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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25
REGISTRATION
IS ASKED FOR
STATE VOTERS
Bill introduced in House to
Be Effective in 1929
Elections.

Permanent registration of voters
is provided in a bill introduced to-
day in the house of representatives
by State Representative Zeola H
Misener of Michigan City. If passed
il viii go into effect for the 1925
city elections. The 1927 legislature
repealed the old registration law.
The bill provides that the books
are to be kept and that once hav-
ing registered in a coun, y it would
be unnecessary for a voter to
register again, as long as he is a
resident Of that county.
First registration would begin
July /, 1929, and continue until
within twenty-one days of the cleo
ton, and be resumed Nov. Is, 1929,
and continued until within twenty
one days before the 1880 primary.
Begin in December
Thereafter, registration periods
would begin the first secular day in
December in even numbered years
and continue until twenty-one days
before the primary.
Only voters whose names were not
on the registration books would be
required to reregister after the first
registation lists wee compiled.
.Photostatic copies of the signed
registrations blanks for each pre-
cinct would be given the election
inspectors for comparison at the
polls.
The proposed law also provides
that precinct changes be made at
the March session Of the county
commissioners and must be an
nounced Within ten days after the
session.
Any infringements of the pro-
posed law will be regarded as a
misdemeanor, punishable by 500
fine and Imprisonment not exceed
ing ninety days.
Street Bill introduced
Cities of the first call class unable
to pay the cost of street improve
ments from the general fund will be
empowered to issue municipal Ger
tificates of Indebtedness and the
city council will be authorized to
levy special taxes for the retirement
OF these certificates, bill intro
dgced today by State Representative
Thomas G. Bachelor of Indianapo-
lis provides.
Tie certificates would carry q
maximum interest rate Of 6 per cent
Annually. The bill, which applies
ON yto Indianapolis, IS declared
emergency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

make registration permanent. except
for change Of residence or failure to
vote in any two consecutive cleo
lions.
Other introductions included
measures to substitute the names of
candidates for president and vice.
president for those electors on bal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

lots and voting machines; to lower
from twenty-one years to eighteen
the age limit of persons permitted
to enter and play In poolrooms;
and to require full crews" On
trains. a measure supported by rail-
way labor
Measures favorabIy repoIfed by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

senate committees included the
resolution for constitutional
amendment permitting the legisla-
ture to levy an income tax and the
Holmes bill for appropriation OF
100000 for construction of a
psychiatric hospital in indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-25

Personal Hygiene. atisyours
fOrtheasking. Write Dept. S-44,
Lambert Pharmacal Company,
St. Louis, Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Mexico Will Embark
On Highway Program

From the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Mexico is starting a series of improve
ments which promise to be epochal The
government at the City of Mexico has a
highway construction plan to cover
period of five years and to involve the
expenditure of 100000 pesos. The
work is to start Immediately and run to
1894. Some of the most important
highways in the neighbor republic will
be constructed, or reconstructed, under
this plan.
The projected roads will open up rich
producing zones. Important regions of
Mexico, now isolated for lack of good
roads, will receive outlets. This most
surely will stimulate general economic
development in Mexico. The outlay of
so much money will add to the pros
perity Of the country. There will he
huge pay rolls. There will be heavy ex-
penditures for construction materials.
American capital will figure largely
in this extensive scheme of road con-
struction in the neighbor republic. And
the construction of trunk highways will
be beneficial to the United States and
Mexico, mutually, as they will be en-
abled to enlarge their highway traffic
across the international boundary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Heat from Frozen Rivers
Suggested by Scientist
RY e. FREE. PHI. ID

How useful power might be obtained
In cold countries like Siberia or North
ern Canada out of heat locked up in
frozen rivers was suggested recently to
the French Academy of Sciences in
Paris by M H. Barjot. Such streams
always freeze, M. Barjot reminded the
academy, from the top down. Usually
few feet of ice forms and protects
the water below, so that it never freezes
at all.i This looked-in water remains
all Winter at its freezing point or above.
which means that it may be 80 or 30
degrees hotter than the surface of the
ground and the average temperature of
the air.
The essential thing about a steam
engine or any other kind of heat en-
CINE is that it moves heat from hotter
place to a colder one and makes the
heat do work as it moves.
Why not move the heat of the i'm
priSoned water out into the colder air,
M. Barjot asks, and make it do work
just as steam does when it escapes from
the hot boiler into the relatively cold
air outside? Liquids boiling at very
low temperatures might be used to
boil by the heat of the buried water
and condense in the outside cold. Or
non-freezing brines, like those used in
artificial ice plants. might be circu-
lated underneath the ice in pipes to
collect the heat and bring it to the sur
face. Were its remaining heat thus
extracted, the water at the stream bot
toms might freeze solid, but it would
warm up and melt again In the Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Asthma Sufferers
To Wear Gas Masks

