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A Persistent Fight Although the university or which he Is president 1b under the control of a religious organization the people of the state, without regard to creed, are interested in the persistent fieht against Dr. G. Bromlej Oxnam of De Pauw. From the hour of his selection Dr. Oxnam has faced a bitter fight by a group of alumni who object to any liberal thought or methods of education. His great crime is that he does not believe all social problems ser:!/**’ and is willing to listen to new Ideas. In this he with other great educators of the nation. They believe that education means constant progress. They are not afraid to test new ideas and examine th*m. They nave thrown away taboos and superstitions. The fight against him comen from those of militaristic minds. Some of them are professional patriots for profit. Others have fought against any international agreements that tend toward disarmament and permanent peace. The great crime of Oxnam is that he believes in peace, or at least, is willing to listen to those who hope to bring peace by agreement. The whole cause c f l’beral education is at stake. Dr. Oxnam seems to be able to take care of himself. Whether he can defend liberal education in the institution of which he is president, remains to be seen. Check and Double Check! Elsewhere in today’s paper appears the final tabulation of returns in the prohibition poll conducted by twenty-four of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. The poll was undertaken at the request of the Literary Digest. It seems that some persons are not satisfied with the way the Digest poll is going. Notwithstanding the vast expense involved In sending out 20,000,000 ballots. the long period of preparation, the ease with which it was made possible to vote —a simple matter of marking a self-addressed postcard and putting it into the mail—the care that was taken to put a fair share of the ballots into the hands of women, and all that, there are those who insist there is something funny acout it. Naturally, these critics are persons who find themselves on the minority side in the returns, that is to say, those who defend prohibition. For out of the 3,716,000 votes thus far reported by the Digest, 41 per cent favor repeal of the eighteenth amend-r-ent and 30 per cent favor modification of the Vole.ead law, making a total of 71 per cent against the present state of affairs. Only 29 per cent have declared themselves for strict enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law. If everybody had an even chance to vote, the results would be different, say the critics. So, to oblige the Digest and satisfy our own curiosity, we decided to put the matter up to our readers. Only a quick dip into public sentiment was considered necessary, and the poll was limited to seven days. Readers responding were asked to give their names and addresses, to minimize any suspicion of repeating. They were required also to indicate their sex. And it was necessary for them to mail their ballots in or deliver them by hand. We didn’t anticipate that any vast number of readers would take all this trouble, but we thought there would be something of significance in whatever number should do so. The fact that nearly 100,000 persons have complied with the conditions named and sent in their votes to Scripps-Howard newspapers is really surprising. - Among 98.012 votes we find that 67.990 are men and 30,02 j ire women. That is roughly about the proportion of women voters to men voters in most elections nowadays. We find, further, that of the 30,022 women. 21,055, or two-thirds of them, have voted for repeal. Adding to these the 3,753 who voted for modification, it will be seen that about five-sixths of them oppose the prohibition experiment in its present stage. The proportion of men voting against prohibition is larger—but not as much larger as you might have thought Newspapers, with their general circulation, may be expected to reach about every sort and condition of vr**rs—that was an added reason for aiding the to check its poll, by the way. Newspaper circulation is a real cross section of any community, but in the case of Scripps-Howard newspapers we must anticipate a very special criticism, due to the fact that we consistently have expressed our opposition to prohibition. However, it hardly needs demonstrating that our readers are not confined to persons who believe as we do on the subject. If that were true, that itself would reveal that a majority of the population in some of our cities is opposed to prohibition, for in several cities more than half of all afternoon newspaper readers read ScrippsHoward newspapers. So, to summarize this quick check-and-double check of prohibition, we find the following: Enforcement Mortification Repeal Total Women 5.216 3,753 21,055 30.022 Men 4.262 8.238 55,490 97.990 Grand total ...9,476 11,991 76.545 98.012 And there you are! Parker Politics If Judge Parker isn't careful, he is going down in htetory with the Hon. Claudius Huston as the jinx of the Republican party in the 1930 elections. Many G. O. P. senators, who were inclined to agree with the White House that the anti-labor and anti-racial records of this supreme court aspirant were “extraneous matters’’ don't find the political kickback a bit extraneous. They have decided now that the power lobby exposure of their national chairman, Huston, is enough load for Republicans to carry into the fall election, without having to explain to the voters a highly questionable supreme court appointment. A recent letter from Chairman Voorhees of the Missouri state Republican committee completed their gloom. “In my Judgment the confirmation of Judge Parker to the United States supreme court means that the Republican party might just as well say good-bye to Missouri for the next two or three elections at least,” Voorhees reported. To which many senators respond: “Yes, and the worst of it is that he might have been speaking for a lot of other border states, not to mention Ohio, In‘fian* and Illinois.'’ Having failed to induce the President to withdraw the Parker nomination, some of these senators are frying tc think up some bright way to sidetrack

