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Here Was a Man To the thousands of men and women who had come under the spell of his personality the passing of Thomas Taggart will bring moisture to the eye, a swelling to the throat, a lowering of voice, indications of a sense of personal sorrow. The great and mighty will pause to pay tribute to his genius and his achievement. The lowly will remember his gracious acts, his democracy of spirit, his kindliness of heart. He wrote his name large upon the page of history, and much deeper in the hearts of men. He was a mighty factor in politics, business, finance, government, but a mightier friend to those who merited and received his friendship. The immigrant boy who became a maker of Presidents, the penniless youth who amassed millions, grip the imagination. The influence he e::erted upon public life apd private lives aroused boundless admiration. History was made during the years when he struggled from the depths to the heights, and he helped to make that history. His contribution to the growth of this city, which he adopted as his own, was almost infinite in its influence. Asa national figure, as a senator, as a leader, he received the deepest loyalty of those who followed his fortunes, the sincerest fears of those he opposed. He proved himself the equal, if not superior, to the giants of a day when only giants counted in our national affairs. He outlived, as he overtowered, those he met in the great field of politics. He was the last of a generation which impressed itself indelibly upon the making of our history. Each new field he entered, he conquered. But he never forgot the friends of his youth. The making of new ties never severed the old. It will be difficult to imagine an Indiana without the influence which he so long exerted upon its affairs. He was more than an institution. He was a man. Tributes, praise, ever, signs of sorrow, fail to mark his measure. Here was a man. The People Win Public sentiment won a great victory in the state senate when that body passed amendments to the city manager law designed to strengthen, not weaken, the new form of government. Perhaps a show of public interest will force the lower house to forget the pleas of Boss Coffin and his allied forces and agree to the senate bill. No one is fooled by the weird speeches of those who oppose city manager government. The law providing for such a change by vote of the people has been in effect for eight years. It was only when Indianapolis voted to free itself from the curse of partisan control, and Evansville and Terre Haute look to the same relief, that the bosses got busy. The people of this city, by a vote of more than five to one, have declared for this change of government. Only a crook or a fool would attempt to make the law difficult in its operation or fraudulent in the selection of its commissioners. Those who vote for sinister amendments, written by the plunderbund, can label themselves. ' x High Treason If you happened to be a soldier and someone wearing a uniform similar to your own stole your gun, you would— Well, what would you do, if while defending of your rights and liberties in peace time, some smiling crook stole your only weapon? That is what is happening now in the legislature through the manipulation of a measure designed to protect the ballot from frauds. It was a very simple measure, so simple that only election crooks and those who expect to profit by frauds could find objection. It provided for the naming of watchers at the primary elections. It proposed that any ten candidates could get together and name someone to stand at the polling places and guard against any of the expedients through which crooks in the past have overturned the government and made the people’s rule a farce. It proposed that these watchers, paid by the candidates if their services are not voluntary, should have a right to examine the ballot boxes before the balloting begins in order to see that they were not filled in advance with spurious votes. It proposed that the watchers should be present ALL DAY and during the count and accompany the election officials to the central point in order to see that there was no switching of boxes. Its purpose was to make fraud difficult, if not entirely impossible. When the bill got into the house, the henchmen for the local boss got busy. They amended the measure so as to make it very difficult to procure the necessary number of candidates to ask for the same watchers. Their real purpose was revealed when they slipped through a proviso that the watchers could enter the polls only after the voting hSd ended. That would be an invitation in many precincts of this and other cities to come in and view the embalmed remains of the corpse after the machine had assassinated the will of the people. there can be no real self government, or representative 'wemment, even decent government, in v &

