Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1929 — Page 6

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While War Threatens The American public has been very patient in waiting on the state department to take effective action in connection with the threatened Chinese - Russian war. The state department does not rule the world. It can not snap its fingers and make two foreign nations jump. It can not prevent a war if Nanking and Moscow are determined to fight at all costs. Nevertheless, the United States has great power which can and should be thrown completely and openly on the side of peace. The question is not whether the state department can prevent war, but whether it is representing American public opinion by doing all in its power ■to preserve peace in Asia. Apart from general humanitarian considerations, the United States has direct interests which are Jeopardized. First, it has large economic interests in China. Second, the Kellogg peace pact is at stake. If the Kellogg pact can not be used by the United States and other powers to prevent a war between relatively weaker nations like China and Russia, certainly it never can be depended upon as a guarantee of peace in a war crisis between the powers themselves. What the state department Is doing, if anything, no one knows. And that is the difficulty. This is no time for secret diplomacy. If secret diplomacy has been practiced during the last few Greeks, it has failed to prevent the dispute from growing into a war crisis today. That this is a war crisis no one can doubt who knows the meaning of general mobilization by two nations and continuous frontier fighting. A month ago tlje state department notified the two disputants that war would violate the Kellogg treaty, to which they were parties. A month ago the state department made a secret proposal to Britain, France. Italy, Germany and Japan for joint conciliation. The exact terms of that proposal are not known. It Is reported that Japan and Germany rejected the proposal and that France and Italy agreed to it. In the last month apparently the state department has done nothing more, while the Manchurian situation has gone from bad to worse. Secret negotiations having failed, the state department should Dring any proposals it has into the open, so they may have the support of world peace opinion. If conciliation proves impossible, the United States alone has very powerful peace weapons it can use. For several years the United States government has followed an avowed policy of blocking all American foreign loans for military purposes. Now it happens that the nationalist Chinese government can not carry on its general program without large foreign loans, which it seeks in the United States. The American Kemmerer mission is in China trying to straighten out her finances preparatory to such loans. At the same time the Chinese finance minister recently resigned (and then returned to office) because of his government's large military activities and expenditures. Would the Chinese government be so intent on a Russian war as it seems to be today If it realized that the United States would refuse to give diplomatic and financial support to a nation violating the Kellogg pact? The Chinese nationalist government to an unusual extent is dependent upon the good will and active support of the United States government and people. The state department has had plenty of time to determine its policy toward a Chinese war with Russia. In Justice to China, the United States and to the cause of peace, the state department frankly and openly should warn the Nanking government that the United States no longer will help China if she persists in her seizure of the railroad in violation of her Russian treaty, if she refuses arbitration or conciliation, if she makes war and destroys the Kellogg pact. The Poor Man Gains A vacation motor trip through the American countryside leads to a number of interesting conclusions—among them the thought that the rich man's advantage over the poor man is growing smaller every year. Fifteen years ago, cross-country motoring was a recreation confined largely to the well-to-do. It took a fairly expensive car to stand up under the daily grind of long-distance driving. Traveling expenses were heavy. If the poor man tried such a trip he had to put up with many kinds of discomforts, strain his financial power to the limits, and miss many of the spots to which the rich man's car carried him. Today there are millions of tourists on the summer roads. Automobiles of every price and model, bearing the license tags of every state in the union, whirl by in a dizzying procession. There are old cars, news cars, cheap cars, expensive cars, fast cars, slow cars—all spinning over the roads, bearing their owners tn pursuit of one of the finest forms of recreation available. Among this army of autos, the cars of the poor man far outnumber the cars of the rich man. Rich man and poor man, in fact, are equals on the open road. The poor man can go anywhere the ricn man ©an go and enjoy anything the rich man can enjoy. The same good roads are available to each. The same scenery is open to each. The man who paid SBOO for his car can go Just as far and just as fast as the man whose car cost $5,000. He can enjoy precisely the same sights and sensations. It is only in the unimportant trimmings of the trip that he is outclassed. The rich man, for instance, rides in slightly greater comfort. He stops at expensive hotels, while the poor man pays a dollar for a room in a private home —or perhaps pitches his tent on some free camping ground. The rich man, perhaps, eats better food along the way and buys more souvenirs and keepsakes in the towns he visits. Otherwise the two fare exactly alike. There is anew sort of equality to all of this. The t> bled democracy of America is being made more rcaJ oy it No longer are the beauties of mountains, seashore and upland lakes reserved for the enjoyment nf the well-to-do. Any man with a three-year-old fltwer and a few spare dollars can have his fill of them. This is the thing that the automobile makers have t " •

