Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1929 — Page 4

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Indianapolis Legislation Ju*t why a city of the size and importance of Indianapolis should be compelled to go to the state legislature to get permission to do something that its citizens all desire is one of the inherited shackles from the past. But that is the situation. It so happens that this year the city is asking for some very important legislation. It needs, or so attorneys seem to believe, new laws in order that the will of the people oJ this city may be carried out. So the absurd spectacle is presented of having a legislature, composed of members elected by men and women who can in no way be affected, passing upon the right of Indianapolis to do necessary things. This city has a contract to take over the gas utility. The plant Is worth many more millions than the price agreed upon twenty-three yearj ago when the city gave the right to the company to use its streets. The contract is plain and easily understood. The stockholders promised to take 10 per cent a year on their investment for twenty-five years and then turn over the plant for the exact amount of their investment. It is a business contract. The city admmistration, the Chamber of Commerce, the trustees ft® the stockholders, the directors of the company are all agreed that the city is entitled to the plant at the definite price. Disquieting rumors from the statehouse indicate that the laws, providing merely the machinery for tho operation of the plant, will be opposed by members of the legislature, whose people could have no possible interest in whether the city as a whole owns the plant or it be run by private capital. Any opposition to these laws is suspicious. It indicates that there are ulterior interests at work, and, of course, there are. The public utilities, as a group, do not like to see public ownership of any plant. They have spent a lot of money trying to teach people that it is bad business—bad. of course, for the people. The utilities, under the leadership of the Insull group, have their high-priced lobbyists on the job. They are easily spotted, even those who do not register as such. They are the men who hobnob with the lawmakers from the farms. They can be lound lunching with members who may be flattered while fed. These same lobbyists and machine politicians will be found working together against one other Indianapolis demand. They do not like the city manage* plan voted by four out of five of the people of this city. They will try, in every way, to destroy that law. either by repeal or through amendments that will make it ineffective in order to turn the city back to the political control under which it suffered through' its Duvails and its Coffins. The people should have a lobby. They should make it plain to lawmakers from the outside counties that any legislator who fights the tilings on which public opinion in this city is united places himself under suspicion. If necessary, any such member should be told that if lie interferes, the word will bo tent back to his home and he will be asked to explain to lus own constituents his antagonism to Indianapolis. Public sentiment in this city on these two subjects is definite and united. The objects are unselfish and steps forward. The bosses and the professional lobbyists should be made to understand that no interference with these measures will be tolerated. Why It Is Important Picturesque as is the flgnt Dei ween the Rockefellers and Robert W. Stewart for control of the Standard Oil of Indiana, the reason back of it is important and should not be forgotten. Leave out, as Rockefeller probably has done, Stewart's quarrel with t-lie United States senate over whether he should have helped uncover the hidden source of liberty bonds which financed Albert Fall's ranch properties and paid a substantial part of the 1920 Republican deficit. The Record contains other facts which make it very clear why the Rockefellers believe a taint remains on the oil industry so long as Stewart is a part of it. For Stewart was one of the major actors in the Continental Trading Company deal, that black chapter in the history of oil so desperately concealed from the public eye, so haltingly ‘‘explained" when concealment was no longer possible. Stewart signed his name as guarantor for the Continental Company and thus helped it mulct his own company of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thereafter he mysteriously was handed Liberty bonds—bonds which had been purchased for the Continental Company and represented its profits. In the end he turned these bonds back to his company. He did it just as the senate was about to trace them into his possession. It was the first his company knew of them. That much alone is enough to shatter public confidence in Stewart, even if his associates had not been Harry F Sinclair. H. M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neil, the first under jail sentence on charges growing out of the oil scandals, the second two exiled in Europe. Rockefeller is acting primarily for the good of his business and the great industry of which it is a part. The integrity of American business concerns us all. All Wet Os course that proposal for an additional $25,000,000 federal appropriation to enforce prohibition would come from a dry state, which is spending little or none of its own money cn enforcement. Senator William J. Harris, author of the proposal, admits that his own state of Georgia has no specific state enforcement machinery and no general state prohibition agents. Let Uncle Sam do it, is the motto. And that means in practice that the taxpayers of wet states like New York pay the bill in the vain attempt to dry up the dry states like Georgia. On the basis of internal revenue taxes citizens of the four wet states of New York. Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and New Jersey furnish 43.4 per cent of the funds for national enforcement. This is not fair. Os more importance, it won’t work. What Harris and many other drys are trying to do is to mire the lederal government deeper in the task of local enforcement Apart from the fact that such police work is the proper 1 unction of individual states and municipalities, attempts to load this added expense on the federal government will tend to hasten the popular reaction against prohibition, which the drys most fear. The country already resents the burden of $40,000,-

