Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1929 — Page 4

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Farewell, a Long Farewell Let it be hoped that, with the passing from the office of Governor today of Ed Jackson that there will also be a pausing of the strange, weird and sinister forces and influences that brought him to power. He will be remembered, personally, as the only Governor who ever pleaded the statute of limitations to protect himself from charges of felonj T . It will be recorded to the everlasting disgrace of the old legislature that it took no action to redeem the reputation of the state after this plea had been successfully presented to a court. The entire nightmare will, perhaps, be forgotten, and the statute of limitations run in memory as well as law, if there comes anew era in which the government is redeemed, rqpolished and restored to the people. The rise of Jackson and his decadence marked the beginning and, let it be hoped, the end, of that power in this state rather loosely known as Stephensonism. ►six years ago the state legislature was under the dictation of the man who was later to go on a life journey to the penitentiary. He was giving his orders. The great fawned before him. He changed the laws to suit his purposes, and his purposes were very largely based upon the lifting of Jackson to the governorship. Some of those laws, especially the ones which took power away from the Governor and lodged it in the office of secretary of state, should be changed. Perhaps this present legislature may see fit to destroy the tools and -trategy of Stephensonism. To capture the state it was necessary to fill it with hate. The hate is dying, slowly as all hate dies. Four years ago Jackson came into office. Asa Governor he was average. He gave thejobs where his political associates decreed that they should go. The machine planned by Stephenson and others was cared for on all occasions. Then came the disclosures and the exposures. Perhaps they should be forgotten, rather than rehearsed. Unless, of course, it be profitable to remember that the finish was the plea of limitations by a Governor. Some of those who rode into power with him have gone to prison. The crusade of hate had elevated those who could not resist temptations. The doors of Leavenworth opened for a state chairman. Minor cogs have ci’ept into obscurity, branded v as cheaper thieves. Today anew Governor pledges a house cleaning. In that purpose he will have the support of all citizens. To clean house it will be necessary to strike at Stephensonism in all its forms, to drive out those who aided in his foray upon government, to repeal the laws by which lie created the machine which was so powerful. To Stephensonism auid all that it means, let the new Governor and the people say “farewell, a long farewell.” Prohibition and Liberty "The right of the people to be secure in their persona, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” —The Bill of Rights. One of the most alarming effects of prohibition enforcement has been the tendency of the law enforcement officers to usurp the rights and liberties of American citizens. In some all too infrequent instances, however, we find the task of enforcing the prohibition law in the hands of men who regard the constitutional rights of our citizens as sacned, and below is recorded the attitude of one United States commissioner, Martin J. Monahen of Cleveland. 0., toward enforcement methods that floug those rights. The quotation is from the Cleveland Press: A federal prohibition enforcement agent approached the desk and waited for the large, quiet man sitting there to affix his signature to an important looking document. United States Commissioner Martin J. Monahen read 'he paper, not after the manner of most public officials, hastily scanning something routine to be signed, but carefully. Then he rend it again. ••This is a private home?” he asked. “It is,” sai dthe raider, "but we think there's liquor there ’’ "You mustn't merely think, you must know,” said the commissioner, not unkindly, though a little wearily. "I will not sign the warrant.” Monahen has done much to strip prohibition enforcement of its terrorism. He was one of the first federal commissioners in the country to insist that positive evidence be obtained that liquor traffic is carried on in a private dwelling before issue of a search warrant. In handling thousands of dry law violations here, in the last six years, he has gained, a reputation as an authority on the search warrant law. His court has attracted widespread attention through the application of the theory that the fourth amendment is as vital a part of tihe Constitution as the celebrated eighteenth amendment. He believes the security of a free nation depends upon the degree of security of the individual home. He traces the history of this philosophy from the beginnings of English law through a well-remembered period of colonial American history, to the present day when the national prohibition act again has made the “sanctity of the home” a live political and moral issue. “An did English jurist ruled centuries ago that no matter how humble a man's home might be, it was hit castle and safe against- the king and all of his