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done for us. The huge, sprawling factories of Detroit, Flint, Pontiac and Toledo are playing a vital part in anew development in American life. They are opening for the average man the gateway to a freer, wider existence—and. in the doing of it, breaking down the old distinction between rich and poor. Still a Mess The tariff bill still is a mess. Despite a few niggling compromises by the senate finance committee, it remains in general the higher-protective measure passed by the house. President Hoover and his fellow-Republicans during the campaign pledged this administration to limited tariff revision. The house disregarded that party pledge. The senate committee has done the same. The chief excuse for tariff tinkering was farm distress. Bift the farmers will not benefit in the main from this bill. They will lose more in the higher prices of goods they must buy than they will gain in nominal benefits from Jiigher duties on farm commodities. City consumers will bear the burden of increased duties on both agricultural and manufactured products. And with twenty-nine foreign nations protesting against the bill, and threatening retaliation, our entire population stands to lose that national prosperity which is dependent in large part on foreign trade This bill is the more indefensible because the only class which would profit from it, temporarily at least, are the manufacturers, who are less in need of government help than any other group. From three separate sources comes evidence of the present prosperity of Industry: Treasury department reports show that the states returning largest increases in income taxes are the industrial states, with New York leading. The National City Bank of New York, in its current bulletin, presents statistics indicating that 1929 may break all production records, and that so far the combined net profits of 284 representative manufacturing companies are 33 per cent higher this year than in 1928. Many of these companies are the very ones favored by the tariff bill. The department of commerce recently reported to President Hoover that June was one of the most productive months industrially on record, and that general business conditions now are excellent. In view of such conditions, it would be inexcusable to make larger tariff grants to manufacturers, which would increase the cost of living, antagonize foreign customers, who are helping to make possible our prosperity, and pinch most cruelly all American consumers. Women Fliers # The death of Marvel Crosson in the women's air derby brings up the question of the participation of women in the flying game. Race officials are being criticised. Such criticism may be natural, but is it reasonable? Ts a woman wants to take a risk, isn’t it her own business—provided that she is a qualified and capable pilot, as Miss Crosson was? If there is to be criticism, it should be directed at participation by inexperienced woman pilots. There are women in this race who have been flying only a few weeks, and who are said to now be making their first long cross-country flight. Ironically enough, Miss Crosson was perhaps the best flier of the nineteen who left Santa Monica Sunday for Cleveland. She had been in aviation since 1922. She flew with her brother in Alaska. She set records. She understood aviation. She would not want her death to influence public opinion against trained women fliers. Too many people worry about the art of saving money before they have found out how to make it. What's become of the old expression, “Hold your horses!” Huh. what's become of the horses?

