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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Teachers Taking Action

As result of the quiz into propaganda activities
of the utilities industry by the federal trade commits
sion, parents have learned that school children have
been absorbing much prejudiced one-sided informa-
ton on the subject of public ownership Of power,
light and fuel.
They have discovered that much material has
found its way into schools which prepared and
paid for by the press agents of the power industry
The disclosures have been dsconcerng to the parents
ard even more disconcerting to school officials
While school officials and teachers are awake to
the situation yet the recent action of the National Ed
ucation Association in appointing committee of ten
to investigate the of matter provided by outside
organizations or agencies is to be welcomed. 1t is
time educational authorities began to exercise some
form of censorship over school propaganda.
The committee, it is explained, will state princ-
Piles which should guide school officials and teachers
in using such material children may be protected
from one-sided viewpoints and from exploitation for
commercial advertising purposes"
The survey can not begin too soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
AL Smith at His Best

The happy warrior does not su1k in his tent after
defeat. Instead of nursing election injuries and in
voking wrath upon his opponents Alfred Smith for
gets the personal think of his counys welfare and
the contribution his party can make to that common
welfare of America
eft will not do to let bitterness blind to the fact
that we are Americans" Such was his campaign
radio postscript last night to the fourteen and half
million citizens who voted for him. Herbert Hoover
is not to be President of the Republicans but of the
republic, he reminded his loyal supporters
That is good Americanism. We glad Smith
made this appeal But we like to think it only
irmed what already was in the hearts and minds of
his hearers Dt%
4 His statement of the high functions of minority
party was equally wise and is poraby less generally
understood.
No party in power, much less the traditional Re-
publican party can be intrusted safely with gov
eminent without the compromising check and prod
ding of alert opposition party. The danger is
graver than possible misuse of power for autocracy
and corruption in democracy usually dig their own
graves.
The primary need of government is intelligence,
and ever more intelligence to meet manifoldly COM
pick problems The two parties must function as
positive and negative polls producing that current of
intelligence.
at one time may take the form of cooperation and
at another time the form of opposition, which at all
times is militant which at time is obstructionst
Certainly the country needs Jeffersonian princi-
PIES needs that liberalism of the simpler pre-machine
age applied to this industrial era
Whether there is to be rebirth of vital and eff
fective liberalism in the Democratic party, as Smith
hopes and believes, depends on that party. We are
among those who look for such liberalism from Her
bert Hoover and Republican party reorganized by
his leadership.
But that is commodity in which the country
should fear problem of surplus Let there be unre-
strained competition in this. Hoover liberalism should
stimulate the Democratic party. And without
liberal opposition party, Hoover will have hard time
leavening the heavy lump of Republican reaction.
AIS prophecy, after quarter century in public
life is that the future belongs to liberal party
Neither Democratic Republican politicians af-
ford to ignore that warning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Needed Legislation

The entire state has interest in a salary law
which would take county offices out of the fee class
and place them on a straight salary basis.
Es2ecially is this true of Lake county, the bad
spot of Indiana in politics. and bad very largely be-
the fee system makes it possible to create and
operate very efficient political machine whose in
fuence on the state is not the best.
The old fee system has been wiped out in this,
the largest city, and in Others 1t should be
abandoned everywhere, especially since the Wright
dry law makes the fee system especially unavoidable
and most dangerous.
The position of prosecuting attorney, for instance,
in Lake county pays than the salary of the
President of the United States.
The Office of sheriff is said to equal with the
money which will be received by Herbert Hoover
These huge revenues come from the Wright law,
which adds $25 fee for the prosecutor for convict
ing common DRINKS The theory of the professional
dry leaders, who framed the law, was that the pros
pect of these fees would make prosecutors especially
vgilant in prosecuting all liquor cases. sort of bride
to them to perform their plain duty.
The result has been to make county in the
north almost the dictator of Indiana.
From its legislative delegations, it seeks the lead
ership in the Senate and the speakershp of the
House.
Its delegation in the past has been harmonious
unit on all legislation and the bloc of votes it con-
trolls has been dominating in much legislation, much
very bad legislation.
If it be advisable to tack the extra fee for prose-
cutting liquor to the bill of offenders, there is
no reason why this fee should not be returned to
the state Certainly there is for permitting
officials to receive salaries out of all proportion to
their ability and their services.
No lawyer would contend that the prosecutor of
Lake county should receive twelve times the salary
paid in Marion county.
OF course, it would be hardy and independent
legislator who would dare to attack this evil system,
which affects not only Lake county but others where
its influence is less apparent.
He would draw to himself the ire of the little state
within the state and his measures and bills would
probably suffer. But sometime there will come
one who will have the courage to start drive this
most palpable evil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
RothStein Murder

