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, New Inquiry Needed Evidenre presented in the hearing for anew trial for Daisy Sullivan suggests t+iat there should be a demand lor anew investigation by the pardon board of her case. The girl but 18 years of age, is serving a sentence of two to fourteen years for the forgery of a check for $2 30. She pen* only 20 cents of this amount for oranges. The Greene county officials resent the suggestion that she ate the orange'. It is certain that they recovered all but 20 cents of the money obtained on the check. The circumstances surrounding the esse are most pitiable and pitiful. The girl had been motherless for seven years. She had little care. She had had no advantages. She had been without the advice and counsel of any older woman. In what is manifestly an endeavor to justify the severity of the sentence, the machinery of Greene county has dragged forward charges of moral delinquency. has insinuated more and has gone to unusual lengths to blacken the reputation of the girl who has little to hope from life. The most expert scientist from the Indiana university reported to the court that the girl is the victim of lack of mental training. The treatment of this distinguished scientist by the officials of Greene county when he was a witness was unusual. The fate of one girl may be of little importance. But the attitude of society and of the state toward tuch cases is most important. That the ignorant girl of the hills is serving exactly the same sentence for passing a trivial check which was given to a banker w ; ho got away with more than pne hundred and fifty thousand dollars from his depositors and friends, does not add to general respect for law and for courts. The comparison between the case of Daisy Sullivan, the six-dollar-a-week dishwasher of tender age, and Bolinger. the bank cashier and associate of senators and congressmen is too obvious to escape public attention. Certainly the people of this state can not ignore the situation. More certain is it that the humane and charitable people of the state can not afford to admit that there is no other method of treating with ignorant and under-privileged girls than to house them in penitentiaries. Sending a girl of 18 to a felon’s cell for a two-dollar-and-elghty-cent crime demands inquiry and study. Liquor Arbitration The I’m Alone rum runner dispute between the United States and Canada is to be submitted to arbitration. In the exchange of notes, published today, Canada has accepted the suggestion of the state department to arbitrate as provided by the AmericanBritish liquor treaty. That is a w ise and lucky disposition of a dangerous case. Since March 22. when the United States coast guard sank the Canadian schooner. 200 miles from shore and drowned one of her crew, the United States has appeared to have much the worst of the argument. Now that the official diplomatic correspondence is published, our government s case seems to be even weaker than originally feared. The dispute is many-sided, including disagreement both as to facts and as to interpretations of the treaty governing liquor search and seizure. There is thus a double reason for breaking off the argument and leaving it to arbitration. Canada asserts the rum runner was about fourteen and one-half miles from the Louisiana coast when challenged by the first cutter, while the United States argues that it was within ten and one-half miles. Canada argues that even (en and one-half miles would not have brought the schooner within the “one hour steaming distance from shore" limit, within Which the treaty permits search and seizure. But the more serious dispute concerns treaty interpretation. Canada contends that in the treaty giving the United States the right to search and seizure beyond the international law three-mile limit and up to a one-hour steaming distance limit, she did not grant us the added right to pursue her ships from that extended zoim out upon the high seas. That is, Canada insists that the international rule of "hot pursuit” of a culprit to the high seas, applies only provided the pursuit begins within the three-mile limit. There is nothing in the treaty text supporting the United States interpretation that the treaty by inference permits the beginning ot "hot pursuit from anywhere within the one-hour steaming distance zone. Canada a.so insists that, apart from the treaty interpretation dispute, the sinking of the rum runner in a gale with jeopardy to the lives of the entire erfw and actual drowning of one seaman was too severe a penalty. ' Canadas position in the case is strengthened by the exceptionally gracious and complete co-operation she has given in the past in helping the United States check rum running, which is admitted by the state department. Both in the interests of future prohibition enforcement and of friendly international relations, the United States stands to lose by any act or policy which alienates Canada's co-operative attitude. If Canada is forced to accept an unreasonable interpretation of the liquor treaty in which she voluntarily granted us special and unusual privileges, she tustly can retaliate by refusing to renew the treaty and by revoking all our special privileges against rum runners. Who's Lawless? President Hoover says this is the most lawless country in the world and that disrespect for law is the dominant issue before the American people. Why? He proposes to have a special investigating commission find out. Meanwhile, he is sure that prohibition .s not a major factor in this disrepect for law. We disagree. But let that pass. Apart from the disrespect in which large numbers of law-abiding citiaens hold the prohibition law and the disrespect engendeied by the lawlessness of enforcement officers, there are other causes why many intelligent citizens are coming to look upon certain laws and the manner of their enforcement as agencies of tyranny, bigotry and oppression, menacing American liberty and justice. Ur. Hoover and his proposed commission will not

