human ambition was perma
nency, and when men rated the
value of things by the time they
would last.
Not only structures, but institu-
tons, were measured by that yard
stick.
That is one reason why the an.
Gent world failed to progress, why
1t never crossed the Atlantic ocear
or discovered steam.
It's philosophy was static to the
core.
Its ideal government was that
which could survive, its ideal faith
that which never changed.
The ancient world boarded its
maxims in the same way that il
boarded its jewels, frowning on the
idea of putting either to work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

feed and clothe his family instead
Of letting them go hungry.
know just how this situation is,
as 7 am out Of work and have been
for quite some time. I have a fam
lily to keep and am having pretty
tough time Of it.
write this because I feel 1t would
help some if it could be IN print
before the shop owners and big
manufacturers eyes.
know that most men, even those
who are working, have the same
opinion as I. don't suppose this
will get any further than the waste
basket. A JOBLESS MAN. y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25

Why are there no snakes in Ire
land?
This Is due to geographical posi-
ton, isolated as it is from the re-
gion in which snakes originated and
which they now occupy. A few at
ternpts have been made to introduce
harmless species, but as far as the
records show none have been estab-
lished there. This may be due to
a lack Of proper environment, eli
mate, disease or other abnormal
condition. The lag-worm, or leg
less lizard which specifically looks
very much like snake, is native
to Ireland and may account for
some of the snake records of that
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
Daily Thought

Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.-St. John 1913.
1t is not true that love makes all
things easy; it makes us choose
what is diff1cult.--George Eliot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25

Where did Lincoln and Douglas
hold their debates?
The seven debates occurred in 1853
in the following Illinois cities: Ot-k
tawa, Aug. 81; Freeport, Aug. 81
Jonesboro, Sept. IS; Charleston
Sept. ID; Galesburg, Oct. a; Quirc,
Oct. 10. and aStop Oct, -