Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1928 — Page 4

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Hoover’s New York Address Once men lived only for the state. That was state slavery. Against it cams revolution. Out of that grew individualism. But the new-found freedom brought its own abuses. Individualism ran amuck. Grown drunk with the philosophy of laissez faire, the powerful preyed upon the weak. And so men turned to the state for help. Thus the state in anew guise, but the state nevertheless, again came to limit the individual. The pendulum started its backward swing. At each extreme of tijat pendulum, liberty is stifled. To find the happy medium is statesmanship's greatest problem. Herbert Hoover, in his New York address, presents a masterly arpeal for individualism as against bureaucracy. “Bureaucracy,” he says, “does not tolerate the spirit of independence; it spreads the spirit of submission into our daily life and penetrates the temper of our people, not with the habit of powerful resistance to wrong, but with the habit of timid acceptance of irresistible might. “Bureaucracy ever is desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend a mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people’s souls and thoughts. “It is the road not to more liberty, but to less liberty. Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy, but striving to set bounds to it.” Os the abuses of individuals, he says: “I am defining a general policy. Nor do I wish to be misinterpreted as believing that the United States is free-for-all and devil-take-the-hindmost. The very essence of equality of opportunity and of American individualism is that there shall be no domination by any group or combination in this republic, whether it be business or political. “On the contrary, it demands economic justic as well as political and social justice. It is no system of laissez faire.” Effective though the address is, as it delves beneath the surface and into the philosophical fundamentals of the subject, we think it would have been strengthened had it dwelt more at length with the methods by which the abuses of individualism may be checked. For this country bears many scars from the type of unrestrained individualism that has succeeded in translating itself into special privilege, wherein the economic justice of which Mr. Hoover speaks has been denied to the many in behalf of the few. But with the main theme of the address—of controlled individualism as against spreading bureaucracy —this newspaper agrees. And the greatest test of Hoover as President of the United States will come as he is called upon to put into effect those restraints which are necessary to assure to each individual opportunity equal to that of every other individual. Believing as we do in Hoover, we think he will meet the test, as Roosevelt met it, and as Wilson met it. Final Liquidation of the War The “all-round settlement of the war debts and reparations problems,” long ago foreseen by this newspaper, is now in full swing in the capitals of Europe. And though Uncle Sam has not made his entry on the scene, he is expected to do so as soon as the stage is set. That likely will be soon. The following steps are proposed: 1. Creation of anew international committee of experts—another Dawes commission, without Dawes. 2. Fixation of the total reparations which Germany will have £b pay the allies, along with their “present cash value” of such payments. 3. Arrangement of a practicable scheme to market the more than $4,000,000,000 worth of German railway and industrial bonds, thus acquiring the wherewithal to swing the “all-round settlement.” 4. Determination of the “present cash value” of the allied debts to the United States, and then: 5. A general and final "liquidation of the war,” as European statemen call it. These steps may not be taken in the order named, of course, but dispatches from the old world clearly indicate that each is being discussed. In Europe, as well as in this country, the big question is, what will be the attitude of the United States? With some $12,000,000,000 at how will Uncle Same act to protect his interests? Will he sternly intimate that he regards his funding agreements with the allied nations as having closed the question and therefore what Germany and the allies may do now does not interest him? Or will he assume a less hard-boiled position and say that any arrangement which will be helpful to the allies and Germany, and which, at the same time, will be fair to him, will have his benediction? The latter is the only business-like, or just, course to pursue. When the modern business man forecloses on a debtor, he carefully investigates the whole lay of the land, then proceeds in a way calculated to net him, in the long run, the most on the dollar and the maximum of good will. This is the course Uncle Sam is expected to pursue, though not until the elections are over. And so he should. It is true that he has negotiated paper settlements with the allies at from 25 to 75 cents on the dollar, but the payments run for eighty-two years, and few, if any, competent observers believe the nations will continue to pay over any such tremendous period of time. Certainly it would not be difficult to figure out other terms as good as, or better than, these. Secretary Mellon and other financial experts, agree that the actual cash value of the allied debts to us amounts to only a few billion dollars. If, therefore, a.satisfactory way can be found for Germany to settle with the allies on a cash basis, and similarly the allies with us, we would be standing in our own light not to give it our okey. At present all we hold are the allied nations’ promises to pay for sixty-two years, with the big payments due toward the end, rather than at the beginning 'f that period. And a lot can happen in sixty-two years. A or two, for instance. We ourselves have averaged one major war every twenty-five years since we became a republic. And wars have a nastly way of wiping out debts like the above. There is no question of cancellation. Nor of permitting the allies to shift the burden of the war on tq pur shoulders. England says she will agree to anyth,fig which will make it easier for the others, provided jt does not make it harder for her. Let us say the same thing. If Germany and the / '

