Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1928 — Page 4

PAGE 4

-- • i B' ■■X-.'dsr:

fCMPPJ-MOWAJtD

Protecting the Public There was an implied promise, in the unfair and vicious criticism of Frank C. Dailey that he was a utility lawyer and he was unfitted to protect the public against the greeds of the electric, gas, water and transportation companies, that the incoming administration will act only for the public welfare. The sincerity of such a promise will be found in the warmth of welcome which is given to the manipulators of legislation who come every two years to guide the activities of the legislature. These lobbyists two years ago were more numerous than the members themselves, apparently had unlimited funds and expense accounts, stumbled over each other In the corridors of the Statehouse and hotel lobbies and altogether were more or less of a scandal. Just why it should be necessary for any enterprise which only asks for honest and fair treatment to send such ambassadors to the sessions is not exactly apparent on the surface. The man with a job or the farmer with a crop does not find it necessary to stand guard during the lawmaking processes to see that his job is saved or the crop protected. But the utility lobby in this state, which is coming more and more under the domination of the InsuU group, is always on the job ahead of the members themselves, always knowing exactly what it wants and always—in the past—getting it. Every “party” which these lobbyists throw for the members, every meal they buy, their own salaries which are not small, is paid for in the finish by some householder. Their keep is found in the monthly bills of consumers, in telephone rates, in car fares. The communities of this state which own their own electric light plants should warn their members before they leave home to beware of these genial gentlemen of the utility lobby, for there will unquestionably be an effort to destroy the publicly owned plants. Those enterprises for the most part successful and usually giving the people cheaper and better service than the private utilities, are subject to attack. Each one of them is a menace to the monopoly Which Insull seeks in this state. They teach the people that it is possible to run their own affairs and to attain freedom from extortion. These publicly owned utilities should be taken out of the jurisdiction of any state board and each community permitted to run its own plant as it desires. That would protect public interest. A fear that this will happen is one of the reasons the lobby will be on hand even earlier this session.

The Naval Program President Coolidge’s recommendation for construction of additional cruisers was followed promptly by a restatement of policy by the general board of the navy, with sanction of Secretary Wilbur. The admirals apparently believe that the President’s address will aid in obtaining passage of the naval construction bill in the short session of congress. This measure, providing for fifteen cruisers and one airplane carrier at a cost of $274,000,000, was approved by the House last session, but was blocked in the Senate. Here is the fundamental naval policy of the United States. As the admirals see it: “The navy of the United States should be maintained in sufficient strength to support its policies and its commerce and to guard its continental and overseas possessions.” The navy department wants to create rad maintain a navy “second to none,” with the 5-5-3 ratio as the guilding principle. It is the navy’s desire to avoid competition in naval armaments which, however, would result if any power should undertake construction of unrestricted classes of vessels in a manner inconsistent with treaty ratios. There is no doubt that the United States has fallen behind in naval strength since the arms conference, and that additional construction is necessary ii the American navy is to be put and kept on an equality with Great Britain’s. The general board’s statement of policy seems sound. The navy itself was largely to blame for the failure of legislation in the last session. Congress, we believe, is willing to vote reasonable amounts to', maintain an adequate navy. But the navy’s case last session was presented badly. There was confusion over just what the building program called for, and little agreement over what it would cost. Secretary Wilbur’s proposal for sev-enty-odd vessels at a cost of $750,000,000 or more startled congress and the country, and brought about a reaction which resulted in no legislation at all. If the navy department will profit by its experience and present a comprehensible and reasonable program, the chances are it will find congress willing to give it what it needs, and the country willing to. pay. Revealing a Judge’s Mind Washington, D. C., likes most municipalities, requires that any group desiring to parade through the city streets first shall obtain a permit from the police. This is a reasonable requirement. We can’t have traffic disorganized at the will of every would-be parader. There must be some regulation. The other day a group of-men, women and children recruited in Washington and other cities violated this ordinance. Bearing banners protesting against one thing and another they marched around and around the state, wary and navy building. One of their protests was against keeping of our marines in Nicaragua and since the building they were marching around happens to house Secretary Kellogg and none of the pavements they were pounding passes by President Coolidge’s office, it might be said they had gone to the right place to make their protest. It is difficult to agree, however, that they were going about their business in the right 'way. More important in the minds of some of them was their demand for the release of John Proctor, textile union leader of New Bedford, Mass. Just what the state, war or navy department has to do with Proctor’s case is hard to see.On the whole, it looked to most Washingtonians like a silly performance on the part of the demonstrators. That and a whole lot of bother to persons desiring to use the same streets the paraders had preempted. So when the paraders were arrested for parading without a permit, few people felt that any sacred constitutional rights had been invaded. True, there were some to say that the best way to deal with

