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The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Police Murderers

John Barcoski is dead Police are charged with
his death Not that Barcoski was desperate crlnl'
nal He wasn't a criminal at sll. There was not even
a charge against him. AS his wife said between soOS'
He never did nothing to nobody"
Such things OF course, not supposed to be pos
sible in America. But the mystery clears somewhat
when this police murder is localized. In the first
place Barcoski was foreigner" and miner Inat
is he was the member of class which gets the least
Justice in this country.
In the second place he lived in Pennsylvania, where
his class gets even less justice than elsewhere In the
third place his alleged murderers were OF the notorl-
Gus coal and iron police who operate on the theory
that they are above the law and usually get away
with it.
Two weeks ago coal and iron police at Imperial,
Pa were beating another miner in connection with
an alleged search for liquor. Barcosk came out OF
house belonging to the Pittsburgh Coal Company to
see what was going on, and the police promptly set
upon him.
He then was carried to the police barracks There
A police lieutenant, according to witnesses, took an
iron noker and finished the job of beating the nno
cent miner to death.
This is not the first such police murder in that dis
trct But fortunately this time Ghere has been great
outburst of public indignation. As result the lieu
tenant and his two police accompceS have been sus-
pended and are to be tried for murder the Governor
has denounced the crime and bills have been intro
duced in the state assembly to reform the police
system.
The only way to reform the coal and iron police
is to abolish them Even this country we're under
car and military dictatorship, there would be no
place for such terrorist organization.
The Pennsylvania state police do enough to mill
tarze the state during labor disputes without the aid
of this irregular band For these 5000 coal and iron
police are in fact the personal army of the ccal COM
panies by whom they are paid The Governor COM
missions but can not control them
Brutality and lawlessness of the coal and iron
police have been attested by United States senate in
vestgating committees by newspapers, by cergymen
and by many neutral agencies reporting on Pennsyl-
vania districts where civil liberties guaranteed by the
constitution are dead
Punishment of these Barcosh murderers will do
little good unless the state wipes out their terrorist
organization
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Times Readers Voice Vie1gS

interfere with their high-handed
method of holding UP the people
on prices. Legally, you under
stand" it would curb the free rein
they have in this state. If the
municipality owned plants were out
from under the Jurisdiction Of the
public service comn1ission-"anoth-
er misnomsr they would be able
to reduce rates to the people. This
would be competition that is not
satisfactory to the private owned
utilities.
We have number of municipality
owned plants in the state. Some
have petitioned the commission for
a reduction of rates, but were re-
fused. Why? Was it because the
best interests of the people were
conserved by paying high rates? Or
the interests of the utility corpora
tions2
If the ownership of public utilities
is a good thing for few people,
then surely it would be good for all
the people to own them. Voters Of
Indiana, how long are you going to
remain the docile dupes Of the poll
ticians and utility overlords with
out raising your voice? Put these
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Blue Laws

Granted that the member who introduced
the measure into the legislature for the revival
of blue laws is sincere, the wisdom of such
course at this time when there are much more
serious problems not solved by that body may
be questioned.
It is proposed to make it a crime to dance or
play pool on Sunday.
That these practices are lamentable may be
conceded That vast numbers OF citizens are
shocked, may be true That those young enough
to dance or play pool might be more prottably
or more decorously engaged will be readily ad-
mitted by their elders.
Yet every page of history shows that efforts
to make either old or young moral by law
has been tragic failure, breeding greater evils
than those they try to cure.
The measure is bad in that it attempts to
make sin, if it be sin, crime 1t places upon
the state the burden of punishment which even
in the days of the Puritan ascendancy was
largely left to the prospect of eternal fires.
This country has found trouble whenever
it has attempted to 60 beyond outrages against
society as a whole in its lists of crimes.
There are acts that are purely within the
realm of personal conscience. There are others
that are distinctly criminal.
If there be widespread disregard for Sun
day observance, the cure lies not in law, but IN
a greater influence Of those forces which have
deep regard for that day. The suggestion that
a law is needed is confession that these
forces have lost their influence upon the youth.
If that be true no threat of force can restore It,
Of course the measure will furnish an abb
to many members who have outraged their
constituents by voting for easier election
frauds for machine control of politics, for the
plundering of the public through gratis OF
various kinds, through the protection OF crime
in high places, through servitude to the suave
lobbyists for corporations who understand how
easy it is to rob by law.
That will be it's whole use. These unfaithful
servants will welcome chance to vote Tor such
law in order that they may go back home and
use it to distract attention from their acts OF
perfidy.
If passed. the law will be just another of
those measures which are disregarded and
openly violated. 1t will furnish new avenues OF
plunder for the grating official, new weapon
of oppression, new method Of distributing
machine protection
Blue laws belong to period long since past.
They went out with tie Revolution and the
adoption of the Constitution.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Reason

