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Why the Indictments? President Hoover, Attorney - General Mitchell, the crime commission, and congress should take an interest in the acquittal oi' ten policemen of the Indianapolis force on charges of conspiracy to violate the liquor laws. The history of these cases might he illuminating to those who still have faith in the ‘‘noble experiment,” especially as to the possible use of federal authoirty to influence elections. • These indictments were returned just at the time when it was most desirable to the Republican party of the state, and especially to the Coffin machine, to discredit the city administration of Mayor Sullivan. One of the policemen indicted was a brother of Prosecuting Attorney Stark, toward whom the Coffin machine showed little affection. If one Republican were needed to rob the indictments of the appearance of partisanship, patrolman Stark was, of course, the likely scapegoat. It certainly is the duty of federal officials, and especially of the federal district attorney, to protect innocent men against false charges. That is an even greater obligation than to indict the guilty. The humiliation and stigma easily could follow such innocent men to their graves. When the trial opened, it is significant that of the ten, Judge Baltzell exonerated six of the police officers with the declaration that there was no evidence whatever which connected them with any liquor conspiracies, worthy of consideration by a jury. The four others whose cases he permitted to go to the judgment of the jurors, who were drawn from outside counties, and who probably are free from any particular friendship f(Tr either the policemen or the local city administration, were acquitted quickly. Just where does this place the prohibition department, which brought to this city under-cover men whose reputations are below par? Just where does it leave the district attorney who drew these indictments and who, either in person or from his assistants, listened to the evidence upon which the indictments were returned and which Judge Baltzell declared was so flimsy as to be unworthy of notice. The enforcement, or lack or enforcement, of the prohibition law has resulted in many evils. Certainly the nation can not accept with complacency any situation where there is suspicion that the federal court and its power of indictment are being used to further partisan political purposes. T}ie lime at which these indictments were returned fitted too closely into the hopes of the party in power to escape suspicion. Conditions in this city at the present time certainly are iiq worse, and probably better, than they have been in months. It is significant also that the investigators confined themselves to the city limits of Indianapolis and did not extend into its perlieus, over which a Republican sheriff stood guard. . The administration at Washington owes it to this city, to the nation, and to itself to make one more investigation. It should discover why ten policemen under control of a Democratic mayor were indicted falsely at a time so opportune to the wishes of a Republican machine. No Postal Cuts From officials sources it is learned that there will he “no further curtailment in postal service collections or deliveries.” We sincerely trust not. Deliveries in most large cities now are cut to two a day—one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Collections likewise in residential sections are made only twice esjbh day. Further curtailment would give us just about nothing at all. What we should like to hear Postmaster-General Brown say is that our previous-excellent service is to be restored. ' Surely business depression should not be used as an excuse by the postofiice department for rendering inferior service. Employers are asked to maintain their pay rolls. Can not the government in this instance maintain its service and something nearer its previous pay roll? Raking Up the Leaves A man may knock at your door one of these days and ask for a half day's work raking up the leaves in your back yard. If you can spare the dollar, give him the job. Throughout the country a million men or more can be occupied in the season of hardship and hunger if every home owner and every renter will have all his odd jobs done. The three broken pickets in the fence should be replaced. That will help stimulate the lumber market. The cellar should be cleaned out. That will make a load of debris, and someone will be compelled to buy a gallon of gasoline for his truck, to cart it away. Have the broken window in the garret repaired the aerial removed from the trees and strung trimly across the roof; and add. perhaps, two forsythia tc your shrubbery. Every time you pay out money for a service which need or need not be done, you create a Job. Thereby you help restore business. Three million unemployed could rake up a great many leaves between now and the first snow. And kben, if the snow is iieavy everywhere, there will be

