Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1929 — Page 4
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Memorial Day n? . r . the !,<••'•,pic pause to pay tribute to fv „; , . - ;• ,ght >o bitterly 2yu\ so . j •' life against life in defense e a eau t ; holiday. It wa* origin,■la, a tribute to the men who wore the bio in the dark days of the sixties when states v. ero j. 11 •••• 1 against sttaes in a death conflict. It - ■ sigre-'l to pa’, the debt of remcmhran. ■ memory to those who had forved in ’ internal struggle of the nation. Today, also tribute will be paid to the men v.]v i: la' r wars —two wars, the memory of v.bi'-h i' dwindling and dimming, just as the : . • • >s,* s whi'-i) existed when the ‘‘Bo- o: 'i l ' v nf orward to battle, is no longer poignant. The sons ol tin- men who fought against eaeh oti:-r s-- :*y years ago fought side by fide in th--se later wars. They were not. divided in rl.-ur lo;. ties They held to one oa is. v. ■ * -a ijir- intensity which sent north ag. ii st. ’*i so i,r ■fa time ago. Only a t- w of the men who fought in the war iwh . i, rth to this holiday remain. The- are *ll very, very old now, in years. Ti i y live today age tie •<•.. ties of their youth. They remember the incidents, hut the hate and the bitterness which inspired them then is gone, faded into unreality. They, perhaps better than any others, realize the futility of hatreds. They can look back through the years and know that bitterness dies easily .• and that good will is eternal. Fore c;.-n, ‘on, are the causes of that later conflict v • r sent the young men at the close of the * ■- y to tight, against Spain. That bittern t .. has dissolved into friendships and forgetfulness. Very soon the. cause#? that, sent millions of you ; h to foreign binds to fight under the Stars and Strip; s "ill be as elusive to the mind as ttie causes of the former conflicts. One thing remains. In every generation i • n vrl . I -Tid the nation which protects and inspires th rn. They will give courageous h trie to . r.y power that threatens the Stars and the Stripes. They will rush to battle, if needed, to uphold its honor. The nation will remember those who serve. It must always remember, or it. ceases to be a r >n. Some '• when futility of war and the brevity of i. fe are heifer understood, there will be mnnor ais for those who serve in the greater .*: ‘b sos peace. It will pay tribute to those who add glory and luster to the flag by making ' more glorious in its guardianship of liberty, rn r-* powerful for peace and good will, va\ . ,*s message of freedom in a world made free. A Reporter Reforms the Senate / ter irs of whispering and wire-pulling behind e!os: :1 doers n pa in. on presidential appointments, the renrr a: last apparently has decided to reform. The rules committee is to report a week from today on * senes of resolutions ranging all the way from part.3l o corn.' • publicity concerning executive sessions. The United Press ano Paul R. Mallon, chief of its Capital st *. °t most of the credit for this longdelayed re lorm, assuming that the secrecy rule Is changed a exp ted. Curie: 1; , n ithcr Mr Mallon nor his organization had : v. : . reforming the senate. The Urn ed • vm-'u wide non-partisan news gathering and • . .main: organization, and. unlike the indie; . . . a . >- rves it has no editorial policy nor purpose whatever. \Y .m. m th-' ic-u. meets in secret session is a matter o.‘ is c. my-i ’--difference to the United Press as similar m msotic practices which it reports impartially in Sot it: Russ..: and Fascist Italy. So iha senate reform apparently finally is coming to pass, a reforms have a way of doing, as a byproduct of another issue In this case the l-ue was the attempt of the senate rules committee to punish and intimidate Mr. Mallon and the United Pres< tor publishing the secret roll call on the confirmation of former Senator Lenroot as a federal judge. But by its attempt to victimize the United Press, the committee unwittingly caused a kick-back which is blasting open the doors of secrecy. When the United Press carried the secret Lenroot vote, the rules committee suspended Mr. Mallon's senate floor privik res and subpoenaed him to appear before a secret session of the committee to tell the source of his story. This was a threat to jail Mr. Mallon for contempt of the senate, fer the rules committee knew that Mr. Mallon would not creak 'he confidence of his senatorial informant. The rules committee