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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
The Challenge

The issue in the coming election, presum-
ing that the supreme court decides that the
law does not violate the constitutional hber-
ties of our citizens, has been very definitely
fixed by the opening speech of J. w. Ester
line, who has had much to do with creating
an enthusiasm for good government under
nonpolitical influences.
He has placed before every citizen who
becomes a candidate against the league ticket
the burden of declaring his reasons and his
sponsorship.
He has given the reasons for the league
ticket. He has announced the backing and
sponsorship for its candidates. He has given
the reasons for their selection and the policy
which they are pledged to follow.
He has also made it very plain that the
only way in which the bosses, the politicians,
the sinister forces OF greed or graft can win
is by confusing the situation by injecting
many candidates of respected citizens whose
vanity or ambitious may be flattered into
the belief that they should sacrifice them
selves for the public good.
Of course the bosses and the politicians
would not support any such citizen If they
could not control or expect to control them.
BOssism depends on special privilege. 1t
depends on violation of business principles
in contracts. 1t depends on protection OF law
violators. 1t depends Oh eating into the tax
funds with loafers OIL pay rolls.
Every citizen who permits his name to
be used as a candidate must have real
reason for that actiOr.. He must be as frank
and as open as the league in his stand.
1t is possible, of course that there are
citizens who can and will furnish such Gre
dentials. They may have program that is
better. They may nave a sponsorship that
will equal that of the league.
But when they become candidates, if they
are in good faith and have no secret pur-
poses to serve or secret sponsors to favor,
they should come prepared to give the peo-
pie full details of their reasons, their back
ing and their pledges.
The new day has started. Politics must
be in the open. 1t has moved from the back
room to the front porch.
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An Humble Martyr

Infinitely pathetic was the burial Tuesday in
Bessemer City, N c.. of Mrs Ella May Virgins, tex
tile mill worker shot to death while riding in a
truck with other striking workers on their way to
'speakn"
Mrs. Virgins left five small children She had
been unable to support them on her mill wage of SO
a week. When strike held out promise of more
pay she joined the strike.
Picture an unfinished grave on the hillside of the
ugly little town. with other workers gathering down
the muddy roads and through the scrub pine and
godenrod to watch the rude casket lowered into the
ground in drizzling rain.
And as a climax the singing of song Mrs. Wig
gins herself had written, putting into a ballad the
sorrows of herself and her neghbors the mill folk
always have done. It's grotesque piece of writing,
but-wel, read it:
We leave our home in the morning
We kiss our children good-by.
While we slave for the bosses
Our children scream and cry.
How it grieves the heart of the mother,
You every one must know,
But can't buy for children,
Our wages are too low. :.
Mrs Virgins, in her life and death, typified the
sorry situation in the Caronas Her life was part
of the poverty and exploitation of the workers Her
death part of the lawlessness unleashed by and
against the workers in the revolt against these con-
ditions.
1t may be that her death will in degree aid
the people of her state to understand what the srug-
gle is all about and in that manner hasten better
day. Her martyrhood then will have been its own
reward
But what of the five orphaned children?
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Results Later

Let It be hoped that the washington commentators
were wrong when they said that the Wnite House
dinner last night was purely social event and hao
no political significance.
The people of the state happy, most naturally
that Governor Leslie sgnally honored oy an
invitation to come down and visit President Hoover
under the presidential roof.
And. of course the neighborly thing to do was
10 invite in Senator Watson to make the Governor
feel at home.
There should have been time, somewhere between
the soup and pumpkin pie, for discussion OF INDIANA
affairs and especially those in which the PresloenC
must take an interest, whether he wishes or not.
The President undoubtedly now has hrst-hand IN
formation on the necessity of complying WIN Ine
request of District Attorney LOOMS OF the northern
district for competent lawyer from the attorney
generals Office to help him go deep into the Lake
county situation.
That would have given both Watson ana the
Governor chance to tell him that the people OF the
state who believe in law and order have long depored
the fact that Mr. LOOMS has not had the assistance
If copetent and skilled assistants in the hercuean
task of cleaning out not only the stables, but the
machine gun nests the anarchy in public once the
corruption in the balloting places.
Such an appeal would relieve both Watson and
the Governor from any humiliation of any implied
obligation for their election to the forces now being
investigated
The results of that dinner should be Important
and immediate.
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nH1LApELPH1A Republicans sus

