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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Hoover Economy

The country will applaud the determination Of
President Hoover to keep down expenses Of the gov
eminent.
There is to be no relaxation of the economy" en-
forced under President Coolidge.
Department heads in preparing estimates for 1881
are told that they must not ask for more than they
got during the year which ends June 80 1880
It is doubtful whether Hoover economy will be
the same brand as Coolidge economy however.
Coolidge at times carried his efforts almost to the
point OF parsimony, and money was saved where it
would have been more economical to spend it. Hoover
has been builder used to doing big things and spend
ing large sums
1t is important that expenditures be kept at the
lowest possible level consistent with reason and pre-
sumably this is what Hoover intends to do
The federal government is spending annually about
$4,000 000O 00 Flood control cruiser construction, the
public building program, farm relief internal water
way improvement and other projects already under
way will call for huge sums in the next few years The
cost of government has been increasing for several
years and inevitably will continue to increase.
The country is rich and is growing Even so there
is point beyond which the federal government can
not go in absorbing the income of its citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Jim Watson's Public

Spectators sat up in surprise last week at one OF
the sugar tariff hearings before the senate finance
committee when Senator j. E. Watson began lee
Turing witness on the committees duty toward The
American Public"
For jim never has beer one to worry overmuch
bout his duty toward the public when any group
81 American industralists wanted higher tariff
The witness, representing Cuban sugar growers and
he vast American interests in the island had been
1ntactful enough to cite Mckinley, Roosevelt and
7hu Root as to the duty this country bears toward
Cuba and had fatty said that the proposed higher
sugar rates would be disastrous to Cuba.
But the spectators we're treasured minute later.
The heat hadn't gone to Jin's head after all. The
public" to which he was referring was the 100000
persons engaged in the American beet sugar industry
It may be explained that the proposed "a cent
riff against Cuba would benefit those 100000 persons
bout s7O0ooo0 and would cost all the rest of US
100000 or more IN increased sugar prices.
Indiana, for instance, raises about l per cent Of
sugar beets and her 100000 people would pay
sout 100000 more for their sugar in order to give
indiana beet growers $4,000 more annually.
No. jim wasn't really thinking of the public,
,Aither in Indiana or outside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Careful Scrutiny Needed

Recent events will undoubtedly put Presl-
dent Hoover and Attorney General Mitchell on
their guard when recommendations for the sue
censorship to Judge Anderson are made.
Ordinarily and as matter of precedent
this state would furnish the man who will sue
coed Judge Anderson on the federal court OF
appeals. Tradition and precedent seem to re-
oujre that each of the states in the district be
represented.
It is quite probable that the precedent
would be followed, and will be, if there IS no
effort to use that place as political patronage,
OF as the means Of creating patronage Tor
friends of those in power.
Recent events in this state make 1t more
than ever imperative that there be the closest
scutinv of all suggestions for this very I'M
portant post. The record Of the senator's IN
their selection of federal officials has not been
50 happy as give unlimited confidence IN their
judgment
The Indictment of two prohibition agents
in the northern district would ordinarily not
be important 1t IS expected that occasional
" prohibition agents would fall for the tempta-
tions of huge profits or retainers that are pos
sible in the bootleg era.
But one Of the accused agents has been very
close TO the political machine in this state, has
been uniformly kept on pay rolls, has been
4erv much in the limelight Nor does the vol
.ntarv statement of the bootlegger who is
iointlv indicted. that he gave no bride, but po-
htical contributions ada to the situation any
factor that can be considered to the advantage
of the senator's.
It will be recalled, also, that the selection
of United States marshals has been unfortu-
nate. There was the scandal in this district
when hundreds of cases of whisky disappeared
from the federal building.
It is true that three hapless Negroes went
tn prison, penniess before, and that one OF
them showed signs of wealth on his exit. In the
northern district, the marshall first selected re-
signed after a grand jury had investigated
charges of fraudulent use of the mails
There has been, very consistently, the APP
pearance of the use of federal patronage for
political purposes. And the results have not
been happy.
Now comes the federal court, next in rank
to the supreme court, for consideration.
Certainly here is one spot that should be
sacred Unless the Judgment of the senator's
comedies with that of leaders of the bar and
? name presented that will inspire confidence
and general acclaim, Indiana can well afford to
forego the honor.
q It is better to have no Judge from Indiana
on that court than to have one known as a
political appointee.
There are some things that are too costly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Times Readers
Voice ViezUS

