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The Revolt Grows | From every part of the state comes the found of revolt against the effort to force citizens to pay a 25-eent notary fee to agencies selected by the secretary of state. •4 The law providing for drivers' licenses is at the best of doubtful \alue. In states which have required su-h licenses, there is no appreciable reduction in number of accidents, j 4 In these other states, and there are but few, there is no requirement tor a notary certificate. The other states did not resort to petty political gilfenng to build up a machine to be used at elections. It remained for Indiana, following the scheme first dreamed by Stephenson when he was the law, to use this drivers’ license as a of distributing largess to those who can serve later to advance the political fortunes of the se<-ret ary ot state. and The resentment of the political workers who have the jobs in the different counties against any effort to save the people money is unanimous and sincere. In many of the places application blanks are being refused to notaries public who desire to relieve their neighbors of this imposition. The law was drafted with the view of makitiET it difficult as possible tor any one t<■ > secui* his license without patronizing the notary mill set up for the occasion. r The administration of the law, as reported fjom many counties, carries out the idea that the primp purpose is not to issue licenses but to collect the notary fee. | It was against, this imposition The Times protested, it was to protect the public from being forced to contribute to a political machine that it offers to give free notary service t.o any who call at its office. Fortunately other institutions and organizations and individuals are now offering the same service. Other newspapers have joined the movement started by The limes. It should be a matter of principle to refuse to pay the notary fee. It is not merely the money involved. It is deeper than that. It is time to revolt against petty tyrannies-. It is time to refuse to pay good money for bad politics, i Tell your neighbor that The Times gives this service free. Tell them to join the revolt against political tyranny. Using public offices to build up political machines should stop. Propaganda in Schools About the only consolation the public has had so far in the government revelations of the electric power interests’ propaganda web is that, it did not reach many papers and schools. But even tnat consolation is disappearing. Tire one or two daily papers with which the International Paper and Power Company had financial connection turned out. to be thirteen. In addition, there were several other prominent dailies for which it was dickering Further investigation by the Federal Trade commission may show that other pov?: companies are resorting to similar methods. Some time ago there was much excitement over the discovery that a power company paid for what Durported to be a nonpartisan study against, government ownership, published by the Smithsonian institutior. But on Wednesday the federal trade testimony revealed that fifteen of the Smithsonian's "sciefctific" publications have been financed by private interests. So with the earlier disclosures regarding schools. It appeared that, pamphlets on power subjects, in which the source was not revealed to the reader, were fdmished to schools by the power interests, who also employed secretly two or three professors in two or three western colleges. But testimony of the National Electric Light Association to the Federal Trade commission this week extended the list to eighteen professors paid by the association for ’services" and expenses.” The institutions affected included many of the large state universities. such as Illinois. Ohio. Michigan. Purdue and Pennsylvania, and eastern schools, such as Johns Hopkins and Vale Doubtless it would be inaccurate and unjust- to conclude that all the eighteen professors wittingly or unwittingly served the propaganda interests of the power association. •' But in so far as the financial relationship between these educators and the power interests was secret, atod in so far as the relationship existed for reasons other than technical research, that relationship was unwise where it was not downright unethical. There is a necessary and legitimate connection between any great industry and our educational system, especially as industry relates to the social and physical sciences. But for the protection of both the industrial organization and the educational institution, it is essential that tne connection be absolutely open and above board and that payments for ''services'’ and “expenses.” if ar.v. be made to the college rather than to the individual professor. | If business men and professors will not take ordinary precautions against pollution of the educational sfttem. the public will have to make- them take such precautions, just as it protects the purity of its water sj*tm. Wet and Dry Ambassadors *- The British embassy in Washington may not be (fried up for long after all. Sir Esme Howard, the ambassador responsible for the recent liquor ban. is to retire. And it is whispered that his successor ni&y relapse into the traditional wine-serving days of British embassies the world over. . Os course prohibition is not the occasion for Sir Bane’s departure. Next February is his regular retirement date. If he goes a lew months earlier it will b due chiefly to the desire to have on the job as soon l /

