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Not Farther, But Complete The federal grand jury in the northern district nf the state has suggested that the investigation of election frauds in Lake county be continued. It reports that it has not been convinced that there have been organized efforts of corruption, hut that "witnesses should be found, if possible, who have knowledge of any such facts as may exist. It recommends a farther investigation. It should not only be ‘‘farther.” but complete, exhaustive, intelligent and relentless. That recommendation of the grand jury should not stop with the federal judge, who will undoubtedly folloV the suggestions of the jury. It should go to the attorney-general of the I nited States, the chief legal officer of the nation. It should go, if necessary, to President Herbert, Hoover. Thp fraud charges in Lake county are not . matter of local effect. They are as fundamental as the integrity of the government itself. They eharge, in effect, that government has been overthrown by fraud and that corruption has replaced conscience in control of public affairs. They amount to a denial of self government. They charge that anarchy has replaced democracy. Every circumstance surrounding this inquiry should be closely scrutinized by the at-torney-general in order that it, may be determined whether the inquiry has received the proper aid from all government officials which the seriousness of the case demands. It will be remembered that when the grand jury met to investigate this charge, the district attorney, Oliver Loomis, who stepped to that place of responsibility from his duties as secretary to Senator Arthur Robinson, was taking a vacation in Oklahoma. There can be but two kindly explanations. One is that his health was such as to demand rest. The other is that he did not comprehend or understand the seriousness of the crime which had been charged. Either explanation demands that the at-torney-general determine whether he has, as his representative, those whose vigor will enable them to pursue the inquiry with intelligence and purpose, and who so understand she treason of election frauds that they will nut relax any effort to obtain evidence. The attorney-general can and should make at least a casual inquiry as to whether there are persons or corporations, powerful and rich, not desirous of seeing this inquiry pushed to its logical limits. District Attorney Loomis has given out interviews suggesting that witnesses had been tampered with. This implies another crime, the debauchery of court machinery. There is not one who believes that election frauds wore committed by enthusiasts, if frauds there were. No one who has read the history of Lake county election returns believes that the election was honest. .If tlure was a conspiracy to overthrow the will of the people by importations of voters from Chicago, by false returns, by repeating, in the background arc very powerful forces who understand the value of the control of public offices. That grand jury report is more than a recommendation to a judge. It is a challenge to the government of the United States. Money in the Bank Good news comes from the treasury. Uncle Sam will wind up his fiscal year's business June 30 with a surplus largely in excess of the $100,000,000 recently predicted by President Hoover. . The amount of the surplus will be determined by income tax payments yet to be made. It may reach $200,000,000, and even more. Early in the year a deficit was feared. President Coolidge in the closing months of his administration warned congress and the executive departments that expenditures must be kept at a minimum if the national ledger was to be made to balance. Government receipts this yeai to date have been $3,871,824,131, compared with $3,847,007,719 last year. Income tax payments have amounted to $2,213,311.976 to date compared with $2,037,319,189 last year. This is an increase of nearly $200,000,000 and is chiefly responsible for the good showing the treasury will make. The income tax payments were much larger than had been anticipated in treasury calculations. It should be noted that expenses also have increased. Ordinary expenditures to date have been $3,149,411,929. compared with 53.022.000.831 for the corresponding period last year. It is likely that $45,000,000 will be paid the railroads before June 30 in satisfaction of claims for carrying mail, which congress has approved, increasing the excess. The increased expenditures follow the tendency of recent years. The cost of government steadily has been mounting. It is agreed the tendency will continue. It. therefore, is well to realize that this year's surplus does not mean that a tax cut is in prospect, or that the government is warranted in embarking in large expenditures which might be avoided. The big Income tax payments are attributed by the treasury largely to profits made on speculative activities in the stock market during che calendar

