Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1929 — Page 4

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A Good Start While in theory, it makes little difference to the public as to what members of the house and senate obtain the honors, in practice it means much. The Speaker of the house is a very important man. He can do much, if he wishes, to either advance or impede the progress of legislation. He can, at times, put bills which the majority desire, in his pocket or he can write amendments into them after they have been voted. These things have happened. The legislature, which starts its career today, has apparently broken away from the old alignments in the Republican party and selected its leaders from ♦ hose who. in the past, have chafed and objected to omr of the things which made the last three sessions notable for their misdeeds, rather than their good ones. Perhaps one of the reasons leading up to this is in a changed attitude of the members from Marion county toward the local boss. The members this year have been more in the confidence of the public-spirited citizens who might be loosely called the city manager group, rather than under the orders of Boss Coffin. The selection of officers of the legislature indicates that Coffin does not have that iron control which came to him with the advent of Stephenson and which he continued even after the cell doors had closed upon his associate in politics. The selection of Senator Harlan of Richmond is an especially hopeful sign. It takes away from Lake county the power which ruled in that body and, back of Lake county, those forces of utility greed which have been very busy in making laws for the people. The people have every reason to be at least a little more hopeful this session. They may expect this legislature to refrain from some of the practices which resulted in the killing of good measures and the passage of bad ones. Os course, the organization of the legislature is only one step. The price of freedom from sinister forces is eternal vigilance. The old influences do not yield completely with one setback. They know what they want. They have usually obtained exactly what they wanted. This legislative session is important to Indianapolis. It is important because it ho'n, to some degree, the destiny of the city manager law. That law must be strengthened, not weakened, '."here must be resistance to any effort of politicians in both parties to kill the law. The first action, however, is such as to give confidence in anew alignment of forces, perhaps in a repentance for past misdeeds and a real desire to restore eovemment to the people and take it away from the discredited machine. Save the Primary How far the legislature will follow the recommendations of Governor Jackson in his final message to that body is a question. It is quite possible that there will be an effort to use his advice as an argument against the measures he advocates, rather than for them. That would be unfortunate. No one, even if he t ried, could be consistently wrong, any more than any one can be 100 per cent right. The people, not the politicians, will indorse the last word of Governor Jackson in his attitude toward the primary. The politicians in Ills own party ai? determined to destroy that method of nominating candidates. The Governor says that the primary, wiih ah Its faults, is the only plan yet devised under which the people have any voice in the nominating of party tickets. That is unquestionably true. It is also true that the politicians believe that they can destroy the primary or so mutilate it that in the future those who desire office must make their bargains with bosses in back rooms. The repeal of the primary and the bringing back of the convention system is the goal. It will be urged under the specious plea that the Republican state platform promised it to the people. Asa matter of history no candidate for state office or the legislature made that repeal an issue. The election this year was not. determined by state issues. If ft had been, a very different set of faces would be seen in the statahouse. Friends of the primary should rally to its support and save it, if possible. For his final word of warning. Governor Jackson is to be thanked. Why Unemployment? A senate committee and other agencies are trying to find out why, in this rich country, men should be out of work, and what can be done about it. Possibly the public and some of these agencies are taking the job too lightly. Some seem to think if congress waves a legislative wand and President-Elect Hoover an executive wand, the job millennium will have arrived and everyone who wants work will have it at high wages. It is not so simple. One witness before the senate committee on education and labor said industry’s chief duty henceforth should be to give high wages ruid steady work. The government must help in this, somehow. The independent workman of a century ago has become a machine-tender. Some of the machines can do as much work as a thousand men, and almost every day we read some amazing new invention which does awgy with more men. Up to a few years ago the chief problem was to get enough for the world's millions to eat and wear. This situation has changed, and. it seems, permanently. Machines in almost every industry can and do turn out more than can be used—so much more that they must lie idle part of the time. The effect is two-fold. A machine is invented which can do the work of 100 men. One may tend it. but where are the other ninety-nine to go? Some may go into the work of building and repairing the machine, some into new industries —generally at jobs not so good as they pad. Many cannot find work. They become the "unemployment problem." And they can’t buy; the market is lessened, and the machines must slow down still more. So the problem of unemployment involves pretty much our whole industrial and business life. Its solution involves much more than merely looking around to find jobs and men and bringing the two together.

