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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Does Lobbying Paw?

There has been a To- CT lobbying at this session
of Congress.
The power interests have been the most active
group, seeking to foresta investigation OF their
propaganda and financing methods. and to defeat
Boulder Dam ard Muscle Shoals legislation
They worked in the capital by direct appeals to
members of Congress, and operated in every COM
muny in the country in an effort to build up public
sentiment in support of their views.
Other private interests also have sought to infu-
legislation The principal rallyng cry has been
mo government in business
In the face of this, the present session of Congress
has done more in support OF Government ownership
than any other in years. Both houses have approved
Government operation of Muscle Shoals, and the
manufacture of either fixed nitrogen and fertilizer
or both.
This perhaps was the greatest victory proponents
of Government ownership ever have achieved.
The House has provided for continued operation
and expansion OF the Government barge lines and
the Senate regards the with favor.
Both houses are debating Boulder Dam, with
better chances OF passage than before If not in
the present session, then in the short session begin
ming in December.
Investigation of the power industry, against which
the greatest lobby in hisory organized is pro-
ceedng in an efficient manner, and revealing valuable
information.
All of which raises the question: Does lobbying
pay?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

City council having saved" daylight for
indianapolis, now is faced with duty far
mora imperative, one CT thousandfold more
benefit to the citizenry. That duty is approval
Of the ST. 100000 bond issue for city hospital,
where crying need is manifested daily for
greater facilities for treatment Of patients.
The late lamented council used this bond
issue as political football, holding up prof.
ect of inestimable value to the welfare of In
dianapolis.
The need for new buildings at city hospital
grows every day. Old buildings at the insti
tuition are fire and health menace Facilities
for treatment of patients with contagious
diseases are absolutely inadequate. The power
house is little better than relic, Of great
potential danger. Scores of patients must be
treated in their homes, under the "out-p patient
system, because of oyercrowded wards.
In the face Of all these handicaps, the hos
pital staff is doing a great work, recognized
by medical leaders all over the country.
1t is time that the council act. No more
important work is before it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Auto Tax OF
they come easy

-Four million purchasers of passenger automobiles
will be saved some $660OO0OO during the next year
through repeal of the Federal tax of 3 per cent
on the manufacturers selling price.
Senate and House have agreed to abolition of this
levy in the tax bill in conference, which is
pected to receive the signature of the President.
Repeal of the tax should stimulate the automobile
industry and the entire country will benefit. OPP
ponents of the levy did not stress this feature in
their appeals for relief but it was testified before
committees that small price reduction greatly
had increased sales.
The automobile manufacturers considered abolition
of the tax of greatest Importance because of their
constant efforts to bring prices down to the lowest
possible levels and to increase output
The Treasury opposed repeal of the tax, but was
overruled.
Users of automobiles have paid into the Federal
treasury more than billion dollars in the last ten
years At the same time they have been taxed by
the States in excess of $7oO0o0OO0 year.
They have paid gasoline taxes running high as
cents gallon, license fees and personal taxes. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
The Chinese We're First
No. 81.

MODERN navigation, whether of the sea or air.
1VA would be impossible without the compass.
While early records not entirely clear, it appears
that the compass first understood by the Chinese
The Greeks were aware of the existence of natural
magnets or oadstones early as TOO B. O.. but they
did not know how to use them for compasses
According to legend the Chinese understood the
directional property of the oadstone in 1884 B. c.
The legend is an interesting one, for it aScribes to
the same date the smoke screen, which we usually
think of as modern military invention.
1t seems that in the reign of Ho-ang-ti, the en-
perors troops attacked the rebel leader Tchieou on
the plains of Tchou-lou The rebel leader was get
ting the worst of it and accordingly, raised great
smoke to confuse the emperor and escape capture.
But Ho-ang-ti according to the legend, con-
structed chariot, which pointed to the SOUTH and
so gave him the knowledge of directions which per-
mitted his troops to pursue and capture the rebel
leader.
the South pointing cart" Ho-angti was the out
standing figure of early Chinese history and it was
common to ascrbe all sorts of things to him.
Some authorities, however, do believe that the
south pointing cart" used early as HOO B. c..
The accompanying illustration shows a south
pointing cart. 1t consisted Of ordinary tWoWheel
cart upon the front of which was mounted small
pivoted figure OF man with outStreched arm. piece
of loadstone placed in the arm with theresut
that the figure turned like compass and the arm
always pointed south.
This device introduced into Japan about the
seventh century of present era and continued in
in both China and Japan until the fifteenth CEN
tury A. D.
The compass as we know it today dates to about
the eleventh century A. D., when the Chinese made
rude sort of compass consisting of a needle floating
on water or hung by thread
The Chinese had learned that if an iron needle
rubbed upon loadstone. the magnetic properties
were transferred to the needle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Profits in Crime

