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The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

Now that the Geneva conference of world court
members unanimously has accepted the Root protocol
for American adherence other nations have right
to expect prompt action by Washington evidence
of our good faith.
The time is here-indeed it is long overdue-when
the administration should take responsibility officially
for the Root solution which it initiated unoficialy
In formally voting to accept that protocol before it
had official American status the other nations have
met us far more than half way. They have laid
themselves open to another American rebuff, if
Washington is so unsportsmanlike as to take advan-
tage of the situation But cannot believe such is
the intention of the administration.
1t is true that the administration cannot speak
for the senate but it can speak for itself.
Secretary of State Stmson has announced his per-
sonal approval of the Root formula. That is not
enough: Since it inspired that protocol the admin
istraon should accept it formally through signature
by the President Obviously it is putting the other
natons-many of which already have Signed-in an
unfair position, to delay the American signature.
The second step is prompt submission by the Pres-
dent OF the protocol to the senate There is
for waiting until all the other nations rafy before
allowing it to go to the senate. There no such
delay when the administration wanted to obtain rat
1cation of the Kellogg ant-war treaty.
Whether the senate accepts the protocol which
virtually is the only door through which enter
the court will depend in large measure on the attitude
of the administration Inaction on the part of the
state department and White House is not going to
get action in the senate.
The administration is under an unusually heavy
obligation this matter just because Presidents Hard
ing and Coolidge were content whenever possible to
evade the issue, despite Republican party pledges to
the country.
More than three years ago the senate voted rs to II
for American adherence to the court under five res
ervations The other nations accepted four of those
reservations at once. Now by accepting the Root
formula they have granted the United States the
sential rights which the senate had in mind in the
fifth reservation.
Those three years of delay were due solely to the
refusal of the Coolidge administration to negotiate
with the other nations on the meaning of the
tionS
In view of this unfortunate record by his predeces
sors doubtless President Hoover will be all the
desrous of handling the Root protocol with fairness
and promptnesS.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
REASON By FfEREEEGK HzNBIs

WYE do not believe that D. C. Stephenson will get
w the ixty-day parole he requests in order that
he may take OF his moss-grown business inter-
ests for it might be necessary to chain him to a
truck to keep him from flying the coop, once his
dilated noSrils had negotiated the unfettered
Hoosers will experience no difficulty in control
ling their emotions should ali of Steves far flung
interests go to pot.
They do not believe that he is guilty of the crime
for which he is serving a life sentence; they think
he was framed because he knew too much about
statesmen who ate out of his fat fist when he was
all powerful.
And then there was the danger of his aspiring to
a senatorial toga, which he could have had for the
demanding back in the black days when the poiti-
clans of both bartieS stood in line, impatient to mas
sage his vanity with servlle speech.
Party leaders were red caps; they drank at
his parties laughed his jokes and wrote him affec
onae letters say nothing of photographs lovingly
inscribed to him.
DUT while the people of Indiana do not think him
ID guilty of the crime for which he now looks
through the bars they feel that he should spend at
least century in the internal regions for what he
did to their state However, he is whittier inside and
out than the politicians in both parties who betrayed
their commonwealth in order to hold public office.
Steve never will get out by the clemency route, be-
cause the powers have hunch that he would start
on lecture and writing career that would Gauss
many statesmen to spend the rest of their lives be-
hind false whiSkerS coming forth for air only III the
dark of the MOON for this King Purnel OF politics
has abundant merchandise them.
How his revelations would sell!
The newspaper syndcateS the lecture bureaus, the
motion picture people would all be waiting for Steve
at the big iron gates should he emerge and he would
receive price per word. alongside which Mr. Cool
idge would to be taking his pen in hand out
of pure philanthropy.
Steve would be paid not only for his words but for
his comas and dasheS and exclamation points, par
ticularly the exclamation points.
A S to those business interests which said to
IA be languishing because deprived of the tender
care of their loving papa, they were all purchased
with the money which Steve acquired from the sale
of his avalanche of bunk.
When he started the organization in Indiana,
which later took the state captive he was broke.
He left Evansville, where he failed in coal and
politics and headed for Indianapolis financed by an
old friend of
When Steve begged that loan of twenty-five bones,
little did his benefactor dream that he was financing
fury against his own religion but 50 it proved TO BE-
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
VitaninS

