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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
PAY Dirt Already

The senate lobby investigation committee has
struck pay dirt already. It is showing up attempts
made by the pottery industry to bully and browbeat
tariff commission experts whose figures did not sup
port the industrys demand for higher tariffs.
Letters we're written to President Hoover and Sec
rotary Mellon demanding removal of Frederick L.
KOCH the commissions pottery expert Both manu-
acturers and representatives of the organized pot
terry workers called on the commission to subdue
Koch
81 thought the commission should call Koch in and
instruct him to remain neutral and unbiased" testi-
fed William Burgess, who has represented the pot
terry people in every tariff fight since 1894, for
the four years he member of the tariff commits
sion by appointment of President Harding.
Neutral and unbiased" apparently meant that
Koch should confne his activities to giving informa
ton to senators interested getting higher rates.
Such lobby activities reprehensble If every
government empoye who takes action disliked by
special interests is to be subjected to threats of los
ing his job the inevitable result will be loss of morale
in the government service.
The tariff commission should have resented the
demands of the lobbyists. Instead, the testimony
shows about the only thing it did was to inform
Koch of the charges against him. The effect his
state of mind as a government expert might have
been disastrous
Too much of the tariff commissions record for
the last seven years is of inefhciency and
pliance with demands for higher tariffs Almost all
this is due to pressure from the lobby. The senate
committee has aided in showing how this lobby
works
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
REASON By Fh hzSB1S

TIE PAW university at GreencaStle refused to put
- horned toad in the corner stone of new reci-
tation hall.
If De Paw has any teachers like some of those
at other universities she should put professor in
the corner stone and put the toad in the faculty.
Great Britain has selected the warships she will
scrap this proposed vepower conference declares
for naval reduction.
It's an even bet that some of them were in the
fleet Nelson commanded at the battle of Trafalgar
The senate voted down Filipino independence, but
if didn't have them it's not likely that senator
would vote to acquire them.
Mckinley anticipated their acquisition when urged
to make war on SPAIN saying: 1--WE can defeat Spain,
but nobody knows where war will end"
THAT war not handed to the people by the pol
l. iticians, but by the people to the politicians
Mckinley did all he could to avoid it, as did Speak
Reed of the house of representatives and the lead
ers of the senate, but the popular demand
wheming.
Youth is wonderful but when it comes to celebrat-
ing Halloween every night in October, it's the least
bit overdone We should return to the old custom and
pour all the devilment into two nights.
Since she has lost out in Rumania, Queen Marie
should return to the United States and complete that
tour she was forced to abandon.
She owes it to the fellows who bought plug hats
in which to receive her. for they never will have an
other opportunity to them.
With the world series over, there should be a
game between the fellows who wrote the baseball ar
cles that were signed by the Athletics and the fell
lows who wrote the stories that signed by the
Cubs.
nR. JAMES BREASTED celebrated Psychologist,
II states that the inscriptions on the tombs along
the Nile indicate that mans conscience was born
about 1000 years ago.
However that may be, quite few of the human
race got the thing under perfect control soon after it
arrived
Last year Marion Taley. the grand opera war
bier. told all OF us that she going to give Broad
way the air and spend the rest of her life on Kansas
farm but she is discovered living in New York.
Possibly she gave agriculture the once over and
decided that when it to notes. she would rather
sing them than renew them.
And Mrs. John Coolidge is going to write for
the magazines
How in the world can anybody expect John to re-
main an honest Woodworking railroad when
his father mother and his wife actually are market
ing their produce for so much world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
F. F. SIosson

