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Automobile Titles Certainly if there is any lesson to be learned from the prosecution of those who dealt in stolen automobiles, it should be the necessity of such revision, either in law or in administration, of the method of issuing certificates of titles to automobiles. The astounding feature of the recent matter which occupied the courts and public attention was the apparent ease with which a certificate of title could be obtained in Indiana for an automobile stolen in another state. It should be very easy to protect the owners of automobiles through the title department. It should also be very easy to protect prospective purchasers of automobiles against imposition. A certificate of title from the state of Indiana should be exactly what it purports to be—a guarantee that the man who has that certificate has a right and title to the machine. Apparently it has been quite possible for professionals to steal a car in Ohio or Illinois or some other state and obtain within a very few hours a title in Indiana. Every automobile should carry its history from the day it leaves the factory until it goes to the junk yard, if there is to be any protection for either owners or purchasers. That would work no hardship upon the vendors of machines. It would help to protect the public in more ways than one. That, of course, is the intent of the present law. That it has failed is lamentably true. Some change is needed.. It may be in the wording of the law, or it may be in the men and women to whom are intrusted the task of caring for this yery important state department. The Airport That prices of property needed for public uses suddenly rise when the need is apparent is perhaps to be expected. We have not yet reached the stage of public conscience where the citizen really feels that public need is greater than private right or gain. In the search for an airport for this city, officials and public committees reach a decision that prices of some available sites are much too high. It is quite probable that in another decade no price would be considered too high for an airport that gave easy access to the business center of the city. By that time the value of air transportation will have been so demonstrated that every city will demand this sort of convenience. The one outstanding fact in the situation is that no city of the size and importance of Indianapolis can afford to dally and delay in the matter of getting on the air rfiaps. Big business, which never starts until it is very sure, is now behind aviation. It recognizes that travel by airplane is safe and that this country, speeded to a pace never before reached, will demand this sort of service. No person, with the price, will take ten hours of life for a trip that can be made in four. Just as the use of automobiles brought about the vast network of paved roads through the country, the airplane will bring airports to cities. In the spring transcontinental lines will be opened. This city is strategically located as a logical center. It should be the cross roads on connecting lines. It can not be such a center unless facilities for planes are provided and provided quickly. It would be too bad if this city lost its opportunities through delay. On the surface it is a simple business matter an airport near to the center of the city, at a decent, fair price, but an airport quick. SimplicityNothing is more becoming in democratic government than simplicity. The elaborate social machinery of monarchical courts doesn’t fit into the American scheme. The pomp and ceremony attending some presidential inaugurations, including a big parade of army and navy, with some admixture of civilian organizations, followed by a hifalutin’ inaugural ball, were merely a hangover from European custom. So it is a relief to have President-elect Hoover taboo all the fuss and feathers demanded by Washington social circles and declare for inaugural ceremonies at least as simple as those of Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge, and even simpler if possible. The military display is neither necessary nor befitting a nation that boasts of its peace-loving purposes, even though the President be commander-in-chief of the army and navy. And the inaugural ball is undemocratic, if not actually silly, because it necessarily must be invitational and exclusive. Let the grand dames of Washington find some other occasion for display of their gorgeous gowns and glittering jewels. While the nabobs who move with their wealth and social ambitions to Washington will be disappointed over Hoover’s Quaker simplicity, the people generally will like it first rate. Doubtless they will hope that this first Indication of Hoover’s love of Simplicity means that there will be more of it, and that his energy may be conserved for the more serious work ahead of him as the nation’s chief executive. Channing Pollock, playwright, says theater audiences these days “check their brains with their hats.” And, of course, Mr. Pollock, some just check their hats. Several rolling pin throwing contests have been staged this fall. How do they manage to get all the husbands to pose? The experts who predicted the electoral vote so well now are taking over the task of picking President Hoover’s cabinet. Gold has been discovered in one of the greens of the Sierra Country club at Grass Valley, Cal. Aha! the duffer’s hand again! An lowa man found strawberries on his vines the other day and picked them in a blizzard. This Republican prosperity? Has anybody noticed how little Johnny comes right home from school these evenings and asks if there isn’t something he can do to help mother? v ■ _______ Strange things are happening in this presidential year. Yesterday we' saw the headline, “Eggs Rally After Break.”

