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Keeping on the Map At first thought, it may seem to make little difference whether the new air mail rout* 1 bervpon St. Louis and Now York gf>es through this *-itv and Columbus or by the way of Evansville and Cincinnati. In the early days of railroads, many communities thought the same way about the routings of the rails. They became deserted villages. The question will be decided in Washington. Aug. 1. and the Chamber of Commerce is urging ?.il citizens who have the time and van make the sacrifice, to be present at the hearings in the capital to back up the claims of thi 6 - city. It is important, even though it be not crucial Ihe cities which have the most air lines are the ones which will be under the fewest handicaps a decade hence when the air as a means of transportation will he in general u-c. The time to get on the air map is when the lines are being inaugurated, not later. The advanc® in air transportation is more rapid than was made by either rails or later by the automobile. Every day adds to the advances. In the picture shows arc th" photographs >1 German planes which carry one hundred passengers. The planes are equipped to land either on the ground or on the water. 1 hey will be as safe as passenger coaches, travel 1‘2() miles an hour, and furnish comfort as well as speed. A few weeks ago the Governor of this state hesitate 1 about flying with Colonel Lindbergh. Now he . aunts to-neighboring states in a little rabin plane, sav mg time for himself and lost to all sense of the natural fear that comes with new experiences. The city ha-- provided airports. It is the, center of many lines. It must keep on the air map w herever possible. Citizens who can make the trip can do nothing more worth while tor the city than to lend their influence and support to the demand that Indianapolis he kept on the map. It is the modern competition of eities. Those showing the most aggressiveness and vision will survive. The others will merely regret later. City Building Quite as important as the planning of new enterprises to arid to the resources of the city, and perhaps more important, is the protection and support of existing institutions. Especially is this true of semi-public institutions which advertise the city. Their success or failure reacts immediately upon the good name of the city. The spirit which saves is the spirit which can be depended upon to build. The city as a whole owes something to the group of men who. under the leadership of Norman Perry, stepped forward when the Elks Club faced a financial crisis and raised a half million of dollars to prevent that institution from disaster. Those who gave their time and money to this work were not animated by a desire to have a club. It is probable that they use the building much less than any other group of members. They were interested in Indianapolis. They knew that the club served a useful purpose They knew also that if word went out that, this institution had been forced to make readjustments and perhaps close, it would have a bad psychological effect on the city as a whole. The spirit which saved the Elks Club is the building spirit Cities which possess such leadership and public spirit are destined to prosper

The Cost of an Army It is not an easy job that President Hoover has set for the general staff of the army. He asks for reconsideration of the whole army program. to the end that ihe present immense and increasing costs may be reduced. And he asks it at a time when the general staff just has given its o. k. to the largest peace-time military budget in American history. Army budget-making is hardly like business budgetmaking A merchant or a manufacturer can base his spending program on his receipts or anticipated receipts from sales. The army has no receipts. All going out and nothing coming in—that's the army. It met spends the people's money and gives the people. in return, protection. Most if not all this protection in peace*irr.e. is theoretical It would be hard to measure real protection in money and obviously much harder to measure theoretical protection So the general staff is up against it, in a way. It cam net say True, we spend so much money, but we give you protection worth that much or more For it doesr. t really know how much protection it provides. It can't know without a war. p only can imagine all the things that might happen to the United States if we got into trouble with another country or two or three other countries, and then spend the money necessarv to meet these imaginary dangers The better the imagination of the genera! staff, the better —and more expensive our .theoretical protection. And in the meantime the expense grows. For 1928 Me spent on our military establishment $286,563,865 For 1929. we spent $311,490,987. For 1930. we will spend 5351.388.442 What we were headed for in 1931. had not President Hoover yesterday called a halt, nobody can say All this in spite of the fact that in Hoover's words, current expenditures on strictly military activities of the army and navy constitute the largest military* budget of any nation in the world today and at. a time when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any other time in more than half a century.'* The President makes clear that he has no desire to go down in history as ths most expensive peace-time commander-in-chief of the army and tells the general staff to remove the danger of becoming that. Furthermore, he appears to have an Idea of the way the genet*! staff can accomplish its task of reduction. For one thing he suggests the possibility of spread-

