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Politics and Crime Republican editors who are gathered for a summer outing heard two important statemeets. Cj B f> from Senator who wished to relay to the farmers that they could expect no immediate results from the farm measure which has just been passed. That is M'atsonian. If farm conditions improve, the senior senator will be on the job claiming credit. If nothing happens, he will leave the blame on the presidential doorstep and recall that assertion that only his great love for the party led him to sacrifice his personal opinion to party policy. The other statement comes from Editor George Lockwood, who believes that the President's crime commission is quite likely to find a very close connection between crime and politics. That reminded the editors that Brother Lockwood has spent most of his time for years away from Indiana. Otherwise, he would know that bis suggestion is old stuff. This state has furnished some very fine examples of the Lockwood prophecy. ft. has in the past two years sent some of its very best politicians to prison. It has heard others plead the statute of limitations. It knows of more who Should be in jail. The editors recall that only two short years Ego their summer relaxations were directed by one Clyde Walb, then state chairman. They were then loud in accusation of any critics of Walb. Clyde is now working for the government, really working, in a secluded retreat at Leavenworth. Gone also are the weird powers of other days, the titans and the kleagles before whom editorial pens were blunted by fear. For they were the powers that were greater than type. They dictated to the dictators. The most prominent of them are also at Leavenworth. They believed that their political prestige should give them the privilege to take automobiles as they pleased. The editors, if they challenge the statement of Lockwood, can easily remember the day when a Governor of the state, Ed Jackson, pleaded the statute- of limitations after, listening to evidence that he had tried to bribe a former occupant of that high office. They might remember, if they dared, that the same indictment against George B. Coffin, a district chairman and the Indianapolis boss, still in good standing, was dismissed for the same reason. They might look to the north and discover a federal grand jury investigating charges of election frauds on so vast a range that the result of the state might easily have been changed by them. And they would know that the crimes of politics are committed by the protected criminals, that, election frauds are perpetrated by those who believe that they will be guarded if caught by the persons who benefit from their crimes. Editor Lockwood has offered to his colleagues a wonderful opportunity for real serv* ice. They might assist the -President's commission by really and earnestly attempting to trace every connection between the criminal and the politician. They might try to discover who protects the slot machines in the country side, the bootlegger, the thief. They might trace the connection between the vote in the ward and the suspended sentence. There is. indeed, a very good reason to believe that very much of our government is built upon the clandestine intimacy between politicians and criminals. Bring on Your Villains We like our heroes. We like our villains. We take them both straight. If our hero has a wart on his neck, we don’t want to know it. If our villain has a good streak somewhere. don't tell us. On the front pages now are Lindy and Anne, back from their honeymoon. Ts he didn't like her biscuits on the first morning and lost his temper, we would prefer not to hear about it. And the heroic French fliers of the Yellow Bird being feted in Paris, we insist that they be 101 per cent perfect. And Bishop Cannon, th* great crusader for the puritanical type of righteous: we don’t like to read the revelations of his alleged stock gambling in a bucket shop Then there is that fool Arthur Schreiber. who stowed away on the Yellow Bird, endangered the lives of the French fliers and proceeded to make an ass of himself and of Americans when he landed on the other side. Arthur is our perfect villain. We can't believe that he may have his decent, moments. Along with Arthur on the first pages is another of our villains, young Tom Heflin, son of the fire-eat-ing. liberal-hating Alabama senator. ’ Heflin's son faces charge of driving while under influence of drugs,” we read. What a low person he is to bring discredit and embarrassment to his honorable father. II living with such a great father was enough to drive the boy to villainy, we don't believe it. George Washington couldn't have lied when he was

