Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1929 — Page 4

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Mooney Law Though he is not a member of President Hoover's lav enforcement commission. Governor C. C. Young of California may do more to accomplish the purpose of that body than any other single Individual. Governor Young soon will review new developments in the Mooney case and decide whether Tom Mooney is to remain longer in San Quentin or to walk away free. Mooney's release would be more than a simple act of justice to a man imprisoned thirteen years for a crime he did not commit. It would be recognition and ratification of the principle so vital to continuation of our government, that law must apply with clear-eyed impartially, to rich men and to poor, to men we admire and to men we dislike, to men who think as we do and to men who do not. Mooney was a labor organizer years ago before his arrest. He directed strikes against several large utility companies. These companies considered him a dangerous man. Since 1916 he has been in jail lor a crime which the judge, v.ho once sentenced him to hang, now says he could not possibly have committed. The Jury that found him guilty has admitted itself wrong upon confession and proof that every witness who testified against Mooney and Warren K. Billings committed perjury. The proof of Mooney s innocence has been accumulating for many years, .is facts about it became known, and Mooney continued in jail, and ill-advised men continued to say "Mooney should be in Jail, whether he committed this crime or not,” profound discouragement and distrust of law has been implanted in the minds of many men and women. Where the people of a country distrust law and fear it will be used for their persecution instead of their protection, there can be no adequate enforcement, anti there is danger always that lawlessness will grow. The record Is complete in Mooney's case. Reasons for his release are overwhelming. Doubtless Governor Young will take the step which will win him the sincere gratitude of the whole nation. Dirty Work We had supposed that all the dirt possible had been uncovered on those who are trying to besmirch Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett of New' York for writing an intelligent and clean study of sex education for her two sons. We were mistaken. C. E. Dunbar, a postotfice inspector in Washington, now admits that he framed the evidence upon which Mrs. Dennett was convicted for sending her pamphlet through the mails. A "Mrs. Carl A. Miles of Grottoes. Va.,” wrote, asking Mrs. Dennett to mail her one of the pamphlets. Mrs. Dennett did so. Now, Mr. Dunbar announces, “Mrs. Miles is a fictitious character. I ordered one of the pamphlets from Mrs. Der.nett. using that name, and when it reached Grottoes it was forwarded to me here." And why did this government official stoop to such lies and trickery? He explains, naively, "had Mrs. Dennett denied mailing the pamphlet, I would have taken the stand and told the story, but she admitted mailing it and such action was not necessary.’’ There we have the perfect self-revelation of the typical censor in afi his mental poverty, in all the self-righteous fanaticism which drives him to trick his neighbor for the glory of his prejudices. Mr. Dunbar was simply incapable of understanding that Mrs. Dennett had nothing to conceal, that no trickery was nacessarv to get one of her pamphlets, that she would have no incentive when on the stand to stoop to his kind of lies. We can understand how sincere persons can disagree about the Dennett pamphlets, or anything else under the sun. Though wc feel most strongly with all the physicians, social workers, educators, ministers and mothers who find this pamphlet a splendid light in the darkness of sex knowledge, we can respect the judgment of those who differ. But wc can not understand’ why those who differ —if they themselves have clean minds—are so ready to attribute obscenity to others; why they are so rea’dy to trick and persecute those with whom they disagree. That seems to be the very nature of censorship. It seeks dirt and It finds dirt wherever it w'ants to find dirt, even if it has to use dirty methods. And it defiles the censor. Fortunately, all that the postal officials and prosecutors and judges of the censorship system have succeeded in doing in this case is to make a martyr out of Mrs. Dennett and to give more publicity than the country’ ever has had before to the need for enlightened sex education.