The Indianapolis Times (A BCKIPPS-HOWAKD NEWSPAPER) Owned and published dally (except Sunday! by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland Street, indiauapolis. Ind Price in Marion County 2 cents—lo cents ■ week: elsewhere. 3 centc—l2 cents a week. BOYD GURLEY. ROY W HOWARD. FRANK G. MORRISON, Editor. President. Business Manager. PHONE—RILEY 5851. THURSDAY. Nov. 15, 1928. Member of United Press, Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

a matter of this kind is to allow the paraders to parade till their feet get tired, rather than make martyre of them by jerking them off to jail. But, on the whole the feeling was that a nuisance was being abated by their arrest. That was the feeling until the learned local judge took a hand. Having heard the evidence he found twenty-five of the marchers guilty of violating the city ordinance. He fined six of them SIOO each with the alternative of sixty jails in jail. He fined nineteen of them SSO each with the alternative of thirty days in jail. That’s a total of $1,550 in fines. He could not have soaked them any harder if they had been Bamum & Bailey’s circvus parading without a permit. ■lt was obvious that the judge was punishing these men and women for some offense on which they had not been tried. Making this perfectly clear, the judge remarked in passing sentence: “These people come here to protest against the laws of America. If they don’t like the laws of the United States, I don’t see why they don’t find some country whose laws they do like and go to it.” It just happens that some of the paraders didn’t “come here.” They were born here. The judge in his zeal to proclaim his own brand of Americanism ignored that. More important, of course, Is the fact that he wasn’t trying men charged with “not liking the laws of the Unite dStates"—lf there Is such an offense in law—but with holding a parade without a permit. Which was the sillier performance, the paraders’ or the judge’s? Being Helpful The United States Chamber of Commerce has named a committee as the first step “toward development of a constructive policy with respect to utilization of the country’s water power resources.” The chairman of the board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce is Judge Edwin B. Parker. The president of the Houston Lighting and Power Company of Houston, Tex., a subsidiary of the Electric Bond and Share Company, which recently defied the federal trade commission in its investigation of power propaganda, is Judge Edwin B. Parker. The chamber ought to be quite helpful in working out a constructive policy toward water power development. But there may be some questions as to whom It will be most helpful. Why Not Find Out? Flabbergasted by the outcome of the recent election, Senator George W. Norris pictures a pessimistic future for government operation of Muscle Shoals. When Norris says that President-elect Hoover will veto any measure for government operation of the Shoals, he may be right, but then again he may be wrong. Instead of predicting defeat too early, we suggest that Norris take heart and try out the new President first. Predicting defeat generally Is the best way to get It and scarcely in keeping with the fighting tactics of the Nebraskan. Hoover has expressed willingness to consider Muscle Shoals as an instance where government operation may be imperative because of the element of national defense involved in its nitrate production. Before trying out Hoover, it will be necessary fer Norris to find out the sentiment of the new congress the voters of the country are putting into office. Norris may find himself defeated there, but there never is any harm in trying and in keeping up the fight. It cost $12,000,001) to crown the Emperor of Japan. It must have been almost as grand an event as a gangster’s funeral.

