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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
DAY after day the pioneers pass One of the last
~ to go was Colonel Zach Mulhal long a spectacu-

DAY after day the pioneers pass. One of the last
- to go was Colonel Zach Mulhall, long spectacu-
lar figure in the Middle West.
He lived to ripe age and had seen many dynaS-
ties and go. He had witnessed the ardor kinded
by multitudes of reforms die again. consumed by their
own violence.
Up and down the world he Travelled through eighty
three years, cattle puncher circus rider Wild West
Snowman, country gentleman, military leader in his
fine high boots and his tall hat He loved rearing
steeds the trampng of herds, and the smell of saw
dust in the circus ring.
But with all the claptrap that filled many of his
days. with the fanfare of trumpets that attended
his comngs and his gongs, and with all the notice he
attained from presidents and kings, Zach Mulhan
lived with one wife all of his life.
LIE was great Snowman. He also was a good hus-
Il L band And, by all odds the most beautiful side
Of his manySded character his affection for the
whom he married in 1876, so long ago that
to most of us it seems unbelievably remote
After she died some months past, he suddenly be-
came an old man. bowed down by profound despair.
Since that day life had for him reason for
enduring.
And so he too, died, one Of the grand old Taen Of
the West, whose is surrounded by many legends,
who helped to build empire and TO fashion the
civilization that today IS most typicaly American.
Nobody save those who lived in her immediate vi
entity knew very much about Mrs. Mulhall But it
seems to that her husband, by losing all interest
in and reinqushing life after she went out Of 1t,
has written for her fine obituary.
True husband and wife they were and rarely
lovely in an age when marriage has ceased to be
sacred or enduring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Vets May Deadlock
THE people are mobilizing for

THE people are mobilizing for a
4 presidential election, and it
looks as though they were in a mood
to forget, or ignore a lot of things
for the sake of partisan advantage.
In spite of all the loud talk, it
looks as though they might even
forget, or ignore prohibition not
only because of greater interest
in economic problems, but because
each party Is curiously deadlocked.
One hears more wet talk from the
Democratic side, but when it comes
to counting noses, the Democratic
party appears to contain the larger
percentage Of dryS. Conversely, one
hears more dry talk on the Repub-
lican, though the party appears to
contain a larger percentage of vets.
Since each party is out to get
every vote in sight, or suspected of
being in sight, the chances are that
both will put on show of phe-
nomenal straddling.
Certainly, neither party will go
out of its way to offend any large
and recognizable bloc of voters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
People, Voice

Editor Times-Reoently I filed an
application with a well-known en-
ployment bureau in Indianapolis
and it seemed to me when entered
its offices that it was more like a
detention ward than a place to help
one find employment. The formal
ity which the girl at the informa-
ton desk shows a person who is
willing to pay for his or her posi-
ton, if procured by the agency, is
more than depressing.
After few high-faluting gestures
which are unnecessary and mean
nothing, especially when coming
from some one no better than your
self, except that she is luckier in
having a job, she gives you a book
put out by this agency for a price
and tells you to wait for a personal
interview with the head of said
firm.
Along with this book is leaf1et
which explains its contents and also
a clause which reads, eff the appli-
can't shows the willingness to buy
and read the book, the agency will
use more. efforts in procuring the
position you are applying for" After
waiting for an hour, you get your
personal interview with the head
Of the agency, and he also gives you
this impression, and even goes so
far as to ask you whether you
couldn't dig up the price.
Upon your response in the mega
tive, you get cool, well, we might
find you something, but it will take
some time. Well let you know"
want to say here that this book
is graft in its highest form and the
sooner the public gets wise to the
fact, the better off they viii be. How
can a fellow with a wife and a kid
get a job if these bureaus are going
to use these fraudulent practices so
openly. Please publish this in your
Voice of the People" so some other
poor devils like myself can profit
by it. B. o. B.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Adults Think

I EFT us quote a few sentences
IL from DR.. Clendening: Adults,
according to them, are able to think
for themselves. 1t is, in this re-
Spect, so they patiently explain to
me, that they differ from children.
They learn all about their bodies
by reading a book on the balanced
diet and a book on your nerves
and book on blood pressure and a
book on intestinal sewerage, and
pamphlet from the life extension
institute and several from their life
insurance companies, and they are
all ready to arrange their futures
so that the wheels will grind with
the least possibility of friction.
And that is one of the reasons
they are more trouble to keep
healthy than children.
ut Is not without chagrin, in
deed, that the members of my
profession find how easy it is for
mere laymen to learn all about the
nature and treatment of various
diseases.
I'VE remember the time we spent
in medical college. A year diSSect-
ing, just to become acquainted with
how the human body is formed.
Long hours at the microscope look
ing at sections of healthy, then dis
eased organs.
"1nterminable period of obServa-
ton on experiments in the physi-
illogical laboratory, learning about
blood pressure, and nerves and
muscles, and gaseous exchanges.
Then examining patients and
listening to heart-murmurs and
weighing children and delivering
mothers in tenements and observing
the effects of medicines and calcu-
lating diets and timidly assisting at
surgical operations.
1t all seems such a waste of time
when you meet one of these hygien-
lists who has read Clendening's book
on the Human Body and knows all
about the subject"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Illness Causes Much School Absence

