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Prison Mutinies

Prison mutinies seldom gain freedom for convicts
Those who participate In them risk death from the
guns of guards and Others If thew are not killed
overwhelmingly against those who rebel.
Prisoners know this, and yet there have been five
major outbreaks in recent months
The inevitable conclusion is that prisoners regard
conditions under which they live as intoerabe and
utterly hopeless Death means little when weighed
against their lot They stake their lives against an
almost hopeless chance of escape
The latest uprising at the Auburn state prison in
New York, in which four convicts and their head
keeper were killed and a score wounded is tvnico1
Ocla socioogstS, and other students of the prison
problem agree on fundamental causes
Prisons are overcrowded. Food sanitation and Iiv
Ing conditions are bad. Prisoners are idle Thew sit
all DAY In overcrowded cells with nothing to do and
are goaded into direct action however futile it NAV
DE- LII was the same story last summer in this same
AUBURN prison, in Dannemora, Cannon City, and in
LeaVenWorth. Discipline is strict. Sentences are
long, and the hope Of eventual freedom is dim.
Hope is destroyed and men become desperate
Conditions in New York's prisons are not unioue
They exist in most state and federal pententiaries
New York has $30,0O0O00 prison modernization nro
gram recommended by Governor Roosevelt and his
predecessor, Al Smith No doubt it now will be adopted
Congress and the department of Justice have
awakened to the situation as regards the federal
government and are prepared to remedy conditions.
There Is need for examination of the prison
problem everywhere, and for improvement in our
methods OF meeting it. 1t is not question of cod
ding prisoners, but rather of furnishing them reason
ably and of treating them humanely rehabilitating
Them where possible, they will be useful citizens
when liberated
society," which means all of us, has been re1niss in
us obligation, both to its errng members and itself
The Auburn mutiny predicted In the same
way other mutines may be expected if conditions
are allowed to grow worse year after year, as they
nave neen Correction will require time, but it should
be undertaken now
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REASON By Ff HzSBis

CHOULD Mr. Coolidge decide to run for the senate
~ TO succeed Mr.. Gillett who has announced that
ne VIII retire he probably will be Influenced in a
degree by desire to associate with Dwight Morrow
his lifelong friend and college mate at Amherst who
Is slated for the senate from New jersey
MT Coolidge would find precedent for such &C
ton IN the case of that other ex-Presdent from
house OF representatives after leaving the White
House and IN congress acquired his lasting fame
You may be assured however that Mr. Coolidge
VIII search the political horizon with extreme caution
before tossing his hat into the ring since bv the law
Of averages he might be eligible for defeat he having
run for many offices and always won.
LIE would face hard contest for the senatorial
l. honor, for Mr.. Fitzgerald who will be nonn
votes by his ability to sing Sweet Adeline" with rare
effectiveness.
Mr.. Coolidge could meet this only by rendering
After the Ball Is Over" and we recall his delivery
THIS would necesstate considerable voice culture.
Henry Ford receives 500 by the terms of the will
OF the late Mrs, Florence Rabbit of Ypsilanti Mich
1t always is gratifying to see money go where it
is so sorely needed
the producer Of the material and the producer of
the finished product when Justice Kemp of Crown
POINT, IND, who annually marrieS thousands, held
conference with Judge Sabbath of Chicago who an
nualy divorces thousands
Senator Sheppard's bill to make the buyer of
liquor equally guilty with the seller would probably
be illegal because it would subject the buyer to double
jeopardy he being placed in jeopardy the first time
by drinking what he bought.
THIS statement by Professor Jellinek of Austria
that electricity really does not kill has been ex-
ploded by the futile efforts which have been made to
revive several parties who have graduated from the
electric chair.
Mary Mccormick, who is to marry Prince Serge
Mdivani as Poa Negri divorces him. states
that she is thoroughly Europeanized and does not
how many lovers the prince may have, so long
he is happy.
If that's the European attitude God bless the
Atlantic oceani
This gentleman down east who is planning Il
shoot himself to the moon in rocket has ad-
vantage-he can come back without getting round
trip ticket
ware probably Wishes he had bought furniture
factory with the which he paid for that on
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Does Belgium still maintain a
navy?
On grounds of economy, the
small navy formerly maintained by
Belgium has been abolished. The
former British sloop zinnia, Of
1900 tons is still employed on
fishery protection service.
Who played opposite Constance
TaImadge In Breakfast at Sum
riSe?"
Don Alvarado.
How many home runs did Babe
Ruth hit in 1927 and 1928?
He hit fifty-four home runs
during 1928 and sixty during 1927.
What causes thunder?
It Is explained by the fact that
the electric discharge in forcing its
way through the atmosphere heats
the air and vapor lying in its path
to q very high temperature, causing
a Rslent EXPANSION along its sntiKs
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Co-0peratiOn

