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“No Longer Fashionable” Readers of this newspaper may have suspected for some time that, on various counts, we are not enthusiastic about the eighteenth amendment, the Volstead act, and other prohibition enforcement legislation. One of the chief troubles with prohibition is that, in practice, the laws favor the rich as against the poor. Some rich men, before the amendment took effect, laid in large liqour stocks—something the poor man could not afford—and still are drinking from this supply. Many more rich men today patronize bootleggers, being able to pay fancy prices for really pretty good liquors—prices altogether beyond the means of the man of moderate income, who either has to go dry or fall backz on inferior alcoholic concoctions. Supporting this idea, and in spite of Henry Ford's expert opinion that drinking no longer is fashionable, a certain item in the current issue of the 35-cent magazine, House and Garden, is interesting. House and Garden is a publication devoted to descriptions and pictures of beautiful —and generally expensive—town homes and country places. Under the caption, ‘‘To Promote a Pleasant Pastime.” House and Garden publishes a series of five excellent interior photographs of sumptuous and beautifully decorated privatf bars—the work of American decorators. It is not stated in whose houses these bars are situated. They are obviously, however, in houses of the very well-to-do. The pictures show lixing complete, including asserted bottles of pre-war shape, filled or partly filled, with dark liquids, brass rails, high-balls and cocktail glasses, cocktail shakers, etc. Printed descriptions under the pictures are worth reading. One says: ‘‘The tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the wall str.ped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor, and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass.” Another goes: “Above is a room in a country house, decorated to suggest an old sidewalk bar. The walls, in scenes of Broadway in 1850, were painted by Louis Bouche. Chairs are lacquer red, tables green, and the awning tan and brown.” All of which ought to be inspiring reading for those who believe prohibition a great success, and a comfort to the ordinary man who has to struggle along on synthetic gin. Will Snowden Hit Us Next? Anew power has arisen among the rulers and the dictators of the world. To the men of might—such as Mussolini. Kemal and Stalin—must be added the pacifist Snowden. For the slender, crippled British chancellor of the exchequer has dictated at The Hague the hardest-fought international settlement since Versailles. This Snowden victory can not be measured by the few million dollars of additional reparation annuities granted Britain by France, Belgium, Italy, Japan and Germany. It means that Great Britain—for the moment at least—has taken from France the political leadership of Europe. So long as a British labor government is in power such political leadership is safer in the hands of London than of Paris. It will mean a quicker economic reconstruction of Europe and military evacuation of the Rhineland, without which stable peace is impossible. Moreover, it should hasten an approach toward land disarmament, so long prevented by French military dominance of the continent. French militarism has flourished through a hookup with British navalism under a Tory London government. But the British labor government has broken that Anglo-French alliance. The Hague battle is added proof of that. f With the Chauvinistic Poincare out of power, there is hope that Premier Briand can lead France to anew plane of open-co-operation for peace with republican Germany and labor England. The last has not been heard of Philip Snowden. A few years ago one of the most unpopular radicals in Britain, today he is the most popular man in his country. He has increased his hold upon his party; he has increased his party’s hold upon the country. And before he gets through he is apt to become as Important a figure to the United States as he is to Europe. For Snowden not only believes with most Britons and Europeans that German reparations and American war debts are inseparable: he has the courage to fight that opinion. To get a larger British share of German reparations—which he now has achieved at The Hague—is only half of his program. The other half is to reduce British and allied payments to the United States. Snowden is a British hero today not only because of his fight at The Hague, but also because he recently propped himself up with his canes in parliament and denounced as unfair the British debt settlement with the United States. In face of the fury and tenacity of this pacifist fighter, how long will the Washington government be able to maintain the absurd fiction that there is no relation between reparations and war debts? Speeding Up the Trains Aviation has done much in the last few years to provide us with quick transportation over long distances. But the railroads, it appears, are about ready to do a little fast traveling on their own account. A writer in the current World’s Work magazine reveals that the Canadian National Railways are about to. install oil-electro locomotives capable of speeding regular passenger trains across America from coast to coast in sixty hours without a stop. Such locomotives, the writer says, if put on the regular New York to San Francisco run, could cut from twenty-four to thirty-six hours off existing schedules and come within twelve hours of the time made by the new air-mail services. There is no doubt but that the next few years will see amazing developments in railroad speeds. Railroad executives are far too wise to let their service fall behind in the modern procession. Pole-Sitting If pole-sitting—that practice which consists in a small child perched on top of a twenty-foot pole in the back yard in an effort to see how long he or she can remain there without descending, and which ia the case of ‘ King Willie" and Queen Ruth has run Into like a month, with no visible *