The RothStein murder occurred in
New York eleven days ago. The
police department, the district at
torney's office and even Mayor
Walker have all taken a hand in
trying to solve it.
So, too, have several newspapers.
Thus far little has resulted except
some interesting SidelightS on the
upper crust of New York's sunder-
world.
Through one source or another, it
has been developed that Rothstein
was a great gambler, though not
always successful.
Besides that, it has been de-
veloped, he was one of quite few
great gamblers, the gambling
fraternity was on more or less in
innate terms with bootleggers,
second-story workers, holdup men
and other criminals and it enjoyed
at least a speaking acquaintance
with certain political leaders.
In the minds of many people,
these entangling alliances explain
the difficulties which justice is en-
counteriIig, and create the suspicion
that there may be more ahead than
a murder trial. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Auto as Killer

The fate of the Vestris brings to
mind many similar disasters. One
needs to be neither very old, or very
well read to recall several. Still, and
this is worth considering, ships prob
ably take less life than automobiles.
They seem to because they take it
in such large doses. The automobile
kills by ones and twos. That, more
than anything else, creates an illu-
sionment as to the total number.
Twice as many people were
crushed to death on the streets and
highways of this country last week
as were lost on the Vestris. What
is worse. twice as many will be
killed next week.
Our pretended ability to under
stand figures is a myth. They only
impress us when concentrated. We
can appreciate the appalling toll OF
this shipwreck much better than
we can appreciate the still more
appalling toll of our automobiles
each week, each month or each year.
The reason We regard statistics as
dry is because we have not reached
point yet where we can read them
intelligently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

etys spokesman blindy follow the lead of those who
supported Secretary Wilburs bion-dolar naval pro-
gram.
An effort was made to air the controversy before
the society at its convention in Washington last
spring. The daughters promptly squelched it,
Mrs. Mcfarland fought hard She tried to reach
the chapters themselves to explain the ridiculous
position in which the daughters had placed them
selves which almost everybody but few of the
leading daughters seemed to realize.
She engaged in rather acrimonious debate by
letter with Mrs. a. j. Brosseau president general of
the society," who apparently scant attention to
her complaints. And she refused a summons to ap-
pear before the board to explain For that she was
kicked out.
She takes place the blacklist with William
Allen White, Jane Adams, Rabbi WISE Senator
Borah, Dr. David Starr Jordan Florence Allen and
others.
IT rest quite content" says Mrs. Mcfarland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Our Purple Patriots

The battle of the blacklist goes merriy on within
the Daughters of the American Revolution. The lat
est incident is the expulsion of Mrs. Mary p Mac
Farland by the national board of management, Of
Hanover, N. j. Mrs. MacFarland is state president
of the American Association of University Women, an
officer of the League of Women Voters graduate of
Smith college, and active in various social and rel
giouS organizations.
Mrs. MacFarland is charged with disturbing the
harmony of the society by circulating pamphlets and
letters among the chapters in which she accused the
president general and other officers of seeking to
suppress free speech and criticised them for black
listing numerous persons of liberal tendencies as
speakers before D. A. r. chapters.
Mrs. MacFarland is one of little group of daugh-
tiers who believed that the organization was making
itself ridiculous by following the lead of Fred r.
Marvin of the Key Men of America, and other flag
wavers who profess to the country in constant
danger from the reds and who seek to identify per-
sons they do not like with the Bolshevists or COM
mInists
She objected, did others. to having the soci-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Reason

CHOULD Swanson make good
~ and drive crime out of Chicago.
he would fall heir to acres of lime
light and could run for President
or something, also write syndicated
articles and testimonials for hair
tonic or liver medicine, the market
being simply unlimited for one who
can hurl his name against the pub
lie ear with sufficient violence.
But, if Swanson does drive crime
from it's happy Chicago home, it
will be hard on the neighborS, for
the boys will simply open up shop
somewhere else.
This is the charming way in
which cities have long handled their
Observation-Disclosures them with
imprisonment unless they got out
of town-in other words they
dumped their social sores o., the
next town.
It's national loss that the Gov
ernor should retire from public life,
for he is an expert in state govern
ment. whose counsel and practical
suggestions are needed sorely in this
country.
In the New York constitutional
convention that Elihu Rot, the dean
Of American statesmen and the high
priest of Republicanism, said that
Governor Smith knew more about
the government of that state than
any other man, and this knowledge
is of The utmost value to all the
states of the Union.
It is interesting to note that
Senator La Toilette received no
contributions and spent nothing in
his race for the United States
senate, which is as it should be for
every office in the land, and would
be if all of us we're as interested in
our government as the builders Of it
anticipated.
But if all money were withdrawn
from campaigns, there would be
nothing done and everything would
go by default.
It's even worse than it used to be,
for then men did political work for
the joy of it, but now almost all of
them have to be paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Cost of Campaign

