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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-09

Funeral services were held this
morning at Flanner g. Buchan-
an mortuary for Mrs. Stella Sci
densticker Lauter, wife of Alfred
Lauter, H. Lauter Company presi-
dent, who died Saturday of men,
nights.
Mrs. Lauter was active in Com
munity fund campaigns and Girl
Scout work. She was one of the
organizers of Fourth Ward City
Manager League.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01

An Associated Press dispatch carrying a
Chicago date line of August Is announces
that the federal government is now armed
with a new club with which to abolish
manufacture of liquor. The government
Is prepared to confiscate and sell real es-
tate on which dry agents find illicit stills
CT breweries. Such procedure has been
given approval to William Parrillo, assist
ant United States district attorney. by the
Attorney Generals Office at Washington,
D. c., and Chicago viii be the first city
where the ruling will be enforced.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01

Governor Smith Does Much Explaining But Offers No D The Record
He Was With the Majority Republicans
Harsh" Local Option Couldn't Be Enforced Hotel Was
So Why tRepeaL Law

to help put over a bill that would bring
back the barroom?
Nor in his long document of explanation
does the governor tell the people what
actuated him TO sign the bill repeating
New YorkS law enforcement statute,
thereby throwing the whole burden of
prohibition enforcement upon the federal
government in New York state.
No explanation of the governors record
on the prohibition issue is complete that
ignores these two important items
A more detailed consideration of Gov
elHor Smiths defense of his vote against
the reform bills as set forth by him, reveals
more conclusive evidence of his deep de-
Votion TO the cause of booze and Tam
many Hall. He makes much of the al
legged retraction of that part of Mr..
Whites attack on his record pertaining to
his vote against bills designed to curb
public prostitution and gambling. Mr..
White did not retract his statement that
Governor Smith had voted against these
reform measures. Anything that he might
say would not change that record. But he
did concede that Governor Smith might
have been actuated by an honest belief
that the bills in question were unconstitu-
tional, or that they might in operation be
conducive to police blackmail.
But who was it that was fighting to re-
tain this law under which hotels, in which
barrooms were operated, we're permitted
to rent one room over and over again,
many times in single night? Who was
it that was fighting to protect this law I'M
der which gambling rooms were permitted
to be operated in connection with saloons?
Who brought the argument to bear that
these reform bills which tended to correct
these evils would be unconstitutional and
that they would make police blackmail
easy? Was it not that organization that
placed Mr.. Smith in the General AS
sembly that organization that undoubt-
edly was profting financially through
graft incident to the operation of these
notorious places-Tammany Hall? It is
merely cumulative evidence of the fact
that Governor Smith was a Tammany
product and Tamr2any servant.
SAYS BILLS ARE DUPLICATED
Governor Smith complains that MIR.
White has listed large number of bills,
many of which deal with the same subject
matter making no allowance for the
duplication, and in that way deliberately
attempted TO show that Smiths votes dealt
with a greater number of "So-called liquor
bills" than they did. Every bill listed by
Mr. White and the vote upon it were taken
from the journal Of the Assembly. There
may have been applications, which fact
goes to show the earnest effort put forth
by those desiring to curb vice and to Sc
cure legislation that would bring this to
pass. The record shows that Governor
Smith voted against every one of these
measures, revealing him as an ever alert,
eager champion of the saloon, striking at
every bill which in his opinion would inter-
fere with the liquor traffic. No doubt the
frequency with which he struck does APP
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01
WILL CONFECATE REAL ESTATE WHERE STILLS ARE FOUND
Federal Government Inaugurates Policy Chicago Real
Where Brewees Stills Are Found Will Be Sold Revenue
From Sales O Go u. S. Treasury

Forfeiture to and sale by the federal
government of real estate on which stills
or breWeries are housed is provided for
under an old revenue act.
Foundation for this action was laid by
Mr. Parrillo with the aid of Federal Judge
James H Wilkerson. Several weeks ago
Parrillo obtained an order from Judge
Wilkerson FORGETTING building valued at
$4,000 in which two stills were housed.
The sale must be made by the commission
er Of prohibition. Revenue from such
sales will 60 into the u. S. Treasury.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01


