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Who Killed Cock Rotor./ Governor Leslie adds his verse to the nursery battle over the legislative death of the income tax measure which had been promised the people. Whatever else may be said, it is true that the Governor squeezed whatever life may have been left in the bill by vetoing it. Os course, he charged that Speaker Walter Myers had made it imposisble for him to sign by writing upon the bill the truth about the fracture of the Constitution by the legislature which had continued in session beyond its legal limit to pas s appropriation and other measures. The Governor found no reason for signing bills for privileged interests which had been passed in the same illegal hours and in the most chaotic of conditions, where legislators acted as madmen rather than lawmakers. The inquest over the measure would finally reveal, if one is held, that the income tax bill and the corporation tax hill 'were killed by rich men whose wealth is not in real estate. The industrial barons had their representatives on the ground. The merchant princes were very active. The financial satraps had their mercenaries in the field. The legislators surrendered to the same old voices and obeyed their masters. Jobless men were given fifteen minutes to plead for work and got nothing. Men with large incomes were luckier. The Derqocratic house passed the measure and kept its pledge. That doesn’t mean that all of its members favored it. Many are gla dtheir votes are nullified. The real assassin of the bill was the legalized tax dodger. He had real representation in both parties and does not worry. He is safe for another two years and will continue, as formerly, to pass along his burdens to the worker and the farmer. Ludlow’s Mistake When Congressman Ludlow of Indianapolis denounced In advance the conference of progressives and advertised to his Bourbon supporters in the Republican party and his more Bourbon backers in the Democratic ranks that he would have none of these earnest men, he failed to represent the men and women who really elected him. Ludlow received the support of those who had become tired of servility in congress by those who were picked by privilege. He had the votes of the great, middle class. He had the votes of men who stand today in line before the township trustee asking for food. His vote for high tariff was disconcerting to his real friends. It was an evidence that he was out of step with the people. criticism of the conference might have been expected from a Watson or a Robinson. But from Ludlow it may be a revelation of thought that reveals a fundamental weakness. At a. time 'when cities are being bankrupted by enforced charity to starving men, this city should have someone genuinely interested in removing the causes of poverty. What a pity that Ludlow could not find it expedient to attend conferences with men who hate poverty, hate privilege, but love civilization and still have faith in a political democracy. It will be more of a pity if the voice of Indianapolis is raised against all programs of relief during the next two years. Official Murder In two states, Kansas and Michigan, a return to capital punishment is being proposed as an answer to the .distressing problems of this winter. A less Intelligent answer would be hard to conceive. There is more homicide this winter, more shooting and stabbing—and also more suicide—than there has been in recent years. But this is just as true in states with capital punishment as it is in those which did away with the barbaric custom years ago. The misery of this year, the privation and hardship, the fear and uncertainty of panic times, are taking their toll in human life, as they always do. In winter, such as this one, the weaker fringe of humanity always is apt to lose its balance of sanity. But that is no reason why the great sound voting mass of the people should lose their balance also and turn to primitive killing. Capital punishment does not safeguard human life, and it does not prevent crime. This has been tested and proved, again and again. It is more probable that the state's example of cold, premeditated slaughter rouses the lust to kill in potential criminals. Experience has taught us that capital punishment laws do more to protect the criminal than to punish him. Jurors who are sane and normal enough to feel revulsion at human murder often acquit prisoners or convict them on minor counts rather than take the burden of killing on their own souls. If it were not for capital punishment, murderers could be confined for life, and their communities given actual instead of theoretical protection against them. Kansas has not been distinguished for straight political thinking in recent times. But we expected better of Michigan. We still expect it, under leadership of young Mayor Murphy of Detroit, who will oppose capital punishment in Michigan’s referendum. Fat or Lean? Strange and varied are the activities of the federal government. Experts will advise you on all manner of things—where to sell garters in Asia or how to trap coyotes. Or on your weight. The bureau of home economics, for instance, has discovered that weight generally is an index to personal efficiency and can be controlled to maintain your health and enable you to get the maximum pleasure out of life. And we learn, “a thin person is apt to be nervous and to have less resistance than the person of normal weight. Some reserve fat is desirable for .1 emergencies . . ." But a fat person “has too large a ru..t ; e which represents a load to be carried and thus reduces the efficiency and general ability to get around.” The bureau has some further advice on the lubiect