allies can agree on terms which will lighten their burdens without adding to ours, we should not stand in the way. To the contrary. We helped lift prostrate Europe, to her knees by giving her the first reparations plan. By aiding with another now. we may help her to her feet. Watch for the Sneakers With but two weeks before the general election, two certainties appear in the political situation. The first is that Herbert Hoover will be the next President. Every straw vote and poll indicates this result. If there be any unprejudiced observer-., either native or expert visitors, they agree that Indiana will cast her ballot for the secretary. The second certainty, is that a tribe of unfit and undesirables is trying to get into office in Indiana with no other hope than that the people will be so enthusiastic for Hoover that they can sneak into the back door while he enters from the front. The hope of the hooded order of hate is that Leslie will be carried to the statehouse in an avalanche of straight party votes. He has no other reason to expect election. His nomination, manipulated by the former dragons after Leslie had ran a poor fifth in the primaries, should predict this result. Had there been any doubt, his own reckless and malicious attack upon the official record of Frank C. Dailey should have insured it. Let it not be forgotten that Leslie furnished at the same time the way to his own unmasking. He declared that federal Judge A. B. Anderson forced Dailey to prosecute crooks and that the judge “kicked Dailey Into glory.” Judge Anderson promptly said that the statement was untrue and that Dailey had been “vigilant, zealous and upright.” That should have called forth an apology to the people, but Leslie let the lie ride. In this county the Coffin nominees depend upon the same Hoover enthusiasm for their election. They want power to strangle every progressive movement. This county has suffered much from Coffinism. It will suffer more if he is again given license and power. Every impulse that impels decent Republicans to vote for Hoover should impel them quite as strongly to clean up the state and get rid of Coffin. New Vistas in Aviation Making mechanical flight more convenient and safer is the second stage of that invention. That 6tage seems to have been reached. The autogyro has crossed the English channel and arrived at Paris. This is the invention of Juan de la Cierva, a Spaniard, who has been working in England. He has demonstrated his machine before, but not in so ambitious a flight as the one from London to Paris. The autogyro differs from all other airplanes in the matter of take-off and landing. It does not require the running start or the space for a running landing. It can take off upward at an almost vertical direction from the ground, and can land gently in a similar fashion on a small lot. The autogyro seems to combine the characteristics of the helicopter with those of the ordinary airplane. The inventor says it is not a helicopter, but the pictures show something which strongly suggests that type of lifting propellers working above the ordinary plane. In any case it does the work, and beside rising directly into the air it can male* ninety miles an hour. This all suggests roofs and back yards for landing fields and probably opens up new vistas in aviation. In one Illinois town patients must pay physicians in advance. It takes cash to turn a stomach ache; into appendicitis in that town.