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000 a year for “enforcing” this apparently unenforceable law. But that is nothing compared with the eventual cost if the dry states, which would dictate a law for the rest of the country without even handling their own pint bootleggers, have their way. ‘‘lt is a matter of policy whether congress wants to embark in the police business (with regard to prohibition”), according to Dr. J. M. Doran, United States prohibition commissioner. “If it does, it will take $300,000,000 and a system of United States courts hovering the land.” . Probably a closer estimate would be $3,000,000,000. But either figure shows the ridiculous situation into which the country is drifting. The dry states can not have it both ways. Either they are going to tackle their own jobs of local enforcement, or this experiment is going to collapse even more quickly than expected. Reapportionment The house of representatives has shown statesmanship and courage in dealing with the troublesome problem of reapportionment. Since the early days of the constitution no other congress has done more than compromise on this issue and meet it with temporary expedients. The Fenn bill just passed does what had to be done sooner or later. It fixes permanently the size of the house and provides not only immediate reapportionment, but a system that assuies it in the future after each decennial census. If it becomes law It will be difficult hereafter for less populous states selfishly to deprive others of their just representation, as in the past. The Fenn bill limits membership of the house to 435, the present total. Instead of leaving to congressmen the duty of legislating themselves out of office, it gives the task of reallocating members to the secretary of commerce. Congress retains the right to reject his decision, but only if it adopts a substitute reapportionment plan in a prescribed time. A fourth of our states have been deprived unfairly of their constitutional right of representation for eight years, and will be lor five years more, before this new plan can be put into effect, but the wrong has not been endured in vain, if this wise solution is accepted for protecting all in the future. The senate should let nothing interfere with adoption of the bill before adjournment. The Country Doctor Anew angle of the “farm problem” which hasn’t been discussed much, but which will grow more and more acute with each passing year, is pointed out by a writer in the current issue of the North American Review. It is the crisis in country life which is approaching as a result of the disappearance of the country doctor. In 1906 there were in the United States 33,000 physicians in towns of 1,000 population or less. By 1924 this number had dwindled to 27,000, and it is still going down. Almost one-third of the small towns that had resident doctors in 1914 have none today. Medical education and training grow* more expensive each year. The vast majority of medical graduates, seeking to recoup their expenditures, enter .urban practice as specialists in cne branch or another of their profession. Just what can be done to remedy matters is not clear; obviously it is a problem that needs some very serious consideration. “Smith’s Appeal” Alfred E. Smith preached sound sense to liis radio audience last week. That a political party should function all the time instead of every four years; That a minority has not merely a sporadic, but a continuous, duty as a critic of the majority; And that the funds for party activities should come from the rank and file rather than from a few rich angels. For in politics, as in every walk of life, the price of success is eternal vigilance. And the Democratic par'y has not been vigilant except as it woke up every four years, rubbed its eyes, had its brief fling, took its licking, and went back to sleep. Nothing is more healthful for the country as a whole than an active minority. Through it, light is turned on in dark places. We hope that the Democrats, not just the professional p(jliticians among them, but Democrats as a whole, will respond to the Smith appeal. Dispatches report the finding of the tomb of one of Solomon's wives. Some day excavators are' going to find a woman w io was not Solomon's wife and that will be news. Shoes are being made from old tires in France. The buyers, of course, face the hazard of skidding into telephone poles. On Ohio man reported his lilac bush in full bloom the other day. The desert isn't the only place a man can enjoy a mirage. * The average wind velocity in Philadelphia is said to be ten miles an hour. Not the political wind, however. Who remembers the good old-fashioned days when fur used to come from animals? * A man in New York state voluntarily cut his own salary twice. Evidently not a married man. Bishop Hughes urges an appeal to bootleggers through newspaper advertising “to stop such business and give yourselves to God." The idea might be even more successful if they could be persuaded to take a drink of their own stuff. A bill filed in the New Hampsh' e legislature would prohibit the sale of rouge, lip Stic*, and face powder. Drug stores wouldn't suffer much, however; they could go right on selling sandwiches and automobile tires just the same. A weekly newspaper says the earth's coldest spot s Verkhoyansk, Siberia. Thai's not definite enough. The earth's coldest spot is a street car in Verkhoyansk, Siberia. It is proposed to make false teeth from steel. Suppose now all the dentists will be installing riveting hammers.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Proposal for an Investigation of Prohibition From All Angles by a Board of Citizens Under Direction of PresidentElect Hoover Comes at a Timely Moment.”

COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 23.—Among bills introduced in the Ohio legislature there are measures to permit prize fighting in Ohio and to relieve automobile owners from liability to damage suits in case of injury to guests. The last measure deserves three rousing cheers. Os all abominations that can be credited to the shyster lawyers, this one of collecting money from auto owners who have committed no fault but give other folk a lift is the worst. Decent people would not be a party to it, but there are enough of the other kind to make business for unscrupulous attorneys. | tt a tt % The Origin of Man Dr. AUSTIN H. CLARK says that, in his opinion, man was not evolved from lower animals, but came on earth in much his present form, which brings a smile of relief and satisfaction to the austere countenance of the Rev. John Roach Straton. “I am glad,” remarks Straton, “to hear a responsible scientist tell me the truth for once.” How could a responsible scientist tell anything else. But let that pass. Other men who have made no less faithful studies of the origin of man neither are so sure nor enthusastic. “It sounds incredible.” says Roy Chapman Andrews, referring to Dr. Clark’s theory. “Distressingly vague,” says Professor William K. Gregory of Columbia. \ “Rubbish,” says Oakes Ames of Harvard. a a a Prohibition Row WONDERS never will cease. Senator Harris (Ga.) has made some of the leading prohibitionists sore by proposing $25,000,000 more for prohibition enforcement than the original bill allowed. They do not put it exactly that way, of course. What they say is that Secretary Mellon is right in opposing such an increase in the appropriation at this time. The Anti-Saloon League seems inclined to support Harris, but the league leaders themselves are divided over the question. There is politics back of it all—politics as to who shall run the Anti-Saloon League, and as to whether the Anti-Saloon League or some other organization shall run the dry movement. The proposal for an investigation of prohibition from all angles by a board of nine impartial citizens under the direction of PresidentElect Hoover comes at a timely moment. a a a High- Cost of Illness HAVING become rather bored with the “high cost of living,' we now shall discuss the. high cost cf sickness. Some day we may get around to the high cost of dying. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford university, and his committee of experts are going to try to discover through five years of intensive study, what the cost of illness every year in wages, hospital expenses and nurse line totals. The idea is neither chimercal nor impractical. That efficiency on which we pride ourselves, with its whistles, time-clocks, uninterrupted machine operations and relentless schedules, has made sickness worse than ever before. Sickness now means not only the loss of wages, but possible loss of a job. System brooks no interference without pay. System has elevated the old-fash-ioned cold to the flu, with quarantines, prescriptions and private rooms, where grandma used to dose us with cough syrup free of charge. a a a The Milk Strike CHICAGO'S milk war. which lias just been settled, reminds one of another kind on cost that is traceable to system. We used to get milk cheaper for several reasons. In the first place, we did not pay so much attention to its quality. In the second, we used to keep a cow, or go and get it ourselves. In the third, we used to carry it around in pitchers or pails. Now we demand that milk be left at our doors in nice, clean, sealed containers, and. no matter how far it comes, it must meet a certain standard. A* a general proposition, dairymen sell their milk for considerably less than one-half of what the consumers pay, the difference beng accounted for by delivery, inspection and other costs. Farmers were getting 2% cents a pound for milk to supply Chicago. They struck for an increase of 14 per cent. They not only struck, but an effort was made to prevent the collection of milk, the farmers themselves, with rifles and axes, stopping trucks and boarding trains to smash the cans and pour out the contents. Every one is glad that the farmers and distributors have agreed to arbitrate. As in all such cases, the puzzling point is why they could not have agreed before. Why is it that men can not see the wisdom of getting together until they have raised so much of a fuss?

