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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
Wanted: An Issue

The Democrats have had their harmony meeting
at Washington Many of the anti-Snnith faction
stayed away, but everything considered the gather
ing was harmonious enough.
There was much talk of the future, pulling to-
gether for victory and that kind of thing.
Raskob, whose record as financial genius is
somewhat better than his record campaign man
ager was there to explain how they could wipe out
their deficit and get up another campaign chest.
Shouse new chief of the executive committee, was
there to assure them that national headquarters would
not be grinding for any particular candidate but
would work in nonpartisan fashion to perfect better
nationwide party organization.
But more important than what was said was that
left unsaid
The name of Alfred e Smith not mentioned
There was no reference to prohibition.
Are the party leaders afraid or ashamed te
mention the name of the man who eight months age
polled the largest popular vote ever received by 6
Democratic candidate for Office in the United States
Are the party leaders afraid to mention the most
discussed issue in America today, prohibition?
But quite apart from these two specific cases Of
Democratic tinidy, has it not occurred to those hard
headed politicians that there is something more
necessary for minority party than funds and organi
cation? majority party can win with funds and
organization
But any second party which unseats the Repub-
licans, who have ruled the country with only two
Interruptions the Civil war, must have an issue
That is rather automatic in politics
o their sleeves they certainly keeping their secret
we'll
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Who Said Fifteenth

NUR boosted American efficiency
~ is very largely bosh. Many peo-
pie live and breathe and love and
prosper in climates far more pun
ishing than our own.
And all of them would be star
tied if informed that they were VIC
Tins of a death-dealing heat wave.
They accept the fact that the days
are hot in summer and adjust their
lives accordingly.
When the sun is at its torrid
height they remain indoors and nap
all unconscious of the glazing pun
ishment.
The European and the South
American is far more practical than
the average American.
The foreigner goes to his office
only when there is work to be per-
formed. With us it is a rite like
attending a church on Sunday.
Hundreds Of thousands Of New
Workers rush downtown on days
when they know without question
that nobody is going to turn a hand
They seem to feel that they must
be on deck to save the franchise.
The American business man who
idles about his house or plays golf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
Money in the Bank

Good news comes from the treasury. Uncle Sam
viii wind up his fiscal years business June 80 with
surplus largely in excess of the SlOOOOO0OO recently
predicted by President Hoover
The amount OF the surplus will be determined by
income tax payments yet to be made. It may reach
S2000O0OOO, and even more.
Early in the year a deficit was feared. President
Coolidge in the closing months OF his administration
warned congress and the executive departments that
expenditures must be kept at minimum if the ma
tional ledger was to be made to balance.
Government receipts this year TO date have been
S3,871824,131. compared with S384700771e last year
Income tax payments have amounted TO s2213.3l1-
976 to date compared with s2.OS73leIS9 last year
This is increase Of nearly S2OOOOOOOO and is chiefly
responsible for the good showing the treasury will
make.
The income tax payments were much larger than
had been anticipated in treasury calculations
It should be noted that expenses also have increased
Ordinary expenditures to date have been s314s411-
s2s compared with sSO22O OoS3 for the corresponding
period last year. It is likely that s45OooOoO will be
paid the railroads before June so in satisfaction of
claims for carrying mail which congress has approved
increasing the excess.
The increased expenditures follow the tendency of
recent years. The cost OF government steadily has
been mounting. 1t is agreed the tendency will con-
tinue.
It. therefore is well to realize that this years sur
plus does not mean that tax cut is in prospect,
that the government is warranted in embarking in
large expenditures which might be avoided.
The big income tax payments are attributed by
the treasury largely to profits made speculative
activities in the stock market during the calendar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
French Tolerance

