Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1928 — Page 4

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Here’s a Chance Durant, the automobile man, not the philosopher, has offered a prize of $25,000 for the most practicable solution for the enforcement of the prohibition amendment. He indicts his own class—the rich and powerful—as being the public and private customers of the bootlegger, breaking the law with impunity and furnishing the rich profits which have turned gunmen and illiterate thugs into millionaires, and lifted a lowly Government agent to the realms of affluence. Durant believes the people want the law enforced if only someone could find a way of doing it. The prize, be it remembered, is for a practicable method of enforcement, not for repeal or nullification. That ought to be very easy for the professional dry leaders who have used the sentiments of those who really believe in prohibition to build up political machines and put into office men who violate the law, the agents of corrupt bosses in such States as Indiana, the proteges of bigotry, prejudice and graft, as long as they give lip service to the “cause.” Will Dr. Shumaker suggest, as his repree sentatives did to the Indiana Attorney General, that the Government resign its powers and “cooperate” with the Anti-Saloon League and let it enforce the law ? Does the remedy lie in the spending of $70,000 in every city every tveek by Government agents to close up night clubs, as was done in New York? Will the padlock on every home that makes home brew be the solution? Or will the repeal of the constitutional guarantee against search of private homes without warrant be the answer ? Perhaps there may be those who will suggest that the Army and Navy and the National Guard be called to action and martial law be proclaimed until every man who buys a drink is safely behind prison ’.vails. Certainly no one would argue that if every one stopped patronizing bootleggers, the problem of sale would be solved and if every one who permitted grape juice or malt to ferment was put in stripes the manufacture would end. Being practical enough to make three or four fortunes, undoubtedly Mr. Durant will demand something that will work. It’s a great chance for someone. And it should be so very easy for those who make a business of telling how easy it is.

Our Visitors That the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be made more than welcome during their stay in this city may be taken for granted. Indianapolis has a fine spirit of hospitality and it will be even keener and more solicitous on this occasion. It is but coincidence that at the very time these men who fought for the defense of the flag in other lands are gathering here to recall and review their experiences and their victories, the Secretary 'of State of this Nation is meeting with diplomats in Paris to sign a treaty designed to make other foreign wars improbable if not impossible. Perhaps nothing could better illustrate the spirit of this land than that we are foremost in efforts to promote a permanent peace, but ever ready to defend the sovereignty of this country when it is invaded. The proudest boast which these honored guests could wish or make would be to be able to say: “I fought in the LAST foreign war. I fought in a war which ended all wars.” The “Mike” Upsets Politics Had Smith and Hoover opposed each other eight years ago the advantage in the speaking campaign would all have been with Smith. Today the advantage is the other way around. The reason is the radio. Hoover’s radio voice is vastly better than Smith’s. It is a curious fact that the better a man is in public speaking of the old fashioned sort, the less effective he is before the “mike,” and that the traits which were disadvantages before the radio was employed become advantages now. In the pre-radio sense, A1 Smith unquestionably is the best living campaigner, and Hoover just about the worst. Before an audience that can see as well as hear, Smith carries all the poise and all the charm of a combination of Theodore Roosevelt and Tom Johnson. He possesses to an indescribable degree that most subtle and most valuable of all the traits of actors and platform speakers—the ability to sense the reactions of his hearers, to get the crowd “going,” to play upon it as a skilled musician plays upon an instrument. Every great orator, from Demosthenes to Bryan had that skill. And while Smith is not the born-orator type, in the smooth, musical sense that characterized Bryan, nevertheless he is as effective in his way as Bryan ever was in his. Before radio came in, a voice with carrying power was essential. Without it the speaker was lost. Smith’s voice was that. Through the long years of his platform schooling, he learned tne art of making that voice go forth to the fartherest reaches of the largest hall. And that very skill, developed with such arduous pains, becomes on# of his chief handicaps today. For not only is all the “spell” that goes with Smith in'a personal appearance lost to the invisible audience,

