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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Political Economy

Before citizens applaud the county councl
for its economy, they would do well to ex-
anime the action Of that body.
1t is significant that the council refused
again to give any money for the prosecution
of open and fragrant frauds in the last prl-
mary. The people involved are political
friends and associates of the members Of
the council. The conclusion is inevitable that
the members Of this council do not believe
that the people want honest elections or at
least, are not so excited about them as to
resent this open effort to put a lid upon all
inquiry.
The taxpayers may demand relief but
they have not reached the stage where they
would be unwilling to pay a few dollars to put
into iails those who nave stolen the govern
ment from them and through such thefts,
been responsible for misgovernment and ex-
t~ravagance.
Cutting salaries of judges and court bail
ifs may be a wise move. The political
machine probably expects to have few OF It's
friends in these places on next January.
But it is significant that the most ex-
pensive Office in the county, the place where
more precinct and ward committeeman are
given soft berths, goes untouched. The coun-
Gil did not see fit to economic in the sherltfs
office, and political gossip gives the sheriff an
even chance to succeed himself.
An economy program that results in pro-
lection of election dishonesty, Furnishes po-
litical enemies and fails to touch political
friends needs explanation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Children and the Drought

Reports are beginning to reach Washington Of the
serious effect Of the drought on the welfare of
children.
The Maryland health department finds that the
infant mortality rate for July was higher than for
any month since the influenza epidemic Of January,
1929. The drought, with the accompanying heat. the
increased tendency Of milk to sour and the greater
danger of water pollution, is given as the indirect
cause.
similar conditions are reported from Oklahoma
in correspondence tc government departments call
ing attention to the danger to children from water
pollution and deterioration of milk, and the conse-
quent need for giving as much thought to conserva-
ton of human food supplies as to supplies of feed
for cattle.
Press reports from West Virginia quote the execu-
tive secretary of the board of children's guardians
as saying that the drought has had a serious effect
on child welfare in that state. Unemployment, due
partly to the drought, and the consequent inability
to support their families, has led some fathers TO
desert their children, in the hope that county or state
agencies will care for them.
Farm families, many of whom have been caring
for wards of the state, are appealing to the board of
children's guardians to take back the children. for
whom they fear there will not be sufficient food or
clothing in their homes next winter.
State and county health and welfare agencies are
being placed unOer a severe StIdul py ConulU1OrlS III
drought-affected states.
Failure Of congress to enact one Of the bills pro-
viding for continued federal and state cooperation
in maternity and infancy work has caused a curtail-
ment of activities in behalf of the welfare and hygiene
of mothers and babies and young children at the
very time when they are most needed and when the
states are less able, perhaps, than ever before to carry
on this essential work without some form of federal
assistance.
Under the maternity and infancy act, the states
organized health conferences, classes for mothers.
demonstrations, campaigns, visiting nurse services
and many other types of educational work.
At a time when water pollution and failing milk
supplies are endangering the lives Of babies, such work
is more necessary than ever before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
SCIENCE
Y DIETZ-
Psychologists Make Progress
IN demonstrating Life of
Illinois 1000 gears Ago.
nAVIn nIETZ

A N attempt to reconstruct the
IA life of Illinois 1000 years ago
is being made by the University Of
Chicago in cooperation with a
number of national institutions.
It is hoped that the work will be
completed in time to make it pos
sible to exhibit the results at Chi
Cages Century of Progress fair IN
1888.
Two thousand years ago the
mound builders hourished in Hi
nois. A party of fifteen archeolo-
gistS now is working to excavate the
mounds around Lewistown.
Cooperating with the university
in the project are the Smithsonian
institution of Washington, the
Laboratory of Anthropology of
Santa Fe, Rufus Dawes, for the
fair, and Joy Merton, who has
thrown the mounds on his $500
acre estate open for the first Scien-
tihc exploration, and has set aside
a lodge as headquarters for the
party.
Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, chair
man of anthropology at the uni
versity, heads the expedition in its
effort to make the past live again
at the fair, He is assisted by DR..
Wilton M. Krogman of the uni
versity and by Thorne Deuel., pro-
lessor at Syracuse university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

he might be even higher on the
ladder of fame than CLANCY was,
but it is very doubtful if he could
occupy the niche made vacant by
Ions death.
The reason for this condition is
simple. The places once held by
these favorites never have been va
cated-they still are filled with
memories.
A living actor may pass from the
public view and be almost totally
forgotten in a short time, but the
memory of one who has passed on
fingers for a long time.
Members of the film colony are
expressing considerable qualification
over the fact that CLANCY had an
opportunity to make one talking
picture before he died.
At least they now have the i'm
age and voice Of the man who was
beloved by all and it will be pre-
served indefinitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