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the issue until it ceases to be politically embarrassing. But the more astute party leaders realize that the public already is so much alive to this issue that the ordinary sort of sure-fire political tricks would onlymake matters worse. So there isn't much the Republican senators can do, except to permit the senate debate on Parker, which either will defeat him or at least give the Democrats dangerous election ammunition. Under the circumstances, perhaps they can not be blamed for hoping Hoover at the last minute will reconsider and withdraw the name. As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has pointed out to the President, he has good precedents for such withdrawal. Including Taft’s recall of nomination of Judge Hook of Kansas because of the latter’s race prejudices. After all, this conflict is not one of prestige as between the President and the senate. They are charged jointly by the Constitution with the responsibility of choosing supreme court justices. The only question is the fitness of this man for the high post, a question in which both the President and the senate are equally interested, and in which they can be equally well informed. If the President can not be convinced, as he apparently can not be, that Parker is not acceptable, then the alternative is for the senate to defeat Parker in fair and open session. The sooner the senate does that, and gets on with its other business and lets Parker be forgotten, the better. Overselling the Treaty The London naval treaty should be ratified. If it Is defeated in the senate it will be because the big navy opposition is able to fool the people by setting up and knocking down straw issues. Therefore the administration is unwise in making exaggerated claims for the treaty which any one can disprove on the basis of the record and the treaty text. Honesty requires that the administration present It to the senate as a compromise substitute for the promised reduction treaty, but better than nothing at all under the circumstances. Early American press comment shows that there is more resentment against the administration’s attempt to overvalue the treaty than against the inadequacy of the treaty itself. If the administration will think back to the absurd claims made for the Washington naval treaty and the bitter reaction when the public discovered the facts, there will be less temptation today to repeat the costly boast of Charles Evans Hughes at the close of the Washington conference: “This treaty absolutely ends naval competition for all time.” If the London treaty is sold to the senate as a guarantee of International peace it will be a gold brick. An accurate statement of the world situation was made by Prime Minister MacDonald following the signing of the treaty: “I am under no delusion as in how far we have gone. We just have made a beginning. Disarmament is beset by pitfalls and difficulties of all kinds. What looks fair on the face of it turns out on examination to be forbidding and dangerous . , . Another war will be as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise if an active peace mind, not only of the pious but of the practical kind, does not intervene. . . , “This is just the end of one chapter. We merely are turning over a new’ leaf In naval negotiations." “There’s no such thing as complete silence," declares a scientist. Then we should like to know what it is that follows the request of a loan from a Scotchman. Now that the senate has passed a bill authorizing reimbursement of $764,143 spent by New York City on troops sent to defend Washington in the Civil War, you may expect England to sue the city of Boston for tea dumped into the harbor after a celebrated party.