ally the excuse is that he voted with the
majority. That is, if measure received
but SO votes out of $50, Governor Smith
was right because he voted with the 81
who voted against the measure. Not in
frequently his explanation is that he rep
resented his constituency, and undoubtedly
that is the best explanation of all. for
Tammany was always and is today
friend Of the liquor traffic. Tammany has
grown fat and insolent on saloon graft.
Sometimes the excuse offered by the
governor is that he voted with Republi-
cans. Even in one instance he voted with
the Speaker, whom he brands as a prohi-
bitionist but the vote was against re-
form measure. He voted against local op-
ton bills because there was strong SEN
timent at that time against extension of
local prohibition by the local option
method because of inability of the ofIic ais
to enforce the law in dry sections, the sub
stitution of So-called clubs for places
licensed by the state, and the loss by the
state of the license fees and tax which
came to it where sale was made in the
normal legal way"
SAYS NEW YORK APPROVES
The governors document is full of ex-
plantations but of no denials of the
record. Of course denial would be futile.
Those votes are duly recorded in the AS
sembly journal. But the governor says of
it, 81 am confident in the belief that the
people of the state of New York approved
of my legislative record Otherwise they
would not thereafter have elected me to
the highest Office within their gift, the
goVernorship of the state of New York for
four times" This is the same man speak
ing who on July bowed his head, and the
Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society
slipped the green collar over the head of
the Democratic presidential candidate. It
rested comfortably upon his shoulders, this
symbol Of Tammany's yoke, and this presi-
Dental candidate, praising the accom-
plishments of Tammany, asked, Can any
thing that has existed a hundred and
thirty-nine years be bad?" Yes, New
York City under Tammany control I'M
doubtedly approved of that legislative
record, Governor Smith, and undoubtedly
still approves of it, believes in you and
will support you, because you have not
changed your views on prohibition
OMNIBUS SILENCE
An explanation of one widely quoted
declaration credited to Governor Smith
and referred to by William Allen White, is
CONSPICUOUS by its absence. Mr.. White
quotes the New York Times of March 8.
1923, in an interview with Governor Smith
relative to beer bill which had been in
PRODUCED in the United States Senate by
New Jersey Senator, in which the governor
is credited as saying, 81 would be glad to
go down and help him put over his bill il
that will get us somewhere where we can
put our foot on the rail again and blow Off
the froth." Just what did Governor Smith
mean by that statement? Could it mean
anything else than that he would be glad
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01

pail him somewhat as he looks back over
the record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
Begins Tomorrow

A September Sale in ACCESSIBILITY?
During the past few years we have found it i'm
possible adequately to handle the September Sale
volume Of business in approximately four weeks,
we have advanced the date of the opening of the
sale to August 10th.
This enables us to render better and more efficient
service to our patrons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01

danger exists every hour. Reckless driv-
ing and Indifferent railroad administra-
ton have combined for many years TO
pile up an appalling total of casualties
at these places-a total comparable to
the losses in war. And still the road
using public, which in these times means
the majority of the people, can only be
sustained by hope that eventually the
plain lessons of these tragedies will be
learned, both by the drivers and. more
particularly. by the public authorities,
whose duty it is to compel the adoption
OF protective measures.
1t is too much to expect that all grade
crossings in the United States will be
eliminated by underpass or overhead
constructions. To accomplish that would
call for an immense sum of money But
asSuredly no more traction lines, either
steam or electric, should be so construct
ed as to create additional danger points.
Meanwhile, the worst of these crossings,
those at which there is frequent head
way CT both vehicular and rail traffic,
should be cured, and, pending cure,
should be protected in. such manner
that only the utterly senseless driver
can run into danger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Missionary Declared
Whale Swallowed Him
BY E. E. FREE, PHI. ID.

The old problem of whether whale
could have swallowed Jonah is in the
news once more. Inspired by other
recent reports Of such events, S. E.
Campbell of Windsor, England, wrote
recently to the London Times, repeat
ing story related to him years ago
by a friend of his father
This gentleman, missionary to the
sailors of the whaling fleet, then numer-
Gus in the South Atlantic and South
Pacific Oceans, was an experienced
swimmer, Mr.. Campbell reports, and
had trained himself to hold his breath
sible to the ordinary individual.
One day he fell overheard, the story
runs. and was instantly swallowed by
one of a nearby school of whales. His
companions OH shipboard observed the
accident and harpooned the whale.
The animal Immediately disgorged the
lucky missionary, breathlesS but vir-
tually unhurt.
The common statement that whales
have small Threats is true enough, Mr..
Campbell admits, of nearly all whales.
But one variety, he says, is an excep-
ton and might be able to swallow a
human body without harming It,
Meanwhile, scientists remain Sceptical
pointing out that Mr. Campbell's story
Is not one of personal experience but
Is received at second hand and may
have been influenced by the story Of
jonah.
Even if the facts are true as stated,
1t is conceivable that the missionary
was not swallowed but was merely
swept under the water by the whale
and imagined himself inside the animal
Instead of merely underneath it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
The World Series.

