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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

nay FOLKS are bunch OF old fogies" writes
AVA Harriet aged 81 They are dead set against
nv going to the fashionable night club near our
city because they say I'm liable to get into bad
pany They don't know what they're talking about,
of course because in spite OF orders I have gone
several times and all the best people in town are
there I don't see any sense in such attitude. It
looks as if they Just don't want to have a good
time"
Well Harriet know nothing about your fash
ionabe night club but I can tell you what hap
pened in ours not long ago. Two men were shot
down right in front of all the best people who
were dining and dancing that night Investigation
proves that great deal of vice was being practced
there right under the of our social arstocrats
So it seems high time for the best people in every
city to decide what they're going to stand for;
whether they will continue to patronize such places,
and lend their influence to gambling, racketeering
and other underworld activities.
Some of the incest girls in town have been called
before the grand jury because they were at the
night club when murder broke loose there. They
are very unhappy about it, as we'll they might be,
since such experiences leave impressions which are
not soon forgotten It is easy also for the reputa
ton of good girl to be permanently besmrched
when she is discovered in the company of crooks.
Another thing. Has it ever occurred to you that
perhaps your foks-the old fogies-are the best
people in the real sense of the word? How long
would homes exist and civilizations endure, if the
old fogies weren't always here to protect them
against the thoughtless who choose the easiest way
and, like silly geese run after the cackling crowds
because they haven't the grit to do otherwise.
For the best people my dear, aren't always those
seen dining and dancing in public places, who
have lots of money to spend, or who, having no
Standards make great show of being broadminded
Nc. the best people in every town are like your
folks who discourage vice by staying away from
those places where it fourishes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
AMERICAS HOMES

THIS holiday season again throws into bold re-
- lief the outlines of the American home.
1t reveals far from happy picture. At least SO
per cent of Americas families need rehousing Some
six million of them live in "subStandard" and
city houses, while five million more live in farm
homes that lack primary provisions for health and
decency.
Largely because of its wretched homes this
counrys death rate in 1926 higher than that of
New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands Norway
Denmark, Canada England, Sweden, Uruguay and
Germany. If death rate were as low as New
Zealand's we could 4l50OO lives annually If
each life is worth only $4,000 we would save two bill
lion dollars year Slums and near-sluns are not
cheap housing. They are far too expensive for this
country longer 70 tolerate.
OF course low farm and city incomes are pri-
marly TO blame. Men with incomes below $500
the average manufacturing workers income in 1929
can not afford good homes. But good homes can
be made cheaper. and in their building wealth will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
ALL RIGHT WITH READER
IF LINDBERGH LEAVES
BY a Times Reader

By Times Reader
Every so often up springs the
name Of the famous Col Lindbergh,
the man who doesn't want pub
licity.
Yet he does the most unheard of
and unexpected things - things to
make him headliner in papers and
first on the radio. Why does he do
so differently from other men?
Now he blames every one for his
troubles-the press, the government
and what not. Why should he
blame any government for his
trouble with baby Charles? He
should have protected that child
himself
AS I remember, he moved out in
the sticks, had no guards nor so
much as a lock on the nursery
window. One wonders why it
hadn't happened before.
Why should Lindbergh's baby
Jon be any more likely to be kid
child, if the motive be money?
Other rich men don't blame the
press and the government They
do their best to protect their chill
dren.
Had Lindbergh done this, there
might not be man in New Jersey
waiting to go to the chair. He
blamed the press for the first baby's
misfortune and didn't want any,
thing said about Jon. Now he gets
angry at the country that made
him famous through much pub
lefty
New Jersey and the United States
Government have been good to
Lindbergh, but he has had too
much publicity. I hope he stays in
England long enough for us to get
a rest from Lindbergh headlines. I,
for one, am glad our country pro-
tects its subjects all alike and not
just the noted families.
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Questions and Answers