REASON

SINCE experiments and common sense unite to prove that aviation has put iron ships out of business, one may be a good friend of the national defense and still not throw his hat into the air over the proposition to spend one billion dollars to build as many ironclads as England has built. a a a This country gave the world the Ironclad In the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac and the time has come to place it on the retired list, and build the only genuine national defense, a fleet of airplanes, capable of transacting business with all comers. Eventually, why not now? a a a THE advent of aviation simplifies warfare, the same bird being able to operate on land and sea, whereas now the army fights on land and the navy fights on water. In the future the department of aviation will absorb the departments of war and navy. a a a The hardest work our President has to do is to grin and shake hands, yet a young lady who watched President Hoover as he shook the hands of 6,000 Daughters of the American Revolution, declares that he seemed to enjoy it immensely. If he did, he is a great actor. a a a Up in Chicago they are now trying a lie detecting machine on criminals. If it works, it would be a great thing for the public to use on candidates for office. a a a LORD DEFAR. the greatest distiller In Great Britain who died recently, was a great joker, but by all odds the greatest joke he every played was to spend his life in the manufacture of whisky for other people to drink, when he had too much sense to drink it himself. am* Three cheers for Judge Willis B. Perkins of Grand Rapids, Mich. He sent to the penitentiary for fifteen years the drunken driver of a stolen car who ran over a girl and killed her. We should pay a bounty for the pelts of drunken drivers as our ancestors did for the pelts of wolves. a a a The navy department was wise to withdraw the former presidential pacht, Mayflower, from sale when nobody* fffrrs* rvJugh for it. W 9 wouU have to provide another for the next President, so we might as well put the Mayflower in moth balls. mam Russia has put her hobos to work, which will be a great shock to her communistic friends in America.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The Time Has Passed When People Can Be Forced. Into Religion by Arbitrary Methods. THE prison tragedy at Columbus in which more than 300 convicts lost their lives and more than 200 were injured, takes on an even grimmer aspect when it is learned that not a single cent in damages can be collected from the state. What a contrast to the way the state makes other people pay up? If this had been a railroad disaster, the courts would be flooded with suits, and every one of them would be based on laws enacted by the state. The average man finds it hard to understand why the government should prescribe a form of justice for its citizens that it is unwilliilg to practice. a a a The Rev. Dr. W. Russell Bowie of Grace church, New York, will not marry couples after May 1 until they have promised to become associated for worship and fellowship with some Christian church in the community where they are to reside. Satisfying as such a policy may be to Dr. Bowie’s conscience, what good will it do? Even if every Christian minister in the country were to adopt it, what- would be the result, except more weddings by justices of the peace. The time has passed when people can be forced into religion by such arbitrary methods. a an A Laugh for Napoleon AN Austrian Archduke, a British adventurer, and a lady supposed by some to be an Egyptian princess have run afoul of American law in connection with the sale of a necklace which Napoleon Bonaparte gave to his second wife on the birth of their son. That is an incident which would tickle the Little Corsican’s sardonic sense of humor. He was peculiarly fond of predicting the future, especially as it involves upsets. When he signed the treaty conveying the great Louisiana tract to this country, he remarked that he had done something which one day would humble the pride of Great Britain. He also said that Russia would become Cossack, or Republican, within 100 years. But it is doubtful if his fertile imagination was capable of conceiving the entertainment he was providing for Yankeeland when he celebrated the advent of a longwanted heir by giving its mother an expensive geegaw’. a a a ft Cleans Things Up SPEAKING of more serious things, it is doubtful if Napoleon's fertile imagination was capable of conceiving anything like the world bank just organized in a little Swiss town, with a New Yorker as president. Much as the result of the late war might accord with his idea of the fitness of things, especially in the form of German reparations to France, he hardly would find such an institution compatible with his notions of making peace. Napoleon never would have stopped until he had reached Berlin, and would have been satisfied only with such tribute as he could collect on the spot. To our sophisticated minds, such method seems overly brutal, but it has the advantage of cleaning things up. a a a Chance for ‘Patriots’ HAVING given birth to a tariff bill after a year or so of laborious wind-jamming, the senate wonders whether it could not get the naval treaty out of the way during the present session. Not that any good reason exists why it can’t, but that the senate feels compelled to spend about so much time over any issue for the benefit of the folks back home, especially when an election is approaching. Since it deals with foreign affairs, the naval treaty offers a singularly fine chance for patriots or peacers to strut their stuff. an a More and More Bunk ONE can look forward to discussion of the peace treaty with absolute assurance of hearing all about prohibition, obscene books, Communist propaganda, Edison's rubber experiments, Muscle Shoa)s, and the way each political party has saved the country on occasion. When it is all over, one could take the Congressional Record and read everything that will be said in next fall's campaign, which is the main reason for its being said. But we must not expect too much information with regard to the treaty.