Daily Thought

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.— Daniel 5:20. an* ALL men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.—Goethe.

Not the Most Opportune Time to Launch It!

Deaf Mute Happier If Reared in Home

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magazine. THE child who can not hear or speak lives of necessity a shutin existence. Modern developments in the care of this group of our population provide for the teaching of lip reading. so that they may follow human speech, and for the teaching of good writing, so that they may easily communicate to others their own thoughts and wishes. If such a child unfortunately happens to be mentally backward in addition to having the defects that have been mentioned, the problem is even more complicated.

Reason

THE papers say that President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg are very happy over the senate’s ratification of the latter’s treaty, or rather Borah’s treaty, or rather Briand's treaty, all of which goes to show that it does not take much to please some folks. a tt tt It’s proper for the senate to go into executive esssion and discuss international matters behind closed doors, but when it comes to the consideration of the fitness of a cabinet nominee, such as Mr. West, that should be discussed in the open, so the people can know all about their proposed public sen'ants. tt tt tt Mary Pickford was so unnerved on hearing her voice in her first talkie that she had the constant attention of two physicians. We’ll bet that when Mary talks to her mother-in-law' she is not afraid of her vocal vehicle. tt tt it Ahton A. Tibbe, originator of the corncob pipe, is dead in California. If all the blistered tongues, caused by his product .were placed end to end they would reach from New York to Frisco, tt a tt They may take Jimmie Walker’s job aw r ay from him by forming a fusion against Tammany, as thpy did a few years ago when John Purroy Mitchell was elected mayor, but all the fusions on earth never can take away from Walker his superb ability as an after-dinner speaker. tt a The clothes of the average girl in the University of California cost her S3OO a year—and they are getting higher all the time. a a a We sympathize with this Philadelphia minister who has sued an actress for breach of promise, for no matter how big a judgment he may receive, no amount of money can compensate him for the unbroken fireside tranquility that only an actress can give. a a a If Tex Rickard w r ere alive he could make a fortune by staging this fight for the Standard Oil heavyweight championship between Rockefeller and St* wart.

This Date in U. S. History

Jan. 23. 1824—Birthday of Thomas J. (Stone-wall) Jackson, Confederate general. 1861—Five southern senators withdrew' from senate after a fiery debate. 1892—Ultimatum issued Chile. 1908—Claims of French government against Panama Canal Company and Colombia settled for $1,600,000. 1919—Nevada ratified the prohibition amendment.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Formerly it was the custom invariably to attempt to provide for r.he care of such persons in institutions. It now is realized that a much greater hope of a happy life exists for them if they can be reared to adult age within the family, making all the modern contacts of life instead of the artificial existence that develops in an institution. Since it is desirable that everything be made out of such equipment as the child may have, the technic of modern psychology has been called in, particularly in Germany, in order to determine the inclinations and aptitudes of the child and to encourage his development along these lines.