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have to look far m find these cases. Any newspaper any day will reveal them. We respectfully commend to the commission the following headlines of one day: “Civic and church bodies fight police law—Charge coal deputies murdered worker—Legislature increased power of private 'army.' ” "Mrs. D c nnett convicted for mailing sex tract—pamphlet written for her two growing sons—Judge refuses to let social workers and physicians tell of using brochure—Maximum penalty may be five years in prison and $5,000 fine." "Professors and students ousted—University bans civil liberty meeting in Pittsburgh—Dr. Barnes was appealing for justice for Mooney, victim of anti-labor ■frameup.’ ” "Negroes demand legal rights—Want enforcement of constitutional amendment.” "Deputies again rush strikers with fixed bayonets —Forty workers seriously beaten in Carolina textile strife.” Rapid Indian Reform The biggest problem confronting the Senat. Indian investigating committee is to determine what to do with itself. Public sentiment in regard to Indian affairs is changing rapidly because of the constructive and aggressive Indian policies adopted by the Hoover administration. Anew secretary of the interior, determined to get results, is on the job. anew Indian commissioner has been named, new policies are being put into effect and things in general are humming along. Secretary Wilbur struck at the heart of the Indian problem in his recent announcement. He has formulated a campaign to put the Indian to work and he has abolished the "disciplinarian” in the Indian schools. The Indian's idleness has been blamed for his lack of qualifications as a useful citizen. If the Indian is put to work and makes himself a useful, rather than an idle and expensive ward of the government, the Indian problem will tend to disappear. The "disciplinarian” has been responsible largely for charge of cruelty toward Indian children at certain government schools. A thick leather strap and a whip with cat o' nine tails in possession of the senate committee are mute testimony of what some “disciplinarians” have done to children in their schools. Abolishing the position should abolish the idea that children must be flogged. If anything, the work of the senate committee has been made more important by willingness of the Hoover administration to tackle the problem. The committee must continue to show up the sore spots in the Indian bureau, with the idea of assisting Wilbur and the Indian commissioner to remove from office those employes who have been responsible for them. Gene Tunney, vacation companion of George Bernard Shaw in Italy, refused to discuss Shaw with reporters. Oh. well, Shaw himself can take care of that well enough. A magazine writer asserts that if insanity continues at its present rate, in 200 years there will not be a sane man or woman in the. United States. What! Only one person going nutty every year! I egislator O. B. Whitaker of Missouri, who lost his voice recently and has found it an advantage to have to commit his sentiments to paper, thinks it might be better if all legislators were dumb. But you mighthink, from hearing them talk, that most of them were. After all the tumult and shouting, wouldn't it be a rather sour joke on Mrs. Gann if Charlie decided to get married?

- David Dietz on Science-

Humidity Is Important

- No. 339

IT'S not the haat. but the humidity. That phrase has become one of the bromides of modern hot.veather conversation. The student of the weather should understand the subject of humidity. Many weather phenomena can not be understood otherwise. The amateur observer of the weather who wishes , to do a thorough

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lire the humidity and ail that is necessary for the observer to do is note the position of the pointer on the scale. The pointer of the hygrometer is connected by suitable levers to a little tuft of human hair. The length of the hair increases slightly wtih an increase in the dampness or humidity of the air. This is then registered by the pointer. If the air becomes drier, the hair contracts. The pointer, of course, again registers the change. The method used by weather stations to determine the relative humidity requires the use of two thermometers. One is an ordinary thermometer and is known as the dry-bulb thermometer. The other thermometer has its bulo covered by* a little cloth wrapper which dips into a small dish of water This one is known as a wet-bulb thermometer. Evaporation will take place from the wrapping on the wet-bulb thermometer, thus catsing it to give a lower reading than the dry-bulb thermometer. The amount of evaporation, however, will depend upon the dryness or dampness of the air. If the air is very dry, evaporation will be high. If the air is very damp, there will be practically no evaporation The more evaporation takes place, the lower the reading will be. It is possiole. therefore, to calculate the relative humidity from the difference in the readings of the ary-bulb and wet-bulb thermometers. In foggy weather, there will be no difference at all between the two readings. This means that no evaporation is taking place. The relative humidity is then said to be 100 per cent. Some interesting facts about humidity will be given

