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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
The Socialist Label

The Socialist party mas taken renewed encourage
nent from the large vote for Norman Thomas as can
didate for mayor OF New York City. 1t has called for
coalition of liberal and independent voters to form
third party of significant dimensions
Whether the large vote which Thomas polled Is to
be attributed to a swing toward Socialism, or was
tribute to Thomas' vigorous personality and brilliant
campaigning metloas, or registration OF pro-
test there is need for realistic third party That no
issues of real Importance separate the two old-line
parties has become trusm.
In the formation of any such third party, is 1t
either wise or necessary tack on the Socialist label?
To any one familiar with the history OF Socialist
thought and practice it is evident that the Communist
candidate in the late election came far nearer than
Thomas to representing the doctrines OF Marx and
historic Socialism The majority OF American Social
lists have abandoned the essence of traditional Social
ism to the Communists.
MARKHAM Socialism rests upon certain basic concep-
tions: That man is = calculating animal, governed
solely by enlightened self-interest; that economic
factors are basic in society and civilization that labor
is the Of all value; that capitalism viii collapse
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
REASON By Ff aAsB1s

BETWEEN law suits during the armistice with her
- mother, and while the Los Angeles grand jury
investigates the charge that she Incorporated
church funds Aimee Mcpherson organizes Easter
expedition to the holy land.
Among the inducements offered to prospective
tourists is the promise that Aimee will baptize them
in the River Jordan.
What wonderful weather we're havingi
It is delight to look forward to Chicagos worlds
fair just it is to recall the White City Of 1898
with its stately columns, its beautiful court Of honor
splashing fountains its lagoons and gondolas its
endless exhibits and that riot Of color tongues and
diversions, known the Midway.
It is not surprising that some jurors in the Pan
tages case say that they coerced into signing
verdict Of guilty, since many verdicts are reached
that way.
In some cases the majority makes life utterly mis-
cradle for dssenters and stopping little short of phys
cal assault compels them to agree.
But the time to speak is when the jury is polled
after the verdict is read
DCT such bitter antagonism in deliberations is not
ID confined to juries, for we have been informed
reliably that supreme courts the supreme court
of the United States have many hot exchanges among
their members, when it approaches decision in an
important case involving questions of public policy
However the judicial brethren seldom, ever,
threaten each other.
La Guardla Gid not get the italian vote, as was
expected when he for mayor Of New York, as
Mr. Strauss, before him, did not get the Jewish vote
as was expected, when he ran for Governor OF the
Empire state.
And because do not vote as sects or ma
tonalties let us give thanks
EVERYBODY should be resigned to the fact that
L the Virginia election put Bishop Cannon out of
business. since bishop is as much out Of place in
politics candidate for Office is out of place in
pulpit
This nation was founded on the idea that the
preachers should run the sky and the statesmen
should run the EARTH
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
The Federal BUDGET

Announcement by President Hoover that the led
era budget for the ensuing fiscal year will be ap-
proximateIy 100000 or S111OO0O00 below appro-
priatons for the year. is gratifying 1t does
not mean however that tax reductions are any more
imminent than before.
The Presidents preliminary figures do not include
deficiency bills which will amount to an additional
s15OO0OOOO if they usual; funds for the federal
farm board, or unusual expenditures congress may
vote The President set out to have executive estab-
lshmens keep their estimates under amounts allowed
for this year. and apparently this has been done
1t is noteworthy that preliminary budget figures
announced year ago by President Coolidge were
some s5OOOOOOO below the preliminary estimates just
released by Hoover Flood control. waterway devel-
opment and other unusual projects account for the
increase.
1t is too early to tell whether collapse OF the stock
market by reducing income tax payments will affect
seriously federal surplus estimated as high as $780,
100000 or what effect tariff legislation will have on
revenues.
Present indications are. however, that the govern
rnent will spend as much and probably more next
wear than it has this In such situation, 1t is likely
the treasury will proceed with caution in its tax rec
concentrations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
The Mooney Case Confession