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terminal facilities unless those furnished by the truant officer—we say, if pole-sitting is to receive serious consideration, or objection to it—and we do object to it—would be this: It is stunting and pub-licity-hunting gone mad. It is the mania infecting the children. Bad enough are the dancing marathons, the death inviting flying stunts, the stay-at-the-piano or stay-in-the-air stunts done by adults. But when Willie and Ruth begin having their publicity agents and their families turn themselves into managers, and there are communiques for the press issued from the back yards, it is time for somebody to sober up. Food and Morality The importance of proper nutrition in the life of the individual is emphasized in a report just issued by Commissioner John McMillan, who commands the central territory of the Salvation Army. Commissioner McMillan, pointing out that more than 60 per cent of the unwed mothers cared for in Salvation Army rescue homes, and 53 per cent of all men given aid by the Army, were victims of undernourishment in their youth, declares flatly that the majority of these unfortunates probably never wouid have “gone wrong" if they had always had proper food. “It is as criminal for a parent to allow a child to choose what he or she wants to eat as it is to allow the child to play with loaded firearms," says Commissioner McMillan. "The boy who is undernourished is handicapped before he starts in the game of life, since he is rendered doubly susceptible to disease of mind and body." Somebody sued Mabel Willebrandt for statements made in her series on “The Inside of Prohibition.” There must be some pretty serious people in the world, after all. Several eastern states are considering legislation prohibiting the dropping of lighted cigarets from airplanes. Just throwing another hardship in the way of women fliers. America is a country where you’re likely to be arrested if you park too long in front of a blind Pig. During the. air races at Cleveland a parachute jumper was arrested for robbing gasoline stations. Maybe he merely got confused on the word holdup. Scientists, with new stethoscopes, can hear the fruit fly larvae inside a grapefruit. Privacy is getting harder and harder to obtain.

Help for Pedestrian

BY DAVID DIETZ Scripfis-Howard Science Editor THE lowly pedestrian, almost completely ignored as cities bend all their efforts to widening streets and speeding up auto traffic, is about to come into his own. Drastic changes in skyscraper construction and in the planning of congested areas are predicted by experts of the American Institute of Architects. These changes will be for the benefit of the pedestrian. The predictions are based upon an investigation made for the institute by Miller McClintock, director of the Erskine bureau of street traffic research of Harvard university. McClintock undertpok to find how much pedestrian traffic a sidewalk could handle before the “margin of convenience” was passed. He found that when the volume of traffic equaled 800 persons an hour for each foot of width of sidewalk, the saturation point had arrived. With the aid of assistants, he kept tab on the traffic along Washington street in Boston. They found that when the volume passed the 800 mark, pedestrians began to leave the sidewalk and walk in the street. , The point made by McClintock—and it is something for architects, builders and building owners to pqnder over—is that when sidewalk traffic passes the 800 mark, it is a detriment to the building and the stores or offices it houses. Up to that mark, additional traffic is a benefit. Beyond the mark, it is not. a a a Arcades As the first remedy, McClintock suggests the use of the arcaded sidewalk. This means that the ground floor of the building is cut back so that what would ordinarily be the show windows of the ground floor stores become a sidewalk. * This sidewalk, of course, is roofed over by the other floors of the building which tower above It. At first glance, it would seem odd that a building owner should give away a piece of valuable ground floor frontage. McClintock, however, explains his contention. He says: “There are many, many locations in office building districts in the United States where the convenience factor has been exceeded. A continued piling up of demands by additional structures, only can have the effect of discouraging the full use of the structures which are located upon the sites adjacent to these streets. It is a wonder that designers and owners of office buildings have not been more alert to this situation. "The arcaded sidewalk offers such advantages in public comfort, and in good merchandise display as well as in added capacity, that its widespread use in the future seems inevitable. “Office buildings constructed in rapidly growing districts should be designed so that arcaded sidewalks may be later provided, even though they originally are not included. McClintock also predicts that there will be an increasing tendency to put arcades through the interior of buildings. He feels that such arcades which parallel streets already overcrowded will prove highly popular. ana Bridges A general use of bridges and tunnels to provide overhead and underground communication between buildings is also foreseen by experts of the American Institute oi Architects. McClintock calls attention to the degree to which this has been carried in the Grand Central district of New York, where practically all hotels of the immediate vicinity are connected to the railway station by tunnels for pedestrians. He also calls attention to isolated cases where bridges are used to connect the upper stories of two buildings. In many densely built areas, second story sidewalks. arcaded into the buildings, will soon be commonplace. according to McClintock. By setting these sidewalks into the buildings, their cost of construction is reduced to a minimum. In addition, no shadows are cast on the regular sidewalks on the ground. Bridges would earn' these second story arcaded sidewalks over street intersections. McClintock also points out the need of designing buildings so that merchandise can be taken in and out of them more easily. He says that in many cases in the United States, large office buildings can be found with no provision at all for handling merchandise in and out of the structure. .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