HHEMICAL problems of an ex-
~ tremely difficult nature are pre-
sented by the vitanins.
There still is very little known
about the vitamins.
Most of the knowledge about them
is of a negative sort. That is, it is
known that certain diseases-such
as rickets-develop in their absence.
The exact way in which they
function, however, is not yet known.
Their exact chemical relation is not
yet known.
They seem to be extremely deli
cate or unstable compounds and
many experiments to analyze them
succeeded only in disintegrating or
destroying them.
One theory, supported by their
unstable nature, is that they are
delicately balanced chemical COM
pounds which carry great excess
of energy.
1t is thought that during digestion
they give up this excess energy,
thereby supplying the energy for
certain of the involved chemical
processes possible.
On this assumption the diseases
which follow a vitamin deficiency
would be the result of the fact that
certain digestive processes could
not take place without the energy
of the vitamins.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Face-Saving and War

Again China seems to have prevented settlement
of the Manchurian danger. When the pro-
visional Russian agreement to negotiate in
Berlin was announced last week, it assumed that
the peace parleys would be under way by this time
and both armies withdrawn from the frontier.
Instead, the Nanking foreign minister now says
he has agreed to nothing
on top of that, he has put northwestern Man
churia under martial law.
All because China is insisting on even more than
the usual amount of face-saving important to the
Oriental. To save Chinas face Moscow compromised
and agreed to the permanent expulsion from Man
ohuria of the Russian officials Of the Chinese East
ern railway It was the arrest of those officials and
seizure of the road by China, in violation OF the
treaty under which the road is operated jointly, that
caused the war threat
But having won her point for permanent dis
charge OF the Russian officials charged with propa-
sanda, China now balks at removing the Chinese
rfhcial who broke the treaty
China is lucky to be dealing with nation Ike
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

The Time Has Arrived for
Some Serious Thinking
About the Nations PoWer
Problem.
SAYS

THE federal government still
Il owns Muscle Shoals and is get
ting ready to build Boulder Dam;
the people of Maine have voted
against expectation of surplus
power; California is considering the
possibility of constructing some large
dams, and Governor Roosevelt is
preparing to ask the New York legis-
lature for authority to develop the
st. Lawrence
While such things indicate that
the public is waking up to the ma
ture and Importance of the power
problem, they are rather inconse- =
quential compared to activities on
the other side-the merging, COM
bining and consolidating by which
powerful financial interests are eS-
tablishing centralized control of
production and distribution of cleo
tricity, not only in particular sec
tions of the country, but through
out the country as whole.
The time obviously has arrived
for some serious thinking.
The American people face about
the same kind of situation with re
gard to power that they faced with
regard to railroading thirty years
ago.
The development of a public policy
clearly is demanded, not only for
the federal government, but for the
states.
Some see public ownership as the
only effective means OF. relief; others
would be satisfied if the federal gov
ernment and the states retained
such power sites as they now con-
troll; others ask little more than
federal regulation of interstate traf-
fic; and still others think that the
power industry should be let alone.
At present, the situation is not
only too big, but too complicated,
for any one to be quite sure of the
best. solution, or to suppose that any
single theory will work.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

