Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1929 — Page 4

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No 111-Considered Acts If there be one important consideration in the taking over of the gas company by the city, it should be that no ili- considered act on the part of the city furnish squeamish court with a chance to turn that property over to private and greedy interests. The situation is very plain, so plain that only courts with their traditional penchant for protecting “vested interests” and private property could by any mischance, misunderstand. Some twenty-three years ago a group of public spirited men under the leadership of the late Alfred Potts outlined a plan whereby the city would have a gas supply, the investors would have a high return on their money for twenty-five years, receive their money back and then the city, as a municipality then own the property and the plant and operate it for the benefit of all the people. The franchise, or contract, was drawn at a time when the utility interests, as at present, tried to collect dividends on watered stocks. This contract was different. It had for its purpose not only an immediate supply of gas for citizens, but eventual municipal ownership. It was drawn to that end and very clearly drawn. The method of taking over the plant was described in some detail, but it was fitted into the scheme of city government as it then existed. City officials, the trustees of the company and its directors are united in the opinion that the city is entitled to the plant. But the city government and the state laws have been changed since the contract was drawn. That there will be a fight before the city gets what belongs to it is verv certain. Even if there were no holders of stock o* tificates, who have been drawing 10 per cent intere- on their investment, to go into court to try to xeep a property to which the city, just by growing, has added many millions to its value there would still be a protest. The utility interests everywhere are fighting any advance of public ownership. They fear the spread of any such method of obtaining common necessities. Just how much they are opposed may be judged from the revelations at Washington of the vast propaganda system supported by them in trying to tell the citizen that he is incapable of managing such projects. That fight is coming. It was sure to come when millions are hung up as a prize. There will be shrewd lawyers who will hunt for legal loopholes. One false step and the whole purpose of the men who planned for public ownership might be thwarted and the city denied its rights. No step should be taken until the attorneys for the city are sure that they are not furnishing a chance for these private interests to find some tenable position in courts, which in the past have never been overfriendly to public ownership. The city owns that plant. It must get it. The real friends of city ownership will demand that every step be taken with caution and certainty.

Roosevelt’s Memorial Ten years after his death is too soon to think of a permanent memorial, a material memorial like a statue, to former President Theodore Roosevelt. So the trustees of the Roosevelt Memorial Association decided at their meeting this year. A man should be dead at least a quarter of a century, they feel, before his memorial is erected. The memorial association has about a million dollars as a beginning for the project, so the delay is not due to a lack of funds. But it has seemed to members best to put the money at interest and let it accumulate until the time is ripe for determining the character of the memorial and undertaking its erection. The decision of the trustees is an interesting one. There is always a strong temptation felt by the admirers of a heroic figure to do something in bronze or marble qui;kly, before the passing of thpse who have known and admired the great one. It is a natural inclination. But it accounts for many little monuments to many little figures who had no real claim on posterity for remembrance. The really great have no need to fear cfclay. Passing years clear the atmosphere of personal animosities and afford a perspective. The Washingtons and the Lincolns are better appraised perhaps today than they were when the flowers were fresh upon their graves. Theodore Roosevelt can afford to wait. Hoover Keeps His Promise Herbert Hoover has made three major decisions since his election. All have been wise. First, he conceived and carried out his very successful good will tour of Latin-America. Now, during his brief pre-inauguration visit to Washington he has arranged for a special farm relief session of Congress in April and has approved informally the choice ol Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan as unofficial representatives on the German reparations revision commission. Nominally, of course. Hoover has had no connecion with these two latter decisions. The question of postponing farm legislation is up to congress, and the allied governments name the Americans on the xperts’ commission. But actually, and properly, the udgment of the President-elect has been a determining factor, for both matters vitally affect his administration. Morgan's selection may be criticised because ol his connection with Wall street. But political and economic realists will accept it as a short cut to honesty in the relation between government and international finance. It is better to have such relations open. It is better to fix responsibility directly. The heart of the : aerations dispute is the commercialization of German railway bonds, most of which must be floated by Wall street. Under the old diplomacy, Wall street would have been the power behind the scenes in such a financial conference: under the new system the international banker is put on the commisison and hi* responsibility established. Hoover's refusal to support certain Republican old guard leaders in their attempt to enact inadequate farm legislation during the Jam of this short session ol congress reveals his wisdom and courage. No President wants to encumber the first months of bis administration with a special session on a highly controversial issue. Doubtless Hoover shares that feeling. There is the added oppositon of busl-