.. i ... David Dietz on Science ... Protect Against Germs No. 208

WE left Pasteur in his laboratory in Paris, while we followed the adventures of Lister, the Englishman, and Koch, the German. Lister developed the methods of antiseptic surgery, while Koch was tracing down the germs of tuberculosis and cholera and anthrax. During this time, Pasteur Was hard at work in his

...1^

claimed to have invented. It was a ridiculous procedure in which the poor animal was covered over with a sort of plaster, one ingredient of which was hot vinegar. So Pasteur suggested an experiment. Four animals would be inoculated with the germs of anthrax, but only two would be given the horse doctor’s treatment. The experiment was tried. Os the two given the treatment, one died and one got well. Os the two notgiven the treatment, one died and one got well. In other words, the treatment had nothing to do with the recovery. So that matter was quickly settled. But now Pasteur had on his hands two animals which had recovered from anthrax. He began to think of something to do with them. One day it occurred to him to inoculate them with anthrax germs again and see what happened. He and his assistants inoculated them. Nothing happened. One attack of anthrax rendered an animal immune. It could not get a second attack. Pasteur reasoned that if an animal could be given a slight attack of a disease, an attack so slight that It would do him no harm, it would then render him immune against any scvious attacks. But the problem was how to do it. He and his assistants finally solved the problem, very largely by accident, while experimenting with the germs of chicken cholera. They found that when they left a culture of germs stand, it grew weak as well as old. When the chicken was inoculated with this weakened culture, it was then rendered immune against an attack of this disease. Important results were to grow from this discovery.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “You Can Not Convince the Public That Some One Was Not Criminally Negligent When Twenty Children Die and 150 Strong Men Escape; Shake Up the Ship Inspection Department.”

THE wreck of the Vestris does ' not square with traditions of the sea. That is what makes it doubly appalling. Too many women and children are dead; too many men are alive. “Murder” may be too harsh a word if taken literally. It is not too harsh to convey the correct idea of what has been and still is accepted as the supreme law of the sea. One can look back on such tragedies as that of the Titanic and Lusitania and find consolation in the thought of an almost umblemished record of heroism. They demonstrated that men still dared to die like men, that in the hour of emergency the weak could still depend on the strong for protection. The tale we read today is of a sadder brand. There were acts of bravery to be sure, but there also were acts of cowardice And incompetence. Two hundred able-bodied men present and only twenty children to look after, yet not one child alive. 000 Sacrifice of Children You can say that most of the boats were good, though some were rotten and leaky; you can say that Captain Carey probably failed to send out signals of distress sooner because he did not realize the gravity of his situation; you can say that the ship had such a list as to make the launching of lifeboats peculiarly dangerous; you can say that the disaster was of such a character as might have caught the best of men off guard and might have made the best of crews unmanageable; you can think of a dozen plausible excuses and enumerate a dozen stupendous difficulties; but there is one thing you cannot do, and that is contrive an alibi which will convince the public that someone was not criminally negligent when twenty children die while 150 strong men escape. This is one shipwreck that calls not only for a searching probe, but for a shakeup of the inspection department. Whatever else may be said, there Is no reason in the world why the Vestris, or any other passenger shlo should be allowed to sail from this country with lifeboats that are dried up, rotten, contain holes, or are unseaworthy for any other cause. 000 Baldwin's Naval Stand Premier Baldwin wants closer contact between England and the United States. Fine! So say we all. The need of closer contact not only between these two nations, but among all nations is too obvious for comment. The benefit of closer contact, however, depends in large measure on the way it is established. No doubt, the wish for a closer contact was what led Premier Baldwin to negotiate the naval pact with Fiance. No doubt, a closer contact would have resulted if circumstances had permitted him to carry it out. The mess in which he finds himself is not due to the end he sought, but to the means he employed. A close contact established secretly with France is not the way to promote closer contact with America.

