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Daisy and You There will be no pardon for Daisy Sullivan, rhe lb-year-old Bloomfield girl, who forged a ■ he<-k for $2.80 and bought some oranges. 1 nless, of course, the Governor of the state disagrees with the women members of the prison board who decided that the girl is better oft’ n a penitentiary than she could be on the outside. None of the fifty homes that were offered to tii; girl if she were released will be called upon to extend the kindly ministrations of mercy on the one chance that care, sympathy, train’Ug might save this bit of human jetsam which had been tossed about on the rocky roads of Greene county and found itself bruised, maimed and hurt. Xor will the industrial institution in this city, whose workers operate and conduct its affair.-, the Columbia Conserve Company, receive her as a worker, winning her way back to self-respect through wages that would enable her to enjoy some independence and selfrespect, and at the same time extend to her rhe interest of those who might have worked at her side. The prise: trustees announced that they had made an inquiry that disclosed two other small fraudulent checks. They decided that the girl was better off as the companion of the hardened women of crime than she could be on the outside. “The quality of mercy is not strained,’’ wrote Shakespeare, long, long ago. He is still right. So if happens, unless the Governor is impressed v. ith a different idea, that for the next two years this girl will be a felon. X\ hether she then is i leased depends on the ideas that the trustees may have as to the advisability of such a course. She can be kept, there for fourteen years for those two orangps, if the trustees decide that -he is still better off in jail. “She will not be humiliated by the fact that she does not have as good clothes as those around her,” was the defense of the probation officer of Greene county. That is the one certain fact. * Having disposed of Daisy and securely safeguarded her with a number and a, cell, what about those who made it possible for a g’r) to sing on her way to her cell at an age when the girls from protected homes are being carefully watched by mothers and fathers, and whose chief worry is the color of their next party dress ? "What about the males of Greene county, who. so it is declared, were very anxious that, the whole story of Daisy be not. written, but only whispered to blacken and destroy her? What about rhp churches of the county and of the state? Will they sit idly by while this judgment is being passed upon the girl and a chance, just a chance, refused her to have the influence and care of kindly souls instead of the harsh discipline of guards' Os course, the state has gained something. It has demonstrated that a girl who is friendless, penniless and hungry can be sent to a penitentiary within eighteen hours after her arrest. The state has failed in some other notable efforts to stop crime. Its former Governor pleaded the statute of limitations when confronted vith evidence of his effort to buy a proseeutorship for the gang. The boss of the machine was excused for the same reason. Xo statute of limitations ran for Daisy. The state has failed, thus far, to place its former mayor lu a cell, although a jury has ordered him to jail. Two years have passed. The courts deliberate. Daisy is in her cell. But at last there is law and justice, even if there be no mercy. The law triumphs. It, caught, convicted, sentenced and imprisoned a young girl. Perhaps Daisy can stand it. Can you? It you are interested, you might write to Governor Harry G. Leslie at the statehouse and tell him about it. Law (less) Enforcement There is something worse than prohibition—that is the manner ot its enforcement. It is not only the failure oi enforcement machinery. Doubtless the machinery can and should be improved to give the experiment a fair trial so long as it is on the statute books though probably no effective machinery ever can be devised. It is rather the czarist attitude and terrorist methods ol enforcement officers that explain the growing unpopularity of this law. Even the millions of wet citizens in this country have been for the most part willing to give the law a chance. But now they are goaded into bitter resentment by the lawlessness of law officers. Take the case of the coast guard sinking of the Canadian rum runner, I'm Alone. The guard was not satisfied to challenge that ship on the rim or beyond the twelve-mile limit; it was not satisfied to chase that ship 200 miles on the free seas in defiance of international law; it was not satisfied to fire upon the British flag; it was not satisfied to sink the ship and drown a seaman. It had to put the crew in irons. Illogicallv perhaps, but actually-, that was the indignity which both the British and American public resented most. So with the state enforcement officer in the Aurora < 111.) case. He knocked the alleged bootlegger, Joseph De King, unconscious, and then killed k.rs, De King as she bent over her holding

