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So Bijs Everything is In readiness to becin the national census. The enumerators’ pencils are sharpened, the government is spreading Its instructions and organizations are explaining to citizens how to answer questions. Statisticians are nibbing their hands in glee over the prospective figures, which will be used to prove everything and nothing—as figures have a way ol doing. But to the average city, the census means only one thing: See how big we are, sec how we have grown in ten years! If one city has grown more rapidly than Its neighbor, that is a matter of great pride. And the smaller neighbor is cast down in shame. How do we get that way? What is it that makes us weigh all things ,in terms of bigness? This town with its highest building in the state? That town with the biggest lodge? The other town with its biggest movie? Another with its biggest golf course? Why do we get such a kick out of size as such? Some say it is geography. Our values are conditioned by the great stretches of our country. Others say it is our youth as a nation. Lacking any other sense of discrimination, the child always grabs for the biggest apple, however sour it may be. Whatever the cause, this size mania is getting to be a disease with us. The value of a city is to be measured not by the Dumber, but the character, of its population; not by the quantity production of its factories, but by the quality; not by the extent of Its pay rolls, but by their adequacy; not by the size of its business and banking mergers, but by the profits to both management and labor, tfot by the number of Its churches, schools and libraries, but by the kind of religion, education and culture which those institutions produce in the daily life of the city. What this craze for size is doing to us is making all our cities alike— with mass production, mass distribution. mass thinking, mass feeling. Nothing good can come out of a worship of bigness. There Is only one answer to the city or anything else that boasts of its size; What of it? What has bigness got to do with the older American ideal of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Bouncing Reds froni the School System There is precious little logic in the present hysterical effort to throw adolescent Communists out of schools and colleges of the New York area. It is the function of the schools to give out impartial and unbiased information. If the youthful Communists are warped in their judgment and inaccurate in their information, then the very place for them is in the schools and colleges, which are supposed to give poise and balance. 1 If the Communist youngsters can not be convinced of the error of their ways in the schools, then this very fact is a reflection on the subjectmatter taught or the pedagogical methods followed. To throw the Red youths. out on the streets is to deprive them of their only chance to heai the other side of the question or to be exposed to teachings which are assumed to set forth facts in nonpartisan fashion. Ejecting these young Communists only confirms their judgmen', of capitalism and of education in a capitalistic order. If teachers, with the dice all loaded in their favor, can not compete with Communist propaganda among students, such a state of affairs is a confession of weakness on their part. To throw the Reds out is an admission of defeat. We doubt if. upon second thought, the school authorities of New York City will care to let any such Impression get abroad. Looked at celmly from the standpoint of the zest of the game, It would seem desirable to have a sprinkling of Reds in the schools. A few Reds m a high school class in civics inevitably would make the educational enterprise far more lively and interesting. . , . ._ It would do no harm for a high school seme r learn that there is such a country as Soviet Russia or that it is not run on the precise model of our federal government at Washington. The more the Muscovite experiment is discussed in the classroom, the greater the opportunity for the teacher to indicate its weakness and limitations.

Wickersham Propaganda Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover law enforcement commission reported to a secret session of the senate judiciary committee Monday that one ot his experts had found prohibition better enforced than any other law. He gave out as much to the repoi ers. With all due respect to Wickersham. that is nonsense. ' But we are not so much concerned at the moment with the truth or the untruth of the statement as with why Wickersham made it. The net effect is to whitewash. or attempt to whitewash, the enforcement failure. Was that Wickersham’s purpose? We were under the impression that the commission of which he is the head was a fact-finding rather than a partisan political body. The impression was somewhat shaken three months ago. when the commission succumbed to dry administration pressute v making half-baked recommendations before its supposedly scientific study well was begun. And the Impression that the commission Is above political motives now is almost destroyed by the Wickersham propaganda of Monday. It Is true that the administration is in a jam over the enforcement collapse That may be too bad. or it may be all to the good. But, either way. we fail to see that such a political mess is any business of an independent fact-finding commission. It is true that administration leaders are trying to block the proposed enforcement investigation demanded by the dry’ senators. Norris and Borah, on the ground that such expose of enforcement failure would embarrass the President. We can’t see that it would, but, whether it would or not, that is not Wickersham's business. If the commission wants its work to have any value whatever, it must begin to walk a straight line. It must stick to its own job—a very difficult job, by the way—and stop worrying about what Hoover thinks, or what the senate thinks, or what the country thinks. Its Job is to complete as soon as possible an objective, scientific, substantiated report, separating fact from fiction on the most controversial and muddied public Issue. When it completes that factual report, it should speak. Until then it should keep its mouth shut. Other the statement that prohibition is better enforced than any other law ie the

