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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Kellogg Pact
and EngIandS
Egypt Policy
BY gibson GARDNER


TINE British Monroe Doctrine"
l. coming into the open as an
incident to the Kellogg anh-war
treaty, is having new try-out in
Egypt
On account of the Suez Canal, a
British enterprise, and its main
highway to India, the British have
a Monroe Doctrine" interest in
Egypt Fifteen years ago the sup
posed menace was Turkey. No out
side government must intrude on.
the Egyptians, and thus intrude on
British rights to control the canal.
All very good. Egypt accepted tu-
telage for a limited time, Was it
seven years? That is unimportant.
The British filled Egypt with troops
and duplicated all the civil admin
istration of Egypt with British adj
ministrators. AT the elbow Of every
Egyptian was an Englishman to tell
him what to do. So no mistakes
we're made.
DUT as long ago as when Colonel
IL Roosevelt was in Cairo on his
way back from his hunting trip,
Egypt was seething with discomfort
and demands for elf-government
and constitutional freedom. There
was noisy demonstration in front
Of his hotel, and he was warned not
to make a speech in public, discuss
ing current affairs.
Since then Egyptian affairs have
gone from bad to worse. British
bad faith in failing to carry out
promises at a certain time has been
met by political assassinations.
These have been made the excuse
for further shackles by the British.
Money penalties and harsher rule
followed every outbreak.
Finally, a puppet king was set up
by BIRTHS hbayonets over the Egyp-
tan people The Egyptian parlia-
ment passed a law which the Brit
ish home office decided might in
fringe rights of English in Egypt,
and London vetoed the law. The
king then dissolved the Egyptian
! rliament-announce its suspen-
sion for three years or longer, to-
gether with TIE Egyptian constitu-
tion. This is was generally reported
was done at the unofficial" in
stigation of the British. A treaty
had been drawn up by London and
offered to the Egyptian parliament
just before it was dissolved, and re-
jected by the Egyptians.
II Il Il
CIR AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN.
~ foreign secretary, has been in
terrogated as to what is going to
happen next, and whether all this
is to proceed as part Of the British
idea of "self-defense" under the
British Monroe Doctrine, and
whether this doctrine will extend 70
the use Of British troops in Egypt
to put down any effort at counter
revolution and to persuade the
Egyptians to accept the kind of a
treaty which London desires.
To all of which Sir Austin, oil
course, replies in the stereotyped
phrases about using The troops ito
protect lives and property" and
that" this is not an apspicious time
to discuss the treaty"
So we see that stubborn imperial.
ism is going to present some diff
cult problems in the Interpretation
OF the kellogg Peace Pact"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
War on New Plane

What really hurts is the painful
truth that people can not make war
safer for themselves by making it
more horrible for others. This illu-
sionment has plagued human his
tory from the very beginning.
People have been enthusiastic for
war because Of a firm conviction
that the enemy would suffer most,
because they have convinced them
selves that they could protect their
own cities, homes, women and chill
dren while carrying death and de-
struction to the enemy.
Aviation has gone far to reveal
this illusionment in its true light.
Flying means that men can travel
high road which can not be walled
of or blocked by barricade and bat
terry.
The sky has no boundaries, no
mountain ranges, no rivers or seas,
no physical Instructions that can
be employed as means Of defense.
1t is main highway for all man.
kind, and it puts war on a different
plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Channel No Barrier

About the only reliable defense
against a hostile fleet of airplanes is
a bigger fleet of airplanes. Even
that guarantees little, since there is
too much territory to be covered.
Twenty-Five years ago, the En-
glish Channel looked like a real
bulwark, men could not cross it save
in ships, and England felt secure in
the thought that by the time those
mean reached her coast she would
be able to muster a sufficient force
to repel them, even if her navy had
failed to meet and sink them be-
forehand.
Five hundred years ago, Earl,
Knight and Baron felt the same way
with regard to the twenty-foot ditch
surrounding their castles, but Just
as gun powder destroyed the effec-
tiveness of that ditch, the airplane
has destroyed faith in the English
Channel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
England Fears Enemies

The British public would hardly
be afraid Of what air raids might
accomplish, unless 1t was afraid Of
actual war.
The only reason for ALARM at the
possible result of such an assault
is the suspicion that some
European country might make it.
In other words, England feels
that she has potential enemies.
That, after all, is the significant
idea.
All the talk Of arbitration and
anti-war treaties has apparently not
aroused the confidence some states
men would have us believe.
The people not only of England,
but of other countries, though
willing enough to see their leaders
sign on. the dotted line, seem re-
luctant to take much stock in it.
War, in spite Of the League Of Ma
tions, the Locarno Treaty and the
kellogg Plan, still is taken for
granted.
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World EnguIfing Strife

