Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1928 — Page 4
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A Crisis in the Treaty Fight! The Kellogg anti-war treaty is in grave danger Blocked again yesterday in the foreign relations committee of the senate, it is threatened with emasculation, if not defeat. This treaty was written by the President of the United States and the secretary of state. Though not required to do so, they wisely sought and received from senate leaders the indorsement of their purpose before they presented America’s proposal to the world. They theh persuaded fifty-eight foreign governments to accept this pact of friendship. Everything was done in the open. There were no secret negotiations, no secret documents. The world saw all that was done and the world applauded. The American people, in particular, rejoiced. The thought of opposition in this country did not arise. A national election was held and not a voice was lifted against the treaty; it was accepted by both major parties. Pleased with this course of events, the people began urging that ratification be immediate and unreserved Through civic organizations, business associations, churches and clubs, the people expressed their wish that there should be no delay in America’s commitment to this American plan. The press of the country was almost unanimous in echoing the people’s demand. Never before, according to all Washington observers, was such a barrage of public opinion laid down in the national capital. As soon as congress met, the President sent the treaty to the senate, where it was referred to the foreign relations committee. The chairman, Senator Borah, and practically all members of the committee were among those who had consented in advance to the negotiation of the treaty. Later they had approved the signed document. They indicated their Intention to report it out at once. Then came reports that some senators who had given public assurance of their loyalty to the treaty secretly were working against it. They were conspiring to defeat it by delay, by nullifying reservations or resolutions. v The Scripps-Howard newspapers learned of this undercover plan and one week ago we undertook to warn the country. We called for anew public demonstration of the people's desire. We started a popular poll by which Are people could speak to the senate quickly and clearly. The people are speaking—almost 100 to 1 for immediate ratification. Two weeks have passed since the senate committee received the treaty. One week has passed since the Scripps-Howard warning. Only one week remains before the recess for the Christmas holidays. And today the enemies of the treaty are able to celebrate their first victory against the people. They have blocked the treaty in committee. It is no nearer the senate floor than it was two weeks ago. Taking courage, one enemy of the treaty has introduced a blanket resolution of nullification. With this the others plan to filibuster in committee for weeks. Even as this resolution was being introduced, the President, at the White House, was issuing a warning that such a move would be an unfriendly and destructive act, placing the United States in an embarrassing international position. The open enemies of the treaty are few in number. They include Senator Reed of Missouri, Moses and Shipstead, all three of whom, no doubt, are completely honest in their opposition to this declaration against war. But these three alone cannot account for what is happening in the committee and in the senate. They have succeeded because they have been wittingly or unwittingly aided by others. Who the others are, or how many, no one knows yet. But by their own Statements twenty-six senators are either indifferent, undecided or non-committal. They are: “Non-committal” —Bingham, Black, Blease, Blaine, Bruce, Glenn, Hale, Harrison, Johnson, McKellar, Robinson of Indiana, Waterman. “Undecided”—Ashurst, Bratton, Dale, Hawes, Hayden, Heflin, Kendrick, Oddie, Phipps, Trammel, Wheeler. “Indifferent"—Caraway, Glass, Smith. What the people of the country have to do, apparently, is to end this indifference, indecision, or unwillingness of the twenty-six openly to declare themselves.
