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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Bullets or Brains?

History affords plenty of proof that the ship of
human progress frequently has been borne forward
on pillows of blood. Man often exhibits an in
credible ncapacity to learn by experience to adapt
himself to changing conditions in an orderly and
peaceful manner.
Abuses allowed to become intoIerable in spite
of endless protests by competent observers and re-
formers. They not uprooted until the nuisance
finally is advertised by violence bloodshd and dis
aster. Then somebody may try to do something
about it, though reform always is handicapped when
launched in the midst of carnage and heated emo
tons.
American history affords plenty of examples.
Great Britain had to fight the Revolutionary war
before she could be induced to make those reforms
in imperial legislation and administration which
enabled her to the rest of her colonial en-
pjre. The north and south had to go through a
bloody Civil before they could discuss slavery
in sane fashion and thresh out knotty issues of
constitutional law.
For more than fifty years. scientific students of
crime and prisons-often men of great learning and
renownhave been protesting against the illogicaty
OF our present system Of punishment and the bar
barit1es OF our contemporary prisons. They have
warned of impending disaster
Yet lawmakers and administrators have
turned deaf ear to their suggestions and impre
cations. They have answered the proposals of re-
form by pograms of greater severity and brutality
When riots came, because of cruel discipline and
long sentences, the answer was more brutal treat
ment and long terms of imprisonment for the rioters
already driven to desperation by extreme sentences
We may hope that society will not have to shoot
its way into effective prison reform Brains are more
effective and economical than bullets. But if the
calm and sound sense of law-abidhg reformers can
achieve nothing the lives of few guards and
victS may not be too high price to pay for the
thorough dislodging of the plot OF prison savagery
1t is the hard luck of decent men like Warden
Jennings that they have to reap the harvest of a
half-century of obstinate refusal to listen to the
dictates of reason and science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
REASON By pf hASDis

WYE boast of our independence, but We are as help
w less a child
Let flood put out gas and electricity and we
are on raft in a sea of cold and darkness; let a
coal strike come and millions trembe, lest they
freeze and starve; let blizzard, like our present
white whiskered friend, blow in from Baffin's bay,
and we are snowlocked hermits.
We can hand declaration of independence to
Mr.. King George, but not to Mrs. Nature.
Frank Ward O'Maley American writer who left
the country on account Of the eighteenth amend
ment an dwent to Europe to live states that he is
very happy to get away from the United States.
If he would rather be booty in any other country
than thirsty in the United States, hope he never
comes back, and if he gets tired of Europe we will
gladly tell him where to go.
A new crop of hyenas is now lying about George
Washington
It's enough to make fellow take VOW never to
become the father of country.
CEYMOUR LOWMAN, in charge of our customs
~ service, threatens to imprison rich women who
smuggle diamonds and furs into the country instead
OF letting them off with fine
It's very happy idea and we've wondered for
years why nobody did 1t.
Grundy of Pennsylvania is an eloquent example of
the value of audacity.
Had he apologized to that senate investigating
committee he would have been lost but he put on his
armor of brass gloried in the fact that he was a
lobbyist and denounced his investigators because they
came from little states, whereupon Pennsylvania
hailed him as aconquerng hero.
This government was strong enough to break the
Hlndenourg line twelve years ago and it Is strong
enough today to break the conspiracy of the grain
commission men and food pirates to defeat the eff
forts of the federal farm board to lift the farmer
out OF the depths by marketing his crops.
ID AMSAY MACDONALD'S narrow escape from de-
IN feat on the coal mines bill makes think what
grim jest it would be if he should have to resign
before the converting in London of this international
naval conference which he has sponsored.
Senator Nye of North Dakota might as well save
his time and strength instead of trying to unseat
Grundy for the southern states devoted the propo-
siton OF states rights would rally to the support of
the right of Governor to appoint anybody so long
as the appointment is not corrupt
Secretary of Labor Davis states that if the de-
mand keeps on growing he may not be able to get
out Of running for Governor of Pennsylvania
And if it should stop growing the secretary is good
enough politicians to know how to handle the oxy-
gen tanks.
anybody in this world is that law appropriating
enough money to take care of the disabled veterans
of the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
IT SEEMS TOT ME By HF FFo{2S