The Best of All Possible Worlds Imagination falters at the prospect of what Voltaire would do if he were alive today and a citizen of this country. The sham and hypocrisy of prohibition seem especially designed for his pen. So with the pretenses of politicians, the injustices of the courts against workers and other common folk, the prevalence of poverty amidst plenty, the infractions of individual freedom, bigotry and all the other bad spots in our niv-Jem social order. Police would hound Veltaire now. as they did in the eighteenth century, and would deport him or imprison him as a dangerous radical. But they could not now. any more than then, dam the flow of his words or stop the spread of the ideas they implanted. Dead a century and a half. Voltaire’s influence still lives. The great apostle of free speech and enemy of injustice was the inspiration of many who followed, and probably all of us are better off for the struggles he waged so untiringly. It is perhaps not strange that the constituted authority he ridiculed and with which he so often came into conflict pursues Voltaire even In his grave. The United States customs authorities have confiscated and forbidden importation of his "Candide.” It is unfortunate that Voltaire is not here to say what he thinks about their action. "Candid,” they say is obscene. It matters not that the work is internationally acknowledged as a classic, that the Importer was a reputable Harvard professor, that the work is almost universally employed as a text in colleges, and that it is published In this country and is for sale in every book store. The censors of the government found episodes they considered improper and their judgment must prevail against the world. It remains only for the government to punish the

college professors and publishers as corrupters of youth, as one of them suggested, to carry- the incident to the extremity of absurdity. "There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds.” Dr. Pangloss commented to his disciple, Candide, a’ the conclusion of the latter's adventures. “All that is very well,” answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden.” Save the Schools. Now comes the uphappy information that the school city is reaching the limit of its borrow-ing power and that children, in the future, will be packed into buildings or given half-day training. There should be no surprise. It is the logical result of permitting selfish political interests to control the schools. That is always expensive and costly. For too long has the public sat idly by while the management of the schools was left to the Shipps or the Coffins. Instead of running the schools for the purpose of educating children, they seem to have been operated for the purpose of selling books to favored companies and ventilating systems for schemes or giving Jobs to political workers. This might be a good year for the people to again take possession of the school system. E. L. Dohcny bought in at public auction the ranch property of his friend, former Secretary Fall. Mr. Doheny seems to have been the Fall guy in that transaction. Scientists have been revising their statistics and it seems to them now that the universe is not so spacious as formerly was believed. Maybe they have been attending beauty contests. A man laughed out loud in a San Francisco movie theater and was ejected. The only thing you can get away with in a movie theater these days is a good cry. New Yorkers eat 7,000.000 eggs daily, says a bulletin of the Merchants’ Association. And just think of the millions more they have to look at! Now that a mechanical heart has been invented by a scientist in Canada, a couple of cartons ought to be ordered by the presidents of the American and National Leagues. The United States is a country that expresses its democracy by fighting over places at the table. An incendiary- fire destroyed a mechanical organ in a Chicago movie house. Police haven’t even mentioned the theory that it was some Boy Scout doing his daily good deed. Tammany hall seems to have observed Foot Health week by booting out a few- of its recent favorites. A Boston man gave up golf to win a girl. Reform is difficult, but they say a good woman often can make a ma*. out of the poorest kind of material. The Greeks have made Mount Olympus a national park. The venture should succeed if they put in a good movie for the American tourists. Prohibition officers in Ohio shot the proprietor of a soft drink establishment. Now someone ought to go after the hot dog salesmen. A former St. Louis gunman is employed as a director of underworld films. Judging by the number of that kind of shows w-e've seen lately, A1 Capone is missing a big chance by not buying a movie camera. Workmen are tearing down the first steel skyscraper erected in Chicago. Must have been a pretty tough building. The Hoover disarmament proposal raised a lot of false hopes. Nothing w-as said in it about the coast 'guard.

—————David Dietz on Science Here Is Fog-Like Cloud No. 364 WE now have reached the end of the official classification of clouds. No. 10 in the list is the stratu,*. It is described officially as follows: “A uniform layer of cloudlike fog not lying on the ground. The cloud layer of stratus is always very low. If it is divided into ragged masses in a w-ind or by mountain tops it may be called fracto-stratus. The complete absence of detail of structure differentiates stratus from other aggregated forms of cloud.”