We are clearly coming to a new
phase Of human history-a phase
which must result in world-engulf-
ing war every time hoStilities break
out on a major scale, or in organ
lied peace.
With the instrumentalities civili-
cation has placed at our command,
we no longer can confine strife to
certain areas or force it to follow
beaten paths.
Neither can we turn it aside from
particular points by taking advan-
tage Of the earth's topography, or
by building forts in stragetic places.
England has been given a simple
lesson in the obvious-not only Eng
land, but the whole world.
The difficulties of the situation
can best be understood by asking
what England is going to do about
them now that she knows what
they are. Flow will she make Lon
don safe against continental air
raids?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

Says the Rev. j. Lewis Gibbs Emmanuel Church,
Staunton, Va:
Personally, never have believed that the church
as such (and organized Christianity rather
than church particularly has any business ap-
pealing to the method OF force to compel obedience
to any moral ideal. felt when the Christian forces
claimed the prohibition amendment as a victory for
them, that a matter of fact it was the most COM
plete and huiliating confession of failure which the
church has ever made. I can not evade the feeling
that the church in aying itself with the civil govern
ment has fallen before the third temptation of the
Master.
THE attempt to make use of a quick and easy
solution of the evil of nteperance has not only failed
laentably but has seriously discredited the church,
Says the Rev. H P. 5cratchley. Murray Hill, New
Jersey:
1T makes little difference to me whether tenn
porarily law works for the benefit of some people
or not if it destroys personal freedom. Wherever a
law hampers the gowth of personality in human be-
ing by taking away freedom of choice between good
and evil. it is vicious in nature"
Says the Rev. James B. Werner Grace Church.
Norwalk Conn:
Il feel most strongly that the Eighteenth Amend
ment is wrong, and vicious in principle. Presumably
the object is sobriety There can be no question of
the worthiness OF such object but they have gone
about it in the crudest manner by cracking the whip
and saying you shall not drink,
Il could lock up my son and go about among my
fellows saying he is honest man because he steals
nothing If it really true that one drank be-
cause no one could get anything TO drink that would
be nothing to be proud of. To lock men up to keep
them sober is an act of despair.
"Then, too, prohibition is so unchristian Can
you imagine Him, whose appeal always to con-
science employing such thing this that friends
trying to force upon
IF had ten sons, I would rather see each of
them stagger to drunkard's grave than to them
go through life hypocrites. Drunkenness after ALL
is matter Of the flesh, but hypocrisy is disease
of the spirit"
Whether agrees with the philosophy thus
expressed diSagrees it is at least refreshing
conventional angles of expense loss of governmental
and profit to bootleggers which have chiefly
characterized the prohibition debate during the ten
years that prohibition has been the statute books
Those phases of the discussion are worn thread
bare
The philosophc phase that after all contains the
real meat of the whole question, has up to now been
given little attention.
If the philosophy expressed in the quotations
above is correct, prohibition ultimately must fail.
If it is wrong-if it is possible for human beings In
around with statutes then prohibition may ultimately
succeed
But one thing is certain. 1t hasn't succeeded yet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Kokomo Dispatch

kokomo Dispatch
It must be a rather painful sur
prise to some of Herbert Hoover's
friends to learn that the "wets,"
some Of them at least, are placing
a wet Interpretation upon the
candidates acceptance address.
These wet" boosters for Hoover
are pointing out that while the
candidate unequivocally declares
against repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment, he neglects to say
anything about the Volstead act,
and rather hints that he might
favor a change in the enforce
ment law by suggesting that it
would be wise to appoint COM
mission to go into the entire prob
lem of prohibition to learn
whether it has been a success or
not. The Chicago Tribune even
goes so far as to say that 2.75
per cent beer might be possible
with Hoover as President, and
that workmen might get their
peer ana light wines lin peace"
if Hoover is elected.
Even the Scripps-Howard pa
pers, Of admittedly wet leaning,
say they have faith" that Hoover
will aid in constructive" change
in the prohibition laws of the
country.
All this must be somewhat of a
painful surprise to all those whose
principal reason for supporting
Hoover is because he is dry"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
The New Deal