like book reviewer, "the thing has
power"
And I don't suppose perfumes can
be "adroit," or whimsical" or
"droll."
BY this I mean no disrespect to
men who spray their handkerchiefs.
I see no reason why perfumes should
be restricted to a single sex.
Only few years ago the wrist
watch was denied to men. The war
changed that or should have. How
ever, within a week the police chief
in Newark advised all members of
the force to return their wrist
watches to their aunts and sisters.
He seemed ignorant OF the univer-
sal use of this sort of timep.ece by
men in every army. Even rings and
bracelets are not exclusively the
right of women.
At night club recently saw Kid
Chocolate, most exciting of all the
recent fighters This small Negro
pugilist was decked out in two slave
bracelets and four rings. All the
better ball players go in for diamond
solitarieS.
There used to be a good deal in
the advertisements about fashion
ing perfume to the personality.
If that's feasible, it sounds to me
like an excellent idea. Under such
auspices the night club door-tender
would begin christening the locks
even before he heard the ring and
to the bank teller who required an
Identification the customer might
simply pass his handkerchief
through the grating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28

THE story of the discovery Of
Il helium is one of the most in.
teresting in the annals of science.
1t was first discovered not on earth,
but in the sun.
In 1868, the French astronomer,
JannSen, noted line in the spec
trum of the sun during an eclipse
which had not been previously re-
corded.
Later, Lockyer and Franklin,
British astronomers, showed that
the line was caused by an element
not then known on earth.
Lockyer named it helium from
the Greek word 'helios," which
means sun"
In 1894, Sir William Ramsay.
famous British chemist, showed that
slight amounts of helium existed Ia
the atmosphere.
Later it was shown that some gas
wells contained helium. The worlds
chief supply of helium are the
American gas wells which are rich
in helium.
A plant built at TT. Worth, Tex
in 1925, is capable of turning out
100000 cubic feet of helium
month.
The story of helium is a splendid
answer to the critic of scientific re-
search who asks What's the use?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Advance Is Made in Difficult Surgery

ciated with degenerative diseases,
such as high blood pressure, and
disease of the heart, kidneys and
blood vessels.
It has been the general impress
sion that degeneration of the It's
sues is to some extent associated
with diets containing insufficient
amounts of the necessary vitamins
which are found particularly in
fresh fruits and vegetables. For
years the diet of the American
people consisted primarily of meat,
potatoes, coffee and sugar.
DR.. Lowell Langstroth of San
Francisco, carefully recorded the
diet of SOL people with degenera-
tive diseases and found that they
had eaten few protective food sub
stances. Non-protective foods formed
81 per cent of their diets. If all
accessory foods we're considered, the
non-protective foods formed SO per
cent of their diets.
Bread, butter, meat, potatoes and
sweet deserts were the foods most
frequently eaten, and with the ex-
ception Of butter and cream, which
are rich in fat soluble vitamin A,
these diets are vitamin-poor.
When the patients were put on
well balanced diets with sufficient
amounts OF the protective sub
stances, the percentage incidence of
the degenerat1ve diseases decreased.
Next: The development of tula-
remia.
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NJ. E. Tracy
The Underworld Appears to
Be Getting Respectable,
With Racketeers Dining
With Public Officials.
SAYS:
CTRAWs show which way the