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STRATUS CLOUDS.

mo -ture in it will condense into a layer of a stratus cloud. When warm air is blown over a surface of cold water, it sometimes results m the formation of a stratus cloud. Stratus clouds are also frequently the result of a fog drifting inland from the ocean! If the land is warm, the lower portions of the fog evaporate away, leaving the higher portion which then forms a stratus cloud. The type of cloud known to Californians as the "velo” cloud is formed in this last way. "Cloud Forms,” official publication of the British Meteorological office, gives the following additional hints for cloud observers: "In the daytime in summer all the lower clouds assume, as a rule, special forms more or less resembling cumulus. “Sometimes a cloud will show a mammillated surface and the appearance should be noted under the name mammato-cumulus. "The form taken by certain clouds particularly on days of sirocco, etc., which shows an ovoid form with clean outlines, will be indicated by the name lenticular. "Notice should always be taken when the clouds seem motionless or if they move with very great velocity.” The reader who has followed this series during the last few weeks now has a knowledge of the ten forms of clouds into which meteorologists divide all clouds. A brief summary of these will be given next for quick and handy reference.

M.E. Tracy SAYS: Since the Dawn of Conscience, Our Worst Tyrants, Perverts and Crooks Were Born With Silver Spoons in Their Mouths. IT now looks as though recreationary senators, led by Moses, Reed & Cos., would not take Mr. Mallon apart, not in secret at least. No matter how the show intrigued them, it was too much for some of their colleagues to stomach. The idea of noisily denouncing "those hypocrites” w-ho had given Mr. Mallon information as to the Lenroot roll call and then making him the goat, was too raw. Thus in a roundabout way we come to the more sensible proposition of abolishing secret palavers over the confirmation of presidential nominees. After all, it’s an ill w-ind that blows nobody good. State Must Be Free WHEN it comes to money, George Bernard Shaw- believes we should all be on a level, but when it comes to politics he wants a strong man. "There can be no freedom without a strong state,” he says. "Freedom or.ee achieved, the people are inclined to forget that it still is necessary for somebody to govern." So it is, and by the same token it is equally desirable, if not necessary, for those who have the sense to use it wisely to be in possession of more money than those who have not. There is admittedly much injustice in the distribution of wealth, but no more, perhaps, than in the distribution of political pow r er. The real danger, as Mr. Schwab poitns out, lies in the general effect of prosperity. Riches have a way of breeding their own moral code. tt tt tt Conscience Stays Alive POVERTY may lead to crime, but it seldom deadens conscience. Only those who have more than they know what to do with find it easy to justify appetites, desires and ambitions that otherw-ise w-ould be looked upon as vicious. The low criminality which comes from want is not only less dangerous. but less excusable than the subtler kind which originates in the "gi'mes.” Since the dawn of conscienceness, our worst tyrants, perverts and crooks w-ere born with silver spoons in their mouths. The Boy Killer A KENTUCKY judge with the assistance of a Kentucky jury just has sentenced a 6-year-old boy to the reform school for killing his playmate. The tragedy of such proceeding, as well as the futility of such punishment, was illustrated vividly by the fact that the youngster did not realize what was going on, but played about the courtroom as though it were a lark for his own amusement. Putting aside the question of whether he shot his playmate, over w-hich there is some doubt, it seems logical to suppose he would not have thought of doing so, much less carried the idea into execution, unless he had been reared in an environment w-here guns and death were glorified. An inquiry concerning the home ol that child, the neighborhood, in which he lived, and the source of his violent attitude would seem far more appropriate than to visit on him the vengeance of law obviously made for older and more comprehending minds.

