Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1929 — Page 4

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Just Like Jim The farmers of course, should have cxpccled it. Bu' perhaps omc of them may i;.' disappointed when they read that Senator James El! Watson is now rngaged in rounding up enough senators to defeat the so-called debenture plan for farm relief. Whether any such plan could have results is doubtful. The merits or demerits of the measure arr not important. What is interesting is the rapid change of front of tire senior senator and hi* agility In adapting In.- coir-iclions to the political necessities of the hour There is still Indiana patronage on tap. The change recalls most vividly (he fervent speeches made a few months ago when Watson went about the mhY '•nn.ne the farmers against Hoover and declaring hi* unch, mg devotion to (he principle: of the McNur Haugen bill. It .'•'call: the enthusiasm In the farm districts which he .n ,1 e,; when, he bared hit. breast to the multitude ,M. i anted that :,onif sinister fate destroy him f lie r or for a moment relaxed his efforts in behalf of the down-trodden and oppressed grower of grain. It. in.; i. that parade of take farmers which he sen; i" Kaw , CY to humiliate Hoover and to denounce him as the arch enemy of the farmer. It recalls th r picture of Bush, now Lieutenant-Govrr-c. landing on a soap box and waving a •Brit.;: n n in an efTort to arouse hatred lor Hoover beta e . Rich a .iertcd. lie intended to deliver the American laimer to "Liverpool prices." Gone are Ihc days of rebellion. Gone is Bush and hi flag and his funny speeches. Gone is the bared breast of Watspn. Instead v.e r e :hr senior senator with sonorous song ringing sirens to those who once stood with Watson. That i. the one ire thing about Watson. He can shift, Lo shifty. And buck home once more we hear. “Just like Jim." Hoover Takes Proper Stand The country is pleased that the President intends “to establish a national commission to study anil repo; upon the whole ol our prohibition enforcement system and the difficulties arising out of its technicalities. its circumlocutions, its involved procedures, and too often. I regret, from inefficient and delinquent officials." The country will applaud his pledge "systematically t.o strengthen its law enforcement agencies week by week, mor.t-h by month. ; rar by year, not by dramatic displays and violent attacks in order to make headlines. not by violating the law itself through misuse of the law m . enforcement, but by steady pressure” But -when all that tremendous task is accomplished, what then? What then, if a very large minority—or perhaps a majority of citizens believe that the prohibition law i unjust and crime-breeding? The best law enforcement machinery and best legal system in the world can not in the long run make free citizens respect a law they sincerely disrespect. And that is the rub. For as the President himself stressed m his inaugural address: "There would be little Yaffil' in illegal liquor if only criminals patronized it." The enforcement problem is not the bootlegger. but what, the President called "this large patronage from large numbers of law-abiding citizens "

To to’l the c "large numbers of law-abiding citizens. ' as the President does, that "no individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced" is good logic; but it has been us and ceaselessly tor several years without checking the increase in the numbers disregarding the prohibition law. Doubtless one reason this appeal does not check drinking is lhat citizens are accustomed to the nonenforeeincnt of other and older blue laws. Or again, in the south, the constitutional rights of the Negro are abridged finite openly, as in tire north injunction judges hr. c \ iolaied the legal rights of labor. In practice then, this country and this government long lias been accustomed to nullifying laws without formally repealing them. Whether we approve or not, that kind of nullification of the prohibition law is apt to continue so long as such "large numbers of law-abiding citizens" oppose the lav on what is to them moral and constitutional grounds. In one pail of his New York address the President docs touch the social and psychological factors. "If a law is wrong," he says, "its rigid enforcement is the surest guaranty of its repeal.’’ For that reason the wets, no less than the drys, should welcome the enforcement reforms which the President promises. If the experiment can stand on its record, ;t will come to be a respected and obeyed part of the law of the land. But if it fails—well, that should be the end of the experiment. Pass An Anti-Injunction Bill The special session of congress should pass the bill limiting the use of federal court injunctions agains. striking workmen, to be reintroduced by Senator Norris oi Nebraska To be sure, the injunction judges in our federal courts have been less active of late. Not for six months have we heard of an injunction forbidding workmen to meet in their church and sing hymns, or to consult their attorney to find out their legal rights, under pain of a jail sentence. But injunctions containing these grotesque prohibitions have been issued in the past, and not so far in the past, either. Probably such injunctions are not being issued now because this is an era of comparative labor peace, with the exception of certain southern regions. The injunction judge will be on the job again when a certain class of employers feel they need him to "preserve law and order.’’ Outrages perpetrated by these judges had grown so offensive, a year or so ago. that labor representatives introduced a bill to end them. It was a very simple bill. It prohibited judges from issuing writs of injunction except to protect "tangible and transferable" property. It was too simple and too sweeping. It would have affected many other situations than those involved in strikes, and it probably would have been thrown out by the first court to rule upon it. To meet this situation, Norris called in half a dozen of the best lawyers in the country. Together they drafted a bill which was in essence a charter of the rights of employer and employe, protecting the latter in his right to organize and to reap the fruits of that organization through peaceful means, yet protecting employers from illegal force or violence. JThis bill would fulfill tife pledge made jointly by

