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A Caveat, at Least Against ?he wholesale iiWietments of the newspapers of the state by the presbytery o' Indianapolis, it may be permitted to enter a? least a. caveat in reply to the charge that the daily and weekly press is engaged in “an effort to discredit the laws of the land.” The sixty-two ministers who met at Franklin, after making this general charge that the editors are engaged in a deliberate effort to destroy law, further specify that the efforts to deitrov the “wholesome” effects of the eighteentii .vueciment is unjust and dangerous. To the statement that any effort to tear down whatever wholesome effects may have resulted i 1 - bad. all editors will agree. But there is the point of departure. For certainly there are none so blind as not to believe that there have been very unwholesome as well as wholesome effects which have resulted from the adoption of That document. Had tl e results been the addition to hank accounts, higher standards of living, lessening of cr..: e and pauperism, a reduction in crime, no nc l . ..paper would have raised a voice in protest. But there have been such other results that those v ho believe in government under the law can well pause and reflect upon the problem which is presented. The indictment in this state of federal ofrieiais who wen* intrusted with enforcement suggests a corruption of public life which is more than spasmodic. It seems to be very general. The reign of gunmen instead of organized government in at least one of the larger cities can be traced directly to the huge profits which are made possible through the new industry of bootlegging. Very recently no less a trained observer and historian than Ida Tarbell has pointed to the growth of so intolerant an attitude on the question of prohibition on both sides that she seriously suggests that it may lead to another civil war. She has found the intolerance of the drinker who rebels against any invasion of his personal habits to be matched by tile intolerance of the dry advocate who refuses to face any facts except such as will substantiate his own theory That temperance can be accomplished by law enforcement. The very fact that the President, for the first time in history, has found it necessary to appoint a commission to investigate the enforcement of law suggests that there are problems which can not be solved by suppression of news. May it not be cited that the newspapers have become the Anal citadel in this country of all law and all liberty? For when government is corrupted by bribery and politics controlled by gunmen and hypocrites, the people are lost unless the newspapers of the land stand to their high purpose of furnishing unprejudiced information to the voters to whose constant care is intrusted the destiny of free institutions. The newspapers, far from being engaged in a concerted e 'ort to discredit all laws, as these ministers suggest, are engaged in an effort to uphold law and order as against a rising tide of anarchy and revolt, against the still higher tide of corruption and crookedness and, worse, the indifference of the citizen to the real meanings of liberty. The newspapers, more than any other institution, depend upon law for their lives. They can not exist in either anarchy or despotism. They vanish when justice and equality and freedom disappear. Certainly they are not bent on suicide. Is it not possible that these ministers are making the very common mistake of believing that those who may distrust the wisdom of one law are necessarily against all laws, of being blinded to the fact that the laws which ffnd their justification in the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights may be as important as the one written by Volstead? British Peace Plans Hope of an early reduction of armaments throughout the world, as a result of the preliminary AngloAmerican negotiations now in progress in London, was expressed Tuesday in King George's speech from the throne. Americans share that hope and are anxious for their government to do its share. Some disappointment is shown in this country and abroad that neither the king’s speech nor Premier MacDonald's address was specific regarding results so far accomplished by the Dawes-MacDonald conversations and regarding definite plans for an arms conference. But the people can afford to be patient, especially in view of the experience at the abortive Geneva conference which failed partly through lack of advance preparation. One big gain has been made. There is anew spirit of co-operation and friendliness between the London and Washington governments. A few months ago the Baldwin and Coolidge governments were snarling at each other, each more intent on finding fault with the other than in working together for peace. President Hoover and Premier MacDonald have changed that dangerous attitude. The Labor government, in addition to improving Anglo-American relations and preparing for an arms conference, is taking steps to remove other obstacles

