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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Poker Nav Be Evil

IN fact, as sthe cards are going l
l am almost persuaded to turn
Methodist and, if in the next few
weeks I can not catch more Straights
and Pushes, I shall publicly give
testimony that as far as I'm con-
cerned, gambling is an abomination.
But in my case I know that re-
morse operates to propel me toward
righteousness.
The bishop need have no regrets
since he managed to get himself a
considerable profit upon his eccle-
siastical shoeString.
The fact that his broker failed is
no fault of his own, but falls un-
der the classification of IAN Act of
God"
Possibly there may be a little
chortling in Virginia where the
Cannon faction is intent upon elm
mating the Smith supporters from
the Democratic party.
There, I been informed, the slogan
runs, rid the party of Raskobism
and stock market gambling" Men
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Samson No Better

CTILL no one can read the state
- ment of the southern saint
without marveling at the mans
enormous capacity for laboring IN
the Lords vineyards.
Houses. lots, cotton, coal and tim
Der stumps-
How did the pious one ever find
time for such various activities?
Perhaps he is of the number who
have found it possible to mix re-
ligion with efficiency.
The thought stirs up pretty pic
ture. I seem to see the bishop Sc
Guided in his study praying to his
Maker for rain and the defeat OF
the Smith supporters in Virginia.
And hardly has the last Miserable
Sinner" left his lips than the
folded hands part and one darts
for the telephone.
While waiting for the completion
of the connection the venerable
churchman, who has managed to be
both blessed and bullish, begs
humbly for his daily bread. And
though central calls quite sharply
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Go in for Theories
n ACKING facts, we go in TO,

II ACKING facts, we go in for
~ theories.
Prohibition was put over because
some people were sold on the idea
that it would reduce crime.
Just now, some people want it
repealed on the same idea.
In some states, the pardoning
powers has been carried to excess
because of the belief that display
of mercy would make criminals
good.
In some other states, it has gone
begging; on the notion that the way
to make em good was to treat 'em
rough.
But when one seeks information
as to how any of these methods has
worked it simply is not to be found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
How Many ConViCted2

TINE coroner of Cook county may
Il be able to tell how many muir
ders we're committed in Chicago
during given period, but he can
not tell whether any one was ar
rested.
The police commissioners Of New
York may be able to tell how many
arrests were made, but not how
many indictments we're found
The warden at Joliet or Sing Sing
may be able to tell how many con-
victs he received or discharged, but
not where they went, or what they
did later on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Better Bookkeeping

a CCURATE, reliable information
IA is essential to constructive
work in any line, but that is one
thing we lack in regarding crime.
A different system of bookkeep-
ing must be installed before we can
find out what is to be done, much
less do it.
At present, we are just founder
ing, with lazy officials, crooked poll
ticians and clever criminals profit
ing by our ignorance.
The fact that nobody can check
upon it means everything to the
inefficient, or corrupt police depart
ment.
The great corporations of this
country would go bankrupt if their
records and reports we're as loosely
kept as are those of law enforce
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

Thousands of LalOS Are
Passed Every Year IN This
Country to Prevent Crime,
But Little Is Done to Find
out HoW They Work.
SAYS

TWO interesting statements with
L. regard to crime-one by Wade
H. Ellis over the radio at Wash
ington Monday night, and one by
Joseph Lilly in the New York Tele-
gram Tuesday afternoon.
The average man would rather
read good murder story than
either, and that has its bearing.
Crime, whether in fiction, or in
the news, has come to be accepted
as just one more form of entertain
ment.
Richard Reese Whittemore, or
Gerald Chapman are no more real
to some people than Raffles or The
Lone Wolf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Quotations of NOtabIeS

their income is but l per cent Of
their total.-Representative Ketch-
am of Michigan.
There is no foundation for the
theory that, if a man can write good
English, his domestic affairs must,
therefore, be of Importance to the
public. Lord Hewart.
%
Woman in society-much more
than MANS parsed and analysed
and criticised, so that wherever she
goes or whatever she does, her ears
burn.-Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bona
parte. (Collier's.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
A Voice in the Wilderness

Refreshing indeed is the declaration of Bishop
Collins Denny ,of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South that the church organization should keep
out of politics.
Bishop Denny argued before the Richmond
ference against passage of resolution conveying to
President Herbert Hoover the appreciation of the
ference of his law enforcement program
It is outside the province OF the church, Bishop
Denny insisted to express approval dsapproval of
tbs highest civil official of the land The obligations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

I think that the stock gambling
situation has become such a ma
tional evil as well as a national
scandal as to call for careful ex-
animation by the committee.-Sen-
ator King of Utah.
g g
Without argument, it will be adj
mitted that since the World war
agriculture has not come back to
the economic quality with the rest
of our people, either actually or
relatively. Farm people constitute
Is per cent of our people, own 20 per
cent Of our nationa, wealth. but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Need C0nDI0to Study