His One Fear “Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear, And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear; With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold ” In the Klondike, as miner and gambling king. Tex Rickard lived a life cf danger. "When the Texas norther comes sudden and soon, in the dead of night or the biaze of noon," the herd stampedes—and life holds no more terrifying moment than then. But such a moment was ail in a day’s work for Tex Rickard, the cowpuncher. He faced it, calm and unafraid. As deputy United States marshal in a tough frontier. he ‘‘got his man.’’ And that, tu>, w ; as all in a day’s work. No braver man lived in our time than the one who now* has met his death because he was afraid of just one thing—the surgeon s knife. He had been warned for years that appendicitis would get him unless he submitted to an operation. "Shoot me, but don’t cut me,” he said. And despite all the warnings, he refused to undeigo that which many a man less brave than Rickard, had undergone. As with the elephant that will charge the jungle, but is afraid of a mouse, so there was that one weakness in the armor of Rickard’s courage. And so Tex died. Try a New Line A curious phase of the poison liquor subject is found in the fact that the same federal agency that is supposed to enforce prohibition also is supposed to enforce the pure food and drug act. It is the treasury department. The net result of prohibition is failure in both directions, so far as liquor is concerned. Whatever effort is applied goes merely to lessening the illicit sale of alcoholic beverages. If those beverages are found to contain wood alcohol, that is that. Nothing is done so far as violation of the pure food and drug statutes are concerned, for the right hand of the treasury department apparently knoweth not what the left hand doeth. We make bold to suggest that, since enforcement of the prohibition law has been a manifest failure to date, the treasury department try a few prosecutions under the pure food and drug statutes. They might not do much good, but they would at least break the monotony. Buying Public Opinion Today the federal trade commission resumes work on one of the most important public services of the year by a government agency. The commission will renew inquiry into the ways public utility companies are spending money to influence public opinion. The commission has revealed that some schools and colleges, writers and speakers, newspapers and magazines, have been prostituted to the cause of private power development by the generous use of money. These filial phases of the propaganda investigation merit the closest public attention. Grover Whalen, New York’s new police commissioner, ordered all speakeasy proprietors to sell good liquor or close up. That’s one of the best prohibition plans we’ve seen to date. United States medical corps officers have warned New Yorkers to dispense with kissing until the influenza wave has subsided. By the way. the influenza epidemic started in Hollywood, didn't It? "Give me a man who sings at his work," said Author Carlyle. He didn’t want any baseball umpires about him. A Detroit man -who drank poisoned whisky turned black. Oh, well, he was in perfect condition for a mammy song, anyway.

___David Dietz on Science . Brain Distinguishes Man No. 256

MAN’S brain, it generally is agreed, is the chief thing—though not the only one—which distinguishes man andwgives him his place at the head of the animal kingdom. The other members of the animal kingdom all have brains which are less complex in organization and

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These three divisions are the fore-brain, the midbrain and the hind-brain. Perhaps you would like to know the scientific names which have been given these three parts in the case of the lamprey. Well, then, here they are: Prosencephalon, mescencephalon and rhombencephalon. These formidabe scientific names are merely Greek meaning virtually the same as the simpler names. The fore-brain of the lamprey has two bud-like growths on either side. These .are the olfactory lobes and the central hemispheres. In the accompanying illustration which compares the structure of the lamprey and the human brains, the cerebral hemispheres are marked with “Is” and the olfactory lobes with “25.” The human brain is so complicated because of the tremendous growth of the cerebral hemispheres in the case of man. The mid-brain of the lamprey consists of two holow lobes galled the optic lobes because the optic nerv es run into them. The hind-brain is the largest part of the lamprey’s brain. The nerves, comparable to the nerves in man, arise in the hind-brain. It is possible to trace a steady development of brain size and organization from the lamprey to man. In the shark, for example, a better organization of the cerebral hemispheres is found. Frogs and birds show a still higher type of brain. When we come to mammals, we find a still more complex brain structure. Next to man. the apes have the most highly developed brain structure. The huge bulk of the human brain consists chiefly of the cerebral hemispheres.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: \‘lf Oklahoma Does Not Look Out the impeachment of Governors Will Become a Habit

