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The Sudovich Parole Whether or not Nick Sudovich, once the duke of Indiana in the empire of A1 Capone, attended the Benton Harbor revels of his former chief while on a parole from the penitentiary is interesting. But it is not as important as the fact that Sudovich, convicted killer, convicted booze runner, convicted gangster and so undesirable that the federal government is waiting to deport him, was able to obtain a parole at all. Just what could be the reason for giving a man of this character liberty for any period of time? He had demonstrated his danger. He had debauched. He had bribed officials. He had lived by crime. He finally killed in order to prevent competition with his own criminal business. Yet this man, under the permission of Governor Ilarry G. Leslie, was at liberty for a month, was given freedom under the excise that Sudovich had “important private business” to transact. The important private business which occupied Sudovich before his conviction was crime and murder. The important private business of Sudovich was his agency for Capone, chief of gangsters. Mercy is a wonderful thing. Tenderness and sympathy toward the unfortunate is to be extolled and commended. But the Sudovich case requires more than a casual explanation of executive clemency. It is possible that public welfare and the solution of the prison problem would be well served if many of the prisoners were given a brief vacation during their terms. They would be better prisoners on their return and better citizens on their release if some of their bitterness could be swept away. There might be fewer relapses into crime. But that is a question of general policy. The Sudovich case is specific, glaring, insistent and challenging. The people are entitled to know why the Capone leader in Indiana was singled out from the two thousand for this particular brand of mercy, why he obtained that liberty at the time that Capone was arranging his own business affairs, giving lavish entertainments preparatory to what he believed was to be a brief sojourn in prison under a compromise with the government. If Warden Daly imposed upon the Governor’s guilelessness and is solely responsible for the parole, the trustees of that prison should determine whether the prison should longer need the services of a man with that discretion and judgment. If Warden Daly was told to sign on the dotted line, the people of the state have a right to,know the reasons which prompted such an order, the influences which obtained this official interest in a killer, the forces which unlocked the prison gates for this gangster. . Discipline in the prison, respect for law, respect for government, are all involved. The state demands an answer and a real explanation. Belle Case La Follette Belle Case La Follette was proud to be the wife of a United States senator and the mother of a Governor and a United States senator. But she was more than that. She was, unofficially, a great statesman in her own right. Her brain helped to mature the progressive principles for which her husband and her sons fought. Her active courage sustained them and others in that fight. Robert M. La Follette Sr. credited her with the brief which won him his first famous case as prosecutor before the state supreme court. “When we were Governor” was the way he referred to his work in the executive mansion at Madison Wis. So it was in later years when he came to Washington to represent ‘ their state. And so it was, after his death, when Robert M. La Follette Jr. looked to her for help as senator and Philip La Follette relied upon her aid as Governor. 0 When her husband died she could have been the first woman senator. She declined. She preferred to stay in the background. She was not ambitious for herself. She thought only of the Progressive cause. Perhaps she reasoned that she could not hold the senate seat long for the Progressives, that she was not young enough to wage a campaign at the end of the unexplred term. So she turned to Robert, who had been his father's secretary, who had grown up almost in the senate cloakrooms and in the family political councils, who was not only a worthy son of his father, but a Progressive leader in his own strength. The tens of thousands who mourn her death will remember the tribute of the beloved elder La Follette: “She is my wisest and best counselor. Her grasp of the great problems, social and economic, is unsurpassed by any of the strong men who have been associated with me in my work.” Find the Truth The word of the White House has been challenged. The issue of veracity is raised on a subject* of great public importance—the St. Lawrence waterway project. This project involves freight rates, power development and jobs for the unemployed. Previously, White House veracity had been questioned on other subjects—the Wickersham prohibition report, federal treasury deficits, the extent of unemployment. But the issue in none of those, perhaps, has been so clear as this. Here is the record: July 3—Governor Roosevelt on or about this date President Hoover declaring New York’s special Invest in the 6t. Lawrence treaty negotiations^d