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but the very habit, acquired through all the years of talking to make himseif heard in large auditoriums, kills his radio effectiveness. . The best radio voice frequently is the poorest platform voice. . Before an audience, Hoover is nervous and quickly transmits his nervousness to his audience. He lacks altogethe:; the ease and skill that Smith possesses. As compared with Smith, he is almost a complete failure in putting his message over. He has a trait of monotonously pounding with both fists to enforce his points. He stands tense. He lacks the “sway.” Thepounding with his fists becomes rhythmic and finally distracting. His voice drones. He becomes terriblyhard to follow.. But it happens that the drone, the monotone, is the very best possible radio voice. And that the distracting things about Hoover’s personal platform appearence are shut out by the radio. The world does move and so it comes about in the evolution of politics that the asset of yesterday is the liability of today. And millions listen to the radio now to thousands who heard the presidential candidate of eight years ago. The Ceremony in Paris Aflutter with the flags of all nations Paris today was host to the principal powers of she world, gathered to witness America’s formal return to the international fold after ten years of aloofness and estrangement. Today’s signing of the pact to outlaw war universally is hailed as cne of the most important events since the Versailles treaty. But to Europe its importance is due almost entirely to America’s re-entrance to the concert of nations. Epoch-making though the event is, it lacks great special significance to European nations individually. As members of the League of Nations they signed a similar pact against aggressive war when they signed the covenant of the League of Nations. So when they walked up to the table today in the historic building on Quai D’Orsay, they assumed no additional obligations. When Kellogg signed, however, he did a momentous thing and history will so record. By a stroke of his pen he ranged the United States alongside the other great powers, pledging its moral support at least hencefore to prevent aggressive war. Thus, in his own language, “war will be made more difficult.” As viewed by Europe and America, today’s event assumes historic importance for curiously different reasons. America sees Europe joining with her in a brand new idea to outlaw war, while Europe sees America pledging herself at last to cooperate with the other great powers in the movement for world peace born in the covenant of the League of Nations and which all but America pledged themselves to support ten years ago. . Europe sees in Kellogg’s arrival in France a resumption of the moral pledge thrown overboard by America after Wilson left France in 1919. Europe vie,ws today’s signing, therefore, as an event of the first magnitude, pregnant with possibilities for the peace of the world because America’s moral might have been thrown into the balance.

Add this to your stock of similes: “As appealing as a golf course to a farmer after a day in the harvest fields.” People should eat the same things every day, says Thomas Edison. In this opinion he is backed by a couple of million boarding house landladies. A British newspaper is conducting a debate on the question of whether or not a man has a right to open his wife’s letters. Seems to us more a question of courage. \ ’ A sure sign of autumn is evident when parents count the days until college opens and they can ride in the family car ngain. David Dietz on Science . A Fashionable Physician No. 139 GALEN is one of the great figures in the early history of medicine. Many authorities rank him as the greatest in Greek medicine with the single exception of Hippocrates. He was born in Pergamon in the year 130 A. D. His father was a wealthy architect by the name of Nikon Nikon decided to have his son study medicine, so ancient records tell us, because of a dream in which

official surgeon in charge of the gladiators. In 162 A. D., he went to Rome. At Rome he gave public lectures upon anatomy. In time, he became famous not only as a lecturer, but as the most fashionable physician in all Rome. He was called in to treat the emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who was suffering from indigestion as a result of having eaten too much cheese. His fees seemed to have been rather good, but they must not be considered exorbitant, for his patients included the wealthiest and most powerful citizens of Rome. In one case, his fee amounted to about $2,000 in our money! ( In his writings, Galen tells of having been called in to treat a fashionable lady of Rome. He could find nothing particularly the matter with her. He engaged her in general conversation and found that her pulse quickeend at the mention of an actor by the name so Pylades. He concluded that her malady was one of the heart in the figurative sense and that she had fallen in love with the actor. Galen accompanied the emperor on his journeys into Germany. But despite the extent of his practice, he foupd time to carry on original research in anatomy ar** to do considerable lecturing. His death occurred in the year 200. Galen’s writings were extensive. Studies have been made of them by many authorities, one of the most recent by Prof. Lynn Thorndike of Columbia University, formerly of Western Reserve University.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “We Are Moving Forward All Along the Line, Even if Some of Us Constantly Run the Risk of Being Crushed Beneath the Juggernaut of Progress