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

There Is Such a Thing as Scientific Dietina. but One Finds It Very Hard to Note Where Science Ends and Mere Opinion Begins. r IFE grows complicated, especially for the public. Issues arise on every hand in which the public not only is expected to take a deep interest, but to help decide. One minute, it is whether we should enter the world court, the next it is whether Joan Lowell wrote a blographly, or a yarn, and the next whether Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana permitted a hulahula dancer to sit on his lap. Frivolous controversies help to relieves those of a more serious character, even if some of them are mighty frivolous. tt tt e Now It’s the Big Pie Issue WE are all trying to be virtuous, but not in too many directions to make for effective co-operation. Dr. William O'Shea, superintendent of schools in New York, bans pie for the kids. It is a matter of scientific dietetics. we are told, which was what did more than anything else to kill John Barleycorn. If older people have a right to take a nip now and then, as most New Yorkers seem to think, why should children be derived of pie? tt tt a Science and Opinions THERE is such a thing as scientific dieting, of course, but one finds it very hard to note where science ends and mere opinion begins. One day we are informed that water should be taken frequently and large quantities only to learn the next that it should be imbibed sparingly. One season is characterized by a campaign to promote bathing, while the next brings forth propaganda against too much sun. As for pie. there are a lot of old people who ate it from their youth up. just as there are a lot of old people who take their liquor regularly. What to Do! What to Eat! CANDY used to be forbidden on the ground that young stomachs could not stand too much sugar. More recently a group of physicians spread the joyful tidings that sugar was good, that young stomachs needed it. and that the growth of candy manufacturing should not be viewed with alarm. Just now we are being pestered with the advice to kill our sweet teeth by smoking cigarets, No doubt, it is all very scientific and very impersonal, but the layman can not be blamed for wondering if business pressure has anything to do with altering the tune. tt a a Worry Over Diet POTATO growers worried over the drive against starch, which appears to have cost them the sale of many millions of bushels. If pie goes out of fashion, apple raisers will have a similar complaint. Trade, as well as dietetics, has a bearing on the food situation, and the question of farm relief, hinges to some extent on what we eat and how much. Too scientific a diet might hurt cosmetics, which is something else to worry about. tt tt tt Advantage cf ill Health IT WOULD not be necessary to pickle that “school girl" complexion if we ate exactly what we ought. Those foods which cause a muddy, or blotched skin have an advantage for some people. So, too, does dyspepsia. It requires no great imagination to picture what an awful time certain industries would have, if we were to become a healthy, rosycheeked people. Not that anyone is opposed to it, publicly at least, but that quite a bit of trade depends on the fact that we will continue to eat and drink a lot of things which are not good for us. tt tt a Build on Human Frailty IN the name of personal liberty we demand that the palate be tickled, even if the digestive system is upset, and virtue, though recognizing the folly of it. is willing to turn an honest penny on the result. A certain amount of sickness has caused a certain number of men and women to enter the medical profession and a certain number of hospitals to be constructed. What would we do with the doctors, nurses and drug stores if every one were to keep well? Habit, as well as bookkeeping, has helped to develop our economic system. Trade, industry 7 and professionalism are built to a measurable degree on human frailty. Many people choose careers, or enter a particular line of business, with the expectancy of about so much ignorance, folly and disease. The battle for health, virtue and beauty receives unanimous approval, but victory would put a lot of folks on their uppers. tt tt tt Failure of Experts EXPERTNESS, or specialization. as we call it, has done nothing more distinctly than to create a network of cross purposes. From an ideal standpoint, the object of every calling may be service. From a practical standpoint, its object is to live. It can not do this conscientiously without justifying itself, developing professional pride and creating all sorts of excuses for its existence. In many respects science lends volume to the discordant chorus, instead of clarifying the situation. Let a murderer make insanity his defense, and you can get about as many alienists to testify one way as the other, unless, indeed, his affliction is so obvious that everyone can see it. The same is true with regard to X9JCS Ywyilre Qf R/wfa

job should add a device for measuring relative humidity to his equipment of aneroid barometer and thermometer. There are two ways of measuring the relative humidity. The simplest way is by means of a hygrometer. This is an instrument designed to meas-

THE IXDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. EXPERTS say that in most instances baldness is idiopathic —which means that nobody knows the reason for it. There are all sorts of superstitions about the hair, as about every other matter in which scientific knowledge still is lacking. Some people believe that the hair is full of sap and that the ends must be sealed by singeing or the sap will run out. The hair has no more sap than a buggy-whip. In most instances, baldness is hereditary and because of the constitutional condition the hair is bound to fall out. Some people think that hair grows on parts of the body that need protection. at least from wind and weather. There may have been a time when hair on the chest was useful for this purpose. Nowadays women without hair on