this officer on a charge of manslaughter, the coroner’s jury verdict found that he used an illegal search warrant and that the shooting was unnecessary. Observe the Stuyvesant Fish yacht case in New York harbor, 'the yacht w'as cruising near the Statue oi Liberty. The owner and his family were aboard. There was nothing about the yacht to make it a suspect as a rum runner. Yet a customs patrol boat darted up and fired a warning. The customs officers boarded the yacht. While one searched for non-existent liquor, five other officers kept their guns trained on the broker, his wife and two young sons. Then, according to Fish. they departed with oaths and insults, and a parting shout, “You're damned lucky we didn’t turn the machine gun on you.” And this can happen to a respected and law-abiding citizen on his own property in the very shadow of the Statue of Liberty, symbol of American constitutional rights. These cases, which have been piling up in the last week, to the disgust of the American public, are not unusual. They are typical of the practice ot prohibition officers, entering houses without warrants, killing suspects and firing upon innocent motorists and boatmen. But how different the treatment accorded politicians. A “dry” congressman, Morgan of lands in New' York from Panama. According to the oath of customs inspectors, he admitted having four bottles of whisky in his luggage. But the inspectors were prevented from searching his luggage because Morgan telephoned to some higher-up and received “freedom of the port.” Several days later the federal attorney investigated and announced that no liquor had been “found, seen or handled” in Morgan’s luggage—all of w'hicb, of course, has nothing to do with the issue, since the inspectors were not permitted to exercise their lawful duty of search. Another congressman, Michaelson of Illinois, is charged w'ith smuggling eleven quarts and a keg of liquor into Florida from Cuba. But many weeks passed before the charge leaked out. Now the trial is postponed until May. No wonder Wisconsin, in an indicative popular referendum, just has voted overwhelmingly for repeal of the state prohibition enforcement law. No wonder an increasing large number of lawabiding citizens throughout the country are beginning to look upon the Volstead act and official enforce; went methods as destructive to American institutions, American laws and American liberties. The Camp Fire Girls Those who wish to invest in health and happiness can do nothing more profitable than to see that the $30,000 needed by the Camp Fire Girls is raised immediately. There is no finer institution in this, or any other city, than this organization which conducts a camp for girls. It makes it possible for girls, who need vacations, the companionships, the pleasure and the training in order to build up a reserve of health and lay aside a fund of happy memories. The state pays out thousands of dollars to restore health after it has been lost. It pays out more thousands of dollars to care for those who have had too little of happiness. If you are kind hearted, you wall wish to have a share in this project. If you are cold-blooded and hard-boiled, look at it as social insurance. French Strother, fourth secretary to President Hoover, answers the letters written by those who feel they must write to the President. If you must write to the President, maybe you can get a reply quicker if you address Mr. Strother personally.

-David Dietz on Science

Sun s Rays and Winds

No. 322 -

THE daily weather changes are easily understood if we keep certain facts in mind. The first is <hat we live at the bottom of an ocean, the great ocean of air. The second is that the air or atmosphere is a collection of gases and therefore obeys the laws govern-

ing the behavior portant one, perof gases. The most imhaps, is that a gas changes its volume with its temperature. Since the volume changes, the weight of a given amount of air changes. This in turn causes a change in the pressure which a given volume of air can exert. Ob-

viously, the cheater the weight of air, the greater pressure it exerts. Now a wind is just an adjustment between an area of high pressure and an area cf low pressure. Let us suppose that a high pressure area has developed over one locality and a low pressure area over another. The air will seek to readjust itself and begin to move from the high pressure aiea into the low pressure area. The result is a rapid movement of air which we call a wind. Land surfaces and water surfaces behave differently under the influence of the sun’s rays. Land heats rapidly and loses its heal rapidly. Water heats up more slowly and cools more slowly. Asa result, m summer we find areas of high pressure and low temperature over the oceans just north of the Tropic of Cancer and just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, while areas of low pressure and high temperature exist over the continents. Asa result, there is a general flow of air from the oceans toward the land. When winter comes, the situation is just reversed. We find, because the land has cooled off rapidly, that the areas of high pressure and low temperature are over the continents, while the oceans, which have been slow to give up the summer's accumulation of heat, are areas of .airly high temperatures and low pressures. The flow of air is now from the continents toward the oceans. This circulation of the air between the land and water areas of the earth's suriace tends to complicate the general circulation which has been previously outlined. That circulation, it will be remembered, was a world-wide one, due to the difference in temperature between the equatorial region and the earth’s poles.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

