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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
More BOSTON Tea Party Fantasy

In NEUROLOGICAL American history no incident Is
more luxuriantIy bedecked with fancy than the
Boston Tea Party For years adoescent patriots were
taught in our schools that it was protest against
a mean trick of King George III.
His majesty wanted to dupe the colonists into
paying tax through bride Of cheap tea But they
resented this insulting imputaton that they put their
pocketbooks ahead of their morals and promptly
pitched the tea into Boston harbor.
Now we have an even more interesting explana-
ton of the famous harbor party Miss Sarah Cooper
Hewitt just has given her valuable antiques to Henry
Ford's museum Among the intangible antiques is
the following story:
The family history has it that several years be-
fore the American revolution the Hewitt estate had
guests staying there who we're the direct cause OF
the Boston Tea Party in 1773. These guests, it is
said we're ladies of the court of King George III,
who found their trip to America expensive that
they appealed to the king to raise more revenue for
the court Accordingly, the king succeeded in having
the tea tax passed. which resulted in the tea party
In other words, the tea tax imposed to help
subsdize the new world tour of some Of the kings
girl friends.
What are the facts about this famous episode?
We no longer are left in any doubt. Historians long
since have cleared up the whole matter. The British
East India Company - the most powerful lobbying
interest in England at the time-was in big bust
ness slump 1t appealed to parliament to remove the
duty on tea imported into the American colonies
This was refused because it would interfere with
the parliamentary legislative program for the colonies
But the company given rebate on tea con-
signed to America. This enabled it to sell tea IN
the colonies more cheaply than it could be smuggled
in by American merchants
1t was this blow at the smuggling trade which LED
John Hancock and others to call on Sam Adams TO
organize the Boston Tea Party and discourage those
who sought to ruin the American trade III
struggled tea.
There was no tricking of the colonists by the
crafty German tyrant" then sitting on the British
throne The king knew little about the affair 1t
was parliamentary politics.
Further, the coonists already had been paying
the duty on tea for three years with little protest
AS for raising more money for the girl friends OF
the king who were romping about America the rebate
to the British East India Company on tea SOLD IN
America meant decreased income to England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
70 Get started but there have been delays and more

delays
Now it is assumed that the government, instead of
waiting as planned until next January for tenants
to vacate the property be used for the archives
building will give Immediately the sixty days notice
permitted by law.
That however is not enough. Nine other OF the old
wooden temporary buildings are scattered Wash
ington, constituting daily menace to employees and
records of the census bureau, agriculture, war and
other departments.
The long-range plans for housing all these offices
in new fireproof structures should be put into the
of steel and stone at the earliest possible time
If we had been as forehanded and efficient as we
Americans claim to be- all plans and provisional ap
preparations for the federal building program would
have been completed within a short time after the
armstice and ready to supply jobs for the unemployed
on the first evidence of economic depression. Some
federal construction was begun last winter and spring.
but not nearly enough.
Granting that the administration is at least ten
months late in announcing today the speeding up of
the construction program, it is to be hoped that this
does not turn out to be merely another promise.
The more the $7OOOOOOOO federal building program
extending over the country be crowded into the
depression period the better it will be for business
not to mention the priceless records and lives at
stake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Inevitable

TINE trend to the new style is in
= evitable in the face of the mod
ern developments of science with its
influence on engineering practice
and modern life, Richmond believes
1.-The art of architecture, like all
other arts, must be free to respond
to mans developing needs and
widening horizons" he says. ITO
cramp it by rigid adherence to~the
technique, or formulate of other
times or uncongenial dogmas, would
be to stop up the springs of its in
spiration.
There has been much discussion
of late regarding certain new ten
denotes in architectural design; and
some animated questioning of their
propriety.
"The news ever is startling and
much tact is needed in appraising
the unfamiliar. The present Situa
ton as regards architecture has been
repeated many times.
But in all the great achitec-
ture of the past, however varied, we
may discern analogies due to the
inevitable response of the artist to
the rhythm which underlieS all true
design.
1.-The history of our art is but a
revelation of the fresh application
of ancient principles, by succeeding
generations of men, to forms ex-
pressive of their needs and their
ideals.
"In the development of any art
we can not avoid change, for change
is an attribute of life ITSELF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Scratch Can Lead to Fatal Poisoning

some conditions the infection is
deep in the body and can not be
reached. In other conditions it is a
blood infection from the first.
What is needed badly from the
point of view of medical research
is some chemical substance or some
preparation that can be injected into
the blood or underneath the skin
or gotten into the body in some
other way so as to overcome the
infection directly and thus prevent
the death of the patient.
It is, of course, possible by modern
methods of treatment to remove
the localized spot of infection or to
use nonSpecif1c serums or vaccineS
in the hope Of stimulating resistance
or perhaps of striking accidentally
the germ that is responsible. This
is not, however, in any sense Of the
word certain or scientific.
The main treatment of modern
medicine is to give good amounts Of
water and nourishment, to see to
it that all of the patients organs
operate at their best efficiency, to
control the fever by baths, and to
secure rest for the patient by proper
sedatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

