Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1929 — Page 4

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The People Speak jmThere can he no misunderstanding of the Edict of the polls. The people have HHken. They have repudiated, with more Spn emphasis, the control of government by ; e sinister forces tVat seized a party label, ft, through ’it, dominated government for iftir own selfish purposes. |The size of the vote can bring to Mayorbet Sullivan only a grave sense of responsifgKty. His is the task not only of giving J efficient administration, but keeping out Shis Own party any of the tactics or the ' Int which gave him his opportunity. If he rebellion took on a positive form and Mrning note when the supreme court overgrew' the City Manager law, for which the ?>ple had voted and in which they had Siflced their trust. m /Whatever technical reasoning might be led to support that decision, the people unIrstood it to be wrong and they traced the I;ht against their cause to a political lichine. And they saw that machine and ‘ |>t Mr. Glossbrenner, the candidate drafted I’ misguided friends to distract attention |om its misdeeds, and voted accordingly. I The people understood that it was not by . icident that every part of government hich had come under the control of the maline had outraged public opinion and operated against the public welfare. When ruth|ss hands had seized the public schools, the jtizenship decided "that it was time to take p more chances. | It was not a revolt of a section of the city 'fof a class. The returns from every porJon of the city had a striking similarity in - Jgures and percentages. The people had deeded to end a political machine and end it ■eyond repair or rehabilitation. I In this is the hope of a better day. For li it is the evidence of an alert, intelligent ■nd aroused citizenship which demands that ■he government be of the people, by the Ijeople, and for the people. • That same citizenship now must turn its v, ttention and its interest to the work of aiding the new administration in its duties and In its tasks. It can aid by sound counsel and iupport. It can aid by the same interest in jceeping the new administration right as it ■iias abolishing a system that was wrong, j Some day, and perhaps soon, the hopes of j he people can be realized and partisanship "Le abolished from city government. That nvill give the people who think alike and feel Ijhlike a chance to vote alike and together—gas they voted Tuesday. Good government is not w'on in a day. It J requires constant watchfulness. It requires la continuing interest. The first step has j been taken. Coffinism is discredited. It must 1 remain discredited and never permitted to ■arise again under any banner or any flag.

A Job for Brookhart 1 Hurrah lor Senator Brookhart! He is getting excited about prohibition, rfe has discovered it is not being enforced. Prohibition is in a bad way. SomeI thing should be done about it. 1 No one will disagree with that. The particular incident which so shocked Brook- | hart that he recounted it to the senate Tuesday, was i not so surprising as expected from the advance pubaiicity. The revelation was that he saw senators at m bankers’ wet party in Washington. | Brookhart need not have gone to that party to ■make his discovery. He could have seen evidence of lltquor at the Capitol. Has he been asleep in the sen- [ ate all these years? But let that pass. Let us forget that Brookliart's discovery is old stuff, and credit him with a great expose. What are the facts that can be “exposed?” The facts are that many senators drink, and bankers. and butchers and bakers and candle-stick makers. The facts are that prohibition does not prohibit, and enforcement does not enforce. The facts are that as much alcohol probably is being consumed in the country as before prohibition. Up to that point every one will agree with Brookhart. and only wonder why he woke up so late. But who and what is to blame, and what are we going to do about it? Brookliart's answer is simple. He says, fire Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, and get a man who will enforce the law. Well, we have heard many arguments for getting rid of Mr. Mellon, but this one impresses us least. jf Brookhart will consult his friends of the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League, or if he will read the famous article by Dr. Clarence True Wilson on the late Wayne B. Wheeler, the senator will make certain other instructive though belated discoveries. He will find out that Secretary Mellon is not directly responsible for enforcement, and does not even pick those who are—the professional dry leaders nominate the government enforcement czars, i So enforcement has failed under dry-picked prohi■bition chiefs and under that active crusader, the ■former assistant attorney-general, Mabel Walker ■Wlllebrandt. That is why the prohibition question has become ■a~ serious. If prohibition can not be enforced after Vne millions,the government has spent in the last after the fivf-and-ten penalty laws, after ■Anurders committed by the army of federal agents, I the appeals and reforms of President Hoover, | the organized propaganda and virtual control