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ing the army's development over a longer period; in other words, he asks the general staff to imagine that the possible war for which it constantly is preparing is a little farther in the future than it heretofore has feared. For another thing, he says the general staff might "see what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advance in scientific war methods." Can he mean horses and boots and spurs, tn the first instance; can he mean political army posts, in the second? Maybe. And there is where we see grief for the general staff. Think of the argument the cavalry is prepared to put up. And think of the battle certain congressmen will offer against pulling down army posts now located at highly strategic points—from the standpoint of votes! Ford’s Tariff Views Representatives of highly protected industries who have been besieging congress for still higher duties in the bill now' being drawn will do well to ponder the position of Henry Ford. Ford, the senate finance committee has been informed, favors putting trucks and automobiles on the free list. His representative previously had argued before the committee that the importation of foreign cars was in such small quantity that it did not affect the domestic market. The committee asked for the view of Ford himself. Ford is willing to take his chances w'ith the auto manufacturers of the world, relying on mass production and superior management. And if his suggestion were followed the great danger of reprisals by other countries would be avoided. The present duty on autos is 25 per cent ad valorem. Other domestic manufacturers ht.ve told the committee that they would be willing to have this reduced to 10 per cent, with a countervailing clause, which would cause the same duty to be imposed on the imported autos of any country as the duty that country imposed on American cars. The 10 per cent duty also would be intended to give the President a weapon in event of a trade war, under authority granted by the flexible clauses. . . ~ The truth is that the American people care not whether the duty on autos is raised or lowered. They <now that it will not change the price of cars upward or downward, since domestic competition governs the industry and imports are negligible. The argument before the senate committee has meant little except that it gave the high tariff senators opportunity to claim that they were endeavoring to lower at. least one important schedule. Auto manufacturers themselves were so little interested that they did not trouble to come before the committee until they were invited. Nine of every ten autos in the world are American made. Exportation has been increasing largely, and American manufacturers are establishing assembly and even factory plants in foreign countries. The industry has world supremacy. The chief interest in Fcrd's testimony, therefore, lies in his willingness Id abandon all protection, and his confidence that his farflung plants will be able to meet any challenge from whatever quarter it may come. His attitude contrasts most favorably with that of numerous other industries, which have fallen behind in the industrial parade and can find no other remedy than the dubious one of more and more tariff. The German heavyweight champion, Ludwig Heymann, has a Ph. D. degree. But Max Schmeling is making the money. The coroner in Chicago also writes articles for a Chicago newspaper. Proving you certainly can crowd a lot of w’ork into twenty-four hours.

__David Dietz on Science

Structure of Leaves

No. 416

THE garden is a source of beauty, and—if you doyour own gardening—a source of healthy exercise. If you will "botanize.” to use a very old-fash-ioned word, as well as garden, your garden will prove a source of great fun as well as valuable knowledge. You need no equipment other than your garden and a willingness to use your eyes. A small magnifying glass or pocket microscope will help. You need not spend much money. One dollar will buy you a very