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FIRST U. S. NEWSPAPER April 24 ON April 24, 1704, the Boston News Letter, the first permanent newspaper published in the United States, first was issued at Boston. The paper was established and published by John Campbell, a Scotchman, who was a bookseller and postmaster in Boston. The entire contents of the first issue consisted of a report of the queen’s speech to both houses of parliament, a few articles of local interest, four short paragraphs of mamie intelligence from New York Philadelphia and New London, and a single advertisement from the publisher himself. In 1719 the News Letter met with a bitter rival in the Boston Gazette, but with its name changed to the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News Letter It grew to be the chief organ of British rule down to the evacuation of Boston. The New Boston Gazette, started in 1775. had a different policy than its predecessor and became the voice of the people against England.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Mumps Can Be Very Painful

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. MUMPS is a condition which affects particularly the glands that produce saliva, and of these more particularly the parotid glands, which are in the cheeks in the front of the lower part of the ear. In mumps, the other salivary glands, those just under the jaw and just under the tongue, also may be affected, but not so frequently. Usually both sides of the face are involved and usually also the person who has mumps has been in contact recently with someone who has the disease. The organism that causes mumps evidently is spread from one person to another by material from the mouth and nose.

IT SEEMS TO ME

DR. GILBERT N. LEWIS, physicist of the University of California, has introduced the idea that time may flow both ways. In his own domain he denies that the past precedes the future. Os course, the drama has beaten him to it. This is precisely the Idea which animates “Berkeley Square,” now running on Broadway. “In the domain of physical science, one must never attempt to distinguish between the past and future,’ says Dr. Lewis. In other words, a man may have a headache on Friday morning because he is going to drink a lot of synthetic gin on the preceding

Thursday. Or cricket matches were won on the playing fields of Eton, because of the fact that many of the boyish participants had fought Waterloo to a successful conclusion at the age of 40. It’s all a little confusing, but nevertheless it seems sound to me. Lets simply apply it, for instance, to the case of Senator Tom Heflin. One may state the evolutionary process like this: Out of the great primeval slime they crawled upon a beach some sort of gigantic lizard. At that moment there began the long march whereby the new amphibian eventually would develop into a senator from Alabama. And here’s the other point of view: Senator Heflin made a speech in the senate on the pope and White House, whereupon a big lizard of 3,000,000 years ago said, ‘Oh, what’s the use,” and crawled right back into the primeval slime again. The second theory sounds more convincing to me.

Benefits From Radio MAYBE the greatest benefit which radio can give is to make the world safe against after-dinner speakers. I know a lot of men who j say they have great difficulty in getting on their feet, but that’s nothing to the difficulty which they seem to find in sitting down again. People with perfectly good eyes in other respects can't see a quitting place when they get to it. I think there might be a lot of money for an inventor who could rig up a combination time clock and trip-hammer which, at the end of eight and one-half minutes, would release a dull, blunt instrument to fall with great force, killing the after-dinner speaker and amusing the spectators. The machine should hurl a ten- ; pound shell against the chest of the | speaker the moment he began, “It I seems there were two Irishmen ” A funny story isn’t so terrible if i the man who gets it off just says, j “I’m going to tell a story.” Afterdinner speakers won’t do that. They j insist that something or other has reminded them of the anecdote, j And I never went to a public | dinner that didn’t have at least one | college professor. The story the | professor tells is apt to be just a * little bit rowdy. You see, he's come to the dinner

Awake at Last!

