Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1928 — Page 4

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StRIPPS-HOWAAD

An Important Matter When the new traffic ordinance goes into effect, the city council will receive a report each month of the disposition of every sticker given by police to violators of the traffic laws. That might seem to be a trivial matter. But it is very important in that it strikes the new note that began with the demand for a city manager form of government and an administration of public affairs in which each and every citizen stands on a plane of equality. . . .. The measure was inserted for the very definite purpose of eliminating favoritism and pull. It is a matter of some common knowledge that if citizens are possessed of enough influence they may disregard the traffic rules with impunity. If they have friends or friends of friends, the stickers can be tossed* aside and the violator never appears in police court or elsewhere to pay the penalties provided as deterrents to blocking traffic or keeping the street safe. That is the beginning of an atmosphere which can be carried to dangerous lengths. It is a privilege, of course, which appeals to vanity. Every one likes to believe that he is so important that he can override the regulations provided for the common herd. It is disorganizing certainly to the police department The men charged with enforcement of the law must show resentment and then indifference if they discover that some violators always escape and it is small wonder that all do not begin their own little systems of discriminations and fail to enforce other laws. And from traffic laws, it is an easy step to discriminations in other directions. Whenever privilege and pull and influence enter into the enforcement of public regulation, the stage is set for a breakdown of all law. Something more important than traffic regulation is involved in this simple provision insisted upon by the city council. It is notice of the arrival of the new day. It is, at least, a declaration that in this city every citizen should stand on an equality, made to obey every regulation that is necessary for the protection and orderly processes of living and that no super-judicial authority shall have power to set 3slde the regulations made for all the people. Traffic problems are admittedly difficult. Whenever the regulations provided to keep the streets free from congestion and to protect the lives of pedestrians blink at some violators and are harsh with others, the problem becomes impossible. All law depends upon obedience by all citizens. Extensions of privilege are corrupting, to the officers, to the citizen who receives it and the one who does not. It may sound petty, but it is as big as our whole theory of government. Engineers for Boulder Dam The Swing-Johnson plan for constructing Boulder dam on the Colorado river is feasible. This fact stands out above all others in the special engineering report of the project, just made to congress. It deprives opponents of the legislation of a favorable argument. Although no dam of such great size ever has been built, these engineers confirm others who have recommended in the past this dam at Boulder or Black canyon, alternative sites. They say the work can be done, and the structure will be safe. With this assurance at hand, congress no longer should delay authorization of an improvement so urgently needed by a large section of the country. Discussing economic features of the project, the board gives only qualified approval to the financing plans under consideration. It questions whether sale of power can bear the whole burden of financing, and suggests several other plans. But the board’s discussion of power assumes the project will cost $165,000,000, instead of $125,000,000, which other engineers have said it would cost. Congress, hardened by years of experience with seekers after larger appropriations, will know how to deal with this situation. The House of Representatives already has put its approval on the lower estimate of cost. Long-standing opponents of the Swing-Johnson bill, with its provisions so disturbing to certain private power interests, have been quick to seize on the report’s qualifications about the financing plan, in spite of the fact that the special engineering board confesses it was unable to go into the matter thoroughly, because of limited time. These same opponents have argued in the past on this side and on that side of the question involved, in their endeavor to block this great construction project. They fail to be convincing in their final effort to defeat it. . Congress has before it all the data that can be compiled. It has a well-considered plan of action. It has approvals and confirmations of approval of this plan by the highest sources in the country. It is confronted by an imperative call for help from a great community. If it has the courage to meet the mighty opposition of the private interests, nothing stands in the way of immediate action. Our Indian Debt Evidences of genuine effort to improve the unhappy lot of the government's Indian wards are visible at Washington. The senate Indian affairs committee is making a field study of Indian administration, which will provide congress with facts from other sources than the bureau of Indian affairs. The annual report of Secretary West recounts improvements sought. The interior department, West says, is studying the recent survey by the institute for government research, which was “perhaps the most comprehensive survey of Indian affairs ever undertaken.” This in itself is a hopefu’ sign. West says health conditions have been improved to some extent. Additional hospitals and nurses are fighting trachoma, tuberculosis and infancy diseases, the outstanding health problems of the race. Education has been handicapped by lack of funds Os 78,000 eligible children, about 35,000 were in public schools and 27,000 in schools of the federal government. Irrigation is being extended, farming and handcrafts encouraged and housing improved. Land is being acquired for homeless Indians. These commendable measures are only a beginning. To bring the Indian service to the point where Indians are given the humane treatment the government owes them, adequate appropriations from congress are essential.