;iess organizations to special sessions of congress, an opposition to which Hoover is not insensitive. So there was plenty of excuse and temptation to avoid a special session next spring. But there was one factor, which seemed unimportant to certain politicians, though it bulked large to Hoover. He had promised the farmers during the campaign to give them legislative relief, if not in the regular winter session, then in a special session. When it was clear that adequate action was not possible by the present congress, the only honorable act seemed to be to prepare for an extra session. That is reported to be Hoover’s decision. The Republican party has forgotten its campaign pledges too often in the past. How refreshing to find a President-elect who remembers! Colonel Stewart Fights Back Colonel Robert W Stewart intends actively to resist efforts of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to retire him as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Stewart has announced that he is a candidate for re-election to the board and has begun the collection of proxies from stockholders. Stewart’s Washington attorney, Frank J. Hogan, has obtained the signatures of the jurors in Stewart’s contempt trial to a statement saying that they did not acquit Stewart on a technicality, that they intended their verdict to be a vindication, and that they believed Stewart had not testified falsely, as charged. Stewart cites this document as proof of his purity, and intends to use it in his struggle with Rockefeller. Whatever the jurors may have been persuaded by the versatile Hogan, who was able also to obtain freedom for Edward L. Doheny, certain facts relating to Stewart’s connection with the oil scandals have in no way been altered by his exoneration in criminal court. These facts, should not be obscured. Stewart participated with Harry F. Sinclair, H. M. Blackmer and James E. O’Neill in the formation ol the notorious Continental Trading Company and part of its profits passed through Stewart’s hands to his companies. This in itself is a damning fact. Still worse was Stewart’s conduct toward the senate public lands committee. Throughout the long investigation of the looting of the public oil reserves he possessed information of first importance to the inquiry, yet remained silent. When in Fberuary, 1928, he appeared before the 'committee he said he had not personally received any of the Continental bonds which the committee was trying to trace, that he had nothing to do with their distribution, and knew nothing about them. At the time he had his share of the Continental bonds locked in a safe. Stewart was defiant and contemptuous. t In April, 1928, when the senate committee no longer needed the information he could supply, Stewart again appeared before the committee and revealed his part in the Continental transaction, or rather, what he said was his part. Three days later John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had been interested by Senator Walsh in the efforts of the committee to get Stewart’s story, called for Stewart’s resignation. Stewart had agreed to resign at his request, Rockefeller said, and testimony before the committee left him no other alternative than to ask Stewart to make good the promise. Stewart did not resign, and was re-elected to the board. These are the facts on which Rockefeller bases his belief that Stewart has shown himself unfit to be head of the great Standard company. To most of us they will seenl adequate, whatever the Washington jurors may think. A 200-inch telescope is to be built on Mt. Wilson. Maybe they are trying to help Tex Rickard to find a new champion who will draw a million-dollar gate. In the Pacific there is a species of shark which eats only the brains of its victims. That’s one hazard removed for bathers from Hollywood.

David Dietz on Srion™ Man Projects 9 His Senses No. 260

OUR knowledge of the external world is the result of things going on inside ourselves. But we project our sensations back into the outside world. One result of that has been a philosophical argument about the nature of reality which has been going on with no signs of a let-up for 5,000 years. But we are concerned at present only with the simpler facts of physiology. A good example of the way in which our senses work is that of our eyes. We see a distant object. What has really happened is that light waves, vibration in space, electromagnetic waves on the ether—if there is an etherhave reached our eyes. These vibrations cause electro-chemical currents to flow in the optic nerve.

