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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
Drinking Cup Menace Eliminated

rangements, there is apparently a
tendency toward carelessness as in
variably occurs after long attention
to any hygienic procedure.
Orange juice stands, lemonade
stands, soda fountains and other
places where fruits and beverages
are made available become increas-
ingly careless about the manner in
which dishes are washed or in which
utensils are used from one patron
to another.
Scientific Investigations that have
been made in the past have proved
conclusively the menace that lies
in the drinking vessels improperly
cleaned and passed from one per-
son to another.
The public should look carefully
at the methods used in various
places of distribution of fluids for
drinking purposes and should not
only refuse to use cups where the
cleansing is not conducted properly
or where the individual cup is not
provided, but should take measures
to see that such utensils are not
freely open to people not similarly
careful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
REASONS
FREDERICK
lands

WE should thank Cuba for her objection to the
w concessions necessary to admit this country to
the world court for We are better out OF It, since
it owned and controlled by the League OF Nations
The Root amendment does not safeguard our
interests it Surrenders the protection OF the senate
reservations and unless we can go into this european
courthouse on our own terms we should stay out.
We have got along fairly well so far
y
The senate reservations provided that the world
court could not without our consent consider mat
ter in which this country claimed an interest out the
Root amendment provides that we object to the
consideration of such question we can get out OF the
court.
TN other words we surrender jurisdiction on all mat
ters or we are kicked out If Japan wishes to have
the nations of the world chew the rag about our ex-
cuson of the japanese and we object to 1t, we can
take our hat and go.
Against this kind of a proposition the people
would vote overwhelmingly but even they did TINS
bunch of international bankers would show up at
washington inside of forty-eght hours and the ad-
ministration would forget all about the peoples man
date.
Out of all foreign entanglements we are the boss
of the show but in them We are just of the part
ners: on an equality with Cuba, Venezuela
and Albania
Every time we have mixed up with this bunch re
have been short changed and We would better stay
home and mind our own business.
TNCLE SAM is in the position Woodrow Wilson
~ was in after the armistice he was the biggest
power alive.
Had he stayed in Washington he could have die
tated the terms of peace but he abandoned his SUI
periority, went there and got terms Of mere
equality with the rest-and that the end of him.
In taking care Of this country we rather would
trust the corn belt than q bunch of international
slckers doing business in New York City, and we
hope the senate hits the Root amendment where
Nellie wore the beads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
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BIRTH OF FOCH
October 2

ON Oct. 2, 1851, Ferdinand Foch,
~ French general, and general
iSsimo of the allied forces dur
ing the World war, was born at
TarbeS, France.
He joined the French army when
he was 10 and fought in the war
against Prussia. In 1898 he was
appointed lieutenant colonel and
professor Of strategy and tactics in
the war college at Paris, of which
he later became commandant.
In the early days Of the invasion
of France in 1914, F'och stopped
the great German drive toward
Calais and subsequently won the
victories at Ypres and La BaSsee.
The plan whereby Joffre defeated
the Germans in the battle of the
Marine largely was due to Foch,
who came to be regarded as a mas
ter tactician among the allied COM
manders.
Placed in command of the allied
armies at time when the enemy
was threatening Paris, Foch organ
lied for a counter offensive.
He blocked the fifth great often
sive of the Germans and began a
series of continuous attacks. Under
relentless pressure, the German
army, beaten in every battle, was
obliged to retreat from France.
In recognition of his services, he
was created marshal of France
and later made marshal in the
British and Polish armies. He died
on March 20, 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
The Faint Glory That Was Rome