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Unwarranted Interference A system which is supposed to keep government out of business, as ours is, shot Id be especially touchy about improper business interference with governmental functions. The building of toll bridges by private operators, to make profits off the ever-growing needs of the traveling public, has become a big business in this country. Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads, reports there are 424 toll bridges in the country and that bills authorizing sixty-seven more were passed by the last congress and signed by President Coolidge. McDonald also reports that the private bridge operators, apparently not content to confine themselves to spots where governments are not ready to build bridges, have tried to i;top the public construction of bridges by injunction proceedings, and by lobbying against bills authorizing public bridges. The immemorial policy of this country is that the building of roads and bridges is a public function, except when governments are absolutely unable to do it. Congress should adhere to this policy. Laguardia to the Rescue Representative La Guardia has come to the aid of the embattled Britten. As chairman of the house naval affairs committee, Britten cabled an unorthodox proposal to Premier Baldwin for an inter-parlia-mentary conference on Anglo-American naval limitation. Britten’s initiative was frowned upon by American officials and press. The British were put in an embarrassing position Baldwin did not want to be charged with blocking any attempt to end the cruiser dispute. But he can not go over the head of the American government, and is so informing Britten, Now comes the over-militant La Guardia with a resolution inviting a house of commons committee to meet a select committee of the house of representatives in a naval limitation conference. It directs the secretary of state to transmit to Great Britain that resolution-invitation, “without change, addition or comment.” The motive of Britten and La Guardia is praiseworthy and is shared by most Americans. But the method is mischievous. The issue is not “official red tape,” as these gentlemen seem to think. The issue is Great Britain’s refusal to grant us cruiser parity. The United States government in repeated conferences has asked for such parity limitation. The American people will go no farther than that. Nor would Britten and La Guardia. 9 An unofficial conference probably would create a better atmosphere for a later official conference, which the two governments can be relied upon to call when expedient. The trouble with the Brltten-La Guardia conference is that It would be neither unofficial r.or official. It thus would increase the present confusion. An Illinois woman asked a divorce because she couldn’t awaken her husband, the combined noise of twelve alarm clocks failed to budge him. At one time or other that man must have been an apartment janitor. Sir Thomas Lipton says he has remained a bachelor because he could have only one wife if he married, whereas he would want three or four. That should remove any doubts you might have had that Sir Thomas really is a challenger. Several persons were injured in New York the other day by falling on slippery sidewalks and breaking hip pocket flasks. People should keep away from slippery sidewalks. Chicago will seek the original Noah’s ark on Mt. Ararat for the 1933 World’s fair. A boat with a capacity like that could be sold at a profit after the fair to beer importers the Detroit river. Once upon a time there was a country so small that it didn’t even have one good-will flier. One way to lose your standing is to sit around.

