Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1929 — Page 4

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The Governor’s Move Having successfully removed Director Williams from the highway department, can the members of the commission, with any propriety refrain from sending their resignations to the Governor? Certainly the Governor can not long refrain from taking steps to remove two, if not all, of the members of the commission. The charges on which \\ ill ia ms was removed were mild compared to the admissions hv member.- and the < harge-, made*by Williams against them. If there was reason, and there was, for the hearing of charges against Williams, there is more reason for the hearing of charges against the members of the commission. One of these members, a farm owner, admits that he received valuable presents from concerns which sell to the commission. It is not i teat ter of record that the same concern sends valuable presents to the taxpayers who furnish the twenty millions of dollars a year spent t*v the commission, i hat member, by his ptanee of such a present, lias branded himself as unfit to be trusted with so huge a sum of money. The highway commission should have men upon it who are above taking tips. < >ne of the other members is charged with indirectly profiting from the sale of tires. If the Governor is not interested, the prosecuting attorney and grand jury might be. The Governor should resent this man. Especially should he ’do so, when he remembers that it. is the same man, then a dealer in automobiles, who went to him in the lobby of the Claypool hotel at the beginning of the legislature and told him that he. this commissioner, rvas working on the budget committee to get an appropriation for anew car for the Governor’s use. specifying the high priced brand for which the commissioner was agent and dist ributcr. That highway commission is too important and too costly to be composed of men whose \ ie\\ point oil the job is that of trading, truckling or tickling toes. ]f Governor Leslie wishes to receive public confidence and to make good on his house cleaning declaration, it would seem the part of discretion to ask these affable gentlemen to step aside.

Carl Lieber To the vast army of personal friends, the sudden passing ot Carl Lieber will bring the shock of personal loss. To the city at large, which has known him lor two generations through his public contributions, it win mean a real loss to the movements for better and finer things in life. Few others gave as much to the culture ot the city. Loving and beautiful, he was ever'ready to foster and encourage any enterprise which made for beauty ot lite. In a day when commercialism dominates there are too few who recognize the greater values. Carl Lieber was one of these. The city " ill miss and mourn him. Higher Education and the Negro. Tendencv toward specialized higher education, so pronounced among our colleges and universities m recent years, has reached the Negro. Three Negro colleges in Atlanta —Atlanta university, Morehouse college and Spelman college—are to combine, in a plan which its sponsors hope will result in making Atlanta the United States center of Negro higher education. * Atlanta university is to discontinue undergraduate work entirely as soon as its present college classes are completed, and. beginning next fall, specialize in graduate and professional training. This is the same plan contemplated by Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore. and the one carried on foi many years by Clark university in Massachusetts, but it is noicl amon„ Negro institutions. It will add to the self-respect and the advancement of that r*ce to have trained its own higher educators, its specialists and professional men. in its own institutions. Some are so trained now. but not to the extent possible under the new plan. In 1917. according to the United States department of education, only 2.100 Negroes were being trained in thirty-one colleges, while in 1928 there were 17.680 studeftts in seventy-seven colleges. Income and endowment of such institutions have increased approximately three times in 'he ten years, and are growing at an ever-faster pace. The determination of Negroes toward higher training to serve their own is a splendid sign. ) . Hoover On Tax Reform Not content with instituting anew conservation policy, reforming press relations, promptly handling the Mexican situation, starting a clean-up ot southern patronage, improving the Indian service personnel and vigorously tackling sundry- other federal problems in his first month ot office President Hoover is thinking oi tax reform. Already he has reformed tax refund secrecy. Now he Sbvs he is contemplating as soon as practicable a tax cut on earned income. The President wants to shift more ot the tax loao from the back of the average man to the rich man. It is a much-needed reform. It will benetit directly the rank and file. It will mean less drudgery toi the mother, more education tor the children, a vacatior and larger insurance policy lor the lather. It will put more money in circulation and increase ousmes.prospenty. But Hoover appears to know that the oest ot reforms must be applied cautiously Quick and unwise tax reductions ever have oeen tne easy methoo oi demagogic politicians seeking populai tavoi. A statesman weighs one gain against another, weighs the