The great word painters from Gibbon to II Duce,
Roman empire. This massive political structure
the greatest creation of before the British en-
pire of today-extended the Parthian deserts in
the east to the Pillars of Hercules in the west and
from white-clfed Albion in the north to the Nuban
sands in the south.
Exotic and colorful triumphs graced the streets
Of the Eternal City. Gold precious stones captured
armies, hordes of slaves, beautiful maidens from
conquered areas, strange beasts and birds passed
we're provided by the politicians to amuse and
placate the multitude. New York soup kitchens and
amusement piers cut a poor figure in comparison
with the political lavishness Of those days
Where did Rome get the money for such extrava-
-arrt grandeur? What was the volume of her income?
The common men would take 1t for granted that
she lched billions from her subject peoples 1t takes
s6OOoOoOOO to run New York for a year. What must
it have cost to put the spectacular and perpetual
holiday that Rome'
The actual figures astounding. It is the
opinion of the best scholars that the total annual
income of the Roman empire at its most prosperous
moment was not more than $25,000,0o0.
Talcott Powell of the New York Telegram informs
us that Jimmy Walker tucked away in the budget
of New York miscellaneous pin money" to the tune
of $2S5S4S48. In short. the unclaSsifed financial
succotash of Jimmy's kingdom in the year OF our
Lord $780, equals the total of Rome under
the mighty Augustus Truly the grandeur of Rome
vas faint and fieeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
A tin for Democrats

DUT, in all seriousness, I've al
D ways felt that VIII Rogers
would make fine presidential can
didate. Nobody knows whether he's
wet or dry, and that would help
some.
And people aren't sure whether
he's a Republican or Democrat
which would help even more. Ger
tainly he could make better cam
paign than anybody who has run
in the last twenty years.
Why, when Will Rogers was play
ing in the Follies people used to
pay $40 or $12 a seat to see him.
Think of how they'd turn out II
they could see him for nothing.
More over, Rogers would be the
sort of candidate who could get ten
laughs out of the tariff, which no
body has done before in the whole
history of American politics.
When I first saw Will Rogers he
was in vaudeville, and he had an
other man with him and rope and
a horse. He was strictly a 1ariat
thrower then. He chewed gum and
said nothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
Lights and Stoves

TINE hottest stars were found to
l. be those which are very blue in
color, stars like Zeta in the con-
stellation of Orion.
The hottest stars do not neces-
sarily give us the most heat, how
ever, the two astronomers point out.
"They radiate the most heat per
unit of area" the astronomers say,
"but a cooler star may be SO much
larger that its total radiation ex-
ceeds that of the hotter star.
This is illustrated by an electric
light and an electric stove. The
filament of the light is much hotter
than the wire coil of the stove, but
the latter is so much bigger that
the total energy radiated from the
stove is much greater than that
from the light.
ION the other hand, the electric
lamp gives more light than the
stove.
There are stars like the electric
light-small, very hot, and bright,
with comparatively little heat out
side the visual region. And there
are stars like the Stove-big, COM
paratively cool, and faint usually,
but with an enormous amount of
heat radiation which can be meas
ured with the thermocouple.
1.-THE coolest stars observed are
the long-period variables. Because
they are SO cool they are very red
and give very little visual light in
proportion to their heat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
A Lucky Run

"HAT didn't need much explana-
i ton as long as the tricks went
right. But one night VIII Rogers
was very lucky. Every time he'd try
to rope anything he missed. He
couldn't lasso the man or the morse
or any part of them.
Moreover, each time he missed the
rope got all tangled up and he had
to unravel it in full view of the
audience.
Now, viii Rogers, although a
silent man, was by no means dumb.
He realized that he wasn't catching
either the audience or the horses
right hind leg.
They hadn't paid so cents apiece
to watch an Oklahoma cowboy unite
knots in rope and chew gum. So
Just in desperation VIII Rogers
began to talk to them.
That voice which millions have
heard since on the stage and in
talking pictures and over the air was
first raised to apologize to a small
time vaudeville audience for rope
tricks which were going all wrong.
But VIII apologized SO well that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
The Lame Duck Commission

