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A Great Citizen If men must pass, in the fullness of years, there was something peculiarly fitting that the soul of Lucius Swift should go to its reward as he listened to the noise of celebration of the anniversary of freedom and liberty. For no one in this city and few in the nation had given greater service to the cause of liberty and freedom and none had shown greater devotion and loyalty to the principles which had their birth in the Declaration of Independence. His love of country was shown when, as a boy of 16, he disguised his age that he might light for the flag he loved. When other boys were in school, lie was a prisoner of war. That circumstance did not prevent him from becoming an educator and a teacher. His was the character that triumphs over obstacles and that conquers the insurmountable. His patriotism and love of country was the compass which directed every activity of life. It was a patriotism born of a belief in human liberty and in human rights. It was a patriotism which was founded on devotion to the fundamental principle of the nation. In the half century of residence in Indianapolis no. one ever questioned or was in doubt as to where Lucius B. Swift would stand on any public question. The answer was written in advance by his keen insight and a still keener conscience, ihe people of this city knew that he would stand where right unfurled her banner and where liberty beckoned to her loyal sons. When the nation was at war he threw himself unstintingly into every activity that could aid in victory—or could reduce the heartbreak and the sorrow that he knew to he inevitably bound with the prosecution of a war. Even as he gave of material resources and his strength to the vigorous efforts of the government, he still remembered the orphan and the widow. When the nation was at peace, his mind was ever occupied in preserving the spirit as well as the forms of liberty. He hated the secret enemies of freedom, the corruptionists, the spoilers, the privilege seekers as he had hated the uniformed foes of his land. That love of real liberty sent him into the ranks of those who obtained and established the civil service system in the nation. It made him effective and incessant in his efforts to save the nation for which he had fought as a boy from the decay that lie knew could come from corruption if the people lost their visions of liberty in prosperity and materialism. Asa trustee of the gas company, he stood adamant against any suggestion that there might be a legal reason for refusing to carry out the contract with the citizens. He had faith in his fellow men. He had faith in their intelligence and their honesty. He had faith in their ability not only to rule themselves but to conduct their own business. Without disparagement to any of the men with whom he served, it is not too much to say that the keen mind and keen conscience of Lucius Swift did much to direct, the policy of that public venture. As an author, Lucius Swift made his contribution to the permanent thought on civil service and on the real meanings of liberty. Asa citizen he gave daily evidence of his love of liberty, real liberty and not sham freedom. Well might the flags that today decorate the city be dipped in sorrow to this patriarch of patriots, the man who fought, the man who thought, ever and always for freedom and for right of men to rule themselves. Great of mind, greater of heart, greatest of soul, his monument will be the forces and influences which he inspired and which will live through ages still to come. A Fine Chance What a chance to test the new Jones law, which provides for imprisonment of from five to ten years in the penitentiary for transporting whisky, is presenttd in the arrest of a federal official. He may be innocent. But there is the charge by officers at Brazil that the local representative of federal justice was not only driving most injudiciously but that a search of his car disclosed one of those pints that have become famous recently. If thb Jones law is to be made as effective as the proponents of grave punishments for violations of the liquor law believe it will be. certainly the place to make it most effective is among these who are intrusted with its enforcement. If the law is to have terrors for the individual and if these heavy punishments will bring about that era of complete enforcement of prohibition which is the dream of all drys. certainly it should include in the intimidated the men who are under some special responsibility to obey it. It may be safely stated that very much of the general distrust of the prohibition law as a measure for temperance has been aroused by the fact that the law makers who made the law. the men who are chosen to enforce it in various capacities, have been too open with their own violations. If the law can be enforced against the enforcers, t ax least a start will have been made toward trans- * - -• nobler realization.