Probably little will come of the Ohio confession"
that Lewis Smith, not Tom Mooney, threw the Pre-
paredness day bomb in San Francisco thirteen years
ago.
Smith is dead and his deathbed statement about
the bomb throwing be verified successfully.
San Francisco police will investigate, but there is
no occasion for Governor Young of California to
take notice of the incident, await its outcome be-
fore deciding whether he will pardon Mooney and
Warren K. Billings
The innocence of these men already has been
demonstrated in way to convince the trial judge who
heard the Mooney case, all the living jurors who once
found him guilty, and the attorney who prosecuted
Billings. There be further doubt that the
testimony which they convicted was perjured.
And so, regardless of who threw the bomb, regard
less of who confesSes" and who does not regardless
OF the part Mooney and Billings once played in labor
agitationS these men should be released from the
prisons where they have been confined for so long
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13

THE drama and literature must
l. give way for a paragraph or
two to make room for Senator
Brookhart's nose. The problem
which confronts Washington grand
jury is unique in American public
life. These good men and true are
called upon to uphold or repudiate
the senator's sense of smell.
Not knowing anything about alco-
hol from the standpoint of personal
imbibation, all that this faithful
servant of the people can bring to
court is his hound-like Sensitivity.
The gentleman from Iowa has told
the senate that one of the Wall
Streeters who sat beside him at the
Fahey dinner did brazenly pour an
alcoholic connection into glassSand,
after adding water, quaff it down.
The proceedings before the grand
jury are secret, but it is safe to as
sumo that Senator Brookhart has,
or will, repeat this same tale under
oath. Courts, however, demand ex-
actitude. If the senator is ia
miliar with presidents he may re-
call the legal attitude which was
taken toward another famous tee
totaler not so long ago.
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School Athletics Often Too Severe

Thus it was found that in num-
Der of schools the entire football
squad was examined in one hour
previous to an important contest
AS result of this drive in high
school athletics, many of the boys
came to college burned out and I'M
able to begin to duplicate the feats
they performed in high school.
Certain forms of athletics are es-
pecially unsuited to the high school
boy and the joint committee of the
National Education Association and
the American Medical Association
has expressed the conviction that
endurance runs and rowing races
are contra indicated at high school
age.
The private schools of the coun-
try have been found in general SUI
perior to the public high schools in
their handling of athletics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13

President HooUer's Sugges-
ton to Safeguard Food
Ships IN Time of War Goes
to Root of Naval Problem.
SAYS:

1T was simple idea that Presi-
l. dent Hoover tossed into the
general and rather confused dis
cuSsion regarding naval reduction
and freedom of the seas.
Like most simple ideas, it touched
the root of the problem.
The desire to safeguard seaborne
food on the one hand, and destroy
it on the other, has played
stupendous part in producing battle
fleets.
Nations dependent on food from
abroad have regarded a strong navy
as the surest means by which to
protect themselves against starva-
ton in case of war.
They also have regarded it as the
surest means by which to guarantee
starvation for their enemies.
To place food ships on a parity
with hospital ships, as President
Hoover suggests, would eliminate the
starvation factor.
1t ought to have been eliminated
long ago, and would have been but
for the fact that passion in the
name of patriotism had blinded hui
mainly to common sense.
President Hoover punctures the
sophistry by which the world has
justified a merciless attitude toward
women and chillren.
Considering how nations have
salved their conscience by agreeing
to abolish dum-dum bullets and
sharp sabers, such an attitude seems
incredible.
Considering how sympathetic we
are toward a few famine and flood
sufferers, how readily we condemn
those who neglect to provide the
proper safeguards on shipboard,
and how insiStently we demand
chivalrous conduct on the part of
soldiers, it is amazing with what
complacency we have sanctioned the
slow death of noncombatantS, mostly
women and children, through star
walton in time of conflict.
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only in two institutions of those
studied was there any limitation to
participation of athletes in maxi
mum of more than two major sports
year.
The evils that affect the college
athletes are in many instances
much greater when they concern
the high school. 1t is stated that
the high school athletic associations
of Texas, South Carolina, California
and Illinois practically ignore the
necessity of safeguarding student
health in athletic programs.
In very few places is there any re-
quirement that a physician shall be
in attendance in final or semi-f1nal
contests in which serious injuries to
health may be sustained.
Physical examination prerequisite
to participation in high school ath-
letics is not given or is hurried and
inadequate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
Speaking of Books