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this state until the people register their will and have that will made effective. The people can and probably will often make mistakes, which they will later correct. But as long as fraud is permitted and condoned and invited, there will be a growing disgust with all government. The people gain, in this incident, only new proof that these “good fellows” who serve the machine exist through the highest form of treason. They get no protection. Watson, Senate Leader Through the irony of fate, or is it the mockery of politics, Senator James Eli Watson now becomes the leader of the senate, dictator of legislation, spokesman for its actions and director, in a large way, of its destinies. Over in the White House is Herbert Hoover wio starts upon the very difficult task of guiding the nation to new levels of prosperity, happiness, progress. Only a brief period in the past it was Senator Watson who loudly warned the people that were Hoover to be President, we would all be delivered into the hands of British foes. His agents spent thousands of dollars in an effort to convince Indiana that “Sir ’Erbert” was the agent and tool of sinister foreign foes and that his nomination would mean the end of all liberty. There were parades of farmers at Kansas City, with the present Lieutenant-Governor waving a British flag from soap box and calling upon the multitudes to save the nation from disaster, catastrophe and boll weevil. It takes courage, not to say crust, for the Indiana senator to give out interviews on the day of his elevation to his new eminence, interpreting the view of the new President and interpolating phrases that suggest he is in the closest of confidence of the White House. The situation, nationally, may not be important. President Hoover has a cabinet, one of whose members understands quite thoroughly the intricacies and bypaths of politics, and there is no danger of his being led into a morass of mistakes. At home it merely means that the Watson tradition grows stronger, his grip upon the machine a bit firmer, his henchmen more noisily arrogant, his influence a little more horrific to the timid. Now it turns out that Anne Morrow calls Lindbergh “Augustus.” Wonder how long it will be after they’re married before she starts calling him “Gus”? The government has sued 218 bootleggers in Detroit for $447,407 in income taxes. How did the government ever find out there was bootlegging going on in Detroit? " / Another First Step Those who saw the inauguration by radio were reminded frequently, “this is the first time in the history of the United States that a microphone in the senate chamber has enabled the public actually to listen to the doings of the senate.” There was a first time when the photographer was permitted to take a camera into the house and senate, and that was not so very long ago. There was a first time back of that when the doings of the legislators were recorded by stenographic method and made quite inclusive. There was a first time when the secrets of the so-called executive session were exposed. All these first times have brought the lawmaking machinery of the republic closer to its creators, the people. We think that end a good one. No serious harm seems to have been done by the “mike” to the atmosphere of the senate chamber. It was rather good to near Vice-President Curtis administer the oath to the aew senators. Now we will look forward to the day when the microphone is installed permanently, allowing the voter to listen in whenever he is interested.

- David Dietz on Science _

Einstein and Newton

\ NY Discussion of Professor Einstein’s theories -tV must begin with remarks about the work of Sir Isaac Newton. For Einstein is the spiritual and intellectual heir of Newton. Both have this thing in common: Both deal with the universe as a whole. Both were great intellects because they both dealt successfully with the universe.

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gravitation. Then we v,m examine the work of Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday. We now will see how their theories of electro-magnetic phenomena conflicted with Newton's theory of gravitation. And finally, we will see how Einstein has ended this conflict with his new theory which combines electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena under one law. Newton’s theories were based upon the belief in certain absolute entities. These realities which, according to Newton, were absolute and invariable, included space, time and matter a Space and time, according to Newton, were absolute and unchanging. The changes which were undergone by matter were regarded merely as changes in position in space. As a result, motion also was regarded as real and absolute. Newton also noted the existence of attractive forces between matter and in his famous “Principia,” explained the motions of the heavenly bodies on their basis. These attractive forces are known under the name of gravitation. Newton's law of Universal gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other with a force which is proportional to the product of their masses and nversely proportional to the square of the distances separating them. The forces of gravitation, according to Newton, are associated with the particles and their effect in space is distributed, according to the simple law of the square of the distance. Newton’s law wus sufficient for mechanics, but as we shall see, certain difficulties arose with the development of knowledge of electricity. v i

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It is pointless to talk about conflicts between Newton and Einstein. The work of Einstein is a development upon the work of Newton. Let us begin, therefore, with the work of Newton. We will see next how Einstein extended this in his special and general theories of

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Washington, Wall Street, Mexico, Albuquerque and All the Rest Are Being Bound Together by a Web of Modern Commerce.”

