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Not Really a Strike

IN fact, Hooyers' speech was an
Il ill-considered speech throughout.
A public man who must make many
appearances should not be blamed
if he relies at times on platitudes.
But when he begins to fish up
ancient faIlacies, it is the business
of some bystander to say: "Mr
President, think you've hooked the
bottom
For the edifcation of the editors,
Mr.. Hoover hauled in very rusty
comrades.
perhaps" he said, "a little better
proportioned balance of news con-
corning those criminals who are
convicted and punished would serve
to instilI the fear of the law
This was the remark of a man
Woefully ignorant Of American news
paper practice. An arrest is always
q bigger story than an escape.
Reporters inevitably play along
with the police. They are chief
sources of every district man. Many
a detective has had his aStutenesS
played upon the front page when, as
a matter Of fact, he may have done
no more than blundered upon the
fugitive.
Indeed, there is an old Chinese
proverb current among New York
reporters. IF Grover Whalen
catches anybody, that's news"
And again the President dug up
that old one about the manner in
which newspapers make the Grim
inal glamorous. This has been re-
peated a thousand times. but any
editor at the table could have con-
WINGED Mr.. Hoover that it isn't so.
The President spoke of England,
where murders are much fewer. and
England issa country with dread
full illustrated press which prints a
far greater proportion. Of crime news
than is known over here.
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TN our desire TO be merciful. the
Il pendulum has swung in favor Of
the prisoner and far away from the
protection of society,"
I am sorry President Hoover SAID
that. The words do not fall grace
fully from the lips of man who
has been rated the Great Humani-
tartan. Indeed they do not fall ap-
propriately from any lips at the
present time,
In certain states culprits are
7ogged In other communities con-
victs are worked III prison camps
under the most horrible conditions.
In New York a thief made himself
liable for life imprisonment the
other day by stealing several empty
packing cases.
We are not in need of merciless
days. This country has not been
so prodigal of tenderness that 1t
must now ration it out to prevent q
famine. Herbert Hoover's careless
words will be used by all the bitter
elements to prevent and thwart pr1s-
on reform,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Build on Human FraiIty

TN the name of personal liberty
Il we demand that the palate be
tickled, even if the digestive system
is upset, and virtue, though recog-
nizing the folly of it, is willing to
turn an honest penny on the result.
A certain amount of sickness has
caused a certain number Of men and
women to enter the medical profess
sion and a certain number of hos
pitfalls to be constructed.
What would we do with the doc
tors, nurses and drug stores if
every one we're to keep we'll?
Habit, as we'll as bookkeeping, has
helped to develop our economic
system. Trade, industry and pro-
fessionalism are built to a measur-
able degree on human frailty.
Many people choose careers, or
enter particular line of business.
with the expectancy of about so
much ignorance. folly and disease.
The battle for health, virtue and
beauty receives unanimous approval,
but victory would put lot of folks
on their upperS.
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BOOTHS CAPTURE
April 26

CIXTY-FOUR years ago today
~ John Wilkes Booth, assassin
Of President Lincoln, was trapped
by soldiers in a burning barn near
Bowling Green, Va, and shot and
killed when he attempted to leap
from the hayloft and escape.
With Booth was the youthful
Herold, who was captured and later
executed for his part in the con-
spiracy.
The capture and fatal shooting
brought to an end a frenzied ma
tion-Wide search for the assassin,
which began eleven days before,
when Booth shot Lincoln in Fords
Theater, Washington
Many fanciful rumors have been
spread to the effect that the man
shot was not Booth, and that the
latter made good his escape and
lived to a ripe old age. These have
been practically disregarded by his
torians, however, as pure fiction.
Herold, q, weak character, would
not have gone to his death on the
galloWs without having disclosed the
fact that the man responsible for
his downfall was free.
According to official records,
Booths body was buried under one
Of the ground floor cells Of the old
penitentiary at Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
allure of Experts