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and a great amount of fun can be had without any magnifying glass at all. Let us begin cur study with leaves and their structure. In general, the leaves are the most conspicuous part of plants. It is the leaves of trees and shrubs which gives the summer landscape its color. The botanist divides the leaf into three parts. It is true that the names of the various parts are not of great importance. But they are of great convenience. They enable us to talk about leaves and refer to various parts with ease, just as the names of the positions on a baseball team are helpful. It is easier to say "shortstop" than to go into a lengthy description each time you wish to designate the man playing ihat position. The major portion of the leaf is known technically as the blade. The stem-hke part of the leaf is known as the leafstalk, or petiole. In the case of many leaves, there are two little appendages at the base of the petiole These ar known as the stipules. The chief divisions of a leaf, therefore, are the blade, the petiole, and the stipules. The blade, itself, is characterized by a network of veins. Usually, the largest vein is near the middle of the blade. It is known as the midrib. When there are several prominent veins, they are known as the principal veins. Veins branching out from the midrib are known as lateral veins. The tip of the blade is known as the apex The edge of the blade is known as the margin. These various parts of leaves are made clear in the accompanying diagram.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Hare Xot Conquered Xature to Such an Extent That lIV Can Afford to Knock Off Ton Often and Fight Among Ourselves. Atlantic city.—secretary of State Stimson appears to be having a rather hard time of it as peacemaker. Some of the letters, it seems, weren't mailed, or if they were, the mail failed to perform. At all events, Japan says she didn't get her invitation to the party and chooses to be a little sore. What is even worse, Russia says she didn't get hers. Still, the party continues to take shape, w-ith a peaceful adjustment of the Manchurian squabble looming as the most likely outcome. tt tt a Brains Taxed by Flies BUT w'hy worry? Haven’t we trouble enough closer home, with our gang wars, bootlegging scrapes, prison rebellions, bank wreckings, politics and heart balm suits? And if that fails to fill the bill, what about the merging, monopolizing and mimic war? , Or if the picture still seems too drab, what about the real war now' going on to save the state of Florida —a war in which little flies are taxing the best of brains. a a a Citrus Growers Worry TOO tame, you say? Well, you wouldn't feel that way if you were a grapefruit grower down around Orlando, and you may not feel that way when you go out to buy grapefruit next winter. These minute pests of nature are not to be regarded lightly. Look at what the gypsy moth has done to Massachusetts, or the boll weevil to cotton. The Mediterranean fly, if it got a good grip on Florida, would destroy millions of dollars worth of property; perhaps, hundreds of millions; and you and I would help pay the bill. tt * a Nature Unconquered WE have not conquered nature to such an extent that we can afford to knock off too often and fighi among ourselves. There still is a good deal to be done in this country if it is to be made safe for the dinner table, or w j ork shop. Where are the Chestnut trees that once flourished on Long Island, or the apple orchards of Connecticut? Civilization can’t sweep over a land and then neglect it, can’t cut down, dear away and introduce new growths, without fighting to protect them. tt tt tt Disturbing the Balance NATURE, if left to herself, establishes a balance w’hich permits the fittest to survive, but w'hen we upset it by destroying the forests, killing off the song-birds and bringing in foreign products, as w'e have done, she becomes helpless for the time being at least. That leaves the w'ar for men to wage. Neither is it an easy war, or one in which the stake is small. a a a People Must Live PEOPLE unacquainted with the problem sometimes say we are. paying too much attention to plants arid animals, that what we ought to do is look after our own kind and let them go. That sounds all right, until one stops to think that plants and animals are what we live on, and that if they become unhealthy we are bound to. This great battle we are forced to wage is not for cows, pigs. corn, cotton or fruit, but the human beings who eat them, and who absorb everything they contain, whether good, bad or indifferent. tt tt tt Mobilizing of Experts LAST year Florida shipped 24.000,000 boxes of citrus fruit and 36,000 carloads of vegetables. Florida could remain under quarantine, of course, as she is now but not without sending up the price of fruit and vegetables, and no quarantine could be made so effective that the infection might hot spread. That is why the federal government has set aside $4,250,000. why the greatest experts have been called in and why no less than 5.000 men have been mobilized. ■tt tt tt Struggle for Food NOTHING that we are doing as a nation promises more than this constant struggle to keep our food sources pure. From a physical standpoint, people largely are what they eat. From an economic standpoint, they can not hope to get it at the right price, unless they protect it against blight and disease Talk about farm relief! What chance would the farmers have if such afflictions as the hoof and mouth disease, the corn borer, the pink boll worm, were allowed to run riot! What would a punny half billion in loins profit them? Why pests have destroyed more than that amount in the cotton fields during a single season, and the Mediterranean fly could do even worse.

helpful magnifying glass. If you feci that you wish to spend more. so much the better. More powerful magnifiers are to be had at prices ranging up to $lO. There also are small portable compound microscopes which sell at. prices from sl2 to S2O But again, let us emphasize that the willingness to use your eyes is the chief requirement

Daily Thought

If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.—St. John 14:14. a a a IWANT a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.—Thackeray. Is the number of Indians in the liiited States increasing or decreasing? In 1865 there were 294,574 Indiana in the United States, In 1927 t there were 354,940.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. MOST housewives know that prolonged exposure of the skin to humidity or water softens and washes away the outer cells of the skin, and that in this softened condition the skin forms a suitable breeding ground for germs. For this reason specialists in disease of the skin inquire particularly as to the occupations of women who come for advice with eruptions on the hands. Laundresses, maids, domestics, housewives, scrubbers, barmaids,

