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wind dies down and the temperature drops bit as
the clouds obscure the sun.
There is an uncomfortable feeling of tension in
the air.
Professor Willis L Milham of Williams college has
written splendid description Of Thunderstorm He
says
The thundershower comes nearer and the big
cumulus clouds with sharp outlines rise like domes
and turrets one above the other.
Just beneath the thunderheads is the narrow, tur-
bulent bluedrab Squall cloud. The patches OF cloud
are now falling rising, moving hither and
thither as if in great connection. Beyond the squal
cloud is the dark rain cloud, half hidden from view
by the curtain of rain.
The thunderheads and squall clouds are now Just
passing overhead. The lightning flashes the thunder
rolls big patterng rain drops begin to fall or perhaps
instead of these damage-causing haistones.
The gentle breeze has changed to the violent out
rushing squat wind blowing directly from the storm
and the temperature is dropping if by magic
Soon the rain descends in torrents, shutting on
everything from view
After a time the wind dies down but continues
from the west northwest the rain decreases in in
tensity; the lightning flashes follow each other at
longer intervals.
"An hour or two has passed; it is growing lighter
in the west; the rain has almost stopped. Soon the
rain entirely the clouds break through and be-
come fracto curluus cirriform; the temperature
rises somewhat; but il is still cool and pleasant; the
wind has become very light and has shifted back to
the southwest south
Nov the donles and turrets of the retreating
shower are visible in the east; perhaps rainbow
spans the sky, the roll of the thunder becomes more
distant: the storm has passed. and all nature is
refreshed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
Lowman and a Killer

Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury Lovman is
prohibition boss He is not as he seems TO think also
Judge and jury.
Last Saturday night J. White customs patrol
man. shot and killed Henry Virkula near Interna-
tional Falls MINI. Vrkua was riding with his wife
and children No liquor was found in the car by the
agent according to all reports that have been made
public. It was not case Of the agent shooting in
.self-defense. according to these reports.
Instead Of cooperating in the indictment Of
White who apparently violated the government orders
against the use Of firearms except in self-defense
Lowman now announces that White was acting with
in his authority under the law
LoVnan has assumed to try the case Of his own
agent. finding him innocent.
Instead Of indcting the man who did the killing
Lowman ndicts the press He says the press reports
we're highly colored.
That is rather a serious thing. What are Low
mans proofs? He won't give them. He won't show
the report Of his Investigators upon which he clears
White and blackens the press.
But Lowrnan does not stop there.
If the local authorities 90 ahead with their
threatened murder indictment against White, Low
man says he will have the case transferred to the
federal courts. Then presumably the government
will try itself and find itself innocent That is what
happened in the Hanson case when government
agents shot motorist on the Buffalo road.
Whether White is innocent Of crime or guilty, we
can not know without fair trial But We refuse to
accept Lowman as Judge and jury.
Lowman says the press reports were colored. That
is a cowardly charge unless Lowman honorably will
give the public the facts upon which he bases his
statement.
We are tired Of having prohibition officials try to
clean themselves by smearing the press Every time
hooy7
coming thick and fast this month-the prohibition
authorities want the public to laugh it off, on the
theory that the press exaggerated the story.
AS a matter OF fact, it is rather difficult to ex-
aggerate a killing If the man is dead, he is dead
Unfortunately for Lowman and his kind, the facts
as carried by the press in these dry killings have been
substantiated almost without exception.
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President VS.. Politicians