. David Dietz on Science

Newton Makes Discovery

ISAAC NEWTON, whose chief work was the information of the law of gravity, also played an important part in the development of the telescope. In addition, a by-product of his work with the instrument without which much of our modem astronomical knowledge could never have been collected.

tall,. ' iff' ISAAC NEWTON

Cassini, for example, built telescopes 100 and 136 set long. Bradley used one over 200 feet lor l These telescopes became known as at il telescopes, since it was impossible to mount and use them in the ordinary way. Telescope tubes of the ordinary sort were also impossible and the lenses were merely placed on long frameworks. Newton undertook to find out why lenses caused blurred and colored images. He soon came to the conclusion that the fault was not in the way the lenses were ground, but in the nature of light. In 1666 Newton performed the famous experiment which disclosed the real nature of light. He showed that when a beam of sunlight passed through a glass prism, it was spread out into a band of colors like the rainbow. In other'-words, white light was a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow. The different colors were but different amounts as they pass through the glass prism and as a result spread out into a band. It was plain, therefore, that the blurred and colored images produced by taescopes were due to the spreading of the light by the lenses. New’ton believed that the type of telescope then in use could not be improved very much. Accordingly, he set about to invent anew type of telescope. This telescope, which will be described next, is known today as the Newtonian or reflector type o£ telescope.

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The dlffi cu 11 y with all telescopes prior to Newton’s day was that they did not give clear images. The images were alw a y s somewhat blurred and ringed with colors. To get away from these difficulties, longer and longer telescopes were built, since the difficulties were less in telescopes of long focal strength.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: "City Planning Has Not Reached a Point Yet Where We Dare Ask Ourselves How Big a City Should Be.”

WARDEN LA WES of Sing Sing is right. There is too much emotionalism in our attitude toward crime. One minute we yell for blood and the next we yell for mercy, each sentimental outburst succeeding the other in rapid and illogical succession. How can we visualize the problem as scientific, much less approach it in a scientific way, so long as such a mood prevails? The old idea that one extreme offsets another, and that by interspersing sob sister waves with fits of violence we strike a happy medium is sheer nonsense. Instead, one extreme becomes the excuse for another. After we have had a crying spell, we are apt to get unreasonably hard-boiled and vice versa. In nine cases out of ten, a period of easy paroles and pardons is followed by one of savage verdicts and severe laws. Criminals are tempted to go on and do worse by the fickleness this indicates. No matter Uhat happens, they look for the next turn of the wheel to make their road a little smoother. More often than not, they are right. 0 u Chicago's Cleanup John A. Swanson becomes state’s attorney in Chicago, not only pledged to clean up the town, but with the reports of six special grand juries to show him what the job involves. According to these reports, Chicago Is being milked by such a combination of politicians and crooks as seems unique even in the picturesque record of American cities. Racketeering has not only become an organized business, but has presumed to take over the municipal government. Policemen have sworn that they dared not do their duty because of fear of treading on the toes of some “higher up” and losing their Jobs. Machine guns have been employed by expert gangsters to clear the way for graft, blackmail and monopoly of every description. Starting out with control of the liquor traffic as its objective, Chicago’s underworld has presumed to dictate a large variety of enterprises, has collected tribute from a multitude of small tradesmen and has made even the largest institutions pay dear’# for its good will. Mr. Swanson Is i#p against a task which no human being can perform alone, yet which must be performed if Chicago and other American cities are to be saved from organized viciousness. In this case, as in all others like it, the result will be determined by civic consciousness. 0 an What Limit to Cities? The modern city presents a problem which goes deeper than the maintenance of order within its limits. How little we understand that problem is shown by the fact that city planning has not reached a point yet where those engaged in it dare ask themselves how big a city should be. When we plan a store, a hotel, a railroad terminal or much of anything else, the first thing we decide is what the community it serves will stand. We know perfectly well that the job can be overdone, and that if it is overdone someone will get hurt. With respect to the city, we take growth as a matter of course, refusing to concede that it cannot become too big for its own good or for the surrounding region to support. 000 Transportation New York transportation lines carried 3,235,000,000 passengers last year. That is nearly twice the population of the earth. About onehalf of them were carried through underground tubes at the rate of thirty miles an hour or more. The rate of accidents was surprisingly low. All of which goes to show not only the great advance we have made in transportation, but what ah important part transportation plays in city life. Such cities as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia would be impossible if people had to walk. That it why the ancient world with all its pomp and power, was never able to equal them. There were large cities in Rome and Babylon, but they were hotbeds of disease and poverty. This is the first age in which people could dwell together by the million without exnosing themselves to the ravages of famine and epidemic. * tt U tt Baths in 346 B, C, Cities of the ancient world had culture and luxury, but only for the few at the expense of the many.. Dr. David Moore Robinson of Johns Hopkins university has just unearthed the ruins of Olinthus which was captured and sacked in 346 B. C. He not only found comfortable bath tubs and exquisite statuary, but other evidences of wealth and refinement. / When it came to taking a bath, however,’your old Olinthan did not turn on a faucet as we do, but sat in his marble basin and had slaves douse him with buckets of water. That meant that bath tubs were for the rich only. The difference between ancient and modern civilization is that the former flourished on the bowed back of poverty. The Greek or Roman millionaire might have lived in ease, but his workmen and their families could not. What division of the A. E. F. in the World war had the title “Sunshine Division”? The Fortieth division, to which the National Guard of Colorado was attached.