future against the present, in an effort to do not only the right, thing, but to do the right thing at the right time. That why Hoover, apparently, does not plan tax reduction at the special session of congress this month, and why he yet cannot definitely commit himself to such reduction next winter. There is no reason for the politicians to get excited just because there is an estimated surplus for this fiscal year of $100,000,000 and of $60,000,000 for next year. That amount is small enough at best, and it depends on continued national prosperity during the coming year. Before that surplus is divided as a melon, several very large federal projects must be financed, such as flood control, inland waterways, farm relief and cruiser construction. Then there is the necessity for rapid retirement of the public debt. It is neither just to the coming generation nor good business policy for the government to go on paying heavy annual interest charges on a capital indebtedness which can be wiped out. Even the most optimistic admit that national prosperity cann >t be constant. Though any depression of the future may be relatively slight, a sound fiscal policy means that in the fat years we make provision for the lean. In the present time of plenty we should put our federal surplus into the projected and necessary federal flood and construction projects and into debt cancellation. Therefore, a general tax reduction within the next few years probably would be short-sighted. Rather the problem of statesmanship is to maintain the government income from taxation at approximately its present total, and to redistribute the taxpayers’ burden by a more equitable system relieving Uiose least able to pay. This, apparently, is the just and wise position from which the President is approaching the problem.

Thi Patronage Mess Considering th* limited funds at its command and the desire in some places to throttle the inquiry, Senator Brookhart's patronage investigating committee is making a remarkable showing. While President Hoover has hesitated to go as fast as Senator Brookhart would desire in the cleanup of patronage conditions in the south, the senate committee has achieved a great victory in Hoover's recent pronouncement reorganizing the Republican groups in three states and putting the others virtually on probation. The manner in which the inquiry has been conducted has been open to some criticism, but that is chiefly the fault of the senate and not of Brookhart. Instead of giving funds for the sweeping investigation needed, the senate has given Brookhart authority to make an inquiry, but little money to carry tt on. In addition, the committee has been deluged with letters, affidavits and telegrams telling of numerous instances where it is alleged that federal officials have had to pay for appointments to office. Much data has been sifted and only a small part has been inserted in the committee records. The only opportunity given the accused to answer is to issue a public denial, or send a written protest to be inserted in the record. The proper way to conduct any inquiry is to go to the seat of the trouble and summon witnesses for all sides, so facts can become knowrf with the taking of testimony in an official manner under oath. Brookhart in his investigation of states so distant as Texas, Mississippi and other points in the south has been forced in the main to use only such witnesses as would appear voluntarily in Washington and pay their own expenses. This has handicapped the committee greatly.

David Dietz on Science Cyclones , Anticyclones No. 321

TWO terms occur frequently in the science of the weather or meteorology. They are cyclone and antLcyclone. These terms are applied to describe the changes which take place within the general circulation of the atmosphere and cause the daily local changes in the weather. As we already have seen, there is a general circula-

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air from the oceans toward the land in summer and from the land toward the ocean in wintei We come now to the erratic variations which take place within the general circulation already described These are grouped under the heads of cyclones and anti-cyclones Perhaps, it might be well to begin by telling what a cyclone is not. The term cyclone must not be used foi tornado, hurricane, whirlwind, or typhoon. All these terms refer to violent ana sharply localized storms which do vast damages. A cyclone is a low pressure area with its attendant system of winds. A cyclone may be l.OOl) miles or more in diameter. An anti-cyclone is a high pressure area. Air flows from a high pressure area into a. low pressure area just as water runs down hill But as already explained, due to the earth's rotation. the flow of air in the northern hemisphere will always be deviated to the right. The result is that at the same time the air flows into the low pressure area it experiences this tendency to change its direction. We find therefore, a tendency for the air to form large eddies The tendency is for air to circulate clockwise, that is. in the direction which the hands of a clock move around a high pressure area. On the other hand, as the air flows into a low pressure area, the tendency is for the air to rotate coun-ter-clockwise Due to the tact that there is a continue! interplay between parts of the atmosphere, there is always a shining and changing of f-.trees Consequently high and low pressure areas as a rule do not remain in any one place for any length of time. | The chief duty of the weather forecaster, as we -hall see, is to predict the motions of the cyclones and anti-cyclones.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

