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Paying the Piper No one should be surprised that the school board paves the way for an increase in the tax rate for schools to a point that alarms the men who must pay the bills. It is still true that those who dance must pay the piper and the people of Indianapolis indulged four years ago in a two-step of hate and prejudice that turned over the school system to those who were most patently incapable of managing its important affairs. The members were selected not because of an interest in education or business ability, but for their hatreds and prejudices. That they came under the influence, either intermittently or concurrently, of the Shipps and the Coffins was inevitable. They were that type. Whenever the professional bosses or manipulators run any part of the government, that part immediately becomes very expensive. That is why manipulators and bosses take an interest in politics and units of government. What they grab is added to the ordinary or usual costs. What their satelites take in the way of money that they could not earn in private jobs mounts up. Boss government, tricky government, hate government, costs in dollars. Os course, as far as the schools are concerned, there has been a greater burden than that of the money. The system has not gained by being under the control of forces that knew nothing of the problems of education or the necessities of present day needs. The picture is being painted in balance sheets and the people can readily understand just what it has cost them to indulge in the moment of hate and passion and prejudice that turned the schools over to hidden masters. Just as long - as the people permit the Shipps and the Coffins or the goblins to run the schools they can expect to pay and pay heavily. *lt is t l, trimmings that cost* and the bosses ah. . add the trimmings. Perhaps the bosses can win again. They may be able to divide the good intentioned and the decent citizens. They may be able to ride again into power by the usual tricks. And then, perhaps the movement launched by citizens to regain control of the school system for all the people may be too strong to bt defeated by the ordinary trickery. But the people, thanks to the new budget, now know what this sort of control costs. The price is high, and if the Shipps and the Coffins continue on the job, it will be higher.

A Just Judge The state of North Carolina is to be congratulated on its manner thus far in handling the difficult trial of the sixteen strikers charged with murdering the Gastonia police chief. The textile strike and resulting murder grew out of conditions of industrial feudalism which are a disgrace to that state. But for those conditions northern capital and mill owners—those who have gone south primarily in search of cheap labor—are chiefly responsible. They also are responsible in the main for the terrorism and lawlessness of which the strikers were victims. Fortunately, the Governor realized that this murder trial was in danger of becoming another Sacco-Van-zetti travesty. To prevent this he named Superior Court Judge M. V. Barnhill to try the case. Judge ' Barnhill promptly granted the defense plea for transfer of the trial from Gastonia, where the accused might have been tried for their religious and economic opinions instead of their acts, to Charlotte. In the opening days of the trial this week the judge repeatedly has sustained efforts to obtain just procedure. First the judge ruled that the prosecution must file a more specific bill of charges. The defense had argued that the charge of conspiracy did not specify who. where, when or what. Tuesday the Judge said he would “limit the evidence to conspiracy about the grounds w r here the shooting occurred.” In the opinion of the defense, “this ruling will eliminate a large part of the state's evidence.” Before this ruling the prosecution had hoped to use earlier strike events and utterances, not connected with the actual shooting, to convict the accused of murder conspiracy. Neither the lust of those out to crucify communists nor the attacks by communists on his own integrity have changed the serene and impartial attitude of Judge Barnhill as first expressed in his charge to the grand Jury that returned the indictment. “When a person comes into court he comes on the exact equality with every other citizen. He has no right to expect to be either exalted or condemned, to receive either more or less than is Just on account of his race, color or condition in life, or by his convictions upon social, economic, industrial, political or religious matters. These matters have no place In a criminal trial, and should not and will not be permitted to becloud the one issue we are to try.” If a jury can be found in Charlotte which can be held in its verdict to the plane of justice upon which Judge Barnhill is trying to place this trial, these accused radicals will have a fairer trial than most labor defendants have had in this country in recent years. Pig Iron and Carrots Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania is credited with the statement that the producer of pig iron is “as much entitled to protection as the man who raises carrots.” Entitled? The word would seem to indicate that tariffs are matters of right. At best, they are matters of national economic policy. Even Alexander Hamilton, the original tariff man, contended for them as *