ID ECAUSE of the plan of organi-
I'D cation, the observatory building
itself, which will house the great
200-inch telescope on some noun
tain top, will only constitute half of
the astrophysical observatory.
The other half will be an aStro-
physical laboratory and instrument
shop in Pasadena on the grounds
of the California Institute of Tech
nology.
The dual arrangement is the one
used so successfully by the great
Mt Wilson observatory. The splen-
did array of telescopes and other
observing instruments on Mt. Will
son is supplemented by labora-
tory and machine shop in Pasadena.
This makes it possible to carry on
the physical experiments In the lab
oratory which are needed to inter-
pref many of the astronomical OBJ
servations.
1t also makes it possible to build
new instruments when either the
observatory or laboratory requires
them.
1t is planned to have the new
astrophysical laboratory work in
close cooperation with the Mt.
Wilson observatory, the Norman
Bridges physical laboratory and the
Gates chemical laboratory.
It Is planned to have the work Of
the new observatory supplement-
and not duplicate the work Of any
of the existing organizations.
In this way the entire group will
work jointly in the worthy enter
prise Of extending mans knowledge
of the universe.
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Amusing
Questions and AnSzOerS

length. The result is a steep COM
preston wave, in other words. a loud
noise.
What is Pahmi fur?
1t is from the weasel family and
has a bright yellow and silky under
fur with grayish brown top hair. A
white stripe runs down the back
along the middle from the neck
to the tail and along the sides. 1t
is also known as Chinese martin.
How can chewing gum be removed
from a chair upholstered in mohair?
Try soaking in turpentine or
freezing with ice, then removing
with sharp knife blade. Chloro-
form Is also effective.
Who played the part Of Bob In
'The Goddess Grip and who was
the girl?
George Duryea played the part of
Bob and Ldna Basquette played the
part Of the GSrA
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
tuberculosis Fight Must Begin Early

everything possible to prevent the
development of the active disease.
The tuberculin test is used to
establish the presence of the disease,
This test involves merely the injec-
ton Of very small amount of the
tuberculin solution under the skin.
If the test is positive, further
studies are made, the history of the
child taken, it's lungs examined by
listening and by percussion or
humping, and then X-ray pictures
are taken.
If a child Is found to have
suspicious signs of tuberculosis it
is given the maximum of health
care. It's tonsils are removed when
there is indication for their re-
moval. Infected and decaying teeth
are taken care Of.
The diet is watched and the
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nutrition improved as much as
possible. Other children in the
family also are tested to find out
if there are other members with
tuberculosis.
In a discussion of DR.. Casparis'
paper the health officer of one of
our largest American cities pointed
out that the time has passed for
health drives on various diseases
and particularly on tuberculosis,
the disease that is always with us.
Health drives stir up temporary
activity and are almost invariably
followed by relapse of interest.
The fight against tuberculosis
must be continuous and certainly
the mapping out of a ten-year pro-
gram embracing all methods Of
study described by DR.. Casparis
would not be too much.
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Combination

