Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1929 — Page 6
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Unpaid Bonds Th® professional bondsman has always been a problem. But a professional bondsman who does not pay when the man for whom he gives a bond ought not to be much of a problem. In this county it is now revealed that the professionals who make a living by securing liberty for men and women accused of crimes have failed to pay something like $40,000 to the state. The purpose of a bond is plain. It is required in order to make sure that those arrested on charges of crime will be on hand for trial. Presumably, those who give bonds do so on the theory that they are innocent and do not fear the outcome of a trial before a jury. There is also the presumption that, the payment of the bond would be of such grave importance that the areused would hesitate between the payment of tlm bond and the penalty that would be fixed if a conviction resulted. That is the reason that very high bonds are required when the offense earries with it a severe sentence and a low bond when the penalty is not so severe. The law gives every accused person, presumed to he innocent, until convicted, the. right to give, bond, except in charges of murder, where no amount of money loss would hold a person who feared a death penalty or a life sentence. The bonding laws presumed that the bondsTjien would be personal friends of the accused, men who knew the character and reputation of the accused, and who were ready to pledge their own money to the courts in his behalf. Tn early days this worked well. Tn a simpler state of society, every man had friends who were ready to give him a chance. In the present days, the bonds are given by professionals and it has become quite an industry. At times there ha\e been suggestions that there has been connivance between bondsmen and officials, whereby frequent, raids on nuisances, rather than criminals, were made in order to make business brisk. At other times, there has been a suspicion of an alliance between bondsmen, officials and certain lawyers whereby the criminal law he;me a game, rather than a purpose. These are vils of a system that do not enter into the eesent question. The giving of a bond is a right. The purpose < plain and clear. It rests on the theory that he money loss to bondsmen will make them uite as 7ealous in producing accused persons ri court as are officials. They make their money by betting that the accused will not run away. The professionals usually protect themselves in advance. Where this is done, their business is hardly necessary. For those who can protect bondsmen by delivery of property or guaranty by others should he able to do the same thing in open court. But where these bondsmen take chances, they ought to pay. Permitting bonds for those who disappear to remain unpaid is only an encouragement to more crime.
The Oil Merger The oil industry, once split, up by court decree under anti-trust laws, is uniting agan. The latest projected merger recalls the days of the old Standard Oil trust. Standard of Indiana, which during recent years has made such fabulous profits, proposes to take over the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, in which it already owns control of voting stock, but not a majority of all stock. Back in 1906. th° Standard and subsidiary companies produced 11 per rent of crude oil. according to the American Petroleum institute. But the Standard did 85 per cent of the marketing, refining, and transporting of oil. Business methods of Standard and charges of monopoly brought a federal suit and a decree of dissolution, which was entered in 1911. Between then and now there have been periodic assertions that the dissolution was more pretended than real, and charges that the Standard group still retained its old monopolistic powers. About a year and a half ago. however, the Federal Trade commission repor f ed to congress, in response to a resolution, that ‘the controlling ownership oi 'be sc.eral Standard Oil companies, which, after the dissolution decree was put into effect in 1911, rested in the hands of three or four individuals, has been dispersed widely. So far as this factor ts concerned, rhere no longer is unity of control through comuunity of interest.” The commission found also that various Standard units were in competition in several sections, although the S'andard marketing companies continue In genial to confirc their tank wagon sales to retailers and heir filling station business to the separate territories assigned to them before the combination was dissolved.” According to the petroleum institute, the old Standard's units in 1927 produced about 25 per cent ot the country's petroleum and handled about 35 per cent of It. Tt is apparent that competition had increased largely. Now the pendulum swings the other way. Standard of Indiana, with assets of half a billion dollars several year* ago. acquired a partial interest in PanAmerican. with assets half as great, from E. L. Doheny, and now will swallow the smaller company. Standard ot Indiana already owns the Mid-west, and has a half Interest in the Sinclair Pipe Line Company and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company. p*n- American in turn owns the Mexican Petroleum Company and the Lago Company. This subsidiary
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ownership would seem to be evidence of the tendency toward fewer companies. A merger of the kind intended involving such large companies dealing in an essential commodity ran not fail to arouse public concern, particularly since the big oil companies frequently have been accused in recent years of making extortionate profits. This is the day of mergers. Nevertheless, the Federal Trade commission, the department of justice, and congress itself should watch current developments with care. A company or group of companies sufficiently large to control the nation's supply of oil and gasoline, and dictate prices, would be a serious economic threat. We do not know that such thing could be done, but almost anything seems within the realm of possibility in this day of bigger and bigger aggregations of capital.