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subsidy to interest the more influential and wealthy citizens in the stability of government. Also to build up cities. They have done both. But in considering a tariff for the grower of carrots, it is not necessary to challenge any “rights” of pig iron makers. For, to draw invidious comparisons, it could be pointed out that there is more consolidation and therefore co-operation in the pig iron industry. Machinery has been applied to it in a larger measure. A smaller percentage of human labor enters Into the pig iron production as compared with the production of carrots. The carrot industry never has been incorporated at its full cash value, nor have any bonds been issued against it. It has no watered stock to discount future increment. It is not quoted on the exchange. Not even on the curb. Science, invention, and patents have not been called upon to expedite and cheapen the production of carrots as they have in the case of pig iron. Nor are the marketing conditions similar for the two products. Pig iron is much less perishible than carrots. Pig Iron peddlers are scarce as compared with carrot peddlers. Competition is vastly more competitive In the case of carrots. Hence, prices of carrots are low as compared with iron pigs. Often they fall below the actual cost of production, which Is an unknown phenomenon in the pig iron industry. If Senator Reed will insist on comparing the metal business with the operation of agriculturists, he should be fair, and go into all the elements of productioncost, sales-cost, overhead, depreciation, Interest on the farmer, the furnace run of life insurance, rent and mortgage control. Then he and Senator Smoot may be able to talk more convincingly about the respective needs of pig iron and carrots for a protective tariff. Natives of some South Sea Islands sleep on pillows made from tree trunks. The same idea has been copied by some of the vacation resort boarding houses. A Chicago business man was abducted by gunmen. In other cities business men usually report they were simply detained at the office. Storks are really quite vicious birds, says a magazine writer. Sounds like he had been blessed with triplets. A dog should be treated as one of the family, says a fancier. Why be so harsh as all that? Ninety per cent of the people In the world get what they deserve, declares a novelist. Surely more than 10 per cent of us are married!

