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A Fine Record Retiring from public office alter five years o 1 service as attorney general, Arthur L. Gllliom will carry with him the esteem of lawyers and the thanks of laymen for setting anew standard in that office. It is something in these days to administer a public office In be*alf of the people, without regard to politics and >-ulitical considerations. It is something more to show a fine courage and a deep consideration for the fundamental principles of government. , The period n. which he served brought events from which a timid man. a truckler, a politician might easily have shrunk. No one would believe that Gilliom acted from any hope of political reward when he challenged the • uperpower of the Anti-Saloon League, which he charged was threatening the integrity of courts. The practical politician knew that such a challenge could have only a disastrous political effect in the immediate future. It required courage, too, a year ago when he saw the absurd fanaticism of the Wright law which maci* him a violator of the law in order to save the lives of his sons and to call to the. attention of the public the fact that not only his own sons, but the wife of the governor of the state had been saved by use of whisky as a medicine, administered under advice of physicians. For his own political benefit Gilliom might well have kept quiet, hidden his surreptitious use of this medicine and been acclaimed by the drys es an exponent of their doctrines. His own sons were safe. The lives of other men’s sons might need at some time the same sort of treatment as that which shaved his own—and he acted. His effort to drive the Klan from this state caused the politicians of his own party to shudder. They stijl feared the hooded order. Gilliom went into the courts to drive it from its legal security and legal standing. While these have been outstanding public causes, there have been others of less notoriety, but of equal uDDortance.. His decisions have been those of a close student of the law. He has not swerved from duty as he saw it and read it from the law. At a time when courts and the law are growing in disrepute and disrespect, Gilliom sounded a most iF-fded note. S'-'&jHte has been an office remote from politics. His v tons have not been dictated by political bosses. |*ihas been first and always a lawyer and a lawyer igflthe people, his client. _ Another Year "oday starts anew year. The past is history, its rcph and its defeat, its happiness and its sorrow, jH effort and its indolence a part of time. jS|! t is trite to say that this is no different from 3* r days and that each day starts anew life for W Y human being. It is, of course, true that we swßPohly in the moment. (But custom has made it the milestone at which men may and communities may pause for a moment on the way and ’ooking back over the path, take new resolution and new courage. Men may make new resolutions. They may know fthat even as they make them, they will break them. JBut it is better to set a higher goal and fail than •not to try. Communities may make new pledges. They may iake new hope. They may find new courage. Jt The pledges of communities can only come from citizens. No citizen is too obscure or too humble to Contribute to that general thought. What would you do for Indianapolis during the . aiming year if you had the power to dictate Its ppurse? What would you give to it in the way of materia! things that would bring more of happiness, less of poverty, more of content? What would you give it in spiritual outlook that would make it a better place this year than it was in 1928? You do not necessarily have to be a dictator. For community effort comes only from suggestion. And only upon suggestion can our citizens act together. Perhaps the best resolution as a citizen that any one can make Is that each will think of Indianapolis, its interests, its welfare and its outlook seriously and do what every opportunity offers to make its own dream for its progress become reality. There Ought to Bea Law tr :ntie boys take their sleds and start sliding on their little tummies straight to destruction beneath the traffic at the foot of the hill, we don’t arrest them for conspiracy to violate a law against the sale of sleds. We arrest them for sliding where our city ordinance says sleds shan’t be slid. We don’t arrest the sled salesman at all. We are hot so logical—about little boys and their sleds. But, about prohibition, now, it’s another matter. Consider the new federal court decision, uttered by a Philadelphia judge, that has all the wets and drys talking as this battered old year draws to a close. The court has found guilty and fined a New Yorker who bought liquor from a Philadelphian and had the latter deliver it to him in New York. Charge: , “Conspiracy to commit offense against the United ( States.” The offense was not the drinking or buying of liquor, there being no law against drinking or buying, but the sale of liquor. The New Yorker, said the learned Judge, conspired with the bootlegger in the sale of liquor. Now listen for legalistic wrangling over that decision. There will be plenty of it from this time on. Eventually the United States supreme court will give the matter a few years’ cogitation and, perhaps, dispose of it. In our opinion that Philadelphia judge did a bad job. He stretched the federal conspiracy statute out of ail semblance of any proper meaning it can have. He wrote into the word "selling” the same meaning os the wont “buying,” whereas, it is hard to think of any two Words more opposite in meaning. We don’t believe in laws made by judges; judges ■should confine themselves to honest interpretation of laws made by our legislative bodies. H Os course, the judge was as honest in his thinking Hi the congress that wrote tire prohibition law. Prob|ay he was more honest in one way. He was just mis-.-."■tUn As to his function. He seems to have thought it