Reform Not for Babes WHETHER one approaches the question of punishment from the standpoint of reform, prevention or revenge, its application to babies is palpably useless. Six years can not produce enough to make over, enough to be scared, or enough to suffer. But. if thrown in contact, with the idiots, half-wits, and perverts that clutter our reformatories, the potential purity of six years easily can be contaminated. St St St Could Be Decent Man THAT little Kentucky boy might become a decent man if brought up in the right way and surrounded with the right kind of influences, even though he did shoot a playmate. To place him in a reformatory, however, where he will be thrown into intimate contact with the outj casts of the state, means little less ! than his virtual destruction. Much as we like to believe that our corrective institutions can take | the place of a good home, sympa- ! the tic relatives and natural associations, the result is not encouraging. More often than not. the inmate I falls under the herd influence, abI sorbing the smart alec, rebellious spirit of hirs companions, rather than the wise counsels of those in charge. At best, institutional life is a sorry makeshift.

- As the definition jtells, the stratus is jjust a fog which doesn't touch the ground- It is the lowest of clouds, averaging around 2-000 feet. It is formed in a number of ways. Occasionally, it will be formed by cold winds running under a layer of warm humid air. The warm air will be lifted to a cooler region where the

ONE of the most important mat- ; ters in any hearing is that it should be open to the press.—Senator Simmons. North Carolina. ana I burst out laughing the other das when it was said of a certain man that he has devoted his life to his country; for he has devoted his life to politics.—Ed Howe, Atchison, Kan., editor and waiter. a a a The American male is notoriously adept and incompetent as a lover, and the laws of his country’ sternly forbid any effort to improve him.— 11. L. Mencken. (American Mercury. a a a A woman is like a mirror to a man; she reflects whatever he desires. that she shall represent.—Premier Benito Mussolini. a a a Mexican labor has supplanted native American labor to such extent that today fully 75 per cent of the

THE EsDIAXAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tlia American Medical Association and of Hyjreia, the Health Magazine. WITH the advancement of medical science, It has become increasingly difficult for a young man to become a physician. Fifty years ago the course in medicine in even the best medical colleges was about three years in length and consisted largely of lectures and some dissection and demonstration. The time occupied in schools was not so great and the student could spend much of his spare time in earning his living. Most students came into medical colleges from the high school, but even high school education was not required for admission to many medical colleges. After Pasteur made his great medical discovery, namely, that germs are responsible for the spread of disease; after chemistry and

DON MARQUIS, on this pleasant day has been kind enough to contribute the entire column: "My attention-callers on my payroll point to an article in the Boston Post in which the Rev. John Roach Straton intimates that Sinclair Lewis. Hey wood Broun and Don Marquis are going to hell. I wish to state publicly that I am grateful for the assurance that I have a future in such intelligent company. “An incorporation is suggested. "I do not suppose that we will be able to accomplish a definite spiritual regeneration over any enormous area of hell, when we get there and continue the missionary work we have started on this planet, but Ido think w r e should enter into an agreement now to combine forces there and do the best we can. “It is, at least, a mission that we have in some measure prepared ourselves for on this earth, and we have found the work interesting in itself, and the reactions we get from it are occasionally very amusing.

Thank You, Brother ' TT7'E stiou;d all be very grateful, VVI think, to Brother Straton. He is a great prophet, or he would not have perceived just where we were going. “He is deeply in the confidence of God, or he could not with an air of cosmic authority have assigned to us our definite place in the hereafter. His assurance—justified, no doubt, by his knowledge of his near relations to providence—reminds one of the utterance of an archangel, or, at the very least, the confidence of a Dante. “A great many people—most people, indeed, have to wait until they die before they are sure where they

Quotations of Notables

; common or unskilled labor in my ! state is performed by Mexicans. — Mr. McKemy, commissioner of labor in Texas. U tt 8 I’ve read the statements of a lot of old fogeys that a woman should enjoy personally preparing the food her husband eats. They are like a flock of wet hens. I doubt if my j husband could eat food I prepare.— Vaughn De Leath, radio singen Who Ls the leading woman in the mo;ion picture, "Fleetwing,” and what other prominent parts has she played? Dorothy Janis Ls the leading woman In "Fleetwing” and she played the part of Sings-in-the-Clouds in .“Kit Carson.” She is 19 years old. What ls the Negro and the Indian population of the United States? The Negro population is 10,463,131 and the Indian population is 354,940.