"The Most Pathetic Feature of This Strenuous Ape Is Old People Trying to Act Young.” BALTIMORE, Md.. April 5. There were 325 "hit and run” cases in Baltimore last year, sixteen a week, or one to every thousand inhabitants. . About one-half the offenders were arrested, about one-fourth convicted. In the vast majority of cases, conviction brought only fines. In a few of the more aggravated cases, jail sentences were imposed. Taking the situation as a whole, the “hit and run” driver stood only one chance in two of being arested, only one in four,of being convicted and only one in 200 of getting anything worse than a fine of $32. Hitting someone is not so bad, but running away is the part of a coward. Running away from a human being whom an auto driver has crippled or killed should be made a felony, and no pains should be spared to bring the offender to bookana Irene Castle's Choice IRENE CASTLE M’LAUGHLIN shows good sense in retiring from the stage while at the peak of her career, instead of bucking the ravages of age until she was relegated as a “has been.” The most pathetic feature of this strenuous age is old people trying to act young. This especially is tragic in the realm of physical art. Physical art is youth’s sphere. It has little room for thin voices and creaky joints. Neither can they be covered up with cosmetics. Those who have won fame with their throats, fists, or legs, should be willing to relinquish it early. If not. they can depend on rough sledding ahead. Mrs. McLaughlin, having gone to the top, is content with her farm, baby and dogs; to play the part which belongs to maturity. a u a States’ Dry Rights WISCONSIN votes v T et, just as every one expected. The legislature will heed its expressed opinion and repeal the state enforcement act. It is quite possible that several other states will do likewise, maybe ten or a dozen. The idea seems to be that such an expression of popular sentiment would lead to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, or if not, to its general nullification. Perhaps it would, on the other hand, it might lead to a tremendous increase of federal dry agents, and a further encroachment on state sovereignty. ■ Whatever else you may think, do not forget that prohibition is in the federal constitution, that it can be taken out only by a vote of thirtysix states, and that so long as it remains, the federal government has the power to enforce it. Repeal of state enforcement acts could lead to a very disagreeable situation. With such acts in force, states are in a position to resist federal interference on the ground that they are taking care of prohibition themselves. Without such acts in force, they are robbed of any such argument, and the federal government would be justified in assuming a drastic degree of control. B B B Such Logic, Mr, Blease! SENATOR COLE BLEASE of South Carolina thinks it all right to drink a bit and vote dry. There is no inconsistency in such a position, according to his line of reasoning. “This is a representative government,” he argues, “and I wouid not presume to place my own views above the views of the people I represent,” which sounds splendid, especially in view of the fact that it is about the first time on record that Senator Blease has expressed a willingness to subordinate his owi; views to anybody, or anything. “I’m careful not to violate the law,” he explains. “Any public man should obey as an example to private citizens, but it is not a violation of the law to take a drink.” Then he lets the cat out of the bag by saying that he voted for the Jones law, not because his constituents wanted it, but because he thought it would help bring prohibition to an end. Such logic. BBS Jim Reed Is Right FORMER Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who threw a real scare into some of his noble colleagues just before leaving Washington by threatening to expose the drinking drys, disagrees with Senator Blease. “I feel that a man who votes dry and drinks wet,” he says, “can not absolve himself by confessing it.” “A man has no right,” he says, “to vote for a law restricting the liberty of his fellowmen when he privately violates the same law.” Reed is right. Falling back on the opinion of constituents merely is passing the buck. Arguing that the way to repeal a bad law is to make it worse, has been done too often for anyone to take it seriously. As between Reed and Blease, the former has a sense of honor and personal responsibility which is essentia! to the salvation not only of individuals, but of society itself. When it comes to government, law, politics and the administration of justice in a republic, sincerity is the all-important virtue. What people want, think, or achieve, counts for very little if it is rooted in hypocrisy.

Daily Thought

He answered and sayeth unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.—St. Luke 3:11. 9 a e MANY men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.—Alexander Pope.

In the Meantime He's Getting No Better

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Daily Cold Bath Will Not Rout Cold

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. EVERYBODY has his cure for a cold. Some prefer to carry a small bag of asafetida around the neck to keep off a cold. This smells so strong that it will keep almost anything off. Some prefer ten drops of camphor in a half-glas of water, some believe that wearing rubbers in wet weather will take care of the situation. A popular remedy involves the drinking of three glasses of whisky a day. Many prefer soaking the feet in a hot mustard bath and quite a few prefer orange juice and baking soda. Every one of these notions is a notion and nothing more. So far as modern science knows, the catching of a cold is due to a state of lowered resistance of the body brought about by fatigue, exposure, bad nutrition, or any other factor that is wearing rather than stimulating to the body. Asosciated with this there must be contact with the germs or virus that have the power to produce a cold