Russia, which for economic and political reasons has
be long suffering. If China for instance, had vo-
lated japanese consulate, arrested Japanese officials
seized japanese property and torn up a japanese
treaty victorious Japanese army would be occupy
ing China today.
But China is unlucky in rskng even with
Russia When the Russians get started, they may
not stop. An Occidental military observer on the
spot says that the red army is far superior to the
Chinese indeed that is next to the French the best
in the world today.
Unfortunately peace pleas so far have failed with
China. Now it is time for her to think and think
FAST Of what would happen to her in war.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Don't Worry If Weight Is Off Average

allowed as a limit of variation,
which should not cause any undue
alarm or special attention.
Those children who are under
weight because of slender build
must be separated from those who
are underweight because of enact
alton, bad health, or malnutrition.
The physician in charge of the
studies will be able to make such a
separation satisfactorily.
The regular weighing of children
is important, as it calls attention
to the whole health problems. How
ever, too much emphasis should not
be placed on overweight. to make
up alleged deficiencies.
Emphasis should be placed rather
on good nutrition and on regular
gains in weight each month. The
failure of a school child to gain in
weight over a period of several
months must be considered abnor-
NAL and have attention Of the
physician.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Good viii Agents
NEVERTHELESS, am not res,

NEVERTHELESS, I am not reso-
L y lutely opposed to the extension
of the innovation. With one minor
change in equipment, Whalen's dogs
might easily become the most pop
ular members of the force.
First there should be survey.
Surely one of the deputy commits
sioners can be spared long enough
to study the way they handle such
things in the Alps.
There could easily be refinements
of the Swiss system. The kegs
borne by the canine benefactors in
the lofty mountains contain, ac-
cording to all accounts, neat rum.
And that is a good drink, too.
But to the jaded palate of the city
dweller it may be just a shade too
sharp and stinging.
Better far, 1 think, to have the
casks Of the police dogs of Grover
Whalen filled with synthetic gin.
The ideal police dog should carry,
in addition to his cask, lemon Juice,
sugar and split of white rock.
Allow Whalen enough properly
equipped police dogs and the illegal
resorts could not continue to -four
ish week. Who wants to whisper
hoarsely through barred doors
when he can get something Just as
good by standing in the middle of
the sidewalk and shouting, Come
here, Rover" and Nice doggie"?
lCoDvright 1929 BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

COMMISSIONER EMS
~ experiment of putting police
dogs on patrol at night in Staten Is
land fills me with certain appre-
hension. The practice almost con-
stitutes curfew law. The pun, if
any, is wholly accidental.
Just how effective the dogs may
be in frightening of marauders re-
mains to be seen, but they serve to
discourage even respectable citizens
from late hours.
Probably there will be small COM
plant against this in the island. In
that Siberia of the greater city
there is no reason why anybody
should stay up late.
Even if the hounds were not
abroad in the land, the average
resident of the suburb would retire
early. This enables him to get to
Manhattan all the sooner in the
morning.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
RevoIutionized Life
TT was about fifty years ago tina
4 the electric light and dynamo

TT was about fifty years ago that
Il the electric light and dynamo
made their appearance.
1t was about twenty-five years ago
that the first big power plants were
established.
We not only are dealing with a
gigantic industry, but with compare
lively new one.
Within two generations electricity
has become a basic factor of human
progress. Not only commerce, but
the home, depends on it. 1t has
brought about one of the sWifteSt
and most radical revolutions in all
history, changing not only the meth
ods of production, manufacture and
transportation, but those Of daily
life.
No innovation ever altered the
march of human events more COM
pletely or more intimately, and
none ever made itself more indis
pensable in the same length of time.
People who grew up with kerosene
lamps, Corliss engines and horse
cars would feel lost without the
push button, the vacuum cleaner,
the self-starter and the blaze of city
streets.
Naturally enough, capital has
seized on electricity as the biggest
prize in sight.
Capital always has placed its bets
on what the public wants and, If
possible, on what the public can not
get along without,
One hundred years ago capital
was intrigued by the sailing ship,
and fifty years ago by the railroad.
Now it is intrigued by the power
plant, and for precisely the same
reason.
The MorganS, MELONS. insults and
Duponts followed the Huntingtons,
Hills, Goulds and Harrimans, just
as the latter followed the Girards.
GrayS and Perrys.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
HEALTH SERVICE

ments made in height-weight tables
must be taken as averages.
Children of the same height and
age may vary in weight because of
their heredity and because of ten
dencies toward emaciation or
obesity, which are a part of their
nature.
In some schools children are
weighed and measured with shoes
and in other schools without shoes
The child with shoes seems taller
and thinner than the one without
It therefore is not necessarily a pro-
vision of good hygiene to insist on
bringing all children who seem to be
slightly underweight to the figures
that are called normal,
Standard weight tables give av-
erage weights and there is a nor
NAL variation from these. 1t is
unfair to set the average weight
as normal for all children.
Indeed, Professor Turner feels
that at least 10 per cent should be
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Nutrition