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his duty to enforce prohibition, whereas his duty is only to enforce the prohibition law. Prohibition and the prohibition law are not the same thing. Suppose we get down to fundamentals. The prohibition law in America results from the burning conviction of part of the populace that drinking is an evil and that it should be made a crime or misdemeanor. These people do not consider selling, per se, an evil. They wouldn’t make selling, a crime or misdemeanor. Selling, why that’s business; that’s all there is to business. And as a nation we certainly have nothing but respect for business. Selling things for a profit, whether sleds to little boys or whatnot, is the basis of our whole economic structure. Yet our congress, pushed by those who believe rum is a demon, goes md passes a law against selling. Not against drinking or buying f a drink, which really is the evil if there is an evil, but against selling a drink. What could be more absurd? We want to punish the drinker so he won’t drtnk any more. We want to correct him for his own good, but we don’t do it, we punish the seller. We don’t do that for the seller’s own good. Selling isn’t bad for him. It helps him to have an automobile, his wife to have nice clothes, his children to have college educations. It helps him to meet our best people. Os course, we may harm him through providing too nuch prosperity, but that is a contingency the law :annot undertake to handle. Logical? Hardly. What should we do then? Simple enough. Pass a law against drinking liquor. Pass a law aimed at the real offense. Make us stop using the stuff, whether we buy it or manufacture it in our own kitchens. Go right to the heart of the matter and quit running in rings around it. Do that and the courts won’t have to stretch other criminal statutes out of shape to cover the holes left intentionally in the prohibition law. The War on Crime The active and vigorous campaign against crime and criminals now on in New York City means that some of the criminal element will migrate to other cities, where the citizens are not aroused and police departments’’are going along as usual and making no determined campaign. So what is New York’s gain is compensated in the general field of crime by losses in other communities. That means that the war on organized crime must be national in scope, with no sanctuary elsewhere for crooks who are flying from the wrath of one city. The underworld expects periodical outbreaks of official wrath with vigorous drives by the police, tut every such drive is regarded as temporary, something which will blow over in time. And even though a spasm of official virtue may decrease crime temporarily in one community, there probably is no material decrease in the sum total of crime throughout the country as a whole. Such a situation in the everlasting war between crime and law and can be met and overcome only by concerted and continued effort in all cities all the time. When professional criminals are driven from New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, or any other city, there must be no place for them to go where they will feel safe from the law. If we judge the future by the past, there is no reason to expect any such concert of political action, for political government is inclined to take things easy and to be too tolerant of the underworld unless driven to action by a powerful and insistent public opinion. Public opinion will be powerful and insistent only when organized. So it may become necessary for a nonpartisan business anc’. professional organization in each community to make the drive permanent; and then co-operative action in a national war on crime by these various organizations. In short, there must be continuous pressure on organized politics by organized business if the war on organized crime is to be successful.

David Dietz on Science

Human Frame

No. 248 THE human body is built on a framework of bones known as the skeleton. Bones are classified by the physiologist as a form of connective tissue. It will be remembered that the physiologist classifies the various masses making up the parts of the bodv as tissues. A tissue is a mass composed of similar cells. Cells are

