Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1930 — Page 6

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Dried Peaches in New Mexico Heywood Broun lately remarked' that one of the effects of prohibition in the United States Has been to make murder a lesser offense than the possession of a pint of beer. He might have gone so far as to state that homicide now lias become less serious than suspicion of the possession of a pint of beer. How long will it be before the taking of life will be viewed with more light-heartedness than leaving the cover off a can of preserved cherries? Not so long, if we may regard a recent episode in New Mexico as at all typical or representative. A few days ago, federal prohibition officers, aided by local deputy sheriffs, raided a ranch in the Sandia mountains in New' Mexico. They swooped on a house occupied by Procopio and Gregario Espinos. The Espinos boys were of pioneer stock and seemingly possessed old-fashioned and perhaps “silly ideas regarding the sanctity of home and property. Anyhow, Gregario took down his faithful fowling-piece and emptied its contents into the anatomy of Deputy Sheriff Emilo Candelaria, with the result that Mrs. Candelaria now is a widow. The raiding party beat a hasty retreat and secured reinforcements in the form of a large band of both federal and state officers. The Freres Espinosa took one look at the advancing army and concluded that successful defense was out of the question. They ran up the white flag and their “castle” was occupied by the enemy. What was found upon close search of the beleaguered home? A colossal and actively productive still of vast stores of moonshine? Not according to official reports. The press account of the episode closes with the laconic statement: "The evidence obtained was a quantity of sacked sugar, a quantity of dried peaches, and ten pounds of yeast.” Meantime, one devoted servant of the law has departed prematurely for his happy hunting grounds, a rancher is accused of first degree murder, and six of his neighbors are in jail.

Lincoln’s Debt to Booth Historians have remarked that what the country lost through the act of John Wilkes Booth was Lincoln's gain. They point out that if Lincoln had lived out his allotted days, he probably would have been driven into oblivion, a broken man, as was Woodrow Wilson fifty years later. ms assassination both saved Lincoln from this painful and.hopeless struggle and gained for him the martyT’s halo and a prestige in our country's annals matched only by that of the father of our country himself. I At the very height of Lincoln's career, and on the very crest of His triumph after Appomattox, his enemies not only were plotting his ruin, but were already in a lan way to accomplish it. There is but the most remote possibility that Lincoln's wise and moderate policies of reconstruction could have stood up under the savage attacks of Ben Wade, Charles Sumner and their kind. The latter were supported by the overwhelming majority of public opinion in the north VVe are prone to imagine tnat Lincoln's immense prestige might have been sufficient to overcome them, but we fail to remember that the Lincolnian prestige which we assume has been accumulated chiefly since his death. It is difficult for us to understand today the bitterness with which Lincoln s statesmanlike reconstruction policies were being greeted in the north even before his assassination. We hardly can conceive that Republican congressmen actually expressed themselves as believing tnat Booth was an agent of God or that Republican clergymen in the north publicly thanked God for the deliverance. Andrew Johnson adopted Lincoln's reconstruction policies with literal exactness, but Stevens crushed him. That Lincoln would have put up a better fight than Johnson no sane man would deny. But that he would have done enough better to close the gap between Johnson's miserable failure and tnumpnal achievement only the rash man would assert. Booth's entry into Ford's theater that ominous evening in April. 1865, was, then, cause for shedding tears over the destiny of our nation, but scarcely reason lor weeping over Lincoln's personal happiness and career. This assertion must not be taken as a belittling of Lincoln. In wisdom and charity his plan towered over that ot congress as Washingtons monument does over the sub-basement of the treasury building. We have not been discussing the relative wisdom of the presidential and the congressional plans oi reconstruction. We are only concerned here with their relative prospect of success in the years following 1865.

Blocking Nava! Reduction Liberal protest here and abroad apparently has killed the untimely American proposal at the London naval conference for the United States to build anew battleship. Perhaps President Hoover was responsible for making the American delegation withdraw the plan, which, especially in view of Britain’s willingness to scrap battleships, violated the Hoover reduction pledge. At any rate, it is to be hoped that this battleship construction program •will not be revived by our admirals. But, with that obstacle to reduction and economy temporarily sidetracked, the American delegation seems to be taking an equally stiff-necked and dangerous attitude on aircraft carrier reduction. The roilowing London dispatch doubtless is causing the President much concern on his return to Washington from a Florida fishing vacation: "The American delegation practically has decided to Ignore President Hoover's declaration that the United States is willing to reduce as low as any other power by opposing the British proposal to reduce airplane carriers from 135.000 to 100.000 tons.” These repeated suggestions from responsible American correspondents at London that our delegation is ignoring the President's policy are astounding. Obviously such situation can not continue. Eventually the President will assert his responsibility. It ir rather a far cry from the popular American demand for parity and reduction to the delegation's present portion that 100.000 tons of aircraft carrier strength for Anglo-American iri.y are not enough. Why thV sudden change in American policy—if ** Is the American policy?

