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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
That Salt Creek Probe

With the end of the present session of congres in
sight involving also the end Of the authority
ferred upon it by the Norris resolution investigate
leases in the Salt Greek oil field of Wyoming the
senate public lands committee has not considered the
evidence fully arrived at any decision
Although special attorney was appointed to obtain
evidence the bona fides of titles in Salt Greek to
submit to the committee at the short session, the
report has not been made.
An attempt was made to lay the report before the
committee in oral form, but the committee wisely
decided that it did not have the time to wade through
the voluinous of evidence and that it was the
duty Of the special counsel to summarize in written
form and report on it with recommendations
Granted that this report may be forthcoming
within the next few days. but short time then
remains for consideration of matter involving the
legal rights of hundreds of essees the investment of
millions of dollars and the future of one OF Americas
richest and oldest oil fields.
Whether the job has been bungled or simply is too
big to be handled oy the special counsel In the time
allotted, obviously not be disposed of hastily.
The senate should continue the investigation and
not permit 1t to die as desired by interests opposed
to the probes, merely by lapse of authority with the
ending Of congress March a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Slavery

Slavery is one of the words dropped from our cur
rent vocabulary. We across such phrases as
Slaves of fashion" SLAVES of drink or wage
slaves but apt to think of human slavery as
relegated to the history books.
Is isn't. Systems of involuntary servitude and
compulsory labor still are IN oosed upon natives of
several African states by white rulers despite reform
efforts of the League of Nations
Now we learn from the Manchester Guardian
the great British liberal daily that form of slavery
persists in the British colony Of Hong Kong.
The local name of the system is "NIui Tsai."
The Anti-Nui Tsai Society of Hong Kong gives the
following comparison between Mui Tsai and a
slave: ga slave is bought with money; Mui Tsai
also is bought with money. slave is not paid for
labor; Mui Tsai also is not paid for labor slave
can be resold; Mui Tsai also can be resold."
In 1922 a public conference in London called on
the British government to formulate practical
scheme to prevent the buying and selling OF human
beings" This reform had been agitated since 1880
when the lord chief justice had declared the M1 Tsai
system slavery and violation of British law. In
response to the 1922 conference Winston Churchill,
speaking for the government in parliament, promised
to end the system completely within year
But it is now charged that these young girl
slaves and Others who were bringing $40 to $50 a
head in 1922 are in 1929 worth high as $780, even
at the age of 4.
The chairman of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society
Yeung Shut Chuen is quoted in letter to the Man.
chester Guardian as announcing:
"According to private estimates, there are about
IN ooo Mui Tsai in Hong Kong, and according to the
investigation of some six years ago there were in Hong
Kong and on the mainland total OF 1858"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02

we're that at one time the condition
was diagnosed as rheumatism. Sud-
denly all of the hair came out Of
his head and the explanation given
was the severity of his illness.
After the death of the man small
amounts of arsenic were found in
his body, SO that an intense medico-
legal investigation was undertaken,
which resulted ultimately in the
determination of the fact that the
unusual drug which caused all of
his hair to fall out was responsible
for the mans death.
The drug had been given not with
any idea of its effects on the hair,
but because it happened to be the
chief constituent of a rat poison.
The criminal probably would not
have used this drug had she been
aware of its specific action on the
hair,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
David Dietz on Scien
War Helped Brain Study
No. 27O