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of diet, what foods to eat, and so, forth, to lose or gain. Now if the department of agriculture just will devise some means to enable 7,000,000 out of work to get the wherewithal to buy food for themselves and their families, everything will be lovely. Mother and daughter can have slim, lovely figures and papa can avoid a paunch. Legge Quits The federal farm board experiment has been ineffectual. One has to look only at the downward curve of farm produce prices to see that the $500,000,000 experiment has failed. But to some there seemed a chance fop the President farm board to vindicate itself while Alex Legge remained its chairmatt. Legge was the farm board, many said. Legge has gone now; resigned, as he threatened to do last year. If Legge was the farm board, his going appears to involve disintegration of that board. He went to Washington a big, lumbering man with kindly squinting eyes in a massive head. He ducked publicity at the start; reporters called him a poor news source. Then something happened. As attacks on his farm board became more vitriolic, Legge threw off his quiet, embarrassed manner, and emerged a fighter with forked words to defend his work. Legge made mistakes, probably a lot of them. But we believe he did so in sincerely trying to help farmers through the cumbersome, awkward and dangerous machinery that was his. He knew the boarc’s limitations. His resignation removes a good government official. A Vicious Circle The only way to “rehabilitate” the farmers is to rehabilitate the cities, says John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers’ union, in an interview. That is no doubt true. But it is equally true that the farmers likewise must be rehabilitated before the cities can get on their feet. Nearly half of our population lives on farms or in small towns supplying service to farms. They purchase the things that are made in the city factories. When their purchasing power is impaired, as it has been, the factories close. And the workers in the factories then have little money to buy the things that farmers produce. Prices paid to producers are low. Our warehouses are bursting with cotton, wool and wheat. And there is a dearth of purchasers, because so many persons lack the money with which to buy. Air Mail Scandals Congress voted to investigate the air mail. This inquiry should be started soon, and conducted with thoroughness. Since air mail was transferred from the postoffice department to private contractors four years ago there has been need for a major operation, to let the public and congress see what’s inside. Tkere have been too many whisperings and grumblings against the postoffice department to be ignored permanently. There have been charges of favoritism and unethical tactics. It is time to find out if they are true. If not, both the postoffice and the air mail contractors should.be freed from the burden of suspicion. The postoffice says it is ready to face any inquiry. Many of the operators welcome it, for they feel that if given the opportunity to show congress what it costs to run an air line future appropriations will be easier to get. We trust the investigators will go to the bottom, and hear all sides. A publishing house soon to open in New York will issue books without the names of the authors. This undoubtedly will discourage writers contemplating racy biographies of the great. Twin liners have been named after Hoover and Coolidge. And we’ll wager Hoover wishes he were in Cal’s boat. “And how's my grub today?” as the insect affectionately addressed his larvae. Champagne, according to a dentist, ruins the teeth. That objection, however, can easily be brushed kside.

