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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

moved into Kentucky from neigh
boring states on the north.
Recently survey has been made
by DR.. w. o. Johnson, who ex-
amined 5,083 girls in Louisville
schools and found that adoleScent
golfers occurred in 10 per cent.
He found that these adolescent
golfers did not occur in families
which had moved into Kentucky
from goitrous districts, but that the
cases occurred largely among people
of local origin.
He also found a large amount of
tooth decay among all the children
and serious infections of the ton
sis were not infrequent. His in
VeStigations led him to believe that
golfers occur more commonly among
undernourished children with de-
cayed teeth and bad tonsils.
An interesting sidelight on his in
vestigations was the fact that more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Always With us

TINE lobby, as we know it, is a
l. by-product OF organization and
, expertness-the right of petition, as
exercised by great groups.
In spirit, there has been a lobby
ever since the republic came into
being. 1t is only the practice that
has changed.
Where citizens used to write their
congressman, or go to Washington
in person, they now hire some law
yer or lame duck.
y u
The rumpus in Wall Street is his
tory AS an episode in Our greatest
game of chance, it can be dismissed.
AS revelation of the sources of
financial power, it leaves something
to think about.
The big banks of New York
showed what they could do.
BY common Judgment, it was one
of the worst says that ever struck
the stock market, yet within an hour
or SO after Morgan called his con-
ference, it was checked.
II
Who said that pools were a myth,
or that the stock market could not
be controlled?
BY the same token, who said that
Army would beat Yale, or that Mus
solini was a flash in the pan? Even
the wisest of us know more about a
thing after it has occurred than be-
fore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Murder Excused

INDEED, North Carolina officially
4 recognizes the fact that it is a
much more grave offense to shoot
an agent of the mill owners than to
kill a striker, even though the VIC
tim be woman engaged in no v1o-
lent act of any kind.
Ella May Virgins was on her way
to speak at a strike meeting when
mob waylaid the truck in which
she rode and murdered her.
But it will not be murder in
North Carolina in any event. The
prosecutor is asking no more than
an indictment for manslaughter
Strictly speaking, he hasn't even
done that.
He hasn't got around yet to pre-
sent his evidence, because all his
time has been engaged in holy roll
ing against the red menace. Even
Judge Barnhill, who hardly has
established himself as a friend of
"Reminiscences. could not quite
restrain his surprise when Prosecu-
tor Carpenter asked that bail OF no
more than 1000 be fixed upon the
men accused Of the crime.
Chief Aderholt was shot in wild
mixup on a dark night, and yet
North Carolina had very little trou-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
HEALTH SERVICE
IOdized Salt Not Certain GOiter Ban

of the children with goiter had
been using iodized salt than those
without goiter. The result of this
investigation offers opportunity for
many theories.
1t is, of course, important to study
the diets of all these children to
find out how many were eating diets
deficient in vegetables and food con-
tanning iodine. The investigation
throws some doubt on the use of
iodized salt as an exact preventive
of goiter.
Unless the iodized salt is used
freely on the table and in cooking
one can not be certain that much of
the salt gets to the child.
This confirms the views Of many
physicians, who have insisted that
the only safe way to be sure that
the child receives an adequate dose
of iodine is to give it iodine in the
form of tablet, liquid or other medi-
cation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Expansion

a N era of increased bridge build
4 a ing began in the United States
in 1920 as a result of the growth
of transportation. In 1925 contracts
for more than $100,O0o,OO0 worth
of bridges either had been let or
were projected, survey made at
the time showed.
The great cities have had to pay
particular attention to the subject
of bridges. A good example is New
York, where the new Hudson river
bridge is being built at a cost of
$50000,000.
San Francisco is planning series
of bridges to connect it with it's en-
virons. The Carquenez Straits span,
built in 1927, was the first step in
this program.
The Philadelphia Camden bridge,
built under the direction of Mod
jeski, was put up during the five
years from 1921 to 1925. 1t is the
largest suspension bridge now in ex-
istence.
The span is 1,75o feet long and 125
feet wide. 1t carries a central road
way, four railway tracks and two
sidewalks.
The bridge clears the water by 1875
feet. The bridge and approaches,
without the land, cost S25,000,00o.
Total cost came to $35,00000o.
The Camden bridge, however, will
lose its place at the head of the
list when the Hudson river bridge Is
completed.
This new bridge, now under con-
struction, will have span OF $500
feet. It is expected that the bridge
will be in use by 1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Ban Free Speech