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requesting state representation. The White House later sent a routine letter of acknowledgment. July 7—Acting Secretary of State Castle, after White House conference with Hoover, the American minister to Canada and the Canadian minister, denied that the St. Lawrence treaty was under discussion. July B—The state department spokesman admitted that St. Lawrence discussions were being carried>§n with the Canadian minister and that the latter had made a special trip to Washington for that purpose. AUg. s—The New York state power authority (Chairman Walsh), replying to inquiry from the Hoover employment stabilization board, stated that 18,500 men could be employed on the St. Lawrence power project almost immediately after negotiation of a Canadian treaty. Aug. 11—Governor Roosevelt, not having received definite reply to his July 3 request, wrote President Hoover, asking status of the St. Lawrence negotiations. Aug. 12—Scripps-Howard news dispatch from New York City said: “Secret negotiations between this country and Canada regarding the St. Lawrence waterway and power development have been in progress for two months, according to a member of the Canadian parliament. The state of New York has not been represented in the negotiations.” Aug. 12, Later —State department spokesman admitted that intermittent treaty negotiations were going on. Aug. 15—Scripps-Howard news dispatch from Washington stated that Governor Roosevelt probably would force the administration to explain the status of the St. Laurence negotiations without New York representation. Aug. 15 —White House and state department denied all knowledge of Roosevelt letter. Aug. 17, Morning—Governor Roosevelt announced he would make public his letter (of Aug. 11) unless President Hoover did so. Aug. Afternoon—White House admitted that it had received the Roosevelt letter, and the state department admitted that Castle, acting secretary of state, had replied to Roosevelt on Aug. 13: “All that it is possible to say now is, that no negotiations of any kind are going on.” (It was not denied that negotiations had been conducted at other times than the day or moment of the Castle letter.) Aug. 17, Afternoon, Later—When confronted by the press with official proof of receipt and answer of the Roosevelt letter, the White House then denied that it ever had denied receipt of that letter. The White House also repeated its denial of negotiations—which the state department had denied on July 7, had admitted on July 8, had admitted on Aug. 12, and had denied in its equivocal letter to Roosevelt on Aug. 13. * * * On the basis of that record, the average citizen is apt to think that the White House and state department were guilty of deliberate deception. We do not make that charge, because we have no way of knowing the intent and motive of the officials involved. The fact is that the public was deceived by the administration on this important public matter. That the deception might have been unintentional does not alter that fact. Whether the cause was merely inefficiency, or something much worse, the public was misled, and the public will be suspicious of future administration statements. It is imperative that the country and the world be able to trust White House statements. Therefore, we hope that the President immediately will clear away the St. Lawrence deception, regardless of who was responsible. It is the President’s duty to protect the integrity of all future official pronouncements. Only in that way ean he restore public confidence. It may be true that prosperity is just around the corner, but there seems to be some doubt about the traffic signal. Banks may fail in a great many ways, but not at calling overdrafts. An Arkansas jury refused to return a verdict before receiving its fees. You might say justice not only is not blind, but has excellent foresight. Mayor Walker has gone to Germany to take the baths. It is not known whether he took along his record for the same treatment. Aviators seem to be flying everywhere this summer, even off the handle. 'A new statute in Illinois prohibits carrying in an automobile firearms meant for criminal usage. Looks like a body blow at the motor car business.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IN Mark Sullivan’s third volume of "Our Times,” one of the few intelligent histories ever compiled, there is a splendid chapter on Dr. C. W. Stiles and his fight against the hookworm. If historians gave more glamor to doctors and less to generals, human destinies might be changed, for upon the heads of these men must fall a large share of the responsibility for wars. They ever have been proponents of the theory that civilizations are made by warriors and that soldiers are the only defenders of a nation. No more erroneous idea ever was kept alive by folk tale or pen. And the annals of no country are complete until its scientists, its physicians, its engineers and its teachers are accorded the same immortality upon their pages as that which now only goes to those who bear arms. nan WHAT could be more more inspirational to school children than a complete story of man’s war against disease? There have been many such thrilling battles. Against the black plague, against smallpox, against malaria, against diphtheria, against tuberculosis, against diabetes, against cancer. Are these not the most notable of man's conflicts? The victories of generals and colonels and sergeants fade beside the glory of the achievements of the doctors of the earth. > Yet history lauds Stonewall Jackson and Marshal Ney, and gives no mention to such men as Harvey, Jenner, Goldberger, Stiles and Lazear. The Peloponnesian war is a reality, but the names of those who conquered pellagra are little known. Kitchener and his deeds are the admiration of youth, while Koch, the discoverer of the tubercle bacillus, is a stranger to most American go-getters. Every school boy remembers Perry and Putnam. Historians have seen to that. But how many do you suppose know anything about those two greater heroes. John Kissinger and John Moran, who gave their lives that their countrymen need never again fear yellow fever? Mankind has not been saved by battle-ax and sword, but by the test tube in the hands of men who are more worthy of gratitude than the generals of the past, \ * •>**•■*