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of enforcement machinery by the dry leaders themselves, how can it be enforced? That is the question, Senator Brookhart. And if the senator has the answer, he is the man the nation has been looking for. He can't help prohibition any in the senate. The more laws passed, the worse it gets. He is wasting his talents. Why doesn't Brookhart become a government enforcement official? The others have failed. Maybe he could succeed. On the basis of the nation's experience, it appears that prohibition is unenforceable. But the experiment is being tried, and is badly in need of help. There is the job for Brookhart. The Christmas Seals Within a short time the annual sale of Christmas seals by the National Tuberculosis Association will begin; and now is a good time to remind ourselves to buy as many of these little stickers as we can possibly manage. The seals sell for a penny each; yet they provide the sole support of the association’s 1,400 affiliated organizations in all parts of the United States in their fight against tuberculosis. There isn’t any reason why we should make an extended plea for the support of this work. The prevalence of tuberculosis is such a major problem, and the work done by these organizations is so valuable to the entire country, that the seals ought to sell themselves. This editorial is just a reminder—when you get ready to make up your Cliristmas packages, lay in a good supply of these seals. Virginia’s Election John Garland Pollard, a Democrat, has been elected Governor of Virginia. His victory is nationally significant, because it is the first indication of the trend of political sentiment in the south since the national elections a year ago, when five traditionally Democratic states went Republican. Dr. William Moseley Brown, Pollard's Republican opponent, was supported not only by his own aroused and hopeful party, but by Democrats opposed to the Smith-Raskob influence. The Republicans hoped to place Virginia permanently in the Republican column. The anti-Smith Democrats hoped to demonstrate to the Democratic party that Virginia and perhaps other states would be permanently lost unless the Raskob influence were removed. The vote also might be interpreted as a rebuke to what has become known as “Cannonism.” Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and his group actively supported the Republican candidate. The Press and the Prosecutor The jailing of three Washington Times reporters for refusing to act as prosecuting witnesses in connection with their newspaper’s expose of bootleggers raises the question of the reporter’s realtionship to the public. It is a direct relationship. Nothing should stand between the reporter and the public. The reportei s function, while not defined by law, definitely is a public one and is so recognized by the public. Any time a grand jury or a prosecutor seeks to make out of a reporter a stool-pigeon or a prosecuting witness, he thereby steps between the reporter and the public and the reporter’s influence is ended. A definite function of the press is to reveal conditions that exist. An equally definite function of a prosecutor or a grand jury is to act on those conditions. Without sither, the function of the other is weakened.

ta \ FREDERICK REASON By LANDIS

IF you would find hopeless blunders seek them in the lives of those who are presumed to be unusually intelligent. For instance, there’s the almost unbelievable stupidity of Senator Moses, who selected Otto Kahn, member of a firm of Wall street giants, for treasurer of the Republican senatorial committee. a tt tt The instant the announcement of that appointment struck the air there was an explosion which caused Mr. fCahn to thrust his resignation into the palm of the foolish Mr. Moses, but Mr, Moses has ilKistrious company in this, the hour of his discomfiture, such company being no less a figure that the late Theodore Roosevelt. 0 tt tt tt Although the Progressive party of 1912 was dedicated to the task of emancipating the country from the grip of privilege and high finance, Colonel Roosevelt proceeded to select for national chairman, George W. Perkins of New York city, for many years the right hand man of J. Pierpont Morgan, and popularly regarded as the incarnation of all the evils from which the Progressive party promised relief. tt a a MR. PANTAGES complained to the other prisoners in the Los Angeles jail that he had received a raw deal in court, but he should remember that he was charged with a very raw offense. With Pantages going over the road for criminal assault and his wife going for driving a car while under the influence of hooch and killing a man, .it appears that the Pantages moral fiber is not firm enough for the winds of prosperity, they being said to blow much harder than the well-known winds of adversity. a a it The Russians may be shooting all these opponents of their scheme of government, as the papers report, and again it may be propaganda. A friend, just home from Russia, relates that when he was in Berlin, the papers said that the bolsheviks just had destroyed a dozen fine churches in Moscow, but when he went to Moscow a few days later, he found the churches standing, safe and sound. a a tt Looking out of the window, we saw a great flock of wild geese, flying out of this clammy weather toward the land of warmth and roses. And yet we use the word “goose” as a synonym for foolishness. tt a a THE greatest test of political regularity was endured by A1 Smith in his speeches for Mayor Jimmie Walker, the love existing between the gentlemen being almost as great as that between France and Germany. Politics is the only human activity in which one must be a hypocrite to be in good standing. tt a a Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was wise to tell the children of Porto Rico not to buy flags with which to salute him as he travels across the country. He should tell them to take the money and buy shoes and escape the hookworm, which Is contracted by going barefooted In that region. , i— —-

