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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
PLAY FAST CONTESTS

EnglewOOd, West Newton and East
/ ark Win in S. S. Tits.
Fast and interesting contests fea-
tured last nights play in the Mar
ion County Sunday School League
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ACTION in NET TILTS
st. Johns, Second EvageliCaI and
Second Reform Are Victors.

Close games with plenty of &C
ton comprised last nights program
in the Evangelical Reform League
net games. st. Johns defeated
lions, % to 10; Second Evangelical
downed the Emmanuel five, IS to
"a, and the Second Reform trimmed
the Frieden's squad, Al to 35.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
Tenth Man. Idea
CARNEGIE MEETS U. S. C.

Coast Eleven to Meet Tech in Last
Game of '29 Season.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 12.-The
University of Southern California
and Carnegie Tech will meet here
Dec. IA for the last game of the
1929 football schedule Of the T'ro-
pans.
The announcement was made by
Arnold Eddy, assistant general man
ager of Southern California, follow
ing receipt of telegram from
General Manager Gwynn Wilson,
who is in Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
10 PLAY TWO GAMES

Washington Faces Hard Week End
Schedule; Face Lawrence Friday.
Coach Roland H. Jones is working
his Washington high school court
tlnen at stiff pace in preparation
for the two games the westsiders
play this weekend. Lawrence will
be played Friday night at the Con-
tinentals' gym and Saturday night
the locals will play at cambridge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Lives VS.. Profits

The ugliest of the many charges in the Vestrs
disaster is that lives sacriced for profits.
The old ship was not as safe as modern invention
could make her. and Captain Carey withheld the radio
call for help, which would have saved lives but in
creased salvage fees.
Unless Carey was incapacitated mentally during
those fatefu hours of negligence he must share some
of the blame, though he went down with his ship.
But that in no sense explains the tragedy. It only
raises larger question
This captain was known personally to thousands
of passengers and to hundreds of seamen for many
years as an able master and as humane What
fear was greater to him than the fear of eopardizng
the lives of his passengers? What of duty was
so strong that it could his duty to his pas
sengers?
Here is the explanation of other captains, re-
counted by Charles Johnson Post, marine expert, in
his vestris articles appearing in this newspaper:
I'm the name of God don't forget the strain Carey
was under Strain of what-tfe wreck that was 60
ing down under his feetP No. He had to save money
for his to the last gaseven his own last gasp
and he dared not risk the expense involved in an
appeal for help for the sinking ship except at the
pense of all that his job meant to him and his de-
pendents.
"At present human lives are cheaper than safe
ships. Hazards of the sea? The ship owners are
Here is the explanation of Andrew Furuseth, vet
eran leader of the seaman's union:
THE captain is dead and it is perfectly safe now
for everybody to lay the blame on him, because he
can't defend himself; but seamen know that the mas
ter has been not only of his power to that
the vessel is properly slowed but also Of his to
that the life-saving appliances and crew are, in
fact seaworthy"
If these charges are true it means that the whole
system is criminally wrong That goes much farther
than the captain of the Vestris applies
to all ship companies 1t reveals the inadequacy Of
national laws and international regulations 1t risks
the lives of all crews and passengers at sea.
This is conflict between property rights and
human rights That conflict is as q as civilization
1t the heart of the slavery issue It the issue
which finally forced pure food laws LABOR safety condi-
tons in industry, regulation Of railroads.
Human life is more precious than profits But this
is rather late in the day to be making that discov
cry regarding ships
Unless the public insists on enactment and en-
forcement of national laws and international regua
tons guaranteeing safe ships and free ship officers
there probably will be many more Vestris disasters.
David Dietz on Science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Praise for the Blacklist

New York pastor told chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution from his pulpit that
the use of the now famous blacklist" showed high
courage and common sense.
The blacklist it will be recalled, compilation
of names of persons of liberal tendencies who
banned as speakers before the D. A. r. chapters. 1t
included such persons Rabbi WISE Senator Borah,
Jane Addams, William Allen White, and many others
equally prominent
"Pacists may be right in theory, but not in prac-
tice," according to the learned divine.
In other words If you believe the abolition of
war is the greatest boon that could to humanity
and an object worth striving for you a pacfst,
a red radical, communists dangerous person. If
you would keep ornaments within reasonable bounds,
you belong in the category.
But if you swallow big navy program like that
offered to congress last session by Secretary Wilbur,
as did the D. A. r., and approve constantly bigger
military OUTLAWS, you become patriot, and as such
win the approval of the hereditary daughters and
militaristic preachers.
1t is strange when pastor approves suppressng
discussion about ornaments and war, and stranger
still to hear from pulpit condemnation Of those
who seek to establish peace earth. Churches,
among all human agencies, should be in the fore
front of the movement to keep Christians from
saughtering other Christians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Britain's Prime Minister