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a great many more jobs—shoveling, trucking, dumping. If it is difficult for you to see just how you can help things much by engaging a man to putter around at jobs you usually do yourself on Saturday afternoons, stop for an instant to recall that the American doctrine of equality of opportunity entitles every man to a job as well as a vote. Perhaps you are right in your surmise that the •man you would employ might be better engaged at mining coal, making automobiles, building houses, schools, bridges, at dredging rivers, shaping harbors. But do not allow yourself to be swerved from the clear path of duty by transports of theory. Make a job! It may be true, as Owen D. Young once said, that widespread unemployment is a blot upon national intelligence. But all that is neither here nor there. Put a man to work raking up the leaves. “Strategic” Ore Os all the many efforts being made in this country to destroy American-Russian trade, and so to increase American depression, one of the flimsiest is that of the American Manganese Producers’ Association. The association’s annual convention in Washington is devoted almost entirely to the attempt to shut out competing Russian imports. According to this convention propaganda, Russia is ruining the American industry by alleged dumping; that is, *bv selling here at prices below the world market. Such propaganda is not apt to ge“ very far—for several reasons. In the first place, it is not true; we do not have to take the word of the Soviet officials or the testimony of officials of the American Iron and Steel Institute, who deny the Russian dumping charges. The open market records themselves show over a period of months that there has been virtually no .difference here between the price of the Russian and of other foreign products. Indeed, a comparison with the European market records shows that Russia actually is selling her product at a higher price in the United States than in Europe. Nor is it true that Russian competition is putting the American industry out of business. During the fifteen years before the war, domestic production of manganese averaged less than 2 per cent pf domestic consumption; but it now has grown to 6.95 per cent. The fact is that for a half century—with the exception of the war and reconstruction period—Russia has been the major manganese source of the American steel Industry. As steel industry officials recently testified, “There is little or none of such (high grade) ore found in the United States, and the relatively small quantity produced here is obtained through very costly processes.” Certainly the tarif wall, which amounts to approximately 100 per cent at present prices, is adequate protection against foreign competition for any legitimate American manganese industry. , Apart from the fact that the great American steel industry, which is basic to meet other industries, would be crippled seriously without Russian manganese, there also is a consideration of the more important “strategic” materials for military purposes. It therefore clearly is to our interest to rely on foreign supplies when we can get them, ahd to conserve our own small and inadequate reserve for possible need in war time, as in the last emergency. King Alfonso of Spain, says a dispatch, recently served as soldier for a day in his own army. Now if he had been up there in war times that would have been news. 4 Colby, another Maine college, has come out with a marching tune to rival the famous stein song. But before predicting its succss it is necessary to know if it will lend itself to crooming. Upton Sinclair, who often has been taken for Sinclair Lewis, probably is hopeful that the judges who awarded the latter the Nobel prize are victims of mistakent identity. Experts at John Hopkins says the microbe of the common cold is so small the most powerful microscope can not see it. Shucks! They’re just trying to magnify the whole thing. The reason a Scotchman should buy a dachshund in preference to any other dog is that even a little one will go a long ways.

REASON

YOU’VE got to take your hat off to. President Hooverfor his optimism. The very next day after the Democrat ic landslide he issued his Thanksgiving proclamation. a a a Now's the time to dig down into your jeans and contribute to the Red Cross, the never-sleeping sentinel of the public health. Right now it’s engaged in saving mothers in maternity cases. Fifteen thousand of them died in the United States last year and 10,000 of them could have been saved by proper care. a tt a, The Red Cross now has 800 nurses working in such cases, most of them in rural sections, and it’s lip to us to come across and nelp. Those wl: olive in rural sections are old-fashioned Americans and this stock needs all the recruits it can get to offset those from abroad. a st tt /CHARLES M. RAYHOFF of Montana killed 197 rattle snakes in three days, which is a lot of snakes for a prohibition countrq. a a a Owen J. Roberts, member of the United States supreme court, does not care where he sits when he goes to cat, but Mrs. Gann feels differently about it. a tt a Down in Kentucky they just have voted against letting cows and hogs run at large in cities and towns, which reminds us of the days when one who took an evening stroll in an Indiana town was likely to step upon a cow and have her get up with Jiim. a a tt Governor Roosevelt of New York declares to friends that he is not thinking of 1932, but we rather doubt it after reading his letters, suggesting to senators how they should conduct themselves in the coming session of congress. a tt a THE Forest Park zoo at St. Louis has fired a redheaded parrot because it cussed too much. It ought to be able to get a good position at any golf course in the country. a st U As she sits and thinks thinks over. Ruth Hanna McCormick must be forced to the conclusion that the cash and carry” plan does not always work. a a a A defeated candidate for congress in Virginia has asked for admittance to the pcorhpuse. A good many fellows who hl\p served there for twenty jears are in the same position.