Sore at Coolidge The tory government of England pretends to be sore at President Coolidge because the latter advocates a bigger navy. That is just a smoke screen. What ails the tory government of England, is that it was caught trying to put over a fast one. Premier Baldwin and his associates want nothing so much as to have the incident forgotten. They are very careful to speak of it in the past tense. a a a The Rothstein Case New York authorities are dumfounded. They simply cannot understand why the murderer of Arnold Rothstein, as well as several witnesses of the crime, does not come forward and surrender, especially since it has been intimated that the charge may be no more serious than that of manslaughter. Such lack of civic consciousness is unthinkable. No wonder the authorities feel they have gone about as far as they can. No wonder they balk at promising more. No wonder they are chagrined at the ungrateful attitude by those whom they have invited to come and gossip with them so politely. Still, something may have been overlooked. Perhaps the invitation was not properly worded, or delivered in accordance with the latest convention. Perhaps something was wrong with the style of type employed. Perhaps the R. S. V. P. was omitted. a a a No Swan Song by Al Governor Smith sings no swan song. There is not a trace of bitterness or discouragement in his farewell address. Few men could go through what he has during the last few months, meet the great, and to some extent unexpected defeat and bounce back with such buoyancy within a week. His gameness, sportsmanship and good sense stand out in striking contrast to the whine and gloom of some other Democrats. Within seven days after losing one of the most spectacular battles ever waged in American politics, he finds it possible to face the situation not only wth calmness, but a clarity of mind which is amazing. His intelligent summng up of the stuation, especially as it affects the future of the Democratc party, comes as a refreshing bit of sanity in the midst of an idiotically blue chorus.

own laboratory. By training, Pasteur was a chemist and not a medical man. And so, now that the importance of microbes in human disease had been established, he surrounded himself with medical assistants, Dr. Roux and Dr. Chamberland. One day Pasteur heard about a cure for anthrax which a veterinarian or horse doctor

Tfffc INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. THE human body is a complicated collection of muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and ■organs composed of living cells. These tissues act upon fuel taken into the body and through the circulating medium, known as the blood, develop secretions from glands and activities of individual structures. Hence it is impossible to consider an individual from the standpoint of any single organ, tissue, or system alone. He must be considered Instead as the sum of all of these parts constantly acting and reacting upon each other and to their environment. This state of affairs for any individual constitutes what is known as his constitution. Because of his makeup he will tend to react toward certain situations in a definite way. This tendency is known as the individual disposition.. The character of the person is also largely determined not only by

WE cross the frosty threshold of the time of year when some shall heat unoccupied acres of interior, while others shall shiver in their shanties. But it is so in everything, all through lfe; fro mhives to wars and from indigestion to earthquakes, the problems of this world are problems of distribution, and from these come all our Ills. a tt The people of Little Rock, Ark„ are foolish to rearrest this New York atheist for distributing his sombre stuff, for that gives him a painless martyrdom. They should take him out Into the Ozark mountains, seat him upon a rotting log and let the ants crawl up his trousers, for what he needs is mental diversion and when it comes to diverting the mind, there’s nothing like ants in the pants! a a tt After all, the only difference between the believer and the atheist is a difference in their conceptions of Heaven. The believer thinks that Heaven is beyond the cloud and the atheist thinks that It Is on the first page of the papers.

BY FABYAN MATHEY S—Non* H—J-6 D—J-7 C—7-6-3 NORTH S-K-Q----1- s—7-3 8-4 S $5 H-K H-None s 2 D—K-10 D—6 C—K-10 G—None SOUTH S—J H—A-9 D-A-2 „ C—s-2 Hearts are trumps and South has the lead. North and South must win five of the seven tricks, against a perfect defense. a a a I AY out the cards on a table, as . i shown in the diagram, and study the situation. See if you can find a method of play that will give North and South five tricks. The solution is printed herewith. The Solution THIS problem, in addition to forcing one of the opponents to squeeze his partner, requires ex-

* jjisaii-'

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Glands Play Large Role in Life

Reason

The Escape!

his physical state but by heredity and environment. The constitution of the person is of the greatest importance to the physician in determining the manner in which the individual will react to disease or to various occurrences in human life. Many authorities on the human constitution have tried to outline special types based on the manner of reaction to physical and environment conditions. Thus they classify what is known as arithmetic type, a person who tends to suffer with rheumatism and related diseases; tuberculous type; glandular types, with special tendencies to overactivity or underactivity of each of the glands of internal secretion; psychopathic types and cancerous types. In studying the likelihood of any individual toward the manifestations of various diseases, it is of the utmost importance to know whether or not he inclines toward any one of these special groups. Few persons realize how definitely activity of various glands may mark the human body. Persons with ex-