The Indianapolis Times (A feCRIFi'S-HOWARD N KWSFAFJEK) Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by Tbe Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marion County 2 cents—lo cents a week: elsewhere. 3 cents—l 2 cents a week BOYD GCRLEY, BOY W. HOWARD, FRANK G. MORRISON. Editor. President Business Manager PHONE—Riley 5551 SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1929. Member of United Press. Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

year 1928. This was an abnormal situation, and does not represent a solid source of income. Moreover, the government is committed to large unusual expenditures in the next few years. These include the flood control program, naval building, the huge public building program and other projects. Farm relief, for instance, will get its appropriation of $150,000,000 early in the new fiscal year, and an eventual appropriation of half a billion. So our satisfaction at the excellent condition of our national .finances should not relax the determination to keep federal expenditures at the lowest possible point. After all. the absorption of $4,000,000,000 a year out of our national income of $85,000,000,000 is a sizable snare. Worth Studying The state of South Dakota" owns and operates a cement plant in which is manufactured all the cement used in the building of its state highways. Last year it made 500,000 barrels, an increase of 125.000 over the preceding year. It turned back to the state fund for that purpose the pleasing sum of $350,000. or a profit of 70 cents a barrel. The money went to the state and the people, not to the cement monopoly. This state uses about four times this amount each year. It has a surplusage of free labor, since the bootleggers and other violators are over-crowding the reformatories and the penal farm. At the state farm there is an almost unlimited amount of raw material. If the state highway commission wishes to perform a public service and has no political obligations to the cement trust, it might investigate. This state is paying twenty millions a year for highways. A large percentage goes to the cement makers. The profits made by an association which has an iron grip on the industry and fixes prices without regard to cost, are large enough to enable the association to raise several millions a year for purposes best known to itself. A state owned plant might relieve the situation. But, of course, there maybe very strong reasons why Indiana public officials do not dare to show any interest in the subject. Wanted: An Issue The Democrats have had their harmony meeting at Washington. Many of the anti-Smith faction stayed away, but. everything considered, the gathering was harmonious enough. There was much talk of the future, pulling together for victory and that kind of thing. Raskob, whose record as a financial genius is somewhat better than his record as campaign manager, was there to explain how they could wipe out their deficit and get up another campaign chest. Shouse, new 7 chief of the executive committee, was there to assure them that national headquarters would not be grinding axes for any particular candidate, but would work in nonpartisan fashion to perfect a better nation-wide party organization. But more important than what was said was that left unsaid. The name of Alfred E. Smith was not mentioned. There was no reference to prohibition. Are the party leaders now afraid or ashamed to mention the name of the man who eight months ago polled the largest popular vote ever received by a Democratic candidate for office in the United States? Are the party leaders afraid to mention the mostdiscussed issue in America today, prohibition? But quite apart from these two specific cases of Democratic timidity, has it not occurred to those hardheaded politicians that there is something even more necessary for a minority party than funds and organization? A majority party can win with funds and organization. But any second party which unseats the Republicans, who have ruled the country with only two interruptions since the Civil war, must have an issue. That is rather axiomatic in politics, up their sleeves they certainly are keeping their secret well.

—David Dietz on Science

Franklin and Lightning

No. 389

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, though probably not the first to suggest that lightning was electrical in its nature, nevertheless was the first to suggest a reasonable mechanism for lightning. He suggested that clouds were electrified and that the discharge of lightning was similar to that which took place in the laboratory between two electrodes connected to some source of electrical potential such

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electrified. Franklin first suggested that lightning resembled an electric discharge in November, 1749. In 1750, he speaks of “the fire of electricity and that of lightning being the same.” He tried to make some estimate as to the size with clouds of various sizes and this speculation led him to the invention of the lightning rod. Franklin had noticed that in the laboratory, an electrical charge tended to leak off a pointed conductor. He wrote; “I say if these things are so. may not the knowledge of this power of points be of use to mankind in preserving houses, churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning, by directing us to fix on the highest part of these edifices upright rods of iron, made sharp as a needle and gilt to prevent rusting. "Would not these pointed rods probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came mighty enough to strike and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief? In 1752 Franklin experimented with lightning. As already pointed out in this series, he did not fly a kite in a thunderstorm. Such a procedure would in all probability have meant his death by electrocution. He flew a kite while there were some clouds overhead to test his theory that clouds were electrified. Lightning rods were placed on the academy and state house in Boston that same year.

