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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Secret D~ictatorships

Just how necessary is the registration Of voters,
as demanded by the League of Women Voters, is
demonstrated by revelations in Lake county.
Flaunting the United States government, defying
any public demand for ordinary honesty, that county
controls the state of Indiana and controls it through
more than suspicious circumstances.
1t was this county in 1926 which sent in delayed
returns with just enough majority to elect Senator
Watson,
In the last election it now develops that many
thousands more votes were counted than were listed
by political workers as the possible limit.
The events of the last election suggest that under
present conditions, voting in Indiana is a farce.
AS long as the Lake county machine, with its
$100,0OO-a-year county officials, control the voting and
the investigation of crimes, the result can be safely
forecast.
1t is declared that in the early afternoon but
$4,000 votes had been cast and that the Republican
leader announced that they we're about evenly
divided between parties.
Between the hours of 2 and 6, $4,000 more "votes"
were cast, a practical and physical impossibiIty.
Many challenges were made and af1davits made
by those interested in seeing truck lads of Negro
voters, suspiciously suggestive of Chicago rather than
Indiana, cast a ballot.
These affdavits have, so it is reported, been i'm
pounded by the prosecuting attorney of Lake county
and been withheld from federal Investigators.
eminent.
When any public prosecutor can refuse informa-
ton, which might indicate frauds in federal elections,
to federal investigators, we have a new form Of gov
The women of the state, acting through the
League of Women Voters, have sensed the situation.
They understand that an election without a regis
tration of voters is not an election, but a sham contest
in which real votes are nulli1ed by crooked ballots.
They understand that the government of the
people becomes, in fact, a secret dictatorship by
greedy politicians.
The politicians also understand. That is why the
legislature seems so intent on killing every measure
which might insure an honest vote. For the poll
ticians, not the people, are apparently in control.
Unless some safeguard is provided, the zeal OF
women to bring out a large vote is a farce. For every
vote can be, evidently in Lake county is, balanced
by one from a cemetery, Chicago, or the imagination
OF those who count the ballots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
DAILY BEALTHS SERVICE --
Medical Martyrs Aid Our LiUgS

"In the course of several days the
pain subsidies, but a few days later
the bitten person becomes i'll with
fever, which may last several days
before completely Subsiding, but
which will recur at irregular periods
of days or weeks with an ever in
~creasing severity.
"In course OF time, the infected
person becomes slightly anemic,
much debilitated and acutely feeble
in mind and body. He suffers ter
ribly from headache. The glands
become tender and enlarged.
after a few weeks, or even much
earlier, there will appear at the pc
RODS of the recurring fever, a pc
culiar rash on the middle of the
chest, right between the nipples.
"This rash is a definite sign OF
infection by the parasite of the
trypansosome disease"
Through the martyr-like deaths
of many medical investigators,
through inspired studies in the
laboratories of the chemists, the
means of transmission of this dis
ease has been determined, meth
DDS of prevention discovered, drugs
for treatment developed, and whole
areas of pest-ridden tropical land
made available for production and
civilization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
I
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

MO living American writer so
consistently has sailed under
false colors as Eugene ONeill. he
represents the most conspicuous
failure of criticism to function in
a clear-eyed manner, the dramatic
referee having given him a more
generous count than even Gene
Tunney received in Chicago.
But it is not merely in the mat
ter of over-praise that the critics
have erred. In some respects he has
received less than his due. The
trouble is that O'Neill has been
lsuded for qualities in which he vas
conspicuously lacking, while certain
of his abilities have passed unno-
ticed.
The writing boys have mentioned
him in the same breath with Strind-
berg, Shaw and Ibsen, though as a
matter of fact his closest spiritual
companion is George NJ. Cohan. I
mean that before all else Eugene
O'Neill is conspicuously slick.
No living playwright is anything
like so waywise in theatrical sleight-
of-hand. But he has profited and
grown great upon quite a different,
legend. O'Neill has been presented
to us as a poet, a sage or a philoso-
pher who wrestled somewhat crude
ly with the mechanical problems OF
play-making. There was a feeling
that he was a little too big for the
drama,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
DAILY A L SERVICE