The campaign is said to have cost
S12,0O0,O00. That is a vast amount
of money considered by itself.
These are days, however, when no
amount of money can be considered
by itself.
Whether a thing cost too much.
depends on what other things cost.
Before we get too excited over
what we have paid for politics, we
should remember how much we pay
for candy, chewing gum and cos
meticS.
How long would $12,OOO,OOO keep
the movies of this country running,
how many football games would it
finance, what does 1t amount to
when rated in terms of golf?
If 100000 citizens went to the
polls and $12,0OO,O0O was the cost
of the campaign, 1t only took 80
cents apiece to school them. Not
so bad, considering what they got
over the radio and by mail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

By
Frederick
lands

.COVERNOR SMITHS valedic-
NJ tory to the country was the
utterance of a thoroughbred, and it
should make some of those who
struck him below the belt resolve
to fumigate themselves and lead
better lives.
Just why the struggle for the con-
troll of government should be dirty
instead of decent never has been
explained, but politics probably al
ways will continue to be the sewer
into which human nature periodi-
cally casts its refuse.
That the ravages of political de-
struction are constant is shown by
the earring down of old machines
and the building up of new ones all
over the country, as a result of the
late contest, the most celebrated
pile of junk, borne to the scrap pile,
being the remnants of the old ma
chine of Mayor Thompson of Chi
cago.
DIX Dill LIDS 1CCCllOAy
countless ticks, but "the blow which
killed father" was the election of
Swanson to the district attorney
ship, this event Severing the old
partnership between politics and
crime.
No one is better qualified by eX-
perience and personality to lecture
on the administration of govern
ment in the universities of the
United States, and some of the phi
lanthropically-m inhabitants
of the Gold Coast should make
such a national service possible.
Most of our lectures on political
economy are delivered by white
collared theorists who have looked
at government only through a mag
nifying glass, but Governor Smith
knows all about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Tragedy of Chance

Gambling plays, and always has
played, a tragic part in human af-
fairs. Men have bet on their con-
victions with regard to heaven, gold
mines and political dogmas even to
the point of death. Many a war
has been conceived and wAged for
no better reason than that some SOL
der had inspired his followers with
the belief that some notion would
bring them eternal bliss.
Witchcraft, the Mississippi Bubble
and the craze for tulips sent thou
sands into delirium.
We have made but small Roadway
in representing this spirit by deny
ing it the right to express itself on
the turn of card.
When it comes to hypocrisy to-
ward law enforcement, to privately
violating rules and regulations we
publicly advocate, booze has moth
ing on gambling All of which
brings us around to the Rothstein
murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

then with his researches on hydrophoba. So he sent
two of his aSsistants-Emile RouX and Thuilliert-o
Alexandria.
Here was new kind of race between nations
History books full of races between nations
seeking to dominate distant colony. But here
nations competing to do a humane service.
The epidemic came to an end almost as suddenly as
it had started Neither group had settled the problem
But the brave Th1llier had contracted it and died
of it.
Koch, the German, laid wreaths upon the grave of
this dead French hero, saying of his wreathS, They
are very simple, but they are of laurel such as are
given the brave"
Unwilling to give up the fight against cholera, Koch
went to Calcutta India, where he continued his re-
searches daily risng thefrightfu death which Thuil-
ler had met
Thanks to Koch, the world no longer fears cpl
denies of cholera For he proved that cholera was
caused by specific germ and that this germ thrived
in polluted water supplies
AS long as water supplies were kept pure, there
was no danger of cholera.
Cholera recedeS as sanitation advances
Medical men look forward to the day when cholera
will be only unpleasant memory of humanity.
The German emperor conferred the Order of the
Crown with Star upon Koch.
But Koch remained very modest, saying, Il have
worked as hard as could. If my success has been
greater than most the reason is that came in my
wanderings upon regions where the gold still lying
by the wayside. And that is no great merit"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case

The ghost of the -vanzetti case refuses to be
laid A play has been written around it, and it is
doing business to crowded houses. novel has been
written setting out the tragedy and it will be on the
book stalls for the Christmas trade. A magazine de-
voted its October issue to setting out evidence
which indicates strongly that the two men were limo
cent
Goods of the Lightning" is the name of the play
running at the Little theater Fortyfourth street
in New York. It's next engagement will be Boston.
The novel is the latest by Upton Sinclair the sales
of whose books are said to be greater throughout
the word than that of any other American author
The magazine exposure is in the Outlook II tells
of a confession by the crook who planned the Bridge
water holdup
1t is poor comfort to be able to say told you So
Nor does it make one any happier to think of the
dreams that must break the sleep of certain repecta
BILE people of Massachusetts,
Making martyrs this way is not good for American
institutions
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give North and South three tricks
The solution is printed herewith.
The Solution