Why No War? Why isn't the world going to war this week? Like it did just fifteen years ago? There is as much cause now to fight—more. There are the samp kind of political disputes in Europe, the -ame piling up of huge armies and munitions, with one nation holding military sway over the continent. There is the same naval rivalry. The names have changed. France instead of Germany is military master. The United States instead of Germany challenges Britain as mistress of the seas. Under the political and armament rivalry are the same economic conflicts, the same struggle for raw materials, for foreign markets, for financial dominance, the same and tariff battles. More! For the conflicts of today are multiplied by the ruins of that war. There are more national minorities now striving for liberation than when the Serbian nationalists murdered the Archduke Ferdinand. Foreign troops now occupy—in the Rhineland—the territory of one of the great powers, a provocation of hatred and revenge which did not exist in that other week. Payment for that other war, reparations and debts, load new burdens on the workers and farmers of Europe and America. The world's problems are more difficult now, the conflicts wider. And yet we are not going to war about it. Perhaps it is because the people are war-weary. Put that is not entirely true. For anew generation is growing up. which does not know what price glory. Doubtless if the censors and propagandists and draft boards turned to this afternoon, the end of the week could see a bigger mobilization of the world's patriotic youth than before. Isn't it rather because those who govern and those who mold our thought know—in a way not known fifteen years ago—that war does not pay, that nobody wins, that all lose? The difference is not in intention, but in intelligence. Governments are no more idealistic now than then; they are more realistic. Statesmen and business men have discovered that there is more prosperity and profit in peace than in war. The pacifist, of that other day was the occasional preacher. The pacifist of today is the average business man. the efficiency expert, the engineer. That is why Herbert Hoover is in the White House. That is why hn dares cut the navy and army. That is why capitalist Britain is supporting a socialist. MacDonald, why nationalist France is supporting Rriand, why defeated Germany is supporting Stressemann. in their efforts to find a substitute for war. Human nature does not change, the militarists say. They are right. But human intelligence does. It. already has changed enough to keep the world from war this week when there are more causes than fifteen years ago. And if intelligence continues to grow, there will be no war in the next fifteen years. Nor ever! Sometimes a girl cuts a pretty figure on the beaches in the summer and sues a man for it in the fall.
David Diet? on Science 1 Vhy Leaves Are Green No. 420
r pHE manufacture of food is carried on in the inJ. terest ot the leaf, which, as we have seen, is known technically as the mesophyll. Within the cells composing the mesophyll, are tiny lens-shaped bodies known as chloroplasts. They receive their name from the fact that they contain
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chloroplasts green atid it may be removed from them by putting the leaf in alcohol, in which the chlorophyll is soluble. "After the chlorophyll is dissolved, the chloroplasts remain in the cell, but they are colorless and the leaf 's white or yellowish instead of green." A* a rule, plants do not develop chlorophyll unless exposed to light. Thus when potatoes sprout in a dark cellar, the sprouts are white. The process oy which plants manufacture food, s hat is. turn the carbon dioxide of the air into the Migars and starches of their own cells, is known as photosynthesis The Greek word 'photos.'' means light. Photosynthesis. therefore, is a putting together of synthesis vith the aid of light. The process gets this name because it occurs on.y when the leaf of the plant receives sunlight. The process of photosynthesis keeps all of us alive, since our food consists of plants or of animals which n their turn live on plants. The chemical reactions which take place in photoynthesis are not yet understood completely. They are exceedingly complex. Many studies are being carried on to understand them. Orp hope of scientists is that eventually it might 'c possible to duplicate the process in factories, thus i-reing mankind from his dependence upon the cycle •>f the soil. Dr. E E. Slosson. famous scientists and writer and director of Science Service, summed up the hope of the scientists in this field once when he exclaimed “If we only knew as much as a tree.”