the Republican platform and by President Hoover to pass legislation to limit the use of injunctions. The present period of comparatively peaceful industrial relations is the proper time to discuss and pass such bill, temperately and without heat., that it may be the law when needed. Sitting on the Lid Officials or the University of Pittsburgh on Monday drove from the campus a group of professors and students meeting to discuss the Mooney-Blllings case. The speaker was Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith college, an eminent scholar The Liberal Club, after being driven from a university building and then < based of! the grounds, finally held its meeting in a public lot, Dr. Barnes presented the disgraceful facts of the Mooney frameup. He told how witnesses have confessed that their original testimony, which sent the labor leaders to prison twelve years ago for the San Francisco bomb explosion, was composed of lies, He told how the state's attorney and judge, who sentenced Mooney to hang. are. working for a pardon now He told the simple and terrible story of an innocent man victimized by the state and the law which ,-hould protect him. These are the facts which officials of the University of Pittsburgh are trying to suppress from free men in a free country in an allegedly free institution of learning We do not know the motives of these officials, nor care Whether they acted on their own responsibility or at the initiative of outside interests, they are guilty of the same spirit of injustice which put Mooney behind the bars and which has kept him there for twelve years in defiance of all right and honor and decency. Even if justice were not on Mooney's side, what right have these university officials to deny their professors and students the privilege to hear the facts and seek the truth? The country had supposed that the University of Pittsburgh was dedicated to the pursuit of truth, that, its sole business was to aid students to acquire facts, and to think for themselves. These puny university officials are trying to hold down the lid. That is a dangerous expedient. Stronger men than they have tried and failed. They have succeeded only in bringing disgrace to their university. * But they have not hurt Mooney. They have helped to make Mooney the symbol of the oppressed. They have made him more widely known as a martyr of injustice. Senate Secrecy In the race—if it is a race—between the new President and the new congress to take the neglected public into its confidence, the United States senate is at the moment a pace or two in the rear. The President is telling the names of those who indorse his appointees, but the senate so far has refused to tell the names of those who vote for his appointees. Frankness about public officials until they reach the doors ot the senate chamber—thereafter secrecy, except as to their rejection or approval. That is the situation at the moment.

The senate will have a chance to vote in the next few days on a change of policy. A proposal is before it to consider all nominations in open executive session except when a majority shall decide there is reason for secrecy, but even then to publish all roll calls taken while the doors are closed, with a statement ol the question on which members were voting. A ena tor's vote on confirmation of a cabinet member. a judge, an interstate commerce or other commissioner, often is the most significant act of his career. His constituents have the right to know. No candidate for public office is harmed by publication of the names of men who voted for ana against him. No purpose is served by such policy except a political one. The President has set an example which the people's branch of the government well can follow.

