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Uncle Sam Steps In The federal government is guarding Indiana. Not in the usual sense. Not under the orderly routine of law. But with armed guards. When the attorney-general ordered the marshal for the northern district to name as many deputies as were necessary to protect the lives of witnesses before the federal court, it meant that the government believes that law has broken down in this state and that the local governments no longer function for the protection of life. It is not a pleasant picture. But it is one which should cause citizens to stop and wonder why it should be necessary for the federal government to plant deputies in communities which have sheriffs, constables and large police forces. The answer has been known but never before has it been given such hideous nakedness that no one can misunderstand. The reason for the intervention is the alliance between the machine politics of this state and organized crime. The immediate occasion of the order to patrol Indiana for the protection of the lives of federal witnesses was the killing of a witness before the federal grand jury. It is reported that he had testified concerning the protection given to criminals in the Calumet district. On his return to his home, he was lured to a lonely spot and killed. The local authorities evidently found no connection between his death and the fact that he had turned the light upon prevailing protective practices. The federal government evidently believed that when a state can not protect the lives of such citizens as may desire to assist the federal government in the prosecution of crime, it is time to establish a protectorate for such witnesses. The patrol is established in the Calumet district. That was the center of the protected crime. That was the place where the federal witness was murdered. And, more significantly, that is the place that regularly returns a majority of votes for the candidates of the Republican machine. It was from this district that the votes came which sent Watson back to the Senate in 1926 by so scant a margin that had it not been for this rotten borough he would now be in private life. It was this district which sends down its bloc of legislators who trade and traffic with Coffin in this city for the passage of laws that gives the people over to plunder by privileged interests and robs them of any safeguards against frauds at election. It was in this district that bootlegging and vice ran rampant for at least three years without any interference on the part of federal agents or local police. The protectorate by Uncle Sam is made necessary because of machine politics and the alliance of the bosses with the criminal elements. The way to prevent such things is to hit at bossism and machine rule whenever possible. If there was no such thing as Coffinism in Indianapolis, it would have been impossible for the Calumet gangsters to have made their trades. That machine had to have a terminal at the state capital Coffinism furnished it. This may be worth thinking about when srou vote this fall. If you find any candidate playing with the bosses or depending on the the boss, vote against him. The way to get rid of federal interference ia to hit at the things which make it necessary. Immortalizing Hate , The last two months have been almost unique in achievements designed to end the war-time psychology and to reconcile former enemies In their joint pursuit of world peace. A scheme for reparations payments has been worked out and accepted. The vacuation of the Rhineland has been agreed upon. Entente statesmen have pronounced eulogies on Stresemann and his policies. Ramsay MacDonald has visited our country to put an end to the ominous naval rivalry between Britain and the United States. A naval parley which bids fair to undertake disarmament in a realistic fasliion has been called. Into this atmosphere of hope and promise the news of the success of Whitney Warren, in his stubborn fight to preserve the hatreds of the war period, comes as a lamentably discordant note. Mr. Warren designed the inscription for the restored University of Louvain so as to present in enormous letters the legend: “Destroyed by German Madness—Rebuilt by American Generosity.” American donors and sponsors of the restoration, as well as sensible Belgians, let it be known that they preferred the more generous, truthful and statesmanlike inscription: “Destroyed in War; Rebuilt in Peace.” But Warren was relentless in his determination to immortalize the passions of war. He has succeeded in obtaining permission from the Belgian authorities —contrary to the wishes of the university—to proceed with his original phrase. Chief hope of the future lies in forgetting rather than perpetuating the emotions and recriminations