TWO years ago Sandy Wee brought a white elephant from India to England. White elephants are held sacred in India. Many of the natives believe that he who profanes one by removing it from its native land will fall under a curse. Sandy Wee, having become a Christian, held such superstitions in contempt. * Things went well for Sandy Wee. He not only toured England, but America, with his prize exhibit, and afterward found a comfortable lodging in the London zoo which he shared with a "man of his own race, said Ali. The two became fast friends, notwithstanding that said Ali was a Mohammedan. Last Friday night the white elephant, which had been returned to Calcutta, was reported to have died. Saturday mornipg Sandy Wee was found a raving maniac, dancing and gibbering beneath the window of his apartment. Thinking it strange that the uproar had not disturbed his roommate, said Ali, the police investigated and found the latter dying. He had been beaten to a pulp with a pickax and a sledge hammer. Back on the shores of the Ganges there will be thousands to assert that this is no more than should have been expected after the profanation of a white elephant, that the curse has been fulfilled and that Sandy Wee could not have escaped his fate. ana Fate in Fortunes Oriental hooey,, you say, but listen! Two years'ago, and at about the same time, Sandy Wee came from India with his white elephant, a cotton mill worker sought employment in a Southern town. He was a bright young chap, and made himself especially attractive by entertaining folks with card tricks, fortune telling and other forms of parlor magic. He bewildered them so successfully that they | came to look upon him as a rather superior person and to explain his feats on the gfound of mysticism. Being neither dumb nor modest, the young perceived his power and decided that it could be converted into cash. First, he chose the name of “Brandorine.” Then he set himself up as a more or less regular quack. The gullible responded with enthusiasm, paying for his advice, buying his charms and spreading his reputation. Came a day when a lady whose nusband was cooler than she could wish bought a love philtre, which would not have been so bad, since several other ladies with a similar problem had done likewise, except that hubby died. Now the stage is set for a murder trial, with “Brandorine” playing the lead. a a a Near Jungle's Border Orient or Occident, we are only a jump or two away from the jungle, as what the Soviet Government of Russia intends to do with the Schlusselburg plainly proves. It was in the Schlusselburg that Feter the Great, that human scoundrel, imprisoned his beautiful young wife after he had tired of her, and that the Polish patriot, Valerian Lukasinski spent nearly thirty-seven years. Forty-four years ago, the Schlusselburg was “improved” at great expense and for “disciplinary reasons,” but only to become one of the most hopeless horrors of Europe. Even after It was emptied by the revolution of 1905, it reverted to its original state of barbarism and became an argument in the mouth of every radical.

tt tt o Bare Prison Horrors Hereafter, if the Soviet Government carries out its program, those who are curious about such things and who have the stomach, can wander through the dungeons of the Schlusselburg where inscriptions were written on the solid rock by men and women who had plenty of time to do it with their fingernails, and can read from tablets placed there for the purpose, how such and such a htiman being was done to death for no better reason than that he dared to think. Those who are curious and have the stomach, can go down „and down by means of winding stairs until they hear the Neva rippling overhead and sense its insidious presence through the dampness of the atmosphere and the moisture on .the walls. If that is not enough, they can ask the guide to put out the lights and, standing in the midst of cold and silent darkness, imagine how it would feel to spend the rest of their lives in such a place, with no hope of liberty save through death. After that, they can emerge into the fresh air and sunshine and thank God that they live in the twentieth century, Red Russia included. B B U Risk Moving Forward We are moving forward all along the line, even if some of us constantly run the risk of being crushed beneath the juggernaut of progress. x Though it might make no difference .-to the victim whether he was killed with an executioner’s ax, or by a subway train, it makes a lot to other people. Even though we have failed to make life 100 per cent safe, our intentions are mostly good, which is more than can be said for some past generations. What is the Fascist party oath? “In the name of God and Italy, in the name of all those who have fallen in battle for the greatness of Italy, I swear to consecrate myself exclusively and unceasingly for Italy~ t s good.”

he was apparently urged by the gods to do so. Galen started the study of medicine at the age of 17. He studied in the famous medical school at - Alexandria. He also traveled extensively and studied at other medical centers. On his return to Pergamon he was made the

