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One Necessary Step It -("•!-!•' rtMOfllbie to suggest that ?tie best way to prevent a return of Stephenaonisiu in any form to this state is to wipe out the innovations introduced by that very alert and fargeeing dictator when he was building his illfated and ill-starred dictatorship. The legislature, which would be very ready to deny that it had any friendship for either the notorious convict or his methods, could do worse than to analyze the means by which he rose to his high eminence. Stephenson, if history be remembered, saw that the way to elevate Ed Jackson, then secretary of state, to the governorship, was to take bway from Governor McCray all possible political power and lodge it in the office of the secretary of state. He understood how control of the stHto police, the issuance of auto licenses with its bureau in every'county and itis wide distribution of patronage, the control of all stock issues could be made of immense advantage. The adroit mind changed the whole theory of the state government when he took power away from the chief executive and placed it in an office, which oy its very name, suggests that it should be largely clerical. Certainly if the Governor is to be held responsible for the results of his administration, lie should be given all the power to make good. There can, by no stretch of the imagination, be any reason why the state police should t-e under the secretary of state. They execute laws, if they do anything they are supposed in do. If they have a military character, they should be under the adjutant-general, who in turn is directly under the Governor. Yet these state policemen during the last four years have been in more action on polities than in law enforcement. The very fact that they are now engaged in 1 rying to unravel a series of desperate law violations in one northern county, carries with it an indictment of indifference or laxity in the past four years. If the state police are at all useful, it ought not to take a bank robbery, a murder, a clandestinc escapade <*f a county official to call attention to the fact that bootleggers paid $250 for safe conduct of liquor trucks through one county. Had they been on the job, they would, if only by accident, have stumbled on to this fket long before the murder brought it to attention. One of the first steps of the legislature should be a survey of the situation and a decision to wipe out the last vestiges of Stephensonism by takiug away the tricks that he introduced. The Governor is by law from succeeding himself. There is a reason for this. The constitution tried to fix it so that a man who achieved this high office would not be tempted to use his powers for further honors. The use of power for political advantage has been the root of many evils. This legislature, if it desires, can hit at the cause of much dissatisfaction and misrule. it is time to give the executive the wqrk and power and authority and responsibility of an executive and to keep clerical officials doing clerical jobs. That Law We Ask (From thr New York Telegram) One of life's most curious phases is found in what that great scientist and philosopher, Herbert Spencer, termed “legislative momentum." “The theory,” Spencer wrote, “on which he (the politician) daily proceeds is that the change caused by his measure will stop where he intends it to stop.” No more striking evidence of the operation of political momentum ever was presented than that which prohibition has given us. Prohibition was designed to abolish alcoholic beverages. It has not done that. But— It has set up i, remium on crime, the like of which never has oeiare been seen, not even in the palmiest days of piracy: It has made us a nation of hypocrites. It has brought about a general disrespect for law among adults and an example of contempt for law by’ parents before their children. It has corrupted law enforcement officials. It has increased drinking among women and the young. In its name all manner of violation of civil liberties have been committed, and scores of innocent citizens have been shot down in the futile effort at its enforcement. It has blinded and killed large numbers of citizens and ruined the health of others. All these things and many others have been the manifold results of what was conceived as a single object. We are now in the law-making season of the year. > Legislatures are meeting throughout the land, and congress is at it again. A favorite American urge is—“there ought to be a law.” * It Is human nature to turn to government as a cure for our social ills as we as indiivduals turn to a doctor to cure our bodily ailments. Whenever we feel that impulse, let s ask ourselves —what adout th£ momentum—will the measure we propose stop when we expect it to stop? So saying, the New York Telegram now desires to speak again of its own proposal. We believe that there should be legal recognition of what appears to us as obvious, namely: That there