Where and what is Mason and
Dixon's line?
Originally it was the parallel of
latitude % degrees 43 minutes 1858
seconds, which separates Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland. 1t received its
name from Charles Mason and Jere-
miah Dixon, two English mathema-
ticians and astronomers, who traced
the greater part of it, between the
years 1863 and 1857, though the last
thirty-six miles were finished by
others. 1t was practically the divid-
ing line between the free and the
slave states in the east. During the
discussion in congress on the Mis-
souri, compromise, John Randolph
Of Virginia made free use of the
phrase and thereafter it became
popular as. signifying the dividing
line between free and slave territory
throughout the country. The boun-
dairy, as thus extended by popular
usage, followed the Ohio river to
the Mississippi, and west of that
was the parallel of IS degrees 80
minutes, the southern boundary of
Missouri, though Missouri itself was
a slave state.
Is there such a thing as scarlet
snow!
Scarlet snow, due to the presence
of small and very thin worms, has
fallen at Halmstead. Sweden.
What is the meaning Of the word
Yankee?
It means English" When the
first English settlers went to Amer
lea the nearest the Indians could
get to the name was "Yengees."
That was twisted to Yankees" and
applied later to Americans.
When was postage on letter mail
raised to 3 cents, and when was the
2-cent rate restored?
The Scent rate became effective
Nov. 2, 1917, and the two cent rate
was restored July l, 1919.
Where are American Austin
automobiles made?
The general Office is at 1900
Woodward avenue, Detroit. The
factory is at Butler, Pa.
Where is the largest book and Job
printing plant in the world?
The United States government
printing once il W@hngton-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
How Body Absorbs Food Is Puzzle

this form. In certain diseases, some
Of the products Of digestion and
body chemistry. which ordinarily
are changed for various purposes
within the body, are excreted UNI
changed, and those have been
studied by the physiologic chemist.
Few people realize, for example,
that there are some forms of sugar
which may be excreted and give all
the tests for sugar, and yet not
be the particular sugar which is
associated with diabetes.
A certain amount Of various sub
stances is found regularly in the ex-
cretionS, but under certain condi-
tons of disease these substances
may be increased greatly in amount
or rare substances may be excreted,
such as never are found in the ex-
cretions under normal conditinos.
Thus careful and complete chem
ical analysis of the excretions of
the body leads to a better under
standing Of what is going on in the
Interior. Quite logically when any
unusual substance is found in too
great an amount in the ~excretions,
the tendency is for the physician to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
:
FREDERICK
LANDS