Gas masks for people who suffer from
hay fever or asthma are the newest in
vention of German medical science, de-
scribed at recent meeting of the Ber-
lin Medical Society by DR.. Eduard
Fraenkel of the Berlin University. Both
asthma and hay fever are believed by
physicians to belong to the long list of
diseases known as "allergies"
often caused by plant pollens or other
special kinds of dust in the air.
Pollen-proof rooms have been built,
supplied with pure air from. which ali
dust has been washed or filtered, but
such rooms are beyond the means of
any but the rich. For this reason, DIR.
Fraenkel, assisted by engineers of one
of the German manufacturers of war
gas masks, undertook to develop a gas
mask able to filter the poisonous pollen
out of the air just as poison gases are
removed. Although some of the grains
of pollen are less than a millionth of
an inch in diameter, the task of filter
ing these out of the air has been &C
complished so successfully, DR.. Fraenkel
reported, that the new masks give sub
stantial relief to sufferers from asthma,
many of whom are attacked at all sea-
sons of the years. Next Summer and
Fall, when the cloud of pollen brings
on the annual hay-fever season, the
new masks will be tried for that dis
order as well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

not yet learned to govern itself. But,
taking the world as 1t is, we believe
that it offers the only road to rea-
sonable security for our national
life."
Senator John j. Blaine. Republican
Progressive of Wisconsin, seems to be
a prophet without honor in his own
land. Within "a hours of his action
in flocking by himself and comprising
the minority of one vote against the
Kellogg pact, joint resolution was
offered in the State Senate and Assem-
bly, at Madison, condemning Blaine for
opposing ratification. The resolution
praises the treaty and "hastens to as
sure the Senate and people of the
United States that Senator Blaine'S lone
opposition vote does not reflect the SEN
timent of the other men and women
of Wisconsin on this question" "Young
Bob" La Toilette voted for ratification
1t isn't the only issue on which he and
Blaine fail to see eye to eye. Now and
then Blaine is credited with a longing
to dethrone the La Toilette dynasty In
Wisconsin and himself seize the scepter.
X Y y
Senator Bronson Cutting, Republican,
of New Mexico, recently reelected, has
just been honored by fellow alumni of
his alma mater, Harvard University,
with nomination to the Harvard board
of overseerS. He is one of 10 candidates
for six available trusteeships to be filled
in June by vote of graduates. Cutting,
a Long Islander by birth, was gradu-
ated at Cambridge with the class of
1910, emerging with Phi Beta Kappa
honors.
(Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Faithful Handling of
Bankruptcy Cases
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
According to Julius Henry Cohen,>
chairman of the American Bar Associ-
atoms subcommittee on bankruptcy,
receiverships in bankruptcy here and
in the United States generally are
mostly political patronage" If that
be fact, to state 1t is comment severe
enough. 1t seems, however. that in
Chicago and Detroit it Is the custom
to make trust company receiver. The
six Federal judges of the southern dis
trict of New York have agreed to fol-
low that method here. They set about
this work, Judge Knox says, before
the disappearance of a political receiver
here had brought about the disclosure
of shocking betrayal of trust and set
a grand jury to investigating the So
called bankruptcy receiver"
The agreement of the judges con-
templates the gradual transfer to one
institution, as its organization for the
purpose becomes more complete, of all
cases in bankruptcy. The amount of
bankruptcy assets is so great that the
receivers fee. If not reduced, might
seem excessive: and if the receiver
designates itself as repository, that
Still, it is said that other trust COM
panies, approached on the subject,
manifested no large enthusiasm; and
it may be an advantage to have the
business put in one place, where the
most efficient specialized machinery
has been built up. In any case, trust
company Is responsible and continuous
and the creditors may be sure that
their interests are honestly and faith
fully attended to.
Doubtless there will be heartburn
ings among some lawyers. If the re-
ownership business looks fat enough
political influence" will be exerted in
favor of other trust companies. At any
rate, the new arrangement will choke
off the opportunities of fraud which
now exist. The judges had to deal with
the situation without waiting, long and
vainly. perhaps, for Congress to legis-
late away what Is holy, as a vessel of
patronage, to the politician. They must
have followed for the last four or five
years the efforts. originating in the
Merchants Association and supported
by the local bar associations and the
American Bar Association, for the ap-
pointment of official receivers, salaried
and having no finger in commissions
or fees.
This is the practice that works so
well in England. There would also be
an official auditor to examine and SUI
pervise each transaction. The proposed
salaries are $4,000 year. 1t will be
promptly objected that the Government
can't get good men" for that money.
It does get lot of good men" for that
and less. But will patronage" be alb
sent from the appointment of these re-
ceivers, If they are ever appointed?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Dual Control Piano
Is Aid to Students