Race to Rule Skies

BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor NEXT month will see the beginning of the international race for trans-Atlantic passenger traffic by airships when the RIOO, Great Britain’s gigantic ship, larger than the Graf Zeppelin, makes its flight from London to Montreal. Experts believe that it will take less than a decade for the race to reach the sharpness of the present competition between nations for steamship traffic. The United States, it is believed, will be in the race within two years. Although a British dirigible, the R 34, flew from Pulliam to Newfoundland, a distance of 3,225 miles, and then back again, in 1919, the world in general has identified the Zeppelin with Germany. The Zeppelin was a German invention. During the World war, attention was focussed upon it particularly by German Zeppelin raids over London. In 1924, Dr. Hugo Eckener flew the ZR3, now the nos Angeles of the United States Navy, from Germany to Lakehurst. Dr. Eckener has made two round trips from Germany to America in the gigantic Graf Zeppelin and is now on a trip around the world in the huge airship. Great Britain, however, will fling a challenge to German airship supremacy this month when tests of the great British ship, the RIOO, will begin. Commander C. D. Burney, who designed the RIOO, says that he expects to set anew record with it. tt tt Speed A sixty-hour service both ways across the Atlantic is the present aim of airship experts. With such a service, it would be possible to leave New York at 6 a. m. Monday and arrive in a European capital at 6 p. m. Wednesday. Commander Bumey believes that a Zeppelin service will not pay unless it can make that schedule and’ carry at least fifty passengers on each trip. On its last return trip from here to Germany, the Graf Zeppelin did even better, setting a record of fifty-five and a half hours. It was helped, however, by the winds. The big ship took four days coming over when it had to buck the "wall of wind.” “The Zeppelin’s four-day passage to America would not pay as a regular service,” Burney said. “With steamships taking only a day longer and the fare so much cheaper, there would be no competition.” But Dr. Karl Arnstein, vice-president in charge of engineering of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, believes that a sixty-hour service is very conservative. He believes that a thirty-six-hour crossing will be a commonplace event within the next decade. Dr. Arnstein, while in Germany, supervised the design of ninety Zeppelins, including the Los Angeles. Dr. Arnstein designed the two huge ships which the Goodyear company is now building for the United States Navy. b n u Giants The Graf Zeppelin is 770 feet long and has a gas capacity of 3.707.970 cubic feet. The RIOO is not quite as long but it is considerably larger. While its length is only 724 feet, It has a gas capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet. The RIOO has five motors for which twenty-nine tons of fuel will be carried. One of the novelties of the ship is a heating and cooling device which will maintain a constant temperature in the cabins and staterooms, irrespective of what the weather may be. Passengers will be accommodated on two decks. A lounge, 60 by 132, feet, with promenades on either side, is the feature of the upper deck. This deck also includes a dining r<*>m to seat fifty people and the staterooms. The lower deck will contain the smoking room, chart room, galley and crew’s quarters. The two ships being built at Akron, however, are still larger than the RIOO. They are to be known as the ZRS-4 and ZRS-5. They will each be 785 feet long and will have a gas volume of 6,500,000 cubic feet. It is expected that the first one will be completed by the end of 1930 and the second one by the beginning of 1932. It is believed that President Hoover favors the leasing of the two ships by the United States Navy to a company for commercial purposes, so this nation can hold its own in the commercial airship field. In that case, the navy may order the building of two additional ships, it Is thought.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Where the Federal Government Used to Bea Dignified, Aloof Agency, It Noiv Reaches Down to Where the People Live, Meddling With the Most Intimate Details of Their Conduct. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S idea of turning over some 200,000 acres of public land to the states is more significant in what it suggests than in what it mentions. If, as he thinks, the states can administer public lands more economically and effectively than the federal government, why can’t they do equally well with some other things? What about hydro-electric power, for instance, or prohibition? No wonder the drys are worried, or that Senator William Borah is ready to take his coat off In defense of centralization and bureaucracy! a tt Meddling Government WE have done much for centralization and bureaucracy during the last fifty years with our Mann acts, Harrison acts, anti-trust acts and interstate commerce acts. The federal government is a far different structure than it was in 1880, or even in 1900. Where it used to be a dignified, aloof agency, it now reaches down where people live and meddles with the most intimate details of their conduct. More than anything else, national prohibition threatens to make the change permanent.

War in Holy Land THE outstanding feature of this Arab upheaval in Palestine is its suddenness. Now that it is well under way, those who have a mind can discover many signs, symbols and causes, but the fact remains that they failed to see it coming. If British authorities were slow and indifferent, they can find an extenuating circumstance in the general feeling of security. To judge from dispatches thus far received, even those .marked for butchery had little idea of danger until the knife was at their throats. It may be true that the Arabs had been planning and preparing to rise for a long time, but if so, they seem to have been very successful in avoiding suspicion. It may be, on the other hand, that their rising was due to the spontaneous combustion of old traditions and hatreds. Regardless of how the outburst originated, it gave scant warning of its imminence of fury. a u All Up to England Regardless of how signally they may have failed to foresee, or forestall this barbarous outbreak, British authorities must bear the burden, now it has come, which is something to remember before we get too hot in our criticism. No Jew, nor gentile has any hope of safety in Palestine, except from England. If the Arab tribesmen are cowed into obedience and the Holy Land is made safe as a place in which to dwell once more, it will be because English guns and English blood are available. Another thing, though England may be slow to start, she usually finishes well. a a China and Russia TURNING from Jerusalem to China, the latest news suggests less likelihood of war. Not only has the raiding come to a comparative standstill, but Russia has offered to open negotiations if China will consent to the appointment of anew Soviet manager for the Chinese Eastern railroad, and China has authorized Hsueh-Liang, dictator of Manchuria, to meet the Soviet government half way. Os these two incidents, the appointment of anew Soviet manager for the Chinese Eastern is the more promising, because it would go farther to clear away the mutual suspicion and distrust which have combined to form the chief source of trouble, a a Propaganda Cry WHEN China removed Soviet officials from the Chinese Eastern railroad, she claimed that it was to destroy a nest of propagandists, and denied any attempt to seize the railroad permanently. Russia was not satisfied with this explanation, but took the view that the cry of propaganda was raised as a mere sham, and insisted that China permit the railroad officials to resume their former positions as a preliminary to arbitration. The appointment of anew Soviet manager for the railroad would not only clarify the issue, but furnish each country a way to save its face. By consenting to it, China would have offered tangible proof that she was not trying to recapture control of the railroad, without being obliged to yield her contention that the former manager was a propagandist. Russia, on the other hand, would have regained her share of control.