REASON

IN this horrible case recently tried at Valparaiso we saw once more the absurd spectacle of expert witnesses testifying pro and con, according to the side which called them to the stand. a a a We do not question the honesty of such experts, but we do know that in countless law suits prejudiced experts have given testimony and the time has come to end the farce. And it can be stopped very easily. a a a Instead of permitting both sides to select their experts who bend their testimony to suit the'needs of those who called them, the court should appoint .experts to testify, not for one side or the other, but for the cause of justice. a a a T'O permit one side or the other to hire expert wit- -*• nesses is as flagrant an outrage of decency as it ivould be to permit one side or the other to hire common -witnesses to testify. We do not rebel against the farce because we are used to it. e a a The fashion exper ts tell us that cotton is to take the place of silk in feminine attire, but it’s our own private opinion that it will take a surgical operation to take the ladies out of silks and put them into mlico. a a a If you were disposed to grumble over the recent orief, belated visit of the Storm King, just glance backward toward December, January and February md remember what a mild-mannered gentleman the old boy has been. a a a And if this is not enough, then think of the re?ions that have had earthquakes. UP in Michigan two men were taken to the state prison in an airplane. It is presumed that they first were searched for parachutes. a a a President Hoover has signed a bill to put the head of George Washington upon next year’s quarters, which leads us to suggest, that the buffalo nickels should bear the likeness of the Wickersham commission. tt tt tt The honors showered upon Justice Holmes of the supreme court of the United States remind one of the strange fact that the three liberals of our highers court come from our great centers of reaction. Holmes and Brandeis coming from Bos tor 4 and Stone from New York City.

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Americans Have Developed an Insatiable Thirst for Change and Innovation. Evansville, ind., March 14. Our industrial setup is largely the creature of discovery and invention. If progress is to continue, it must remain so. Unless we are prepared to stop where we are, there is no choice but to assume that the next half century will see as many changes as has the last. What did the telephone, the auto, or even steel amount to fifty years ago? By the same token, who can say what they will amount to fifty years hence? If American civilization stands for one thing more than another, it is the accelerated pace of evolutionary processes along scientific and mechanical lines. Movement, whether from a physical, intellectual, or economic standpoint, has been its driving force. The element of individualism and self-sufficiency on the part of a large percentage of the people made it possible to carry on this movement with a minimum of suffering. tt tt Individualism Passes INDIVIDUALISM has been supplanted by organization on every hand while the existing depression proves nothing so vividly as the fading out of self-sufficiency. The system we are pursuing, whether in respect to home life, or workshop, drifts steadily toward one result. Each year, if not each month, beholds a larger number of our people growing dependent on its maintenance as is. Most of the remedies proposed center around the same idea. Many of our best thinkers are talking about industry, unemployment, capital, labor, and their various relationships as though the present lineup could be accepted as reasonably permanent, as though a given group of enterprises would continue to require about the same amount of money and employ about the same number of workmen as it does now. If that is so, we have come to the dawn of anew era in American history. tt tt tt Thrist for Change HOWEVER advantageous such era might appear from the standpoint of security for investors and employes, there is doubt as to whether human nature could endure the shock, especially that kind of human nature which has been developed in this country. To a measurable extent, we Americans have-cultivated an insatiable thirst for change and innovation. We want nothing so badly as new methods and new devices. * We are intrigued by nothing more distinctly than the thought that there is bound to be something different just around the corner, or just beyond tomorrow’s sunrise. The appetite for experiment, discovery and invention is In our blood. We are ruthlessly indifferent as to whom it bankrupts, or what.- it eliminates, just as our fathers and grandfathers were before us. If oil destroys half the capital in coal mines, or forces half the miners out of work, we put it calmly aside as the price of progress. a tt tt Like to Gamble IN a perfectly commendable desire to escape the vicissitudes, or minimize the disasters incident to such course as we have pursued, suppose we enact laws which would compel a more rigid structure. Would we obey those laws, or treat them like prohibition? Suppose after we had the power people nicely regulated, not only with regard to rates, but with regard to employment guarantees, some genius should discover how to crack water, or utilize atomic energy? Would we suppress the invention, let the power trust buy it up, or yell for its immediate exploitation by some other crowd? Time after time, we have thrown major industries overboard for the sake of something new, something we believed to be better, something that offered a real chance to gamble, and who doubts that we will continue to do the same thing? tt tt tt We Need Ideas I AM not trying to throw cold water on anybody’s plan for relief, or prevention. We need all the ideas we can get along that line. In analyzing those ideas, however, we' must not overlook the power of habit and tradition, as we did when we adopted the eighteenth amendment, particularly when they have been woven so thoroughly into our conception of progress. No other country on earth has wrought such violent changes in its methods of work, or ways of living as we Americans during the last century. Not only most of our achievements, but most of our problems, originate in that very fact.