Albuquerque, n. m., March 6.—ln the east, one thinks of the federal government as something aloof and far away, unless it comes to mailing a letter, or getting a drink. Out here it is different. Out here, the federal government gets right down where people live. Out here, the federal government is a land owner, a timber merchant, a welfare worker among the Indians, a builder of dams, a water system for the farmers. The federal government still has 15,000,000 acres of vacant land in New Mexico, controls 8,000,000 in forest reserves and looks after 22,000 red brothers. This makes the advent of anew administration big news. tt tt U Close to Revolt IN the East, one thinks of Mexico not only as another nation, but another race. Out here, a third, if not a half of the population, is descended from the same stock, speaks the same' language and cherishes the same traditions. Thousands of New Mexicans talk of Calles, Manzo, Aguirre and Portes Gil in the same familiar way that New Yorkers talk of Smith, Mills and Governor Roosevelt. Out here, Mexican politics is an intimate affair. The revolution is not just one more rumpus abroad. It may easily mean the loss of a brother, uncle, or cousin.

Progressive Albuquerque STILL, the traveller feels at home, and not only at home, but with novelty enough to make his sojourn interesting. American civilization has conquered the desert so far as comfort and convenience are concerned, but it has not obliterated the romance. Albuquerque has traffic bells, blue and red electric oigns, a musical stock company, the usual variety of noon-day luncheon clubs and that invariable urge to grow which marks the average American town of 35,000. But it has something better—-a different and more original brand of architecure, a lively interest in art, an admixture of races and customs, to lend it charm. Os the two leading hotels, one is mission, while the other is a modern adaptation of the pueblo. Albuquerque is a health resort, a tourist’s mecca and an important jobbing center all in one—a place of sunshine, curios, and desert calm; currounded by great gray wastes, through which the Rio Grande makes a green streak of truck patch, field and orchard; with lavendertinted mountains twelve miles to the eastward. tt tt tt Art’s 'Promised Land’ THEY refuse to call it desert here, “semi-arid” being the word, and they speak confidently of the possibilities of dry farming. Asa matter of fact, quite a bit of dry farming is being done, but let that pass. Desert, or semi-arid, the region is one of alluring secret, not to say deep mystery. Here was once not only an inland sea, but afterward a civilization, and if one does not care to delve so deep into the past, here are towns that were old when Columbus discovered America—lndian towns, known as pueblos, which had history before the pilgrims landed. Here are irrigation canals that have been carrying water for at least 500 years and houses that have been lived in lor forty generations. Small wonder that writers and painters have come to regard this section of New Mexico as a premised land, or that American art has gained something of value through contact with it. 808 Cycle of Business HOW could the three remaining silversmiths of Isleta, the pottery workers of Laguna, the Navajo weavers and Hopi dancers get along without tourists: how could tourists pay their way without business; how could busines flourish without Wall Street, and how could Wall Street perform without cash. So we complete the cycle, with Albuquerque banks sending money back east to take advantage of the call market, while local merchants clamor for credit. As for real estate, not so bad. Real estate is speculative like stocks, and a “little siller” as Andrew Carnegie used to say, generally can be found for speculation, no matter how the shoe dealer, or groceryman feel about it. tt tt tt Web of Commerce WASHINGTON, Wall Street, Mexico, Albuquerque and all the rest are being bound together by the web of modern commerce. Hollywood, though unintentionally, sets up anew style capital; the closing of border towns because of revolution stops the flow of rum; country merchants in Minnesota fail because country banks have sent their surplus to New York; sightseers from Iowa; Colonel Stewart offends John D. Rockefeller by his conduct before a senate committee and there is a fight on for control of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana which may affect the entire industry—you can’t tell what is going to happen these days because of some occurrence, no matter how small, or far away. What American troops sailed first for France for service in the World war? The first was a hospital unit that sailed May 12, 1917. The first regular troops left June 12, 1917. This was a part of the regular army known as the Rainbow Division.