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Is a distinction between bootleggers-r-between those who sell poison and those who just sell liquor. Realizing that all are law violators and subject to punishment, we believe nevertheless that the penalty against those who sell poison should be more severe than the penalty against those whose liquor is not poison. Accordingly, we propose that the legislature of the state of New York pass a statute which would recognize a difference In the seriousness of the offenses. We propose that manslaughter in the proper legal degree be the statutory rating for the poison liquor seller. In making this proposal, we have given due consideration to the matter of momentum. We are unable to foresee any dangerous by-products. The results to be secure seem to us to be clear-cut, and limited to the one objective intended. But we do net pretend to be all-wise. We would be glad to have from our readers, whether they be within or without the legal profession, expressions on whether such a law would bring forth any of those Incidental evils such as have characterized the "momentum” of prohibition. Unless and until such expressions prove to us that such a law would be harmful in directions that wc not now contemplate, we will throw our influence to its introduction and passage. _ lt Needs Explaining Testimony of Attorney-General Strgem an former Secretary of Interior Work regarding their part in stepping prosecution of Indian Commissioner Burke falls far short of clearing a serious matter. Fair-minded citizens will withhold judgment until all the facts are known, but will insist that those facts be uncovered as quickly as possible. Sargent and Work told the senate committee on Indian affairs yesterday that they had interfered with the grand jury action to protect Burke from alleged persecution by Assistant Attorney-General Parmenter. Sargent added that he had not Intended to drop the Burke prosecution, If investigation substantiated charges against the Indian commissioner in the Jackson Barnett case. But what reason had Sargent and Work to think that the grand jury proceedings, which they halted, would not properly sift the charges? An uncomfortable public feeling has been produced by the apparent ease with which two cabinet officers, behind the scenes, can*manipulate legal proceedings. “Indictment Indian Commissioner Burke threatened,” Work wired Sargent. “Please have it stayed. Mrs. Burke critically ill.” Whereupon Sargent, who was in NeW Hampshire, immediately telephoned Solicitor-General Mitchell in Washington to stop the case. That was done. Mitchell then was to investigate the case, but he testified to the senat| committee that he has been too busy. Now that these charges and counter-charges have been forced into the open, it probably will occur to Work and Sargent that they were incurring grave responsibility In sidetracking normal legal proceedings,' and that having done so they were obligated morally to proceed at once with private investigation of the charges. Again the country has to thank a senate committee for throwing the light of inquiry on dealings of the federal executive departments. This investigating of the activities of the two cabinet officers is impoiatnt in itself. It seems likely also to assure a thorough examination into the treatment of our Indian wards. A Missing Witness About forty persons are appearing daily before the house ways and means committee, which is holding hearings to drafting anew tariff bill. Most of these witnesses want a higher tariff for their particular industry. But we have not seen among their names that of old Ult. Consumer, otherwise known as John Smith, the fellow who pays the freight. Glad tidings! With all good wishes! A couple in Washington, D. C., have just become the parents of their fourth set of twins.
-David Dietz on Science
How Brain Is Organized
THE human brain is a complicated structure composed of “white matter” and “gray matter.” The white matter consists of fibers growing out of these cells. The brain, therefore, is a complicated mass of nervous tissue. By lar the larger part of the brain in man is made
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sciousness is in this cortex. It consists of a great many ridges or convolutions. The accompanying illustration shows the human brain in cross section. The cerebrum is indicated by the Figure “Is.” The other numbers refer to other parts of the brain. At 2, the olfactory bulb is shown. The optic nerve enters the brain at 3. At 4, is the stalk of the pituitary body This body is a small gland. The part of the brain labeled 5 is known as the optic thalamus. A small iland is located at 6 known as the pineal gland. The part of the brain known as the midbrain is shown at. The cerebellum is located at 8. The part shown at 9 is known as the pons, white 10 marks the medulla oblongata. There still is much mystery connected with the brain. The physiologist has by no means discovered all there is to be found out about the brain. But the brain is not a complete mystery. Much * known, for example, about the functions of each pa; of the brain and about the localization of various senses in various parts of the brain. These functions and localizations will be discussed in succeeding articles during the next few days. Many interesting experiments have brought this, knowledge to light. Some of these will also be described. . — .