xxTE constantly hear that things
w were better in older
davs, vet one hundred years ago
John quincy Adams was preparing
to leave the presidency in cloud
of disappointment and resentment
before the incoming Andrew Jack
son.
Instead of the complete conf
dence and sympathy existing be-
tween President Coolidge and Her
bert Hoover, Adams and Jackson
hated each other violently.
Adams left Washington in a gale
of malice to avoid meeting Old Hick-
ory, who openly had accused Adams
of dishonesty four years before,
when he had been chosen president
over jackson by the house OF rep
resentatives.
This Denver gentleman, who
offers Mr.. Coolidge $4,000 per an
mum to become editor of his news
paper, proves again that If one
would reach the top in any business,
he must master that business.
This Denver gentleman never
would have made this offer had not
Mr.. Coolidge spent his entire life
in the newspaper business, starting
as printers devil and slowly working
his way up, mastering every detail
on the way.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Sentimental

MISS WARNER is sentimental as
4V1 we'll as whimsical. These quaE-
ties seem always to go hand in
hand. 1t never is the cynical or the
tragic-minded who provide the
world with it's great bulk of defeat
ist literature
The sentimentalist makes by far
the most complete and abject
surrender, for he finds the world
and all its works so impossible to
deal with that he must turn his back
and create a new one for himself.
But even when Sylvia Townsend
Warner gets off the line, she always
has the chance to come back again
with one or two good shots, because
she is SO sure a master of the Eng
lish language.
Such harshness as has crept into
this review is by more than shade
ungrateful. 'Mr. Fortunes Maggot"
seemed to me a close try for per-
fection and "Lolly Willowes" was no
slouch either, even though it weak
ened in its later chapters.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26


any attendant planets. Then, they believe, great
catastrophe overlook the sun. Something happened
to the sun which caused gigantic eruption Of ma
terial out of the sun, eruption great that an
earthly volcano in action would seem like the feeble
Pickering of match in comparison 1t was in that
great eruption that the earth and the other planets
had their genesis.
This theory for the origin of the earth was first
proposed by DR.. F. R. Moulton OF ChirAgo sud the
late DR. T. c. Chamberlin. 1t is frequently referred
to as the Chamberlin-M -Moulton theory.
According to this theory our sun had existed for
billions of years moving through space like he other
stars in the universe And then 1t happenacl
The chance movements of the stars throllgh space
caused large star to pass too close to our I The
effect upon our sun tremendous.
The gravitational pull of the passing star raised
great tides in the hot gaseous surface OF the sum- Just
as the moon now raises tides in the oceans OF the
earth.
The tides in the sum- however must have been oil
lions of times larger than The ocean tides.
They so great that all the material could not
settle back into the sun again. Vast amounts OF ma
teral torn out of the sun, great eruptW waves
This material due to the rotation OF the sun on its
axis. began to revolve around the sun.
In time it began to cool and condense.
1t was out of this material Chamberlin and
Moulton believe, that the earth and other planets
were formed. gS
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
What Men Can Do