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a boy. He didn’t play cards and smile at the ladles. Those who produce records to prove that he did are wicked radicals trying to undermine the republic and destroy faith in fathers. Some say that life isn't made that way, that only in fairy tales for the young and in melodrama for the ignorant are some souls all white and others all black. Well, we know what we like. We like our heroes—all white. And our villains have no health in them. Why. who ever heard of any other kind of heroes; who ever heard of any other kind of villains? Harry Thaw's Mother It was a happy young woman who in the trying later days of the Civil war expressed for the first time Ln a big way the promptings of an innate idealism by selling her diamond ring to help the soldiers. It was a still happier young woman who first became the sweetheart and then the wife of the distinguished and wealthy man who happened to buy the ring which she sacrificed. The young woman was Man- Copley, daughter of a Pennsylvania editor and descendant of the early American painter. The man was William Thaw, vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad. As her husband's wealth increased until it was estimated at tens of millions, the happy young matron became the mother of five children. She became a patron of arts, of education, of charity. She built beautiful houses, and her five children were an endless delight to her—all except one. the boy Harry. Two daughters became Countesses —one the Countess of Perigny, the other the Countess of Yarmouth. And the boy Harry became—the world’s most famous murderer. She was going abroad for a holiday—she was on the seas—when her boy shot and killed Stanford White, the greatest of American architects, in the Madison Square Roof Garden, one of V/hite’s masterpieces. Sixty-three then, and at the height of a fascinating career, she returned immediately and sat with her son through each hour and day and month of two sensational trials in which everything that could have been most revolting to her proud and refined nature was brought out under the most humiliating circumstances. Motherhood, the dreams of the days when an affectionate but strong-willed and irresponsible little boy played about the grounds of her rich estates—now she was lashed to him as completely as when he was only the premised reward of anew maternity. Who ever can hope to understand a tithe of the mystery of a mother's love for her child? But this much is sure—that if the mother of Harry Thaw was cursed with a she me that made the charitable uses of her great wealth only a mocking palliative, she was blessed also with a magnificent stamina, a stamina which kept her living on eighty-seven years, loving her son, humoring him. safeguarding him, perhaps, but, even more. , allowing him his precious liberty at the cost of her own endless anguish. If Harry Thaw has been to the world an example of depravity, his mother, now dead, has afforded a compensatory instance of the vast and magnificent implications of motherhood. It might not make much difference if they change the names of the months and add one more, but howin the world would we know when to eat oysters? Not all the large-mouths are bass, even if they do sound fishy. Once there was s young lady who had a perfectly natural photograph taken. Maybe there's something to Aesop's Fables after all. We have no Mt. Vesuvius over here, it's true, but of course, there’s 'always the senate.

-David Dietz on Science

Cause of Lightning

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THE phenomenon of lightning has held man's attention from the very beginning. The ancients imagined the thunderbolt to be the weapon of various gods. Usually it was assigned to the chief god. the Greeks ascribing it to Zeus and the Romans to Jupiter. It is only within recent years that any very- exact knowledge about the phenomenon of lightning has been amassed. And there are still many questions to

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forward with a scheme for tapping the electricity of the atmosphere, but that to date no one has succeeded and the experts of the department of terrestial magnetism of the Carnegie institution say that they doubt if anyone ever will. Every particie of dust and even - drop of rain in the atmosphere carries an electric charge which can be measured with suitable apparatus. Experiments in scientific laboratories have shown that when a spray of water is blown into the air. the the spray which rises becomes electrified negatively while the large drops which fall become electrified positively. It is believed that the same process takes place in a thunderstorm. In a thunderstorm, the powerful ascending air currents carry the water drops up. But as more and larger drops form, they begin to fall against the rising current. The smaller drops which rise in the thundercloud are therefore charged with negative electricity. The large drops which fall are charged positively. Finally the tension gets so great that the insulating availability of the air breaks down and the electrical tension is relieved bv the jumping of a huge electrical discharge across the intervening space. The discharge is like that which takes place in a laboratory between the two electrodes of a spark gap which is connected to an electric transformer. The accompanying illustration shows such a discharge. The lightning flash, however, is far more powerful tha any discharge which can be obtained in the laboratory. ._ ...