M. E. Tracy SAYS;
The Textile Industry Seems Determined. Sot Only to Keep Wages as Loir 17s They Are, But to Make There Lower, if Possible. F'TFTEEN persons go on trial at Gastonia, N. C. They are charged with having murdered the chief of police of that city. Four ox them are organizers for the National Textile Workers Union, one is a representative of the Workers International Relief, and ten are former employees of the Loray mill who went on strike. Twelve lawyers have been mobilized by the prosecution and seven by the defense. It is expected that no less than two hundred witnesses will be called. a tt tt Money and Principle SUCH facts are enough to suggest a dark and Sinister setting. It is not often that fifteen persons are charged with a single murder, or that nineteen lawyers are employed in a single case. When they are, you can rest assured that either money or a movement is back of it. In this particular instance, both are back of it. a tt tt Fruits of Organization THIS trial at Gastonia is one of those peculiar to an age of organization. and in which the technical charge is overshadowed by a larger issue. Individuals have been indicted because our legal system knows no other w'ay, and individuals will pay the price if a verdict of guilty results. The real object, however. Is not t.o find out who actually killed a human being, but to tag an upheaval with radicalism on the one hand, or to vindicate it as justified on the other. In fundamentals it is the Mooney case over again, or that of Sacco and Vanzetti, in which a conflict of sentiments makes personal justice well nigh impossible.
England's Problem RAMSAY MAC DONALD, premier of Great Britain, thinks that we should not only accept such things as a part of industrial organization, but recognize them as the greatest problem we have to face Within ten years, he says, the world will be carved into great economic territories for purposes of industrialization, controlled by gigantic syndicates which admit no boundaries except those of the market and which will be able to determine the destiny of millions. ‘‘What may be called materialism.” he declares, “is growing vigorously. and during the next ten years it will become increasingly a problem for those who care about individual liberty.” a tt o Hold Down the Worker BEHIND the murder trial at Gastonia. and behind the strike, out of which it grew, is a great industry that seems incapable, unwilling to improve the lot of its workers. Not only in the south, but throughout this country and in the old world, textile workers are paid relatively low wages. Worse still, the textile industry seems determined not only to keep them as low as they are. but to make them lower if possible. ts tt a Strike in Great Britain SIXTEEN HUNDRED mills are closing today because their 500.000 workers have refused to consent to an average reduction of $1.25 a week for men and 73 cents a we®k for women. Such a rduction may not sound bisr in this country, even for textile workers, but in Fneland. where men only receive an average of sll. S 0 a week, and women one of only $7.50. if deep. tr tt tt Fortunes by Low Wages TF the textile industry had not paid fairly well, or if other industries had not shown how to raise waves w'thout spoiling dividends. one mivht pass up the problem as unsolvable. But the weavers and spinners have produced too many fortunes in New England and are producing too many in the south to warrant such a conclusion, while the increase of wage,* in steel mill, auto plant and rubber factory shows what can be done.
coloring ni all er. This coloring matter is known as chlorophyll. Bodies like the chloroplasts are known generally as plastids. There are plastids of many sorts. “Chlorophyll is held in the ehloroplasts in much the same way that water is held in a sponge,” writes Dr. E. N. Transeau. “It stains th e
Toilers Provide Yacht WHILE a half million English textile workers go on strike, rather than consent to a 1" ner cent reduction in their wages, while Gastonia and some other southern communities seethe with discontent. and while people of many an eari°rn mill town wonder how they can keeD body and soul together. Julius Forstmann. textile manufacturer of New York, buys the largest motor yacht in the world—3.ooo tons of sheer luxury, driven by Diesel engines, and boasting eleven cabins, each with a private bath. No one begrudges Mr. Forstmann, or any other textile magnate a yacht—even enough yachts to go sailing away while a strike Is in nrogre's. as once happened in New England. But it doe* seem that while enjoving themselves In that way. they mi’-'ht give a thought, to ways and means of Improving conditions for those who toil in their mills—as much thought, perhaps, as they give to beating strikes, or trying to prove that even- demand # for more pay has a Red tint. What is <h annual pay of a captain in the United State* army? The base nw is *2.00" to *3.000. This does not include rental allowance or subsistence allowance*. The exact amount received depends on the length of service and whether or not an officer is married or sin-
THE IX DT AX A POETS TDfES
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. ONE of the most serious problems with which the Veterans’ Bureau has been confronted since the World war is that, of the soldiers who developed during service or thereafter forms of heart disease which incapacitated them for work. In a group of 736 ex-service men hospitalized for heart disease, 1.123 different disturbances of the heart were classified. Haven Emerson studied 927 adults with heart disease, and found that rheumatic fever was responsible for 331 cases, acute tonsilitis was as-