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commission or it is not. If it is, then Wickersham should be made to present it formally and bring out the alleged facts to support it. If it is not the commission's conclusion, then Wickersham wittingly or unwittingly has been guilty of political maneuvering and propaganda unworthy of the alleged purpose of the commission. Justice in Nazareth A hosiery strike has been in progress in Nazareth, Pa., for some weeks. Ten strikers, eight of them girls, were arrested for disturbing the peace. They were tried and acquitted, but the judge assessed against them 75 per cent of the costs of the case, in spite of the speedy acquittal. The freed defendants were told that they can get out in thirty days if they file a petition of pauperism. The sheriff who did the arresting was assessed 23 per cent of the costs. Ke has not paid up, either, but he has not been jailed for contempt. On the contrary, it is being proposed that his share be levied on the county. This is a rather novel way of nullifying the right of jury trial in labor cases. Usually the injunction and contempt proceedings are relied upon to deny laborers a jury trial. Jailing for costs after acquittal by a jury should prove a fruitful suggestion to judges who are hard put to it to keep labor from getting fair play in the courts. Wall Street Version These concerns which are looking for high tariff, on the plea that they are in a bad way and need It to stand up against the competition of foreign goods, should speak to their friends in Wall Street and coach them in what to say. Take the Aluminum Company of America, for instance. See what Pask'& Walbridge of 14 Wall Street has to say cf it in a printed circular for customers: “Aluminum, Limited, an affiliated Canadian company, has extensive foreign interests, owning control of companies engaged in the aluminum industry in Norway, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, France, Switzerland, Great Britain and Japan. “Through these powerful foreign interests, which constantly are being broadened. Aluminum, Limited, has become so formidable a competitor of European producers of aluminum that German producers are discussing the necessity for a protective tariff of 30 marks per 100 Kg. or about fifteen pounds a ton, on new and old aluminum metal, aluminum alloys and factory aluminum waste imported into that country, as a measure to exclude or restrict the importation of products of the Aluminum Company of America.’’ j Horseradish Recently in these columns we discussed the issue of a tariff on tomatoes, as called to the attention of the senate by Ashurst of Arizona. We are happy to learn that the tariff makers in their wisdom have not neglected that other peerless garden product, horseradish. While Senator Deneen of Illinois, in discussing the subject, did not rise to the heights of eloquence that Senator Ashurst did in describing the succulent tomato, he nevertheless was at pains to point out that horseradish had been given attention. He was telling the value of the tariff measure to the farmer. “The growers of horseradish roots have been suffering from severe competition from the importation of horseradish from Germany,” said Deneen. The senate accordingly put a duty of 3 cents a pound on roots and a duty of 35 per cent ad valorem on the prepared product, he said. We have no doubt that this accomplishment will win many votes for the Illinois senator in his effort to keep Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick from capturing his seat.

REASON By F S CK

COUNTESS WARWICK is mistaken in saying that George V will be the last king of England, for the royal house is all that holds John Bull's world-wide political establishment together and England never will deliberately adjourn the empire. There will be a king sitting on her throne when all the other Kings of earth have gone. nun Tire House of Commons is the English government, giving direct expression to the popular will, with a king, shorn of all political power, but possessing a mighty sentimental power which makes the masses regard him as the incarnation of the empire. a a a Argentina continues to ask that the Monroe Doctrine, which has been her protector for more than a century, be scrapped. Only recently she issued an ultimatum to Mussolini which lie obeyed solely because this doctrine warns Europe to stay out of this hemisphere. It's pretty soft, we should say for Argentina to be given the freedom of the world and to have a North American uncle to protect her from everybody. a tt a *w te would not now have a delegation sitting at W London, trying to relieve us of naval burdens which leap into billions of dollars if we had some such benefactor. And through all the years Uncle Sam has protected Central and South America from European aggression, it never has occurred to him to ask those who were made safe by his navy to contribute to the upkeep thereof, and it never has occurred to them to contribute one cocoanut or one banana. sea A lot of South America's opposition to the United States is due to the campaign of false propaganda against us carried cn constancy by European countries. England in particular, to get South America’s trade. We should supplement the Kellogg treaty by an international agreement tc stop hung, but this would throw a lot of men out of work. a s a AS America and Japan sit facing each other over the proposition of lifting Japan's naval power, it makes one think of that far off time when we were goofy enough to go clear across the world to force open the ports of Japan and compel her to associate with us. If we had it to do again, we would think it over seriously before repeating the adventure. There was no room for doubt as to what Uncle Sam meant when he told France that he would not guarantee her safety through the years to come. Ever since the World war the old gentleman in the Star-Spangled wardrobe has seemed to love his home so much more than ever before.