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Be Prompt in Treating Appendicitis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hjrxeia, the Health Magazine. IT IS possible that in the human animals of the past the appendix had the function of serving as a storehouse for food while the animal was being pursued and could not stop to eat. In the human being today it is a rudimentary organ which has apparently lost whatever function it may have had in the past. It exists in most cases as a small tube closed at one end and opening at the other end into the large intestines. Usually the opening allows material to pass in and out of the appendix, but occasionally some hard substancee that is indigestible becomes lodged in ’ the appendix, blocking the exit and injuring the tissue. Unless germs are present, however, appendicitis will not develop. In the presence of bacterial organisms havirfg the power to attack human tissue, the tissue breaks down, infectious matter is formed and as a result of the presence of his material the person has pain and high fever and he may vomit. He develops large numbers of white blood cells which are an at-

Reason

WHY did Mr. Coolidge wait until sunset of his presidential day to seek to have other nations accept our reservations, so we could get into the world court? It may be that, like everybody else, he forgot all about this court and came across it in the White House attic while getting his things together-to turn the premises over to the Hoovers. When you go to move, you always find a lot of things you had forgotten about. 000 The other explanation Is that he wishes to hand a bouquet to Mr. Hughes, who having been made a world court judge, would experience a sense of incompleteness, should America continue to stay out, and Mr. Hughes is entitled to much from Mr. Coolidge, having led his campaign in 1924, then served ably as Secretary of State, after which he and Mr. Borah sustained the same relationship to the G, O. P. in the recent contest that Mr. Ruth and Mr. Gehrig sustained to the Yankees in the last world series. 000 Even if we should go into this court, our reservations would keep all of Uncle Sam out of it except his eyebrows; he would n.ot hang up his white beaver and sit inside the rail with England, France, Japan and the others, but would just open the back door far enough to squint inside, ready to run if the court should start to try him for something. The other judges couldn’t even ask Mr. Hughes what he had for breakfast without first getting consent of the United States senate! 00 0 . Even so, Mr. Hughes v/ould appreciate it if Uncle Sam would just enter a special appearance and file a demurrer or make a motion to quash—anything sufficient to leave a few tracks which he could point to. if some day the sultan of Hedjaz or the maharajah of Indore should arise and ask him how he happened to horn in as a judge. 000 If we continue to stay out, Mr. Hughes will be minister plenipotentiary and ambassador extraordinary from nowhere; he’ll Just sit there as hopelessly detached as a Kansas summer kitchen ter a cyclone. We can imagine nothing so heartless as to let him go over there, a man without a country, unless w r e should enter a pedigreed turkey in an international poultry exhibit, then refuse to let it take its wattles along. With all the reservations different nations have made or shall

Can He Get ’Em All In?