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Thirty Million Homeless as a Result of Flood and Famine in China, and to Think of the Wheat We Can't Use! NEW v YORK, Aug. 19.—With stocks up from one to three points, Wall Street breathes a little easier. Most every one admits that oil was responsible. Beyond that, there is less unanimity of opinion. Financial sharps talk glibly about “an unexpected demand superimposed on the seasonal trend.” Why not be fair and give Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Sterling of Texas some credit? Last week, Governor Murray reduced Oklahoma's output of oil by 156,000 barrels a day, or more than one-third. Governor Sterling promises to do an even bigger job in east Texas. Though brought in last Christmas, the east Texas field had reached a point where it was producing 739,000 barrels a day, or more than one fourth of the country’s supply. a tt o Cotton Quarrel THOUGH cotton growers have turned thumbs down on the farm board’s suggestion to “plow under every third row,” their quarrel is with the means, rather than the end. The number of alternate plans being put forward leaves little doubt that the idea of curtailment, or destruction in some form is gaining headway. Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana proposes that southern states prohibit the planting of cotton next year. A Georgia mass meeting approves this scheme, but Alabamans want none of it. tt tt Tammany’s Dust WHILE western statesmen wrestle with crop and price problems, Governor Roosevelt continues to work for an honest, thoroughgoing probe of New York City affairs. Tammany politicians don’t like the probe. It threatens to mess up their private preserve. First, they tried to persuade the Governor not to call that special session of the legislature, and now they are trying to blind it with dust. If it’s worth so much to investigate Democratic officials in New York City, they want to know, why won’t it be worth something to investigate Republican officials in some of the up-state cities? Roosevelt refuses to get flustered. Like Lincoln, he believes in one war at a time. tt tt tt Remember 1912? ROOSEVELT, Sterling, Murray, Long—all good Democrats and all in the limelight, with 1932 just around the corner. Tammany is souring on Roosevelt, but that only means more support for him in the south and west. It was the Tammany swing to Champ Clark that nominated Wilson in 1912. With Republican progressives developing more and more antagonism toward Hoover, the present situation is not dissimilar to the one existing then. tt tt tt Cuban Censorship YOU can’t put much dependence in the news from Cuba, which shows what conditions are like and why the people are rebelling. It’s just a bad case of censorship, and censorship goes hand in hand with tyranny. If Machado captures a leading revolutionist, or wins a skirmish, you hear all about it If he fails—silence. Revolutionist representatives in New York claim that the government is not having such a walkover as some of the dispatches would indicate. a tt tt Intelligence? THIRTY million homeless as a result of the flood and famine in China, and to think of the wheat we can’t use! We could do a lot of good if we had the mind to, perhaps, turn an honest penny. Enormous quantities of grain held in storage, at great expense and for a market which is not in sight, while millions of people are threatened with starvation —does it sound like twentieth century intelligence? tt tt tt Peace-Time Gamble CHINA would like to buy wheat from us, but has no cash. Why not loan her some silver, of which we have far too much? That is the method we pursued when Europe wanted to buy munitions, but had no cash. If an eleven billion dollar gamble was good for war, why isn’t a two or three hundred million dollar gamble good for peace? Besides, there is misery calling for relief right now, and trade calling for development in the futtire.