EXPERTNESS, or specialization,
II as we call it, has done nothing
more distinctly than to create net
work Of cross purposes.
From an ideal standpoint, the OBJ
ject of every calling may be service.
From practical standpoint, its OBJ
ject is to live.
1t can not do this conscientiously
without justifying itself, developing
professional pride and creating all
sorts of excuses for its existence.
In many respects science lends
volume to the discordant chorus,
instead of clarifying the situation.
Let murderer make insanity his
defense. and you can get about as
many alienists to testify one way
as the other, unless, indeed, his af-
Fiction is SO obvious that everyone
can see it.
The same Is true with regard to
pie. racv books or ho0ch
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Schools of Crime
10 be specific, our whol

ITO be specific, our whole plan
L of handling juvenile delin-
quency has broken down. And the
trouble is not an excess of mercy.
A reformatory is finishing
school. The amateur crook comes
out an accomplished criminal. Ell
mira feeds into Sing Sing just as
Lawrenceville prepares for Prince
ton.
A few years ago Negro youth
was sent to one OF our so-calied re-
formatories. To make him confess
some infraetion Of the rules. the
authorities at the institution where
he was confined cut his back with
knives. Some years later he killed
two policemen and was sent to the
electric chair.
I talked to that man in the Toulbs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
GIanor of Chapman

OF ALL the famous criminals of
~ the last ten years, I can re-
member only one who appeared in
the news accounts as q glamorous
figure. I refer, of course, to Gerald
Chapman.
That was not the fault of the
newspapers. If the authorities had
tried to make the man romantic
they could not have succeeded more
prettily. Ali the facts Of the hanging
were in his favor.
He was at the time OF execution
the cool person in the prison. But
don't blame the press for that.
Blame capital punishment.
When you kill a man he always
has the opportunity to revenge him
self upon society by going to his
death like hero.
1t is a good thing to catch the
criminal immediately after commits
sion of the crime and t. kzg him
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r IFE grows complicated, espe-
- cially for the public. Issues
arise on every hand in which the
public not only is expected to take a
deep interest, but to help decide.
One minute, it is whether we
should enter the world court, the
next it is whether Joan Lowell wrote
a biography, or a yarn, and the
next whether Governor Huey P.
Long Of Louisiana permitted hula
hula dancer to sit on his lap.
Frivolous controversies help to re-
lieves those of a more serious char
acter, even if some of them are
mighty frivolous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
What to Dol What to EatI

DANDY used to be forbidden on
~ the ground that young stom-
achs could not stand too much
sugar.
More recently a group Of physi-
clans spread the joyful tidings that
sugar was good, that young stom-
achs needed it, and that the growth
of candy manufacturing should not
be viewed with alarm.
Just now we are being pestered
with the advice to kill our sweet
teeth by smoking cigarets.
No doubt, it is all very scientific
and very inpersonal. but the lay
man can not be blamed for wonder
ing if business pressure has any
thing to do with altering the tune.
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- David Dietz on science----
Humidity Is Important
No. 339

ITS not the heat, but the humidity. That phrase
| has become one of the bromdes of modern hot
Weather conversation.
The student Of the weather should understand the
subject of humidity. Many weather phenomena can
not be understood otherwise.
The amateur observer of the weather who wishes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
ADVANTAGE of III Health

Ut WOULD not be necessary to
Il pickle that school girl" COM
plexion if we ate exactly what we
ought.
Those foods which cause a muddy,
or blotched skin have an advantage
for some people. So, too, does
dyspepsia.
1t requires no great imagination
to picture what an awful time Ger
tain industries would have, if we
we're TO become a healthy, rosy
checked people.
Not that anyone is opposed to it,
publicly at least, but that quite a bit
of trade depends on the fact that We
will continue to eat and drink a lot
Of things which are not good for us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Science and Opinions