GONE of the most important studies OF the human
y brain have been accomplished since the World
war During the war, many soldiers received bullet
wounds in the brain BY means of the X-ray the ex-
act location of the wound could be determined.
BY studying the effect of the wound on the patient,
it has been possible to correate certain acslonS WIN
certain parts of the brain.
The most interesting piece OF work has been done
by two Frenchmen Doctors Marie and Folk.
Dr. Louis Karnosh, head of the neuro- pSychlatr1c
division of city hospital states that their work has
proved of immense value to the brain surgery clinics
of the world.
These two Frenchmen localized hve tracts IN Waat
is called the great language area
This is the section of the left hemisphere OF the
cerebrum.
One area previously was known as Brocca's area,
after the scientist who first mapped It. ms area con-
trolls the act of speaking Injury TO this area results
in inability of the patient to formulate words.
Another area controls the sense OF position and
form which resides in the finger tips person with
an injury to this area, for example, can not remove
match from matchbox unless he is looking at the
box at the time.
results in what is known word blindness The per-
son~stin his eyes. He still can speak and un-
derstand speech But he no longer Is able to read.
fourth area controls word concept through hear
ing This person can still read. but he can not un-
derstand the spoken word All language sounds to him
like some strange tongue he has never heard
A fifth area is a sort of clearing zone Tor both
the third and fourth Injury to it results in the per-
sons inability to understand either the written or the
spoken word.
Similar sudes have been made on other parts Of the
brain
vast amount of information which in time VIII be
invaluable to psychologists and philosophers In time
these studies viii solve many Of the So-called myS-
teries Of the mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S

Editor Tines-In referring to the
World war state bonus, there are
just a few points that Arthur Ores
ham has overlooked. Hundreds of
ex-service men in the state are
down and out. sick, and many of
them have families who need help
Last summer while travelling
through the state I came in contact
with many ex-soldiers out of work
seeking employment. I asked those
who were i'll if they were drawing
compensation. All of them laughed
and said, There is no chance" The
veterans bureau now has 80 per
cent of the veterans Insurance Ger
tificateS.
I think Mr.. Gresham is a poor
comrade, for opposing the proposed
honus bill. A TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
NOBLE AND CHEAP
CATERPILLAR CLUB
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DERBY REBELLION

TIME Japanese adopted our jury
Il system some time ago, but their
litigants do not like it.
If they can get a crop of level
headed, honest judges, they will dc
well to pass up the jury system, as
has been done in the United States
by all but the guilty.
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Catharine Breshkovskaya, grand
mother of the Russian revolution
just has celebrated her eighty-fifth
birthday, and she celebrated it in
Czechoslovakia, for her horrible
little grandchild drove her out OF
Russia.
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The two factions of the Repub-
lican party of Wisconsin are fight
ing like saVages, over the effort of
the La Toilette wing to send the
Governor to the penitentairy.
Being a Governor is a suspicious
circumstance, one naturally assumes
when he should be sent, but he may
be innocent.
Nothing in America is as vicious
as a feetional fight within party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
I I
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

before 1 was taken to Palm
- Beach l never saw many rich
people. Not close to, at any rate.
This is not intended to suggest that
your humble columnist was mobbed
by attentive millionaires at the
Florida resort.
No social triumphs will be record
ed here. Nor is this because of any
excess of modesty, but only through
lack of material. Miss Peggy Hop
kins Joyce did ask me to come to
tea on Tuesday, but her intentions
can not have been serious, as she
sail d for Cuba on a Monday.
However. there was at least the
privilege of watching the wealthy
stripped down to their bathing toys,
and 1 must admit that / was i'm
pressed. Things do not look par
ticularly bright for the immediate
coming of the social revolution.
In the France Of Robespierre and
the Russia of Lenin the proletariat
could sweep into power because the
aristocratS were a feeble lot, likely
to fall into pieces if exposed to any
gust of wind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Mans Producing Power

THERE are only 14,0OG individual
Il wheat growers in Montana to-
day, where there were $4,000 ten
years ago, but they are producing
more and better wheat.
Contrary to the notion of many
city folks, this mechanical age has
done much for farming, especially
in those fiat sections of the coun-
try where land can be obtained in
large plots and where machinery
has sufficient leeway to make it
practical.
One can not ride over the great
prairies which form such vast
portion of the midwest without
realizing what a tremendous change
the tractor, reaper, six-gang pillow,
electrically equipped barn, individ-
ual ice plant and other similar in
novations have brought about.
Though not so much as in other
lines, perhaps, the producing power
a man has gone up nightly on the
farm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Reason