Questions and Answers

How many men were in sendee in the United States army at the close of the World war? Tiie total number on Nov. 11, 1918, was 3,673,878, including 188, 424 officers and 3,673,454 enlisted men. How many banks suspended operation during 1930? During the year ended Dec. 31, 1930, there were 1,345 suspensions. Where is the River of Doubt? In Brazil, South America, a tributary of the Madeira river,-which is one of the chief tributaries of the Amazon. In 1913 it was explored by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by the famous Brazilian explorer, Colonel Candido Rondon. In honor of the exploit the Brazilian government christened the stream Rio Roosevelt. Is Reading, Pa., pronounced read to rhyme with speed? No. It is pronounced Redding to rhyme with sledding. Is Will Rogers, the humorist, of Indian ancestry? His grandmother and greatgrandmother were full-blooded Cherokee Indians.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Vitamin Theory Is Established

This is the nineteenth of a series of thirty-six timely articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on “Food Truths and Follies.” dealing: with such much discussed but little known subjects as calories, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. WHAT was once known as the vitamin theory is now regarded as a well established scientific fact. Two hundred years ago a careful observer said that neither medicine nor surgery would help a patient with scurvy. This man named Cramer suggested the use of green vegetables or the fresh juice of oranges, lemons or citrons, as a relief for this disease. Some other observers confirmed this observation. By 1804, sailors in the British navy began to receive rations of lemon juice.

IT SEEMS TO ME

WITH the turn-about-face in women’s fashions there is grave danger that the social code also is going Queen Victoria—or is it Empress Eugenie? For instance, in yesterday’s paper appeared a column under the title, “How Do You Rate Socially?” There were five groups of quizzes to be answered “yes” or “no.” And at the end of the column appeared the information that certain groups should have an affirmative and other a negative answer if the aspirant would rate a 100 per cent mark. tt n Free Speech for Women THE thing that annoyed me was the wholesale manner in which these questions were to be answered. It is almost impossible to say “yes” or “no” unqualifiedly to problems of a social nature. There should always be allowances made for a “but” or an “if” or a “maybe.” Under “Group C, Self-control” is the following—- “ Should a woman let a man know she is in love with him if he has not shown a great deal of interest in her?” The answer to that entire group, is, of course, “no/ But I’m not so sure that’s the right answer. After all, it depends a lot on the persons involved. It has been accepted down through the centuries that a man may proclaim his love for a woman without waiting for her to evince a particular interest in him. Why, then, shouldn’t a woman have the same right? I can’t see that the woman would be cheapened in the eyes of her male companion for expressing this unrequited love any more than the man would be if the situation were reversed. * U ft The Equality of Love ON the contrary, unless the man is a downright cad he should feel flattered. If a woman were to declare her passion for me I’m sure that my opinion of her would rise in leaps and bounds. She would appear to me in an entirely new light —a person of discernment and good taste. Immediately she would take on anew interest and anew beauty in my eyes. It seems to me unfair and cruel to expect a woman to keep silent, like Patience on a monument, while her heart is near the breaking point under the weight of her emotion. Once a man has declared his passion, even though he has little or no hope of winding the object of his affections, he feels better. He has taken part of the burden off himself and can share it with his loved one. At least, he knows that heart-breaking suspense has been mitigated. And if the relationship continues it assumes a definite tenor. Even if the lovesick swain continues to plead and pine, he can do so articulately, without the fear of giving offense. mas And a Man Can Say 'No' THIS same rule does, or should, hold true in the case of the woman who loves not wisely but too veil. Why should she be expected to play the stoic? I will admit that women generally are much wiser and cleverer in handling thei’* romantic affairs than men. They have an uncanny faculty for restraint, even when they have fallen hopelessly in love with a man. But there are times when even the most self-possessed and poised of the female species must let down the bars and bare her heart. In very many cases happy marriages have resulted from just such