THERE is such a thing as scien-
L. tiflc dieting, of course, but one
finds it very hard to note where
science ends and mere opinion
begins.
One day we are informed that
water should be taken frequently
and large quantities only to learn
the next that it should be imbibed
sparingly.
One season is characterized by a
campaign to promote bathing, while
the next brings forth propaganda
against too much sun.
AS for pie, there are a lot of old
people who ate it from their youth
up just as there are a lot of old
people who take their liquor regu-
larly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Worry Over Diet

DOTATO growers worried over the
a. drive against starch, which ap-
pears to have cost them the sale of
many millions Of bushels.
If pie goes out of fashion. apple
raisers will have a similar complaint.
Trade, as we'll as dietetics, has q
bearing on the food situation. and
the question of farm relief, hinges
to some extent on what we eat and
how much.
Too scientific a diet might hurt
cosmetics. which is something else
to worry about.
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Times Readers
Voice ViezUs

The name and address Of the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
teri; not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference.
Editor Times-Safety at all times
is my policy and has been and I
think the laws are not strict enough
on any person who violates them.
Regardless of who it may be that
violates the law, he should be
punished. Not one Of fifty persons
observes the stop signs at Delaware
street and Madison avenue.
I have been very fortunate since
I have been driving a car. / never
have had an accident. I hope that
many motorists will soon wake up
and see their mistakes while driving,
before it is to late and more are
killed.
J. NJ. SEAMAN,
2135 South Pennsylvania street.
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Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
EXPERTS say that in most in
Il stances badness is idiopathic
which means that nobody knows
the reason for it.
There are all sorts of supersti-
lions about the hair, as about every
other matter in which scientific
knowledge still is lacking. Some
people believe that The hair is full
of sap and that the ends must be
sealed by smuggling or the sap will
run out.
The hair has no more sap than
q buggy whip. In most instances,
badness is hereditary and because
Of the constitutional condition the
hair is bound to fall out
Some people think that hair grows
on parts Of the body that need pro-
lection, at least from wind and
weather. There may have been a
time when hair ON the chest was
useful for this purpose.
Nowadays women without hair on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
TT SEEMS TO ME By H bRouS

a few weeks before his trial and
sentence. He was not even then
fundamentally brute and monster.
He was simply an ill-educated man
who had been frazzled into fury by
the severity Of prison practices. In
terror there lies a madness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Now It's the Big Pie Issue

WYE are all trying to be vrtuous,
w but not in too many directions
to make for effective cooperation.
DR.. William O'Shea, superintend-
ent of schools in New York, bans pie
for the kids.
1t is a matter of scientific dietet-
les, we are told, which was what
did more than anything else to kill
John Barleycorn.
If older people have right to
take a nip now and then, as most
New Workers seem to think, why
should children be derived of pie?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Rand Indian Reform