THIS is plain speech. The mill
L. bosses in Gastonia own the
governing agencies of the comnu-
nifty and so this proclamation has
all the weight of an official ukase.
And Gastonia says very frankly
that it regards any attempt TO
unionize for better conditions IS by
anybody's definition an agltator.
Obviously the ban is not limited
to Communists. There is, Of course,
no statute against free speech, even
in Gastonia, but it is always posi-
bic to trump up some charge or
other.
If you or I attempted to tell the
mill slaves that their lot was pitt
full. we Immediately would become
guilty of 'nosing around and be
subject to the savage penalties
melted out to agitators.
It is no idle threat which the mill
mer make. Judge and jury have
made it plain that official violence
will be condoned wholly when 1t is
visited upon any labor sympathlzer
When the National Textile Union
lists we're on trial for second-degree
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
The Flathead Power Case

The question Of what shall be done with water
mower belonging to the FIathead Indians may bring
TO the front the question of what shall be done about
the FEDERAL power commission.
At first the Flathead issue was quarrel between
a great power company and an individual as to who
should develop the site. 1t now appears that the
company has been allowed to charge to its capital
account sums of money spent apparently in urging
public opinion to its side Of the issue.
This involves the accounting division. heart Of the
commissions structure for the chief accountant held
the expenditures were improper and former execu-
tive secretary approved then anyway
The present executive secretary has clashed with
the accounting division more than one OCCASION
and It was his tentative award Of the Fathead site
70 the power company that precpitated this con-
troversy.
II Is apparent now that cabinet members compos-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

I'm this column recently the sugges-
4 ton was advanced that the work
ers convicted in Gastonia were tried
only incidentally for the shooting
of Chief Aderholt. 1t seemed to me
that they were sentenced essenti-
ally for the crime of attempting to
introduce the principle of collective
bargaining into the mills OF North
Carolina.
And if anybody thinks that this
was a radical and ridiculous point
Of view I call his attention to the
opinion expressed in the GaStoIIa
Gazette, the organ of the mill own
ers. The Gazette agrees with me
completely.
In an editorial that newspaper
said:
"Let us hope that this will be the
last time this county ever will have
to undergo such siege again. 1t
will not be safe for any so-called
labor agitator to be caught nosing
around here any time soon. The
folks here are simply not going to
put up with it any longer"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Times Readers Voice ViezCS

sion, religious motives. and those
of prudence, personal safety, and
the exercise of the human will.
The public traffic is in another
category and is not susceptible to
any of these influences, but is a
creature of law and can be regu-
lated or suppressed only by law.
Through a century of increasingly
close scrutiny, observing people
have come to realize that the liquor
traffic is a natural outlaw, and that
to license its continued existence is
to harbor a racial cancer which
spreads it's murder over the years
and scatters its waste from genera
ton to generation.
It is the further task OF every
forward-looking nation which out
laws the public traffic to inform
completely its people and thus deal
with the other factor in the equa-
ton, the private appetite.
GORDAN BARNES,
Washington, D. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

A S was pointed out in a New
IA York Telegram editorial the
other day, the Carnegie Foundation
merely told us some things about
college athletics we already knew.
The same thing might be said
about the lobby investigation now
going on at Washington.
Still, it is good thing to be re-
minded once in while.
Though most people know that
the lobbying is permanent insti-
tuition, they are apt to forget how
fast it has grown.
1t will startle even some congress-
men to learn that 500 interests are
represented in the third house, "
and that 300 Of them are listed in
the telephone book.
n
The saving grace OF the lobby lies
in its division.
Where there is a pro-lobby, you
can depend on an anti-lobby.
Indeed, the lobby is a shining ex-
ample of the law that action leads
to reaction.
To balance the Anti-Saloon
League, there is the Association
Against the Prohibition Amend
ment; to offset the sugar crowd,
there are the candy makers and
bottlers; to neutralize the big navy
advocates, there are the pacifsts,
and so one might go on, ad indn-
itum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

Editor Tines-The reason the
people Of the United States. and
for that matter, the people OF the
world, are doing a lot OF talking
about prohibition is evident, and a
good one; alcohol offers a real I'M
pediment to the further advance
ment of civilization.
There is not so much clear think
ing being done as the nature OF the
situation merits. The flood OF shall
low talk which continues to go the
rounds seems to be the result OF
shallow and muddy thinking.
One fact of fundamental import
in considering a reform like prohl-
bition is that in dealing with the
evils incident to the trade IN alcohol
for beverage purposes we always
must distinguish between the pr1-
vate appetite and the public traffic.
The private appetite, though the
center of much of the evil, is not
to be regulated by Law. but to be
controlled by education. moral sua-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Has Witnesses

