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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Hoover Takes Proper Stand

The country is pleased that the President intends
ITO establish national commission to study and
report upon the whole OF our prohibition enforcement
system and the difficulties arising out of its technicali-
ties its circlmlocutions its involved procedures, and
too often. I regret, from inefficient and delinquent
officials"
The country will applaud his pledge systematically
to strengthen its law enforcement agencies week by
week month by month. year by year not by dramatic
displays and violent attacks in order to make head
lines not by violating the law itself through misuse
of the law in its enforcement but by steady pressure
But when all that tremendous task is accomplished,
what then? What then. If a very large mnority-or
perhaps maiorty-of citizens believe that the pro
hbition law is UNJUST and crle-breeding? The best
law enforcement machinery and best legal system in
the world can not the long run make free citizens
respect law they sincerely disrespect
And that is the rub For as the President himself
stressed in his inaugural address: There would be
little traffic in Illegal liquor if only criminals patron
lied it," The enforcement problem is not the boot
logger but what the President called this large
patronage from large numbers OF law-abidng
citizens"
To tell these large numbers of lawabiding citi-
zcns as the President does that mo individual has
the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and
what law shall not be enforced is good logic; but 1t
has been used ccaseesly for several years without
checking the increase in the numbers disregarding
the prohibition law.
Doubtless one reason this appeal does not check
drinking is that citizens are accustomed to the non
enforcement Of other and older blue laws. Or again.
in the south the constitutional rights of the Negro
are abridged quite openly as in the north injunction
Judges have violated the legal rights OF labor.
In practice then, this country and this government
long has been accustomed to multiplying laws without
formally repeating them.
Whether we approve or not that kind OF nullhca
ton of the prohibition law IS apt to continue so long
as such large numbers OF law-abidng citizens oppose
the law on what is them moral and constitutional
grounds.
In one part of his New York address the President
does touch the social and psychological factors If
a law is wrong," he says. its rigid enforcement IS
the SureSt guaranty OF its repeal
For that reason the vets. no less than the drys
should welcome the enforcement reforms which the
President promises. If the experiment stand on
its record it will come to be respected and obeyed
part of the law OF the land But if 1t fais-wel that
should be the end of the experiment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Listen to Mabel

NUITE definitely the tide has
~ turned against the savagery OF
Volsteadism within few biref
months. Some celebration should
be made over the fact that no less
flrebrand of the faith than Mabel
Walker Willebrandt has turned null
lifcationiSt.
Don't take it on my say-so, but
consider what she said in recent
set of instructions to public prose-
cutors about the Jones act.
In order that this new legislation
may be given a fair trial" SAID
Mabel, 1T is suggested that you use
wise discretion as to the character
Of cases in which you seek indict-
ments for violation coming within
its purview.
only good, strong cases involving
commercialism should be made the
basis for these initial tests"
And in that same document Mabel
continued: Isolated violations, cases
in which the evidence renders con-
viction doubtful, and cases in which
the offenses are Of such minor char
acter as do not in your judgment
warrant more than twelve
month sentence, should, if practi-
cable. be prosecuted by criminal in
formation upon charge of posses
sion, common nuisance or other
misdemeanor charge under the ma
tional prohibition act"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

TIE student of physics will recognize that this is
an application of the well-knoWn law which states
that force is equal to multiplied by the square
Of the velocity
The pressure eXerted by ten-mile breeze at ordl-
nary ar density about OPT pounds per square foot
The pressure exerted by ffty-mile gale is SIS
pounds per square foot.
That means, therefore that when you step into
fty-mile gale it is equivalent to being struck by
very considerable force.
The pressure of the wind varies with temperature.
Cold air is heavier than warm air. Consequently a
wind of given velocity will exert more pressure IN
winter than it will in summer.
In the northern hemisphere March is the Stormlest
month of the year.
Records do not bear out the old adage that if
March comes in like lion it will 60 out like lamb.
But March can always be expected to furnish both
lon-like and lanlb-like weather.
Occasionally the ion-like weather hangs on into
April and storms quite any in March may
occur at the start Of April.
In March, the Arctic regions reach their lowest
temperature. The is just starting to rise there
while on the other hand, the southern regions are
warming rapidly. These differences in temperature
accelerate the usual general circulation Of the air be-
tween the polar and equatorial regions and as rule
stormy winds therefore likely to be preva-
lent.
But the storms of March Gle away April
progresses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Times Readers
Voice ViezUs