The politicians are punching up on the President
It is the same old story-patronage.
Most of these battles the President has won. He
picked his own cabinet. That was bad enough from
the politicians point of view. But they thought aztec
that they at least would be able to pluck the lesser
plums 1t hasn't worked that way Except for strictly
local appointments the President has been pretty
much his own boss
Moreover the political leaders of yesterday have
been falling at rapid rate. Whether by luck or de-
sign, many OF the Hoover political liabilities dis
appearing There was the OF Mann, the would-be
boss of the new Republican south. After Mann, Mrs
Mabel Walker wilebrandt assistant attorney general
and dry enforcement boss, dropped out. Then DR..
Work chairman Of the Republican national COM
mittee.
Now Machod. Republican state chairman of New
York, is going
But it is not all 50 easy for the President. Espe-
ciaily in the matter OF judicial appointments, the
politicians are backing him against the wall
Hoover has the notion-a very queer one to GER
tain potcians-that the judiciary is one thing that
should be divorced from political favoritism. So he
horried them at the start by picking a Democrat
william D Mitchell as his attorney general Re-
Gently he made Charles Evans Hughes Jr. OF New
York who has no place in the state machine, United
States solicitor general.
In Kansas Pennsylvania and other states thN
President and his encouragement have been strug-
Cling against the state political machines and con-
eressional delegations over appointments TO the fed
eral bench Though the President has Won in New
York and created an impasse in Kansas he has lost in
Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania struggle has been going on for
several weeks AL major state bosses, including Sena-
tor Reed Governor Fisher, National Committeeman
Atterbury, National Committeewoman worthington
and ", L. Mellon insisted on the nomination of Al
bert L Watson of Scranton as federal judge. Attor-
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i l. OLI1V1O / ~ 1V1L BROUN

CALAMITY accepted the necessity Of
making themselves over.
We travel now in rumble seats
and soon we will all fly. Ground
area, accordingly, becomes a vital
thing. The miss of today may oc-
cupy only half as much space as
her grandmother would have re-
quired.
In a covered wagon there was
more scope for the old-fashioned
figure. Indeed, upon the western
plains, it even may have been es-
sential each passenger should be
personally upholstered.
We live now in an age of move
on and over. The race is to the
slim. And a good thing, too, for
would not like to rest the argument
for the boyish form wholly upon
materiaIistic grounds.
AesthetiCism demands the long
and almost curveless line. Even the
conservative Henry Ford had to bow
and make another model to meet
the demand for the new style Of
beauty. Nor is it fair to speak, as
many do, as if the flapper we're a
type never before known to the
world.
Unfortunately, the Venus de Milo
has been responsible for the notion
the old Greeks considered amplitude
a necessary adjunct of beauty. The
Greeks we're far too free ever to fix
upon one single type. Athens knew
no standardization in philosophy Or
f7cr11ras
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Extensive Brain Use EnlargeS Head

determine the condition of profess
sors, measured 100 members of the
National Academy of Sciences, all Of
whom are recognized as high class
brain workers.
He found that these men were
not interiors, but in general super
ior in physique, strength, health and
longevity to the old American types,
Moreover, the heads of these
men actually did exceed in size not
only the heads of the public at
large, but even those of we'll edu-
Gated and professional persons of
old American classes.
In other ways, the highly talented
men of science conformed physically
to the races from which they were
descended, such as German, Rus
sian, Italian, or other groups.
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Calling an Officer

THOSE who want to see the. en-
l. forcement Of prohibition made
more difficult will be pleased, but
that is not the important point.
Brief stated, this decision i'm
plies not only that the right war
rants must be issued in all caseSe,
but that they must be issued to
the right officers by the right mag
iStrates.
In other words, law enforcement
has become a highly specialized
calling, with each group assigned to
some particular job. The law is
out of luck if it fails to call an Of
flcer with the right sign on his hat.
So, too, is the citizen.
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The Senate and the Farmers