David Dietz on Science *— Winds Exert Pressure No. 33” ■ - -

\ STRONG wind is felt much more than a weak A wind because of the rapidity with which the pressure exerted by the wind increases. It would appear at first glance that a wind blowing fifty miles an hour, would exert five times as much pressure as a wind blowing ten miles an hour. This is not the case, for the pressure exerted by a

The student of physics will recognize that this is an application of the well-known law which states that force is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity. The pressure exerted by a ten-mile breeze at ordinary a.r density is about 0.27 pounds per square foot. The pressure exerted by a fifty-mile gale is 6.75 pounds per square foot. That means, therefore, that when you step into a fifty-mile gale, it is equivalent to being struck by a very considerable force. The pressure of the wind varies with temperature. Cold air is heavier than warm air. Consequently a wind of given velocity will exert more pressure in winter than it will in summer. In the northern hemisphere. March is the stormiest month of the year. Records do not bear out the old adage that if "March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb." But March can always be expected to furnish both lion-like and lamb-like weather. Occasionally, the lion-like weather hangs on into April and storms quite as severe as any in March may occur at the start of April. In March, the Arctic regions reach their lowest temperature. The sun is just starting to rise there, while on the other hand, the southern regions are warming rapidly. These differences in temperature accelerate the usual general circulation of the air between the polar and equatorial regions, and as a rule stormy winds are therefore more likely to be prevalent. But the storms of March die away as April progresses.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Virtue Can Sot Become Tyrannical Without Breeding Resentment; Neither Can Man Become Too Broadminded Without Growing Shallow in Spots. WHATEVER the facts may be, John F. Curry's election as leader of Tammany Hall generally will be interpreted as a victory for Mayor Jimmy Walker and a deleat for ex-Governor Smith. This can have but One cfficct from the standpoint of national politics, and that is to shrivel Tammany's Influence. Ex-Governor Smith elevated Tammany Hall not only to a position ol influence in the Democratic party, but to a position of such respect as it had never enjoyed before. It would be presuming on the future to say that Mayor Walker could not duplicate the feat, but he would have to go a great deal farther than he has and create a very different expression in the public mind.

Disarm Now? Maybe TaHE Hoover administration bids for another disarmament conference with Europe applauding, while our irreconcilables made wry faces. A large section of this country obviously is against any co-opera-i five movement which requires con- ! cession. That being so, it might be just as | well to give the toptc a little rest. Before we can get the world to agree on a program of disarmament, we should find a way to agree among ourselves. tt tt n Power of Pride THE debt parley appears to have broken down. It is another case of expertness succumbing to human ; nature. The adding machines may have worked all right, but pride could not stomach the result. The Germans derfianded less because they thought they could get it. The' allies demanded more for precisely the same reason. Tt was a question of immovable stubbornness, meeting irresistible obstinacy, though if anything, the allies showed a greater willingness to compromise. tt tt a Tyrannical Virtue THE deadly law of compensation still plagues human progress. As we make headway in one direction. we seem to lose ground in another. Prohibition finds its most vivid reflection in a crime wave ana divorce increases as the nations talk peace. Virtue can not become tyrannical without breeding resentment: neither can men become too broadminded without growing shallow in spots. ft tt a Smashup of Marriage MORE marriages are going to smash, more homes are being broken up and more children are I losing the benefit of united family | life in this era of boasted prosperity , than ever before. | Optimists console themselves b y : calling it anew day of self-expres-S sion. Maybe they are right, but the difference between self-expression and selfishness is often too slight for identification. A bad case of the "gimmes" explains much of the revolt against old conventions.

