Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1928 — Page 4

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Same Old Tricks That the Leslie campaign is in the hands of the same forces and influences that gave the state Jackson and the statute of limitations becomes more apparent as the desperate methods to elect him are coming to light. Out in the state Leslie tells the honest voters that he has nothing to do with the evil Indianapolis bosses and that they will have nothing to say if by mischance, he is elected. -'in this city he rides in the sheriff’s car, the sheriff being the understudy for Coffin and noted chiefly for bis failure to arrest Stephenson. Were that not enough, the attack which he made on Dailey, using Judge Anderson as authority, is to be renewed despite the fact that Anderson very promptly declared that the Leslie charge was untrue in every way and added adjectives in describing the Dailey record that were more than praise. Not that Leslie has courage to repeat his libels, but the state committee announces that it will broadcast them next week over the radio, putting forward one of the undercover men to act as sponsor. There can be litcle question as to whom the people will believe. It is not a question between Dailey and Leslie. It is the word of Leslie against Judge A. B. Anderson, and Indiana will have little difficulty in selecting its witness. No one ever doubted the veracity of the federal judge. The whole Leslie campaign smacks of Stephonsonism. The tricks are those the dragon taught the boys when he rode to his high eminence of dictator of the legislature of which Leslie was speaker. Surely the people will not be fooled again into following advice for straight party tickets. This is the year to give Indiana back her reputation, and the way to do it is to clean out the Statehouse and the Courthouse of all traces of Stephenson and Coffin.

A Whited Sepulcher A League Against Alcoholism handout says—- “ Sweden is apparently on the verge of discarding the fiasco known as the Bratt system at the very time that misguided liquor propagandists are urging the adoption of this or some other similar system by the United States. “That the Bratt system has failed commonly is recognized throughout Sweden. . . . “Liquor smuggling and bootlegging have become . . . plagues. . . . “The debauchery of youth, the increased home drinking, an dthe use of ardent spirits by women are among the factors which have aroused the people of Sweden. . . . “Increasing drunkenness and crime have marked the Bratt system, while intoxication and lawlessness have decreased under American prohibition.” And so forth and so on. Here is the truth: Since Sweden adopted the Bratt system of liquor control, consumption or ardent spirits has decreased nearly 40 per cent throughout the country and by approximately 50 per cent in Stockholm. Crimes of violence have fallen off some 48 per cent in the nation as a whole and about 60 per cent in the capital and largest city. "Among women and young people the improvement has been particularly marked,” says Acting Police Chief Erik Hailgren of Stockholm, who should know. “If we let 100 reprehsent the index figure for average drunkenness among women during the three years prior to the adoption of the Bratt system, the figure now has fallen to 32, while for young people—between 15 and 20— the decrease in indicated drunkenness is from 100 to 17.” During the last year there appears to have been a slight setback in these last figures, due, Dr. Bratt believes, to increased prosperity in the land. Parenthetically, it may be remarked in this connection, that the difference between Sweden and us is she admits these things and looks for a remedy, while we admit nothing and allow the abuses to go on. But it is the general trend over a period of years that counts, not just the figures for any one year. Waves roll in and waves roll out with each passing minute, yet slowly but surely the ocean’s tides ride or fall as the hours go by. And so must tides be measured. Liquor smuggling and bootlegging in Sweden, Hallgren declares, is negligible, whereas in prohibition Finland, just across the Ealtic they have gotten entirely out of hand, while crime of all sorts is increasing. Is it “commonly recognized in Sweden that the Bratt system has failed,” as asserted in the handout? The answer is emphatically no. In 1909 a plebiscite on prohibition in Sweden resulted in 1,800,000 votes being cast in favor of it and only 20,000 against. In 1922 a similar vote showed only 889,000 in favor of prohibition with 924,000 against. In other words, aftei the Bratt system was adopted, some 900,G00 prohibitionists were converted by its merits. That certainly does not look like failure. As for the “debauchery of ycuth, drunkenness and crime” in Sweden, the abcve figures speak for themselves where there is an open mind. On the other hand, it is well known that in the United States these things have become a national scandal. On this point, however, it is useless to insist, since it always is futile to argue that two and two make four. Either one sees it or one doesn’t. Drunkenness is a great evil. All are agreed on that. But blinding ourselves to the plain facts in t4e case will not cure it. After all, what are we trying ,to do? Make our country really and truly temperate or set up a whited sepulcher and worship before it, while shutting our eyes and ears to the debauchery, crime, vice, corruption, graft, bootlegging, hijacking, moonshining, smuggling, racketeering, bribery, outlawry and murder that are going on behind it? To pursue this latter course is not only hypocritical, but it betrays our boys and girls, men nad women, government and society into the hands of a vicious underworld for the sake of appearances only. The Wall Street Journal’s Alarm ' The Wall Street Journal has taken the ScrippsKoward papers to task for maintaining that th* power Industry is a proper subject for federal investigation and that the Electric Bond and Share Company should have furnished information sought from/ it by the federal trade commission. In doing