M. E. Tracy ! SAYS:

We Used to Have a “Spanning” Department b. This Country. It Consisted of Dad and a Birch Switch. BOSTON, Mass. —On April 4 Michael Gill and Charles Meyers climbed into an automobile which did not belong to them at East St. Louis and drove it across the Mississippi river. The Mississippi separates the state of Illinois from the state of Missouri, which made them guilty of “unlawful interstate transportation of an automobile instead of a common theft” and brought them before the federal court. After lying in jail for two months and seventeen days because they were unable to give bond, they came before Judge Charles B. Davis and ' entered a plea of guilty. Judge Davis gave them a good ! lecture, sentenced them to the two ! months and seventeen days which ! they had already served and sent ! them home, explaining the opinion I that the federal government would !do well to establish a “spanking department” for offenders. tt a tt Need for Spankings WE used to have a “spanking department" in this country, it consisted of dad and a birch switch. Dad having quit the job. we might do worse than let the court take over and grow a group of birches. At all events, one is inclined to think so after reading the case of 6-year-old Kentucky lad, who shot his playmate in a fit of temper and who was sentenced to fifteen years in the state reformatory. It is more than probable that the little boy would not have committed such an offense had he been judicially spanked. n a tt Birch Switch Substitute SOME people who wince at the thought of spanking regard the imprisonment of this baby for the next fifteen years as quite all right. Indeed, it was a minister of the gospel, who presided at his trial and a jury of alleged Christians found him guilty. Theoretically, confinement in a reform school for fifteen years' may be more civilized than the application of a switch or a paddle for fifteen minutes. Some parents prefer to think so because it lets them out of disagreeable duty, but no spanking that ended short of death could leave such deep or baneful scars on the soul of a child as fifteen years of association with delinquents. tt tt u French Tolerance STEPHEN ALEXIS, Haitian charge d'affaires in Belgium, and colored, of course, was refused admission to a Paris dance hall. According to the doorman, this refusal was in deference to American clients. French newspapers capitalize the incident to condemn what they call “Yankee intolerance.” "We owe a lot of money to the Americans,” the Soil- comments, “we also owe them some consideration, courtesy and friendship, but we absolutely do not owe them any submission to the prejudices.” Such an attitude on part of French newspapers stands out in strange contrast to that of our southern politicians toward Mrs. Hoover because she received a colored congressman’s wife. Neither is it born of unfamiliarity with the colored race, since there are eight or ten times as many Negroes under the French flag as under the Stars and Stripes. Whatever else may be said of them, the French have been considerate toward inferior races. Our idea is to meet them in heaven, but avoid them on earth. nan Less Efficiency Urged SPEAKING at a luncheon held by the American Club in Paris, Clarence Darrow pleads for “less efficiency, more play and more kindly tolerance in the United States.” “All my life,” he says, “I have been wanting to reach the point : where I shall have no need to be efficient, and now I have arrived.” “I am very sorry,” he says, “that we are not learning how to live in America, but only how to make and sell things to somebody who is not making them.” In all of which there is a disagreeable amount of truth. a a tt Fanatical Liberals STILL we are not the only intoler- | ant people on earth, even if we ' do arrest a man for sawing wood on Sunday as happened in Sayre, Pa., j not long ago, and ban articles of a pacifist slant. Going to the other extreme, Russian schools abolish Sunday, and substitute Wednesday as the regular day of rest, while a town in Holland segregates the sexes in all | theaters, and is so rigid in enforc- I ing the rule that it recently closed a movie house because a man and his wife were found sitting together. Liberals, so-called, can be just as fanatical and intolerant as conservatives.

as a Leyden jar. As already explained in this series, the electrification of the cloud is connected with the movement of the raindrops, the small drops which rise in the ascending air cu rrents in the cloud becomin g negatively electrified, while the large drops which fall, become positively

Daily Thought

To give 'ight to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.—St. Luke 1:79. n a e SUCH help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury— Ruskin Man Found Dead in Bed Bn Timet SDretal EVANSVILLE. Ind.. June 22. Clarence L. Hinkle. 62, formerly president of a wholesale show establishment and a cleaning company. was found dead in bed at his home here. He had been ill a year.