Daily Thought

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshhold, which fill their masters' house with violence and deceit.—Zephaniah 1:9. a a a WE are so accustomed to masquerading ourselves before others that we end by deceiving ourselves.—Rochefoucald. Haw many silver dollars were minted by the United States in 1927? 2.982.900. * What do the names Roberta and Vert on mean? Rcberta means "wise in council.’ Vernon means "flourishing.”

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Food, Rest, Fresh Air Aid ‘T. B.’ Fight

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN. Editor Journal of th American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. ACCORDING to the medical director of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Chicago is would require five times as many sanitariums as are now available if every person with active tuberculosis were to be taken care of in such an institution. In 1927 there were almost 100,000 deaths from tuberculosis in the United States, and on the basis of five active cases, for each death there would be a half-million active cases of the disease always among us. The number of beds available in sanitariums for the tuberculosis, according to a recent study, is 69,152. It is obvious, therefore, that the vast majority of people with this disease can not be taken care of in institutions and that the chief purpose of the institution may be to instruct a considerable number of people how to take care of themselves at home. * Rest, fresh air and food, Dr.

IT SEEMS TO ME * H ST D

COMMANDER M'NUTT of the American Legion, recently expressed his opposition to a British proposal for a congress of veterans from all the warring countries, both friends and foes. McNutt said that the time was not yet ripe for such a meeting. The decision of the legionnaire will give comfort to those who wish to keep war hates alive. It has been truly said that in all armed conflicts there is no passion as great as that of a non-combatant. Surely there was a more lively faith in the authenticity of German atrocities among people back of the lines than ever obtained in the trenches. But now the commentators are likely to say that the attitude of the head of the American Legion disproves the forgiveness which is said to come readily from fighting men. And yet there is a catch in this. The Legion does not in any accurate way represent the opinion of the average doughboy. Very many men who served in the A. E. F. are not members of the .Legion, or, if they do bslong, pay small attention to it. So large an organization must inevitable come to reflect the views of a small but active managing minority. a an Real Thinking THE American Legion is no exception to this rule. Admittedly the president of the American Federation of Labor is less than universal spokesman for the people in the federation. Thousands of Methodists are out of sympathy with Bishop Cannon. Millions of Republicans remain wet, though Hoover is dry. And A1 Smith could not swing all Democrats to the support of modification. But I think it is peculairly true of veterans’ organizations that the group at the top has small relationship to the people in the ranks. The Legion lives to a certain extent by keeping the old war prejudices alive. The G. A. R. continued to wave the bloody shirt years after the vast majority of Americans had any desire to keep alive the animosities of the Civil war. I don’t believe that Commander McNutt represents the spirit of American soldiers in general in refusing to meet old foes upon a basis of friendship. An army which began to fraternize even before the last shell had been fired is hardly likely to be stiff and haughty in its attitude at this late date. B tt tt Mabel Tells THE Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who is writing the history of prohibition for the newspapers, reveals herself as a person much too naive and unsophisticated to have

Trying to Shake it Off!