The biggest problem confronting the Senat- Indian
investigating committee is to determine what to do
with itself.
Public sentiment in regard to Indian affairs is
changing rapidly because of the constructive and ag-
gressve Indian policies adopted by the Hoover ad-
ministration.
A new secretary Of The interior determined to get
results is on the job new Indian commissioner has
been named new policies are being put into effect and
things in general are hummng along.
Secretary Wilbur struck at the heart of the Indian
problem in his recent announcement. He has formu-
lated campaign to put the Indian to work and he
has abolished the "disciplinarian' in the Indian
schools
The Indians idleness has been blamed for his lack
of qualifications as useful citizen If the Indian is
put to work and makes himself useful, rather than
an idle and expensive ward Of the government the
Indian problem will tend to disappear.
The "disciplinaran" has been responsible largely
for charge of cruelty toward Indian children at GER
tain government schools. thick leather strap and
a whip with cat o nine tails in possession of the
senate committee are mute testimony of what some
"dsciplinarans' have done to children in their
schools Abolishing the position should abolish the
idea that children must be dogged.
If anything the work of the senate committee has
been made more important by willingness OF the
Hoover administration to tackle the problem
The committee must continue to show up the sore
spots in the Indian bureau with the idea OF assisting
Wilbur and the Indian commissioner to remove from
Office those employees who have been responsible for
them.
Gene Tunney vacation companion of George
Bernard Shaw in Italy refused to discuss Shaw with
reporters. Oh. we'll, Shaw himself can take care OF
that well enough.
magazine writer asserts that if insanity con-
tnues at its present rate in 200 years there will not
be sane man or woman in the. United States. what!
Only one person going nutty every year!
Legislator 0. B. Whitaker of Missouri who lost ms
voice recently and has found it an advantage to have
to commit his sentiments paper thinks it might be
better if all legislators were dumb. But you mgh@
think from hearing them talk, that most OF them
we're.
After all the tumut and shouting. wouldn't it be
a rather sour joke on Mrs. Gam if Charlie decided
to get married?
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expeditiously. 1t is an even better
thing to catch him younger and
make him decent member of So
ciety. And that requires not less
mercy, but much more.
lCopyright. 1929. for The Tinesl
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w OO a C4lOA OuSAi
Job should add
q device for
measuring rela-
tive humidity to
his equipment
OF aneroid ba-
roneter a n d
thermometer.
There are two
ways Of meas
uring the rela-
tive humidity.
The sim p e S t
way is by means
of a hygrometer.
This is an in
S trum e n t de-
signed to meas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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have to look far 20 find these cases. Any newspaper
any day will reveal them.
We respectfully commend to the commission the
following headlines of one day:
Civic and church bodies fight police law-Charge
coal deputies murdered worker-Legslature increased
power Of private army.
Mrs bennett convicted for mailing tract
pamphlet written for her two growing sons-Judge
refuses to let social workers and physicians tell Of
using brochure Maximum penalty may be five years
in prison and $4,000 fine
professors and students ousted-Universty bans
civil liberty meeting in Pttsburgh-Dr. Barnes was
appealing for justice for Mooney, victim OF antlabor
frameup.''
Negroes demand legal rights-Want enforcement
of constitutional amendment
Deputies again rush strikers with fixed bayonets
Forty workers seriously beaten in Carolina textile
strife"
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DAILY THOUGHT

And 1 brought you into a pIen-
tiful country, TO eat the fruit
thereof and the goodness thereof;
but when ye entered, ye defiled
my land. and made mine heritage
an abomination.-Jere 81.
no you know what is more hard
~ to bear than the reverses of
fortune? 1t is the baseness. the
hideous ingratitude of man.
Napoleon.
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REASON
Dy CuCI ION LaIIU4S
PerShing Sensible IN Refusing
to Become EmbroHed Orer
French Opinion of Ho1U He
Handled A. z. F.
; BV Frederick Landis :
= ENERAL PERsHNq shows liz