PHILADELPHIA Republicans sus-
L tain the Ware machine, while
New York Republicans nominate
La Guardia. That shows broad
mindedness, at least.
BY no stretch of the imagination
could such a result be construed as
indicating anything like party
code, creed, or consistency.
There is nothing in common be-
tween what the Ware machine rep
reSents and what Mr.. La Guardia
breaches.
They are labeled Republicans,
however, which seems to be Suff1-
Gent for the majority of voters.
Cut and dried politics explain why
the people are unable to make them
selves heard with regard to SO many
issues, and why so many problems
go unsolved.
You can depend on partisanShip
to avoid any new or dangerous con-
troversy.
AS long as people are content to
fellow partisanship with blind sub
mission, they must expect to do the
same.
Partisanship has stalemated the
country with regard to prohibition,
and is about to stalemate it with
regard to power.
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Fine Comic

NNR. BUTTERWORTH has set a
4Y1 mark for all the comics of the
season to shoot at. Personally, I'm
for avoiding unnecessary delay and
awarding the silver cup right now
If an analogy must be found for
every actor, then Butterworth might
be identified as the musical comedy
equivalent of Roland Young. His
method is SO easy and so natural
that you could hear a pin drop up
to the instant that the laugh begins
Charles Butterworth is a player
so skillful that he can make some
simple line such as Il think I'll have
some oysters or "She's all III
white seem epigrammatic master
pieces.
William Gillette used to insist
that the chief duty of an actor
is to make the audience believe
that he is uttering the line for the
first time.
Butterworth losses his dialog
around as casually as if each per-
formance we're both the first and
last time. He doesn't make his stuff
up as he goes along, but 1t sounds
Just that way-which is even better
Copyright. 1929. by United Press
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
Regulating the Air

Control of air passenger and freight services by
the interstate commerce commission has been pro-
posed to the United States senate
1t is urged because air services in fact in inter-
state commerce many of them allied with railroads
whose rates and safety measures all supervised
by the commission while no such supervision is given
the air lines.
1t is opposed in the senate the ground that rail-
roads allowed to operate for seventy years with
out regulation and therefore air transportation should
be let alone for awhile.
That is like putting off teaching child good habits
until he is grown man.
1t is regrettably the theory upon which the govern
ment has proceeded in the past in regard to railroads
power companies and other great industries but it is
almost time that We learned a lesson from past mis-
takes
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HEALIH SERVICE--
Physical Inspections Aid Scout Health

of the patients who were i'll we're
English, to the extent of 100; the
French followed with At, the Scotch
with IL, the Welsh with IL, the
Irish with II; and the Americans
with 8.
It must be remembered that these
boys had been regularly examined
before going to the camp; that they
were regularly inspected as to their
physical conditions; that all pools in
the area had been freed from in
festation; that the water supply
was controlled fully; that arrange
ments for disposal of garbage and
sewage were perfect; that modern
scientific medicine and hygiene had
done everything possible to guaran-
tee good health.
This, and only this, may be taken
as the explanation for the exceed
ingly good conditions that prevailed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
Disarmament Rocks Ahead