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up of the cerebrum. This composes the top of the brain and is divided bya longitudinal fissure into two parts known as the cerebral hemispheres. The cerebral hem is ph e res have an external layer or cortex of gray matter, that is, of nerve cells. It is believed that the seat of con-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. TRACY SAYS : ‘ Much as We Have Come to Depend on Mechanics for Comfort , We Still Look to Genius for Di-rect-i'jn. ,>
DETROIT, Jan. 11.—If you would get a good idea of what the automobile business means in pay roll, factory floor space and the evidences -of profit, this is the place to come. Here is where the giants of the city not only toil, but spend the difference, building magnificent homes, erecting skyscrapers and contributing to community enterprises. Detroit is now the fourth city In America. The contraption that enabled it to reach .that point, to pass such apparently well entrenched rivals as Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, was not in existence forty years ago. Airplanes can, and probably will do as much for some other town. What everyone would like to know is which town. u u Pioneers and Industry CITIES especially ih this age of mechanical power and mass production, largely are the product of Industry. Rubber made Akron, just as automobiles have made Detroit, but there is more to the story than that. Industry follows the pioneer, the man of vision and peculiar bent, who dares to step out of line and try something new. You can not get away from that all-important factor. What else made New Bedford the greatest whaling port in New England when there were a dozen other just as good harbors within 100 miles? What else centered the automobile business in Detroit? Much as we have come to depend on mechanics for comfort, we still look to genius for direction, still follow those in whom we have confidence whether it is a matter of religion, politics or merely a job. St tt tt ' Too Much Alike? THOUGH cities may earn their living in different ways, they live pretty much alike. Detroit is able to grow rich and populous making automobiles eimply and solely because other people want them. When it comes to traffic and congestion, however, automobiles create the same problem in Detroit as any where else. So-we find the city talking subway—fifteen miles of it at a cost of $90,000,000. We also find it talking prohibition, crime and other subjects which are common throughout the country. i In all respects, save that of making things >to sell, Detroit is a very typical American town, and even in that it is typical, though different. This is what the highbrow critics call standardization, what they mean when they say we are getting too much alike and have lost that stimulus which comes from variety. We do not get much variety by moving from place to place these days, but we get a lot of it by living from year to year. How could we make improvements on such a sweeping scale, adopt such revolutionary inr -vations with so little confusion, if we had .not learned to thil k and act in uniform ways? n tt it Near to Liberty DETROIT is a border town and rather better off because of it. Its people have to travel only half a mile for that liberty which is denied by the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. Whether this makes for more dunking, is certainly makes for less racketeering. Detroit is one town in which lords of the underworld have small hope of establishing a monopoly of private thirst. All your Detroiter has to do to beat the local market is take the ferry to Windsor, which calls to mind the .part prohibition is playing and the still more important part it may play in the relations between Canada and ourselves. As might naturally be expected, our government would Tike to have Canada co-operate more whole heartedly in helping to maintain a drought. Canada can not see the thing just that way. tt tt it Life Terms for Booze MICHIGAN is one of those states that have tried to enforce prohibition by drastic penalties. In Michigan, selling liquor is a felony, and four convictions for felony make a life sentence mandatory under the criminal law. Put in plain English, this means that if any one is proven guilty of selling as little as one pint of liquor four times, he or she can be sent to ! prison for life. The thing actually has happened. A woman, the I mother of ten children, was recently ! so sentenced. Recognizing the inhumanity of such a law, several members of the ! legislature now in session, are work- ; ing to have it modified. tt tt o | The Crime Problem * LIKE most other states. Michigan is giving serious consideration Ito the crime problem, particularly as it is affected by pardons and paroles in connection with the more serious offenses. Senator Condon has prepared a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment which would take the pardoning power away | from the Governor, placing it in | the supreme court, and which would ; make those convicted of first degree murder ineligible to pardon, commutation or reprieve. Incidentally, Senator Condon is | an opponent of capital punishment and led a fight to abolish it in the last session of the Michigan legislature Hi3 idea of restricting the pardon power may seem unnecessarily exj :reme, but is entirely consistent with , inch an attitude, for nothing has : done more to keep capital puqish- ■ mer.t on the statute books of this ' country than the abuse of executive cie meaty. -
Navigating Under Difficulties!
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Salt Is Vital Article of Diet
BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. SODIUM CHLORIDE or common salt probably ranks first among all the salts in the human body, both if) quantity and in its value in the body's nutrition. It is, however, only one of many salts and mineral substances important lor proper functioning of the human system. Salt is got to be considered as a mere seasoning, and the craving for salt is not at all like the craving for alcohol or tobacco. The substance is’ important in relationship to the constitution of the body and a deficiency manifests itself by this craving.
Reason
NO American institution in its right. mind would lend any amount of money to a borrower who spent one billion dollars a year for booze, yet we contemplate lending hundreds of millions to Germany, who guzzles to this dizzy degree. If this bunch of foam-blowers would dip their tonsils in buttermilk for a while, they could pay their debts. 0 0 0 We are not surprised t& hear the President say he owes his success to having followed the advice of James Lucey, his 73-year-old shoemaker friend from Northampton, Mass. ' Thirty years ago the greatest problems of state were settled in our shoe shops, but the coming of machinery made calm deliberation impossible. 000 This antique dealer in Rome may have discovered how Stradivarius treated and varnished the wood of his wonderful violins, but this doesn’t mean, that anybody else can get the same results. We’ve known for centuries how Demosthenes built his great creations, but nobody has been able to duplicate them. ft St tt Carl W. Sjoberg, 65-year-old Chicago blacksmith, bathes every day in Lake Michigan, laughing loudly as he splashes water in the face of zero. * There are only a few of us, rugged enough to do this. 000 The > aviation experts of the United States, England and Italy announce that they are going to make flying absolutely safe and old Major Gravity is laughling fit to kill. 0 0 0 Those.senators who fear we would become entangled in foreign wars if we ratified the Kellogg treaty probably decline invitations to dine on the ground that they might become obligated to marry their host. 000 Havana is preparing to entertain 150.000 thirsty Americans, her harbor already being dotted with their private yachts. Havana certainly ought to be good to us, for McKinley made her free and Volstead made her prosperous.