Borrowing an idea from the dual con-
trolls now used to instruct beginning
airplane pilots, a German inventor has
devised dual control piano, by which
the piano-teacher can play side by side
with the pupil, correcting the learners
mistakes even before they happen. An
ordinary piano Is used by the learner.
Beside this stands a device resembling
the keyboard of another piano, but with
the rest of that instrument missing.
Here the teacher sits.
This detached keyboard contains cleo
trio switches communicating, through
a many-wired cable, with devices in
side the real piano used by the pupil.
Whenever the teacher presses one of
the keys Of the electric keyboard, that
key of the real piano Is struck cleo
trically. The teacher allows the pupil
to play In the usual manner so long
as everything goes well. But If the
pupil makes mistake or if the teacher
wishes to illustrate some different way
of playing, it Is possible to take the
controls" and play the passage In what
ever manner Is desired. Similarly, the
pupil can play oYeF. q passage imme-
diately after 1t has been played by
the teacher, without the necessity OF
changing places On the stool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
A Menace to Navigation.

Several years ago the American Gov
eminent, in recognition of the increas-
ing traffic in the Atlantic between the
Florida coast and the westernmost
TANKS of the Bahamas, asked permis-
sion from Great Britain to place light
ship off the Matsnilla Shoal, a danger
our reef lying somewhat less than fifty
miles from the mainland and constitut-
ing dangerous obstruction to naviga-
ton. The channel between Matanilla
and Florida is one of the most crowded
in the Western world, accommodating
all the coastwise traffic Of the sea,
which in late years has grown tremen-
dously. While there is room enough in
calm weather to allow all the ships
that traverse these waters to elect
safe course without crowding the shores
or the reefs, this very margin of security
has its perils, as has just been illustrat-
ed by mishap, fortunately without
tragedy. A ship on its way from New
York to the West Coast, and thence
around the world, with Havana as the
next objective port, taking an easterly
route rather than a westerly around the
bulge" of Florida above Palm Beach,
failed, owing to poor visibility, to pick
up the small light buoy that gives
guide to the position of Matanilla Reef,
and until sighting Jupiter Light could
not know her exact position. On getting
that position it was found that the
small buoy had been passed, and then a
change of course was ordered for cor
rection and the ship hit the reef and
grounded.
The British government refused the
United States the permission requested
for the placing of a lightship at this
dangerous point. The work would not
have entailed expense upon the British.
The United States could not place this
guide to navigation without the consent
OF the London government. So the reef
has gone unmarked except for the
small light buoy which, as this latest
accident demonstrates, can easily be
missed in the murk of thick weather or
the height of seas in storm.
Luckily no lives are lost in conse-
quence OF this misfortune. But the
case should nevertheless be the cause
OF repeated effort by this Government
to secure a better lighting of the Ba-
hama Channel, which is yearly growing
IN use and which must be made more
secure. 1t is hardly conceivable that
Great Britain will again refuse, and 1t
may be that inasmuch as the area In
question is strictly within its own juris-
diction 1t will undertake at its own ex-
pense the desired lighting Of a point
that is a grievous menace to naviga-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21

cost the Federal Government should
bear, it is obvious that for proper
planning of the new municipal center,
for economy In the cost of the site, the
entire area should be acquired at once.
The Federal building program in the
triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue
would Immediately boost the value of
Abe squares on the north side of the
Avenue. The widening and straighten-
ing of B street which will run past the
municipal center site, and which is to
be one of the most attractive boule-
wards in the world within a very few
years, and the new broad avenue from
Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue
at Second street, would all enhance the
value of the Avenue property between
Third and Sixth streets.
The cost should not be allowed to
against the District taxpayers,
The entire site should be taken for a
municipal center, and if 1t is to be
taken it should be acquired at the one
time, and not taken in bites. It can
be acquired now much more cheaply
than in a few years.
House Leader .Tilson has promised
that time will be granted in the House
for any District legislation that should
be acted upon quickly. The legislation
Tor the new municipal center is urgent.
II promptly passed the money can be
made available in the deficiency ap-
preparation bill, before the present
Congress expires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Real Responsibility on
Minority. Party

