Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1929 — Page 4

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Duvall to Jail There may be those who will weep over the fact that the high -ourt* have decided that .John Duvall once mayor of Indianapolis, must go to jail. If there be sympathy it might be better employed in behalf of Indianapolis and the injuries this city suffered from th* advent and triumph of the hordes of hate. It may be well to remember that the forces which placed Duvall in power are still in control of the local Republican party, still trying to rule this city, still brazenly boasting that they can control decisions of courts and steal elections with immunity still possess all the assurance that Stephenson, their pal and abettor, once put into words when he said, "1 am the law " Duvall was the product of Stephensonism. He reacted *'• the philosophy and attitude of that charlatan. He had exactly the same political ethics and principles He thought as did rot only the life tenner, but as thought and thinks George V Coffin, as thought Ed .Jackton, as thought the Iluff'ingtons and McNays. The real crime of Duvall was that he saw no evil in obtaining office by defying the lavs controlling elections. From the sang standpoint his offense, and this is probably why he is deserted in his hour of defeat, v;is that l\e sot caught. Duvall, head of a bank, would not have dared to flagrantly violate the law had he not believed that the gang was more powerful than the government, that the secret plot was more potent than the law. That was why he could and did take money from manipulators and grafters for his campaign. That was why he, made secret contracts ■uith Stephenson for the distribution of offices in return for votes and the following of the invisibles. That was why he saw no shame in admitting under oath that he had obeyed a telegraphic summons, immediately after his election, from one Hiram Evans lo go to Washington to receive orders concerning his appointments. There may he something unfair in the thought that Duvall alone of all the malodorous crew is forced to serve time lor his sins. There is something infinitely more unfair in the idea that sueh conspiracies can be perpetrated without any one being punished. What the people of this city should remember is that the former playmates of Duvall in the game of politics are now endeavoring to recapture th M city. Boss Coffin still plots. His henchmen whisper that he owns, as he once owned Duvall, enough members of the supreme court to prevent the city manager law from going into effect. They slander that court by declaring that it will be 1 oftin. under its protection, who will again place paroled convicts, petty criminals. known ballot box stuffers on election boards to overthrow the verdict ot decent citizens. His secret acents are masquerading in many camps. Some of them call themselves reformers. Some are pretending revolution All are working to put another Duvall in office, another figurehead in the seat of power to control jobs and money and privileges and protection for crime. While it may be permitted to pity a man who was once in high esteem when he falls to the low depths of a prison cell, this crime was such that it is unfortunate that he can not be placed in some public place as a warning to those who are tempted to steal the most priceless possession oi the people, which is thengovernment. Duvall in jail should serve as a reminder to this city that the work will not be finished until the usurpation of power by his maker and master. George V. Coffin, is destroyed. Bosses must no longer slander the supreme court, no longer speak in whispers of inspired decisions. The work will not be done until the spirit which made a Duvall possible is eradicated from public thought. Give the Little Girl a Big Hand Mabel is departing. So more will the prohibition army oi the department of justice be commanded by that liveliest of lady lieutenants. Mrs. Willebrar.dt, assistant attorney-general. The President has seen fit to accept her resignation —with flowers, as was to be expected in such situation. Now that she is going, we discover to our own surprise that we can't criticise her with the old zest. Maybe it is that we are getting sentimental, and partings—especially with a lady—are not the proper time to be hard-boiled. But It is not altogether a matter of sentiment. The fact is that we have made a discovery about MabeL During the campaign. It may be recalled, she lugged in the religious issue by shrilly appealing to Ohio Methodist preachers to go out and keep their state from falling to the Catholic wet. Together, with a great many other newspapers, we called for her resignation from federal office. But we went further and published a derisive cartoon entitled “Give the Little Girl a Big Hand * in which Mabel was pictured draped over the knee of an irate father public, getting th< spanking she deserved. *shat cartoon was ver pfipultr. But—to ouSt com-

