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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Unwise Counsel

PRESIDENT Hoover's Forthcoming study of prohibi-
lion and lawlessness will be without value if he fol-
lows the advice of Senator Wesley O. Jones of WASH
ington.
Jones advocates the appointment of known pro-
hbiaonists to the commission the President will
create to make the study He sees the commission not
IS an impartial fact finding agency which would ex
anime the problem from all angles, but as a body
whose sole aim would be to work out measures to
strengthen enforcement
Past experience tells us what sort of study such
prejudiced group would make, accepting proaibi-
ton as a fixture and convinced that it is a boon.
they would seek facts to substantiate their own be-
hefS, and blind themselves to the evils which all
faty-minded observers know to exist.
There has been altogether too much nreiudice
and partisanship in our treatment of prohibition.
Fanatlcal vets and drys have blurred TIE nict,,re
Inc time has arrived when array of facts is
needed on which intelligent and dispassionate con-
sideration can be based
Pronlpltlon is neither all good nor all bad In
Willingness to admit this is responsible in large degree
Tor the ntolerable situation with which the country
is confronted.
we need to know to what extent prohibition is
responsible for the general breakdown of law and
the administration of justice. We should ascertain
whether prohibition has brought an increase er de-
crease IN consumption of alcohol
We should study its effect on public morals and
welfare, public health prosperity and so on. 1nte
sent consideration should be given to the question of
whether modification would not increase temperance
and do away with many existing evils Enforcement
machinery and methods should be examined as we'll
as statutes relating to prohibition
1t is idle to contend that real effort to enforce
prohnition never has been made in the decade We
nave had 1t, that we now about to witness such
effort and that the purpose of the Hoover commits
sion should be to aid it.
The government has spent upward of a quarter
billion dollars for enforcement in that period. En-
forcement machinery has been dominated by the
drys and they have dictated legislation in
federal agents have swarmed over the land arrested
legions of prisoners, and damned the courts witt,
prosecutions Fleets have patrolled the coasts
IT. after all this, the liquor traffic ourishes with an
attendant train of evils, it is time we find out why
and what we are going to do about it. We should
not accept compacently the theory that all is well
and what We need is more of what we have had which
is apparently what Senator Jones proposes
Facts on which to predicate wise decisions are
lacking. Let's have them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ---
Don't Teach Fea1" TO Your Children

CUES that the ghost stories and
frightening on the part of the par
ents are not he cause of the fear
of the dark. A child who is cour-
ageouS will merely find these things
amusing, for he knows they are not
real
If child is cowardly it will find
cause for anxiety even without fairy
tales. Eventually it learns to use
it's cowardice, its anxieties, or its
fears as a weapon to. get what it
wants. Thus it gets the constant
presence of its mother at the bed
side by its Shrieks of terror.
In school it develops nervous
ness before the simplest tasks.
When it is nervous it vomitS and
then it is excused from the lessons.
Furthermore, the nervous or sickly
child soon finds that its condition
is recognized and that it gets a
head-start over the other children
to compensate for its supposed
weakness.
It is easy for an adult to talk
lightly of fear. Fear is one of the
most important forces in life. If
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Educating Juries

HOWEVER one may feel with
l. L regard to the Jones bill, or this
combat" committee, the idea of
seeking to nullify it by educating"
juries not to convict under it, as
the committee proposes, certainly
is novel.
What puzzles the laynan is just
how, and by what methods the
educating" will be accomplished.
Will classes be. started at the Y. M.
G. A. or at some well-known night
club, for the prospective jurors?
Will certificates be issued when
the course is completed, or will vir-
tue be left to act as its own re-
ward?
Will the jury commissioners be
notified who has proved his, or her,
fitness, or will it be left to the i'm
agination of deputy sheriffs?
Will completion of the course be
required before one is allowed to
serve as juror, or will allowances
be made for prejudice?
Amove all else, if ju-ies are to
be educated" how not to convict
under the Jones law, why not a
similar course of instruction with
regard to other laws? Why be mar
row in the effort? Why not in
clude gang killings, graft and traf-
f1c offenses, or have they been at
tended to already?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Sacco-Vanzetti


The mcre that time contributes to knowledge in
the matter of the Saccovanzet case the less is the
credit reflected the state of Massachusetts, and
its prominent citizens
In the full record of the case, the fifth volume
just out tells the story of President A. Lawrence
Lowell OF Harvard university and his treatment OF
the alibi evidence of Felice Guadagui and Albert
Bosco who testified that they had talked to Sacco
on the afternoon OF the murder, and that they
memnered the date because banquet had that day
been given by some Italian citizens to James Will
liams, retiring editor of the Boston Transcript.
President Lowell, who had talked with Williams
thought he knew that the banquet was given in May
not April But when copy of La Notida. an italian
paper, was produced. showing an account April 16
of the Italian banquet to Williams, Lowell COM
PEELED to admit his error, even to apologize to the
two witnesses.
But the minutes Of that session of the advisory
committee contained no account Of this happening
and the official stenographer has explained that they
we're omitted at the request of President Lowell.
Which all seems tragic pity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
N. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
Though Life Has Become
Complicated, 1t Still Is
Romantic, If Not a Lit
tie Weird"
HOUSTON. rex, March 1s.-We

