Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1929 — Page 4

PAGE 4

Sen I P P J - H OW Aft

More Foolish Than Brave Arthur Schreiber and Albert Buschkla have a lot in common—they can now sympathize with each ether, but the public on both sides of the Atlantic probably will sympathize with neither of them. Arthur, you will remember, is the youth who stowed away on the trans-Atlantic plane, Yellow Bird, just before it hopped off from Old Orchard, Me., for Paris. His added weight caused the flight to fall short of its goal, the French fliers being forced down In Spain when triumph was almost within their grasp. He got a cold reception when the French aviators finally reached Paris. Albert, you have doubtlessly read, is the German youth who stowed away aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its record flight to this country. Commander Eckener, enraged, clapped Albert in irons, put him on a bread and water diet aboard the dirigible and announced that he would be sent back to German, in disgrace. In both cases, the public seemed in hearty accord with the. treatment the stowaways received. Arthur's rebuff in Paris and Albert’s punishment at the hands of Dr. Eckener seemed to meet with popular approval. All of which is as it should be. These two young daredevils were more foolish than brave. They accomplished nothing for the good of themselves or for the good of aviation. Merely to satisfy an abnormal—and unnatural— craving for a thrill, they risked their own lives and endangered the lives of others by their foolhardiness. The world respects and admires men who # risk their lives to attain an object, an aim or a principle. It has little patience, especially in this day of sane and practical aviation, with sheer daredevils, however spectacular their feats may be, who recklessly endanger the lives and enterprises of others for the sake of a mpre thrill. The Changing Path of Empire Transportation makes cities, and unmakes them. Towns that boomed along the stage coach lines, and in the deys of the pony express, were quickly forgotten as steam and steel mastered the continent. Generally speaking, the railroad has been the chief influence, with proximity to water as the other most important element. Oct of the first alone have come such cities as Denver. Kansas City, Ft. Worth. Omaha, Dallas. Oklahoma City and Atlanta. Out of the combination, rail and water, have come the other greater municipalities. But what of the future? Before our eyes today new forces are flowing. The automobile, the motor truck and bus, the hardsurfaced highway, and the airplane are injecting a strange element of flexibility into the nation's transportation. Waynoka, Okla., hitherto only a wide spot in the road, takes its place proudly along with Columbus and Los Angeles on the time table of a transcontinental airway. And now comes the dirigible. Richmond, Va., is reported to have been selected as the American terminal for transcontinental balloon traffic, because it is the city closest to the Atlantic coast that is most nearly free from fogs, bad winds and dangerous storms. New York is passed by. and Philadelphia and Baltimore and Boston, and the other proud giants, and the real estate agents in the hitherto comparatively quiet southern community already are quivering with expectancy. It’s interesting to speculate on what might happen, should the air replace completely the steel rail, the ocean, lake, river and canal as the route for trade. Dees it mean that New York and Chicago, after all. will go the way of Babylon and Tyre; that history will record the Eckeners and the Arnsteins as the successors to the Jim Hills and the Harrimans?

Virginia’s Primary There was little in the results of the Democratic primary in Virginia on Tuesday to indicate that Bishop James Cannon Jr., and other anti-Smith Democrats have succeeded in perpetuating the rift in the party that developed last year. The primary was watched for evidence of whether the Democrats of the south would continue their family fight and make possible permanent Republican inroads. Tire volume of the vote compared favorably with totals of other years, although Cannon and his forces had appealed to Virginia Democrats to stay away from the polls, and the campaign was unusually apathetic and devoid of issues calculated to arouse popular feeling. All three of the candidates for the governorship nomination had supported Smith for President last fall. Os the three, however, Dr. John Garland Pollard, the man chosen, had been most active in Smith's behalf, and was the choice of the ‘Tegular” organization. His decisive victory left no doubt as to his popularity. He has been pledged the support of the other two candidates in the November election. Pollard's election also is interpreted as a vindication cf the administration of Governor Byrd and as approval of his program of reform of the state government. The real test will come in November. Dr. Pollard is opposed by Dr. William Mosley Brown, who has been put in nomination by a coalition of Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats. Wages for Children It's a good plan, says an English writer, to substitute a regular ‘•wage” for those pennies and nickels you give the children. Manv parents bemoan the fact that their children don't realize the value of money. How can they, when they can get it for the asking? They neiei have the chance to learn. Instead of making mere gifts of money to your child, suppose you try putting him—or her—on a regular weekly "wage” in return for little tasks performed around the house. Pennies or nickels paid for these little trifles, instead of being handed out indiscriminately, will instill the spirit of industry and thrift at the formative age. When your boy grows up and faces the world, lie will have an appreciation of the value of money. And when your daughter grows up and starts housekeeping she will have an infinitely better idea of how to spend her money economically. And, at the same time, you'll be developing their ~. i