This Date in U. S. History
January 11. 1757—Birthday of Alexander Hamilton. , 1785—Continental Congress met in New York. 1805—Michigan territory separated from Indiana territory.
Daily Thought
Let every man be folly persuaded In his own mind.—Romans iv: 5. it a tt THAT there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.—
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Among savage tribes which live mainly on vegetables, salt is considered much as Americans consider sugar. Children suck sticks of salt as our children suck candy. Savages carry small pieces of salt in their pockets and offer it to each other to lick much as an American ruralite will offer another a chew of tobacco. Actually in the past nations fought wars for the possession of sources of common salt. A Bulgarian physician, Dr. Assen Hadjioloff, in a consideration of the subject published by the American Dietetic Association, indicates the way in which the body constantly takes in salt and loses it in its metabolism. People who eat much meat can
By Frederick LANDIS
THERE’S no surprise at Secretary Mellon’s denial that he paid a $1,000,000 for the Madonna, painted by Raphael, for you naturally think that Andy’s artistic ecstacy reaches its peak when he contemplates the picture of statesman on a SI,OOO pill.
Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
-BY \V. W. WENTWORTH-
14. OVERLOOKING RE-ENTRY IN TRUMP SUIT North (Dummy)— A’K 7 5 6 5 3 0 6 5 * A . Q 9 6 2 Leads O 7 - EasW South (Declarer)—* AAQ 8 6 3 VJH2 O A 8 * 8 7 The Bidding—South opens with one spade. West passes. North passes. East bids two diamonds. South passes. West passes. North bids two spades and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads 7 of diamonds. How should Declarer plan to paly to make game? The Error—Declarer wins the first trick with ace of diamonds and then draws trumps, playing queen of
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 Yojk 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 auestions will receive a personal reply. asiened requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this service. What is the death rate per 1,000 hi the United States? The figures for 1925 were 11.8. What were the gate receipts for the Jeffries-Johnson fight at Renata Nev., in 1910? Total receipts were $270,775, of which Jeffries received $50,000 and Johnson $70,600. In addition, Jeffries received $66,666 and Johnson $50,000 for picture privileges. How is the federal constitution amended? * The constitutional provision relating • to amendments is: “The congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall firoffose amfiorimgßto io Urn
do without added salt because they obtain salt from the blood of the animals they eat. f Meat contains considerable quantities of sodium chloride, as do also saltwater fish, but the fruits and vegetables, and particularly fine flours, contain very little salt. The fact that a certain quantity of salt is needed by the body should not be taken as a warrant for oversalting foods by those who like to stimulate their sensation of taste. The human system is built so that the amounts of substances needed are definitely controlled through automatic regulating systems. Excess of any substance upsets the balance and throws an added burden on the tissues.
9 GUZZLING A BILLION st 0 a SHOE SHOP WISDOM * m ANDY’S LOVE OF ART
A FELLOW from Missouri is going to skate from San Francisco to New York City, which reminds us that when the Tammany delegates went to the national convention in 1920, it was one long skate all the way from New York City to San Francisco. 0 0 0 All this international talk about abolishing gas in warfare is the merest palaver, for nations at war will fight with any weapon they find. When man’s life is at stake he doesn’t calmly draw a memorandum from his pocket, and read the things he agreed not to use to save his life.
spades from closed hand, king of spades in the dummy on the next round and ace of ,;pades in closed hand on the third lound. The Correct Method—The only reentry in the Dummy is the king of spades. After' capturing the first trick with the ace of diamonds, Declarer plays the 8 of clubs and finesses the queen of clubs. Then the ace of clubs is played and this is followed by playing a small club and trumping it in closed hand. This establishes the club suit and queen of spades and ace of spades are played thereafter. On the third round of spades, Declarer leads up to the king of spades in Dummy, using that trump as a re-entry, and barring a freak distribution of the cards wins gamegoing tricks with the remaining clubs. If trumps are first exhausted Declarer can not hope to establish the club suit for the necessary reentry is removed from Dummy. The Principle—When you require a re-entry in the Dummy to establish a side suit, seek one in the trump suit. (Copyright 1929, Ready Reference Publishing Cos.)
constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of threefourths of the several states.” What is a “soul kiss?” A‘kiss of great passion and length. The phrase was coined several years ago in referring to final kisses in movies and plays. What is the total railroad mileage in the United States and Canada? The 1924 total mileage in the United States was 250.156 and the 1923 mileage in Canada, 40,094. What is the Indian population of the United States? The 1926 figures are 349,964. What relation is the daughter of a grandfather's sister to grandchild? fmt fiMiiifl am removed.