In the death Of Edward Emery Slosson, America
has sustained great loss.
Perhaps the most striking aspect Of our life to-
day is the rapidity and variety Of scientific dis
coveres and mechanical inventions Quite as aston
ishing however as the progress of science and inven
ton is the ignorance of even the lterate populace
regarding these matters.
A host Of scientists and engineers continually
at work to carry on discovery and to make its ap
plication 10 industry Few indeed are engaged in
clarifying and humanizing this knowledge, so that
the man on the street may know the why and where
fore OF the marvellous and changing world about him.
Moreover. the second task requires more rare and
diversified gifts than straight research.
DR.. slosson was our foremost popularizer of sci
entihc achievement It will be hard to replace him.
We i'll can afford to dispense with his useful services
A research scientist of repute, he was possessed
Of rare powers Of lucid and concise statements His
creative chemistry" marked epoch in interpreting
science to the laymen 1t became one Of the best
sellers during literary seasons.
He next proceeded to organize Science Service
founded by E. W Scrpps the first systematic effort
to keep the public up to date the progress Of
science.
DR.. Slosson was not only ndefatigabe worker
in behalf of scientific education He ever alert
batler for intellectual freedom Among other things
he took an active part in the Scopes defense 1t was
he who raised the fund whereby Scopes able to
cor nue. his scientific studies at the University of
Chicago
In all ways DR.. Slosson one Of our most
ereditable and helpful citizens His passing will be
deplored by all friends of enlightenment and toler-
ance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
The A. F. of l.. Acts

~Anidst an outpouring of enthusiasm seldom
equaled at similar conventions the delegates 10 the
annual convention of the American Federation OF La
Dor today responded to the call of the southern tex
tile workers and voted to help finance the movement
in the south and to form plans for organizing the
southern workers, regardless of craft or calling &C
cording to dispatch from Toronto
This is good news
Fxplaining this new enthusiasm, one delegate said
the federation had needed proddng.
Criticism by the ScrippS- Howard newspapers and
Others calling upon the federation for more action
in the south-resented by some A. F. OF L. members
was gentle prodding compared with the ptitul ap-
peas for help from the southern workers themselves
Reports on conditions of industrial slavery and
violence suffered by the southern mill workers, and
the Staying of strikers by sherifs were so terrible
that the convention had no further hes1tancy IN
voting for a million dollar" drive.
The average textile wage in the south was repc1teo
as 50 SO for a 54-hour week.
1--WE need salt pork flour. clothes and protection
for evcted families; also need competent lawyers to
give us all possible protection" was the plea OF the
local union in Marion, N. c., six of whose members
have been murdered
It is tragic that such plea from those isolated
A. F. of L. members, fighting alone should have to
be made at this late day.
But It is a fine thing that the federation Is
aroused 1t obviously is the logical organization "
do the Job The mere passing Of resolutions, how
ever is only the start. Money must be raised Ac-
ton must follow words.
And in it's action the A. F. Of L. Will have the
support of all Americans believing in the constitu-
tonal rights Of labor and in prosperous fair and
peaceful American industry.
President Greer of the federation after describing
the proposed drive, said:
"Then we will have answered those who say that
for years we have neglected the south"
President Green is right. That indeed Is the only
answer to crtics-action will dspel charges OF mac
ton.
But, vastly more important, action by the A F.
of L. will answer the demand Of the workers them
selves That is what counts. The A. F. OF L. need
not worry much about the opinions OF outsiders even
Of its friends 1t will stand or fall by the Judgment
OF the workers who are calling to it for help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Make Public the Report

Agents of the department of commerce have in
vestigated the wreck of the Transcontinental Air
Transport Company's plane the City of San Fran
cisco, which caused eight Deaths and have submitted
a report to Secretary Lamont.
Lamont refuses to make the report public He
says his department has the protection in reporting
accidents that is given the interstate
mission, which determines the causes of all railroad
wrecks. Lamont further indicates Discrimination to
make such reports public though given such pro-
lection.
Why this secrecy in an accident to common
carrier2
Whatever the reason Secretary Lamont is adopting
unwise course. Aviation succeed only by being
carried in the open, with the public keeping step
with its accidents as well as its improvements and
regulation.
The secretary will do well to reconsider and make
the report public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Flexing Both WAYS