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Public Ownership Wins Os all Pacific coast cities of importance Oakland, Cal., has stood out against public ownership of utilities. Once it went so far as to trade its whole waterfront for a little red schoolhouse and a dock. Never has it owned anything of its own—until now. About eight years ago Oaklanders awoke to face a water famine. The private water company, for years drawing on surface streams and wells, had no suggestion for a remedy but to go to the Sacramento river. Quickly calling in eight other east bay cities, Oakland organized the East Bay Municipal Utilities District. They named ex-Governor George Pardee president, and hired a former reclamation chief engineer, Arthur P. Davis, “father of Boulder dam.” They obtained a mountain supply in the Sierras, near where Mark Twain’s jumping frog won his laurels. They began the race against a water famine. An army of 600 men working in three shifts went to work on the Pardee dam and the ninety-two miles of pipe-line through tunnels and over rivers. They voted bonds to purchase the local distribution system —572,000,000 for everything. The other day they turned the first stream of mountain water into their great storage reservoir near Berkeley. They found in that reservoir a supply just great enough to last Oakland and Berkeley two days! They had won the race by a hair. They had saved $4,000,000 of the original estimate and had cut two years from the time. Oakland has learned its lesson. It narrowly escaped disaster that would have cost millions. Instead it has a water supply for a city of 2,000,000. It was public, not private initiative, that saved the east bay cities. From now on Oakland will follow along with Los Angeles, San Francisco. Seattle and other coastal cities who learned the same lesson years ago. Get Rid of Them To put it bluntly, the safest insurance President Hoover can get against further bad breaks from prohibition fanatics on the government pay roll is to get rid of all of the job-holders who got their jobs through the Anti-Saloon League during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. So long as there are in official position fanatics who feel that they owe greater allegiance to the Anti-> Saloon League than to the federal administration, they will aim to please their backers. Nobody with any sense expects President Hoover to turn prohibition enforcement over to fanatical wets, of course. But there are sincere drys who have not lost their balance, and who do not believe that prohibition enforcement is the be all and end all of government. What is more important, there are drys who still believe that the seat of administrative government is at the White House rather than at the Washington headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League or the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals; and that Herbert Hoover and neither Scott Mcßride nor Clarence True Wilson is President of the United States. The quicker the President gets rid of fanatical officials the sooner he will get the ship of state on an even keel—and the sooner clerical politicians and propagandists drunk with power will sober up. Has anybody recommended for the Carnegie medal the Washington woman who recently made the courageous innovation of serving a party without liquor? Archduke Leopold of Austria plans to open up an “idea shop” in New York. Wonder if it will have a notion counter, too? The sheriff of Shawnee county, Kansas, rides about in an airplane. That county probably gets its law from above. Summer attire comparable in lightness, airiness and freedom to women's* dress would add years to the lives of men, says a doctor. They should live so long! Sometimes it takes a lot of hush money to run a stilL

.David Dietz on Science

Carbon Is Foundation

IN studying chemical composition of protoplasm, the substance out of which the cells of all living organisms are constructed, we must begin with carbon. For carbon seems to be the chemical element which is the foundation stone of the structure of protoplasm. Pure carbon is found in nature in one very beauti-

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There are many compounds of carbon to be found. One of the simplest is carbon dioxide, the gas formed by the union of carbon and oxygen. A certain amount of carbon dioxide is always present in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the starting point of protoplasm. Plants absorb both carbon dioxide and water and by the aid of sunlight manufacture the more complex chemical substances from them. This process is known as photosynthesis. The first part of the word comes from the Greek “photos,” which means “light.” The word means, therefore, a synthesis or manufacture by the aid of light. The many kinds of complex compounds containing carbon all seem to follow two systems. In one. the foundation of the compound is a little ring of six carbon atoms. This ring is known technically as the aromatic galaxy. In the other type of compound, the six carbon atoms are formed into a chain. This is known technically as the aliphatic galaxy. Carbohydrates, fats and proteins, the three types of compounds which make up protoplasm, are all derivatives of the aliphatic galaxy. That is, their molecules are all of the chain variety. The simplest molecules are those of the carbohydrates. The fats are more complex, while the proteins are the most complex of all. The sugar known technically as is the simplest of the carbohydrates. i It contains only hydrogen and oxygl addition to carbon. 'Tfflk The carbohydrates will be 'Retail

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ful and expensive form, namely the diamond. It is also found in a very inexpensive and ordinary form, namely, graphite. At first, it seems strange that both diamond and graphite should be formed from pure carbon. The difference between the two lies entirely in the arrangement of the atoms.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