from school Headache and diges-
tive disorders are second and third,
respectively.
However, the total number Of days
lost from school, If taken as a
standard, indicates that influenza
and grip predominant, and sore
throat, measles and mumps are
more serious as causes Of absence.
1t is interesting to realize that
head Ice are important causes
of trouble during the age levels
from to IS, and disappear al
most to zero after Is years of
age, whereas the rate for boils is
practically zero in the younger
ages and increases steadily in the
higher ages.
Accidents as a cause of absence
from school are rauch greater, in
deed almost twice as great,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
TannmanY TeStifieS

XXTHILE Morgan and Grand
w thus were being shielded,
Judge George w. Olvany, former
leader of Tammany Hall, carefully
was explaining to the Seabury
probers that while his firm might
have collected some large fees for
appearing before the board of
standards, it was quite legitimate
business, and while he might have
given advice to certain New York
officials, they were perfectly free to
take it, or leave it.
The word has gone out that
Judge Olvany has made 100000
during the last few years. The Sea-
bury probers would like to know
just how and why. Even if they
find out, they won't have much
more on Olvany than they already
have on Horse Doctor Doyle who
made similar amount by prac-
ticing before the board of stand
ards, though he was not a lawyer,
much less a judge, or the leader of
Tammany hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Bomb PLOT EizzIeS

XXTHILE Grand was being in
W sured safe conduct for two
hours by 10 per cent of New York's
police force, fifty detectives and a
couple of armored cars patrolled
the financial district where the
great house of Morgan stands.
Some one had received a tip, it
seems, that another bomb plot was
in the Matching, and the last fright
full experience suggested that no
chances be taken.
Again nothing of serious nature
occurred, but everybody believes it
might have, and everybody is glad
to know that the police were not
to be caught off guard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
TWo-PartY Viewpoint

THIS is tough year for probing
l. local Democratic organizations.
People are interested in national
affairs, where fault-fnding runs the
other way. The Tammany boys owe
lot to the crowd in power at
Washington, though no one expects
them to admit it. Blunders COM
mitted by officials at the national
capital have done a lot to make
people Indifferent, or forgiving to-
ward those committed by Demo-
cratic officials in New York City
and some other places.
AS long as we have a two-party
system in this country, we are go
ing to be guided by q two-party
viewpoint and we are going to let
the bigger issues determine it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

among boys as among girls. Most
of these accidents are reported to
the school teacher as sore hand
or sore foot.
The reason why boys have more
accidents than do girls is because
they engage in baseball and foot
fall, and also frequently play in the
streets.
More illness occurs during the
winter months than during the
summer. The worst month is
February, with a gradual decline
during May, but the May rate is
still higher than the sickness rate
of September.
It is only by determining facts
such as these that children can be
guarded properly against the type
of sickness that affects the school
child,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
SMASH HINDENBURG LINE
Nov. 81

ON Nov. 81, 1917, Lieutenant
~ General Julian Bng, COM
manding British forces, smashed the
Hindenburg line on a thirty-mile
front from ArraS to st. Quentin to
a depth of one to five miles.
The foremost British lines
reached to within four miles west
of Cambria, which was a railway
center Of German communication.
Thirteen villages and more than
nine thousand prisoners were taken
by the British.
This was one Of the greatest Brit
ish efforts of the war. It culmi-
mated four days Of assault with all
possible zeal.
Meantime, British forces in Pales-
tine advanced five miles northwest
of Jerusalem.
The house Of commons adopted
an amendment to the electoral bill
DISTINGUISHING conscientious OBJ
jectors to wal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Read "Tke Care and Feeding
of Adults" If You Worry
Too Much About Your
Health.
THE Nation is running a series
Il of articles by various authors
entitled "If I we're Dictator"
At the moment, if were dictator.
I am inclined to think that would
require every citizen to read the first
chapter of Logan Clendening's new
book. THE Care and Feeding Of
Adults" CThe book is published
by Knopf at $2.5O)
The title of the book is some
what facetious. So is the style in
which DR.. Clendening writes.
Both are well adapted to his piIr-
pose, which is to encourage people
to approach the matter of their
health with a touch of humor.
Great strides have been made in
health matters in the last few dec
AIDES. Campaigns of education have
done much for public health. Many
contagious diseases, once rampant,
almost have disappeared.
But there is another side to the
picture. Too many people have be-
come too self-conscious about their
health. They chase health so hard
that they forget to enjoy it. They
ruin their digeStions by too much
care instead of by too little care.
And that is why I urge people to
read at least the first chapter of
DR.. Clendening's book. 1t is a fine
antidote for too much worry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EEg42S
! TATURE. according I'd Dr. Mer-