From the Roanoke WorldNews.
Speaking over the radio, former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith of New York made an
able plea for Democratic party solidarity
and for continuous party effort. The
burden Of his argument was that the
party should function as a party at all
times, not merely during the heat of
presidential campaigns. Outlining his
view of the function and duty of a
minority party, he advocated the OPEN
ing of permanent Offices, with a COM
petent staff, for examination of public
measures and for the dissemination of
party information. To get up a new
party organization a few months before
a presidential election each four years
is not only costly, but results in the
use OF amateurs where experience is
needed. Illustrating by the proposal to
amend the tariff law at the coming
special session of Congress, Gov. Smith
suggested that such an Office could
analyze the proposals for changes in
the tariff schedules in the light of the
Democratic party viewpoint, and keep
the country informed as to the extent
to which the country is departing from
democratic principles.
The argument for two-party sys-
tenn is now we'll established in State
and Nation, whether the minority party
be the Republican party in. the State
or the Democratic party in the Nation.
In either case there is real RESPONSE
bllity resting on the minority not to
block progress by carping criticism and
inaction, but to examine critically the
proposals of the majority, and see how
they accord with the established prin-
ciples on which both Government and
parties have been established.
In a country as large and as diversi-
fed as the United States, it is almost
impossible to conduct campaign of
education in party principles during the
heat and personalities of a presidential
campaign. The opportunity the for
mer Democratic candidate points out
for bringing before the people of this
country the true principles of democracy
throughout the years. and not just at
election time, is too valuable to be
longer overlooked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21

with literature, have read more than
two or three of ZolaS more famous
stories, including Mana" and 1.-THE
Dram Shop?
1t is precisely because lola, who he
was, what he wrote and what he &C
complished, is not as well known as he
| ought to be, that Mr.. Josephson has &C
complished true piece of biography.
While not disdaining the tricks of the
so-called new biography" with its
avowed intent to show the souls of men,
Matthew Josephson is not content with
the newer methods, but falls back on
i, the old time-tried devices which have
done duty since Plutarch wrote.
The total result is biography which
will at once delight the searcher after
the new as we'll as the believer in the
old. One trick which we are particu-
larly pleased that Mr.. Josephson did not
use is the present verb tense.
Since Ludwig set that style, and the
public seemed to take to 1t, some of our
biographical writers perforce have imi-
tated him, so that all we get today is
They are sitting around the table," and
''She wonders what is happening" and
"He goes to the window" etc.
The plain truth is that Napoleon"
was success not because of this man.
nerism, but despite it. The proper
historical manner. when dealing with
the past, is to write in the past. That
seems plain enough. A certain super
fetal sense of movement, pep" or
what you will, is created by the use of
the present tense, but the past tense
wears better.
''Zola and His Time" above all, is a
history of zola's books. They are all
here, every one he wrote, not only in
themselves and for themselves, but in
relation to the man and the times and
to men and the times.
Mr.. Josephson achieves the distinction
of putting all Paris and all France on
paper along with Zola's novels. There
Is everywhere in this book a sense of
values, feeling of actuality; the move
ments of mobs is shown as calmly and
authoritatively as the movements of lit
erary ups-and-downs and the likes
and dislikes of the hero
Somehow, one comes from this book
with new regard for both lola and his
native land. The French temperament,
such a puzzle to many Americans, is
here shown in action, so that an Amer
lean comes to understand why a French
man is Frenchman.
Those for whom there Is no other
literature quite so striking or entertain
ing as the French will understand bet
ter, after finishing "zola and His Time -
why this is true for them.
They will learn to know the writer,
unafraid either of himself or others or
of what his own conscience might whis-
per to him later. or of what the yawp-
ing mouths of others might yell at him.
lola persevered on his gigantic way.
He had books to write and he was 60
ing to write them. How he did it Mr..
Josephson explains without deifying his
subject or looking down on him.
We get here the portrait of a man,
and this portrait explains both the soul
and body of the man. What more can
a biography do?
''Zola and His Time" is one of the
satisfactory books which leave the read
err with the feeling that he has been
told all there Is to be told In a fair,
conscientious and interesting manner
Now he knows zola-and his time.