M. E. Tracy

It Looks .4.? Though We Hod Fought Down Big Tyranny Only to Be Subjected to a Lot of Petty Sagging. T>OSTON. —Outside of six infants who were killed and three deaths resulting from illegal operations, London had eighteen murders last year. In every case, the murderer either was caught or committed suicide. Commissioner Whalen of New York should find as much humor in this as he did in the fact that London policemen ride bicycles. Bicycles or not. London police have a way not only of keeping murder down but of getting the murderer. aaa Why Crime Flourishes TF American policemen wen not kept so busy regulating traffic, censoring shows and smelling out liquor, they might do equally well. They are expected to look after so many petty offenses that they have little time for big ones. The Boston superintendent of police was not at headquarters when a friend of Tom Mix called to request the services of a detective to help find the $77,000 of which Mix was robbed while in Portsmouth, N. H. But the Boston superintendent of police was right on deck to stop the sale of Scribner’s magazine because it contained a story which appeared to him as being anti-war propaganda, While the two incidents may have no direct relations with each other, they show what is happening and offer part of the explanation as to why big crime flourishes in America. a tt a How Much, Oh Law! AS though traffic regulations were not confusing enough already, an Indiana man is fined for driving too slowly. That is what you might call playing both ends against the middle. One wonders how far the law makers think they can go. Theoretically, it is possible to make this nation a network of chalk lines, red lights and speed rules. Practically human nature will stand about so much. tt tt tt Petty Nagging THE question is not so much one of personal liberty as of plain common sense. It looks as though we had fought down big tyranny only to be subjected to a lot of petty nagging. Nine out of every ten people arrested these days are innocent in a moral sense, and have done no more than commit an offense which was manufactured by some legislature or city council. They have not injured any one, nor did they intend to injure any one. In the majority of cases, they merely made a mistake. But the law enforcement officers and the courts deal with them as though they were culprits. aaa Barring Married Pupils DOWN in Mississippi a girl of 16 was barred from school because she got married. The school authorities contended that ‘‘the presence of a married pupil would be detrimental to good government and usefulness of the school, and that relations of a married person with other children would make known views of life which should not be known to unmarried persons.” ‘‘We fail to appreciate the force of the argument,” said the supreme court in rendering its decision, and so would anyone else. aaa Bishop’s Bucket Shop TSISHOP CANNON of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and recognized as on? of the most aggressive prohibition leaders, is found to be a large customer of a New York bucket shop. The bishop says he thought he was buying stocks on the partial payment plan, which is rather curious considering how often and in what large blocks he sold them. ”1 did not know there was any gambling by the company," he says. ”1 can not see why these transactions are of public interest. The only reason for printing such things. I suppose, is that I occupy a public position in trying to get the prohibition law enforced," aaa Gambling Is Gambling THE good bishop is sound in his deductions. His position, especially with regard to prohibition, makes his dealings with a bucket shop peculiar’’ interesting. There are those who feel that gambling, whether in stocks or at a poker table, is quite as immoral as is taking a cocktail, and that the man who denounces the latter, while j engaging in the former, is somewhat i inconsistent, There are others who believe that righteousness is spotty, and that if one is holy in some particular respect and devotes his time and energy to making other ..eople likewise. he need not worry. Such a conception.' more than anything else, has led to the conclusion that prohibition means temperance, and that if a man does not drink liquor he can tea glutton I or gamble, and still retain his virtue.

be cleared up. Lightning, of course, is an electrical and i scharge. Electricity exists in the atmosphere at all times. At a considerable height above the earth’s surface, the electric potential is enormous. Let us digress for a moment to note that periodically some inventor comes

Daily Thought

For he remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passcth away and cometh not again. —Fsaims 78:^9. B B B AS there is much beast and some devil in man. so there is some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conque.rd. but in this life never is destroyed. Coleridge.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of the Health Maxaiine. IF there is any one subject that disturbs the average man more than any other, it is the gradual dissipation from the top of his scalp of the hirsute grow-th which he has learned to associate with the appearance of youthfulness. Fortunately for him. there is now available a prognostication by one of the most noted anthropologists in the world that the whole tendency of mankind is toward a complete disappearance of hair from the surface of the body and that 100.000 years from today, if human beings are still upon this earth, they will be entirely without hirsute adronment. Hence he may reply to the taunts of his more hairy colleagues by saying he is 100,000 years ahead of his time. Hopefulness of the average man with relationship to the preservation of his hair by hair tonics, scalp

