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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
REASON By FF hASB1s

president HOOVER has great opportunity. He
called congress in extraordinary session to help
the farmer but instead of helping the farmer, con-
greSS has spent months in grab-fest every interest
in the country grabbing for higher tariff duty,
whether it needs it not, and now it looks as if
the whole thing would over until the winter session.
The President should hand congress a message
with the bark on it.
He should tell the statesmen on Capitol hill that
agriculture needs help while industry does not, and
that the legislative end of the government should give
the farmer all the help possible by the tariff route,
then adjourn and go home.
In such effort the President would have the over
whelming Endorsement of the country and in every
contest between the President and congress the adj
vantage is with the President for he is human being
and congress is only institution.
With the assistance of the radio, Mr. Hoover with
right on his side, would be victorious.
INDIANA will collect s17Oooooo this year from her
per cent gasoline tax and it is rumored that
certain statesmen desire to divert part of this income
from the highway department and use it for other
purposes all of which would be perverson of funds
Use the gas money to build roads and if there's too
much money reduce the gas tax.
Did you ever go into the bathroom with your
mind concentrated on Mussolini or the House of
David and start to brush your teeth with your shaw
ing cream?
We wish there were some way the of this
Chicago decorator who strangled the young girl could
be disposed of by the girls brother.
He has the proper remedy and We wish he could
apply it.
IF Captain J. K Robinson, retired. formerly chief
Il of the navy bureau of engineering and now en-
ployed by Sinclair at salary of $4,000 year, was
not loyal to his country when the oil leases made
said Robinson should be aulputated from the retired
list and his salary adjourned sine die.
We saw a flock of blacksirds big Hoover's
majority flying toward the Gulf of Mexico last night.
Very few blackbirds willing to make fires and
carry out ashes.
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debauch is all the necessary at this time, be-
cause an apparent recession in few industries al
ready is upon u.s.
industrial activity increased less in September
than is usual at this season." the federal reserve
board announced today.
Output in iron and steel declined further in Sep
teber contrary to the seasonal tendency there was
sharp decrease in output of AUTOMOBILES and auto
mobile tires and smaller than-seasonal increase ir
activity in the textile and shoe industries, which
tinued to produce at high rate in comparison with
the preceding year"
With general business conditions healthy despite
few signs of slackening in the unusually large pro-
duction of the last year. apparently the only thing
the country has to fear is tbs disrupye effect OF
another highly speculative stock market and conse-
quent crash
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26

admit that he could not have pos
sibly been convicted If tried alone.
So can anybody assert that the
Gastonia trial was just?
If it develops that the technical
record of the proceeding is without
legal flaw I must insist upon the
conception that justice Is deeper
rooted than mere conformity to cold
copybook perfection.
If it was fair to ask worker
whether she believed in personal
and protecting God it was equally
revelant to bring out the whole
sorry and tragic mess of the condi-
lions under which the hard-pressed
and exploited men and women and
children of the Gastonia mills were
compelled to labor.
If there was savagery upon the
part of the strikers in the killing OF
Chief Aderholt, this violence was in
answer not only to the threat OF
immediate violence by armed Off
cial thugs, but also the fiareup of
blind rage against long years Of OPP
preston.
It is not the custom in rough COM
munities where guns are toted to
hand out heavy sentences for hot
blooded killings where there has
been a deal of provocation.
Even If the jury was correct in
assuming that Beal fired the fatal
shot, a sentence of seventeen years
is In itself enough to betray the
bias of Judge Barnhill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
One More Step

One more indictment of Coffinism is added
by Candidate Glossbrenner who boldly and
courageously names George V. Coffin and
Coffin to control his official acts.
That is a real victory, as far as it goes.
Whether it will satisfy the voters who have
long been burdened and disgraced by Coffin's
leadership remains to be seen.
The offenses of Coffin have been very
largely political. 1t was for political crime
that DuvalI, his selection of four years ago,
was sentenced to prison. 1t was for his Sc
cret manipulations and intrigue that ne was
himself indicted and free under the statute
of limitations. 1t was a political adventure
which indicted Jackson, his Governor.
There is, of course, an easy method by
which sincerity can be demonstrated, even
if unquestioned Mr.. Glossbrenner might go
farther and demand that Coffin resign not
his city Craftsmanship, but this command OF
the Seventh district in order that there will
be definite assurance that he will never again
be in position to control and direct any part
of the government-city, state or county.
The city election commission is even now
naming special deputies and asking for spe-
cial prosecutors to prevent frauds. There IS
no question as the source of the expected at
tempts to debauch the ballot.
The control of elections, which have
aroused expectation of frauds, have been in
the past under the control of Coffin.
Why not Danish Coffin now, rather than
promise to turn the welcome mat upside
down after election?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Not ALWAYS Equal