On the day Of its launching. the tentative Anglo
American naval agreement has struck the rock OF
foreign opposition. That opposition can not be ig-
nored. There will be no naval treaty in January
without Japan, France and Italy.
Therefore the London and washington govern
nents now must show the spirit of cooperation
and Cancellation in dealing with the three lesser naval
powers that they have given to each other
Foreign objections roughly are OF three KINDS:
First. fear of an Anglo-American alliance Second
,lnviIingness to sacrifice submarine strength Third
resentment over the large cruiser tonnage totals pro-
visionalIy fixed by Hoover and Macdonald.
All these objections sincere and merit consid-
Grafton.
The first should be the easiest to dispose OF, II
properly handled. Both Macdonald and the WASH
ington administration should remember their own
suspicious aud hostility when the now unseated Brit
ish tory government last year reached separate
naval understanding with France Naturally
France now THINKS the shoe is the other foot
washington and London should be able to give
France satisfactory proof that there is no alliance
against her. Even if the much-dscussed Anglo
American alliance we're desirabe-and it is not
there are far too many basic economic conflicts be-
tween these two greatest world powers to permit them
to ION in an unhoy alliance exploit and dominate
the rest of the world.
Defense Of the submarine Is valid in our judg-
mant It Is .the poor mans weapon" It is the ideal
cheap defense for the smaller nations which do not
ned and can not afford the lAxEe offensive eats Of
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capital ships and cruisers maintained by Britain and

capital ships and cruisers maintained by Britain and
America
We resented the slogan Britannia rules the
waves" Now others present the fact that Britain
and America rule the waves. The smaller powers
can not prevent that. But so long as Britain and
America insist on maintaining enormous fleets of
large war vessels certainly the others have equal
right to keep swarms of submarines.
Submarines will not be outawed until navieS are
outawed Washington and London doubtless in the
end will give in on this point-as they should
The third foreign objection is more formidable
The French, italians and japanese touch sore spot
when they quote repeated Hoover statements that
cruiser limitation is not enough that actual reduction
is necessary Nevertheless the tentative Anglo
American agreement provides for American cruiser
increase.
The fact is that Hoover has made very great
compromise to the British in sacrificing his reduction
demands. But it is hard to see how he could help
that-without destroying all chance of agreement.
For the British admiralty simply will not reduce to
the present American strength, Washington re-
peatedly has proposed. The British Labor govern
ment has performed an unusual feat in making the
admiralty reduce its cruisers half way
Maybe opposition of japan and others to the pro-
posed high tonnages will force Britain to eliminate
more cruisers and thus lower the American parity
provision. We hope so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
Poor Lover

D OBERT CHISHOLM, the sue
IN cessful sutton, is singer OF rare
quality in voice and method. His
lovemaking is less convincing. He
goes in quite bit for virility, which
is indicated in the usual way.
He sticks out his chest and then
follows it slowly across the stage.
And this same hero when the he
roine's reputation is questioned walks
out, saying: I'm going home" or
words to that effect. This rudeness
can not be blamed upon Mr.. CHS
holm.
This is the librettist's contribu-
ton toward making the success
full sutton seem less than worthy of
Helen Morgan's favor.
When a play ends with lady and
a gentleman clasped in each others
arms, suppose the audience is ex-
pected to assume that they will live
happily forever after. This time 7
left the theater whistIing Mr., Kern's
best tune, called 'Here Am ]" but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
HEALTH SERVICE

which the boys suffered was ton
silitis, of which there were seventy
cases; the next most common we're
cuts, stings and bruises, of which
there were SO cases.
Then there were chillS, malaria
and malaise to the extent of %
cases and 26 cases Of fever. There
were 81 fractures and dislocations,
IA sprains, Is cases of constipation
and collie and IA other stomach
troubles.
There were only II cases of
asthma, bronchitis and catarrh,
eight of influenza and seven of
pneumonia and pleurisy.
In the dispensary associated with
the hospital, 271 boys were treated
for cuts and wounds, 1875 had boils
and 1903 had scalds, burns, sunburns
and bruises.
1t will perhaps be a source of
pride to the Americans that most
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
Shoes
TTUMAN posture is one OF the
Ill particular subjects which the