taking care that the heel and ball,
and the ball of each toe receive
some in. Remove the foot from
the ink and press it lightly on the
page where the impression is de-
sired, again taking care to press
each toe and the ball and heel so
that a complete impression will re-
suit
Q-Give the date and place Of the
professional football game in which
.he New York Giants won the ma
tional championship in 1884.
A-Polo Grounds, New York City.
Dec. 8, 1884. The Giants defeated
the Chicago Bears 30 to 13.
Q-What is steel skeleton con-
struction?
A-The building codes define it
MS: "a form of building construc-
ton wherein all external and in
ternal loads and stresses are trans
mitted to the foundations by rig
idly connected framework of metal
or reinforced concrete. The inclos-
ing walls are supported by girders
at each story"
Q-Is Bastile Day also called In
dependence Day in France? When
is it celebrated?
A-July IA is Bastile or Independ-
ence Day.
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Socrates and young Lincoln. True,
there is no place for such men in
a Hooveristic scheme of govern
ment.
His facts" might be termed IAN
j. o"~dent note" in the sense that
ignoring history and the value of
character is independence
One Republican deplores the fact
that certain minor Office holders,
presumably Democrats, do not work
in the interest of public welfare or
economy, but for the retention of
the political jobs of a group.
The writer overlooked the fact
that the real purpose of his conten-
ton is to enable another group to
retain their property and to throw
men out of employment.
Why not try to be big enough to
concentrate our attention on plans
which will make the most useful
JOBS for everybody? This will create
new wealth and enrich the whole
nation. Why not arrange to give
trustees, for example, positions
wherein they can work with greater
efficiency?
Why be so petty and mean as 10
find fiendish delight in throwing
any man out of employment? Why
not open our minds to the educa-
ton that will make money circulate
and give an abundance of work to
all?
What is more contemplate than
the meanness of men who enjoy a
good income, directly or indirectly
from Roosevelt's spending and then
squawk about paying taxes on their
little 10-cent houses? Such men
want no restrictions placed on big
business. They fear they might lose
an opportunity to stab a fellow
worker in the back.
Why not join the holy half of the
4700 ministers who answered Pres
ident Roosevelt, pledging their sup
port to the justice of government
ownership of public utilities and
basic industries?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
OTHER OPINION
Social Security"
[South Bend Tribune1

The unemployment insurance
section of the Federal !."social Sc
curity" system will not be practical
ly effective, from the designated
benef1ciaries' viewpoint, until Jan. l,
1888.
That is the date set for beginning
Of payments to the certain classes
of workers temporarily unemployed
through no fault of their own. For
employers, however, the system be-
comes very real within a few days.
On Jan. /, 1886, every employer of
eight or more persons must begin
setting aside or thinking of setting
aside the money necessary for pay
ment Of this social security tax.
1t may be remarked in passing
that the political bureaucracy will
be enhanced Immediately by this
new system. While the unemployed
are waiting hopefully for 1888 and
employers are trying to solve the
financial and administrative prob
lens created for them by this step
toward utopia some politicians and
their deserving" friends will be do
ing quite we'll occupationally.
State bureaucracies as we'll as the
one in Washington will be inflated
further by this boon to the for
gotten man."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
ELIAS J. JACOBY
own CanlpuSe

NEW indianapolis men lived lives as busy and as
constructive Elias J. Jacoby. His work in the
Masonic fraternity alone would have kept an ordi-
nary man employed His training as a lawyer took
him into enterprises-chie1y tranSportation-that
would have taxed ordinary severely. But he
lived far beyond the Biblical three score and ten
years to the benefit of his adopted city and its
many interests.
Indiana was the gamer when Mr.. Jacoby
persuaded to come here from Ohio upon his gradu
alton from college. We have lost an able and public
spirited citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
THE BRITISH MOTIVE
QUESTIONED AGAIN
RY Robert K TavInr

BY Robert X. Taylor
Englands critics are not condon-
ing the italian invasion of Ethiopia.
In many respects African native
civilization is far superior to that of
Europe. But this was also true years
ago when England was intent upon
setting up herself as a modern
Roman ruler of the world, a plan
which succeeded only too we'll.
Mr.. B. of Bloomington argues that
our form of government, our ira
ditions and our culture are pre-
dominantly English, with the as
sumption that these things are good.
The most ugly, unnatural, artificial
and thoroughly despicably bad cult
of all time, that of Puritanism, came
from England also. This beloved
piece of English culture-fowering
has colored American national life
with crime, repression, retrogressive
censorship, prostitution and innum-
cradle horrid vices. Somebody per-
haps can get some satisfaction out
of the fact that our culture is best
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
SEES NO BENEFITS IN
PARTISAN WRANGLING

By Hiram Lsckey
Some one should write the actual
facts about the Republicans ia
vorite subject-governmental econ
omy and efficiency. This would en-
able them to sympathize with the
Irishman who always was wanting
justice. One day the Judge gave
him too much justice.
Among the facts" which one Re-
publican uses to back up his argu-
ment is this contention:
"A man who can't give a per-
sonal bond for $3.50 is not fit for
Office"
This would eliminate such men as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

DOLITICS makes strange bedfelows strange
friendships strange enmities-its here-today-
and-gone- tomorrow game.
Therein it has its pathetic side Too bad; but we
guess nothing can be done about it. We are glad
however that not in it, that we can live our
private lives without the emotional strains and
stresses that inevitable in public affairs that
go along the road which, after all is pretty
short, don't have to break with our friends and
associates but can feel that tomorrow and tomor-
and tomorrow, until the brief span is over and
the Pickering candle fickers out those of whom we
have grown fond won't find themselves in spot
where they can't stay at our house and that we'll
never consider the "exigcncies' such as to make us
publicly decline their hospitality for fear Of the eff
feet larger ambitions
OF course, what We are talking about is a situa-
ton, common rather than unusual in politics, in
which Al Smith, the Happy Warrior so named by
none other than Franklin D. Roosevelt now can't eat
Of the bread and the salt and drink of the water
and wine of the White House.
We recall sitting in great halls and seeing and
hearing the handsome Franklin glorify his friend
AL nominating him for the presidency that Al never
attained and which Franklin, as the wheel Of fate
turned round, did attain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

