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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
FALKsTONE COURTS,

1401 FAIRMONT ST. NV.
rooms and bath to rooms and
bath, $50 to 500; exceptionally con-
venient location; spacious and at
tractive lobby; 24-hour elevator and
switchboard service. Electrical re-
frigeration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
THE RAYMOND,
9Th AND K SITS. NE.

3 rooms, kitchenette and bath. s35
to $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
BLISS PROPERTIES

IS B St. NV. or 14O1 Fairmont St. NV.
Telephone Lincoln 1860 or Adams s464
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
3616 CONN. AVE. NV,

OUIV NO1N4Ns II IIs 1Ns W.
! room. kitchen. dlnette bath. $50 90
Frigidaire on Hohse Current.
Resident Manager. Cleveland 1919.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
CHATHAM COURTS,

Very desirable apartments of 2
rooms and bath and rooms and
bath, $50 to 500 24-hour elevator
and switchboard service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
More Opium

There be defense of the latest failure of the
League of Nations commission to cope with the inter
national illicit trade in narcotics Great Britain and
other powers persist in blocking efforts at effective
control of this scourge
The situation as described by the leagues advisory
commission opium is menacing. known imports
into India more than forty times large the
legal limit. About sixty of the great drug factories
of Europe lead in the illicit traffic
Production of opium is increasing rapidly with
Persia alone growing 100000 pounds year. Yugo
slavia whose delegate heads the league commission is
giving direct governmental support to increasing pro-
duction. Turkey, Persia, Russia and BRAZIL de-
scribed as breaking their treaty obligations to submit
statistics on narcotic manufacture and trade.
Great Britain and the other governments domi-
mating paralyzing the league commission hard
pressed for an altb because for years they have
fused the kind of effective regulation urged by such
countries as the United States and China
The so-calIed American plan voted down by the
commission last week was an adaptation of earlier
proposals of the United States 1t would have required
each country to publish advance its narcotic needs
together with announcement of where and how the
drugs were to be obtained Only China, Italy France
and Germany voted for this mild reform.
AS recognized since the Hague opium convention
of 1872 the only effective method of control is at the
source of production. It was because the American
plan provided for such regulation of production that
Great Britain and others refused to accept it at the
1925 Geneva conference, from which the United
States delegates finally withdrew in disgust.
Those unapped Hague principles of 1912 still pro-
vide the method of solution, if the foreign govern
ments really want solution. AS stated by the Aeri-
can delegation in withdrawing from the 1925 Geneva
conference:
IF the purpose of the Hague opium convention is
to be achieved according to its spirit and true INTENT
it must be recognized that the of opium products
for other than medical and scientific purposes is an
abuse and not legitimate.
ITO prevent abuse of these products it is necessary
to exercise the control of the production Of opium
in such manner that there will be surplus available
for non-medical and non-scientifc purposes"
Result of the powers refusal to accept effective
regulation of production is bad enough in its results
on illicit distribution in countries like the United
States But it is most terrible in China. While China
thus poisoned by drugs from India Japan and Eu-
rope she is powerless to deal with the foreign often
ders who hide behind foreign consus and foreign
courts under the extra territoriality treaties.
What commentary on allegedly superior cvili-
cation is this trade in poisons for profit!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
@-THE HUMAN BODY AND IT'S CARE-NO 1-
PreUentiz,e Medicine AIIaoS Man s Fea7"

Hundreds of years ago the per-
son without the scars of smallpox
on his face was the exceptional per-
son in the community. Today the
che who carries such scars is a
monument to the stupidity Of his
parents, because vaccination against
smallpox prevents this disease.
If Chicago had a death rate for
typhoid fever today similar to the
one it had in 1895, there would have
been $4,000 cases of typhoid fever
in Chicago instead of less than two
hundred, which was the record for
the city during 1928.
Such diseases have been con-
trolIed through the application of
community hygiene on a large scale
through the control of sewage dis
posal, water supply, milk supply, and
the sanitation of food. Such COM
munity sanitation problems differ
however, from those that concern
the individual himself.
Obviously it is impossible for any
one to take proper care of his body
without some knowledge of the
manner of its construction and the
nature of its function.
The human body is combination
bof cells bound together in various
systems, such as the muscles, the
bones, the circulation of the blood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS,
"The Future of Agitation
Gro10s More Certain Day
ba Day.

GAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. t.
| - Debate of $3,5OO,O0O bond issue
for public Fairgrounds last fall leads
the San Francisco News, Scripps-
Howard paper, to suggest that this
city make use of the many vacant
tracts it owns.
A survey, recently made by the
News. shows that the city and board
Of education hold title to no less
than ninety-nine such tracts, fifty
nine of which absolutely are Idle,
while the remaining forty are reI1Ded
to billboard company at less than
one-tenth of one per cent Of their
appraised value.
The condition is not peculiar to
San Francisco. There hardly is a
city in this country but has idle land
on its hands-land which is bene-
fitting no one, but of which the
public could make profitable use if
given a chance.
This is an economic crime, an
inexcusable waste of the taxpayers
money. The people paid for that
land, and ought to have the priyil-
eye of using it for recreation, if
nothing else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Where Do Guns Point2

IT WOULD be more in favor OF
a cruisers, gas, fighting planes and
all the rest if somebody would tell
me just which nation we intend to
fight.
Senator Tyson secuted the idea OF
war with Great Britain and yet
he seemed to feel that we should
keep pace with her in naval con-
struction. 1t isn't race, you un-
derstand, we just happen to be
moving fast and in the same direc-
ton.
In one sense the isolationists
don't go far enough. They would
have us refrain from paying any
heed to European politics and yet
never a hammer falls in any British
shipyard but that they hear it with
grave concern.
And we must ape and echo every
thing that England does If a new
cruiser splasheS into the Clyde we
must, as soon as possible, launch
one to match it. There would be
more pride and dignity in taking
the stand:
If England wants to impoverish
herself with war-like paraphernalia,
let her go bucketty, bucketty along
her own foolish way. We're not
playinp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Future Of Aviation

COMEHOW the west coast does
- not seem nearly so far away
from New York since Captain
Hawks made his record breaking
flight from Los Angeles to Roose-
welt field.
Think of it, eighteen hours from
coast to coast, and it took our
grandfathers as many weeks.
To be sure Colonel Goebel did it
last summer, taking only thirty-six
minutes more than Hawks, but
you can never be sure of what a
stunt like that means uotil it has
been done at least twice.
The future of aviation grows
more certain day by day. The air
mail flies on schedule night after
night. and just to show that the
time for unblazed trails can be call
culated accurately, Colonel Lind
bergh, opening the new line from
Miami to Panama, arrives only
three minutes late.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07

the nervous system and the digestive
tract.
These interlocking cogs of the
human machine are controlled by
the mind or brain to a considerable
extent, but many of the functions
are automatic.
Within quite recent years scien-
tific evidence has been developed
which indicates that an interlock-
ing chain of glands which pour their
secretions directly into the blood
the glands Of internal secretion-act
also as regulators of what might
be called the automatic system, in
Guiding the blood pressure, the heart
beat, breathing and the dilating and
contracting of the blood vessels.
Careful consideration reveals
moreover that the entire works will
get along satisfactorily if left large
ly alone, particularly since there is
within the cells the power of re-
pair-an ability that does not exist,
for instance, in such machinery as
can be found in automobiles or even
In dynamoS.
1t is perhaps the function of the
brain of man to make it possible
for him to realize when things go
wrong, and to take such steps as
are within his power to correct the
deviation.
Next-Hygiene and Sanitation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Keep Some Old Ways

THROUGH recognizing the value
4 of invention and innovation
when it comes to the serious side
of life, we well can afford to retain
old ways in the field of recreation.
San Francisco is in the midst of
her annual horse show, and just as
pleased about it as though old Dob
bin had not been pushed off the
road.
A horse is still a thing of beauty
in spite of the steam-like fiivver
and race is still a race even if it
fails to produce the ultimate in
speed.
AS matter of fact some of the
latest devices are rather too fast
to enjoy. When it comes to sheer
pleasure, who would not rather. see
horses trot than autos streak by the
grandstand?
Mechanics can never be subSti-
tute for the human element in sport.
1t takes the call of our kind to i'm
prove and preserve us.
But for sport, and especially this
aspect Of it, we would run great risk
of becoming robots or worse still,
mere minds to be carried around on
stretchers, with no one left to do
the carrying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Money Talks-Maybe

How good of Colonel Stewart to clarity the issue
Here the press of the country for weeks has been
saving that Stewards only claim to reelection as
chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana against the
opposition of Rockefeller and others who object to
his part in the oil scandals is his ability to produce
prones.
Now Stewart and his board prove that point by
declaring so per cent stock and cash dividend on
the eve of the decisive election.
VIII the stockholders Immediately after getting
melon of $46s 100000 the largest in the history OF
that giant corporation be disposed to kick out their
shrewd chairman? Stewart, apparently thinks not
AS Stewart says, within decade he has increased
the value OF the organization from $17o000000 TO
sO0000O0O What more stockholders ask of him?
Such little matters honor and reputation
should not be taken into account, it seems What
does it amount to that he has been unable to justify
his part in the notorious Continental Trading COM
nany oil deal with Sinclair or to explain his
nicting testimony before the senate Teapot Dome
Investigating committee?
So It comes down to a question of taste. Stewart
does not mind il he is smeared with that scandal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Another Wrong Step