IT SEEMS TO ME *’ "ST

I WAS a fool to stay away from the stock market so long. Here at the end of little more than two weeks I have a clear profit of $61.22. International Tel and Tel convertible bonds have acted well. In addition to financial gains I have received from the company a colored map showing where our lines now go and others which we plan to acquire. Also I got a letter from the management and a long report about sinking funds and earnings. According to the newspapers, we bought the communicating business of the Radio Corporation shortly after I came into Tel and Tel. As a matter of fact, we on the inside know that as yet the deal is merely cutlined. B B B Tears of Alexander THERE are men content to rest upon their oars following any triumph, but though $61.22 Is good money, I now want more. Somehc w or other as your income increases, so do your needs. Last night I had two cocktails and a planked steak for dinner. Accordingly, I am looking for a more diversified investment list. Some operators secretive about their dealings, but I am reads' to tell all about my manipulations at any moment. I will not conceal the fact that right now I am paying a good deal of attention to Loft —object, purchase. The candy company is under new

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on reauest wlii not be published. Letters 'not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—ln The Indianapolis Times of March 28 there appeared a story of the arrest of seventy-two autoists for traffic violations. Ten were arrested for driving through the safety zone on West Washington street in front of the ball park. I wonder if the officers making these arrests used good judgment. Traffic on the boulevard has to stop before entering West Washington street, on which traffic is continuous in both directions. There is no stop and go sign on this intersection. It is difficult to obey other traffic laws and keep from hitting the first or second marker in the zone, which is not painted white. The zone should be on the west of the intersection with the boulevard. This is what I call a trap. As far as stopping at preferential streets is concerned, I notice in our newspaper several times that out-of-town drivers were victims. This shows that there is something wrong

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 13

by fixing themselves on the mucous membranes of the nose and throat. The resistance of these membranes may be lowered by unusual dryness of the atmosphere, by inflammation or by other causes. Obviously, the prevention of a cold depends on keeping the body in the best possible physical state and in avoiding contact with people who have colds. Under modern conditions of civilization, respiratory diseases have increased tremendously and the avoidance of contact with people who have colds is about as difficult a proposition as can be put up to anyone. The cold bath fanatic believes that a man never will be ill if he takes a cold bath regularly every morning of his life. That is another superstition. Then there is the belief that one is certain to get ptomaine poisoning if he eats oysters in a month not containing an “r”—a relic of the period before cold storage, food preservation and modern scientific food handling. The months that do not contain an “r” include May, June, July and August—the hot months. During these months the transportation of

management. It surprises me to find that hard-boiled Wall Street operators and young reviewers suffer from the same complex. A managing editor once said to me, “And another trouble with .you as a critic, Broun, is the fact that you’re always ready to yell your head off about anything new. As long as a thing is different you think it must be good.” 9 9 9 Editor Is Right AND for once a managing editor was very nearly right. It was my pleasure in the days of my youth to go up every alley where any experimental drama might be running (or even walking to the nearest exit) and beat the drum for the novelty. Tomorrow’s technique and the novel of the future must inevitably be better than all that had gone before. Always I hoped somebody would knock out Shakespeare’s eye or end the reign of Dickens. It is romantic, I suppose, to feel that any dawn must of necessity be rosy. But if I erred I have erred with the wolves of Wall Street. 9 9 9 What, No Gin? AS a matter of fact, prohibition is a bearish factor in the candy business. Maybe I won’t buy Loft’s after all. even though there is anew management. Not that I ever had anything personal against the retiring officers and directors.

with the stop signs. The signs are too close to the intersection. We are watching traffic and not hunting on every corner for a stop sign. I would suggest a wanting signal for stop signs at night. One of the flashing red lights used at railroad crossings would be effective, I think. GEORGE P. POSTHUMUS, 1035 North Tremont avenue. The safety zone on West Washington street in front of the ball park was painted about ten days ago on special order of Municipal Judge Clifton Cameron, police report. Out-of-town motorists are not fined or sentenced for minor traffic violations, police say. They practically are immune from arrest except on major violations, such as speeding, reckless driving and others. Why was Oct. 27 chosen for Navy day? In 1922 when Navy day was first celebrated, the Navy League, which sponsored the celebration, chose Oct. 27 because it was Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday, and because he had done so much for the navy when he was assistant secretary of the navy.