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men save through proper use of the search warrant,” Monahen says. “That has been a precept of good government ever since. Strip the home of this protection and you deal a death blow at the heart of democracy.” Monahen personally is dry. “Fanatics on either side of the question should not be intrusted with administration of the liquor law or any law,” he believes. Prohibition is becoming more and more of an enigma to those whose job it is to enforce it, and with the realization of that fact, much violation of constitutional rights has been condoned in many of aur states. Outstanding in that respect has been Ohio, native state of the Anti-Saloon League. It is therefore a happy sign that one important United States official in Ohio is recognizing that respect for law is not built through breaking down one law to enforce another. The Trouble Carrier There is an unfortunate type of individual designated by medical science as a disease-carrier. There is another less familiar type known to diplomacy as a trouble-carrier. Such is Arthur Bliss Lane, chief of the Mexican division of the state department. Lane is responsible for much of the misunderstanding arising from revival of the two-year-old stcry regarding the documents stolen from the American embassy in Mexico City purporting to prove "plots” of Ambassador Sheffield and Secretary of State Kellogg against the Mexican government. In his testimony to the senate committee, Lane said he understood the state department had considerable effort in getting these documents from George Barr Barker. That was not true, and since has been "corrected” by the department and the chairman of the senate committee, But this, and other parts of Lane’s testimony, have permitted certain persons to question the motives of Barker and to tie in the name of Herbert Hoover, with whom Barker since has been associated. It is now clear that Barker’s patriotic function was to help get these documents, genuine and forged, into the hands of the American government, where they belonged. Both Barker and the Mexican government appear to have acted in the interests of international friendship. Whatever the value of the documents, which the public has had no opportunity of determining, Kellogg and Sheffield were in the disagreeable position of openly pursuing a belligerent policy against the Mexican government. Fortunately, that dangerous chapter in our relations with Mexico was closed when President Coolidge substituted the Morrow policy for the SheffieldKellogg policy. But Lane, who as secretary of embassy in Mexico City was a key man in the Sheffield regime, now is an important official in the state department. Both in Mexico and in Washington, Lane has a habit of being implicated when there is trouble. Perhaps Lane, like certain disease-carriers, is innocent of personal fault. At. any rate, he should watch his step in the future. The Coolidge-Morrow-Hoover policy toward Mexico is one of definite friendship, and Lane is apt to suffer if he continues to embarrass the cordial relations of the two countries. Chairman Robinson’ of the Federal Radio commission feels that the air should be censored of “cuss words,” but what with static and sopranos, it will take more than an edict of the commission to regulate father. A Massachusetts woman sued her husband for divorce because he. knocked out several of her teeth and refused to pay her dentist’s bill. Men who won’t pay their doctor or dentist bills aren’t much good. The increased building of war vessels since the signing of the Kellogg peace pact doesn’t mean anything. Jack Dempsey retired and he says he’s going into training just the same. They’ve been chasing the- witches out of Pennsylvania, but nothing has been done yet about those in Hollywood.

—David Dietz on Science.

Man Has Sixth Sense

No. 259

ONE of the most interesting and fascinating phases of physiology id the study of the senses. The senses are the connections between the human body and the outside world. The nervous system has been described in some detail in this department in the last few days. The nervous system constitutes the telephone system of the human body with its main trunk lines in the spinal cord and its exchange board in the brain.

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list. It has been given the rather formidable name of kinesthesia. It is the sense of movement or position. It is sometimes called muscle sense. Thus, for example, a person knows the position of his arm or legs without looking at them. Research definitely has shown that there are nerve endings in the muscles in addition to those of the motor nerves. The motor nerves stimulate contraction of motion of the muscles. These other nerve endings are of the sensory sort. Their function must be that of muscle sense. x This muscle sense is a very real and important sense and it is undoubtedly true that it can be educated. When we speak of a famous pianist as having "educated fingers,” it is probable that the statement is literally true. The average pianist never looks at the keyboard as he plays. He has a correlation between his sight and the muscle sense of his fingers that enables him to hit the right notes without looking at the keyboard. Muscle sense is probably aided by certain sensations, skin sensations and sensations arising in the joints, as in the joints of the fingers for example. The sense of balance is closely related to the sense of motion. This sense, for example, tells you at Dnce the position of the head, for example. The accompanying illustration shows a sensory nerve ending In a muscle.