Editor Times-Recent develop
ments in the prohibition fight tend
to show the futility not to say
idiocy, Of the whole proceeding.
Prohibition does not prohibit, as has
been demonstrated amply during
the last nine years. Witness the
declaration Of New York's police
commissioner to the effect that pro-
hibition is the prolific cause Of all
the terrorism in New York and
racketeering in every other place.
AS the "martyr''to a lost cause says:
We need money and lots Of it to
fight the rum demon"
Does it not occur to the man who
quit the souI-saving business to en-
gage in more lucrative employment
that money and money alone will
not affect materially the net re-
suit, namely, that the sovereign
people of the United States have
been buncoed long enough by the
1ong-faced hypocrite@that they
will rise en- maSse as the people of
Wisconsin did, and demand simple
justice.
And they will get it, too. for all
the indications point that way, and
the dry as bone people unconscious
" are all Fastening that happy day
by their brutal and Ill advised en-
forcement tactics.
p. H. TRAVERS,
$40 East Ohio street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Pass An Anti.Iniunction Bill

The special session OF congress should pass the bill
limiting the Use OF federal court injunctions againS
striking workmen to be rcntroduced by Senator Nor
riS OF Nebraska
To be sure the injunction judges in our federal
courts have been less active of late. Not for six
months have We heard OF injunction forbidding
workmen to meet in their church and sing hymns or
TO consult their attorney find out their legal rights
under pain OF Jail sentence
But injunctons containing these grotesque prohbi-
tions have been issued in the past and not so far in
the past either.
Probably such nlunctions are not being issued
now because this an era Of comparative labor peace
with the exception Of certain southern regions. The
injunction Judge Will be the job again when a
certain class Of employers feel they need him to pre-
serve law and order
OutrageS perpetrated by these judges had grown
so offensive year or SO ago that labor representa-
tives introduced a bill to end them. 1t was very
simple bill 1t prohibited judges from issuing writs
of injunction except protect tangible and trans
ferable" property.
1t too simple and too sweeping. 1t would have
affected many other situations than those involved in
strikes and it probably would have been thrown out
by the first court to rule upon it.
To meet this situation, Norris called in half a
dozen Of the best lawyers in the country. Together
they drafted bill which in essence charter Of
the rights OF employer and enpoye. protecting the
latter in his right to organize and TO reap the fruits
of that organization through peaceful yet
tecting employers from illegal force violence.
This bill would fulfill tse pledge made jointly by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
HEALTH SERVICE

terror Obviously, removal Of the
hair can have little if anything, to
90 with the general strength of the
body.
The most simple and direct evil
denCe of this is the fact that pugil-
lists usually have their hair cut be-
fore engaging in a major contest
and that conyicts have their hair
cut regularly before beginning their
leisurely occupation of breaking
stone.
The hair is cut, however, in the
latter case to prevent the develop
ment of insects and vermin not i'll
frequently associated with the crimi-
nal class.
Other curious OLD superstitions,
also dating back to the infancy Of
the race, have to do with children
wetting the bed They are, in al
most every instance, symbolical
magic.
Thus they have to do with dreams
Of running water, of Niagara Falls,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
80 -
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| ANNIVERSARY
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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
April "a

