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Bootleg Murders One of the dangers of the bootleg business is that of being killed by a rival. It might also be said that this is about the only danger involved in what is now a very prosperous and flourishing business. Last night one of these murders occurred on a road x'unning into Indianapolis. The partner of the victim brought the body to this city and notified the police of the occurrence. The explanation is that some rival, discouraging competition, shot through his automobile as he was driving from Chicago with a carload of liquor for this city. That method of enforcing law did not win the prize recently offered by a millionaire for the best method of enforcing law. It might have been considered. For it seems that about the only person who can really discover the bootlegger in his business is another bootlegger. Just why it happens that the rivals can always find the so-called rum-runners and officials never discover them is one of the modern mysteries. It may be taken as certain that this was not the first trip of the victim and his partner. It may also be set down as more certain that they axe not the only persons engaged in bringing alcohol and whisky from Chicago and other points of distribution. It is a matter of common knowledge that the supply is apparently plentiful. Why does it happen that the hijacker is the only one to know? What is happening to the staff of prohibition agents, the state police, the officers in every city the sheriffs along the way? Bootleg murders leave much to be explained, besides the identity of the particular hijacker who suppressed competition. Waiting for Hoover Hoover is heading back into the Washington political storm. Congress is in a legislative jam, and politicians are warring over patronage. This is not unusual. Legislative jams are customary in short sessions, and patronage nerves alw; - s are on edge before anew administration. By a change of plans, which will bring him to Washington for a fortnight before completing his Caribbean tour and resting in Florida, Hoover shows his courage in facing the situation. He is ready to begin making decisions, which means making political enemies as well as friends. Inspired stories from the Hoover ship that the President-elect while in Washington this time will limit himself to making reports to Coolidge on Latin America and to forming his own cabinet, carefully avoiding commitment on pending legislation, cannot be taken too seriously. There are three issues before congress, which involve the Hoover administration. Since the outgoing ind incoming administrations are of the same party, no mistaken idea of deference due Coolidge should prevent Hoover from making clear his position on pending legislation to senators and representatives seeking his views. The Kellogg anti-war treaty, the cruiser bill and farm relief legislation are the pending measures. Hoover already is publicly committed to prompt treaty ratification. No one has given any legitimate reason for delaying such ratification. But the cruiser hill and farm relief are in a different category. Unless there develops some new reason not now apparent, both of these measures should be left to the recently elected congress and the new President. This is particularly true of farm relief. In the campaign, Hoover promised to call a special session of congress to deal with this problem unless prior ‘action were taken. Neither the revised McNary bill nor any other pending measure incorporates all the Hoover campaign farm pledges. To attempt to push through one of the pending farm bills at the close of this crowded short session probably would result in more piecemeal and therefore futile legislation. Some politicians in Washington say Hoover favors farm legislation now, and that he is opposed to a special session soon after his inauguration. We doubt the accuracy of this, though certainly has a right to make such a judgment. The important thing, however, is that Hoover share the responsibility for any action taken now or later. The Republican party and Republican administrations have disappointed the farmers long enough. The campaign pledge must be kept. The time for tinkering is past. The country wants the promised Hoover solution of the farm problem. If Hoover is willing to accept responsibility for the piece-meal legislation proposed for this session, he should do so openly. If not, then that old problem must be set aside for two months longer until the new’ administration can come into power and produce something in the way of legislative relief for which Hoover will take responsibility. We believe with most farm organizations that there should be a special session of the new congress to devote its full time to’ this most complicated and serious problem. Saving the Babies The United States is continuing in the good work of cutting down its infant mortality rate, according to Miss Grace Abbott, chief or the children’s bureau of the United States department of labor. The rate last year—sixty-five deaths per thousand live births—was the lowest in the country’s history. Lest we relax our efforts, however, Miss Abbott points out that no state in the Union has yet succeeded in getting the rate as low as flew Zealand, where it is only thirty-nine per 1,000. The best record is held by Oregon, with a rate of forty-eight. Idaho and Washington are tied for second with fifty, and Nebraska, Minnesota, Utah, lowa. Kansas, New York, Wisconsin, Indiana and Connecticut follow in the order named. The lowering of the rate, Miss Abbott reports, is ‘unquestionably associated with the general improvement in public health, the establishment of child health conferences, the development of prenatal clinics, the distribution of literature and public education.”