M . EM TRACY SAYS: “Toledo Is in the Midst of a Real Building Boom "

npOLEDO, 0., Jan. 14.—This I -*■ writer is in no condition to exude a column of general comment. His ! head is too full of glass, Egyptian glass, Roman glass, sixteenth century glass, cameo glass, glass that i may have adorned the tables of j Judea in, the time of Christ, glass j that once held wine for Mongol coni querors, glass gown thin as paper ; through the attrition of 2,000 years, I glass that you' could not pick up j without running the risk of its col- ! lapsing in your fingers, white glass, ! green glass, glass from New Jersey, glass from Pennsylvania and most | interesting of all, perhaps, glass | that made Toledo famous. ! It all came about through a visit J to the Toledo Art Museum which | was largely conceived and endowed ; because of glass, and which justly j boasts one of the finest glass collections in the world. a tt tt Epochs of Glass For two delightful houts Sunday afternoon, we listened while Blakemore Godwin, director of the Toledo museum, explained the development of that industry which, beginning with colored beads three thousand years ago,' has come tb a climax in the show windows of the modem city. There are three great epochs in the history of glass—that following the discovery of how to make it in ingot form, that which ensued after men learned to blow it, and that which was brought about by the invention of the automatic blowing machine. The automatic blowing machine was invented by Michael Owens, a Toledo mechanic, and was promoted largely through the assistance of Edward D. Libby, a Toledo manufacturer. ft *t it Mark for All Cities Edward D. Libby was interested in glass from an artistic as well as a commercial viewpoint. He studied it, collected it, made himself master of the various methods of producing, shaping and adorning it, developing a love of art in general as he went along, and bequeathing a $11,000,000 endowment to the Toledo museum when he died four years ago. The endowment, together with a progressive director and efficient staff, has served to make Toledo art museum different, It is not a mere repository of antiques and curiosities, nor does it daunt the visitor with that familiar atmosphere or bleak intellectuality which envelops so many institutions of the kind. It has become a vita; force in the city’s educational system, working in conjunction with the schools, offering practical courses in art appreciation for both young and old, and not confining itself to-the realm of display. Each Saturday sees two or three thousand children at the museum learning what the various branches of art imply. How they came into existence and their application to modern life. The Toledo art museum is a splendid example of how industry can be transplanted into culture. It is doing a work which not only means much to its own city, but which sets a mark for all cities. tt Toledo’s Building Boom Toledo is very cheerful right now. more cheerful than it has been for years; so cheerful, indeed, that it is ready to discuss a $250,000 campaign for the elimination of mosquitoes while the thermometer hangs around zero. That is what might be described as an impressive illustration of optimism. Toledo is in the midst of a real building boom. Projects just completed, under construction, or assured for the immediate futre, total some $40,000,000. Among other things, a $1,000,000 theater is nearing completion, the Ohio bank is about to stare work on a twenty-six-story building, John Willys has announced his intention of putting more men on the pay roll, the Van Sweringens are planning to quadruple the terminal facilities of the Hocking Valley Railroad, which they recently acquired, and the New York Central will erect anew depot if arrangements can be made to eliminate a small section of the old Miami Erie canal. tt tt tt v Court Reforms As though that were not enough, Toledo has just been blessed with a much needed reform in local court procedure. Hereafter, permanent j residents will be admitted to bail on their own recognizance in of misdemeanor, while the practice of suplemental orders will be discontinued. The former is designed to spoil the graft of professional oondsmen and the latter to assure the public that it gets what it things it is get-* ting by way of justice. The supplemental order is a method by which a judge can reduce a sentence, or, remit a fine in chambers after decreeing it in open court, can let a bootlegger off, for instance, after he has enjoyed the benefit of being publicly praised for zealously upholding the law. The local reform extends to sevi eral other practices, particularly | that of patrolling so many prisoners ! on judicial recommendation, as the Ohio law permits. It all started through the dis- I covery that a colored bootlegger was ! at liberty when most everyone supposed he was in jail. An investiga- ! tion disclosed some eighty similar | cases and led to an effective move | for reform in which the Toledo News-Bee, a Scripps-Howard paper, took a prominent part. How many tons of oil does the Olympic burn in twenty-four hours? Approximately 550 to 600 tons. Who played the part of Rolls Royce in the motion picture “Underwprid”? Clwe Brook.