With the American and National
League races ended, base ball fans
throughout the country are eagerly
awaiting the 1928 world series between
the New York Yankees and the st. Louis
Cardinals. The same teams met two
years ago, and in a grand game pitched
by that veteran of the diamond, Grover
Cleveland Alexander, the st. Louis team
deservedly won the title of world cham
pions. Although much dust has been
raised on base ball fields all over the
country by the flying spikes of major
league players since that time, the St.
Louis team should be the favorite again
to triumph over the naughty New York
ers, but base ball fortunes vary. and as
the old adage goes, You never can
tell"
The Yankees have just emerged win
ners of the American League race in one
of the hardest fights of their career.
Sickness and injury, coupled with bat
ting and fielding slumps, pulled them
down from a commanding lead to
position where they had to struggle neck
and neck with the Philadelphia Ath-
letics to earn the right to represent
their league in the world series COM
petition.
The Cardinals have not had an easy
time of it by any means, and their Ell
forts to acquire the National League
bunting have been met by the strenuous
opposition of the New York Giants. The
st. Louis team, however, is intact, and
while the players have probably been
under just as much strain as those OF
the Yankees during the closing weeks
of the campaign they do not enter the
series without the services OF their best
pitcher, nor with two of their stars in
capacitated by injuries.
Herbert Pennock, one Of the greatest
twirlers who ever appeared in the blue
ribbon event of base ball, is lost to the
Yankees. 1t was Pennock alone IN 1925
who turned back st. Louis twice, but
with neuritis in his trusty left arm It
is practically certainty that the Yanks
will be without him this year. The New
Workers are further handicapped by in
juries to Lazzeri, their star second base
man, and to Babe Ruth, the colossus
of hitters.
When all Is said and done, however,
you never can tell" The crippled Yam
KEGS, in the few days lay-off, may re-
gain their accustomed vigor and blast
their way through to victory. May the
best team win!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Science Successful
Raising Superwheat

From the Dayton Daily News.
Scientists at the University of Cali
fornia have been successful in growing
a Superwheat. Neither soil nor sunlight
was used, but the stalks were brought
to maturity in Is weeks. Under ordi-
nary field conditions it sometimes takes
as long as five months to mature wheat.
The quality of the laboratory wheat at
maturity was much higher than that Of
the ordinary grain.
The experiment was accomplished in
a greenhouse laboratory Artificial light
was furnished by means of IL argon-
filled electric lamps of 800 candlepower
each. The wheat was SoWn in jars Of
water containing the necessary chemi-
cal elements required for plant growth.
The lights were turned on for 16 hours
a day, and the wheat grew rapidly. The
fact that it matured in IS weeks indi-
"ateS how important the length of the
light period is to growing plants. When
the light exposure was doubled. the rate
of plant development increased four
fold. According to the scientists whJ
made the experiment, the growth when
a full 24-hour day of light was applied
was astounding"
Just now this is interesting merely as
a scientific experiment. Production of
wheat thus on commercial scale is not
possible. 1t Is not necessary. since nat
ural methods produce a sufficiency for
our needs. Yet who knows but that
time is coming when there will be
neither space enough to grow FIVE
month wheat nor time to wait for it2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
From the Nashville Banner.

That French mob that endeavored
with earnest ferocity to take the most
recent Bluebeard away from the police
at Marseille and lynch him was an
interesting as well as O horrible sort
OF thing. The object of the mob's fury,
one Pierre Rey is accused of having
Strangled women and caused the
disappearance of no fewer than Is
oCnerS. The man is above so, and that
fact precludes the possibility of his going
to the guillotine or being sent to Devils
Island. The mob went into violent &C
ton at the thought of such monster
escaping the worst penalty the law
provides for any sort of offender. If
Rey Is convicted, the worst that can
come to him IS to spend the rest of his
life IN a comparatively comfortable
French prison.
Utterly reprehensible though mobs
are, either here or in France, or any
where, 1t should not be forgotten that
they are frequently actuated by not
altogether unfounded belief that the
courts will be slow and uncertain in
handling the perpetrator of the outrage
that happens to be in question. Cali
fornia, for example, has fooled about
with the notorious Hickman since last
December, and his fate is not yet def
nitely settled. Such procras.ination and
delay do the law harm of the most
serious sort, and are among the chief
indictments to mob violence and the
application Of lynch law -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

