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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Acid Excess in Blood May Be Serious

and of the blood of the person af-
f1icted reveals the presence of the
acid substances, and shows abSo-
lutely the alkaline reserve and the
acid state of the blood
Acidosis thus is not a disease in
itself, but the manifestation Of
changed conditions in the body
brought about by various diseases.
First step in the control of the con-
dition is to find out what is caus-
ing the acidosjs.
If the diet is faulty, it may be
modified by adding substances
which tend to have an alkaline re-
action when finally taken up by the
blood.
In several grades of acidosis large
doses of sodium bicarbonate are
given by mouth, by injection into
the blood and in other ways.
If the amount of carbohydrate or
sugar intake is insufficient, addi-
tional carbohydrate may be given
promptly also by all methods that
have been mentioned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Unfinished Probes

Probably no official is greatly alarmed by
the announcement that there are four in
vestigations of peculiar happenings in diff
ferent state offices.
No matter how peculiar, they understand
that these probes and Investigations are
seldom finished under government as at pres
ent organized.
They realize that the great crimes which
overthrow government just as completely as
though torn down by a bloody Robespiere go
unpublished.
For example, the election frauds of Lake
county two years ago, when voters were I'M
ported by truck loads from Chicago, are al
most forgotten. The government caught a
few outlaw bootleggers and let it go at that.
In the recent Marion county primaries where
frauds were quite patent in both parties, no
one fears the fails.
Were that not enough, it may be re-
membered that nearly two years ago the leg
islature ordered an inquiry into the manner
in which state armories were erected, under
2 plan that was denounced in advance by the
then attorney-general, Arthur Gilliom, as
illegal Just what happened to that inquiry
is mystery.
Such conditions seriously suggest a DOUBT
as to the success of self government or the
capacity of the people to rule themselves.
We have detoured tar from the days OF
Washington and jefferson. When the will OF
the people can be complacently destroyed by
votes in the names of dead men, no official
who betrays his trust need be in great fear
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

stances no sin rested upon my con-
science. had come to the place
to get evidence. And as the eve
ming wore on I accumulated more
and more.
BY now an even dozen MacDon-
aids were moving round the place.
And they seemed to be whiting I'M
der the investigation. At least most
of them swayed as they came up to
say, What will it be?"
But if they thought to wear me
down, and discourage me in the
search, they were mistaken. They
had not reckoned with the iron
fiber of old Sleuth Broun met
each challenge with the grim and
set reply, "I1l have the same"
This was the papers business and
on such a mission loyal employees
never finch. Even when, things in
the narrow room began to grow a
little dim and murky was satisfied
for my last words were already
framed and waiting.
AS they bent over me for my last
words I would say, "Tell the man
aging editor that I did it for the
f1ve-star final"
At last the bartender, who had
taken no previous part in the con-
versation, came out from behind his
barricade and indicated that he
wished to communicate with me. I
frightened, if that we're possible, for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

TINE notion that the sun, moon,
L and planets exercise some direct
influence upon the specific incidents
of the lives of. individuals persists
in some quarters.
These beliefs can be traced all the
way back to the early days OF civil
ization when the sun and moon were
believed to be real people taking an
active and actual part in events
upon the earth.
Many Of these early legends re-
gard the sun and moon as husband
and wife or as brother and sister.
Many myths identify the sun or
moon as national heroes who were
deifed and transported 10 the sky
after death.
The myths differ as to the sex of
the sun and the moon, some desig-
mating the sun as masculine and the
moon as feminine, others stating
just the opposite.
AuoIl d1Ad4I lily Il4S ICSe4O Vic l1lOOII
as a man and the sun as a woman.
The Indians of Peru, however, be-
lieved the moon to be woman who
was both sister and wife of the sun.
This dual relationship is not I'M
common in mythology. 1t is en-
countered frequently in Greek and
Roman mythology where, for ex-
ample, Juno, the queen Of the gods,
is both sister and wife of Jupiter,
king of the gods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