One good point was made by Mr.. Hoover In his
aDneal for retention of the flexible tariff provision
under which the President may change rates up to
so per cent It permits adjustment OF single schedules
without reopening congressional debate and log-ro-
ing for general tariff revision.
Senator Norris and others opposing the existing
provision have met the Presidents argument. They
have proposed an amendment which would limit con-
gresSional debate, recommended change OF rate
by the tariff commission to the specific Scneoue unoer
consideration.
With this safeguard, the senate should accept the
proposal to return to congress the sole authority to
tx tariff rates-that is the sole authority to egslate
and tax That certainly is the spirit Of the Consttu-
ton despite the supreme court ruling that congress
was within the letter Of its rights in 1922 in trans
errng some legislative power to the President through
the flexible provision
But the issue is not one of theory, or appeal to
tradition The test should be of Democratic
efaciency And the test should be determined By ex
perience.
When enacted the flexible provision looked like
major reform, helping to take politics out and put
science into tariff revision. AS matter of record.
It simply has not worked that way President Coolidge
used for rather general raise in rates. and through
it DESTROYED much of the non-partisan character of
the tariff commission. 1t has been one Of the chief
instruments by which the executive has encroached
on the functions Of the legislative branch Of govern
ment.
The art Of government no less than of business
OF life is to learn from experience Therefore, be-
eve that the President and the majority group of
his party in the senate are unwise in ignoring the bad
record OF the present flexible provision.
Under the acknowledgements coalitions pro-
posed amendment, the Importance of a non-partisan
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|ANNIVERSARY|
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BURGOYNE sURRENDERs

Oct. IL
ENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE'S
" campaign into New York state
from Canada ended disastroUsly on
Oct. II, TIT, when he surrendered
with about five thousand British
soldiers to the American general,
Gates, at Saratoga.
Burgoyne landed in America early
in TIT, having been placed in
charge of a powerful expedition Of
about ten thousand men with orders
TO penetrate into New York state
from Canada, march south along
the valley of the Hudson and join
General Howe's forces, so as to di-
vide the American confederacy in
half.
The British general captured IT,
conderoga on July s, but on Aug.
Is a detachment Of his army was
almost annihilated. He was defeated
decisively at Saltwater and surren-
dered on Oct. II.
Burgoyne's surrender was an i'm
portant victory for the colonists and
has been termed the turning point
in the revolution.
Washington permitted Bmgoyne
to return to England. but he was
refused an audience with the king
and was denied a court-martial.
Burgoyne went over to the OPP
position party and resigned his ap-
pointmentS; but on a change OF
ministry at the close of the Ameri-
can war he was appointed COM
mander-ir1-chief In Ireland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
1T SEEMS TO ME By HT BFo0T

plimenting New York editors for the
courage with which they uphold
their convictions?
% Surely it should never be the
function of a fearless newspaper to
conduct it's editorial policy in such
manner as to offend no one. That
would be a namby- PANTY sheet
indeed. And prohibition is too
pressing a problem to permit any
one to sit with any dignity upon the
fence.
I think that believers in Volstead-
ism should fight for their cause
just as hard as they are able, no
matter whose feelings are offended.
And in my own half acre 7 purpose
to fight just as hard on the other
side.
We will never get at the truth if
either side pulls its punches. And
so I say, Lay on, Mcbride"
downright, 1929, by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Backs Hoover
r SPEAK as a partisan who has

n SPEAK as partisan who has
Il many times before and after
election barked at the President. I
have no notion, of course, that
Hoover is going to clap his hands in
joy right now at the prospect that
this column is Soidly behind him
in his efforts to reduce armament.
Writing mean pieces about high
public official is not nearly as much
fun as it might be, because the
newspaper man is tormented with
the knowledge that the person at
tackled is not at all likely to see the
slam III question. Hoover probably
doesn't know that I am, which is a
misfortune for at least one Of us.
There can be no question that
the present negotiations may mark
the most important chapter in a
century of American history. If
partisan advantage can be aban-
doned for the cause Of war, it seems
to me even more essential that it
should be scrapped for the sake of
Deace
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Give and Take
FAIR compla Mt against the