so it makes a number of remarkable statements about the investigation. “The Electric Bond and Share Company has not objected to being investigated," says the Journal. But, it continues, in horror, “the federal trade commission demanded access to all files of utility companies, regardless of whether they contained evidence pertinent to the declared objects of the Investigation and regardless of the private and confidential character of much of the company’s correspondence.” And in protesting, the Journal says, the company has “raised an issue of fundamental Importance —whether the constitution protects corporations and their stockholders from the prying eyes of a federal agency.” The record of the federal trade commission proceedings shows that information sought from the Electric Bond and Share Company has followed with strict fidelity lines laid down by the United States senate in directing investigation of public utility holding companies. In practically every instance, questions put by Chief Counsel Robert E. Healy have followed the exact wording of the Senate resolution. Under this it was made mandatory for the commission to find out and report on these things: Growth of the capital assets and liabilities of public utility corporations doing an interstate business; details concerning their security issues; extent to which they control subsidiary companies; services rendered by holding companies and the amount of payment they receive; and the value or detriment to the public of such holding companies. It was questions about these matters, declared pertinent by Commissioner E. C. McCulloch, that officers of the Electric Bond and Share Company refused to answer, not “private, confidential” details of business. If that is not objecting to investigation, we si'.ould like to hear the Wall Street Journal explain why it is not. No information has been sought of the Electric Bond and Share, largest of the holding companies, which state regulatory bodies do not legally obtain from local utility companies. No attempt has been made to get evidence which would harm the companies, their clients and stockholders, any more than state regulation harms the clients and stockholders of local companies. Until this information is obtained by a federal authority and steps taken to provide regulation for interstate power business, this great monopoly of a natural resource is practically out of public control. The power industry 1* joing to fight federal regulation as it fought state regulation. Its change of front on that issue should be convincing evidence that it can, at times, be mistaken and that legitimate business will not be harmed in any respect when this inevitable step forward is taken. Lindbergh has been given an automobile driver’s license in New York state. Nothing’s too dangerous for that fellow. Girls, when in doubt ask him If he drinks—if he doesn’t he’s a bootlegger. Mussolini told the Italian editors the other day that the Italian press is the freest in the world. Can it be that II Duce never has read a tabloid story of a divorce suit? A driverless car injured eleven people the other day. Just think how many it might have hurt if it had a driver! A New York gangster was buried the other day in a SIO,OOO casket. He must have been one of the lesser satellites.