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as possible the permanent representative who is to help conduct the important conferences between the MacDonald and Hoover governments. For all of Sir Esme's splendid service while in Washington, these last few weeks of criticism from his fellow diplomats must be beginning to worry him. Whatever his motive, his dry edict has been resented pretty generally by his own staff and by the diplomatic corps of which he is dean. The other diplomats feel that they have been put in an embarrassing position by his initiative, which they have no intention of following. Even the United States government washes its hands of any responsibility for his act. on the ground that it can not interfere with the customs within the extra-territorial embassy limits. Our government does not want foreign governments to encroach upon the freedom of American embassies abroad, and therefore can not itself afford to be guilty of such interference in Washington. London reports suggestitng that Gilbert Murray, Regius professor of Greek at Oxford, will be Sir Esme's successor neglect to specify whether he is wet or dry. That is natural enough. At any rate, such omissions from the reports seem to indicate an assumption in London that we nave not yet come to the pass where foreign envoys to the United States must be chosen because of their views on prohibition. Wet or dry. we hope Dr. Murray gets the job. He is one of the world's great scholars, and it suits our vanity to have foreigners think that culture is a passport to American popularity. His incomparable translations of Greek literature might even become best sellers under the publicity of his diplomatic appointment, and such a gain would compensate many ambassadorial losses. Dr. Murray, however, is an expert in contemporary foreign affairs no less than in ancient literature. His books on international relations, his active leadership in the British movement for people's control of foreign policy, and his familiarity with the United States, indicate his fitness for the Washington post. Once before at an important moment in AngloAmerican relations the British government, with rare genius, passed by the conventional diplomats and sent to Washington a famous scholar. Lord Bryce. Murray is the Bryce type of man. and probably would have the Bryce kind of success. No government, in London or in Washington, could ask for more. Selling Tickets The ticket vendor is the bane of the housewife and the merchant. Every day they are asked to buy admissions to some entertainment they do not care to attend, for the benefit of some cause in which they are not interested. Is this fair? Would it not be better if churches, lodges, schools, and other “good causes” were supported by those who are especially interested in them? Would it not be better if all entertainments were financed by those who really cai-e to see them? If a cause is a “good” one. there ought to be enough people especially interested to support it out of their own pockets willingly. If an affair really is •'entertainment." it should be easy to dispose of the tickets to those who really wish to attend it. Airfields in the Parks? Shall space be given for airplane landing fields in the national parks? The question is before officials. We rhapsodize over the romantic beauty of airplanes. They are beautiful. But because they are new. we are inclined to ignore the fact that they are a part of mechanical civilization, and that when they become numerous they will be a nuisance in the wrong place, even as automobiles are. The national parks are the last stand of unmodified nature. None of their area can be spared for utilitarian purposes. Let transportation facilities be taken care of outside the scenic areas.

-David Dietz on Science

Origin of Heat Waves

THE dreaded hot waves of summer are caused by the relation of high and low pressure areas over the United States. When an area of high pressure covers the southeastern states, while a low pressure area advances from the west across the northern states, the stage

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ern states, heated air is constantly poured from the "high” toward the “low." Actually, the heated air is poured into the right of the "low.” The hot wind of summer is usually accompanied by an increase in humidity. The heat evaporates local moisture and the winds bring in additional moisture. After three or four days of a hot spell, the moisture accumulated is so great, that a local thunderstorm usually results. The fourth or fifth day usually sees the end of a hot spell. This is caused by the arrival o\ a "high” which has been traveling at some distance behind the ‘'low.” The contact of the cool front of this “high" with the warm area results In thunderstorms of great violence against what is known as the windshift line. This is the line where the hot winds of the "low." meet the cool winds of the “high." The windshift line thunderstorms usually are very violent. They are accompanied by terrific downpours of rain and occasionally winds of destructive velocity. While most hot spells are caused by winds coming in from southwest, in the wav just described, there are occasional hot spells caused by winds from the northwest. Extreme hot spells of this type were experienced during the first half of the summer of 1923 in the northeastern part of the United States. The heated air in these hot spells flowed in from the great plains, coming distances of more than a thousand miles over the dry heated ground. Hot spells from the northwest differ from the usual type because of their extreme dryness. Such volumes of air were involved in the 1923 hot spells that not even the Qreat Lakes, usually an effective force for cooling, had much influence upon them. .