HOUSTON, Tex, March 16.-We
l. n have dug lot of canals in this
country at one time or another.
Many of them have grown up to
weeds, and most of them never paid.
Faith in them, however, still per-
sists, and occasionally there is a
successful one to prove it.
The Houston ship channel is such
one. Costing far less than some,
it has paid vastly more, making this
city real port and threatening to
change great continental trade cur
rents.
The Houston ship channel is fifty
miles long. thirty feet deep, and
cost about 5000 900. 1t was opened
in 1914, and has developed mari
time trade which many a natural
harbor in the east would give its
life to possess.
Oil pipe lines come to the docks,
terminals and refineries along the
ship channel from as far away as
wyoming, hundreds of thousands of
bales of cotton head out of it for
Europe and even Japan, and regular
lines of passenger boats are being
rapidly developed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
IT
SEEMS

BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

T AM not one who simply dotes
n upon harsh criticisms of himself.
and when they come much prefer
that they should have some reason
able relation to the column which
is attacked.
Among the letters to the editor ]
find several which declare that Tn
a knaye- who has asserted that
Colonel Lindbergh should conhde
all the most intimate details Of
his private life to an inquiring re-
porter.
knaye or not, I never said 1t. MY
criticism was confined to the notion,
that the colonel was guilty of rude
ness in ignoring any reasonable
question and pretending not to hear
it.
1t is the inslienable right of every
individual, obscure or famous, 10
say, 81 do not care to answer that.
Another Charge flung frequently
against me is that of conceit. It
might be so. Such accusations can
never be proved or disapproved to
the hilt, Nor di I bride much when
any admonitory finger threatens me,
from that direction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Conserving of Oil

VTTHILE this committee of law
wv yers forms in New York to
combat" the Jones law, a commit
tee of experts meets in Houston to
combat" the oil waste liberty
through 11ooch, as opposed to liberty
through conservation of a great
natural resource.
The sense of value which these
two incidents illustrate is not with
out significance. The $4,000 900 auto
and truck owners, not to mention
the ship, railroad, and ailplane in
dustries, enjoy the privilege of de-
Gliding which cause is worth enthu-
siastic support.
Measured by progress and the
agencies on which it has come to
depend, oil would seem to represent
the more important problem.
AS between the two committees,
am inclined to attach more import
ance to the one at Houston, not
only because of the subject involved,
but because it seems more likely to
get somewhere.
Even If the New York committee
were TO succeed, we could not con-
tinue to joy ride If the oil played
cut, or fly, or do many other things
that have become an important part
of life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16

I it were not for fear mankind would
expose itself to dangers which would
be fatal to the human race. The
important factor is to teach the
child the things that are to be
feared and those that are not to
be feared.
One should fear danger, loss of
approval of those in authority, the
shame that comes with an action
that one knows is wrong.
1t is perhaps simple to get the
child to obey by threatening him
with unknown dangers. Let the
parent remember that the things
which he himself fears most are the
things unknown.
If the child is given an ADEQUATE
explanation of the meaning of the
dark, if it is told about such animals
as dogs and becomes used to them,
if it sees its parents view small cuts,
bruises and plains with equanimity,
it is likely to have the same atti-
tude toward them.
In all life there Is nothing so
destructive to happiness and longeY-
ity as fear. Don't be afraid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Young Teddy Again

Republican politicians always seem to have Theo-
dore Roosevelt Jr. their minds; they can't get him
placed. Their latest idea is that he should be ap-
pointed governor of the Philippines succeed
ing Colonel Henry L. Stnson, the new secretary of
state.
This idea is based on the assumption that the
party or the country owes something to him. just
what that debt is We never have been able to dis
cover OF course it would be unfair both to his illus
trious father and to the young himself for any,
one to suggest that his claim to public Office is an
hereditary one
For some reason however, President Harding made
him assistant secretary of the navy his father had
been before him. In that post he won notoriety as
"he messenger boy" who carried from the secretary
CT the navy to the President the famous transfer of
naval oil reserves to the secretary of the interior
which resulted IN the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills
scandals He has been director of the Sinclair Oil
and Refining Company.
Whsn the people of his own state of New York
had chance to vote him for Governor they re-
jected him. Why then foist him on the Fflipnos,
who have no chance to vote him down?
His friends have yet to show anything in his train
ing experience which would fit him especially for
the Philippine post, which would cancel some of
his obvious dsquaiihcations.
Whatever the politicians may have in mind, it is
hard to believe that Hoover thinking of the gov
r-generalship of the Philippines in terms of
place for needy party Office seeker, whoever he
may be.
That is major post of great and growing re-
sponsbility requiring exceptional combination Of
knowledge, diplomatic skill and administrative ability
Plans of American higher tariff advocates have
caused a sharp Philippine independence reaction.
Doubtless the President will choose outstand-
ing American who has the confidence of the Filpinos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Eight on Jones Law