Usually mumps is a fairly light condition, but there are cases in which the other glands in the body may be infected, and because of this possibility it is customary to keep the infected person in bed, at least during the acute phase of the attack. The person with mumps should lie quietly and be kept alone until all swelling disappears. It is customary to isolate children who are ill with mumps for fourteen days, to prevent them giving the disease to other children who may not have had it. There are many unusual superstitions about mumps having to do with the fact that the person with the disease can not enjoy sour pickles or persimmons, but it is doubtful that a person in a severe stage can enjoy any food very much. It is too hard to swallow.

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to prove that he’s a good fellow and one of the gang. So he tells something about the traveling salesman and the country hotel. a a a Self-Defense MAYBE the fault isn’t just with the speakers. The people who listen could be better. They’re too polite. If they should say, every now and then, “Is that so?” or “make him sit down” or just plain “boo boo,” that might liven things up a lot. Possibly Fm making a mistake in | discouraging the art of listening. I | read in the papers a few weeks back | that a man got a prize Just for lis-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l have been reading numerous letters in your valued paper questioning the right of married women to work and earn an honest living and I must say that “I’se regusted!” As I understand it, these fanatics would like to have some sort of legislation prohibiting a woman going out and helping her husband buy some of the comforts of life. Doesn’t that sound great for a country that boasts of freedom? Why, chat is worse than the old prohibition gag. The average wage paid the working man today will not exceed S2O or $25 a week. He can not pay for the bare necessities of life for a family with that and would not dare think of buying such a luxury as a home to live in when he is old. And let us not forget he is regarded by the average employer of today as old at the age of 35. Believe me, there is something wrong with a country that finds it necessary to prohibit a woman from going out and helping her husband make a decent living and that you can check and double check. If the politicians would pass some legislation prohibiting this country from being used as a dumping ground for undesirables from foreign countries. there would be employment enough for all of us and, incidentally, our wages might be sufficient to support our families and buy them a home without our wives having to work. Thousands of women and children are going hungry and cold; World war veterans are searching vainly for employment and the United States is glad-handing every tramp that the European countries or Mexico wants to unload and the Mesdames Collins and Schmidts are raving for a law prohibiting American women going out and making an honest living. Haven’t we got brains? And how! However, Mrs. Schmidt gives us a fair idea of her depth when she informs us the majority of husbands are rolling around in luxury and j limousines on their wives’ salary. I I happened to see the pay checks of one of our many “dependable chain

Seldom does the fever in mumps rise above 101 degrees: occasionally it will go a little higher. Seldom does it cause severe sickness, but there are cases in which the swelling and the fever have been so great that the person could not swallow, had severe headache, and even delirium. Any infectious disease may be followed by serious complications, particularly of the kidneys, unless the person is given the best possible opportunity to recover thoroughly with complete rest in bed. If there is much pain or swelling in the glands, the application of heat or cold usually produces relief. It is not necessary to fumigate or disinfect a room after the patient has had mumps. Airing, sunlight and soap and water cleaning usually serve the purpose of disinfection quite satisfactorily.

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

tening. As I remember, he listened continuously to radio broadcasting for 150 hours. I’ve always been interested in endurance stunts. We were talking in this column the other day about the man who could balance 110 eggs on end in half an hour. By now the thing grows a little misty. Maybe it was more eggs and less time. I’m still waiting to hear more about that man’s home life. Does his wife love him and why? And his little boy Robert, in school—l wonder how he feels when the other kids ask, “What does your father do?” And he is compelled to reply, “Oh, papa’s an egg balancer.” (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

stores” not long ago and these little wives’ salaries, that are keeping husbands fairly lolling in luxury, ranged all the way for $6 to sl2 a week. A. W. H. Editor Times—l hope someone has the courage to write you in regard to the Zeller killing. If this shooting is allowed to be squashed according to the Hartzell law, passed by the last legislature, it seems that our proud state has some very lax laws. A law-abiding citizen would not be safe on the streets. This is a plea for justice. R. R. C.