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plete surprise—the person who enjoyed it most was none other than Mabel. And that forced us to revise our judgment somewhat. For v<* have one dogma, which is that any person with a seruie of humor can’t be altogether bad. In this more friendly glow, we have been trying ever since to get a really fair understandnig of Mabel and what makes her that way. We have decided that Mabel is all right by' her own lights, sincere and all of that, and awfully effective, but simply has been in the wrong place. She is a propagandist, an emotional leader. She is anything but a federal administrator. So, of course, after all her well-meaning fuss and flurry there is less prohibition enforcement now than when she took office, determined to clean house by hysterics. That is not Mabel's fault. Perhaps it is .not even the fault of the Harding administration, which appointed her. For her appointment was typical of the general public attitude toward prohibition enforcement back in 1621. Seven years has taught us all a lot about prohibition. Nobody has learned yet how prohibition can be enforced—perhaps nobody ever will. But the government and an increasing majority of the public have learned how prohibition can not be enforced. Snooping, heresy-hunting, wire-tapping, life-for-a-pint laws, a reign of terror and murder by government agents, and other spectacular methods may tickle the extreme dry zealots, but only can increasethe disgust of the average citizen for such law. If the enforcement experiment can be made to work at all—and we doubt it—obviously the old melodramatic antics must be scrapped for the scientific method, applied to the problem, consciously understood as one of the most difficult tasks of social engineering ever attempted by a government. That apparently is the approach of President Hoover and his crime commission, which convened yesterday. A New Farm Relief Problem When land is too valuable to grow food, and thousands starve in the midst of potential plenty, anew variation of the farm relief problem is set out for solution. Professor F. H. Newell, consulting engineer and former head of the government reclamation service, is just back from Porto Rico, with a report to the above effect. “The population is on the verge of starvation,” declares Professor Newell. “In some of the islands the soil and water are not adequate to support the native populations; but in Porto Rico the trouble is different. The soil is very rich and could grow’ food for an army. “But it is too valuable to grow food. It is de- J mended by the sugar interests to grow’ sugar, so the j natives import food from the United States, paying our high prices, plus the freight from New’ YorkAnd not having work or money to pay, they are out of luck.” v/hich recalls the opening chapters in Henry George's “Progress and Poverty,” in which he describes the famine in Ireland due to the failure of the potato crop, the sympathy in America for the starving Irish, and the project to load a battleship w’ith grain and send it across the ocean, while all the time, millions of bushels of w’heat were in storehouses in : Liverpool—quite close to Ireland. All that was required was money to buy the wheat. So all that is required in Porto Rico is money or jobs, so the Porto Ricans might bid against the sugar interests tor enough land to grow some food upon. Meantime in the U. S. A. there is the serious threat to the farmer of a bumper wheat crop, with the inevitable drop in price. Maybe one reason why we don't have women presidents is that few of them ever reach the required age.! Maybe we wouldn't have to have a crime comrnis- j sion if the still small voice hadn't become contused with the term speakeasy.

—David Dietz on Science

Air Causes Billows

- No. 367

"XT THEN the sky is covered with clouds in equally VV spaced bands, clear sky showing between the bands, the clouds are known as billow’ clouds. Billow clouds, as Dr. Humphreys of the United States weather bureau points out, are usually a form of alto-cumulus. When they appear as small ripples, thev are a form of cirro-cumulus. Billow clouds are formed by the flowing of one layer of current of air over a lower layer of greater