A City Does Not Have to Be Useless in Order to Be Beautiful or Ugly in Order to Be Useful. r T'HERE is nothing in the whole wide world to match New 7 York's skyline, provided one is far enough away to see it in perspective. On the subway at 5:30 in the afternoon, it does not look so good. On the subway at 5:30, one is inclined to agree, with the noted architec., Thomas Hastings, who would limit the height of all buildings in New York to eight stories, and who wishes such a limit had been fixed thirty years ago. Most people will not agree with Mr. Hastings, because most people prefer something to look at. Mr. Hastings, however, speaks with the wisdom of experience, and for “the people,” rating than “art,” as he himself explains. A city does not have to be useless in order to be beautiful or ugly in order to be useful. Neither do skyscrapers play such indispensable part in the life of New York as many will imagine. As Mr. Hastings points out, the average height of buildings on Manhattan Island Is about four stories, while only 3 per cent are over ten. o n a Roosevelt's Veto OVERNOB ROOSEVELT has vetoed one of his pet bills. It was for a commission to study the state's judicial system, with a view to discovering faults and recommending improvements. What the Governor wanted was a “mixed” commission, composed partly of experts who would have the necessary technical knowledge, and partly of laymen who would have the public interest mainly in mind. What he got was a commission of seven lawyers—four to be named by the legislature and three by himself —and that, of course, threatened little less than to stultify the real purpose. Such a commission “would be a fraud upon the public,” declared the Governor in his veto message. “In all probability, it would be interested only in strictly legal and technical phases of judicial administration rather than broad general questions of policy and fundamentals. ana The Case of Mrs, Gann SENATOR NORRIS is right. Where Mrs. Gann shall sit has become the burning issue. No one seems to give a whoop as to where Mr. Gann shall sit, but the chances are that he doesn’t mind. The chances are that he has accustomed himself to playing third fiddle by this time. It would not matter anyway. When a wife’s social status is at hazard, “there is no time to think of men.” By the time-honored biblical rule, the wife is supposed to “cleave unto” her husband, but the rule was written long before a wife’s brother could become Vice-President of the United States. In this day of democracy and ; emancipated womanhood, we must | be careful to see that the dinner ! line forms in strict harmony with | the* official rank. It would consti- | tute nothing less than a national disaster for some lady to get into 1 the wrong chair.

Squelching a Revolt Elucidating the Mexican fracas for the benefit of the foreign policy association last Saturday. one sneaker described it as a ‘■military riffle.'’ another said that it was an “honest protest against tvyannv,' and a third thought this country to blame, no matter what it was. Interesting, no doubt, but why worry, since it geems fated for a quick and tragic denouement. Whether the revolting generals regarded themselves in the light of profits or profiteers at the outset, they doubtless have come to the conclusion that the most desirable quality right now is speed, and whether they sought the border as a source cf arms and supplies four weeks ago. they probably look on it today as a most convenient haven for the pursued. Putting that aside, the outstanding factor ol this particular upheaval is the efficiency ancf dispatch with which General Calles has squelched it. Say what you will, but that furnishes indisputable proof of progress. Mexico not only has developed a good army, but a leadership that is capable ot handling it. and a national consciousness that is ready to back it up. tt tt a Kidnaping a Strike ' 5 -HOSE bright business men of JL Elizabethton. Tenn.. who set out to save the town, if not the nation, by kidnaping a couple of labor leaders, probably wish they hadn't, One finds it easy to understand how they reasoned the thing: how they persuaded themselves that heme folks would not strike, no matter how low the wage scale unless egged on by outsiders: how it was obviously some patriot’s task to see that .outsio’ers did not get in or run them away it they did. and how. after more or less prayerful cogitation, they decided to immolate themselves on the altar. Queer, how perfectly decent people will fall for a perfectly absurd idea when they get excited, especially about something which is none of their business, and how much worse they can make a situation which they imagined they were going to improve Whether organized labor had a chance to gain a strong toothold in Elizabethton before, it has a splendid one now. But for certain academic principles involved, the American Federation of Labor and the Textile Wokers’ Union could well afford to give those business men a vote of thanks.

tion of the atmospnere caused by the difference in temperature between the equator and the earth's poles. This further is c'mplicated by the difference in heat absorbtion between the continental masses and the oceans This difference in temperature, as we have seen, causes a flow of

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. 3TORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgcia, and Health Magazine. A SURPRISINGLY large number of people believe that appendicitis did not exist until about ten years ago. They believe that the disease was invented by the doctors for the sole purpose of making money. As far back as the history of medicine extends, human beings have had symptoms like those of modern appendicitis. They were called inflammation of the bowels, peritonitis, perityphlitis and similar names. An American physician named Reginald Heber Fitz. who was born in Chelsea. Mass.. May 5, 1343. was the first -to describe appendicitis as a definite disease, which had existed for many centuries. He had made postmortem examinations of bodies of persons who had died with these symptoms ei inflammation of the bowels and infection in the abdomen, and lie