—— David Dietz on Science Truth on Mountain No. 188' PASTEUR decided to prove conclusively that air alone could not give rise to microbes, that when only pure air came in contact with liquids no microbes got into the liquids. He and his assistant made many solutions and boiled them in flasks, the necks of which they sealed off. When the liquids cooled, there were vacuums

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He did it down in the deep quiet cellar of the Paris Astronomical observatory. He tried it in the dusty yard of the observatory. He carried some to the tops of high mountains. He wanted to prove that microbes stuck to dust particles and that microbes only got into liquids when they fell in along with dust particles. His experiments supported this view ifery beautifully. For when the bottles contained samples of quiet clean air, there were no or very few microbes in them. Three of the professors who did not agree with him —Pouchet, Joly and Musset were their names—tried the experiment. They used a solution made by boiling hay. Pasteur had used a yeast solution. The three climbed to the top of a high mountain and Joly almost lost his life. A guide grabbed his coat-tails in time to keep him from sliding down a precipice. They found, on their return, that the solution swarmed with bacteria. The argument waxed as hot as a political campaign. Finally the three challenged Pasteur to give a public demonstration of his experiments before the French Academy of Science. But on the day of the test, the three failed to show up. Pasteur made his appearance. The assembled scientists decided that he was right. Pasteur was right in his contention about microbes. But though the other three did not know it, their technique had not been faulty. Many years later, a great English scientists— Tyndall—proved that hay harbors a stubborn bacteria which can be boiled for hours without killing it. Therefore, the other three found bacteria simply because the bacteria were already present in their solution before they carried it up to the mountain top. Thanks to the work of Tyndall and others, the world of science now agrees completely with Pasteur that microbes arise only from other microbes.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Whole World is Looking to This Country for Credit. Our Bankers Do Not Like to Extend Credit Unless the Enterprises for Which It Is Asked Are Under the Supervision of American Executives and Engineers.”

THE Boy Scout movement is twenty-one years old. It has organizations in forty-two countries and a membership of 1,750,000. That shows how fast and far a good idea can travel. The chances are that Sir Robert Baden-Powell expected no such farreaching results when he assembled the first troop on Brownsea Island in Dorset. England. Like many another man, he felt that anew problem had arisen; that boys were not- getting what they should out of life; that, the machine age, with its time clocks, tenement districts and crowded streets, was stifling their development. Being a soldier, he thought in terms of action, rather than talk. To begin with, he chose a happy name. What word in the English language appeals to boys more than “scout?” Around this name, he formulated a sensible program, based on sportsmanship and the love of nature, with the ideal of fair play set in the big outdoors. a a tt Saying Hello to Mars Dr. Mansfield Robinson of London, who will try to communicate with Mars by radio on Wednesday, asserts he has a dictaphone record of the Mars national anthem. This record, which he has placed in the British laboratory of psychical research, also contains, according to his statement, the Martian alphabet and a love song. Explaining this phenomenon, Dr. Robinson says that he was able to obtain the record through the assistance of two women—one a Martian, named Oonaruru, and one on this earth. Mars, it would seem, has passed beyond the realm of international turmoil and discord, since it sings but one anthem, but has not progressed beyond an alphabet. What is even more reassuring, it has not progressed beyond the necessity of love songs. u n tt Reparations Wrinkles While Mars may have arrived at that blessed State where her people can do with one anthem, earth not only labors with the bedlam of fifty-five, but with all the troubles incident to the discordant chorus. It is true that we have peace in theory, not to mention a League of Nations and a world court, but even so we have many problems still to be solved. Among those problems is the reparations question, on which another conference now is sitting. That conference, we are informed, will not fix the amount which Germany must pay, but will fix the payments she must make each year, together with the number of years they are. to run. That seems like a distinction without a difference. If the annual payments are fixed, and if the number of years they are to be made are fixed, how can a fixed amount be avoided? Still, the distinction has its advantages. If the amount of reparations were fixed, regardless of annual payments or their number, Germany’s first move would be an attempt to borrow the money and wipe out the debt. She would come to the United States, of course, because there is no other place to go. France w'ould immediately manoeuver for consideration of her debt to us as part of the deal and everybody would get hopelessly balled up. Fixation of annual payments, on the other hand, would tend to avoid such a snarl, and that is probably the reason why the confreres have decided on it. a o a Wavering Prosperity That Europe still faces a critical problem, that the problem centers around the reparations question and that America, after ten years of reiteration, finally has made it understood that she will not permit the reparations question and war debts to be entangled, seems to be a justifiable inference. Though most European countries have made good progress in reconstruction, much remains to be done. The latest dispatches say that crops are bad and business poor. Especially in Germany, Poland and Czecho Slovakia. This seems to be borne out by the prevalence of strikes and lockouts. One hundred thousand men are on strike in Germany right now, while employers are threatening to lock out 350,000 more. This condition goes hack to the inability of those countries to compete with American producers on existing wage scales. Part of that inability is due to a demoralized money market at home and the necessity of borrowing capital from abroad, neither of which conditions can be cleared up until the reparations controversy has been settled. Profits of Capital As an illustration of America’s advantageous position a New York firm just has been awarded a thirty million dollar contract by the Greek government. This project contemplates not only the irrigation of the, Struma valley, but drainage of the great marshes lying north of Salonika These marshes contain approximately one million acres of land, which though useless in its present condition can be converted into a productive and fertile region. Financial considerations, as well as engineering skill help to bring American firms such contracts Capital is the all-important factor to begin with and America has it. The whole world is looking to this country for credit. Our bankers do not lUfe to extend credit, unless the enterprises and activities for which it is asked are under the supervision of American executives and engineers.