CTEPHEN ALEXIS, Haitian
- charge d'affaires in Belgium,
and colored, of course, was refused
admission to a Paris dance hall.
According to the doorman, this
refusal was in Difference to Amer
lean clients. French newspapers
capitalize the incident to condemn
what they call yankee intolerance" "
1--WE owe lot Of money to the
Americans" the Soir comments, I'VE
also owe them some consideration,
courtesy and friendship, but we alb
solutely do not owe them any sub
mission to the prejudices."
Such an attitude on part OF
French newspapers stands out in
strange contrast to that of our
southern politicians toward Mrs.
Hoover because she received a
colored congressman's wife.
Neither is it born of unfamiliarlty
with the colored race, since there are
eight or ten times as many Negroes
under the French flag as under the
Stars and Stripes.
Whatever else may be said OF
them, the French have been con-
siderate toward inferior races.
Our idea is to meet them IN
heaven, but avoid them on eartn.
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Worth STUDYING
able share.

The state Of South Dakota owns and operates q
cement plant in which is manufactured all the cement
used in the building of its state highways.
Last year it made 100000 barrels, an increase OF
$4,000 over the preceding year.
1t turned back to the state fund for that purpose
the pleasing sum of $35OOOO, profit of 10 cents
q barrel. The money went to the state and the peo-
pie, not to the cement monopoly.
This state uses about four times this amount each
year. 1t has a surplusage of free labor, since the
booleggers and other voators are over-crowdng the
reformatories and the penal farm. At the state farm
there is an almost unlimited amount of material
If the state highway commission wishes to per-
form public service and has political obligations
to the cement trust, it might investigate
This state is paying twenty millions a year for
highways large percentage goes to the cement
makers The profits made by association which
has iron grip the industry and fixes prices with
out regard to cost are large enough to enable the
association to raise several millions year for pur
poses best known to itself
A state owned plant might relieve the situation.
But of course there maybe very strong reasons why
Indiana public officials do not dare to show any in
terest in the subject.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

cases of blindness among painters,
makers of shellac and felt hat
workers finally made the majority
of people realize that wood alco-
hol is dangerous.
In addition to blindness, there
may be headache, vomiting, severe
pain, blueness, Shortness of breath
and commissions following the TAX
ing of wood alcohol.
This is not, however, the only
substance that can produce blind
ness. Some people are sensitive to
tobacco and many become blind as
the result of smoking too much,
usually dullness of vision with a
loss of the muscle sense are the
first symptoms observed. The eye
will fatigue easily and there may
be headache.
Apparently twenty cigarets
day is the limit of safety for most
men and anything over this may
produce the eye symptoms that have
been mentioned. Such symptoms
do not occur with a moderate use
Of cigars or cigarets.
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significant upon the thermometer
however, vital it may be upon the
golf course. We should be calm
and pay no attention to the suns
persuasive press agents. Again and
again I have spent delightful days
with no thought of suffocating until
I picked up the evening paper to
find that was baked in deadly
furnace"
To be sure, there are few simple
rules which everybody ought to OBJ
serve. Naturally no one should get
up till afternoon. Or try to sleep
until famed by the cool breeze
which generally rises along about
the hour of 4 a. m.
Obviously we should all absent
ourselves from business places, sub
ways and main thoroughfares in
tropic weather.
Nobody was ever Frustrated while
sitting comfortably at home in a
cold tub with a good detective story
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22

June %
IN June @, 1870, Congress pro-
" vided for organization of the
department Of justice
This unit is one Of the executive
departments Of the United States.
At the head Of which is the attorney
general, appointed by the President
fol term Of four years.
Although the Office Of attorney
general was created in 1879, and
the incumbent Of the office was
from the first a member of the
cabinet, it was not until 1870 that
congress erected the office into a
separate department.
By the act Of June % of that
year the several officers Of the fed
eral government, Of whom there
were some half dozen or more. were
placed under supervision Of the at
torney-general, with the hope of
bringing about greater uniformity
in the construction and application
Of the laws.
The attorney general is the
legal representative Of the United
States in cases Of law and he is
charged with the general super
vision Of the United States district
attorneys and marshals.
Among the other duties of the de-
partment of justice are the super
vision Of the penal and reforma-
tory institutions of the United
States and recommendation Of
judicial appointments.
In 1870 the office of solicitor
general was created, the incumbent
being ranked as the second officer
Of the department. The act of 1870
also transferred to the new de-
partment Of justice the solicitors
from the interior, treasury and navy
departments, and the examiner OF
claims from the state department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22