Questions and Answers

What is the population and area of South America? The approximate area is 6,800,000 square miles, and the population is estimated at 66,000,000. How many years has the Ham-burg-American steamship line been in existence? The company is in its eightythird business year. How many home runs did Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics hit daring the 1930 World series? Two. Are the British Isles part of Europe? Although physically not a part of the European continent, they usually are included when speaking of Europe. Is there a planet called Eros? The name was given to a single asteroid. In January, 1931 ( this small planet had a near approach to the earth, but it Is so small that even under the most favorable conditions it is invisible to the unaided eye. How is Patricia pronounced? What does it mean? It is pronounced pat-ris-e-ah, and is a feminine form of the Patrick, which means noble.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Care in Contact Lessens Contagion

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American- Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE common contagious diseases include measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, mumps, chickenpox, and German measles. The prevention of these diseases involves primarily the keeping away from people w r ho have them. It takes from one to seven days for diphtheria to develop after fee child has been exposed to it; from four to seven days for scarlet fever; from seven to fourteen days for whooping cough, from ten to fourteen days for measles, and from fourteen days to three weeks for chickenpox, mumps, and German measles. Ii is, therefore, safe for other children if parents will be certain that their own children, when they have these diseases, are not permitted outdoors and in contact with other children until they have been pronounced cured and safe by the physician.

IT SEEMS TO ME by H aT

A POLICEMAN sits each night at a fsr corner table in the Club Argonaut—noisiest and rowdiest of New York night clubs. I have been trying to get up my nerve to interview him and find out what he thinks of the newest styles in chorus girl costumes, Broadway gaiety, the show itself and life in general. His presence indicates a curious sort of compromise. The show is very much the same as that which graced the Club Abbel. And seemingly it is the feeling of social New York that such an entertainment may not be allowed to proceed without some sort of supervision. And so there is a resident guardian ci the law, whose job, I assume, is to see that no other judges wave a pleasant farewell and step out into the night of nothingness. But I look upon this lone cop in the cabaret as one who is blasted for the sins of the people. Three times a night—and sometimes four—the show goes on. The man in blue and buttons knows every line of it by now. n n tt No Smile I WATCHED him closely and he never so much as smiled at a single one of the jokes. They are, as far as he is concerned, thricetold tales. The man picked for this fixed post does not seem to me much of a bon vivant. He eyes the hilarity of Broadway at play with sourness and silence. Os course, it isn’t a great deal of fun to sit thus on the fringe of revelry and have no share in it. As far as I know, nobody ever has taken the trouble to ask him if he tangoes. Probably it’s an excessisve familiarity with the routine which leaves him so sober-minded in the early hours of high-jinks. A lady clad in scanty raiment may be capable of producing a thrill under certain circumstances. But one may well turn a cold and sullen eye upon the entire sex if twen-ty-five bathing beauties are paraded dhriee a night before his seat in the reviewing stand. I wonder what effect the assignment has upon the home life of the policeman. I seem to see him returning at the end of. a hard day's work at the Argonaut and breaking into sobs as he finds his family listening to “Cheerful Little Earful” over the radio. It was a fine lesson for me. In a moment of enthusiasm about the dancing of a small Mexican miss in the show I almost had resolved to | place a subscription for 365 nights at a front row table. Then I happened to catch the look upon Hie face of the resident policeman. It was a mixture of acute boredom, with a touch of