If organized business is good for
other industries, it is also good for
crime, as the report of the Illinois
Association for Criminal Justice
with regard to conditions in Chi
cago plainly reveals.
The reign of power of real
leaders of organized crime in the
city of Chicago" says the report,
lis longer and more secure than
that of many of our college presi-
dents" and, it might have added,
pays better.
That the business pays well is
suggested by the charge that
coalition of gambling rings, boot
leggers and political interests has
made an annual net profit of $13,-
100000 during the last twenty
years.
The discouraging thought is not
that criminals should organize and
flourish, but that they should be
able to corrupt the law enforcing
machinery.
The problem not only for Chi
cago. but for the entire country to
solve is how to restore a sense of
common honesty in official life.
Organization of vicious elements
is made possible not so much be-
cause of their power, as because
they are not being combated in a
square, straightforward way.
Back of the dive, the speakeasy,
the debauched primary and the oil
scandal, turks the sinister shadow
of graft, corruption and oficial dis
honesty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
A Hero of Science

Because life is mans basic right.
disease is his worst enemy. Without
lie, liberty means nothing and the
pursuit of happiness is impossible.
This much it is necessary to I'M
derstand in order to appreciate the
work OF men like DR.. Hideyo
Noguchi who died in Africa last
Monday, martyr to his profession,
voluntary victim of the struggle to
improve human health.
BY birth he was a Japanese and
by profession a scientist, but in his
aims and ideals he was citizen Of
tie world and servant of
humanity. which is something that
can be said of very few.
DR.. Noguchi might have made a
great fortune, as we'll as a great
name. His superior intelligence was
supplemented by a stupendous
capacity for work. At any time
during the last ten years, he could
have cashed his knowledge and
reputation for a princes ransom
and passed the remainder of his life
not only In ease, but without loss Of
honor.
That he pursued abstract science
to uncover basic principles for other
men to apply, shows that he posed
a deep character, as we'll as deep
mind.
That he lost his life in the effort.
shows the kind of risk he took and
the kind Of courage with which he
faced il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Problem Not ONLY
for Chicago, but for the
Entire Country to SolUe
Is HOlO TO Restore q
Sense of Common Hon.
esty in Official Life"

GONE folks of a speculative turn
~ bought marlborough Rapid
Transit stock after a Federal Court
had sustained the company's plea
for an increased fare.
They ignored the fact that it was
law court, or took it for granted
that the higher court would agree.
Higher courts and lower courts are
not always so accommodating in
which case those who depend on the
lower court get left.
1nterborough Rapid Transit went
down some 10 points, after the Su-
preme Court ordered a stay of the
7-cent fare, giving other folks of
speculative turn their chance to
clean up.
Sometimes the rise and fall of
stocks is due to better reasons, but
more often than not, the huctuation
is based on little, except a bunch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
HuIyS Commercial PO7Uer Crun1bIeS
Written for The Times By Will Durant

erished papacy, and for church
driven to a fight for life and
death.
The Council of Trent Q544-64)
put an end to the delightful and
humane paganism that had grown
up in the Italy of the Renaissance
under an indulgent church; it
frightened the bonds Of both dogma
and morals, and destroyed the
spirit in which art and science had
1ourished. The Inquisition spread
its snareS, the Index EXpurgator-
ius" was directed to prevent the
circulation of heretical literature.
The church reformed and saved
itself, but the Renaissance was lost.
The turn of the tide from Italy
to the north found its first dra-
matte incident and symbol in the
capture and sack of Rome by a
German army in 1927. 1t was al
most a renewal of the ancient bar
barian investors; for though the
soldiers we're Christians, they were
no longer Catholics; the mighty elo-
quence of Luther had infuriated
hem against the vices and unbelief
that the Reformer had seen in
Rome.
When Pope Clement VII fled
from the Vatican to the fortress of
SAINT Angelo, and from its walls
saw the German army rob and kill
and destroy unhindered the popula-
ton and the art of the ancient cap
ital. it was a sign Of the future, the
beginning of the end Of the Renais-
sance.
Copyright. 1928, by viii Durantl
tn Rn Cnniir1ndA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Cost of knowledge
rience is built on sacri1ce.