Billow Clouds

the waves have formed, is saturated heavily with moisture, billow clouds will form. This is because the crest or top of each wave is expanded by reason of having been elevated to a higher altitude. This expansion cools the crest of the wave and the moisture in it condenses. No expansion, however, takes place in the trough of each wave and therefore no condensation takes place in it. it can be understood now why the billow cloud takes the form of parallel bands , f clouds with clear sky between the bands. The parallel bands represent the crests of the waves, the clear sky between represents the troughs of the waves. While the billow clouds may hold their forms for hours, there is constant change going on in them. There is constant condensation on the rising or windward side of each billow and constant evaporation on the descending or leeward side of each billow. Dr. Humphreys calls attention to the fact that wind velocity can not be juuged f rom the motion of billow clouds across the sky any more than the velocity of a wind could be judged from the velocity of waves on the ocean. The billow cloud forms a good case in the argument that scientific knowledge enhances rather than destroys one’s appreciation of the beauty of nature. This writer believes that the billow cloud will lose no beauty for the person who understands the cause of its formation and the activity which is going on within it, but that on the contrary this knowledge increases the observer’s interest and appreciation of the cloud.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Exclude a Pacifist for Her Views, Although We Have Proclaimed Free Thought as the Cornerstone of the Republic. COLONEL LINDBERGH runs true to form, taking no one into his confidence, and leaving the wise guys to follow’ a cold trail. Guessing where and when he would be married has be*n a great game in this country during the last few months. Every second person one met had an idea. Some of the ideas made the front page. All were wrong. That is what comes of trying to figure out something which is none of our business. n tt u The Bubbles Burst STOCKS go dowm, with two billions in paper profits wiped out. Sessible people expected they would, because the game always ends that way. Children seldom stop blowing bubbles until the bubbles burst. Speculation is essentially childish. What it w’ants is something for nothing. Wanting this, it generally hangs on too long. tt tt tt U. S, Is Inconsistent MME. SCHWIMMER is barred from becoming a citizen of the United States because she declared that she would not bear arms in defense of her country in time of war. Since she has reached the age of 50, it is difficult to conceive under what circumstances she would be asked to perform such duty, but let that pass. She says she w’ould not, and that is enough to alarm five of the nine sages of the supreme court. Visions of what pacifism in the form of a lone female might do to the greatest nation ever evolved by man w’ere more than they could endure. So we exclude the lady, although w T e have proclaimed free speech and free thought as cornerstones of the republic, and have fathered a pact outlawing war as our own pet project. B B B France Sees Different IF it felt so inclined, the French government probably could have found as many excuses for excluding Zita, former empress of Aus-tria-Hungary, as we have for excluding Mme. Schwimmer. In the first place, Zita is a Hapsburg and a royalist. In the second, she comes from a country with w’hich France recently was at war. In the third, if admitted to the country, she would find herself among a multitude of exiles and refugees who have little to occupy their minds, except the pastime of stirring up trouble for those who thi*ew them out. But the French government prefers to heed the prayers of a woman asking for asylum, rather than conjure up visions that she may be a plotter and shut the door in her face. New York in 1965 CITY planning comes to a climax in the report just issued by a committee of experts with regard to development of the New York metropolitan district. Assuming that this district, which now contains a population of ten million, w’ill have a population of twenty million in 1965, the committee recommends an elaborate system of parks, highways, railroads and airports, together w’ith necessary tunnels and bridges. The proposition is staggering, particularly because of the greater future it leaves out. If the population of the New York metropolitan district is going to double between now and 1965, what will it do between 1965 and the year 2,000. not to say the "'ext succeeding century? tt tt tt Just Continuous Growth CITY planning still lacks a sense of propriety. The experts have not reached a point where they dare to suggest limits. The perfectly obvious idea that a city could become too big for its own good or the good of the region which it serves, still remains to be considered. In planning every other kind of enterprise or activity, we begin by asking how’ much is needed and how much the traffic will stand. When it comes to the citj, however, we imagine nothing bu' continuous growth. tt tt tt Why Mr, Adams? IT was to be expected that someone would read those insurgents ; out of the Republican party, but ; why Charles Francis Adams, in his : maiden speech? Manifestly, the job was for an j older and more hardened war horse, not because it required originality or courage, but because it would have been more in keeping with tradition. Putting that aside, tradition will have its way in the end. and the next election will find those who have been read out of the party not only back in it, but the party as enthusiastic as usual to take advantage of their co-operation.

density. This produces billow’s in just the same w r ay that a wind blowing over the ocean produces billows on the ocean. Now when the waves or billows form on the lower layer of air, the crest of each wave is, of course, at a hig he r altitude than the trough of each wave. If the lower layer of air. the layer on which

IT IS evident that the prosperity of the United States, affording a rapidly growing market for materials and products of other parts of the world, has been a very important factor in filling the gap in demand caused by the demoralization of Europe's buying pow’er.”— E. Dana Durand, cLpartment of commerce. tt B B The Taena-Arica dispute has come to an end, according to an announcement made by President Hoove.*. However, the historic question oi the Pacific, which includes Bolivia Chile, Peru, is far from settled, end it will not be, unless the landlocked condition in which Bolivia has endured national life since the War of 1879 is changed.—From