observations of Investigators of
tropical disease is the fact that
these complaints are transferred
from man to man or from animals
to man by means of insect car
rierS.
Thus malaria is carried by the
anopheIes mosquito, fllariasis by
several species of mosquito, schisto-
somiasis through larvae found in
fresh water streams, relapsing fever
by lice and bedbugs, dengue by the
stegomyia mosquito, trypansomiaSiS
by the tsetse fly, rat-bite fever and
Wells disease or infectious jaundice
by the rat, plague by the flea and
the rat.
In DR.. Arthur Torrance'S interest
ing account Tracking Down the
Enemies of Man." he gives a real
istic account of the way in which
the tsetse fly brings to man the
dangerous and indeed almost in
variably fatal trypanosomiasis or
African sleeping sickness.
1.-THE bite of an infected tsetse
fly is usually announced by a
sharp needle-like prick of pain"
he writes, land is invariably imme-
diately followed by a sense of
tormenting irritation, more or less
severe in the vicinity of the bite.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
GOOD LUCK, Indy
0 PAUL McNUTT
WINTER IS E

DY staying in Egypt during his
ID war with Stewart for the con-
troll of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana, Rockefeller is almost as
far from the firing line as the kaiser
and his six sons we're during the
World war.
After all, we pity the fellow who
is contented to spend his winter in
Florida and miss this wonderful,
silvery, to~nic-tossing weather we're
having.
It's the greatest of the seasons
when it's cold and dry-and to take
a walk at night when its still and
white and the stars come close
that's as fine a dessert as nature
ever served.
Mrs. Sarah King Of Columbus,
Ind, who wants to divorce her hus-
band, George Washington King, be-
cause he has not bathed in twenty
four years, is guilty of a serious
strategic error.
She should take George down to
Greenwich Village, where the nuts
would worship him as a prophet OF
something.
Or if she doesn't want to do this,
she should wrap a horse blanket
around him and have him start a
new religious cult and thousands
would follow him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Reason

INF course, Indy had to go and
~ do it sometime, but the people
of the country learn of his engage
ment to marry Miss Morrow with a
certain regret, because millions of
families had adopted Indy and now
they feel that they hold only a small
amount of stock in him.
Heroes should stay single, If they
want to stay in the hero business,
for there's only a mild thrill in a
married one.
Indy displayed a keen concep-
ton of the matrimonial proprleties
when he said, ST have nothing to
say" when asked about his engage
ment.
After he's married he'll feel this
way about it-only more so.
We see where the University OF
Michigan may make Paul McNutt
its president, and nothing could be
finer for the University of Michigan
or McNutt. There's not a greater
university in the land nor a finer
eligible for the head of it than the
national commander Of the Amer1-
can Legion.
He has everything-character in
teIIigence, personality, diplomacy,
eloquence-and best of all, the abil-
ity to set a noble example for boys
and girls.
If Michigan knows her business,
she will grab McNutt.
= Il II
Hoover will not register strongly
with the fishermen of the country
until he fishes in a rag mans out
fit instead of a carefully pressed
business suit and a high linen collar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Null Markets

THE advisory council Of the
J. federal reserve system backs up
the federal reserve board in its
efforts to call a halt on Excessive
speculation"
That is as it should be.
If the federal reserve system was
created for one purpose more than
another, it was to prevent financial
Spasms.
Our economic history proves moth
ing more definitely than that too
much imitation leads to unnecessary
def1ation.
Bull markets have initiation as
their object, and pursue it without
rhyme or reason. They cal be
depended on to go far enough, and
do damage enough, even with the
federal reserve system putting on
the brakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Manufacturing Law