TINE human race is noble when
Il some crisis summons to the sur
face the best that's in it, but it is
very cheap in its daily cut-throat
competitions.
When Chief Officer Manning of
the ship America called for volun-
teers to go in his boat to rescue the
Italians, every member of the crew
volunteered, though it was an even
bet they would go to the bottom,
but if the members Of that crew had
been the rivals of those Italians in
the daily battle of life, they would
have descended to the conventional
depravitieS to plumber them.
The only real way to civilize the
human race is to turn life into some
kind of an endless rescue expedition.
Anybody can get some institution
Of learning to make him a doctor or
a bachelor of something, and any
body can get Governor to make
him an artificial colonel, but there's
one distinction you can't buy. 1t is
membership in the Caterpillar Club
and you have to save your life by
making parachute jump from a
falling plane to get into it.
Indy is the most distinguished
member, having made three wild
leaps with the big umbrella.
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The people of Afghanistan we're
unreasonable to rebel because their
queen wished to remove her veil
and they had no right to do it when
the king wanted to make them dis
card their owing robes, but when he
tried to make them wear derby hats,
they had a right to go to any length
to defend themselves.
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This bandit who robbed the IN
diana basketball treasury has mil
lions on his trail.
Let the highwayman rob banks,
gas stations and stores and we are
indifferent, but let him lay one
finger on great national sport and
we will raise as if the invader
stepped upon our soil!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Drug often Has Part i'm Death Mystery

June by adding to his food rat
poison which owed it's virtue TO the
hair removing drug that has been
mentioned.
After a month the man was taken
to hospital and he did not get any
better until all food brought to him
from outside the hospitel was de-.
MED him. He was discharged from
the hospital on Sept. l, but returned
in worse condition and died Sept.
81.
A medica-legal inquiry was made,
but it was not until two years
after his death that the exact cause
was determined. 1t then appeared
that his wife had given him large
doses of the drug at intervals of
about three months. After each
dosage he suffered with cramps in
the stomach and abdomen, some
retching and vomiting.
Swelling of the ankles was SO Sc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Cruel Fashion Board

TINE fashion board of the Ma
i tional Association of Merch ant
Tailors is cruel. 1t has decTead that
the well dressed" man must have
at least twenty suits, eight overcoats,
dozen hats and twenty-four pairs
of shoes, not to mention the neck
ties, cuff links and suspenders
necessary to create just the right
kind of ensemble in each particular
case and for each particular &C.
caSion.
That not only let's plumbers and
college professors out, but even us
newspaper men. AS one of the lat
ter, 1 not only petition, but protest.
Can't the fashion board be little
more liberal for humanity's sake?
Can't it admit that one fairly good
suit, with an extra pair of pants,
has some value, and that those of
us who can afford little more are
not necessarily damned for all
eternity?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Signof the Times

THE Colorado & Southern Rail
Il road wants to abandon its Wa
tertown-Leadville branch, which
serves few mining towns, some
reports and small farming districts
up in the mountains west of Den
YER
Farmers and tourists have gone
in for automotive transportation.
What they want is a good highway.
Many of them prefer comparatively
poor roads 10 travel by rail-
One hotel keeper, testifying be-
fore the federal examiner, said that
twenty out of the twenty-three
families who boarded with him last
summer came by auto, while two
successful farmers declared that
they could do much better with
trucks than the railroad.
Mine owners, who deal in heavier
stuff, still need freight cars, with
big engines to do the pulling. Dis
continuance of the railroad would
virtually ruin them.
Recognizing their need, the Colo
RADIO g. Southern has offered to
turn the Watertown-Leadville
branch over to the mine owners, or
the communities which it serves,
practically free of charge, with suf-
ficient rolling stock to keep it going.
The mine owners say they can
run 1t without too much of a deficit,
providing they do not have to pay
interest on the capital investment
and are not taxed excessively. All
Of which is very interesting, not
only from a local standpoint, but
because it is a sign of the times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
Contrary to the notion of
many city folks, this me-
chGnical age has done
much for farming"
SAYS:

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 2.-There
~ were 1877 marriages and 116
divorces in Denver during the
month of January.
Locally, the record seems to be
regarded as good, since Cupid nosed
out the court by a majority of fifty
one, but it makes such supposedly
up to date communities as New
York and Chicago look rather
hickish.
SO, too, it is quite suggestive with
regard to the supposedly benign in
f1uence of Judge Ben B. Lindsey.
The impression prevails that his
long reign as head Of the court Of
domestic relations and as an un-
official healer of domestic sores had
brought Denver degree of marital
bliss unknown to other towns.
1t is somewhat shocking to learn
that Denver has about two divorces
for every three marriages, while
the national average is about one to
sig.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Miscasting Coolidge

Coolidge we read in New York newspaper, may
be named to the supreme court when the aged Justice
Holmes retires. We don't believe it.
News writer's are having a hard time predicting
what Coolidge will do when he goes out of the
White House on March 4, so they may be pardoned
for balyhooing the supreme court possibility.
It is always difficult to dispose of ex-President
in dignified and it is harder in Cool
idges case. For most presidents have had profess
ona career before they entered politics. but Coolidge
has been in politics only in politics since college
He is a lawyer long ago. But he is no more
jurist-and DOUBTLESS would not claim to be than any
private in the army is military strategist and
general.
The argument of those who said to be press
ing President-Elect Hoover to find soft seat for
Coolidge on the highest bench in the land is not, of
course on grounds of legal eninence. They think
Coolidge should be rewarded.
Not that he be rewarded for personal services to
the party or to Hoover. No one knowing Hoover would
be stupid enough to put it on that basis Hoover has
no personal obligations to Coolidge and the Presi-
dent-eect is not the kind to the supreme court
for party rewards in any case.
The idea rather is that Coolidge by virtue of his
service at the White House is deserving of gift
from the nation and that the court offers the only
one equal to the dignity Of an ex-President What
nonsensel What an embarrassing position in which
to put Coolidge What misconcepton Of American
institutional
The presidency OF the United States is its own re-
ward. The American people by thus honorng one OF
their number as chief executive incur no debt in per-
petuity to him Such ga suggestion is insulting to
them and TO him.
There is an analogy in the case of Taft Taft had
obtained recognition as jurist before he was Presi-
dent and was leader of his profession after leaving
the White House
This is no disparagement Of Coolidge. AS matter
Of fact he probably has been better President than
TAT. Despite coolidges many reactonary policies
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luck in StonlactS

nUR captains OF industry are
~ more SineWy. They strip ex-
tremely well.
All cartoons picture the capitalist
as a corpulent old gentleman with
dollar marks upon his checkered
suit. And that is not the type at
all. Big business today is run by
lean men with athletic shoulders
and the pouch gone completely out
Of the style.
If the class war ever gets down to
a hand-to-hand struggle 1 must re-
gretfully admit that my money will
go upon the present rulers.
Naturally, I am not naive enough
to suppose that the economic struc-
ture of America is ever going to be
decided by driving contests or
wrestling matches, but there is some
significance in the fact that wealth
and self-indulgence are no longer
synonymous.
There used to be a belief that big
fortunes constitute no menace be-
cause the heirs could be depended
upon to drink and gamble away
the profits within couple of
generations. That is no longer
likely. Even at bootleg prices the
fortunes of today are far too vast
to be squandered away in any such
fashion. The corks can not pop fast
enough to keep pace with dividends.
But aside fro:.l this fact, there
is evidence that moneyed men now
recognize a sense of responsibility
unknown to the financial leaders of
the last generation. They keep their
bodies trim and possibly they are
also aware of the necessity of ward
ing off fat from the brainy tissues.
Indeed, am by no means sure
that the inefficiency of both liberal
ism and radicalism in America is
not in some degree dependent on
the fact that both movements are
somewhat corrupted by the fumes
of beer and tobacco.
Men who gather in back rooms to
argue into the early hours, over
manifold stems, about the wrongs
of the workingman are not likely to
accomplish very much that is prac-
tical.
Although a firm believer in the
theory that the economic structure
eventually must be modified to per-
NIT a more equitable distribution of
wealth, I am by no means eager to
see our Socialists sweep into power
within the next few years.
The party does not now contain
men anything like as capable as
those in the ranks Of the enemy.
Since no man can divorce his politi-
cal views entirely from self-interest,
must admit that I would rather
be a wage slave under the admin
istration of an Owen Young than
take my chances under the presi-
dency Of Comrade Berger.
Debs was one of the finest spirits
this land has ever known and I
voted for him repeatedly, even
though should have hated to see
him bewildered by the executive
functions which would have descen-
ded upon him if elected.
OF course somebody may say,
How about Warren Harding?" To
be sure, he was not fit. Few smaller
men have ever gone to the White
House. AS a mater of fact, Amer
lea of today is not ruled by its
elected representatives but by it's
business men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
For the ExpIOiter