-David Diets on Science

Stems Show Variety

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ONE of the most interesting phases of the study of plants is the study of their stems. Plants, it will be remembered, are classified according to their stems. Plants which do not have woody stems are known as herbs. Those with woody stems are known as shrubs or trees. The stems of 1 plants show a wide variety. In most plants the stem is an upright structure above the ground. Some plants, however, have stems which lie

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trunk. The palm tree, for example, has an unbranched stem or trunk, while the trunk of an elm tree is divided into many fine branches, giving the tree the appearance of a great inverted feather duster. The upright stem is much more common than the horizontal one. There are many advantages to the upright one. The function of the stem is to display the leaves to sunlight. The process of photosynthesis, by w'hich the plant manufactures its food with the aid of sunlight, goes on in leaves. The more adequately the leaves are displayed to the sun, the more food is manufactured in the plant. Growth, therefore, depends to a considerable extent upon a plant’s ability to display its leaves to the sun. A tall stem also is an advantage to a plant in the distribution of its seeds. When seeds drop from a tall tree, for example, the wind will carry them to great distances. It is necessary, however, for upright stems to possess considerable mechanical strength. Professor E. N. Transeau writes: “The base of a tree is much smaller in proportion to its height than that of the tallest and narrowest buildtng. and it is possible for trees to reach great heights only because their stems are composed in large part of supporting tissues that have great strength. “Mechanical or supporting tissues are necessary in upright stems. “The stem must be strong enough to support leaves, flowers and fruits.”

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Democracy in Its Ultimate Sense Does Not Square With Scientific Government Any More Than Mass Opinion Squares With Scientific Progress in Other Fields. AS though the Graf Zeppelin’s flight, the Cleveland air races and the Sun God’s refueling trip were not enough for one week, aviation gives birth to the Tin Bubble in Detroit, and an Enlgish plane that makes 340 miles an hour. The Tin Bubble is just another set-back for the “It-can’t-be-dones.” “An all-metal dirigible” they said, “bah, the thing is impossible,” and many of them were experts. Well, the all-metal dirigible has arrived, strong, tight and buoyant; fashioned by sewing thin strips of aluminum together with wire thread, and almost as light as its cloth-enclosed sisters. The fabric is so strong that men actually can walk around inside of it, without paying the slightest attention to girder, or beam. Even the engineers in charge were surprised at this, and bunched eighteen men in one place to satisfy themselves as to the risk involved. an Still Pioneering AVIATION is not the only field in which men are pioneering. The triennial physiological congress, now in session at Boston, is getting not only new, but startling information with reference to several problems. Among other things, a device has been invented which makes nerve impulses visible, anew and apparently superior anesthetic has been developed, animals suffering with pneumonia have been helped, by breathing air impregnated with 5 to 7 per cent carbon dioxide and another gland secretion for prolonging life is reported. a a * Shaw's Prediction NOT to be outdone by science. George Bernard Shaw gazes into the crystal of his own imagination and casts the horoscope of England and America thirty years hence. He finds that England is doomed to be a small star in the American flag and that democracy will result in such ruthless and unintelligent despotism as to make the race glad to be saved by a kindly disposed king. Critics say that Shaw has overstepped himself this time, and that his latest play, “The Apple Cart” proves nothing so vividly as that a man of 73 should be content to rest on his laurels. 8n . n Plenty of Publicity Admitting that the major ideas advanced by Mr. Shaw are not particularly original, he certainly has succeeded in getting his usual share of publicity. He may be getting old, as he admits, and he may be a little behind the times, as some of his detractors charge, but he obviously still is in possession of intellectual vigor and the necessary courage to back it up. He not only perceives, but dares to express a conception which many people have flirted with, but which few have had the nerve to openly entertain. The one great flaw in his forecast is that if we find it necessary to soft pedal democracy, the chances are that we shall do so through a commission, or a board of directors, rather than by reverting to kings. a t$ u Clumsy Democracy NEITHER is the idea that something of this sort may be done entirely fantastic. Conceding its many blessings, democracy is evolving into a clumsy unworkable system. The individual no longer beholds it as a guarantee against tyranny, or as a quick and effective medium of relief. On the one hand, it is cluttering the stage with a multitude of absurd laws, while on the other, it is preventing honest and effective law' enforcement through the duplication of effort and the division of responsibility. Democracy in Its ultimate sense does not square with scientific government any more than mass opinion squares with scientific progress in other fields. e a a Protecting the People IT goes without saying that people must have means to protect themselves and their rights in cases of emergency; to get rid of incompetent or tyrannical officials; to alter policies that do not harmonize with deep-seated convictions. Such guarantees are of a defensive, rather than a constructive character, and that is where democracy shines. In the constructive or creative field of government, however, democracy is a handicap, just as mass opinion would be a handicap if it dominated medicine, or engineering.