THIRTY ONE years ago today
l. Spain declared war on the
United States in answer to resolu-
tions adopted by congress, recog-
nizing the independence OF the Gu
ban republic.
These resolutions adopted on April
10, 1893, the anniversary Of the bat
tie Of Lexington, the start OF the
Revolutionary war, and Of the first
bloodshed of the Civil war on the
streets Of Baltimore, were in effect
declarations Of war on Spain.
As soon as they had been ap-
proved by the President April 20.
the Spanish minister asked for his
passports, thus severing diplomatic
relations. The following day, the
American minister. to Spain lett
Madrid.
On April "A came SPANS formal
declaration Of war to create an en-
thusiastic patriotic sentiment in
America. War had been expected
since the sinking Of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor in the
middle Of February. A tragedy in
which 260 members Of the crew losy
their lives,
This crisis was always regarded
as the start Of difficulties with Spain
and gave rise to the cry Remember
the Mainel'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
No Fear or Favor

DUT what now becomes Of Presi-
ID dent Hoovers statement in his
inaugural address that all laws
must be enforced to the hilt while
they are on the statute books?
And would it not be we'll for him
to go into a huddle with Mabel
concerning his other contention that
an official may not pick and choose
which laws to press and which to
ignore?
Again I want to know what be-
comes now Of that scream Of
treason" which was raised against
the Coudert committee of young
lawyers who undertook an organiza-
ton to protect citizens from ex-
cessive punishment under the pro-
visions Of law breathing the spirit
Of the Dark Ages.
And may I digress TO point out
how low is mercy fallen in this day
OF the Methodist oligarchy? Is this
a sweet age Of reaSonablenesS and
brotherhood when the assistant at
torney general refers lightly to one
year in jail as a tender concession
to minor offenders?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

A METHODIST minister who as
"A sumed the right to speak for
his church just has issued a chal-
lenge to American ideas Of govern
ment which should not be allowed
to pass unanswered. Substituting
for Dr. Clarence True Wilson, the
Rev. J. E. Skillington said before a
conference in Connecticut:
rs there anything after the last
election that any one would dare
say the church can not do?"
I dare. Let me tell DR.. Shilling
ton that no church permanently can
set up a dictatorship over secular
affairs in this country. The board
of temperance prohibition and pub
lie morals is not the first little oil
garchic group to say in its own
way, the public be damned"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
HEALTH SERVICE
Cutting Hair Won't Impair Strength

of flowing streams and similar con-
ceptionS.
The motion that playing with
matches or fire will lead inevitably
to an involuntary action Of the
chiIds bladder during sleep is, no
doubt, related to the idea that
dreams go by opposites.
This idea is not entirely without
scientific foundation, since the FTou-
dean Interpretation Of dreams pro-
vides that one obtains in dreams
the things that he wishes for in the
waking state and that not infre-
Quently the inhibition Of these
wishes or their suppression, since
they are frequently opposed to nor
NAL standards Of conduct, cause the
dream to be the opposite OF the
thing actually desired.
Any one with a logical mind
therefore should be able to see the
relationship between playing with
fire and the condition Of failure OF
bladder control that physicians call
enuresis nocturna.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
No Respect for Voters

VXTHO is this so-called man of
wv God who says that no one may
presume to challenge the authority
of his church? 1t is not set down
in the Constitution that we should
be ruled by house and senate and
over them a board Of bishops.
Nor can it justly be said that the
good doctor is referring to the last
election merely as tribute to the
force Of majority opinion. The en-
battled prohibitionists have no re-
spect whatever for the will Of the
voters. In Wisconsin they are try
ing to thrust aside the clear man
date given in the last special cleo
ton
Indeed. Mr.. Skillington has at
least the virtue of frankness, though
it may be mere audacity. In the
same speech he said in effect that
as far as he and his associates went,
the government could go to hell if
only prohibition were preserved.
I'VE have no interest in either
party" said Dr.. Sklllington, and
nothing against them unless they
get in the way of this child of the
church. If they do we don't care
what name they are called, We will
trample them under foot and de-
stroy them forever"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Power of Pride