Administration forces have defeated the western
senators the debenture plan Of farm relief. The
farm bill now goes to the President as he desired it,
without that subsidy provision for the agricultural
report surplus.
This is a victory for economic sanity and sensible
government-theoretcaly. For the debenture plan
was an open attempt to help one group at the ex-
pense of the population whole; it class legis-
lation.
But that is not the entire story. The debenture
plan can not be weighed accurately alone, in a
political vacuum. It an evil but evil which
the farm group was trying to use to counteract an
other evil.
The farmer has been Vctimized by the high pro-
tective tariff on industrial products which creates
wide price gap between what the farmer sells and
what he must buy. Hence his efforts to close the gap
to obtain economic equality with other industries
If manufacturing and shipping industries are to
continue to receive indirect direct subsidies at the
expense of the farmer, sermon on the iniquity of
subsidy is no answer to the farmers demand for the
same sort Of privileged treatment accorded Other
industries.
Defeat Of the debenture farm subsidy is there
fore an added reason why President Hoover should
refuse to let certain manufacturing interests increase
their indirect subsidy through the higher protective
tariff BILL which has passed the Repubican-conrolled
house and is before the senate committee.
That bill is the worst tariff steal in our history.
1t is shameless picking of the pockets of American
consumers. 1t is an unscrupulous violation of the
Republican campaign pledge Tor limited tariff adjust
ment.
There is less excuse for industrial tariff subsidy
increase than for a debenture farm subsidy
The farm subsidy has been killed. The larger in
dustrial subsidy should be killed
The senate still can do that for the farmers.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

him of tiny body and tremendous
head, wearing thick lenses because
of his e2r-sightedness and eye
strain, and utterly incapable Of any
thing in the way of physical per-
Torrance. There has, however,
come about a considerable change
in recent years.
In the first place, the nations
sport has changed from the strenu-
Gus activities of the past, such as
baseball and tennis to the milder
golf and there has come a general
recognition of the value of mild
exercise and outdoor life for happi-
ness and longevity.
There is hardly a college or uni
versity in the country today that
has not its golf course adjacent.
Recently, Hrdlicka, in order to
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FRANKLIN'S KITE
June Is

.ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY
~ SEVEN years ago today, on
June is, 1852, Benjamin Franklin
performed his famous kite expert
ment to prove that lightning and
electricity arc one and the same
thing.
If the experiment had failed
Franklin's excellent reputation
among his contemporaries updoubt-
edly would have been ruined. He
put off making the experiment for
some time because he feared that it
might fail and make him a laugh
ing stock.
Finally, however, he flew his
specially built kite over his home
during a thunderstorm and the re-
suit added electrical engineering"
to his long list of accomplishments.
The kite was made Of cedar strips.
covered with silk. To its top was
attached slender copper wire. A
silk ribbon-a -conductor-he
attached TO the end Of the kite
string and where the string and silk
Joined, metal key.
First, the lightning made the loose
ends Of string bristle. Then, Frank
lin placed his finger on the key and
felt a shock.
AS rain wetted the string, the in
tensity was increased and Franklin
captured enough electricity to fill
his Leyden jar.
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CALAMITY

THROUGH it may be ungallant, I
n must urge against Fraulein
Goldarbeiter the fact her hair is
not bobbed. A woman with long
hair is not necessarily a trump. She
may be attractive after a fashion,
as long as she keeps her hat on and
behaves herself, but there is not a
head in all the world which may
not be improved by bobbing. am
not stating a theory but a fact.
The crovning glory of any beauty
is the shape of the head and if a
young woman destroys the natural
contours of the skull with great
masses Of hair how can anybody
make up his mind about her con-
volutions
To be sure, there are other curves
to be considered. The judges in
Galveston required the competitors
to parade in evening frocks and then
in bathing suits.
The news accounts are somewhat
deficient in detail but I think
know what they are driving at when
they say Miss Goldarbeiter is a
wholly feminine type"
The reporters in their discreet
way mean to convey the fact that
the girl has hips.
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KTHILE the east has been fritz
w tering away it's attention on
trifes like prohibition and the tariff,
the southwest has undertaken to
settle an issue of great weight.
News comes from Galveston that
Lisle Goldarbeiter of Austria, has
won the crown of Miss Universe"
Two thousand in cash goes with the
title.
No issue is ever settled until 1t is
settled right and in spite Of the de-
cision of supposedly competent
judges, I refuse to admit Miss Gold
arbeiter is the most beautiful wo-
man in all the world.
1t is true I have not seen the
woman from Vienna, but pictures in
the paper disclose two striking
faults.
Miss Goldarbeiter is brunei and
a wise and ancient tradition holds
that the golden apple invariably
must go to a blond The issue was
fought out in the Trojan war and
settled, had supposed, for all time.
Helen, who launched the ships,
had yellow tresses with just a touch
OF red. Cleopatra is one of the few
hrunets who has lived in literature
There is no denying the fact she
was raven black, but many of the
commentators have begun to I'M
earth the information Cleopatra
was not really beauty at all. She
was a good conversationalist and
even better listener.
1t was not her face or figure, but
the slow Egyptian drawl which faS-
cinated Caesar Antony.
When the great conquerer under
took to tell her Gaul was divided in
three parts she would lean forward
and say ooh, yeah" in such way
as to convince him she really cared.
And it was in this manner that the
commentaries came to be written.
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Bogus NobI0n0Gn