By Frederick LANDIS

ON every hand we behold feverish preparations to guard against one's having to walk half a block if he runs out of gas. In ten years there won’t be anything in America but automobile factories, pawnshops, poorhouses and coroners’ inquests. a it a Alanson B. Houghton resigned his job as ambassador to the court of St. James, came home, ran for the United States Senate, got licked and is now on his way back to London to be an ambassador again, in less time than it takes a fellow to get a hair cut on Saturday night. 000 It was sportsmanlike for Governor Smith to urge everybody to give Mr. Hoover a fair chance to make good with his administration, but all Mr. Hoover has ever asked was just half a chance.

tremely deft play to arrive at the solution. South leads the ace of diamonds. South then leads the jack of spades, West winning the trick and North discarding a club. On the next lead of spades by West, North discards another club and South discards his remaining diamond. West again leads a spade, North discarding his last club, and East must either trump or discard a club or a diamond. Should East trump. South then overtrumps, and North and South ruff the iast three tricks. Should East discard a club, South trumps and leads a club, which North trumps. North then returns a trump, South winning the trick and taking the last trick with his club. Should East discard a diamond. South trumps and leads a trump. South then leads a club, North trumping it, and North wins the final trick with his diamond. If, at the second trick. West refuses to top the jack of spades, North discards his remaining diamond, and the problem is agreeably simplified. (Copyright. 1928. by NEA Service, Inc.) Who wrote “Melting Millions” the motion serial? Joseph Anthony Roath.

cessive action of the thyroid gland may have abundant development of the hair of the body; hyperpigmentation of the skin; brilliant, constantly moving eyes which in many instances are rather prominent; a warm, flushed skin with a tendency to excess perspiration; not infrequently a rapid heart, and a high basal metabolism, indicating overactivity of chemical factors in the body. On the contrary, one who is deficient in thyroid tends to be solid, somewhat thick set and short; he tends to deposit excess amounts of fat on the body; the head is usually large; the neck short and thick; the hands short and stubby; the eyes small and not usually vivacious; the hair poorly developed about the body. Such persons have a skin which is thick and fat and with little perspiration. Other glands of the body are associated through underactivity or overactivity with special appearance of the body form. This brief consideration Is but an Indication of an extensive field that modern medical science is entering.

FROSTY TIIRESHHOLD ANTS DIVERT THE MIND 0 m 0 HOUGHTON IN A HURRY

WE don’t believe this New York waiter’s charge that United State Senator Wagner was a cheap fixer, arranging for police protection for a night club. If the charge is false, the waiter should be shot at sunrise, not only to punish him, but to admonish the devotees of rapidly expanding poison gas industry, that they must lie about public men only during political campaigns. 000 This new Paris decree which compels Americans to live in France two years before they can get a divorce is of no interest to our own social set, but it does impose a cruel hardship on “the very best people” of the United States, who, having eight or nine hundred dresses, naturally find it irksome to wear the same old set of matrimonial martingales longer than a season. 0 0 0 Mr. Hoover's trip to South America is to drum up trade for Uncle Sam, also give the Latins the periodical assurance that the old gentleman in the red, white apd blue outfit who has protected them from Europe is in some respects worthy of their august approval. 000 This country sohool teacher over in Ohio, who is about to lose his job because he chews tobacco should sign up to teach marksmanship with some state university which has a course in military training. 000 This gent accused of robbing the orphanage funds of the Moose lodge, announces blindly from Berlin that he Is uncertain about returning to the United States. Isn’t it strange that friendly nations should hem and haw about surrendering crooks? It’s like a farmer’s giving shelter to a wolf that killed his neighbor’s chickens.