My first shock as to the capaci-
1V1 ties of the worker came some
years ago during a yacht race.
Among the spectators on the United
States destroyer was a newspaper
owner, who was my boss, and q
walking delegate Of the Longshore-
mems Union.
Somebody introduced them say
ing, 81 think you representatives of
capital and labor ought to meet"
They adjourned to cabin and
drank highbal1s. At the end Of two
hours both men came up on deck
again and my boss was about as
usual.
The longshoreman had to be as
sisted in order to remain on his
feet. Even though my boss was a
member of the exploiting class and
paid me far less than I thought I
deserved, I could not help feeling
just a little proud OF him for the
first time.
IF our present economic struc-
ture lasts out my lifetime and yours,
we are definitely IN dar ger OF de-
veloping an aristocracy Of wealth.
1t is still possible for meu to come
up from the ranks into executive
positions. but increasingly difficult.
The rich mans son has much
more than an even chance to step
into his fathers shoes. With great
shrewdness he has been trained for
his job and with few exceptions he
keeps in training.
They act is If our captains Of in
dustry could be bowled away with
one puff of. at the most. two. That's
not so. These men are not push
overs.
If we Socialists want to make the
world over we've gcs to pull our
own belts in. grow lean and hard,
and suake up our minds that there
is going to be 3 gruelling battle.
acopsright. 1923. for The Timssl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
Creative Intelligence

n UTOMOTTVE transportation is
"A cutting into the railroad bust
ness, especially with regard to short
haul freight and passenger travel.
A readjustment is being forced all
along the line. Nor is such a stu
alton peculiar to railroads. In every
branch of commerce and industry,
we are dancing to the tune of in
novation.
Business can no longer settle
down to routine ways. It must keep
on its toes if it would succeed. so
must government education and
every other form of activity and
enterprise.
Those who are thinking of 10000
ton cruisers as the sine qua non of
security should take this new and
all-important factor of progress in
to account.
More and more we are coming
to depend on the creative ability of
human intelligence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-02
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By
Frederick
lands

SWITZERLAND has opened a
~ high school for dogs, where
they are taught to guide the blind.
We often have wondered why the
dogs didn't open a school and teach
human beings gratitude and fidelity.
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While Great Britain speaks beau
tifully about her affection for the
United States, she goes right along
increasing the Notifications of Ber-
muda and the only possible useful
ness of such a military and naval
base would be against us.
We should trade the Philippines
to John Bull for his possessions in
the West Indies and elsewhere in
our neighborhood.
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and his silence in face of the worst cabinet scandals
In our history, he has much to his credit.
He has tried, not always successfully to restrain
imperalisc and mlitarstic tendencies of the state
war and navy department. In period of political
pork barrels and national extravaganza, he has
helped to achieve balanced federal budget tax re-
duction, and rapid retirement of the public debt.
But what has all that to do with the supreme
court? Whatever else the American people may dis
about surely they can all agree that the best
urst in the land, if he can be found when the time
comes, will be only inadequate substitute for
Justice Holmes.