CTRAWS show which way the
- wind blows, which is enough to
make the johnson case now going
on in New York worth more than
a passing thought.
Ordinarily such a case would be
dismissed as of purely local Slgnif1-
canoe, but this one is too typical Of
what is going on throughout the
country for that.
Whether the evidence thus far
brought out is to be relied on, or
whether it is just some more Of the
fantastic adventuring in which the
case originated, makes little differ
ence.
The whole performance justly
might be described as a flier in
racketeering, a rather vivid illustra-
ton of how criminals have prof1ted
by studying modern social, political
and commercial methods.
First, we have dinner, with not
only judge, an ex-judge, and court
attendants present, but at least
seven persons with police records.
More amazing still, the dinner Is
held in a club supposed to be po-
litical, but with So per cent of its
membership ineligible to vote.
Incidentally, the club is named
Tepecano for no reason in the world
except that some one did not know
how to spell Tippecanoe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
His Own Defense

somehow or other we not enthuse very much
the efforts of the Washington Society of Alex.
andria. Va, to defend the reputation of the first
President.
Few great men," says OHM G. Fitzpatrick author
OF pamphlet and editor of WaShington's diaries,
shave escaped villifcation of one kind or another
but the whispers against the morals of Washington
seem more yiciously continuous than the attacks on
any other great American"
Presumably the defense was prompted to some
extent by several modernst biographies which at
tempted to portray Washington as human being
with foibles and fraltes like the rest of u.s. and to
destroy of the legends of perfection built up
around him.
There is nothing to be gained by beSmrching
Washingtons character, of course. AS a matter of
fact, 1t could not be done successfully if anybody
wanted to. His accomplishments stand.
Trying to understand the is quite another
thing. Surely if he liked to dance or take drink
now and then play hand of cards. that does
not detract from his greatness require any defense
Rather it makes him lkeable, as well as great
Most of us have weaknesses which we hope our fell
low human beings will overlook, just as we are will
ing to overlook theirs
The Washington to whom we were introduced in
clasSrooms awful prg, and would have been
. bad companion His auSterity would have repelled
any one but saint. The George Washington we
have been getting acquainted with lately seems to
have been o pleasant person, and we like him
much better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
An EXtraYagance

ISN'T it just too wonderful" said
l. the lady, and it seemed to me
that she had right to be ecStatic
as the perfume cost Is cents an
ounce.
Maybe it was more, for once you
venture into the luxury fields there
is no limit to the fabulous lengths
of which women are capable.
Once again I tried to make some
personal contact between my own
senses and the exotic fragrance. !
bent over the little bottle like a
bloodhound and my shifts were so
sincere that they shook the room.
At the end Of three minutes I
did detect faint and pleasant pun
gency much resembling bay rum.
which is one of the most agreeable
scents in the world. Still, there
must have been something missing
Bay rum is much cheaper.
But at that I want to know just
what is this artistic standard often
raised in regard to perfume. When
novelistS speak of cheap scent" they
mean to suggest something more
than inexpensivenesS.
AS I understand it, to some nos
trils certain perfumes are silly and
vulgar. Indeed, I've read in the
advertisements Of Sophisticated
scents" I wonder If there are any
humorous perfumes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Another Reason

If any added reason were needed for
drafting of new constitution, it is now pro-
vided by the spectacle of candidates for
judgeships seeking the support of the polit-
ically powerful.
The candidates are not to be criticised.
Under the system, the only way to become
Judge is to go out into the byways of politics
and become political.
The election of judges on partisan tickets,
at the same election with candidates for other
offices, brings the bench distinctly into
politics. The inevitable result is a constant
menace to justice and a continuous assault
upon public confidence in courts.
At the election next fall there will be
elected many judges. Two members of the
supreme court will be chosen. The appellate
bench has vacancy or so. Locally almost
the whole judicial system is to be revamped.
Mixing politics with the judiciary has
far reaching effect 1t hits at the basis of
good government. 1t is, of course, absurd.
A constitutional convention would arrive
at some system whereby the judges would
not be compelled to play the part of petty
politicians in order to gain office, or, if timid,
permit themselves at times to be swayed by
other influences than those of law and sub
stantial justice in order to stay in Office.
One of the most glazing evil results is the
high cost of receiverships. There are others
equally as bad.
If you make no other resolution as a
citizen for next year, good one might well
be to vote and work for the approval of
constitutional convention.
If there is to remain any respect for
courts and for law, the sooner the bench is
removed from party politics the better is the
chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28