A STROPHYSICS, as the word it
IA self indicates, is a combination
of astronomy and physics. 1t is
the physics and chemistry of the
Ravens, an attempt to understand
the physical and chemical constitu-
ton Of the stars and the forces at
work within them.
The way in which the sciences Of
physics and astronomy have merged
is one of the most interesting fea-
lures of modern science.
From the viewpoint Of the physi-
cist or chemist, the star is a great
laboratory in which conditions Of
temperature and pressure, such as
can not be obtained on earth, eX-
ist. 1t is possible, therefore, to dis
cover the behavior Of matter at
these high pressures and tempera-
lures by studying the stars.
The stronomer, as a result, comes
to the rescue of the physicist in
many cases. But the astronomer.
also must turn to the physicist for
help Frequently, it requires the
physicist to interpret what the as
tronomer observes.
These are the reasons for putting
a chemist and a physicist on the
observatory council. The two picked
for the Job are both members Of
the California Institute Of Tech
nology.
The physicist Is DR.. Robert A.
Millikan, director of the Norman
Bridges physical laboratory. The
chemist is DR.. Arthur A. Moves, d.
rector of the Gates chemical lab
oratory.
DR.. Millikan was the first scien-
list to measure the electric charge
Of an electron, a feat for which he
was awarded the Nobel prize. More
recently, he confirmed the existence
Of the cosn1ic rays, fact which has
important bearing upon astronomy
as we'll as physics.
DR.. Moves has been carrying on
experiments upon the constitution
of matter.
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Crime Is Organized

A ND let no one doubt the forces
IA of crime, graft and corruption
have become organized, like every
thing else.
We no longer are dealing with the
lone wolf when it comes to murder,
thievery, and the racket.
The background of our criminal
situation has changed in exactly the
same way as has the background of
our business and social situation.
Borrowing a page from more re-
spectacle elements, crime has devel-
oped mechanism of its own, a
curious combination of fraternalisrn,
ward politics and lobbying, by which
1t not only carries on it's trade and
protects its members, but creates
influence at court.
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Enc oAkF Is fTt4e1
| ANNlVGR$ARY|
.AE2
U. S. WIRELESS CONTROL


December Is
IN Dec. 10, 1912, the United
~ States government assumed
control of all wireless stations in its
territory.
Volume and activities of numerous
amateur stations which had sprung
up in the country had increased to
such extent as to interfere seriously
with the operation of government
and commercial stations.
An act passed by congress pro-
vided for the licensing of radio
operators and stations within the
country and made it unlawful to
operate an unlicensed station
Enforcement Of the regulations
was placed in the hands of depart
ment of commerce officials. The
country was divided into nine dis
tricts, each in charge of a radio in
spector.
The duties of inspectors in each
of these districts consisted in in
specting and testing radio appara-
tus, examining and licensing opera
tors and licensing radio stations.
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All Completes

TINE gang complex, by which
L thugs acquire political power;
the stool pigeon complex by which
police forces put themselves under
obligation to one set of crooks to
catch another set; the graft COM
pick by which ward heelers, city
bosses and party leaders are inspired
to wink at certain law violations for
money; the revenge complex by
which some people justify the futile
demand Of IAN eye for an eye"
and the mercy complex by which
other people are led to weep over
those who have been made to suf-
fer for their misconduct have COM
bined to create an suspicious setting
for such upheavals as occurred at
Auburn.
Summed up, 1t seems to be a bad
case of emotionalism all around,
with prisoners, guards, wardens,
Governors and legislatures consult
ing their sentiments rather than
their reason, like the rest of us.
One day we have drive for par
dons, paroles, honor systems, and
welfare leagues, the next we have
just as an insistent drive for the
death penalty, habitua1 crime laws,
solitary confinement and drastic
regulations.
With the public setting such an
example, and with modern civiliza-
ton placing the means at their
command, why shouldn't prisoners
couple savage plots with maudlin
pretentions, using a revival service,
or debating club to hatch mutiny,
and claiming that mutiny is in the
interest of reform?
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IT SEEMS TO ME By HT BFo0H