VOU can count that day lost
l. when the police do not pick up
a bogus nobleman somewhere in
this country.
It all goes back to the infatuation
of American girls for titled hus-
bands.
Craze for the genuine article
makes room for counterfeits.
At first, Ernest Woodin, posed as
a Texas rancher. then as a graduate
Of the Naval Academy.
1t did not work, so he transposed
himself into Count Cereco of Cast
ille," and won the hand of Eleanor
A. Roger, a pretty bookkeeper in
Manchester.
He was identified and arrested
just in time to spoil the wedding
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WE now know that the control
w of accidents must come
through two sources: First, by in
sisting that physical conditions
must be made safe, and second,
by convincing human beings that
the hazards of modern life must
be respected. H. Cameron, man
aging director Of the National Safety
Council.
n
The railroads pay in yearly taxes
nearly S400,000,000. The Mississippi
River Waterways Corporation pays
none. Relieve the railroads Of
taxes and they will be able to re-
duce rates at least TO the extent Of
the amount Of the tax. There
has thus far been no demonstration
that waterway service is economical
George w. Stephens, professor Of
transportation, Washington univer-
sity.
That confidence is the secret Of
success at golf is SELF eVldenC
proposition. Some persons set out
in life with confidence; others &C
ouire confidence through experience.
OF the two classes Of confidence, the
latter is to be preferred, because it
is founded on soldier basis.-Sir
Ernest HoIderness. Golf Illus
trated)
We have not attained to genuine
self government because Of the IN
willingness Of a large part OF the
electorate TO take the trouble to
participate-Dr. Henry Moore Bates,
dean of the University of Michigan
law school.
Discoveries from the geological
strata and the ancient cities and
cemeteries of the Orient. reveal a
new and imposing panorama Of ad-
Vancing human developments At its
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
Too Much IMAGINATION
LITTLE IMAGINATION is :

4 LITTLE imagination is all
IA right, but too much is likely
to prove a handicp, as Thomas
Grady discovered while servin on a
st. Louis jury.
The case under consideration in
volved testimony with regard to
various chemicals.
In describing hydrogen-sulphide
gas, an expert on the witness stand
said that it smelled like rotten eggs.
Hardy's imagination went into
high gear. First he wiggled, then
he turned green, and then he be-
came so i'll that court had to be ad-
journed fifteen minutes.
Nov please" said the judge,
when court re-opened and the wit
ness resumed his place, don't make
it too strong"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
MOTORCYCLES FROM 5
STATES ENTER CONTEST

Hill Climbing Champions to Race
Here on June 30.
Hill climbing motorcycle cham
pions Of five states are expected to
enter the fifth annual contest to be
staged by the Midwest Motorcycle
Club on Orme's Hill, seven miles
from Indianapolis, on the Bluff
road, June 30, it was announced TO-
day.
Five events are on the program,
two each for amateurs and profess
SIGNALS, and a consolation race. The
hill is one of the steepest the club
ever used for its climbs.
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/ DIDDEFORD, Me, June 15,-The
H debenture scheme goes to take
its place with a thousand and one
other nostruns which have caused
momentary excitement at Washing
ton only to pass into oblivion. The
senate forced the house to vote on
it, the house killed it, and President
Hoover will have his way.
Strange as it may seem, the out
come leaves everybody happy.
Even Senator Hiram Johnson can
claim that he did not bend to the
LASH" and avoid living as frog
on dungeon mould" which is the
alternative he said he preferred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
Farm Aid Hobby Horse