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. SINCE so much material has been written on the danger of nicotine in tobacco, several manufacturers have placed upon the market cigars, cigarets and loose tobacco from which the nicotine has been removed by various processes. usual method is ,to resweat the tobacco by treating it with superheated steam or by heating in vacuum chambers. None of these processes is successful in the complete removal of the nicotine, so that the term "denicotinized” does not mean completely without nicotine, but merely with much less nicotine than in ordinary tobacco. The chemists of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, who have made a study of the subject believe that tobacco should not be advertised as “denicotinized” unless at least one-half of the original nicotine has been removed. The difficulty lies in the lack of knowledge as to t .ie amount of nicotine in the tobacco before it is submitted to the removal process. Twenty-seven samples of tobacco grown in Virginia and in North Carolina ranged from 1.58 to 6.17 per cent in content of nicotine, only two showing than 2 per cent and only five showing more than 5 per cent. Twenty-nine samples grown in other parts of the United States

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—king: O—queen; J—Jack; X—any card lower than 10.) HERE are additional illustrations of the disadvantage of the singleton lead when one holds length or strength in trumps. In each instance south's declaration is hearts, and west, who must lead, holds: 1. Spades, A K XX; hearts, XXXX; diamonds, X; clubs, XXXX. West should open with the spade King. If partner plays in a manner which encourages leading spades, west should continue that suit. Otherwise, west should lead the singleton on the next round. 2. Spades, XXXX; hearts, Q XX; diamonds, X; clubs, Q J 10 XX. West should not lead the singleton. When holding trumps as good as QXX, the singleton lead is inadvisable. West should lead the club Queen. Dummy may cover with the club King and partner may take the club Ace. Returning the club suit, partner may enable you to take the next trick with the club Jack. West should play the club 10 on the third round and if partner discards a diamond higher than the diamond 6, west should then lead his singleton. * 3. Spades, X; hearts, K X; diamonds, XXXXX; clubs, XXXXX. West should lead the singleton. An astute player would rely upon partner’s taking the trick and returning the spade suit. West would then win the trick with his small trump and lead a diamond or club. It is probable that the declarer will finesse in an attempt to capture the heart King and it will win a trick even though the protecting card is missing. (Copyright, 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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This Date in U. S. History

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The name and address of the author must accompany every constrtbutior. but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor of Times—One can pick up any daily paper and find many advertisements of automobiles for sale, rangii.g in price from $5 up. These cars are sold to the public as being able to run, and under the statement that they will get you there and bring you back. We have long been fighting for a higher rate* of speed on our highways, with less danger from the slow, creepy drivers. These $5 and up priced cars are, to a large extent, the cause of the cluttering up of our highways with a mess of junk machines that should have been in the junk pile months, and in many cases, years before. I recently visited one of our salesrooms where cars are sold that are manufactured by a very strong advocate of more speed on our roads, and was amazed at the number of old junk machines shown for sale. Many of these cars should never even be given away if the recipient is going to endanger life and limb of the riding public by trying to operate these cars on our streets or the public highways. Why do not our automobile salesrooms teach the public that these cars are absolutely worthless and educate them in the right way instead of continually bucking our auto associations, who are trying to legislate for greater speed and safety on our roads, instead of selling these miniature scrap heaps, that only make for more congestion on our streets and highways? The writer was coming into Indianapolis last Sunday evening at a time when many machines v were moving in both directions, and at all congestions, both going and coming, would be found one of these dilapidated, wheezing junk piles doing its ten to twenty miles of speed and heading a half-mile of cars unable to pass and the license number of many thousands denomination, indicating that this scrap heap had been sold very recently for driving instead of scrapping. Lets help our speed and safety legislators and automobile associations by throwing these old junkers in the scrap heap and teach the public that there* is no economy in buying these old, antiquated scrap heaps that have been discarded by someone else because they were no longer fit to operate. GEORGE BROWN. Editor Times—" They toil not, neither do they spin,” but they live and pile up fortunes out cf the misery and economic poverty of the poor people. The wage slave that is forced to sell his labor power to the boss. I refer to the loan shark, the leeches that loan you money at the legal rate of 3*4 per cent a month and lay great stress upon the fact that the law only allows them to charge this small amount—just 3t4 per cent a month. How much does thi£ amount to in twelve months why, just 42