above the liquids. Now if the neck of one of these bottles was suddenly broken, air rushed in. The bottle could then be corked up again, imprisoning above the liquid a sample of the air from the locality where the neck bad been broken. Pasteur performed this operation in all sorts of places.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyjteia, the Health Magazine. THROUGH a half dozen different advertisements of food products in recent years the public has been informed that acidosis is a menace to health. The type of acidosis which affects the multitude results from eating foods which leave an excessive amount of acid in the body. Such foods develop hydrochloric, phosphoric and sulphuric acids when they are digested, leading to acidity of the body's secretions and excretions. Among the symptoms associated with the acidosis have been tiredness, nausea, headache, weakness and lack of appetite. The acidity of

Time to Turn Another Picture to Wall

Well-Balanced Diet Is Acidosis Remedy

Reason

THIS story that Hoover wanted to become a British subject is manifestly absurd, for he probably could have done it, great as the achievement would have been, had he worked at it as hard as he worked to feed the Belgins. The stuff told about Hoover and Smith doesn’t hurt them, but it does hurt those who clog up their brain cells with it. The truth is that both candidates are above the average of American presidents and Uncle Sam could sleep coundly with either in the White House. a tt a Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvaation Army, dignifies religion by this statement: “The Salvation Army is not in politics and neither our places of worship nor our officers are employed to take part in the election.” tt tt a The statement that Mr. and Mrs. Gene Tunney are to become Londoners and establish a literary salon for the entertainment of Bernard Shaw and others will have a tendency to convince Americans that Dempsey really knocked Tunney out at Chicago. u u tt The National Radio commission forever should refuse a license to the atheists who wish to dump their gloom upon the firesides of the land. „, They have no more right to broadcast doubt than to broadcast the itch.

(Copyright, 1928. NEA Service, Inc.)

Number One

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BY’ FABYAN MATHEY HEARTS are trumps and South has the lead. North and South must win three of the five tricks, against a perfect defense. a tt n Lay out the cards on a table as shown in the diagram. Study each hand and figure out how you would solve this puzzle. Then look at the solution and see if you have done

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the mouth injures the enamel of the teeth, and the acidity of the stomach secretions result in burning and uncomfortable sensations. Certain foods are definitely associated with the formation of acid. These include lean beef, white bread, chicken, egg yolk, oysters, veal, wheat, pork, fish and similar substances. Obviously these are the types of material which form the most important and commonly used constituents of the American diet. There are other foods which tend to yield to alkaline reactions in th the body ind which therefore may be used as contrast substances to the acid foods. The alkaline-forming products include tomatoes, prunes, carrots, lima beans, oranges, lemons, cantaloupe,