CPEAKING of books I have one
~ addition to make to my list. l
like Bright Intervals" by Nancy
Hoyt. This is a short and a light
weight novel 1t deals with certain
of the profound emotions but skips
around them like Able Booth dodg-
ing tacklers in broken field. Evil
IDENTIFY it is Miss Hoyt's intention
to amuse rather than wiring the
heart.
There is just the faintest sugges-
ton of 1.-THE Constant Nymph."
Lydia, the charming heroine of the
story, comes from a family almost
as fantastic as that which composed
the Sanger Circus.
Few authors handle light dialog
as expertly as Miss Hoyt. She
catches the cafes of Paris to the life,
nor is she any SLOUGH in the depic-
ton of house parties.
One of the best portraits in the
book is that of young American
actress who becomes the idol of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
Starve the Babies

DRESUMPTIVELY, we create
Il navies to fight each other, but
as matter of fact we use them
largely to destroy enemy merchant
ships, or even neutral ships whose
cargoes would help the enemy.
We console ourselves with the
argument that this prevents the
enemy from getting arms and am
munition, but the practice has been
to include food as well.
Canned milk for babies has gone
to the bottom along with TINT and
four-inch guns, and if the battle
line caved in because of starvation
back Of it, rather than because of
actual defeat, no one on the vic
torious side has bothered to shed
tears.
A sorry state of mind, when you
come to think of it, a jungle hang
over, a beastly method surviving
-hiefIy because few realize its true
nature. Couldn't stomach the dunn
dunn bullet, or the razor-eIged blade,
but perfectly willing to let kids die
from hunger.
Now that President Hoover has
shown the thing up for what it is
worth, we see not only its ugly side,
but the still more ugly effect it has
had on naval building.
Britain, we are told, will give it
cheerful consideration" while
France will do the same, though
not quite so cheerfully, perhaps.
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~
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ANNIVERSARY
eA gE2t.:;;!:;;!::t:t::tt
SOUTH CAROLINA sECEDEs
November Is

I'm Nov. 13, 1860, the South Caro-
~ lima legislature called a con-
vention to consider secession from
the Union as result Of President
Lincoln's election.
The convention met on Dec. %
and Immediately passed an ordi-
nance of secession. When the at
tack on FIT. Sumter precipitated the
Civil war the following April, South
Caroline furnished $4,000 soldiers
to the Confederate armies. although
her voting population was only
about $1,000.
A provisional governor was ap-
pointed in South Carolina at the
close of the war and a new consti-
tuition adopted. On the refusal of
the state to ratify the fourteenth
amendment, military government
was established.
In 1868. another constitution al
lowing Negro suffrage was adopted
and the state was re-admitted June
Is of that year.
Today is also the anniversary of
John Drew, famous American actor
the son of John Drew and Louisa
Lane Drew. Young Drew began his
theatrical career under his mothers
management in Philadelphia in 1873.
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Questions and
AnSzCe7.S

Can an alien visitor to the United
States become a citizen after he has
been here a certain number of
years?
An alien can not become an
American citizen SO long as he re-
tains his status of visitor. He has
to go back to his country and enter
the United States under the quota.
After establishing legal residence in
this country, he may declare his in
tention to become an American citi-
zen and after five years continuous
residence here. he can apply for
final papers.
Was the case of Professor Thomas
Scopes of Tennessee decided by the
United States supreme court?
The case was not appealed to the
supreme court of the United States.
The supreme court of Tennessee af-
firmed the verdict of the lower
courts and held that the statute in
hibiting teaching the doctrine OF
evolution of man was constitutional.
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exits