Goldberg emphasizes again, constitute the important trilogy by which the person with tuberculosis must regulate his life. The sanitarium teaches the person how to follow this trilogy automatically and as an every-day procedure. The person with active symptoms must have absolute rest. As symptoms quiet dow’n the competent physicians is able to tell the patient how much exercise is to be taken along with the rest to seoure the best results. To most people fresh air means a lusty breeze pouring through ? window or below-zero weather on an outdoor sleeping porch. It is important to realize that fresh air does not demand physical discomfort. ' Windows may be kept open, but the temperature should be equable and draughts are unnecessary. Tuberculosis is particularly a disease of bad nutrition. The disease and the fever place great demands on the tissues. The person with tuberculosis must be fed a diet on which he will gain weight, or maintain his weight if it is satisfactory.

been particularly successful as an enforcing officer. Her so-called inside history is for the most part a mixture of surmise, conjecture and a crazy quilt of rumor and assumption. The mind which she spreads thin upon the printed pages is surely not of legal caliber. Some of the reasonings in which she indulges herself is of a highly flimsy order. For instance, Mrs. Willebrandt devoted an entire chapter to a justification of the very many murders committed by prohibition agents. And these she Justified by mentioning the never denied fact that bootleggers have killed many agents. Mrs. Willebrandt seems to feel if n rum-runner kills a coast guard, some other member of the prohibition forces is entitled to shoot down an innocent man passing in an automobile. One wrong and still another wrong, she thinks, add up to a right. a a Old Argument MABEL’S lack of contact with actuality, however, is most clearly revealed in an article which she wrote explaining that the drink-

“'T QqAvr ©' THt'“

MONTENEGRIN KINGDOM Aug. 28 NINETEEN years ago today, on Aug. 28, 1910, Montenegro was proclaimed an independent kingdom, and Prince Nicholas, who had guided the country’s destinies >for many years, assumed the title oI king. Montenegro belonged In the middle ages to the great Servian kingdom. In 1710 the Montenegrins sought and obtained the protection of Russia, but in a war with Turkey they became so hard pressed' that they were glad to agree to a treaty in 1862, by which Turkey’s sovereignty over Montenegro was recognized. By the treaty of Berlin, in 1878. the European powers granted Montenegro independence, but restricted it from having a navy and provided its waters be closed to j ships of war of all nations. These restrictions were abolished i in 1908 and Montenegro was proclaimed a kingdom two years later. Montenegro is situated in the western part of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded by Servia on the east, by Albania on the south, by the Austrian province of Dalmatia on the west and by Herzegovina on the north.

The diet must contain all essential ingredients for building tissue, such as protein, carbohydrate and fat; it must have the mineral salts and the vitamins that are associated with good health. It must include foods that will help to regulate bowel action and make the regular use of laxatives unnecessary. It must have, however, sufficient material to prevent too an action of the intestinal tracts One of the chief values of the sanitarium is to teach the patient the routine facts regarding such matters as rest, exercise, diet and fresh air. It will teach him also how to prevent the contamination of clothing, dishes and other human beings with the organisms that are in his body. It will teach him his limitations in work ana help to find work that he can do. Thus will it have fulfilled a most useful function and when he is improved sufficiently to be on his way, the place he occupied will be filled by another pupil and he will go out to help educate the public.

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.

ing of liquor is for the most part a show-off gesture. People use the forbidden beverages, she believes, in a self-conscious desire to be smart. This is among the oldest of the theories upon the reformers’ shelves. It has been used assiduously in the campaign against cigarets for women. Constantly we are told that women smoke because they think ■hat it is devilish and attracts attion to themselves. (Copyright, 1929, by The Times)

Questions and Answers

On what date did Easter Sunday (all In 1911? April 16. Where is the lowest place below sea level? The Dead sea in Palestine, which Is 1,290 feet below sea level. What is the United States Jack? A flag with a blue field and fortyeight stars. When was the government hospital for the insane (St. Elizabeth’s) it Washington, established? It was established in 1855. The number of patients now is 4,067.