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of war. The amiable negotiations of Briand and Stresemann are the harbingers of the new era. If Warren’s inscription embodied the truth, it would be unfortunate to have it displayed to a generation which must succeed, if at all, by looking forward rather than backward. It is twice deplorable in giving revived currency and apparent authority to one of the foremost myths of war propaganda. Our Colonial Tyranny In his odd moments—if he has any—the President might look into the matter of our Caribbean empire, which isn’t doing so well. And if he can’t find leisure for that purpose, he will be justified in taking time from other business. Too long our island stepchildren have been neglected, or left to the hands of politicians and exploiting business interests. That is one of the many evils inherited by Mr. Hoover from his predecessors. With his long business experience among other colonial peoples and his eye for administrative efficiency, the President, once he gets into the Caribbean situation, presumably can be depended upon to start a house cleaning. Perhaps that is what he had in mind when he announced the other day that he would not attend the London naval conference, but would confine his travels to tljis hemisphere. We hope so. The difficulty is that we went into this imperialism game in a very left-handed fashion. For thirty years we have been getting in deeper, and all the while solemnly telling ourselves that we were not in it at all. Asa result, we neither have given those subject peoples their independence, nor have we given them an efficient imperial administration. That sort of thing can not go on forever. Soon we must organize a colonial office and a set of bureaucrats to run our empire, or revert to the early American principle that no country is good enough to rule another. Among the empire problems worthy of the President’s immediate consideration are those of Cuba, Haiti and Porto Rico. In Cuba one of the world’s most vicious dictatorships is flourishing under Machado, with the tacit support of the Washington government, without which no Cuban regime can prosper. Under the Platt amendment and treaty protectorate, which the United States maintains over Cuba, we are obligated to protect the Cuban people from just such a dictatorship as now violates their lives and liberties. There is much to be said for the United States pulling out of Cuba altogether, but there is nothing to be said for countenancing such conditions while we remain. In Haiti another dictator has been enthroned by the United States. Haitians have no rights left. The puppet government has changed their laws for the benefit of American land sharks and bankers. All semblance of representative government is at an end. Dictator Borno just has announced that he will not permit a national election, a ruse he has resorted to before to perpetuate the dictatorship. Haitians can not even express their opposition through free political parties and press. Hence there is apt to be an explosion. In Porto Rico our unwilling subjects stand on the message sent by the national legislature to President Coolidge through Colonel Lindbergh: “Give us liberty, or give us death.” But they say they will be satisfied if we grant them statehood along the lines of the Irish Free State. To ignore longer their reasonable and peaceful appeals is to drive them eventually into the kind of revolt which made heroes of Patrick Henry and our revolutionary fathers. The sooner the President gets around to these dangerous problems, the better for all concerned.

REASON By FR LANDIS K

IT is unfortunate that Washington newspaper men should say that It is believed that President Hoover and Premier MacDonald formed an entente between the United States and Great Britain, for the President has no such power and few believe he has such inclination. a a a Certainly the United States senate’s rejection of the League of Nations compact, negotiated by the late President Wilson should be notice to everybody that this country can not be taken into any kind of a foreign partnership without the senate’s consent. a a a If the Longworths are not going to attend any parties which Mrs. Gann attends, the very least they can do is to call up Mr. Gann and have him come over to eat and spend the evening. It is not right to let him stay home alone all winter. o * EUROPEANS criticise us for our abridgement of personal liberty, yet Premier de Rivera has told the Spaniards to eat less, work more and go to bed early; Mussolini has told'the women of Italy to wear longer dresses; while Russia has commanded her people to stop kissing, claiming that every kiss contains 40,000 microbes. a a a Herbert Adams of Indianapolis was sent to jail for sixty days for beating Iris 7-year-old son with a leather strap, leaving fifty welts on the boys’ back, arms and face. This is a case where papa should be led out to a whipping post. e a a It is no wonder that Jimmy Foxx. the star first sacker of the Athletics, made those home runs in the world series, for his first boy just had been born. But as his family grows larger, all he will be expected to do is to sacrifice. a a THE papers say that forty people at a family reunion at Beaver Dam, Wis., ate sparingly of a Chinese egg that was ICO years old. We met its twin brother the other day in a Chicago hotel and while there was only one of us, we also ate sparingly. m a a When you read about the bodies of these eighty-six Michigan soldiers being brought back from their graves in northern Russia, you realize that war is just about what Sherman said it is. a a a Gene Tunney harvested $1,715,863 in the prize ring in three years, which should be a great encouragement to the young people who are preparing themselves to teach school. m m m The Russians were very successful in killing 140 innocent bystanders, many of them women and children along the Manchurian frontier, but they are not so successful when they face the Germans or Japanese.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Old-Fashioned Highwayman Has Gone the Way of the Blacksmith Shop and the Underworld Is Producing Its Henry Fords. I IKE everything else, crime J succumbs to the craze for organized action. Your average thief no longer works single handed; your average : embezzler no longer is a lone wolf, and your average bootlegger no longer is a self-sufficient soul, who peddles hooch of his own manufacture. Eighty-one defendants are on trial for running a poultry racket in New York; one hundred and forty just have been indicted for running an alleged milk racket, and fourteen will be brought to book in connection with the City Trust failure, while dry agents have rounded up a rum syndicate which operated on a system that hardly could have been Improved by Judge Gary or the Alexander Hamilton institute. e a Individualism still plays an allimportant part, but it is the part of leadership rather than personal exploits. The law is running afoul of something bigger than weaklings run amuck. A1 Capone and Charley Berger stand for a type. The gang has become the front and shoulders of disorder. The old-fashioned highwayman has gone the way of the blacksmith shop, and the underworld is producing its Henry Fords. Neither should we regard the setup as surprising or illogical. Bad men, as well as good, profit by improvements. If gunpowder helped the pioneers of liberty, it also helped crooks, and the same kind of dynamite that served ’to clear Hell gate can be used to crack safes. Business men having decided that expertness and organization are advantageous, why should the criminal ignore them? nan Philosophy of its Own WE like to believe that crime is a matter of personal perversion; that those who practice it are ostracized as soon as their secret becomes known; that it can not be promoted like other human activities; that the establishment of a partnership, much less a syndicate, means its undoing. The idea that it has developed a philosophy for its own justification and that men can argue themselves into the belief that it is not only legitimate, but profitable, still is beyond our comprehension, notwithstanding that every day produces instances that should leave no doubt on the point. The naive trustfulness with which we continue to treat crime as though it were the product of individual weakness; as though it were not catching, and as though the problem of dealing with it hinged largely on personal punishment, is astonishing.