Britains prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, must
have most engaging personality. Never apparently
is he personally responsible for anything that goes
wrong. Always it is wicked subordinate who
has bungled secret treaty with France, failed
to carry out pledge of domestic reform And, re-
markabe to relate, his opponents much as his
supporters forever chorusng that it is not Bald
wins fault
'7e has not the strength to impose his personality
on his followers" explains one of the latter.
The other day in parliament the government GMr.
Baldwin, was "nterpeIated"-q uestioned-by Mac
Donald and Lloyd George and was backed into q
corner. There seemed way out.
But Baldwin smiled and replied THAT touches
me on sensitive spot. always felt that the fac
tory acts should have had first attention. But it
seemed necessary to take up these other matters.
Rather pity, wasn't itP"
And there you Can you dissolve govern
ment that treats serious matters as if they were
dinner-table talk?
The only response to the devastating charges in
relation to the secret treaty ornaments with
France which was opposed to the American entente
was polite suggestion by Baldwin that, tea time
having arrived all adjourn to the terrace, and that
disagreeable business be laid until tomorrow
! the next day.
Poor Stanley! 1t seemed pity to plague him with
such annoying matters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Self Control Gone

Good times not only have made
us drunk with reference to the stock
market, but with reference to self
control and a decent sense of re-
sponsibility.
Justice becomes a matter of wind
tanning, law a matter of red tape,
morality a matter of quibbling, and
government a matter of politics.
Colonel Stewart may have lied,
but no quorum was present, so he
could not be convicted.
A thin excuse, perhaps, If
measured by abstract principles,
but none the less effective, the point
being that others were in the same
boat.
According 70 the record, quorum
was present. If the record was
false, why be hard-boiled toward
a witness who night have gotten his
facts mixed?
Common sense suggests that all
hands should be punished, but sem
ators and senatorial committees,
are, to a measurable extent, above
the law. That being so, the court
thought it fair to treat Colonel
Stewart with similar indulgence.
Fair, maybe, but what are we to
teach our children about the ne
cessity Of telling the truth under
any and all circumstances?
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Patriotism Makes Fools

One might as well spit against
the north wind as to be cynical.
Don't sell the United States
short" has become national
slogan, which means that we have
made patriotism an excuse for
playing the fool.
1t requires no financial shrewd-
ness to understand that bubbles
cannot be blown eternally without
the certainty of bursting.
When we make the value of
stocks, oil leases, or real estate de
pend on the notion that no matter
what we pay for them, some one
will pay more, we are playing a
game that can have but one end.
The mad rush of stock trading in
progress since the first of the year,
which has become a veritable frenzy
since the election, is the worst dan
ger we face.
The god of prosperity is being
overworked. Those who are laying
their fortunes, careers, and aspira-
tions on his affairs with such reck-
less abandon are only creating a
pile of prayers he cannot possibly
answer.
To put the proposition in a more
practically way, we are Subjecting
business to a demand for dividends
through this arbitrary imitation of
capital investment and this boost
in interest rates that is unreason-
able.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Borrowing Is Difficult

Ten or fifteen billion dollars has
been added to the capital invest
ment of certain great corporation
since the first Of the year, with lit
tie more to show for it than the
swapping of paper certificates an !
the childish notion that we at last
have struck such a good thing ii
cannot be overdone.
While it has had little, If any
effect on the gambling, the advance
in interest rates has served to di-
vert vast amount of money from
legitimate business.
Merchants, manufacturers, and
farmers find it difficult to borrow
what they need.
Our entire economic structure has
been weakened by the concentration
Of public credit in support of what
amounts to little more than high
class poker game.
The idea that creating wealth in
wolves nothing more serious than
watching a blackboard and barking
orders has developed to the proper
lions of a mental disease.
Millions of people have laid aside
their ambition, to play an ever-ris
ing market. Not only that. but
they have swallowed the pleasant
gospel that the market never will
sag
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
A Dangerous Experiment