IN our desire to be merciful, the pendulum has swung in favor of the prisoner and far away from the protection of society.” I am sorry President Hoover said that. The words do not fall gracefully from the lips of a man who has been rated the Great Humanitarian. Indeed they do not fall appropriately from any lips at the present time. In certain states culprits are ; flogged. In other communities convicts are worked in prison camps under the most horrible conditions. In New York a thief made himself liable for life imprisonment the other day by stealing several emptypacking cases. We are not in need of merciless days. This country has not been so* prodigal of tenderness that it must now ration it out to prevent a famine. Herbert Hoover's careless words will be used by all the bitter elements to prevent and thwart prison reform. tt tt n Severity and Salvation NO one will deny that there is too much crime in America. Whether there is actually a crime wave at the present time needs the j confirmation of expert investigators. : And Hoover certainly did not j familiarize himself with the opinion of qualified criminologists before he made his address at the Associated Press luncheon. It is not the sentimental layman who asks for a more enlightened policy in dealing with offenders. Every warden who has been at Sing Sing in the last twenty years seems to feel that there Is no j salvation in mere severity. “After all.” said President Hoover, “the processes of criminal law enforcement are simply methods of instilling respect and fear into the minds of those who have not the intelligence and moral instinct to obey the law as a matter of conscience.” Surely the world has had a long experience with the efforts to make people good by inspiring them with the terror of punishment. The system has never worked well. It is about time to try something else. tt tt tt Schools of Crime TO be specific, our whole plan of handling juvenile delinquency has broken down. And the trouble is not an excess of mercy. A reformatory is a finishing school. The amateur crook comes out an accomplished criminal. Elmira feeds into Sing Sing just as Lawrenceville prepares for Princeton. A few years ago a Negro youth was sent to one of our so-called reformatories. To make him confess some infraction of the rules, the authorities at the institution where he was confined cut his back with knives. Some years later he killed two policemen and was sent to the electric chair. 2 talked to that man in the Tombs >-* - H

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the chest keep the chest regularly exposed and men with a heavy growth of hair on the chest wear a vest, coat, shirt, overcoat and various quantities of underwear to protect the chest still further. Another theory has it that hair remains on those portions of the body that were not reached by sunlight in that evolutionary stage when men walked on all fours. There seems to be plenty of evidence that sunlight is both good and bad for the hair. The evidence seems to depend on the dosage used and the head of the particular person concerned. The promoters of cures for baldness that involve use of the artificial sun’s ray. or ultraviolet rays, say that this method will cure baldness and cause anew growth of hair even on scalps shiny as a billiard ball. Where, however, are the actual cases to prove their claims? Answer: Nowhere!

a few weeks before his trial and sentence. He was not even then fundamentally brute and monster. He was simply an ill-educated man who had been frazzled into fury by the severity of prison practices. In terror there lies a madness. i a a tt Not Really a Strike IN fact. Hoovers' speech was an ill-considered speech throughout. A public man who must make mans'' appearances should not be blamed if he relies at times on platitudes. But when he begins to fish up ancient fallacies, it is the business of some bystander to say: “Mr. President, I think you've hooked the bottom.” For the edification of the editors. Mr. Hoover hauled in very rusty comrades. “Perhaps," he said, "a little better proportioned balance of news concerning those criminals who are convicted and punished would serve to instill the fear of the law." This was the remark of a man woefully ignorant of American newspaper practice. An arrest is always a bigger story than an escape. Reporters inevitably play along with the police. They are chief sources of every district man. Many a detective has had his astutenes.s played upon the front page when, as a matter of fact, he may have done no more than blundered upon the fugitive. Indeed, there is an old Chinese proverb current among New York reporters. “If Grover Whalen catches anybody, that's news.” And again the President dug up that old one about the manner in which newspapers make the criminal glamorous. This has been repeated a thousand times, but any editor at the table could have convinced Mr. Hoover that it isn't so. The President spoke of England, where murders are much fewer, and England is*'a country with a dreadful illustrated press which prints a far greater proportion of crime news than is known over here. tt tt tt Glamor of Chapman OF ALL the famous criminals of the last ten years, I can remember only one who appeared in the news accounts as a glamorous fiigure. I refer, of course, to Gerald Chapman. That was not the fault of the newspapers. If the authorities had tried to make the man romantic they could not have succeeded more prettily. All the facts of the hanging were in his favor. He was at the time ol xecution the cool person in the prison. But don't blame the press for that. Blame capital punishment. When you kill a man he always has the opportunity to revenge himself upon society by going to his death like a hero. It is a good thing to catch the i criminal Immediately after commis- i sion of the crime and S0 tm dim

The experts in care of the hair recommend that the scalp be kept clean by washing as often as necessary with soap and water. If the scalp is unusually dry it should be greased lightly at least once each week with vaseline or with liquid petrolatum. The water will not rot the living hair; water is the greatest cleansing agent known to man. The water will remove the grease and give the hair a dry feeling. The same effect is secured by using tonics with too much alcohol. In ancient Egypt the medicine men cured baldness by a grease that was made from the fat of six different animals, the lion, hippopotamus, crocodile, cat, snake and ibex. The idea was to get the strength and sagacity of the animals at the same time that grease was supplied. In early American days bear’s grease was used for the same purpose.