This Date in U. S. History

November 15 1777—Congress adopted Articles of Confederation. 1787—Last session of Continental Congress opened in New York. 1806—Pike’s Peak first seen and named by members of Pike’s party. 1832—Philadelphia and Harrisburg connected by railroad. ! Daily Thought I have coveted no man’s silver or gold, or apparel.—Acts. 20:33. COVETOUSNESS fs a sort of mental gluttony.—Chamfort.

.NO y. 15,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Scripps-Howard Newspaper*. 1928) WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—With the national Grange convention here admitting the death of the equalization fee proposal, the administration today was hopeful the winter session of congress could agree on a farm relief bill making the “Hoover extra session” unnecessary. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Senator McNary of Oregon, author of the twice-vetoed equalization fee bill, are understood to have reached a general agreement on anew McNary bill to be Introduced when congress meets next month. President-elect Hoover, Senators Borah and Brookhart, and others are committed to the pledge of an extra session if necessary. But all of the farm organizations are anxious for legislation to aid marketing of next year’s crops, which is a spur to congressional action before Hoover’s inauguration. The main feature of the administration program and of the new McNary bill is the creation of a stabilization marketing corporation, to be owned by the farm co-opera-tive organizations but aided by a federal revolving fund of $300,000,000 or more. The only important difference remaining between the administration and the McNary group concerns disposition of profits accruing from operation of the stabilization corporation. McNary would return such profits to the revolving fund, while Secretary Jardine favors retention of profits by the co-operatives to strengthen the stabilization corporation. 0 0 0 THERE is no dispute over the proposed federal farm board, which Hoover stressed in his campaign as the co-ordinating and chief agency for government aid. This board would: 1. Lend money to the co-opera-tives for the stabilizing and marketing machinery, and for construction of warehouses. 2. Share management and control of co-operatives to the extent of protecting federal funds. 3. Co-ordinate a system of advisory councils for each major crop, supplying expert data and opinion on acreage and other problems. As an example of the benefit of the stabilization corporation project, it is pointed out the average price of the cottgn crop two years ago was 16 cents. • But some hard-pressed farmers were forced to sell as low as 9 cents, and 60 per cent of the crop was sold for 12 cents. In a similar situation the stabilization corporation would be expected to buy at 14 cents and sell at 16 cents. In addition the present and incoming administrations are committed to upward revision of tariffs on farm products. Some nonpartisan economists agree with the campaign charges of Governor Smith that no further relief is possible In that direction. While the National Grange convention now in session recognizes the death of the equalization fee, there is a possibility that the Grange’s insistence on its ‘“export debenture plan for adjusting tariff inequalities” may lead to another bitter fight In congress. tt a a THE full agricultural rehabilitation program presented to the convention by Louis J. Tabor, master of the National Grange, follows: 1. Wider organization of the farmers themselves; better balanced crop production; research for industrial uses for farm surplus products. 2. Increased duties on many agricultural Imports; broader powers for the United States tariff commission; tariff equality for the farmer with other producers. 3. Use of the export debenture as a means of making the tariff effective on staple farm crop surpluses. 4. Replace present haphazard dumping methods with businesslike distribution, aided by extension of co-operative marketing; but with control always retained by the farmers themselves. 5. Opposition to new irrigation and reclamation projects until evidences appear of actual need for food purposes. Encouragement for forest and recreation areas, including reforestation of certain farm lands. Tabor strongly opposes proposed “corporation farming,” involving large investments, mass production and substitution of hired labor for present owner-operators.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Wahlnßton D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All ether Questions will rectlve a personal reply, nslgncd reauests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of thl* By what address could I get a personal letter to Henry Ford? Henry Ford resides in Dearborn, Mich. I did not vote in the primaries and could not find any place to register. Is there any way I can be entitled to vote in November? The law does not require that you register before voting. Did Benjamin Harrison ever live on East Vermont street in Indianapolis? One of Benjamin Harrison’s first residences in Indianapolis was on East Vermont street in the vicinity of New Jersey street. What State produces the largest crop of peanuts? North Carolina. The preliminary figures fir 1926 showed a production of 190,120,000 pounds. On w’aat date did Easter Sunday faU ir. 1T99? March 24. ,