The sense might be likened to the telephone transmitters. They are the mechanisms by which the nerves are stimulated to action. Everyone knows the classification of the five senses, vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Science, however, finds it necessary to put a sixth sense in this

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. UNDER the auspices of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain, two investigators, Dr. P. P. Laidlow and Mr. G. W. Dunkin, have completed a period of five years of experimentation with the indication that it is now going to be possible to conquer the disease, distemper in dogs. They were not able to isolate a causative organism, but they were able to get infectious material with which to develop distemper in animals. The experiment showed that the disease is infective in its first phase of fever, even before the general symptoms appear; that the nasal discharges are uniformly infective at first, and that it is possible for the disease to be transferred from one animal to another through the air over very short distances.

THE widow of Houdini, the magician, claims a medium picked up and gave her the message her departed husband agreed to flash back to her if he could, but as she knew the message, she may have transferred it unconsciously to the medium. If Houdini had placed the message in a vault and not told her what it was and if the medium had then delivered the goods, that would be more impressive. tt tt tt It was thoughtful of the sculptor who carved La Follette’s statue for the Hall of Fame at Washington to seat “Fighting Bob” in his chair, for marble gentlemen who stind throughout the years radiate n.uch weariness. The most ecruciating piece of jjerpetuation is Jackson’s equestrian statue in Washington, the horse rearing and standing on his hind legs. It is not statuary; it is cruelty to animals. a tt * We warn Governor Roosevelt to his 1932 eye on Brother Royal S. Copeland, who carried New York when Smith lost it, a rare fe .ther for a presidential cap. In addition to being a United States senator, Dr. Copeland writes health notes for the papers and makes a weekly speech over a na-tion-wide radio hookup, telling the people what to eat and how to keep well. A politician is just like a cough drop, his success depending on advertising. tt tt As we understand it, the nations are all in favor of the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war, and are perfectly willing to ratify it, provided they can do so with a reservation that it shall not keep them from going to war. tt tt a One of the highest paid movie actresses has a contract which says she can follow the dictates of her conscience in all her conduct. The conscience of a movie star can be more highly trained than any other animal, doing practically anything in the world it is told to do. A trained seal isn’t in it. tt a a We hope the new Governors coming into office in the Mississippi valley have the courage of their convictions, but not quite so many convictions as the statesmen they are succeeding.

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.—Psalms cxxxix: 14. * u m MAN is a piece es the universe made alive—Emerson.

Dog Distemper Beaten by Experiments

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Isolation of infected animals at the earliest possible stage probably would do much to stop the spread of the disease, whereas the crowding together of animals is responsible for its spread. The infective agent is ore of those tiny organisms too small to be seen with the microscope, filtrable through filters which will hold back visible bacteria. The disease can be transferred from one animal to another by injecting the healthy animal with very minute amounts of blood or tissue taken from a diseased animal. It was found that at the time of acute stage of the disease the spleens of ferrets and later the spleens of dogs contained enough of the infecting agent to permit the making of a vaccine with which the noninfected animal could be inoculated against the disease. When animals were thus inoculated and permitted to develop resistance' and later inoculated with