CORNOPTIC or°EYe. i CROSS-SECTION OF .; HUMAN EYE. J ' . - -

This projection of sight is true even of the phenomenon known as the after-image. Suppose you star at a very bright light and then look away. You will continue to see a bright spot out in space. The bright light has over-stimulated the eye and the result is that the sensation continues. But ever, here, the eye projects the sensation back into spact as a bright spot. The eye interprets phenomena in the form of light. That is why a person sees stars if he bumps his eye The ear acts in much the same way as does the eye. We project sounds back to their sources. Our ears, however, are likely to be fooled and sometimes we make mistakes. It is particularly difficult to place sounds which originate in a plane midway between the ears. But frequently we call sight and past experience to the aid of our ears, identifying a certain clanging noise, as a street car bell, for example. The sense of touch is projected out of the brain also, but only as far as the skin. In the same way. taste is projected to the tongue. But here mistakes are made. For most flavors are odors and what we ascribe to the sense of taste is really the work of the sense of smell. That is wfcv a cold in the head renders food tasteless.

TRACY SAYS: “Trying to Beat the Weather Has Taught People Much of What They Know"

TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 15.—This town certainly has changed since I was here two years ago. It not only looks different, but feels different. At that time, it was whistling to keep its upper lip stiff, apologizing for what had not happened, hoping for what might happen and wondering what would happen. Now it blithely tells the visitor not only what has happened, but what is going to happen. The development of a community includes more than erecting buildings, organizing industries, increasing pay rolls and piling up money in the bank. Such things are essential but they fall far short of telling the whole story. Back of it all, is spirit, and back of spirit is leadership. In the final analysis, a community depends on the kind of men it has out in front. In this respect, Toledo has been singularly fortunate. It owes much to such men as Tom Devilbiss, who died five months ago, C. O. Miniger, who seems to have been drafted to take his place by common consent, W. T. Jackson, who was elected mayor last year, and a dozen others like them. tt tt tt Toledo's Best Citizens C. O. MINIGER, head of the Autolite Company and a dozen other big concerns, is 54 years old and is rated at many millions, though he had practically nothing at 37. I find many men like that as I travel over the country. The thought that if success does not come early it will never come is all wrong. Many fortunes and careers have been forged by men past the prime of life —men who, according to Dr. Osier and Sir Arthur Keith, should have become useless on account of their age. Miniger has done more than achieve success. He has shared it with his community, giving not only of his money, but of his time. Tom Devilbiss, he told me, was the best citizen Toledo ever had, and “now that he is gone, some of the rest of us must step in and do his work.” What a tribute, what an inspiration, what would not most of us give to be spoken of five months death as Tom Devilbiss is spoken of in Toledo. That is the kind of thing that makes communities grow, not only bigger, but better. a tt Beating the Weather IT is snowing as I write. It has been snowing most of the day. There are five or six inches on the level, and the storm promises to continue. Who cares? Who thinks of anything but business as usual. Mark Twain said that people talk a lot about the weather, but never do anything about it. Maybe so, but they do a lot because of it. Trying to beat it has taught them much that they know. Most creature comforts are designed for that one purpose. All of which vividly is illustrated by the ease with which we get along in spite of such a storm as is now blanketing Toledo and the surrounding country. One hundred years ago, or even fifty, such a storm would have meant serious dislocation to business, especially those branches of it W'hich depend on transportation. Worse than that, it would have meant discomfort to those vho were obliged to carry on. It was in the midst of just such weather that John M. P? ctison was inaugurated Governor of Ohio twenty-three years ago, catching a cold which caused his death six months later, and which permitted him to be in his office only six days. Governor Cooper, who was inaugurated Monday, faces far less risk, which is just one more illustration of how we have learned to beat the weather.