—————— David Dietz on Science - Futile Months of Work ■ No. PASTEUR was showing to the world how the man of science could fit Into a brand-new role. For Pasteur had become the national savior. He had saved the wine industry of France by devising the process now known in his honor as pasteurization. He was to continue to play this role. One day, his old professor of chemistry, Dumas, the man who had first awakened his Interest in scientific research, came to him. Dumas hailed from the south

himself, he agreed to undertake the task. Pasteur found that the silk worms were being attacked by some disease which caused little black spot to appear all over them. Inside the sick worms he found, with the aid of the microscope, tiny little globules. The silkworm starts in life as an egg which hatches into the worm. In time the worm spins a cocoon from which it emerges as a moth, the moth lays the eggs which start the cycle again. Pasteur soon thought he had solved the problem. He advised the farmers to dissect the moth which had laid the eggs and examine its belly under the microscope. If the microscope showed the little globules, which were evidence of the disease, they were to destroy the eggs. If no evidence of disease were present, they were to allow the eggs to hatch. The farmers protested that they could not use microscopes. Pasteur and his assistants had to teach ‘'them how to do it. Finally in desperation, they agreed to try it. But when the next spring came around things turned out very badly. Instead of healthy worms hatching from the eggs, as Pasteur predicted they would, the majority of the worms were diseased. These were trying days for Pasteur. Many of the farmers were furiously angry at him, though he had only done his best to help them. Others laughed at him, but their laughter was tinged with bitterness. But Pasteur was not ready to give up. He turned to his experiments with new vigor. He was positive that he was on the right track and that he would win. - But experiment after experiment went wrong and after futile months of hard work he began to become discouraged. Then one of his assistants saved the day. How he did it will be told Monday.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Politicians Tell Us Prosperity Is Due to Their Work and That if Anything Is Changed We Shall Lose It. .. . But Prosperity Is Due to Nothing so Distinctly as Change

BUSINESS not only continues to be good, but grows better. This is contrary to both precedent and expectation. Tradition has taught us to look for bad times in presidential years. Last spring found most people in the mood to hedge. It was quite beyond their conception to suppose that stocks, profits and the gross turnover could be up to the average of the last few years. On every hand one heard predictions of curtailed trade and market slumps, but the result has more than spoiled them. Stocks have gone higher and higher. Notwithstanding the advance in interest rates, brokers loans have reached an amount never before recorded. According to Thursday’s statement, they now total $4,772,000,000, which represents an increase of $107,000,000 within a week and one of $1,328,000 over what they were at this time last year. n u ft No Effect on Business General Motors reports a profit of more than $240,000,00p during the last nine months, and a bigger sale of cars than it has made in any previous year. This profit, which will exceed $300,000,000 for the year if present rates of earning are maintained, Is the largest, with one exception, ever reported by an American industry. In 1916 United States Steel and several other corporations In this country, had reached a point where they not only took in more revenue, but made more money than is required to run some of our largest states. Pennsylvania, for instance, has an annual budget of about $125,000,000, Texas one of about $65,000,000 and Ohio one of about $50,000,000. - Pooled wealth, mass production, sound financial management, and, above all else, a well-designed banking system have made business immune to the effect of political campaigns. nun Business Elastic It is commonly supposed that business depends on routine production. That is one reason why people hold the Idea that politics is bound to interfere with it. Because politics respresents something of an innovation in their own lives, interrupts their ordinary train of thought and distracts their attention, they assume that it, must have the same effect on business. To begin with, business, especially in this day and generation, depends less on routine production than ever before. It has benefited just as much by inventions and improvements as the rest of us. Every time anew device is discovered, new machines have to be constructed to turn it out. new corporations have to be formed to exploit it arid new salesmen have to be put on tbe road to sell It. Within the last twenty-five years the automobile Industry has grown from a few small scattered factories to one of the largest enterprises. Fifty years ago people regarded electric power as little better than a doubtful experiment, but today it has attained a predominating position. A hundred and one things which we have come to feel we can not get along without were unobtainable only a few years back. Inventing them, making them and selling them is what has expanded business. Tomorrow's Fortunes Our next great adventure is the development of radio and aviation. Twenty-five years hence they, too, will rank among our greatest Industries. The man is blind who can not foresee this. We are moving into Just such an era of development and expansion as was brought on by the railroad, the dynamo and the automotive vehicle. Our children, when they have reached middle life, will regard the airplane in the same familiar, commonplace way that we regard the automobile, and if they are smart, will be making just as much money out of it. 000 Change Means Prosperity. Politicians continue to tell us that our prosperity is due to their work, and that if anything is changed we are likely to lose it. Asa matter of common sense, our prosperity is due to nothing so distinctly as change—change of style, change of custom, change of method —which creates new markets, makes room for new enterprises and develops new fields of employment. What is more, we shall stop being as well off as we are the moment we interfere with the ( process of change and improvement. U 9 * Same Old Farms The weakest spot in America is the spot where there has been the least change—the farm. Agriculture has not profited as it should through our increased knowledge of finance, organization, systematic distribution, credit extension and mass production. There is not a trade or profession in this country that remains any i where nearly so similar to what it ! used to be as farming. People of seventy-five years ago would feel lost if they were to come back and try their hands at plumbing, steel erecting or electric wiring, but they could do a pretty good job In the potato patch. Also, they could do a pretty good job in acting as loan sharks, middlemen and brokers for Fanner John.