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per cent on every dollar that is loaned out, with the revolving “pay it back monthly” plan. How many people that borrow money off of these interest takers realize that out of every dollar that is borrowed upon the monthly plan basis and repaid in small installments that the actual amount of money that they get is on only 58 cents on every dollar borrowed. Do they realize that the payment they make today is reloaned again to some pne else the same day or within twenty-four hours after you pay it to them and the 3*4 per cent interest on the same money starts over again. These loan outfits are the good frends of the working wage slaves. They loan them money to pay their doctor bills, grocery bills, house rent, taxes, and also to buy some cheap old car. They ask the borrower no embarrassing questions, no indorsers, everything confidential. Why, they even go so far out of their way to be a friend to you that they follow up different methods to learn where you move to and what your name is. Then they mail you some circulars and interesting reading matter. “Let us help you borrow money from us. We loan $lO to S3OO on chattels. But don’t forget that the security must amount to at least six times the amount of any said loan, and in case something happens that you do not let the last dollar paid back to them, away goes your furniture, piano, phonograph, car or what not, down to the auction house, where it is sold to the highest bidder. Then the borrower realizes how feood a friend the loan sharks are to him. There is a passage in the Bible relating to Jesus Christ, and that chapter says: “Christ took his whip and drove the money changers, gamblers and usurers out of the temple.” But we all. know what happened to Christ, and no doubt these three and one-half per cent usurers here in Indianapolis would do the same thing to Him again if He were here. Interest and usury is just one phase of the rotten capitalistic system. These loan sharks should be outlawed the same as the saloon was. I suppose some working man or woman that believes in being robbed by the gang that toil not neither do they spin will come to the defense of the interest takers. INSURGENT.

Daily Thoughts

Be not righteous overmuch.— Eccl. 7:13. tt tt St THE ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good—Francis Hutcheson. For what do the letters I. N. R. 1. stand? For four Latin words that were inscribed over the cross, lesus Nazareth Rex ludaeorum’’—“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”

AUG. 27, 1923

Henry and Bill Team Tilts With Al

BY N. D. COCHRAN TT isn’t safe to judge any man by looking at him from the angle. There’s William Allen White, for illustration. White was a marked success as a journalist. He started off by writing an editorial in his Kansas paper entitled “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” Almost overnight he won fame. Then for years he kept adding to it by mighty clever writing. It appears now that White wasn’t so big as he appeared. If he had been he wouldn’t have permitted professional politicians to tempt him to make a monkey of himself. And that’s just what he has done. Anybody who knows anything about the political game as the professionals play it knew well enough that when White let off that blast against Al Smith on the eve of his departure for Europe he wasn’t acting on his own initiative. White isn’t built that way. He let himself be used. a a a COMEBODY in the Republican camp figured that the smart way to fight Smith was to tie him up to Tammany and then harp on Tweed, Croker and Murphy, hoping to visit the sins of these Tammany bosses on Smith. There wasn’t anything in Smith’s record as a fourterm Governor of New York to criticise. So it wa: decided, evidently, that the smart game to play was to hark back to the earlier and rottener record of Tammany and smear that all over Smith. So the record of Smith as a young legislator was handed to White and the poor nut was fool enough to spill it. After it had been given out for publication, some friend of White called attention to his mistakes and just before he took the boat poor Bill skinned back his accusations in part, particularly as to Smith’s legislative friendship for gambling and prostitution. That ivas White himself, who w’anted to play fair. But that didn't suit the partisan strategists. White’s punch had been pulled. Then they got at poor little Henry Allen, formerly Governor of Kansas and a pal of Bill White. Allen hasn’t much brains and never started with much. He made a spectacle of himself while Governor of Kansas by trying to solve the labor problem by making, through legislation, industrial slaves of workingmen. He wound up his gubernatorial career in one wild splash of mud and incompetency. a a a GIVING more than due stress to the popularity of the firm of White and Allen, the G. O. P. national strategists made Allen director of publicity. And Henry proceeded as fast as he could to spill the beans all over the place. Evidently he cabled Bill White that his retraction of his charges against Smith didn't suit the purposes of the phoney strategists of the G. O. P. national committee, so Bill cabled right back a retraction of his retraction and gave Smith opportunity to make monkeys of both White and Allen. Then the w r eak and incompetent: director of publicity made matters worse by giving out a statement tha it was all a mistake for his publicity committee to give out White's cable of retraction because it was a private cable and not intended for publicity purposes. Then Smith cut loose and showed up both White and Allen for what they were all the time, not only poor politicians, but nothing to brag about as journalists. If the G. O. P. committee has the brains of a microbe it will now send Henry Allen to Europe on a vacation and tell him and White to stay there until after the votes are counted in Novmber.

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