Franklin first suggested that lightning resembed
an electric discharge in November 1749.
In 1850, he speaks of the fire of electricity and
that of lightning being the same
He tried to make estimate to the size with
clouds of various sizes and this speculation led him to
the invention of the lightning rod
Franklin had noticed that in the laboratory, an
electrical charge tended to leak off pointed con-
ductor. He wrote:
Y say if these things are So may not the knowl-
edge of this power Of points be OF use TO mankind
in preserving houses churches ships, etc. from the
stroke of lightning by directing to fix the high
part of these edices upright rods of iron, made
sharp a needle and gilt to prevent rusting.
Would not these pointed rods probably draw the
electrical fire silently out of cloud before it came
mighty enough to strike and thereby secure us from
that most sudden and terrible mischief?
In 1852 Franklin experimental with lightning. AS
already pointed out in this series, he did not fly a
kite in thunderstorm. Such procedure would in
all probability have meant his death by eectrocu-
ton
He few kite while there we're some clouds
overhead to test his theory that clouds we're cleo
trifed
Lightning rods placed the academy and
state house in Boston that same year.
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year 1923. This was an abnormal situation and does

year 1923. This abnormal situation, and does
not represent a solid source Of income.
Moreover, the government is committed to large
unusual expenditures in the next few years. These
include the flood control program naval building the
huge public building program and other projects
Farm relief for instance will get its appropriation
Of s15000000O early in the new fiscal year, and an
eventual appropriation of half billion.
SO our satisfaction at the excellent condition Of our
national finances should not relax the determination
to keep federal expenditures at the lowest possible
point After all the absorption Of s400o0Oo0o0 year
out of our national income Of s850O0OOoOoO is siz-
able snare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
Much Reduced

4 ND If this process OF diminu
L n ton could be continued until
any one of us was wholly dissi-
pated out Of corporeality would he
at that moment surrender all per-
sonal identity? If you or I can
lightly drop five pounds and still
be Jack and Jill as usual, why not
ITS or even 900? At what point is
one to draw the line with some grave
shake of the head and say: THE
poor fellow is no more"
Few of the health hints which 1
have observed take occasion to men
ton the necessity of high think
ing during torrid spells. There is
nothing 50 potent to chill warm
blood as speculation.
1t will be found, 1 believe, that
all those who are overcome offered
nothing to the scorching rays but an
hospitable vacuum. Even the sun is
not capable of tagging a brain
which stands poised upon its toes.
One should always present to tie
fierce beams a moving target.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22

We Used to Haze q "Snnn L
ing" Department IN This
Country. II Consisted of
Dad and q Birch Suitch.
SAYS:

BOSTON, Mass.-On April 4
- Michael Gill and Charles Mey-
ers climbed into an automobile
which did not belong to them at
East st. Louis and drove it across
the Mississippi river.
The Mississippi separates the
state of Illinois from the state of
Missouri, which made them guilty of
unlawful interstate transportation
of an automobile instead Of COM
mon theft" and brought them be-
fore the federal court.
After lying in Jail for two months
and seventeen days because they
we're unable to give bond, they came
before Judge Charles B. Davis and
entered plea Of guilty.
Judge Davis gave them a good
lecture, sentenced them to the two
months and seventeen days which
they had already served and sent
them home, explaining the opinion
that the federal government would
do well to establish a spanking
department for offenders.
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Quotations of NotabIeS

he must have every reasonable free
dom to exercise his own brains TO
achieve the results expected-An-
drew w. Robertson, chairman OF
Westinghouse Electric Company
(Forbes Magazine).
We adore the ladies. That is only
natural. But we adore them as
women, not as business and pro-
fessional and political rivals. Bust
ness is a fight. And fight is war
When it comes to war, do not adore
your enemy-Rene Paux, foreign
editor LIE Temps.
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FanatiCaI Liberals