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If they have been exposed they should be watched carefully for the time mentioned. In those cases in which there is a rash, as in measles, German measles, and scarlet fever, enough time should elapse after appearance of the rash to make certain that fee child is not infectious for other children. The time required is usually two weeks in German measles, ten days in measles and five days in scarlet fevei*. In whooping cough, at least twenty-one days should elapse after the first appearance bf the whoop before the child is permitted contact with other children and then only provided it has stopped coughing. In mumps, contact with other children should not be permitted for three weeks after fee swelling has subsided. It is important to remember that it is the excretions which carry fee disease and that coughing, spitting, sneezing, discharge

mal de mer an da little civic righteousness thrown in. I realized feat there is a difference between amateur cabaret attendance and sheer professionalism. I venture my friend, fee policeman, winces each time he sees the waiter bearing checks including cover charges. And to himself he probably says, “And do those saps really pay money for this?” tt a u So to Mencken HENRY MENCKEN, in a recent interview, voiced a paradoxical but wholly logical theory when he contended that corruption is largely caused by moral legislation. I always have felt that the best chance for honest administration in large cities is the establishment of a code dealing with a reasonable minimum of requirements. Practically all reform mayors h?ve failed by an endeavor to cover too much territory. The column recently has been devoted to an outcry against corruption. My feeling in the matter is sincere. It continues. But I have no desire to be classed as a reformer in the familiar sense of the word. I don’t want, for myself or my neighbors,a city without speakeasies. Nor have I ever understood the utility of any sort of curfew ordinance. The problem of prostitution—

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RUYSDAEL’S BIRTH March 14

ON March 14, 1628, Jacob Ruys- ■ dael, the most eminent painter of the Dutch school, was born at Harlem, Holland. After studying under his uncle, Jacob was received into the guild in his home town. He moved to Amsterdam about 1655, and soon obtained citizenship rights. At this time he traveled widely in his native land and in the outlying hill region of Germany. He was a close observer of nature and chose for his paintings the flat and homely scenery of his native country, with lonely hamlets, water mills, dark sheets of water overshadowed by trees. His forest, mountain and waterfall scenes are called highly poetic. In 1681 Ruysdael returned to Harlem, poor and sick, and his Mennonite coreligionists procured for him admission to the almshouse, where he die! in March, 1682, t

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from an ear, or the scales from the skin which are contaminated with the excretions are responsible for spread of the diseases. It is possible to make children immune to diphtheria by use of toxoid or antitoxin, and this is so safe that it has been adopted as a routine measure in most communities. Scarlet fever immunization usually is not advised as a routine measure, but is to be used when there is a certain history of exposure and evidence of susceptibility. For the other diseases, there are no specific measures of prevention. In general, cultivation of health by proper hygiene is fee most healthful measure for the prevention of disease. If the child ’attends school in a community where reasonable care is taken "to prevent exposure in school, and if the parents exercise Intelligence relative to the contacts made by the child outside of school hours, it is likely to be able to avoid much unnecessary infection.

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

which generally goes under the euphemistic name of “vice” in newspapers—is admittedly a difficult one in large cities. I am not for recognition and regulation. The theory sometimes sounds persuasive. But it seems to me that, in fact, it must always lead to corruption. Yet we will get far beyond the reasonable minimum of which I have spoken if any administration undertakes to wipe out immorality completely. It can’t be done. And in the effort, a number of innocent people are certain to be unjustly arrested. It is ample to suppress merely flagrant and open commercialized vice. I doubt that a majority of New Yorkers want this town turned into a Godly city. 11l admit that the present danger of any such contingency is remote. But a gay city need not be a corrupt one. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times) What are the seating capacities of the stadium of the University of Southern California, Stanford university and the Rose Bowl at Pasadena? The University of Southern California stadium at Los Angeles 88,000 and fee Rose Bowl at Pasadena 80,000. What does the name Columbus mean? It is from the Latin and means “a dove.”