Science is built on sacrifice.
1t not only costs to learn things,
but the things we learn involve
more cost.
Every new trade is the product
of study and experiment. and every
new trade has its secrets.
Thousands of men have gone
hungry to perfect the automobile and
other thousands are being crushed
to death under its wheels
Who thought when the radium
watch came into existence that 1t
would bring with it another fatal
malady?
The battle for health includes not
only the repression of old diseases,
but the struggle to overcome new
ones.
Whether this machine age has
bred new tribes of germs, it has
created the opportunity for acct
dents and injuries which did not
exist before.
The more we know, the more re-
sponsibility we must assume. In
creased power for evil goes with in
creased power for good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

Presence of prehistoric vehicles
drawn by old horses ana mules on
city streets on Sunday was deplored
today in a letter to Mr.. FiXit
Dear Mr.. FiXit: l have lived in
Indianapolis four years and am
anxious to do my bit to make it the
cleanest and most beautiful city in
the u. S. A. We can not all live in
beautiful modern homes but we can
have things clean and respectable
No matter how poor we are we can
have a little lawn and a few flowers
and prevent papers from collecting
on the yard.
The place l moved into last spring
was a regular dump but by summer
it was as pretty as any home in the
neighborhood But there are other
things besides homes which mar the
city'S beauty.
There are unsightly prehistoric
vehicles loaded with coal. ice and
other things drawn by old nags,
passing through our neighborhood
streets all day Sunday. 1t really
mars the Sabbath atmosphere.
DO you think something can be
done about it? G. z.
Police Captain o. d. Thomas ad-
vsed Mr.. Fixit that there is no law
to prevent peddlers from using the
streets on Sunday except the blue
laws" There is a legal question as
to the authority to convict for de-
livering commodities on the streets.
Next time you see such vehicle
report it TO police.
Mr.. Fixit knows of no statute
which would enable police to clean
the streets of unsighly wagons and
trucks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

imperSonal but ruthless movements
of invention and trade which dom
mate the larger processes Of history.
The Reformation was an incident
in this emergence of the north; it
would have been impossible but for
the wealth that had made Germany
and England at once independent
ana jealous of Italy. It's success
stopped the flow of northern gold
into papal Golfers, and sadly re-
duced the sinews OF the Renais-
sance; great art works were out of
the question for a suddenly impoy-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Times

I notice by the papers that we are
to have the council dictate when
we should sleep and cat. Why not
let it go ahead and start an abso-
lutte monarchy, whereby we common
folks, who haven't any money to
spare for golf sticks. or for any
other high faution" amusement
which Springsteen and the other
five desire for a favored few, will
be punished for talking above a
whisper,
The past council, with all its cor
ruption, had a better eye for BUSH
ness than the present force. Why,
these folks will be the laughing
stock of the citizens of this fair
city!
The mayor. who shows little
common judgment, ought to have
his salary raised for vetoing such a
bill.
Now that you have started on the
betterment of the community, in
clude this in your program and 1
wouldn't doubt that you will have
the best of the citizens behind you
The sun will come up and go
down just the same as always. Let
us stay with the sun.
R. CLYDE NELL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

average car user pays from $32 to $45 year in
cial leves, depending on where he lives.
Opponents OF the tax on automobiles commended
and with considerable degree of justice that it was
unfair to single out automobiles from among all
other manufactured products for special assessment
The automobile no longer is luxury. II is neces-
Sary means of transportation and an essential part
OF business Cheap automobiles in addition mean that
more persons can enjoy pleasures of out-of-doorS
and this is no nconsequentia consideration Congress
did well to wipe out the tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Bears to Get Chance

During the last four months the
American people have been engaged
IN the pleasant pastime of blowing
bubbles on Wall Street.
Not only the Federal Reserve
Board but most of the leading bank
erS have realized the danger OF
such gambling, and have tried to
stop it.
For the very reason that we
have seen too much bullishness. we
are likely to see too much bearish-
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
This Date i'm
u. S. History

May %
1683-Appeal to the king in mat
tiers involving less than 100
pounds sterling forbidden in
Virginia.
1701-William Kidd, American pi-
rate, executed.
1788-South Carolina ratified the
Constitution.
1912-U. S. House of Representa-
tives passed the Panama
Canal bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Mr.. Fixit
Hears Of q Nuisance That
Can't Be Helped

Let Sir. Fixit. The Times representa-
tive at city hall. present your troubles
10 city officials. Write Mr.. Fixit at The
Times. Names and addresses which
must be given will not be published.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

The name and address of the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

What is the nationality of Luis
Firpo? How old is he?
He was born Oct. II. 1896, at
Aires. Argentina. His father
was an Italian and his mother
Spaniard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Daily Thought

For many are called, but few
are chosen.-Matt. 22:14.
A ND how his audit stands who
IN knows, save heayen.-Shake-
speare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

In what opera is "The Anvil
Chorus?"
Verdi's I'll Trovatore."
Who was the first President of
the United States born after the
country had declared its independ-
ence from England?
Martin Van Buren,.
How do the Canadian National
Railway lines compare in length
with the largest railway system in
the world?
The largest railway system in the
world is the New German Railway
Company, $4,000 miles in length.
The Canadian National Railways
has a total mileage of 21.844 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

Dietz on Science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
Real Duty for Council

SckIPPS-H Dwarf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
Nature Study.