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

M: E. Tracy SAYS:

In Every Important City Men and Women Are Being j Killed to Make the Road Easier for Racketeering | Combines. THERE is an epidemic of unrest and discontent throughout the ! world. Astrologers say it is due to | the stars; economists, to the slump I in business; politicians, to their pe. theories. Write your own ticket. The one consoling aspect of the situation consists in the way it operates against the possibility of organized war. Nations that can not keep order have a poor chance to mobilize men in such numbers or borrow money in such as major conflict requires. Optimists should be able to paint a rosy picture around that grain of comfort, but it is doub'tful whether such demoralization as is evident on every hand represents much of an improvement over systematic warfare. tt tt tt Violence Everywhere A SINGLE day brings us news of a riot in. Madrid, with the police and soldiers charging 40,000 angry people; of martial law in Cuba, after seven had been killed; of 2,000 slain by Communist bandits in China; of the attempted assassination of the Premier of Japan, and of an unprecedented call for action against racketering by the district attorney of New York, only to mention a few of the high spots. Outside of Scandinavia, there is hardly a government but what is suffering from more or less widespread currents of lawlessness and sedition. Though revolution does not appear imminent in more than a few countries, opposition to the existing administration in a vast majority Las taken such shape as readily lends itself to violence. tt tt s Serious in U, S. THERE have been six revolutions in Latin-America during the recent months. China seems no nearer peace than at any time during the last twenty years of discord and revolt. Though Russia and Italy appear calm on the surface, the drastic measures both have found it necessary to adopt, the spectacular trials and severe penalties both are imposing, leave no doubt as to the seethe and stew underneath. In our own country, that curious spawn of prohibition, malcontent and corruption which we call racketeering, has reached the proportions of an anti-social cult. n sx n Crime Expands MANY folks think that we Americans could solve the problem by repealing or modifying the eighteenth amendment, but though racketeers undoubtedly got their first inspiration from bootlegging, they long since have ceased to regard it as the only or even the most profitable field of operation. They include poultry now, cleaning and dyeing, trucking and stevedoring, grape juice, narcotics and even the, baby’s milk. Not only in New York, but in every important center of population, men and women are being killed for no other reason than to make the road easier for racketeering combines. Because most of the dirty work has been done in back alleys, we either have failed to realize its significance, or have consoled ourselves with that thought. tt tt tt We Need Light THE task of rousing public opinion is obviously one for the press to assume. The New York Telegram has demonstrated how it can be done. One clean-cut, accurate story, picturing conditions aa they are in cold figures, telling how eighty-nine people were shot, thirtyfive of them in Greater New York, between Oct. 12 and Nov. 12, and how thirty of the shootings were ! laid to racketeers, without any one being arrested, proved sufficient to j make the authorities act. We need such stories in every j American newspaper, stories that give names and dates, that leave no room for misunderstandings on the part of ordinary folk, or for evasion on the part of officials.

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HAUPTMANN'S BIRTH November 15 ON Nov. 15, 1862. Gerhart Hauptmann, foremost and most representative writer in Germany, was born in Salzbrunn, the son of an innkeeper. Until he was about 22, Hauptmann vaccilated with farming, painting and sculptoring. His instincts were, however, always artistic. So, when he was obliged to return to Berlin from his travels because of illness, he decided to try his hand at writing. When he was 27 he began the series of dramas which set him at a bound at the head of the German dramatic writers of his time. The first of his plays appeared at a time when cultivated Germans read nothing but works of Scandinavian. French and Russian writers. It was Hauptmann who forced German attention back to its native writers. Hauptmann established the naturalist movement in his country with a series of dramas depicting life of the working classes or pov-erty-stricken middle classes. His Die Weber, a social drama of the lise, outbreak, development an* failure of a miniature revolution, is perhaps his greatest work. He w r as awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1912 and still is living. Does increasing the number of plates in a storage battery give it greater capacity? The number of amperes a storage battery will deliver is proportional to the area of the plates exposed to the electrolyte (solution). Therefore, the more plates connected in parallel, the greater the capacity of the battery. Has Rudy Vallee ever been married? His marriage was annulled after one year. How many postoffices are there in the United States? On June 30, 1930, there were 49.103.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times; Lindsey Hicks—Who Can’t Be Killed— Hicks was working with five other men in a tunnel of the Southern California Edison Company when he was imprisoned by a cave-in. His five companions were killed instantly, oat Hicks lived for sixteen days under the mass of rock and debris before the rescuers were able

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Teeth Shows How Child Is Developing

This is the third of a series of four articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on nutrition of the,fhild. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical .Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE circumference of the chest of the child at birth is little less than that of the head, but the difference is not usually much more than half as much. At the age of 1 year, the head and the chest are usually just about the same length around. However, after the age of 1 year the chest increases somewhat more rapidly in size than the head, so that at the end of five years the chest is at least-one-half inch farther around than is the head.