XXTHO says we have grown con-
wv servatiVe, or lost our irnagina-
ton: that science lacks poetry; that
this age of materialism is without
vision and ideals?
Who believes the full dinner pail
has made us too content for original
thinking, much less hard work?
Who shouts that prosperity is
robbing us of our vitality, that we
are slowly degenerating because of
luxury and that we will soon peter
out through lassitude?
Let them travel through the desert
to Black Canon and be answered, or
if that is not enough, let them OBJ
serve how roads have been built
through it, how autos purr along al
forty miles an hour in perfect safe
ty. where men we're dying for lack
OF food and drink three generations
ago: how air beacons blaze every
fifteen miles and landing fields have
been located every fifty or so.
More than anything else, perhaps,
the American desert shows not only
what men can do. but what they
are doing.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26

would ordinarily expect. In the first
place the shoes of 1858 high school
girls were examined as to their type
and measure.
The feet we're measured and ex-
amined for the presence Of defects
and footprints we're taken.
One hundred and sixty-seven
senior girls we're photographed in
silhouette and diagrams were made
of the back. X-ray pictures were
made of the normal and defective
feet with and without shoes and OF
the position of the feet when both
low and high heels were worn.
Among forty-two girls wearing
high heels, thirty-six had the neck
bent forward. thirty-two had pro-
truding abdomens, and all had a
narrow curve between the shoulders
and the hips. The X-ray picture
showed that the pelvis was tilted at
a forty-degree angle.
When extremely high heels were
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
FIRE EATERS OF OLD
FROM THE DEVIL UP
FIGHTING THE GNATS

GONE gentlemen with a leaning
- toward statistics and fear that
ENGLAND is too powerful in the house
and senate at Washington points
out that go per cent of our states
men have a strain Of English blood
in their veins.
Yet when the whole population
of the United States was 80 per cent
English we had two wars with John
Bull.
Those New York women were very
foolish who permitted Gamma Wal
ska to use them for scenery when
she paraded to the New York legis-
lature to make an appeal for wom-
ans rights, her purpose being to
escape the payment of duty on
jewelry brought in when she came
from Paris.
II It n
The Inauguration of Mr.. Hoover
shall be broadcast to us and four
years hence teleYls1on Will bring the
whole performance into the homes
of the people.
This is the greatest age in which
to live and it is the greatest re-
gret to think of having to die and
miss the greatest show ever pro-
duced-the progress Of the human
race.
It's just getting good.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Rare Beauty

IT is whimsical, it is even arch and
l. and yet 1 must admit that it
contains great patches of rare
beauty. Miss Warner is blessed or
cursed with one OF the most ex-
quisite prose styles which flows
down to the sea.
1t is blessing when she sets out
to picture for us marsh-land farm
upon Il misty morning. But she is
betrayed by her own abilities when
she undertakes to spin sweet as
syrup story about a lass who loves
an idiot.
1t seemed to me that the heroine
herself was not quite bright, and yet
l could not help a fair amount of
horror when Sylvia Townsend War
ner began to coo about the sanctity
of such a union. OF course somebody
will tell me that I'm the dull witted
one.
That, to be sure, is not such a
long shot, but II hear that er-
ratio Eric of 1.-THE True Heart" is
really only symbol of something or
other, I intend to toss in my chips
and quit the game.
No one but Sylvia Townsend War
ner could make the plot of The
True Heart" in any way compatible
and possible. She does not miss the
effect which she desires by any mile.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Desert of the Colorado

TINE basin of the Colorado is a
l. desert about the size of Texas
and trimmed with snow-capped
mountains. Many a good-sized
stream enters it only to get lost
amid the thirsty wastes. The Colo
rado might share this unhappy fate
did it not flow at the bottom pof
a gorge which is mile deep in
some places.
The annual rainfall does not
average more than ten inches over
the entire basin. In certain sections,
it is less than five.
Once it has gathered UP it's noun
tain torrents and become a real
river, the Colorado wanders through
such an eXpanse of desolation as
can be matched only In a few re-
gions of the world.
The desert that flanks it for hun
dreds of miles on either hand is
worse than flat. 1t is a place of
stark and sterile mountains, with
wide valleys and lake beds between,
through which the wind whistles
and Sandstorns rush. The noun
tains are of black volcanic Stag,
red sandstone, gray granite and
lighter colored agglomerates, tossed
up with inexplicable promiscuity.
The slopes of the valleys are for
the most part gently deceiving. One
often can rise a thousand feet in a
few miles without realizing he has
left level ground.
The lake beds resemble nothing
so much as enormous tennis courts,
especially when seen from dis
tance.
The desert is not a formation, but
a state of the land; nature in COM
plete undress; with everything that
can be found elsewhere, same
foliage. It's only secret is lack of
water.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
- -
By
Frederick
lands