THE idea of what constitutes an injury and how it can be repaired by payment in coin of the realm is coming to include a lot of teerritory. Ambulance chasing and the heart balm suit have grown too commonplace to attract attention, but now comes a Wisconsin father, suing a school teacher in the name of his 12-year-old daughter for $20,000 because the latter made her wear a placard by way of punishment. Whatever one may think of such a case, it certainly is fortunte that it did not become popular in those good old days when children were birched, obliged to wear the dunce cap. and unmercifully ridiculed. The proposition of making school teachers pay for the humiliation and mental anguish they cause pupils in connection with discipline may be original, but it comes too late. The discipline has grown too soft, the punishment too mild, the injury too little. What the legal fraternity should seek is some way to collect damages for the down-trodden, reviled and long suffering school teacher, if it would do justice and turn an honest penny at the same time. b a n Power of Whiskers Afghanistan is not the only land in ■which whiskers can become an issue. They cropped up in a New York court Tuesday, when witnesses for the state found it difficult to identify a defendant who had not shaved during the six months he had been in jail. The defendant was Frank De Marco, who was being tried for robbery. When, arrested he was clean shaven, but hit op the bright idea of allowing nature to take its course. Six months were enough to change him from the ordinary smooth-faced man of today to the bewhiskered. shaggy, fierce looking individual of four or five centuries ago. It is a funny thing how much hair can do to alter personal appearance. When Norfleet was called upon to identify some thirty confidence men who had been held in a Denver church cellar over night, there was one he could not place. That one had pulled out all the hair on his head, and looked like a perfect stranger, until Norfleet ordered him to put on his hat. a b a Greyhound of Sea WE talk about 30-knot ships, but Germany builds them. The Hamburg-American line, unable to purchase the Europa and Bremen, two monster craft now under construction for the North GermanLloyd line, has concluded arrangements to build a trans-Atlantic greyhound which will outrun all rivals. Sh’e not only will be large and luxurious, but will clip a day off the fastest time now required to cross the ocean. In this connection it is, interesting to note that Germany is making money, as well as progress, and that a good deal of that money is finding its way into the pockets of the common people. A report just issued reveals the fact that there are now $1,785,000.000 in German savings banks, which is eleven times the amount they held four years ago. 8 8 8 Oklahoma Fireworks A STORM brews in Oklahoma. Anti-administration forces have gained control of the legislature and it looks as though Governor Henry Johnston would be impeached. Among other things. Governor Johnston is charged with employing a woman as his confidential secretary, for which there is no provision in the statutes, and of employing as special state agent a man who was under conviction for burglary and who is now in the penitentiary. Former Governor Walton, who was impeached six years ago. watches proceedings from a spectator's seat. It is not every state that can impeach a Governor while a former impeached Governor looks on. If Oklahoma does not look out the impeachment of Governors will become a habit, 8 8 8 Message From Houdini MRS. HARRY HOUDINI is not only convinced, but happy. So, too, is every professional spiritualist. Thanks to Arthur Ford, as controlled by “Fletcher,” not to mention two years of concentrated effort, the nine-word code which Mrs. Houdini and her husband agreed upon before the latter's death has been deciphered. Whether this was accomplished by occult power, human ingenuity, or some unconscious revelation on the part of Mrs. Houdini herself, it seems likely to become an important factor in the promotion and exploitation of a cult which Houdini exposed and combatted. Much as Mrs. Houdini desired to communicate with her dead husband. she was not more anxious to do so than were thousands of spiritualists. Unable to convince or convert the living Houdini, they have been studying, working and cohtriving to make use of the dead Houdini. to destroy the effect of his exposures and imitations, to turn his own guns against him and change the triumph he had practically won into defeat. Under such circumstances, is. it impossible to suppose that a nineword code, even though known only to three people, and though of peculiarly clever design, could have been deciphered without supernatural aid? Could liquid air be used for refrigeration purposes? Not practically. Its temperature (-310 F.) is too low and tbe process would be very expensive.