MATURE, according to DR.. Mer-
IN RAM, undertook years ago to
develop the perfect fighter. And
nature, as usual, got its wish. This
killer Of the dark ages was the
saber- toothed tiger. And, according
to the doctors speech before the
National Academy of Science, the
prehistoric heavyweight champion
was quite a menace to all other
jungle beasts.
He was not much bigger than the
tiger which. we know or at least
have heard of. But he carried teeth
a foot long, and they had serrated
borders. Nothing alive could stand
against him.
There were, to be sure, larger ami
mails roaming about, but they pos
sessed neither the speed, the trucu-
lence nor the armament of Tom the
Terrible.
And so it might be supposed that
here in the year 1881 the saber-
toothed tiger would bestride the
world. In all logic we ought to have
one presiding at city hall, another
in the White house and an entire
senate chamber full of long-toothed
legislators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Meeting an Anthropoid

ONCE I attended another festival
~ at which a young monkey was
allowed to roam about and leap
upon the lap or laps of visitors.
From this vantage point he dipped
one hand into my cocktail to test it.
And after that I can not say that
the concoction tasted quite the
same.
1 seemed a little FESTIVE while he
chartered on my knee. And the
young lady who owned him tried to
reaSSure me by remarking that he
wouldn't bite if I sat perfectly still.
1t was not hint to inspire COM
posture.
1 said hastily that I would much
prefer not to be bitten. I remarked
that the king of Greece, according
to the headlines, had died from lust
such catastrophe.
But" she answered, ''the king of
Greece wouldn't have been poisoned
by that monkey bite under ordinary
circumstances. He happened to be
drinking man."
And after that, naturally, all nv
fears evaporated.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the


Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
DURING two full years the
- average time lost on account of
sickness by children in a typical
American community was IA school
days. The average time lost caused
by other than sickness was 5.62
days.
Investigations made by the United
States public health service in
dictate that younger children lose
more time on account of sickness
than do older ones, and that girls
are sick slightly more often than
boys. However, in the latter case
the difference is slight.
The common cold stands far
ahead of any other cause among
sicknesseS that produce absence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Raker's Anti.War Plan

Newton D. Bakers speech at Boston urging pass
age by congress of the Capper resolution calls at
tention to one of the simplest and most promising
anti-war measures yet proposed.
The Capper resolution would bind the United
States not to be a market for finances, industrial
goods farm products munitions for any nation
which went to war in violation of previous agree
ment to arbitrate international troubles.
Its advantages are obvious Many nations would
be reluctant to enter if they knew that Amer
lean markets and banking houses would be closed
to them. Furthermore if war did get started there
would be much less chance for the United States to
get involved through commercial and financial ties
with of the combatants.
Mr.. Baker believes that adoption of such policy
by the United States would prevent large-scae wars
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
There Must Be a Catch in It

A T least, that is the logic which
"A many have derived from the
Da1winian hypothesis. And even
have heard it applied to the every
day life of us all. We are told upon
occasions such as patriotic holidays
that this is a world in which only
the strong and the well prepared
may survive.
Gentlemen who call themselves
realists as well as patriots are fond
of reminding us that man is re-
moved by only a few thousand CEN
turtles from the jungle and that
civilization is a thin veneer under
which seethe the primitive emotions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Don't Worry