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to peace. As confirmed in the speech from the throne these include: A conference of governments to pass on the new Younc reparations report, the anticipated settlement to be followed by allied evacuation of the Rhineland: plans for resumption of British diplomatic relations with soviet Russia, and Britain's intention to sign the so-railed optional clause of the world court, binding r cit to submit all its international disputes on legal questions to judicial settlement. This is a heartening program. It puts Great Britain again in the position of peace leadership of Europe, in contrast to the nationalistic and navalistic policy of the late and not lamented Tory government. It justifies the enthusiasm with which the recent election victory of the Labor party was greeted in this country and abroad. It will make Mr. MacDonald all the more welcome in the United States, if he finds time to carry out his plan for a visit here in the autumn to confer with the President- on closer co-operation of the Englishspeaking nations. Smoot On the Tariff Just, when we had hoped that protests against the outrageous house tariff bill were beginning to register with the senate finance committee, and that its worst features at least would be eliminated, a statement comes from Senator-Chairman Reed Smoot that is not at all encouraging. Smoot is aroused by Democratic charges that the tariff bill is a steal and that its original purpose of helping the farmer has been lost sight of in the general grab for favors by other interests. So he defends the house bill. •‘As a matter of fact,” he says, ‘‘both the ways and means committee and, so far, the finance committee in gestures, have given the farmers and producers by far the best of it. ‘‘Thus far practically the only increases suggested to the industrial schedules are due to compensations—that is, increases in manufactured goods because of increases in raw materials.” ‘‘Compensations” have been the cloak under which many unjustifiable duties have been imposed. It is impossible to say what the finance committee finally will do. There seems to be little doubt about what their chairman wants, however. He is satisfied with the house bill. His attitude indicates he might be willing to have even higher rates. Also he is inclined to favor a sliding scale of sugar duties to replace the 2.40 rate against Cuban sugar imposed in the house bill. This would be a sop to quiet the clamor aroused by the unfair house rate. In the end one method would take as much from the consumer's pocket as the other. It is to be hoped Smoot’s views are not shared by his fellow-committeemen. The complaint against the projected gouge can not be laughed off with the charge that the Democrats are trying to make political capital and are “imagining all sorts of rates and unjust schedules.” Making Money Some make money out of men. Others make money with and for men. The second group usually makes as much, and often more, money than the first, and finds a joy the first group can never know. Among twenty-one persons arrested by federal agents in raids in Arkansas recently was one clergyman. Not a bad showing for the ministry. A small town is one where you know there must be somebody in jail when the constable has his house painted. Sports writers think it just as well that Paolino lost. They won’t have any trouble now trying to spell his last name.

-David Dietz on Science

The Simplest Sugar

No. 400-

THE simplest organic compounds in living cells are i the carbohydrates. The simplest common carbohydrates is the sugar known as glucose. Three chemical elements enter the carbohydrates. They are carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The carbohydrates differ from one another in the amount of each

element which they contain and in the way in which the atoms of the elements are arranged to make up the molecule of the compound. The accompanying ill ust r a tion shows the structure of the molecule of glucose. It is the type of molecule known as a chain molecule. Its foundation is a chain of six carbon atoms. Such a