structure. The simplest brain which shows the general organization of the human brain is the brain of the lamp re yt The lamprey is an eellike fish. The brain of the lamprey is about three-tenths inch wide. But it show's the same division into three parts that the human brain does.

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Chickenpox and Shin gles Related

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE disease commonly called shingles is known scientifically as herpes zoster. A similar variety of this disease is herpes simplex, also called cold sores. The type which occurs about the body following the root of a nerve is a more serious condition than the cold sores. In a discussion of this subject in Hygeia. Dr. Clark W. Finnerud quotes the old superstition that if shingles meet the patient will die, and points out this is probably a perfectly safe aphorism because the nature of the disease is such that shingles probably never has encircled the body in any human being.

Reason

THE House of Representatives at Washington is trying anew ventilating device and w'e wish it success, but we have our doubts. All other efforts have failed, and the only time a representative gets the air is w'hen the voters hand it to him at the polls. An over-heated immigrant car is a tube rose alongside this legislative chamber and if this last effort fails, the government should give all members oxygen tanks and compel them to use breath perfume. 8 8 8 We hope the report that Booth Tarkington is losing his sight is untrue, for through his w'ritings he has given delight, understanding, and inspiration to the people of the country. He never disparaged his own people; he never sneered at old-fash-ioned things, and his readers never have been compelled to wear gas masks. Long may he live and see and write. 8 8 8 Fred Warman resigned his position in the Indiana state law library because he was unwilling to work for a woman. All we have to say to Fred Is that he will never celebrate a golden wedding. ft St St If it’s true that A1 Smith has three bathrooms in his New York apartment, he might as well hang up his political fiddle, for he never can carry a state west of the Alleghenies. 8 8 8 Some will be shocked to hear that the home brewers of the United States spent thirty million dollars for malt during 1927, but it should be remembered that they have done much to keep the home fires burning. 8 8 8 Mr. Hover should retain Postmaster General Harry S. New, for in addition to doing well the work he w'as expected -to do, he developed the air mail and thereby did more for aviation than anybody else in the country. * 8 8 8 Four congressmen, sojourning in Panama, report that they lassooed a fifteen-foot boa-constrictor w'hich they found sw’imming in the canal. And yet the Panaca Canal Zone is presumed to be dry! 8 8 8 Durant offered $25,000 for the best plan to enforce the Volstead law' and now' Hearst offers the same amount for the best plan to knock said law into a cocked hat, but what we need is a plan to make people stop talking about their bootleggers.

Daily Thought

The price of wisdom is above rubies.—-Job xxviii: 18. 8 8 8 YOU can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.—H. W. Shaw.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Shingles usually occurs following some infectious disease, but in many instances it its impossible to associate the condition w'ith any definite disorder. Apparently it is associated with the infection of the root of one or more nerves which causes an inflammation of the nerve, pain, and an affection of the skin over the nerve. The skin responds to the infections by an eruption of water blisters an inch or so wide resting on a swollen skin. The physician diagnoses the condition because the blisters are limited in their distribution to the area of skin served by a single nerve. Thus it is that the disease usually occurs only on one side of the body and not on both sides.

By Frederick LANDIS

TIM REED says the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war. is only an international kiss, but if it lasts as long as some of them in the movies it will bring world peace.