Hatchet Does Little Good It would be difficult to over-rate the responsibilities of a mother in the bringing up either of sons or daughters. Her trials and tribulations from birth on to the end of the chapter are well known. The world sympathizes with the heartaches which come when her child grows ,up and falls short of a fond mother’s hope and expectation. And if a mother doesn’t know just what to do about it when her child does what she thinks is wrong, the rest of us are little better qualified to help her with advice, though we can extend boundless sympathy. * Take that distraught Kansas City mother who learned that her 18-year-old daughter had drunk gin in a saloon. What she said or did to the daughter doesn’t appear in the newspaper story; all we get from that is that the irate mother went to the saloon with a hatchet and smashed beer steins, whisky glasses and mirrors. What effect that had on the daughter we don’t knOw. That may depend upon what the young people in her own set thought about it. If they laughed at the mother’s violent eccentricity, then possibly the daughter felt ashamed of her mother, and was humiliated in the sight of her young companions. That wouldn’t improve the relations between parent and child. The trouble about punishing the steins, bottles, glasses and mirrors is that they don’t think, don’t know anything about it, and are perfectly innocent. That is, there was no reason in the punishment—any more than when a mother washes with soap the mouth of her child who, told a lie, or smacks the hand that stole cookies or jam. It wasn’t the mouth or the hand that was consciously guilty of offense. It was the mind that controlled their action. But the mother couldn't well use the hatchet on her daughter’s head. It wouldn’t have helped much if she had. And had she used it on the saloon keeper she might have gone to jail. So far as the mother herself is concerned, maybe hatcheting the steins, glasses and mirrors was the best she could do to ease
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her outraged feelings, but it isn’t easy to see how it helped matters with the daughter or anybody else. We better might understand this particular case if we knew what that mother was doing from the time that daughter was bom until she grew up and drank gin. In raising daughters, the first twelve years are the most valuable. If intelligence is used in the early years and selfreliance and restraint are taught, along with the meaning of temptation in its many forms, by the time a daughter is 18 she ought to be able to look temptation in the eye and tell it to go to the bad place. With much sympathy for both the mother and the daughter and none at all for the saloon keeper or his glassware, it is difficult to see how the guilty were harmed or the innocent helped by this display of hatchet vengeance. Probably more harm was done the daughter than anybody else. Ballot Reforms The only terrifying part of the proposal of the city manager group for a change in method of elections is the name which is given to the proposed system. Proportional representation sounds complicated. • As explained by those who advocate its use, there is nothing hard to understand or to operate. It simply prevents a small group from forcing through an undesirable candidate in elections and is a sure way of preventing the bosses from defeating the will of the people by dividing forces of those who have the same general view. It also, so say its proponents, insures the election of city commissioners who will be fairly representative of public opinion. When the city comes under the system of a city manager government, success will depend very largely upon the character of men chosen as commissioners. If the old bosses, by appeals to prejudice and political affiliations, can put in control the sort of men who went into office with Duvall, the city will have the same sort of government against which it rebelled. If outstanding men of character and public interest can be selected, the city manager plan affords an easy and effective way to get a real business administration of the city’s business affairs. The experience of other cities has shown that the proportional representation plan has been most effective in the cause of getting the kind of government that suits the vast majority of citizens. In many of the cities where the bosses ruled for years, this plan of voting is given credit for the success of the new spirit. This is said to be especially true in Cincinnati. This is only one of the ballot reforms which the legislature should study. It applies only to the city manager cities. Other needed reforms relate to the short ballot and a separation of state and national campaigns. Philadelphia is considering placing a memorial tablet in honor of General Smedley D. Butler, who was ousted as head of the police force by politicians because he tried to clean up the town. Adding insult to inlury. The Hall of Fishes was opened in the American xVluseum of Natural History in New York City the other day. Probably there is a special department for people who bet on wrestling matches. Maybe one way to make daughter behave would be to tell her that her mother didn't. ) Dr. John B. Watson, psychologist, says parents should apply the behavioristic theory to children to end their horror of the dentist’s chair. A nickel used to do the work; maybe he means to give the kid a dime.
—————David Dietz on Science— ... New Ml Wilson No. 234 THE Mt. Wilson observatory on the top of Mt. Wilson, near Pasadena, Cal., is one of the most interesting for a number of reasons. One is that it possesses the largest telescope in the world. Another is that its staff numbers some of the world’s best-known astronomers. Pasadena, as most readers know, is a suburb of Los Angeles. The mountain top, on which the observatory
not the most interesting item about the observatory. It is more interesting to note that new types of instruments and new programs of research have been devised at this observatory. Most observatories in the past came into existence as the result of the gift of a big telescope. Research Rrograms then had to be shaped to meet the potentialities of the telescope. But Mt. Wilson observatory, built by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C., followed another plan. The plan, and it was a far costlier one than the old one, was to embark upon pressing research problems and then build the instruments which the research needed. Asa result, offices, a laboratory and a machineshop were established in Pasadena as part of the observatory. The observatory was built and developed under the direction of Dr George Ellery Hale, who is now its' honorary director. Dr. W. S. Adams is the present direccor Many splendid instruments have been built at Mt Wilson. They include the 60-inch reflector, the third largest in the world and the 100-inch reflector, the largest telescope in the world. Special tower telescopes, one 75 feet high and another 150 feet high have been built for studying the sun. In addition, much auxiliary’ apparatus, such as the interferometer for measuring the diameter of stars, has been added to the observatory.
M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Crime Wave . . . Oivcs Much of Its Strength to the Citizen Who Does Not Care.”