Apparently the long promised ''new deal"
in the Republican State affairs has been accom-
plished.
No other explanation than very earnest
and perhaps desperate desire to convince the
voters of that party that the present organiza-
ton is different from the past could account for
the most unusual announcement of ethics by
Chairman Rogers.
Of the edict to the women employees of the
committee forbidding their visits to any por-
ton of the hotel in which the headquarters
is situated without permission, the less said
the better. 1t is either an indictment of for
mer party management or pure insult.
But just why did Chairman Rogers find it
necessary to warn employees against bringing
liquor into the political headquarters?
The party has been very close to the Anti
Saloon League, very close indeed, 1t has re-
ceived the unfailing support for many of its
machine candidates, especially those favored
by the Khan and Boss Coffin.
Presumably the party and the league were
possessed of common hatred of booze and
fervent desire for prohibition. The party plat
form always pledged it.
There could have been no reason for this
order unless the new chairman, working for
the 'new DEAL" had discovered that in the
past the party professions and the political
practices were somewhat at variance.
Can it be that Chairman Rogers has heard
the story Of the Squibbs whisky?
Can it be that he has caught the more
than whisper that the confessions of the three
Negro janitors that they stole 100000 worth
of liquor from the Federal building and paid
the terrific penalty of four or six months in
Jail did not tell the whole story of that theft
and scandalY
Can it be that he has found out that while
battling for az bone dry State, many of the ar
dent associates and indorsers of DR.. Shumaker
were accustomed to find courage for the fight
in an illicit bottle?
Why is it necessary, after decade of pro-
hibition after the magnificent triumph of the
passage of the Wright law, after the repeated
professions of his party in his State for dry
laws to now issue an order that the law must
not be violated in the seat of party strategy?
1t must be the 'new deal" One was prom
ised No sign Of it appears elsewhere.
The party in the State is slowly changing
for the better AT last there is to be one arid
spot in the campaign The party can now point
with pride to the fact that it's headquarters no
longer permits drinking bootleg liquor or
confscated booze within its sacred confines.
What triumphant what a farce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Questions and AnSz0e1:S

How many forest fires occurred in
the United States in 1925 and what
was the property damage caused by
them?
The total number of fires was 85.-
1852; total damage $28,O54,S78.
What causes rings around the
moon and the sun?
They are known as halos and re-
suit from refraction of light by
minute ice crystals floating in the
upper air.
What is Observation-Disclosures"
A branch Of chemistry that treats
of electricity as active in efecting
chemical change.
How long do cats live?
Between twelve and fifteen years.
They have been known to reach the
age of forty.
What is the salary of the Presi-
dent of the United States?
$4,000 per year with ar allowance
of $4,000 for travelling and enter
tainment expenses.
Is the "y" pronounced in the
word "yeast"?
Yes.
Who is the author Of the book,
"Nigger Heaven"
Carl Van Vechten
Are silver and gold dollars always
worth int-i-o' lily their fHe- valueSf
The price of gold is fixed by la
and a gold dollar is always wort
its face value The intrinsic Walt
Of silver dollar huctuates with Il
price OF silver,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
EIuncie Press

Muncie Press
Prohibition officers raiding a
country home in Indiana shot a
16-year- old boy in the arm and
it was necessary to amputate the
arm. It seems there was a still
about the premises and the Off
GERS did not wish the still to
operate.
The enforcement men say they
did not have any intention of
shooting the boy in the arm and
there is nothing TO indicate the
boy resisted their efforts to raid
the place, but anyway the boy
will go through life, now, with
only one arm because somebody
committed a serious error. 1t is
not too much to say that it was
a serious error.
But there is too much of this
thing of shooting first and being
sorry afterward. Too many per-
sons, including some officers Of
the law. are permitted to carry
deadly weapons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

zation is the child Of ancient Greece.
Greece lighted the way.
Lucretius the Roman poet wrote
"Out of the night, out of the binding night
Thy beacon haslles-hai beloved light
Of Greece and CTeci" hail, for in the mirk
Thou dost reveal valley and each height"
We, too. can hail the Greeks as did the Romans for
they pointed the intellectual path, not only for the
Romans but for all who came after,
The earliest Greek philosophers did not contribute
much to medicine. BAIT their spirit and outlook was
such that it paved the way for the Greek physicians
who came later.
Medical schools were founded in Greece early as
the fifth cel>elry B. c. The most famous of the early
physician philosophers" as authorities have
called them, was Ffythagoras.
The world today remembers him more as a mathe-
matician than as. physician But he had great in
huence upon the development OF medicine.
He founded school at Crotona from which his
students carried his medical views to all parts of
Greece.
These students included Alcmaeon He became a
distinguished authority Of the day.
He the first to recognize the brain as the organ
OF the mind. He made important advances in physi-
ology and anatomy
He made dissections. tracing the nerves to the
brain. He also demonstrated the existence of the
optic nerve.
He advanced the theory that good health was the
result OF a sort OF equilibrium in the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Ho7v to Use Cod Liuer Oil, Mineral Oil

taken, the amount of food that may
have been eaten. and other factors
definitely related to the individual
concerned.
If person has been taking strong
cathartics, it is unlikely that d
dose of mineral oil will secure d
result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

for the same Office from a dry ter
ritory.
If AL Smith, if elected, can't
change the dry law what good will
it do the vets to elect him?
Both old parties are grabbing at
straws by stating some prominent
man says he is going to vote for the
other fellow.
Hoover said, The poorhouse
eventually will be abolished"
Christ said, THE poor We will
have with We always"
TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