HEALTH, according to DR.. Glen
4 L dening, falls upon the just
and the unjust, like mercy, with
about an equal distinction
AS regards rules for health, he
says, THE first, think, i&to ac-
cept the philosophy I juSt isu die
vulged. Don't burden Course EJitfH
too many duties coiAectso$ with
your health, nor too n gCil1es of
hygiene.
"The idea has been i 5cast in
our day by all sorts ,b1icists
that adults are very delicl -. Really
they are surprisingly tough.
about the only things yoi, sanT
do to them safely is to let them go
for any considerable period of time
without fresh food, and to put
germs under the skin or in any Of
the abSorptive cavities of the body.
They have acquired their i'm
munity from many of the infec-.
tious diseases. You can take an
adult into places which would be-
reeking with danger to a child.
"You can hurI them under autos.
and drop them from moderately
high buildings with far more i'm
punity that you could a monograph
or kitchen clock. Bones heal UP,
clocks do not"
DR.. Clendening's advice to the in
dividual is to "get a doctor of your
own" a family physician who suits
you and understands you and can
deal with you as an individual.
Consult him when you think you
need advice or when you have
pain or an ache.
The rest Of the time quit worrying
about your health. Eat what you
like. says DR.. Clendening.
IF you do not like exercise" he
says, Its neglect will not seriously
harm you. Reducing your weight
will not save your life and is
darn hard job anyway.
Finally, you do not need to hang
round q doctor or a hospital all the
time to keep your health"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
NJ. E. Tracy
It Takes 1000 Cops to Make q
Mile Safe for q Man Who
Has Come to AdUise Us
About Arms Reduction.
SAYS:


NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-Dino
Grand, Italian foreign minister,
here to talk peace and disarmament,
pays brief visit to New York,
riding from the battery to city hall
and back again between solid lines
Of policemen, who stand with their
backs toward him in order that they
may keep sharper watch on the
sidewalk crowds.
1t forms curious stage setting
for this messenger of good will, and
one need not be cynic to discover
an element of irony in it.
Admittedly some strutting was
called for in Signor Grandi's honor,
but would city officials have gone
quite so far, unless they sensed the
possibility of untoward events.
Two thousand cops to make a
mile safe and that, too, for man
who has come to advise with us
about scrapping navies and dis
banding armies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

How large is the Rock Island dam
on the Columbia river? What is its
water capacity?
It is $500 feet long and has a
maximum height Of 100 feet. The
capacity Of its initial installation
will be about 80,OO0-horse power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter.
estinx writer's and are ure-
scented without regard to their
agreement or DISAGREEMENT
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

WHAT does the expression, ITO
come from the Styx" mean?
ITO return from the dead" The
Styx in Greek mythology is the
river that guards Hades or the
abode Of the dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

Drinkers, says a headline, pay one-ffth of Brit
aims taxes. Well there it's "Ale, ale the gang
all here"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

People in Somerset England, use a rose to pay
tenure. If the pee in America use anything to
pay tenure lucky
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
Daily Thought

But new wine must be put into
new bottles; and both are pre-
served.-Luke 5:38.
1t is my humble prayer that 1
may be OF some use in my day and
generation.-Hosea Ballou.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

In these days of "abysmal ignorance" about the
only who air his views with impunity is the
aviator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

Bald men are stampeding Chicago doctor who
has discovered how to grow hair. Evidently all hair
minded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

It's all right to take time off from business to keep
in the pink if you don't get into the red.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

An English woman is heading a movement fo
perfection of man." Sounds like a Swiss movement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

sat. Somehow or other the wine of
our country and the animals of Asia
make singularly poor mixture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21
More Teeth Than Brains


ATOR was he routed from the
IN earth because some other ami
NAL came along with three-foot
teeth and a machine gun attached
to his spine. Tom the Terrible never
lost a single encounter in which the
issue depended merely on physical
proweSs.
But his superb array of weapons
and his beautifully co-ordinated
muscular system were motivated by
a limited brain capacity. To make
room for the roots of the teeth it
was necessary to f1atten the skull a
little.
And so he went the way of all
flesh. He lived by tusks and per-
ished by them. Similar species
which he could have licked with one
paw tied behind his back have sur
yived even down to the present
see, for instance, that the puma,
which could have been no more than
a PekingeSe in the eyes of Terrible
Tom, has managed to perpetuate
himself.
1 don't happen to know any pumas
personally, and they are not by
reputation the most pacific of ami
mails. But, at least, their I. Q's rank
them above the saber -toothed tiger.
And so their persistence must be
attributed to taking thought rather
than cutting the jugular veins of all
their neighbors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

All items in Ripley's believe
It Or Not" which appeared in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-21

of hate and ambition. We must
watch our neighbor, keep our gun
powder dry and build more bombing
planes.
There is a flaw in this reasoning.
Ask any of the preparedness people
to produce for you the saber-toothed
tiger and every one will funk on the
assignment. The fiercest of the
fighting animals, the champion of
them all, has gone down into the
dust of oblivion.
The Washington times., 1931-10-09
ARMCO DEV|SES
SK|LL-WAGE
SYSTEM
Payroll Reduced With 1000
Men Getting Boosts, $500
Cuts, and 100 Unchanged

CINCINNATI, Oct. sAFollow-
ing a study of 5000 different
Jobs done by more than 1000
employees in It's operating depart
ments. American Rolling Mills