By Frederick LANDIS

DAIRY farmers tell congress the American cow will go into the hands of a receiver unless imitation butter is put out of business. We are for the cow in spite of the fact that she used to lash us m the face with her tail and now and then get her foot into the milk bucket. Hand in hand with the pump, she has gone through our national life, rendering invaluable service.

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

*4. TRUMPING AT THE WRONG TIME

North (Dummy)— 43 6 3 10 5 2 O A 10 9 5 4 J 109 Leads A A East—- • South (Declarer)— 4AK Q J V A 9 OKQ 8 7 4 4 7 5

The Bidding—South bids on* spade and all pass- Declarer properly gives preference to the four-

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address oi tbs autbor must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 100 words will receive □reference. Editor Times —Attention, taxpayers and citizens of Marion county, and of Indianapolis especially! 1 want to call your attention to the proposed absurd and unwise selection of the municipal airport site bv the last committee. The first committee used good judgement in selecting site 30, for it has a future, regardless of whether the airport turned out to be a failure or not. The one they have selected as an alternative has none. As I am a lifetime resident of Wayne township and a heavy taxpayer, I want to make a plea to the rest of the taxpayers to wake up before it is too late, and make an objection to their selection. I am a booster for Indianapolis and hope it eventually will have one of the finest landing fields in the world, but I am not in favor of the one selected. What is the use of going to the expense of building new roads when

Preliminary tests showed that instruction in the field of higher education was just as important for such people as purely technical training in the uses of tools and machines. However, the latter methods will prevail for those who are mentally subnormal. Apparently there are more than 3,000.000 children in the United States who are hard of hearing to a greater or lesser degree. The subject is one of the most important confronting the combination of teacher, psychologist and physician, who is responsible under modern conditions for the care of this group of the defective.

MAKING THEM HAPPY •t m m DO IT IN THE OPEN THE CORNCOB PIPE

TT seems that when the stars of the stage and screen, are not having their husbands or their appendixes removed, they are going into bankruptcy or being sued for back taxes. B tt tt These congressmen who have failed to provide the airplanes needed to carry out the national defense program may find that their constituents are “air-minded” when the next election arrives. a a a This new king who has grabbed the crown of Afghanistan probably arranged to have himself called the “Water Boy,” bearing in mind that the title did a lot for Hoover in the recent election.

card major rather than the fivecard minor or no trump with a worthless doubleton. Deciding the Play—West opens wth the ace of clubs and then plays 6 of clubs. East wins the trick with queen of clubs. East now plays king of clubs. What card should Sdfcith play? The Error—Declarer trumps with jack of spades. The Correct Method South should discard 9 of hearts He should not weaken his trump strength. No matter what cards opponest play, game is now assured. The Principle—When holding only four trumps in closed hand and only three in Dummy, do not permit strong hand to be forced.

(Copyright. 1929, Ready Reference Publishing Cos.)

we could buy for less money in the long run a site with roads already made? If we wanted an airport out in the jungles, why not purchase one down in Brown county? I would like for as many citizens of Indianapolis who can to drive to tie proposed site and see for themselves if I am very much wrong. I hope this will arouse enough notice to cause an investigation. I am one of the 5 per cent of the taxpayers to try to halt the purchase of the proposed site. CHARLES WISHMIER, Route 2, Box 717. Does the President of the United States pay income tax on his salary? By a ruling of the United States supreme coure. handed down Juno 1, 1925, the law compelling the President to pay income tax on his salary was declared invalid. In what year was the famous “Fatty” Arbuckle trial in Hollywood? 192 L

JAX. 23, 1929

Idas* sad opinion* •>- pressed la this etlini am those of aa* of America's most interesting writer* and are presented without retard to their agreement with the editorial attitude es this paper. The Editor.