NUTRITION fundamentally is q
~ chemical problem The cells
which compose the human body are
composed of a great variety of car
bohydrates, fats and proteins. The
carbohydrates include sugars and
starches.
All these chemical substances
must be supported by the food we
cat. That is why variety is esen-
tial in diet. A diet which is not
sufficiently varied may lack some
highly important chemical sub
stance.
The proteins present a particu
larly interesting chemical problem.
There are many kinds of proteins.
The proteins in the cells of the
human body differ from those of
various animals and plants.
But all proteins are chemical COM
ninaticns of simpler compounds
called amino-acids. A single pro
tein may consist of as many as
twenty anlino-acids
The human digestive system
breaks up the proteins eaten into
their constituent amino acids
From these, the right ones are Sc
lected and put together to form the
proteins Of the human body cells.
Here nature shows herself more
skillful than chemists, for the chem
lists have not yet succeeded in syn
thetizing, or putting together by
chemical means, proteins.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
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| |ANNlVER$ARY|
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CONSTITUTION SIGNED


TINE convention of delegates from
L. twelve of the thirteen states in
the Union signed the Constitution
OF the United States on Sept. II,
1887.
Rhode Island alone was unrep-
resented at the convention sessions
in Independence hall, Philadelphia,
under President Washington. Four
months work was required to COM
plete the Constitution, with the eX-
ception of the amendments, in the
form in which we have it today.
The delegates work promptly was
approved by congress and at the
close of the following year had been
adopted by eleven of the states and
placed in operation among them.
The other two states, North Caro-
lima and Rhode Island, ratified the
Constitution and entered into the
American Union in 1889 and 1870,
respectively.
The Constitution replaced the
Articles of Confederation by which
the Inflated union of the thirteen
original states was held together
from 1T79 to 1889. The articles
vested no real authority in the COM
mon representatives Of the several
commemorative.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Meet the Issue Early

ECONOMIC imperialism is made
- of the same stuff. whether it
visualizes the whale trade or Nj
agara Falls as the most available
clover patch, and the public can
not protect itself without certain
amount of resistance.
The longer that resistance is post
poned the more extreme it is like
ly to become.
The wisest course is to meet the
issue before conditions become too
irritating.
If anything, we have postponed
consideration of the power problem
too long. have tried to think up
easy, short cut remedies, and have
evaded the obvious necessity of
shaping a policy that will cover its
ramificationS.
Right now, the public is so in
fatuated with hydro-electric power
that it can not seem to think of any
other kind, yet hydro-electric power,
if developed to its ultimate extent,
would supply only small portion
of the country's needs, especially N
years to come.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
SCIENCE
-RY DAVID DTETZ-
BY DAVID DIETZ-
A Diet Which Is Not Stuff
ciently Varied May Lack
Some Highly Important
Chemical Substance.
FAMOUS European biologists were

FAMOUS European biologists we're
L invited to this country to at
tend the annual meeting of the
American Chemical society last week
at the University of Minnesota.
The desire to have biologists as
we'll as chemists present at the
meeting arose from the present-day
realization that one of the most i'm
portant branches Of chemistry Is
human chemistry.
From many viewpoints the human
body is very complicated chenli-
cal factory. Health means the fac
tory is functisning properly. Ill
health means that some department
is not.
This point of view was recognized
at four sessions of the society's di-
vision of biological chemistry. These
were devoted to a discussion OF
vital Processes in Health and
Disease
Nutrition, vitamins, irradiation and
endocrinology are among the sub
jects of discussion.
A group of delegates from the In
ternational Congress of Physiology.
which recently ended its session at
Boston, took part in these discus
sionS.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Problem Solved