thus was putting the senate in the foolish and unjust position of trying to punish a news; , r man, who had violated no rule and no law, for the sins of senators who had broken their own secrecy rule. An added comic opera touch was given by the widely known fact that certain members of the committee had themselves informed newspaper men re;arc.::: - .' ret session happenings in the past. It was clear from tne start that the committee Could no more intimidate the press than it could prevent the press from obtaining and publishing sotailed secret facts relating to the public business. The country's newspapers were quick to rally in defense of the United Press' rights as affecting the basic conditions of freedom of the press throughout the country. This was the opportunity for liberal senators, led by young La Follette, to use the United Press intimidation case to attack all secret sessions. And before the battle got well uncer way, the committee diehards turned tail and ran. Etna tor Reed of Pennsylvania, associate ol Chair - 1 ti
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man Moses of the committee now proposes a rule for publicity on executive session roll calls, on request of a single senator—that is, in effect, on ail roll calls. By the tune Mr. Malion appeared before the committee it had decided to question him in open session. And when Mr. Mallon declined flatly to reveal dir sources of his story, the committee swallowed its wrath and did .nothing. We hope for the sake of democracy that this futile effort of the rules committee to intimidate the press will force the abolition of all secret senate sessions. Tliis newspaper wishes in the name of its readers o commend Mr. Mallon and the United Press for exmplifying the ideals of a free and fearless press. Political Pilfering One state senator very seriously suggests that The Times advise its readers to refuse to obtain licenses for driving automobiles, and revolt against a measure whose most practical effect is to deliver to the secretary of state political machine the right to collect a 25 cent notary fee from every person who drives an automobile. Men in Boston did that with a tea tax some years ago but it took a lot of work to make it stick and the occasion is not as serious. Instead of being fundamental, it is merely annoying and disgusting to be compelled to pay for petty political pilfering. The drivers license law is damnable. It would nor be so bad were it designed merely to obtain a check on drivers, which it does not. It would not be so bad if citizens could obtain their licenses without paying tribute to the political organization of one office. The law provides that the secretary of state designate agencies to deliver these licenses. In each of these agencies is a notary who collects and pockets a fee. The Koosier Automobile Club has the inside on these agencies. Its take will amount to about $200,000. •In other counties political workers will get the chance to tax their neighbors. If drivers do not go to these regular agencies and take their applications to some friendly notary who will not charge them, they must take some neighbor uo is a property owner to certify to their identity. Most people will probably pay the quarter rather than inconvenience a neighbor. It is bad enough to have bad government. It is worse to be compelled to pay tribute to further its continuation. Cinderella's slippers really were not glass, says an author. With George Washington's cherry tree declared false, the apple that William Tell shot from his son's head taken away from us, it wouldn’t be surprising now if someone were to declare brazenly that there is no such thing as farm relief. The next thing for Dr. Schacht, the German reparations expert, to turn his hand to might be the writing of a book entitled, “Famous Installment Collectors I Have Fooled, and How.” A dozen boys at Towanda. Pa., were discovered to be making moonshine during the school recess period. The thing to do in that case, it seems to us, is to make a law against recess periods. • A New York girl who blackjacked and robbed victims was captured by police the other day. In other words, a knockout. suit a joke. Not nearly so much of a joke, however, as that million dollar Chicago fight was on Jack Dempsey. Now and then you see a woman as pretty as a picture, and it turns out that she’s just another talkie. We’re a little ahead of Mexico, anyway—we don’t call our bank robbers revolutionists yet.