Humanity Not Only Has Passed Another Mile Post, but Has Entered a New Field, With the Feat of the Graf Zeppelin. AROUND the world in twent-one days, if stops are included, or in twelve, if they are not—that is the magnificent performance of the Grai Zeppelin. All records go by the board. Humanity not only has passed another milepost, but has entered anew field. The significance of this remarkable flight lies in what it promises. The case of the dirigibie has been proved. People not only will be crossing the ocean in these giant air liners, but circling the globe in two weeks, before this year’s college freshmen bet their diplomas. a a a Magellan Anniversary NEXT Friday will be the 407th anniversary of the completion of the first continuous journey around the world. It was made by Juan Sebastian del Cano, one of Magellan’s captains. Os five ships that left Spain, only one returned, and of 280 men who made up the expedition, only eighteen finished the trip, though quite a few straggled back by various routes afterward, while Magellan was killed in the Philippines. a a a Easy Cost of Triumph IT is a far cry from Magellan's day to ours. Measured by the possibilities it opens up, Dr. Ecekener’s feat is as important as that of the Portuguese navigator. Measured by the difficulties to be encountered, the obstacles to be overcome, the dangers to be met, and the suffering to be endured, it seems tame. Two weeks, practically enough freight and passage money to pay the bill, not a single case of serious illness, much less death—such is the easy cost of triumph in this enlightened age. Yet there are those who say .the world is growing worse. a a tr Faced Great Hardship THE Graf Zeppelin not only sailed the skies in safety, but found everything needed for the comfort of her passengers and crew on the way. Magellan’s men faced not only the perils of an uncharted sea, but such physical misery as shriveled their bodies and warped their souls. For ninety-eight days they wallowed across the Pacific, with only two small islands to reassure them that they had not gone over the “jumping-off place.” Their food supply became so diminished that they were glad to eat ox hide, and their water not only grew ropy, but practically gave out. Worst of all, when they reached land, they had to fight for their very lives and many of them lost in the struggle. a a a Encountered Perils THERE were no cheering thousands to welcome those early pioneers, no trained crews to take charge of and recondition their ships when they made port, no messages of congratulations from the heads of the foreign states they entered. If anything, they encountertd more deadly opposition from their fellow beings than from nature. From the time they left Spain, Sept. 20, 1519, until they returned Sept. 6. 1522, they encountered few people who were not ready to rob or kill them for the mere sport of it. st st tt World With Edison HUMAN progress has not been wholly mechanical, nor is the triumph of the Graf Zeppelin wholly a matter of engine and gas. During the last 400 years men have learned something besides how to overcome time and distance. Not only has the fringe of barbarism receded, but civilization has become a different thing internally. Though the greatest war in human history ended but little more than a decade ago, and though at that time Germany was anathema to three-fourth of the world, no one thinks of putting a tack in the road along which Dr. Eckener passes because he is a German. No one even has gone so far as to hope he would fail. Instead, the world has united In doing everything possible to assist him. That side of the picture is worth considering, because, without it, progress would be vain. a a a Credit for Progress BUT progress, even in the most material sense, deserves much credit for producing that side of the | picture. Men grow through contact with ; each other, through the exchange of | goods as well as ideas, through becoming acquainted with each other and each other’s problems. There is a larger purpose in improved methods of travel and communication than the convenience they afford; a purpose that has to do with the development of moral, social, and political ideals. Much as one may deplore the; restraint and discipline that go with mechanized life, they admittedly are creating a spirit of co-operation which promises much for the future.

Questions and Answers

Where did the term Doughboy originate? It originated in this country in the Civil war and was first applied to the large brass buttons on the infantrymen’s uniforms. Have the speeches of William J. Bryan been published? They are published by Fleming H. Re veil, 158 Fifth avenue, New York. What is International House in New York? A hotel for 600 foreign students

Why Not Stick to the Original Plan?