Maybe They Can Do % Something About It!

Science Advance Tilts Education Cost

IT SEEMS TO ME ” "SST

Learning to Bea Doctor — No. 1

physics and other fundamental sciences began to advance, medical education took a tremendous step forward. Because of the vast amount of knowledge necessary for the student —and by this is meant his fundamental knowledge and not extraordinary refinements—the medical curriculum began to increase in length. The amount of time spent in the laboratories became greater and the amount of attention given by students to patients directly at the bedside w-as increased considerably. Asa result of these factors, the cost of medical education has become much greater than it used to be. Today any one who thinks of entering the medical profession must plan on an outlay of at least SI,OOO a year for from five to seven years. Approximately $7,500 is the amount required by the student during his

are going. But Lewis arid you and I have had it all settled for us. “Brother Straton, profoundly in the councils of God himself, tells us while we are still in the flesh. He disposes of our souls without any thought of blasphemy or sacrilege, such as might stay the tongue of a lesser man less divinely accredited and informed.

Across the Styx own hope is that after we get to heJ!, and begin our evangelical work there, we will still be under the supervision of Brother Straton; that he will send us messages of cheer and encouragement and guidance from his place near the throne of Jehovah. “Maybe he will fly down now and then for a friendly chat, and to get acquainted with the congregation that Lewis and you and I inevitably will have gathered about us. He has made me that sort of visit before this. “One day, ten or twelve years; ago, I think it was, he sought me out in my office in the Evening Sun, and proposed to me that we ‘trade’ publicity. I had written a paragraph criticising one of his public utterances, and the Sunday following he had preached a sermon chastising me from his pulpit. “I -was crude enough, being still unlessoned in the finer ethical points of modern evangelism, to think that there was a genuine difference between Brother Straton and myself; that there was, vulgarly speaking, ‘a row on.’ But I was wrong, it appeared. “After making an earnest plea for my soul, he pointed out to me that what I had said advertised him, and what he had said advertised me, and suggested that we do a dou- | ble deal on more of that sort of ! thing, for our mutual benefit in a j publicity way.

But I Was Wrong “T NEVER mentioned his name in A print but once after that; but I have come to a better understanding of him, and see now that I have been wrong. There was no common desire for self-advertisement behind his proposition. no thought of self-advance-ment for personal ends, but only the : wish for larger and larger audiences ! to whom he might communicate the revelations which he receives, apparently, directly from Jehovah. I was wrong to feel the contempt I did. "I have known Brother Straton twenty-six years without ever having seen much of him at any time. But he has always interested me, and I feel impelled to defend him against superficial critics who may not realize w’hat lies behind his manners.

course. Some students get through on a lower average, while others exceed the amount quoted. The costs vary with different colleges, but in general $7,500 represents the minimum cost of medical education in a class A medical school. Many students earn a portion of this expenditure, but the vast majority are not able to carry on the medical course and to spend time earning money. The only chance to earn additional funds is during summer vacations. A few students earn meals by waiting on table or washing dishes or taking care of furnaces; some earn a few dollars by driving taxicabs at night; some earn a portion of these expenses by assisting in the work of the college, but these represent a small minority of exceptional men.

Next: Preliminary education.

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.