MARION, the cat, has come back. and I don't know exactly what to think about it. Since she is about to give hostages to fortune, I can't sav exactly that I am glad and yet she arouses my admiration. Not because she is going to have kittens. In the feline world such accomplishments are both common and casual, but T must say that she does know her way around the big city. One week ago I appealed to a soft-hearted female and said, “Take that cat away from here or I will do her violence.” Asa matter of fart, I really didn’t intend to do anything more to the cat than tell her, “Won’t you please get out of here?” However, my display of masterful ruthlessness was sufficient to impress the soft-hearted female and she v-ent away with Marion in her arms. tt a a Marion Escapes BUT there was no convincing the ! cat that she was going to a better place than she ever had known. Half way down the block she scratched Lady Bountiful with great severity and ran into a family hotel. The door man was not inclined to let a passing stranger, even though she happened to be of neat appearance. conduct a cat hunt through his corridors. Marion was missing and I practically dismissed her from my mind. No guilt lay upon my conscience. It was not my fault if she were wandering through the corridors of a family hotel without a reservation. And this same hotel is several blocks removed from my penthouse apartment. How she found her way back I
ALABAMA SAILS FOR V S. July 29
ON July 29. 1862, the “Alabama,” the second cruiser built in England for the Confederates, sailed from Liverpool, despite protests by United States representatives. The cruiser was of 900 tons burden. 230 feet in length. 32 feet in breadth. 20 feet in depth, and drew, when provisioned and coaled for cruise, fifteen feet of water. The ship was built and launched at Liverpool and immediately became an object of suspicion with the consul of the United States at that port. He finally succeeded in obtaining proof of the violation of the foreign enlistment act, but before the British authorities took action. the cruiser had sailed away. The “Alabama,” equipped with a 300-horse power engine, large fore and aft sails and carrying eight guns, proceeded to the Azores, where she took on additional supplies and men. She then made a flying trip to the United States and cruising up and down the Atlantic seaboard, sank a number of federal gunboats. The “Alabama” was finally sunk by the federal steamer “Kearsarge,” a .short distance off the coast of France.
What Better ‘Yardstick' Do We Want?
YffiVE USED THIS FO& TWE PAST HAIR ' century in all ckr. oil?, - - 1
Tonsils Often Cause of Heart Disease
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sonated with 207, decayed and infected teeth with 163, syphilis with 122. scarlet fever with 78, measles with 54. diphtheria with 47, whooping cough with 14 and chorea with 7. Obviously, there were multiple causes in some of these cases, but again and again analyses of the cause of heart disease bring to tight the existence of the conditions that are here mentioned. When the 736 soldiers with heart disease were studied, rheumatic fever, infectious diseases and syphilis again appeared among the chief conditions associated with the development of disturbances >of the heart. Where direct connection can be shown between the infection in the
never shall know. But beyond a doubt it is the same cat. To identify her by expectancy would be risking much on circumstantial evidence. but there can’t be an unlimited number of female cats with green paint on the right foreleg and two and one-half inches hacked off the tail. Nor do I believe that there are many who mew r in this same insistent and annoying manner. tt tt a Finds Way Back HOW did she get up here again? This is the tenth floor and there is somebody always in attendance at the downstairs entrance. It is not likely that Marion rang tine bell and said to the elevator man, “I w r ant to go to Broun’s apartment.” She couldn't have done that, be-
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You can get an answer to any answerable Question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York avenue Washington. D C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice can not be given -or can extended research be made. All other Questions will receive a persona! reply Unsigned reauests cap not be answered All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of this service What arc Job’s Tears? The name is applied to an cast Indian cereal, botanically allied to maize, which derives its name from the tearlike form of the hard, shining, bluish white seed,s. These are sometimes made into bracelets, necklaces, rosaries, etc. There is also a semi-precious stone, a variety of chrysolite, usually of an olive, pistachio or leek-green color, that is found in abundance in the form of small pitted grains or pebbles in the sands of Arizona and New Mexico, which is called locally “Job’s Tears.”
What Is the meaning * and nationality of the name Clark? It is an English family name based originally upon the occupation of clerk, which in England is pronounced “Clark.” In the motion pieture “The Noose” does the Governor and his wife ever learn that the boy who is hanged is their son? No. t Who was Hermes? In Greek mythology, a messenger of the gods of supernatural swiftness, often pictured with wings on his shoes and cap and carrying a magic rod. The Latin name for him is Mercury. Where is Cape Fear? A promontory extending into the Atlantic from Smith Island, N. C. Where is radio station RFC loeated? It ts a limited commercial station at Pvbus Bay, Alaska. Ts gTain raised successfully in Alaska? Wheat, barley, rye and oats are raised successfully in parts of Alaska. How old was Lillian Russell, the aetress. when she died? She was b 6 years and 6 months old-
tonsil and the disturbance of the heart, removal of the tonsils during a quiet stage is sometimes of benefit. However, the decision must be made by the physician in each case according to the conditions he finds at the time of his investigation. One of the chief problems which the Veterans’ Bureau has to consider in this connection is the amount of compensation that is to be given to the soldier in the light of the impairment, of his ability to obtain employment and to do full work. The average monthly compensation of persons with various forms of heart disease varies from $lO to sllO a month and represents a part of the cost of the war of which few people have an actual cognizance.