Reason

MR. HOOVER is the first President to come from west of the Mississippi river, and there is in the hearts of the millions who live in this great section a feeling of gratification, long denied. If Josiah Quincy, long since dead, who was in congress when Louisiana was admitted to the Union, tuned in on the event, we wonder how he felt. He greeted Louisiana’s arrival with the bitter proclamation, “Who knows but what some day states west of the Mississippi will seek admission to this Union! “If that day ever comes the people of New England will feel free to secede! ” tt tt tt • It’s a safe bet that tfflese law makers, who let important bills accumulate until the last day of the session naver came down to breakfast at home until the mush is all cold. tt n tt Wishing to change the subject from the impeachment trial of her Governor, Oklahoma now claims to have a live toad which she dug out of a stratum of the pleistocene age, where it had slept for 750,000 years. It will not be long until some fellow who makes mattresses will get its signature to a testimonial.

Coughs, Colds Serious Among Young

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Ed:tir Journal ol the American Medical Association and of Hygrcia. the Health Magazine. COUGHS, colds and other respiratory diseases account for 47 per cent of all cases of illness. Among school children the problem is even more serious than among adults, because children are

Q. —How much does the average baby weigh at birth? A.—About 7.35 pounds.

more likely to catch cold than are adults, and in them the # disease is usually more serious. Studies have been made by the New York commission on ventilation and by other investigators which indicate that the methods of ventilating schoolrooms have an

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The Alamo Massacre

MARCr 6 Ninety-three years ago today 250 Americans died in one of the bloodiest massacres in our history. They were members of the American garrison of the Alamo, an ancient mission church at San Antonio, Texas. The merciless attack, on 6, 1836, was led by General' Santa Anna, who by a series of revolutionary gesteures had put himself at the head of the Mexican government. It occurred just four days after Texas Y declared its independence of Mexico. The butchery caused great excitement in the United States. “Remember the Alamo” became as stirring a phrase to Texans as “Give me liberty or give me death" was to the Amerean colonists a half century before. And on April 21 of the same year the Texans, under Sam Houston, overwhelmingly defeated Santa Anna’s army of 1,500 men at San Jacinto. and took Santa Anna himself prisoner. During all this while the United States maintaained a neutral position. It refused to become involved even when ‘he Mexican congress failed to ratify Santa Anna’s promise of independence for Texas, given when he was taken prisoner at San Jacinto. It permittted, however, reinforcements for Houston to pass over American soil.

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By Frederick LANDIS

PARTIES have long insisted that it is the acid test of regularity for a defeated candidate to support the ticket, but think of the real regularity of the gunman who, true to the code of the underworld, refuses to give the police the name of the man who has fatally shot him! tt B B Our hopelessly erroneous conception of human values nevei was more forcibly demonstrated than at this time, when ten Americans are concerned about the illness of Charley Chaplin to every one concerned about the illness of Marshal Foch. B B B In the midst of all this northern ice. we didn’t realize how warm it is down in Florida until we read in the papers that the women who attended the Sharkey-Stribling prize fight wore their furs.

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important bearing on the amount of respiratory disease. The New York commission’s results favored strongly the use of window ventilation as contrasted with mechanical systems. The most recent support for this conclusion comes from Leonard Greenburg, associate sanitary engineer in the United States public health service, who studied various ventilating systems in their rela'tionship to catching cold by children in seven schools located in New Haven, Conn. In three of these ventilation was provided by the control of windows, in three by fans, and in one by what is known as the uni-vefit system. Three thousand five hundred ninety-eight pupils attended the schools in which the studies were made. Reports were kept of their absences, of the temperature record, and of the occurrences of coughs and colds among the children. Total number of absences of children among mechanically ventilated