.JAX. 11,1929
IT SEEMS TOME 0 By HEYWOOD BROUN
1 and • •• sad opinions expressed In this column ore those of one of America's most Interesting writers and are presented without record to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.
A CORRESPONDENT takes me sharply to task for reverencing the press above the church and in the course of his remarks he makes two statements which are worthy of cr isideration. “If religion were obliterated from the minds and hearts of men, civilization would vanish,” writes C. N. Sharp. And again he says, “Broun’s basic difficulty is to distinguish between things spiritual and things temporal. Both ethics and morality are rooted in the former. Without spirituality there could be no ethics, no morality. Man without spirituality would be as incapable of ethics and morality as is the ape." Many share the heresy of Sharp, but there seems ample reason to believe that they are quite mistaken. Civilization as we know it does not depend primarily upon religious belief of any sort. If by some miracle, every citizen of the United States were converted to atheism on some peculiar Tuesday morning things might very well go on pretty much the same as usual by Wednesday. It is beyond the power of an individual to say dogmatically whether a nation of unbelievers would have a higher or a lower moral standard. 1 tt tt tt God of Reason IN RUSSIA, at the moment, a vast laboratory experiment is being conducted. It is the purpose of the Soviets to wean the children away from any formalized religious belief. The job is not accomplished yet. Perhaps it never will be. Even if the power of all the churches were broken I am willing to admit that some mystical religious element would persist in the hearts of men. It is difficult for me to understand the emotional composition of the man who is wholly without religious feeling, but undoubtedly there are many such. We are fond of attributing many of the excellent thipgs which we do to the influence of Christian ethics, but certain standards of conduct to which we adhere are far more ancient than the Christian religion. Basically every system of ethics depends upon enlightened self-inter-est. The golden rule itself is not an injunction to sheer self-sacrifice. The man who loves his neighbor has an excellent chance of being loved in return. Even without-religion, a community must hold to truth and honesty. When two or three are gathered together they will inevitably agree upon some mutually advantageous scheme of conduct. Nor should Sharp be quite so severe with the apes. Monkeys are gregarious enough to need ethical standards and to possess them. Their ideas of right and wrong may not seem suitable to Sharp, and yet all animals which live in packs have rigid rules of conduct which are respected. tt n a The Primrose Path WHEN I was in college I roomed with an atheist and we used to argue about religion and morality until far into the night. I maintained that but for my belief in God and judgment day, I would immediately set forth upon a life of crime and debauchery. So fiercely did I debate that he was half-convinced and confessed some thankfulness that I was still under the Influence of the Epis-* copal doctrines, even though he had no faith in them. Had I been more observant I might have noted the fact that my friend was kindly, generous and altogether a sweet and friendly person. The lust for licentiousness which I ascribed to all nonbelievers was not in him. In fact by now I am able to make a more immediate test. I still believe in God, but I am rather doubtful about any formal judgment day. Hell is not much on my mind. And yet I think I am rather a better person now than during the days when faith was stronger and more formalized. Maybe I don’t belong in the discussion since I am not technically irreligious. However, it is my impression that while religion can and does make some men better from an ethical stadard, many of the finest souls known on this earth have been persons with no formal religious faith. To be more specific I think that most of the deeds which we call noble were not done in the hope of heaven. William Jennings Bryan was fond of saying that he preferred good men to those who were merely wise. I think he underestimated the scope of wisdom. It may be that he was thinking rather of slickness or shrewdness. Criminals and villains are not made out of men with truly first-class minds. Oh, yes, I’ve heard of Leopold and Loeb, but it was mere newspaper excess which paraded these two warped youths as budding geniuses. tt Mysterious Fervor OF COURSE, there is a fervor in these men who willingly lay down their lives for their fellows. Just what the exciting force within them may be, I don’t profess to know. Possibly the pure scientist is less actuated by a desire to serve than an eagerness to advance the frontiers of the kingdom of knowledge. And. that instinct may, by some slight stretch of the imagination, be called religious. The kingdom of knowledge could be the kingdom of God. Surely there Is only a hair line, if that, between stupidity and sin. But, of course, I am with Professor Barnes in asking anew definition of sin. Willingly at any time I will throw myself upon the mercy of the intelligence. There is a symbolic significance in the story of the Child In Bethlehem. There at the manger stood the wise men. right, IMS, tttt Xb* ZUMMt