THE California legislature will
4 assemble next Monday for the
second half of its forty-eighth ses-
sion. It already has 1884 bills to
consider, with an excellent prospect
of several hundred more
If the Legislature were to give
each of those bills thirty minutes,
working eight hours a day and five
days each week, it would have to
remain in session lat least six
months to get through the list.
1t won't do anything of the kind,
and it ought not to, since some of
the bills are vastly more important
than others.
What it will do is halt for several
days for a few measures, pass others
after waiting just long enough to
hear the titles read and dump the
vast majority into the waste bas-
ket at the end, without much con-
Germ as to their merit, because it
lacks time to do anything else.
In this respect, the California
legislature is like each and every
one of the forty-one others now in
session.
The process of manufacturing law
in these United States is most
wonderful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Love You, Dynamo

TIME truth of the matter~is that
Il O'Neill has no message. His
philosophy of life is that of a satur-
nine sophomore. With the aid lof
an extraordinary mastery Of dra-
matte technique he has managed to
make a wholly immature point OF
view seem profundity itself to q
vast camp of followers.
Nor are they all boobs and Bah
bits who follow in his train. Even
a f1rst-rate intelligence may crumble
under the spell of the theaJer.
OF course, the time had to be set
for O,NeiIl.
For years America has been
drenched with glad books and glad
plays. Everything was hotsy -totsy
in the best of all possible world.
So gay were all dramatic offerings
that the average t~heatergoer had
laughted until he was ready to cry.
Always the United States cavalry
came riding up in the last scene,
preceded by bugle calls, and a mar
riage was accepted rs a happy end
ing.
What could be sWeeter for the
purpose of Eugene O'Neill? Tie
great American public was ready
and even eager to see some char
acter leap into a dynamo and have
it take.
The day has come when to smile
and put a pleasant face on things
is to mark Yourself as a hick and
a Babbitt, while you have but to
gloom and frown to become a great
man.
If my tale begins, "It was raining
along the Mississippi mud flats, and
the greasy water dripped through
the roof on little Bessie, the
illegitimate child of Old Minnie, who
lay dying in the corner Of tuber-
culosis," I have a very fair chance
of being hailed as a stark realist and
one, of the several great American
noJeliStS,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Chicago Gang War

EVEN the Chicago gang war, and
- more particularly the latest ex-
plosion. in which seven men were
moved down with machine guns,
leads to little but theorizing.
According to tabulated reports, 1873
have been killed, but why is not SO
clear.
Most people have assumed that it
all came out through the struggle of
rival gangs for monopoly of the
bootlegging trade, but there is a
government agent asserting that he
has confidential" information
which duplicates some police officers
who were mad because they failed to
get their rakeof in a hijacking
party.
We are getting altogether too
much argument and insinuation
from every quarter. What We need,
and what we must have to do any
thing sensible is more facts, straight
simple and understandable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
VI. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
Facts are the great need
Of America, especially
those Which bear on public
policy"

CAN FRANCIsCo. cal. Feb. 10

GAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. TO-
~ New York traction stocks go up.
Some people seem to feel very sure
not only that the question of in
creasing subway fares from 5 to
Z cents will be decided by the
supreme court next Monday, but
that it will be decided in the affirm
ative. Are they betting on a tip,
or a bunch?
San Francisco has peculiar ~ea-
sons for being interested in the New
York subway case. Like New York
San Francisco has a nickel fare
which it would like to retain. Also,
like New York, it owns part of the
transit system, though on a little
differeno basis.
In San Francisco, the part OF the
transit system that publicly is
owned is operated by the public. In
New York, the part that is publicly
owned is operated by private inter-
estS,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Lay Off, MacDuff