What was the prize offered to the
person who swan the Catalina
Channel by William WrigIey, Jr?
1t was SOS, 900 to the man or wom-
an finishing first, with a provision
that If a man finished first and a
woman completed the swim after
him, an additional prize of $4,000
should be awarded to her. Since
no woman completed the swim in
the original competition, the $4,000
was not awarded.
What is postage on a letter to
England?
Two cents for every ounce or frac-
ton thereof. the same as for the
United States.
What are the principal languages
in Austria, Hungary, and Czecho-
slOvakia?
German is the language of Austria
and Hungarian is spoken in Hun
gary. In Czechoslovakia, which
formerly was a part of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, the language is
Bohemian.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

If, however, he discontinues the
cathartics for a few days and then
takes the mineral oil, having at
the same time used a suitable diet
of fresh fruits, cereals and fresh
leafy vegetables, he will probably
aid his intestines to a proper con-
dition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

But 1t seems
S m a IL compared
to our debt to the
ancient Greeks.
All branches Of
knowledge lowered
under the care of
the Greeks with
a m a g cence
which the ancient
world had never
never seen.
The philoSophic
thought of ancient
Egypt and Assyria
seems strange to
us today. But the
philosophy of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Fl. WAYNE Journal Gazette

1t was a fine compliment paid
by the Real Estate Board of In
dianapoiiS to Mayor L. Ert Slack
in adopting resolutions expressing
confidence in him and praising
his administration of the govern
ment of that city. These en-
comiums take their best SAVIOR
from the fact they are so we'll de-
served.
Mayor Slack has been in office
little less than three-quarters of
a year. During the far greater
part Of the. time he was in per-
sistent. doubt both as to his status
as the city'S chief executive and
the probability of his tenure. No
sooner had he been elected by the
city council to the vacant mayor
atty than his right to hold the
office was attacked. One man
claimed it by right of succession
to the place as controller for a
day or two while the ousted
Mayor Duvall's wife assumed to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
This Date i'm
u. S. History

Aug. 20
1333-Birthday of Benjamin Har-
rison, 23d President.
1861-Convention at Wheeling
adopted an ordinance for the
new State Of West Virginia.
charlottesville, Tenn, surrendered
to Confederates.
1866-President Johnson proclaimed
rebellion in Texas suppressed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Daily Thoughts

For every man shall bear his
own burden.-GaI. 6:5.
= =
TINE plea Of ignorance will never
4 take away our responsibilities.
-Ruskin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

CANDIDATE Hoover says the 12-hour day has been
abolished Maybe he'd revise that slightly if he would
drop in to call an editor about midnight of cleo
ton day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

Lightning killed barber in South America as he
was shaving a man. Those who have listened to in
sistent declarations that the hair needs little wash
tonic and SINCE" know now that Justice occa-
sionaly takes that bandage of her eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

General Coxey says we are in the hands of burg
lars bootleggers, bankers and brokers' The general
must have forgotten all about the league between
chewing gum manufacturers and stenographers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

The name and address Of the author
must accompany every constitution, but
on request will not be published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference.
Editor Times-If you think every
body is employed, just go to almost
any large factory, especially on
Monday morning, and see the num-
bers there hunting for work.
Both political parties threw sops
10 the voters-the Republicans by
selecting a city man for vice presi-
dent from a farming community,
the Democrats by selecting a man
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One thing nice about Russia-there is practically
no used razor blade problem there.
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All letters are confidential You are
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free service as often as YOU please.
Why is the feminine personal pro-
noun applied to ships, engines and
similar inanimate things?
Personif1cation by the use of pro-
nouns occurs when a masculine or
feminine pronoun is used to refer
to a neuter noun as if that noun
represented a person and were it
self of the masculine or feminine
gender. Thus poets and orators
speak of the sun as "he" and of
the moon as "she" and sailor
speaks of his ship or a railroad man
of his engine or train as "she."
There seems to be no other reason
than custom and tradition for ap-
plying the feminine pronoun to
ships or locomotives.
Do pecan trees have flowers?
There are two coverings of a pc
can tree The first flowers are con-
spicuous and shed pollen. The sec
ond flowers are small, almost COL
orless light green clusters. which
appear at the end of the new shoots,
and they bear the fruit Of the
season.
Is kline" a form of the word
"cow?"
1t is the archaic plural of COW
from the Anglo Saxon "cy' plural
Of "cu," COW.
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Beacon Light of Greece
No. 1873.

MEDICAL science, like the other branches of
I'VE knowledge had its beginnings in ancient Assyra
and Egypt Our debt to these ancient nations great
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