Crime not only has borrowed a page from big business, but from the Rotary Club and the press agent. It has developed propaganda as well as a system, and boasts its code of honor and its excuse for existence. A mupltiplicity of rules and regulations, though intended to suppress crime, has furnished it a philosophy with which to gain recruits. Men and womer who never would think of violating the majority of laws find it possible to argue that the breaking of some particular one Is justified, not only because it conflicts with their personal desires, but because it is contrary to what they believe in general. Prohibition furnishes a shining example in point. Though it offers no explanation of the milk racket, the poultry racket, the arson racked, the bankruptcy racket, the fence racket, and a dozen other rackets in which crime depends on cooperative action.

Law Behind the Times THE anti-social mind has developed along with the social mind. Employing the same weapons, adopting the same methods, and availing itself of the same facilities. It is time that we recognized this aspect of the problem, instead of assuming that the village constable is as capable of dealing with auto bandits as he used to be in dealing with those who went on foot. Apart from the improvement in local police forces, we are trying to handle crime about the same way v:e did when oxcarts and wheel-ba-rows we r e in style. Criminal classes have learned how to co-operate for their own protection on a nation-wide basis, but. the law’ enforcement machinery has remained the unsystematic, disconnected hodee-nodae it was in George Washington’s time. a a a We even have extradition laws, by which a criminal caught in a state other than the one in which he committed h’s crime, can not be brought, to book the Governor of the former is willin'?, and it has hannened on many ocasions that for one reason or another the Governor was not wipin'?, and. therefore. tht a h' - "h official, under oth to unhold the law, actually has blocked its enforcement. Are there any snakes in Ireland? The biological survey says that there are no snakes native in Ireland and never have been, so far as authentic records show. This is due to its isolation from the region in which snakes originated, and which they now occupy. A few attempts have been made to introduce harmless species into Ireland but as far as the records show, none have been established there. This may be due to a lack of orooer environment. climate; to disease or other abnormal conditions. The slow-werm, or lac-worm, a leeless lizard, which surierfi ciallv looks very much like a snake, is native in Ireland. and mav acrorr>t for of the snake stories of that country.