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We Seem to Be Suffering From a Collapse of Laic Enforcement All Along the Line. WITH Rivera dead, and Sydney Franklin gored, Spain re--1 sumes her place on the front page. Most every one laughed when the report came out that Rivera had ' resigned because of failing health, but even dictators can be sick. So, too, most every one laughed when Sydney Franklin, the Brooklyn boy, set forth to become a great, toreador. It all goes to show what a suspicious breed we are. particularly toward men who hold views or choose trades not in keeping with our own ideas. We are against dictatorship, though we approve baseball and movie czars. And it delights our hearts to think ! that though a dictator may possess I some ability, he is bound to be ma- ; licious, dishonest and insincere. | As to bull fighting, we pretend to regard it as an example of utter depravity, though we seldom fail to ' attend whenever we are in countries ; where it is permitted. Don't enjoy it, of course, but always ready to go again if the arrival of some friend or acquaintance gives us an excuse. Couldn't think of our own boys entering the bull ring, but rather proud of the fact that an American | could show the Dons a trick or two. xx xx xx Smugness Our Failing H. G. WELLS says that we never will get anywhere in our efforts to end war until we scrap the idea of perfervid nationalism. When you think of the smugness which dominates our attitude toward ether people and their customs, you are not sure but he is right. We regard the Spaniards as fundamentally different because they like to see a skillful swordsman kill bulls, while we prefer to see men maul each other in the ring, or on the football field, and we find it difficult to believe that the Mohammedans are truly religious because they pray to Allah, while we call him Jehovah. a tt tt Keeping in mind that one man’s j opinion is often better than an- | other’s, it is interesting to note that I George W. Wickersham regards pro- i hibition as fairly well enforced. He quotes ‘‘a prominent investi- j gator” as declaring that prohibition is enforced better than any other federal law, which can be taken either as a most optimistic view from the dry standpoint, or a most pessimistic one from a general standpoint. tt a tt Laws Poorly Enforced AS a matter of common knowledge, we seem to be suffering from a collapse of law enforcement al! along the line. Some say this is because we have too many laws. Others say that bootlegging has taken virtual command of crime and vice. Still others say that the trouble is post-war restlessness. No doubt there is a certain degree of truth in all these explanations, but the fact remains that though our prisons are overcrowded, and our court dockets congested, we appear to be making poor headway in the suppression of antisocial activities. a tt a In this connection, “the racket” is worth a passing thought. While we have always suffered more or less from organized vice, gang rule and systematic blackmail, especially in our larger cities, the racket, as now in vogue, is rather new. Where did it get its start, its foothold, and, above all else, its revenue? In what particular field did it make its first appearance. and acquire that prestige which popularized it in other fields. tt a Rackets Everywhere WE have all kinds of rackets — milk rackets, poultry rackets, dyeing and cleaning rackets, song rackets and so on. Originally, there was one—the beer racket, which came into existence shortly after the advent of prohibition. Just now the music publishers of New’ York are asking Police Commissioner Whalen to help them fight the song racket, by which they are threatened with an annual loss of several million dollars.

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Tuesday, March 18 OUR UNPUBLISHED SELVES Read I John 3:1-6. Memory verse: “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart.” (I Samuel 16:7. MEDITATION By looking on the heart God sees what men do not see. Every man., likewise, sees within himself what no other man can see. For he sees his unpublished self that eludes the public eye. Down under our commonplace, conventional selves, are selves that are not commonplace There are hidden glories in a man that he has not yet revealed. He walks among men a prince in disguise. He is better than any man knows. This knowledge of what he is and strives to be gives him courage and self-respect and satisfaction. The final basis for self-ac-ceptance is unshaken confidence in one's own integrity and endeavors. PRAYER O Lord, we thank thee for the ideals and purposes that thou hast implanted in our hearts and that make us better than we appear to be. Make us loyal to the inner voices, give us the joy of a good conscience and the comfort which belongs to those who have striven to be true. Amen.