DAD'S DAY has been and gone. I overlooked its advent because nobody sent me neckties or any message reading. ‘‘How can I ever repay you?" If there had been a wire saving. “To the best dad in all the world tform 25-B>,” I think I might have been embarrassed. After all. I wonder just how much respect there ought to be between a father and his son. As yet T can't complain that respect from any quarter has ever proved a burden to me. I'd tolerate a little, but distinctly within limits. We seldom are very fond of people whom w r e respect a great deal. I'd rather be liked. You can't like anybody who is all barbed with virtues. After all. a friend is somebody quite like yourself. I'd never known of any close companionship between a cocktail drinker and a bone dry. Such an association might be beneficial for the abstainer, since it would fill him with a constant sense of superiority. But it would be destructive to the imbiber. The other fellow's selfcontrol would be an ever-present reminder of what alcohol may do in time to the liver. Nor would I care to go with non-smokers. In such company I would be ali too frequently tormented by the impossibility of borrowing a cigaret. aaa It's a Wise Father 1 THINK a son should be something like a friend. Heaven know; I do not wish to endow any child of mine with all my faults, but I'd like to see in him a few familiar ones, lest he seem alien or a changeling. According to my theory. it is not wholly essential that there should b? complete agreement about the larger things. If Heywood Hale Broun were passionate for Hoover while I espoused the cause of Smith, that need not alter a strong attachment. It would be much worse to act as parent of a growing child who wanted parsnips every night for dinner, or one who insisted on forever singing “Weary River." Often. I have wondered what atmosphere prevails when Baldwin, the ex-prime minister of Great Britain, sits down to dinner with his son who has just been elected to the house of commons as a Laborite. Young Baldwin must have been in a peculiar position during the late campaign since the party which

IF mother love were an emotion less intensely selfish, it would prepare the child for the day when mother can no longer be present to aid and counsel. Yet mothers seem to delight in the thought that their families would be helpless without them.—Eudora Ramsay Richardson. 'Plain Talk.)

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treatments, dandruff cures and similar devices is perennial. However, the vast amount of evidence indicates that in the majority of cases baldness is hereditary and there is no treatment that has specific virtues for creating new hair. For many years it has been noticed that workers in certain types of industries involving the taking into the body, for example of arsenic, had hair that was particularly glossy and fine. It is also apparent that the food one takes into the body may influence the composition of the hair to some extent, since the quality of the hair depends on the quality of the food. Hair consists for the most part of a protein material known as keratin. What could be more natural therefore than that the eating keratin would benefit greatly the growth of the hair? Attemps have been made to feed keratin diets to sheep, because the

he espoused centered its attack ot7 his father. I did see a political article by the younger man but in it he refrained from anything but general arguments for the cause of Socialism. At no time did he suggest that the Conservative leader was an arch rogue and a miscreant. Still, in the circumstances, young Baldwin could hardly pen a Dad's day telegram expressing unequivocal respect. He must at the very least think of his parent as muddle-headed. aaa Disrespectful Young I'M not running for anything and yet I gravely suspect that my son is less than convinced of my allround sagacity. The other morning I undertook to tell him gravely that a difficult manhopd lay before him since he would be forever pestered with invitations to lay wreaths and cornerstones commemorating the memory of his illustrious forebear. He laughed it off and did not seem impressed by the reality of his danger. And, correspondingly, he was not elated when I painted the reverse of this picture explaining how he might eke out a generous existence by disposing of Broun relics—old shoes and books and maybe here and there a letter, if I should chance to write a_ny. Now much to my surprise I found that the estimate he put on my capacities was distinctly lower than my own. However, I was not seriously perturbed. tt tt tt Skeptical Son IT seems to me that Lear had not weighed all contingencies when he compared a thankless child to a keen-toothed serpent. Adulation from those near and dear can have h most deadening effect upon initiative. I've known poets and painters and writers, too. who grew sleek and lazy because some relative was forever standing close by in openmouthed admiration. The son who remains somewhat skeptical about his father’s talents may inspire that man to renewed efforts as he grits his teeth and says, “I’ll show that snip." But this is getting somewhat away from my major point. Genius or talent may inspire respect, but it's poor provocation for affection. At least most of people whom I like

j There are three Inalienable rights j ' in the Declaration of Independence —life, liberty, and the pursuit of j happiness. There is no ambiguity to life and liberty. But the pursuit of happiness opens the door to difficult interpretations. Charles R.. Mann, director of the American' Council of Education,

quality and thickness of the coat of the sheep is a matter of commercial importance. The chief content of keratin is a chemical substance containing sulphur known as systine. The high content of hair in systine and the possibility of measuring the growth of the hair made it important to conduct some experiments on the feeding of cystine. Investigators in the University of Michigan have recently completed work on this subject. They found that the feeding of cystine would influence the amount of hair produced and the chemical composition of the hair, but that the demands for this substnee by the growth of the hair were secondary in importance to the demands of the growth of the body generally. In other words, there is a possibility that a further continuance of these researches may yield something of practical value, but at present the prevention .of baldness through diet is not in sight.