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Lawless Law Officers While congress Is debating furiously on prohibition and senators are demanding an investigation of the government’s enforcement machinery from top to bottom, agents of the government themselves more and more are resorting to violent and questionable methods in their attempts to make the dry laws effective. Lawlessness of those who violate the prohibition statutes is matched to a degree by the lawlessness of those attempting to enforce them. Meantime, public resentment grows. Philadelphia police, presumably aided by federal agents, who spied into rooms from fire escapes, raided a reputable hotel in that city, arresting twen-ty-four men and women guests at a dinner party. They entered private suites in which there had been no disturbance, without warrant. And after that police threatened the hotel management with loss of certain privileges in no way connected with the Volstead act. Similar raids have been made in New York City, and the prohibition administrator there has threatened padlock proceedings. Fifteen agents, working for two weeks, made one case. They registered at the hotel under assumed names and bought liquor from employes. The administrator warned hotel and restaurant keepers that he would institute padlock proceedings even against those who served “accessories”—cracked ice, ice water and ginger ale—to their patrons, a procedure for which there is no warrant in law. A federal court at Duluth meantime was freeing a customs patrolman charged with killing a citizen who failed to stop his car quickly when ordered. The agent used a riot gun, supplied by the government. He was defended by the government. There was no liquor in the citizen’s car. Out in Oklahoma the federal government has been trying a ease in which there were 102 indictments charging a county liquor ring with operating under protection of county and city officials. A former sheriff already has been convicted. Another kind of official lawlessness. In Michigan, a woman placed on trial for giving a policeman a drink was found guilty when the judge ordered the jury to return such verdict. The judge said he would issue similar instructions in other cases, since he was tired of having cases thrown out by juries. This he did. although the Constitutions of Michigan and of the United States, guaranteeing the light of trial by jury, have not been repealed. Such instances could be multiplied almost indefinitely. And some persons wonder why prohibition grows steadily less popular.

A Very Fine Job When the United States senate spends half a day reducing the tariff on aluminum, it's a half day well spent. Fc>- years the complaint has been made that the Aluminum Company of America, owned by Secretary Mellon and his family, enjoys a complete monopoly and collects extortionate profits because of the tariff duties that protect it. A federal trade commission investigation in 1922 found the complaint to be well founded. Harlan F. Stone, as United States attorney-general, prepared to prosecute the company under the anti-trust laws. Stone was elevated to the supreme court and his successor dropped the matter. Mellon's company continued to have its own way with the government until Monday afternoon. Then the senate—encouraged probably by its success in taking the supreme court apart to see what makes it tick—fixed its eye on the aluminum schedules. The reduction that resulted should be reflected in benefit to housewives who buy kitchen utensils and to automobile, airplane and other manufacturers who use aluminum in great quantities. If housewives and manufacturers will stand behind the senate in its coming conference fight with the house, these benefits can be assured. Nobody will lose by this action of the senate except Mellon and his family. And even Mellon may derive some pleasure from it. He may not have to pay himself so much income tax next year.