THE rSDIA2sAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Almost everyone know’s now that it is possible to lose the eyesight from drinking or even from inhaling too much wood alcohol. This alcohol is methyl alcohol in contrast to the alcohol used in whisky, brandy, wine or beer, which is grain or ethyl alcohol. In 1920, a method was found for removing the odor from wood alcohol, which had formerly been used only in the manufacture of shellac and similar preparations. It was then put on the market and began to be advertised as a substitute for grain alcohol in the making of bay rum, violet water and similar preparations. The coming of prohibition induced many persons with a craving for alcohol to drink wood alcohol when they could not get any other. The appearance of numerous

IT always has puzzled me that people should complain about a hot wave. I like them. Much has been written in song and prose of the glories of the open road. The open pore remains to be celebrated. I have no lyric gift, so all that I can say is to express the opinion that man is at his best when :in a melting mood. The hot and bothered are on the whole a far more cheerful lot than the numb and nasty. With all due deference to the Scandinavian, it is the cold which brings man's baser nature. Little of any moment ever takes place before a blazing log fire or round the oil stove. Inspiration is generally attendant upon a damp, moist brow. Even the humidity provokes me into thoughts of higher and better things. Most of my mysticism is associated with days and nights called stifling. For when one tosses then he thinks, and there is nothing like sultriness to get a man steamed up concerning the cosmos. At the end of any day of recordbreaking temperature I am somewhat less in bulk than I was before. A part has gone back to its basic elements. Some of the outer layers are already in the hands of the button molder. And yet though sur- j faces which once could thrill and | suffer have departed I am essentially the same person. I am still here. tt tt tt Much Reduced AND if this process of diminution could be continued until any one of us was wholly dissipated out of corporeality would he at that moment surrender all personal identity? If you or I can lightly drop five pounds and still be Jack and Jill as usual, why not 175 or even 220? At what point is one to draw the line with some grave shake of the head and say: “The poor fellow is no more” ” Few of the health hints which I have observed take occasion to mention the necessity of high thinking during torrid spells. There is nothing so potent to chill warm blood as speculation. It will be found, I believe, that all those who are overcome offered nothing to the scorching rays but an hospitable vacuum. Even the sun is not capable of tagging a brain which stands poised upon its toes. One should always present to the fierce beams a moving target. a a tt Avoid Heat List IN any bulletin of how to live the very nearly stifled there should be the injunction not to read the list of victims in the daily paper nor even the headlines proclaiming, “Hot wave deals death.” The difference between an 86 and a 93 is in-

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Smoking May Cause Blindness

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The Thinker

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

cases of blindness among painters, makers of shellac and felt hat workers finally made the majority of people realize that wood alcohol is dangerous. In addition to blindness, there may be headache, vomiting, severe pain, blueness, shortness of breath and convulsions following the taking of wood alcohol. This is not, however, the only substance that can produce blindness. Some people are sensitive to tobacco and many become blind as the result of smoking too much. Uusually dullness of vision with a loss of the muscle sense are the first symptoms observed. The eye will fatigue easily and there may be headache. Apparently twenty cigarets a day is the limit of safety for most men and anything over this may produce the eye symptoms that have been mentioned. Such symptoms do not occur with a moderate use of cigars or cigarets.