■David Dietz on Science
Clouds Drape Mountains
, "T' , HE next four types of special clouds will be x familiar to readers acquainted with mountainous regions. They do not occur elsewhere as a rule and hence they will be dealt with briefly. The lenticular cloud receives its name from the fact that it is shaped roughly like a convex lens. It ! is the cloud cap which forms on the crest of a sta- | tionary air billow produced by the flow of the wind |
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cloth" of Cape Town, which forms on the top and down the sides of Table mountain. The crest cloud is known in various localities as a cap. hat. cowl, hood, etc. The formation of a crest cloud usually is the sign of bad weather and there are many weather proverbs based on this fact. Very often the crest cloud along a mountain ridge is paralleled by a similar smaller cloud over the valley to leeward. This is known as a riffle cloud. This is the result of a second billow. The air rises in one billow over the mountain ridge, forming the crest cloud. Then it rises again in a series of waves over the valley as a result of the first deflection. Sometimes a second, more rarely even a third, riffle cloud may form. The crest and riffle clouds are signs of rain. The banner cloud is a cloud associated with a tall mountain peak. It gets its name from the fact that it looks like a great white flag flying from the mountain j peak. In strong winds, the atmospheric pressure to the ; immediate leeward of a tall peak is reduced. If there is sufficient moisture in the air, the expansion which 1 takes place in the area of reduced pressure will result j in condensation and the formation of the banner ; cloud. The formation of the cloud is aided by cooling induced by the cold walls of the mountain peak. The four forms of clouds described here are stationary’ like the billow cloud. Hence they can not be used as means of judging the velocity of the wind. They also resemble the billow cloud in that new material is constantly added to them by condensation on the side of the ascending air current while evapo- j ration continuously removes it on the other side.
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over an uneven surface. It is common among rugg e and mountains and high peaks. The crest cloud receives its name from the fact that it forms on the crest of a long mountain ridge. It is the result of the cooling of air which has been deflected upward by the mountain ridge. The best known cloud of this sort is the “table
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .
M.E. Tracy
SAYS:
More Often Than Sot the Vicious Survive, While the Results of Thrift and Virtue Perish. XJOTHING is more curious than IN what the past leaves behind. Activities and monuments which men once considered worth while, if not essential, succumb to decay, while those of a frivolous character endure. More often than not the vicious survive while the results of thrift and virtue perish. If anything, the emotional side of human nature seems to hove frozen itself more successfully into permanent works than the intellectual or rational side. Quite as amazing, the inspiring emotions frequently have been vulgar, if not monstrous. a tt tt Horribie Tale Told RELIGION, grief, sensuality, and superstition appear to have been among the strongest motives which spurred men on to build, decorate, and learn in the earlier days. We have tombs and temples galore; palaces /dedicated to luxury and lust; structures symbolical of pomp; instruments of tyranny and ruthlessness; haunts of depraved practices, representing not only the expenditures of enormous amounts of wealth and energy, but the virtual slavery and degradation of multitudes. By and large, the ruins chat have come down to us from antiquity tell a horrible tale of injustice, greed, and stupid, though all-compelling sentimentality. n u tt Salvage Roman Ship RIGHT now Mussolini is draining Lake Nemi to uncover two ships l on which the mad Emperor Caligula once gathered his parasites and companions in debauchery. So far as is known, they are the only Roman ships that can be salvaged in anything like complete form. Rome had many ships—ships to bring corn from Egypt and goods from Asia Minor; ships to wage war on many 'a distant coast; ships with five and even fifteen banks of oars; ships on which the empire depended to a large extent, not only for its supremacy, but for its daily needs—yet these two, constructed to satisfy the depraved tastes of a mad emperor, alone survive. Not only that but they are supposed to be more magnificent than any of the numberless ships which the proud empire of Augustus ever launched. tt n tt Caligula Was Freak CALIGULA, who had them built and anchored in a lake where he could enjoy all the pleasure of navigation without facing any of its perils, was himself an anomaly and a freak. Borp. with a silver spoon in his mouth and nurtured as the pet of Roman legions because of the respect in which his father was held, enjoying every advantage that a youth of his day could possess, he developed into an inconceivable puppet of depravity. He combined