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Purifying the Movies Reformers who are trying to establish federal regulation of the movies shy at the word “censorship.” They insist this is not their aim, and employ the phrase, “federal supervision.” i The matter of phraseology is not important. What they actually advocate is a system of government control which goes beyond any previous efforts to regulate business and public morals. It requires fifty-four printed pages for the bill of Representative Grant M. Hudson of Michigan, enactment of which is the chief aim of the Federal Motion Picture Council in America, Inc., meeting in Washington this week to prepare for an onslaught on congress. The council, incidentally, is an offshoot of the international reform bureau, and has as its secretary that veteran of many a battle for uplift, Canon William Sheafe Chase of Brooklyn. The reformers would set up a federal board of six persons—including two lawyers and two teachers—which would “provide for the making of wholesome motion pictures at the source.” A film would have to conform to certain moral standards before it could be produced. If it did not, the board would refuse permission for interstate distribution. The board would maintain a distributing agency through which all films would be circulated at prices fixed by the board. Block booking would be forbidden. It would have many other powers, all carefully prescribed, including the issuance of licenses to do business. Proposed legislation goes into great detail in prescribing what may be regarded as a wholesome picture. It must not emphasize and exaggerate sex appeal, tend to make virtue odious, or concern itself predominantly with the underworld, vice, or crime, unless part of “an essential conflict between good and evil.” Public officials must not be "deprecated.” No picture may be “obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, filthy, salacious, unpatriotic, or sacrilegious. ’ Pictures must not incite to crime, produce depraved moral ideas, or show scorn for a race, nation, creed or religion. And so on. So inclusive, in fact, are the prohibitions that it would be possible to find grounds for barring almost any film that did not meet with the board’s personal liking. If this does not in reality constitute censorship, we are unable to understand our Webster. It is unlikely that congress can be persuaded to adopt any such drastic legislation. The activities of the reformers are none the less an interesting revelation of the lengths to which they would go in keeping the rest of us pure by compulsion. The Government’s Defeat The government finally has abandoned its efforts to collect $30,000,000 additional taxes from former stockholders of the Ford Motor Company, prominent among whom is Senator Couzens of Michigan. Assertions that the suit was unwarranted would seem to be borne out by the fact that the government was defeated both in the federal courts and before the board of tax appeals. Taxes had been levied and collected and apparently the case was closed in 1922. Five years later the government suddenly moved to collect the additional sums, contending that Senator Couzens was obligated some $10,000,000. Couzens and Secretary Mellon were at the moment engaged in a heated controversy over conduct of the bureau of Internal revnue, Couzens charging that it was adminstered badly and that favoritism was shown certain large taxpayers. When the tax suit was filed, charges were made on the senate floor that Mellon was seeking to punish his critic. The outcome of the treasury’s effort should assure taxpayers that the government will find it difficult to cast overboard settlements made and approved by its own agents, after the lapse of years. Maybe one of the reasons A1 Smith lost was that the Scotch balked at his liberal program.

David Dietz on Science.