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tempt on the part of his blood to resist infection. These are the chief symptoms of what is called appendicitis. In his consideration of this subject in Hygeia, Dr. J. H. J. Upham expresses doubt as to whether or not appendicitis is more frequent now than it used to be. Thirty of thirty-five years ago cases occurred, but at that time only the severe cases were recognized. Now, with a better knowledge of the condition, cases of appendicitis are seen in their early stages and many lives are saved by prompt operation for the release of the infection and the prevention of secondary peritonitis. It is practically impossible to plan life to prevent appendicitis. The condition is probably due to mechanical conditions associated with the structure of the intestines of the particular person concerned, to accidental blocking of the appendix, and to the entrance of germs having sufficient virulence to set up infection. However, it is quite possible to prevent serious disaster from appendicitis by recognizing the condition as soon as it occurs and taking care of it promptly.

By Frederick LANDIS

make, this court will not be able to cut much ice. It will be more exclusive than effective and more pompous than powerful. If it inherits the charming traits of its papa and mamma, the League of Nations, it will find its real mission in permitting great powers to do as they please, but holding small powers to strict accountability. 000 The world court will not amount to much, but it is very select and

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There are no trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win four of the five tricks, against a perfect defense.

S—A-J-3 H—6-3 D—None C—None NORTH ~" ®—Q-5-2 K S—none M-5-2 <2 fc H—Q-9 o—None j < O—A C—None c A-Q SOUTH S—6 H—A O—J C—K*J LAY 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 four tricks. The solution is printed herewith.

The Solution

IN this problem, discarding and forcing the lead play a highly important part. South leads the six of spades, West plays the deuce. North wins with the jack, and East discards a heart. North then leads the ace of spades, East discards the queen of clubs, and South a club. North next leads his last spade. East discards the queen of hearts,

In case a surgical operation is done for any other disturbance in the abdominal cavity, the surgeon will inspect the appendix and if its condition seems to be at all doubtful, will remove it anyway to make sure that disturbance will not occur in the future. There are, however, many cases in which persons have repeated attacks of mild appendicitis, recover from them successfully, and apparently get until some occasion when their resistance is lowered and the attack of appendicitis is followed by serious symptoms. At such times the operation is more serious than if it is done during the quiet interval between attacks. Not infrequently the first symptoms of appedicltis come on as an attack of constipation. The person may attempt to physic himself with severe cathartics, and the irritation of the bowel and its movement actually may rupture the appendix. It is much better in cases of doubt to go to bed, to put an icebag over the painful region and to get competent medical advice before indulging in any internal medication.

WE SHOULD ENTER 0 0 0 THE WORLD COURT TO HONOR HUGHES

there lies the vast honor conferred on Mr. Hughes. To be one of its Judges is to become a sort of glprified Phi Beta Kappa of the universe, for this tribunal is more than an ivy-clad terminal for high-powered careers; it is indeed the very vestibule of high renown, whose gowned sages actually may see themselves passing into history and actually feel their busts turning to bronze! 000 For the foregoing reasons and despite all possible objections, this country should by all means, try to get into the world court at the earliest possible date for the purpose of honoring Mr. Hughes, that is, if it can be found in the preamble of the Constitution of the United States that this government was organized for the purpose of honoring Mr. Hughes.

South the ace of hearts, and West wins the trick. West, however, must now lead a heart to North's major tenace.

The above is East’s and West’s best defense. discard on the third trick is really of little importance, but the queen of hearts appears to offer the least of three evils. If the ace of clubs is discarded, South discards the jack of diamonds, and West must lead a heart to South’s ace, South winning the final trick with his remaining club. If the ace of diamonds is discarded, South discards the club and wins the final trick with the jack of diamonds. If West plays the queen of spades on the first lead. North covers with the ace and then leads the jack and the three. And if East discards his ace of diamends on either of the first two tricks, the problem at once becomes very easy.

This Date in U. S. History

Dec. 4 1682—Penn held an assembly at Chester, Pa., to organize the colony. 1783—Washington took leave of his officers. 1865—Congressional committee appointed to consider reconstruction.