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Maybe Youth’s Answer Is the Best The discussion that follows the Durant first prize award merely adds to the insolubility of the great prohibition enigma. Advertised for months as a forthcoming panacea with which all the ills of non-enforcement would be cured, the first prize contribution Immediately is pounced upon by those whose Job it is to enforce. The plan is called old stuff by James Doran, the nation’s chief prohibition officer, and by Major Campbell, successor to the author of the plan itself. It is pointed out that all the suggestions are already a part of “the routine practices of the dry unit.” So another hope goes glimmering. And in the meantime, Doran is on record as saying that his department is shy some $287,000,000 of the amount necessary yearly to do the enforcement job. In a little more than two months anew President will go into office. He has expressed the wish that prohibition may succeed. What will he bring to bear that the Durant prize offer failed to call forth? Does Hoover see the way out? Or does he merely wish? The answer to those two questions will provide one of the mast interesting chapters in American history. Perhaps the plan that won the school prize is better than that presented by the expert, Mr. Mills. At least it takes in more territory, and radiates the faith that always is such a charming characteristic of youth. Fifteen-year-old Malcolm Almack, described as always having lived in a dry community, and who therefore has undergone a minimum of disillusionment, incorporates three major elements into his proposition—better knowledge of the law, greater respect for the law, and better administration of the law. The climax of his prize-winning essay is phrased as follows: “Convince people that it is a good thing and persuade them to support it.” After all, that’s all there is to it. If that can be done, everything will be lovely. If it can’t, well, anyway, young Almack is SI,OOO to the good and Mr. Durant that much nearer to the poorhouse. Byrd Succeeds Again Our emissary in adventure, Commander Richard Byrd, gives us new cause for pride. He again is on his way to success in an undertaking not only adventurous but important. Answering the challenge of the unknown, he is doing what each of us wishes he might do. He has seized the last great opportunity this earth holds for exploration. We who remain prosaically at home yet are able to share his great experience and feel a lift of spirit In doing so. This is not the least important of the things the Byrd expedition will accomplish. The pride this nation can fed in a worthy son adding bravely to the sum of word knowledge is the sort of pride that is good for us. A Harvard professor has invented a machine that gives 600,000 pounds pressure to the square inch. Maybe .that could be used to make Johnny do his home work. Today’s most interesting item is the marriage of Halina Konopacka, Polish discus throwing champion, to M. Matucszewski, Polish diplomat. It is to be hoped M. Matucszewski knows his business. Prosperity for 1929 is practically assured. There are four months in the year which have five pay days each. The new cruisers asked of congress will aid peace, said speakers at a banquet in New York. They certainly will, if they’re effective enough. Every person past 30 has at least two novels In him. says a novelist. Lots of people prefer speaking theirs to writing them, however.
David Oletz on Science
Cells Are Life Units
THE human body, like every other living organism be it plant or animal—is built of microscopic units or building blocks technically as cells. The simplest organisms in existence are one-celled , plants or one-celled animals. The amoeba, discussed in this department yesterday, is a unicellular animal. Complex organisms of the plant and animal world are called multicellular because they are built up out of many cells. The human body is
central bodies NUCLEOLUS •*. ™L LEUS '.o\* • w cytoplasm J a .S’ * * ■O''S'*, vacuole MIMBRAMt ' TYPICAL CELL.