BEING against everything American seems to* be your specialty,” writes I. T. G. And since I’ve i seen this same assertion in some other letters I might as well make answer now. I would like to answer in the same spirit which animated an American writer named Barton Blake in phe early days oi the war. He was lunching at the Harvard Club m New York when a man came to his table gathering signatures for a document. Every signatory pledged himself never again to buy German goods or meet any German in friendship. “I won't sign that,” said Biake. "You’re the only man in the room who’s refused,” objected the man. And Blake locked up and answered. "Since when has it been dishonorable for a Harvard man to be in a minority?” There is no American tradition which provides that patriotism shall consist of a complete adherence to things as they are. And some good citizens have gone so far as to renounce the noxious motto of "My country, right or wrong.” In the school books of a hundred years from now I feel certain that mention will be made of Engine Debs, who stood out against the war. Who can tell whether the books will say that Debs was right or wrong? a x tt Unbowed, Not Bloody DEBS is dragged jn as an ideal and not an analogy. I am not privileged to point to any record of my own high courage under pressure. Twice I lost a job because 1 wouldn't keep my mduth shut when I thought It ought to be open Bud it was the same job and after the crash came I got a better one There was no martyrdom in that. • Nor is my record clear ot a disposition to go whooping off with the majority. In 1914 most of us swallowed atrocity stories which were not true and went in for a general spree of hating which now leaves us ashamed. Even before America entered the war I got into a subway argument with a German and reached Through the window and clubbed nim on the head with a newspaper It was a Sunday newspapei and I might nave hurt the man severely with r his dull, blunt instrument. If ne is still here and remembers the incident. 1 tender my apologies. But to get down to more recem History it takes no particular courage to confess an opposition tc prohibition. In my opinion the rirys are in the majority throughout the

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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 15 Some Think Appendicitis Is ‘lnvented’

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came to the conclusion that the appendix, which is a little tube closed at one end and coming off the large intestine, was likely to become infected and to set up these symptoms quite frequently. Just as soon as he and others definitely described the condition and made clear the nature of the most important symptoms; namely, fever, vomiting, pain on pressure over the appendix, rigidity of the abdomen, and an increase in the number of white cells in the blood, the condition began to be diagnosed more frequently. Operations were performed promptly and lives were saved that might otherwise have been lost. Moreover, many people were saved nfonths and months of pain and disturbance diagnosed as indigestion or by some other vague term. Gradually other superstitions began to be associated with this condition. It became noised about that appendicitis was due to eating grape seeds which would lodge in the appendix and block its opening, that it mightbe due to worms which

country, but hereabouts the wet side prevails. a tt a Crime, Punishment STILL less am I likely to get much support in the contention that the present agitation about crime moves the community wholly in the wrong direction. The ultimate need is for more mercy and understanding. Quick and severe punishments never will seitlc the issue. Gene Debs said a literally true thing in his Canton speech. He said, “As long as there is a soul in jail I am not free.” Crime does not belong wholly to any individual, but to the commun-

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Tbc name and address of the author ; must accompanv even contribution, but on leanest will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor The Times—A glprified banquet of “bran and buns Is tendered in confirmation and approval of contempt of the supreme court of Indiana. Every man and woman who participates in this festive orgy is assenting to and approving and glorifying the principle in the contempt of the supreme court. Law as law and constituted authority as authority of law should be so well impressed upon the conscience of our citizens that any disrespect for la'w and authority under the law should be abhorrent to dis- : tasteful. I am no defender of the sale of liquor. Its course, like the trail of the serpent, has broken down morals. health and character and has ruined everything and everyone it has touched But let the prohibitors go at law enforcement in a dignified manner. Don’t beslime and defame the greatest God we have in Indiana—" Constituted Legal Authority.” It is more of a God than all the silly forms and prattling hymns of any sect o. zealous religionists, and the integrity of the courts must be maintained. ”LUX ET VERITAS." ! Thought Tlieir sword shall enter unto their own heart, and their hows shall be broken.—Psalms 37:15. Ban A DESIRE ter resist oppression is implanted in the nature ol man.—Tacitus.