A COMMITTEE of lawyers is
IN formed in New York to "com-
bat the Jones law which recently
was passed by congress and which
provides a maximum penalty of five
years in Jail, or $4,000 for certain
prohibition offenses.
"We propose to fight this meas
ure," says a statement issued by the
committee, with the same vigor
that the New York bar displayed
in the case of the act known as the
fugitive slave law"
Lawyers can't seem to do much
of anything without a precedent.
The one referred to here, however,
would seem more in keeping with
the aims and ideals of the Anti
Saloon League.
Whether it is, or not, the Anti
Saloon League seems likely to profit
by it.
No better excuse could be found
for the preachers and beggars than
for a bunch of lawyers to advocate
notification.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16

took place between objects with space playing only
passive part.
But it became apparent after the announcement OF
the special theory of relatively that this point of view
could not endure.
Enstein developed his special theory of relatively
by starting with the fact that the speed Of light
always constant. irrespective of the motion of the
source of light or the observer.
From this he developed the special theory which
states that measurements of time and space are not
absolute Newton had held, but dependent on the
rate of motion of the system in which the measure
ments were made.
1t was this phase of the theory which later received
popular attention.
This was only natural for the idea that space and
time were variable changing in length or duration
with the motion OF the observer was startling and
novel idea
Certain other important aspects Of the theory, how
ever, failed to receive much attention
One of these was that Einstein extended the Max
we'll equations regarding electromagnetic waves and
light and showed that the two sets Of waves the
trio waves and the magnetic waves, were really one
and the same thing and that the apparent difference
was merely one OF the ways in which they we're
measured
This simpltied the nature of the waves for the
mathematician Perhaps it only made 1t more con-
tusng for the layman.
But nevertheless it paved the way for the develop
ment which later In the general thory Of rela-
tiHity and the new field theory"
These two theories viii Be discussed nez4s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Does No Harm

TN the sixth grade the teacher told.
j. us all to write composition on
1.-THE Merchant of Venice" and to
tell why we liked it. I didn't ike
it at all, and so my theme had to
be upon the reasons for adherence.
But to the best of my recollec-
ton this honest expression Of opin-
ion never did either me or William
Shakespeare any harm. The fact
that he was, at that time, my SUI
perior did not deter me, nor should
/ have allowed it to do so.
Occasionally am assailed as far
too city-minded. The charge goes
on that here is one who thinks
New York the only purple land and
has no proper acquaintance with
those vast kingdoms which lie west
Of the Hudson.
This is perfectly true. With very
brief exceptions. Manhattan island
has been my prison yard. It was
not wholly choice which kept me
here, and wouldn't be the fool to
set up now as rural philosopher
nj a fiat just half mile from Times
square?
lcoDyrizhk iaaa. ~ Tia Timssa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
WjSeCraCker2

A THIRD count cited against this
"A colulnnist is, that he isTa WISE.
cracker. Unfortunately small basis
supports any such compliment "Wise-
cracker" never has been very pre-
cisely defined, and today the word
is of5en used to characterize a clever
phrase, an ingenious pun, an cpl.
gram, some biting piece of cynicism,
or bit OF honely humor.
Such things are admirable and
every writer wants to be clever
when he can. 1t is particularly de-
sirable that a newspaperman should
be able to get his effects in small
compass. But I have little skill, at
paragraphing and am much too
long winded to deserve a place
among the wisecrackers,
One reader writes to complain of
me because she says am won't "to
speak disrespectfully of Mr.. Coolidge
and Mr.. Hoover, gentlemen that are
so superior in every way that for
you to even breathe their names is
taking a great liberty"
Tt is the custom to extend TO
columnists the traditional catlike
right of looking even at the kings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Right to Criticise

DUT to get back to the question
.D of whether a newspaper man
has the right to criticise his super
iors hold that he has.
In fact, I think that editorial
writer's should be encouraged to go
after the big fellows and not pick
out the mean and meager for their
attacks.
Nor do I understand why there
should evf be surprise if columnists
or other mortals undertake to re-
buke their superiors. Life and
death are judgments wisely reserved
for a mans equals, but a genius
in literature or statecraft would
never receive the stimulating pinch
of public opinion if he was to be
judged only by his peers.
Voting itself is an expression of
opinion. If I mark my ballot for
Smith, instead of Hoover, I am
cTiticizing Hoover. And if I fail to
exercise this prerogative I am bad
citizen and some would send me
back to Brooklyn, where I came
from. Since I am permitted to vote
against Hoover and Coolidge, it is no
more than fair that I should be al
lowed to write columns to explain
why I did so,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
The Broun Pride
THE THING is not worth argu-