'History Presents No Such Tragic Tale as That of Abused Power Made Possible Through Organization. WHAT price combination, and if it’s too much how are we going to evade the bill? Members of congress, as well as j some other people, are alarmed at ! the increase of mergers and consoiiI dations. Half a dozen senators are gather- | ing data for future use. Making allowance for the part | politics plays, the subject still is j worth attention. ass Problem of Trusts “TN my opinion,” says Senator X King of Utah, “the most imi portant question which demands solution at the hands of the Amerii can people Is that relating to trusts and monopolies.” , “Solution” is an optimistic word, but that does not mean that the ! situation is beyond improvement. Though new in a business sense, j perhaps, this struggle with organizaI tion is as old as the hills. Human history is little more than | a record of the development and i defeat of organized power. ass Drunk With Power IT all goes back to the her instinct. Whether in religion.- politics, war ; or amusement, the first impulse | is to organize. At the outset, organization is aci ceptable because of what it prom- | ises common folks. An army seems desirable, because it gives them pro- | tection; a chain store, because it can sell them goods cheaply; a church because it guarantees them happiness in the hereafter. Eventually, organization crystallizes, becomes a system, yields to discipline, grows drunk with power and elevates the few at the expense of the many. St ft tt Will Soviet Last? SOVIET Russia is founded on Communism. Class distinctions are supposed to have been obliterated. Heads of departments j and heads of the state live like other people. Who imagines that such a condition will last, that the strutting instinct if nothing else will not create differences? Even if the Soviet survives, it will go the way of all human machines. By and by the fire chief, the superintendent of streets and the factory boss will have their automobiles form their little cliques and recreate the same old picture. Splitting the Pot IN America, business has become the dominant figure, but that does not alter the attitude or reactions of human nature so far as organization- is concerned. We have a board of directors instead of a soviet, but are traveling the same road. With system giving birth to authority and authority giving birth to pomp and display. Thus far we have been able to get a. better split of the pot for common people than was possible through some of the older schemes, but we have not played the game through to the end by any means. tt tt 8 Dangerous Road MECHANICAL power has made it impossible to take advantage of human knowledge without | organization. To that extent, we are dealing with something new. ! But organization still contains the ! seeds of tyranny and class rule, just as it always has, 'and still leaves little hope for justice except through the exercise of decent selfcontrol by those in charge. If we have learned the wisdom of 1 not abusing our privileges, we are safe. If, on the other hand, our lords of trade are still the victims of appetite and ambition, we are treading a dangerous course. a s tt Keeping Their Heads THE tendency always has been to overdo organization, to take advantage of the opportunities it offers a few to ride the many. Whether in church, .state or com- ! merce, it has been the same old j story of men's inability to keep their I heads. Monarchy would have survived but for tyrant kings, and there would have been no such religious | controversies as have occurred but for the ruthlessness of priestcraft. Turn where you will, and history presents no such tragic tale as that of abused power made possible through organization. t: s ts Social Strutting "VTEITHER is history bunk, as one lN of our great industrial leaders j has said. Though the past may not seem very helpful when compared to the mechanical progress we enjoy, it still shows the immutable traits of human nature, still reveals the working of those social laws which are changeless. One would suppose we had learned I enough to realize the danger of | overdoing organization, that instead I of putting a premium on merger and consolidation we would avoid them as long as possible. But no. we prefer to travel the same old road. Not content with billion-dollar banks, we join them to make two-billion-dollar banks, and not satisfied with a group of 1,000 stores we | develop one of 10.000 with time clocks, codfish aristocracy and social strutting as the inevitable result.

Daily Thought

But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will increase unto more ungodliness.—ll Timothy 2:16. tt tt a MOST people who commit z count on some personal fit to be derived therefrom, bufcifPl sanity has not even this exm

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Drink Plenty of Water in Summer

\ Bl DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE humorous columnists insist that Americans have all been thirsty for the last ten years. However that may be, the sensation of thirst is one of the most interesting that is investigated by the physiologist. A human being is about 70 per cent water. The necessity for water in the body is far more pressing and continuous than the necessity for food. As pointed out by Professor A J. Carlson in. a review of the subject of thirst in Hygeia, a healthy human being, can survive without food and with a decreasing physical efficiency for from forty to sixty days. If. however, the same man is completely deprived of water, he becomes uncomfortable after two or three days, feverish and delirious in from four to seven days, and he usually dies in from eight to twelve days.This is the course that is followed by men who are lost at sea without fresh water or who die of thirst in the desert.

IT SEEMS TO ME

AN excursion through the news of the day reveals the court costume of General Dawes as the burning issue of the moment. The ambassador, as you probably have read, attended a royal function clad in evening clothes rather than the; traditional knee breeches. Editorial: comment hearabouts has been favorable to the general. He is applauded for his sturdy Americanism. I am not bitter about our repre- : sentative’s failure to get into satin shorts. He may have excellent reasons for shunning such a costume. Possibly the ambassadorial leg is more shapely when it’s draped in trousers. It may be that Mr. Dawes would feel a fool in garb which is strange to him. Ever so many adequate causes could be introduced to support the general’s choice. But it is silly to cite “Sturdy Americanism.” I can’t see that this touches the problem in any way. An American abroad would not necessarily abate one little of his patriotism even though he donned kilts and swung a claymore. u s s Come in Costume T' HERE is, to be sure, a notion that we of the United States are a plain and simple people detesting fuss and feathers. This is such an obvious fallacy that it should never be allowed to haunt us. The sartorial requirements for an Elk, Odd Fellow or Eagle far transcend the moderate adornment | expected of an ambassador at the ! Court of St. James, j The general, knee breeches and all, would seem a dumb and incon- ; spicuous figure were he to fall into | line with Knights of Pythias on paj rade. And in a country when plus- ! fours are almost obligatory on the golf course, it seems a little strange , that a full-blooded American patriot