Jesse w. WEEK Of Greencastle, who died the other
- day at the age of 73. was c~o-author with William
Herndon, Lincoln's last law partner, Of the best lie
ever written Of the rail splitter.
Herndon had the data for the book and Weik came
along and did the writing, or the most of it, the result
being a book which caused a commotion because it
contained the statement that Lincoln" Smother had an
unconventional ancestry.
1t was said that Robert 7. Lincoln, the emancipa-
tots son, bought all the unsold copies Of the edition
the percentage of Nancy Hanks was omitted, as it
should have been in the first place.
TRADITION places the blame for the unnecessary
thrust at the Lincoln family tree upon Herndon,
the story being that Herndon nursed a grievance be-
cause Lincoln did not appoint him to high Office when
he had many opportunities to do so.
1t must have been the honor rather than the SAL
airy that Herndon was interested in, for he had a
wealth of Lincoln lore which he could have sold for
a fortune, for his store of Lincoln Netters and docu-
nents were unmatched anywhere in the world.
We remember zone of the Lincoln documents par
ticularly.
The late Jesse Weik showed it to us one day in a
smoking car down in southern Indiana when he was
q candidate for a state nomination and We were a
youthful stumper, engaged, in saving the country.
THIS document was the campaign notebook which
i Lincoln had carried in his many political battles.
1t was about eight inches long, four inches wide
and an inch thick, and its pages we're filled with the
meditations and inspirations Of the great American.
In this book he jotted down his random thoughts
on slavery and secession, his opinions of the Kansas
Nebraska struggle and the bred Scott decision.
In it, also we're many newspaper clippings with
marginal comments.
Reading Of Weeks death. we wonder what be-
came" Of that wonderful little book which revealed
so much of the soul of Lincoln when he was struggling
H1th Douglas u those historic days
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advise the patient to eat less of the
substance which may give rise to
the unusual material.
BY this means sometimes these
conditions can be brought under
control.
In an earlier day, thousands OF
years ago, the only examination
made of the excreted fluid was to
look at it in the light and to judge
whatever might be judged with the
Umaided five senses of man.
Gradually it has been realized
that these excretions are an index
Of the body chemistry. The speci-
men now may be submitted tc
dozens if not hundreds of tests, the
answers to each of which yield
important knowledge. In these
tests expensive and intricate ap-
paratus is used, involving also a
knowledge Of electricity, physics, Of
chemistry, and of many correlated
sciences.
But here again only a beginning
has been made in the research
vast amount of knowledge is 60
ing to be necessary before the whole
truth is known.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
This is the final story in the series
of six on the life of Lon Clancy.
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. B.
- Who will step into Lon Cha
ney's unique place on the screen?
With the famous actors funeral
rites over, film fans already are ask
ink this question. And it's a ques-
ton very easily answered-Lon will
have no successor.
There r a large number of ex-
cellent character actors engaged in
the motion picture business and the
stage could furnish many more, but
none of them can ever take the
place of "The Man Of a Thousand
Faces"
In fact, film producers never will
make an attempt to groom a sue
cessor to CLANCY, because they
know that such a thing can't be
done. Hollywood learned it's lesson
in that respect when Rudolph VAL
entino died.
NEVER yet has a person been
IN found who could step into the
shoes of a famous stage or screen
parsonage. Sarah Bernhard never
was replaced after her death. Meth
er was Wally Reid. Valentino, Bar
hara LAMAR, Theodore Roberts and
Mabel Normand.
Each of them seemed to have a
special niche in public favor that
could not be filled by a substitute,
no matter how good. And Clancy
now takes his place with these i'm
mortals of the footlights and
kleigS.
Valentines popularity was so tre-
mendous that film producers sought
to capitalize upon it after his death.
Executives of the Paramount studio
announced publicly they had dis
covered his successor in Ricardo
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HEARST should not feel too i'm
Ii portant because he has been
invited to leave by one great gov
eminent.
Jack Gegs) Diamond has
achieved similar distinction at the
hands Of three.
Having been escorted to the Dor
der by English and Belgian police,
Legs" now politely is informed by
the German police that they will
conduct him to any frontier he may
choose.
It all came about through a warn
ing of our state department that
Legs" was abroad somewhere in
the wide, wide world.
Just why the warning was issued
no one seems to know, but European
police appear to have taken it serf-
ously.
What is more surprising, Euro
pean police appear to have expert
enced no such difficulty in locating
Legs" as has characterized the
noisier efforts in this country.
He was nabbed in three successive
countries without a miss, but to no
purpose, since the authorities here
had no excuse to offer for holding
him.
Paraphrasing Hearst, it all sounds
"a bit foolist, but extremely Ameri-
can"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
How Many Can
You Recall?

How many Of Lon Chaney's
pictures can you recall?
Here is a list Of some Of
his best known pictures:
"The Miracle Man"
"The Penalty"
Ace Of Clubs"
OLIVER Twist"
THE Shock"
False Faces"
'The Hunchback. Of Notre
Dame"
He Who Gets Slapped"
"The Blackbird."
1.-THE Unknown"
The Road to Mandalay."
Tell 1t to the Marines"
THE Monster"
INF. WI"
London After Midnight"
While the City Sleeps"
West Of Zanzibar"
The Unholy Three"
AS a result of his work and
drilling in Tell It to the Ma
rines," he qualified for a cap
taincy in the marine reserve
corps. while the film. while
the City Sleeps" resulted in
the police departments Of sew
eral cities awarding him hon.
orary memberships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Helps the People

HOWEVER n ray disagree
Ii with Hearst's opposition to
naval treaties, peace pactS and other
phases of international cooperation,
he has set a good example for jour
nalistS in exposing some of the rot
back-stage.
Whether French statesmen like it
or not, the French people ought to
be peculiarly grateful, for, if he
made certain cabinet members
smart. he showed up a fraud which
might have made tie people smart
worse.
Those who have taken advantage
of their position to slap him on the
wrist should remember all that was
said about the "sanctity of treaties
and open covenants openly arrived
at" as among the paramount war
aims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
CLANCY to Haze No Successor.
Place IN Films Can't Be Filled

Cortez, at that time a promising
young actor.
But the public's reaction was such
that Cortez never has enjoyed any
real success since. Even Valentines
brother failed as a successor to the
popular idol,
y 4
THERE are a few actors within
4 the film industry who might
have the ability to take Chaney's
place, but none of them would at
tempt such a feat. They only will
work the harder to build UP their
own positions.
Jean Hersholt came under the
same classification as Lon. He is
an artist at makeup and panto-
mime. But Jean, though he might
rise to even greater heights as him
self, never could be a Lon CLANCY.
Emil Jannings, the great German
actor, might be said to be Chaney's
equal in every respect. Some day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Failures Help World
THE world owes a lot to failures