Editor The TimeS-A well -deserV-
ing eulogism appeared recently in
an eastern magazine, 50 pertinent
and relevant is to merit more than
passing comment. 1t is tardy,
though welcome recognition Of the
merits Of the scripps- Howard news
papers, Of which our own Times is
a worthy member and consequently
must share in this unqualified
praise.
The Scripps- Howard papers are
by far the best and most fearless
in the country; for answering de-
votion to the best interests OF all
the people commend me to the
above named newspapers. I heartily
indorse all the encomiums that were
heaped on the selfsame newspapers
and will further say that when the
American people eventually wake up
to the folly of their course and open
their eyes to the pernicious legis-
lation being foisted upon them it
will be due in great measure to I'M
tagging persistency Of those papers.
More power and abundant pros
perity to The Times for its valiant
defense of the peoples rights is my
ardent Asads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01

Ice Cream Valuable Food for Summer

carbohydrates and fats but also
vitamins A and B, a small amount
of vitamin D and considerable
amount of mineral salts.
1t is not recommended generally
in diets for diabetes because of the
sugar that it contains, but it is hard
ly contra indicated in any other diets
except those of small infants to
whom frozen milk or frozen milk
products of any kind may sometimes
seem to be harmful.
In many instances invalids recov-
ering from sore Threats, from re-
moval Of the tonsils, or from dis
eases in which a slight fever may
continue for some time find ice
cream exceedingly refreshing and
will take this as a food when no
other food substance attracts them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01

ID ADICALISM in America in
IN creasingly takes on all the as
poets of a college fraternity or some
little club. You can't belong unless
you conform to the code. which
seemingly includes many things hay
ing no relation to political or eco
nonic beliefs.
For instance. Floyd Dell, the nov
elist and playwright. has just been
thrust out from under the shelter
of the left wing because he had his
picture taken in a dinner coat. 1t
was only a flashlight at that.
This rift in the radical ranks is
all set forth in the July number of
The New Masses. The beginning
was a letter Of resignation from
Dell.
He explained that he didn't want
to be contributing editor any more
because the magazine seemed to him
to represent "a neurotic literary and
pictorial estheticism."
Michael Gold. who runs the Com
munist organ, brushes the criticism
aside. He seems to feel that the
difference is at base sartorial. His
rage knows no slack rein because the
dinner coated Dell dared to sign
his epistle yours for the ReYolu-
ticn."
Gold believes that it is impossible
for anybody in q boiled shirt to be
warm ahhI1t tbe urOYlyorS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01

muddled will write in a muddled
manner-George Jean Nathan. (The
American Mercury
Il
There seems hardly any limit to
what could be done in the way of
producing good world, if only men
would use science wisely.-Bertrand
Russell
The woman who practices eva
sions and makeshifts rarely under
stands why her husband is angry
when he discovers them.-Ida M.
TarbeD Century,
II
You can search through the SEN
ate without finding a Solomon: We
have no athlete today as great as
Goliath! No marksnan as accurate
as David.-Secretary of Interior
Wilbur.
Whether We discuss cabbages or
kings, cucumbers or common stocks,
the inevitable result Of an increase
Of demand without a corresponding
increase Of supply is rise in price.
And that is exactly what has been
taking place in the common stock
market during the past few years.
Arthur S. Dewey. (World's Work.
Individually, indeed, We have not
so much cause for vanity. We are
clever by proxy. We travel in au-
tomobiles that others have designed;
We speak over a telephone that an
otheA-has ira-@satsAssare li<tsya Asser
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
In Justice to LoWman