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IT SEEMS TO ME * ™ D

EVER since I became a columnist I have been jealous of the preachers. Asa boy it was not my ambition to enter the ministry, for at that time the job of being a criminal lawyer and cross-examining people seemed the most glamorous task which the world afforded. After reading the short stories of Richard Harding Davis, I switched and wanted to be a war correspondent. Things did break fairly well according to my wishes, for I got to be a war correspondent, but a good deal less dashing than my idol. If I had my choice now, it would be the pulpit. In a sense a column is a pulpit, but the congregation is under no compulsion to remain, there is no choir to help out, and no collection. Also, doctors of divinity are taken much more seriously. Still it seems to me that a good editorial page contains more humanizing influence than the average sermon. Few of those which I hear on the radio or read in the daily papers on Monday mornings stir me profoundly. And so I see no reason why I should not occasionally take a chance and preach one myself. n a a The Text THE text today is taken from the Thirty-first verse of the first chapter of Genesis: “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Mr. Glossbrenner is anything but consistent. Yesterday I was handed his political card by a worker. The card was printed in a union shop and bore the union label (No. 19). Mr. Glossbrenner conducts one of the largest nonunion printing plants in the middle west, and is anti-union from start to finish, and says he is proud of it. Having the unicn label on his card is a choice piece of demagogy. The spectacle of the high priest of anti-trade unionism going to a union shop for his printing is swallowing the Jolly old camel, as we English say. P. T. J. Ninth ward.

Daily Thought

I therefore beseech yon that you walk . . • with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, forebearing one another in love.— Ephesians 4 2. fa a a However dull a woman may be, she will understand all there is in love; however intelligent a man may be. he will never know hut half of it. —Madame Fee.

vary according to the manufacturer and the purpose for which the powder is made. Powders used to cover up defects or improve the appew - ance of the skin, says Dr. Pusey, have usually talcum, which is magnesium silitalcum, which is magnesium silicate, or French chalk or rice powder as their base. Sometimes zinc oxide, magnesium carbonate or precipitated chalk is added. Most powders do not contain harmful ingredients. Occasionally lead and bismuth salts are added to powders. Manufacturers have found that these are unnecessary and add little to the value of the powder for any purpose. Specialists in diseases of the skin do not urge the avoidance of pow- !

In the churches we hear a great deal about original sin and almost nothing of original virtue. Preachers seem to believe that vice is by many leagues more attractive than virtue. This may be logical enough for fundamentalists who insist upon the actuality of the fall of Adam. Yet even modernists insist that man is a pretty poor creature unless he chins himself regularly upon some code of transcendental ethics. Since Rousseau's day, there have been few to state the case for the noble savage. Seemingly thete is a general agreement that there can be no good living without a program. Haphazard goodness and instinctive righteousness never are mentioned. And yet I must contend that within my own experience, most of the decent acts which I have ever done, or seen in others, were matters less of principle than impulse. The man who counts ten before ever coming to a decision may avoid some hasty acts of violence but he will also stifle an even greater num-

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JOHN BROWN CAPTURED Oct. 18 ON Oct. 18, 1859, John Brown and his followers, who had taken possession of Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., and the national arsenal of the confederate states, were captured by General Robert E. Lee. The raid cn Harper’s Ferry culminated long and secret planning by Brown, who was an abolitionist of the extremely radical type. The raid took place Oct. 16, when, after having, as a blind, taken a farm near his objective point, Brown led a band of fewer than a score of followers into the town and seized the national arsenal, thus giving what he supposed would be the signal for a general insurrection of the slaves. The audacious act, however, resulted only in calamity for the participants and so embittered the south as t 6 make a peaceful settlement of the slavery question a still more remote probability. Troops of the regular army under Lee soon regained the arsenal. Brown was tried and convicted of treason, conspiring and advising with slaves and others to rebel and of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death and was executed in Charles Town, W.. Va., Dec. 2, 1859. During the following years a popular song in the north has the refrain: “John Brown’s body lies amouldering- in the grave, But his soul goes marching on."

der; on the contrary they are convinced that the moderate use of cosmetic poyvder helps a delicate skin by protecting it against wind and sun. The ordinary moderate use of powder does not clog up the pores sufficiently to interfere with perspiration, unless the powders are mixed with creams and pastes to make a solid mixture. It is not believed, however, that any woman with common sense will care to apply a mixture of that type to her face. Powder, combined with greasy applications, causes the collection of dirt and powder in the opening of the sweat glands and leads perhaps to the dilation of the pores and the formation of blackheads.