CTILL we are not the only intoler-
- ant people on earth, even if we
do arrest a man for saving wood on
Sunday as happened in Sayre, Pa,
not long ago, and ban articles OF a
pacif1st slant.
Going to the other extreme, Rus
sian schools abolish Sunday, and
substitute Wednesday as the regu-
lar day of rest, while town in
Holland segregates the sexes in all
theaters, and is so rigid in enforc-
ing the rule that it recently closed
a movie house because a man and
his wife were found sitting together
Liberals, so-called, can be just
as fanatical and intolerant as con-
servatives.
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IT SEEMS TO ME By H RR05&%

1T always has puzzled me that
Il people should complain about a
hot wave. I like them. Much has
been written in song and prose of
the glorieS of the open road. The
open pore remains to be celebrated
have no lyric gift. so all that I
can say is to express the opinion
that man is at his best when IN a
melting mood.
The hot and bothered are on the
whole a far more cheerful lot than
the numb and nasty. With all due
Difference to the Scandinavian, it
is the cold which brings mans baser
nature. Little of any moment ever
takes place before a blazing log fire
or round the oil stove. Inspiration
is generally attendant upon damp,
moist brow.
Even the humidity provokes me
into thoughts Of higher and better
things. Most of my mysticism is
associated with days and nights
called sitting. For when one losses
then he thinks, and there is nothing
like sultriness to get a man steamed
up concerning the cosmos.
At the end of any day Of record
breaking temperature 1 am some
what less in bulk than I was be-
fore.
A part has gone back to its basic
elements. Some Of the outer layers
are already in the hands of the but
ton molder. And yet though sur
faces which once could thrill and
suffer have departed I am essen
TALLY the same person. 1 am still
here.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine
Almost everyone knows now that
it is possible to lose the eyesight
from drinking or even from inhal-
ing too much wood alcohol. This
alcohol is methyl alcohol in con-
trast to the alcohol used in wills
ky, brandy, wine or beer, which
is grain or ethyl alcohol.
In 1920, method was found for
removing the odor from wood al
cohol, which had formerly been
used only in the manufacture of
shellac and similar preparations. 1t
was then put on the market and
began to be advertised as a sub
stitute for grain alcohol in the max
ing of bay rum, violet water and
similar preparations.
The coming of prohibition in
duced many persons with a crav-
ing for alcohol to drink wood al
cohol when they could not get any
other.
The appearance Of numerous
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22

ONLY thirty years ago speed OF
~ ten miles an hour was deadly
and the automobile was laughing
stock. Today 100000 passenger
cars operate on American roads, and
so dependable is the mechanism OF
control that travel by automobile
is as rapid and as comfortable as
by rail.-Alfred H. Swayne, vice.
president of General Motors.
My philosophy is that in an or
ganization every executive must be
granted authority commensurate
with his responsibilities. If you
hold man responsible for results,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
Not Farther, But Complete