Senator Brookhart would be quite
in his element up there.
But that reminds me that the
washington grand jury failed to
do right by the gentleman from
Iowa. The authorities wholly dis
regarded the testimony of that great
statesman's nose. He shifted and
shifted wholly in vain.
1t almost looks as if there were
a dull winter ahead Of Brookhart.
According to present indications, he
may be compelled to spend many
long evenings at home all alone
with his nose
Copyright. 1929, by The Times)
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all. Better increase of several hundred murders
year than the addition Of hundred speak
easies
Friends Of law and order in New York well can
not evade the responsibility Of uniting to resist this
attempt to SOW the wind of state enforcement that
we may reap the whirlwind of police demoraza-
ton and universal lawessness
The Rothstein case is overtopped completely in
significance by the dry law We must not only
save our police from wholesale corruption we must
also save their time from responsibility for Shaping
hips and smelling breaths, they may devote them
selves to the repression of murder assault robbery
and arson.
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when he has completed the first
payment on the coupe?
And, speaking of oceans, realism
seems to be breaking new ground. I
spent a weekend at Atlantic City
recently and had my fortune told by
inserting 10 cents in slot ma
chine. When I was a lad the pa
iron got kind words and piece OF
gum for his efforts.
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HOzv the u. S. GrezU

little group Of ragglng colonies strung out along the
Atlantic seaboard the United States has grown to mighty nation
the North American continent and
today
million thtyght thousand
miles.
the territorial expansion Of the United States be-
Washington bureaus latest
bulletin UNITED STATES GREW School boys and
will find this bulletin of help and value in their history
will find full Of interesting material
give picture Of the growth
nation this bulletin I'LL out the below
and mail a directed.
CLIP COUPON HERE------
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Indianapolis Times,
1922 New York avenue Washington. D. o.
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SCIENCE
Astronomer, Physicist, Chem
iSt and Banker Have
Charge of Worlds Largest
Telescope.
By DAVID DIETZ

THE observatory council, which is
l. to have charge of the building
of the 200-inch telescope, the worlds
largest telescope, consists of an as
tronomer, physicist, a chemist and
a banker.
The astronomer, DR.. George FL
lery Hale, is chairman Of the coun-
ell. The layman can see readily why
an astronomer should be chairman
Of the council.
He will also see readily why DR..
Hale, who directed the building of
the great Mr.. Wilson observatory
with the 100-inch telescope, the
largest now in existence, should be
that astronomer.
He will understand why a bank
er should be on the committee when
he realizes that the building of the
200-inch telescope will mean an ex-
penditure of $12,0o0000.
The banker in this case Is Henry
M. Robinson, vice-president of the
board Of trustees of the California
institute of technology. The 200
inch telescope is to be operated by
the institute.
But the laynan will ask why
physicist and chemist should be
on the council. In the answer to
t.lat question lies picture of the
trend of modern astronomy.
The mountain-top observatory
which will house the big telescope.
will not be known as the astronom-
ical observatory of the California
institute of technology. 1t will be
known as the astronomical observa-
tory.
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Just a Guess

nNE guess is about as good as
" another in tracing all this trou-
bic to a single cause.
Some people think society hasn't
been nice enough to it's prisoners,
and yell for reform. Some other
people think it has been too nice,
and yell for more law.
Meanwhile, there is one sure way
to prevent prison riots and that is
by abolishing prisons. All those in
favor say aye: all those opposed no.
The noes have it. We will not.
But as long as criminals are
Gagged, they will try to escape,
whether by ones, twos, or hundreds,
and whether they take their coffee
straight, or with cream and sugar.
It goes without saying that cir
curnstances over which the authori-
ties have some control may encour-
age or discourage the idea of hell
raising on the part of prisoners.
Among other things, they can be
crowded beyond human. endurance,
left with so much idle time on their
hands that they have nothing to do
but think up mischief, or be allowed
such liberties as make it possible for
them to establish contact with the
organized forces of crime, graft and
no,-r-JYyN%io11
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's. and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreem ent or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.--The Editor.
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PRACTICALLY all authorities on
Il the control of tuberculosis are
agreed that any significant cam
paign against the disease must be-
gin among the youngest in the pop
ulation rather than by attempting
merely to cure the advanced cases
in adults.
DR.. Horton Casparis, in empha-
sizing this point, has outlined the
technic followed in the clinic for
children in the Vanderbilt School
of Medicine in Nashville.
The first step obviously is to find
the disease in the early stage Of in
lection in the child and then to do
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NJ. E. Tracy
As Long as Criminals Are
Gagged, They WiU Try to
Escape, Whether By Ones,
TUos or Hundreds.
SAYS:
THIS is the second prison riot at