the shrewdness of a politician with the heart of a beast, disguising his real nature with a pretense of honesty and open dealing which seems to have completly misled the Roman people. Caligula re-established the custom of publishing government reports, granted the magistrates full freedom, debased knights guilty of the slightest misconduct, pretended to restore popular elections, distributed bonuses and provided great entertainments. These things not only made him the idol of the hour, but the Roman public his willing dupe. tt tt Spree Was Record One BEHIND the smoke screen of his apparent liberality, puritanism and plain dealing, Caligula cultivated the worst companions and appetites, putting on in the four years which he occupied the throne such a spree as the ancient world had never beheld. He even made himself a god to be worshiped, ordering the heads to be removed from the best Grecian statues that his own might be put in their place and pretending to hold daily communications with Jove. The lunacy which this suggests was bad enough, but it seems harmless when compared to the cruelty and abandonment of his attitude toward men and women who could not help themselves. tt a a No One Was Safe NO woman of Rome was safe from the wantonness of this civilized brute; nor many men. for that matter. He took what he would, regardless of whom it belonged to or the laws and conventions that were supposed to safeguard it. When his wild beasts lacked meat, he had criminals killed, and to make the performance more thrilling, he had them killed by slow torture. It seems like divine justice that he should have been assassinated by a tribune with a shrill voice whom he goaded into fury by taunts and ridicule. If Caligula had not been the man he was, however, he would not have constructed those ships to be moored m Lake Nemi for a few short years of wanton pleasure, and then to sink and be preserved for the modern world to gaze on after nineteen centuries. Though scientists seem chiefly interested to learn how the ships were put together, they well could afford to give some attention to the psychological problems involved. Decorated Veteran Dies £?/ Times Special ELKHART. Ind.. May 30.—Captain Orville Tryon Chamberlain. 87. who was awarded the congressional medal for “most distinguished gal- i lantry” on the Chickamauga battlefield during the Civil war. is dead at Los Angeles. Cal.; where he took up residence after retiring from law practice here in iSQi
Another Endurance Test Nearing Its End
Clinics Show Specialty Trend
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor .Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WITH the advance in medical science and the increase of specialization, it became increasingly difficult for one physician to provide the best type of medical care to his at a price that they could afford to pay. There are many reasons for this. As has been pointed out by many observers, the vast majority of human ailments seen early can be taken care of by a general practitioner with the amount of equipment that he can carry in his handbag. In the difficult case, however, it may be necessary to use X-ray, to have blood counts, to examine the excretions of the body, to use all machinery today available orl.y in the offices of specialists, in clinics and in hospitals. These things require the attention of a considerable number of trained personnel, The clinics of this country have increased from some 600 in 1910 to some 6,000 in 1926. In 1900 there were only 100 clinics. Os the 6,000 in operation today, 700 are concerned with tuberculosis, 900 with venereal disease; 400 with mental
IT SEEMS TO ME By h b™
THE fish in Hale Lake, Conn., probably think they made a fool of me over the w r eek-end. Let them sneer. I have more important things to do than explain ray inwardness to perch and bullheads. It is true I went to the lake at noon, at 3 o’clock and sunset, and each time came back empty-hand-ed... But what the fish don’t know is that all the time I was thinking. Besides, I was out in the open air getting a coat of tan and filling my lungs with pure air. Mine was a moral victory. What does any intelligent man want with a little fish about the size of his thumb? Or to make it plain even to catfish, what do I myself want with a little fish about the size of your thumb? Throughout the afternoon the plot of the novel which I am going to write at the earliest opportunity kept surging through my head. If a bullhead had actually swallowed the bacon and challenged me to epic combat I should have been annoyed. That would have wrecked my train of thought. It would have been an annoyance. a tt tt Insignificance of Fish AS a younger man I did thrill to the wild tug of the five-ounce perch, but that was before I owned a considerable block of United States Steel. Now when I fish the impulse is of the most fragmentary sort. What I really want to do is sit in the sunlight, close to the heart of nature, and figure out how many shares it would amount to if I switched to American Locomotive. There is nothing so conducive to clear and cogent thinking as a warm afternoon in May and a lake where the fish aren’t biting. It is said a man’s life flashes before him just as he is going down for the third and last time, I wouldn't know. But at best that sounds like a performance paced too rapidly for any comfort.. As I plumped the bait into the water for the twentieth time I thought to myself, "How characteristic this is of existence in general.” Life is like that. Man is a worm doomed eternally to the barbed hook, and bitter frustration. O tt tt Recalls Yvonne YES.” I said to myself, as I tried the shallow pool behind the sunken log, “bigger and more glorious creatures than the stunted catfish of this lake have in their time eluded me." and looking back to that fnmanjic April of 1909 2 wondered