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

13. TAKING TRICK IN WRONG HAND

North (Dummy) A9 7 6 AQS 3 2 0 J 10 *Q 6 5 Leads * A Eiast South (Declarer)— AAK Q 4 3 V 9 7 06 5 3 AK 3 2 The Bidding—South opens with one spade and all pass. Deciding the Play—West lead

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address oi the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference Editor Times—The American War Mothers appreciate your effort to have the Senate ratify the treaty outlawing war. The first service star hung in the heavens marked the place where the Prince of Peace was born. For nearly 2.000 years we have celebrated His birthday with unbounded joy. When we hung our service star in the window to mark the place from which a son had gone to fight in the last' war. we never dreamed it would be ten years before this decisive step would be taken by the powers that be. The previous blood of thousand.-: of our sons have blazed the trail to a higher civilization, when there will be no more-war. We have faith that those who hold the fate of the ns lions in their hands will not desert the cause and the spirit of Christmas will continue until war has been banished from the face of tbe earth. Peace is a gift, and has been since the beginning of time. Loyally Yours, MRS. ALICE M. FRENCH.

People with herpes zoster or shingles complain most of the burning pain in the area involved, "and it, is not infrequent for neuralgia to be associated with the skin eruption. There is much evidence to indicate relationship between tliis disease and chickenpox. but thus far the causative organism of neither disease has been discovered. Apparently the responsible organism is so small that it can be filtered through the most dense of clay filters, for this reason being called a filtrable virus. When the inflammation subsides, the shingles disappear so that the chief attention of the physician in such cases is given to keeping the person in a state of good nutrition and free from infection.

THEY CALL FOR AIR tt o o LONG MAY HE SEE a tt & THREE BATH ROOMS

IF Senator Borah is to be the senate spokesman of the next administration. then the next administration should have a good run-ner-up, for Borah won’t agree to stand hitched unless they give him a portable pitching post. ft tt tt Speaking with the trumpet tongue of a prophet, Jack Dempsey informs the world that Tex Rickard’s W'orlc will be carried on, w’hich should be a great comfort to tbe goats of America who love to pay good money to see human trucks collide.

ace of clubs and wins the first trick and then West leads 4 of clubs. Should Declarer fake this tr’ck with queen of clubs or king of clubs? The Error—Declarer takes the trick with the queen of clubs. The Correct Method—Declarer should take the trick with king of clubs. If queen of clubs is played he removes from the Dummy the necessary re-entry required to assist in establishing the heart suit. The Principles—When you have the choice of taking a trick in the Dummy or your own hand, determine the effect before taking the trick. (Copyright. 1929. Ready Reference Publishing Company)

Hi is Date in V. S. History

Jan. 10 1737—Birthday of Ethan Allen. American Revolutionary patriot. 1765—Stamp act passed by British parliament. 1791—Vermont ratified the Constitution, although not yet admitted to the Union. 1811—Kentucky authorized a lottery to improve navigability of Kentucky river. 1861—Florida passed an ordinance of secession. Where was the first successful glass factory in the United States? In 1787 the Massachusetts legislature gave to a Boston glass company the exclusive right to make glass in the state for fifteen years. This is said to have been the first successful glass factory in the United States. Will the explosion of one torpedo sink a battleship? Yes, if it hits the ship at the right place and contains enough explosive. What Is the address of the Lucy Stone League? 412 West Forty-seventh street, New York.

_ JAN. 10, 1929

Idea* and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writer* and are presented without retard to their greement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