Iron and Liver Aid Anemia Treatment

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. ALMOST every one now knows that scientific investigations have established the value of liver and of liver extracts in the treatment of pernicious anemia. There are two kinds of anemia: the one called pernicious, a special disease in which there is great destruction of red blood cells and failure of new cells to develop to meet the emegrency, and secondary anemia, which follows great hemorrhage, malnutrition, or which may be associated with any serious or wasting disease. The liver has not seemed to have the specifically valuable effect in the secondary anemia that it quite certainly has in the pernicious form. Investigators in the laboratory had shown that a combination of

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE dramatic critics have overlooked what seems to me an important aspect of the new play “Gambling." I refer to the fact that George M. Cohan has gone euripidean. He has taken the story of a Broadway murder and related it in the technical fashion of Greek tragedy. The first act in particular would have caused Sophocles to beat his hands and cry out “ataboy.” The murder occurs off-stage and the victim is never seen by the audience either before or after the crime. In fact, the grilling of possible witnesses begins before the audience is even aware of what has occurred. A police inspector performs the function of the traditional messenger of the Athenian drama. And it is still a good system. What was good enough for Athens is excellent for Broadway. No mystery play of recent years has provided as thrilling an opening act as that which Mr. Cohan has written for “Gambling.” a a a Sophocles and Cohan NOR does the Greek influence end here. The playwright is sedulous in keeping all the violent action off-stage. Thus when he brings his people into a gambling house he keeps them in the entrance hall, and we merely hear the sound of the police axes as they break down the doors upstairs and smash the tables. Asa reformed gambler, I might have enjoyed the spectacle of gaming devices being smashed before my very eyes, but I think the various restraints imposed upon the action in this comedy-drama are effective. They serve to keep the play within the mood of Mr. Cohkn’s performance. I can remember back to a day when George M. Cohan was almost a symbol of brash violence in theatrical entertainment. He was a disciple of perpetual motion. Today he is the sofest spoken and the most subtle of our male comedians. It may sound like a curious partnership, but the other player who seems to me to sparkle in a similar acting method is Mrs. Fiske. And so it turns out that Broadway Jones was all along an own cousin to Hedda Gabler.

who have entered various unversities and professional schools in New York. It represents a benefaction of $3,000,000 given by John D Rockefeller Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edmunds evolved the idea. The building is the headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Club, which includes 700 men and 500 women from sixtyseven countries. It is located at 500 Riverside drive. New York. Who was t)e star of the motion picture, “A Connecticut Yankee”? Harry Myers.

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

liver and iron was especially valuable in restoring the blood to dogs which had been made anemic by bleeding. It has, of course, long been known that iron was an excellent remedy for anemias. Now some physicia.is in China have tested out the effects of combinations <?f liver and iron on persons with secondary anemia and their results show that what was true for the dogs would apply also for human beings. The experiments show again the importance of animal experimentation for the study of diseases affecting mankind. To control experiments on patients satisfactorily the doctors studied the effects of iron given alone and of liver given alone and then the effects of the two given in combination. When iron alone was given in suitable doses to these patients there occurred a definite increase in the development of the hemoglobin, or

HEYWOOD 7 BROUN

The comparison between Cohan and Mrs. Fiske is not in the least far-fetched. Both have developed an extraordinary economy of voice and gesture. In “Gambling" Cohan has not a single movement which goes above the elbow line. He seems to weave through a situation like Benny Leonard boxing a setup. There is not an ounce of wasted effort. He nails his points with six-inch jolts. nan Making of Stars SOMEBODY should create a foundation which would endow all stage aspirants with tickets for the new Cohan play. They will not find a more likely master. And I would particularly request the fledglings to note the way in which Cohan listens. There is a school of acting headed by Mrs. Walter Hampden in which it is the custom for the star to pay no attention to anything but the sound of his own voice. This is not the sort of listening to which I refer. Cohan is all attention when the other person in the scene is speaking. And remember, he not only wrote the play, but produced it. And, again, I wish to have the students note the extraordinary manner in which Cohan vitalizes an entire scene with a single line—and it is, a simple line. He makes “She tore up the check” as eloquent as some purple phrase In a great masterpiece. I might add that I do not consider "Gambling” a masterpiece. Cohan the playwright is not quite good

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FT. MIMS MASSACRE Aug. 30

ONE hundred sixteen years ago today, on Aug. 30. 1813, more than 500 men, women and children were massacred by Indians at Ft. Mims, a temporary stockade thirtyfive miles north of Mobile, Ala. The massacre was the first outbreak in the Creek war in the southwest. About 553 persons had sought refuge with the garrison at the fort, under the command of Dixon Bailey. Although Bailey had been warned, they were surprised by a greatly superior force of Indians under the haif-breed Weathersford at noon Aug. 30. Though they offered brave resistance, virtually all of them were killed. The result of the massacre was that Alabama was almost abandoned by the whites. Terror and desire for revenge took possession of Georgia and Tennessee. The Tennessee legislature voted to raise men and money to aid in the fight against the Creeks. Gen. Andrew Jackson soon took the field, and the Creek campaign lasted only, seven months.