M. E. Tracy SAYS;

Bootlegging Would Suffer a Worse Slump Than Wall Street if the Professional Drys Should Withdraw Their Support. SENATOR BROOKHART about a wet dinner, and gets himself nominated to the “American Polecat Club” by an angry constituent. That is one way of looking at it. Another way would be # to include those who attend such dinners, keep quiet, and.vote dry. Senator Brookhart is more exceptional than they are, which is one reason for the unpopularity of his attitude. Meanwhile, if all law makers were to be half as frank about wet dinners they have attended, prohibition presently would lose one of its strongest props. Hypocrisy has done more to preserve this law than anything else. As long as congressmen and legislators can get credit for upholding prohibition, without sacrificing the privilege of taking a drink, especially in high society, the prospect of repealing or modifying it is hopeless. a u tt A New Jersey bootlegger compromises with the government by paying SIOO,OOO. The government demanded $493.000 on the claim that he had made nearly two millions during the last three years for which he had made no tax return. He was a plasterer before fie became a bootlegger. Whatever else may be thought of the case, it shows what wet dinners are doing—wet dinners that could not possibly furnish the trade, without the patronage of professional drys. Indeed, bootlegging would suffer a worse slump than Wall Street if the professional drys were to withdraw their patronage. tt tt tt Voting and Drinking WHILE we are censoring senators, it might be a pious idea to give some thought as to how their voting squares with their drinking. If it is so reprehensible to introduce a lobbyist in disguise, what about doing the same thing with hooch? Senator Gillett says that the presence of bottles is rumored, but that he would not think of snooping around to confirm the rumor, much less of censoring any of his colleagues who might be found, guilty. The observation obviously w*as made as an alibi for Senator Bingham. but let that pass. It goes to the bowels of the prohibition problem. r What that problem needs more than anything else, and what would do more to solve it, is a dose of common, ordinary truth.

u tt tt Crime depends on character rather than drugs, and when we attempt to suppress a drug at the price of popularizing falsehood, deceit, and hypocrisy, how can we expect to diminish it? The things our young people have learned because of the way law makers and officials are handling prohibition furnish muclf of the explanation as to why so many of them go wrong. The complacence with w T hich leaders in politics and society violate a law theyrf>retend to uphold, strikes at a basic element of human character—an element without which anything'like a sound conception of honor and sincerity is impossible. tt tt tt Youth Grows Too Fast THE idea of preventing crime through the right kind of education for young folks, becomes impotent without the right kind of example on the part of their elders, and that example depends more definitely on an attitude toward things' in general than on lip music with regard to things in particular. tt tt tt The Italian minister of justice, Alfredo Rocco, says that precocity has much to do with the delinquency of modern youth. The thought is worth considering. Present day life thrusts itself on young people. They can not help growing wise in a material sense. We profess to wonder why they should see so much, yet how can they help it, with the lights turned on? tt tt a The sophistication of youth, as we flippantly describe it, calls for more careful deliberation and patience on the part of older people. Never in human history did parents, teachers, and persons of prominence face a greater responsibility, because the same systematized publicity that enables youth to see shows every detail of their conduct iiy bold relief. Children not only are watching us grown-ups as never before, but are taking far less for granted.

Questions and Answers

What is the difference between winter and spring wheat? Which of them makes the largest crop in the United States? Winter wheat is sown in the fall, "emains in the ground all winter and ’s harvested in the summer. The grain is generally poor in gluten, but rich in search and is used largely for pastry flour. Spring wheat is sown in the spring and is harvested in the summer, about the same time as the winter wheat. Standard flours are a mixture of spring and 'winter wheat. The United States produces more winter than spring wheat. When was Conway castle in Wales built? Situated on a rock rising above the town of Conway and the river, it is one of the most beautiful ruins in Wales. It was one of six castles erected by King Edward I in 1283, to consolidate his Welsh conquests. It was designed by Henry Ellerton. In 1294 Edward was besieged here by the Welsh, and had great difficulty in holding the castle until the liver subsided enough to permit his

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Diphtheria Can Be Eliminated

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. A LTHOUGH scientific medicine knows the cause of diphtheria, a method of prevention through inoculation against the disease, and also has a specific antitoxin for treating severe cases, diphtheria has not been wiped from the earth. The reasons are many. Diphtheria germs pass easily from one person to another. It is possible for well people to carry the germs in their throats after they have recovered from the disease. The diphtheria carrier is a menace and is largely