But This Is Absurd “TT seems to be that it Ls some■“■how unfair that Brother Straton, who is going to heaven, should bo the victim of such spiritual suffering as will not let him rest, while Lewis and you and I, who are going to hell, should be, on the whole, having rather a good time of it. “It is inexplicable except upon the hypothesis that Lewis and you and I are really doing more good in the w-orld, and having a better influence on our fellow men than Brother Straton is. And that, of course, is absurd. "If we can only get him to look after us in hell with that same appealing kindliness with which he has sought to guide us in this life—assuring him in return the publicity which he craves for his righteous purposes—we ought to be even more happy than we are now-. And maybe make him a little happier poor soul.” (Copyright, 1929, by The Times)

Daily Thought

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.—Eccl. 5:5. u a a HASTY resolutions are of the nature of vows; and to be equally avoided.—William Penn. What ships first passed through the Suez canal? The first three to pass through the canal on Nov. 16, 1869. were the Lotif, an Egyptian corvette of 1,400 tons, under Captain Djemli Bey; the French dispatch boat, Salamandre of 250 tons, Captain Blanc, and the Verka, a Russian steam yacht of seventy tons, Captain Adeem

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REASON By Frederick Landis Appointive Office h the Refuge of the. Unworthy, So HV Should Flood it With Daylight. THE most un-American thing at Washington is the secret session in which senators discuss the qualification of presidential appointees and vote on their confirmation. Under the rule, a senator may be expelled if he tells what occurred in the secret session, even if he merely tells how he voted, all of which makes such secret session the most abominable steam roller in America. n a a In time of war there may be occasions when appointments should be discussed behind closed doors. At such time, the people willingly surrender their rights, even though the demand therefore be clearly unconstitutional, but to buck and gag the consideration of every peace-time appointee serves no public and profits only the unworthy. a a tt The most recent exasperating instance of this senatorial suffocation was in the case of the confirmation of Irvine L. Lenroot’s appointment as judge of the court of customs appeals, very grave charges having been made against him, among them that he aided ex-Secretary Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal and that he diad lobbied for the power trust. tt a ts fF either charge be true, Lenroot is not fit to hold any public position. Yet such was the determination of the senatorial machine to smother all publicity of the discussion of his case, than an effort is said to have been made to forbid any senator to keep a record of how his associates voted. Such attempted discipline shrinks the august character of a United States senator to the helpless status of an infant in kindergarten.

No honorable man should shun an open discussion of his career, and no dishonorable man should be permitted to shun it. You can not imagine a square man like Charles G. Dawes running into a senatorial closet with his appointment under his coat, fearfully telling the statesmen of the upper chamber that, somebody was about to go into his record and beseeching them to lock the doors and pull down the blinds! tt tt u OPEN door consideration of the fitness of presidential appointees will not only protect the country from confirmation of the undesirable, but it will cause presidents to think twice before they appoint the undesirable. Such open discussion of the charms of Fall and Daugherty might have prevented their confirmation, if in fact it had not prevented their appointment in the first place, a tt tt Privilege constantly is on the afert to fill high office with its "friends,’’ this solicitude centering largely about appointments to the Federal bench. This is why, year after year, you see men appointed to great stations who never in this world could have been elected. Appointive office is the refuge of the unworthy, so we should flood the pathway to it with daylight!

—T qOAYf IB' THIC“ Af L

OUR CONSTITUTION May 25 ON May 25, 1787, a sufficient number of delegates from the states in the Union assembled at the statehouse in Philadelphia to frame the federal Constitution. This historic meeting was to have begun on May 14, but a quorum did not arrive until May 25. The delay was characteristic of colonial legislators. Whether due to the difficulties connected with making long journeys or to personal habits, the fact remains that few colonial meetings convened on scheduled time. About the only matter the convention settled unanimously was George Washington’s election as President. On the details of the Constitution there was wide differences of opinion. In fact, the present-day tendency of the Republican party to favor a strong, centralized federal government and the contrasting Democratic principle of state rights were born at this convention 142 years ago today. Our whole legislative system, with a senate composed of two senators from each state, regardless of its size, and a house of representatives in which states are represented in proportion to their population, is a compromise between these two political schools.