The Indianapolis Times (A SCKII’I’SHOWABU NEWSPAPER) Own-d and published daily (eacept Sundayt by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-221) W Maryland Street. Indianapolis. Ind. Price lu Marlon County 2 cents—lo cents a week: elsewhere. '6 rents—l 2 cents a week Bolt* 7;TRLEy! BOY W. HOWARD, FRANK G. MORRISON, Editor President Business Manager PHONE—Riley Wsl / THURSDAY. AUG, 8, 1929. Member of United Press. Scrtpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association. Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. n

Destroying Confidence So far as the public is concerned, the Sherman and the Clayton anti-trust lawo are classed with the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act when it comes to enforcement. Just as it has been possible for an individual to get a drink under prohibition, it has been possible for large concerns to wriggle out from under anti-trust proceedings without being singed. The manner in which the interstate commerce commission has dropped its anti-trust case against the Kansas City Southern railroad is not likely to inspire confidence in the Clayton act, under which the complaint was started. The commission complained that the railroad had violated the anti-trust law by buying controlling interests in competing lines and then dropped the complaint when the railroad appeared and said the stock had been sold. The public will be impressed by the dissenting opinion of Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman, who says that the commission has shown a “misconception of its duties” and that there is no way of determining that L. F. Loree and his railroad actually have given up control. Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Veblen, dead in California, was a man whose name best was known among economists and social students, and among the public hardly at all. Yet most of our economic writing nowadays is tinged with his ideas. He was perhaps the first major economist in the United States to announce publicly his belief that the capitalist system as it evolved after the Civil war had glaring defects. In a series of books written in a peculiar style which would discourage all but those most interested, yet filled with sarcastic brilliance, he launched attack after attack on the prevailing economic smugness. They were effective attacks, if only that they were read eagerly by students whose views in turn now are widely read. Veblen in the distinguished company of Professors Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, was denounced just after the World war as an unsafe guide to youth. Looking back on that queer time, when any one venturing to express an original idea was suspected, it strikes us that this was proof he was a pretty good citizen. A New York young lady has succeeded in being the first to enter Soviet Russia without a passport. Suppose the New York papers will have to carry that story now about the local girl making good. We all can and ought to be rich, writes John Raskob in a magazine. But we like the Republican attitude better —they have told us time and again that we actually are. Strange to say, not an egg was broken when twenty-four dozen were dropped from an airplane, via parachute, down on a Los Angeles airport. Stranger, there wasn’t a peep out of one of them. Maybe the baker's boy who stowed away on the Graf Zeppelin did it because he couldn't raise the dough. Pullman porters, in mass meeting at Chicago, agreed that tipping was an insult. Well, most of us can spend the rest of our lives apologizing. The prince of Wales recently started the brewing of anew, extra-strong ale. And hasn’t been shot by one of our dry agents yet, either. Just after the Kellogg pact was all signed up and sealed and everything, wasn’t it awfully ignorant of Russia and China to act like that? An American company plans to build dirigibles that will carry eighty people. That's seventy-nine passengers and a stowaway.

David Dietz on Science Plants Need Nitrates No. 429

THE most complicated chemical substance; manufactured within growing plants are the proteins. It will be remembered that the carbohydrates—sugars and starches —are manufactured in the interior of the green leaves from the carbon dioxide of the air with the aid of sunlight. Water, which enters from the soil through the roots of the plant also is needed. Within the plant, carbohydrates are converted into fats. As yet, plant physiologists have discovered no special mechan-

■jjtjCL -yfvF* ft 7" jHprx ijv mjfel

hydrogen. The same three occur in fats, so that it is possible for the plant to manufacture fats from carbohydrates. Proteins, however, are composed of a larger number of chemical elements. Consequently, additional substances are needed for their manufacture. Protein, in particular, requires a large amount of nitrogen. It also requires small amounts of sulphur and phosphorus. All these things must enter through the roots of the plant from the soil. The atmosphere is composed very largely of nitrogen. Four-fifths of it is nitrogen. But plants, while they can absorb carbon dioxide directly from the air, can not use nitrogen from the air. Plants are able to use nitrogen only when it exists in the soil in the form of nitrates. Similarly, they can absorb phosphorus and sulphur from the soil only in the form of phosphates and sulphates. These substances enter through the roots. They make their entrance with the water from the soil. Consequently, only such nitrates, phosphates and sulphates as can be dissolved in water are of any use to the plant. While the synthesis of proteins probably can occur anywhere in the plant, it seems to go on lor the most part in the leaves. The constitution of the soil fn which plants grow is Important, because if soluble nitrates, phosphates and sulphates are not present in sufficient quantity, the plant no longer can manufacture the required proteins. . < •; j? -rataa.