—By Talburt.

food is a difficult matter. However, modern refrigeration now permits the handling of all sorts of materials without permitting the propagation of germs due to heat. The idea of ptomaine poisoning is itself an exploded idea. Practically all of the cases of ptomaine poisoning are infections with germs of the so-called colon typhoid group—germs which affect the intestines more than any other portion of the bony. The oyster grows in shallow water. When these waters are contaminated with sewage, the germs from the intestinal tract in the sewage take up temporary residence in the oyster. When the oysters are shipped without proper cold storage facilities, germs multiply. For this reason there have been typhoid epidemics due to infected oysters. Nowadays the whole oyster industry is controlled by sanitary requirements which make it safe to eat oysters when they are grown, packed, shipped and served under proper sanitary conditions. There used to be a time when certain foods were available only at certain very limited seasons. Nowadays almost everybody eats strawberries, even in winter.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

They made fine chocolate-covered fruits. And it was thinking about this bonbon which made me pause before making any commitment for twenty shares. Before either of the wars (I refer to the World war and the whisky rebellion) I used to sneak away from the office three or four times a week and come back with a pound box of chocolate assorted fruits which retailed, as I remember, at 69 cents. 9 9 9 Passes Candy Around AFTER ascertaining just which ones I didn’t want, it was my custom to pass the box up and down the copy desk and to make a proffer to all the resident reporters. Even the managing editor was not above sweets, although he stood more than six feet tall and growled like a grizzly. Just as I was about to submit an order to the broker to get me twenty Loft’s at ten, I suddenly thought of the chocolate-covered fruit and marked the fact that I had not bought a pound in several years. In fact, today I would feel just a little self-conscious in walking around a newspaper office bearing chocolates. Times have altered to such as extent that I would hesitate to approach a managing editor and say. “How about splitting a couple of candied raspberries with me?" Indeed, the temper of the times is such that most men feel that if it Isn't gin it isn’t an offer. Probably I’ll eventually decide to leave Loft’s alone and use my funds to go long on White Rock. 'Copyright 1929. for The Times)

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REASON —By Frederick Landis

Uncle Sam Is as Likely to Ron Amuck er.s- a Sofa Cushion Is to Become Bloodthirsty and Bite. A MBASSADOR HERRICKS iV death makes a vacancy for a politically ambitious millionaire with a socially ambitious wife, and there are several thousand of the kind in the count ry. In the old days before fast steamers, the cable and the radio, the foreign ambassador was very Important, but now he is just a bunch of violets, international relations being handled in the capitals of nations, ambassadors being permitted to deliver the messages. B B B The people of England say that it is time the prince of Wales selected a, wife and settled down, but that will merely be the beginning of his social activities, if he follows the example of his distinguished grandfather. BBS In his second magazine article Mr. Coolidge says that if the United States were the only nation with an army and navy, it might overrun the world. If you judge him by his long record of neglected opportunities to consume weaker neighbors. Uncle Sam would be about as likely to run amuck as a sofa cushion would be to become bloodthirsty and bite the other cushions. b a a THE statement is made that few Mexicans know what their present war is about, but this is true of every war that ever has been waged. We pity the ignorance of the Mexican Indians, yet during the recent World war we believed propaganda which would have disgraced the intelligence of a toad, a b b A part of our Marine corps is engaged spraying the swamps of Haiti to exterminate the mosquitoes which cause the malaria. We hope Latin America will not construe this as another evidence of our imperialistic tendencies. BBS Reading that the late Ambassador Herrick was chairman of the McKinley Memorial Association, prompts one to suggest that another association should be formed in Ohio to rescue the martyred president's home at Canton, now used as an annex to a hospital, and make it a museum, filled with the late President’s belongings. B B B AS Congressman Michaelson of Chicago, who voted for the Jones dry law, imposing a fiveryear fenn for Volstead offenders, journeys to Florida to face a liquor indictment, the chances are that he will not enjoy the scenery to any marked degree. B B B The suggestion of Charles G, Dawes that the senate rules 'oe revised, limiting debate, will coma sure as fate when the congress shall decide to broadcast its speeches. Advocates of liquor distribution under government control will be pained to learn that in Russia the plan has failed miserably, the general drunkenness of the people being one of the great problems before the soviet government.

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SIEGE OF YORKTOWN April 5

SIXTY-SEVEN years ago today General McClellan and about 68,000 Union troops began the siege of Yorktown It was the second siege against this historic Virginia town in a little more than one hundred years. The first, in 1781, caused the surrender of Cornwallis and brought the Revolutionary war to a victorious close. The second, in 1862, waS an important phase of the Civil war. McClellan moved against the town on April 5, 1362, in a campaign which did not have the full support of President Lincoln. After the attack began, McClellan, according to his memoirs, received a telegram dated April 4, which took several corps from his command and reduced his fighting force from 155,000 to 68,000. This resulted in making a long drawn out siege of what was intended to be a quick assault. .Later McClellan was joined by reinforcements which brought the number of Federals up to about 93,000, and General Magruder, defending Yorktown, was reinforced by General Johnson, and his army of 40,000. General Johnson took command and seized an opportunity to retreat secretly. He was pursued by part of the Federal army and was forced on May 5 to fight the spirited Battle of Williamsburg.

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