A FAIR compla Mt against the
N prohibition advocates is their
unwillngness to grant the right of
debate to their opponents. While I
am convinced that certain drys In
congress are hypocrites, most Of the
Anti-Saloon League leaders are sin
cere and honest men, fanatically
honest. I might add.
When a man is utterly convinced
of the Righteousness of his cause
it is difficult for him to conceive of
his adversary as anything but a
crook.
Still think the dry leaders ought
to make the effort. Upon sober re-
Election they must realize that not
every editorial foe is a rumhound
and that it is inconceivable that all
the distinguished opponents Of Vol
steadism are paid agents Of the
whisky trust"
It is quite true that advocates Of
modification have used much ridi-
Guile Of the rougher sort in dealing
with the d.ys. but temperance of
utterance has hardly distinguished
the vAnti- Saloon League spokesme$
in their public utterances.
In particular. their attacks upon
the metropolitan press have all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

signs of nervousness, the gland
swells. the heart, beat becomes rapid,
and there is loss of weight.
He may have tremors, falling OF
the hair and changes in the skin.
Women seem to be affected more
by overactivity of the gland than
do men, indeed to the proportion of
about six to one.
AS the disease progresses, it eff
fects the eyes SO that they push for
ward, producing a condition that
the public calls "pop-eyes."
For this form of goiter, known
as exophthalmic goiter, the most
common treatment today is surgi-
cal operation on the gland. In mild
cases, X-ray is sometimes used to
bring down the activity of the
gland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Energy

TTOWEVER, no one need worry
4 Il particularly. There seems to
be no danger Of the sun giving out
in the immediate future. Astronom-
ers think that the sun will continue
to shine for at least another five
trillion years.
The amount of energy released
by the total humiliation Of small
amount of matter is tremendous.
according to the calculations.
1.-THE humiliation of pound OF
coal week would produce as much
energy as the combustion Of the
100000 tons a week which are
mined in the British ISles," Prof.
Jeans writes.
"An ounce of coal a month would
provide locomotive power for all the
British railways, while single drop
of oil would take the Mauritania
across the Atlantic"
Professor Jeans calls attention TO
the fact that when he first an
nounced the hypothesis of the
humiliation Of matter and its COM
plete change into radiation or
energy, he thought that he was
making a brand new suggestion.
"But have since found that
Newton had anticipated something
very similar exactly two centuries
earlier" Jeans writes.
He then quotes from the Opticks,"
written by the great Newton in 1704
in which Newton asks, And among
such various and strange trans
mutations, why may not nature
change bodies into light and light
into bodies?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Cling 10 Folly

CCIENCE, education and the &C
- cumulated knowledge which they
have combined to produce prove
nothing so distinctly as that the
truth is made of patient study and
careful observation.
They prove something else, and
that is that nothing has done so
much to blind men to the truth
as superstition, prejudice and fear.
One would suppose that the world
had suffered enough to realize the
folly of calling these ancient buga-
boos into being as guarantors OF the
very thing they have baked and
mangled through the ages.
Considering how we shudder at
even mild forms Of human misery:
how we weep over famine in China
or floods in Russia, and how con-
stantly We pat ourselves on the back
as patrons of relief work, is it not
astounding that We should insist on
a belief in eternal misery for mil
lions of our fellow beings as the
most effective spur for truth?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Truth Fails to Count