w DESIRING to anchor himself
IL firmly in the history of the
republic, Mr.. Coolidge urges that
the nations let us into the world
court and that congress appropriate
$4,000 to fight gnats in California,
the second recommendation being
much more important than the first.
= q
This Boston woman who claims
she has lived to be 100 years old
because she has hated men, reminds
lis that Bismarck said that in order
to enjoy perfect health he needed
a certain German politician to hate
+ 4 y
Germany doesn't want Trotzky
to enter her domain, and for good
reason, but it is natural for Trotzky
to feel that Germany loves him, for
she arranged for him and Lenin to
enter Russia during the World war
and upset that government-and
they did the job completely.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Applause

HEREIN 1.-THE True Heart" there
4 4 is much to applaud. Upon the
very first page I found the magnii-
Gently swift picture of Warburton
distributing prizes to the female
orphans.
1T was extremely hot. The pa
tronesses unbuttoned their kid
gloves and famed themselves, and
as girl followed girl, Mr.. Warbur-
tons words of commentator be-
came more and more fragmentary,
and the gesture with which he
handed over The prize suggested
not so much bestowal as disencum-
brance."
A pretty wit will take an author
far and there is JOY and gladness
for all those who have the skill TO
turn a phrase and do 1t rapidly
from the wrist.
And yet I wonder II the novel is
not form which belongs primarily
to more numbering people. Certain
ly in any story which approaches
greatness there must be a vast
amount of wheeling and great
beads of sweat.
Truth is generally to be found at
the center Of a forest and the heW-
ers of wood win reach their goal
more surely than agile folks who
merely skip around in sunny glades.
I hope that in her next book
Sylvia Townsend Warner will be
good and let who will be clever,
Copyright. 1923. for The Times
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26

men on record as they voted, so
you viii not forget who they are
representing.
According to reports, the State
Chamber of Commerce also took a
hand in this fight, aiding the utility
lobbyists. Wei, from my survey
Of the situation and conditions now
existing In the state, there Is much
more valuable work for the Cham
ber Of Commerce TO be doing, II It
is made up of the element Of cit
liens who have civic pride and are
vitally interested in the progress
and well-being Of the common
wealth.
Whenever an organization lines
up with the Insul interests as
against the people. whether 1t be in
city or state, just that soon has that
organization become a detrinent to
progress.
MRS. EMMA HENRY.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Posture Is Factor i'm Choosing Shoes

as to posture, improvement began
at once, so that 81 per cent of the
girls had improved in their choice
of shoes and IA per cent had I'M
proved in the condition Of their feet
year after the study had been
completed.
It is remarkable how the human
being will sacrifice comfort, health,
and even beauty for style. Appar-
emily the problem for the sociolo-
gist Of the future is to persuade
manufacturers Of clothing and pro-
moters of style to consider human
health and beauty before develop
ing extraordinary notions.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
M. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"Bodder DGm-G Desert
Coming to. the Rescue of
Orchards and Truck
Patches, 200 Miles AaOGy."
d IvERsIDE, Cal, Feb. 26.-Back

D IVERsIDE, Cal. Feb. 26.-Back
IN on the sunset side of the
Sierras once more, though not
very far, since this town is
less than forty miles west of the
summit of Cajon Pass, through
which one climbs the mesa, or high,
drab plain, just beyond them.
The palms and orange trees cer-
tainly look good after two days of
dust. Even the scrub oak and giant
cacti that sprinkle the mesa looked
good.
1t is incongruous that 7ne should
travel 300 miles through such bleak
Sterility to find the greatest river in
the southwest and the greatest dam
site in the world.
1t is even more incongruous that
the coastal cities of southern Cali
fornia, nesting among their green
lawns. gardens of gold courses,
should be looking in such place
for their water supply.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Fellowship i'm Prayer