REASON By FREDERICK LANDIS

JOHN M'CUTCHEON, America’s beloved cartoonist, made a picture recently of how Lincoln would have looked in the wardrobe of 1930 and we congratulate the artist on his original idea and we congratulate the emancipator on his escape from the utterly barren clothing of our time. a ft a In the garb of the sixties in which Lincoln takes his long stroll through immortality, he is the incarnation of ruggedness, for then clothing was scenery as well as something to cover one’s body, but in the modern suit kindly donated by Mr. McCutcheon, Mr. Lincoln is as uninteresting as an English walnut. a a a If you will go up to the attic and bring down the old family album and dust it off and open it up you will realize that we have left one world of fashion and entered another; you will see by the tintypes of those who lived half a century ago that they seemed to be a race of giants. a a a BUT it's only their clothes; they wore long coats, low vests, bulging pleated shirts, high collars and with them piles of black silk, called stocks, and then the gentlemen of that era topped it all off with high hats, usually beavers. Those in the professions wore that regalia all the time, but the rest of them wore it only on Sundays and at funerals arid weddings—and when they had their pictures taken. a e a The long coat lingered in the professions until around 1900. though the high turned-over collar had given way to a high str&ight up, often in front and the pillow-like stock had surrendered to the thin black tie which was done in a bow. a a a Even though the quality of our statesmanship, particularly in the house and senate, sadly has declined, still one must admit that we exaggerate the greatness of .hose who used to be, because they wore clothes which had drama in them, because in their imposing makeup they looked like history. a a a IT is impossible for one to be heroic in pants that are turned up at the bottom and a sack coat which has no more character than a barrel. Henry Clay is very impressive in his steel engraving. delivering that farewell to the senate, but only because he has on clothes that are theatrical. Put him in a sack coat and that picture would oe a total loss.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Suspense Has Been Carried Far Enough; the Country Is Entitled to Definite Action on the Tariff. PRESIDENT HOOVER warns old guard leaders that delay on the tariff bill is upsetting business. Old guard leaders gladly admit the fact, but excuse themselves with the plea that they are unable to do anything about it because coalition forces are in control of the senate. In so far as they have spoiled the iniquitous Smoot-Hawley bill, coalition forces can be credited'with making good use of their power. In so far as they have wasted time in futile discussion and meaningless amendments, they can not. * * While the country does not want, or need, a tariff bill like that proposed by the Smoot-Hawley crow'd, it does want and need the situation cleared up. Suspense and uncertainty have been carried far enough. The country is entitled to definite action, and will hold the coalition forces responsible for failure to get it. Either these forces know what they want, or they do not. If they know, let them wind up the miserable business. If they don’t, they should quit talking and map out a program. tt tt tt Politics Again A GOOD deal of the barnstorming in congress, not only with regard to the tariff, but with regard to prohibition and several other things, amounts to little more than politics. Politics admittedly is essential in a system of government which compels its’ officers to run for election every two years. No one can quarrel with congressmen for taking some time out to build fences and provide campaign • material. It is their privilege, if not a part of their job, to make speeches which they can get printed and distributed at government expense for home consumption. But, like everything else, the sport can be carried too far. a tt b Take the running prohibition controversy, which has consumed so much time during the present j session. What are we getting out I of it, except a lot of ballyhoo, which centers largely around the question 1 of patronage? Senators Norris, Borah, Brook- i hart and Wheeler—all good drys— j want a sweeping investigation, but j chiefly for the purpose of changing I the personnel. Other drys, whose friends are J threatened with loss of their jobs, oppose the idea. One can believe that Norris, : Borah, Brookhart and Wheeler are j right, and still see the futility of j their effort. They are proceeding on the as- : sumption that prohibition enforce- j ment has failed because the right j men are not in charge. A lot of other people believe that j it has failed because the task is hopeless, and that it will continue : to fail, regardless of who is in ; charge.

What Is the Sentiment? JUST how many people have come to this conclusion with regard to prohibition is, after all, the most important question. Until we know that, how can we tell what really ails enforcement? Like any other law, prohibition is no stronger than the sentiment behind it. If it jacks sufficient sentiment to give it a reasonable chance to succeed, that settles the matter. Our first problem, therefore, is to find out whether such a lack exists. Congress being unable, or unwilling to do this, the Literary Digest proposes to take a poll, which premi-es to throw more light on the subject than anything our lawmakers have said or done. n a a As long as its friends can claim prohibition is favored by a substantial majority, and its opponents can claim the same thing, we have a setup which permits unintelligent efforts at enforcement on the one hand, and equally unintelligent efforts at nullification on the other. The fact that prohibition has been written into the Constitution means nothing if the people have turned against it, while the fact that some have turned against it means nothing if the majority still wants it. The sine qua non of constructive action should be obvious. We need a cleancut, unadulterated referendum, and we probably would have had it long ere this, if dry politicians were not afraid to face the music. A poll like that proposed by the Literary Digest can not be regarded as such a referendum, but if it reveals a state of public opinion that will cause these dry politicians to abandon their stubborn stand, it will have served a worthwhile purpose.