Regulating the Traffic

Whereas thousands of cases occurred previously during any year, the number was at once reduced so that the disease became exceedingly rare. Among the Japanese a disease called beriberi was exceedingly prevalent. The number of cases in the navy numbered annually from 25 to 40 per cent of the entire force. About 1885 a Japanese named Takaki reasoned that diet had some relation to disease, and succeeded in having the diets of the sailors modified by substituting barley for the polished rice that had been the chief constituent of the diet previously. At once beriberi practically disappeared among the sailors. Finally in 1897 an observer named Eijkman studied a condition in birds produced by feeding them polished rice, and found it could be cured by feeding rice polishings to the birds.

unconventional admission. Very often it is the man who is timid and afraid not only to proclaim himself but even to appear interested. The fear of being rebuffed has kept many a man from uttering the simple “I love you.” Men suffer just as acutely as women from this false standard we have set up. They, too, must be given the opportunity of choosing. It is absurd to suggest that a man must accept the woman who declares herself out of the spirit of chivalry, while the woman is permitted to reject her suitor without even a second thought. Another of the taboos for women is represented in the question,

People’s Voice

Editor Times —ls Indianapolis would employ only people of Indianapolis, who live here, it would help make times better here. Then the vacant houses would fill up which would help the real estate business. Then those who dre working would help pay expenses of the city. Those who now are working take their money to some other town. The dancer ought to pay the fiddler. Now the music starts as to what is the matter with this country. The Republican party has been in power too long. It has done so much for the farmer that his crops will not pay for the gathering of them and high taxes have ruined them so they have to come to town and take the city man’s job. He really belongs back on the farm. But Hoover has made so much prosperity. Lincoln freed the Negro and Hoover freed the working man out of a job. Now we are wearing patched pants and not only that, many in America are going hungry. If he does anything just before election to fool the farmer again he’ll be the next Republican President. All the newspapers would have called this a panic in large headlines if it had been a Democratic President in the chair, but it was Hoover, the rich man’s king, whom Mr. Mellon tells what to do. He told him before he was elected and is still doing it with the rest of the rich. There never was a panic under a Democrat president except one and that was a hangover from the Republican party down to Grover Cleveland. Now count the number of panics your old party has had and who ought to be elected in 1932? Franklin D. Roosevelt. We want a President who spends his life here and not abroad; who will look after the affairs at home and not for the interest of Mellon and Wall Street and foreign countries, but America, first, all the time. A President that can tell Wall Street and the rich where to head in. DEMOCRAT. Editor Times—Judging from a recent editorial, your paper stands for a salary adjustment which includes every member of an organization from the highest salaried official to the lowest. Thousands of dollars will be saved in our public school bill since the teachers have agreed to give up their automatic increases for the coming year. Why not extend this to include the administrative department as well? Several administrator’s salaries were raised substantially this last spring. The reduction asked by the tax board might be met in this way, inasmuch as there are so many high-salaried people in this department. Your paper so often stands on the side of fairness and for that reason this has been submitted for your personal consideration. A. R.

He is credited with perhaps the most important observation in the development of the knowledge of vitamins. It is important because it emphasized the fact that there was some substance in foods essential to proper growth and health. From that time on many other investigators have carried on experiments which have resulted in the vast amount of knowledge now available on food essentials. The name vitamin was given to these products in December, 1911, by Funk. He thought at that time that he had isolated the beriberi vitamin in a pure state, and he thought that it was an amine substance essential to life. The language that has grown up about the vitamins is perhaps in general about as inaccurate as the term “vitamin” itself. However, language is no respector of facts.

lIEYWOOD BROUN

"Should a girl brag about her success in business?” How About Her Knitting? WHY not? Since we accept women in business and allow them to fill responsible positions, why not permit them the extreme pleasure of boasting about it? Heavens knows they have listened patiently for decades to the conquests of men in business, their worries and hopes and plans. It is no more than fitting, therefore, that we should give them the opportunity to elicit our oh’s and ah’s. I never could see why it was considered quite all right for a man to spend a whole evening telling his girl about what happened at the office, while she, on the other hand, is not permitted to bore him with the details of her daily work. What is she to talk about? The weather? After all, our conversation must necessarily be a reflection of what we do and what we are interested in. And I’d as soon be bored by a tired business woman, provided she is tired and charming, as a tired business man who is just tired. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