THIS is the second prison riot at
l. Auburn, N. Y, within six
months and the fifth throughout the
country.
On July 81, the prisoners at
Dannemora, N. Y, rebelled, only to
be beaten into submission after
three of their number had been
killed and no one had escaped.
A week later the first outbreak
at Auburn took place, with several
buildings put to the torch, four
guards shot and four convicts get
ting away.
Only four days afterward, federal
prisoners numbering $500 STAN
peded at Leavenworth, Kan, but
the warden and his assistants were
ready and the outbreak was quelled
with the loss of but one life.
On Oct. 8, the worst riot Of all
occurred in the Colorado peniten-
tiary at Canyon City, when the con-
victs seized several guards as host
ages, killing four of them, one after
the other, in an effort to intimidate
the warden.
The riot lasted two days and in
volved the loss of twelve lives, seven
guards and five convicts, four of the
latter being killed by Danny Daniels,
ring leader OF the revolt, as it is
supposed, who ended the tragedy by
shooting himself with his last
bullet.
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NOT only do some Of the ladies pick out their hus
bands suits but pick their pockets afterwards
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Harry Thaw was ordered to pay damages of $4,000
Tor biting night club hostess Considering the price
Of night club sandwich, that looks nrettv cbas1
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Too Frank

THIS time the printed fortune
Il was brutally frank, even though
I had paid for it.
do not depend so much on pull"
the card began. "Try and see if
you can't make something of you.
own personality. The effort to stand
on your own feet may be difficult
at first, but persevere ana who
knows but that you may get some
where after all in spite of a dis
couraging start.
Remember that Incidence is one
Of the meaner vices. Strive to over
come your tendency to let others
do your work for you"
That last criticism seems to me
unfair. I haven't used more than
two contributions in a month.
To return to Mars, there is at
least one condition which suggests
that the red planet may have GER
tain advantages even though it Is
a bit far for communicating.
If my Sunday newspaper science
is accurate, the men of Mars would
laugh at the best performance Of
Bobby Jones in golf or Babe Ruth
on the diamonds.
My information is that the force
of gravity upon the surface of Mars
is Just about one-third that which
prevails here on earth. That means
that it would take hop Of eighteen
feet or so to win first place in an
intercollegiate track meet and that
outfelders very well might bunt the
ball over the rightfeld fence.
Amusing
1T would be gay, indeed, to walk
Il down any main street in Mars
and with a little skip sail up far
enough to look into the second
story windows of all the neighborS.
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sometimes an automobile will not only help you
to see this world but the next
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Daily Thought

Mine enemies chased me sore,
like a bird, without cause.-Lam-
entations 3:52.
y =
A malicious enemy is better than
a clumsy friend.-Madame Swetch-
inc.
What Is the difference between a
king and an emperor?
A king is a male sovereign ruler
of state or nation. The word ex-
presses the idea Of one who rules
singly over a whole people or has
the highest executive power. EN-
peror is the title Of the sovereign
ruler of an empire. The title en-
peror seems to denote a power and
dignity superior to that Of king.
What are the chief chemical
elements of gasoline?
Carbon and hydrogen.
Who wrote the book called 1.-THE
Red knight Of Germany?
Floyd Gibbons.
what does the name Wanda
mean! s..kx
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.