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is all set for a hot wave. It will be remembered that air always flows from an area of high pressure into an area of low pressure. The flow is not directly into the low due to the rotary movement of the winds which is the result of the earth's rotation. Consequently, as the "low” moves across the north-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M.E. Tracy

SAYS:

History Portrays No Greater Tragedies Than Those That Have Occurred When Little Men Undertake to Translate Big Ideas. BIDDEFORD. Me.. June 14.—With three shootings in a week, a mother of sixteen sent to jail in Arkansas for bootlegging and high carnival at Buffalo, while dry forces concentrate at Detroit, prohibition I claims more than its usual share of attention. Admit, if you will, that the shootings were justified, that the mother deserves to serve a year and si>f months, that the high jinks at Buffalo only prove lack of a sufficient force, and still it is apparent that this attempt to make America 1 dry is going sour. a a a Dry Fanaticism ■Jk TOTHING in the constitution or In on our statute books is responsible for so much shouting, complaining and suggesting. Congress and the state legislatures are being deluged with more or less absurd bills to remedy the situation. Wets and drys vie with each other in a mad struggle to see which can go to the most preposterous extremes. The latest wrinkle is to appropriate money for the compensation of relatives or dependents of those shot by dry agents. , A good idea, perhaps, but*why not compensation for relatives or dej pendents of those shot by any one. j The point about this whole tumult 1 is that whether for or against it. too many of us are getting to believe that prohibition is the only problem on the political horizon. That is sheer fanaticism, and it ‘ will lead us into the same kino of : confusion that fanaticism always has. can One Cause of Crime? CONCEDING that those responsible for prohibition were fanatical in assuming that it would insure morality, they were hardly more so than those who visualize it as responsible for all. or even a large percentage of crime. Just as we have had wife-beating and divorce since the eighteenth amendment was adopted, so we should have theft, murder and embezzlement. It is bad for people to become infatuated with any idea, to suppose that there is a single explanation for human fate and to regard all divergent views as diabolical. a a a Weakness in Church YET we continue to struggle with such a weakness on every hand. If prohibition has cast a baneful shadow over politics, fundamentalism has cast an equally baneful shadow over religion. Some northern Baptist clergymen take fundamentalism so seriously that they do not want Bishop Mci Connell of Brooklyn. N. Y., to enjoy 1 the honor of guest speaker at their Denver convention. Bishop McConj nell, though a good Methodist and president of the Federal Church Council, is thought to be too liberal. There is some suspicion that he may not believe a whale, or even a big fish, swallowed Jonah, that he may not interpret the first chapter 1 of Genesis literally, that he may not regard the theory oi evolution as entirely unreasonable. So he is pilloried by his fellow Christian workers as an enemy of both God and man. B B B Priestly Pigheadedness ZEALOTS can continue the row until even deepiv religious people will become too disgusted with the church to support it, They can insist on their own dogmatic interpretation until the moral fiber of Christianity is washed out and its good influences destroyed. The thing has been done before. This is not the first time that priesthood has endangered the faith : through pigheadedness. History portrays no greater or | more useless tragedies than those that have occurred when little men ! undertake to translate big ideas. tt tt a Flying the Ocean ONE turns with relief to the achievements in the realm of materialism. They may lack spirituality and uplift, but they are definite "as to conclusion. You can tell whether an engine will run after it has been tried, or whether a structure will stand after it has been built. That makes trial worthwhile, even though it leads to failure. The Yellow' Bird hops off for Paris, the Green Flash is w'recked trying to do likewise, and the Swedish fliers are hung up in Iceland after a break of luck. Flying the ocean still remains a. great adventure, in spite of what Lindbergh did. You can regard it i as useless, but cannot help admiring the spirit of it.