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor, The Times—l have lived | in Indianapolis eleven years and in all that time I have been a reader of your paper. I notice that you are | net afraid to print any injustice or protest of the people. I wish to express my opinion of what I consider the worst imposition that has been placed on the people, This so-called driver's license. Net that I do not believe in compelling the people to contribute to the upkeep of our public roads, but the way they have of getting the money, as I was in that jam at the statehouse Saturday, where whites j and blacks, women and men, were ! packed in like a lot of cattle, with practically no ventilation, where one txould catch any disease. TkTo get my driver’s license last truck license Sat-

Those Days Arc Gone Forever!

■HEALTH IX HOT WEATHER-

When a man is deprived of water he begins at once to draw this substance into the blood from his tissues. Because of the importance of water, it is common in any case of unconsciousness over a long period of time for a physician to see that water is injected into the body either by a stomach tube or under the skin. When a person becomes exceedingly thirsty, his tongue, throat and mouth gets dry ana burn. Because of the anxiety, he becomes restless; because of the lack of evaporation of water from the surface of the body, he becomes feverish. The sensation of thirst can be lessened somewhat merely by wetting the lips and tongue, but this is a satisfaction only to the sensation and can not satisfy long. There is one portion of the brain which particularly is interested in seeing that the needs of the body for water are satisfied. Obviously, this is important, since the water is necessary to the conditions of life.

should shy profoundly at the royal styles in knickers. So little do we actually dislike strange garb that countless occasions are seized upon to present an excuse for costumes. If General j Dawes went back to his class re- : union he probably would find him- ; self called upon to dress as a con- | vict, a Chinese coolie, or to wheel some classmate in a baby carriage. a a a In Gay Chicago IT has never been my privilege to come across the general at any Pagean frolic, Beaux Art ball or Greenwich Village revel, but it must be that Chicago, too, knows such affairs and that the general has not been wholly aloof from evenings in which he represented Napoleon just arrived from Elba, or Daniel Boone or Little Boy Blue. I am not emotionally equipped to make any very strong plea for j the practice of clambering clumsily into the uncomfortable gear which | comes from the renting office. I’m j one with General Dawes in feeling j that it is a rather tedious way of j seeking release from inhibitions. | That it serves splendidly for cer--1 tain people there is no denying, j Nor do I pretend to be immune j from the influence of brave raiment. Once at a Beaux Arts ball 1 crashed a gate and carried four attendants with me to the middle of the dance floor. I really had a> ticket but the j minions would not accept my pledge ! that I had lost it. Under such cir- ; cumstances I would ordinarily make a feeble protest and then sneak ! home. But on the night in question 1 1 represented Casanova and could I not conveniently take “No” for an | answer. a a a The Old Monkey Suit THE case of General Dawes would be much stronger if he had thrown convention wholly to

i urday it took practically all one day, ;so I was not only out the money j for the licenses,.but my time as well. Then, too, I noticed, the applications asked: “Are you a user of narcotics?” Why didn’t they put in alcoholic beverages? Then, if they found a woman or | man drunk and driving a car give them che limit. Now I live in the new part of the city back of th3 fairground, where to the best of my knowledge the city hasn’t spent a cent for the upj keep of our roads since it has been j , taken into the city, and where the garbage and trash is gathered only | once a month, and I sure hope this money will be used to help us out. | Thanking you .if; you. will .print this. P. T. THOMAS. j 4450 Baltimore winiifc

Some people drink a great deal more water than do others. Excessive thirst is brought about by excessive loss of water from the body. Sometimes this loss of water is due to disease, which puts a great deal more water through the kidneys in order to relieve the body of concentrated salts that are the products of disease. Sometimes the occupation of the person or the character of his sweat glands is such that he loses a great deal of water by way of the skin. In some instances much water is lost from the body by the intestinal tract. Following hemorrhage with a considerable less of blood, a person usually is intensely thirsty because of the amount of fluid that has been taken away in this manner. In his review, Professor Carlson points out that the thirst appetite has not yet been properly named. This appetite, he insists, nevertheless, is a real factor in life, “as it is apparent that many people imbibe so-called soft drinks without being thirsty, or drink one-half of one per cent beer without, either thirst or hope being present.”