MFRS. EDITH MILLER, 20-year-
1V1 old wife of one of seven de-
PENDANTS now on trial at Gastonia,
frankly admitted that she was a
Communist and did not believe in
God.
Realizing what such admissions
meant, as she must, would she have
made them if she were liar?
Her obvious courage in favor of
the truth, however, made little i'm
preston.
What weighed with the court was
her opposition to certain forms of
government and faith. Because she
was unafraid not only to speak her
mind in the face of an antagonistic
ajority, but also of punishment
after death, she was stamped as
probably untruthful, when her very
act proved that she would rather
take chances for the sake of truth
than spare herself by white lying,
as she easily could have done.
In replying to one Of the defense
lawyers, who contended that Mrs.
Millers anti-religious belief had no
competent bearing on her testimony,
Judge Barnhill said, 'ff I believed
that life ends with death, and that
there is no punishment after death,
I would be less apt to tell the truth"
Maybe he would, but If truth
hangs by such slender thread, If
fear is its soundeSt guarantee, and
intelligence plays no part, we might
as we'll expurgate the word from
the dictionary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

NNE aspect of British politics will
" bear close scrutiny by Ameri-
cans. British leaders seem able at
times to forget the search for par
tisan advantage.
Stanley Baldwin, former prime
minister and leader of the Con-
sentative party, stated few days
ago that England must be proud of
what the new government had done
in negotiations with America.
Very seldom has congress been
able to take as broadminded an at
titude. Only in the war, and even
then occasionally, can I remember
our national legislature functioning
without regard to party labels.
Much of the opposition in Wilson'S
peace program was grounded in a
fierce desire to prevent Democrat
from achieving honor. And We are
only too likely to find the Demo-
Gratis and the insurgents thwarting
Hoover. lest he score a triumph
which will make his administration
successful beyond all criticism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Over-Active Thyroid Causes Trouble

This method demands, however,
the most expert type of knowledge
and control. In most cases the
operation is the method of choice.
If the person is exceedingly i'll, it
is not infrequently necessary to
take a long period of rest in bed
before the operation. SO he may be
capable of withstanding the surgical
procedure.
Because of the nervous reactions,
emotional upsets must be avoided
and proper mental control is de-
sirable.
The diet must be low in certain
protein substances. In some in
stances, iodine is given before the
operation to aid the patient to get
into proper shape for the operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
EinStein

"HIS view that within the sun,
Il and within the stars also, OF
course, matter is transformed into
energy, completely upsetS some OF
the older notions Of classical phys
les.
These were contained in the law
of the conservation of energy and
the law of the conservation of mat
ter. According to the first, energy
could be transformed, but neither
increased or decreased. The second
stated the same thing for matter.
The newer view, however, substi-
tutes a general law of conservation
for the universe and permits the
transformation Of matter into en-
ergy. Some authorities, Sir Oliver
Lodge and DR.. r. A. Milltkan for
example, think that energy can be
changed back into matter, but that
is still a matter of argument.
From the study Of the stars and
the atom, scientists have worked out
the ratio at which matter Is changed
into energy. incidentally, it may be
of interest to note that Einstein's
famous relatively equations were
used in working out this ratio.
1--WE can calculate that five or ten
trillion years ago the sun must have
been several times as massive as it
is today, so that already it has lost
most of the mass it had at birth"
Professor Jeans writes.
"Of each ton it had at birth, only
a few hundredweights at most re-
main today"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Questions and AnSzQ'erS

the skin, excreting water and GER
tain waste products and to some
extent supplementing the kidney
secretion and also exercising a great
influence in the regulation of body
temperature.
How many Spaniards are there in
the United States?
According to the last census there
were 850,843.
What does the name Lupin mean?
Wolf.
Is Hollywood part of the city of
Los Angeles?
Hollywood is a part of the city of
Los Angeles and approximately
100000 persons live In it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

and scientific tariff commission would be enhanced.
The commissions recommendation for changes in in
dvidual rates. either upward downward, would not
then be so subject to advance influence or later sup
preston as under the present system.
The fact that President Hoover is not apt to mis-
use the flexible machinery for partisan purposes in
Coolidge fashion should not prevent the senate from
readjusting that machinery the basis of hard ex-
perience.