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ciiain. it will be recalled, is known technically as the j aliphatic galaxy. In the illustration, the carbon atoms are represented by the “C's.'’ The "H's" represent hydrogen atoms while the “O’s’ represent atoms of oxygen. The chemical formula of glucose is C6H1206. That means that the molecule of glucose is composed of six atoms of carbon, twelve atoms of hydrogen and six atoms of oxygen. By X-ray analysis, it is possible to locate with high accuracy the position of an atom in a molecule. There is good reason to believe, therefore, that the accompanying illustration is not merely a handy scheme of representation, but a pretty accurate picture of the actual state of the molecule. Sir William Bragg, who has made a considerable study of the subject, states that there is reason to believe that the atoms are located in definite places in the organic molecules, held in places by electrical and magnetic forces as securely as beams are held by the rivets in the structure of a bridge. No attempt is made in the diagram to picture the individual atoms. If the Bohr theory is correct, each atom is a miniature solar system composed of revolv- ! ing electrons. The bonds in the diagram represent the electrical attraction which the atoms are capable of exerting. This is sometimes known as the valence of an atom. It will be noted that carbon has a valence of four, oxygen of two and hydrogen of one. More complex sugars can be made by uniting molecules like those of glucose. If a hydrogen atom is dropped from one molecule and a hydroxyl group from another, that is both a hydrogen and an oxygen atom, from another molecule, the two can be united into a complex molecule. The released hydroxyl group joins the released hydrogen atom to form a molecule of H2O or water. This process, known as dehydration, is easily performed in the laboratory.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The Brevity of Life, As Well As the Limitation of Human Intellect Compels Us to Be Provincial. \CCORDING to the calendar days are much alike. They would be, according to history, if we only knew enough of it. Each and every day of the year has had its whirl with past sentiment, its periods of glory, or of disrepute. Just now the Fourth of July enjoys favor, while the fifth suffers by comparison. tt a a Sorry for ‘Morning After’ Y7CU can’t help feeling sorry for JL the fifth. It has become a mere “morning after,’ an occasion of clean up and headache, a constantly increasing casualty list. a a a Fifth Once Glorified TIME was when conditions were reversed, when the fifth of July was glorified, while the fourth went unnoticed. In the year 1100 A. D, Jerusalem was captured by the Crusaders and all Christiandom rejoiced. A good many people know that such an event occurred, but how many know it occurred on the fifth of July. How many realize that it was regarded as of stupendous import, as bigger and more promising than the birth of a nation? tt tt tt 'lmmortal' Days Fade IDEALS and movements, though of widespread character, have a way of fading out. We assume that the Fourth of July has been made 'immortal by the birth of our own republic. Christendom assumed the same thing with regard to the fifth when Jerusalem fell into its hands. a a tt Dwell in lllusionments WE dwell in illusionments of the present. Not only the future but the past have grown too big for comprehension. That is why particular days have their significance, and that is why we forget that in the sum total all days are of equal significance. Horizons may expand, but they still are horizons, especially in the sense of time. Human progress has gone far enough to make not only each day in the year, but every moment, an anniversary of some triumph or tragedy. The task of commemorating even the greatest men, or events, has grown too great. The brevity of life, as well as the limitations of human intellect, compel us to be provincial. tt tt * Day of Memories TAKE this poor fifth of July, for instance, and see what has occurred on it, only to mention a few of the events. 363 B. C., Agesilaus crossed the Hellespont on his retreat from Persia. 1044 A. D„ Aba, king of Hungary, j was killed by his rebellious subjects, j 1535, Thomas More was beheaded. | 1582, a Prussian town was visited j by a shower of fibrous matter re- j sembling human hair. 1644, York was taken by the armies of parliament. 1685, the duke of Monmouth, revolting son of Charles 11, was defeated and captured. 1704, John Broughton, father of modern pugilism was born. 1775, William Crotch, a musical prodigy, who excited London by his performances on the organ at the age of three years, was born. 1807, Buenos Aires was assaulted by the British under General Whit- | lock. 1811, the seven provinces of Venezuela declared independence from Spain. 1817, gold sovereigns were first j put into circulation in England. 1830, Algiers surrendered to the French. a tt tt An Ordinary Day IN addition, hundreds of notable men and women either were born or died on the sth of July. Nor is the day at all exceptional. The same is true of the 3d, or the 6th, not only of July, —but of any month. Human achievement, like human knowledge, has become vast and complicated. Indeed, human knowledge is built on human achievements. Everything we possess, or know, has its history'. • More often than not, the history is long. Many ideas, inventions and methods which have become too commonplace for notice not only represent the lifelong work of individuals, but sometimes the labor of generations. tt tt tt Losing Its Meaning 4 WE can teach a child to count on his fingers in a few days, but it took our ancestors thousands of years to make the discovery. We set apart days, for about the same reason that an engineer drives stakes. We are still too weak to travel a straight or logical course without them. The danger consists in mistaking a day for the idea it symbolizes, in letting it go to seed through pleasure and recreation. When a day loses its means, when it ceases to have an individuality, when people use it as just another excuse for enjoying themselves, its value is gone.

Daily Thought

' Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of tby brother’s eye.—St. Matthew 7:5. a a a r y' ,HE only vice that can not be Dentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.—Hazlitt.

Purity of Water, Milk Essential

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. EVER since men began to put two and two together and make anything from one to five as the answer, there have been strange notions regarding the effects of weather on health and on disease. Even Noah Webster, who wrote the dictionary,‘wrote a two-volume work on the relationship of weather to disease. People talk about healthy weather and unhealthy weather without having a very clear idea of just which is which. The epidemiologists and the meteorologists and the statisticians get somewhere in this