of France. The silk Industry, the chief industry of the region, was going to ruin because of some disease which had attacked the silk worms. Pasteur knew nothing of silk worms, but because of his love for Dumas and because of the marvelous faith which he had in

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journol of the Amiricen Medical Association and of Hyxela, the Health Magazine. THE train dispatcher’s Job is a trying one. Working for eight hours under a high tension and with a maximum of responsibility, he is under almost continuous mental strain. His work includes familiarization with all bulletins issued from the superintendent’s office, changes in the time-table, changes in orders, changes in track construction, preparation of reports, the reporting of trains and emergencies. He is supposed to watch the weather to issue instructions to train crews and to observe the activities of the trainmen to make

Now That England Is in Touch With Mars

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Reason

THE state convention of the Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs adopted as a keynote, "Glorify Indiana!”, but the duty of this particular period Is to RESCUE Indiana. and the only way to rescue her and restore her reputation throughout the land is to defeat for office, and thus retire from power, every candidate of every party who trained with Stephenson or his successors and still traffics in the hatreds aroused by them, whether such candidates took the Stephenson oath or more discreetly bargained from without. 000 Most of the common people who took that oath were honest, but misguided, but every politician who became a concealed brother or used the Stephenson nightgown for a political ascension robe, was and is a pirate, pure and simple. Spotted as he Is, Steve is whiter inside and out than those Indiana politicians in both parties who held their Mother State while the Texas invader violated her honor! #OO Both parties are appealing to national prejudice as they come down the home stretch, the last performance in this direction being the selection of Alanson B. Houghton to speak in St. Louis and Milwaukee, he being credited with possessing hypnotic influence over the Germans because he was the first ambassador to Germany after the world war. Poor, old melting pot!

Number Five

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BY FABYAN MATHEY Clubs are trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win *flve of the six tricks, against a perfect defense. u * LAY out the cards on a table, as shown in this diagram. Study the situation and see if you can find the propert solution. Remember, there is only one method of play that will enable North and South to win five of the six tricks. After you’ve tried it, look at the answer and see if you did it right.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

certain that they have the proper hours of work and rest. The train dispatchers have begun to think that their cases have been overlooked and to assemble information relative to industrial conditions and their effects on health. In a period of ten years there were 359 deaths among 3,500 train dispatchers and the average age at death was 50 years, somewhat below the average of other workers. The causes of deaths seem to parallel closely those of the general public, including 76 deaths from heart disease, 43 from apoplexy or similar conditions associated with high blood pressure, 31 from pneumonia, 31 from influenza, 23 from tuberculosis, etc. Nevertheless, the responsibility resting on train dispatchers is such

By Frederick LANDIS

OUR statesmen should get together and adopt a program for the stump In his New York speech Hoover said the only way to escape the horrors of state socialism was to elect him, but Charles E. Hughes comes along and says tide’s so little difference between the parties, the only thing that counts is the difference between the candidates. Then on the other side, Smith shouts for high tariff to assuage the goose-flesh of the capitalistic east, while Joe Robinson whoops it up for low tariff In the west. 0 0 * An Alabama congressman pauses amid the cares of distributing garden seed to warn his people that Hoover should be defeated because he believes in the theory of evolution. If this campaign lasted until July, we would be burning witches from Maine to California. 000 The only explanation of that twenty minutes’ cheering by Hoover’s Madison Square Garden audience is that the audience was composed of manufacturers of soft hats.