Quotations of Notables

THE American woman has much personal charm, much esprit. : much individuality or temperament, but how to make beauty of these gifts, she rarely knows. Hurry is the great evil of her life.—Antonie. French coiffeur. (Collier's.) BBS Canada is an attractive country i for investment. On the whole, j American investments have proved highly profitable in Canada. —Floyd j S. Chalmers (Review of Reviews). BBS There is no more reason why the j power trust should own newspapers ! than why men engaged in the j manufacture of shoes or sewing machines should own newspapers in j their business.—Senator Norris of Nebraska. BBS Corporations lending money are violating their charters. Nearly every corporation violates provisions , in its charter when it loans money on Wall Street.—Senator Couzens of Michigan. B B B The true patriot will understand the real meaning of a state. He will dwell with satisfaction upon the •

Health Service Curbs Meningitis

BY DH. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. SINCE November, 1928, there has been a gradually increasing amount of meningitis on the Pacific coast of the United States. Cases have been unusually prevalent this year. Os course, the situation has been complicated by the fact that many cases, appeared among steerage passengers of ships arriving in Seattle and San Francisco from oriental ports. The majority of persons affected were Filipinos. This rise in the number of cases of meningitis has been fairly continuous in Oregon, Washington, and California since 1925. In that year Washington reported 55 cases and 39 deaths; in 1926. 190 cases and 84 deaths, and in 1927, 162 cases and 95 deaths. For 1928 there were 123 cases and 95 deaths.

IT SEEMS TO ME

THEY tell me I am about to be put upon a budget. As yet I don't know what it entails, but the whole thing sounds terrible. As I understand it. an efficiency person will call every day and after looking over the books give me a quarter for spending money. Friends, relatives and a strongminded person named Miss Whipple have assured me I can save hundreds of dollars every year if only I indorse Miss Whipple as the watchdog of the treasury. I am told the mere process of putting figures on paper is a valuable adjunct to thrift. That does not sound unreasonable. No man would buy much ginger ale at $2 a bottle if he were forced to record the sum in a little red book under the cold dawn of the morning after. Palpable reminders of folly easily may be sufficient to inspire the better life. But I’m not at all sure I want to be wiser or better, What on earth would I do with all this money if I had it? Wall Street, is getting its fair share of me as things stand. A man who paid 185 for United States Steel has a right to believe ginger ale is cheap at $2, Moreover. I bought the steel without the accompaniment of music, lights, and the laughter of dancing girls. Nobody in the broker's office produced a fine glow of hilarity by hitting me on the head with a cotton ball and crying “Hello sucker!" a tt tt Exchange Rule THE exchange probably has some rule against it, but otherwise it would be a fine idea to establish a

declaration of Aristides that "neither walls, theaters, porches, nor senseless equipment makes states." but men who are able to rely upon themselves.—Dr, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university.

Daily Thought

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.—Proverbs 27:15. BBS BAD temper is its own scourge.— Charles Buxton Illegal Expenses Investigated Bn Timet SDeciai GARY, Ind.. June 14.—Investigation of charges that Eric Lund, trustee of North township, has illegally expended the township's poor fund, was resumed by the Lake county grand jury today in the Lake criminal court. The investigation was begun early in the year and officials in the prosecutor's office assert there is no certainty when it will be completed.