significant upon the thermometer however, vital it may be upon the golf course. We should be calm and pay no attention to the sun’s persuasive press agents. Again and again I have spent delightful days with no thought of suffocating until I picked up the evening paper to find that I was “baked in a deadly furnace.” To be sure, there are a few simple rules which everybody ought to observe. Naturally no one should get up till afternoon. Or try to sleep until fanned by the cool breeze which generally rises along about the hour of 4 a. m. Obviously we should all absent ourselves from business places, subways and main thoroughfares in tropic weather. Nobody was ever prostrated while sitting comfortably at home in a cold tub with a good detective story. tt tt tt Who Said Efficient? OUR boasted American efficiency is very largely bosh. Many people live and breathe and love and prosper in climates far more punishing than our own. And all of them would be startled if informed that they were victims of a death-dealing heat wave. They accept the fact that the days are hot in summer and adjust their lives accordingly. When the sun is at its torrid height they remain indoors and nap all unconscious of the glaring punishment. The European and the South American is far more practical than the average American. The foreigner goes to his office only when there is work to be performed. With us it is a rite like attending a church on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rush downtown on days when they know without question that nobody is going to turn a hand They seem to feel that they must be on deck to save the franchise. The American business man who idles about his house or plays golf

Quotations of Notables

ONLY thirty years ago a speed of ten miles an hour was deadly and the automobile was a laughing stock. Today 20,000,000 passenger cars operate on American roads, and so dependable is the mechanism of control that travel by automobile is as rapid and as comfortable as by rail.—Alfred H. Swayne, vicepresident of General Motors. tt M B My philosophy is that in an organization every executive must be granted authority commensurate with his responsibilities. If you hold a man responsible for results,

Quinine is another drug that can produce blindness, in case too large a dose is taken. Usually ringing in the ears, partial deafness, fullness and aching of the head may precede the temporary loss of vision. Os course, the ordinary dose of quinine will not produce these symptoms, but in some cases people have misunderstood the amount they were to take and have taken so much that blindness followed. ' Arsenic, lead and various preparations of these two elements may also produce disturbances of vision and blindness if taken in overdoses or if taken in small doses over long periods of time. These facts should be sufficient to indicate to everyone the danger of taking remedies of which the composition is not known, or of drinking “bootleg” or other liquors of unknown parentage. The moment’s pleasure can hardly suffice to repay for the terrible loss represented by partial or total blindness.

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.

upon a mean and stuffy day is called a loafer and a parasite. But if he goes to his office and remains there some portion of the day to twidddle the time away before a barren desk, that person straightway becomes a shining member of the army which has made American industrialism ailconquering. But what is the use of working when there’s no work to be done? Never is Much Luck AGAIN I urge upon all subscribers the folly of scanning the lists of those who have gone down under the oppressive heat. I find no fun in that for the odds are thousands to one against your running across the name of any person whose collapse would give you the slightest pleasure. Have you ever noticed how universally robust is the health of everyone whom you dislike? Physicians who fashion hot weather hints are almost unanimous in gravely advising that alcohol be dispensed with absolutely. To avoid any semblance of a prohibition argument during the present temperatures I will admit the fact that it is medically inexpedient and against the law of the land as well. Having granted this much I will proceed to say that the rickeys, fizzes and juleps are never more generous in their immediate effects. Nor would I trust a single one of the grave spoken doctors alone in vny humid house with a glass long and tinkling. I will admit that days like these through which we have been passing are torture for motormen and police and marathon dancers. But these times which try the souls of others are a boon to columnists, for the kind reader, idly tossing the page away after a couple of paragraphs, is almost certain to say “Poor fellow, he must have been terribly hot when he wrote that.” (Copyright. 1923, for The Times I

he must have every reasonable freedom to exercise his own brains to achieve the results expected.—Andrew W. Robertson, chairman of Westinghouse Electric Company (Forbes Magazine). tt a tt We adore the ladies. That is only natural. But we adore them as women, not as business and professional and political rivals. Business is a fight. And a fight is war When it comes to war. do not adore 1 your enemy.—Rene Paux, foreign editor Le Temps.