THE debt parley appears to have
4 broken down 1t is another case
Of experiences Succumbing to human
nature.
The adding machines may have
worked all right, but pride could
not stomach the result.
The Germans demanded less be-
cause they thought they could get
it. The allies demanded more fOr
precisely the same reason.
1t was q question Of immovable
stubbornness. meeting irresistible
obstinacy, though if anything, the
allies showed a greater willingness
to compromise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
OiSarn Now? Maybe

TINE Hoover administration bids
u for another disarmament con-
ference with Europe applauding,
while our irreconcilahles made wry
faces.
A large section Of this country
obviously is against any co-opera-
tive movement which requires con-
ceSSiOn
That being so, it might be just as
we'll to give the topic little rest.
Before we can get the world to
agree on a program of disarmament,
we should find a way to agree
among ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Mabel Turns Tender
DUT I think Mabers heresy We.

DUT 1 think Mabel's heresy very
ID profound and also proper. If
a public prosecutor has a right to
say, L will apply this statute only
upon occasion and with due dis
cretion,' then it is not unthinkable
that the same prosecutor shall say,
"As matter of fact, I will not
apply it at all"
After ALL this much-belabored
word "nullifcationist" should be
happily seized upon as a very gal
liant banner we'll worth fighting for,
no matter what Methodist horde6
shout out blood-curdling war cries.
The theory of notification is that
mankind is more than law and that
if a provision fails in any particular
instance to make good sense, then
the law should be scrapped, and not
the human being.
Copyright, 1929. for The Tincsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Tran1DIing on Add0rS

DUT when the training begins
Id these self-appointed guardians
of public morals may find that they
walk on jagged glass and singing
adders.
The citizens Of America are not
yet fat grapes to make a feeble
squish and liquefy under the heavy
heels Of Methodist high-steppers.
There are those among us who feel
that this child Of the church is a
soualling brat. We would take away
his playthings.
The sun and moon are not to be
his simply because he cries for them.
Nor is it reasonable that the bill
of rights should be handed over to
this babe in arms to be cut into
mooley COWS for his infantile salts
faction. In fact, if that kid does
not quit his caterwauling there will
be laid appropriately upon him the
heavy and rhythmic hand of chas-
tisement.
In his first formative years there
was, perhaps, some excuse for this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Putting Over Fool Laws

HAVING proved effective in the
l. Il material market, advertising
grows popular in the moral market.
Most everybody believes in it ex-
cept the doctors.
An inter-church committee is
formed in New York to sell religion
with printers ink and bill boards,
while the w. c. T. u, blessed with
an appropriation of $4,000 made, by
the federal government, proposes
to dry up the nation with slogans.
Slogans are all right when it
comes to starting a drive, or selling
cosmetics. They have enabled cru
saders to put over more than one
fool law and they might help make
it stick.
Nothing illustrates the impossible
gulf which separates them like the
fact that we think of prohibition as
a matter of wisecracks, while we
admit that temperance is a matter
of maxim and precept.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

HAVING made a survey of Of
Il l. fetal marriage and divorce
records, committee Of Michigan
clergymen finds that there were
100000 marriages as compared to
$4,000 divorces in the United States
during the year 1927. or an average
of one divorce to each 81 marriages.
Women average two years OF
married life before applying for
divorce while men stand it for three,
Among the extreme and repeated
cruelty" grounds, cited in divorce
suits. the following complaints are
noted:
One man left his false teeth lying
on the buffet; one picked his teeth
with a penknife; one snored; one
refused to wax his mustache; one
forgot the date of his mother-in-
laws birthday and one persisted in
wearing Spats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeis, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
1T is remarkable the superstition
h that cutting the hair will dim
inish the strength and the growth
of child has persisted among man
kind from the earliest times.
Everyone knows the legend of
Samson and DelIlah and how the
giant Hebrew warrior finally was
overcome by the Philistines after
the young woman to whose bland
ishments he had succumbed ar
ranged to cut away his curly locks
That story in one form or another
is to be found among the fables OF
many aboriginal tribes today. The
truth of the matter is that such q
conception arises only in ignorance.
The hair is merely a horniied
growth of tissue. the same as the
skin. Hair cells lie within the skin
and project this growth to the ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Sn1aShuD of Marriage