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COLUMNISTS often have to confess themselves in error arfki they should be readily the privilege of pointing with pride. I wish to call attention to the fact that in a recent piece the statement was made that America has become a country in which governmental power ahd prestige is wholly dwarfed by the power of great financiers. It hardly can be said that the stock market is a private enterprise in which Washington has no concern Indeed, President Hoover tried to stem a Wall street panic by making public announcement of the fact that in his opinion the country was sound. And when the President spoke stocks wavered for a few hours and then proceeded to drop 20 or 30 points. But wheh John D. Rockefeller spoke for himself and his son that was something else again. The oil king did no more than say that he and John D. Jr. were buying and up rushed values in a torrent. In other words, the economic fate of the country rested not in the hands of the administration but within the grip of a few men of great wealth. tt tt tt , Rockefeller IT is not my notion that these giants are necessarily sinister, and yet I am not wholly easy in! the thought that an old gentleman in Tarrytown has the power to give me buttered bread, or crusts, or none at all as seems to him expedient. Wall Street may be a gambling hell but it is a game in which we all take part whether we will or not. Some have estimated that 22,000,000 people own, or did own, some bits of stocks and bonds. It is just dumb to say, “Oh, that is Wall Street. It has nothing to do with business.” The market may justly be compared to a giant industrial heart which pumps blood to each extremity. And so I say that it is inaccurate for us to speak with towering pride

relief expedition to reach him. During the Civil war it was held for the king by Archbishop Williams, a native of Conway, and afterward by Sir John Owen. How many miles of paved highway are in the United States? The total surfaced roads at the close of 1928 was 625,000 miles. This does not include city paved streets, for which there are no statistics. The total highway mileage of the United States is 3,005,614. Where is Bohemia? Bohemia was formerly a kingdom of the Austrian empire, and since 1918 it has been a constituent part of the new Czechoslovak republic. It is bounded by Saxony on the north, Bavaria on the west, Silesia on the northeast, Moravia on the east and Upper Austria on the south. How long did the United States issue fractional paper currency? From Aug. XL, 1862, to Feb. 15, 1876.

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responsible for many cases of diphtheria. Absence of the disease from certain communities in any considerable number of cases over long periods of time develops a careless attitude toward the condition, so that people neglect to take the measures that are available. In the United States the number of cases of diphtheia has decreased almost continuously since 1923, although in 1927 there was a sharp rise, explained by the fact that the diphtheria germs are living organisms and may vary in their virulence from time to time. From October to January each year the number of cases of diph-

of our democratic institutions when the true fact is that almost the power of life and death rests in the hands of men over whom we have only the slightest hold by any legislative process. You may tell me that they are genial despots who want nothing but good for me and that our interests are the same. And even so I repeat that I do not like it. The keys to the jam closest should be distributed much more widely. a u a * Touch of Irony ROCKEFELLER’S kindly counsel - to the masses that now there had come a safe time to buy had in it just a touch of irony. A man who has lost both legs may not precisely welcome the birthday gift of a bicycle. John D. forgot one important point when he advised his fellow citizens to purchase sound securities. He forgot to say with what. It seems to me that we worship a false god and that modern industrial efficiency is highly overrated. I think that the name of this false god is Competition. Henry Ford is a master mind and like other master minds he has reduced the processes of production to an exact science. But the matter of distribution is still a free-for-all with no guarantee whatever against calms and hurricanes. The farmer who grows a bumper crop of wheat is apt to find that by his very, skill and industry he has improverished himself. Unless foodstuffs are burned in the public square the poor fellow has bankrupted himself by success. And in the same way failure lies ahead of the man who finds ?oo much oil or makes too many autos or mines an excess amount of copper. Surely our economic system must stand somewhat this side of perfection if it involves a more or less regular cycle of gluts and stomachaches. The argument against any form of government ownership appears to be that such management is inefficient. This seems a knockdown blow to all who foresee at some future time the emergence of the super state. tt tt tt 'False Attitude IT would be folly to contend that Mr. McAdoo did as well with the railroads of the United States as a score of private executives. Still if you believe in government ownership or close regulations, it is not necessary to advocate that the regulators should all be somewhat ungifted amateurs. It may be so that a socialistic or semi-socialistic state would be in some way less efficient than the organizations built up under the fierce fires of competition. But it is my point that a little less genius

Daily Thought

And fn the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the fall, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.—Daniel 8:23. ana We shall be judged, not by whai we might have been, but what w< have been.—flewell, J

theria increases, apparently associated with the coming of the change in the weather and also with the opening of schools and the making of tremendous numbers of new contacts by children. Recently the health section of the League of Nations made a complete survey of the diphtheria situation throughout the world. Asa result of this survey, It is concluded that antitoxin can control the disease and that immunization against diphtheria by toxin-anti-toxin or by anatoxin is efficient in developing resistanoe to the disease The battle is a difficult one, but co-operation of the public is certain to yield successful results if the campaign Is persistent.