Senator George w. Norris says the power inter-
ests we're behind the trckery to nulify his candidacy
in the Nebraska primary by running the unknown
George W. Norris grocery clerk of Broken Bow. That
charge remains to be proved. But whoever was re-
sponsible should be uncovered. OF all the cheap
and dirty political plots this surely, is one OF
the worst
The fact that it failed accidentally should not
make it a closed incident Nothing but the delay
in filing the second Norris name after the legal date
interfered with the plot. Even that oversight did
not prevent the secretary of state of Nebraska from
accepting the second filing. though it was thrown
out on that count by the chief justice Of the state
supreme court
What tribute to Senator Norris is all this in
trigue! Now after more than third of century
of frutesS effort to keep him out of congress, some
of his enemies admit that he can not be defeated
by fair means and so resort to foul.
Considering that he has been of the leaders
in virtually every fight of the people against preda-
tory interests during all these years the present des-
peration of his enemies perhaps is understandable
Fortunately, however, among Norris opponents are
MANY whose personal probity equals his These
have been shocked by the Broken Bow trickery They
feel that the use of such tactics has made it i'm
possible now for them to join in the fight against
Norris reelection as they would have done normally
Among Norris friends of course, this incident has
provoked a stronger determination to elect him and
10 find and punish those responsible for the plot that
failed. Many senators, not all Of whom agree with
his progressive doctrines. will drop their own work
and 60 to Nebraska to campaign for him.
Probably such support is not particularly needed
in the campaign. Doubtless the people OF Nebraska
Of all parties and all classes who have returned him
regularly to the senate despite his desire to retire.
can be depended upon to repeat their overwhelming
mandate this year.
The prompt and general public protest against the
effort to foul Norris is evidence Of his unusual popu
larity. as well as proof of the American spirit Of
fair play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
B1TF9eH
EAMNEVER$ARY|
.419J
BATTLE OF BULL RUN
July Fl

ON July 81, 1861, the first Bat
~ tie of Bull Run, the first i'm
portant battle Of the Civil war, was
fought near a small stream Of this
name in northeast Virginia.
Both the federal army, under
General Mcdowell, and the Con-
federate army, under Generals
Beauregard and Johnston, were
composed of green troops. poorly
drilled and sadly lacking in expert
ence.
The battle got under way at 10
a. M, when the FederalS opened
the attack, driving the Confederates
before them until stopped while as
cending a slope, by a fighting bri-
gade under T. ]. Jackson, who
gained the sobriquet Stonewall as
the result of this conflict.
The Federals gained ground after
stubborn attacks until about 3 p. m.
when the Confederates launched an
attack that drove their foes in con-
fusion from the field.
The retreat became a rout and
finally the Federals fed in wild
disorder to Washington, but were
not followed, as the Confederates
also were disorganized by the furry
o. the victory.
About forty thousand men en-
gagged in the fight, the Federals
losing $500 and the Confederates
1000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
REASON By Pf haaDzs

wUTHFN the Indiana State Bias Association refused
w to indorse the proposal to give the supreme
and appellate courts authority to simplify the rules
of procedure and pleading, it adopted the attitude
of that Vanderbilt who said: THE public be
damned"
It is fortunate, however the issue was raised for
now the people know where to place the blame for
the horrible failure of Our courts
Thus we blandly have presented the proposition
that courts are OF temples of justice but establish
nents for the enrichment of the bar while the con-
stuonal guarantee of speedy justice is but an entry
in the joke book of the barrister.
The rights of men, women and children moth
ing the safety of society from crime is nothing the
fees of those who practice law are everything.
The goddess of justice is not the shield of the
weak but cabaret dancer, dedicated to the JOY OF
the profession.
TOR centuries lawyers have been privileged class;
II in their mysterious realm they have dallied
with human rights witch doctors have uaffcked
in ignorance and superstttion they have set up and
maintained to the detriment of the race an occult
code
In all other lines we have progressed, but the
tardy processes of the law what they were ages
ago. while all others have climbed the ladder of i'm
provement the lawyer still sits in the dim and musty
cellar of antiquity holding sweet communion with the
bats of fiction and echncalty.
COAScotCu
with law suits; they may tremble because organized
crime Shaes its fist at the state bit the Indiana State
Bar Association is troubled only by the phantom of
empty purse
THE refusal of this association to take its stand
i for human welfare is as if the state medical
ISOLATION should refuse to adopt to oppose
the ravageS of and tuberculosis the ground
that the removal Of those scourgeS would reduce the
revenues of doctors.
The Indiana Bar Association does not speak for
the hgh-minded lawyers Of this state, for they know
that the late Chief Justice Taft spoke the truth when
he said: Our administration of criminal law is a
disgrace to civilizationl"
And they know also that our administration Of
civl law is Just as bad.
However, our supreme and appellate courts can
and should proceed to simplify the rules Of pro-
cedure and pleading they do almost all that Is
needed without legislative action and it the prayer
Of suffering public that the vaudeville in our
courthouses shall end and the reign OF justice begin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Questions and
AnS1,efS

Are quotation marks placed after
or before punctuation marks?
After the punctuation marks.
How old is the race horse Man o.
War? When did he run his last
race? Did he ever run in the Ken
lucky Derby?
He is IS years old, and ran his
last race Oct. IL, 1920, at Windsor,
Ontario, Canada, defeating Sir Bar
ton in match race of one and one
quarter miles. He never ran in the
Kentucky Derby.
Which state has the greatest de-
veloped water power?
California has 2,226, $40 horse
power, the greatest developed water
power of any of the states, accord
ing TO estimates Of the United States
geological survey as Of Jan. l, 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
'What'I You HaVe2'