IT SEEMS TO ME

HERE’S wishing the best of luck to Alonzo Souleigh Parham. It seems to me that this young Negro, who has just matriculated at West Point, will be called upon to exercise as high a degree of courage as any flier who ever crossed the ocean. To be sure, he is not the first Negro to qualify for the United States military academy, but no member of his race has been at the Point for more than ten years and, in spite of the brilliant exception of the late Colonel Young, Negro youths have had for the most part a difficult and unsuccessful time at the academy. I think it is fair to say that all of them started from behind scratch. The lot of the Negro in a predominantly white college is usually hard, and West Point is a singularly close corporation. Young Parham must make up his mind to wage his fight alone. He will room alone, and the chances are that he will be unable to strike up anyhing more than the coolest and most casual contacts with any of his fellows. a a ~ Admiration for Brave WEST POINT has never been noted as a shrine of libera! feeling. But at the moment I have no desire to sound any note of criti-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor The Times—Last Saturday night about 9:30. after the doors were closed to the building, I walked east on Market street between the stands, which are close together and leave a small aisle or pathway for the many buyers to pass through with their baskets, some going east, some west. There is no system there, and I waited one time about five minutes for the crowd to. get thinner so I could pass cn without squeezing or pushing. On a nice evening people don’t mind it so much, but on a rainy night with people, baskets, umbrellas. stands, and rain falling, Market street and Market Square is a sight. Surely an improvement is needed here in Tomlinson market.

Quotations of Notables

A NXIETY begets restlessness and dissatisfaction. Promotion always comes in time—if you’re entitled to it.—lsaac M. Scott, president Wheeling Steel Corporation. B a a It should be emphasized that no one organization, no matter how large, can have a monopoly of the brains of our scientists; no one can tell at what moment an unknown

There Ain’t No Justice

■HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER-

matter by keeping exact records of changes in the weather and disease and death rates, but even here it is necessary to take into account other factors such as movements of the population and of the insects that carry disease and of the types of food eaten and of the effects of various temperatures and moistures on the growth of germs. Because of some of the factors that have been mentioned, typhoid fever occurs most frequently in summer and early fall. During the summer people drink more than in winter and they are careless about the source of the water, or milk or other beverages that they drink. In the warm weather the germs multiply more rapidly in the contaminated fluids. Investigations made by the Na-

cism against what seems to me race prejudice. There’s no point in my concealing the fact that I think the traditional attitude of the white man toward the Negro is wrong-headed and short-sighted. But let’s not talk ;of that. I realize the depth of feel- | ing on the other side and its sin- ; cerity, too, in many cases. At the moment I am trying to enlist for Cadet Alonzo Souleigh Parham the admiration even of those who are against him. Many white men would like to have all Negroes barred from West 1 Point. Logically enough, they hope j this boy from Chicago will fail to ! make good. But I do not see how his bitterest enemy can deny that he is showing a high degree of fortitude in facing a perilous and punishing situation. Depend upon it, Parham knows what he is going up against. A young man intelligent enough to pass the difficult examinations required of candidates for the academy can hardly be a fool. Chicago knows its race barriers and its taboos as well as any city of the deep south. Alonzo Souleigh Parham has already felt the check-rein which communities impose upon men of colored blood. a a a Friendly Phantom AND if he walks alone there must be around him echoes of unnumbered footfalls. Even as a plebe

] While the crowd was still heavy • some of the stands were taking dow T n their tops and one colored boy, who was swinging a bunch of boards about eight or ten feet long over the sidewalk, struck the writer on the back of the head. I was stunned for a moment and might have been hurt worse, but, fortunately, the board struck tthe thick rim of a felt hat, and so far has not left a bad effect. The biggest crowd is always in the square on the outside, it seems. Why is it so? It’s because they get better bargains here than they do inside of the building—let’s have some improvement here to correspond with cur giving Indianapolis comfort and safety. . W. D„ A MARKET BUYER.

, chemist engaged in the problems of the small group may come upon discoveries of historic moment, revolutionary to the group and to industry as a whole.—Dr. Gustav Egloff. iForbes Magazine.) BUB The theater should be free to the public, just as the public library is free, just as the museum ia free.— Eva Le Gallienne.

tional Research Council showed that the highest death rates occurred in New York City on the coldest days, the least on days when the temperature was between 60 degrees and 76 degrees F.. and that the mortality rises when the temperature begins to go much above 75 degrees F. The effects of severe weather are seen a few days after it occurs in the form of pneumonia, bronchitis, and other diseases of the respiratory tract. No doubt much of this increase incidence is due to the lowering of resistance that comes with exposure, but a great deal of it is also due to the crowding together that takes place in the cold weather and to the spread of the germs through the secretions that have been mentioned.