yTERY slowly the idea gets
v about that tragedy can be just
as sentimental as the most ag-
gTessive story Of mother love and
honeysuckle. And Eugene ONeil is
still skipping along fast enough to
keep the notion from biting him in
the coat tails.
Not yet has he grown to the
stature Of realizing that tragedy
seldom becomes more poignant with
each turn of the screw. AS far back
as Different" he was blind to the
fact that two sudden suicides by
hanging are not twice as sad as
one.
One does not need TO cry out, "He
hasn't got anything on" to make
the populace realize that there is
no substance to the employers suit.
Sometimes a burst Of laughter
can bring a crowd close to the
same realization. O'Neills lack Of
humor has at times brought him
right up to the edge of absurdity
and exposure.
In Beyond the Horizon" his first
notable play, there was the same I'M
fortunate disposition to over
emphasize tragic material and
blunder into sodden sentimentaIity.
That play, you may remember,
was about a lad who Ionged to get
out from the narrow cup of hills
which confined him and sail to dis
tant seas. And the opportunity to
voyage away lay within his grasp
when suddenly he found that the
girl down the lane was in love with
him. And so he stayed and mar
ried and undertook to work the
farm.
But O'Neill does not know that
tragedy has no essential association
with people who go mad, or die or
kill themselves. Almost invariably
he must add the extra touch which
is the weakness Of the man with
insufficient imagination to round
out the possibilities Of his theme.
AS if his hero were insuficientIy
mTdened, O'Neill had to step in
and af1ict his lungs. And so we
had fever, rawlings and dissolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Times Readers Voice Vices

of all public-spirited citizens TO
make it successful"
Now in 1929, while public spirited
citizens are taking the steps to make
It succeed. before the Bar AsSocia-
ton he advocates a modification of
the present system. and attacks the
eonstitutionality Of the manager
statute.
AS an interested citizen I much
prefer to leave to the supreme court
the question of constitutionality.
The attitude Of Jewett, the candi-
date, ought to. but does not, square
with his previous or present posi-
lions. If he is right now, he was
wrong last year; If he was right as
i candidate, he is wrong now.
j. ". ESTERLINE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Getting the Facts

I'D EALIzING the shortcomings
~ of our legislative machinery
cities, towns and even states have
developed unofficial groups to study
problems and write measures.
The Commonwealth Club of San
Francisco is such ! group. 1t con-
tains $500 member $, is nonpartisan
and non-political, works through de-
partmental sections and has for its
slogan "get the facts"
just now it is interested in what
becomes of people who + killed or
crippled by automobiles, who pays
the funeral bill, the medical fee, the
damage, and what should be done to
remedy the situation.
1t is attacking the problem by ac-
cumuIating such an array Of facts
as were eve before gathered in
any section of the country, not alone
in connection with the casualty list,
but with regard to what has been
done in various states and countries
to place the burden where it belongs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16

Editor Times - Citizens have
a right to expect those who pose as
advisers in public matters to be con-
sistent. For the benefit of those
members of the legislature who lis
tened to Mr.. Jewett Wednesday
evening, attention should be called
to these facts.
When the question Of the adop-
ton of the manager plan was before
the people Of Indianapolis in 1927,
Jewett opposed the measure, as he
had a perfect right to do.
However, while he was a candidate
for the nomination for Governor in
1928, he frequently was reported as
saying THE people have decided
to adopt the new plan Of govern
ment and It now becomes The duly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Reliable information

EACTS are the great need of
Il America, especially those which
bear on publicity, the effectiveness
of law enforcement and the correc-
ton of manifest evils.
We have had national prohibition
for eight years, and we can not tell
how i'll or well it has worked.
Even congressman have to draw
on their personal experiences, OF the
personal experiences of others to
make a reasonably good argument
on either side.
The first sensible move that has
been made for a long time is to
establish a fact-f1nding commission
which will give us some reliable in
formation from the national view
point.
At present, we are just guessing,
supposing, imagining, deducing and
theorizing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16

FDISON'S statement that with all
L our scientific strides we know
nothing about the universe, opens a
bewildering panorama of what the
world will do in the next hundred
years.
The greatest show on earth is the
progress of man and it is also the
greatest miracle of them all.
Mans evolution from a hairy
brute to a sky-climbing scientist is
the greatest evidence Of a Supreme
Creator.
= II
President Coolidge is doing the
usual ex-presidential thing to get
out of Washington as soon as
Hoover is inaugurated, for none Of
them wishes to linger in the District
of Columbia after the shifting scene
takes them out of the picture.
Roosevelt left Washington on the
first train, Immediately after Taft's
Inauguration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Fellowship in Pruyer