The Solution

THIS problem embodies the squeeze play. An addition, it is rather novel, because the only way of solving it lies in trumping with what appears to be an unnecessary high card and then permitting the opponents to win a trump trick with a lower card. South leads the four of spades, North trumping with the Jack and East discarding a diamond. North then leads the nine of trumps, which West wins with the ten. West is now forced to lead a spade to South, South immediately winning two tricks in that suit. On these two spade tricks, East must discard either two diamonds or one diamond and the ace of hearts. In the former case, South leads the deuce of diamonds and North wins the last two tricks with the queen and seven. If East discards the ace of hearts and only one diamond, South wins the next trick with the king of hearts and North the last trick with the queen of diamonds. If you solved this problem correctly, you are something of a Bridge player. If you din’t, it was far from being a disgrace. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)

that their physical health Is a matter of interest to the public generally. Certainly they, as well as all other railroad employes should be given a periodic examination so that the insidious onset of disease may not result in sudden failure of health which will mean death not only to the individual concerned, but perhaps to hundreds of persons depending on his physical and mental condition. Incidentally one of the sad aspects cf the matter is that the train dispatchers’ magazine, which is devoted to the interests of this trade, contains in a recent issue some four pages of utter pishposh regarding nutrition, promoting the views of faddists and contrary to established fact in this field.

HOW TO GLORIFY HER YES, BURNING WITCHES 0 0 0 POOR, OLD MELTING POT

THE death of George Barr McCutcheon, the novelist, recalls that he sold his first book, "Graustark” for little or nothing, the purchaser making a fortune out of its publication and dramatization. The exploitation of young writers is more infamous than all the larcenies punished by all the penitentaries! 0 For six long, absurd, ghastly years Steve’s troupe of political trained fleas has held the Indiana stage amid the roaring laughter of the nation and it is time to ring the curtain down. And the only way to ring that curtain down is to defeat every candidate on every ticket who owes his nomination to the remnants of that pestilence which wrought a havoc in the Hoosier commonwealth, like unto the plagues of Egypt! Rescue Indiana and her history will glorify her.

This Date in U. S. History

Oct. 27 1682—William Penn, with 100 immigrants, first landed at New Castle, Del. 1858—Birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President. 1884—Oil well at Thorn Creek, Pa., began producing 10,000 barrels daily. 1904—New York subway opened.

Daily Thoughts

For riches certainly make themselves wings.—Prov. 23:5. THE rich are like beasts of burden. carrying treasure all day. —St. Augustine.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompanv every contribution but on reouest will not be publlshtd. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive orefereftice Editor Times—Why should religion and politics be made to clash? They do not belong together, as one is a question concerning the moral life of the individual, while the other is a matter of government only. There never was a time when correct living needed to be emphasized more than now, and if churches devote their time and efforts to the promotion of this principle, and of tolerance one toward another, thus setting an example to governments, they will have accomplished the work for which they were brought into existence. The Constitution of our country provides for religious liberty to all, and when any church goes so far as to appoint a day of prayer for the purpose of defeating a man for public office because of his affiliation with some other church with which it does not agree, it may find it has launched /a boomerang which will bring abojit its own defeat This i/ not only foreign to the