A ND this effort was maintained
L n even when the back of any
missing witness was turned. You
see the scheme was to make some
body break down and tell all.
Obviously there would be no point
in my making a direct accusation
with nothing more on which to pro-
coed than an anonymous telephone
trip, and an ancient newspaper pic
ture of John Macdonald.
Although Swallowed, each one
played the part of innocence and
merely said: What will you have?"
and each time / answered, trying to
make my words as significant as
possible. Bring me the same"
Once I did try a lead. AS the
largest of the MacDonalds handed
me the tall glass I said. with half a
leer, ut seems to me that your face
is familiar"
There was no sign of perturbation
in his face. He played his part we'll
just as well as I did. This was a
duel between two master minds. The
quarry was worthy of the hunter.
Maybe you saw me in Tony's,
he said.
mot in Tony's," I Kissed through
partially clenched teeth.
ct could have been in Jake's," he
ventured, and I saw that the man
was not easily to be trapped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

Since the alkaline reaction is nee
essary for proper health the body
has mechanisrns for taking care OF
the acid waste products.
Whenever the production Of acid
or the intake of acid-producing sub
stances exceeds the ability of the
mechanism to get rid of the excess
a condition results that is called
acidosiS.
Usually the trouble arises from in
ability to handle properly the diges-
ton of proteinS and fats from ex-
cesSes of these substances.
Sometimes it is due to disease of
the kidneys resulting in improper
elimination or to diseases of other
organs which are chiefly concerned
with digestion.
The most obvious symptoms of
acidosis are headache, weakness,
rapid breathing and sort of fruity
odor to the breath. The most GER
tain tests are made in the labora-
tory.
Examination of the exeretions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

I'm glad that John Macdonald,
l. missing Mooney witness, has
been found. This is not because
his Identification may lead to the
doing of belated justice. A more
personal and selfish interest is in
volved.
The real Macdonald having been
located, it won't be necessary to
chase after so many spurious ones.
While the man hunt was in prog
ress, 1 received number of posi-
tive sure-tire tips as to MacDon-
AIDS whereabouts.
I can not pretend that person.
ally followed Up each clew. Some I
passed along to the paper and then
waived responsibility. But, at least,
one I followed on my own account.
The man in the bar certainly looked
like the picture of Macdonald. So
did both the walters, which made it
all very confusing.
I have always felt that I had it
in me to be a f1rst-rate detective,
but seeing three NacDonalds put me
entirely off my stride.
I didn't know how to begin or,
having begun, how to follow it up
Accordingly, I sat at a table close
to the bar and Swallowed both the
walters and the bartender. I mean
that whenever any one of them
came close I stared at him f1xedly.
1t was my hope that at least one of
the MacDonaldS would notice this
examination and take me for a po-
lice officer.
We have all been told that there
is such a thing as hypnotism and
that it can be learned in ten easy
lessons. Although neither a prac-
titioner nor student of the art, I
have heard a little about it. It be-
came my effort to put a cold, pene-
trating quality into these glances
which were shot at the suspects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

OLCOTT offers a possible expla-
" nation for the confusion in sex
of the sun and moon.
He writes in his Sun Lore Of All
Ages"
This confusion in the sex,
ascribed to the sun and moon by
different nations, may have arisen
from the fact that day is mild and
friendly, hence the sun which rules
the day properly would be consid-
cred feminine, while the moon,
which rules the chill and stern
night, appropriately might be re-
garded as man.
"On the contrary, in equatorial
regions, the day is forbidding and
burning, while the night is mild and
pleasant. Applying these analogies,
it appears that the sex of the sun
and moon would, by some tribes, be
the reverse of those ascribed to
them by others, climatic conditions
being responsible for the confusion"
In this connection, it is interest
ing to note that in the German
language, the word for sun is re-
garded as feminine noun, while
the word for moon is masculine. Just
the opposite is true of Latin and
the Romance languages.
An old Persian legend regards the
sun and moon as husband and wife
and the stars as their children, a
progeny more numerous by far than
that of the old lady who lived in
shoe.
Many peoples, prehaps because of
the brilliance of the sun, have re-
garded themselves as children of
the sun. Thus, for example, the
Incas of Peru called themselves the
children of the sun"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Has Right Sense of Value

VXTE flatter ourselves that the
w performance insures health,
if not longevity, but 156-year-old
Turk, who never has enjoyed the
privilege of having his teeth pulled
to cure an infected foot, or his nose
ripped open to relieve cold, comes
to remind us that we have accom-
plished little that is new or re-
markable.
incidentally, this old boy, who
was born two years before our
forefathers proclaimed indepen-
dence, sees little to surprise or
shock him in the rattle and bang Of
western life.
Food, women and Allah still ap-
peal to him as the most important
things, which shows fine sense OF
value, even if some of our moderns
would leave Allah out Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