thoughts are not at attention be-
cause I am not properly sensible of
my need. I should take more time
for my devotions. 1t will help me,
too, to go back to ancient and
tested custom and light my candle
at the altar of the great devotional
utterances in the Bible and else
where. Somehow I must realize
Gods presence and my own need.
PRAYER: Lord teach me to pray.
Give me the contrite heart which
Thou dost not despise. Let my
meditation Of Thee be sweet. Quicken
me with Thy Spirit that I fail not
Of the strength and comfort of
prayer. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
BY DIR. r FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Il IA - SAS
Association and of Hygeia, he
Health Magazine.
TUST a few months have passed
~ since the world was startled by
the sudden death of an intrepid in
vestigator of tropical disease, Hideyo
Noguchi.
He was but one of many scientists
who have gone to study at first hand
the causes of infection, SO that man
might be freed from the peril of
disease.
In the jungle, sleeping sickness,
yellow fever, malaria and a dozen
other tropical diseases r far more
dangerous than lions, tigers, ele-
plants or serpents.
In the control of these enemies
scientists do not use rifles, but pills
of quinine and syringes loaded with
salvarSan.
The savages who have seen whole
tribes wiped out by tropical diseases
have learned to trust the science of
the white man rather than the al
chemy, the magic, the dances and
prayers of maniacal priests and
atavistic medicine men.
One of the extremely interesting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
The Great God Bunk

DUT at times O'Neil has risen to
ID great heights in the sheer
modelling Of plays. "The Emperor
Jones" is a perfect structure in its
outward form.
In those days. o'Neill did not pre-
tend that he must ask his audience
to bring a picnic lunch. Strange
Interlude," which threatens 70 run
as long as "Abie's Irish Rose" IS
built upon an enormously shrewd
psychological concert. Mark Twain
mentioned it in "Huckleberry Finn"
The play Is another Royal None
such"
All who 20 come back eventually
with glowing tales. You can't ex-
pcct anybody who has paid money
for a dramatic weekend 10 burt
right out that he was taken.
tca9vxasAt 1898. for The zimssl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
The Question Now

THOSE persons who regard any sort OF government
rarticipation in business as peculiarly sinful at last
have succeeded in getting the government out OF the
singing business.
The eleven remaining passenger vessels owned py
the government. those in the United States lines ana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16

winch the gases
are ascending with
an upw and
outward spiral mo-
ton.
AS the gases rise
and spread out in
the vortex x, they
are cooled by x
pansion. This cool
ing explains Why
the Spo t is
darker t h a n the
surface of the sun.
We are indebted
to Professor George
Ellery Hale, the in
ventor of the spec
fnT 7.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
This Date in
IT. S. History
February Is

February is
dollhouse of representatives
broke the electoral college tie
to elect jefferson President
over Burr.
1812-Earthquake visited Philadel-
phia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Topic for the Week
LENT AND MYSELF
.mory Verse for Saturday:

HACAAoAy sCAoC W 0N
"But thou, when thou prayest,
enter in thy closet" Matthew
500. CRead: Matthew 6:5-15.)
MEDITATION: Private prayer
should be the great oyj and comfort
of the Christian. And yet very often
it is but a hurried task, a part of the
days routine, perfunctory and
feeble. my words fly up, my
thoughts remain below" So my
spiritual life is left unnourished
The trouble is that I do not take
prayer seriously enough; my
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16
Snn-Sp0ts Are Magnets
No. PSI

CTUDY Of the sun with the spectroheliograph has
AS revealed that the sun-spots are great w~hirlpooIs
in the gaseous surface Of the sun. They resemble,
to a considerable degree, the waterspouts which are
sometimes seen on the ocean, or the %sandwhirIs which
occur on the desert.
To state the case more exactly, a sun spot is a great
funnel-Shaped vortex in the outer layers of the sun in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-16

An English channel swimmer broke her engage
ment with a soldier, fearing marriage would inter
tere with her career Maybe she thought she wouldn't
get along so swimnaingIy.