TLLA MAY VIRGINS was muir
- dered in broad daylight on one
Of North Cardinals famous good
roads. There were scores Of poten-
tial witnesses and yet the public
prosecutor in open court admits air.
lily that he hasn't a strong case.
In summing up the case against the
workers, the prosecutor stood before
the jury of substantial men and
asked with lofty, though possibly ir-
relevant, rhetoric, do you believe
in the flag Of your country, float
ing in the breeze, kissing the sun
light, singing the song of freedom?
Do you believe in North Carolina?
Do you believe in good roads, the
good roads of North Carolina on
which the heaven-bannered hosts
could walk as far as San Fran
cisco?"
You see to him and to the Jury
love of country was something as
tangible and material as a pound
Of sugar.
(Copyrieht. 1929. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Some One Must Lead

xETHILE cooperative action is
w necessary for the background,
it is some individual that blazes the
trail.
Yale had a crack team, but it
was Booth who made the touch
downs.
The big banks Of New York had
the resources and the will, but 1t
was Morgan who gave the word.
If the truth we're known, 1t prob
ably would turn out that some indi-
vidual started the raid in Wall
Street. Even mob psychology falls
to function without its cue.
Not only do games. events and
movements hinge on individual
leadership, but they generally are
measured by their effect on 1ndl-
viduals.
Football would not be what 1t Is
in America, or Fascimo what it Is
in Italy. or Bolshevism what 1t Is
in Russia, but for the reaction IN
individual minds.
Every mass attitude in the world
goes back to personal feeling, to
hope. belief or conviction that many
people have learned to entertain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
MuSSoIini Stays On

TTERE is II Duce celebrating his
Il Z seventh anniversary as dictator
of italy.
II staggers one to think what he
has done, or how few people thought
he could do it.
twenty-five ar fifty years hence,
historians will be proving that Fas-
cist Italy was a logical by-product
of the great war, but no one saw 1t
coming.
For that matter. no one saw Boil
shevism coming until it had arrived
It u
We constantly are being told that
"great events cast their shadow be-
fore"
Maybe they do, but something
blinds most of us to it.
More often than not, this is be-
cause great events hinge on leader
ship, an unbridled ambition, a spark
of genius, or curious idea.
Though Fascismo may be a logical
bv-product of the war, who believes
that it would have swept Italy as II
has, except for Mussolini?
And with regard to Boishevism
who believes that it would have
swept Russia, but for Nicolai Len1n!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
BRIDGES

MOT only the story of commerce,
~ but the story of civilization it
self has been influenced by the
building of bridges.
1.-THE function Of bridges" says
the new Encyclopedia Britannica,
may be described as the starting
of q stream of human traffic hith-
erto impossible; the surrounding
of a barrier, the linking up of two
worlds divided by a gulf"
Streams and chasms are bar
riers to travel and transportation"
says the statement of the board
which announced the award of the
medal to Modjeski. Consequently,
the building of bridges, one of the
older engineering arts, has had
profound political ard social as
we'll as economic Importance.
with the development of civiliza-
ton and the increase of ways for
transportation, highways and rail-
roads have become obstacles, one
to the other, at places of cross
ing, demanding still more bridges"
ModjeSki has been identified as
designer, construction engineer or
consultant with many of Americas
most notable bridges. Among them
have been the Mckinley bridge over
the Mississippi at st. Louis, the
Columbia river bridge at Cello,
Ore; the Ohio river bridge at
Cincinnati, the Quebec bridge, the
Philadelphia Camden bridge and
the Manhattan bridge, New York.
| Modjeski is a member of the Ma
tional Academy Of Science, Amer
ica's foremost scientific society, and
hQds the degree Of doctor of en-
CHEERING from the University of
Illinois.
He has been a bridge engineer
since 1892.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

THE highest of American en-
L cheering honors, the John Fritz
gold medal, has been awarded to
Ralph Modjeski, son of the famous
tragedienne, who was known upon
the stage as Helen Modjeska.
Modjeski is a builder of bridges,
and the award was made FOR no
table achievement as an engineer of
great bridges combining the prin-
ciples of strength and beauty"
The award was made by q board
consisting of sixteen past presi-
dents of the four national societies
of civil, mining and metallurgical,
mechanical and electrical engineers.
Winners of the John Fritz medal
in the past have included President
Herbert Hoover, Guglielmo Marconi,
who sent the first transatlantic ra-
dio message; General J. j. Carly,
famous telephone expert; Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor Of the tele-
phone; Thomas A. Edison; General
George A. Goethals, builder of the
Panama canal, and George West
inghouse, inventor of the airbrake.
Modjeski was born in Cracow in
1861, but was brought to this coun-
try by his parents in 1876. He re-
turned to Europe for his engineering
education, studying in Paris.
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ANNIVERSARY
8gEa2i
BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS
October 20