Exploring the Heavens

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PLANS for a telescope twice as large as the largest now in existence have been announced by the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The general education board, which administers many Rockefeller funds, is financing the project. The project is being carried on in co-operation with the Mt. Wilson observatory of the Carnegie

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lions of miles out into space and now expects to reach out twice as far as ever before. Second: The building of the big telescope will present one of the most difficult engineering problems ever undertaken. It will not be twice as difficult to design this telescope as it was to design the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. It will be ten times as difficult. Third: It will strengthen the position of the American astronomers as the court of last appeal in observational astronomy. At present, the United States possesses the first and third largest telescopes in the world. Canada has the second largest. No European observatory can match the equipment of this continent. Fourth: The success of this telescope may eventually lead to the building of an even larger one. The Mt. Wilson people a few years ago made tentative plans for a 300-inch telescope. Fifth: The plans focus attention on the Mt. Wilson observatory and the California Institute of Technology, two of the most interesting scientific organizations in the world. These two have co-operated in the past on many problems of astronomy. Such co-operation will continue. Dr. George Ellery Hale, one of the world’s greatest astronomers, the honorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory, is chairman of the committee which the California Institute of Technology has created to handle the new project. ' ' Hale is the inventor of the spectroheliograph, the device which makes possible detailed pictures of the sun. He designed many of the instruments of the Mt. Wilson observatory.

TRACY SAYS: ‘‘Most Everything Has an International Slant These Days . . . Your Cup of Cocoa May Cost ' More Next Month Because of Action Taken by a Brazilian State.”

Admiral Sheer dies. He is the man who commanded the German fleet at the battle of Jutland. He also is the man who wanted the German fleet to attack England in October, 1918. Ten years ago the news of his death w’ould have resulted in little but expressions of relief throughout the allied world. Today, the British admiralty accepts it as calling for official condolence. Earl Beatty, who fought Admiral Sheer, writes a letter in praise of his courage and tactical skill. . Such is the effect of a decade even on the most profound and widespread human emotion. a tt tt Storms Batter Europe For four days European waters have been whipped by high and variable winds. Sailors returning to port describe the condition as the worst within their memory. The Carinthia, which reached Liverpool Monday, picked up no less than sixteen SOS signals. All of them were cancelled, however, before she had time to change her course. The Cedric, which made port a little earlier, also picked up several signals of distress. a a tt And Now —Cocoa Crisis Most everything has an international slant these days. The oil scandal gets into a French court, where the request for Blackmer’s extradition is refused, and your cup of cocoa may cost more next month because of the action taken by a Brazilian state. The majority of us think of cocoa as no more than an agreeable beverage, but those who grow it have a good old dollar and cent complex. Cocoa is an important product in the state of Bahia. It’ supports quiet a few plantation owners in luxury and provides work for a vastly greater number of laborers. A $5 slump per bag, such as recently has taken place, represents a problem of public concern, especially since it appears to have been brought about by speculation. Governor Vital Soares, who is a banker, believes that the state is justified in coming to the rescue of its cocoa growers and is arranging to use its credit in their behalf. tt tt a More Trouble The idea of national price fixing gains ground, in spite of the many failures attending its application. People everywhere are beginning to visualize prosperity as dependent on the economic control of commodities, rather than the political control of territory. This is a perfectly natural result of modern commerce. Governments are drawn into the situation, because they represent the strongest force that can be brought to bear. Merchants, manufacturers, producers and financiers pray for the assistance of political power when they can no longer turn the trick by themselves. Logical enough, perhaps, but let no one suppose that the world has not stumbled on anew source of trouble. tt tt tt Profit for New York Every time a hundred shares Os stock are bought or sold on Wall Street, the state of New York gets $2. This means that a 6,000,000 share day produces $120,000 in revenue, while a 3,000,000 share day produces only $60,000. You can see for yourself what an effect the recent market has had, and why New York taxpayers regard ! it as a blessing. They even hope that it may eliminate the state income tax, which is now in force. Last year the Stock Exchange paid the state something more than $20,000,000. This year experts figure that it may pay as much as $36,000,000. it tt tt New Mexico That “definite day of reckoning,” about which Woodrow Wilson spoke so dramatically fourteen years ago, approaches, but it promises to be much calmer, than most people imagined. There is hardly a cloud on the horizon, much less the suggestion of a storm. The “big stick” idea has faded completely out of the picture. Most of the talk seems worse than useless now that we have had time to forget it. Huerta is dead, Carranza is dead, Villa is dead. The “85 per cent submerged” that interested Wilson has obtained its day in court. Out of a revolution, led by gamblers and horse thieves, as some said, has come anew political order In Mexico. Every one now is in a mood to sit down quietly at a table and talk sense. The whole performance shows us how futile quarreling can be, and how easily level-headed men can clear up a situation if given a chance. Mexico is prepared not only to recognize her obligations, but to finance them on a sound and workable basis. Borrowing a page from European experience her creditors are willing to recognize that “ability to pay’ must be recognized as an important factor. Out of the chaos and confusion that has reigned since Diaz fell, comes a simple plan of liquidation—sl2,soo,ooo for the first year, a little more for the next and a little more still for the next, until at the end of five years, the annual payment amounts to $40,000,000. What makes the stars twinkle? ' The apparent twinkling of stars is due to the interference of light rays reaching us from them which, in passing through the earth’s atmosphere, encounter and are interfered with by particles of floating dust and other substances in the earth’s atmosphere.