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best are hardly worth the dam of any tinker. A man is not a better dinner companion because he can write a sonnet nor do many seek out women and ask them to the theater because they know astronomy. ft tt tt Cards On Table Accordingly, it seems to me no fault if a parent • openly admits in the presence of an offspring that he himself is no great shaker. There is no better way to shake off the odium of authority, If it is true that fathers and sons quite often do not care greatly about each other. I hold the defect to lie in the fact that the parent has at some time or another set himself up as infallible, or thereabouts. Surely it can be no fun for a boy to hang about with a mature person who undertakes to say. “Don’t talk when I arn speaking.” or “junior, you are impertinent: go to your room this instant,” Surely nothing can be more estranging to friendship than the noxious, question, “Have you washed your face?” Any man who undertakes to play before his son the role of Caesar's wife, or a supreme court judge, is lacking in imagination if he expects to win the liking of his heir. Os course, one may try hard to win liking and never get it. Obedience can be commanded. But what satisfaction is there in it when vou have it?

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JUNE 21. 1929

REASON

Ey Frederick Landis-

If All Congressional Sessions Were Held in the Hot Weather We Would Get Immediate Action in Place of the Present Delays. PRESIDENT HUTCHINS Os the university of Chicago told the graduates to do their own thinking and now President Little of the University of Michigan repeats the advice. I If these distinguished gentlemen I only had families of their own. they j would realize that it is not necessary I to bear down on this point with I the rising generation. aaa j Ambassador Dawes told the news- : paper reporters in Scotland that he | couldn't play golf, but was going to I learn. j He has the vocabulary all right, aaa The seating of the ladies seem to j be the most difficult thing at the national capital. For weeks the Hoovers were hand- | ing it to Curtis for stirring up all j this mess about, the seating of Mrs. | Gann and now Curtis is handing ; it. to the Hoovers for blowing the lid | off Dixie by the seating of Mrs. De Priest, aaa THE French, the greatest reception committee in the world, still pile merited praise upon their trans-Atlantic fliers. Alcock and Brown, who pioneered in flying the big pond ten years ago. made the mistake bf their lives when they landed in Ireland instead of Paris. tt tt tt \ More amazing than the audacity of these fliers is their carelessness which made it possible for a stowaway to climb aboard, when they knew that an added passenger imperiled not only their success, but their lives. aaa If the Constitution could be changed and all congressional sessions held in Washington in hot weather, we would get immediate action in the place of present, delay. aaa The committee which investigated the fatal crash of Ray Keech in the Altoona automobile race decided that Keech was to blame. But as the crash is what the audience goes to see, it's as illogical to investigate it as it would to investigate the home run in the baseball game. aaa SINCE this British air liner, City of Ottawa, plunged into the English channel, you may look to the people of England to curtail the channel flying of the Prince of Wales. Prohibition most assuredly cannot be enforced without guns, but the government put uniforms on its officials so the people can tell them from highwaymen. The killing of innocent persons harms prohibition more than all the bootleggers in America.

“TODAY

CLEVELAND NOMINATED June 21 ON June 21. 1892. Grover Cleveland was nominated for a second term as President of the United States by Democrats in convention in Chicago. Cleveland had retired (o law practice in New York at the close of his first term in 1899. However, sentiment in his favor again became strong and when the Democrats met in Chicago an ardent, supporter of Cleveland was made chairman. Even before tne convention session opened, many’ states had instructed their delegates to support the ex-President. so that he was sure on the first ballot of at least a majority Despite opposition from his own state and cries of “stuffed prophet” and “perpetual candidate." Cle" < '- land was nominated on th? first roll call. The scene was one of indescribable enthusiasm as Cleveland had broken all precedents. In a dignified campaign which followed. President Harrison had no chance of being re-elected and in the November balloting Cleveland swept the country. In the electoral college he had 277 votes against the 145 cast ror Harrison. For the first time since the birth of the Republican party, a third candidate, James B. Weaver of lowa, also had received electoral votes, to the number of 22. and in the popular oting a million votes were cast for him by the Populists.