OUCH figures are not only i'm
~ pressive, but convincing until
one reads what MI Lilly has to say.
What are today's conditions?" he
asks. "Is crime increasing. or de-
creasing?
mo one knows" he declares. cit
is almost impossible to find out be-
cause the records are so stupidity
kept, so inadequately and variously
tabulated, and so lacking in study,
that nothing short Of an immense
research organization, backed by at
least $1,000,O0O a year, could pos
sibly discover anything"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

Association and of Hygela, the
Health Magazine.
THE value of sunlight for health
l. has been emphasized by doctors
ever since the time of the ancient
Greek physicians. 1t is only since
1919, however, that any exact knowl-
edge has been developed OF the way
in which sunlight affects the human
body.
Apparently the chief value, SO far
as is now known, is to produce
vitamin D, which prevent ricketts,
and which bears some relationship
to resistance against disease.
There may be other values in
sunlight, since the experience of
centuries attaches general health
giving qualities to the rays OF the
sun.
However, these things are not es-
tablished scientifically.
Sufficient is know to encourage a
certain amount of sunlight daily in
the life of everyone and some time
outdoors each day in the summer.
For the infant particularly, SUM-
shine and fresh air are valuable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

obtained by pro-
jecting the plane of
the earth's equator.
The two inter-
sections are known
as the equinoxes.
Spring starts when
the sun reaches one
of them, autumn
when it reaches the
other. The points
m i d W y between
the equinoxes are
known as the SOL
stices. One marks
the official start Of
summer, the other
the official start of
winter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
TT SEEMS TO ME By HB BRoTS

in his ear, Here's your party" he
keeps on steadily to the last Amen"
before he turns to say, Buy me 300
Lehigh at the market"
And since the good bishop has
been these many years the spokes-
man of God in politics and many
other secular affairs, would not be
surprised to learn that from the
telephone he went back to his knee
to add to his petition. Thou know
est, Lord, that car loadingS were up
in MAY"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Selling Gold Bricks

CONSIDERING how scientific we
" have become with regard to
trade, industry, mechanics, medicine
and many other things, our attitude
toward crime is singularly curious.
Any old quack with a cure-all gets
our ear.
We are not only willing to enlarge
the police department, but to amend
the Constitution of the United
States if some crusader says he
has found remedy.
No hick was ever sold gold bricks
so easily as the American public is
sold panaceas Tor crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Cost of Crime

MIR. ELLIS says that crime costs
1F4 the United States $4,000 100000
year, that 10000 murders are COM
mitted annually in America-fifty
times the number in England-and
that 10000 criminals are at large in
New York City and 10000 in Chi
CapO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter-
esting writers, and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Dietz on Science ---
Start of Summer
No. 1872

GUNNER begins officially June 81 at 2:o1 p m
- this year. The exact start of any season is de-
termined by the astronomer.
At that moment the sun reaches its farthest north
in the heavens
The suns apparent path in the heavens is known
as the eclpc At two points, the ecliptic intersects
the celestial equator an imaginary line in the heavens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Attend Kiwanis Meeting

BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, June 26.-Henry
Erlewine and Edward S. Hays are
attending the international conven-
ton of Kiwanis Clubs, Milwaukee,
Wis, as delegates from the Marion
Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Daily Thought

Enter not into the path of the
wicked, and go not in the way of
evil men.-Proverbs Ala.
MO man can be stark naught at
IN once. Let us stop the pro-
gress of sin in our soul at the first
stage. for the farther it goes the
faster it will increase.-Fuller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