M.E. Tracy SAYS:

Thousands of Men and Women Are Being Run In and Out of Our Prisons Each Year, With Slight Concern, or Knowledge, as to What Good It Docs. FRANK BRUNO came before County Judge in Brooklyn, N. Y., last Tuesday charged with having one too many wives. He pleaded guilty, admitted that he married Millie in 1921 and Rose in 1926 without obtaining a divorce from the former. Two children resulted from ,the first union and one from the second. Bruno is 32 years old and earns SSO a week. nan Making Restitution UNDER the law, Judge Nova could have sent Bruno to Sing Sing for five years. That would have made him a dependent on society and would have injured the three children he had brought into the world. Judge Nova decided that the ends of justice could better be served by compelling Bruno to make restitution. nan The Wise Judge YOU will pay your first wife S2O a week for the support of her two children,” said Judge Nova in pronouncing sentence, “and to your second wife you will pay sls a week for the support of her child.” “I gladly would send you to Sing Sing,” he added, “but yolir two wives and their children would be the only sufferers.” nun Punishing the Innocent r j”'HIS case is worth more than a X passing thought. It suggests a method of dealing with several classes of offenders in such a way as would help solve the prison problem, without sacrificing the element of discipline. We have become infatuated with the idea that the only way to punish people and protect society is to cage them like animals, making them public charges on the one hand, and depriving their dependents of support on the other. Asa matter of common sense, thousands of offenders would feel the lash just as keenly were they made to repair the damage they had done. Such treatment would offer just as good a chance to reform them and just as effective a deterrent to others. nan When to Show Mercy THOUSANDS of men and women are being run into and out of our prisons each year, with slight concern, or knowledge, as to w'hat good it does. Habit, more than anything else, inspires us to believe that the practice lessens the crime. When it comes to actual information, however, we simply do not know.

What Good Is It? WHAT we do know, and about the only thing we know, is that a good many prisoners are pardoned or paroled. If this is desirable, if they have been dealt with too harshly, if it is not necessary for them to complete the terms for which they were sentenced, why not reverse the procedure and show mercy at the beginning rather than at the end? Further than that, why not see if some method can not be devised which adequately would punish certain classes of offenders, set the right kind of example and protect society, without making them public charges and causing their dependents to suffer? a a Reform and Justice IF divorced husbands can be made to pay alimony, w'hy can not thieves and forgers be made to pay for the losses they have caused? If pardons and paroles are desirable, why is not probation even more desirable. If reform plays an important part in our penal system, why not start before a human being has been crushed beyond recovery, or thrown into the worst possible environment? Admitting that certain offenses, such as murder or rape, are beyond the pale of restitution and that society has little recourse except to sequestrate those who commit them, it is not possible to deal with certain other offenders in a wiser way? tt tt tt Purpose of Prisons PRIMARILY, the penal system is designed to serve a three-fold purpose. 1. To weed out and put away incorrigibles. 2. To reform those w'ho are capable of being reformed. 3. To set an example that will deter young people from choosing the wrong road. Leaving out t.ie incorrigibles, is it not possible to deal with thousands of cases, just as effectively as they are being dealt with under existing circumstances, by devising penalties which will relieve the taxpayer of unnecessary burdens, permit those being punished to continue as producing members of society and prevent the state from exposing innocent women and children to unjust hardship?

ism by which this process is carried on. Apparently, it can occur anywhere in the plant, although there is a concentration of fats — and the liquid fats known as oils —in the seeds and fruits. There are three chemical substances in a carbohydrate—c a r - bon, oxygen and

What is the premium on a 1924 1 Lincoln penny? They are worth only their face j value. e How does a Manx cat differ from an ordinary cat? The principal difference is that Manx cats have no tails, or onlystubby ones that are boneless. Occasional a genuine Manx cat is born with a tail ten or eleven inches long. The hind legs are proportionately longer and heavier, and when these cats run or jump they have somewhat the action of a rabbit. Manx cats vary in color, running to

X±±L IN 4-U V J-4-b xii-ULO

Questions and Answers

All That Goes Up Doesn't Come Down!

r KEPI YOU ~ \" THE- ANSWER \ TO THE HOUSEWIFE'S W, —r PFAY£R- / . ----- THE MARVEL or ; - , \ - 1 the aqe—ko ■ / __l HOKE COMPLETE / , V **“ -w* X h•— ! .