ing insensitive TO perfume. heard
a man explain the other night, Ger
tain exotic fragrances which make
me little better than brute"
Nothing so drastic has ever hap
pened to me. I enyied the colonel
his ability to be swept into wild and
unreasonable passion upon such
slight grounds.
On the other hand, do not have
to worry as some of the more Sensi-
tive do. Onions are no threat in
my life.
Often I've encountered large
groups of people fresh from an
onion debauch and it seemed to me
that they were just as sweet and in
gratiating as before their indul-
gence.
Garlic is probably more danger
GUS. This, I can detect in closed
room. But I don't think of it as
unpleasant. On the contrary it
suggests "See Naples and Die" gon-
dolas, tenor arias, Madame Butter
fly" and all the romance of the
world.
Copyright. 1929. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28

Editor TimeS-Your paper recently
carried the charge that the Christian
Science church and its members
were using wrong tactics in oppos-
ing new biography of their leader,
Mrs Eddy. Most of the protests
against this biography by Dakin
have been made by individual Chris
tan Scientists on their own initia-
tive. 1t is possible that some of
them, or even a committee on pub
LEGATION, has overstepped the bounds
of propriety in making objections.
If this is the case, such action has
not been instigated nor approved by
the church.
It Is only fair to state, moreover.
that this author and his publishers
(Scribner'O have given much reason
for proyocation, as they have con-
tended strenuously, both to public
and to book stores, that the book is
fair and unbiased, which it en-
phatically is not. Not only did the
publishers refuse the church any
opportunity to check the facts re-
garding Mrs. Eddy's life, but the
author has omitted almost every
favorable mention that would give
her credit.
He neglected to interview any of
her friends and associates of many
years standing, many of whom now
are living. He also took as the basis
OF his work the account of Georgine
Milmine, whom he quotes as hay-
ing said that she had Searched
the whole of Mrs. Eddy's life for a
KIND, a generous. an unselfish, a fine
wonanly deed, and would have been
only too glad to have recorded it,
but had not found one"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Times Readers Voice Viez0s

1t is absurd to think that not
one creditable deed could Have been
found in the life of one of whom
Senator George H. Moses Of New
Hampshire, her friend and neighbor.
has said: She was exactly the
kind Of woman I would have liked
my grandmother to have been"
Bliss Knapp, an authorized Chris
tan Science lecturer, who had
known Mrs. Eddy intimately since
his childhood days, gives an account
of a visit of Mrs. Eddy to his home,
when all were expressing gratitude
to her for various gifts except his
small brother Ralph.
He says: Mrs. Eddy observed
without comment that Ralph Knapp
was silent amid all these express
sions Of gratitude, and she remem-
bered that she had given him no
present. Scarcely half an hour after
she had left the house she sent Mr..
Frye Cher secretary over with
beautiful little clock for Ralph. This
was but an incident of Mrs. Eddy's
loving consideration for all with
whom she came in contact"
Mr.. Knapp is but one of num-
Der who gladly would testify to
many similar instances of her "lov-
ing consideration"
This new biographer has taken
Mrs. Eddy's life and "jazzed" it with
his own improvisations. soft-pedal.
ing the true theme, so that the pub
lie is presented with a grotesque
picture, which is as far from the
original as is modern syncopation
from classical music.
FRANK c. AYRES.
Christian Science Committee On
Publication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
"Peace on Earth !"