Another Notch in His Gun

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Therefore, not only do these figures indicate the number of cases increasing at a fairly constant rate, but also represent a rather torulent type of the disease. The figures for Oregon and for California are approximately the same type as those cited for Washington. Since November, 1928. a total of 128 cases of acute cerebro-spinal meningitis has occurred among steerage passengers of one transportation company only and on fourteen ships. In some instances, cases have appeared in two or three trips of the same boat. A part of the difficulty was due | to the fact that the danger of the disease was not recognized and passengers on the boats were permitted to get off and get on whenever the boat stopped, without ref- ; erence to the presence of menin- ! gitis in the cities where they i stopped. ; The control of meningitis depends

cabaret in someone of the stock and bond offices, I've known many days in which nobody got much fun out of watching the ticker. There would be bigger and better markets if the night club spirit could only be introduced into business. • If ten little girls tripped out singing "I’ve got those United Corporation blues.'’ every customer in the place would be inspired to place another order. My sympathies are with the folk who go to night clubs in spite of the high prices. I have been told men gladly pay cover charges because some hostess calls them "Bob” or "Jack’’ and members of the ensemble smile upon them with a warmth which may not be wholly sincere. But such salutations make us old gentlemen feel young again. In a ! world in which I mo"e all too | formally as “Mr. Broun” or “Yes, sir,” S2O or S3O is little enough to i pay for the privilege of being called Heywood, And I suppose no price can be set which is adequate recompense for the thrill of being called Big Boy,” tt tt tt Big Boy NOBODY ever and and call me ‘big boy,” but I can imagine it would be very’ fascinating What on earth can a man of 40 buy half so previous as even the vague suspicion he is still something of a devil. It is impossible to feel adventurous by keeping a budget. Or if it is to be done at all, I : must he allowed some vast sum I which is to be regularly recorded under the heading of “plain fool- | ishness.” Man does not live by bread alone, bur chiefly through his indiscretions. I do not want to be lean, cautious | and the possessor of S2OO in the savings bank. And come to think of it. savings banks are even more in need of being jazzed up than brokers’ offices. Why not a combination speakeasy and savings bank? Through the wicket there peers at i you a dazzling blonde, and as you shove the bank book and the wad-

ded bills in her direction, she inquires pleasantly. “Will you take Scotch or gin?” Instead of interest compounded semi-annually, the depositor in the Savings Banks for Wastrels, as my institution is to be called, will have the privilege, at appropriate intervals. of receiving one drink on the house. Jt always has seemed to me that not even water from a moss-covered bucket tastes quite so sweet as a drink on the house. BBS These Failures THE institution of which I speak would fail every now and then. Savings banks are prone to stress the security which they offer to

on a strict enforcement of many of ; the precautions that are now widely ; known as precautions against all in- : fectious disease. They include such factors as isolation of the patient, quarantine of the contacts, careful laboratory examinations for carriers and thorough investigation of people who are traveling on vessels from one country to another. The United States Public Health Service is fully in control of the I situation, and it is reasonable to believe that strict measures will bring , about an immediate reduction in the number of cases and perhaps aid in lowering the mortality. It must be remembered that the germs are living organisms the same as man himself; that they tend to modify their ways as do human beings, changing in virulence and in power, and that the battle against them is an eternal study and an unending warfare.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

I patrons. And they make good the | boast they stand like Gibraltar, but security is one of the least exciting things in the world. Even at 40. one still is too young to be much enamored of security. But if the depositor never knew ! from day to day just when the place i would close its doors, saving money might, be almost as exciting as betting on the races. Indeed, it might be a good idea to have some speculative feature connected with our bank The blonde receiving teller, her name ought to be Myrtle. I think, could easily inspire confidence and enthusiasm among the patrons, by keeping a dice box in the cash drawer. It would save expenses in bookkeeping. for when a, client, proffered some odd amount such as $7.50 it would be Myrtle’s function to say enticingly, “I'll roll you best two out of three for double or nothing.” Once upon a time I was a depositor in a bank run somewhat after the manner which I mention. The receiving teller always used to lean out of his window when I came in with my week’s salary and say, “I've got a swell tip at Juarez in the fourth race.” Os course, nobody ever left his j money very long in that bank. I j used to carry mine around in my j pocket. I wanted to have it in a safe place. But now the Chase National gets my business. Everybody is polite and kind, but there are no exciting | features. Up till now I have refrained from j the dull grind of making entries on ! the stubs. After all, the Chase Nai tional bank employs bookkeepers 1 who are experts Why should I: I bother? [Copyright. 1929. b~ The Times'

f=- TROPICALS ; Men who are looking for more value for the money jfgpygj . they spend should visit with us here because we get a lot jBSKM for ours and give a lot in exchange for yours. 1 r,vusnn a summer MM 5 25 Wilson Bros. Society Brand Haberdashery Tropicals —s3s and Up DOTY'S 16 N. Meridian St,

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.