TOR more than sixty years we
Il have wrestIed with the problem
of farm relief
1t has been a glorious game for
radicals, reformers and professional
politicians
Out Of it grew the Grange, the
greenback movement, the Populist
party, the Non Partisan League and
the McNary- Haugen bill, only to
mention few Of the by-products.
Extremists of every sort have used
farm relief as hobby horse. That
is one reason why so little has been
accomplished.
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Using Wrong Law

n FEDERAL judge has decided
IA that prohibition agents can
not use internal revenue search
warrants and that United States
commissioners cannot issue such
warrants to prohibition agents.
The decision grew out of a case in
which a Springfield (NIass), man
was raided by a prohibition agent
under an internal revenue search
warrant and afterwards was con-
victed of violating the internal
revenue law, because he distilled
liquor without license.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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sHIPsTEAD IS BETTER
Suffers No I'll Effects From Going
to Senate Session

BIZ Scripps-HotcGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, June Is. - Sen
ator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer La
borite of Minnesota, who surprised
the senate a few days ago when ne
left sick bed after months OF ILL
ness q ndcame to the chamber to
vote against the conference report
on the farm bill. has suffered no III
effects from his appearance.
Today he was sitting on bench
in Lincoln park in the sunshine,
where he is now allowed 10 go for
two hours each day-once in the
morning. and again in the after
noon. Though he is rather white
faced and bit tired, he is apparanbs
ly gaining strength every aazs
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HaIf-Baked En1otionaIiSn

T AW and its enforcement dance
IL to the same old tune Of half
baked emotionalism everywhere.
Last year France banned trans
oceanic flights, but who would guess
it when the yellow Bird took off?
What people write into law de-
ponds largely on whether they are
mad, sad or glad at the moment.
That also goes for the way they
enforce it.
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IlSdQS, Among IIlS
haze a n d GIRO
stratus clouds of
the west.
The low rumble
of distant thunder
is heard. Next as
the storm comes
closer, the flash of
lightning is seen
and the a C c M
panying t hun d e T
grows louder. Then
the dark rain cloud
comes into view.
A lull always pre-
cedes the breaking
Of the storm The
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beginning man visibly energies from
the geological ages and, after several
hundred thousand years, he rises
from purely material conquest to
visions of brotherly loye.-Professor
James H. Breasted, director of the
Oriental Institute Of the University
Of Chicago.
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This VIII Not Do

TEXAS, although touched by
i modern industrialisn, still is
under the spell Of the manners Of
the old south.
Before the war. I mean the Civil
one, it was not necessarily an error
for a girl to billow But the ma
chine age requires something new
and the women OF America have
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ASSOEldtlOu anu u LySSld1 tuC
Health Magazine.
TT is a commonly recognized fact
l. that doctors do not practice
what they preach and that the abb
sent-minded professor with a ire
mendous knowledge Of calculus and
logarithm frequently is unable to
foot up the grocery bill.
This, of course, is a part Of hui
man nature. Physicians who con-
stantly teach other people the i'm
portance of eating slowly, are drawn
by the amount of their practice to
a haSty guIping of sandwich and
a glass of milk at lunch.
Largely because the professor of
the past was a Shut-in type, the
cartoonists have come to depict
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The Boss Daughter

DIR 0 F Z S S Q r ROBERT E.
Il ROGERS of Massachusetts IN
Stitute of Technology was crude
when he advised the graduating
class to be snobS, to keep their shoes
shined and marry the boss daughter,
instead Of the stenographer.
His wife is far more tactful.
Though claiming to agree with
him, she explains the issue in a
better light.
She also explains that Professor
Rogers himself did not marry the
boss daughter"