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stocks go down, taking V* my own with them, I pine, and. Tt my sorrow is not unmixed with, satisfaction. It pleases me to remember all my wet young friends in Wall Street who voted Republican in the last election. These were the boys who said, “A1 is a fine fellow. He’s right on prohibition and Hoover’s wrong. But of course, it wouldn't do to have a Democrat in the White House. Democrats can always be counted on to monkey with the market and depress values. It just won’t do.” I am preparing for these wet Republicans a little greeting card inscribed “What price the Hoover bull market now?” Unfortunately I can not write the book on “How to Make Money in Wall Street,” because that's been done already. J. George Frederick, the author has sent me No. 998 of the little blue books of E. Hademan Julius. “Man! I've been ahead of you these many years,” writes Frederick. “See attached book on precisely the title you specify. You see before you the accomplishment of your dream. “I am a man of action, sir, and after I lost money in Wall Street I let no grass grow under by feet and perpetuated this book. I did more. Suspecting that the loss of money in Wall Street was distinctly an evidence of a low’ emotional age, I went further in my literary’ efforts and compiled a book called ‘What Is Your Emotional Age?’ which has been selling rather well. “If you were hard enough hit emotionally by the street to wonder about your own emotional age. I shall be charmed to send you an inscribed copy so you can calculate to a year your emotional age. Personally I rate just under voting age and I have an idea which may be a slander—that you will come on sweet 16. Only Andrew’ Mellon’s emotionally mature. He's just made three hundred millions.” tt tt tt Facts of Finance I WISH somebody had given me Frederick's book years ago. so that I might have learned the facts

Quotations of Notables

statement of iegation at Washington. BBS Os the many plans suggested to remedy the unemployment situation the greatest of them all was the restrictive immigration law. We do not want cheap labor to come here to compete with the American workingman.—Representative Cable, Ohio. BBS Any ene who reads the New Testament with candor and intelligence sees that a great element of our religion has evaporated out of it, It is a loss for which all our wealth can not compensate.—The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester, Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal church, Boston.

" WfllKE TO THINK OF ■ "

Many New Devices Used by Doctors

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEJN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magaiine. THE changes that have taken place in the form of medical practice are already apparent to everyone even slightly conversant with the problems of the profession. A quarter century has seen the introduction into medical service of a w’ide variety of technics for delivery to the patient of what the doctor has to offer for the prevention of disease, for the relief of symptoms or for cure, when cure is available. The advancement of medical science has been associated with the introduction of innumerable complicated devices planned to aid the senses of man in the study of the changes that go on in the human body in health and disease. The microscope is familiar to

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Learning to Bea Doctor — No. 4

every student of medicine but the cystoscope, proctoscope, electrocardiograph and the technics of blood chemistry are to the practitioner of an older generation and even to many recent graduates tools beyond facile employment. General practitioners, confronted with problems beyond simple solution, refer those problems to specialists. In a difficult diagnosis or in a complicated problem of treatment several specialists may be called in. The old-time practitioner of medicine is passing. But he left an impression on the people of this country that they should not forget, He may not have known as much about as many things as does tie physician of today, but he was abreast of the knowledge of his time. One thing the old family doctor had, never should be lost from the

of Wall Street before maturity and disaster. On Page 28, for instance, I find “How a beginner can learn without loss,'’ and in this section there is the recommendation “for one entire year ‘go to school’ in stock trading by dummy transactions.” Still that might not have worked well for me. It would have ruined my morale to lose all that money even in imagination and after tossing millions about in any such game the simple requirements of my life could be ever so irksome. Instead of taking taxis I w-ould buy them and dine on nothing but flaming tongues. Harsh reality lias impressed me with cei'tain comforting verities. By now I am content with that station in life to which it has pleased God to call me. Whenever United States Steel goes down another three or four points I say to myself, “You’re a lucky boy, Hey wood, to be poor and honest. Think of how much you would have lost if you’d been able to buy more stock. Think of the men w’ho own a hundred shares.” B tt B Comes Up Smiling ADVERSITY in the stock market has sweetened my disposition. Time was when observers called me a bad loser in poker games. Now I w’atch the chips drift away from me and never curse. As I make out checks for the winners an indulgent smile plays about my mouth. My mood is sustained by the thought, “I would just as soon have my money go to these dirty loafers as to be swallow’ed up by the wolves of Wall Street.” Nevertheless, I am not downhearted. Things are likely to improve, for last w’eek I got some excellent tips. Two in particular I am weighing before taking action. At a spiritualistic seance a control called Little Elsie advised the sitters to buy National Cash Register. Tne stock went up six points the next cay. Again. It might be argued against Little Elsie's advice that the spirit seemed to be that of a small girl oi 5. The whim of a child is possibly too slight a thing to influence the judgment of a veteran trader. tt tt tt Almost a Direct Tip I COULD discard the advice of Little Elsie and follow’ that of John Raskob. I don't mean Mr. Raskob in person, but I know’ a girl who has a boy friend who lunched with Mr. Raskob, and the great financier said to buy Anaconda. Moreover, Mr. Raskob has several advantages over Little Elsie. In the first place, he isn't dead, except of course among the Democrats, and besides, although Little Elsie undoubtedly knows more about politics. Mr. Raskob seems to have had more experience in the market. Still, just as I am about to buy Anaconda, I remember that Mr. Raskob said Smith w’ould carry lowa. On the other hand, in think-