~ 6UCC JOf W iCUt (N6 %tfCbf
FeH0WS 10.
THE papers tell how different
Il congressman have returned to
their homes where they are now
trying to recuperate from their eX-
hausting labors at Washington.
It's heart-rending the way these
poor fellows slave!
The American Federation of La
Dor should organize a statesman's
union and lift the crushing burden.
First they must work to keep their
faces straight while running for Of
fee: then they must labor to keep
awake while congress is in session;
then some of them strain them
selves, drawing to bob-tailed fushes
while others get lumbago frorn
overlifting while distributing gar
den seeds, but the worst of it is that
almost all Of them rupture them
selves while throwing the bulll
This young lady from Tulsa who
sues the Chicago millionaire for
$250,00O for breach of promise re-
minds us that mazuma will put the
old kick into a heart that has
crashed after adrenelin. strychnine
and dynamite have failed.
Yonkers. New York. gave Captain
George Fried a great welcome when
he returned from Europe last Satur-
day
The moral of this is that if you
wish to be a hero do not be a
common sailor and 60 out in the life
boat and risk your hide, saving
others. but be a captain and stay on
the ship where it's safe, and get the
credit for what the other fellows
do.
A new book about ancestors, just
published, claims that Mr.. Coolidge
is a descendent of Charlemagne, the
mighty emperor.
How interesting it would be if we
should now learn that the fellow
who wrote speeches for Coolidge was
a descendent Of the fellow who wrote
them for Charlemagnel
TIME heroic record of this war
Il pigeon. President Wilson, which
just has died at Washington, makes
one reflect that a good many peo-
pie have made pot pies of their SUI
periors
The premier Of Japan fell off the
water wagon when his fifth son was
born, but if anybody was entitled to
drink, we would say it was the
mother.
Byron Parsons, SO, resident of
Evansville, has stopped driving an
automobile because the many sig
mails confuse him, but he's just about
old enough to make a peachy back
seat driver.
The Rev. j. N. Levan Of Harris
burg, Pa, who stopped fishing to
marry a young couple, probably re-
f1ected as he threw his line back,
that you often find them on land
when you don't in the water
Last week this land of equality
was thrilled by special dispatch
from Washington saying that Sec
rotary Of the Navy Charles Adams
ate beans in the navy departments
cafeteria just like a common sailor.
Not only this, but he actually ate
with his face just like the common
people around him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
REASON
IN Frederick Lands

~ FrederlcK LandIS
If You Wish to Be q Hero"
Be q Captain and Stay on
the Ship, and Get the
Credit for What the Other
FeLl0WS 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

This young lady from Tulsa who
sues the Chicago millionaire for
$250,OOO for breach of promise re-
minds us that mazuma will put the
old kick into a heart that has
crashed after adrenelin. strychnine
and dynamite have failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

A new book about ancestors, just
published, claims that Mr.. Coolidge
is a descendent of Charlemagne, the
mighty emperor.
How interesting it would be if we
should now learn that the fellow
who wrote speeches for Coolidge was
a descendent Of the fellow who wrote
them for Charlemagnel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26

TINE heroic record of this war
Il pigeon. President Wilson, which
just has died at Washington, makes
one reflect that a good many peo-
pie have made pot pies of their SUI
DeriOrS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Mexico Leaves Death
Penalty to Individual

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mexico's new penal code purports to
abolish capital punishment. But If, as
reported, it tacitly Incorporates the "un-
written law" making 1t a justiflable
defense for Staying seducer or home
wrecker, 1t is reactionary rather than
progressive. It transfers the vengeance
of the law from public to private hands.
Instead of aboliShing capital punish
ment, 1t in effect reduces the penalty
for those offenses usually punishable by
death and imposes it upon those asso-
ciated with marital relations, investing
the aggrieved party with the authority
to judge and execute the offender.
Courts in such cases would become
merely tribunals to review the conduct
of the executioner and determine
whether he acted within his rights. In
the heat of passion some mistakes are
bound to be made under such latitude.
The eXecutioner might be required to
pay the penalty of his error, but that
would be no relief to his victim. And
in the most fragrant form of aSsassina-
tons collisions between man and wife
to save the husband by the wife's per-
jured confession would be. difficult to
expose.
The intention evidently was to pro-
tect the sanctity of the home and dis
courage libertines; but Mexico will rue
such license. Experience has shown
that a persons moral right to defend
his home can be left safely to the SYM
pathies OF jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

handled by the most seasoned pilot
From Dayton to washington and from
Washington to New York the Arn1y's
big ship has responded to the new
device, the invention of Elmer Sperry
of gyroscope fame, and this long trip
rounded out more than sixty hours OF
mechanical pilot control.
The boxlike device which is placed
under the human pilots seat will not
land a plane. 1t may never be devel-
oped to that point. But once in the air
the pressure of a button by the human
pilot causes thS apparatus to take i'm
mediate and complete charge of the
ship Fog, the nemesis of airmen, and
darkness have no terrors for the me-
chanical control. Once the course is
set, the plane drives steadily ahead, its
side sway and wing slips instantly cor
rected by more sensitive fingers than
any human can boast of, and it's altitude
held with mathematical exactness.
Weighing only fifty pounds and
occupying a space of small dimensions,
the new device, when perfected, should
be of incalculable use in the handling
of big planes on long trips. BY turning
on the mechanical control the human
pilot will be free to devote his time to
his many other duties, map studying
radio communication with the ground
and the checking of his engines. At
any given moment he may switch off
the control and take charge of the plane
again.
In times Of poor visibility, fog, rain,
snow and darkness, the mechanical pilot
will bring many ship through on
schedule. Blind flying" when the hui
man pilot must rely on his feel of the
air and his instruments alone, will be
replaced by safe, exact type of con-
troll. No aviator, regardless of his ex-
perience, can match in sensitiveness the
untiring mechanical fingers that will
guide big plane on a true course
without deviation.
Despite experiments on the device
planned for the future the War. De-
partment has triumphantly announced
that "the automatic pilot has arrived"
It's arrival is just as triumphantly
greeted by millions of air-minded Amer
leans. Flying bids fair. to become the
accepted mode of travel long before
even the most optimistic have predicted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