Times Readers Voice Views

The soldiers’ bonus bill having been killed in the legislature, no further letters on this subject will be printed at this time. Editor Times—Many years ago I remember seeing a comic picture in a newspaper, showing a cat crouched upon the floor near a hole in the wall, through which could be seen the tail of a rat. It was entitled "Great Expectations.” ' For many months the people of the United States have harbored great expectations regarding the outcome of a prize contest as to “the best way to enforce the eighteenth amendment, or our prohibition laws.” The winning essay impresses us with the belief that “A mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse.” The “how” to enforce the prohibition law could be inscribed on the margin of a postage stamp, and would be compressed into just three words “Can’t be done.” The same answer is equally applicable to the Hearst offer for the best method of repealing the eighteenth amendment. An overwhelming majority of the people, by voice and vote, show that they favor the prohibition laws, and by the daily routine in their home life, that they are equally opposed to its enforcement, as regards its bone dry features. Our best people, peaceful and law-abiding, are the rule, not the exception, who are doing just as they and their forefathers did for a hundred years be-

OLD JOSIAH QUINCY aom NOBODY TOLD LINDY tt B WEARING THEIR FURS

JOHN B. TAYLOR, consulting engineer of the General Electric Company, has a device by which light makes music, but he will never be able to invent a device that will take the discords out of the music made by the light that wakes you up. tt B tt If V-ice President Curtis ever broods over his utterly powerless state, he should contemplate the superlatively wretched plight of the King of Italy, for whose daughter’s hand three princes now seek the consent of Mussolini. tt tt tt You, know, some people said Ambassador Herrick told Lindy how to act when he flew to Paris. Well, Herrick wasn’t with him in that airplane when he noticed the missing wheel and turned to his lady and said: “We are going to turn over, but don’t worry,” whereupon he put her in the back seat and cushioned her from injury. Neither was Herrick there when Lindy looked out of the wreckage and told the newspaper men: “I have nothin * to say.” Asa matter of fact, this boy should be retained to teach foreign ambassadors how to act.

schools was much larger than in those ventilated by the natural open window method; indeed, it was almost twice as much. The investigators are convinced that the atmospheric conditions produced by the systems of mechanical ventilation in use at the time of the study were associated with higher respiratory illnesses absence rates than were found in school with window ventilation. The report does rot intend to condemn all mechanical systems of air conditioning for this reason. It is recognized that assembly rooms, theaters and places seating great crowds of people simply can not be properly ventilated in all instances by natural ventilation methods. A school room, however, offers a different problem. School trustees concerned with this matter will find in the report of the New York commission and of the studies of investigators in New Haven ample support for depending on proper window ventilation to secure the best results among children.

fore the eighteenth amendment was enacted—making and consuming thousands of gallons of fermented concoctions. It may be dandelion stew in the spring, honey mead in the summer, and fermented grape juice and hard cider in autumn. The latest entrant, home brew, is not so universal, because a robust digestion is a prerequisite if one wishes to drink it and not suffer distress later. Yet there must be a large sale of the “makin’s” of home brew, because every grocery has a “wall ad” stating that it has it for sale, and if the grocer is something of a Puritan, there is a further statement that "It is useful in cooking and baking.” Other venders, though, I notice, omit the allusion to cooking and baking, and have instead, “We carry a full stock of jars, bottles and caps.” One place I saw in a store window, “Why bother your neighbors, when we can furnish you a complete bottling outfit for 78 cents? A Mrs. Grundy snooper, attending strictly to business, could just about wreck the civilization of a city like Indianapolis. E. P. McCASLIN. 5901 Dewey avenue. How much current does it take to heat a street car by electricity? It depends on the severity of the climate. In the nothern states it takes about 40 per cent of the amount of power used to run the car, but In the south it is much less.