Improper Breathing Bad for Swimmers

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN recent years swimming seems to have become even more popular as a form of exercise and sport than it was in the past. Indoor and outdoor pools are everywhere available. Indeed, it is no longer unusual for families to have private outdoor swimming pools on their estates. Even though the hygienic control of swimming pools has increased greatly during this period, there continues to be a great number of cases of infections of the sinuses and of the ears among those who are particularly active in swimming. Dr. George G. Saunders, who has

IT SEEMS TO ME

THIS is more or less about Bishop Cannon, but don’t call the gendarmes. I’m not crusading or sifting around for moral issues. The good bishop has been flaying the stock market and he resents the implication that an activity of this nature is in any way related to the sordid business of gambling. I do. not know a great deal about the stock market, nor have my adventures with the wheels and cubes of fortune been extensive enough to establish me as an authority. Still I understand it is possible to win a great deal of money in a very short time in the stock market and by no other mental or physical process than calling the turn right. It is also a matter of record, I believe, that large fortunes have been lost by similar processes where the quality of the player's perspicacity w'as slightly cockeyed. Technically this may not be gambling, but it comes awfully close to it. At the track or the card table it is possible to experience the same sensations in proportion to the size of the stakes. The main difference seems to be that a broker’s office opens at 9 and closes at 4, whereas High-Dice Murphy’s, for example, does not begin to function in a big way until after midnight. St tt tt To Eldorado? I SUPPOSE speculation in any form is highly immoral, but if an investor prefers Saratoga to Wall Street as an approach to Eldorado or a flop house, as the case may be, I don’t see why this should automatically make him a reprehensible character. After all, it is his money, and if the question of morals be involved it may be contended that these as such as they are, belong to him also. The good bishop claims a market player is guided by skill and intelligence and that these factors do not enter into the science of filling a good hand at poker, calling the wanning figure at the wheel, contriving the proper numerical combination at dice or selecting the fleetest galloper at the track. I imaging in a broad sense he is correct, but when he maintains skill and intelligence do not figure in

tabbies and mixed colors. White manx cats are practically unknown, and black ones are extremely rare. The Island of Man is the original home of the breed. What is the origin of the name Osceola? It is an American Indian name, for a kind of medicinal drink used by the tribe in certain rites and ceremonies. On what date during the World war did General Allenby, enter Jerusalem? pec. 11, 1911 ,

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE .

had experience as an instructor in swimming and also in the examination and diagnosis of diseases of the sinuses and ears among swimmers. has made a survey to find out just which factors are responsible for the infections that have been mentioned. Instructors are convinced that improper training in -breathing while in the water is a factor of great importance. Many instructors advise the use of rubber plugs to protect the ears, whereas others suggest the use of oiled wool or cotton. There is also a belief that high diving, long hours in the pool, the use of the back stroke and water polo tend to increase the likelihood of infection, particularly of the sinuses, and some recommend the use of a clamp to close the nostrils

WILLIAMS

what society presumes to consider the lower patterns of speculation he is a lost ball in the high grass, or words to that effect. The good bishop would be surprised to know just how much skill and intelligence it takes to start out with the bangtails at Pimlico in the spring and stick along with them until late fall at Empire City without resorting to certain felonious practices as a means of keeping body and soul together. u u tt Best People "TF the trading in stocks and bonds A is immoral,” says Bishop Cannon, “then the church should so declare it—certainly this action would result in a very great elimination in a great many churches of some of our best people.” If Bishop Cannon ever has been in Havana in the winter, Palm Beach in the spring, Saratoga in the summer or French Lick in the fall I am sure he has met up with some of our best people, not all of whom were at any of the mentioned points solely to take the waters or bask under the beaming sun. Asa matter of fact, in some of these resort places only our very best people are permitted to enter, and I have a lurking suspicion that in many instances these people achieved their positions of emi-

NAPOLEON EXILED Aug. 8 ON Aug. 8, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, a prisoner, sailed from England for St. Helena, where he lived in exile until his death in 1821. After the decisive defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon returned to Paris, where, after several futile attempts to regain his prestige, he abdicated on June 22, 1815. His mighty edifice of power crumbled, and fearing death at the hands of the triumphant faction in France, Napoleon went on board the English cruiser Bellerophon and surrendered himself July 15. To the prince regent in England he wrote: “A prey to the factions which divided my country and to the enmity of the powers of Europe. I have terminated my public career, and I come, like Themistocles, to seat myself at the hearth of the British people. “I place myself under the protection of Its laws, which I claim from your royal highness as the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies." The English government finally decided to send Napoleon to St. Helena to separate him from the revolutionary party in Europe and to preclude any possible chance of him regaining his powee, .

when swimmers engage in these activities. One noted specialist in diseases of the nose and throat has suggested the use of oil sprayed in the nose before the swimmer enters the water. There is no doubt that people with narrow nasal passages, crooked septum in the nose, or other abnormalities are more likely to have infections than those whose ncsesare fuil of space and who have an unobstructed drainage from the sinus. Doctor Saunders points out that correct breathing while swimming is just the reverse of breathing in any other activity. The swimmer always should inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose and mouth simultaneously. The latter is difficult, but once learned, adds greatly to the ease and comfort of swimming.