October 20
TODAY is the 153d anniversary
l. of the Battle of White Plains,
fought on Oct. q, ITS, in the Revo-
lutionary war.
The battle took place on Chat
terton Hill, twenty-five miles north
east of the center of New York City.
On Oct. IL, ITS, General Howe &C.
cupied Throgg's Neck, in West
chester county, but was held there
for several days. while Washington
rapidly evacuated Manhattan island,
except TT. Washington, and con-
centrated his forces on White Plains.
Howe sent 1000 men against the
outpost on Chatterton Hill, west of
the Bronx river, and compelled 1,400
Americans stationed there, under
General McDougall, to withdraw to
Washington's camp. The British
lost 229 men and the American 14o.
Howe's attack on the main Ameri-
can army was delayed and on the
31st of October Washington took up
an unassailable position at North
Castle.
White Plains was incorporated as
O town ia 1722.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
Daily Thought

My brethren have dealt deceit
fully as brook, and as the stream
Of brooks they pass away.-Job
6:15.
Things are not always what they
seem; first appearances deceive
many.-Phaedrus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
I'm recent years studies have been
Il made in most of the states of
the United States as to the number
of cases of goiter occurring in the
population.
1t has been found, as most people
know, that goiter is more prevalent
in those districts in which the
waters are glacial waters contain
ing small amounts of iodine and
that the giving of small amounts of
iodine to adolescent girls ard to
pregnant women prevents many
cases of simple goiter.
Kentucky is outside the goiter
belt and it has long been believed
that such cases as are found in
Louisville and in surrounding terri
tory occur in persons who have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

murder the prosecuting attorney
rolled on the floor in order to emo
tionaliZe the jury and obtain con-
viction.
But scarcely a hand has been
turned by any official to convict
anybody for the murder of Ella
May Virgins, dead mother of five
children. She was a striker and it
is hardly likely that any chance
bullet brought her down, for she
was one of the most effective organ
izers in the union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

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
agreement o. disagreement
with the editorial attitude #
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28

ing the federal power commission are going to take
the Flathead matter into their own hands and ex-
anime thoroughly what their employees have done or
else the senate is going to do it for them.
In either case it will be instructive to learn more
about the work of the commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
1T SEEMS TO ME By HF BRo9S

BILE in finding seven men and con-
victing them all of killing him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
NJ. E.. Tracy

The Saving Grace of q Lobby
Lies IN It's Division; Where
There Is q Pro-LObby,
There Usually Is An Anti
Lobby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
SCIENCE
By DAVID DIETZ'

Not Only the Story of Com
MERGE, bit the Story of
Civilization, Has Been IN
fluenced By the Building Of
Bridges.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-08
TRAFFIC PALLIATIVES

Most suggestions the solution OF raffc-congeston
problems the big cities palliatves not cures But
pending the finding Of cure, palliatves arc needed
Among the useful paliatives regulations for the
collection of street refuse and the repair of
and sewer and gas mains. The hauling OF heavy
building and other materials at night the possible elm
nation of horse vehicles from congested streets
and the rerotng of BUSES from crowded thorough
fares are other suggestions These things are all pos
siblc and likely TO be put in force sooner or later
Were there night trucking where 1t Is necessary
to load or unload congesed street. traffic arteries
would be cleared of of the most troublesome and
common distractions. Trucks parked double or backed
up the curb not only interfere with the orderly and
expeditions dispatch of traffic but cause accidents Much
of this cartng could be done after the traffic rush hours
AS long as distractions permitted nothing is to
be gained by abosng the parking Of passengers cars
For the community which for financial or other rea-
sons cannot widen its streets there is but road to
traffic relief That way is by the process OF elimination
Parking, reroung and loading regulations would clear
the streets during the rush hours of much traffic not
there by necessity So great is this communys invest
ment good streets that several hours OF disuse day
amounts to economic waste.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-08
FJOIINDERING

Economic recupcration in Russia has been most no
table agriculture less successful in industry and least
of all in marketing. Crop production is now running
along at about pre-war level Industrial production is
reported to be approXimatng the pre-war level In
dustries like coal and oil have done WE'LL while factory
production which involves greater complexities and
skillfu management is still tagging behind 1913 But
when it to trade the failure is con-
spicuos and admitted Soviet trading methods and re-
suits are subjects of outspoken criticism from the boil
shevist press
Where any price can be asked and some ono to pay
it found it would appear there ought to be shortage
of manufactured goods. hungry market in capital
stc countries would mean booming factories. That
Russian industry under such conditions should be COM
planning of lack of money for plant and machinery
Mobilization argues that the problems of governmental
industry have not been successfully solved reports
brought home by enthusiastic If somewhat hurried
American observers would suggest
Another for the high prices is the cagerness
of the soviet administrators to show results This eager
has inspired them to 60 after profits with ferocy
that would do credit to capitalistic profiteer
Eager for the approval of their superors, meaning
promotion there has been frenzied competition among
the state business men, to make the largest profits.