IT SEEMS TO ME

ONE of the quickest and surest ways to get an education* in American politics 'is to run for something. It doesn’t matter what the ticket —the candidate will get the education 'just the same. Winning or being snowed under also is irrelevant. In f act, r the candidate who receives the smallest number of votes, is likely to get the greatest amount of education. Being in that fortunate position, I say boldly, without fear of contradiction, that American voters seldom declare themselves upoh the issues at stake. This is not the alibi of a defeated candidate. If the folks in my ctistrict actually understood what I was after. I "very well might have received 600 votes, rather than 6,000. There is no partisanship in my complaint. Conservatives, as well as radicals, are affected by the pretty fairly general ignorance of the millions who give them a mandate. tt a tt Nice Srhile HERE in New York, for instance, Governor Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected by an enormous majority. He has every right to preen himself upon the fact that this was a manifestation of his personal popularity and the confidence in w'hich he was held. But he woQld be going quite a bit off the track if he undertook to assert that any great number of this huge avalanche of votes came to him because the citizens of New York wished to express approval of his policy in regard to water power or unemployment. Not 10 per cent of those w’lio pulled down the levers had more than a dim conception of the Governor's position on either of these issues. There may even be some doubt as to just how clear was the conception of Governor Roosevelt. But now I grow’ partisan, and I apologize. I think it is a demonstrable fact that Americans, as a rule, go to the polls to vote against somebody. I still remember the famous line of Mr. Dooley in regard to the presidential contest between Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Dooley referred to it as a contest in unpopularity. tt tt tt Great Issue THERE is one single issue upon which voters have in recent years been anxious and eager to express themselves. In regard to prohibition it is entirely possible to separate the wets from the drys. But even this question seldom has been submitted in absolutely clear

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to extricate him. During that time he was fed milk, whisky punches, and eggnogs through a thirty-five foot pipe and he weighed more after the ordeal than before. The Largest Lily—The Yucca shown in my drawing is known as the Joshua Tree, or Yucca Brevifolia, and is the tallest on record. The Joshua Tree is the most conspicuous of the Yucca species of the Liliaceae family, and is found only

In the case of the undernourished infant, the circumference of the chest does not increase at the same rate as that of the head, because the bony frame does not develop properly and also because the amount of fat under the skin is not what it ought to be in a normal infant. One of the most interesting methods of determining whether the child is developing properly is to watch the appearance of the teeth. The teeth begin to develop long before the birth of the child. By the time of birth, the temporary teeth .usually are formed beneath the gums. However, there is a considerable variation as to when the teeth appear upon the surface. The lower central teeth in front usually come

form. Just because it is a proposition upon which noses may be counted politicians have shied away from a showdown. The country has known candidates who were “wet, but” or “dry, but.” Only in isolated instances has there been a really enlightening referendum on the subject. Some held that the national election of 1828 was a precise decision on this point. It seems evident now. as it did then, that A1 Smith is wet and that Herbert Hoover is dry. On the face of the returns, the wet partisans were so grossly outnumbered that it seemed not unjustifiable to maintain that a permanent decision had been reached. Yet no realist, whatever his convictions, honestly could maintain that today. It may be that sentiment has shifted. Such things have been known to happen in democracies. It is even more likely that confusing issues cut across the prohibition problem in 1928. Thus, though Smith was wet, he also happened to be a Catholic and a graduate of Tammany hall. And, though Hoover was frankly dry, he had the advantage of being a Republican and the popular heir of a period 'of prosperity. an a Little Things Undoubtedly, it is difficult to make large bodies of people stick to the point and not go off into bypaths having to do with the way in which a candidate parts his hair or the manner jn which he, pronounces familiar phrases in the English language. I even have heard it said that votes on occasion have been moved

Questions and Answers

Is a great uncle and grand uncle the same? The terms ye used interchangeably in the United States. What is the value of a United States trade dollar dated 1878? It is valued at 80 cents, proof only \Vhere does the Tennessee river rise? It is formed by the confluence of the Clinch and Holston rivers, which rise in Virginia and unite at Kingston, Roane county, Tennessee. Where is the headquarters of the Workers' party of America? 35 East One hundred twenty-fifth street. New York.