institution. This observatory possesses the present largest telescope in the world, the 100-inch reflector. The plans are highly interesting for many reasons: First: They are the high point to date in the story of man’s attempt to fathom the mysteries of the universe. Man, living on this tiny earth, has reached billions upon bil-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Aasociation and of Hyxeia, the Health Magazine. TN Kansas in 1927, according to the records of the secretary of the state board of health, only four diseases, namely, heart disease, cancer. brain hemorrhage and Bright’s disease, caused more deaths than were caused by accident. In fact, for a period of ten years deaths from accidental causes con-

stitute almost 6 per cent of the total A large part of this mortality has, of course, been due to the automobile. Automobile accident death

MR. HOOVER'S plan to have a simple inaugural will please everybody in the country except the people of the District of Columbia, to whom such ceremonies are the high spots in life, Washingtonians looking forward to March 4 as we of the wide open spaces look forward to the county fair or the old settlers’ picnic. a u tt The most elaborate inaugural of recent years was Roosev alt's In 1904, and the outstanding feature of that colorful pageant was the delegation of cowboys, Teddy’s old neighbors from Dakota, who brought their horses and equipment. There was a constant roar of applause as the plainsmen rode along Pennsylvania avenue and when they passed the reviewing stand, the President called them by their first names. a tt a After the acquittal of Doheny, Sinclair and Stewart, the government should cease its efforts to extradite Blackmer, the fugitive oil man now in Paris. Regardless of the evidence, Blackmer would be acquitted, if placed on trial, and his return would profit no one but his lawyer. tt a While holding up a Pennsnylvania bank, three robbers kidnaped the township assessor, who tried to give the alarm. But all of those who would like to kidnap the assessor are not necessarily bank robbers. tt tt tt It Is estimated that the delay caused by New York City’s traffic costs one million dollars a day. and this does not take into consideration the high blood pressure of taxi passengers, caused by sitting and contemplating the back end of a truck, while the meter clicks merrily on. a tt a The fact that 7,000 people have applied to the civil service commission to take the examination for appointment as prohibition agents is a very eloquent tribute to the “possibilities” of this peculiar branch of the public service. tt tt tt The fact that all the speculators about the future activities of Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Smith have oroken forth afresh gives us this rare idea—why not have them go into partnership? It doesn’t matter much what their line would be in anything from auto parts to stocks and bonds, that sign, “Coolidge and Smith,” would draw the trade.

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.—Hosea 4:17. * it tt THE idol is the measure of the worshiper.—Lowell.

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Question —When do the first teeth appear? Answer—The average time of the appearance of the lower central front teeth is from six to nine months. Sometimes they appear even later. Wide variations are common.