Too Many Laws Governor cooper promises to recommend few laws. That Is fine. We need nothing in this country so much as a let-up in the production of law. The volume of it is the reason why we are having so much difficulty with enforcement. The volume of it has become so big that the average official can not read it, much less enforce it. Governor Cooper promises a relentless war on crime, not only the new, picayunish, manufactured variety which has come to account for the vast majority of arrests and prosecutions, but plain, old-fash-ioned, every-day crime. That, too, is fine. One reason why we are getting such a dose of murder, thuggery and racketeering is because we have required our officials to pay so much attention to left turns, hippocket flasks and slot machines that they have little time left for serious offenses. a a a Habitual Criminal Laws T IKE many other states, Ohio has -L/ an habitual criminal law up for consideration, though with certain changes which promise to improve it. Dry as Ohio may be. it lacks the hardihood to make four pints of hooch the basis of life imprisonment. as is the case in Michigan. The bill which has been prepared in onio enumerates the offenses that can be counted in designating anv person an habitual criminal after four convictions. The sale of liquor is not among them. Meanwhile, an habitual criminal law, no matter what It includes, or leaves out, can not mean very much until It operates on a nation-wide basis. What terrors can it hold for the criminal who drifts, as most criminals do? Four convictions In different states must mean the same thing as they do in one stat* if they are to m<ian anything at tJL

These currents enter the brain. The thing we call “sigh t” is really something going on in the nerve. But our brains are so organized that we are not aware that sight is something going on inside our own brains. We project our sensation of objects back to where the objects really are.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

T TNLESS he desires to feed the Democratic donkey a peck of thistles, A1 Smith will not assert his party leadership when he speaks over a nation-wide radio hookup Wednesday night, and we believe he is too fond of animals to do anythink like that. The only thing for a party to do when it is out of power is to let its leaders keep still and let nature take its course. a a a The United States senate was foolish to pass that bill to give a $5,000 annual pension to she widow of the late Vice-President Marshall and the house shou’l kill the proposition. It establishes a maudlin and a snobbish precedent, for there is no reason why politicians or their widows should be pensioned. If we are to pension widows, let us pension those who are penniless and have families to support. a a a A burglar in Utah walked on his hands to keep the authorities from tracking him, but his acrobatic performance isn’t in it with that which justice gives in every criminal case when she jumps through hoops and skins the cat at the command of the technical criminal lawyer. a a a Representative Hamilton Fish's proposal to let the people of the country vote before we enter upon an aggressive war sounds good, but it won’t work because every country that has ever fought has claimed that it was fighting a defensive war and with organized propaganda any country can make lunatics out of its people in six weeks. a a a As soon as the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war is disposed of, steps should be taken to induce our prize fighters to abstain from physical combat, for the anxiety attending the assault and battery industry is too serious, the fate of the nation now trembling in the balance as we await Jack Dempsey’s decision as to whether he shall once more knock somebody flat for a million dollars. a a a The Ohio prison authorities were unfeeling to deny this executed man’s request for a jazz band at his funeral, for since our entire criminal procedure in a jazz proposition, nothing could have been appropriate. a a a Mr. C'Toole of Chicago, sued for divorce by Mrs. O’Toole, claims she borrowed a baby for the purpose of increasing alimony allowance. It may not be hers, but if she keeps it a week, it will sink its hooks Into her and shell adopt it. DAILY THOUGHT After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day.—Job 3:L •a a a ACUFJSE is like a cloud—it r asses—Bailey.

Until Then You Can Chew Your Nails!

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Does a Certain Food Make You Sick?

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. TEN or 15 per cent of all people respond to the eating of certain food substances with constitutional reactions. The foods to which they are sensitive may be such wholesome articles of diet as milk, eggs, or cereals, or such appetizing luxuries as strawberries and shellfish. A baby sensitive to <-gg can be made severely sick by feeding him an amount of egg too small to be weighed on a chemical scale. A person sensitive to honey may be severely ill not only by eating honey as such, but by eatlig it when it forms merely a portion of the flavoring in cake or some confection. Much more serious is sensitivity

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of infants to milk. When a child has an allergy, which such sensitivity is called, to milk, it becomes severely ill on tasting a small quantity and is unable to get satisfactory nourishment. In +he absence of inourishment it becomes much more easily subject to . iseases of all kinds. Dr. W. W. Duke has described in Hygeia patients who were so sensitive to eggs that they were made ill by the eating of the trace of egg contained in hen meat; on the other hand, they could eat rooster with impunity. One man, 50 years of age, who had had asthma for many years and of a type so severe as to produce complete prostration, was found to be sensitive to fish and to fish glue. On close questioning he remembered that three of his attacks began after licking a postage stamp,

By Frederick LANDIS

CiRIMINAL business ought to pick t up all over the United States since Grover Whalen, head of the New York police force, has put all those gangsters into circulation. This is the way cities have handled their undersirables for a century—make them leave town! In other words, hand them to the next town.