I feel truly sorry for the teacher who
has to try to teach nature to city chill
dren. One can teach q bit of biology, OF
botany, or zoology to any class, but that
is not nature study Nature is too high,
wide and deep to get into q classroom,
She stops short at the threshold of any
man-rnade habitation. She enters the
rabbits burrow and the wild birds nests,
but never human habitation knows her
step or her voice.
Then if we would have children know
nature in her varying moods we must
show them the way to the outdoors
They must tread the soft moss of the
forest, dabble their toes in the brook, lie
on the grassy meadow, climb the hills
listen by the side of the sea. Such ex.
periences as these, though they are not
recorded by regents marks, are precious
to the growth of child's intelligence
They bring to it quality that we can
oil spare from the life of our Nation.
The Fall of the year is approaching
Nature is never more lovely than when
the sky is high, cool, blue and the earth
floor takes on the hues of gold and
brown. The blackberry vines are purple
and red and brown, the golden rod and
blue asters are matted along the road
sides.
If you are lucky enough to be able to
tread an old dirt road in the country
tl1is is the time to go out with the chill
dren and see what you can see, feel all
your soul will hold, touch and smell and
taste whatever treasures of orchard and
woodlot are offered you.
Did YOU ever smell sweet cider drip
ping into a well-seasoned vat? Do you
know the smell of ripe wild grapes? o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, September 25.
There will be a return to first prin-
cipleS by some of HollywcOd's elect. A
few notableS will abandon the type of
thing they have been giving the public
of late and return to the style of work
which made them famous.
Prominent among these are Cecil B.
De Mile and Gloria Swanson. In his
Forthcoming picture the director will
give thu public not the Biblical tales
and refcrm epicS of his recent ell
deavo~s, tut the kind of picture known
as "a typical De Mile film" the thing
he does to perfection, the thing which
won him one of the largest audiences
in the world
And Gloria Swanson, whom De Mile
made famous for her extravagantly
beautiful gowns and the extravaganza
way in which she wore them, viii in
the picture following the one on which
she is at present working with Won
Stroheim star in film where clothes
are the paramount idea.
The 1e28-29 issue of Who's Who in
America" just out in Hollywood, has
caused a great fiuttering and. sur
reptitious hunting for names. CLOVIS
of pride, pangs of envy.
For not all the famous of Hollywood
are included in Americas list Of the
great The same book which gives
Norma and Constance Talmadge a
send-off fails tt. mention Colleen Moore
and Marion Davies. Jacqueline Logan
is there among the famous. OF course,
Gloria Swanson, with her paradoXicai
history-daughter of Joseph Koliansky
and married to the deliberately titled
Marquis de la Falaise Eleanor Board
man is there, and Corinne Griffith,
John Gilbert and Ronald Colman.
But while Antonio Moreno and his
wife, the former Daisy Garfield, are
virtually the only members of the COL
ony to appear in the Los Angeles blue
book-the Cecil De Miles are also in
cluded-Moreno did not get into Who's
Who"
Mary Miles Minter, a forgotten en-
tity already among the younger gen.
Grafton Of movie goers, has a place
Movieland, is victim of excess fat. A
gland condition is said to make the
burden difficult to cure.
Adolphe Menjou, FULLY Marshall,
Hugo BALM, Jackie Coogin, Jim Cruze,
Bebe Daniels, Vera Gordon, Bill Hart,
Doris Kenyon, Harold Lloyd, Tom Mix
these are some Of the gelatin idols
who made the grade. AS one leading
lady said, with a superior sniff, who
picked them out, anyway"
We were joking about group of
tourists standing at a studio gate in
Culver City, gazing pathetically through
its iron meshes and hoping to see some
famous one cross the studio lot.
Easier for camel to enter the eye
of a needle" paraphraSed N;scacre
standing near IF every one who came
to Hollywood to see movies in the max
ing actually succeeded, we'd have to
stop making movies"
Upon which Assistant Director Stew
in the movies:
"Out at old Universal City," said