ONE result of the Rothstein case is to give New York anew police commissioner. He has not been appointed yet, but it is generally assumed that he will be none other than Grover A. Whr.len, who has achieved nation-wide fame as Mayor Walker’s official greeter and who is at present general manager of the John Wanamaker store. Mr. Whalen’s probable selection is somewhat at variance with the prevailing idea as to the importance of training and experience. Most people would not go to a department store for the head of the greatest police force in this country. Most people would consider some special knowledge of the problems to be dealt with desirable, if not necessary. There have been exceptional cases to be sure, but as a general proposition, more dr less special Knowledge is regarded as esential for a special job. At all events, that is the theory on which our educational system rests. Still, and once more referirng to those exceptional cases, Mr. Whalen may be the right man. His ability as an organizer is generally conceded, and some say that he is a ruthless disciplinarian, with the fact that he once fired seven stenographers to prove it. Others profess to see politics in the background, recalling that Mr. Whalen was once an enthusiastic supporter of former Mayor John F. Hylan, who was defeated by Mayor Walker in 192? and that his appointment as police commisisoner at this time would have the effect of weakening Hylan as a mayoralty candidate next year. Making allowance for all that Mr Whalen deserves a fair chance if he becomes police commisisoner of New York, not only as a matter of justice but because that is the only way the people of New York can hope to get better results. tt tt tt Big Job for Any Man No man is big enough, brainyenough, or experienced enough to do a good job as the head of the New York police department, without a reasonable degree of cooperation. He faces one of the most difficult tasks in the country In the first place, he must organize, co-ordinate and maneuvre a force of 15,000 men. In the second place, must protect the lives, limbs and property of 6,000,000 people. In the third place, he must deal with the most highly developed crime brotherhood in the world. Opposed to him are such an ag gregation of crooks, with such a net work of political and financial alliances as could not be assembled anywhere else, not to mention the public indiffrence which prevails throughout America and the element of partisanship which is onlv too glad to capitalize failure on the part of any public official. tt tt a 'Don’t Care’ Public’ In New York, as well as in other large cities, crime has benefited by nothing more distinctly than the way the morale of police departments has been broken down by public apathy and partisan politics. We have plenty of policemen in this country to handle our criminals, and they would do it if they felt that the public were behind them and that politicians were not constantly undermining their work. o tt a Where Fault Lies The crime wave, as we call it, owes much of its strength to the citizen who dees not care and to the ward heeler who is interested in protecting crooked henchmen. There is hardly a political machine in this country but has enrolled within its ranks an element of law violators which is safeguarded for the votes it can deliver and which is the curse of law enforcement because of the influence it can bring to bear. What has been exposed in Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City and L-s Angeles is more than enough to prove the point. Decent people, rather than the crooks, are to blame. They have failed to do their duty, have not taken the interest in civic affairs that they should, have excused themselves on the ground that they were too busy with other things, or that the political game was too dirty. Politics has taken workers where it could find them, just as you and I would, has pursued the path of least resistance and adopted those methods that experience has proved to be most effective. it a tt Up to the People When politics has called for canvasses and watchers, have the so-called respectable people responded? They have not. No, indeed, but the bootlegger, the rum runner, the dive keeper, the gambler, the fence and all their kind have come out in force. Protection has been their reward of merit, with the result that an administration of justice is balked in a thousand different ways. Every one admits the system is wrong, but wants it corrected without going to the root of the trouble. Your average good citizen is disgusted with “rotten politics,” as he describes it, but he is not willing to go out and play the game as he should, unless driven to it, by some intolerable condition. When he is driven to it, he finds little difficulty in obtaining the right kind of co-operation. The average cop is not a bad man Neither is the average judge or jury/nan. About all they ask, and about all they need, is the right kind of leadership at the top and the right kind of backing from the public. What will be the title of the next picture in which John Barrymore will star? “The Tavern Knight.” an adaptation of “King of the Mountains.”