They Do, Too! There’s a lot of truth in that old saw, “An apple a day keeps fee doctor away!” The apple is called the "king of fruits.” Among all fee fruits apples are chiefly favored by the American people. They please the eye, delight fee taste and are invaluable regulators of bodily functions. They contain little protein and hardly any fat, but their high sugar content makes them extremely valuable as a source of energy. Our Washington bureau has ready for you a bulletin containing scores of recipes for using apples in attractive and tempting dishes, in pies, cakes, salads and many other delicious ways. You will w T ant to add this bulletin to your collection of unique recipes. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 119, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin, Apples and Apple Dishes, and inclose herewith 5 cents In coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name . St. and No City State I am a daily reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

MARCH 14, 193

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Incalculable Damage Done to Men and Beasts by Flies. I 'pwo decades ago or so. the flyfwatting campaigns were launched and citizens learned the dangers associated wife the diseasecarrying fli^. But it is probable that, few people, other than trained biologists, realize how destructive a role flies play in the drama of animal life. Professor E. C. Faust-of the parasitology laboratory of the department of tropical medicine of Tulane unnersity, writes of the havoc done by various types of flies in the SciMonthly, offeial publication ot the American Assocition for the Advancement of Science. •‘From the point of view of their relations to parasitism,” he writes 'these insects may be divided into two groups, (l) the filth and flesh flies and (2) fee biting flies. “Even flies which otherwise are are very closely related may be separated on this basis, as, for example, the ordinary house fly and the stable fly. “Filth and flesh flies are a serious menace to mammals,” he says. “In the first place, they may introduce bacteria into accidentally contracted wounds and produce a bacterial infection. “More serious, however, is the development of larval stages of these worms (maggots) in the mammalian ! body.” it a a Egg Laying ! TjJ'OOD contamination plays an im- '*■ portant role at times in the damage done by flies. | “In some instances the eggs of the | Ay may be swallowed as a food contamination, hatch out in the intestine and develop there, producing multiple ulcers,” Dr. Faust says “Gasirophilus equi, commonly found in horses’ skin, is a good example of this type. “Maggots from eggs of practically all the filth flies will hatch in fee human intestine and produce more or less trouble. In other species the female fly will intentionally lay eggs in w’ounds oi mammals or dart against the conjunctiva of the eye and deposit eggs. “In both these cases the larvae hatch out and feed on the tissues, usually becoming secondarily infected with bacteria. “More serious still are the lesions produced by larvae of flies, where i the females introduce the eggs or viviparous young under the skin or in the nasal sinuses. “The bots are particularly destructive to fee skin layers of cattle, deer, etc. The skins of such animals are worthless for use in tie industries. “Oestrus ovis in sheep, goats, and related mammals invades the nasal sinuses and develops there, at times even invading the brain. In both wild and domestic mammals these flies are all serious pests. The flesh fly is the cause of great suffering in wounds of man on the battlefield. Wherever man is closely associated with mamals harboring fee bot or sheep maggots and other destructive fly larvae, he, too, may become infested in a similar manner.” tt tt a Biting Flies “T TNDER the group of biting flies and their allies there is a very large number of species with varied life histories, which have in common the custom of sucking blood,” Dr, Fafist says. “There are the common stable fly, the horse flies, Chrysops, the tse-tse flies of Africa, and many others which belong to the larger species,” he says. “Then there are fee many hundreds of species of mosquitoes, and sand flies, the midges, and’the black flies or buffalo gnats. “The females of all these smaller forms suck blood, and while the blood of birds is equally acceptable, mammalian donors usually are more available. “In the large view, the irritation produced by the bites of flies is incalculable. When it is remembered, however, that many of these flies transmit disease which are far more serious than their bites, fee economic importance of this group will be appreciated. “Just to mention a few of the diseases, we may note the following: Sleeping sickness of man in Africa, and the trypanosomiases in wild and domestic mammals; all the known species of filarial infection in man and mammals; yellow fever, dengue, sand fly fever, and tularemia. “The importance of these transmitters in human medicine is just beginning to be appreciated; their significance in the causation of disease in wild maftimals still is unfathomable.” ;

Daily Thought

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.— I Kings 2:4. Idoltary is certainly the first born of folly.—South.