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By Frederick LANDIS

T-XR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTTiER, president of Columbia university, suggests to the countries that they use their navies for police duty instead of for warfare. The doctor has given much of his time to an effort to cure the dogs of war of hydrophobia; in fact, he Is getting quite a reputation as a rising young international veterinarian.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

-BY W. W. WENTWORTH-

16. FAILURE TO SLUFF LOSING CARD North (Dummy)— A 7 5 B'4 3 2 086 5 3 *A Q 2 West.— _ Leads * K EastSouth (Declarer)— A 10 9 3 2 KQJ 9 7 • O A 4 *K The bidding: South opens with one heart. ‘ West bids one spade. North bids two hearts and all pass. Deciding the play: West leads king of spades and then plays ace of spades and king of diamonds. How should Declarer play so that game is assured? The error: Declarer captures the third trick with ace of diamonds and then establishes the trump suit by leading king of hearts and forcing opponents to play ace of hearts. Upon obtaining the lead, opponents

This Date in U. S. History

January 14 1621 —Storehouse of Plymouth colony burned. 1741—Birthday of Benedict Arnold. 1814—Daniel Webster delivered his first speech. ’ / y

the disease, they did not become ill. In order to carry out the experiment on a large scale, 325 hounds belonging to fifteen different packs of hounds were treated with the vaccine. Other hounds of the same stock, running with those which had been immunized, were used as controls. Since that time distemper has broken out on several occasions in the kennels, the hounds which had not been vaccinated against distemper becoming ill, but not one of those which had been vaccinated developed the disease. The work may be credited as another of the great discoveries of modern medicine, showig how the very animals which the anti-vivi-sectionlsts claim should not be used for experiments to prevent disease in human beings, themselves are saved from one of the most threatening and fatal disorders of the animal world through scientific animal experimentation. .

WORD FROM HOUDINI STATUES GET TIRED m m WATCH DR. COPELAND

Mrs. florenze graydahl, of Minneapolis is running for mayor because she dreamed she was destined to lead the people. We’ve known politicians who actually felt this way about it, even after they had bought the delegates on the hoof. tt a t> That was a wise will made by Miss Minnie Hoover of Los Angeles, who left a $5,000 estate to her dog and nothing at all to her three cousins, for a good dog is worth more to one’s life than all the cousins breathing air. tt tt tt The regularity with which bank offlicials and customers are being crowded into bank vaults suggests that those vaults should be furnished with all possible comforts, easy chairs, divans, radios, etc.

proceed to win one trick in diamonds, thus preventing game. The correct method: After capturing the third trick with ace of diamonds, Declarer should lead king of clubs, overtaking the trick with ace of clubs in Dummy. The queen of clubs is now played and four of diamonds is discarded on it. After that the trump suit is played and game is insured. Declarer, before touching or drawing a card, should immediately, upon Dummy’ being exposed, determine how to discard a laser that may prevent game. The principle. Discard a losing card before it is too late. Where can we get the names of the personnel of the foreign service of the United States? “Foreign Service of the United States,” issued by the state department can be purchased from the j superintendent of documents, government printing office. Washington, D. C., for 15 cents, cash or money order. Who financed the round-the-world trip of Brock and Schlee in the monoplane Pride of Detroit? Edward F. Schlee financed the Bight, f Whom did Nellie Grant, only daughter of President Grant, marry? She married Algernon Sartoris, an Englishman, in the east room of the White House, May 21, 1874. What city is called “The Gate City of the South?” Atlanta, Ga. Why is cactus the national plant of Mexico? Because it grows wild in profusion !n all parts of the country.