IN this country we preach equality
4 before the law.
We do not always practice it
however, which is often to our credit
Mexico does even better by re-
fusing to accept it in theory.
The code just adopted Is designed
to make punishment fit the Grim
inal, rather than the crime, II
Mexico.
The New Mexican code is worth
studying, even if it does reject some
of our pet convictions.
Only to cite few examples, 1t
excuses the first robbery in case OF
hunger, and condones murder by
parents in case Of betrayed daugh-
ter, or by husband or wife in case
of adultery.
The purists may hold up their
hands in holy horror, but what are
the facts?
In this country we disregard age,
sex and social condition, except as
juveniles are concerned.
So far as the written law Is con-
cerned we admit no distinction.
Theoretically, millionaires, pau
pers, college graduates and idiots
dance to the same tune. and there
are few extenuating circumstances
save that of self-defense.
When it comes to actual practice
however. the story is different.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Wall Streets Headache

The crash of the stock market was the worst In
orr history. But basic industrial conditions OF the
country are sound according to the President ana
business leaders There is every reason to accept THIS
assurance as something than false courage 10
prevent panic to accept it welcome statement OF
fact.
1t is one thing however, to recognize the eSSentai
soundness of business conditions, and quite announcer
To laugh off the danger involved in repeated colapses
Of inflated markets.
The vast majority of business leaders, bankers and
economists have agreed with the warnings OF an I'M
healthy credit situation issued several times by the
federal reserve board Therefore these experts are
Of the opinion that this defation of the speculative
markets which has occurred should be helpful rather
than harmful to business by lberang credit for pro-
tuctive industry.
But, by the same reasoning any attempt TO force
the stock market up again to its speculative heights
and thus preciptate another and perhaps worse col
lapse. would be to jeopardize national prosperity.
That Intangible factor of public confidence and
security which is so important in the business world,
Is bound to suffer in the end unless Wall Street stops
these sprees When all is said and done about the
new" conditions that exist in stocks and about the
old investment rules that don't apply, it should be
clear to the most excited Spectator that in healthy
market the price Of stocks must bear some relation
TO their actual earning capacity. And corporation
heads are the first to admit this basic truth about
their stocks
quick recovery from the national speculative
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Popular Cures for Toothache Faxed

hair on Good Friday and to burn
the hair which has fallen out while
combing and inhale the fumes.
The idea is that the fumes will
cause the worm which causes the
toothache to withdraw. In Sussex.
England, a toothache cure is to put
on the right stocking before the left
and to put the right leg into the
trousers before the left.
In some parts of Germany one
puts the left foot out OF bed first
and puts on the left stocking, left
shoe and left sleeves before the
right.
A popular remedy is to hold whis-
ky in the mouth. If the nerve is
exposed the alcohol has sedatiVe
effect.
Practically every modern educated
person now knows that the teeth are
just another part of the human
body, and that a competent person
who has studied the relationships
can relieve a toothache promptly by
attacking the cause.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

and most of them depend on the
belief that the spirits of some kind
must be pacifled.
Up to. the end Of the eighteenth
century, all sorts of amulets and
taIismans were sold and worn as
remedies against toothache. Many
Of them were inyocations addressed
to the moon, to running water, to
st. Peter, or to st, Appolonia, the
patroness of toothache.
A good many of the charms were
planned to transfer the pain from
the person who had it to some other
subject or object. The old heather
holidays and procedures were grad
ually converted to Christian cere-
monies.
In western Germany it Is believed
that any one who fasts on Maundy
Thursday Is protected against tooth
ache, and Good Friday is believed to
be the best day for getting rid Of
toothache.
In Silesia people suffering from
toothache are told to comb their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
North Carolina Amuck