Cruelty in Marital Life HAVING made a survey of official marriage and divorce records, a committee of Michigan clergymen finds that there were 1,200,000 marriages as compared to 192,000 divorces in the United States during the year 1927. or an average of one divorce to each 6.2 marriages. Women average two years of married life before applying for divorce while men stand it for three. Among the “extreme and repeated cruelty” grounds, cited in divorce suits, the following complaints are noted; One man left his false teeth lying on the buffet; one picked his teeth with a penknife; one snored; one refused to wax his mustache; one forgot the date of his mother-in-law’s birthday and one persisted in wearing spats. tt tt Market for Reformers OBVIOUSLY, there is still much room left for improvement Whatever else our economic and mechanical progress may have achieved, it has not destroyed the market for reform movements; nor does the need go begging for leaders very long. Expertness and specialization have found no such clover patch as the shortcomings of humanity. Whether it is farm relief, world peace, agnosticism, the divorce evil, or English for the foreign born, you can depend on some genius popping up with an idea at so much per. tt a a Putting Over Fool Laws HAVING proved effective in the material market, advertising grows popular in the moral market. Most everybody believes in it except the doctors. An inter-church committee is formed in New' Y"ork to sell religion with printers’ ink and bill boards, while the W. C. T. U„ blessed with an appropriation of $50,000 made, by the federal government, proposes to dry up the nation with slogans. Slogans are all right when it comes to starting a drive, or selling cosmetics. They have enabled crusaders to put over more than one fool law and they might help make it stick. Nothing illustrates the impassable gulf which separates them like the fact that we think of prohibition as a matter of wisecracks, while we admit that temperance is a matter of maxim and precept. DAILY THOUGHT A soft answer tumeth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.—Prov. 15:1. tt n e THERE is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.—Emerson.

wind does not vary in proportion to the volume, but in proportion to the square of the volume. Therefore, a fifty-mile wind exerts twenty-five times as much pressure as a tenmile wdnd. (.The square of ten is 100. The square of fifty is 2,500. Dividing 2,500 by 100 gives twentyfive.)

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BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEfN Editor .Journal of the American Medical Association and of Kyxeia, the Health Magazine. TT is remarkable the superstition -*• that cutting the hair will diminish the strength and the growth of a child has persised among mankind from the earliest times. Everyone knows the legend of Samson and Delilah and how the giant Hebrew warrior finally was overcome by the Philistines after the young woman to whose blandishments he had succumbed arranged to cut away his curly locks. That story in one form or another is to be found among the fables of many aboriginal tribes today. The truth of the matter is that such a conception arises only in ignorance. The hair is merely a hornified growth of tissue, the' same as the skin. Hair cells lie within the skin and project, this growth to the cx-

\ METHODIST minister who as- : sumed the right to speak for his church just has issued a challenge to American ideas of government which should not be allowed to pass unanswered. Substituting for Dr. Clarence True Wilson, the Rev. J. E. Skillington said before a conference in Connecticut: "Is there anything after the last election that any one would dare say the church can not do?” I dare. Let me tell Dr. Skillington that no church permanently can set up a dictatorship over secular affairs in this country. The board of temperance prohibition and public morals is not the first little oligarchic group to say in its own way, “the public be damned.” * “ “ No Respect for Voters WHO is this so-called man of God who says that no one may presume tc challenge the authority j of his church? It is not set down in the Constitution that we should be ruled by house and senate and over them a board of bishops. Nor can it justly be said that the good doctor is referring to the last election merely as a tribute to the force of majority opinion. The embattled prohibitionists have no respect whatever for the will of the voters. In Wisconsin they are trying to thrust aside the clear mandate given in the last special election. Indeed. Mr. Skillington has at least the virtue of frankness, though it may be mere audacity. In the same speech he said in effect that as far as he and his associates went, the government could go to hell if only prohibition were preserved. “We have no interest in either party,” said Dr. Skillington, “and nothing against them unless they get in the way of this child of the church. If they do we don’t care what name they are called, we will trample them under foot and destroy them forever.”