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AUG. 28, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis Alongside the Romantic Chances of Success in America the “ Glories’ * of Conquest Turn to Sordid Brutality. IT'UROPEANS, familiar with the summer castles of their rulers, would have heart failure if they could see the slab-sided shack up in the mountains of Virginia, where President Hoover, the most powerful official in this world, is spending his vacation. a a u Mrs. Coolidge may not have known that Mr. Coolidge was going to issue his “I do not choose to run” statement until somebody told her about It four hours later, but even so she hasn’t anything on the rest of us. We do not know’ to this day w’hat he really hoped to accomplish by it. a a a A southern heiress worth $3,000,000 and only 16 years old has eloped with a 20-year-old farm hand from Mississippi. Still it might be worse; she might have run away and married a foreign title. a a a FRANCE and Great Britain are miserably poor stage directors to put on this fight about the division of reparation money just as Germany is giving the world the thrill of Its life by this round-the-world flight. a a a Zaro Agha, 160-year-old Turk, tells us he owes his fine condition to the fact that he is full of nicotine and eats garlic constantly. When Mrs. Agha wishes to throw a party and perfume the house, all sha has to do is to have Zaro sit down in the parlor and breathe for a few minutes. a u a As helpless Austria begs the allies to let her have enough soldiers tc keep the peace, we wonder if she fondly recalls that summer evening back in 1914 when she got so gay and send Serbia that impossible Ultimatum. a a a They come to us in the steerage and we send them back in state they come to us as immigrants ano we send them back as ministers. Gerrit John Diekema of Hollanc Mich., whose parents were Dutc immigrants, is appointed envoy i Holland by President Hoover. Alongside the romantic possib ities in America the so-called glor. of conquest turn to sordid brutali a a MR. SCHMIDT, legal adviser - Zeppelin works, is coming ht to meet Eckener and will form German-American airship corpor. tion. If we go into partnership wit Germany in the air and with Gre Britain on the sea, Uncle Sai should be provided with an urr brella large enough for any storn a a a An Indiana blacksmith claim that horses will stand still and be shod when he turns on his radio. Maybe so, but the entire Boston Symphony orchestra would have been powerless to keep our old western pony from kicking all the boards off the blacksmith shop.

Mr. Fixit He Will Help Yon Solve Your Problems by Presenting Them for Attention of the Proper Public Officials for Their Consideration and Action.

Mr. Fixit, The Times representative at city hail, will help solve your troubles with city officials. If you are unable to get results, write Mr. Fixit at The Times office. Your name and address will be withheld from publication on request, but must be given as evidence of good faith. The board of works has taken steps to abolish the dump along the east side of White river south of the New York street bridge which was reported by a correspondent of Mr. Fixit. John C. McCloskey and Emsiey W. Johnson. works board members, signed a resolution to condemn and acquire the sixacre tract from Michigan to Hanson street on the east side of the river. The land will be acquired for use In flood prevention work, according to Ernest F. Frick, works board secretary. Several months ago Frick notified David F Smith, of the National Investment Company. 114 North Delaware street owner of majority of the tract, to stop dumping rubbish on the land. Frick pointed out that the property would cost the city more for the flood prevention program in the future after It has been filled up bv the owners. The Fetter to Mr. Fixit: "Can’t something be do*-* to eliminate the unsightly dump nioftn-ZWhlte river south of the New York otreei bridge? The city spent thousands of dollars to add the spann to the bridge, but permits public dumping in the vicinity. If I remember right, it was the crowding of the river bed at Kingan’s that helped to cause the 1913 flood condition. Are we doomed for another flood In West Indianapolis?” _. . , r _ TAXPAYER. It may be some time before the property is bought, but things are moving in the right direction.