SPECTACULAR advances in the
- field of artificial radio-activity
ranked as the most exciting in the
field of physics during the year
1885.
While these failed to startle the
scientific world in the same FASH
ion that the discovery of the neu-
iron, heavy water, and the poSitron.
and the first announcement of ar
tificial radio-activity did in the last
few years, nevertheless they repre-
sented important achievements il
the world Of physics.
Prof. C. G. Lauritsen and his COL
leagues at the California Institute
of Technology, succeeded in produc-
ing gamma rays six times as
powerful as those of radium by the
bombardment of lithium, the third
lightest element.
At the University of California,
Prof. E. 0. Lawrence and mis- aSso-
ciates improved the method of pro-
ducing large amounts of radio-ac-
tive sodium. They believed that this
may prove as useful as radlum IN
the treatment of cancer.
Meanwhile, scientists are still
waiting to see the eventual outcome
of experiments with the huge T.
000 ,000-volt electroStatic generator
built by Prof. Robert Van De CRAFT
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Improvements were made in the
generator during the year and
work was started upon monster
X-ray tube through which the full
strength Of the generator can be
sent in demonstrating experiments.
The eventual goal for which many
scientists hope is the wholesale re-
lease of atomic energy. This still
seems a long way off
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

(Times readers are tnUtted to empress
their Uie10s in these columns. religious
controversies eTCIuded. Make uowr letters
short. so all can hare a chance. Limit
them to ESQ 10ordS or less. Your letter
must be SiQned, but names a0iIL be
t0ithheld on reGueStI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
LESSON
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

How quickly I grow insolent
To mock at fate,
And tell myself it isn't
Powerful or great.
Until I feel the cutting lash
Upon my face,
And know that momentarily
I'm III disgrace.
But I shall be forever free
From failures clumsy grope.
I carry high to victory
A chaliced cup Of hope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
DAILY THOUGHTS

But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are
wrought in God.-St. John 800.
TRUTH does not do as much good
l. in the world. as its counterfeit
does mischief-Rochefoucauld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

NEW YEARS EVE. I dare say
4 soae of the customers will
read this in the nj orning. Nearly
everybody seems t4 be under
mandate to go Through the some
what dull routine OF celebrating to-
night. I hope mono of the follow
ers of this column let their New
Years gaiety degenerate into
brawl. 1t is muchI better to start
the new year without headache
and the loss Of memory which
makes a fellow ask his friends
where he was last night.
TINE best New Years Eve party I
Il ever attended was in the home
of Bill Sykes, the cartoonist. Bill
is a tall, gangling red-headed
Southerner who came north and
married a Quaker girl in Philadel-
phia For many years he has
done the daily cartoon for the two
Ledgers in that city. Well, we we're
at his house for New Years one
time and when midnight came Bill
opened the front and back doors.
The back door let the old year out
and the front one the new year in.
I remember he made all the guests
stand on chairs and reach as high
as they could. I don't know what
the chair business symbolized. Per-
haps some of the readers can eX-
plain it.
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Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of fact
or information to The indianapolis
Times Home Service Bureau. 1913 Thir-
feminist, n. W., Washington, D. c.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given nor can extended research be I'M
dertaken.
Odd Alexander Graham Bel
actually invent the telephone?
Ale invented it in 1876 in Bos-
ton, Mass. Others who had pre-
dicted the possibility of transmitting
speech by wire did not hit upon a
practicable method Charles Bour-
seul, Frenchman: an Italian
named Antonio Meucci; Philip Refs,
German; and Professor Elisha
Gray, A. E. Dolbear, and Daniel
ORA wbaugh. Americans, are among
those who worked on telephone in
ventions, and their claims were the
subject of prolonged litigation which
resulted in Mr.. Bells patent being
upheld and his claims to the inven-
ton of the telephone were estab-
lished officially.
.Q-Describe the method of tax
ing footprint of baby's foot.
A-Use a stamp pad of black ink,
or roll thin layer of black print
er's ink on piece of paper. Press
the foot lightly on the pad or paper,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

INTENSIVE studies of cosmic rays
l. continued during 1885. 1t APP
pears now as though a majority of
we're won over to the no.
ton that the cosmic rays consist Of
electrified particles rather than of
rays. The battle, however,
is not vet over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