so Lownlan is TO go. The assistant secretary OF
the treasury in charge Of federal prohibition enforce
nent soon will be removed by the President, accord
Ing TO apparently reliable reports.
Lowman is the man who announced when he took
ONCE two years ago the greatest enforcement drive
in history to be crowned with quick success.
Lowrnan is the man who gave federal customs
agents permission shoot other than in self-defense
Lowman is the man who defended the tapping of
private TELEPHONE and telegraph wires of innocent
persons
Lowman is the man who defended the recent cpl
Ademic Of killings by dry agents of citizens neither
Intoxicated nor transporting liquor.
Lowran is the man who was going to propagandze
the public schools of the country.
In brief. Lovnan is about everything President
Hoover said prohibition administrator should not be
a But the country will miss the significance Of this
sode it chuckles over Lowmans fall, and lets
20 at that.
ne point is not that incompetent or a corrupt
u has failed Lowman is honest. He is sincere.
liable.
fAilsdl -. has every other Official who has
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~ $500,
ET q q a NJ Is Tt4|e.
ANNIVERSARY
tt4tz2l
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

July
I'm July 1, 1868, the most hot
~ contested battle of the Civ
war in America, the Battle
Gettysburg, began.
The conflict took place at Getty
burg, Pa. between the Fede
army of the Potomac, nunberi
about 10000 men, and the CO
federate army Of northern Virgir-
Of $1,000 men.
About 8 a. m, Confederate and
Federal troops clashed Both sides
suffered heavy losses during that
day. The battle continued with
minor conflicts until July 3, when
General Meade decided TO hold the
Federal army in the position then
occupied until further attack.
Misconstruing this lulI, the Con-
federate troops made one of the
most magnificent charges known in
military history. Advancing steadily
in three columns in the face of a
destructive artillery fire, the Con-
federates promptly filed up the
great gaps cut into their lines h
Federal shells. Within 300 yards
the Federal line they met til.
musketry fire of the Federal in
fantry, which had been previously
withheld. The advance was utterly
demoralized.
Soon Confederate troops we're in
rapid retreat, their ranks being en-
veloped by the Federal army.
During the three days battle the
Federal army lost 3072 killed, l4,497
wounded and 5434 captured or
missing. The Confederate army, &C
cording to official reports, which,
have been questioned lost 1882 inf
KILLED. l2,709 wounded ard $3.50
captured or missing.
The battle is regarded as the
turning point in the civil war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
British Protest Menace

OUCH a conservative journal as
- the London Times declares that
American duties" are a menace to
British industry, and suggests that
the moment is near for England and
Canada to consider the wisdom Of
retaliatory measures.
The right of nation to fix its
tariffs without regard to any inter-
ference is not, Of course, disputed, .
says the Times, but as national de-
cisions on this subject directly affect
the welfare Of other countries, and
in the case of the United States af-
feet them profoundly, foreign peo-
pies necessarily view proposed in
creases in the American tariff with
anxiety"
Certainly they do, and the man is
a fool who can not see that the
anxiety will lead to alarm, and
alarm to anger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Tariff War SenSeIeSS

a S the Times points out, this
IN country, with its wealth, organ
ization and progressive methods
could well afford to adopt moderate
measures Of protection.
Not only chat, but it could i'll at
ford to carry them to immcderate
extremes
1t would be a senseless thing for
the United States to invite, or pro-
woke a tariff war. We need the
markets Of the world as never be-
fore, cur prosperity can not be sus-
tanned without increased trade.
The fact that other people owe US
means little. unless they are able to
pay.
1t is absurd to suppose that We
can 60 on indefinitely closing our
markets to other people, and expect
them to open more markets for us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Prosperity Victim