is located is 6,000 feet high, The building of the observatory necessitated the making of a road up the mountain side. Hundreds of tons of material had to be taken up the mountain side to erect the observatory domes and buildings. But the tons of brick and steel and concrete are
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BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia, the Health Magazine. SINCE it has been shown that the human being when he moved indoors lost a great deal of the value of sunlight for proper nutrition and growth, various means have been suggested for providing him with the sun’s rays artificially. Thus cod liver oil, which contains vitamin D, has been characterized as “bottled sunshine.” Vitamin D is developed in the body through irradiation. It has also been shown that highly concentrated preparations of vitamin D may be obtained by submitting a substance known as er-"'"terol to the action of the sun’s rays. Experimental investigations have revealed the fact that it is possible to store up sunlight in foods of various kinds through submitting these substances under properly
According to the university of Chicago, the old-fashioned kitchen is going out and the community kitchen is coming up the road, which is not a bad thing, for while cooking is an art, dish-wash-ing is utterly destitute of appeal to the esthetic nature. ■ We believe that nine women out of ten who shoot .their Romeos do so in response to a murderous impulse induced by washing dishes and in all such cases the jury shou 1 i consider such fact in mitigation of punishment. tt tt tt This age can spare the kitchen but the rest of the house is going with it, the dining room, the sitting room, the library—every iocm but the bedroom and the garage. Men and women are going out to work; the fireside is becoming a memory and the motto, God Bless Our Home, a doormat; children are not being born; the race is passing and in a little while we will turn the world over to the beatles, which in some respects will be a great im provement on the existing order. , tt tt tt This gentleman down east who proposed to his lady after a courtship of forty-eight years ret-'.rde.l his spark more than any other matrimonial chauffeur of our time. tt it a The scalding of these students by their mates at the University of Michigan calls attention to the surprisingly large number of boys in all states who are sent to universities when they should be sent to feeble-minded homes. tt a a Those five SIOO bills sent to the conscience fund of the treasury department were probably from some newly appointed prohibition enforcement officer, not yet thoroughly broken in. a tt a Congressman Bankhead’s daughter, Tallulah, has succeeded on the stage and now former Senator Gore's daughter makes her bow to the footlights. The children of politicians should make good in the theater, for politicians are great actors. tt a There has been a great deal of palaver about the death of James A. Patten, who cornered the foodstuffs of the American people and if that gives one a career, then Jesse James is entitled to park among America’s benefactors in the hall of fame. tt tt tt It’s just 100 years since Noah Webster published his dictionary and still a great-many people are of the opinion that it was the greatest thing Daniel Webster ever did.
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.—Ezekiel 33:19. 000 IT is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.—Balzac.
And Now Comes the Critical Part of the Act
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controlled conditions to the action of sunlight. Already attempts are being made to sell to the public generally prep arations of various cereals, ice cream, yeast and similar products which have been submitted to the action of sunlight or of artificial sunlight, and which probably can provide the body with adequate amounts of vitamin D. Unfortunately progress has taken place so rapidly that nobody knows exactly how much vitamin D is necessary for the human body. Experiments on -mimals have in dicated that tremendously exces sive doses of this substance throw a vast amount of calcium into the blood stream and cause the calcium deposits or stones in the kidney anj in some of the blood vessels. This dosage is, of course, thousands of times beyond the average dose of cod liver oil.
3y Frederick LANDIS
TP Hoover wants to see the dry law given a fair chance he will transfer its enforcement from the treasury department to the departof justice and then put a dry man at the head of the department of justice.
BY FABYAN MATHEY There are no trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win two of the five tricks, against a perfect defense.
S—3 32 H—Non* D—J-10 C—None NORTH s—Q*B S-x-J-7-4 H—None p> H— None o—7-5-2 i 2 D —A-0 C—None O—Non* SOUTH S—K-10-9 H—None D—B-6 C—Non*
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 two tricks. The solution is printed herewith on this page.
The Solution
SOUTH’S object here is to cut off the re-entry in the West hand before the diamonds are led. To do so, he must of course lead a spade, but his choice of the card in that suit must be made with some care. One of the two lower spades is
This Date in U. S. History
December 15 1778—Virginia ratified the articles of confederation. 1791—First ten amendments to Con stitution went into force 1836—Patent office and postoffice W Washington burned. 1857—House of representatives occupied new chambers for first time.
Other investigators have shown that irradicatior for many months of the skin of the rat will cause changes to take place in the skin of the nature of new growths. It is an old aphorism in medicine that any medicine that is potent for good may also be potent for harm. If people begin to take doses of irradiation in practically everything they eat or drink, in addition to the irradiation received from the sunlight, it is possible that even the maximum safe dose may be exceeded. A still greater danger lies in the fact that people may sometimes rely on small doses of such irradiation taken in certain food substances without realizing that an adequate dose is many times the amount received in this way.