GENERAL PERSHINCi shows his
" sense by refusing to discuss the
statement in the Foch memoirs that
Foch and Clemenceau were not
pleased with the way the American
commander did business.
Possibly PerShing feels that since
he has the approval Of victory.
nothing else matters.
1t appears that Clemenceau said
in October, 1918: The Americans
have not done us all the good they
should have done" Just what the
Tiger meant by this warm hearted
and unSelfiSh utterance is not clear,
as the Americans then had won
brilliant victories which saved
France and drove the iron of con-
sclouS defeat into the German heart.
Clemenceau does not specify Just
what additional service he desired
Uncle Sans embattled nephews to
render.
This criticism harks back to the
disappointment of the allies when
PerShing refused to let them use
his army for replacement purposes
and insisted that it fight as a sep
arate unit under American com
manderS.
Europe desired to use America as
a greatcoat with which to plug her
broken military window, but PERISH
ing thought otherwise
DUT for Pershing our millions of
- soldiers would have been fed
into the shattered ranks of Eng
land, France and Italy: there would
have been no distinctly American
achievement in that war and we
would have no page in its history.
We would not know how Ameri-
cans, standing alone, could face the
frightful tests of modern warfare
and the world would not have the
respect it has for the Yank.
n
This French criticism should
cause no surprise, since the history
of warfare is the history of envy
and disagreement among high COM
manderS, for while the poor devils
who do the fighting and the dying
wish only to win, the spangled
prima donnas at the head Of the
thing wish the credit for winning.
Envy and duplicity ragged among
commanders, both north and south,
during the Civil war, the high tide
Of it being reached among the sue
cessive, If not successful, command
ers of the Army of the Potomac,
whose staggering incompetence har-
assed Lincoln and exalted Lee. In
fact, Lincoln accused Hooker of
treason to his former chief in the
very letter sending Hooker his COM
mission as commander.
THIS jealousy was rampant in
a the west in the early sixties,
Grants jealous mates, unable to
endure the glory he achieved at
Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson, seek
ing to have him arrested for pursu-
ing the enemy without getting per-
mission from star shouldered su-
periors, hundreds Of miles In the
rear.
Amid the enVies and conspiracies
Of that conflict, the friendship be-
tween Grant and Sherman shines
forth as model for future patriots
of high command to follow, these
two great leaders sustaining each
other with fidelity which energies
as the finest phase Of that great
struggle, except alone the sacrifice
of the nriVatn soldier
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There Is Such a Thing as
Scientific Dieting. but One
Finds 1t Very Hard to Note
Where Science Ends and
Mere Opinion Begins.
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After all the tumult and shouting. wouldn't it be
a rather sour Joke on Mrs Gam if Charlie decided
to get married?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

This French criticism should
cause no surprise. since the history
of warfare is the history of envy
and disagreement among high COM
manders, for while the poor devils
who do the fighting and the dying
wish only to win, the spangled
prima donnas at the head Of the
thing wish the credit for winning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

A magazine writer asserts that if insanity con-
tnues at its present rate in 200 years there will not
be sane man or woman in the United States. What
Only one person going nutty every year!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

Gene Tmney, vacation companion OF George
Bernard Shaw in Italy, refused to discuss Shaw with
reporters Oh well, Shaw himself can take care OF
that well enough
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBETN

Editor Journal OF the American Medica
Association and of HyKeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-30

HIS HAS HAfFtNtD
MILDRED LAWRENCE meets STE
PHEE AKMITAGE when he rescues her
fox fur from a thief Their friendship
grows unIi PAMELA JCDSOS. alghter
Of Mildred employer. tries 70 lure him
away from her HCCE CCNSOR be-
comes infatuated with Pamela and she
plays both men. Her brother. HAROLD.
is ~ love with Mildred who tries %
keep him from gambling with Hucks
crowd.
When Stephen continues seeing
also turns Stephen against her LT say
lag that she IS irving 20 marry Harold
for his money Bitter az Mildred. Ste
paen permits Pamela 20 me1cIFer him
into an engagement when she tells aim
that Us tho only way she can 5-eaE with
Huck.
Huck commands Harold 20 prevent
Pame.a'S marriage under fear o. ex-
posure concerning a forged check.
Harold says he can't force Pamela so
Huck plans % dispose OF Stephen lie
has one a. his GAM frame him for steal
Ing trm car, and the detective az
rests MIN after finding O roll o. bills. a
gun. ana The auto keYs which have been
planted Ia his room.
stephen calls Harold and asks him
to bring Pamela 10 his cell. She re-
fuses % 20 or even send q word OF
aympathT ana Stephen Is in despair.
But as soon as Mildred reads Of his ar
resi- she goes 10 see him and promises
70 try and free him but vii not saw
how. She begs Harold to tell her what
hold Huck has over him and 70 heln her
Gear stephen bat he da.es not Soon
she has another worry when q threat
comes 70 her over the phone
NOW 90 on WITH THE STORY
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Who is Porto Rico governed?

The supreme executive authority
is vested in and exercised by the
governor general appointed by the
President of the United States with
the advice and consent Of the United
States senate. The people elect
their own legislatures.