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

17. EXHAUSTING TRUMPS TOO SOON North (Dummy)— AA 7 5 (?K53 OAJ 5 2 A J 63 West— _ . Leads A 8 East—--1 ii n11 n mit mi ■■ South (Declarer) — A9 4 3 AQB 7 4 O K Q A8 5 2

The Bidding—South opens with one heart. West passes. North passes. East bids one spade. South and West pass. North bids two hearts and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads the 8 of spades. How should Declarer plan to play to make game? The Error—The first trick is taken with the ace of spades in the Dummy. The 3 of hearts is then led and taken with the queen ot hearts. Declarer now leads the 4 of hearts and takes with the king of hearts in the Dummy. Trumps are played again, the ace of hearts taking the trick. Declarer must now waste either the king or queen of diamonds on

This Date in U. S. History

Jan. 15 1693—French and Indian troops left Montreal to invade New York. 1730—New York City was granted anew royal charter. • 1777—Vermont declared her independence of New York and Massachusetts. 1831—First locomotive built in America appeared.

one after picking up a bottle with a wet label, one after picking up a fish, and one after having put on a pair of shoes that just had !>3en repaired. A drop of solution of fish glue W’as put on his skin. In a few moments a huge blister appeared. The patient then had a violent attack of asthma, with severe itching of the skin. He was given instructions to avoid fish and to keep glue out of the house. The asthma began to improve immediately and the man had no further attacks. Food allergy is difficult to diagnose because it demands of the physician a highly analytical type of detection. Once the condition is determined, it is possible for the person to develop a diet and a method of living which will permit him to avoid the dangerous substances.

A PECK OF THISTLES a a a NO REASON FOR IT o a a WALKING ON HANDS

THE world is about fed up on Mary Landon Baker, rich Chicago girl, who comes to bat every mopth or so with another broken engagement, and we wish some husky matrimonial cowboy would lasso Mary, haul her down the aisle, and compel her to inhale the orange blossoms. n n tt Since Mr. Hoover promised the farmers he would call a special session for farm relief, and since it can not be obtained without an extra session, you wouldn’t think it would be necessary for him to talk to all the garden seed distributors in Washington before making up his mind to call the extra session.

the ace of diamonds in the Dummy or he is completely blocked. Opponents must obtain the lead and game* is prevented. The Cojrrect Method—Declarer takes the first trick with the ace of spades and then plays two rounds of trumps winning in closed hand with the ace of hearts and queen of hearts. Further trump play is now postponed. King of diamonds and queen of diamonds are played and then trump play is continued. The ace of diamonds and jack of diamonds then being won in Dummy, game is assured. The Principle—ls necessary, postpone complete tramp play to prevent blocking. (Copyright, 3929. Ready Reference Publishing Cos.) Will an alien who entered the United States illegally and who has been ordered deported, be allowed to stay in this country if he consents to join the .United ..States army? No. The army does not recruit deportable aliens. Did Colleen Moore have a double in the part of Bernice Summers in the picture, “Naughty B ' Nice”? Colleen Moore plays the part all through the picture. What is the difference between “Prussian blue” and “queen blue”? Prussian blue Is a rich, dark blue and queen blue Is a medium light blue. What is the best selling book in the United States? The Bible holds the record from year to year. During 1925 the American Bible Society alone sold or distributed 9,214,423 copies oi the Scriptures. Was Clara Morris the real name of the actress? Her original name was Morrison. She married Frederick C. Harriott in 1874. He died in 1914.

_JAN. 15,1929

~w~ m **•*■ •“* U r m I opinion* exm M pressed in this M M column are ihose ot one nt America’* SEEMS sSt sented withTO ME meat with the * * editorial atUBy HEYWOOD ‘“ d p * r ° f this BROUN The Editor.