. JTNE 14. IS2Q

I REASON By Frederick Landis

Life 1 5 a Grand Old Game in Which the Winners Carry Ba ek-Brea kin g Burdens. iite see that down in New York VV an actor and an actress, both of whom were almost old enough to be exempt from road tax, and both of whom had been led through the matrimonial clover huller several time, ended their empty, silly lives as the result of a love pact. and. as they informed the world, ‘‘went out into the sunset together.” BBS There's always a sickening revulsion about self-destruction, but after this is over in the aforesaid case, the principals in this double exit make one tired. They were just a pair of nutty quitters, just two of that great, unlocked lunatic asjium more politely known to man as the theater. BUB j These people had not a care, not \ a responsibility worth while. And this is what was wrong with | them; they did not know what* life is all about. Life, you know, is a grand old game in which the winners carry back-breaking burdens and figure ; out that they are having a fine time j because their folks are for them i against all the world! B B a A life without responsibilities is a ship without ballast, and while a few r of us have several thousand responsibilites we could spare, one is better off with too many of them than with none at all. Most of us would be tramps this evening but for our duties, and he who can be a useful member of soj ciety without them belongs in a j museum. tt tt a THIS dippy pair in New York who lunged against the gates | of the Infinite never did a useful ! tiling on earth: at least., one infers i as much from their painted orchid ; existence. | And not being worth a conti- ! nental. they pitie'd themselves and ! got drunk on sloppy sentimentality, i which is worse than anything your bootlegger ever dreamed of serving to a prohibition enforcement officer. BBS If these selfish, self-pitying butterflies just had stepped out of their fine apartment and wandered round the corner in New York to some | tenement where men and women | fight all the devils of despair all i the time for those they love, they : might have gained a slant on life | which would have made them useful I members of society. If instead of talking about "going 1 cut into the sunset.” this actor and actress had gone out just once into the sunrise to get a spoonful of j paregoric for a tiny, freckled name- ! sake, they would have found the innumerable glories of Paradise, one ; and all, in the eyes of that kid. B B B IF they ever had sat by the side of a sick child and vowed to God i that they never w r ould complain i again, no matter what life might | bring, if only that child could get well; if they ever had sat through that agonizing vigil, they would not have monkeyed so frivolously with their destiny. tt tt tt And you don’t have to have children of your own to join the Army of the Indispensable. This world is overflowing with bright-eyed kids, craving the warmth which comes only from human hearts and in return for wtoich they will scatter any number of oases through the deserts of selfishness.

BTCjD AVr ISjTjHiEH irifiiy&RdAfiy —st -y- —‘ —vy-i •—-l—-L a A -A, i THE FLAG June 14

TODAY is the birthday of the American flag. On June 14, 1777. 152 years ago today, the continental congress adopted a resolution providing “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” Historians disagree as to the origin of this design Many 7 authorities believe that it originated with the Washington coat-of-arms, which contains both the stars and the stripes. The honor of having been the first to raise the new national emblem over a naval vessel is usually accorded Paul Jones. And the first of the Stars and Stripes on land was at Ft. Stanwix. where a hastily improvised flag was raised on Aug. 3, 1777. Vermont and Kentucky were the first states admitted to the Union after the flag was adopted and congress amended the original design to make it fifteen stripes and fifteen stars. As additional states were admitted, however, the original thirteen stripes were substituted and a, star added for each state.