’ldeals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without resard to their agreement or disagreement with the. editorial attitude of (his paper.—The Editor.
cause she doesn't know my name. In fact, there is no definite evidence that she is aware of the fact that I write a newspaper column. Nevertheless, she seems to have some intuitive realization of this circumstance. In her mind she is entitled to salmon and cream for life because I once wrote a column around her. It seems to be her notion that the kittens will be welcomed into the house as additional sources of copy. But there is a flaw in this facile and feline reasoning. She has forgotten the law of diminishing returns or unearned increment or whatever it is called. It sounds airtight, to say if one cat yields two columns, six kittens are good for twelve. But that is putting the job of column conducting upon much too mechanical a basis. tt tt a Bars Cat Comment TT is entirely possible that I shall never write another cat column in my life. If the kittens want support and publicity they must earn it by indulging in provocative pranks of one sort or another. They must be as lively as Marmon Motors or I shall pass them by and tell why I gave up Standard Brands and decided to support the Sagging Motors. She is a nuisance. My impending responsibility for new arrivals fills me with terror and yet if a cat selects this single apartment out of all New York as just the proper influence for impressionable kitttens, I must admit that the compliment is received gratefully. A cat is nobody’s fool and if Marion feels that this place has prospects and that I am a promising young author, you can't expect me to set her straight 'Copyright. 1929. for The Times!
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JULY 29. 1929
REASON -By Frederick Landis
It's Greater to Decline the Coin When You're Broke Than to Lead All the Armies That Ever Marched, SOME say we are as emotional as the French, but the debate in the French chamber of deputies on the debt, settlement proves the contrary The majority was for and against ratification as the orators *poke for and against it and ratification would have failed had th® vote been taken after de Wendel spoke, but Minister Briand closed the debate for ratification and won the verdict. The decisions of our congress rlo not swing like that with the pendulum of eloquence a it a What ghastly folly war is when you look at it on the other side of the world and how it mocks our alleged civilization! Our face has been lifted by progress; our eyebrows penciled by art; our scowl removed by music; and our manners refined by better living. but we are only babarians in the beauty parlor of evolution until we abolish war! a a it This plan to preserve the ancestral home of General Robert F. 1-co down in Virginia reminds us that, the greatest, thing Lee ever did was to decline the presidency of an insurance company at a crept, salarv, when he had iost, everything but hi* self respect. It’s greater to decline the coin when you're broke than to lead all the armies that ever marched. tt a tt THAT was rather a cheap storv which said the government had paid the expense of building President Hoover's vacation camp in Virginia. when the president paid for it himself. The government, should establish a summer capital for the president, and it should be near the center of the country—where the real capital ought to be.
This centennial celebration of the Methodist church at Galena. 111., which General Grant used to attend suggested that if a prophet had appeared in its pulpit in 1861 and announced that a member of the congregation would be elected president of the United States seven years later. Grant would not have been picked as the one who would be “it,,” for he then was the most unpromising of gentlemen. tt tt ts But he had it. in him: he was a great general, greater than we give him credit for being, and his treatment of Lee at Appomattox is as fine as anything in chivalry. He was the Chesterfield of war. a tt a YOUNG ladies who go to “finishing school” are taught poise, but Mrs. Herman Williams of Mt. Victory, 0., who never was “finished.” has a barrel of it. A swarm of bees descended upon her and she stood still for half an hour until they had settled themselves, then hived them. - a u a Tt is unfortunate that this fight should come between Queen Mary Purnell and the other faction of the House of David just when the best, minds of the republic are engrossed with the seating of Mrs. Gann. a tt tt These American judges making a tour of observation of English courts can learn a lot about the elimination of monkey business and the acceleration of speed. tt tt a After learning that Mr. Hoover's ancestors were born in Germany, we are not surprised to learn that they were born also in Switzerland, for the Republican party was born both in Ripon, Wis., and Jackson. Mich.
Daily Thought
lADIES of iashi on starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.— Colton. one Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate.—Amos 5:15. Is Ren Turpin cross-eyed or is it just assumed for stage purposes? He is naturally cross-eyed. Where is the American Museum of Natural History- in New Vorfe It is located at Seventy-seventh street and Central park west.