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rates have shown a steady increase from a rate of 2.1 per 1000,000 population in 1914 to a rate of 13.7 for each 100,000 of population in 1927. Drownlr.gs, while of importance, are not nearly so frequent as automobile accidents and occur largely in May, June, July and August. Actually three-fourths of all deaths from drowning occur in these four months. The majority of deaths from accidental falls occur during the months of December and January, the period of freezing and greatest darkness. The five principal types of accidental deaths as recorded for a period of fourteen years during which there were 8,922,000 deaths in all were: Accidental falls, 2,542; automobile accidents, 2,018; railroad accidents, 1,879; accidental drownings, 1,214; accidental burns, 1,169. Approximately 58 per cent of all deaths from accidental falls occur in persons from 70 to 89 years of age. At that age a slight misstep, tripping over a rug, a fall from a

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By Frederick LANDIS

THESE physicians at the, med'ical meeting at Rochester, Minn., who just have declared that certain bodily pains forecast changes in the weather, have arrived by slow freight, for the rest of us have known it for years. Almost all of us have had grandfathers who “felt changes in their bones.” 1 They had bones for all kinds of changes; in fact, they were fully equipped weather bureads.

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Clubs are trumps and South has the lead. North and South must win all of the three tricks, against a perfect defense. S—K N—Non* D—Non* C—A-3 ' 1 NORTH S—None . . S—None H—None to H—None D—A-S i US D“K C—J C—64 SOUTH S—None H—None D-J-8 ’ c—a 43 LAY out the cards on a table, as shown in the diagram, and study the situation. See if you can find a method of play that will net North and South all of the tricks. The solution is printed herewith.

The Solution

/ T'HIS problem is quite easy, but catchy. What perhaps first %ppeared to you to be the correct lead-*a trump—will not work. A cross-ruff is necessary. South leads a diamond, and North trumps witli the three. North now leads his king of spades, and South trumps. Then North’s ace of trumps takes the last trick. But if a trump is opened, South’s queen winning the trick, South must then lead a diamond and North must trump with the ace, East’s six of trumps taking the final trick. And if North overtakes the opening trump lead with the

bed or chair may result in breaking one or more bones. At such an advanced age broken bones do not heal easily. During the World war the total deaths of American soldiers were 120,050. From Jan. 1, 1919, to Dec. 31, 1926, automobiles killed 137,017 persons in the United States. The number of persons injured in the same period was approximately three and a half millions. More than one-fourth of all those killed or injured were children under 15 years of age. Certainly under the circumstances the automobile may be classed as the most deadly weapon in the human armament. All the money that has been spent for automobile accident prevention has been money well spent. Only concerted action against carelessness and by strict enforcement of the laws relative to motoring can some inroad be made against this terrible mortality.

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THE only strange thing about Mr. Hoover's plan to prevent widespread unemployment by the construction of public works is that it was not put into effect fifty years ago, ii having been advocated fully that long. tt tt tt The fact that Thomas Fortune Ryan, just dead, was worth five nundred million dollars doesn’t mean that he got any more out of life than you or I. The man who has a family, all of them well and* bright, who can give them what they need and build air castles about what they may be—and keep a respectable distance ahead of the wolf—he’s got all the millionaires on earth backed off the boards!

ace, East and West will win two tricks. The cross-ruff is one of the best weapons in bridge. It should be used only with care, but if this is done many additional tricks will result.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerty Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washlngton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. Wahinßton. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical and leßal advice cannot be given, nor can ex*. tended research be made All cthe: Questions will rectlve a personal reply listened reauests cannot be answered All letters are confidential Vou art cordially invited to make use of this service. Why does one get out of breath when he runs? Because the amount of energy required for this exertion puts an extra strain on the heart which must pump additional blood; this in turn requires that the lungs supply additional amounts of oxygen, thereby making it necessary to take more air into the lungs, and when the capacity for doing this work approaches its maximum, one gets the feeling of being out of breath; one can not supply air fast enough to meet the requirements of oxygen which the blood needs to supply the muscles which are furnishing the energy for running. What is capitalism? It is.a theory of economics that declares that it is for the best interests of the community that the massed accumulations of privately owned capital should be the basis for all production. Capital represents all forms of wealth, whether land, timber and mineral resources, water power as well as all forms of machinery, merchandise and cer-