Trampling on Adders BUT when the training begins these self-appointed guardians of public morals may find that they walk on jagged glass and stinging adders. The citizens of America are not yet fat grapes to make a feeble squish and liquefy under the heavy heels of Methodist high-steppers. There are those among us who feel that this child of the church is a squalling brat. We would take away his playthings. The sun and moon are not to be his simply because he cries for them. Nor is it reasonable that the bill of rights should be handed over to this babe in arms to be cut into mooley cows for his infantile satisfaction. In fact, if that kid does not quit his caterwauling there will be laid appropriately upon him the heavy and rhythmic hand of chastisement. In his first formative years there was. perhaps, some excuse for this

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Cutting Hair Won't Impair Strength

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terior. Obviously, removal of the | hair can have little, if anything, to do with the general strength of the j body. Tlie most simple and direct evi- : deuce of this is the fact that pugii- | ists usually have their hair cut be- j fore engaging in a major contest and that convicts have their hair cut regularly before beginning their leisurely occupation of breaking stone'. The hair is cut. however, in the latter case to prevent the development of insects and vermin not infrequently associated with the criminal class. Other curious old superstitions. | also dating back to the infancy of the race, have to do with children wetting the bed. They arc. in almost every instance, symbolical magic. Thus they have to do with dreams of running water, of Niagara Falls,

infant nuisance. His destructiveness may have been regarded as cute. But it isn’t funny any more. He should be put to bed without his supper. The neighbors are beginning to be annoyed. tt tt tt Listen to Mabel OUITE definitely the tide has turned against the savagery of Volsteadism within a few biref months. Some celebration should be made over the fact that no less a firebrand of the faith than Mabel Walker Willebrandt has turned nullificationist. Don't take it on my say-so. but consider what she said in a recent set of instructions to public prosecutors about the Jones act. "In order that this new legislation may be given a fair trial,” said Mabel, ‘‘it is suggested that you use a wise discretion as to the character of cases In which you seek indictments for violation coming within its purview. "Only good, strong cases involving commercialism should be made the basis for these initial tests.” And in that same document Mabel continued: "Isolated violations, cases in which the evidence renders conviction doubtful, and cases in which the offenses are of such minor character as do not in your judgment warrant more than a twelvemonth sentence, should, if practicable. be prosecuted by criminal information upon a charge of possession, common nuisance or other misdemeanor charge under the national prohibition act.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Recent develop- j ments in the prohibition fight tend j to show the futility, not to say i idiocy, of the whole proceeding.! Prohibition does not prohibit, as has | been demonstrated amply during the last nine years. Witness the ! declaration of New York's police ; commissioner to the effect that prohibition is the prolific cause of all the terrorism in New York and | racketeering in every other place.! As the "martyr”to a lost cause says: "We need money and lots of it to fight the rum demon." Does it not occur to the man who quit the soul-saving business to engage in more lucrative employment that money and money alone will not affect materially "the net result, namely, that the sovereign people of the United States have been buncoed long enough by the long-faced hypocrites—that they tfill rise en masse as the people of Wisconsin did. and demand simple justice. And they will get it, too. for all J the indications point that way, and the dry as bone people unconscious- j ly are all hastening that happy day j by their brutal and ill advised en- j forcement tactics. P. H. TRAVERS, 1 546 East Ohio street.

of flowing streams and similar conceptions. The motion that playing with matches or fire will lead inevitably to an involuntary action of the child's bladder during sleep Is, no doubt, related to the idea that dreams go by opposites. This idea is not entirely without scientific foundation, since the Froudean interpretation of dreams provides that one obtains in dreams the things that he wishes for in the waking state and that not infrequently the inhibition of these wishes or their suppression, since they are frequently opposed to normal standards of conduct, cause the dream to be the opposite of the thing actually desired. Any one with a logical mind therefore should be able to see the relationship between playing with fire and the condition of failure of bladder control that physicians call enuresis nocturna.