-JUNE 22, 1929

REASON

-Ey Frederick Landis

Owen T. Edgar, 92. Sole Survivor of the Mexican War, Has Seen a Wonderful Parade of National Progress. OWEN THOMAS EDGAR, 98-year-old citizen of Washingten, sole survivor of the Mexican war, has .-e'en a wonderful parade of national progress. When he marched away to the Rio Grande, slavery was the imperious master of the land and abolitionists were whipped by mobs in northern cities, while statesmen in Washington daily preached the funeral sermon of Uncle Sam. now the healthiest gentleman on the map. a a a The name of Washington was on the lips of orators as the name of Lincoln is today; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been in their graves a little over twenty years, while here and there a few old men were reverently hailed as surviving soldiers of .the American revolution. a o a Clay, Webster and Calhoun, the i great' triumvirate of our history, were looking with fearful eyes toward the abyss of civil war and across the Atlantic the royal ruler gazed with satisfaction upon the apparent collapse of the form of government, which threatened his throne. a a a Stephen A. Douglas was rising as a political gladiator, while in the : house of representatives a tall, angular rail splitter was delivering his speech on the spot resolution which later was to plague him, and on rainy days was delighting his congressional associates with the rarest stories ever told in Washington. a a a

General Winfield Scott was commander of the army, and Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant were captains, while with them were a hundred others, winning in that conflict the experience which they were later to use in the war of the sixties. Machine guns, modern rifles, iron clads, poison gas and all the furies of the laboratory were •unknown, while aviation was waiting for unborn genius. a a tt The iron horse had not found his pasture in the heart of the Republic and canals apparently were the last word in transportation, the trip de luxe being made on the deck of the packet line where ladies and gentlemen of the old school sat beneath umbrellas in the heat of the day while passing through the virgin country at the terrific speed of eight miles an hour. a a a Lawyers were riding the circuit, going from court to court, where their services were retained by waiting litigants who told them of their cases while sitting beneath the trees of old court house yards. And to these courts came the people for miles around, waiting to hear the great men plead and later to hear them as they debated public questions. POLITICAL campaigns were a riot of color and passion, contending candidates debating before multitudes which sat for hours beneath the branches of the forest. Torch light processions were miles in length and party ties had a strength which bound men from the cradle to the grave. a a tt Religious fervor was at white heat and the voice of the initerant evangelist rang in the wilderness, while round the open fireside of the cabin, early settlers earnestly talked of doctrine. Militant torch bearers of the faith, like Peter Cartwright, went up and down the old frontier, working their congregations into spells of ecstasy which would amaze our time. a tt tt The old country doctor, grandest figure of pioneer days, rode the torest with his saddle bags, dispensing quinine and calomel, going where distress called, with little thought of financial reward. Thomas A. Edison was just learning to walk; Henry Ford had not been born and Lizzie was not even dreamed of. Yes, this sole survivor of the Mexican war has seen a great parade!

*I? OAV ' 'S'Tne. - DEPARTMENT OI JUSTICE June 22

ON June 22. 1870. Congress provided for organization of the department of justice. This unit is one of the executive departments of the United States, at the head of which is the attorneygeneral. appointed by the President foi a term of four years. Although the office of attorneygeneral was created in 1789, and the incumbent of the, office was from the first a member of the cabinet, it was not until 1870 that congress erected the office into a separate department. By the act of June 22 of that year the several officers of the federal government, of whom there were some half dozen or more, were placed under supervision of the at-torney-general. with the hope of bringing about greater uniformity in the construction and application of the laws. The attorney-general is the legal representative of the United States in cases of law and he is charged with the general supervision of the United States district attorneys and marshals. Among the other duties of the department of justice are the supervision of the penal and reformatory institutions of the United States and recommendation of judicial appointments. In 1870 the office of solicitorgeneral was created, the incumbent being ranked as the second officer of the department. The act of 1870 also transferred to the new department of justice the solicitor* from the interior, treasury and navy departments, and the examiner of claims from the state department