.MARCH 6.1929

I den an opinions ei* oressed in this column a t those of one of A m erica’s most interestin* writer and are presented withoat retard to their aereement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

IT SEEMS TO ME a a By HEYWOOD BROUN

IT is too soon to hazard a guess as to what history will say of Calvin Collidge. He seems to be safe from falling into the obscurity of the Polks and Pierces and yet he is an outsider in the long odds which can always be laid against anybody's finishing among the truly great. Whether you like Coolidge or not, and most distinctly I don’t, it is idle to deny that he has been a successful President. America is well pleased with him. Destiny may even make him a candidate to succeed himself at some future time. Fate has been extremely kind to Calvin Coolidge. He is generally hailed as the founder of America’s new prosperity. And yet nobody has ever been able to show conclusively that any President could make a boom with his back and shoulders or avert a panic with well-chosen words. Certainly the factors in financial welfare are vastly subtle and complicated. An earthquake thousands of mlies away, or a revolution on the other side of the earth may prove a potent tonic to a factory in Ohio. But though a President can not do much to bring about prosperity it is within his power to upset apples by violent gesticulatoins. Cal has never rocked the cart. He has kept to the middle of the road. Such a safe course has appealed to the present temper of the American people. After the idealism of the Wilson administration and corruption of Harding’s rule, the time was ripe for the placid honesty of a New Englander, even though he happened to be of small bore. U U tt New England Dinner HARDING rode into office upon a wave of popular approbation of the good fellow type. When we came out of the schoolhouse where Woodrow Wilson presided it seemed pleasant to be met by a hearty man like Harding who was ready to slap any shoulder which came within his reach. Naturally there was rebellion against such jovialty when we saw that it could cover up the activities of a Daugherty or a Fall. Two positives generally produce a negative and so we got Calvin Coolidge. Gladly we all sat down to the frugality of a New England boiled dinner. Much may be forgiven a New Englander. One of the cardinal principles in American politics is that no candidate for the White House must ever indulge in jokes. Although Coolidge, hardly a Will Rogers, did indulge himself in a certain number of slight and sly wisecracks. And yet the country readily forgave him. This possibly was foreseen by that astute journalist, Henry Watterson, years ago before any of us had heard of Calvin. Charles Willis Thompson in “Presidents I’ve Known,” recounts the advice the great Kentucky editor once gave to John Sharpe Williams of Mississippi. “I have noticed in you,” he said to the brilliant southerner, “a tendency toward both wit and humor. When you get to Washington, John, curb it, strangle it, kill it.” But, John, if you find that this courseis to strong for you; if a time arises when you positively can’t help saying something funny, then, John, say it with a slight nasal twang, so that you may be suspected of New England ancestry.” The true test of Calvin Coolidge will come in the next twenty years. In some respects it was an excellent thing for him to sit still, hold his peace, and let nature take its course. Coolidge, to be sure, was in no way responsible for the birth and growth of the klan. He gave it no encouragement. But he never raised h” hand against it. And those who think that , the organization is dead or dying have only to ponder ever the fact that it was strong enough to keep Colonel Donovan out of the Hoover cabinet, because he was a Catholic. Again, Coolidge had no part in the making of prohibition nor has he personally demanded any Os the excesses to which this r-ovement has committed us. Still it was the pen of Coolidge which made the punitive Jones bill a law. Sooner or later somebody must tackle the problems which Coolidge was content to side-step.

Jingling of Coins TN the matter of foreign relations 4§ the responsibility of Calvin Coolidge is a little more direct. Never in all our history has America been hated outside its borders as it is today. In fact, I wonder if any nation cer has been so heartily disliked by all its neighbors far and near. One of the reasons for Germany’s failure in the war was the amount of irritation which its international policies had caused. It does not seem to me a sound thing that every man’s hand should be against us. Os course some of the accusations which foreign nations bring against us are not justified. It is difficult to be the wealthiest and the most popular nation at the same time. But the most rudimentary sort of tact should have kept Coolidge from waving our bank roll so constantly in the face of impoverished lands across the sea. Again and again Calvin made speeches in which he contrasted our happy state with that of war-wracked Europe. It was not kind, polite or even good business. What ills may come out of our official arrogance time can tell. Still worse have been our Nicaraguan activities. To the lands below the Isthmus, all of them, America stands today as a bully, intent upon interfering with internal affairs which do not concern us. I think no one should hail Calvin Coolidge as a good angel until time has shown us the velocity of thp ] air currents which arise from the winds he sowed while he held office. (Copyright. 1829. by The Tlmei) (