Some sincere and patriotic citizens of the United
States adhere to the conviction that world peace to
be advanced most effectively by war preparedness.
One of these is Francis P Garvan. president of the
chemical foundation.
Chemistry, says Garvan in widely circulated
piece of Christmas season publicity is greater force
for peace than all the pacifism IN the land. His own
words are worthy of attention in this of good
VIII to men, Hear them:
'Peace pacts and treaties paper scraps but the
deadly vapors brewed in the chemists crucible reek
With assurances of peace. If ever consumated. the
next war will be short, decisive and comparatively
bldless Tor solid. liquid and gaseous poisons win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
HeIiun1

TINE Goodyear Zeppelin Corpora
l. ton at Akron is building a
super Zeppelin for the United States
navy which will employ 100000
cubic feet of helium. The ship Is
to be known as the ZRS-4.
According to DR.. Howe, the ZRS-4
never would have been if it had not
been for helium.
Records show that we never
would have gone ahead with our.
rigid airship program in the abb
sence of helium," he says. Had
there been no helium, there would
have been no Shenandoah, for when
funds were required for her con-
struction, the appropriation COM
mittee told Admiral Moffet they
we're supplying money to complete
the Shenandoah because helium was
available for that ship, but that II
hydrogen were ever put into her,
appropriations would stop.
IF there had been no Shenan-
doah, there would have been no Los
Angeles, and the building of the Los
Angeles not only kept the Zeppelin
organization together, but encour-
aged the British again to take up
lighter than aircraft development.
without this train of important
events, it is doubtful if there would
have been ring-laying in Akron
last month.
1.-THE success of commercial dirig-
ibles will depend upon the use Of
helium, because our public will not
tolerate the hazard involved with
hydrogen.
ut is the work of chemistry and
physics which has made the whole
enterprise possible through provid-
ing helium in great quantities and
in deYising means for its purifica-
ton"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Modest Violet

DUT, of course, would never un-
ID dertake to equip myself with a
perfume expressing my individual
ity. The shopkeeper could fool me
too readily.
He might hand me modest
violet" or something like that, say
ing that this was the essence of my
personality and send me out into
the world a living and reeking lie.
One misses much imagined by be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
BITTERNESS is my lot around I
ID Christmas time because this is

BITTERNESS Is my lot around
- Christmas time because this is
the season when people display the
perfume bottles somebody sent to
them. I am fascinated by the sight
Of the fine TASKS and walls, but
owing to some constitutional defect
l can not smell them.
I think it is on account of my
nose, which was broken in early
youth in a basketball game and
much more recently in a. fight,
which I did not win.
Only the other day I had the
privilege of shifting at some scent
hailed by it's owner as rare and
costly. "Of course" she explained,
mot more than a drop Of this can
be used at a time. You'll find it
overpowering."
I breathed in deeply through my
nostrils, but nothing happened.
Somewhere in the building cabbage
was being cooked and that faint and
delicate aroma came pleasantly to
me. I don't suppose this was what
I was expected to smell, but beyond
the dim fragrance of cabbage I
could detect nothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Holdup Is Staged
VX7HILE the dinner is in prog

xYTHILE the dinner is in prog
w ress, and more particularly
while the judge is making a speech,
holdup takes place, in which not
only the guests are relieved of their
jewelry and cash, but Detective
Johnson of his gun.
Some hours afterwards, and with
out any assistance on the part OF
the authorities, the gun is restored
miraculously to Johnson, while all
the jewelry finds its way back to
rightfuI owners and all the cash ex-
cepting $500, which appears to have
been retained by the holdup men as
compensation.
Bee; use the show looks rather
f1shy, Detective Johnson first is de-
noted and then suspended, with a
hearing by Police Commissioner
Whalen and an investigation by the
bar association as the result.
y
At the hearing before Police
Commissioner Whalen, Inspector
Donovan comes forward to explain
that the holdup was fake designed
to get back a $4,000 contract for
the murder of frankie Yale and
Frank NARROW which New York
racketeer had entered into with a
Chicago gunman, and on which
Sc, 900 had been paid.
BY implication, the racketeer
would have been apprehended and
lodged in jail, if the police could
have found him, which listens all
right until New York Telegram
reporter experiences no difficulty in
locating said racketeer and getting
an interview.