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amount of mineral matter. Two-thirds of the weight of some bones are composed of a mineral salt calcium phosphate. But if a bone is treated with acid, the mineral matter can be dissolved out, leaving the bone in its original shape. This proves that the bone is an organic structure through which the mineral matter is distributed. There are two types of bone, known as compact and cancellated. The outer surfaces of all bones are made of the compact type. This presents a smooth, hard surface like ivory. The whole of the shaft of the long Dones is formed of compact bone. The interior of most bones is formed of the cancellated type, particularly the heads of the long Dones and the interior of the ribs. The cancellated type has a spongy structure which is filled with fatty tissue. This fatty tissue is rich in blood vessels. The cavity of the shaft of a long bone is filled with a fatty tissue known as the bone marrow. Under the microscope, it can be seen that bone is made up of little circular structures ot units. Each structure is known as a Haversian system. Each structure consists of a number of concentric rings. Scattered among these rings are a number of small open spaces or cavities. In each of these small spaces is a cell, known as the bone corpuscle. An intricate system of openings connect up the various cells and in turn the Haversian systems. Two kinds of bone marrow are found in the bones. They are known as red marrow and yellow marrow. The formation and structure of bones form one of the most interesting chapters in physiology.

M. E . TRACY SAYS: “We Have Come to Look on Change and Innovation as Human Destiny."

THIS is an obliterating age. Its chief claim to distinction is the ruthless manner in which it sweeps aside ancient landmarks, customs and theories. They need not be so ancient, either. The works and ways of last year, or even yesterday, are likely to be swept aside if they block the path. Nothing interests us so much as the possibility of change and improvement, Few people realize how revolutionary such an attitude is, how completely it has altered the human outlook, how differently men have come to view life than they did only three or four generations back. For thousands of years the predominant human motive was abiding faith in existing customs and beliefs. Men hoped for little except to perfect what had come down to them from their fathers. The carpenter had no aspriation except to be a better carpenter; the lawyer had no object except to make a nicer interpretation of precedents; the preacher had no conception of his duty except to keep hammering on time-honored dogma. If change occurred, it was by accident or unconsciously. Men not only refused to seek it, but actually had a horror of it. a a a Change Is Human Destiny THE viewpoint of this generation is diametrically opposed to that net only of ancient times, but to that of fairly recent times. We have come to look upon change, innovation and improvement as human destiny. That, more than anything else, explains the rapid progress we are making and the revolutionary ideas we are entertaining toward systems, conventions, and institutions that even our great-grandfathers regarded as irrevocably established. Men have come to the conclusion that little is impossible if they think, that most obstacles can be overcome, most problems solved and most mysteries explained if they but put their minds to it. The time-honored notion that fate has surrounded them with insurmountable barriers is practically dead. a a a Yell for Innovation THE resulting frame of mind its risks. The hope that we' can accomplish certain things often grows into a conviction that they always have been accomplished. The knowledge that we have realized so many dreams frequently leads to the notion that dreaming does the trick. Out of it all there develops a disposition to underestimate the difficulties of a given situation, to accept a task as completed when it is barely begun, to minimize the time and education required for great undertakings. The conservative rd radical have changed places. The multitude yells for innovation, where it once yelled to stand still. The exceptional leader today is the one who advises to “look before you leap.” Formerly, the serious side of life centered in efforts to preserve the past, whether from a physical, intellectual or spiritual standpoint, and men tolerated novelties, inventions and discoveries chiefly as a matter of recreation. Today the serious side o f life centers in efforts to do some ng new, something different, something startling while old works, old ways, old theories and old practices are exhibited to entertain the curious. a a a Growing Too Conceited IF our forefathers had a disposition to exaggerate the wisdom of their ancestors, we have a disposition to belittle it. If they were too humble for their own good, we may be growing too conceited. There is a definite relationship between the past and the future. While each generation can add some thing by speculating, experimenting and thinking, it cannot add very much. Slow as the old boys were, and scared to go ahead, they learned a lot as they went along. False as some of their notions and superstitions may have been, they were not wrong in all respects. What we know does not consist wholly, or even in large part, of destruction. The bulk of it is derived from what they knew. To a measurable extent, modern progress rests on the expansion of principles and ideals which are almost as old as human consciousness. Though democracy is supposed to be of recent origin, men dreafned of it two or three thousand years ago. a a a Trouble in Offing SUCH a background should warn us that the problem of international peace has not been solved s:mply because we have arrived at a point where we are willing to visualize it as possible. It should also warn us that the solution probably will involve disagrement and strife. While people may have become reconciled to the idea of change even on a grand scale, they still differ as to what form it should take and how it should be brought about. Originality is no guarantee of cooperation. In the end, international peace will have to be maintained by some kind of a system. The question of what kind is quite as important as the idea itself. That is where we shall encounter most of the trouble.