Nine alleged members of anti-labor mob
charged with the murder of Mrs Ella May Virgins
Gastonia textile striker have been freed by the
grand Jury The same North Carolina grand jury
freed four leaders of antlabor mob charged with
kidnapping three union organizers.
This also was the same grand jury which last July
indicted strike leaders murder of the police chief
seven of whom were convicted last week in trial
atmosphere of religious and political prejudice.
Taking the cold record of facts it begins to look
like Gastonia has one sysem of justice for members
Of labor unions and another system of justice for anti
labor mobs.
For months before the fatal shooting of the Gas
tona police chief the strikers had been the victims
OF lawlessness Officers of the law did not protect
labor in it's constitutional rights; indeed officers were
accused of inspiring some of the violence.
There was quick action, however, when the workers
answered violence with violence The strike leaders
were convicted of murder though the shots
fred.
Meanwhile, the mobs were running Wild unhln-
dered by the legal authorities. Such mob killed
Ella Virgins, an unarmed widow and mother She
was In a truck going to a legal labor meeting, when
surrounded and bombarded by mob in automobiles
All the nine men accused of her murder were
bosses and employees of the exile mills trying to
break the union Today they free without trial
The report of the grand jury in the Virgins case
uas so unbelievable that the judge at first read it as
an indictment After the judge comprehended, what
seemed to be impossible, that those accused OF Mrs
Virgins murder had been freed he told the press he
could see no reason why the grand jury did not re-
turn true bill" in both the Staying and kidnapping
cases.
The Judge added that the kidnapping case is
plain miscarriage of justice"
With the mayor of Gastonia and others said to
be boastng that the Virgins is ended about the
only feeble ray of justice is the sharp direction OF
Judge Sink to the grand jury that it still is expected
ITO clear up the murder of his woman"
Unless justice is dead in North Carolina, those
anti-labor murderers will be found and tried And the
strikers who were convicted in unfair atmosphere
win be given another trial which is fair. No state
and no country is safe when citizens can not be pro-
tected from mob rule by the courts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26

THERE was scant justice In the
Il Gastonia trial and rather less
mercy. Obviously some person OF
persons in the Union tent colony
fired the shots which killed Chief OF
Police Aderholt. It was meet and
right that an attempt should be
made to ascertain the guilty parties
and bring them to- trial.
North Carolina has not provided
a precise analogy to the Sacco-
Vanzetti case, where there was nc
question of the degree of guilt. The
good shoemaker and the poor fish
peddler were either innocent men
or murderers.
Gastonia presented a more COM
plex problem. for, admitting the
possible culpability of any or all the
defendants, there remained the is
sue of the degree Of guilt.
think it was ar evil thing to
shoot down an officer of the law in
Gastonia, but certainly the farmer
jury brushed aside the plea Of
elf-defense in hasty fashion. Such
a plea was by no means fantastic.
Subsequent events in Marion
demonstrated that mill town police
seem to consider themselves as act
ing wholly in the interest Of the
owners. They constitute a sort OF
private standing army for the bosses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Recognizes Horse Sense

THE average man Or woman is
L. stumped when it comes to
sduaring the law with common
sense, which is something else the
new Mexican code recognizes, so it
abolishes the jury system and sub
stitutes tribunal of experts.
That is another terrific jolt for
ON traditions, yet it is quite in
keeping with the idea that a certain
degree of training, experience and
special knowledge is required to fit
people for graphing with the COM
p,jcated problems of life.
When you come to think of 1t, the
Jury system is little less than pre-
posterous anachronism.
Il =
A lawyer can not try cases unless
he has studied two or three years
and passed certain examinations; a
Judge can not sit on the bench un-
less he has proved his qualification
to the satisfaction of the public.
Even a policeman can not get a job
until he has done a certain amount
of preliminary work. However, most
anything that walks on two legs Is
available for jury duty.
Not only that, but to make sure
that the jury will be as low as pos
sible in the scale of intelligence. we
exempt lawyers, doctors, ministers
school teachers, railroad men, drug
gists and several other classes. and
the jury has the final say-so, no
matter how complicated the case or
how confusing the, evidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
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E47do Akt tefT|tle'
ANNIVERSARY.
.42t1
ERIE CANAL COMPLETED
Oct. 60

TINE Erie canal, an artificial
l. waterway across New York
state, extending from Buffalo to
Albany and connecting the Great
Lakes with the Hudson river, was
completed and dedicated on Oct. 26,
1925.
On that day the first canal boat,
Seneca Chief, left Buffalo for New
York and navigation from the Great
Lakes to tidewater was established.
The canal is second in length only
to the great canal of China among
the artificial water highways of the
world.
Actual cost of the Erie canal was
s7,143, 789, but by 1886 it had turned
into the state treasury more than
that amount.
The canal was $50 miles in
length with nine miles of adjuncts
and played an important part in
the development of New York state
and contributed in large measure
to the establishment of New York
City as great port and commercial
center of the eastern coast.
Until 1882 when tolls were abol-
ished, the gross revenues of the
canal totaled 1921 ,461,8 71.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Mercy for Fall

EORMER Secretary Fall is con-
4 victed with the jury asking the
court to be merciful, lawyer faint
ing and his old friend, E. l.. Doheny
denouncing the verdict.
THE jury didn't try the case,
says Doheny; "the Judge tried it."
The ballots, as reported by the
foreman, hardly bear out this con-
clusion. The first ballot, taken with
the judges charge, the lawyers ar
gumentS and the testimony still
fresh in the jury's mind, stood
three for conviction, seven for &C
quittal and two doubtful.
The fourth ballot stood seven for
conviction and five for acquittal;
the fifth ballot, eleven for convic-
ton and one for acquittal, and it
required two more ballots for the
jury to reach a unanimous decision.
What does that show, except that
a majority of the jurors changed
their minds, and that the verdict
really was reached after they left
the courtroom.
1t sounds thrilling, but what 1t
really suggests is that one Or two
strong personalities can manhandle
the average jury, and generally do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Questions and
AnSzUerS