THE THING Is not worth argu-
l. ing about, for I am promptly
willing to admit that whether COM,
ceited or otherwise, 1 would surely.
like to be. Pride goes before a
hope.
It is a happy state of mind and
one conducive to the best work of
which the individual is capable.
Great tasks are seldom accomplished
By those who face them with hui
mility. 1t is hard to think of ST.
George or any giant killer, APP.
preaching monsters with some sort
OF, and If you please" The mere
fact Of going outside your own class
IN the weights is a sign of conceit.
Jack Dempsey at his best was,
arrogant, and so was Alexander the
Great. Except among psychic crip-
pies there is really very little mod
esty, though much false coin passes.
as such.
The man who has pleased him.
self nightly in the performance Of
a job is more mendacious than mod
est If he meets praise with any alb
negating, cit wasn't really very.
much.''
Moreover, he is rude. If every
body said to me, 81 think that was
swell column you had on Mon
day." I would try to answer, Il
think so, too" That would be much
more mannerIy. .-...
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Plain Anarchy

After two sessions of the legislature have
passed upon two submitting amendments to
the Constitution to vote of the people, the
work is rendered void by clerical act.
The most charitable explanation is that the
error was caused by negligence. But it is
negligence of a character so gross that prob
ably those who were responsible would rather
take the other explanation, which was that it
was deliberate and for purpose.
One of these amendments provided for a
possible income tax. The other was to increase
the standard for admission to the practice of
law.
Whether income taxes are wise, advisable
or bad is matter of opinion. But there can
be no division of opinion on the proposition
that the people of this state have right to
make their own laws and amend their own
Constitution.
That it is possible for some clerk, or per-
haps member of the legislature, to deny the
whole people their right to rule themselves,
illustrates the futility of government as it
exists at present in Indiana.
There is no question as to the action taken
by the legislature. 1t voted to submit these
amendments, just as did the Legislature of two
years ago. 1t voted to submit them at spe-
cifc time. An amendment was offered chang
ing that time and it was defeated Then the
bill as it reaches the Governor, contains the
defeated amendment and the Encouragement
points out the variation between the body of
the law and the title.
Here is plain treason, if the change was the
deliberate work of some person inspired or
probably bribed to do this thing. For it must
be remembered that very powerful influences
sought to defeat the submission of one
amendment.
Somewhere there should be a force strong
enough to prevent this sort of anarchy-for it
is plain, unadulterated anarchy in republic
when the people are denied the right to vote
on their own Constitution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
Letting in the Light

month ago Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
was fighting with his customary astuteness against
opening to 40 public gaze his departments action on
big tax refunds.
Now President Hoover, by executive order has put
tr effect policy which win do to remove the
secrecy and suspicion hanging the treasnys bill
AOn-doliar transactions In refunds than could have
been expected Mellon, it seems. has reversed him
self and supports the Hoover policy.
Feeling that it was bad business to permit without
public notice, tax refunds such as the s56O00000
given back to the United States Steel Corporation
congress adopted resolution that refunds of more
than $4,000 not made result Of court action or
precedent. should be made public. This provision
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16
DAYS of Romance

Houston has become real port,
as the trial for murder on the high
seas scheduled to open in federal
court next Monday proves.
There was a drunken spree in
Havre, France, some weeks ago, and
afterward, dead man on board an
American ship.
They put a young lad in irons
and brought him back to Houston
for trial.
Ten years ago, that same lad ran
away from his home in Tampa, Fla.
His old father, a carpenter, has
come from Tampa and gotten a job
here in order to do what he can to
help the lad, while a heart broken
mother prays.
Though life has become compn-
Gated, 1t still is romantic, if not a
little weird,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-16

NNE of the reasons advanced for
~ Secretary Melons intention to
remain in the cabinet only a year
or so is that his liquor will all be
consumed by that time.
We have no particular interest in
this Mexican revolution, but we
have been made very unhappy by
the fear that a stray bullet from
the other side Of the Rio Grande
might pierce the fair form of ex-
Secretary Fall, whose habitat is
FL Paso.
Mr.. Hoover wants a department
of education, but we are far more
in need of a department of music
to rid the land of its incessant
drizzle of jazz!
1t is not customary to have a
sack in bank, but if this .interna-
tional war debt is created, it will
contain very large sack and Uncle
Sam will be the undisputed holder
thereof.
The only explanation Of the ind
ing of this skeleton on the grounds
of the Vanderbilt estate is that the
closets were all full of them and
they had to throw this one out.