GOOD-BYE XI T CII E N 0 0 0 RETARDED lIIS SPARK • 0 0 THERE’S REAL DRAMA
THERE was drama in it when that live convict from Brooklyn warned the youth who haa committed his first offense, to go straight. The most effective campaign which could be waged would be to have life prisoners appear, handcuffed and in prison rarb, and lecture to budding bandits on the disadvantages of going crooked. 000 There’s something about the spectacle of the shooting of clay pigeons by Mr. Coolidge, the commander in chief of the army and navy, that does not exactly measure up to one’s lust for realism.
led. West wins with the queen. If West now returns a diamond, East at the next to ( last trick must lead from his jack-seven of spades to South’s king-ten or king-nine. If a spade is returned by West at the second trick, the same situation occurs, only at an earlier point in the play. If East wins the first trick, the quen must fall when South plays the king on the second round "f spades. But if South opens with the king of spades or a diamond, East and West are at once assured of four tricks.
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THE FRONT PAGE” amused me a litle because the newspapermen of the play met with such exceeding harshness the plight of a girl who was over her ears in love.
I doubt very much whether it is true that all the world loves a lover. People under a fierce emotion may easily bore us. Nevertheless, I think we owe them patience. Accordingly, I am frightened by the way in which the public and all the newspapers have yelped
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around the heels of the organist in West Sayville, who took a second wife before he was quit of the first. There is no denying the fact that his conduct was reckless and silly. Even so, I cannot see why the community should fly into a rage against him and all concerned. n tt tt Humorists’ Gauntlet To be sure, most of the anger at him has been expressed in the form of humorous paragraphs. Herbert Leigh-Manuell has filled the toe of every columnist’s stocking with i lleable material. And In these jokes I seem to find a certain savagery. If I have no wisecracks about “The Sayville Sultan,” it may be simply because I have no great knack at being funny. However, I choose to maintain that I feel sorry for him and both his wives. This column is not intended as a defense of bigamy. The social structure probably requires that some penalty shall be exacted against those who marry too well. And yet I think that no blanket possibly can cover every case. Each one must be judged upon its merits. The bigamist may have sinned mightly or not so much. In the light of the rather insufficient amount of data supplied by the newspapers 1 should say that the organist of West Sayville found himself in a tough spot. His situation was such that almost anything he did was wrong, because he seems a rather meager man and astigmatic. But behind thick lenses ardent hearts can and do beat. There is something ridiculous about unattractive people being wildly in love and yet I cannot think of it as altogether funny. After all, pelicans propagate.
Love and Choir Left Anyhow, the weedy organist who had a wife and three children fell in love with the young choir singer. When a man with three children and a wife falls in love with somebody else, you have a problem. It is easy to say that no organist in that situation should permit himself to fall in love. But it is silly to say anything of the sort. Very few people, in church or out, are able to say to themselves, “now I will fall in love and now I won’t.” Nevertheless, I am willing to admit that the little organist and the young choir singer could have said to each other, “although we are in love, nothing can be done about it.” That has been done. Lovers who function in this way may be people of great courage and character and again they may not. This columnist does not pretend to the great wisdom of knowing whether it is nobler to hold everything or to let go. It is easy to be sensible and calm from a seat in the grandstand and no trouble at all to fiddle if nothing more than Rome is burning. ss a it Wheels for Butterflies The community would have been surprised and even shocked perhaps if Herbert Leigh-Manuell had obtained an orthodox divorce from his wife and then married the young and pretty choir singer. But West Sayville would not have been outraged and there would be no call for a prison sentence. Just at this point, Mrs. LeighManuell comes into the picture as a person who has outraged the sensibilities of Sayville because she didn't fly into a passion when her husband fell in love with another woman. Seemingly she continued to like her husband even though he had fallen in love with the choir singer. It was her intention to help him when she aided and abeted the pair in a bigamous marriage. Os course, the wife and man and girl combined to mess up the whole business, but the great state of New York, which is supposed to be calm and shrewd and above petty passions, had its share in the muddle. The practical fact is that when people want to be divorced, it is up to the state to make that privilege easy, expditious and simple. “I only know I want it. I don’t know why,” would be a very reasonable explanation upon the part of many who go before a judge to ask for dissolution of a union. It is not merely frivolous and fractious to desire something without being entirely sure where the roots of longing be. Some of the deepest needs of every human being are equally mysterious. And so when the rest join in to laugh and point at the hazy-headed folk of Sayville, I think I will take the opportunity to sit one out. People who live in a column shouldn’t throw paragraphs. (Copyright. 1928, by The Times) What is the meaning of the name Alesia? It is or of the many forms of Alice, a name meaning "noble cheer.” 'i , .