By Frederick LANDIS

DR. GOLDBERG, head of the Chicago tuberculosis sanitarium, declares the health of the country is imperiled by unrestricted immigration from Mexico. The rich employer who wishes cheap labor, regardless of the harm it does the country, is a low order of animal life and this same rich employer is usually the first to lift his hands in horror at the “fear” of communism. u tt tt It’s a great relief to have these Chicago society women assure us that the Smith women will be able to handle the social end of it, should A1 be elected. There’s no telling what it might do to the price of hogs, if at a state reception one of our President’s ladies would exclaim to a foreign diplomat, “wouldn’t that kill you!” tt a a Last night in Chicago the Rev. Frederick Siedenberg, dean of Loyala university, discussed “Why I Am a Catholic,” Bishop Francis J. McConnell, “Why I Am a Protestant” and Dr. Louis L. Mann, “Why I Am a Jew.” But we will tell you why they are what they are: It’s because they were born that way!

it right. There is only one way in which North and South can get three tricks. Can you find it?

The Solution

IN this problem the solution is reached by discarding on an opponent's trick, rather than trumping -it. South leads the club, which West wins, North discarding a diamond. West now wins the second trick with the ace of diamonds, and then leads another diamond, which North trumps with the deuce. North now wins the last two tricks with his high trumps. But if West leads a trump at either the second or third trick, North wins with his king or eight, then leads trumps twice. It would appear in this problem that Nqrth should trump the opening lead of clubs. If he trumps with the deuce, however, East will overtrump, then East and west will win two diamond tricks. If he trumps with the eight, East and West will later win a trump well as the two diamahds.

lettuce, peaches, potatoes and dried peas. One of the sad factors about the average American’s relation tp diet is his tendency to adopt an all or nothing policy. If he is told that acid is harmful, he is likely to overdo the alkaline products, not realizing that alkaline conditions are just as serious in their way as are acid conditions. Sodium bicarbonate or bak.ng soda is frequently taken to overcome the acid condition. If taken in too large amounts the results may be most unsatisfactory. The best rule to follow is moderation in eating both alkaline and acid foods, and a well mixed and well balanced diet for all normal persons.

BOTH ABOVE AVERAGE BROADCASTING ITCH u a u LOW ORDER OF LIFE

SOME of our convicts who are now serving life sentences under habitual criminal laws for having committed three felonies possibly may wonder why ex-Secretary Fall is permitted to enjoy life in the great open spaces after having made three crooked oil leases. a a tt We hope we never have another Hickman criminal case, but if we do have, we hope it can be disposed of without delay, without criminal lawyers and without publicity. The old California vigilance committee would have functioned perfectly in such an emergency. tt it tt We wonder what has become of Senator Walsh of Montani, for he was expected to be one of the thir-teen-inch guns in this campaign’s bombardment.

Times Readers Voice Views

Thq name and address of the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference Editor Times—Let the women have a voice in this election. Mrs. Clem Shaver says, “You can’t fool the women,” No, sir! You can’t fool the women, not even when their men are brought home with an overdose of “embalming fluid.” I live on a farm and I have been reading the papers to try to learn who will make the best President. Os course we voted for Wilson, because he kept us out of war. and lots of Democrats I know voted for Harding to keep us out of the League of Nations, but I just can’t decide this time who to vote for. I think A1 Sfhith is honest and sincere, at least no hypocrite, but I just don’t like his millinery, neither the brown derby nor the silk topper. And I always though Herbert Hoover was such a nice young man when he made us eat cornbread during the war. I like the ftoover apron, because it is good to cover dirt and oil stains—also Hoover has the best radio voice, but I have no radio so "oil is well with the Boulder dammed oil party.” I believe A1 Smith will give us the best administration possible for the Democrats to give in this jand where the Republicans are ini the majority. We have a great deal of confidence in his honesty and sincerity of purpose. If our Republican administration for the last eight years is not bad enough for honest people to repudiate it, just let’s elect Herbie for life, put a little gold crown on his Teapot Dome and a cornmeal muffin in his hand; or if we don’t want him for king, let’s elect him chief enforcement officer if we are sure he could mop up some of the moisture prevalent in the Coolidge administration. AUNT SALLY SARCASTIC. Leslie is too good for InHe should be inAeaven.