the little units or building blocks out of which the human body is built. There are a variety of connective tissues in the body. They include fatty tissue, fibrous and elastic tissues, cartilage and bone. Bone is defined as a form of connective tissue containing a large

Daily Thought

They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them-—I John 4:5. a a a THE only true method of actior in this world is to be in it but not of it.—Madame Swetchine

THE INDIA NAtOLI6 TIMES

This is the last of a series of three articles on the Physiology of Golf. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hveela, the Health Magazine. A COMPLETE survey of the physiologic effects of golf on the body made by Dr. Peter V. Karpovich under a grant by the Burke relief foundation determined certain definite facts relative to the effects of the game both on healthful persons and on invalids convalescing from disease. It was ascertained, of example, that some persons suffer with sleeplessness and restlessness after their exercise, that they are fatigued on the next morning and that their appetite is less rather than greater after playing.

SINCE the United States senate repudiated Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations program and since it now considers amending Secretary Kellogg’s treaty, outlawing war, future bearers of international olive branches should be impressed with the wisdom of being assured of senatorial indorsement before they depart for foreign shores. a a a We do not believe Jackson will pardon Stephenson, affectionate as they once were, unless Steve should agree to take the lecture platform and take the hides off all those Indiana statesmen on whom he has the goods and who have done their best to put Jackson down and out—where he ought to be —and where all ought to be who helped Steve haul down the Stars and Stripes and run up the black flag of political piracy. If Steve gets out, there will be cold feet among the giants of Indiana politics. a a a This is the hunting season in England, the sons of King George hunting quail with the hounds and the poor hunting work with the wolf of want. a a a There seems to be some doubt about former Congressman Langley running for his old job at Washington. If the Tenth Kentucky district must be represented in the national house of representatives by a former prisoner, it should pass the honor around, giving one term to each exconvict in the district. a a a After fighting real perils in the League of Nations covenant, it must tire Senator Reed’s imagination to conjure up all these dangers in the Kellogg treaty. If that treaty is a menace, then a New Year’s greeting is a death threat from the Mafia. a a a The older you get to be. the less you relish the idea of anybody’s killing anything “for fun,” and so we are not “het up" with glee over the reports of President Coolidge’s shooting quail down on Sapelo island. We don’t believe he likes it, either; we think it’s an effort to impress the country with the idea that he is carnivorous, when in fact he is exceedingly vegetarian. a a a France's prompt expulsion of these four American card sharks who fleeced their fellow Americans on the boat going to Europe was doubtless due to economic deduction, not moral indignation. France figured that if they had not been robbed on the boat, they could have been plucked in Paris. Who was the father of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks? Joseph Hahks. How many deaths a minute are there in the world and in the United States? There is no estimate of the deaths a minute in the world but for the United States the estimate is 2-

‘Oh-There’s a Rainbow ’Round My Shoulders’

Golf Harmful If Condition Is Bad

Reason

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF GOLF—NO. 3

Such persons are not in sufficiently good physical condition to warrant their playing golf or any other game. A too great loss of weight following exercise with a slow return of weight to the normal or average weight is bad. People with heart disease or with disturbances of the kidneys must undertake every kid of exercise carefully. Moderate exercise cautiously taken is of advantage, whereas sevpre exercise may mean less of life. Every one ought to be cautious about eating soon after exercise, and persons out of good general condition must be particularly careful to rest before eating. Those who are recovering after

By Frederick LANDIS

MOTOR kings tell us the automobile industry is far from the saturation point, but a great many automobile drivers have reached it, and all of them should be put where the dogs can’t bite them.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM BY W. W. WENTWORTH

5: IGNORING CHANCE FOR DOUBLE FINESSE North (Dummy)— 4 K 4 (?AS4S 098 6 4 * A Q 10 West— ■Rlunf— Loads V K Couth (Declarer)—* 4AQ 9 5 2 V 10 8 Oas 3 S 4 8 6