Learning to Bea Doctor — No. 5
disease and almost 200 with the diseases of the heart, responsible for more mortality than are any other diseases in this country. Hospitals of the nation have increased in number until today there are almost 8,000, as contrasted with hundreds twenty-five years ago Whereas some 300 or 400 nurses were graduated from hospital training schools in 1890, this year approximately 18,000 nurses were graduated and the cost of operating the training schools is a part of the cost of hospital care. Approximately one attendant was required for each person in a hospital in 1910, while today there are from three to four attendants for each person in the hospital, including doctors, nurses, orderlies, staff clerks, laboratory workers, engineers, maids, cooks, laundry workers and whatnot. These also must be included in the cost of medical care. It may be argued that the only portion of this problem that concerns the physician is his own fee. Such argument would not be true to the ideals or the nature of the medical profession. The care of the sick is the doctors’ problem. To save in the cost of overhead associated with the refinements of modern medical practice, specialists
’anew how that little blond in Budapest could have remained to the bitter end, unresponsive. “Yvonne,” I murmured half-aloud, ‘can’t you see my heart is breaking?” Just then a minnow mudged the bait with his snout and for the moment I was all Izaak Walton and the Cassanova strain in me crept away under cover of the excitement. For a couple of minutes the fish tried to gulp down the bacon, but the poor little fellow’s mouth was too small for the hook, which I had provided. He couldn’t get an effective held, no matter how hard we both tried. Eventually he slipped away and I wondered if little Nikko San even knew I waited in the sampan below the steamer landing until after midnight. tt tt a Losing Perch 'T'HEN I thought of pickerel and that one who shall ever remain in my mind as Jessica, although that was not her name. It was an appellation inspired by the fact that she was built so much after the manner of Mr. Willard, who at one time held the heavyweight championship. She was a girl to inspire respect and tenderness. There never was a prettier left jab. It may be that all my life I have been using the wrong bait. But my motives have always been of the highest with bullheads and others. Salesmen in stores have tried to equip me with artificial tin fish painted green and purple. This seems to me to smack of serious deception. When I drop bacon into the lake it is not my intention to pretend that it is anything else. If the fish are holding out for a regular blue plate dinner, they must look to some more ardent angler. As far as I am concerned, it’s bacon or nothing. tt tt tt Not Even Worms 1 WON’T even compromise on worms for experience has taught me that it is almost as hard to catch worms as little fishes, and even when I am loose in the world, without hook, line cr sinker. I make no pretense of being anything more than appears on the surface. Bacon is a very proper symbol for a plain blunt columnist who sputters his small best each morning and says. “If I'm not crisp. I'm at least as crisp as I can be.” And after she left the conserva-
soon began to associate themselves in groups, so that they might jointly use the expensive apparatus and the services of technicians. Such associations have been made in group clinics, hospital centers, or in office units. Sooner or later patients began to go directly to specialists. There are physicians who feel today that the general practitioner is a fast disappearing species of the game medicus. Were this to occur, the public would undoubtedly suffer for many reasons, but primarily because his service can be rendered at a reasonable cost and for the vast majority of ailments is quite satisfactory. The commission on medical education in its first survey of the nature of medical practice in 1927 pointed out that the work of a general practitioner in a town of 50,000 included 55 per cent of practice in the home, 35 per cent in the office and the remaining 10 per cent in the hospital. A study of the kind of work done by physicians revealed the fact that 90 per cent of the diseases seen by general practitioners were found to concern conditions which could not be controlled on a community basis but which demanded individual, persona] attention.
Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ot 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.
tory and walked straight toward the harvest moon I never saw her again. There is the late spring to be considered, Freshets have filled the lake to overflowing. The swinAner racks on Diana’s Cove are awash. It may be the fish have lost track of those paths which led to the surface. The additional distance discourages them, but let them not snicker in the mud because I cast and | caught nothing. I was not really after fish at all, but inspiration. At the end of three hours of effort I at least went away with a column. (Copyright. 1929, by The Times*
Daily Thought
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.—Prov. 17.7. tt t: tt AS a vessel is known by he sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or j foolish.—Demosthenes.
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REASON
By Frederick Landis
The Rest Honor ITe Can Ran Our it ar D r ad Is to Stop the Pacifist and the Profiteer. ON Decoration day we think <" all those who ever fought for Old Glory, all of them, all the way from Bunker Hill to the Argonne. We think of Washington. Greene. Wayne. Morgan and Lafayette and the half-clad hosts which followed them in the long war for independence. And we think of John Paul Jones, the most audacious and romantic cf all who ever fought upon the sea. tt a a We think of those who stood around the cradle of the new-born republic. Washington. Jefferson, Hamilton. Adams, Franklin, Henry, Madison and Jay, the greatest group of statesmen that ever graced a single era. And we think of their solicitude, even in that early day, lest slavery destroy all they had wrought tt tt tt i We think of the War of 1812. which accomplished what the revo- | lution left unattained—the indr - | pendence of Americans upon the sea j as well as upon the land. We think of Jackson at New Or- ! leans, with his whites and blacks ! behind cotton bales, annihilating | the army of Packenham, the army i which helped . crush Napoleon at i Waterloo, and we think of Perry : cutting his fleet out of the Ohio | forest and conquering the British squadron on Lake Erie. tt B tt AND we think, too, of the frightful price we paid for being unprepared; we think of the defeat" on land and the destruction of Washington, the burning of the White House and the national Capitol. We think of Dolly Madison, cutting Washington's painting from its frame to save it from the flames. a a a We think of the almost ridiculous victories of Americans in the War with Mexico, when under Scott and Taylor, a handful of them overwhelmed hosts of Mexicans. Though not so proud of the influences which precipitated this strife, we are proud of the valor of our arms. a tt t> We think of the Civil war and its thinning ranks of Blue and Gray, of Lincoln, strangest figure of our national life and its quaint preserver. We think of Grant, the disappointed human failure, leaping in four years from utter obscurity to the foremost position in the world. tt a tt We think of Sherman, the strategist superb, whom they called crazy when he said the war would be long and desperate; Sherman, who rode the lines at Shiloh, inspiring, rallying, holding those green soldiers, receiving their baptism of battle in one of the war’s most savage engagements; Sherman with four horses shot from under him! tt a tt And last of all, we think of the World war just a little while ago, the war in which the Yank turned back the tide of despotism, paying for that privilege thousands of white crosses and thousands of crippled bodies. We think of the debt we owe them and, yes. the debt, we have not paid.
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DECORATION DAY May 30
TO the south, and more particularly to a small group of womI en who met in Columbus, Ga.. April j 26, 1866, America owes the setting J of a day during the year for the j purpose of decorating soldiers’ I graves. On May 5, 1868, General John A. j Logan, commander-in-chief of the ! G. A. R.. following the southern ev- ! ample, issued a proclamation ap- | oointing May 30 as the day to honi or the memory ot Union soldiers Originally, the term Memoriay day was used in the south, and Decoration day in the north. In recent years, however, the southern name has grown in popularity and now is used throughout the nation. Today is not a national legal holiday. but is celebrated as a state holiday everywhere except in eight southern states. Each ot these celebrate Memorial day, and the majority on April 26. Congress always adjourns on May 30 “as a mark of respect to the memory of the illustrious dead.’’ Alabama was the first state to celebrate Memorial day and New j York was the first to declare DecI oration day a legal holiday.