IT is my feeling that a columnist is a public servant and that he should have no secret alliance of any sort. Accordingly, I wish to announce that United States Steel has left my bed and board, and that I will no longer be responsible for the corporation, no matter what it may do. Perhaps. I might as well admit that I am a little bitter about steel. In the days before it acquired that limousine look I made no bones about the fact that I had ten shares. Steel was pretty democratic then, and almost anybody could take a Tide. It's perfectly true that I stepped off for a second to tie my shoe, but how could I tell that the stock would start on high and whizz uptown without even doing me the courtesy of sounding a single toot upon the horn? And so we no longer speak as we pass by. Steel's way is not my way. B b a •Change Stocks I GO with Standard brands now. The management agreed to let me in on the ground floor because they* heard what I had done for United States Steel. I purpose to grow* up with the business. I can’t say that I'm terribly pleased with Standard brands up ; to date, because in spite of the long hours I’ve spent watching the ticker, it has only moved one-fourth j point. That wouldn’t be much for j Steel, but with Standard brands' i it's what we call a spurt. Not that our corporation isn’t active. On the contrary, hundreds of | thousands of shares change hands each day. The trouble with Standard brands is that it runs too much in the same place. A plunger like me would almost rather see it drop a bit than churn around in this fashion. It’s acting like an insect with a pin through the middle. A quarter of a point, it is true, to $25, for this time my ini terest is substantial. But even $25 will not go far with the broker’s commission and the government's kitty. B B B May Change His View MY reason for baring the big deal in Standard brands is the fact : that this involvement definitely may affect my point of view. Steel didnt enter much, into my daily life or 1 trespass on the subjects covered in the column. Whole months went by in which I didn’t buy a single ingot or a girder. But v.e of Standard brands make yeast or grow it or whatever the process is. and we also sell baking powder as a sideline. We hope to get some soup and pickles later on. i The rub lies in this baking powder racket. In the old days it was the custom of your columnist to , sneer at the Victorian woman who knew how to bake and sew. and went to bed at 9 o'clock. I was for the new woman who was companionable and wholly ignorant of pie crust. But. as Karl Marx once pointed out. we are all under the sway of economic determinism. If feminism stands between me and dividends. I’m very sorry, but feminism will have to go. We cant have women roaring • around the country about their

New Methods on a Tough Old Customer!

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Soap Powders Often Have Bad Effect

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cooks, waiters, bottle washers and hair dressers are among those who most frequently have these eruptions that result from the application of irritating soaps or cleansing solutions. Many of the patent soap powders or cleansers contain chemicals which irritate sufficiently to produce the appearance of chapping on the skin. Laundresses occasionally affected by bleaching powder, used to white cotton and linen goods. When the skin of the hands is exposed to such chemicals, it becomes thin, smooth and shiny and the ridges disappear and the hands have a generally red color. Sometimes

rights when they should all be home,, using can after can of the baking pow'der supplied by Standard brands. tt B B Half Way ONCE I believed that a man should be sympathetic, and even co-operative, w'hen a lady said that she wanted to lead her own life, but now it seems to me that most women who defy the conventions use very little baking powder. There ought to be a law to make them stay at home and cook biscuits. How'ever, this corporation of ours

Questions and Answers

What causes an electrical short circuit? When two wires carrying current to electrical apparatus are accidentally joined through faulty insulation or other wise the current has been short circuited. For instance, the two wires which connect a floor lamp to the house circuit become hard and touch and the current

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times Now that the judges from each of our forty-eight states have decided on the boys to present to Mr. Edison from whom to choose his successor, there will be forty-seven boys left from as many states who are the cream of our very best boys in the entire United States. We surely have in each state a public-spirited man, or firm, who would gladly take each boy from his particular state and back and encourage him. In doing so they would develop some of the most phenomena;, electrical inventions of which we can conceive, and perhaps one of the forty-seven boys let go by Mr. Edison really may turn out to be the wizard of our times. It would be a wonderful thing for science if there could be a team or club of electrically inclined men in each state working under conditions similar to the one that Mr. Edison is striving to create, and perhaps making his unit the head of the whole team or club If possible, about every year or five years, they could get together with a combination of brains like that, and things electrical would be bound to develop. The teamwork could be united so systematically that in case one would get an idea he could not solve, he could pass it along, and with the help of the others, make the idea a success. Some of our men of means well might afford to invest some of their money in a real live young man of the type selected in this contest, and take an interest in him. for it might mean just as much, or even more, than setting up monuments or building libraries for the future, as the real future lies in just such boys. So with a team like this, working from all sections of the country, it is impossible even to dream of the wonderful things they will bring flashing over our electrical horizon of the future. L. T. LONG. 3732 East Market street, Indianapolis.

