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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1929
Page
15
The Indianapolis Times discusses replacing city government with the city manager system. It argues against partisan manipulation of hiring and for civil service standards while urging a swift tariff bill and clear congressional action. It notes Hoover's administration and Senate dynamics as key to policy clarity.
The Norris bill to return Muscle Shoals to government ownership is urged as Congress hotly debated during the session. A Public Ownership League of America report notes only one turbine active and one-eighth of potential power developed, with Alabama Power reselling at high profit. It cites Coolidge veto and power trust opposition to public control.
Congress opens a six month session facing tariff reform tax cuts appropriations and probes including a communications and electrical power investigation. Major items include the Vare case prohibition the world court inland waterways naval building and disarmament railroad consolidation Muscle Shoals and anti labor injunctions.
The government owned inland waterways corporation reports 1,881,000 tons of freight moved and 7,168,000 dollars in revenues for the fiscal year. Net income stands at 441,651 dollars, reversing a prior deficit, with Congress extending service to Missouri, St. Croix and Chicago-Illinois rivers and planning intracoastal work between Mobile and New Orleans.
Michigan plans seven to fifteen year sentences for habitual drunks. Authors argue overcrowded facilities cause outbreaks, with long sentences burning out housing and administration. Proposal suggests using the state penitentiary as jail and welfare ward for inebriates and other troubled inmates.
Frederick Landis and Robert Emmons critique bridge playing and gambling as moral hazards. The piece notes court rulings on hitchhiker liability, praises Frank Hering's War Mothers honors, and questions Kellogg Prize prospects amid US Russia and China tensions. It also muses on possible alternate history had Clemenceau's father steered him toward American citizenship.
The piece reflects on Commander Byrd's South Pole flight and Jack Elder's 96 yard run in the Army Notre Dame game as signs of progress. It links scientific achievement, sport, politics, and cultural shifts while noting past polar feats and media delays in reporting discoveries. The author contrasts exploration eras and laments cold casualties versus war-era recoveries.
The piece argues air travel and radio reduce the mystery of the poles and Alaska’s value shifts with exploration. It recalls Seward’s Folly, notes potential strategic and economic gains from polar lands, and questions dismissing uncharted regions as worthless. It, cites science and commerce altering value and warns against ignoring the unknown.
The text notes Pombeau as a French name meaning famous beauty. It also presents a religious reflection on trusting in God, citing Psalm 34:4 and the idea that grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ.
Dr. Morris Fishbein explains that skin cannot be fed by surface pastes oils or lotions. The skin stays alive via blood in the lower layers and nerve controlled vessels. Fat rubbed in is absorbed and carried by the blood but does not nourish the outer skin.
Heywood Brown reviews Sons o' Guns and Sweet Adeline noting war themes stir the audience while questioning the impact of bands on sentiment. He mocks bugle calls and drum rhythms as potential inciters to conflict, yet praises the production's treatment of war and vaudeville gags amid Lily Damita’s mixed dramatic impact.
The Roosevelt auto has straight eight cylinders. Graf is a German title akin to count. The Amazon river has the greatest water volume and width. Montreal's population is 952 875 and Quebec's is 126 000.
On Case School of Applied Science campus in Cleveland a wooden popcorn stand houses the Michelson Morley interferometer. Professor Dayton C Miller argues the device shows absolute motion of the solar system through space, challenging Einstein relativity and tracing back to Michelson and Morley's 1887 experiments.
The 1823 annual message to Congress introduced the Monroe Doctrine. It links neutrality with Washington and Jefferson policies and outlines two main aims: non colonization and non intervention by European powers in the Americas.
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