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in southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of Central America. My drawing was made from an original photo taken by J. O. Loop, of Long Beach, Cal. Reference: Encyclopedia Britannica. Monday—“Another Good om <n Sports.”

out between the fourth and eighth month and the upper central teeth follow within a few weeks. The front molars and the rest of the incisors follow between the tenth and sixteenth month. If the child receives an insufficient amount of calcium and of vitamin D, the development of the temporary teeth is late. Associated with this failure toydovelop are the other signs of rickets. It is, of course, recognized that the proper development of the jaws is associated with the proper growth of the teeth. The jaws of an undernourished infant and the jaws of those who have rickets are poorly formed, the face is narrow, and the chin is pointed.

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

DV HEY WOOD BROUN

this way or that by the public’s concern with the particular fitness of one woman or another to serve as White House hostess. But these are not insuperable difficulties in the cultivation of an intelligent electorate. I may point to England and, in pointing, assert that here is democratic government conducted with a close realization of the issues at hand. Naturally, I do not mean the decision of the voters in Great Britain invariably seems sound to me. Or that it need seem sound to you. Nor would I contend that no myths. and fictions and extraneous matters enter it. But, at least, the average Englishman is politically conscious. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Wickedr :ss burneth as the Are. —lsaiah 9.18. The world loves a spice of wickedness.—Bias.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

United States Public Health Service Wages Tar on Bacteria That Causes Trachoma. THE United States Ms engaged in a war at the present moment. It is being waged, howpver, against an invisible enemy, at least invisible to the naked eye. The public health service is doing th’i fighting and the enemy la the bae'eria which causes trachoma, that mysterious disease of the eyelids which leads to blindness. Dr. Paul D. Mossman, medical officer in charge of trachoma prevention of the United States publio health service, is commander-in-chief, directing the battle from the federal trachoma hospital at Rolla, Mo. Dr. Mossman recently set forth the facts of the situation in a report for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. “Among members of the white race,” Dr. Mossman writes, “trachoma is endemic in several of the south central states, notably Kentucky, Tennessee. Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri and Arkansas. In most other parts'of the country the disease occurs only sporadically. “Among the Indians we find some tribes practically free from it while in others the incidence rate runs as high as 20 or 25 per cent. Accessibility of treatment and better living conditions may account for the low rate in some instances, but there are some variations not so easily explained.” tt xt tt Among Indians TRACHOMA among the Indians is one of the major problems of the Indian medical service. Dr. Mossman says that excellent results are being obtained, but that work is limited by the extent of the funds at the disposal of the service. Trachoma, he says, is a rural disease. “It does not spread in cities, at least in this country,” he says. “In 1897 trachoma was added to the list of diseases requiring mandatory exclusion of immigrants. This stopped the source of supply, and apparently treatment took care of the stock of cases on hand, thus preventing spread. When or how trachoma was introduced in the section now affected by it, nobody knows. Certainly it was before the time of any of the present inhabitants. “The work that is being carried on by the United States public health service in combating trachoma in the white population is done by a co-operative arrangement with the individual states in which the work is done. “We now have three hospitals in as many states—Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky. These hospitals serve as centers for treatment, health education and study of trachoma. The field work carried on in connection with the hospitals differs slightly in the various states.” tt tt tt Cause of Disease AT the same time the United States public health service is carrying on investigations into the cause and nature of trachoma. “Our epidemiologist still is busy in the field in Missouri completing his study of trachoma as it occurs in nature, in the hope of gaining information as to the factors promoting spread of the disease,” Dr. Mossman says. “Our bacteriologist is busily engaged in her effort to search out the bacterial cause of the disease. Wo are trying in the hospitals to develop more accurate methods of 4 diagnosis and more effective treatment. “The work of the hospitals and other field activities is carried on by the United States public health service as a demonstration of an effective means of eradicating or at least preventing the spread of trachoma. “It goes without saying that these hospital units should be greatly increased in size or in number to serve fully their purpose. This calls for greatly increased expenditures on <he part of either the state or the federal government, or both.” What is beryllium? How is it used in industry? It is a hard, silver-white metallic element related to magnesium, zinc and aluminum. Its application as an industrial metal is still in its infancy. Alloys with copper, silver, iron and aluminum have been investigated with interesting results, although much work remains to be done before commercial demands will arise for any of these materials. Its iightness, high melting point, hardness, and heat conductivity point to possible application in the construction of pistons in motor cars and aeroplane engines where cost is a minor consideration. \ Do all the states have laws against lynching? Yes. * ''