on the surface of the ground. Other plants have their main stem underground while only branches rise above the soil. Still other plants have their entire" stems underground. Steffis show' all variety of branching. It will be remembered that the stem of a tree is know T n as its

Daily Thought

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.—Solomon’s Song 2:5. 8 8 8 lOVE is merely a madness: and, 4 I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and whip as madmen do.—Shakespeare. Were there earthquakes in San Francisco in 1800 and 1839? A list of destructive earthquakes in the United States shows an earthquake in San Francisco that did slight damage in 1800. A destructive earthquake that did damige in San Francisco and Redwood sccurred in 1839. Is Yapp an English name? It is a British family name, like Gap. and means “at the gap.” that is, the family who lived at the gap. A similar change from “g” to “y” is seen in the name “Yates” which originally was iGates.”

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This is the fourth of a series of articles by Pr. Morris Ushbeln about foisonous gases and their effect on umans. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. A PERSON can be asphyxiated in one of tw'o w'ays. First, he .may stop breathing through shutting off his windpipe or by some action on the breathing center in the brain which interferes with the motion of the diaphragm, the muscles of the chest and the lungs. When this happens, the person does not get oxygen from the air and the carbon dioxide is not produced. It must be remembered that the production and elimination of the carbon dioxide is necessary to

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Joe Williams, to whom my thanks are due, has pictured me as training hard in Connecticut in an effort to get fit for columnar activities. It might have been like that, but for the federal reserve board. I’ve never seen a rediscount rated and don’t know how it’s done, although I gather that some sort of dull, blunt instrument is necessary. A ticket to the open spaces lay in my pocket when the word was flashed that the bank rate had been raised. Even though I w'as hazy as to the precise meaning of this action, I gathered from the financial page that it would break the market, and in such a time of crisis I felt that my placb w'as by the side of United States Steel. If I had met any member of the federal reserve board without his mask and blackjack during the next few days, it would have gone hard with him. It wasn’t the money altogether, or even the principle of the thing. It was the inconvenient hour which galled me. Why must every Wall street crash be something which happens early in the morning? 8 8 8 At the Opening NEVER before had I seen the market open, but this time I determined to be present. Before the fatal hour I went around seeking advice. Charlie C. told me to buy traction stocks, because there would be very few taxis used out of Wall Street on the morrow. He also said Endicott Johnson shoe stock would be a good buy under the circumstances. Joseph B. said he didn’t know what I was going to do, but he purposed to take a second-hand airplane, a gas stove and a Chinese cook downtown with him in case they wanted collateral. I asked an old gentleman what would happen, and he replied: “I didn’t think it will make much difference.” This encouraged me until I found that he w'as hard of hearing and thought that I had asked him his opinion of the weather. By and by the word went around

Is there any difference between the temperatures of natural and artificial ice? Under normal atmospheric pressure, both natural and artificial ice have the same temperature. What is the capital of Arabia? Arabia is now divided into four states, each with its own capital. They are as follows: The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, capital, Mecca; the Imamate of Yemen, capital, Sanaa; the Sultanate of Kuweit, capital, Kuweit, and the Sultanate of Oman, capital, Muscat. Is Korea a part of Japan? By an imperial rescript of 1919, Korea is to be treated as in all respects as an integral part of Japan and Koreans are on the same footing as Japanese.