—By Talburt

crawled into the opening and blocked it. Actually these things are very rarely the cause of appendicitis. Cases occasionally do occur, but so infrequently that they are now the basis of special mention among physicians. In most instances the appendix has become infected with ordinary pus-forming bacteria, its walls -reak down, matter forms, the person develops fever and all of the other symptoms that have been mentioned, and some physician who knows how, diagnoses the disease and saves the person’s life. In the vast majority of cases it is not the doctor who diagnoses the disease who does the operation—that is usually a surgeon who is called in by the man who has made the diagnosis. Unquestionably great good would be accomplished if more cases were diagnosed earlier and if operations were done before the appendix filled with matter had a chance to burst and spread the infection throughout the abdomen.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are. tboso of on<~ 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.

ity. We built the school, the tenement, the economic structure from which the criminal came and we are fools to think that we can dodge all responsibility and settle anything in an important way by clapping the individual into prison or sending him to the chair. It may well be that practically all crime comes from poverty. Instead of arming against crime, we should arm against poverty. In fact, whenever we send some offender to prison it might be a good idea to send along two respectable citizens to share his fate. a tt tt Serve Until Cured TO be sure it is necessary to confine thoroughly anti-social people. With knowledge at its present level a life sentence may be the best that we can do in certain *ases. But it is folly to make any jail a place of punishment instead oi a curative establishment. * I know it is considered mawkish and sentimental, and perhaps unAmerican. to say it. but criminals are sick people and they should be nursed back to health even if they're coddled. There is tragic irony in calling instiutions for juvenile delinquents reformatories. Look over the case history of any habitual offender and you are likely to find that he is a graduate of one of these crime schools. Put a youngster behind bars and send him out with jail training and you have fitted him for jail and nothing else. iCopvnght 1H29. for Thr 7.m 1

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REASON —By Frederick Landis —

Local Government in This Country Is Turned Over to, the Urn fit, the Public Giving No Heed. i C GOVERNOR MOODY of Texas I displayed more political gumption than the legislature of Texas when he vetoed the bill it passed to punish those Democrats who voted for Hoover. Moody knows that the way to bring the missing brethren back to \ the party fold is to extend the happy hand. r a tx So long as the prohibition agents | confine their searches to private I yachts, the reaction will be nil. but let them invade the flivvers of the republic and they will hear the hoarse voice of ihe masses. tt a a If Secretary of State Stimson can decide the social status of Mrs Gann, the vice-president's sister, and decide amicably where the wives of our statesmen are to sit when they eat, then international affairs will be mere trifles for him to manage. a tt tt I-'HE latest estimate is that 40 cents of each tax dollar is wasted by local governments, and while we believe this is high, tha waste is enormous. This is due chiefly to the fact that in the United States local government is turned over almost entirely to the unfit, the dear people positively refusing to have anything i to do with it. tt tt tt In the Dominican republic, better known to us as Santo Domingo, General Dawes and his staff of financial experts will find a land univaled in richness in the whola world. Had this island been dropped down as close to Great Britain as it is to the United States, it would have been taken over by John Bull long ago. tt tt tt The deaths of Marshal Foch and Ambassador Herrick have enabled President Doumergue of France to come to the surface temporarily as the author of proclamations. The premier is the whole thing in France. tt a a cpHE statement that our nextamA bassador to France must be worth five million dollars to meet the social demands may be true, considering the neutral personalities /so numerous in modern diplomacy, but it was not true in the days of Benjamin Franklin, who had king, queen, nobles, peasants—everybody in Paris at his feet. And he lived very simply. a an The last to lay his life on the altar of noble endeavor is Harry Van Steenberger of Harmony Grove, Cal., who perished grandly, while draining the last glass of ten gallons of wine, in an effort to prove that he George Ade and the sultan of Sulu. a a tt Just as we fondly hoped that the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war, would bring tranquility to a troubled world, here comes this tilt between George and the sultan of Sulu. u a The reports are that Harry Sin-* clair begins to show the wear and tear of his numerous courtroom experiences, but it is agreed on ever? hand that Sinclair’s lawyer, Martin Littleton, is bearing up remarkably

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VERMONT DENIED April 8 ON April 8, 1777, Vermont attempted to join the American colonies as the fourteenth state, bu 6 its petition was denied. Few states have had a lengthier or more colorful struggle for recog* nition than this rocky pioneer, Vermont. Originally, the territory was claimed by New York, but on Jan, 15, 1777, the settlers in the land met in formal convention and declared their independence. It was New York's opposition to the recognition of Vermont as separate state which influenced Congress against it. New York was already a powerlul member ol the Colonial group and Vermont represented only a handful of earnest pioneers who wanted to go beyond the original Colonial plan in their search for liberty. The incident is significant because it shows that at this early date there were two groups oi colonists. One who wanted only independence from Great Britain and a group which was looking for independence irom one of the colonies themselves. Vermont was not admitted to the Union until fourteen years after Its original request, and until after it had been forced to threaten an alliance with Great Britain

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