On the surface it apparently makes little dif1er-
ence to the public as to whether the Governor or
the attorney general appoints the lawyer who IN
the future will defend the decisions of the public
utility commission when appeals taken to courts
Theoretically, both encouragement and the Gov
ernor are interested in upholding that body As
practical matter it may make all the difference be-
tween justice and unfairness.
For two years. thanks to the last legislature, the
people have had no defense whatever and different
communities have been budened with the job OF de-
tending whatever crumbs of comfort they have OBJ
tanned from the utility body.
In answer to public demand, the legislature PRO-
poses to employ lawyer to defend the commission
The original bill provides that he shall be named by
the attorney-general Now members of the legisla-
ture suggest that he be named by the Governor.
The legislature is anxious to please the present
Governor at this session. He has jobs to distribute
and members have friends or ambitions.
The questions involved are all legal matters. The
general was elected by the people as their
legal adviser.
Logically, and as a matter of principle, he should
have the authority over legal controversies in which
the people are involved.
To place this matter under the Governor requires
exclamation and some satisfactory reason than
a desire to give the Governor more patronage
This state has many absurdities. The secretary
OF state has too many jobs that foreign to his
duties TO give the Governor control OF legal mat
ters is another step in the wrong direction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Brain-PoWer

IF the air is forced to yield its
4 terror, so is the sea. Men have
gotten out of the submarine Sd
and risen to the surface where men
persisted less than a year ago.
This required ingenuity as well
as courage-some one to invent the
mask-like contraption, figure pres
sure and provide against a dozen
other contingencies.
Too much we think of such feats
as marvels of mechanics, when they
are really narvelS of the mind. Too
much we regard thought as some
thing confined to the printed page
or painted canvas.
All that we have gained, all that
makes us different from other ami
mails, is naught but translated
brain power-ideas taking form,
whether in a picture, peace treaty
or combustion engine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
and defles his company with it, But it offends
Rockefeller, who says:

and defles his company with it. But it offends
Rockefeller, who says
I'VE think of this contest opportunity for
the stockholders of the Standard company to clean
house and show the public that the owners of one
big business will not countenance in their repre-
by Colonel Stewart" ~
This difference Of taste represents profound
difference in business philosophy. Stewart is acting
the old business maxim: THE public be damned"
Rockefeller is acting the business principle
Public confidence is the most valuable asset"
1t will be interesting to see whether the stock
holders thinking more of this weeks half billion
dollar Stewart melon of the future prosperity and
public respect sought by Rockefeller.
But whatever his stockholders may think of him,
there is thing that must trouble the hard
boiled colonel when he tires occasionally OF counting
his profits: He is condemned by the American people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07

lines in the spectrum.
But now the very secrets of the were unlocked.
For all that was necessary to do to form Specra
from various chemical elements in the laboratory and
compare the bright lines thus formed with the dark
lines in the suns spectrum In this way it was posi-
BILE to identity the chemical elements which compose
the sun.
Scientists today use a set of prisms delicately
mounted with small magnifiying telescopes to facli-
tate work The instrument is known technically as
spectroScope.
From the days of Kirchof and Bunsen until the
present the study of the suns spectrum has gone
Experiments have shown that spectrum lines
change with conditions of temperature and pressure.
AS result, it possible to learn the suns surface
temperature by comparing the suns spectrum with
various spectra formed at different temperatures in
the laboratory
The result Of such work has been to show that the
has surface temperature of about 5000 degrees
the Centigrade scale, the scale used in scientific
work, of 10000 degrees the Fahrenheit scale,
the scale which is in common use in this country
Few facts are more typical of the modern advance
of science than this The is 100000 miles away
And yet scientists have difficulty in taking its tenn
perature
The SpectroScope has proved one of the most valu-
able instruments in the field of science As con-
tinue our survey Of the sun, wiz some of its
other uses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Reason

I CHARLES E. HUGHES recently
~ made a good speech, pointing
out that it is a very evil thing for
lawyers to take questionable cases
for the sake of fees, but it is largely
applesauce, inasmuch as Mr.. Hughes
now is appearing as attorney in the
New York subway cases and doing
his utmost to raise the fare the
people must pay.
Almost all of us think that ev-
erybody else should turn over a new
leaf.
They are tearing down the house
in New York in which Benedict
Arnold plotted to sell out his coun-
try. which reminds us that after
Arnold took British command and
captured an American officer he
asked the officer what the Ameri-
cans would do to him if they cap
tured him. The officer told Arnold
the Americans would bury with
honor the leg Arnold had wounded
in the American service, then hang
the rest of him.
Judge Kavanaugh of Chicago SEN
fenced to death two Negro men who
pleaded guilty to murder, which re-
minds one that Judge Caverly OF
Chicago did not sentence TO death
Loeb and Leopold, who also pleaded
guilty, but who had Clarence OAR
row to defend them.
1t makes a difference, you know.
Chinese authorities paraded eleven
men. sentenced to death, through
Peping headed by band, thinking
to discourage crime, but If their
criminals are like many of ours, the
publicity will have the opposite ef-
feet.
II
A federal judge sentenced a Steu-
benyille millionaire to one year in
prison for violating the prohibition
| laws. which should do mere for law
enforcement than anything that
has occurred in a year, for many
common people violate the liquor
laws because the higher-ups do it
and get away with 1T.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
I I
SEEMS

BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

TINE arguments of the cruiser
\ men seem to me of curious
quality. There were speeches before
the bill was passed providing for a
time limit and one was made by
Senator Tyson who said: 1T seems
to me that we should be going ahead
and building these cruisers without
waiting, because otherwise I do not
believe it will be possible to reach
an agreement with Britain or Japan
to stop building
In other words if a man desires
to be abStemious he first must begin
by guzzling rum for if he isn't al
ready drinking how on earth can
he stop drinking?
Accordingly the cause of oisarm-
ament is to be promoted by loading
ourselves down with weapons. That
will give us something to drop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Out of the Kitchen

A MONG other things in the ad-
4 n vertisements of unfurnished
apartments 1 have frequently noted
the phrase real kitchen" I was
in doubt as to what this indicated
but now know, for I have made
inspection tours.
In the case of a New York apart
ment real kitchen" means an
aperture into which a one burner
stove can be thrust, also miniature
ice box and a thin cook. The game
ought to furnish a lot of fun for all
beholderS, for with a little effort al
most anybody can get the thin cook
into the real kitchen.
Hilarity comes later. The trick Is
to get her out again and unless my
eye for distance has gone completely
askew, that ought to take quite a
bit of doing.
However, my demands include not
only a masters bedroom and a real
kitchen, but also a foyer. And it
should be an extensive one. After
all, when the men come bearing bills
1t ought to be possible for Jukes to
greet them in hospitable way and
say, Gentlemen. won't you all sit
down while you're waiting?"
But the dream of every house.
hunter is best expressed by Groucho
Marx in Animal Crackers" "Juss
a little place that I can call up to
say that I won't be there for din
ner."
lcoryright. 1929. Tor The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
Jungie Rule

TN spite of all the labor-saving de-
IL vices and consequent opportunity
for shortened hours, some industries
continue the same old inhuman
grind.
Secretary of Labor Davis finds it
necessary to crticise paper box
board manufacturers for failure to
live up to the Washington agree
ment" whereby they were to re-
duce working hours, operate five
days week and clean up" during
the sixth.
Many of them, it seems, have
gone back to the six-day week,
working their employees from eleven
to thirteen hours a day. and making
use of Sunday to clean up"
you do not want to be investi-
gated by the federal trade commits
sion," Secretary Davis told a con-
ference of box board manufacturers
meeting in Washington at his sug-
gestion, but it will come if you
persist in running your industry by
the rule of the jungle"
Strong language, but no stronger
that the occasion called for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and OF Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
INNE of the most striking phe-
~ nomena. of the. twentieth CEN
tury has been the rise of interest
in health.
The philosophers of mankind have
for twenty centuries written cpl
grams, aphorisms and proverbs in
dicating with absolute unanimity
their weil-settled conclusion that
health is the most important factor
for happiness in human existence.
Only recently has man begun to
take the necessary steps to secure
that highly desirable attribute for
all mankind. Indeed, in his sur
vey, Our Times, Mark Sullivan con-
siders the work of preventive medi-
cine the greatest of Ill the accom-
plishments of man, since it has
freed human beings from the fear
of disease.
The pestho1e That was Panama
today has a death rate lower than
that of most of the states in our
own country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-07
ARNOLD'S LOYAL LEG
MAKES A DIFFERENCE
o a e
WOLVES AND PEOPLE

TOSEPH MOBY, an Indian, is
j dead in Wisconsin at the age of
lit years, which is a long time to
have to be an Indian.
r Il r
The grounding says six weeks
more of winter, but those office
seekers who failed to get to see
Hoover fear that it will be q whole
lot longer.
y 4 f.
The awarding of an increase of
fifteen cents hundredWeight to the
milk producing farmers by this
Chicago arbitration board should
inform the farmers of the country
that if they wish to boost their
prices, they should do what. every
body else does-organize.
u Il q
An italian newspaper man has
been reprimanded because he put
Henry Ford on an equality with
Mussolini, but as between the two,
give us Henry!