The federal grand jury in the northern
district Of the state has suggested that the in
vestigation Of election frauds in Lake county
be continued.
It reports that it has not been convinced
that there have been organized efforts of cor
r7Iption. but that witnesses should be found,
if possible, who have knowledge Of any such
facts as may exist.
It recommends farther investigation. 1t
should not only be farther" but complete,
exhaustive, intelligent and relentless.
That recommendation of the grand jury
should not stop with the federal judge, who
will undoubtedly follow the suggestions of the
jury.
1t should 90 to the attorney general Of the
United States, the chief legal officer of the
nation It should go, if necessary, to Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover.
The fraud charges in Lake county are not
81 matter of local effect.
They are as fundamental as the integrity
Of the government itself
They charge, in effect, that government has
been overthrown by fraud and that corruption
has replaced conscience in control of public
affairs They amount to denial of self gov
eminent They charge that anarchy has re-
placed democracy.
Every circumstance surrounding this in
quiry should be closely scrutinized by the at
torney- general in order that it may be de-
termined whether the inquiry has received the
proper aid from all government officials which
the seriousness Of the case demands.
1t viii be remembered that when the grand
jury met to investigate this charge, the dis
trict attorney Oliver Loomis who stepped to
that place of responsibility from his duties as
secretary to Senator Arthur Robinson, was
taking vacation in Oklahoma.
There can be but two kindly explanations
One is that his health was such as to demand
rest. The other is that he did not comprehend
or understand the seriousness of the crime
which had been charged.
Either explanation demands that the at
torney- general determine whether he has as
his representative. those whose vigor will en-
able them to pursue the inquiry with intelli-
gcnce and purpose, and who 50 understand
the treason of election frauds that they will
not relax any effort to obtain evidence.
The attorney general can and should make
at least casual inquiry as to whether there
are persons or corporations powerful and rich,
not DESTROYS of seeing this inquiry pushed to
its logical limits
District Attorney LOOMS has given out in
terviews suggesting that witnesses had been
tempered with. This implies another crime,
the debauchery of court machinery
There is not one who believes that election
frauds were committed by enthusiasts, if
frauds there were. No one who has read the
history OF Lake county election returns be-
lieves that the election was honest
If there was conspiracy to overthrow the
will oil the people by importations of voters
from Chicago, by false returns. by repeating.
in the background are very powerful forces
who understand the value of the control of
public Offices
That grand jury report is more than
recommendation to a Judge. 1t is a challenge
to the government of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-22
| aSS Efficiency Urged

CPEAKING at luncheon held by
= the American Club in Paris,
Clarence Darrow pleads for LESS
efficiency, more play and more kind
ly tolerance in the United States"
"All my life" he says, 1 have
been wanting to reach the point
where 1 shall have no need to be
efficient, and now I have arrived"
Il am very sorry" he says, that
we are not learning how to live in
America, but only how to make and
sell things to somebody who is not
making them"
In all of which there is a dis
agreeable amount of truth.
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Need for SDankingS

XKTE used to have a Spanking
w department" in this country,
it consisted of dad and birch
switch.
Dad having quit the job. we might
do worse than let the court take
over and grow a group of birches.
At all events, one is inclined to
think so after reading the case of
6-year- old Kentucky lad, who shot
his playmate in a fit of temper and
who was sentenced to fifteen years
in the state reformatory.
1t is more than probable that the
little boy would not have committed
such an offense had he been judi
cially spanked.
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Birch Switch Substitute

GONE people who vince at the
y thought of spanking regard the
Imprisonment of this baby for the
next fifteen years as quite all right
Indeed, it was a minister of the
gospel, who presided at his trial and
jury of alleged Christians found
him guilty.
Theoretically, confinement in a
reform school for fifteen years may
be more civilized than the applica-
ton of a switch or a paddle for
fifteen minutes.
Some parents prefer to think so
because it let's them out of dis
agreeable duty, but no spanking that
ended short of death could leave
such deep or baneful scars on the
soul of a child as fifteen years Of
association with delinquents.
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Daily Thought

To give light to them that sit
in darkness and in the shadow of
death, to guide our feet into the
way of peace.~-St. Luke 1:79.
OUCH help as we can give to each
- other IN this world is debt to
each other; and the man who per-
ceives a superiority or a capacity
in subordinate, and neither con-
fesses nor assists it. is not mere
~ the withholder of kindness, but
the committer Of injury.-Ruskin.