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Feb. 19 ON Feb. 19. 1803. Ohio was admitted to the Union. In the War of 1812 the new state twice was menaced by the combined forces of the British and Indians, but in both cases defeated the invaders. The first victory was gained byPerry in a memorable battle on Lake Erie, and the second by General William Henry Harrison on the River Thames in Canada. In the Civil war Ohio gave the Union a large number of officers, among them being Grant. Sherman, McDowell, Rosecrans and Garfield. Recognized throughout its history as a fruitful soil for political activities, Ohio gave the nation seven presidents: U. S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison. William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding.

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THOUGHT WE DECIDED ONCE AND FOR ALL

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Food May Be Poisoned by Germs

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. UP to a few years ago anybody who suffered with pain in the abdomen and nausea after eating was likely to complain that he had ptomaine poisoning. Increasing knowledge of chemistry and of the nature of the conditions that bring about these symptoms has resulted in a different point of view. Nowadays it is realized that food poisoning may be the result of the presence of serious infection from germs contained in food from poisons which accidentally have found their way into the food and i

IT SEEMS TO ME

IF there were any semolance of : logic in American politics, two | new parties would be in the final ! processes of birth this morning. | Within a week we should have a j clear-cut division between forces plainly labeled conservative and . liberal. Every one admits that the , old names are meaningless, j Without confusion or recriminaJ tion, the members of the United I States Senate ought to line up on j the basis of the roll call brought \ forth by the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes for chief justice of the supreme court. Not within our lifetime has any issue furnished as clear an opportunity for public differentiation between the sheep and goats. This is said without rancor. I have nothing against the personal integrity of goats. a tt u Monstrous INDEED, it seemed to me monstrous that any campaign should ever descend to the level of inquiry into the honesty and sincerity of a candidate. Such things should be taken for granted, although I must admit that there have been national elections in which it was not wholly unfair to raise the issue of perturbation about what a Republican cabinet might do with the public funds. However, this I blame on too great a quantity of smoke in small back rooms. There is no fundamental reason why a Republican should not be just as honest as the average Democrat. Eut I am distinctly puzzled at the attitude of certain Republican organs which have assailed the opposition in the Hughes debate. It is nonsense to criticise these rebels as men motivated by mean and petty motives. Norris, for instance, was never more in earnest in his life. Ana his has been a political career marked by almost fanatical intensity. Both conservatives and liberals should be glad to get things straightened out. Any fair-minded observer must admit that many Democrats are Republicans at heart, and vice versa.

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from sensitivity to various substances. The response of sensitivity is usually in the form of an eruption and sometimes with the symptoms of asthma. The most common caus'e of these symptoms is the presence of germs In food that has not been properly protected in cooking, handling or serving. The germs chiefly concerned are the botulinus, which are exceedingly dangerous, because they produce serious symptoms and death so promptly, and the various salmonella types which cause severe intestinal symptoms and affect tremendous numbers of people.

Such old signposts as protection and states' rights have rotted out of existence. tt tt tt Traders A LOUISIANA Democrat wants a -fa. high sugar schedule, and necessarily will trade items with some gentleman from Pennsylvania. But the appointment of Hughes furnished a clear-cut test for senators to express themselves on the subject of control or regulation of big business and a hands-off policy. It is interesting to observe that the vote was not at all according to party lines as we know them. Counting members who were paired there were eighteen Democrats, twelve Republicans and one FarmerLaborite in opposition to the confirmation of Hughes. By every law of logic, these members of the minority group belong in the same party. They voted on an issue more clearly drawn than any presented in the last election. And by the same token the forty-one

Daily Thought

Oh, that they were wise, that they would understand this, that they would consider their latter end.—Deuteronomy 32:29. # # # Wisdom is only found in truth. —Goethe. What is the value of a United States silver dollar dated 1862, proof coin? It is catalogued at $1.10 What Washington baseball player caught a ball dropped from the top of the Washington monument? Charles (Gabby) Street. What bachelor President married while in the White House? Grover Cleveland was a bachelor when he entered the White House and was married during his first term. What was the Negro population of the United States in 1860 and also in 1920? In 1860 it was 4,441,830; in 1930 it was 10,463,131.