In an effort to check the admitted increase of
crime the local prosecutor proposes that the law be
so changed that those convicted of crime be sent to
prison pending appeals of their sentences to higher
courts.
Those charged with enforcement of laws are nat
uraly chagrined that who declared guilty by
juries remain at liberty for many months while
higher courts consider appeals
But the remedy for this condition does not neces-
sarily lie in sending who may be innocent to
prison. in order to get larger number of really guilty
behind bars
8 The experiment is more than dangerous not for
the amount of that it Will but because
the principle and theory behind it.
has never been the theory of our law that it
is better to punish few innocent than to permit
many guilty to escape Exactly the opposite has been
the basis upon which this country has always acted
If the proposed change were made, very many in
nocent men would suffer- for the higher courts very
frequently decide that the lower courts and juries have
Unjusty and Illegally convicted those charged with
crime
There are remedies for the very real evil which
does exist + the nterminable appeals. One of
these is Sp .dier action in the higher courts and
change in methods which permit to be held up
Cor months and years before decision is reached
It is not in the theory of speedy justice that an
appeal wherein the liberty of any man is involved
should be undecided for three four years.
There are other ways of curbing crime than by
Ieopagdizing legal rights One of these is reform
IN the legal profession.
While every man is entitled to legal defense when
charged with crime, guilty is entitled to the
legal services of lawyer who knows that his client
;aS guilty.
Some very respectable and respected lawyers make
real money by defending those whom they must be
certain are guilty of the crimes charged. They re-
sort to tricks to inject into the records They
condone at times false testimony and some are sus-
spected of suggesting plausible tales.
If every lawyer would really officer of the
court and inform the court when they learned of
clients guilt, there would be less crime.
If lawyer disbarred for concealing know1-
edge of the guilt of client guilty men would UNDER
stand that crime does not pay. That would work
mo hardship on either the individual society. No
lawyer guilty client any duty except advice to
confess and perhaps, plea for light sentence any
grounds that might show reasons for mercy.
Crime is a problem The legal profession could
solve it by few standards Of ethics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Reason

IT was appropriate for the lead
i ers of the National Grange to
visit Mount Vernon, for George
Washington was the greatest and
most prosperous farmer Of the
Colonial period.
He maintained strict discipline,
kept books on everything, and the
products which bore his name we're
favorites up and down the seaboard.
But lavish entertaining all but
wiped out his profits, his guests be-
ing so numerous he had to buy but
ter, though he kept more than one
hundred COWS.
One pitied the late President
Harding's father, just dead at
Marion, O., for after the fleeting
joy of his sons election, the old
gentleman's day we're filled with the
scandals, tragedies and whisperings
which followed the administration.
Adversely has an endless appetite
for innocent bystanders.
n
Highly imaginative BritonS will get
a thrill out of the lion-hunting of
the Prince of Wales in Africa, but
it is al las safe as eating fried oys-
tiers, the prince being completely
shielded from danger.
Few lion hunts, for that matter,
are arranged for the convenience
of the lions.
A gentleman in the southwest
who just shuffied off this mortal
coil at the age Of 102, asked that it
be recorded on his tomb that he
had never voted anything but a
straight party ticket.
Which is just another way Of
saying that the hinges on all the
doors of his brain cells we're rusty.
About the only improvement that
has occurred in the matter of
American crime is that the crimi-
nails are better looking, at least, we
used to imagine they were all re-
pulsive, while most of our present
killers are perfectly beautiful.
n n
Possibly President Coolidge does
not wish to submit long program
OF legislation to congress, because he
expects to be engaged in arranging
for Johns White House wedding to
Miss Trumbell.
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used to get evidence prison abuses, would be in
clined to consider the abuses themselves The whole
problem is appaingy difficult There is overcrowdihg
That is admitted.
Penitentiaries like Atlanta are housing third
more prisoners than they are built for Thanks to the
Volstead act) There is favoritism. Everybody has
heard how special suite with private bath built
to accommodate very wealthy bootlegger.
But the worst evil and the hardest to get real evil
about is the sale of drugs to the prisoners
has been testified that addicts out than so
into prisons. The drug habit is formed in these
institutions
And the reason for the continuance and spread
the evil is fact that there drug rings
There profit to be the selling of the drugs
Prisoners are able 10 get money for dope II they want
it. And they are taught to want it.
Planting under-cover agents in the penitentaries
not nice practice but anything that can be done
to clean up the very bad conditions prevailing in those
institutions perhaps may be excused.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Diamonds and Duties

We have a duty on diamonds-20
per cent for cut stones and 10 per
cent for uncut. That duty is for
revenue only, the theory being that
those who can afford diamonds best
can afford to pay taxes.
Enter the smuggler, promising to
get diamonds in for 8 per cent and
enter the jeweler willing to deal
with him for additional profit.
The government must quit, we are
told, because there are too many
smugglers and too many dealers
willing to deal with them.
Why not repeal the income tax
on the same theory, or every other
law that presents a tough problem,
The creed of you can't" has come
to cut both ways. you can't" says
the government to the citizen in a
multiple chorus. Neither can you, u
yells back the latter. Lets both
quit"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Mad Rush of Stock
Trading Is q Menace to
the Nation"
SAYS:

ok million four hundred thou
- sand shares day, where $780,
900 was a record only a few weeks
ago and 100000 only few months.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
for a seat on the Stock Exchange,
where one could be bought for $780,
600 in 1927, $4,000 in 1923, and
$45, 900 in 1918.
Are we crazy, or have we found
golden egg-laying goose that can
not be killed?
Men of supposedly sound finan-
cial Judgment stand amazed. Leon
ard Ayres of Cleveland points out
that we have had twelve we'll
defined stock market boomS; that
they have averaged a run of about
two years, and that, according to
such average, the present one soon
should complete Its course.
Alarmed at what might happen
if the craze were not checked, the
federal reserve has force call
money up by raising the rediscount
rate. No good!
Those who fancy the upward
trend irresistible are not dismayed
by per cent money. The chances
are they would not be dismayed by
10 or Is per cent.
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stock tickers

stock tickers.
In 1870, he received $4,000 for some Inventions
the first money which he received for inventions.
In 1872 he assisted SholeS the inventor of the
typewriter to make the first working model of that
machine.
During the next four years he made some dozens
of inventions, ranging from parafdn paper to the
quadruplex telegraph. The quadruplex made it pos
sible to send four messages over telegraph line
This meant the savings Of millions of dollars which
otherwise would have gone into additional telegraph
wires.
He also invented many other electrical devices
during this time During the course of his expert
ments he recognized the existence of certain cleo
trca forces the exact nature of which he could not
ascertain. He called them "etheric force" Today,
know that Edison mad come upon the electro
magnetic waves which made radio possible
In 1876, he moved to Menlo Park N. j.. where he
located his laboratory.
This same year, he invented the carbon telephone
transrnitter This transmitter made telephony COM
mercial possibility The radio microphone in use in
broadcasting stations today is essentially telephone
transter that Edison also deserves considerable
credit for radio broadcastng.
Edson's inventions up to 1876 would have con-
stituted a considerable career for most men. But
Edison was only getting under way. He was yet to
patent the inventions for which he was chiefly
famous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

| lamps under conditions that are not
controlled.
A common effect of overdosing Is
sleeplessness, restlessness, loss OF
weight, and nausea.
Scientific reports indicate that re-
sistance of infections by bacteria
may be lowered if too large a sur
face of the body is irradiated at one
time.
The second or third day after a
large overdose, the skin becomes hot.
red. swollen, and inflamed and in
some cases may seem to be burned
severely.
Too long repeated applications
may result i'll thickening Of the skin;
sometimes severe overdosing is as
ISOLATED with headaches and pains
in the eyes.
The eyes are especially sensitive
to ultraviolet rays and must be pro
tected by wearing goggles during the
treatment.
People who are highly nervous
and neIrotic are more sensitive to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Dangerin OUe1dOi11g Ultra Violet Rays

the rays than are those apparently
of more settled nervous systems.
On the other hand, it is reported
that in many cases instability Of the
nervous system may be the result of
insufficient ultraviolet.
In the presence Of kidney dis
ease, heart disease, high fever or Pc
riodic activity in women, ultra
violet rays must be used with great
caution. 1t is an aphorism in medi-
cine that every force which is potent
for good may also do harm.
The superior council of public hy-
giene of France, in view Of the pos
sible dangers from ultraviolet rays,
recently issued the following state
ment:
Given the serious accidents which
may result from the use of ultra
violet apparatus handled by incom-
petent persons, it is necessary in the
interest of public health to confine
the use of these procedures to a hos
pital service and to authorize their
application only by a specialist
physician"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22

THE mayor of Herrin, Ill. and
Il the states attorney of the
county are among the 100 just in
dicted for violating the liquor laws,
which, with the corruption scandals
of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago
and other places, together with all
that we know is going on, should
convince any normal mind that I'M
less we can throw around law en-
forcement the great educational
campaign which made the adoption
of the eighteen amendment posi-
BILE, we are facing a situation
which we cannot dodge forever.
4 = u
Chicago's latest murder uncovers
a bootlegger, who specialized in the
sale of liquor to boys and girls.
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R2IDGkl{3!1I|BtEu[

Now East must play one of his
trumps.
If he plays the three, South over
trumps with the five. If he plays
the Jack, South discards his club
and wins the final trick with his
five of trumps.
If East overtrumps North's eight
at the first trick, he must lead
either his low trump or the four OF
spades.
If he leads the former, South
wins with the five and then takes
the final trick with the ten of clubs,
If he leads the four of spades, North
wins it, and SoUth's good trump
takes the last trick.
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OUR public responds to the in
~ PRODUCTION of any new measure
or activity in its daily life with ire
mendous waves of enthusiasm,
which fail to consider scientific
fact.
When it was shown a few years
ago that Ultraviolet rays had the
specific property of preventing
ricketts, in the child, they began to
be recommended as a panacea for
almost every type of disturbance to
which the human being may be heir.
Chronic rheumatism, badness,
pernicious anemia, and tuberculo-
sis were only a few of the diseases
or conditions for what they were
sold.
AS a result Of this widespread dis
semination of this potent method
Of treatment and as a result particu-
larry of overdosing, reports have al
ready become available of bad eff
fectS following the use Of these