Truman posture is one OF the
III particular subjects which the
expedition will study.
Much information will be Collect
ed among the natives who do not
wear shoes, to make a comparison
OF their posture with that OF shoe-
wearing Americans.
1t is believed that this informa-
ton will be of great value to ortho-
pedic surgeons.
The expedition plans to cross
equatorial Africa from the east coast
to the west coast to collect speci-
mems of all types OF gorillaS ana
chimpanzees.
The expedition plans to return to
New York in January, 1880.
Students of comparative anatomy
point out that the differences be-
tween man and the gorilla are diff
ferences of degree.
Every bone in the skeleton Of man
is matched by one in the skeleton
of the gorilla. The differences lie
in exact shape-the thickness and
curvature of different bones, for
example
1t j., thought, therefore, that a
detailed study of gorilla anatomy
will throw much light on the early
history and direction of Develop
ment of human anatomy and there
fore be of great value to the medi-
cal profession
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SCIENCE
The Gorilla, If You Are
Willing to Believe the
Worlds Leading Biologists,
Is Mans First Cousin.
BY DAVID DIETZ-
TINE world of science is awaiting

THE world of science is awaiting
Il eagerly for the results of the
African expedition, sent out last
May by Columbia university and the
American Museum of Natural His
tory.
The expedition is to make the
most extensive study of the gorilla
ever attempted. The gorilla, if you
are willing to believe the worlds
leading biologists, is one OF mans
first cousins.
The expedition includes four OF
Americas best known scientists. AT
it's head is DR.. Henry G. Raven OF
the American museum, who has had
extensive experience in Africa and
the East Indies.
The three other scientific menu
bers are Professor William K. Greg
ory and DR.. j. H. McGregor, two Of
the worlds greatest authorities on
the subject, and DR.. E. T. Engle, as
sociate professor of anatomy at CO.
lumbia.
When you see pictures OF what
mans early ancestors are supposed
to have looked like, you are seeing
DR.. McGregor's idea of it. For DR..
McGregor, from a study of the skulls
of ancient men which have been
dug up from time to time, has mod
eled busts of what the men must
have looked like.
The African museum hopes to
bring back bodies of adult gorillas
for study. This never has been done
before.
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Medical Aid

TINE expedition is expected to co.,
L lect much information of value
to the medical profession as well
as information which will shed light
on human evolution.
Native tribes of Africa will be
carefully studied, in addition to the
studies of the gorilla and other Al
rican apes.
In this enterprise, medical and
academic interests combine in the
study of problems which deal equal
" with the physical evolution OF
man and with the problems OF hui
man mechanics, says President
Butler of Columbia university.
Progress in the medical sciences
must be built upon constantly
greater accumulation of facts which
explain the origin and purpose OF
the structures composing the human
body, and thus help us to under
stand better the physical processes
that make life and its perpetuatlon
possible"
The expedition plans to use movie
cameras in making studies Of the
African tribes.
Commenting on the gorilla phase
of the expedition, DR.. Butler says,
Heretofore, only skins and skele-
tons of gor:llas have been brought
to this country with the exception
of rare and very young specimens
that have succumbed quickly.
Since the adult gorilla presents
most remarkable approach 20
mankind in it bodily structure, suca
material becomes of outstanding
value to students Of anatomy"
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1T SEEMS TO ME By H B1ouS

ITO me Sweet Adeline" is the al
IL most perfect musical comedy.
Although this is only the second or
third week, I've seen it now three
times and it grows upon acquain-
lance.
Full many a year the critics have
raved at managers to say, why
don't you buy a joker" And now
that Arthur Hanlmerstein has done
so, the credit should be his. To be
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If Is 1TIF7eI
ANNIVERSARY
ttt4z2E1tt15
GARFIELD'S DEATH
Sept. 10