membrane in some cases to a very thick wall in others. The interior of the cell is filled with a jelly-like substance known as the cytoplasm. Within the cytoplasm is a darker spot which is called the nucleus. The nucleus, in its turn, has a darker spot within it which is known as the nucleolus. The nucleus also contains a sort of network of thread-like stuff known as the chromatin. Immediately above the nucleus are some structures known as the central bodies. The cytoplasm also shows a certain amount of detail. There are numerous thread-like or rod-like structures in it called the chondriosomes. In addition, there are a number of bubbles called vacuoles The discovery of the existence of the cell was one of the most momentous in the whole history of biology, In fact, modern biology and physiology would be utterly impossible. without knowledge of cell structure. Theodore Schwann, professor of physiology at the University of Louvain, was the discoverer of the existence of cells m animals. The existence of cells m plants was discovered independently by Matthias ochleiden. Schwann lived from 181 G to 1882, Sclileiden from 1804 to 1881. It is impossible to have an adequate knowledge of the functioning of the human body without an understanding of the various types of cells which compose it and the way in which these cells function.
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a multicellular structure. The accompanyin g' illustration shows a typical cell. It is not a picture of any actual cell, but merely a diagram showing the typical parts of any cell. The cell divides itself into three parts, First, there is the outer covering or wall. This ranges from a thin, almost invisible
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TRACY SAYS “If the Crowd Had Been in Control of Education During the Last 500 Years, People Would Not Have Been Taught a Lot of Things That They Were.”
■PRESIDENT-ELECT HOOVER cuts short his good will trip in order that he may hurry home and patch up rows in Washington. Just one more grim reminder of the size of the job he has undertaken, and of the similarity of human nature, regardless of time or place. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” says the Good Book, “for they shall inhert the earth.” They shall, indeed. There is no spot or place where their services can be dispensed with for any great length of time. Wherever you find three or more people dwelling together you can be sure that a peacemaker will be needed sooner or later. Our one hope consists in the possibility that the tribe may multiply until it represents a sufficient minority to take care of its inheritance. a m b Scramble for Loot THE Republican party is running true to form not only with respect to its own peculiar traditions, but with respect to those of all political parties. Victory soon sours in a scramble for the loot. Some want jobs, some want to boss the jobs and some would be content with the glory if they could only hog it all. The trouble is that, no matter what they want, or what they would be content with, it invariably turns out that too many want the same thing. It also turns out that if they can not quarrel over something sufficiently tangible to be possessed, or claimed, they will turn to promises, propositions, programs and theories as the basis of a scrap. In this particular case, the Republican brethren find it convenient to disagree not only over postofflees and cabinet jobs, but over what should be done with regard to that special session. a a Farm Relief PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has let it be known that he would like to have a farm relief measure passed at the regular session. Proponents of farm relief admit that this could be done, but suspect that President Coolidge would be unwilling to sign as liberal a measure as would Hoover. They would like to see the measure go over and a special session called as early as posisble after the fourth of March. Meanwhile, Hoover has promised to call a special session in the spring if farm relief failed at this session. Under the circumstances, it looks as though farm relief would be killed by its friends, if not its enemies for this session and that Hoover would be compelled to redeem his promise. bub Scientists Meet THE greatest aggregation of scientists ever assembled are now in New York. Officially, their meeting is known as the eightyfifth convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For convenience, the association has been divided into fifteen (lections, besides which no less than forty-five learned societies of national scope will convene, making as one headline writer described it, a sixty-ring show. Two thousand papers will be read, all the recent discoveries and speculations of consequence will be discussed and, as some expect, the stage will be set for a big drive agaipst those forces which have aligned themselves in opposition to certain aspects of scientific teaching for one reason or another. Anti-evolution laws undoubtedly will come in for a great deal of consideration. Scientists are really alarmed at the possibility they represent.’ There is more at stake in the idea of subjecting education to mob rule than there is in anything that has been done thus far. If states can be stampeded into passing anti-evolution laws, they might be stampeded into doing other things. BUM Acquiring Knowledge EDUCATION is the means by which we accumulate enough knowledge to go ahead.. Its chief object is to acquaint each generation with what has been done quickly enough to enable it to do a little more, for that very reason it must include the most recent discoveries inventions and theories, as well as the oldest. If education serves its purpose, it must interpret human progress not only from the standpoint of the beginning of tilings, but from that of the very latest achievement. When education is dominated by any force, attitude or prejudice, except a disposition to make the most of human experience, to acquaint people with what is known in order that more can be known, to stimulate originality and encourage independent thinking, it ceases to be education. BUB Great Strides THE great strides we have made during the past two centuries, and especially during the last century. can be credited to nothing so distinctly as unrestrained education Ever since modern colleges and universities were established, and more particularly since the public school came into existence, educators have been left comparatively free to work out the problem. The atmosphere of he American schoolroom, even more perhaps than the teaching in it. has given education a practical meaning in this country, has made it the basis of rapid progress and has inspired millions of boys and girls to do what they could to add to the sum total of human knowledge. P
We Hope You re ( 'Ambitious, Young Feller!