IT SEEMS TOME 8 8 By HEYWOOD BROUN

AT - EARS ago I worked on a copy desk with a man who was very fond of telling all the rest of us that he came from an old Virginia family. After work when he got a little drunk, as Denned a Virginia gentleman, he v'ould lean against the bar and pull up one trouser leg. “See that foot and ankle.” he would say. “It took a thousand years of breeding to make that foot and ankle.” Asa matter of fact, it w'as not a particularly thrilling exhibition. His foot w'as small and his ankle tapered. However, I refrained from entering into any competition with him. for in the privacy of my own room there was no getting away from the conclusion that my breeding was less blue and ancient. That is if the test offered happens to be authentic. It is my misfortune to wear a No. 13 shoe and the ankle differs little from the rest of the leg. No marked indentation is visible. If it took a thousand years to make the foot and ankle ol my copy-reading companion, I was evidently the victim of a hastier job. In those days this evidence that I had not sprung from the gentry disturbed me. Evidently heavy burdens rested upon the backs and shoulders of my ancestors and so the feet have splayed a little. When the good gray squire rode past the thatched huts the Brouns and the Heywoods crouched in the doorw'ays and shouted, “Huzza,” with as much enthusiasm as ihey could muster. 8 8 8 What of It? SINCE I had no foot or ankle fit to be publicly displayed at Hesse’s bar, I thought for a time that I might try to be one of nature’s noblemen. I’d read of such. That notion I discarded. If I couldn't be a gentleman by the easy r->ute of heredity, I wouldn’t play at all. The advantages of being a gentleman are much exaggerated. The word is much too loosely used. Certainly it was first employed to designate people of a fixed social station. Qualities of soul and spirit were not essential. A gentleman could be an arrant rascal, and not infrequently he w r as. By any strict definition, a gentleman is a person gently bred who derives, partly from training and possibly from inherited race memory (if there is any such thing) a fidelity to a certain code. And I know by now that it is much more pleasant not to be conditioned by these regulations since the philosophy of life w'hich animates them is for the most part silly. 8 8 8 Debts and Honor THE CODE of a gentleman, in the old style sense, is just as ridiculous, but the word has managed to retain its popularity. Some of the obligations of being a gentleman are so obviously preposterous that they have been sloughed off even by those to the manor born. Not so long ago if you trod on the toe of a member of the fraternity he w'as in honor bound to fight a duel about it. Unless, of course, the man w’ho did the treading happened to be a Broun, in which case the unwary walker was not w'orthy to be shot or stabbed upon the field of honor. Besides when a Broun walks across a foot there is such a crunching of bones in the aristocratic instep that there could be no meeting until the compound fracture had mended. After a time people decided that it was more fun not to be shot than be a gentleman. But the debt of honor remains. In this respect the professional gambler and the gentleman meet on equal footing. I don’t mean that a man should not pay what he loses at bridge, or stud, or craps. In fact T. fully intend to mall that check tonight. The code of a gentleman, hove cr, demands thr.t gambling obligations take precedence over the bills of tVo butcher, th-* landlord, and any starving family, no matter how large and miserable. What a gentleman calls a debt of honor I call a debt of diversion and I refuse to admit that it carries some peculiar sanctification which makes it more holy than any other * honest obligation. 8 8 8 Elevator Manners IN elevators, the gentlemen elbow their fellow passengers and maka everybody uncomfortable by snatching off their hats out of respect for American womanhood. Nobody is made any happier by this clumsy custom, but it must go on. It is part of the code. American womanhood might unite m saying, “Don’t do us any favors. Keep your hat on your head instead of poking it into the ribs of your fellow passengers.” A gentleman would continue to take off his hat. It is not kindliness which moves him, but a slavish devotion to tradition. And because I am not a gentleman I don’t have to keep popping up and down at tea parties upsetting all the cocktails and the cheese sandwiches whenever a lady enters the room. During the days w'hen I was trying to be one of nature’s noblemen 1 had to hold a newspaper in front of my eyes while riding in the subway so as not to be remorseful because women passengers were standing. Now I don’t ride in the subway because retaining my seat was too heart-breaking. But the biggest release of all is in the matter of discretion. Gentlemen kiss and do not tell. That seems to me an unnatural practice. I feel certain that it must be difficult. If I ever had the chance I think I would tell. Or at any rate, I would be pleased if somebody managed to guess. And probably somebody would manage to guess because I am not able to lie like a gentleman. (Copysgilit, 1929, for Times)