TYNE publication within recent
Il years, however, Of number OF
hitherto unknown Babylonian and
Greek texts makes it necessary to
revise this opinion of the Chaldeans.
The world is chiefly indebted to
the industry of a number Of Ger
man Jesuit fathers, Epping, Strass-
maier and Kugler by name, for a
knowledge of these texts.
They reveal that the Chaldeans
were excellent astronomers having
kept careful records of the motions
of the sun and moon for long
periods.
These texts also introduce us to
Naburiannu and Kidinnu, the Greek
texts call them Naburianos and
Cidenas.
These two, according to DR.. ]. K.
Fotheringham, reader in ancient
astronomy and chronology at the
University Of Oxford, are entitled
to a place among the greatest Of
astronomers.
The two computed systems by
which the position of the sun or
moon at any future date could be
predicted. These systems Of course
also made possible the prediction OF
eclipses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
Habit Is Stubborn

WYE must be patient, of course.
w AS the President points out,
"any departure from accepted ideas
requires long and searching exam
nation"
It is a weakness of human nature
to travel in rutS once we get used
to it, no matter how rough, or how
wrong the direction they may take.
Habit of thought is stubborn
thing. That is why we become
slaves to tradition, without realiZ-
ing it, tolerate ideas for no better
reason than that we are used to
them, and perpetuate customs ut
terly opposed to our conceptions #
what is right.
There Is not a civilized govern
ment on earth that would starve
people to death by combining them.
yet all governments sanction it
through destruction of food, and
not only sanction it, but build huge
fleets to see that it is done.
Now that the President of the
United States has called attention
to it, most every one is able to
realize it's inhumanity and injustice
Why has no one thought of it
before?
OF more practical Importance
why has no one visualized the idea
of letting food ships alone as one
Of the most practical preliminary
steps to naval reduction?
Mob psychology is the answer
vast multitudes gladly accepting
what has come down to them from
the semi barbaric past, letters OF
mark written into the policy OF
great governments, old-fashioned
piracy endorsed by modern civiliza-
| ton.
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Not Qualified
Miss Texas Guinan "

XXTHEN Miss Texas Gulnan was
w asked during her trial wheth-
er liquor was sold in her establish
ment, she replied that she could not
tell for a certainty since she had
never tasted the stuff in her life and
would not know Scotch from ginger
ale at distance.
I believe the gentleman from Iowa
has endeavored to set himself up as
an authority on the ground that he
has some slight familiarity with
chemistry. But I rather think that
the very blond Miss Guinan is her
self not wholly unacquainted with
some of the more dazzling labora-
tory processes.
According to the newspaper re-
ports Brookhart watched with
grave suspicion while fellow guest
poured fluid from a flask and, when
the other fellow wasn't looking, the
gentleman from Iowa leaned close
to the cup and took a long, close
inhalation.
Miss Guinan, of course, never did
anything like that. That is sena-
torial dignity. In night club host
ess it would be considered downright
boorishnesS.
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SCIENCE
By DAVID DIETZ
Astronomers of Ancient Chat
dea Care Great Aid to Sci
ence Of Later Centuries.

ATABURIANNU and Kidinnu.
~ Mysterious sounding names.
They look like candidates for cross
word puzzles or the closely guarded
passwords of some secret order.
They are in reality, however,
names to which all civilization owes
a debt.
The present day is an age of
science. The oldest of all the
sciences is astronomy. 1t was in
astronomy that mankind first dis
covered the existence of natural
laws and realized that events hap
pen according to them.
Many authorities feel that the
other sciences would have been de-
layed for centuries if it had not
been for realization of the existence
of natural law which came from
astronomy.
We owe a debt, therefore, to as
tronomy for all our applied sciences,
medicine, for example. and the
various branches of engineering. We
owe a particular debt to the
pioneers of astronomy, the great
minds who laid the foundations OF
the study of the heavens.
And that is why civilization owes
great debt to Naburiannu and
Kidinnu. For they are the oldest
astronomers of whom we have any
record.
They lived in ancient Chaldea.
While it always has been known
that the Chaldeans made some as
Economical observations, the general
feeling has been that astronomy as
serious subject got its start in
Greece.
This view now is known to be
wrong. There were serious and i'm
portant astronomers in Chaldea and
Babylonia,
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Greeks