the folds between the fingers split. Fats found in many soaps have irritant properties, and soap made with cotton-seed and cocoanut oil are found to be more irritating than palm and tallow soaps. If the person affected can give up temporarily the application of water and the irritating, soap to the skin, the condition will tend to recover, particularly if the skin is kept covered with gloves and with any bland ointment. On the other hand, the continuation of the occupation keeps up the source of irritation and the condition is not likely to be cured very promptly.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

may possibly get them coming and going. For the good old-fashioned stay-at-home bodies we have baking powder. Others more venturesome and self-indulgent may need our yeast, which makes you thin. At least we say it does. I believe it is also good lor the complexion and it can be obtained from your neighborhood grocer in ltitle chocolate-covered pellets. This is w'hat is called a 50-50 diet. The chocolate makes you fat and the yeast makes you thin. I’m very much afraid that this is the stuff our stock is feeding on. (Copyright. 1929. for The Times)

passes from one to the other without passing through the lamp, thereby abbreviating or shortening that particular circuit. What part did Warner Oland play in the picture, “The Jazz Singer”? Cantor Rabinowitz. What is the gross area and population of the United States? The gross area is 3,026,789 square miles. The 1927 estimated population is 118,628,000. What is Irving Berlin's home address? 29 West Forty-sixth street, New York City. Wliat was the last eight-year period between leap years? 1896-1904 How can whitewash he removed from walls? Soften the whitewash by wetting it liberally and repeatedly with a solution of two pounds of potash in five gallons of water and when softened remove with a scraper.

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JULY 24. 1929

REASON Ey Frederick Landis

Mr. Hoover Shows Political Sagacity in Selecting Fishing as His Pastime , for Who Has Xot Fished? THE President of the United States must select his favorite sport with care, for if he would get under the popular vest he must pick one which appeals to most of us. Mr. Hoover has shown political sagacity in selecting fishing, for who has not fished! i Few of us ever caught anything, but most of us have tried, and, besides, we still have hopes. a tt tt Our golf playing Presidents have been harmed by the publication of their performances on the fairway and in the sand trap For while it is a great, old game and the quickest way to get a vocabulary, the majority of voters still are strangers to the brassie. j Mr. Taft, in particular, suffered from the broadcasting of his golf- ! ing. for during his administration s the Scotch stroll was condemned as a game for sissies.

But Mr. Hoover has based his popular appeal upon a surefire pastime. for every time the papers tell of his reeling in a trout. 100,000.000 Americans recall their fishing days, then rise and sing three stanzas of "The Star-Spangled Banner " 808 TRUE. Grover Cleveland, who found his greatest delight in fishing at Buzzard’s bay with the great actor. Joseph Jefferson, got in bad with rod and line, but that was because he went fishing on Decoration day. an indiscretion no other statesman has committed since the wrath descended upon Grover, B tt tt Mr. Hoover carries a lot. more scenery than we did when we sallied forth with imagination undimmed by countless failures, but his camping trips remind us of the day we discovered the goggle-eye hole under the roots of the big sycamore on Ee! river.

Oh, it was wonderful to crouch there, drop the lir.-t into the dark water two feet helow and in an instant get a bite with whiskers on it, then pull up a flapping, shining prize. We guarded that hole for years, approaching'it by the most roundabout road. B B B BUT the real fishing classic, was the day brother Kenesaw caught the five-pound bass, for that day gleams with a finer splendor than any other of the many that have wandered down Sunset lane. We had whipped the waters with no results until all the bait was gone except a J^ard-shell crawfish, about as enticing as a doorknob to a fish in its right mind. n n tt Not with any hope of results, but rather to compliment the hgrdshe.il, he was put upon the hook, and no sooner did that hook strike the water than there was a commotion far greater than when the whale &wallowed Jonah, for it was a five-pound bass—and just in time for the birthday dinner of the mother of the fishermen.

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SETTLEMENT OF DETROIT Wednesday, July 24.

SI EUR DE LA MOTHE CADILLAC, first commandant of the French territory around Lake Michigan, made the first permanent settlement of the site of Detroit on July 24, 1701. Detroit, however, had been visited by Frenchmen as far back as 1648, but history dates its founding on the day Cadillac arrived and built F't. Pontchartrain and established a small trading station. In 1760. an English force under Major Rogers drove the Frenchmen out. In 1778, anew fort was built. At this time, Detroit numbered 300 living in rude log cabins. At the end of the Revolutionary war, Detroit passed into the hands of the Americans. However, the English flag again ruled over Detroit for a few months during the War of 1812, when General Hull surrendered the post to a British force under General Brock. It was returned to the Americans in 1813. Detroit was incorporated as a town in 1802. In recent years. Detroit ha3 passed the million mark in popu* lation.