The Bidding—South obtains the contract for one spade. Deciding the Play—West leads King of hearts. Declarer takes it with ace of hearts. How should Declarer play to make game? The Error—After drawing trumps

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All fetters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this service. From what book is the movie, "The Volga Boatman,” taken? It was an original scenario written by Konrad Bercovici lor the screen and adapted by Leonore J. Coffee. What states in the United States lead in the number of divorces? Statistics for 1924 give Nevada Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, anti California in the order given. Nevada has 13.40 a thousand population. How did the former imperial house of Austria-Hungary get the name Hapsburg? The supposition is that the name was derived from the castle of Hapsburg, or Habichtsburg (.Hawk's

some sickness naturally have lower endurance and may collapse after playing even a few holes of golf. The authorities reedmmend that they walk and play slowly and that they do not play more than thirty minutes on a flat, even course until they have convalesced sufficiently to give them strength and endurance. If the pulse rate becomes too rapid following, brief exercise, the number of holes should be still further reduced. People wjth heart disease who have recovered and whose hearts react to exercise in the same way that a normal person reacts, may play eighteen holes of golf apparently with a reasonable amount of safety.

THE OLIVE BRANCHS IF STEVE GETS OUT ELECTING CONVICTS

THE Indiana supreme court’s decision that the governor cap not pardon the Rev. Mr. Shumaker, given a sixty-day sentence for contempt of court, reminds us of the fact that several years ago President Coolidge did pardon Comptroller Craig of New York City, ordered imprisoned by a federal judge for the same offense.

ff # ft This passing of the loving cup in Paris by these French and German aces who tried to kill each other during the World war and would do it again tomorrow, is abhorrent; this mixing of blood and honey makes one sick, likewise tired.

Declarer leads a small club and finesses queen of clubs. The Correct Method—After taking the first trick with the ace of hearts, Declarer draws trumps. Then the 6 of clubs is led and 10 of clubs is finessed. Declarer now returns to closed hand by leading to Ace of diamonds end then plays 8 of clubs, finessing the queen of clubs. On the next round ace of clubs ‘s played and 10 of hearts is sluffed. Game is made as a result. Os course one of the finesses might fall but this is the only way to make game against a perfect defense. When the quee not clubs is finessed on the first round, the ace will be forced by opponents on the second round with the result that the sluff cannot be made. The Principle—Take the double finesse when you hold Ace-Queen--10 if you must sluff a loser. 'Copyright. 1928, Ready Reference Publishing Company)

Castle), ori the bank of the Aar, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, said to have been built about. A. D. 1027 by Werner, bishop of Strassburg. His nephew, Werner I, was the first count of Hapsburg, but the real founder of the house was Albrecht (or Albert) 111 (about 1172), son of Werner 11.

This Date in U. S. History

Jan. 1 1073—First mail delivery left New York for Boston. 1735—Birthday of Paul Revere. 1772—Thomas Jeffer&on married Martha Skelton. 1801— Importation of slaves into thj United States was forbidden. 1849 —Continuous railroad between New York and Boston started 1863—Lincoln issued emancipation proclamation. 1899—Spain ceded Cuba to the United States.

_JAN. 1, 192f:

Times Readers Voice Views

Tbs ntmt and address ot the author / must accompany every contribution but! on reauest w!li not be published Let- ' ten not exceeding 300 words wtU receive; preference - Editor Times—Just giving eight laws of health: Sleep right, eat right, think right, breathe right, drink right, exercise right, internal and external baths. We grow old when we begin to slow down. We should keep our minds and bodies in condition to be on deck 365 days in the year, as mind reigns supreme. Multitudes who find health slipping overeat and use the wrong : combinations of foods for the right elimination. Where there is perfect drainage there Is no illness and no disease can exist in a chemicalized blood stream. Internal batha will help nature by washing away the poison from the filthy sewer that has been clogged. Acidosis and toxicocis are the basis causes for all diseases. To have a clean, strong mind, you must have a clean, strong body. Baths should be taken daily, as a clean system is a healthy one. Calcium and iron are the two most vital health-build-ing elements in the human body. You can eat all good foods in harmonious combinations and build a strong body'. Eat red salmon for iodine, plenty of raisins for iron, and all the raw foods in season, fruit for the organic system. Do women choose weak, dull men for mates? Never. Healthy women and men thrill and stir the blood. That is why we want to remain young, with healthy, clean bodies. With the filth go the germs, or else sickness, old age, and death long before your time. MRS. M. G. SCOTT. Editor Times—As a strong advocate of municipal ownership of water and gas utilities, I have read with pleasure and Interest your remarks and information published regarding the Citizens Gas Company. However, your editorial entitled “Good Faith” in Friday’s issue is, I believe, unjust to many of the certificate (stock) holders. You state therein: “The men who invested their money in the certificates have received their interest at a high rate.” Asa matter of fact, about ten years ago the Citizens Gas Company issued one million dollars’ worth of certificates. Under the franchise terms, this issue was sold by auction, some banks taking the entire allotment at a little less than S4O a share and reselling it to small investors at a slight advance., ■The premium on the stock, every cent of it, went into the gas company coffers. Thus the truth is that certificate holders (at least half of them) have received 6 per cent (not 10) upon their investment, and if, as you suggest, the city takes over the works, and redeems the cerificates at $25 e&ch, the investors 1 will lose-$l 5 a share, which will/ mean that they will have received/ less than 2 per cent upon their# original outlay. |S It may be urged that they knevj. the risks they took when makinl the purchase, but few of them, | venture to say, gave even a thougti to the fact that the city might ini sist upon “its pound of flesh,” with! in such a short period of time! Mg Indeed, in such case, you hard*-, could blame the stockholders for insisting, on their part, that the surrender of their franchise nullified the agreement with the city. ARTHUR W. SMITH, 3946 Park avenue. Editor Times—A few days ago the Lafayette Journal and Courier regaled its readers with a rare bit of “bologna” to the effect that President Coolidge’s unauthorized and privately conducted war in Nicaragua had turned out to be a whole flock of blessings in disguise for the poor, deluded citizens of the little Latin republic. In fact, it seems that, owing to the satisfactory outcome of the recent election in that country, so peacefully conducted under the Salutary auspices of the United States marines, that all those misguided natives —once so prone to scoff and murmur at the * administration’s purely altruistic policy of unsolicited intervenntion—are now tickled pink because righteousness has thus been thrust upon them. And to show their appreciation for all this disinterested philanthrophy, they are fairly falling over one another in their mad scramble to kiss the hand that spanked them. Surely their sense of humor must be deficient, or else they ar not familiar with our ageold aphorism—“charity should begin at home.” Besides “shooting down patriots,” observes the Lafayette editor, “the marines can rid a country or bandits, and establish justice, law and order.” Ye gods, if the President could only be induced to forego his native penchant for nursing nickels and send a few regiments to Indianapolis and Chicago, surely the trembling denizens of these benighted communities would gladly forgive him for not playing golf, and rise up to call him blessed. JOE SAUNDERS. 1022 North Alabama street. Editor Times: While I am a great lover of birds, I cannot agree with Miss Clara Reed of Nashville, Ind. I believe the woodpecker is the logical state bird so befitting our politicians. I heard a story recently. A man was driving through the country and saw some pigs running at the sound of a woodpecker. The man asked the farmer what the trouble was. The farmer replied: “This fall I took cold and could not speak above a whisper. To call the pigs I knocked on the fence with a vock. And every time a woodpecker knocks on wood, all the pigs run to get something to eat.” I suggest the cow bird for the state birl. It is a greater thief than the woodpecker. It is smaUek and of a tan gray color. They nejfip build nests, but use the newsJMlSj| by other birds. The other /, even hatch out the cow bir^-’; through a ruse employed bird. The other bird is iaflfiß2B|p§B|i bunch of thieves befiitting as long as the hands of unjaila£|p S| sag our working peo;%g one-fifth o 1 the f- - w. m 622 i£■£ m yj|p