Editor Times-I would like to ask
a question of the board Of safety
through your paper. What right
has a sergeant of police to order
workingmen off the street as one
did on East Washington street? He
said it was on orders from the chief.
So men who work. every day for a
living, when they can, daren't go
around poolrooms like the police,
who get their baseball tickets for
nothing.
It would look much better if they
would go around in front Of down.
town hotel and get some of these
sheiks who stand there 365 days out
of the year insulting women as they
go by. 1t looks to me as If the chief
wants to arrest anybody, he would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
The Way to Stop Communism

Headlines in adjoining columns on page one OF
a New York newspaper carry these two messages:
whalen 20 offer red plot proof in secret session..
and
"swope tells plan to help jobeSs"
The first event deals with congressional investi-
CATION into Communism and an ex-police commits
sioners alarm over what he describes as Soviet
inspired schemes to overthrow the government. The
second presents plan by the president Of the Gen
ersl Electric Company for sterilization of employ
ment IN great industry
The appearance simultaneously of the two items
s more than casually significant For they typfy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Malay
natives of the M

Il sula have an interesting myth
which seeks to account for the diff
ferences between the day and night
sky and also the motions of the
sun and moon.
According to this legend, both
sun and moon are regarded as
women, while the stars are the chill
dren Of the moon. The legend tells
that the sun once had as many
children as the moon. The children
of the sun were bright like the sun
itself.
Fearing that the earth could not
stand so much light and heat, the
sun and the moon made an agree
ment to eat their children. The sun
carried out her part Of the agree
ment, but the moon only hid her
children.
When the moons children, the
stars, came out at night, the sun
was very angry and began to pur-
sue the moon. This accounts for
the motions of the sun and moon
through the heavens, which the Ma
lay natives regarded as a pursuit
of the moon by the sun.
The stars 60 out as the sun rises.
This, the natives say, is because the
sun still is devouring her children.
But the moon hides her children
during the daytime and brings them
out at night.
Among the American Indians we
find the sun and moon generally
regarded as brother and sister.
One legend of the Ottawa Indians
tells of two Indians who "sprang
through chasm in the sky and
found themselves in a pleasant
moonlit land"
There they met the moon, who
was IAN aged woman with white
face and pleasing air" She intro
duced them to her brother, who was
the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
M. E. Tracy
Dr.. Victor Frub10dlG of
Vienna Says American
Doctors Think Too Much
of Money.
SAYS:

A DROWNED man dies at Coney
N Island while life guards and
doctors argue over the effectiveness
of inhalators, the former preferring
the Schaefer method, while the lat
ter argue for the mechanical device.
OF course, the man might have
died anyway. as is suggested by the
fact that both methods eventually
were used. On the other hand, he
might have lived if either method
had been carried out thoroughly.
The episode is worth pondering by
those who hold that discussion Is
the basis of progress.
Also, it is worth bordering by
those who fall for the illusionment
that we have made much progress
when it comes to going without air
or other essentials Of life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

start out in front Of the police sta
ton to clean up, as a. man can't
start in there unless he is ap-
preached by some bondsman or "bo-
jack" lawyer.
How do you expect these men to
get work if they stay at home?
Some of them might be able to go
to work if it wasn't for some of the
firemen or policemen holding two
jobs. 1t would do this city good if
our encouragement would investi-
gate here.
TAXPAYER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
Blame the Glands

A SAN FRANCISCO physician
IA tells the Wickersham board
that defective or abnormal glands
may be responsible for crime.
1t sounds like a good way out Tor
every one.
If glands are to blame, not only
criminals, but legislators, proSecu-
ting attorneys, peace officers, judges,
juries and prison wardens have a
ready-made alibi.
Besides, the door is open for a
greater new industry, for another
group of experts and specialists, for
an added course in medical educa-
ton, for a different type of hospital
to be built at public expense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

How many members Of congress
are there?
In the house Of representatives,
435, and in the senate, IS.
How is a temperature reduced
from Fahrenheit to Centigrade?
To convert temperature from
Fahrenheit to Centigrade, subtract
80, on account of the difference in
the zero points, and multiply the re-
mainder by fiye-ninths.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


TIME blood is the fluid which cir
l. cuIates in the arteries and in
the veins, carrying nutrition to the
various organs, bringing them the
necessary glandular secretions, and
carrying away waste products.
Any changes that take place in
the blood because of disease, or bad
diet, or poisoning, promptly mani
fest themselves by symptoms, pro-
vided the changes are marked suf-
ficiently.
Fortunately the human body is
provided with factors of safety and
the blood has remarkable powers of
adjustment to minor changes. IN
der average conditions of activity
of the organs of the body and ordi-
nary food intake, the acid waste
products of the actions of the body
are in excess Of those with basic
or alkaline reaction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.