HEYWOOD 7 BROUN

I the winds in favor of something ! light and airy. Had he refused i knee-breeches and come to court ! in a one-piece bathing suit I should i now be his violent partisan. But | the fact is our ambassador merely ! spurned the frying pan for the ! fire. i If the regalia set by custom for | St. Janies’ is somewhat uncomfort- | able and very ludicrous what can be said for the evening clothes which Dawes chose to wear? What difference does it make whether an ambassador looks like a flunkey or a head waiter? And so the whole controversy simmers down to trifling dimensions. In my opinion a man who puts on a boiled shirt ought to be willing to wear anything. and be glad to get it, too. (Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

HUMANITY has developed a faculty for converting the miraculous into the commonplace. That which, yesterday, was an unheard of luxury,” is today as much of a necessity as is the instalment agent who comes to collect for it.— R. E. Sherwood. (Scribner’s Magazine.) nun The dominant and aggressive peoples of the world have always been those whose nutrition has been the best.—James A. Tobey. (The American Mercury.) ja a a j The' modern business man, in his ; own interest, must be public spirited, jlf he does not like the public, he | must learn to like it, and since his | competitiors are a part of the public, |he must learn to like them, :oo.— Benjamin A. Jarvits. 'Forbes Magazine.)

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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.

Quotations of Notables

.JULY 4. 192D

REASON

Ey Frederick Landis-

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence Threw a Flaming Torch Into the Powder Magazine of Rising World Restlessness. COLUMBUS discovered America in 1492, but it was to be almost 300 years before America should discover the common people. This agreeable event, the greatest surprise party ever given royalty, occurred in Philadelphia on the fourth day of July. 1776, when a band of gentlemen adopted a Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and handed it to John Bull to swallow raw, capsules not being invented at the time. ts a a Had some stranger from a neighboring planet gazed upon the de- | liberations of those immortal rebels, he would have thought their purpose far from what it was, for their elegance of deportment and attire suggested that the welfare of the masses was quite remote from their solicitude. Such stranger doubtless would have thought them the directors of some power trust, met to irri- : gate the stock and secure from the public service commission authority to climb the public porch. a a a The rags of want were not in evidence; the wild eye of the radical did not gleam; the bristling hair with which the cartoonist crowns the disturber's dome of thought was absent. The proceedings were solemn, save when John Adams of Massachuj settes. with the hot needle of eloquence. tatooed the image of a. j monster upon the countenance of | Mr. Bull. e a a THEY wore powdered wigs, ruffled shirts, lace collars, swalj low tailed coats, satin vests, knee | breeches, silk stockings, low shoes with silver buckles. It was the most elaborate disguise revolution ever wore. I They were aristocrats, the most | of them, proud of their lineage, quick to resent affront, holding personal honor and human rights more pecious than all else. The declaration they adopted caused a political earthquake which shook every throne on earth, for while directed against England, its affirmation, “All men are created equal,” put a chip upon the shoulder of the common man in every land. It pointed the dagger at the heart of monarchy. tt tt tt The signers of that declaration I did not know it, but they were | throwing a flaming torch into the powder magazine of rising restlessj ness around the world; they were blazing a trail through the wilderness of oppression, a trail along which many nations were to march in coming years, nations bearing banners speaking strange tongues, but all of them banners of freedom.' Asia. Europe, South America were to march that way; continents were to follow in the footsteps of those men at Philadelphia!

THIS is what but what have we done?. Let us contemplate the fruits of our political indifference. Plunder, running through government from township to nation, is the first political influence; in most states every known form of vice has not only actually been adopted, but standardized in party methods; Decency has recoiled from conflict with indecency and statesmen have vanished, while midgets swarm over public life; the viper of privilege wraps round the tree of government and parasites sting its every leaf! Our fathers banished the tyrant, but we have embraced the thief. This sickening delinquency of the American citizen, this persistent refusal to protect and preserve a sa* cred heritage is the most amazing page in the history of government. The real way for the American people to celebrate the Fourth of July is to turn over anew leaf, drive the bed bugs from the household of the. Fathers, fugimate it then take care of it throughout the years to come!

r Good sportsmanship may be an I excellent virtue in the abstract, but j the wife who really wants to keep ' her husband would do better to 1 practice up on hysterics.—Elsie Mc- | Cormack. tt tt e ! Society, obviously, can not pro- | duce geniuses to order. But it can ! face its new experiences and make i rhe mental effort necessary to un- | derstand those experiences.—Edna | Lonigan. (The New Republic.) tt a a The world turns aside to let ar.y ; man pass who knows where he is going.—David Starr Jordan. a tt a A university administration must always refrain from strangling new ! ideas in order to achieve smoothness of administration, Dr. Glenn 1 Frank.