depot and in shape for instant dispatch.
In less than 20 hours the whole ship
ment was on the docks ready to be
loaded into the vessels that carried
1t to Porto Rico. Each unit consisted
OF $500 separate packages, weighing
225,000 pounds, and occupying $4,000
cubic feet of space 1t included every
solitary article needed in a large, mod
ern hospital.
Instruction in radio address tech
nique" is appropriately the latest thing
under the sun. A charming young
Washingtonian, Hester Walker Beall,
who functions as hostess at Station
WRC, 1.-The Voice of the Capital" is
the pioneer pedagogue. BY profession
she is a teacher of vocal expression,
Miss Beall names "Slow, distinct pro-
nunciation and cultivation of diction"
as the prime broadcasting requisites.
She says most radio novices need to
be coached against stage fright. Many
OF them approaching the microphone
for the first time act as If it were
going to bite em.
4 r r
Senator Borah has been trailing"
Gov. Smith through the West as part
and parcel of the Republican strategy
to undo any damage the Democratic,
presidential nominee may have wrought.
fasteners who have picked up the
Silver-tongued Idahoan on the air think
he's made an excellent job of his as
signment. At the same time, it's an
unmistakable tribute to Gov Smith
that the opposition found 1t useful to
follow up his oratorical path with the
biggest gun in the whole G. o. P.
speaking artillery. Oklahoma, North
Dakota and Minnesota are some of the
spots in which Borah was turned loose
only a day or two after Smith had
reused the rabble in those parts.
y X II y
Eugene Meyer, farm loan commits
sioner, has just returned to Washing
ton from one of his periodical surveys
OF economic conditions In the Western
agricultural regions. Few men so
closely identified with high finance en-
Joy the confidence which Meyer in
spires in the farming country. He made
particular hit in a speech at Des
Moines the other night by predicting
q gradual improvement in the demand
for and IN the price of land. Those
were particularly sweet words in the
ears OF IoWans who've been almost
Knocked out by the deflation in post
war acreage values. The Hawkeyes
trust Meyers prophecies In 1927 he
foreshadowed higher prices for their
live stock, and they came to pass.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Enthusiasm Lacking for Issue
On New Plea for WOmen's Rights

Efforts of the National Woman's
Party leaders to make equal rights for
women an issue in the presidential
campaign failed to awaken any gen.
eral enthusiasm, according to the re-
Election of opinion in newspaper
comment. Democratic editors give the
matter little attention one way or the
other, while Republican spokesman en-
phatically approve the action Of Mr..
Hoover in declining to be hurried into
committing himself to another consti-
tutional amendment.
Quoting the proposed amendment,
Men and women shall have equal
rights throughout the United States and
every place subject to its Jurisdiction"
the st. Paul Dispatch independently
says: "Mr. Hoover unqueStionably is
we'll advised in his refusal to approve
without deep study such sweeping and
doubtful proposition as that sponsored
by the National Woman's Party" This
paper bases its attitude on the fact
that the effect Of such constitutional
law would be to scrap important pro-
tective laws that now exist in regard to
the employment of women, and declares
that ito dispense with all these special
laws might be to do great injury to
the army of American working women
Sharing this viewpoint, the Detroit
Free Press independently remarks: THE
fact that biological differences cannot
be overcome by constitutional amend
ment should not be lost sight Of There
are solid grounds for the protective
legislation that has been thrown around
womanhood and motherhood" con-
tends this journal, as it voices its belief
hot nrfff nir, h. .l,1Ea 80 hi
protection for the shadow of equality
wiuld be the height of misguided en-
thusiasm." The Kalamazoo Gazette
independently expresses its opinion
along similar lines, adding, Some
women leaders of the country, UNI
fortunately, do not seem to appreciate
the fact that in many cases the grant,
ing of equal rights to women would
amount, in effect, to an imposition of
equal wrongs"
That the desire of the National
Womans Party for this legislation is
not shared by the majority of the
women of the United States is the con-
tention in a number of newspapers,
among which is the Philadelphia Eve
ming Bulletin independent Republican,.
Outside of the ranks of the Woman's
Party" says the Bulletin, "womens
organizations in general hold that in
the interest of woman herself. of the
home and of the community. special
legislation for the protection of woman
as wife. mother and wage Garner is
needed"
Supporting this view also, the Hart
ford Daily Courant independent Re-
publican) observes: 1.-The Woman's
Party may be all het up over its equal
rights proposal, but that does not mean
that women generally would favor
constitutional amendment wiping out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01
Sixteen Grade Crossing Victims.

Sixteen persons lost their lives yes
terday in four Embarrassing accidents
In this country-six at Bristol, Pa; five
near MasSapequa, N. Y; three at Erie
Pa, and two at Norwalk, Conn. This is
an unusually large toll Of grade crossing
deaths for one day. 1t is shocking re-
hinder that despite some advances in
the correction of these death traps much
remains to be done to make the roads
safe All four of these accidents &C.
Cured at unprotected crossings, places
where highways and railways intersect
without barriers or guards. All of them
were on frequented routes, not byways
of light travel, but heavily used lines Of
transportation. The marvel is that
more are not killed daily at these and
other points.
It is probable that at each of the four
places where trains crashed into motor
cars yesterday some measures will here
after be adopted to lessen the danger,
some form of peremptory warning sig
nal, perhaps some style of barrier, pos
sibly the stationing of watchmen to give
notice to road users of the approach OF
trains. This is the usual course OF
locking the stable door after the horse
Is stolen"
1t avails but little to point out the
criminal folly of the motorists who try
to rush over crossings when they know
that trains are approaching. or to stress
the negligence of railway companies II
failing to erect barriers and establish
warning riorals md station watchmer
ht sue points as these, where obviouS)!