Sept. Ia
DEPT. 10 is a date connected
y with the deaths of the three
United States Presidents who we're
assassinated.
President Lincoln's body was
inferred in the memorial tomb at
Springfield, ILL.,. on Sept. 10, 1871.
Lincoln was the first President as
sassinated. He was shot on April
IA. 1865, by the fanatic actor, John
Wilkes Booth. as he sat in a Wash
ington theater.
On Sept. 10. 1881, President Gar
field died at Elberon, N. j., victim
of an assaSSin's bullet. While stand
ing in the railway station at Wash
ington on July Q, Garfield was shot
by Charles j. Guiteau, who later
was hanged.
Last services over the remains Of
President Mckinley were held at
Canton, O., on Sept. 10, 1901. While
attending the Pan-American Expo
sition at Buffalo on Sept. 6, McKin-
lev was shot by CZolgosZ.
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Prince Gets Air

IF Sweet Adeline" falls short Of
Il complete perfection, and it does,
enc important twist in plot or cast
ing is to blame. Helen Morgan as
Addie, the heroine, marries the
wrong man.
Possibly the unconscious in every
male breast always will motivate
him into a resentment against all
men whom Miss Morgan chooses for
her own in plays. This time I think
that it is more than trancfootlight
jealousy.
There are a few theatrical rules
which should be preserved. Sweet
Adeline," like 80 per cent of all the
plays which come to Broadway, is
a retelling of the Cinderella theme.
But this time she doesn't get Prince
Charming
1t is neither the first love nor still
the second who stands beneath the
apple blossoms at the end The
successful hero is gentleman who
moves into the play rather casually
late in the second act.
There is no scene in which she
swoons at the sight of him or any
incident to indicate his kindling in
her presence. Indeed. when he
asked her to marry him and she
agreed I could have been knocked
down with saxophone.
In fact, they haven't as much as a
duet together until the engagement
has been arranged. Life is often
like that Musical comedy shouldn't
be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19
REASON By Ff HASpiS

THE proposed naval agreement with Great Britain
l. recognizes the principle of naval equality but
this is purely academic, will not build up to
a parity with Mr. Bull.
The naval conference during Harding's admins
tration recognized right to equal strength
with Great Britain. but did not build the ships and
We will not now However. we lose nothing, since
aviation will put navieS in museums.
We are glad that Mrs. B. Leigh Colvn, president
of the New York State w. c. T. U, announced that
statesmen who drink liquor and enact dry laws for
others not hypocriteS.
But, for Mrs B. LeighS announcement the full
realization of this great truth might never have
dawned upon mankind
We do not blame Mr. Coolidge for refusing to
make speech at the meeting of his insurance COM
pany, for surely silence is golden" when a fellow
can write it out and sell it for 81 a word.
Bishop Cannon, returning from Europe, finds that
it is hard to make this country dry owing to its wet
neighbors but even if could make the world dry,
the bootleggers of the moon would doubtless find a
way to ship it~in.
A MOTHER note of encouragement for the great
N majority-C. D. Schmid of Springfield Mimi,
who has just won the sauerkraut eating champion
ship of the world by eating more than two gallons
in fifteen minutes, had the benefit of college
education.
Most cussedness is a result of suggestion For
instance the papers told about somebody shooting
hole in the Graf Zeppelin and now another bug
shoots holes in the metal drigihie as 1t neS from
Detroit to Lakehurst.
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in my heart I maintained the reser-
walton, I'll give that marriage about
a month"
But, as matter of fact, I was far
more intent upon the marital sue
cess of the hero's brother, the part
played by Charles ButterWorth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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DURING the last summer the
- Boy Scouts of the world held
jamboree at Birkenhead in Eng
land. More than 10000 Boy Scouts
from all over the world were pres
ent and it is interesting to see the
figures which just have been made
available as to the disturbances
from which they suffered.
Three hundred twenty-one of
them were admitted to the hospital
established in connection with the
camp. Of the 321, a total of So had
to be sent to permanent hospitals
because their illnesses were serious,
and of the So, nine we're infectious
diseases.
The most common illness from
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Daily Thought

Cast not away your confidence.
which hatch great recompense of
Observation-Disclosures 1926.
He who has lost confidence can
lose nothing more.-Boiste.