practice of medicine. He had a love of his fellow-man which made him look upon his calling as one of service. Hs had ideals which have been the envy of other professions and trades. He had the first organized code of ethics and in those he set before all other callings an ideal for their attainment. Today all professions and trades have committees which are attempting to draw up for them something resembling the principles that have guided medical practitioners for more than two thousand years. These things are not lightly to be tossed aside from pecuniary considerations; they should be borne m mind even in attempts to deliver adequate service to a maximum number of mankind rather than to deliver exceptional service to a few. NEXT: General practitioners or group practice.

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.

ing of National Cash Register, I can’t forget that Elsie brought along a spirit which identified himself as my uncle and said he w’as one of three brothers. There were, in fact, seven, which gives Elsie a battle average of less than .500. Elsie possibly was confused. Maybe she didn’t mean National Cash Register at all. but Northern Pacific. What would a child like that know about industrials? Anyhow, I’ve got plenty of information w’hich doesn’t depend on either Raskob or Elsie. One of the funniest comedians on the American stage today says to buy Radio. But he is fearfully addicted to practical jokes. The ouija board says Vanadium, and I found American Sumatra in the tea leaves. I guess I’ll just stick to my own judgment. Has anybody got a hat pin? (Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

Daily Thought

For all our days are passed away in thy wTath: we spend Our years as a tale that is told.— Psalms 90:9. B a b MY notions about life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but after all, one wants to be at rest.— Southey. Marion Merchant Dies B.’r Time* Snedal MARION. Ind.. May 29.—James Albert Clouser, 63, grocer, is dead. He leaves a widow’, three daughters and four sons.

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.MAY 29, 1929

REASON

-By Frederick Landis-

Marion Talley Has Bought a Farm. All She Need Do Now Is Sit on the Porch and Sing. ‘What Will the Harvest Be?’ IT IS interesting to note that the promoters of the Indianapolis dog races declare that r.o gambling will be permitted, since it is about as easy to run a race track without betting as to run a dairy without milking the cows. The objection to the dog race is that the gamblers fix the race by doping the dogs. B B a This airplane down on Long Island. which is trying to establish a refueling duration record, will have to go some to beat the refueling record now being made by the average householder. tt tt tt How the bankrupt noblemen of Europe will kick themselves when they learn how suddenly this daughter of John N. Willys, the automobile magnate, fell for this castle king from Argentina! BBS When we read that the wealth of the Mellon family has increased in value several hundred millions of dollars the last few weeks, we are in favor of giving the farmer anything he w’ants. BBS Marion talley has bought a big wheat field in Kansas and j now’ all she has to do is to sit on the j porch and sing. “What will the harI vest be?” B B B There's one great advantage the wives of these endurance fliers down ! in Texas enjoyed last week—they knew’ just where their husbands were.

After hunting old bones in the Asiatic desert, it should be a great joy for Colonel Roosevelt to become Governor of Porto Rico and sit in a palace by the sea. a a a In the next census all aliens in the country will be counted and then when representatives in congress are reapportioned the big cities will get an increase of representatives on account of such aliens and they will be taken away from the states having little or no alien population, all of which is infamous! B B B The Japanese say that they have difficulty in absorbing our western ideals; in other words, they are getting more than an eyeful. b b a If any of the inmates of our asylums for the insane read the papers, they must wonder how this fellow who is pushing a peanut to the top of Pike's Peak manages to stay at large. B B B IT IS a great joke for our United States senators to flare up about the leakage of the vote when Lenroot was confirmed, inasmuch as there has not been a “secret session’’ of the senate in our history, the important facts of which were not speedily known and published.

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“VOTES FOR WOMEN” May 29

ON May 29, 1890. the judiciary committee of the house of representatives reported in favor of amending the Constitution to permit woman’s suffrage. It was one of the first shows of interest the federal government made in the suffrage movement. Nothing came directly of the report, but it moved several states to individual action and was a milertone in the “Votes for Women’’ uause. At the time no state and only one territory, Wyoming, extended full suffrage to women. Wyoming's law went into effect in 1869. The suffrage cause began in an organized way in 1848 with a convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y. It lost momentum, however, during the turbulent days of the Civil war. The constitutional amendment, which went into effect in 1920, is one of the shortest in the document. It says, simply: 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. 2 Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.