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Quick Relief Is Required in Uremia

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyueia, the Health Magazine. \ PERSON with Bright’s disease or inflammation of the kidneys in an advanced stage, or with a severe inflammation of the kidneys due to a poisoning of some sort, finds it impossible to get i-id of the secretion of the kidneys and develops a serious condition called uremia, leading toward death. Apparently the damaged kidney not only allows material to be excreted which it ought to retain, but causes the body to retain products which should be excreted. These retained products produce

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I WONDER if I can induce the reader to remember all the way back to 1924. I find that illness and isolation make me grow reminiscent. When one has the grippe his whole life passes before his eyes, as it is said to do in the case of a drowning man, but much more languidly. Six years ago the nation was engrossed with etiquet. Now it’s Communism. One of the popular ads of the day pictured a timid, young woman in a large and fashionable restaurant, regarding the elaborate menu with consternation. And the caption ran, “Filet Mignon, please!” and she thought it was a fish. I forget now whether the sad fate of the culprit was intended to j interest the reader in some book of j social usage, or to spur him on to I learn French in twelve easy lessons j sent by mail in plain envelopes. ■ a a tt Magnolia and Me AT any rate, the advertisement involved me in one of the most tragic and romantic incidents of my life. Poor little Magnolia! Will I ever forget her? I will not. I have | never known a woman of greater ; charm. Her vocabulary was largely lim- j ited to two current phrases of the ; day: “So is your old man,” and i “Buckwheats.” There was one other, but its connotation was just a shade risque, and I always believed that the dear, little thing did not fully realize its import. It was fascinating to observe the way in which she could express every shade of emotion, even the most subtle, by some simple melodious variation of her three stock phrases. She read with difficulty, if at all, for in the fastnesses of the hills, where she was reared, little attention was given to learning. Instead, she had sat at her grandfather’s knee and learned plain mending and the purity of American womanhood. I read the menu to her in the center of that great blazing restaurant where she sat, all in white, like a little fritillary hemmed in by orchids;. When I got to the “filet mignon, she said: “Tell the man to bring me some of that.” When the waiter lifted the silverware cover of the dish, she exclaimed, in evident surprise, and in her own naive way, “Gee, that ain’t,no fish!” “No, madam,” said the servitor, insolently, “only on Fridays.” The Fighting Brouns MY instinct was to protect her from humiliation, at whatever cost. The truth was nothing to me in such a situation. A characteristic, steely glint came into my eye. “Garcon,” I said, not, you understand, to impress her with my knowledge of French, but merely to intimidate the flunkey, “The filet mignon is a fish. I've caught hundreds of them. I have used both worms and pickled pork rind." Turning to Magnolia, I continued.

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the poisonous effect on the body manifested by the symptoms. When a person has a uremic attack, he becomes very weak and drowsy and his eyesight begins to fail. Sometimes there are convulsions, difficulty with breathing, severe headache, twitching of the hands and face, and even paralysis of portions of the body. The breathing is interfered with so seriously that it has a hissing sound and there may be bleeding from the gums. The heart fails, fluid collects in the lungs, and the results, as can be seen, are exceedingly serious. The prompt diagnosis of uremia is exceedingly important if the patient is to be saved. Hence the appearance of any of these symp-

with brisk animation, “And a good game flsh the filet mignon is. Ye Gods! The battles they have given me!” But the fool of a waiter had not detected the depth of my love nor the temper of my spirit. “Beg pardon, General,” he said, “there is some mistake. A filet mignon is ” The tactless word never passed his lips. A straight left sent him crashing full length across the next table, where poulet ala racine avec petit epinard was being served to a party. An army of waiters rushed toward me, and it was not an affair iu which I cared to have Magnolia involved. Seizing her under one arm, I sprinted for the Broadway entrance. “Quick, let’s go before that waiter crawls out from that dish of fried chicken with little spinach!” I cried, translating freely as I ran. We were in my motor in an instant, and, disregarding all traffic

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CLEVELAND'S BIRTH ON March 18, 1837, Grover Cleveland, twenty-second and twen-ty-fourth President of the United States, was born at Caldwell. N. J. When his father died soon after the family moved to New York state, young Cleveland was induced by an uncle to make his home in Buffalo. Here he studied law and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. Four years later he became assistant district attorney for Erie county. Subsequently he became sheriff of the county, mayor of Buffalo and Governor of New York. In each of these offices Cleveland demonstrated such good judgment, firmness and independence that he was easily the outstanding Democratic candidate for President in 1884. Elected after a hard campaign against James G. Blaine. Cleveland showed the same vigor and spirit that characterized his earlier offices. The creation of the interstate commerce commission and the admission of four new states were the outstanding measures of his first administration. His second term proved to be one of the most remarkable in American politics, and an event which helped make it so was his Venezueien message sent to congress In 1895. Great Britain, which for a long time had been encroaching on the territory of Venezuela, refused to arbitrate the subject. Cleveland’s impulsive message hinted war. and England, thoroughly upset, accepted the arbitration. This was called “the most signal victory of America diplomaqy in modern times.”

toms, particularly in a person who has suffered with a kidney disease, demands immediate attention. The physician, when called, endeavors to do everything possible to permit the excretion from the body of the excess fluid and of the poisonous materials. It is customary to cause intense perspiration by the use of hot packs hot air baths and similar measures. Fifteen minutes in a hot pack is a considerable strain on the body, and hence it is necessary to have the patient watched constantly to prevent collapse. Uremic attacks have occurred in •people without very much advance warning and the disease is listed among the causes of sudden death.