streptococcus or staphylococcuS be-
gins at some single point on the
skin or on the mucous membranes.
It may begin because a roughened
edge of a collar irritates the skin
at the back of the neck, the usual
procedure being first a pimple, then
boil, then a carbuncle, and finally
perhaps blood poison.
It may begin by mere scratch
from pin or needle into which the
germs enter. Not infrequently it
begins through cutting a corn with
a badly cleaned knife or razor blade.
When the body fails to develop re-
sistance and throw off the germs,
they multiply rapidly and the i'll
ness is severe.
The pulse becomes rapid, the face
becomes pale, not infrequently great
spots of hemorrhage appear under
the skin. Death may occur in
twenty-four hours or may be de-
layed several weeks.
Thus far the only method known
for controlling these conditions is
to release as much pus as possible
at the point from which the in
lection started. Unfortunately, in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
SCIENCE
Boston, Center of Colonial
Tradition, Is Going Mod
ern" IN It's Architecture.
by DAVID DTETZ-
DosToN, bulwark Of colonial ga

BOSTON, bulwark Of colonial ira
- dition and home of the sacred
cod, is going modern" The ia
nous Massachusetts town which has
been celebrating its tercentenary
this summer, is beginning to sue
cumb to the march Of the machine
age.
The news-a melancholy bit from
some points of view--is contained
In a report to the American Insti-
tute of Architects prepared by Isl
dor Richmond, well-known Boston
architect. He says:
Boston most aSsuredly is slowly
but surely losing its old world char
acter, and it must make all who
love Boston for it's intimacy and its
quaintness sad to see this change to
modernism taking place, but We
have every reason to hope and ex-
pect that in exchange we will get
something even finer and better.
"The predominant general char
acter of Boston, it must be admit
ted, is still, and proudly so that Of
a. quaint, old colonial town.
1t should be remembered, how
ever, that we are celebrating the
tercentenary this summer. Boston's
present character is the result of
three centuries of solid, slow, steady
growth"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
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Sept. 8
THE GALVESTON TORNADO


I'm Sept. 8, 1900, West Indian
~ hurricane drove tidal wave
across the city of Galveston, Tex,
and caused what is said to be the
greatest disaster in the history OF
the North American continent.
More than 5000 persons lost their
lives and property estimated as
worth $40, 000, 900 was destroyed over
night. The entire city was sub
merged to a depth of from four to
sixteen feet.
A report of the disaster at the
time reads in part as follows: 1.-The
combined attack of the hurricane
and tidal wave produced In
describable horrots-the destruction
of property sinking into insignif1-
canoe when compared with the ap-
palling loss of life.
Practically all food supplies had
been destroyed and the drinking
water supply had been cut OF
Military administration was made
necessary and many ghouliSh loot
erS and plunderers were Summarily
shot, either in the act Of robbing
the dead or upon evidence OF guilt.
Help was poured in from all parts
of the world, and out OF the storm
emerged a wrecked city with a
nucleus of 10000 left from a pros
porous community of $4,000.
Since the storm the population
has more than trebled, a model
municipal government has been
established, and gigantic engineer
ing projects carried to a success
full completion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BF0SS

Mark Twain celebrated Toms
famous trick in 1.-THE Adventures OF
Tom Sawyer" But the possibility
of playing upon the same loophole
in human psychology still holds
good.
No young bond salesman ever
works so hard in his later years
when paid, as he Strove in his un-
dergraduate period to earn a blue
sweater with large white "Y.'
And in looking through shelf Of
old books I came upon a series de-
signed for young people. I was
struck with such titles as when
Mother Lets Us Help Cook" and
when Mother Lets Us Help With
the Dishes"
I trust that the series will be re-
vived and extended. I should like
to see additional titles, such as
when Father Lets Me Stoke the
Furnace" When Father Lets Me
Shine His Shoes" and when Fa-
ther Permits Me to Lend Him
Money"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

Editor Times-I see there is a
move to make waterway from the
Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi
to Chicago.
There has been enough money
spent along the river to have made
a ship canal from the gulf to the
mouth of the Ohio river, but this
was expended for the benefit OF
political skullduggery. Now it seems
to me that if the government is go
ing to do job Of that kind, 1t
should be done on scientific prin-
ciples, regardless Of any influence
whatever, and that would be to cut
the ditch from the gulf as near
straight as possible, thus eliminat-
ing the meanderings Of the river as
far as possible, and deep enough
that it would not have to be diked,
as at present the bikes hold the wa
ter from returning to the river after
floods.
This much as to the plan Of the
work, and now as to the finance.
II seems to me that Coxey's bill for
financing projects of this kind
would be in order, as we have had
class legislation on the money ques-
ton land that for very small
class for the last sixty-f1ve years
and now it would not be out OF or
der to do something for the benefit
Of all people as well as small class.
1 well remember when Lincoln,
then President, took his stand on
the side of all people and against
the small class, how quickly he was
silenced, never to speak again.
This project should be performed
by the government directly, and not
by contract.
JOHN E. BAYLESs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Meyers Faint Praise