WITH Gold 7 will agree that
w evening clothes are a devilish
Invention, but I'm not certain that
they were devised by the rich with
the idea Of grinding down the poor.
All my most revolutionary thoughts
have occurred at times when I was
constrained to make a choker COL
lar clamp down upon the button.
Those are the moments when 1 long
to tear off tf~e cumbersome livery
and man a ba4 ricade.
Elegance is not the only capital
istic sin cited against Floyd Dell by
the left wing leader.
1t seems that Dell wrote articles
on sex and that by strange coin
cidence some of them were printed
in the Cosmopolitan.
Speaking of these past literary
offenses, Mike Gold remarks: 1T
was considered daring at that time
to indulge in free love. Now every
Babbitt goes in for affairs and of
course what Rabbit does is forbid
den to the revolutionists."
Through this process of infiltra-
ton the bourgeoisie seem to be in
tent upon turning everything topsy
turvy.
Floyd Dell is just another VIC
tim OF American prosperity" is
the basic solution offered to ex-
plain the truancy Of the last leader.
IF it is really that no goat
man is ever sincerely radical then
the Republican scheme to spread a
magazine directed against the reds
is wholly Wrong-headed in concep-
ton"
lcopyrlght. 1929 for The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER.

L. S. Palmer Of the University Of
Minnesota, who tested the effects Of
diets consisting wholly Of ice cream,
diets consisting of one-third ice
cream, and a good general diet with
out vitamins on a series Of animals.
The experiment showed that the ice
cream contributes valuable factors to
a diet.
Standard vanilla ice cream was
capable of promoting the growth at
a moderate rate of the white rats
so that they reached the normal or
neary normal size and weight When
the ice cream constituted at least
one-third of the diet, the animals
invariably grew well, as compared
with those on the diet without ice
cream.
Ice cream contains, because of the
milk that is in it, not only proteins,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01

tried to enforce prohibition. 1t is easy enough to
show why he failed 1t is more difficult to show how
he or any one else could succeed.
He demonstrated-as Mrs Mabel Walker Willie
brandt assistant attorney-general and others have
done-that neither good intentions nor ruthless
methods are sufficient to enforce prohibition
Lowman and Willebrandt tried to do the job as
the Anti-Saloon League and the professional drys
want it done and say that it can be done. The
failure of this is not personal failure 1t is
the failure Of methods and the claims Of the pro-
fessonal drys
The Hoover method is more humane and intel-
gent But we wonder whether it, or any conceivable
method, can enforce an unenforceable law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
III1I7IIIl1I1111lIIIIIIII777
-AAIkLER

star. AS have said previously, we can not answer
the problem Of What Is Life?' We only de-
scribe the structure and behavior Of living organisms
DR.. Newman lists eight characteristics of proto-
pas. the technical given to the material out
Of which living cells are constructed They are:
l. Chemical composition.
2 Physical properties.
g. Metabolisn.
l. Growth.
5 Reproduction
s. Rhythmicity
T. Irritability and conductivlty.
g. Adaptabity.
The amateur gardner can study all Of these char
acteristics in the plants of his garden. But before
proceeding to the specific subject Of botany We will
present some general considerations by way Of in
PRODUCTION.
Examining these characteristics is as close we
car come to defining life. 1t will mean more than
many attempted definitions of life.
Such definitions Life is the state of living
merely evade the issue.
Herbert Spencer defined life as "the continual ad-
justment of internal relations to external relations
Such definition however, does not 60 far enough.
The same is true of G.. H Lewes'
as "a series of definite and succesSS
in structure and in composition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Men of Nerve Needed

NHANY other whaling captains
wi might have done the same
thing.
Instead, they were content to re-
tire in a more or less sour frame OF
mind on the ground that something,
or somebody, had spoiled their bust
ness.
Progress requires men who can
adapt themselves to changing con-
ditions, who not only realize what
is taking place, but have the nerve
to face it.
If Ford had stayed with the BIZ
cycle business, or Captain Robert
Dollar with the lumber business, or
a thousand and one others with the
business in which they started, the
United States would not be the ma
ton it is today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Too Dramatic
DUT Mike Gold ought to know
D that drama makes strange bed