IT SEEMS TOME # a By HEYWOOD BROUN

TN a recent paper I saw an advertisement which wanted to know whether the average woman could do her housework in eight hours. I could not make out whether it meant eight hdurs a week or eight hours a day. The latter estimate, of course, is wholly ridiculous. The hardships of nousekeeping are grossly exaggerated. To be sure, nobody’s opinion is of any value until he actually has tried out his theories, but I have kept house on many occasions and it is a simple and easy matter. At the moment, I have not done very much about the sweeping, or the cleaning or washing dishes. Such things can wait a while. It seems to me that women tend to overdo these phases of housekeeping. They complain of the rigors of the task and yet they are fanatical in the performance of the rites. Something of ease and comfort goes out of a room when it is tidied up too often. Still, I think that every parlor should be swept with regularity once every six months whether it needs this attention or hot. Under my regime nothing has been arranged or dusted for three or four days and I’m blessed if I can see that any harm has come to the premises. I hold no brief for disorder and presently I intend to buckle down and dab over the place very thoroughly with a broom. Once over, I imagine. a a Inefficiency of Women BUT ail that can wait perfectly well for a week or so. That's the efficient way. Women are not efficient. They do not seem to realize how much labor can be saved by putting off today’s task until tomorrow. Or, better yet, until a week from Monday. Too much duplication occurs under the usual and conventional feminine regime. A woman operates upon the fallacious theory that it’s worth while to sweep and dust 100 square feet of perfectly spotless area lest one grimy square inch escape attention. Consider, too, the silly system which prevails in the matter of washing dishes. I understand that in many houses this ordeal is undertaken as much as once every day. I have even heard of establishments in which not so much as a single meal is permitted to pass without its sequel of annoying clatter and scrubbing. In my house I have changed the whole system. The used plates have been neatly arranged by me in the kitchen sink. Instead of washing them immediately I have adopted the more sensible scheme of reaching into the cupboard for unused china. This saves labor and is far more sanitary. When I have exhausted all tho plates in the cupboard the dish washing will begin, and not before. a’ u Cooking Child's Play AND by now I am well prepared. to laugh at all the romantic nonsense which is talked about, the difficulties and subtleties of cooking. Yesterday I prepared three meals for myself and spent not more than fifteen minutes in the kitchen. And it was a satisfying, healthful and “well varied menu. The bill of fare was as follows: Breakfast: Canned peaches, dry cereal and cream and part of a leg of lamb I found in the icebox. Luncheon: Baked beans (cold, canned spinach (cold), leg of lamb and a bouillon cube. I could have made soup out of this last by the simple process of boiling some water, but there’s just as much nourishment in chewing it concentrated. Dinner: Tomato soup (hot), omelet, fried potatoes, cold meat (it happened to be lamb), and half a grapefruit. Bogey for the preparation of this delightful meal was precisely eight minutes. Almost all of that time was consumed by the omelet. I was helped a little in frying the potatoes by the fact that they had already been boiled several days before I took up housekeeping. It is much quicker, I find, to fry potatoes which have already been cooked than to begin with wholly inexperienced ones. And this process also saves the trouble of peeling, which I understand, is some slight nuisance. Naturally the soup was canned. My recipe for preparing canned tomato soup is to let the stock heat over the stove for several minutes until it begins to smoke and then add a cup of cold water. This mixture should be allowed to stand for two minutes. It doesn’t do any harm to stir the soup during this formative process. As yet I find some difficulty in getting the omelet off the frying pan all in one piece. Asa matter of fact, it seems to me that an omelet is very much like scrambled eggs. But perhaps my form Isn’t quite perfect. I am Inclined to drop my right shoulder and get too must wrist in the stroke. These faults should be easily corrected. a a Enter a Pedant ONE chef expressed horror because I beat the egg with an egg-beater just as my grandmother did before me. V an egg-beater isn’t intended to beat eggs, what possible service can it perform? But my friend insisted that all experts use a fork. I use an egg-beater. Next I suppose some aesthete will be telling me that tomato soup tastes better if you break the can with a pen knife instead of a can-opener. None of these fancy thrills for me. I like plain, substantial food taken out of tins with good labels and prepared with loving care. (Copyright. IM. for Th. Tim*)