.JAN. 14, 1929

IT SEEMS TOME tt a By HEYWOOD BROUN

ldai aa and oplnlaai asorested In this column are those es one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

A LDOUS HUXLEY may not like life very much, but he is certainly preoccupied with it. No author has spread so generous a section in any recent book as the brilliant young Englishman serves for the readers in his novel “Point Counter Point.” Possibly Huxley is not so young any more. Reviewers have been calling him the young this and that (chiefly favorable) for the last ten years. Probably they will continue to do so, for even the passage of the years is not likely to soften very much the acidity of adolescence in this case. Certainly the Huxley of this book is not a grain more mellow than back in the days of his surprising book “Crome Yellow.” It is not unfair to fasten the charge of immaturity upon most of the sad young men who rail at the dreadful state of the world. I rather think it all evens up at the end of the years and the bitter. boys are mostly those who have not yet reached halfway house. Indeed, I think many of them deceive themselves. There is such gusto in thfi irony of Aldous Huxley that it is hard to believe that defeatism is entered into the very • citadel of his soul. Quite obviously many of the preachers of despair succeed in pulling themselves up from the slough by their own bootstraps. I see Huxley as not unlike the littlest boy in Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” tt tt tt He Likes His Gore I ASK Huxley’s pardon for drawing a comparison from such a quarter since Barrie seems to be one |of his pet abominations. Nevertheless, it is too late by now to turn back. Possibly you remember the littlest boy. He is the one to whom Wendy says at the height of the bloody battle with the pirates, “Isn’t this awful?” But he, wiping the gore from his wooden blade, replies simply, “I like it. I like it very much.” If there were no hypocrisy and can’t in the world, heartbreak and licentiousness, Aldous Huxley would not be able to write such long and highly entertaining stories. He draws few figures of heroic proportion but there is no sure escape from sentimentality by snarling. It is an effort well and even magnificently sustained. The manner in which the story is told may be a little confusing to the reader in the beginning, but it gains effectiveness as you go on. Possibly there is some debt to Dos Passos, for the structure is somewhat; after the manner of “Manhattan Transfer.” Attention is switched about with great rapidity from one set of figures to another. But in some curious way those who are blotted out for the moment seem to remain in being. It is as if a drunken electrician were playing with a spotlight during the performance of a big musical show. All the people in the book are on the stage eyen when they are suddenly plunged into darkness while in mid-career of love or anguish. As a piatter of fact, these two pursuits seem practically synonymous to Huxley. His men and women in love all come off with gasping wounds and scratches. Sex is early established as the fundamental blunder of creation. And here again one may suspect that the author’s unconscious mind harbors a dissenting opinion. But for sex, he could not play any of the tunes which he has piped into fiction. tt tt tt Has Fear of Women pSYCHO-ANALYSIS at a distance is a dangerous procedure, but I think that this last novel re-establishes the fact suggested in earlier work that Aldous Huxley has a deep and abiding fear of women. Naturally enough, he treats them scornfully in his pages and grows savage about feminine charms and and the manner in which they are utilized for man’s destruction. The one female character who is kindly treated by him happens to be maternal and a sturdy vine in her relation to her clinging oak of a husband. Accordingly, I think the case of Aldous Huxley may be safely left to the Freudians. Oh, I forgot, next to Barrie, Huxley can’t stand the disciples of phy-chi-analysis. But they undoubtedly will give him as good as he sends and Indict him as a neurotic with a mother fixation. Without doubt, “Point Counter Point” is not the product of mind well adjusted to life. The very business of putting 100.words or more into a novel is in itself a little morbid. So far nothing has been said about the pilot of “Point Counter Point.” It won’t be added now. Any adequate synopsis would be impossible, as the canvas is too big and the characters by much toe numerous. Let it suffice that Huxley surveys and hopes and fears of a vast cross section of modern London society with most of the emphasis upon the intellectuals. To my ear he writes the most glittering prose produced by any of the younger modems. This ease and fluency and bite is at its richest in “Point Counter Point.” It is not for those who want some little thing to tide them over two hours In a raidroad train. Anybody who goes through “Point Counter Point” must give his days and nights to it. I think there are rich rewards of wit and finely sustained prose within it. And, I might add, some of it is very shocking. (Copyright, 1928, for The Times) Is it correct to use “who” or “whom” in the following sentence: “There is a girt here whom (who) I know”? “Whom” is correct. The objective relative pronoun should be used because it is the object of “know.”