TINE world owes a lot to failures.
i but nothing to those who
never try.
If it were true that nothing sue
ceedS like success" we still would be
back in the dark ages Of barbarism.
You hardly can think Of a major
discovery. invention, or achieve
ment which was not born Of sacri-
flee and disappointment.
OF the first $4,000 people who
started for America, more than one
half persisted in the attempt, while
the path of aviation literally is
strewn with corpseS.
It seems an appropriate climax to
his dream, that Andree's body should
be taken home after other men,
with better equipment, had accom-
plished the feat he tried to perform.
Also. it Gems to epitomize the
type of ambition and struggle which
produces human progress.
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Project

GONE of the nations most dis
y tinguished anthropologists viii
cooperate in the work. from time to
time, DR.. Cole has announced.
These will include DR.. A. V. Kid
der of the Carnegie institution;
Matthew Sterling, chief of the bu-
reau of American ethnology, Smith
sonian institution; Neil Judd, chief
of the division of archaeology, Ma
tional museum, and Harry Shetrone,
director of the Ohio State museum,
and authority on mounds.
For the University of Chicago
The expedition will constitute the
fifth years work of a ten-year prof.
ect to describe infinitely the pre-
history of Illinois from its earliest
occupancy" DR.. Cole said.
"The previous four years have
been spent largely in the north
west part of the state, and around
Joliet and in the vicinity of Quincy.
"More than 900 mounds have
been mapped out, 655 more than in
10 Daviess county alone, and over
100 have been analysed inch-by-
inch by trowel and nail-file meth
DDS.
The greatest of the mounds SO
far found, outside the Cahokia
mound, which rivals the Egyptian
pyramids in size, was an 1,100-foot
affair near Galena."
First large-scale efforts to tie to-
gether all the evidence based on the
survey, and on hundreds of Indian
skeletons and more than 10000
artafacts now in possession of the
| university, was made recently by
DR.. Wilton M. Krogman, who has
directed the work of the last three
years. 4
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN
"
Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
MAGAZINE.

86 - AAOAHANA0 =
Editor, Journal Of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia. the Health
MAGAZINE.
A LTHOUGH much is known as
"A to what happens to many Of
the foods taken into the body, the
exact facts concerning what hap
pens to all nutritiye substances as
they pass through the wall of the
intestine and go to the blood and
to the ~arious organs still is a mat
ter of speculation and investigation.
The never science of physiology
and chemistry is beginning to make
the necessary studies to answer the
question.
Proteins break down into amino
acids and are circulated in the blood
in this form. Some of these pro-
teins again are put together to
make body proteins, but again are
broken down under the influence
Of various conditions in health and
disease.
Some of the protein is changed
into a substance called urea and
can be found in the excretions in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

How high Is the statue Of liberty
in New York harbor?
One hundred and sixty feet.
Who was the first woman in the
United States to pay the death
penalty for crime?
Mrs. Surratt, who was hanged in
Washington, D. c., July 7, 1865, for
completely in the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
How many children did General
Robert E. Lee have?
Seven: George, William, Robert,
Mary, Ann, Eleanor and Mildred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Triumph IN Death.

XXTHAT a contrast between this
w sort of trifling sensationalism
and the heroism of an Andree, even
though it ended in tragedy.
Leaning against the barren rock,
where he died thirty-three years
ago, waiting for some equally hardy
explorer to come and take him back
home-who could ask for a more ex-
quisite triumph?
Whether Andree knows it or not,
he is receiving all the glory d sue
cessful trip to the pole would have
meant, and the glory will do future
generations as much good.
The fact that he failed is Of small
consequence as against the fact that
he tried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
NJ E. Tracy
The World Owes a Lot to
Failures, but Nothing TO-
Those Who Never Try.

.XTLLIAM RANDoLPH HEARST

NA AAAAEN1 ANOOLE
w has been invited to get out
Of France and stay out, because one
Of his reporters dug up the copy Of
a proposed secret treaty between
that country and England some time
ago.
His own Characterization of the
incident as "a bit foolish, but ex-
tremely French, is beyond improve
ment.
Any other government would have
considered it sufficiently humilia-
ting to get caught at such tricks.
Sometimes. one could wish that
the French had a healthier sense
of humor.
It is difficult TO understand the
philosophy of craftsmanship which
can visualize a secret treaty as a
good joke, and at the same time
see nothing funny in the work Of a
journalist who catches them at it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

Concerning those eight boys in Connecticut who
returned to their homes with green hair, green eye
brows and green eyeIashes after swimming in a dye
polluted river. the most exacting Sunday feature ed
itor will have to admit the story has some color.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

The census bureau reports that more people In
this country are riding bicycles this year. One reason
may be they are anxious to see how it actually feels
to keep a balance in these times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

The fellow who breaks of with his girl after
promising to marry her learns sooner or later that
she was worth her weight in gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03
Daily Thought

For the Lord shall judge His
people.-DeuteronOmy 1886.
Who upon earth could live were
all Judged iustly?-Byron.