(deals and opinions expressed In this column are those of .me of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without resard to their axreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ot this paper.—The Editor.

regulation, I soon had distanced pursuers. But I was not yet done with the incident. a a a Fatal Experiment THE next night she was to dine with me at my bachelor apartments. The task of marketing for this meal was too delicate to intrust to my faithful Jap, Toto. I went myself and bought a filet mignon, but before I left the store I made the shopkeeper prepare it with the backbone of a sturgeon, the scales of a porpoise and the fins of a shark. It was served with a sauce of cod liver oil. “Here’s your fish!” I cried, gaily, as Toto placed it on the table. “It’s a filet mignon I hooked for you with my own hands.” I was rewarded as I watched the doubt die out from her eyes. Ever since the waiter’s scornful words she had worn an uneasy expression. But now she was herself again. This was the real Magnolia. There was no expression on her face whatsoever. It was the happiest moment of my life. And, yet, what a Jade Is fate! Two minutes later, Magnolia lay dying in my arms. She had choked upon one of the sturgeon bones. Just before she died, she murmured in a feeble, wheezing whisper: “I’ll tell the cock-eyed world filet mignons is fishes!" “Buckwheats” she gasped, and was no more. (Copyright. 1930, try The Tlme>

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Great Corporations Now Find That Thru Need Senders of Many Scientists for Research Work. SCIENTIFIC research has become one of the great industries of the United States. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a survey made by Dr. H. W. Gillett, director of the Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus. O. The United States now has 1.000 research laboratories employing the services of 33,000 workers and expending annually about $210,000,000. Dr. Gillett writes in. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. official journal of the American Chemical Society. These figures. Dr. Gillett explains, are exclusive of the hundreds of college, university and government laboratories. The figures also exclude control or testing laboratories. They represent only the industrial laboratories engaged in actual research. Dr. Gillett further classifies his figures as to the work in fundamental science problems, so-called “pure” science, and the applications of science to industry, or “applied' science. He estimates that there are 3,000 workers in pure science in these industrial laboratories, spending about $10,000,000 a year in their work. The other 30,000 workers, prosecuting research in applied science, spend the other $200,000,000 Asa sample of the scale on which research is going on. he points out that the Bell Telephone laboratories employ 6.000 people and has an arnual appropriation of $19,000,000. tt tt u Einstein THE number of men and the amount of money devoted to research in pure science is particularly significant. Such large companies as the General Electric Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Eastman Kodak Company and others have a considerable number of men devoting themselves to such problems as one might expect to find under investigation at a university. A generation ago university professors were occupying their time with such problems as the behavior of gases when electric currents were passed through them. At the time this study seemed to have no direct bearing upon the world of industry. It was those researches, however which led to the development of the vacuum tube, which is used today in radio and in long-distance telephony. It would be easy to multiply this one example by a thousand. Wise leaders of industry realize today that any piece of fundamental knowledge about the universe will some day prove useful. That is why they are financing research in funda- . mental problems as well as in applied science. Today the big research laboratories watch the colleges and universities for promising men. They want graduates who have specialized in higher mathematics and in funda mental scientific problems. a tt a Metals RESEARCH in the problems ot metallurgy is particularly val liable to progress in the United States. Dr. Gillett points out. “Metallurgy is a key industry,” he writes. “Os the ten leading industries from the point of value of manufactures, eight are metalworking and metal-using industries. “Even those industries which do not directly make metallic products are highly dependent upon them. The food industry needs agricultural implements and tin cans; the lumber industry, saws; the chemical industry, tanks and piping, and so on down the line. “Transportation—by railway, steamboat, automobile and aircraft —is today in vehicles that average some 90 per cent or more metallic “Water, gas. electricity and telephone and telegraph messages are transported by metallic pipes or wires; even the radio waves depart from, and are collected by, metallic apparatus. “A normal household loses alloy? of at least twenty different metals. One finds them from the bathroom to the kitchen, on his person, in his mouth, and in his automobile. “In his daily work and his daily life every one*ls served by metals and is benefited by the search for better and cheaper alloys.” The major problem in metallurgy is furnished by the constant battle to defeat corrosion. Dr. Gillett say? He says that there is also a great demand for alloys which will resist stress and oxidation at high temperatures.