D HEYWOOD By BROUN

he is general of a mighty host. Can’t you hear the thud of thousands marching onward up from slavery? These who do not like the Negro say that he has no stamina in the face of any crisis. When they call him inferior they must mean that in his own heart there lies an insufficient tradition and aspiration. But how can they say that of Alonzo Souleigh Parham, for of his own free will he has come, like another Daniel, to face the judgment of the lions. Fortitude and grim determination are neither white nor brown, and so I do not see why every one of us should not unite in saying to the slim, young black man, “Safe journey over Jordan.” tt tt tt Knows Negro “W /HAT right have you,” says R. * J. D. of Washington, “to write about race problems? Up in New York you have no chance of wide contacts. Down here we know the Nqgro.” Undoubtedly my young friend from Washington knows more members of the colored race than I have ever met, and yet in a discussion of race prejudice I still maintain that I have the advantage. I happen to know a few Negroes very well. And if any man knew all of Paul Robson and Roland Hayes, plain and entire, he would be much better equipped to say “The Negro is” ana “The Negro does” than one who commanded every day the services of a million field’ hands. If you want to know which way a tree is going keep your eyes on the topmost branches. 'Copyright, 1929. for The Times'

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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.

JTTLY 5, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis-

Genius Never Gives a Formal Affair When She Introduces a Distinguished Guest to Society. THE higher-ups of education and the politicians of the United States now are selecting the future Thomas A. Edison from among the hieh school graduates of the coun- <> try, but if we really have such a package of human radium in our £ midst, we will tell you who he ia likely to be and where you are likely to find him. tt tt B We would say that he is not a( I high school graduate at all and has j no college professors or Governors on his calling list; we would say that he is a freckle faced kid who | has had to work all his life and now is mysteriously busy in the back end of some village garage. i: a He has taken the works of an old clock, the insides of a discarded kodak, ten yards of picture wire and all the shoe buttoners he could find about the house and he is now fin- | ishing the perfect television set. We make this diagnosis of the situation. having noticed that genius never gives a formal affair when she introduces a distinguished guest to society. All of her social functions are surprise parties. a a a A great many statesmen will leave . Washington and return to the old home to stay if congress increases the salaries of its members from SIO.OOO to $12,000. Ten thousand dollars a year is twice as much as most of them are worth. a a ON behalf of a slop-surfeited world we desire to thank Thomas A. Dover, warden of theLouisville (Ky.) Jail, for re-^ fusing to let that vaudeville actress marry the prisoner, sentenced to death for killing his grandmother. But it would have been wonderful publicity for the dear girl! tt b a The government has set the first of August for the time to try exSecretary Fall again and so you may t look for him to have a terrible re- | lapse almost any day now. Ana- ; tion that can’t wind the clock of | this kind of a bird in six long I years ought to go into the hands of a receiver. B tt if Last year Canada gave clearance papers to ships, carrying $30,000,000 worth of liquor and bound for the United States, which is the most deliberate challenge any nation cculd 4 give another. Every nation on earth is an outlaw, except our own, and it is a hopeless sentimentalist. a a a Mr. Hoover’s crime commission | has delayed its investigations, but 1 plans to travel quite extensively over the country. This is entirely i unnecessary, for it could go to any ; county seat in America, investigate its court house fakes and frauds, * then multiply that by five thousand ’ i and get the national situation.

H'iplThisF

SALVATION ARMY July 5

. July 5. 1865, General William 1 jxJ Booth founded the Salvation ! Army. The army was first started in the east end of Lohdon as the Christian Mission. Thirteen years later, Christmas, 1878, it received the name of the Salvation Army. It was organized along military principles with a view to reaching the non-church going masses of the world. Its growth has been phenomenal throughout the world. General Booth was assisted by his wife, Catherine Booth, who was known as the “Mother of the Salvation Army.’’ She was regarded as a powerful and most eloquent woman speaker in the country and opened the way for women to preach the gospel. The aQsoiute equality of women as leaders, officeholders and preachers J | became one of the army's cardinal * planks. Its headquarters is in Lonj don and its 30,000 employes operate 14,710 posts in eighty-two countries. Eighty-two periodicals are published by the army. It operates working men’s hotels, nurseries and types of industrial homes throughout the world. First Boulevard Link Ready Bit Times fiDCClal ANDERSON, Ind., July s.—Th® Anderson Optimist Club and Anderson Real Estate board dedicated the - first link of this city's boulevard system today at the Grandview municipal golf course clubhouse. The first section of the boulevard to be completed provides a paved road leading to the course. The entire course road will be completed before the state open golf tournament, which will be played here I July 10 to 12.