They forget how once they also
thought as child and spake as a
child. with a little more patience
and a little less temper, gentler
and wiser method might be found
in almost every case"
PRAYER: o Father of men, we
pray for all parents that they may
have a deepened sense Of their re-
sponsibility for the Christian nurture
of their children; and. realizing that
a child's first thoughts Of God come
through the teaching and example
Of father and mother, may they so
live the Christian life that their
children may be drawn to the Fa-
ther in heaven. Amen.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26

worn, the muscles in the upper leg
were not exercised, while those in
the lower leg we're over-exercised,
and the shape of the leg was spoiled
by having the muscles pushed to the
back of the calf.
In every instance the posture of
the girls was better in bare feet
than in high heels, and in every
instance when a girl had one hip
and one shoulder high, she was
found to have an overdeveloped foot
on the opposite side.
When changes were made in the
shoes and correct instructions given
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
I I
SEEMS
TO ME
BY HEYWOOD
BROUN

.COD must love the whimsical
~ because he lets them write so
many novels. Or possibly he merely
numbers them as swallows and
waits with divine patience until
they fall to earth.
There is no form of literature as
slippery as fantasy. This is my con-
ISOLATION when the thud of elfln
footsteps is heard upon the page.
The antics and the prankS OF the
little people cause sharp pains in
my spine. Grimly wait and wade
through all things quaint, for it is
my notion that sooner or later they
must fall down. l like to hear them
go boom, but it is even better when
they go bye-bye.
think it would be fine if no one
wrote any more cute novels until
the century has had fair time to
turn.
The True Heart" by Sylvia
Townsend Warner, is quaint.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
This Date i'm
U. S. History
February rs

February rs
l635-First legislature convened In
Maryland.
1633-CongreSsional Temperance
Society founded in Washing
ton.
1857-Steamship Tempest, with $50
on boarS sailed and was
never again heard from.
l9O1-Eight- hour day law declared
unconstitutional in New York.
1eO5-Engineer committee of the
Panama Canal commission
recommer ded sea-level canal
at cost of $3.50 500, 900.
Ie07-Major Goethals appointed
chief engineer Of Panama
canal construction.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26

Gently described IN
this department.,
have been aban-
doncd by modern
scientists.
Scientists today
assume that our
sun came into ex-
istence at the time
that the other
stars of our galaxy
were evolyed-per-
haps from a par
ent spiral nebula
and that our sun
existed for billions
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26

What was "the abomination
tariff?
The high tariff OF 1924 on wooden
and cotton goods imported from
England was given that epithet. At
that time the United States did
not produce sufficient amounts Of
these materials to supply the de-
mand and there was an outcry
against the high duty because It
raised prices in this country inor IL
nately.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
Topic for the Week
'IENT AND MY HOME

Memory Verse for Tuesday
Fathers, provoke not your chill
dren to anger, lest they be discour-
aged" (Colossians 3:2D. Read;
Colossians 3:14 to 21)
MEDITATION: Patience is the
first virtue of a parent. How often
We have seen children alienated
from the love and piety OF the home
by the austere and exacting sever
ity of parents! These misguided
parents love their children, but they
expect too much and they demand it
too soon.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-26
A Senator Takes His Time

The senate Indian investigation may be stopped.
Senator Frazier chairman of the Indiana nvestigat
ing committee, is not fighting as he should for ad-
ditional funds.
Frazier has permitted his appropriation to drag
along until the final week Of the session, when any
moment it may become hopelessly submerged by a
legislative JAM
JThe senator surely knows that the only way to
get action in the senate is to fight for it the floor
The Indian inquiry must go 1t is necessary and
it is doing good work.
Senator Hayden has announced he no longer will
object to the funds being voted but Frazier has let
several days pass, trying to bring the resolution UP
on the floor.
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on request will not be puDuSneQ. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words VIII receive
preferences.
Editor TimeS-The one bill that
has been introduced in the house OF
representatives that was of vital in
terest to the people of Indiana, was
killed by utility vote. 1t was the
McKesson-Murden bill, providing
that municipalities may establish
utility plants in competition with
corporation utilities and removing
the municipality owned plant from
supervision of the public service
commission.
Just why did the utility lobbyists
make such a strenuous effort to kill
the bill in committee? 1t was
brought into the house by a vote
of Z for indefinite postponement
and 3 against. This bill in my
opinion meant more to the people
than any other bill that has been
introduced. With its passage the
people would have been the bene-
ficiaries. That is why the utility in
terests had it smashed.
The powerful utility interests
wanted it killed because 1t would