DUT Mike Gold ought to know
ID that drama makes strange bed
fellows.
Only a season or 50 ago it became
the painful duty Of this young Com
munist to solicit Otto Kahn for
funds to support an experimental
theater.
And after the conference, the
f1nancier suggested that they walk
down Fifth avenue to some nearby
bank or it may even have been q
club.
At any rate Mike Gold went in
fear and trembling. He tried to
linger half step behind Kahn and
to pretend that he was not with him.
Later Mike confessed. IF any of
my friends had seen me I would
have been disgraced forever"
And SO I feel that the excommu-
nication Of Floyd Dell is by many
shades too dramatic. From the revo-
lutionary standpoint, Otto Kahn is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
Nothing New ON Tariff

A HIGHER tariff on leather goods
"a to pave the way for higher
wages, to prevent a possible strike,
is how the leather manufacturers
association of New York puts it.
There has been no strike yet, but
one is threatened we are told. The
workers want more pay, the employ
ers can't give it unless they are in
sured a greater profit.
The whole thing sounds original,
but it isn't.
Tariff boosters never have ad-
mitted they wanted anything for
themselves. 1t has always been the
laborer, the consumer, or the gen.
eral public they wished to benefit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
LARGEST Store in u, S,

CEVENTY- TWO years ago a
= New England whaling skipper
Quit the sea and started store in
New York. He was Rowland H.
Macy. He passed out of the pic
ture more than fifty years ago, but
the store still bears his name, and
not only his name, but his spirit.
1t employs 5000 clerks, and did
a business of S90,o00,o00 last year
Having purchased Bamberger's OF
Newark. N. j., it becomes the larg-
est retail store in America.
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at least as great a sin as a cute
doll tagged Little Accident"
In fact it seems to me that Mike
Gold falls into dangerous heresy
when he undertakes to evaluate any
mans passion for the proletariat on
the basis of the clothes he wears.
Dell is held to be renegade because
OF his "authorial dress suit"
Under this reasoning the reverse
n1li5t be true and anybody who I'M
buttons his flannel shirt at the neck
becomes upon that instant cham
plon OF the cause of freedom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
David pIetz on Science
Atom, Man and Star
No. 1856

PROFESSOR FORATIO HACKETT NEWMAN Of
L the University of Chicago writing in The Nature
of the World of Man stresses the essential unity
of the universe and points out that the chief difference
between biology and the other sciences is the level at
which biology attacks the universe.
Astronomy deals with the universe whole It's
units are stars and nebulae, planets and comets.
Atomic physics deal with the moecule and its COM
ponent parts the atom and the electron.
Biology tackles the problem at the organic level 1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01
BY DIR. NORRIS FISHBElN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MagaZine,


food authorities and public
Il health officials everywhere now
recognize that ice cream is an eX-
cellent food and, when prepared in
a sanitary manner, a highly desir-
able summer delight.
1t has been established by scien-
tific investigation that ice cream
contains vitanins A and B. 1t has
not been definitely established, how
ever, just how much ice cream does
contribute to diet which contains
liberal quantities of bread, meat. po-
tatoes and cereals.
Neither has it been shown just
how far one may go on ice cream
alone
This experiment was made by DR..
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deals With organ
isms ard its unit
is the cell.
1t is an inter
esting fact that if
we make a scale,
placing a gigantic
star at one end Of
it and a tiny atom
at the other end
Of it, an organism
such as man fits
into the middle Of
the scale.
Man is as much
lars er than an
q tom a S n e i S
S m a ! lie r than a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-01

A T the White House it is said
"A that Seymour LoWman has not
been asked to resign either direct
ly or indirectly.
Ogden L. Mills, who should know
says the report is absolute nom
sense.
Lowman himself characterizeS it
as "a dream" and adds that he was
not at the White House Friday night
and that if a conference was held
there he knows nothing about it.
Still, the rumor makes Roadway,
and it is hard to believe that there
could be so much smoke without
some fire"
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1T SEEMS TO ME By H B3oTS

Here is his accusation: "a photo
graph of Floyd Dell recently ap-
peared in the New York Times. He
was arrayed in his authorial dress
suit, and carried cute baby doll
on his arm. tagged Little Accident,
which is the name of his recent
ulav."