The acts of lame duck congresses usually are re-
garded with some suspicion The lame duck federal
power commission scheduled to relinquish Its powers
and duties in two three months, when the senate
confirms its successor may find itself likewise sus-
pect if it acts upon some Of the important matters
now pending before it.
within the last few days, Attorney General
Mitchell has opened the way for final action on
matter pending for five years. He has opened the
wav for action that would reverse the decision of
earlier power commissioners and, it seems appar-
emit nullify the federal water power act itself in
several important respects.
For five years the Appalachian Electric Power
Company one of the Electric Bond and Share group,
has refused to accept license to build power
project on the New river In Virginia unless 1t could
have license free from the usual requirements OF
the water power act as to supervision of plans by
the commission regulation Of surplus payment OF
fees to the government, etc.
The request always was refused by officials who
often were sympathetic with the power company
point OF view in other matters.
Now Mitchell says that the commission legally may
issue minor part license" to the company, free Of
all restriction except the hfty-year limitation.
The law provides that "in issuing licenses for
+. MINOR part only of complete project or for
romplete project Of not more than 10O-horse power
napac1ry. the commission may waive such
conditions ="
Mitchell feels justified in applying this to the APP
,,alachian Electric Power Company's 80O0O-horSe
mower case. because "the only interest which the
limited States has to protect is very minor
part of the complete project
If the commission acts according to MitchelFs
|lling, important water power projects on at least
ven rivers likewise could be exempted from the re-
Arernents of a regular license. Pursued far, this
z1;cv would make the power act nothing but joke.
The application at issue has waited five years.
shere seems to be no reason why it should not wait
three months more, or even longer, until the new
commissioners have had chance to form an opinion
on this precedent which viii be important in their
administration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
Communist Ideals of Fair Play

The omrimists have done much wailing during
the last six months the way they and their meet
ings have been treated by the police. They point 70
their artyred leaders, Foster and Minor rotting for
nearly year in foul prison
No doubt the Communists have been man-han-
died by the New York police especially in the latter
part Of the Whalen regime. But what are their own
ideals Of free speech and fair play? Hardly better
we may Judge from their attitude toward their rad
ical rivals, the I. w. VS. For months the Commu-
nists have been breaking up "Wobbly" meetings in
the Union square area.
There was more than the usual amount Of blood
and drama on the occasion of the night Of Sept. IT,
The wobbles we're holding their meeting with police
permission at Fourteenth street and University place
The Communists gathered as usual and created such
disturbance that the police had to clear the street
Then some of the Wobblies went down to a Com
nunist meeting at Second avenue and Tenth street.
AS they arrived the Communist speaker was extolng
the Communists ideals of free speech. Herbert Nah
Ter stawart Wobbly thereupon heckled the speaker
and demanded why the Communists did not allow the
Wobbes to hold their meetings in peace.
Immediately a plain clothes man in the crowd
felled a Wobbly with his billy. Four Wobblies were
thrown into a police patrol and two Of them badly
beaten up the way to the station house. To fore
stall charges against the policemen, these two men
we're charged with felonious assault and held under
heavy bail.
The Civil Liberties Union is seeing to it that the
two wobbes shall not be raroaded to Jail without de-
cent defense But the main significance Of the episode
its reflection upon the sincerity of the Communist
protestations of belief in free speech They expect
the capitalists to tolerate their violent attacks upon
capitalists but they not willing to give the street
corner to another group of Reds who differ slightly as
to how they would get rid of capitalism.
Until the Communists lay off the Wobblies their
winnings about unfair treatment from the police will
not impress reasonable greatly. 1t is up to the
intelligent and reasonable leaders of the Communists
to discipline their unruly cohorts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -

About 1910, various states began
to pass laws opposing the use of
common cups and today practically
every state in the Union has legis-
lation which eliminates this men
ace.
It has been interesting to observe
the way in which inventors have
provided substitute for the COM
mon drinking cup. Folding cups to
be carried by the individual were
exceedingly popular. Then came
the paraffln paper cup which is sold
at an infinitesimal price in large
quantities and which is made avail
able on railroad trains and in pub
lie places.
Then came the wide variety Of
this type of cup, which can be in
serted In a holder and which will
take the place of the glass utensil.
The modern soda fountain sub
stitutes paper cup for the care
1essly washed glass Of the past, or
has a device with circulating water
under pressure with which each cup
can be washed as it is used.
Notwithstanding all these ar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02

merely the basis Of the unsupported Kelley charges
But 1t must be admitted that Wilbur has not taken
quite the objective attitude toward such serious
charges as expected Of cabinet member.
On the first day that Ralph s. Kelley charged
Wilbur and his department with showing fayorttism
to large oil companies "endeavoring to titles
by fraud" to billions Of dollars worth of oil shale
lands in Colorado, Wilbur did not seem to think the
matter important enough to merit formal reply.
On the second day, after public pressure, Wilbur
issued long and confused statement Of denial Much
of his statement devoted to oil leases, which had
nothing whatever to do with the Kelley charges.
In the same statement Wilbur ordered Kelley to
submit substantiating data to him. The only in
vestigation contemplated apparently one in
which Wilbur the accused, was to act as judge in
his own case
After the improperly of such partisan probe had
been pointed out by the press, the third day Will
bur got around to asking the department of justice
to investigate. Wilbur took this action only after
four senator's had suggested the need for con-
gressional investigation.
Now Wilbur attempts to minimize the Importance
of Kelley and the charges by referring to him casually
as "a clerk" Such charges coming from clerk
would be serious enough. But it happens that the
official register lists Kelley "chef of the field di-
vision" of the Colorado lands in question.
Wilbur knows this he knows that Kelley was the
highest official Immediately charged with this work.
and that Kelley has quarter century of responsible
government service to his credit.
Wilbur does himself an injustice when he meets
these charges with sneers.
There was a dignifed and effective course open to
Wilbur AS soon as the charges made, he should
have stated his side of the to the President and
requested the President to have the charges invest
gated promptly and fully by impartial body, not
connected with the administration.
Such nonpartisan investigation would have made
talk of congressional PROBE at least this early in
the game, unnecessary. AS it is the senators who
have had most experience with Teapot Dome and
other interior department scandals in the past hardly
can be blamed for being unusually alert when new
charges against the interior department and Oil COM
panies are made by hitherto responsible govern
ment official
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
SCIENCE
-nY DAVID DEFY.

-@i9 LA IL ILL 49,
The Hottest Stars Do Not
Necessarily Give the Most
Heat, Astronomers Find.
NEW facts about the tempera-
4 y lures Of stars have been
brought to light by DR.. Seth B.
Nicholson and DR.. Edison Petit, as
tronomers at the famous Mt. Will
son observatory.
Nicholson and Petit used a Their
mocouple, a delicate electrical ther-
mometer, attached to the 100-inch
telescope, the worlds most power
ful telescope.
The work shows that the tenn
perature of stars ranges from 1900
degrees, Centigrade (2,So0 degrees
on the Fahrenheit thermometers
which is in general but not scien-
tific use), to $4,000 degrees, Cent?
grade (41,o00 degrees Fahrenheit) i.
The lowest temperature stars were
found to be red stars of the sort
known as long-period variables.
They are so-called because they do
not shine with a steady light, but
vary slowly in light intensity over
a long period of time.
Their behavior seems roughly
ike that Of smoldering fire which
elies down at one moment and flares
up at another.
Stars like our own sun were
found to have temperature of 5000
degrees Centigrade, or 10000 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Astronomers
classify such stars as yellow stars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
Times Readers Voice Vie1CS