'T'HE Kellogg anti-war treaty is in danger, and the fault does not lie wholly at the door of stupid and vicious men in the United States senate. If the agreemet falls of ratification, some part of the blame belqngs to you and me. The American public resolutely has refused to get excited about this issue. Hereabouts, at any rate. I have not heard the matter mentioned in any conversation. Possibly this reference may not seem to strengthen my point, for the electorate, after reaching the boiling point, went out and voted in a way which seemed to me deplorable. But though my favorite lost I was never blind, even during the heat of the campaign, to the fact that it was an excellent thing for Americans to rouse themselves out of lethargy and get some feel of the power which lives in the wrists and fists of an aroused commonwealth. No one could accuse me of indifference then. Even solemn symphony concerts were interrupted by the buzz of people in the audience, who could not refrain from arguing about the respective methods of Smith and Hoover.

Now is the Time I SAID a little while ago that the Evangelical Christian churches had done little to promote the progress of peace, although the fundamental character of their faith should bend them into this direction. Many replied and cafied the charge unfair. I was told that th eLeague of Nations, the world court, the Kellogg treaty and all other instrumentalities for international accord had received generous support from the preachers. This may be so, but something more fervent than a generous interest is needed at the moment and pastors could give it. There’s no denying that, because we all witnessed the vast amount of commotion which they were able to create when they believed that Smith planned to take cocktails with him to the White House and also cardinals. In some of the southern cities huge prayer meetings were held every day to rouse the congregations to vote for Hoover, and the effectiveness of these drives was evident. Seldom do I find myself on the same side with the preachers, and it is irritating to discover that when we are leagued together my clerical friends do so much less than when we are in opposition. Right now there is no excuse for it. Prohibition may be an excellent and a godly thing, but it is certainly not imbedded in the fundamental structure of Christian belief, as is the cause of peace. If there is any such thing as true Christian fervor in this country, why don’t I hear the sound of hallelujah? If this is not a fight between God and mammon, my eyes are not what they used to be.

Better Than Nothing NOT for a moment do I think of the Kellogg treaty as perfect in Its provisions. It is not nearly drastic enough in outlawing war. The fact that defensive conflicts are not covered in its stipulations seems to me a grave flaw. But between the Kellogg pact and nothing at all I am all for the treaty. Even though it moves only half an inch in the right direction, we should tr.ke that tottering footstep. Every peace treaty can mean a great deal more than its formal letter. The Kellogg agreement has become a symbol. The United States, is called upon to answer the very simple question “Are you for peace or war?” It is inevitable that the world should interpret us in this manner. We have done very little to bind up the hurts and gaping wounds left by the great war. Our attitude has been—let the dead bury thei living. Whenever machinery for making peace has been suggested we have ruined its mechanism by throwing in the sand of reservations and turned back to the talk of more cruisers and newer and more deadly gases. There is no way of getting around the fact that Europe hates us. Let’s to argue whether its suspicions are all well-founded. And we need not stop at Europe. In spite of Hoover’s good-will tour we are not exactly loved in the lands south of the equator. f . a a a Keeping Appearances PERHAPS every suspicion breathed against us is actually fantastic. No matter. I maintain that it is up to us, not only to be friendly to the rest of the world, but to seem friendly. If the other nations fear and distrust us, as once they feared the German empire, then we have erred in some way, even if it is only pickrig the wrong sort of press agents. If we throw down the Kellogg treaties now, the world will be confirmed In its opinion that we intend jto let the rest of mankind stew in all such boiling juices as do not directly menace our own hide. But there are senators in Washington too deaf to hear the rumble of any distant drum. Upon these men We must creep up and cup our hands in order to shout directly into ears so peculiarly constituted that nothing registers except the mighty crash when some partisan pin drops. You and I can do something. Each one can write or telegraph to the senators from his own state and say, “We must have that treaty.” It is monstrous that Jim Reed should raise a skinny hand and declare, “It shall not pass." Millions of voters have walked up and down his spine in the past and can do it again. / (Copyright. 1929, jfor The Times*