NNE of the most interesting re-
~ suits of modern historical re-
search is the proof Of how much
older the arts and sciences are than
originally was suspected.
Even the caveman has turned out
to be an artist Of the first rank,
decorating the walls of his caves
with excellent and life-like draw
ings of animals.
The work of the Greeks in astron-
omy has been known to scientists
for many years.
Thales of Miletus, who lived from
$40 to 546 B. c., and who usually is
referred to as the father of Greek
astronomy, taught that the stars
shone by their own light, but that
the moon shone by reflected sun
light. He also taught that the earth
was sphere.
Excellent astronomers among his
successors included AnaXimander,
Anaxagoras, Democritus, Pythago-
ras, Melton and EudoXus. Melton de-
veloped a method Of the predicting
cclipses. Eudoxus made the first at
tempts to explain the motions of the
planets with the aid of geometry.
Pythagoras, who lived from about
$50 to ACT B. c., enjoys the distinc-
ton Of having been the first to sug-
gest that the earth revolved around
the sun.
Scientists, knowing Of these
Greeks, felt that they established
astronomy as a science. They felt
that the earlier cultures, the Chal-
dean and Babylonian, were inter
ested only in astrology, the attempt
to predict the future course OF
events from the stars.
Despite the fact that it was known
that the Chaldeans had the ability
to predict eclipses, scientists did not
feel that they had made any great
progress in the science of astronomy.
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LiyeIy Though Thin

THE folk of Bright Intervals"
Il are all little thin but they
are lively, every one of them, and
talk with a turn of speed sufficient
to enthrall the reader.
The book list for the week is:
"a Farewell to Arms" Il might
as we'll leave that standing), "Ani-
mails Looking at YOU" Born to Be"
and Bright Intervals"
AS for the plays of the new sea-
son, Berkeley Square" is out in
front all by itself. This is the one
new play which deserves to be
classed in the absolutely first rank.
The supplementary list includes:
Strictly Dishonorable," June
Moon" and Sweet Adeline."
Copyright. 1929. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-13
Odor and DecencY

THE Importance of Senator
l. Brookhart'S testimony lies in
the fact that he may succeed in
establishing new prohibition
precedent. at may be-" a federal
officer is quoted as saying, that the
senior senator from Iowa can quail
fly as an expert on odors and what
they mean, and, in such an event
this might prove to be very impor-
tant precedent so far as the rigid
enforcement of the liquor laws is
concerned"
Indeed, in the future. there may
well stand by some rustic bridge a
bronze statue Of Smith Wildman
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Brookhart bearing the inscription,
He shifted the sniff heard round
the world"
Still, even in his moment of tri-
umph, Senator Brookhart builds up
dangers for his political future. If
his efforts are sufficient to bring
about an indictment, he will be en-
titled to run next time under the
inspiring slogan, Return to the
United States senate the best
smeller in the state of Iowa"
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BY DIX. MORRIS FlSHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TN the Carnegie Foundation re-
i port on American college ath-
letics, the charge is made that ath-
letic directors and teachers have
Been chosen rather because of their
ability to make the athletics, espe-
cially football, yield profits than
for their interest in the health and
bodily welfare of the athletes.
1t is said that the physical health
of about one-third of the student
bodies is little if at all affected by
the athletic programs.
1t is pointed out that when a
man once demonstrates athletic
ability. he is encouraged to take
part in all of the sports and that
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Daily Thought

Blessed are they that do His
commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life
Revelation 22:14.
Each thing lives according to its
kind: the heart by love, the intellect
by truth, the higher nature of man
by intimate communion with Cod
Chaplin.
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ideals and opinions expressed in
this column are those of one
Of Americas most interesting
writer's, and are presented
without regard to their agree
ment or disagreement with the
Editorial attitude of this paper.
The Editor.