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.APRIL 24, 1930

j SCIENCE ' BY DAVID DIETZ Eclipse of the Sun Is Due April 28; Track Will Be Un usually TSa rrp w 0n e. CITIZENS of the United States will be treated to the rather rare spectacle of an eclipse of the sun on April 28. The eclipse will be a total one only for those citizens who are fortunate enough to be within the track of the eclipse. This track is unusually narrow for the coming eclipse—less than a mile wide. It extends from a point on the Pacific coast north of San Francisco to Twin Bridges, a town thirty-five miles south of Butte, Mont. lie percentage of eclipse to be seen at other localities depends upon how far they are from the eclipse track. In San Francisco the eclipse will be a 99 per cent one. The same thing will be true for other places as close to the track as is San Francisco. At Cleveland, the eclipse will be 58 per cent. It will be approximately the same for the rest of the state of Ohio. New York City will see a 54 per cent, eclipse. Those within the actual eclipse track will, of course, get the besf show’. This is because the sun's corona, the great' silvery halo around the sun, becomes visible only at the moment of totality. At other localities, however, it will be extremely interesting to watch the edge of the sun disappear as I the disc of the moon slowly creeps across its face. nan Moon A N eclipse of the sun Is more complicated in many ways than an eclipse of the moon. An eclipse of the moon, such as occurred shortly after midnight of April 12—in the early hours of April 13—is caused by the moon entering the earth’s shadow. The earth's shadow is quite large | when compared to the moon. The moon has a diameter of 2,163 miles. The earth has a diameter of almost 8.000 miles. The earth’s shadow has an average length of 859,000 miles. At the point where this shadow crosses Me orbit of the moon, the diameter of the shadow is 5,700 miles, about two and two-thirds times the diameter of the moon. Since the earth is a sphere, its shadow’ is a great cone. Because the earth’s shadow’ is so much greater in size than the moon, an eclipse of the moon is visible ! from any point in one hemisphere ;of tile earth. If the eclipse is total, it is visible as such from the entire hemisphere. But during an eclipse of the sun the situation is quite different. The moon, being smaller than the earth, casts a very much smaller shadow. The average length of the shadow of the moon is 232.100 miles. This is less than the average distance of the moon from the earth—--240.000 miles. If the moon never were closer to the earth than its average distance, j there never could be a total eclipse of the sun at all. a a tt Track IT so happens, however, that the the moon’s orbit is a flattened circle or eclipse. Asa result, the moon is often closer to the earth than its average distance. There are variations also in the length of the moon’s shadow. If it so happens that an eclipse occurs when the moon’s shadow is its longest and the moon’s distance from the earth is least, the moon's shadow will then reach 18,250 miles beyond the earth’s surface. In this case, the shadow’ cone will have a diameter of 167 miles at the point where it touches the earth’s surface. As the moon moves across the sun, the shadow will describe a track on the earth”s surface, which will be 167 miles wide. Every one within this track will see a total eclipse of the sun. The figure of 167 miles is a maximum value for the eclipse track. Usually it is less. If an eclipse occurs when the moon’s shadow fails to touch the earth, the eclipse is not total, a ring of sun remaining in view all | around the disc of the moon at what i otherwise would be the moment of I totality. Such an eclipse is known j as an annular eclipse. The eclipse on April 28 Is the sort | known as a central eclipse. The I moon’s distance fluctuates slightly. |so that the eclipse begins as an | annular one, changes to a total | one, and then finishes as an annular one.