IN this problem the opponents are
Il gradually but very decisively
placed in helpless position.
South first leads his trump, on
which North discards spade. South
next leads his queen of spades, and
then the three of spades, which
West wins with the jack.
West then leads his club, and
North plays low. If East overtakes
Vests club with the ace, North
takes the final trick with the queen.
IfEast does not overtake, West is
forced to lead a spade to South's
good nine.
OF course the main point in this
problem is whether or not North
covers Vests lead of a club. If
North does so, East and West, in
stead of North and South, win three
of the five tricks.
Copyright. 1898. BY NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
The Man Who CANDLES

How long would $12,OOO,OO0 last
in Wall Street when it trades to
the tune of 100000 shares a day?
But that is something different,
you say. Possibly so, but how much
different?
Whether we take a flier in stock,
or contribute to some campaign
committee, is there not quite bit
of the gambling spirit back of it?
We refuse to admit as much, to
be sure, and clutter our statute
books with laws prohibiting slot
machines and stud poker to prove it.
The man who admits he is a
gambler gets little but scorn in pub
lie at least.
The man who CANDLES, but who
does not admit it, is more fortu-
nate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ton by proper hygiene during in
fancy.
Such hygiene involves routine in
the care of its existence, so that
variety in diet, exercise, games,
scenery, and even environment gen.
orally should be the exception.
Granted that the child is given
suitable food, its digestion of the
food will depend largely on its gen.
eral conduct.
1t should have plenty of fresh
air, adequate periods of sleep
enough exercise and above all things
an early development of regular
habits of bowel action.
1t has been recognized that some
children come of rheumatic fami-
lies and seem to have a tendency
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
Rheumatism i'm Child Hurts Heart

toward disturbance of the joints. In
such children the appetite must be
controlled to prevent too great a
strain upon the digestive organs.
1t has been shown often that the
germs associated with rheumatic
disturbances frequently gain en-
trance in the body through weak
nesses of nose and throat tissues.
Hence has come the great cam
paign for the removal of tonsils and
adenoids, particularly when these
are enlarged and visibly infected.
In child with rheumatic infec-
ton and with weaknesses of the
nervous system and digestion, in
fections of the heart and chorea or
st. Vitus' dance are not infrequent
complications.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

old Neptune claims the front
~ page once more. Another
SOS has come from the sea, an
other ship has gone down, another
operator has proved his heroism,
another brave attempt at rescue
has been recorded. 1t is one of the
most familiar stories that we know,
yet it never has and never will cease
to be thrilling.
Since men learned to sail, dis
aster has logged their course on the
sea. The glory of it all consists in
the fact that they refused to give
up.
Time was when one out of every
three voyages ended in failure. OF
the first 5000 people who embarked
for this continent, 1000 are said to
have persisted.
Travel by water is safer than 1t
ever was, but it is not absolutely
safe, and the chances are that it
never will be. For that matter,
hardly any aspect of life is safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

ana started Tor
Alexandria.
Koch, who had
risked his life a
dozen times a
Gay in the study
of tuberculosis,
was going to risk
it again. With
Koch went an
oth er death
fighter, brave as
many hero of a
battlefield, hi S
a S S i S t a n t.
Gafky.
p a S t e ur, the
gre a t French
man. was busy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
HE IS A THOROUGHBRED
SMITH SHOULD LECTURE
THE FUTURE OF RASKOB

IT'S entirely natural for the Demo-
Il Gratis of the land to desire Mr..
Raskob to take his hat and go, since
Mr.. Raskob is a Republican who
left his party only when impelled by
the pangs of thirst to seek an oasis.
And one cannot see why Mr..
Raskob longer should desire to mas
sage the donkey, when the only
jockey in whom he has any faith
should refuse to mount it again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
David Dietz on Science ----
LaureIS for the Brace
No. 2O7

A STATIC CHOLERA threatened Europe in 1888 A
N terrible epidemic broke out in Alexandria, Egypt.
Natives were dying by the thousands.
All Europe feared invasion of the dread disease
Men no longer laughed at the microbe hunters In
stead they turned to them for help.
So Robert Koch, the German country doctor who
had become wordfamous by his discovery of the germ
of tuberculosis packed his microscopes and test tubes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
This Date i'm
u. S. History

Nov. Ia
Washington started on trip to
this, Ohio river.
1787-Late session of the continen-
tai congress opened in New
York.
1832-Charles Carroll of Carrollton
CMd), last spring surviving
signer of the Declaration of
independence, died.
1856-James Buchanan elected
president.