OCT. 23,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright, Scrlpps-Howard Newspapers, 1928) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—American suspicion and distrust of the “secret” Anglo-French naval agreement has not been diminished by belated publication In London and Paris today of certain correspondence relating to that deal. The United States government, as represented by both state and navy departments, continues of the opinion that the agreement aims to limit American type ships without limiting British and French types, and thus is aimed directly against American’s known interests. There is no general disposition here to accept as adequate the official theory of the London and Paris governments that the agreement is now “dead.” The foreign “alibi” Is as follows: That Britain and France were in basic disagreement on naval limitations at meetings of the league’s Geneva preparatory arms limitation commission. That, in the interest of a later general agreement, It first was necessary for Britain and France to settle their differences, thus enabling them to present a joint compromise agreement for consideration of the United States and other naval powders. That, American Ambassador Gibson, while at Geneva, encouraged such separatte negotiations. That, the joint Anglo-French agreement, having been rejected by Washington, automatically ceases to exist, because it no longer can be used as a practicable basis of helpful discussion at a naval conference. In the judgment of Washington that “alibi” is an oversimplification of the situation. THOUGH nominally the BritishFrench transaction was only a “tentative proposal,” it is in fact an agreement, more or less permanent. For whatever the purpose of the London-Paris negotiations, three things are clear: 1. Those negotiations continued over a period of many months, involving elaborate exchange of Information and co-operation. 2. Those long negotiations resulted in an understanding between those two governments regarding joint interests and joint policy, which continues to exist, despite the fact that United States opposition for the moment prevents London and Paris from putting the naval side of their agreement into effect. 3. London, in exchange for French acceptance of the British cruiser policy, agreed in turn to accept French policy on land armament and reserves. The next effect of this is that Paris permits Britain to control the seas through naval supremacy over all other nations, •while London permits France through her system of conscription, reserves and superior army, to continue military hegemony over disarmed Germany and the rest of Europe. The general disposition here unofficially is to be disappointed in the apparent determination of France and her European allies to perpetuate the expensive and provocative system of large land armaments, which the World war and peace treaty was supposed to make unnecessary But officially there is not the slightest intention to interfere in any way with European land armaments. tt tt it THIS rigid policy of noninterference in distinctly European affairs, does not, however, prevent the European armament situation from materially influencing America’s attitude. For instance, while not interfering with France’s right to continue her expensive military hegemony of Europe, now apparently underwritten by the Anglo-French pact, the United States is even less disposed than ever to reduce or cancel further the French and British debts to America. Apart from such general considerations, there remains the specific naval situation created by the AngloFrench pact. Since before the Washington naval conference, which limited capital ships, the United States has been trying unsuccessfully to get the other nations to limit cruisers and other auxiliary ships. According to American naval men, such “parity limitation” has been blocked always by Britain, as it was quite blocked openly by Britain at the Coolidge Geneva conference a year and a half ago. If Britain could prevent such a limitation agreement, how much more impossible will be such a "parity limitation” in the future, now that both France and Britain are standing together against it. That is the argument of American navy men. They add that the United States must begin at once to build up anew cruiser and auxiliary naval strength to equal that of Great Britain. Hence, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur’s statement for Navy day next Saturday: “These fundamental conditions furnish the reason for our insistence upon parity of naval strength with any other power.”

This Date in U. S. History

October 23 1750—Birthday of Thomas Pinckney, American statesman. 1776—Washington’s troops and sympathizers abandoned Manhattan Island. 1781—Messenger reached Philadelphia from Washington with news of the victory of Yorktown two days before—the final conflict of the Revolution. 1863—General Grant reached Chattanooga, Tenn.

Daily Thoughts

How long halt ye between two opinions?—l Kings 18:21. a a a SERVILE doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. —Aaron Hill.