Considering the high technical qualifications and
unusually wide experience in private and govern
mental banking of Eugene Meyer Jr. of New York
the qualified public approval of his appointment as
governor of the federal reserve board may appear
surprising.
His training includes service the industries
board the finance corporation, and the federal
farm loan board. He will be expert in an
experts job
The faint praise which is damning his appoint
ment is Of mixed origin.
Some object to the alleged pressure put upon Vice
Governor Plat of New York to resign to make room
for Meyer, under the system which does not permit
any federal reserve district to have than one
representative on the board.
ProgreSsives in the senate still are suspicious of
what they consider his favoritism to the east, as
against the farming west, in his former government
posts
The subdued reception given Meyer also is due
to rather general nervousness and uncertainty
garding the federal reserve boards immediate past
and its future policies
While the board has been criticised severely for
its timorous and hating handling of the speculative
debauch which led to the depression the critics
not ready to commit themselves in advance to tho
more vigorous leadership expected from Meyer.
Then there is fear that the board may be tend
ing TO lose some OF It's eSSenuaI non-pontcal cnar-
acter. Through the Craftsmanship of the secretary
of the treasury, the board by necessity connected
with the political administration in Office
When the Coolidge and Hoover administrations
artifciay were prolonging the bull market by official
statements, it was doubtless more difficult for the
board to issue warning promptly to make its be-
lated warnings effective
That explains in part why some critics are appre-
hensive that an undesirable te-up between board
and administration may become closer under Meyer,
who is proud of being IAN original Hoover man"
The point is not necessarily that the Meyer policy
or the Hoover policy would be wrong in any given
instance but that the integrity and value of the board
in the long run will depend upon preserving its non
political character completely.
Probably it should be assumed that this aspect
of the situation understood fully by both the Presi-
dent and the new governor of the board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08

DOLTTICS has brought this col
umnist one peculiar thrill which
otherwise he never would have eX-
perienced. I have appeared in car
toonS.
1t is true that these were pub
lished obscurely in the official Com
munist organ. The Daily Worker
It must also be admitted that their
tone was decidedly hostile. But
an unfriendly cartoon is better
than none at all.
Your coIumnist was pictured as
fat beyond all belief and attired IN
a clowns costume. Borrowing an
idea from the late Homer Daven-
port. the artist provided the suit
with checkered squares, but, unlike
the clothes attributed to Davenport
to Mark Hanna, the design within
the square consisted not of dollar
marks, but whisky bottles. Gin
would have been more appropriate
and more welcome.
One hand upheld another bottle,
and in the other was a microphone.
In front of the oafish ogre, easily
to be identified by the label, STOOD
workingmen expressing disgust IN
manifold balloons. Behind stooo the
Four Marx brothers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Others Could Follow Suit

THERE are other relationships
Il in this world just as thin and
shadowy as that of Irigoyen, other
men of mystery who have fooled
people by strutting their peculiar
tiles, other misfit regimes that would
collapse at the first breath of de-
termined effort.
The postwar period hss led to
the development of several ghost
like appearances of strength, which
survive for no other reason than
that people are unnecessarily afraid.
The revolution in Argentina
typifies a general, rather chan an
exceptional condition. Half a dozen
countries we'll could afford TO stage
similar performance and not all
of them are in Latin-America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
A Paper Regime

ON paper Irigoyen and his party
~ seemed lmpregnable. They had
obtained power by constitutional
means and were in full possession Of
the machinery of government. They
not only had well organized army
at their back, but a police force and
fire department woven into the
military establishment. 1t commonly
was supposed that they could not
be thrown out of Office except by
protracted and violent struggle.
More than that, it commonly was
supposed that, though Irigoyen
himself might be ousted, his party
would remain.
No one appears to have succumbed
to the illusion more completely
than Irigoyen himself. When the
storm broke, he merely decided to
take a vacation, while his lieutenant,
DR.. Martinez, took charge, just as
though nothing more than such an
evasive measure was needed to calm
things down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Only a Shell