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Some Lies Held Natural and Necessary
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Aasociatlon and of Ilvxeia, the Health Magazine. AS pointed out by Ira S. Wile in a recent discussion of lying as a social pheonmenon the commandment not to lie appears in almost every formulated religious and ethical system. "There have been liars, however, since man began to record human activities. Liars vary in ability from Ananias, Cellini, and Baron Munchausen to those individuals who are so completely honest that every one knows they lie in the slightest venture into untruth. Among several savage tribes lying is condoned, and in some tribes and racial groups the children are taught to lie as a useful social accomplishment. Our own society sanctions a certain amount of lying or exaggeration, to use a more polite term, every one taking it for granted that certain advertising statements or claims relative to certain definite discount. Our social scheme demands a large amount of adaptation of the individual to the group and to the demands made upon him. In hu-
Reason
T HERE’S a suggestion of rivalry between Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover in the former’s suggestion that the farm relief bill be passed during the closing days of his administration. During a President’s first term he worries about his second term and during his second term he worries a 1 out “his place in history’.” B B B When the farmer thinks how long it has taken the government to give him relief, he should find comfort in the thought that it took the same government twenty-five years to give the Wright brothers the distinguished flying cross and only one of them lived to get It. b n b The former kaiser’s sister who married the Russian dancer says she’s not going to get a divorce, but may come over here and lecture. What she uogh tto do is to get the divorce and come over here and go into the movies. B B B Speaking of the kaiser, it’s said he resolved to let his whiskers grow until he was recalled to the throne, but he never can hope to overtake those American patriots who resolved in 1896 to let their whiskers grow until Bryan was elected President. b b a To those cynics who claim there is no sincere effort made to enforce the prohibition law we wish to say that a friend of ours was apprehended by a policeman the other day in northern Indiana when he stopped his Lizzie to take a teaspoonful of cough syrup. -b n n Three Russian dancers were denied admittance to the United States, but you have only to turn on the radio to be assured that we have all we peed. n a u This Omaha judge who pardoned forty-one bootleggers on Christmas should not have any trouble getting anything he wants the rest of his life. BUB It may be all right for our experts to attend this session of the international commission to fix the amount of Germany's reparations, but as France and England will be there, trying to get us to cancel their debts, the experts should listen hard, but say nothing, and if the yare just going to listen they mifirht as well stay home and pick it up on the head phones.
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
| man society a certain amount of friction is inevitable. Certain instincts in life are as fundamental as life itself. These include self-protection and the sat- | isfaction of hunger and biologic demands. Many people require constant stimulation to maintain their self-respect and to be satisfied with their position in life. Doctor Wile points out that nature herself I'es by providing aniI rr.als and plants with protective i coloration and employs all sorts of horrible forms to convey impres- ! sions of power, strength or poison- | ous character. Natural living always involves some degree of dissimulation and simulation. The psychoanalysts insist that lying is one of the defense mechanisms used by the individual to get himself out of difficulties, and that in that way it may be | helpful to protect against distinteI gration of the nervous system. There have been innumerable classifications of lies from that which provides new forms, beginning with the plain lie and passing ! to the profane one, to some c.'assi- | fientions Involving lies of vanity. | flattery, convenience, interest, fear.