red coloring matter of the red blood cells. When liver and iron were given together, the increase took place much more rapidly than when either liver or iron was given alone. Some patients with anemia who were studied had the condition due to infestation with hookworm, an extremely common cause of secondary anemia in people living in the southern part of the United States. Some of these secondary anemias were duo to bleeding associated with disturbances of the organs peculiar to women, and in other instances the anemias were due to undernutrition because of insufficient diet or badly chosen diet. In this connection it is probably due that the anemia of the patients with hookworm is due to the fact that the people with hookworm are never properly nourished and will be found to be undersized and underweight.

Ideals and opinion!, 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.

enough for Cohan the actor. But that’s a large order. He has not been afraid to give himself effective competition, for Mary Philips and Robert Middlemass are both excellent in this new piece. I think it’s a good show. a a a Rogers, British Lion I AM sorry to see Will Rogers assuming the role of chief American exponent of militarism. Os course, Mr. Rogers is not just a funny man. He is a very shrewd and able commentator on public affairs and his quips deservedly influence public opinion. Naturally, he is within his rights in advocating preparedness, but he ought to play fair. He didn’t do that in a recent comment on Snowden. “He told ’em," writes Rogers, in commenting on the dispute about reparations, “ ‘Boys, we not only would like to have, but we are going to have it.’ ” “Then so-called statesmen,” adds Rogers, “will tell you that a navy doesn’t pay.” This is a grave distortion of the facts. Will Rogers should know as well as you or I that Snowden made no threat of aggressive military action against America. Such a position upon the part of a member of the labor ministry would be unthinkable. At a time when there are actual causes of friction between England and America, I think a man does a pretty poor service to his country in inventing bugaboos. (Copyright, 1929. for The Time*)

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AUG. 30, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis -

Science Confesses That It Knows Nothing About Creation, but Ignorance Knows All About It. THE next time a bunch of American communists marches forth, carrying the red flag, somebody should arrange to have bulls stationed at strategic points along the line of march. The bulls would handle the situation with neatness and dispatch and the method would be in harmony with the absurdity of the parade. a a a Over in Palestine the Arabs are defending the “true faith" by killing a number of Jews. Science confesses that it knows nothing about creation, but ignorance knows all about it. Superstition is an easy ladder to all the stars and the desert barbarian leaps to the roof of the infinite without any difficulty whatever. a a a The efforts of America and Great Britain to promote world peace by getting the leading powers to limit their navies seems utterly futile, since aviation has made navies obsolete. It is as though we should seek to secure the safety of our highways by limiting the speed of ox carts. a a a MOSCOW'S reigning politicians are planning another sale of royal treasures. The Bolsheviki have not produced any great statesmen, but they have turned out some of the greatest auctioneers of the century. a a a The courts have just decided that cows have the right of way over automobiles, which would indicate that the judges have tried to drive through a bunch of them. a a a President Hoover is correct to ignore all letters which are published before he gets them. This will hit the publicity hounds who have long used Presidents for goats. a a a Our leading merchants of racial hatred, Mr. Heflin of Alabama and Mr. De Priest of Illinois, appear to be doing a very good business, the one in the south and the other in the north. It would be a great thing for peace and harmony if the two could be tied together and laid over the clothes line. a a a TWO Ayrshire cows are being driven from Vermont to St. Louis, passing through Indianapolis. Great care should be taken to keep the political machine from milking them as they pass through the Hoosier capital. a a a Last week was grandmother's week in the bootlegging business, four of them being pinched. Illinois, Kentucky. West Virginia and Arkansas being the states honored. a a a For some reason American tourists persist in repeating on Europe instead of going to South America, a land of unending interest and beauty, but if the Pan-American roads congress succeeeds in putting through this highway from Canada to Cape Horn, an unending stream of Americans will roll southward over what would be the greatest pike this world ever knew. a a a We don't blame Lindbergh because he gets tired of being pursued by some picture-taking hound every time he leaves the house.

Daily Thought

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Os works? Nay: But by the law of faith.—Romans 3:27. a a a SELF-L AUDATION abounds among the unpolished: but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. —Charles Buxton. How many students are enrolled in universities and professional schools in the United States? There were 508,714 men and 312,338 women enrolled as students in the universities, colleges and professional schools of the United States in 1925-26. Is Australia an island or a eontinene? Australia is sometimes regarded by geographers as a continent and sometimes as an island. It is spoken of as “the largest island in tha world”; also as “the island continent.”