OUCH language as this spells something more than
~ political palaver-"that quality of soul which
makes him a strong help to those in and in
trouble the quality of sympathetic understanding
OF the human heart of real interest in ones fellow
men, That from the speech in which for the third
time Franklin nominated AL, symbolized the affection
grown deep through lifetime of association.
And now Al can't be Franklin's guest because of
what politics has brought forth Damon and Pythias
have separated. The story Of the other Roosevelt
and his friendship with William Howard Taft and
of how that broke up is perhaps an even more sor-
rowful chapter in this kind of chronicle.
It's all a sort of sad commentary on public life,
and probably that's why public life is so repulsive
to so many, whose natural instincts might be for
public service but who revolt at going up against
such inevitable and unpleasant stages of the game
And maybe all this constitutes important aspect
of the general answer to the often-asked question
whats wrong with democracy" and to why our
democratic form of government fails to attract more
good men like Al and Franklin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

NTATCH parties used to be COM
" mon in Indiana, and I sup
pose still are. People would go to
their churches, spend the evening
in prayer and worship, and be
there together when the mystic hour
struck. That was a wholesome Gus
tom and beats a watch party in a
tavern in every way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

Health
81
DR.. MORRIS FISHBETN

The. Washington Merry Co
Round column will be found here
after on Page One of the Second
Section.l
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MOREOVER, different foods vary

MOREOVER, different foods vary
1VI in the amount of water they
contain. The cucumber. tomato or
watermelon will run as high as 90
to IS per cent Of water content. An
egg has 65 per cent, meat rs per
cent, fish 80 per cent and milk 81
per cent.
The water we take into our bod
les seems to be one-fourth from
drinking water and the remainder
from coffee, milk or soups and the
water content in solid foods.
Water is eliminated from the
body largely by the kidneys, but
an almost equal amount is vaporized
through the skin and by breathing,
and about one-half as much is elm
mated by the bowel.
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TONIGHT is the night for resolu-
- tions. For wiping the old slate
clean and beginning a new one.
Every man and woman has his own
little set Of shortcomings to con-
quer; his own set .of ambitions to
achieve. I have to fight an innate
laziness that puts me in a taxi
cab when I should walk. am
afraid of dentistry and as a result
1 don't go to the dentist when l
should. I am so fond CT detective
stories that I spend time on them
which should be devoted to philoso-
ply, history and economies. am
Unfortunately fond of baked beans.
That sort of thing. My list has
been made out and sworn to and /
hope to be a much better citizen
from now on. The same to you.
NEW YEARS calls have rather
gone out of fashion but a
finer custom never existed. To
make the rounds of ones friends,
or as many of them as could be
reached, was a good way to spend
the afternoon of New Years. In
many of the homes you'd find a
bowl of eggnog. just why eggnog
is connected with New Years I
don't know but it is. In. the old
days the number of calls a man
made was gagged by the number of
cups of eggnog he could hold.
7 ETTERS come in from Indian
~ apoliS friends saying they liked
this or that issue of the column.
They are very gracious. But they
ought to realize that during the
holidays, when there is only one
subject, it is easy to turn out para
graphs which touch and refresh the
memories Of readers. What they
should do is-if they like ito look
forward to the burnings days of
next July and resolve to furnish
material that will enable the writer
to survive.
II
1T is to be hoped the city officials
- make some resolutions tonight.
If they don't I shall have to buy a
pair of rubbers. Hip boots might
be better. My route has been en-
tirely too deep with slush for COM
fort.
A ND so, for what one woman
= N calls a modified form of
whoopee."
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The HOOSier Forum

/ OholIy disapprove Of 10hat yon say-and aOiU
defend to the death your right to sag i-Voltajre.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

NATER is the universal solvent.
w Not one of the chemical
changes that occur in the cells
would take place without water.
incidentally, the proportion of
water in mans body is greater at
birth than at middle age. Six
months before its birth an infant is
composed of "a per cent water:
at birth this content has decreased
to 50 per cent.
When man is 20 years old. the
water in his body constitutes 50 per
cent, but when he is 10. the amount
has diminished to IS per cent.
Some of your tissues contain more
water than do others. Your brain
has 70 per cent water. your kidneys
83 per cent, your liver 70 per cent
and your muscles IS per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

NOUR body contains so TO 10 per
Il cent water. It loses anywhere
from one to five quarts every day.
If you have Job that makes you
perspire, you may have a water
turnover" of as much as four gall
Ions day.
The water you drink makes up
90 per cent Of the fluid part of your
blood. 1t carries the essential food
substances throughout the body, as
well as the materials that are to be
eliminated.
You may be able to go 40 days
CT more without food, but you can
go only four or five days without
water. The old poem which began,
Pure water is the best Of drinks"
turned out to be one of the truest
statements known to PSYCHOLOGISTS
and hygienists.
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POIGNANT POLITICS

TUESDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1885.