MORE marriages are going to
lF1 smash. more homes are being
broken up and more children are
losing the benefit of united family
life in this era of boosted prosperity
than ever before.
OptimiSts console themselves by
calling it a new day of self-eXpres-
sion.
Maybe they are right, but the diff
ference between self-eXpression and
selfshness is often too slight for
identification.
A bad case of the "gimmes' eX-
plains much Of the revolt against
old conventions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
WHATEVER the facts may be,

WHATEVER the facts may be,
Wv John F. Curry's election as
leader Of Tammany Hall generally
will be interpreted as a victory for
Mayor Jimmy Walker and a defeat
for Ex-Governor Smith.
This can have but one effect from
the standpoint of national politics,
and that is to shrivel Tammsny'S
influence.
Ex-Governor Smith elevated Tam
many Hall not only to position OF
influence in the Democratic party,
but to a position of such respect as
It had never enjoyed before.
1t would be presuming on the flu
ture to say that Mayor Walker could
not duplicate the feat, but he would
have to go a great deal farther than
he has and create a very different
expression In the public mind,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
TyrannicaI Virtue

THE deadly law Of compensation
i still plaques human progress.
AS we make Roadway in one di =
rection. we seem to lose ground in
another.
Prohibition finds its most vivid re-
Election in a crime wave ana di-
vorce increases as the nations talk
peace.
Virtue can not become tyrannical
without breeding resentment; neith-
er can men become too brCadminded
Withcut growing shallow in spots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
scented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

W in d does not
vary in proportion
to the volume, but
in proportion to
the square of the
volume.
Therefore, a
ffty-mile win d
eXerts twenty five
times as m u C h
pressure as a ten
mile wind. (The
square of ten is
100. The square
of fifty is $500,
Dividing $500 by
100 gives twenty
hVe.O
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
Market for Reforn1erS

OBVIOUSLY, there IS still much
" room left for improvement
Whatever else our economic and
mechanical progress may have
achieved, it has not destroyed the
market for reform movements; nor
does the need go begging for lead
ers very long.
EXPERIENCES and specialization have
found no such clover patch as the
shortcomings of humanity.
Whether it is farm relief, world
peace, agnosticism, the divorce evil,
or English for the foreign born, you
can depend on some genius pop
ping up with an idea at so much
per.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

What was the nationality of Ea-
mon de Valera's parents?
His father was Spanish and his
mother Irish. De Valera was born
in New York sNd now lives In
Dublin. Ireland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
1T SEEMS TO ME By HB BrooH

infant nuisance. His destructiveness
may have been regarded as cute.
But it isn't funny any more. He
should be put to bed without his
supper. The neighbors are begin
ming to be annoyed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
David Dietz on Scienc'

No. 337

A STRONG wind is felt much more than weak
n wind because of the rapidity with which the
pressure eXerted by the wind increases.
1t would appear at first glance that wind blowing
fifty miles hour. would exert five times as much
pressure as a wind blowing ten miles an hour.
This is not the case for the pressure eXerted by a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24

the Republican platform and by President Hoover to
pass legislation to limit the Of njunctions The
present period Of comparatively peaceful industrial
relations is the proper time to discuss and pass such
bill temporarily and without heat that it may be
the law when needed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-24
DAILY THOUGHT

A soft answer turneth away
wrath; but grievous words stir up
anger.-PrOv. 1871.
THERE is no calamity which
l. right words will not begin to
redress. -EmerSon.