NOV. 28,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Scripps-Howard Newspapers. 19281 WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Continued business prosperity and good holiday prospects are reported by governmental and commercial agencies. But there are disquieting factors, such as unrestrained Wall Street speculation and lagging industries, like textiles, coal, shipping, petroleum, and agriculture. Industrial production, employment, and wages are at higher levels than a year ago. The farnl problem is somewhat less critical. Wholesale commodity prices have declined, chiefly because of decreases in farm product prices. Despite relative stability in the employment situation, in contrast to mounting unemployment of last winter and spring, the mechanization of industry In general and chronic sickness of the coal and textile Industries apparently are creating a permanent unemployment problem which may become acute when Increased by seasonal slumps. Today the Federal Reserve board here issued its regular monthly survey of business and financial conditions. It stated: “Industry continued active in October and distribution of commodities was in large volume. Wholesale commodity prices declined sharply, owing chiefly to decreases in the price of farm products. Member bank credit in use increased in October and November, while reserve bank credit outstanding showed little change. Conditions in the money market were somewhat easier. “Industrial production continued in October at the high level of September and considerably above the level of a year ago. Output of mineral increased over September, while the production of manufactures declined slightly. “Factory employment and payrolls increased to the highest level since early in 1927. . . . Automo.bile production declined considerably in October, after exceptional activity in September and showed further reduction in November, as is usual at this season. tt tt tt r\EPARTMENT of agriculture crop reports indicate larger yields this year than last for cotton, wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, and tobacco, with decreases in hay, rye and flaxseed. Freight car loadings in October and the first half of November were larger than a year ago. The department of labor wholesale commodity price index for October was 97.8 of the 1926 average, or a 2 per cent drop from September the October employment index was 88.1, compared with 87.6 a year ago. According to the Engineering News Recrd, building contracts awarded this year already total more than $442,000,000 above last year. Both Dun’s and Bradstreet’s reports show general business expansion, though noting exceptions such as the steel and automobile industries. Department of commerce figures place merchandise exports in October at $555,000,000, the highest since 1921. Imports were only $357,000,000, thus increasing the favorable “visible” trade balance. a tt tt ATYPICAL bank survey of the present economic situation is the report just issued by the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, which says: “In the general business situation there is ample evidence to support the expectation of continud prosperity. This evidence is not found in the mere fact of great industrial activity; for such condition, while it certainly implies a large volume of aggregate purchasing power, may be only contributing to an unsound position in commodity markets, if the purchasing power is flowing into the wrong channels. “The significant fact is that the high wage scales and the widely distributed income of the last few years apparently continue to operate as strongly as ever, so that active industrial operations are balanced by a ready movement of goods into hands of consumers. . . . “The situation can not be considered perfectly balanced as long as such important industries as coal, textiles, shipping, petroleum and others are embarrassed seriously. “There still is room for great improvement in agriculture. The swift mechanical and industrial progress of recent years has necessitated readjustments which are still under way, and which entail stagnation in some lines and severe competition in many more.”

tain indefinable things such as good will and money and credits. Capitalism contrast with socialism, which declares that the land and natural resources as well as the tools of production, which constitute capital, should belong to the public, and thatt the profits of industry should be distributed exclusively to the producers, instead of being distributed between the producers and the private owners of capital. What is the address of the headquarters of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company? 150 Bay St., Jersey City, N. J. Is William Farnum still playing on the screen? What was his last picture? He has retired from the screen. His last picture was “The Man Who Fights Alone.” He has been palying on the stage in various cities in “The Buccaneer.”

This Date in U. S. History

November 28 \ 1858— Washington Irving, American novelist, died. 1876—Two legislatures organised in South Carolina. 1889—{Boston, Mass., suffered a /$5,000,000 fire.