But the main point I wish to call
attention to is this: I am not the
only person in the neighborhood
who dislikes their loud, nasty yell
ing. Far be 1t from me or any one
else to interfere with them as far
as making living is concerned.
But is 1t necessary that all three
Of them yell at the rate of sixty
yells minute2 Let me suggest
here, that, since they have to yell
for living, they pick out the fell
low with the more reasonable voice,
then let him do all the yelling alone
and let the others hold their peace
forever. H. V,B.
Editor Times-There are a lot of
good Republicans in Marion county
who are disguised with the methods
pursued by the Republican organ
ization. If we Republicans would
have real Republican organization
once again in our no mean city and
county, we first must rid ourselves
OF the old organization before the
good Republicans will believe in us
and vote with us. Let's all clean up
this time, SO we can come back with
clean hands.
ALWAYS REPUBLICAN,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BE04S

the audience like it. And after that
night he began to miss tricks on
purpose.
He found that it was easier to
catch people with a joke than with
a rope. In few months the horse
and the assistant who rode him had
been sent back to the ranch where
they came from.
Nevertheless, Rogers didn't quit
the rope right away. He still had a
use for that. If an audience didn't
laugh at his jokes, he'd just go into
a rope trick.
But after a little bit he didn't
even need the rope. They always
laughed. If they didn't laugh the
first time he'd take the same joke
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
City Has Its Right

TINE very reasons that justify
l. Buffalo in accepting the
diversian of through freight with
equanimity sustain her argument
that the Erie route of the states
barge canal system be kept and
improved.
For more than a century, she has
been adjusting her commercial and
industrial life to this route.
To deprive her of it at this late
day would constitute nothing less
than arbitrary interference with her
vested rights.
It is one thing to divert through
the traffic around a town, whether
by land or water, but it is quite
another to cut of a trade thorough
fare Of which the town is a terminal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
Lakes Are CapriCious

lied by no great rivers and de-
Il pendent on the drainage of a
comparatively small watershed, the
Great Lakes are peculiarly sensitive
not only to climatic conditions, but
even to the puny works of man.
The second year after a dry
season usually finds them low.
while the diversion of such an
amount of water as Chicago took
for her drainage canal creates
alarm, and not without reason.
People who live besides these
lakes, who are dependent on them
for work and prosperity, and who
have studied their whims and cap
riceS with more than an academic
interest, hardly can be blamed for
watching the clouds and politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02

and shoot it at them again, and this
time they would.
I've never seen a man who has
such a keen perception of the pre-
else nature and mood of an audi
ence In front Of him.
Mr.. Rogers is the most fluent
talker I ever knew. He can talk
on any subject for any length of
time. And one of the reasons he
does it so well is that he loves to
talk.
And since the audiences are Of
the same mind, everybody is sat-
isfied. I think Will Rogers must be
one of the happiest men in the
world. And he deserves to be.
Copyright. 1880. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02

Editor journal Of the American Medical
Association and of HyEeia. the Health
Magazine.
A LMOST every one can remem-
4 a Der the campaign against the
common drinking cup.
Before the beginning Of the last
century, children in schools used
to drink from a tin cup fastened
by a chain to the old pump in the
school yard.
The watering trough for horses
on the public highway likewise had
a common cup for the passing
pedestrian. In trains, also, common
drinking cups were available.
Modern bacteriology proved the
danger of this common vessel. The
streptococcus which is responsible
for septic sore throat and for ton
silitis was found upon its edges.
The germs of diphtheria and
other germs affecting the mouth
and throat not infrequently were
carried by the residue of water that
was left within the cup or by the
moisture of its edge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02

Does cannibaIism still exist in
the world?
1t exists among isolated South
American tribes, in west equatorial
and central Africa, the Malay archi-
pelago, certain South Sea islands,
mainly in Melanesia, and in parts
of Australia. Head hunting tribes
are found in Madagascar.
How long after man deserts
from the marine corps In time of
peace is he subject to arrest?
He is subject to arrest for two
years after the date Of the expira-
ton of his enlistment period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter-
estinR writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement Or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.