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

and energy might serve to keep us out of the poorhouse. Surely there should l?e somewhere an authority to say to the captains and kings of industry, “Not so fast, my little man. Somewhat less efficiency, I pray you. After all, just what are you going to do with that gadget after you have finished making it?” (Copyright. 1929. by The Times) ** *T C O|AVr 13 THC t\m vvjfomv j LINCOLN WINS ELECTION November 6 TODAY is the sixty-ninth anniversary of. the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States on Nov. 6, 1860. Lincoln won by 180 votes, Breckenridge receiving 72, Bell 39 and Douglas 12. The election was strictly sectional, for the Republicans got no electoral vote in a southern state. The year closed in gloom for those who hoped for peace and in February a southern confederacy was formed by delegates meeting in Montgomery, Ala. On Feb. 18, Jeff Davis was inaugurated president of the confederacy. After Lincoln’s inauguration on March 4, he denied the right of any state or number of states to go out of the Union. In the south the address was regarded as practically a declaration of war. Less than six weeks later the Confederates bombarded Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor and the Civil war was on.

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SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ—

National Park Established in Africa to Prevent Extinction of Wild Animals. TWO distinguished American scientists just have been appointed members of the commission of the Parc National Albert of Belgian Congo, Africa. They are President. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City. To those who have been in the habit of thinking of Africa as mostly jungle inhabited by savage tribes and dangerous animals, the existence of a national park in that land may seem somewhat of a surprise. But as a matter of fact, modern man has made such inroads upon Africa that many authorities fear that the day is not distant when the only African lions will be stuffed ones in museums. It is to forestall that day that the national park in Belgian Congo was established. It received its name from the fact that it was first suggested by King Albert of Belgium, who obtained the i idea of a national park while visiting those of the United States. King Albert was in this country in 1919, a few months after the armistice of November, 1918. In 1921, the late Carl Akeley, scientist and explorer, after a visit to the volcanic region of northern Kivu, recommended that a gorilla sanctuary be established there. He pointed out that unless such action was taken, the gorilla would 60on become extinct. n * Akeley THE Belgian government recognized the merit of Akeley’s proposal and the Parc National Albert, was established. In November, 1925, Akeley returned to the newly created park, accompanied by his wife and Dr. J. M. Derscheid, the Belgian zoologist. Their visit was to survey the new park and make recommendations for the establishment of a station from which scientific researches could be carried on. It was during this expedition that Akeley died and he was buried in the heart of the gorilla sanctuary which he, the world’s chief authority upon thesubject of the gorilla, had planned. Mrs. Akeley and Dr. Derscheid reported the findings of the expedition to King Albert in 1928 and in June, 1928, the king issued a decree increasing the size of the park to 500,000 acres and laying down pl#ns for its administration.

The decree prohibits, under severe penalties, the killing or capture of any wild animal within the park. This applies to animals considered dangerous as well as others. The decree also prohibits the destruction of trees or wild plants or any changes in the aspect of the landscape. Belgian colonial officers will police the park and no one will be allowed to enter it without special permit. matt Wild KING ALBERT’S determination is to keep a small section of ‘wild Africa” actually wild. The park becomes a sanctuary in which the animals and plants of the district can be preserved. The park thus becomes a sort of outdoor African museum in Africa. This is important, because many rare species of animals which have disappeared from other parts of the world now are making their last stand in the park district. Scientists desire to study these animals in their native surroundings. It is possible to learn what an animal looked like from a stuffed specimen in a museum. An animal’s skeleton can be measured in the laboratory. But to find out how an animal lived he must be studied in his native surroundings. That is why scientists have sought to have a sanctuary established in Africa before it is too late. American scientists are gratified by the apnointment of Drs. Merriam and Osborn to the park commission. Both men have been active supporters of the conservation movement, both here and abroad. At present a joint expedition ot the Carnegie institution and Yale university is in t*>e park to make a study of the gorilla. The expedition is headed by Dr. Harold C. Bingham of the Institute of psychology at Yale university. When is a lie made out of whole doth? The expression refers to a falsehood for which there is not the slightest basis of fact.