IN a sense, living on Staten island
Il solves one of life's most impor-
tant problems. Other toilers living
in the more accessible parts of the
metropolis go grudgingly to work.
No so the hardy pioneers from
coral reef To them the daily task
is no grind, but rather an escape.
You see them entering some Broad
way Office building with smiling,
shining faces. Written large upon
the countenance of each commuter
from the wilderness is the happy
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Questions and AnS0'erS

What is the value of United
States scent piece dated 1886?
Five to 7 cents.
What is the value of a United
States nickel Scent piece proof
coin, dated 1874?
Five to Is cents.
When was the picture Three
Weeks featuring Conrad Nagel and
Aileen Pringlc. first shown in In
dianapoliS? Was it shown at the
Ohio or Mr.. Smiths theater?
We are unable to ascertain the
exact date of the showing of Three
Weeks" 1t was at the Ohio.
What is a brother -in-law?
Funk e. Wagnalls New Standard
Dictionary gives the following def
nitions of brother -in-law: A hus-
bands brother, a wife's brother, a
sisters husband and, loosely in Eng
land and legally in the United
States, a wife's sisters husband.
What daily newspaper in the
United States has the largest circu-
lation?
The New York Daily News with a
daily circulation Of ,145, ,481.
Is there any difference in the
meaning of the words pupil and
student?
BY definition a student is per-
son engaged in a course of study.
especially one who attends and
studies at a high school, college or
seminary; an advanced scholar. A
pupil is a person under the care of
q teacher, ia the United States
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
TT generally has been assumed
Il, that the weight of the body is
related definitely to its health.
Height-weight tables have been
studied for years by physical exam
iners in colleges and by investiga-
tors for life insurance companies.
Within recent years examinations
have been carried on in schools and
children have been encouraged to
eat more or less. so they might
reach certain approximation of
weights to heights that were con-
sidered suitable for good health.
Professor c. E. Turner of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology recently has published con-
sideration of the subject which
points to the fact that the state
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17

pupil is used quite generally to de-
note a scholar in an elementary or
secondary school as distinguished
from student. scholar in an insti-
tuition Of higher learning.
Who is Mae A. Costello? Is she
now in motion pictures?
She is the mother of Dolores and
Helene Costello, motion picture
actresses. She. was divorced from
Maurice Costello, a veteran film
actor, Sept. 9, 1927. She is not now
appearing ir motion pictures.
What is the rainy season in Ger
many?
Rain falls there at all seasons,
and the heaviest rainfall, IS to 55
inches, is in the Harz mountains,
the Black Forest and Vosges noun
tains, ever the Bavarian highlands,
and in the mountain chains that
separate Germany from Bohemia;
the lightest rainfall is in the north
and middle zones of the north Ger
man plain, Is to "a inches, in Silesia
and the upper Rhine valley.
What was the name of the last
picture in which Fred Thompson
appeared.
Kit Carson"
Did Owen Moore appear with Lon
CLANCY in THE Road to Manaalay?"
Yes.
What does placebo mean?
1t is a term used in the Roman
Catholic church for the opening
ant,phone Of the vespers for the
dead. $50.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
1T SEEMS TO ME By hBR%3GO BRoUS

tion or inclination will be forced to
carry puppy biscuits, which will in
turn be split with the dog higher
up,
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-17
Might Be Troublesome

DUT within the built-up portions
ID of our town such surveillance
might be troublesome indeed. have
no wish to be confronted at 4 a. m.
some morning by a creature with
cleaning fangS and q stop signal
on his forehead.
The necessity of knowing how to
talk to policemen imposes ample
hardships upon the citizen as it is.
Must we now all become animal
trainers, as well?
1t may be that these new recruits
to the force have passed the neces-
sary mental tests with flying colors,
yet I am not at all certain that an
intelligent animal would be capable
of knowing at a glance that I was
a column conductor and not pants
burglar.
The whole thing suggests the
establishment of a new kind of
graft. Those of us who must keep
late hours because of our occupa-