A LII that is water gone by the
"A mill. Like most such men.
Irigoyen had nothing to sustain him
but the atmosphere of mystery.
nothing but the fear which his
isolation and idiosyncraSies inspired.
He was nine-tenths creature of
the crowd, and one-tenth mere
fudge. Once rebellion had de-
veloped sufficiently to look him
straight in the eye, it saw nothing
but the hunger of unintelligent am
bition and, once it had struck, felt
nothing more substantial than The
smoke screen of an inordinate
vanity.
Everyone is astonished, not at
Irigoyen's overthrow, but at how
little there was to prevent it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08

i park down in Spencer county, place you should
CO. but first take the time to read Lncolns h1e so
you can reconstruct the drama enacted there
Two hills rise upon the tract which Thomas Lin
coin selected for his Indiana home, piling brush
upon the four corners to mark the boundaries, and
upon the other quarter mile away is the grave OF
Nancy Hanks.
An impressive view presents itself as you reach
the place set by the road from Gentryvlle, two miles
away; it is a beautifully wooded knoll and upon its
crown stands plain white shaft, six feet high, sur
rounded by an iron fence.
1T is in harmony with that which was an in
dSpenSable but unconscious element in the preser-
walton of this republic and we hope the memorial soon
to be erected there shall not in its eaoorateneS over
step the simplicity of the life it is designed to honor
Upon the other hill granite block marks the site
the log cabin and recalls with horror that this
shrine removed the story being that 1t was taken
to the worlds fair in 1893
The Lincoln Memorial Association should make
every effort to find this cabin and return 1t to its old
location.
We stood there and wondered what Lincolns fate
would have been had his father not moved to Illinois
in 1889.
His qualities would have carried him to the top in
Indiana and while he would have been denied the CO.
operation of Douglas he would have met opponents
here with whom he would have debated the issues OF
slavery and secession.
DUT so many little things enter into the destinies
ID Of men, so subtle are the workings of time and
chance, the world might have known its most
fascinating figure. had thread of the Lincoln
fabric been altered.
Be this it may, the Hoosier state played a
forgotten part in the evolution of this
strange life.
Here he lived from childhood until manhood: here
his habits and ambitions developed: here his
character was formed; and it was upon an Indiana
rock that Illinois built her greatest monument.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Peeping Tom University

IRON Washington comes the
Il news that Colonel Amos w. w.
Woodcock has selected twenty -four
prohibition agents from all parts Of
the country and that they will ma
circulate in an enforcement college
which he purposes to set up.
There will be pardonable curios-
ity as to the nature Of the curricu-
lum in this college. 1 trust that
Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart
can be induced to serve upon the
faculty.
He would, of course, assume the
professorship of Shifting and Peer
ing. No agent should be graduated
until he is versed in the art of de-
tecting what fluid is contained with
in his neighbors glass at any
friendly dinner.
Naturally, in addition to shifting,
there win have to be practice In
bending Of the waist to get q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Kept Behind Veil

ECCENTRICITIEs have played q
- disagreeably large part in max
ing men prominent. People can
not seem to get over the notion
that there must be something
awfully clever about those who live
and see differently.
Irigoyen never told his age. where
he was born, or who his parents
were, never gave out newspaper
interviews, never signed a pay roll
until he had to, never moved from
the little fiat above a store.
Such peculiarities were enough to
make him man Of mystery. and
once he got on the front page. the
mystery was enough to intrigue
popular imagination. He was a sort
of yelled prophet, whose counte-
nance came to be thought of as
beautiful because no one ever had
seen it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Conflict

ID edmond sees a conflict be-
N tween the old and the new 60
ing on in Boston at the present
moment.
Buildings like Fanueil hall, the
old StatehouSe, the Statehouse on
Beacon hill, the Old North church
and Old South meeting house, the
Park street church andi the old
houses on Beacon hill-all these
together with such more recent
gems as Richardson's fine Trinity
church in Copley square, and Nc
Kim, Mead & Whites incompatible
public library (even though these
last two are not of Colonial archi-
tecture), are the buildings that
give Boston its old world charac-
ter" he says.
"In strong contrast to the mod
ern trend is the architecture of the
new Georgian building now being
built for Harvard university, and
the Boston college gothic group,
which seem to be determined to
adhere to their original styles re-
CARELESS of the trend Of architec-
ture outside their walls.
while this trend toward mod
ern architecture undeniably is TAX
ing place in the business section
of Boston, a great number Of
buildings are being built in the out
lying parts of the city which are
following the traditional lines.
Buildings such as residences,
churches and college buildings are
being built in the colonial, Tudor
Gothic and Gothic styles, but into
great number of these buildings
there is creeping distinctly mod
ern note"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
Man of Little Merit

A a general thing, people NOS
= only want good order, but are
willing to sacrifice a great deal for
us maintenance. That is probably
tne reason why man like Irigoyen
can rise to power.
certainly, he has little merit. ex-
cept ability to organize maicon-
VentS' dreamers, second-rate lawyers
and parasites willing to follow anv-
one who promised them a grub
stake. Just as certainly. he had no
poiitlcal creed except the ambition
70 get and keep control of public
patronage.