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keep the breathing going at the regular rate and rhythm. In the second kind of asphyxia, breathing goes on, but due to combinations of various substances with the blood the oxygen is not taken up. Under these circumstances, the giving up of the carbon dioxide is not interfered with. Asa result, the person is likely to breathe too much and he dies. Another type of asphyxia results from being locked in an airtight inclosure for a long period of time. This happens when a human being becomes accidentally incarcerated in a bank vault or in a mine or in a cellar folow'ing the caving in of its walls. Most rooms are not airtight; indeed, concrete walls are not airtight. The experts point out that a man can stay in an airtight inclosure

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not to w'orry, because “they” w'ould take care of the market. “They” —always spoken in a half-whisper—-is a highly mysterious quantity. I gather that “they” is the remnant of faith remaining in the heart of a stock broker who has turned agnostic. Nobody ever has seen “they,” but w'hen a stock moves upw r ard suddenly and sharply the rumor flys that “they are accumulating General American Tank Car.” Like other tribal deities, “they” is omniscient. Floods, wars and the passing of a dividend are all known by “they” far in advance of ordinary mortals.' Wall Street, in its naive way, worships this god of the market and builds graven images. Those vast pyramids called Public Utilities have been reared upon the supposition that “they” might be found behind them. 8 8 8 Short of Faith BUT my ow'n faith was small. I had not satisfactory assurance that “they” w'ould temper the wind for the small stock gambler, and so I got a friend to rouse me at 9 o'clock and went to town to manipulate myself out of ruination. It was exciting to watch huge blocks of stock go tumbling down the tape, but, aside from the thrill, I might much better have remained in bed and put my trust in “they.”

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SLAVERY DEBATES Aug. 21 ON Aug. 21, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and his great rival, Stephen A. Douglas, began their series of seven debates on the question of slavery. The seven places, one In each Illinois congressional district, and the dates were: Ottawa, Aug. 21; Freeport, Aug. 27; Jonesboro, Sept. 15; Galesburg, Oct. 7; Quincy, Oct. 13. and Alton, Oct. 15. In the famous Freeport debate, Lincoln asked: “Can the people of a United States territory, in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits, prior to the formation of a state constitution?” If Douglas answered No,* he would deny his pet doctrine of popular sovereignty; if he answered Yes, he would antagonize the dominant politicians of the south, led by Jefferson Davis, who maintained that the only power that could deal with slavery was the municipal power of a state, and furthermore he would set the local authority of the territory above the supreme court which had declared slavery legal in all the territories of the United States by the Dred Scott decision. Douglas answered in the affirmative and tried to wriggle out of the trap by declaring that although slavery might be “legal'’ In a territory It could not actually exist for an hour or a day where the people enacted legislation unfriendly to it.

for a considerable period of time without dying, provided no poison gas is present. The badness of the air is due in such cases to increased temperature and humidity’and lack of movement. If a person is quiet, seven hours are required to reduce the oxygen in a cubic meter of air to one-half its normal oxygen content. About this time discomfort and danger begin to develop. When the brain tissue is deprived of oxygen, it reacts more quickly than any other tissue. If the nervous system is without oxygen for ten minutes, irreparable damage may develop. Thus, if a person is under water for ten minutes, he sometimes may be resuscitated, but the damage to the nervonus system may be so great as to be permanent.

Ideals and opinions expressed in tbis column are those of one of America's most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with tbe editorial attitude of tbis paper.—The Editor.