Ideals and opinion* expressed in this column are those cf one of America’s most interesting writers, and are niesented without regard to tlie.r agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude <f this paper.—The Editor.

ber of generous and kindly impulses. Pilate himself was minded to release Christ until he thought the situation over and realized that this was not the will of the mob roundabout, a a Then and Now THERE were no Comstocks around to shush Adam about sex and as a result there is no record that he was ever dirty-minded. Everything around was very good and Adam just went along with the ! rest of living creatures. In fact, I .think that it was a great mistake to invent sin and the various complications which have been built up around it. Os course, if you don’t accept the prevailing concepts you will be called a pagan. But so was Adam. God created a pagan he and a pagan she and in His judgment they were very good. In print vice may seem more .attractive than virtue yet even now at the comparatively youthful age of forty I am willing to debate the proposition that reasonable righteousness is more fun than whoopee. Anybody who keeps tAling a child that he is stupid will succeed in making him just that. And a preacher who insists upon informing his congregation that they are all miserable sinners has no right to complain if they finally are persuaded and act accordingly. (Copyright, 1929, by The T 1 mes)

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SCIENCE - By DAVID DIETZ —

The Spectroheliograph Furnishes Detailed Photos of the Sun’s Surface, a Great Aid to Science. GREAT flaming tongues of redhot gases rse from the seeth- | ing surface of the sun, sometimes to a height of 80,000 miles—ten times the earth’s diameter. Frequently a great cloud of these flaming gases creaks away from the sun and disappears into space. Within recent years it has been possible to photograph these phenomena and by tak.ng a series of photographs close together to gam an idea of their progress. Now for the first time in the world’s history, it is possible > watch them by direct vision and actually see the changes as they occur from one second to the next. The inventive g:n us of Dr. George El'ery Hale, which paved the way for our modern knowledge of the sun, has achieved this latest triumph. After three years of work, his latest device, which he has named the spectrohelioscope, is nearing pe v fecton. A quarter century ago, the Carnegie institution of Washington decided to build its great ob:e.vatory on the top of Mt. Wilson and called upon Dr. Hale to direct the There he designed and built the two great tower telescopes for the study of the sun. one seventy-five feet high and the other 150. He also designed an attachment for them which he named the spectroheliograph. It was th's device which made possible the photographs of the solar prominences, as the great tongues of flame are called. nett Greek THE spectroheliograph furnishes detailed photos of the sun’s surface, showing actual structure of sun spots and many other interesting features. It is impossible to see these things tvhen photographing the sun through an ordinary telescope because the bright glare of the sun’s li'flit "drowns out” all details. The spectroheliograph elimin'’tes this glare. It is well known that when sunlight is passed through a prism it is divided into a band of light or rainbow, called the spectrum. The spectroheligraph makes us® of prisms also, but a slit is placed in front of them so that the lieht entering comes only from a tiny strip of the sun’s immage at one time. A second slit in front of the photographic plate makes it possible to photograph only a tiny section of the spectrum instead of all of it. Suitable mechanism causes these two slits to move. Now the light from a tiny section of the spectrum is light of a single wave length. Consequently, the result of the motions of the two slits is to build up a photograph of the sun in a single wave length of light. Let us suppose that the wave length of light chosen is one furnished by hydrogen. The resulting photograph shows the distribution of hydrogen in the sun’s outer layers- Since the solar prominences are chiefly hydrogen, such a photograph reveals the exact appearance of these great tongues of flame. Dr. Hale’s latest device is an extension of the spectroheliograph. That is why he calls it the spectrohelioscope. Those words, while formidable In appearance, are simple in meaning. “Spectro” comes from “spectrum,” “helio” from the Greek word for "sun,” “graph” from the Greek word “to write;” “scope” from the Greek word “to see.” a a a Persistence IN 1923, Dr. Hale retired from the active directorship of the Mt. Wilson observatory and became honorary director. He has continued his researches, however, at a small private observatory in Pasadena, Cal. It was here that he developed the spectrohelioscope. This device makes use of the same principle employed in the motion picture. In the movie, a number of pictures are flashed on the screen in each second. Due to what is known as persistence of vision, the human eye does not see a series of individual still pictures, but blends them into a moving picture. In the spectrohelioscope, the observer looks into an aperture behind which a slit is moving back and forth with a rapid oscillating movement The moving slit shows,each" portion of a solar prominence in turn. But the human eye puts the series together into a complete picture.