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ARM MERCHANT SHIrS Aug. 19 ON Aug. 19, 1917, orders were issued from Washington that all merchant ships sailing across the Atlantic were required to be armed and painted to reduce visibility. With this order, camouflaging of ships started in earnest. Hundreds of ships were striped and zig-zagged with paint. Orders likewise were Issued on this day that all merchant ships must be provided with smokeless fuel and equipped with appliances to produce smoke clouds to escape submarine torpedo attack. Army authorities in Spokane, arrested local officials of the Industrial Workers of the World on this date, charging them with ordering strikes in the lumber and fruit industries and preaching sedition.

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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 of this oaDer.—The Editor.

AUG. 19,1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Television, Like Prosperity, Is “Just Around the Corner," How Far the Corner Is the Radio Industry Doesn’t Know. WHAT about television? That is the important question in the radio industry today. Rumors fly about with a frequency and rapidity which is reminiscent of an army camp in the World war. One rumor says that practical television is fifty years away. Another has it—like prosperity—Just around the corner. According to one report, television is going to put the theaters, the movies and the newspapers all out of business within a decade. According to another, it never will be anything but a novelty and a toy. Meanwhile radio manufacturers and dealers hold their heads and look none too happy about the situation. As far as they are concerned the radio industry has suffered from too much progress. It is one more paradox to be added to the crazy-quilt of recent economic history. The farmers are suffering because crops are too good. The radio dealI ers say their misfortunes came from too much inventive genius. No sooner was one radio on the market than somebody invented a i better one. Anew set became obsolete before the ink dried on the advertisements. Now those same dealers listen to the television rumors and ask themselves if history is about to repeat itself. It is small wonder that their heads ache.

tt k tt World Is Eager ANYONE interested in the ques tion of television will find much valuable information in “Television, Its Methods and Uses,” by Edgar H. Felix. The book is published by the Mc-Graw-Hill Cos., who have a reputation of many years’ standing as the publishers of authoritative books on scientific and technical subjects. Felix observes quite truly, “The instrumentalities of television have recently improved tremendously by virtue of scientific progress in other fields, such as the electrical transmission of audible frequencies, photo-electric tubes, vacuum tube amplifiers and motion picture projection. “Realizing the enthusiasm with which the public will greet a television service offering visual programs of real educational and entertainment merit, a vast amount of inventive talent and enormous research facilities have been concentrated upon its development.” But the big question at the present time, Felix adds, is “When will television arrive?” To that, he replies, “That question is not answered easily, fear after year, those commercially interested in its future have stated that television is “just around the comer.” “Admittedly, the recent accomplishments of co-ordinated research concentrated upon the solution of the remaining problems of television lends force to the prediction that practical television is soon to be an accomplished fact.” tt tt it Channels Puzzling THE laboratory work upon television has been pretty well accomplished, in the opinion of Felix. “Many of the elements of the television system are highly developen and fully capable of doing their part in producing and reproducing moving images,” he writes. Commercial problems, however, remain. One of the most important is due to the fact that it now requires a wide radio channel to transmit television adequately. Considering the fact that the ether already is overcrowded with ordinary broadcasting, this is serious obstacle. “A major invention which effects a radical conservation of radio channel requirements will provide a considerable impetus to the commercial progress of the art,” he continues. “In fact, if television Is to be accomplished through radio broadcast transmission, such invention is quite essential to material progress in the science.” But Felix is hopeful. He goes on to say, “Every great has faced such obstacles. “Radio telephony and broadcasting remained in the embyro stage for a decade, awaiting a practical system of carrier modulation; the automotive industry marked time until an adequate highway system spread its network over the land; long-distance telephony needed the vacuum-tube relay before it could come into its own.”

Daily Thought

Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled; howl, ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is came down.—Zachariah 11:2. Old trees In their living state are the only things that money can not command.—Landor.