I sold at the lowest point of the day and bought back at high. The lot of an innocent is hard, and, though my funds declined, I take credit for a moral victory. They had to call in the entire federal banking system to lick me. “I’m willing to meet the wolves of Wall street catch-as-cacch-can at any hour, provided these pestiferous federal reserve collies won’t bite me in the leg when I’ not looking. 8 8 8 Blessed Events COMING home after the crash, I felt that I could go to the country in peace, since I had no stocks left to worry about. But upon opening the penthouse door I found Marion had Just brought three brand new kittens into the world. Life for me Ls just one responsibility after another. Romeo and Juliet, Hero and Leander and Darby and Joan were far too small to be left alone with nothing but a cat to care for them. Romeo and Juliet, I may explain, is one—the biggest of the kittens. Hero and Leander is the black one. They may fool me on stocks, but none of these small cats will make a sucker out o* me. Romeo and Juliet may seem a rather long and cumbersome name for a little bit of fluff, but it will remain just that until there has been some palpable manifestation of gender. And so, all in all, it was a good vacation. Three kttens may easily turn out to be twice as much fun as ten shares of United States Steel. I wonder what the current quotation is on cats, for I am very long on kittens. ( Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

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REASON By Frederick Landis

How Pathetic Is the Runaway Kaiser Compared With Dr. Hugo Eckener as He Pilots the Zeppelin Around the World. THIS column is being written not many yards from where four children and a dog are being given baths and the tumult is greater than it is on the New York Stock Exchange when the market drops forty points. Bathing is a necessary evil but he who thinks it helps concentration has another think coming. Greater tumult than ever—the dog is shaking himself on the kids who have been tried. 8 8 8 That was a fine occasion when Governor Byrd of Virginia, a Democrat. introduced President Hoover, a Republican, to a southern audience, but then there’s not much difference between the parties any more. Not so long ago thy fought each other viciously, bflt now the elephant and the donkey stand side by side with ends reversed, switching their tails and keeping the flies oft each other. 8 8 8 WE hope the large number of American actors who affect a cockney accent will read and be impressed by the statement of Dr. Frank W. Vizetelly, celebrated lexicographer. that Americans speak better English than the English themselves. 8 8 8 Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick’s declaration that she will oppose Senator Deneen of Illinois precipitates the most colorful struggle in our politics, for Deneen defeated the late Medill McCormick for the senate, so there’s human nature as well as ambition in his widow's race. Ruth McCormick is the ablest woman in our public life. 8 8 8 If Mr. Zaro Agha, this 155-vear-old Turk, carries out his plan to visit the United States, Henry Ford .should purchase him for his Michigan museum of antiques. 8 8 8 h How' pathetic this runaway kaiser alongside Dr. Hugo Eckener as tie pilots the Zeppelin around the w'ortd in an effort to regain for his country some of the prestige which the imperial spendthrift threw to the winds. 8 8 8 DR. FREDERICK COOK edits the prison paper at Leavenworth. and it should easily rank with the leading magazines, if the doctor can only fill It with fiction equal to his story of the discovery of the north pole. 8 8 8 It makes you throw out your chest a little to hear Dr. Li of China declare in his speech at South Bend: “America is the only nation that consistently has treated China with international decency.” That’s w'orth more than all the conquered dividends of imperialism. 8 8 8 Let us hope there’s nothing in the report that Ambassador Morrow may run for the United States senate from New Jersey. 8 8 8 The biggest social Sevent of the season occurred at Huntington, Ind., when Robert Roy, carnival exhibit, weighing 563 pounds, married Elizabeth Mitchell, who tips the scales at 549.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor The Times—l am reading “The Truth About Prohibition,” by Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as published in your valuable paper. Now, I desire to be fair with th* writer, so I refer to my dictionary, that all may properly decide. “Fanatic —one who is intemperately zealous or mildly extravagant.” “Bigot;—one who is blindly attached to a particular creed: one who is intolerant of opinions differing from his own.” Now, in her first article she says, regarding her Springfield speech, that every word of it was edited carefully by James Francis Burke. Now, Burke said in the Star, recently, that which seems to me to deny her statement. Os course, that refers to church matters. But It was made to reinforce prohibition, and assuredly it has some bearing ott the truth and veracity of the writer. Now, as you are allowing one 6ide of prohibition to be discussed, I trust you will be at least tolerant with the other. Thanking you for past favors, I remain H. A. CUMMINGS. 626 North New Jersey street.