Of mayor became necessary. The cam
paign was short but brisk. The real
issue, according to the indianapolis
News, was "Coffinism." The News asked
if the people Of the city wished to turn
their government over again to the old
machine. The answer was emphatic.
A Democratic mayor of indianapolis
was elected for the first time since 1918.
The people of Indiana have been
shamed by the political corruption in
their midst. The organization, however,
was strongly intrenched. Fortuitous cir
cumstances made it possible for it to
keep its hold. What will be the effect on
Indiana next year in the congressional
campaign and in 1892, when another
presidential campaign is on, remains to
be seen. Much will depend upon
the nominees presented to the voters.
Indiana went for Hoover and against
Smith by q huge majority last year.
Ordinarily it is Republican state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Plan to Honor Talent !
at First Hand Is Hailed

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Introduction of talented young Amer
lean musicians to American audiences
direct. and not after they have peen
compelled to employ appearance IN Eu-
rope as a stepping stone to acceptance
at home, is the encouraging program OF
the Schubert Memorial, a group OF nota-
BILE friends of music in this country
This is well. We may as well discover
our own talent at first hand and relax
our dependence upon European audi
ences to discover American artists Tor
us. We will probably enjoy them more
fully for having discovered them our
selves. And we will find that American
talent will grow under the encourage
ment.
The Schubert Memorial has already
done some pioneering in this direction
Now it will extend the scope of its con-
structive and encouraging support OF
budding talent and enlarge its program
to national proportions. Last year the
group sponsored four new artists and
introduced them to the musical pubic
Of New York, Baltimore and Providence
and chose two more who will be pre-
sented to the cities Of America this
season.
Now the extent of the search will be
made national, and from list OF 200
or more young men and women entered
in preliminary competitions in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and
New York, 10 will be selected to con-
test in New York next Spring, when
2 will be chosen for presentation to
the Nation during the season of 1930-31.
The influence of such selection under
sponsorship of the Schubert Memorial
and its president, Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
with directors and counselorS, including
such musicians as Leopold Stokowski,
Walter Damrosch, Harold Bauer and
Frederick Stock, and a notable list OF
patrons of music, will be great.
So we may expect that the entire
Nation will have opportunity as early
as 1930-31 to hear American musicians
of outstanding talent who come to us
direct, without necessity for European
approval or the still more costly and
difficult routine of claiming public at
tention by unsponsored fight for place
in our own music centers. 1t may be
well for talent to have obstacles to sur
mount in gaining high place, but the
bar should not be made so nearly i'm
possible that poverty brings talent to a
halt. The encouragement of the Schu-
bert Memorial program will lower the
barrier standing before native musical
talent in America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the Treasury turns in his income tax
return in Pittsburgh. Washington
bankers consulted by this observer can
not identify any local resident with an
income of from 100000 to $4,000, 900
the fabulous category in which the
mysterious multimillionaire on the Po-
tomac is put, along with 81 other
CroesuSes throughout the country.
~ 4 +
1.-THE Dissenting Opinions of Mr.
Justice Holmes" is the title of book
just off the press. DR.. George w
Kirchwey, former dean of the Column
bia Law School, has written an intro
ductton to the volume, which consists
of a selected number of the veteran
juriSt's opinions as they deal with
American affairs in general. Alfred
Lief assumes responsibility for their Sc
lection. DR.. Kirchwey observes that
Mr. Justice Holmes is not 1.-The great
dissenter, but simply a fighter at war
with many of the conceptions which
dominate legal policy" The book also
contains some of the Holmes Supreme
Court opinions which concurred in ma
jority decisions.
X X 4
Prime Minister Macdonald, when re-
viewing his American trip to the House
of Commons this week, certainly did his
best to justify the claim of Chicago
Ambassador Dawes home town. to
its ancient title of the Windy City. 1.-THE
breeze which blew me across the At
lantic," said Macdonald, perhaps with
just a wee bit of ironical reference to
Gen. Dawes cyclonic diplomacy on ar
rival in England last June, was Gre
ated by the conversations had had
during the Summer with the American
Ambassador, who personifles in such a
delightful way the downright desire of
his Government for peace and good
will"
X n n r.
Some inside information on the pro-
jected United States of Europe is ex-
pected from DR.. Andre Siegfried, French
political economist and author, when he
lectures at Georgetown University on
November IL. Siegfried is the writer of
America Comes Of Age" recently a
best-seller in this country, despite some
Of its lop-sided conclusions.
(Copyright, 1920