In 1174 outbreaks of food poisoning which occurred in the United States from 1910 to 1925, 148 were due to meat, 330 to fish. 480 to vegetables, 111 to fruit, 63 to soup and 72 to milk. Asa result of the understanding of the manner in which such outbreaks occur, commercial packers and canners have taken steps to control their process, handling and manipulating food as little as possible after thorough cooking and use as soon as possible after preparation. With these precautions, food is, in the majority of instances, safe lor human consumption.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column arc those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with Ihe editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Republicans and fifteen Democrats of the majority are natural allies.* The New York World, which is widely but somewhat erroneously identified as a leader in liberalism said editorially, after the event: “The conviction has been growing, and is now at the threshhold of political action, that the majority oi the supreme court has emasculated popular control of utilities, and it is this conviction which has found its expression in the protest against Hughes.” a a tt Changes View NEVERTHELESS, the World hailed the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes with a high degree of enthusiasm. The World is generally more liberal after the event than at the time of showdown. The same thing may be said of Senator Borah, who waged an effective and intelligent fight against the confirmation. During forty-four months out of every four years the gentleman from Idaho is about as much a Republican as I am. Save on the prohibition issue, he has no contact or agreement with President Hoover. Yet, when the next national convention and campaign roll around, you will find Borah acting as cheer leader on one of the front seats of the band wagon. The senator either lacks courage or prefers to bore from within, but in any case it is all very confusing. In a certain sense the Grundys do more to clarify politics than the Borahs. It can at least be said in regard to Pennsylvania’s proudest product that nobody need be in any doubt as to where he stands on any issue, in season or out. 'Copyright, 1930, by The Timgsi

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

The Heat of the Sun Is the Result of Destruction of Matter in the Interior of the Great Whirling Ball. THE sun is a great whirling ball of gas. 863.000. miles in diameter, with a temperature of 6,000 degrees at the surface and 40,000,000 degrees at the center. The heat of the sun is the result of the destruction of matter in the interior of the sun. This destruction is at the rat® of 4,000,000 tons of matter a second. But so gigantic is the sun that it will take 15.000,000 times a million years before the sun will be reduced to half its present size or mass. These are some of the outstanding and amazing facts in a word picture of the sun, painted by Dr. Charles E. St. John Os the Mt. Wilson observatory in the light of the most recent discoveries about the sun. Dr. St. John is president of the solar section of the International Astronomical Union and one ol the worlds greatest authorities on the subject of the sun. The greater part ol tiie present knowledge concerning the sun has been unearthed at Mt. Wilson.

Dream THE Mt. Wilson achievements have come because a dream of fifty years ago has been realized. At j that time Dr. George E. Hale, now honorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory, conceived the idea of an intensified study of the sun. Although the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, as' unding details about it have been brought to light. “The old idea was that the center oi the sun was solid or liquid," Dr. St. John said. “We know now that : this can not be the case. Wc are , certain that the sun is gaseous j throughout. | "But we believe that the pressure | at the center of the sun is millions |of tons. ” ! “We believe that the center of the i sun is composed of what we call ! stripped atoms. That is, atom;, from •which the outer electrons have been j torn away. “Since it is these outer electrons which take up most of the room, | the stripped atoms would be tightly packed together, resulting in a dense gas of the sort mentioned. “At the actual surface of the sun, j more normal conditions as to pres- | sure exist and here we have prac- ! tically all the elements found on the earth, but in a gaseous state, since the temperature is 6,000 degrees. “Above the surface of the sun is a great boiling atmosphere of gases and metallic vapors. The pressure in this atmosphere is surprisingly i low. j “At the bottom of this atmosphere, I that is. directly above the surface of the sun, it is less than 100th of what the atmospheric pressure on our earth is.” a ft tx Elements AS the outer regions of the sun’s atmosphere are approached ; the pressure drops until it is about i the same as that inside of a socalled vacuum tube,” Dr. St. John continued. “We also know the distribution of materials or chemical elements in the sun’s atmosphere. “Practically all elements are found immediately above the surface of the sun. At a height of 900 miles above the sun’s surface, there are chiefly hydrogen, helium, and the vapors of iron, sodium, calcium and magnesium. “Above this, no iron is found, but the other elements mentioned above are found to a height of about 3,600 miles. “Above this point, only the hydrogen. helium and calcium are found, bat the calcium at this high level is in an electrified or lonized state. These three elements rise to a height ol 3.400 miles. “Then from this upper layer of the sun’s atmosphere, we find great tongues of hydrogen flames darting out and disappearing into space. These are enormous, some of them 80,000.000 miles high.” Knowledge of the sun is gained by studying the sun’s spectrum, that is, the rainbow of colors made by a prism. The great tower telescopes are used to form such spectra which are many feet long. These spectra are crossed by black lines, the so-called spectrum lines. The position of these lines gives the astronomer the clew to the elements in the sun, their condition, temperature, movements and the like.

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