.DEC. 4, 1928

Waiting to Get Into the Movie

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON THEATERS where legitimate drama is shown hang out an S. R. O. sign when the seats are sold out. Why aren't the movie houses as courteous to their patrons? And why do they not instruct their beautiful glass-caged ticket ladies to smile now and then, if it is only while they gaze off into space? And why should their doormen be so haughty? One feels a tool, anyway, standing in line in the vestibule of an ordinary moving picture house, where one is going to be regaled with a sight of Hoot Gibson or Mollie O’Day, or even Gloria Swanson. The only compensation for such a galling experience is to watch the men try to look comfortable and unconcerned while their wives clutch them so they can’t bolt. But, in spite of the fact that all these movie minions know full well that there won’t be more than half a dozen empty seats for the next forty-five minutes, they’ll take your money and your tickets and herd you inside the ropes without a single qualm of conscience or the faintest flicker of sympathy upon their wooden faces. And so you stand and stand and stand, feeling more and more like a woman who is losing her petticoat in the public square, and along about an hour afterward you are allowed to rush in with the rest of the mob. There is something about that sort of thing that flattens your pride. And though the grocer’s clerk greets us with suavity and smiles, and the butcher’s lad is all agog to please, not so the hireling who guards the entrance to the moving picture palace. In fact, he often looks as if he would Just as soon keep us out altogether. Napoleon gazing out over the rocks of St. Helena never could have appeared more weighted with wde than one of these stiff-necked and resplendent. Nor was Kaiser Wilhelm in all his glory ever more disdainful than one of these. Indeed, there is something funereal in his aspect. He resembles perfectly a mortician or a hired pallbearer. Sometimes when I go from movie house to movie house and regard these mournful and contemptuous faces, I wonder how we of the proletariat ever muster up the courage to sneak in and see the picture.

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.. Wahiogton D. 0.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made All ether questions will rective a persona) reply, nsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of this service. Who is “Roxy?” His name is S. L. Rothafel and he arrived in New York in 1897 from the town of Stillwater, Minn., where he was born in 1885. He was messenger boy in several small department stores and subsequently enlitsed in the Marine Corps, serving in the Boxer Rebellion and winning a medal. After seven years with the Marines he opened a little movie theater in Forest City, Pa., and later went to Minneapolis and Milwaukee where he began to attract attention as a manager of unusual talents. In 1913 he returned to New York to manage the Regent Theater; a year later hr was managing director of the new Strand, the first really pretentious film theater in the country. Subsequent, - ly he directed operations at the Rialto and Rivoli, and in 1920 he moved to the Capitol, which he managed with enormous success and in connection with which he gained national fame as a radio broadcaster. What was the cause of the Trojan war? At the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, Eris (Discord), who alone of the gods had not been invited to the wedding, flung among the • guests a golden apple inscribed “For the most beautiful.” June, Minerva and Venus disputed for the apple and referred the decision to Paris, who was then a shepherd on Mt. Ida. To influence his judgment, Juno promised to give him power, Minerva martial glory and Venus the most beautiful of women. He decided in favor of Venus and received from her Helen as his rewar. He then abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, which brought about the war. What is the Sheppard-Towncr maternity bill? • It provides for federal co-opera-tion with the states in promoting the welfare of maternity and infancy. The children’s bureau of the United States department of labor administers the act. It provides an appropriation of $1,240,000 per year for five years, to be divided among the ’ states which accept the terms of the act and raise their proportion of funds to add to the federal appropriation. Why is the sun yellow? The atmosphere of both the sun and earth interfere more with the passage of light rayr of shorter wave length, those towards the violet end of the spectrum, than with those of longer wave lengths, those towards the red end. If the sun could be seen through a smaller length of atmosphere it would look bluer than it does, and it actually does look redder when seen through a greater length of atmosphere at sunrise and sunset.

Daily Thought

A tiq|e to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.—Eccl. 3:5. 000 DAY follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen. —Schiller.