OCT. 27, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Scrlpps-Hownrd Newspapers. 1928) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Nine days before election the long expected Republican campaign surprise makes its appearance—in somewhat tenative and experimental form. It turns out to be a farm vote appeal by a pledge of a special sesison of congress next March to enact farm belief measures. This “surprise” is not yet exactly official. At least Hoover has not yet spoken, and his headquarters spokesman says the idea is only in the “contemplated” stage. But Borah has spoken. As Borah has been chosen by Hoover as his leading campaigner, who is reputed to have done more than all the rest of the stump orators to hold the grain belt in the Republican line, Borah without doubt is speaking for the candidate. Indeed, he made his special - session -of - congress statement, immediately after a long conference with Hoover. Why shouldn’t the candidate springs his own surprises? The only apparent answer seems to be that coming from Borah, it will help among the restless farmers, without drawing as much fire from the Democrats as if made by the candidate. Presumably, if the test balloon now sent up by Borah meets favorable winds, Hoover himself will make the pledge official when he delivers his last and only remaining speech at St. Louis next Friday. 0 0 0 IF the Democrats wait until after Hoover’s Friday night speech to counter this new move, the campaign will be over. Even now Smith and his major orators are in the east, having completed their western tours, and will have no opportunity to reply to this move on the spot. Smith’s long-distance reply from the east is expected to be that Hoover’s farm legislation program is inadequate and relatively unimportant. Therefore, it is a matter of small consequence whether Hoover proposes to call a special session or not. While repeating his agreement with several of the Hoover planks, such as better marketing facilities and a farm board. A1 is expected to ridicule the BorahHoover idea of higher tariff on agricultural products as a farm relief solution. Hoover's statement through the lips of Borah probably is deliberately timed as a counter-move to the defection of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, leader of the La Follette progressives. Norris’ swing to Smith, partly on the issue of farm relief, has been the worst blow sustained by the Republicans in the west since the campaign be gam Norris’ support will be of great help to Smith in the already doubtful states of Nebraska, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and the Dakotas. 000 ON the third day after Norris’ decision, the Republicans are relieved that apparently none of the other western progressive or McNary-Haugen leaders is following the Nebraskan out of the fold. Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska, Norris’ friend, is standing by Hoover largely on the strength of a confidential conversation in which the candidate said he contemplated a special session of congress. Senator Nye of North Dakota, and Frazier of South Dakota remain on the bandwagon. Although Friday night’s statement by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin variously Is interpreted by Democrats and Republicans, it now seems clear he is not going to campaign for Smith openly like his friend Norris. Finally the Republicans are gratified by reports that the California progressive, Senator Hiram Johnson, is praising Hoover with greater gusto than in some of his earlier speeches. 000 MEANWHILE, Hoover is working on his final St. Louis speech, which may incorporate the Borah statement. That statement follows in part: "Unless the short session takes up the question and concludes satisfactory legislation imon it, I thoroguhly am in favor of an extra session of congress. I would like to see the sesssion called at once, and, first, pass a tariff bill with a special view to increasing duties upon farm products; second, pass a marketing bill, establishing a more satisfactory mafketing system so as to enable the farmers to market their products without being to the enormous expense which is now necessarily incurred: third, create a farm board wtih ample authority and with an ample revolving fund to assist the farmer in marketing his surplus in accordance with sound business principles. There is every reason for a special session and, to my mind, no sound reason against it.”

teachings of Christianity, but Is wholly in contradiction of the purposes of the Constitution, and subversive of good citizenship. Religious intolerance alone is at the bottom of this fight against Governor Smith. The fathers came to this country to secure religious liberty, and any man or organization opposing this right lacks many of the qualities of good citizenship. Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple because they were converting it into a “den of thieves.” Just now a body of religious (?) politicians Is attempting to convert the church into an organization of intolerant fanatics. If A1 Smith happened to belong to their church, all else would be forgiven nim. , The earnest prayer of the sincere Christian should be for the removal of the mote from his own eye, rather than to magnify that in the eye of his brother. Alas, for the rarity of Christian charity. L. L. GOSLEE. Livetime Republican and Protestant.