What Is an aquamarine?
A transparent bluish-green or sea-
green variety of beryl. These stones
come chiefly from Brazil and the
Urals.
When and where was the final
game of the 1925 world series of
baseball played?
At Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. is.
Is the retired pay of an army or
naval officer subject TO federal In
come tax?
Yes.
When was the Louisiana Purchase
exposition held?
At st. Louis, Mo, from April 80
to Dec. /, 1904.
or what sorority is Mrs. Hoover
a member?
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
How deep can divers go?
The greatest recorded depth
reached by a diver Is 306 feet.
At what weight did Luis Firpo
fight?
His fighting weight varied from
2i4 to 223 pounds. He weighed 2l4
pounds when he fought Dempsey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
1T SEEMS TO ME By Hf BRo0S

actually as much a chattel as any
slave before the days of emancipa-
ton. Had there been time or
energy for banjo music along the
streets where stood the company
shacks, these might easily have been
mistaken for the Negro cabins of
plantation days.
There are two ways in which a
slave may be chained to his occu-
patton. Shackles will do it and a
wage scale which leaves him spirit
less and penniless is equally effec-
tive.
(-onvripht 1929 nv The Times)
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NJ. E.. Tracy
When You Come to Think of
1t, Our Jury System Is
Little Less Than q Pre-
pOSterous AnachroniSm.
SAYS:

THE rumpus in Wall Street has
Il very little bearing on general
business conditions. 1t neither re-
fleets them, nor will it affect them,
except as it serves to scare folks.
twenty-five leading industrial
stocks took an average dip of forty
two points Thursday, but came back
for an average of thirty points be-
fore the market closed.
Fifty stocks, including rails as well
as industrialS, took an average dip
Of twenty-three points, and came
back for an average of seventeen
points.
Meanwhile. no serious shutdowns,
failures or retrenchmentS were re-
ported.
AS far as the country is concerned,
the result is about the same as it
would be in some small village If
the leading citizens put on a poker
bee in which several thousand dol
lars and store or two changed
hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude cf
this paper,-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
Workers Slaves

TN fact, these seven men in the
l. long prison shadows were only
incidentally tried for the death of
Chief Aderholt. They have been
convicted because North Carolina
still clings to the feudal system OF
induStrialiSm.
The mill workers of Gastonia is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of HyEcia, the
Health Magazine.

Association and of HyEeia, the
Health Magazine.
TN his consideration of popular
Il superstitions associated with the
teeth, DR.. Leo Hammer points out
that almost every one is convinced
of his own ability to cure tooth
ache.
He says that a man who made
this statement was challenged as to
its truth and proved 1t in the fol-
lowing manner: He tied a hand
kerchief around his face and sat
down at the entrance of a well-fre-
quented church on great holiday
signing and moaning and pretend
ing to have terrible toothache.
Everybody who entered the church
stopped at the sight of the alleged
sufferer and gave him advice as to
what he should do to be freed from
his pain.
There are thousands Of remedies
for a toothache, as for headache,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-26
SCIENCE
Gloomy Future Forecast for
Earth By Scientists, but
Doom Is Ages and Ages
Away.
BY DAVID DlETZ.

A GREAT sea of pitch-blacK
N empty space with here and
there a handful Of charred cinders
drifting aimlessly in the cold dark
ness. That, according to many emil
nent astronomers, is the ultimate
fate awaiting our universe.
In time, they believe the stars will
grow cold and go out. And so will
our sun. And this earth, dependent
upon the sun for its light and heat.
will become a frozen cinder, spin
ming around a cinder of sun.
The view is a glommy one and
many will prefer not to accept 1t.
Deductions about the universe are
hard to make, because it Is only
within the last twenty years that
information has begun to be &C
cumulated upon which satisfactory
deductions can be made.
1t may be, therefore. that In an
other decade the astronomers who
now hold this view will change It..
But nevertheless, it is interesting to
review the evidence upon which
they base the present view.
The current view of the fate Of
the univese grows out of the &C
copied theory for the origin of the
energy of stars and the sun. This
is that the energy of these bodies
arises from the complete annihil7 .
ton within them of very heavy
atoms.
Lighter atoms, such as exist In
the outer layers of the stars or the
sun, or such as compose this earth,
merely are the debris left from the
explosion of the heavy or lucid"
atoms, as they are called.