Joe Williams. aporis editor of the New York Telegram, is “batting for Heywood Broun” while the latter is enjoying a vacation.

nence only after a series of successful jousts with the tickers. tt tt a Prince of Gamblers IT’S quite probable that my sympathies in this particular matter are deeply prejudiced because it has been my fate to know more gamblers than brokers. I’m rather sorry the bishop hasn’t known a few himself. One of the finest gentlemen I ever met anyw'here was Johnny Walters and up to the time of his death last winter he was the biggest gambler on the American turf. He was incapable of a vicious or a sordid instinct. The laying of odds on thoroughbred horses was his business, and I’m pretty sure he was intensely proud of his business. His boy, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, is now a trader in stocks and bonds, and t am told he has many of his father's fine qualities. If young Walters performs with half the credit in the Street that his sire did in the clubhouse betting rings of the country’s big tracks, he, will be a distinct addition to anybody’s society—or church. i Copyright'■ 1929. for The Timpsi

The Last Clothes of Summer Reduced Society Brand TROPICALS $35 Suits S4O Suits *24 - 5 29 0 $45 Suits SSO Suits *34 *39 $65 Suits *49 DOTY'S 16 N. Meridian St.

REASON

-Ey Frederick Landis*

The Jury Which Picked This Seattle Lad as Edison's Successor Gave the Boy an Awful Handicap. MARY LEWIS, the opera singer, has had her husband subtracted because he interfered with her career. If a lady who merely tra las, writes lipstick testimonials and has her appendix removed has one • career,” how many has the mother who escorts her children through measles, mumps and chickenpox, gives 10,000 baths, mends 20,000 garments and settles 50,000 fights. nan Somehow your emotions are under perfect control after you read about this confidence man in Washington who went among the social leaders and stung them for SSO per for puting their names in a bogus social register. nan This jury which picked Walter B. Huston of' Seattle as the one most likely to be Edison's successor, gave the boy a terrible handicap along with Mr. Edison's assistance. Blessed is he from whom little is expected. nan ''pAKE the public speaker, for inX. stance. If the chairman of tire meeting spends half an hour m telling the audience that the gentleman about to crochet the ether is a larger whale than the one that inhaled Jonah, the speaker in all probability will be unable to impress them that he is more than a goldfish, but if the chairman should say that he suspects that the speaker will be a flop, then it is child's play for him to knock them cold. nan Despite the notion to the contrary, there arc quite a few members of the human race in New York City, as shown by the large crowd that gathered on Broadway the other day when lour monkeys got out of a cage. We remember one day when the police had to clear the street where Wall intersects Broadway because it, was choked by people watching a dog which had a cat up a tree in Trinity churchyard. ana Possibly due to the fact that General Harbord is the Republican chief of staff, the opponents of Mayor Walker of New York show real strategy in attacking him as humorist, for it will be fatal if the Republicans succeed in making the people visualize him as a clown; in fact, there are more humorists than anything else in the political graveyard. n n n Abraham Lincoln was breezing along merrily as the bellringer of stump artists back in the fifties in Illinois because he was a great humorist, but his partner, William Herndon, was philosopher enough to know that the laughter of the crowd, while delightful to the one who provoked it, was not the raw material of lasting renown, so he counseled the Rail Splitter to cut out the mirth and appeal to the reason of his hearers. Lincoln took his advice and the humorist became the prophet and the President. nan After reading of the case of Jesse Pomeroy, who has been in a Massachusetts prison for fifty-three years, discriminating murderers will give the old Bay state a wide berth and pursue their art in states whose Governors delight in organizing homecomings for slayers. tt a Mr, Morlan and Mr, Lamb wentt hunting in Indiana and Mr. Morlan shot Mr. Lamb because he thought he was a squirrel. • And Mr. Lamb is not a mem bee of the legislature, eitherl

Daily Thought

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.—St. John 3:21. tt tt tt THE bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame; when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.—Talleyrand.