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

No Fear or Favor BUT what now becomes of President Hoover's statement In his inaugural address that all laws must be enforced to the hilt while they are on the statute books? And would it not be well for him to go into a huddle with Mabel concerning his other contention that an official may not pick and choose which laws to press and which to ignore? Again. I want to know what becomes now of that scream of “treason” which was raised against the Coudert committee of young lawyers who undertook an organization to protect citizens from excessive punishment under the provisions of a law breathing the spirit of the Dark Ages. And may I digress to point out how low is mercy fallen in this day of the Methodist oligarchy? Is this a sweet age of reasonableness and brotherhood when the assistant attorney general refers lightly to one year in jail as a tender concession to minor offenders? n tt tt Mabei Turns Tender BUT I think Mabel's heresy very profound and also proper. If a public prosecutor has a right to say, “I will apply this statute only upon occasion and with due discretion,” then it is not unthinkable that the same prosecutor shall say, “Asa matter of fact, I will not apply it at all.” After all, this much-belabored word “nullificationist” should be happily seized upon as a very gallant banner well worth fighting for, no matter what Methodist hordes shout out blood-curdling war cries. The theory of nullification is that mankind is more than law and that if a provision fails in any particular instance to make good sense, then the law should be scrapped, and not the human being. 'Copyright, 1929. for The Time*l

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REASON By Frederick Landis

Russia Shows Her Foxincss When She Submits Her Scheme tor Complete Disarmament. RUSSIA is very foxy, if a bear can bo foxy, to suggest complete disarmament to the world, icr that would place Russia, with her overwhelming population, in the driver's seat of the European vehicle. Other European powers, long engaged in selling gold bricks to others, will not, fall for a brick so poorly gilded. tt it a Marion Talley may be up In tlr air as to where to locate, with all these states offering to give her farms, if she will only live on them but it doesn't make much differem where Marion locates, for she v " be just as great a success as a farmer in one place as another. a tt it There are seven women in the national house of representatives so they can't have two tables ol bridge until another congressman dies. a it it Robert, M. La Follette whore marble statue will be unveiled m Statuary Hall, Washington, Thursday, was the most persistent, best informed and most constructive progressive this country ever produced. He arose to fame, but it was a ladder of thorns all the way. tt 8 B 'V/OU see how perfectly reasonable X these New York night clubs are in their demands for "personal liberty" when they refuse to obey a curfew at, 3 o'clock in the morning. It. reminds one of the way the licensed liquor traffic snapped Its fingers at the law in "the good, old days.” tt B tt On June 18 they are going to celebrate the birth of the Republican party in a white schoolhouse in Ripon. Wis. The Republican party was born also "under the oaks" in Michigan, also in Decatur, 111., its birthplaces being equaled only by the tombs of Columbus, he being buried in Havana. Santo Domingo and Madrid. tt B B Not, every criminal has a wooden leg like this one in Illinois, which was removed by the jailer when its proprietor tried to escape, but every fellow who decides to load a life of crime most certainly does have a wooden head. tt tt tt AS we tuned in the other evening . when the General Electric Company broadcast artificial thunder from Schenectady, we thought how wonderful it would be to hook this up with Tom Heflin when the time comes to broadcast the speeches of senators. B B 8 Vice President Curtin is not the only statesman who has a married ledy, not his wife, for a representative, At. Smith being in the same fix, his representative being Mrs. Henry Muskowitz. ft tt tt Os course, selling divorces in Reno is as standardized a traffic as selling salmon in Seattle, but in a case like that of the Inmans, the court should have refused to grant any divorce, saying that it was six of one and a half dozen of the other. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR April 24 THIRTY-ONE 5 years ago today Spain declared war on the United States in answer to resolutions adopted by congress, recognizing the independence of the Cuban republic. These resolutions adopted on April 19, 1898, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, the start oi the Revolutionary war, and of the fir t bloodshed of the Civil war on the streets of Baltimore, were in effect declarations of war on Spain. As soon as they had been approved by the President, April 2n. the Spanish minister asked for his passports, thus severing diplomatic relations. The following day, the American minister, to Spain leit Madrid. On April 24 came Spain's formal declaration of war to create an en • thusiastic patriotic sentiment in America. War had been expected since the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor In the middle of February. A tragedy in which 260 members of the crew lost their lives. This crisis was always regarded as the start of difficulties with Spain and gave rise to the cry "Remember the Maine!” What was the nationality of Eanion de Valera’s parents? His father was Spanish and himother Irish. De Valera was born in New York aNd now lives In Dublin, Ireland.