By Frederick LANDIS
DOUBTLESS our survivors of the World War have been greatly impressed by the ghastliness ot this "battle between Bolivia and Paraguay, wherein three soldiers were killed and four wounded.
Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
BY \V. W. WENTWORT
2. FAILURE TO FORESEE BLOCKING North (Dummy)-—, 47 5 S 9 4 2 0 6 3 4KQ 7 4 3 West— _ . Leads 4 2 * LastSouth (Declarer)— 4A Q 6 VAKI OQ 5 3 4A9 8 5 The Bidding—South bids notrump and all pass. Deciding the Play —West leads 2 of spades and South takes with queen of spades. How should Declarer play the club suit? The Error—South plays ace of clubs and then plays 5 of clubs, taking with king of clubs. Then queen of clubs is played and the Declarer is blocked, making only four tricks in clubs. To insure
Daily Thought
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveih it.— Psalms 119:140. U tt B GOD be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. —J. G. Holland.
first-class malignity, second-class malignity, lies of real benevolence, false benevolence, wanton lies, and practical lies that are acted out. Dr. Wile feels that lying is not necessary for an isolated individual out of contact with other human beings, but that a certain amount of lying is absolutely necessary for social organization in these modern times. The truth is an ideal and a socially protective device. Experience indicates that there will always be a conflict between the absolute theory of life and the piactical attainment of ideals. Lying typifies a breach of social promise, and most individuals are satisfied with the statement that honesty is the best policy. Credulity encourages lies, and mankind has been credulous from the beginning of time. Since society recognizes the lie within limitations as a form of conduct which promotes the adaptation of man to his achievement, it must be recognized that society has not yet arrived at an ideal basis. The human being is not independent or fre? in any sense of the word, and at the time when truth prevails completely man will be completely free.
A LITTLE RIVALRY a a a WILHELM’S SISTER a a a HE’S A PESSIMIST
A PESSIMIST is one who thinks that Rio De Janeiro gave Hoover that wonderful reception in order to boost the Christmas sale of Brazilan nuts in the United States. n b b This complete roundup by Police Commissioner Whalen of all the orlminalas in New York City suggests how easy it would be for a gentleman by the name of Mussolini to handle the crime situation in the United States.
game, five tricks in clubs musftf be made. The Correct Method—Declarer should play 8 of clubs and overtake with queen of clubs. Thereafter 3 of clubs should be played from dummy and overtaken with ace of clubs, followed by 9 of clubs, which is overtaken by king of clubs. In this manner five club tricks are made and game s iassured. The Principle: Before playing the first card, determine whether it will result in blocking the suit. (Copyrißhl, 1928, Ready Reference Publishing Company)
This Date in U. S. History
Dec. 28 1832—John C. Calhoun resigned as Vice-President because of the President's nullification proclamation. 1846—Iowa admitted to the Union. 1856—Birthday of Woodrow Wilson. 1860—President Buchanan received envoys of South Carolina as private gentlemen, -ot as officials. How much has the United States spent on the hospitalization of World War Veterans? Approximately $300,000,000. Where is Dartmouth College? Hanover, N. H. Why is there no American diplomatic representative in Russia? Because the government of Russia is not recognized by the United States.
DEC. 28,1928
Ideas and oplntona expressed In this column are those of one of America’* most Interestlog writer* and are presented without regard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.