By HEY WOOD BROUN

expeditiously. It is an even better thing to catch him younger and make him a decent member of society. And that requires not less mercy, but much more. (Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Safety at all times is my policy and has been and I think the laws are not strict enough on any person who violates them. Regardless of who it may be that violates the law, he should be punished. Not one of fifty persons observes the stop signs at Delaware street and Madison avenue. I have been very fortunate since I have been driving a car. I never have had an accident. I hope that many motorists will soon wake up and see their mistakes while driving, before it is to late and more are killed. J. M. SEAMAN. 2135 South Pennsylvania street. DAILY THOUGHT And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.—Jeremiah 2:7. tt tt tt DO you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude of man— Napoleon.

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APRTL 26, 1929

REASON By Frederick Landis

Pershing Sensible in Refusing to Become Embroiled- Over French Opinion of How He Handled A. E. F. General pershing shows his sense by refusing to discuss the statement in the Foch memoirs that Foch and Clemenceau were not pleased with the way the American commander did business. Possibly Pershing feels that since he has the approval of victory, nothing else matters. It appears that Clemenceau said in October, 1918: *Tlie Americans have not done us all the good they should have done.” Just what the Tiger meant by this warm-hearted and unselfish utterance is not clear, as the Americans then had won brilliant victories which saved France and drove the iron of conscious defeat into the German heart. Clemenceau does not specify just what additional service he desired Uncle Sam's embattled nephews to render. tt n u This criticism harks back to the disappointment of the allies when Pershing refused to let them use his army for replacement purposes and insisted that it fight as a separate unit under American commanders. Europe desired to use America as a greatcoat with which to plug her broken military window, but Pershing thought otherwise. tt U tt BUT for Pershing our millions of soldiers would have been fed into the shattered ranks of England, France and Italy; there would have been no distinctly American achievement in that war and we would have no page in its history. We would not know how Americans. standing alone, could face the frightful tests of modern warfare and the world would not have the respect it has for the Yank. tt a tt This French criticism should cause no surprise, since the history of warfare is the history of envy and disagreement among high commanders, for while the poor devils who do the fighting and the dying wish only to win, the spangled prima donnas at the head of the thing wish the credit for winning. tt a tt Envy and duplicity raged among commanders, both north and south, during the Civil war, the high tide of it being reached among the successive, if not successful, commanders of the Army of the Potomac, whose staggering incompetence harassed Lincoln and exalted Lee. In fact, Lincoln accused Hooker of treason to his former chief in the very letter sending Hooker his commission as commander. a a a THIS jealousy was rampant in the west in the early sixties. Grant’s jealous mates, unable to endure the glory he achieved at Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson, seeking to have him arrested for pursuing the enemy without getting permission from star-shouldered superiors, hundreds of miles in the rear. tt tt tt Amid the envies and conspiracies of that conflict, the friendship between Grant and Sherman shines forth as a model for future patriots of high command to follow, these two great leaders sustaining each other with a fidelity which emerges as the finest phase of that great struggle, except alone the sacrifice of the private soldier.

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BOOTH'S CAPTURE April 26 OIXTY-FOUR years ago today John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, was trapped by soldiers in a burning barn near Bowling Green, Va., and shot and killed when he attempted to leap from the hayloft and escape. With Booth was the youthful Herolri. who was captured and later executed for his part in the conspiracy. The capture and fatal shooting brought to an end a frenzied na-tion-wide search for the assassin, which began eleven days before, when Booth shot Lincoln in Ford’s Theater. Washington. Many fanciful rumors have been spread to the effect that the man shot was not Booth, and that the latter made good hi3 escape and lived to a ripe old age. These have been practically disregarded by historians, however, as pure fiction. Herold, a weak character, would not have gone to his death on the gallows without having disclosed the fact that the man responsible for his downfall was free. According to official records, Booth's body was buried under one of the ground floor cells of the old penitentiary at Washington.