IT SEEMS TO ME B B By HEYWOOD BROUN
ONE of the characters In Aldous Huxley’s newest novels, “Point Counter Point,” is a painter much tormented by the fact that p friends tell him he is not the-' that he used to be. And tJI tures he has done live on tow*
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him. He himself Is filled with sadness as he regards his own early canvases which he can no longer equal or surpass. But Huxley's John Bidlake did not know the half of It. His estate was preferred by far to that of any mid-dle-aged columnist. Bidlake was at least in com-
netition with something tangible. He could view ready enough these products of his youth and vigor and make some estate as to the extent and his decline, if any. The veteran columnist, however, fights against a ghost known as the "Man Who Was.” Concerning even the most incompetent of us a legend arises at the end of every decade. It is held that even the individual who bored you so profoundly last Monday morning he 1 his year of grace. “You shouM have known him when,” they say. ■ u ■ Snows of Yesteryear AND what can the columnist do about this? Precisely nothing.. The people who assert that he has | fallen off lamentably from early promise have nothing specific in j mind. Ask them what the ptjor wretch ever did which seemed 'to them so glowing and they can not tell you. There is nothing so dead as a dead column. Even last month’s newspaper article lies buried deep and in eternal sleep. Possibly the theory of disintegration lies on the mere assumption that the fellow can not always have been as dull as he is now. This from experience I deny. All the columnists I know go on in pretty much the same way. The quality of staleness lies not in the writer but the reader. After a span of years I suspect that the public is rather more tired than the columnist. He elill cries “Fresh fried fish” as usual, but the subscribers don’t want any more fish. If this seems a reflection of a gloomy mood blame most of it on Aldous Huxley. This young Britisher | who writes like an inspired angel and digs at humanity like an active demond with a pitchfork is convinced that life is all futility. I like to read his novels even | though I resent him. After a long ! and faithful attendance upon the work of Huxley. I feel that he has j been too intent upon the black keys. I would deny to no writer the privilege of saying that everything is for the worst in a no account world. Maybe life is futile. How can I tell? I haven’t had it all as yet. Swift mixed no sweetness with his light and Shakespeare has his moments of black despair. The major prophets of the Old Testament were all men who squinted sourly at a world, illumined chiefly by the treat of an eternal bonfire. e a Be Brief STILL I do hold against the great and near-great among the ;^^ | simistic crew that it takes confoundedly long to spread ’’■ares before us. Surely intends to say that there , or that all Is vanity he ought ! able to record that belief in something less than two volumes. From what quarter do the celebrants of futility draw inspiration for their efforts? If life is all a sham and worthless, why bother to announce the fact in a novel of 400 pages? A man must live, but not beyond the point where he’s prepared to toss in a towel. In spite of surface indications to the contrary, I think that this century of ours will go down in subsequent history as an age in which defeatism began to dwindle. The era, I believe, will belong to Dr. Freud Very possibly the medical profesi sion eventually will decide that his I technique never was any good for j headaches or tor rickets. His losophy will endure long after al) rtV course to his treatments has beenl abolished. fl Much against his wishes, Freud 1 finally will become canonized and be I accepted as the prophet of anew | religion. It will, of course, be a variant of an old religion. j The time is already ripe to found a fellowship of Freudian Christians. But the world cannot afford tojjta much moved by his inhibitions. After all, he has never been psychoanalyzed. Certainly it has not been his supreme privilege to sit at ,the feet of Dr. Freud. 1 Even though he may deny it. the j little man has made a momentous I contribution to all of us who think I that something may be made of the I world and that It can in a some- I what literal \ ay be into the Kingdom of God. Thai| particular phrase I choose to use 1 as a precise synonym for the I Brotherhood of Man. J And every scheme of revolution ] to which I ever listened has de- fl pended upon a plan of elevaiimj some by digging cleats into necks of ot hers. HB| And that. <>t course, we muck!" :l cvei siting up with t tiff superior and interior races andEj&V" hereditary lines and bad onesfl men are not created tree and H*' if there is a distinct being born of respectable parents living somewhere withjKsf* confines of New England.